Good Lord I'm Old , this was when my grandma was making homemade chicken and dumplings in the kitchen and they tasted outstanding, followed by apple pie
I watched the game with my 2nd cousin at his nonna's house. The sauce was simmering and the meatballs frying. I was a lunatic for the Colts even though I lived in NE PA, Berwick. My cousin from York was visiting. ....and rooting for the Pack. I had to swallow my pride, sorrow and indignation about the bad FG call so I could stay and swallow some rigatoni and meat balls.
Matte had a wristband with a handful of numbered plays on it that Shula threw together for him. First time that was used. I saw the wristband at the Hall Of Fame. This was the longest game of the old pre-merger NFL.
Had to be extremely tough to put in a game plan w/ Matte having to QB. If they had it to do over, maybe Shula calls a few more of the QB draws, they seemed to work well. Lotsa respect for what Matte did that day, a real competitor.
@@Mr.56Goldtop I was a long distance runner for 47 yrs. . I went into the Army at 31 and got out at 44 . I took a 4 yr . break after 6 yrs. and went back in. I am having a ball . I also have a Roman Army uniform , re enactment Germany 1984 Trier . Matte ran a play almost 50 yds. before he got into it with John Sample # 24 . I was so impressed with what Namath did to our zone , I got one of his jerseys , I still have it . I learned a valuable lesson that day , don't count your chickens before they hatch . My son became a Physical Trainer , when I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up , he said , I want to make large men look like You . I've tried to run again , but at 67 yrs. I can only continue with my College Cheerleader ( females ) Sexual awareness seminars . Keep Running !
Tom Matte starred as halfback with the Baltimore Colts from 1961-72. He led the Colts in rushing in 1963,1967,1968,1969 and 1971. He is a member of the Colts Super Bowl V Championship team, tho he suffered knee injury in the opening game of 1970 and was out for the year. Matte made the Pro Bowl in 1968 and 1969.
Chuck Thompson was indeed a Hall of Fame announcer. I grew up in southern Maryland listening to him announce the Baltimore Colts and the great Oriole baseball teams of the 60s and 70s.
I grew up in eastern WV and did too..... he and Bill O'Donnell.....71 world series, colts vs steelers playoff game in what year was it 77.....was good to be young then
NEVER saw FRITZ POLLARD PLAY; however, it was pure pleasure to SEE THE MOST COMPLETE " ALL- AROUND OFFENSIVE PLAYER PLAY DURING THE " GOLDEN AGE" OF THE N.F.L. WHICH WAS " THE GOLDEN BOY" ONE PAUL HORNUNG.The guy was the consummate team player who was very adept at RUNNING, CATCHING, PUNTING, PASSING, KICKING,and BLOCKING. 🤔🙂NOW; I DIDN'T SAY HE WAS "THE BEST" IN ALL THE AREAS LISTED, JUST SAYING THE MAN EXCELLED AT BEING " THE COMPLETE OFFENSIVE THREAT" When he took to the field of play.🙂
@@jmadratz "Discrimination" was exceeding rampant ;particularly regarding certain player positions and definitely in ALL FIELDS OF COACHING and FRONT OFFICE MGNT. LOOK UP THE HISTORY OF PRO FOOTBALL AND THE RACISM IS OVERTLY PRESENT AND ASTOUNDING.
Obviously many strange things happened on the field on this day to make this one of the legendary games in NFL history.🏈 GOD BLESS OUR PRO FOOTBALL HEROES FROM A BYE-GONE ERA
This was the first Packer playoff game I ever watched. I was 9 years old and sat in front of my Sears and Roebuck 8 inch black and white. Had to sit about 3 feet away so I could adjust the rabbit ears. Packers were lucky. Pretty sure Chandler missed that FG wide right.
"We've got a big rhubarb going here" "Jim Taylor whacks off the right side" best calls of the game 😂 Bradkowski was really zipping the football around too!He had a bad throw or two but not too shabby of a performance🤠🏈
This is great. I always thought the game had changed so much, but when you watch this, not much has really changed. I see RB's grinding out short gains, shovel passes, rollouts, hard hits from the secondary, bread and butter short passes over the middle. The size and speed of the players has changed, and the amount of pass attempts. Probably field goal distance has changed the most.
