"The Missing Rings • The Story Of The 1969 Minnesota Vikings"
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2016
- I know that this video has already been posted on RUclips, but for those of you that have never seen it, here's a great documentary by NFL Films on the 1969 Minnesota Vikings season. I was only seven at the time, and professional football wasn't quite yet on my radar, but for hardcore Vikings fans, the finale of this season must have been a pretty hard pill to swallow. Anyway, I hope RUclips/NFL Films allows me to keep this video posted, so until then...
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RIP to both Coach Grant and Joe Kapp, who have passed this year.
RIP fr 🙏🏿
How in the living hell is Jim Marshall not in The Hall Of Fame!? That's a joke! He belongs in Canton, without a doubt!
No Doubt. ...,Jim Marshall tops any list of N.F.L. greats NOT in the hall of fame. ...,He belongs.
they would have been kissing his ass now if he had retire in the last 10 years. warren sapp was good but when you mention greats he does not come to mind. and there are many more.
He played a 20 yr career with no missed games in some of the most brutal years of the NFL. That alone should have him in.
I Know Right! I Guess they still never got past him running the WRONG WAY.
As an AFL fan, I would agree, but then I would also ask why isn't Johnny Robinson in the Hall of Fame either? Both are deserving as is Jerry Kramer and Gino Cappelletti.
It's a crime that Joe Kapp was not included among the '50 Greatest Vikings' a few years ago. I don't care that he didn't have a long career in MN or stats like Tarkenton. He was one of the fiercest, most colorful Viking warriors ever! And he was a QB!! Long live Joe Kapp!!
Dave Cotton amen to that. I hear the reason he left Minnesota was because there was no tequila up there 😂😂😂😂 I’m kidding of course
As a '60's and on Ram's fan, I find that disgusting. Against the Rams, against some of their finest teams, Kapp was always the difference. Shame on you, Minnesota. Who voted for this? Please.
I loved Joe Kapp and his wobbly, but accurate throws.
He was league mvp and took them to the superbowl
@@lloydkline7245 I assume you're talking about Kapp in '69, just to be sure. As it happens, he wasn't the MVP that year. It was Roman Gabriel.
My vote, Jim Marshall to HOF
More than any other former NFL player, Jim Marshall deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. I think it's criminal that he hasn't yet been enshrined.
lol
Also Tommy Nobis.
If he knew which end zone to go to after a turnover, then maybe he'd be in LMAO
+ftsjr If the Vikings had won 4 Super Bowls I,m sure he would be there. Same with Drew Pearson and Cliff Harris. (Cowboys).
Klecko was a tackle, Marshall an end. How are you comparing the two?
What amazes me about back then.
Not the dirtiness of the game, not the roughness. No, if you watch closely, almost every play, every one of those guys is helping the other team up, they are patting eachother on the back, they aren't being assholes and taunting like now a days.
Agreed, but the taunting in the trench's was brutal. Joe kapp looking screaming FU at an all prodefensive lineman???? LMAO that man had some balls of steel.
They shouldn't be helping the opponent up. That's what teammates are for
@@mwilliams1330 What's FU?
Honestly, I dont see that. And thats the way it should be. As aforementioned, thats what teamates are for. Yes respect, but you dont want to get too buddy budy with someine who'd ass you re suppose to kick.
@@TL2354 Correct.
Win or lose I will never stop cheering for the Vikings
same here
I have been a Vikings fan since the mid 1960's. Thanks for the video !
And I'll bet you are a fan of whatever team wins the SB......bandwagon fan wimp.
Cory Haffly And I'll bet you are a bandwagon fan of whatever team wins SB.....total loser.
Ah, yes Mr. Haffy again. The truest of all Vikings hater...........go Rams ...,)
why oh why did this once great and proud franchise stop playing outdoors?
1969 Vikings have become completely forgotten and they were tremendous.
I'm a cowboys fan but how can you not love Bud Grant.
TheRedBaron Lives!
I wouldn't say they've been completely forgotten, judging by the number of comments here, and in a quite a few films detailing that era of their history.
No idea why they built a dome. The weather used to be such a big home field advantage for the Vikes once the cold weather rolled in. Nobody wanted to go there and play the Vikes late in the season. The Lions never should've moved indoors either. The old NFC Central was called the black and blue division for a good reason. Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, and Minnesota were all very unpleasant places to play once winter set in. Back when the NFL was still a man's league
Yesssss!
TheRedBaron Lives! Totally agree
@@jeremythompson9122 .....well that's one good thing about Cleveland. When we got our new stadium in 1999 it wasn't going to be a dome.It was on the shores of beautiful lake Erie where if the winds coming off the lake feel like it they whip about the place and make it feel colder.
Kapp was a tough SOB. Loved his style and fire. How great he was the Cal coach in ‘the band’ victory over Stanford.
Wow, Kapp almost gets decapitated against the 49er's and the ref just wants the ball from under him. Different time, different game back them. Tough as nails
Kapp was basically a corpse and the refs wanted to rip the ball off of his body.
Then please explain why Sugar Bear Hamilton got flagged for "roughing" Kenny Stabler in 1976.
We called that "cloths lining" a guy, and yes we did it in little league. But it was illegal. We had a lineman in our group who cost us several 15 yarders over the years. The bastard wouldn't stop. He did it in practice to us to. lol QBs were absolute toast to a blitz from the blind side. I was weak side OLB, and nailed a few. And receivers going over the middle! Those guys were nuts. You had to be tough to play football back then.
