with the New York Jets The Tampa Bay Buccaneers began play at Tampa Stadium The Seattle Seahawks began play at the Kingdome Uniform changes The Atlanta Falcons switched from gray face masks to white The Dallas Cowboys replaced the blue stripe on right side of their helmets with a red stripe to honor the United States' Bicentennial. The New Orleans Saints began wearing black pants with their white jerseys, and facemasks changed from gray to black. The New York Giants replaced the striped uppercase "NY" helmet logo with an italicized and underlined "GIANTS". The inaugural Seattle Seahawks uniforms featured silver helmets and pants; blue jerseys with white numbers, and white and green sleeve stripes; and white jerseys with blue numbers, and blue and green sleeve stripes. The new helmet logo featured an osprey's head based on Kwakwakaʼwakw art masks. The inaugural Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniforms featured white helmets and pants, red trim, white jerseys with orange numbers, and orange jerseys with white numbers (which got the nickname "Creamsicle" uniforms). The nicknamed "Bucco Bruce" helmet logo featured a mustached pirate donning a plumed slouch hat and clutching a dagger in his teeth. Television This was the third year under the league's four-year broadcast contracts with ABC, CBS, and NBC to televise Monday Night Football, the NFC package, and the AFC package, respectively. Lee Leonard replaced Jack Buck, joining Bryant Gumbel on NBC's pregame show GrandStand. Al DeRogatis also left the network, leaving Curt Gowdy and Don Meredith as NBC's lead broadcast team in a two-man booth. "Jimmy the Greek" Snyder joined The NFL Today to predict the results of NFL games. References NFL Record and Fact Book () NFL History 1971–1980 (Last accessed December 4, 2005) Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League () National Football League seasons