I was less than 2 when they played this game, but I remember my dad watching this and rooting for the Packers. He was very impressed with Zeke Bratkowski's play. I have remembered the game since.
I know the one you speak of. The greatest NFL Film ever made even though it was one of the earliest. "Portrait of a Team, the Baltimore Colts, 1965". I saw it once back then and have been looking for it ever since--55 years! And I am not even a Colts fan. You have a good memory.
Thank you for this game. I can't tell you why I was obsessed with this game as a kid. I remember going to the toy store, and making my poor Dad stand there while I searched their stock over and over looking for a Colts-Packers Electric Football game. Had to be Colts-Packers. If course,Tudor made no such matchup. I didn't even start liking sports until 1969. But I definitely have a recollection of Matte at Quarterback. So it had to be this game when I was eight.
Under the NFL rules of 1965 that was a catch and fumble. You can't apply 2021 rules to a game played in 1965. Of course even back in '65 field goals were no good if they didn't split the uprights, same as 2021. So the breaks didn't even out in this game
@@TheMrSuge Of course I can apply 2021 rules to a game played in 1965. That's exactly what I did. If you read my comment again, I actually said that I was applying today's rules. I did not say that the officials made the wrong call at the time. It was just an observation. Feel free to offer your own opinion as to whether or not today's officials would have called that a catch. I don't think there was a rules change, by the way, just a more specific set of criteria to determine what was a catch. Funny thing is that my comment didn't change the result of the play, nor did anyones opinion of that FG. The score didn't change and the Packers still won the game.
This was the 1st year I started watching the NFL with my dad, I was 6 and started asking questions and he was a player and a coach so it was football 101, he taught me the ins and outs of the game over about a decade watching together. Thanks dad
Thank you for sharing this video! I had read over the years many accounts and backstories regarding this playoff game (including the Don Chandler made/missed field goal debate and Tom Matte, emergency QB), but I had never seen the highlights in such detail. This is tremendously valuable and enjoyable NFL history. By chance would you have the Playoff Bowl that followed this game with the Colts and Cowboys? Thanks!
19:17 Chandler knew he had missed it. How about the Colt's secondary? They didn't miss a tackle all day, and half of their tackles ended in the receiver not getting up. Tough group.
Thanks for this version I've never seen this before I've seen the game but not this particular one PS referees have been blowning calls for an awful long time
Saw this live, and it was a good game. Even though Starr and Unitas were out. Hornung, Anderson and Dowler had good games. The Chandler field goal was really close to tie it. This was really tough smash mouth football. Really liked these kinds of games.
@@sej4323 It would have helped if the official had moved to the left so that he was standing under the upright. He stayed in the middle so he was looking at an angle (there was only one official back under the goalpost at that time). Being a Packers fan, I can't say I am disappointed that he didn't take those few steps.
Chandler missed not even that close Don Shula Colts HC was rightly pissed and complained bitterly to commissioner Pete Rozelle so the very next season the uprights were raised 10ft and dubbed the "Baltimore uprights"
No, I just watched it a dozen times. It was not "right down the middle" like the announcer said on this video, but it was good. I remember watching this game live.
One rule change that emerged after the controversy of the wide kick of Don Chandler being called "good" for a field goal -- the NFL referees began standing with two referees under/beside each field goal upright to more accurately call whether the kick was indeed good.
@@billbergendahl2629 I think Lonnie Warwick, his predecessor at MLB on the Vikings, Rip Hawkins, and the Vikings' wide receiver from 1963 to 1967 (rookie of the year in 1963) Paul Flatley, are the three most underrated Vikings in the original great era of the team's history: the 1961-1981 era (the years the team played outdoors at Metropolitan Stadium). It's hard to say in what order, that they are the most underrated, and it would be great if you could find out from Lonnie what he thought about Rip, the MLB starter from 1961 to 1965 (Lonnie played outside his 1965 rookie year) and if Rip retired early because he saw how good Lonnie was (which is what I suspect) or if he just got tired of the game, for some reason, which is what FranTarkenton states in his autobiography (Tarkenton does praise Hawkins' skills, and says they were roommates on the road for a time). Why I say those 3 great players: Warwick, Hawkins, and Flatley, are the most underrated Vikings of the great 1961-1981 era, is that I don't think there are any other Vikings as skilled and productive, who are neither on the 25th, 40th, or 50th Anniversary official Vikings teams, and who are also none of them in the Vikings Ring of Fame or Ring of Honor, whichever it's called. There is actually one other Viking, from a later portion of that great initial 20 year era of the franchise: 1961-1981, who is similarly on none of those anniversary teams nor the Ring of Honor, but whose play, when observed closely, is perhaps equally on the level of greatness represented by Warwick, Hawkins, and Flatley. That would be cornerback Nate Wright, again whom I amazed at his talent. Wright played cornerback for the Vikings from 1971-1980, after his 1st couple of years in the league with the Falcons and Cardinals. I love these old games and the Lombardi-era Packers and Shula-era Colts, but the Vikings are my favorite team from the 60s and 70s.