@@davidlafleche1142 Probably because Kapp was running whereas Stabler was in the pocket. Referees give the benefit of the doubt to tackles on running players, sometimes even now. Hamilton clocked Stabler in the helmet right after he released the ball.
Having said that, the ref SHOULD have called that tackle on Kapp. Not only was it to the helmet, but Kapp had long since reached the end zone and the play was over.
@@NuisanceMan You couldn't call a penalty on the play. That was Dave Wilcox, a HOFer!!!😉
Bud Grant had his team practice lining up for the National Anthem... I love this man.
@lynskyrd Today they want the players to kneel when the National Anthem is played.
If they practiced more on the big game than the National Anthem, they could have won one or two. Bud got caught up in the aesthetics of the game.
@@cityhawk Yeah.....you're an idiot. They were outsized and they won this league championship. They won playoff games. Conference championship games. If you're dismissive of that, I sincerely hope you're dismissed in real life.
Stand for that fucking anthem too btw.
@@cityhawk Head coach of the Chiefs Hank Stram required all players to wear black sport jackets with black necktie and gray pants on all game days, along with having all players standing in their numerical order of jersey number on the sideline during the national anthem, because the aesthetics of the game were important to him. How did that work out for the Chiefs?
I've never been a Vikings fan but the more I learn about these old teams the more I respect them. Bud Grant's quickly becoming one of my favorite coaches. It's sad that because of the smaller media market in Minnesota these guys are less known then the Cowboys Steelers or Packers of those days
Dee Jay Ferguson Seeing these old films it's possible for me to love the Vikings even though I'm a Bears fan.
I was a Guard on this team. We had a Tackle from LSU that ate a big plate of grits before every game and then shit himself. His steaming logs would keep the defenders away and made him slippery. When he got to MN, those froze, and the shitcicles stuck to his hairy legs.
Newsflash: Green Bay is and was a much smaller media market than Minneapolis-St Paul, and Pittsburgh was larger until the 1990s.
They weren't at the time. In the NFC, Dallas, Minnesota, and the LA Rams dominated for the entire 1970s.
Bud Grant was 1 of my favorite NFL coaches in his time, he was a class act.
Joe Kapp was so tough, he puts today's Quarterbacks to shame in toughness
Bull. Shit.
I remember Joe playing a rough prison guard in the original Longest Yard movie!!
Joe kapp punched out a pro wrestler one time, I read about it, this football today sucks compared to the older days
@Jack Tripper Ah, another jackass keyboard commando.
A delusional coward sitting behind his keyboard, probably whacking off while looking at pictures of little boys.
A typical viqueen fan...
@@williambarnes7133 That would be Angelo Mosca. At the time it happened, Kapp was 73, Mosca 74.
Can't tell you how much respect I had as a kid for the discipline Bud Grant brought to the Vikings & the Purple People Eaters! One of their calling cards was the lack of celebration after each touchdown in an era when celebrations were becoming more & more popular. Unlike today's players, who insist on acting like fools after just about every play. Long live Bud Grant!
I was 14 years old during this season. This was great football. Wasn’t a Vikings fan but loved Joe Kapp. Toughest quarterback I have ever seen.
Toughest SOB that ever played the position.
Met Stadium in December was BRUTAL. Their mental toughness belongs in the Hall of Fame. Fans included.
But thawed in the sun in January.
I had a friend who played in the old AFL and finally in Canada on a team with Joe Kapp. He called him the toughest man he ever played with, offense or defense.
Half of the tackles they show in this would be fineable or suspendable in today's NFL
Joe Kapp and Billy Kilmer
The reffs are more soft and sensitive
I think every tackle is 15 yard penalty!
Well, they used to have rules. Maybe not quite as tight as they could have been, but rules. NOWADAYS, due to that fuctarded giant ginger suckup Goodel, they make calls depending on HOW IT LOOKS. That's all that counts, appearances. It's the TMZ NFL, and all that counts is "don't get Twitter mad at us!".
They also would be lbs not dts lol
Thanks for this episode. Being nearly 70 I've most of the SBs live and in replay segments you hear the winners stories over and over ad nauseum; it's nice to hear the non-winners stories for a change. (I'll never call them losers; a teams that's the best in its conference and the 2cd best team in the NFL is never a loser.)
So true
Stand on the line for the National Anthem, no scratching, no spitting, no talking, and most importantly NO KNEELING. 😉 😎 😜 👌 😏 😀
“40 for 60”
Best
Motto
Ever..........bar NONE !
You mean one bar..
ill never forgot Bud Grant coming out for the 2015/16 Playoff game vs the Seahawks. It was -25 degrees wind chill and he's out there with no coat and a short sleeve shirt. haha. When men were men
And Sheep Were Scared !!!
The third coldest game in NFL history
Bud Grant was one of Seahawks coach Pete Carroll's mentors. They still keep in touch.
he's one of my best Twitter followers too!
Then the vikings choked walsh was never the same....Steve gets traded to buffalo and we sign Walsh and he miss a shit ton of field goal including the 1 that would have put us in the playoffs...lol choking piece of shit...
9 year old kid from Seattle during this season watching as many games as possible on TV. They quickly became my favorite team and have been ever since. Still waiting for that 1st Super Bowl ring.
@CaliforniaCheez If the Cubs can do it any team can.
