I have found a few games from 78 on ebay. None from 76 however, probably because VCR's were rare even in 78. I agree with most of the sentiments expressed in this thread, that era hooked me on football and the Pats. My first game was the 76 blowout of the Raiders 48-17. I will say I have watched those 78 games (I have the Raiders, Colts and Cowboys games) and there was definitely something missing in those teams. They had a maddening habit of blowing scoring opportunities, at least in the games that I have. The Cowboys game still frustrates me to watch, the Pats put up over 300 hundred yards of offense in the first half including something like 170 yards rushing but only led 10-3. By the way, does anybody remember what a huge game this was at the time? I remember that the Cowboy's were like a mythical team at the time and the Pats playing them in Dallas seemed like one the biggest sporting events I could remember. In the Colts game, the famous Joe Washington game, Grogan threw critical and very stupid interceptions to blow a couple of scoring drives otherwise this would have been a blowout. I love Grogan as much as anyone and especially admired his courage later in his career but during the 76-78 area he was a problem. On a team as talented as the Pats were they needed a QB who didn’t lose games and that’s what Grogan often did. By the way one of my favorite things from these games is that on the Cowboy tape it has the entire NFL today show on it with Brett Musburger and Irv Cross.