Maybe you’ve heard this quote from a Packers teammate. “Most backs break the line of scrimmage, they look for the end zone. Jimmy breaks through and looks for the first safety to hit.” Watch his highlights. And it’s true. In the secondary, he doesn’t run towards space; he runs towards defenders.
Years later in a 1996 interview, Chandler said “When I looked up, the ball was definitely outside the post." Spurred on by the controversy, the NFL raised the height of the uprights to the 30’ level and also added another official under the goalpost to assist in making the “good/no good” call from the officials.
The official wasn’t standing under the upright where he would have been able to have the proper perspective on whether the kick was good or not. It certainly looks wide and Don Chandler agreed. The game winning kick was definitely good, though. You can see the ball go inside the right post on the film.
Watched this game with my father at my Godfather's house on his new color TV...first game I ever saw in color...can't watch a game at Lambeau today without thinking about it...
Jim Taylor a legendary Green Bay packer. This game had two coaching legends Don Shula and Vince Lombardi. Hall of Fame members: Green Bay Packers: Vince Lombardi, Jim Taylor, Forrest Gregg, Bart Starr, Ray Nitscke, Herb Adderley, Willie Davis, Willie Woods, Henry Jordon, Paul Hourning, Dave Robinson, Jerry Kramer. Baltimore Colts: Don Shula, Johnny Unitas, Jimmy Parker, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, John Mackey
Jim Taylor a legendary Green Bay packer. This game had two coaching legends Don Shula and Vince Lombardi. Hall of Fame members: Green Bay Packers: Vince Lombardi, Jim Taylor, Forrest Gregg, Bart Starr, Ray Nitscke, Herb Adderley, Willie Davis, Willie Woods, Henry Jordon, Paul Hourning, Dave Robinson, Jerry Kramer. Baltimore Colts: Don Shula, Johnny Unitas, Jimmy Parker, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, John Mackey
@3:00 that Colts returned TD would of Totally been ruled an incomplete pass today. Lol when I saw that, I'm like WTH?? When are the refs going to call that??
If you watch a game from say 1993 to 2003., there’s not a huge difference. If you go 10 years into the future from this game to 1975. It looks like an entirely different game. Especially the speed of the receivers.
Maybe the NFL was just indebted to Lombardi in this game. Bet the Colts thought this game was rigged. That "good" FG and fumble not given to Baltimore was total BS.
Official Jim Tunny # 32 Field Judge & Long time prominent NFL Official, 36 years old at the Time, called it Good , and signaled with both hands in the air, HE said it curved around the Goal Post and was good ! Bart Starr, the holder, always said it was inside and then curved away, but it was higher than the pipe. " Starr, commenting on the kick, said: "I saw it as being good. The NFL Rules Committee , endeavoring to find a way to prevent a recurrence, took immediate action. It placed two officials under the goal post and added 10 feet to each upright. The new uprights were facetiously called the "Baltimore extensions."
Starr was wrong. Chandler admitted it over and over, to his credit. He knew it was no good. Other Packers reacted the same way. Tunney blew it. Period.
@@normanrust5910 Norman, NFL Officials Ruled it good. 55 years ago. Was here at game. It curved in. Than Packers won in over time. To avoid future controversy goal posts were raised. We could care less of your stupid a$$ Opinion. Colts were losers in 64 , 65, 66,67,68,69 onward get a life
@@normanrust5910 The ref’s botched call most likely prevented the Cleveland Browns from repeating as NFL champions in 1965. Not definitely, but most likely.
