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Apr 21, 2020 - 8:58 AM
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jackfu
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With the Disco "takeover", it must have seemed like people were being sold a bill of goods.
I'm sure you're correct. And, truth be told, wasn't that also the case with Beatlemania and The British Invasion?
(…even "my" pro football team actually being great).
Yeah, the Raiders were big then. 
The difference being early Rock music was strictly for the kids. Disco had an older, ostensibly more sophisticated audience, did it not? At least it did by the time of SNF.
Again, I agree mostly. In my case, I found out about Disco mostly from teens that I knew (I was then ~22), and I didn't really love Disco when I first heard some of it, I came to love it tho.
The Disco dance places sprung up like weeds even in my rural area. So, you're correct about that. I mean, teens couldn't go to the Discos, unless they were alcohol-free places - and there were a few of them for a while.
So, while Disco was a bane for many of that era, it was a boon for others.
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Apr 21, 2020 - 12:01 PM
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jackfu
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The Miami Dolphins disposed of both the Raiders and Steelers en route to their back-to-back (and to date, last) championships. The '73 AFC title game is on YouTube--complete with original commercials--even you can appreciate the Fins' efficiency (not to mention all those old car, shaving, and energy crisis ads).
- I guess we share a mutual disdain for the cheap-shot Raiders. And the flesh still peels off my face each time I remember Seiple's punt fake - kept the Steelers out of Super Bowl VII! 
It's funny, you've touched on two things over which my oldest brother and I could not be in the same room - Disco music and the Raiders - he loved 'em, in all their dirty, cheap-shot glory...
Getting back to SNF, NYC definitely qualified for "sh!thole" status back then: the blackout, Son of Sam...the film certainly covers the 1970s which I obsess over.
And SNF reflected as much, but with a positive ending.
Mr. P. Floyd once stated, "The Seventies are a baleful decade..." - he was right, yet, so many folks like me like to remember the good times that were to be had back then...
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