"The Missing Rings"..or...."The Legacy of Minnesota Nice".....It's like this - Minnesota is at the church luncheon and the plate with the LAST piece of jello is handed to them....it's theirs...then..."Naw, I'll pass.... YOU can have it"...it's like Minnesota is 14 and 0 then loses to Atlanta....It's like Minnesota and Favre against the Saints - we are running an easy play to position us for an easy field goal to win the game...a reciever is wide open near the sidelines and Favre instead passses into a group of Saints defenders for the interception and ....'Naw, we don't want that piece of jello - YOU can have it" Minnesota Nice does it every time!
Same for me. I was a 12 year old Nebraskan.
You're going to be waiting for a long time
Growing up a Browns fan, this team gave me my first heartbreak in '69. Watching this video completely erases that memory. Jim Marshall is all class.
Don't remind me. 51-3 regular season.
27-7 NFL Championship Game.
Love those words from Jim Marshall at the end.That's the sort of player I would want on my team, someone who cares that much about winning that it still hurts decades later.I'm not a Vikings fan but I wish they could've won one in that era.
I wished they at least beat the Steelers. Atp they wasn’t the dynasty Steelers yet
@@CalebWebster1218grant was out coached all 4 super bowls .
@@AD-ur1fk oh he definitely was
God Bless Jim Marshall he played 20 yrs in the NFL he was durable and Tarkenton played about 18 yrs in the league.
These guys took hits, not like today.
@@libraryfiles4470 NFL 🏈 football players today too strong & big NFL schedules too long
@@libraryfiles4470 Why is Jim Marshall not in the HOF? The first Iron Man, played 20 seasons and never missed a game in frigid cold sometimes below zero weather. Played in the Vikings first ever game. Where is the justice and reasoning in that? Who could possibly top that this day and age.
@@aarondigby9859 First Iron Man? Lmfao that's completely false. Does Chuck Bednarik not exist? He played 14 years playing both sides of the ball, missing only 3 games in his career.
@@europaprimum7050 That's true, and there's NO doubting his toughness and resilience, but to be honest, we're talking about a sizable disparity of games between the two, and the NFL of even Marshall's last year, was still not terribly reined in from Concrete Charlie's days.
I haven't watched pro football in quite some time now and how I went from football being a big part of my life to not even watching the super bowl is a story of disenchantment with players as well as team owners, until enough was enough. Joe Kapp and players like him made the game what it was, just as certain "modern era" players make it what it is, quite a contrast I would say.
I felt the same way. ... Until Patrick Mahomes came along.
@@PCVMoldova Yeah, I get that.
That's how I feel about professional basketball.
The NFL is too exciting not to watch.
But I wish they hadn't changed the playoff format.
A Missing Rings episode should be made about the 1967 Oakland Raiders. Oakland finished the regular season with a 13-1 record. In their 13 wins the Raiders outscored their opponents by an average of 19.07 points per game. In the AFL Championship they destroyed the Houston Oilers 40-7. If you include that game the Raiders outscored their foes by 20.07 points per game.
Oakland’s lone regular season loss was to the New York Jets by a score of 27-14 in week 4. The Raiders avenged that loss later in the year by beating the Jets 38-29.
Oakland would lose to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl II by a score of 33-14.
But if the 1969 Vikings were worthy of a show about their season, the 1967 Raiders easily seem just as worthy.
I think of Missing Rings episodes as teams who have never won a Super Bowl. 1991 Lions and 1987 Browns should be next. The Browns were yards away from winning it and going to the Super Bowl when we all know what happened and Detroit rode on Mike Utley's inspiration to the NFC title game. Unfortunately we know what happened there too. If we include teams who lost and won a Super Bowl, then the 1968 Colts get first dibs
@@1983jblack The '78 Cowboys could make the list.
The Vikings broke my heart four times. They went to the Super Bowl 4 times and lost 4 times. Each time they went, it was the other teams year. I kept rooting for them until the last one that they lost. I was heartbroken and drained emotionally. I finally gave up on them. After being a loyal fan since I was 10.
I still like them and want them to win but I’m not emotionally attached like I was before.
And I remember Fran Tarkenton was the greatest scrambler of the time! He was smaller than most quarterbacks and was fast on his feet. Somehow he would run back and forth and evade tackles and finally throw on the run and connect. Now this is common.
Then it was mainly Fran and maybe Kenny Stabler who were great at this kind of play. I still admire both players as all time greats.
I'm a Bills fan and they lost 4 straight Super Bowls. I feel your pain.
Those were great teams in the late 60's and early to mid 70's.I remember the Vikings from my childhood very well.
Totally Awesome! Yep I was a HUGE Vikings fan and in fact got my start with watching the NFL based on this one team because one of my childhood friend's Dad always had their games on the TV and we happened to drop everything just to be part of the audience around the set when they played.
I love that story about Lonnie Warwick and Joe into a fight over who was at fault...so different than what we see today...right on guys!
So different from back then, too.
Lonnie Warwick from my alma mater: Tennessee Tech!
@@sludge4125 I think America was a different place...and the language is not needed...class shows itself in simple ways.
@@markseslstorytellerchannel3418 Of course America was a different place 50 years ago.
Did you think you were posting something earth shattering?
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@@sludge4125 So, are you just angry at everything? Start eating pumpkin seeds they are filled with magnesium...it is a nutrient that helps with anxiety.