Oh, I believe you Doc - Although only 1 year old, I remember our family being excited for the Cowboys first game and wondering if Tom Landry was the right coach. I remember my peach pablum was a bit warm that night as well..... C'mon, bro.
The field goal by Don Chandler to make the score 10 - 10 appeared as if the field goal was wide to the left. I remember the game as the "Matte game," because Tom Matte had the plays scripted on his wrist band. The game was a classic. Although the game would have been far better if both John Unitas and Bart Starr could have quarterbacked each of his respective teams.
They raised the field goal 20 feet in 1966 because of that game, he still was about 6 in to the right. Then in 74 they put the field goal in the back of the end zone. I would have loved to have played in that era.
Tom Matte using Jerry Hill 45 on the classic Baltimore Colt trap play, which Chuck Noll Colt assistant took with him to Pittsburgh in 1969. The Steeler trap is really the Baltimore Colt trap, invented by Weeb Ewbank and John Unitas.
Magnificent video! It was, however, before Ed and Steve Sabol worked their magic on NFL films. Nothing against this narrator, but there is nobody quite like John Facenda as a narrator.
This game very possibly created video review decades later. Shula pushed for it very hard in the 1980's..citing the '65 Chandler field goal fiasco as one of his examples that called for review. In addition, in '67-68 L.A. beat out Baltimore for the COASTAL DIVISION TITLE, in the first season without tiebreaker games and with four divisions. SHULA's team was 11-1-2 to match the RAMS, but LA in the two Coastal Div. games won one and tied one with the Colts, and via tiebreaking rules= head to head, and not a game, went to the WESTERN CONF. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT G.BAY on the alternating awarding of homefield despite the fact that GB only went 9-4-1 that injury-plagued and last hurrah Packer year in the first year, weaker CENTRAL DIVISION. GB BEAT LA 28-7 IN MILWAUKEE.. Three years later, Shula saw his gripe after that '67 season, and many years later, that it was a shame the '67 Colts could not go to the playoffs, was listened to as he had the league's "ear" pre-competition committee. Instead of a bye for the top team in each conference, AFC, OR NFC, and the other division champs playing a single conf. semifinal/divisional, game, four playoff teams went from each conference, with the intro of the WILD CARD, four seasons too late. Yes, TV wanted the two games in the first round (3 divisional champs and one wildcard), but it was Shula that wanted the WILD CARD before, because as he said- without a playoff game, and with four divisions, the NFL was bound to have a very good team beaten out by a mediocre team. Sure enough, in the AFC IN '70-71, CINCY went 8-6-0 and won the weak AFC CENTRAL, but under the rules at the time had a lesser record by percentage points than KC who went 7-5-2, or per rule= 7-5= .583 vs. CINCY AT .571, as ties did not count as a half win and half loss until the mid-seventies. But, KC would have only been WCARD#2 if the rules had that back then; they did not; because MIAMI's 10-4-0 was the single WILD CARD IN THE AFC.. IRONICALLY, THE OLD AFL used a half win&half loss rule for game-tying's role in winning percentage, but the NFL wanted no part of it..until... they did. One more thing after the hit/miss by Chandler, the very next season the league increased the height of the goalposts.. What a landmark game..
After the Rams were awarded the Coastal Division title in 1967, I became a huge Green Bay Packers for 1 game. I was so happy to see the Rams on the losing end of a 28-7 score. Karma.
@@bobscott7440, why is it "karma"? Since the RAMS legitimately beat the COLTS out for the division title under the rules; how is it karma? If there had not been two divisions in each conference, the Colts still would not have made the playoffs without a tiebreaker game, and there is no guarantee they would have won that because in two meetings, a tie and a win, LA outscored BALTY in the aggregate 58-34..24 POINTS. The Colts did not surpass the Rams in record. Karma would have been in place if a 9-4-1 PACKERS team would've lost. GBAY doesn't even make the playoffs in '67, if it had been 1966, or any other season preceding that '67 campaign. I am not a fan of either team, but facts are the facts. The RAMS were 11-1-2 and outscored BALTY..that is a pretty good football team. How is it karma?
