Full Color Football - History of the American Football League

This is the five-part Showtime Network minseries on the history of the AFL. I found the torrent rather badly underseeded elsewhere, and unfortunatley the OP decided to render it in .mkv format. I've tried three different programs that advertise their ability to turn .mkv into .avi, but the results were awful. If some video guru out there can render these into smaller .avi files, please do so and replace this torrent with that one. http://sports.sho.com/full-color-football.html Full Color Football AN OVERVIEW OF THE FIVE-PART SERIES Episode 1: The New Frontier When 26 year old Lamar Hunt's dream of owning a pro football team is road-blocked by the NFL, Hunt dreams bigger and starts a new league. The AFL's early days coincide with the dawn of a new age in America, reflected in the energy of a young president and the grand national ambition to reach the moon. Pro football was well on its way to becoming America's game and it would do so with help from the most powerful machine of the age: television. Watch the other league's earliest days—through the stories of eye witnesses like John Madden, Dan Rather, Larry King, Tim Russert, Hank Stram and Jim Brown—in episode one of "Full Color Football." Episode 2: Times They Are A Changin' The AFL enters its 4th season with the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the passing of the Civil Rights Movement changing the landscape of America. The ripple effects were felt in the AFL, where the Sid Gillman helped the Chargers become the premier offensive team in the league, winning the AFL championship in 1963. Other teams like the Boston Patriots were just trying to get noticed in their own towns. And the Bills won back-to-back titles—and the hearts and minds of Buffalo fans—with a dominating defense. Sports and society finally intersect in 1965, when African-American players lead a boycott of the All Star game. Episode 3: War and Peace Bolstered by a generous new TV contract from NBC, the AFL wages war against the NFL by outbidding and even kidnapping top college prospects to join the new league. The arrival of Joe Namath revives a sagging New York franchise, while existing stars Lance Alworth, Willie Brown, Clem Daniels and others set records and increase attendance. When the Giants raid the Bills for kicker Pete Gogolak, the AFL retaliates by signing some of the NFL's biggest stars, forcing a merger between the leagues—an agreement that ends the football wars and creates a world championship game that would come to be known as the Super Bowl. Episode 4: Revolution The AFL's quest for respectability takes another hit after the Raiders are soundly beaten in Super Bowl II. In 1968, amid the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, a league full of rebels and misfits continue to revolt against the establishment. Broadway Joe matures from showman into a champion quarterback. The Jets defeat the Raiders for the 1968 AFL championship. Namath guarantees a victory in Super Bowl III over the mighty Baltimore Colts and then delivers the greatest upset in the history of sports. Episode 5: The Final Frontier It's 1969 and anything is possible—the Jets upset the Colts in Super Bowl III, Man walks on the Moon—but the AFL is still considered separate and unequal in the eyes of the NFL. The debate over how the leagues will be realigned is long and contentious. The now predominant figure in all of pro football, Joe Namath, nearly retires under attack from the NFL establishment. But the league of possibility will make its mark for years to come. Innovations like the West Coast offense and stack defense are born in the AFL. Under Hank Stram, the Kansas City Chiefs dominate the Vikings in Super Bowl IV, becoming the first team with more blacks than whites to win a championship. The AFL finally has its respect. And with the dawn of Monday Night Football, the newly merged NFL is now the most popular sport in America.

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vawn (2010-01-14)

Thank you rambam

sami4969 (2010-01-16)

Wow! Can't wait...Thanks!

sami4969 (2010-01-18)

Hello...I downloaded and watched episode 1, but the audio isn't in sync with the video...how can I fix this? Thanks for any help you can give...btw, the video is crisp...

 rambam1776 (2010-01-19)

If you watch this using VLC, it should be fine (it is for me), but VLC also allows you to adjust sync, so try that.

sami4969 (2010-01-19)

I tried VLC but the video is all screwed up...tried tinkering with the tabs and all but nothing worked. Regarding the problem with the audio not being in sync with the video; I had tried WMP, QuickTimePlayer, and CyberlinkPowerDVD, but they all gave the same problem. Thanks for the suggestion just the same...any additional advice would be most helpful.

reetside (2010-01-28)

i use a program called "super video converter" to move all the 720p mkv format crap that has been appearing lately into a reasonable size xvid avi format. it works pretty nicely once you learn how to set the audio & video bitrates and aspect ratio, and width x height and FPS correctly. it works great and its freeware. here is a hint, use VLC to get all the "codec information page" then just shrink the width to 640, figure out an appropriate aspect ratio, calculate an approximation of height, then put bitrate at 1000-1200 and 96 kbps audio and you'll end up with something pretty close to a scene release.

sami4969 (2010-01-31)

reetside:
Hello...I tried the "Super Video Converter" as advised and it did work...to a degree...yes, more or less the audio and video were in sync but the quality of the video was sacrificed...probably the same convert test results as with rambam1776...I'll try more tweaking here and there. Anyway, thanks guys for the advice.

 rambam1776 (2010-02-02)

I have to admit I'm the last guy to come to with technical questions. I wish that the folks who (for some reason) seem to be in love with hated formats like mkv and flac would knock it off. What really blows is that often the stuff they release is the only torrented version. For example, if there is a version of this AFL series in avi or mpeg, I can't find it. At least FLAC is easy to convert to something people can use.

sami4969 (2010-03-05)

Well...I did a little research and I guess it's my laptop that's causing the screw ups...it seems it's too slow to process big HD videos of a certain format...not a techie myself, but it's something like that...oh well...enjoyed the series nevertheless...

cormaczoso (2012-09-08)

thanks for this ... never knew this documentary existed before going thru all of your torrents since i've found so many hi-quality ones you've posted when searching ... so thanks for this and others
p.s. -- i'm glad you didn't find a good program to take it out of mkv ... i know it's lots of gigs but i think it's worth it for the quality ... just my humble opinion and certainly not meant as a criticism of your ups etc :)
thanks again kind sir :)

YLeeKyoti (2013-10-06)