Thank you for posting this. It's nice to learn more history about my favorite team. I was a newborn in 1969 so I didn't know the history. Someday I hope they win a Superbowl.
Ive been a fan for 51 years and remember this like it was yesterday! Thank you for the memories!
Bud Grant was in Winnipeg in 2015 for the Grey Cup and he was sitting in the private box, crying while singing O Canada.
It has a bud grant statue
I’m a Bills fan growing up, but the Vikings were my 2nd favorite team! Great players & coach Grant! I wish they would have won 1!!
You're a Bills fan so I know how you feel.
Oh you poor bastard. You must rank in the top 100 people in the United States in terms of character. I wish the leagues had stayed separate and league titles were celebrated again.
I'm a lifelong Vikings fan. But I wish that great Bills team of the early '90s won one those four Super Bowls, too. I've always identified with them in many ways...legendary QB and roster full of hall of fame players, just like the Vikes. And I always likened Marv Levy to Bud Grant, very similar coaches. I think the Bills have a good shot at a title this season. Best of luck to 'em, hoping one of us can finally put 0-4 Super Bowl infamy to bed!
The best video on RUclips! So sad the Vikings lost the Super Bowl that year and then painfully 3 more times. And it's pitiful that Jim Marshall isn't in the HOF.
THIS WAS EXTREMELY ENTERTAINING !!!!!!! LEARNED ALOT ABOUT JOE KAPP !!!!!!! Wish there were more .......When sports were real back in the day !!!!!
An incredibly well-done piece here. History at its best.
It is one of the best of this series
I was 10 for Super Bowl IV. I had learned football watching with my Dad as a young boy and followed those Vikings as a crazed fan, then and ever since! I fell in Love with the Lore of Vikings, the Snow, the Purple Uniforms, the Viking Mascot, and Great Players! I Love it that they did win the NFL Championship in 69, and will always hope for a Super Bowl. I got to meet Jim Marshall a few years ago; what a great day! Carl Eller, Chuck Foreman, & Alan Page were my favorite Vikings along with so many others! SKOL!
Wow watching these highlights in the frozen field makes me appreciate how tough these players were back in the days! Amazing
The fans were pretty tough too.
One of the best teams that didn't take it all. I remember their season very well.
Bud grant didn't prepare 1969 Minnesota viking good enough for superbowl 1969/ 1970
Stramm, Noll, Shula, and Madden were far more creative game planners than Bud was. Being predictable gets you killed in the Super Bowl. Losing to the Chiefs was the biggest head-scratcher. As for the one against Madden’s Raiders, the Vikings gave up on that one because the Raiders defense manhandled the Vikings offense. The Bills before the Bills.
I was 7 years old, too. I don't remember Kapp or this season, but I remember the Purple People Eaters, the Front Four, Tarkenton, and Bud. You're right, this was hard to watch, especially now that I live in Chiefs territory. My fellow football fans love to remind me of that game. One day, we'll redeem ourselves. Thank you for sharing this. #vikingsforever
This is great I love this!
That was their year to do it. It would've been a great memory and i really wished that Joe Kapp and Jim Marshall got one but for anybody that was a fan knew how great those Vikings were year after year, especially considering there were so many great teams to contend with. The Vikings have nothing to be ashamed of. And I am amazed that in playing 20 years Jim Marshall never missed a game. Wow.
Thanks for posting this. It is a great film.
Joe Kapp is a legend & it’s a ashamed that Jim is not in the hof
As lifelong Ram fan.. playoff lost to 69 Vikings still hurts ...I was 13 years old then 63 years old now
Really;; before Fran tarkenton was Minnesota viking quarterback;; remember Joe Kapp
Joe Kapp went to university of California
Very nicely done. Brings back so many memories of my childhood.
I’m a Bills fan, but I support the Vikings because they’re the only other team 0-4 in Super Bowls.
I dont consider the Bills or Vikings losers, despite losing 4 super bowls. Those were awesome teams, playing fantastic football, and giving us fans a terrific game to watch. I love to watch a " GOOD " football game, I dont care who is playing, or who wins. But I do enjoy watching when football is played well.
That's why I'd like to see Bills vs. Vikings in the Superbowl.
ASU FAN 52-37 be a pretty awesome SB
The Broncos were right there with us too for a while at 0-4. I'm a Bills fan but I feel bad for Vikings fans too. The Bills should've won Super Bowl 25 against the Giants but the Vikes were thoroughly dominated in each of their 4 Super Bowl losses. It's so frustrating to watch for fans of those 2 teams...to see them get so close but fall short that many times. I was happy for Elway and Denver fans when they beat Green Bay in SB32 and ended the NFC's 13 game Super Bowl winning streak
@@phibber any team that is the best team in their conference 4 straight years is absolutely not a loser. They are in fact the total opposite of losers
I LOVED those Vikings...The people LOVED those Vikings 💜 What a great group of men. Such a unique group of personalities. Bud Grant has always been mentor for me. Always be respectful and do the right way.
❤️ Bud grant Mr Freeze : Fran tarkenton ❤️ Minnesota viking 1960s/ 1970s;
Bud grant has a statue of himself in Canada
The story about Grant and Kapp on the snowy day really sums Grant up. Good coach, trying not to lose.
The idea is to win. And when you have the best team, go kick their ass.
Kapp is kind talking about the SB loss. Curley Culp lined up and kicked Mick Tinglehoff's tail all day. That is the blocking Kapp is talking about. I love that Jim Lynch tried to help Kapp up.