@@bobscott7440 The Rams and Colts tied for the Division title with identical 11-1-2 records. Head-to-head against each other the Rams were 1-0-1, while the Colts were 0-1-1 vs. the Rams. In the final week of the '67 regular season the Rams blew out the Colts, 34-10. The Rams were declared Division champs by virtue of winning the head-to-head tie breaker vs. the Colts. Therefore it is simply moronic of you to insinuate the Rams didn't deserve their division crown. They earned it. The Colts did not. The Colts were pretty much choke artists throughout the 1960's. Choked to the Browns in '64 Choked to the Packers in '65 Choked to the Rams in '67 Choked to the Jets in '68.
I remember watching this game growing up in St. Louis a football Cardinals fan. I remember Tom Matte started for Baltimore but had forgotten Bart Starr also getting injured in the game. It was unique since the teams had tied in their conference during the regular season so a playoff was needed prior to the NFL title game. Otherwise these were the days the best of the East simply played the best of the West for the title. Why was Batlimore in the West? This was before the days of overtime and ties were counted. Twice during the 1960s the Cardinals finished just a half game out of first place but otherwise would have had a playoff game as well for the East conference title.
I was 8 years old when this game was played and I remember Matte at quarterback..He did pretty good since he wasn't used to playing that position in the pros.
@@gordons-alive4940 Unless they got kneed in the head they were usually ok. Tackling used to be down low, not trying to deliver shoulder to shoulder kill shots, like they do today.
@@patrickmorgan4006 Yes, I remember the technique Hardy used from playing ''at the home'' Thankfully, Hardy had a patent on that one. Chris Hamburger was the other one that didn't like to bend his back and tackle either.
This game occurred w neither Bart Starr or Johnny Unitas under center for their respective teams in this game? The 1st time I saw the film of this one.
I had completely forgotten the former Nebraska quarterback Dennis Claridge played backup QB for the Packers. I think that he was Bob Devany's first QB.
No offense intended, but that last Packer cheerleader heading into frame at 2:27 looks kinda sorta like she could've been Ray Nitschke's replacement at middle linebacker if he would've been injured.
Wide right on that field goal. This game and the NFL championship game against Cleveland were the swan song for Hornung. Within 5-6 seasons, most of the Packer players in this clip would be out of football as well.
Most of the key players had already been in the NFL for at least 7 years so it's no surprise they were out within 5-6 years. The surprise is that they all stayed in and played so well for as long as they did.
@1910 min...the "tying" field goal was wide right. The ref had a perfect angle and still blew the call. A hometown call at best or a brown envelope envelope at worst. Sad situation either way.
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Good Lord I'm Old , this was when my grandma was making homemade chicken and dumplings in the kitchen and they tasted outstanding, followed by apple pie
That's a nice winter meal combo.
I watched the game with my 2nd cousin at his nonna's house. The sauce was simmering and the meatballs frying. I was a lunatic for the Colts even though I lived in NE PA, Berwick. My cousin from York was visiting. ....and rooting for the Pack. I had to swallow my pride, sorrow and indignation about the bad FG call so I could stay and swallow some rigatoni and meat balls.
Those times are special, hit hard and hit often
I was at this game. I was 7 years old.
Lots of fun watching these old highlights. Thanks for finding and posting.
Johnny U.one of the greatest
Too bad Starr & Unitas were hurt....both in their prime...this would have been a classic ...
It was anyway.....but the refs blew it
I met Johnny around 1995/6. He was a humble man and a great smile..
@@sammyvh11 Looked like a really ugly game all the way around, not just the refs.
The Colts lost #1 and#2 QBs for this game
Nowadays missing a starting QB in a playoff game is doom.
Matte had a wristband with a handful of numbered plays on it that Shula threw together for him. First time that was used. I saw the wristband at the Hall Of Fame. This was the longest game of the old pre-merger NFL.
The wristband has faded and the only play you can read is "Quick screen to Lenny" Classic
his wife wrote out the wrist band because she could print so small.😄
Had to be extremely tough to put in a game plan w/ Matte having to QB. If they had it to do over, maybe Shula calls a few more of the QB draws, they seemed to work well. Lotsa respect for what Matte did that day, a real competitor.
Lonnie D. Toth 10th Legion
I still have my Baltimore Colts Tom Matte 's jersey # 41 1968 . Still fits !
@@Mr.56Goldtop I was a long distance runner for 47 yrs. . I went into the Army at 31 and got out at 44 . I took a 4 yr . break after 6 yrs. and went back in. I am having a ball .
I also have a Roman Army uniform , re enactment Germany 1984 Trier . Matte ran a play almost 50 yds. before he got into it with John Sample # 24 .
I was so impressed with what Namath did to our zone , I got one of his jerseys , I still have it . I learned a valuable lesson that day , don't count your chickens
before they hatch . My son became a Physical Trainer , when I asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up , he said , I want to make large men look like
You . I've tried to run again , but at 67 yrs. I can only continue with my College Cheerleader ( females ) Sexual awareness seminars . Keep Running !
Yes Matte was big.
Tom Matte starred as halfback with the Baltimore Colts from 1961-72.
He led the Colts in rushing in 1963,1967,1968,1969 and 1971. He is a
member of the Colts Super Bowl V Championship team, tho he suffered
knee injury in the opening game of 1970 and was out for the year. Matte
made the Pro Bowl in 1968 and 1969.
I love watching these videos
I too was shocked by the missed field goal, such a historic game
Chuck Thompson was indeed a Hall of Fame announcer. I grew up in southern Maryland listening to him announce the Baltimore Colts and the great Oriole baseball teams of the 60s and 70s.
I grew up in eastern WV and did too..... he and Bill O'Donnell.....71 world series, colts vs steelers playoff game in what year was it 77.....was good to be young then
@@timfremstad3434, O'Donnell died fairly young in 1979, I believe.
@@robertsprouse9282 Bill O’Donnell died in 1982 at age 56
@@mikevanriel7573, thanks, I wasn't quite sure.
Thanks, again.
Effortlessly colorful, Thompson painted beautiful pictures in baritone.
Damn, listening to this I can see Chuck Thomson with that famous hat announcing this game.
Way back when the competition in the league on SUNDAYS was OUTSTANDING.
NEVER saw FRITZ POLLARD PLAY; however, it was pure pleasure to SEE THE MOST COMPLETE " ALL- AROUND OFFENSIVE PLAYER PLAY DURING THE " GOLDEN AGE" OF THE N.F.L. WHICH WAS " THE GOLDEN BOY" ONE PAUL HORNUNG.The guy was the consummate team player who was very adept at RUNNING, CATCHING, PUNTING, PASSING, KICKING,and BLOCKING. 🤔🙂NOW; I DIDN'T SAY HE WAS "THE BEST" IN ALL THE AREAS LISTED, JUST SAYING THE MAN EXCELLED AT BEING " THE COMPLETE OFFENSIVE THREAT" When he took to the field of play.🙂
@@MickyTubbs1985
After Hornung was made, the mold was broken!
And discriminatory against African Americans . Not a one by my count.
@@jmadratz "Discrimination" was exceeding rampant ;particularly regarding certain player positions and definitely in ALL FIELDS OF COACHING and FRONT OFFICE MGNT. LOOK UP THE HISTORY OF PRO FOOTBALL AND THE RACISM IS OVERTLY PRESENT AND ASTOUNDING.
@@jmadratz
There was Elijah Pitts for GB, and, I believe, #30 on the Colts, plus, #88 HOFer John Mackey in that game; still, way too few.
Top NFL teams of the '60's. Honorable mention Cleveland Browns.
CHANDLER CLEARLY MISSED THAT KICK TO THE RIGHT!!!! That wasn’t even close.
This game proved that pro football, was and still is, fixed.
Your videos are priceless! You provide a history lesson for NFL. Thank you, for your dedication.
I don't think I've seen this version. Thank you!
Game never should have gone to overtime. Chandler's "tying" field goal was "wide right".
Obviously many strange things happened on the field on this day to make this one of the legendary games in NFL history.🏈
GOD BLESS OUR PRO FOOTBALL HEROES FROM A BYE-GONE ERA
Thank you T4Texas Ageed
This was the first Packer playoff game I ever watched. I was 9 years old and sat in front of my Sears and Roebuck 8 inch black and white. Had to sit about 3 feet away so I could adjust the rabbit ears. Packers were lucky. Pretty sure Chandler missed that FG wide right.
@@slapjohnson2808 That WAS wide right! I thought my eyes deceived me there. WOW.
@@9and7 I agree. Watch Chandler's reaction at 19:14. He knew he missed it. Should have been Colts and Browns in the '65 championship!
@@slapjohnson2808 ....AND that fumble methinks.