Man...I could watch this over and over again. They played so great. One of the greatest teams in history of football in my opinion for sure
That choked on the big one.
@@sludge4125 As does every great athlete /team. Except you that is.....oh wait...
@@6400az Is that supposed to be intelligent?
smh 🤦♂️
*7 TD passes* against the team that obliterated you in the postseason? Now, that's a whoopin' 😎
Imagine how many tb12 would have had. 10? 15?
@@sludge4125
Knocked out in the first quarter, most likely.
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@@sludge4125 I don't think Brady would have done nearly as well back then. So many rules favor the offense nowadays. Two were made for Brady.
@@michaelschaefer1904 That’s absolutely true!
Vikings & most of the teams back then were so classy. The players made many more decisions on the field in those days. Such good men playing as one on teams.
I was only 4 at the time, so I missed this one. I wasn't a fan until a few years later, then watched them lose to the Steelers in SB IX. Broke my heart, but I still love the team. This is a great doc though, answered a lot of questions for me, especially regarding Joe Kapp. Some of those hits back then...damn.
Joe Kapp -v- Cleveland's Jim Houston is a "Down goes Frasier!!!" moment in sports history. Kapp's pugnacious tenacity, toughness and champion's heart is relatively ignored and overshadowed when all time greats are listed. He personified the competitive spirit for his era.
Grew up with the Vikes as a kid...fond memories. The NFL isn't nothing like the game it once was....Loved the Vikes
Thanks alot for posting this gem of a video, while it was before my time i love seeing this Viking footage and Purple People Eater insight lol, i also find it cool that im from where Kapp and Bud Grant of this legendary era came from (CFL etc.). This has been a great season so far (5-0, & no interceptions) Pretty happy to be a Vikings Fan! SKOL....Thanks Again!
"69 Vikings were a great team, one of the best of all time. Because of it, KC's Super Bowl win was one of the greatest of all time.
Funny we beat them opening day the following season..27-10 when it did not count!
@@v.m.7228 Thats exactly what my friend, whos big Colts fan said , when they played the Jets again in NY, the following year or so, after the merger; didn't count
No, it's a well known fact the Vikings celebrated a little too hard the nigh before the game. They were hungover. That's why the Chiefs won.
Alot of those Chiefs in the hall. Should've been about 10 but I think maybe 6
@@bensonhurst7272 Well known fact?! What happened...
Never heard anything about that.
The ending almost put me in tears. All right it did!
loved this!!! THANK YOU!!!
Grew up a Cowboys fan in Houston, Texas. My closest friend was a diehard Vikings fan so we had some pretty intense arguments after Cowboys-Vikes games. The incredible skill of Fran Tarkenton and the military-like precision of the Vikings offense was legendary back then. 'We hated the Vikings but you knew a game against them would always be a knockdown, drag out affair.
Some of those hits - they wouldn't make enough penalty flags to throw in one game. The difference in today's game and yesterday's games is why QB's last a lot longer today. Thank you for uploading this video. I hated the Vikings back then because I was an avid Dolphins fan, but man oh man, what a team they were. I still can't believe they could play in that weather... 🙄🙄
1:03 I didn't realize Sean Penn was such a Vikes fan!
Ha ha... that's amazing... he looks just like him, I wonder if that was his father.. Lol 😃
what a great documentary. i love these old school vikings teams. bud grant is a legend.
This was the first year of the NFL from my childhood. It was cause of these guys i started loving football. My first fav team
Jim Marshall should have been in the hall of fame decades ago.
He cant find it, he keeps going the wrong way...
@@miri9885 Real funny Asshole!
@Scott Grudziadz No way. Jim Marshall definitely deserves to get in before Klecko. But don't get me wrong Joe Klecko was a great player. The Jets D-Line was really good with Klecko, Mark Gastineau, and Marty Lyons. I remember when my Bills beat them 31-27 at Shea Stadium in the 81 Wild Card Game. Miami, Buffalo, and the Jets all made the playoffs out of the AFC East that year
282 straight games , he should be there
@@miri9885 I get it Vikings hater
THIS IS HOW FOOTBALL SHOULD STILL BE PLAYED TODAY!!!
Why so players can be brain dead 😂
Love those 1969 Vikings ! Big fan of them. Was disappointed they didn't win one of those 4 appearances in Super Bowl, but they gave it all they had. N that's all you could ask of them. Kudos for vid.
A very great documentary indeed. The contrast between Grant's and Marshall's passionate memories of their career's is quite fascinating in itself. “Be all you can be” and “Do the best you can” has allowed Grant to enjoy his years of retirement from the game in great peace and satisfaction due to his numerous repetitive accomplishments. Yet Marshall's depressive obsession of living his elder years from a viewpoint of only failure because they never held the Lombardi trophy is a tragedy. If only he'd spoken to more youthful minds about the effect he and their teammates had on those who watched and loved the Vikings. How many of these would go on in their lives to take the “crown” of their dreams, because of the inspirational Grants and Marshall's that they once watched.
The wrong-way run by Jim Marshall was endearing because if a Superman like him could make a mistake, the rest of us could feel a little better about all the mistakes we made.
Yes sir. 👍
Bud Grant is absolutely a great man. Jim Marshall absolutely belongs in the Hall of Fame. Joe Kapp absolutely one tough son gun
Watched him play live. He was way more than a body. Look up the the film's and watch what he did in twenty years. He was dominant
This was really interesting-thanks to whomever produced it.
NFL Films, part of the America's Game series
I'm a Bears Fan so of course i remember Joe Kapp, Jim Marshall, Bud Grant, the Purple People Eaters, Gary Kwazo....too many to mention and they beat the crap out of the Bears on a regular basis. was great seeing Joe Kapp in The Longest Yard and this video exposes he has a great personality and was a great Teammate. Thanks for making a great Video.
The ending makes me tear up, anyone else?
+seanlockyer1976 Even as a vikings fan in 79 I cheered on the Bucs all through the playoffs and was crushed when they lost to the Rams 9-0.
They would never show what on television?
A show about chokers?
Me too and im an LA RAMS fan from the 70s
Yep if you look real close old Bud bites his lip to keep from crying.
"The Missing Rings"..or...."The Legacy of Minnesota Nice".....It's like this - Minnesota is at the church luncheon and the plate with the LAST piece of jello is handed to them....it's theirs...then..."Naw, I'll pass.... YOU can have it"...it's like Minnesota is 14 and 0 then loses to Atlanta....It's like Minnesota and Favre against the Saints - we are running an easy play to position us for an easy field goal to win the game...a reciever is wide open near the sidelines and Favre instead passses into a group of Saints defenders for the interception and ....'Naw, we don't want that piece of jello - YOU can have it" Minnesota Nice does it every time!
Being a die-hard Los Angeles Rams fan, 1969 was perhaps the most bittersweet season I can remember as a young boy. We raced to an 11-0 start but everybody kept telling me that the Vikings would beat us in the Coliseum. Well, Minnesota came in and snapped our 11 game win streak with a 20-13 victory. We got blanked by Detroit 28-0 in a snowstorm at old Tiger Stadium and then finished up the regular season losing at home to Baltimore in a meaningless game with the Coastal Division title long wrapped up. I just wanted revenge on Minnesota in the divisional playoff game and when we were up 17-7 at the half, I thought for sure we were going to get that. It still hurts when I see the image of Joe Kapp hurdling over Jim Nettles for the go-ahead TD. I'll always feel that we were better but Minnesota just found ways to win.
Vikings always found a way to beat the rams in the playoffs. Even though I would say as a Vikings fan, those rams teams were better. To bad you had to play in Minnesota in December. Lol
There were some calls in that game that went the Vikings way certainly the out of bounds catch
The Rams had great teams back then as well. But the Vikings always found ways to beat them. I don't think George Allen ever beat Minnesota in the playoffs. He was too fixated on Dallas. I have to say, I love Eller's triumph over Bob Brown. Shows what a fabulous player he was.
@@mikehanzal9562 But the Rams' first Super Bowl didn't come until 1979. Just shows how winning a Super Bowl is hardly the only hallmark of greatness. We're the Fearsome Foursome and the Purple People Eaters really sub-par because they didn't win Super Bowls? Hardly. Merlin Olsen went to 14 or 15 Pro Bowls. But I guess he wasn't that great because he didn't win a Super Bowl. Bull.
Bud Grant was a great guy. Even though I never was a Vikings' fan, Bud Grant was to be admired back in the day. He and Tom Landry to me were the epitome of what a coach should represent.
Growing up a St. Louis Cardinals football fan in the 1960s that was another team that came up short a couple seasons twice a half game out from playing the NFL title game due to a tie. This Vikings era was really good and remember watching the Fran Tarkenton era as well. The Vikings though were placed in the West and the Cardinals were in the East. The Vikings games with the Packers were fun watching on TV. The highlight of St. Louis football would not come until many years later with Kurt Warner and the Rams and their super bowl win ranks right up there with when the Blues finallly won the Cup in 2019 after over 50 years coming up short. Thanks for placing on RUclips. I like these history films.
Not sure there was any parallel with the StL football Cardinals. The Vikes won 4 NFL/NFC Championships from 69 to 76. 4-0. They went to 4 SB in 8 years.
The Cardinals never won a playoff game. Gargantuan difference.
@@kbrewski1 I agree that run by the Vikings was defintely much better. In the 1960s the STL Cardinals came up barely short to play in the NFL title game, which was prior to the expanded playoffs that would follow.. In 1963 and 1964 it was just the best of the East versus the best of the West prior to the Super Bowl. The problem is the Vikings and the Buffalo Bills get remembered more like a World Series loser in a Baseball world series.
I always liked teams that, even if they didn't win lots of games, were spirited and had a lot of fight - early 70s Eagles defense, Bears in the late 60s/early 70s, Detroit, and the Vikes. Wore purple, kinda like a bruise, lol. Marshall's description of the early teams as being, "like pirates," is pretty telling.
And they played in that icy, gritty place, where the grass looked kind of grey in the cold months. They earned their image. I felt terrible when the Chiefs beat them. Saw about all their games in '69, since good teams like them were getting lots of tv exposure. Outside of the hometown Falcons, the Vikings were my team then.
OUTSTANDING VIDEO ! should be required watching for any so called fan under 50 years old . but most of them won"t get it
@Eric Zombrow No changes that would make this version unrecognizable. Just because the game has evolved does NOT mean it has underwent a metamorphosis. Until the game changes so much that it resembles backgammon or golf then dismissing any era shows a lack of understanding how evolution works...
I totally agree. This is the best video on RUclips. We should have 5 Super Bowl rings! So sad.
Jerry is known as the village idiot in his town, standing on a corner mumbling inane and insipid proclamations.
@@sjhanson1690 six actually
"The Missing Rings"..or...."The Legacy of Minnesota Nice".....It's like this - Minnesota is at the church luncheon and the plate with the LAST piece of jello is handed to them....it's theirs...then..."Naw, I'll pass.... YOU can have it"...it's like Minnesota is 14 and 0 then loses to Atlanta....It's like Minnesota and Favre against the Saints - we are running an easy play to position us for an easy field goal to win the game...a reciever is wide open near the sidelines and Favre instead passses into a group of Saints defenders for the interception and ....'Naw, we don't want that piece of jello - YOU can have it" Minnesota Nice does it every time!
I was 14 then, I didn't know about the 40 for 60 but I saw the talent each of those 40 brought to the game in their own way along with the comradery. They were all my favorite. You could just feel it all in their games.
As for Joe, he didn't have "gravitas" but he always brought it, full tilt. You just knew those Hail Mary's were gonna come through from his shear will alone. I grew up here in NE Ohio, I loved the Browns as well but I was always for "The Vikes"...and still am.
I remember this season very well! Watching this makes me cry! I was living in los angles at the time and when the Vikings beat the Rams which was the Los Angeles Rams at the time, was most happiest day of my life! And the good feelings only got better! Until 😢😢 i never been so broken hearted in my life! That season taught me how to take the bad with the great! Something I had to deal with 3 other times! What I would give for 1 more shot at a championship! Im not a spring chicken anymore 😂
I love the Vikings! i have for 60 years, but i hate them so much!
I remember the purple people eaters as a cowboys fan. God they where great. Outstanding defense. Great games against the cowboys , a shame they stopped playing outside. That was a huge advantage for then like green bay. No one wanted to go there. Great Vikings teams. Shame no rings but winners in my book. Even as a cowboys fan.
Well thanks. Especially since the Cowboys stole one from us in 1975. Probably the best Vikings team. They could do another Missing Rings show on that season.
Well, after all these years, Cowboy fans (one of them, at least) seem like pretty alright, okay kinds of guys. Still mad about 1975 though.
55 years of breaking their fans hearts. :) Thanks. I grew up in Bloomington.
I understand where the old stadium stood in Bloomington is now an IKEA parking lot (part of the Mall of America)
Yes, the amusement park in the MOA is where the field was. I believe they have plaque where home plate used to be.
cfapps7865 at least your home team sniffed the super bowl several times in recent years try looking at it from this Chiefs fan’s view the Chiefs only makes one appearance in the past 26 years to the AFC championship game and 48 years straight in addition to the one and done frustration seeing the Lamar Hunt past on to another AFC team other than the Chiefs for 48 consecutive years is heartbreaking for me
I love reading my viking in the newspaper, sports talks on the radio, superbowl victories for mostly for vendors they make money for ever off souvenirs
What an amazing story. I had no idea. What a beautiful team. Football, It was so different then and I long for those days, the game.
I love it every year at Christmas my dad tells the story about being at my Uncle's house in Post Texas he was the only one going for the Chiefs to win that Superbowl and here it is again 50 years later and he has the Chiefs winning by 10+ and 49ers not having a sack in the game til the 4th quarter
Bud Grant is just the epitome of class. One of the greatest coaches of all time and a great human being.
Overrated… yea I said it
He was in easiest division in football
Outcoached in all 4 superbowls
Love these classic NFL years. Back when people knew how to tackle and the rules committee allowed defenders to play.
This was a great film....As a born and raised Minnesotan in my teen in those years...brings back many memories of where I was... who I was...what the world was like in those years...nostalgia blues!
NFL 🏈 football seasonways too long ; injuries NFL football players too big & strong,
Brilliant documentary. In any sport there has to be loser for every winner. If you play a sport you WILL lose. When you win the quality of the team/person you defeated matters.
A lot.
This was really interesting-thanks to whomever made the film
In sports as in life, timing is everything. Of the Vikings' four SB opponents, two were in the midst of dynasties and two were the best teams their respective franchises ever fielded.
Chiefs were full of future Hall of Famers (8 players, coach, owner) and had been to the Super Bowl 3 years earlier.
Dolphins went undefeated the previous year, vs the Vikings was their 3rd consecutive Super Bowl appearance.
Steelers beat the Vikes and then would win 3 of the next 5 Super Bowls.
Raiders won it all after 1976, 1980, and 1983.
A Murderers Row for the Vikings. But to be the best, you need to beat the best. There have been Suoer Bowl Champions that had a cakewalk as better teams were upset during the playoffs. Vikings were never that lucky.
@@emptyhand777 You're so completely right about about the cakewalk Super Bowl winners. My Wash. Redskins team avoided playing the just arrived in Los Angeles Raiders in the 1982 (strike) season as they were upended in L.A. Coliseum by the N.Y. Jets, Redskins met pre-Dan Marino Miami Dolphins team with David Woodley QBing, then 1987 Redskins were hosts to the Vikings in conf. championship game after Vikings stunning road playoff upset of Joe Montana S.F. 49ers dynasty team, also the great Redskins Super Bowl XXVI in 1991 season, considered possibly the all-time best in team history (14-2-0), had 13 other teams from their conference that just weren't at the same level as they were at that year, they were never quite challenged by anyone.
I'm not a Vikings fan nor root for a rival of theirs, but I genuinely feel bad this team came up short.
"The Missing Rings"..or...."The Legacy of Minnesota Nice".....It's like this - Minnesota is at the church luncheon and the plate with the LAST piece of jello is handed to them....it's theirs...then..."Naw, I'll pass.... YOU can have it"...it's like Minnesota is 14 and 0 then loses to Atlanta....It's like Minnesota and Favre against the Saints - we are running an easy play to position us for an easy field goal to win the game...a reciever is wide open near the sidelines and Favre instead passses into a group of Saints defenders for the interception and ....'Naw, we don't want that piece of jello - YOU can have it" Minnesota Nice does it every time!
Kansas city chief superbowl; Minnesota viking could won that one bud grant didn't prepare good enough ; Pittsburgh steelers was a winnable superbowl
Kc's hank Stram thoroughly out coached Grant in the 4th Super Bowl. Maybe some over confidence also.
@@loyaldude10 I think bud grant was more of a college football coach an NFL 🏈 football coach : NFL football 🏈 coaches sleep in their office during the season; in the oldies days of college & NFL football 🏈; no indoor training building;; Michigan / bo schembecher never won a bowl game until indoor training building 1981 rosebowl bowl; Michigan:: superbowl should it like a final exam: not a test : their a bud grant statue in 🇨🇦 🍁 Canada: bud grant won a gray cup trophy few of them :
I have loved the Vikings for almost 50 years. I plan to love 'em for 50 more. SKOL.
In 1969 I became a Vikings fan. I'm born and Raised in Massachusetts liked the Pat's but was addicted to The Vikes!! I wore #88 in High School paying respect to my Favorite Alan Page. Played like him by watching him every play. My allegiance of course has changed a bit (lolol) but I will always Love my Vikes. Sadly one summer coming back home from a family vacation at 8 yrs old on the radio in my dad's car I heard of Karl Kassulke's Paralyzing Motorcycle accident. I cried!! Praying for Diggs to Wear that Pat's uniform. Lol Good Luck Vikes fans Always loved them still route for my Nfc team
Joe Kapp...wth! This man could play! Why do we not know about this man? 7 touchdown passes in one game! That says it all. One of the greats.
24-21 as an nfl starter, and choked big time on the big one.
That 7 TD game against the Colts in 69 was an absolute outlier of a game. The Vikes usually didn't throw that much. Kapp was obviously "on" all day, a once in a career performance. The Vikings had lost the 1968 Conference playoff to the Colts the year before in a muddy battle and they were highly motivated. The Colts had blitzed the Vikings relentlessly, and did the same in the 69 game, and Kapp was prepared for it. He threw the long ball more often burning them on the blitz often. So, a great game, but not a typical Kapp game.
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He didn't "choke". The Vikes got behind and they were not primarily a come from behind passing offense. The Chiefs D line teed off because they knew Kapp had to pass.
Best Vikings team ever
Teally; better than 1973: 1994 1975; Minnesota viking 1969 greatest Minnesota viking ever
This was the game that made me into a Vikings fan in New Jersey. I was 8 years old at the time, now I’m 60, just once before I die.
The Brett Farve play gotta kill ya that was such a bone head play and I not a Vikings fan.
It’s amazing watching the number of late hits, targeting, and horse collar tackles that were allowed back in the day. Those players were tough and really earned their $12,500 season salaries.
I was only 7 but I remember how upset my dad was. Between the icy sidewalk at my uncles' apartment in New Hope MN, the result of the game and multiple bottles of Pfieffer's he slipped and hurt his elbow, it still hurts him sometimes. Tomorrow we will watch the Chiefs play again and I will give him shit about his elbow.
They hit a lot harder back then then they do today, plus the helmets and pads were not as protective as today. Those were tough ass guys.
And adjusted for inflation, there were no $20 million-dollar players back then. In those days, making $100,000 (which is equivalent to about $650,000 in today's money) per season was considered a big deal. So these players were risking severe injuries for much less money than today's players make.
@@georgfriedrichhandel4390 The winners bonus for the first 4 SBs was $15K, approx. $100,000 in 2018. But $100K in 1970 would buy a very nice car and an excellent dp on a new house.
@@indy_go_blue6048 I think you meant to say that 15K in 1970 would buy a nice car. But I wasn't talking about the bonus because that has actually kept up with inflation for the most part. Each member of the Patriots received $118K for winning this year's Super Bowl. I was talking about the players' base pay. In the early '70s, most players made between $20K and $60K per season. A few top players like Joe Namath got salaries that looked like telephone numbers (and also made big bucks making endorsements) but those were very few. Today, we hear about five-year $50 million contracts for many players. I'm sure Broadway Joe's generation are wishing they had been born 50 years later!
they absolutely did NOT hit a lot harder back then. were there fewer rules governing how/who they could hit? yes. but to say they hit harder.. please.
@@herogibson Watch Dick Butkus and tell me they didn't hit hard... everybody needs to stop comparing era's...
Watching this video reminds me how much the game has changed over the years. Some of the things these players did would never be allowed in the NFL today. Today, if you tackle a QB the wrong way, you're flagged.
Being a big AFL Kansas City fan Joe Capp had little polish as a quarterback and was my most NFL hated enemy. His polished smile is overwhelming and very contiguous. Wow what a great player in a game of guts and glory.