"We've got a big rhubarb going here" "Jim Taylor whacks off the right side" best calls of the game 😂 Bradkowski was really zipping the football around too!He had a bad throw or two but not too shabby of a performance🤠🏈
Lol Thompson more effortlessly than anyone in broadcasting painted such colorful pictures even as he gave us the down and distance.
He was a very good quarterback.
@@sergeantwarden471 Bratkowski? As good as Milt Plum I suppose, or Bill Wade. Certainly not a HOF like John Brodie should be!
Billy Anderson a name you never hear, unsung hero.
He was color man for Tennessee Vol radio from 1968 to 1998.
Wow! This is Fantastic and Absolute Gem of a find! Thank You!!!!
This is great. I always thought the game had changed so much, but when you watch this, not much has really changed. I see RB's grinding out short gains, shovel passes, rollouts, hard hits from the secondary, bread and butter short passes over the middle. The size and speed of the players has changed, and the amount of pass attempts. Probably field goal distance has changed the most.
Back in those until 1974 the goal posts were on the goal line.
Great to hear Chuck
I turned 15 that year and I'm sure I watched this game with my dad who was a huge Colts fan.
This is just beyond awesome
I was less than 2 when they played this game, but I remember my dad watching this and rooting for the Packers. He was very impressed with Zeke Bratkowski's play. I have remembered the game since.
Less than 2 would mean 1 year old. I call BS on remembering. C'mon now.
@@bluestar9463 lol good one!
Zeke came off the bench in Week 2 to lead a come from behind 20-17 victory over the Colts. It was a shocker.
I remember that game......I was a big Colts fan.
I grew up in NY but was a Colts fan. Until they packed up and move to Indy in the middle of the night!!
Those were the effing days. The Colts were my favorite team and Mike Curtis was just a great linebacker
There’s a version of this with NFL films music playing instead. Love it, keep up the great work!
I know the one you speak of. The greatest NFL Film ever made even though it was one of the earliest. "Portrait of a Team, the Baltimore Colts, 1965". I saw it once back then and have been looking for it ever since--55 years! And I am not even a Colts fan. You have a good memory.
The original, infamous "Wide Right."
A blind man could of seen that “field goal” was WIDE RIGHT!
The official was on an angle because he was standing in the middle. I'm sure it looked good to him.
Thank you for this game.
I can't tell you why I was obsessed with this game as a kid.
I remember going to the toy store, and making my poor Dad stand there while I searched their stock over and over looking for a Colts-Packers Electric Football game. Had to be Colts-Packers.
If course,Tudor made no such matchup.
I didn't even start liking sports until 1969.
But I definitely have a recollection of Matte at Quarterback. So it had to be this game when I was eight.
That’s a great story. This is what dad’s are for!
And people complain about bad calls now
That first TD would have been ruled an incomplete pass in today's NFL.
You are right. 88 barely took one step before loosing control. Incomplete pass in 2021
No question..... would have been "INCOMPLETE" in today's NFL.🏈
Today: no 'football move' official explanation.
Under the NFL rules of 1965 that was a catch and fumble. You can't apply 2021 rules to a game played in 1965.
Of course even back in '65 field goals were no good if they didn't split the uprights, same as 2021. So the breaks didn't even out in this game
@@TheMrSuge Of course I can apply 2021 rules to a game played in 1965. That's exactly what I did. If you read my comment again, I actually said that I was applying today's rules. I did not say that the officials made the wrong call at the time. It was just an observation. Feel free to offer your own opinion as to whether or not today's officials would have called that a catch. I don't think there was a rules change, by the way, just a more specific set of criteria to determine what was a catch. Funny thing is that my comment didn't change the result of the play, nor did anyones opinion of that FG. The score didn't change and the Packers still won the game.
This was the 1st year I started watching the NFL with my dad, I was 6 and started asking questions and he was a player and a coach so it was football 101, he taught me the ins and outs of the game over about a decade watching together. Thanks dad
Chuck Thompson - Hall of Fame announcer.
Chuck Thompson was a great announcer.
Thank you for sharing this video!
I had read over the years many accounts and backstories regarding this playoff game (including the Don Chandler made/missed field goal debate and Tom Matte, emergency QB), but I had never seen the highlights in such detail.
This is tremendously valuable and enjoyable NFL history. By chance would you have the Playoff Bowl that followed this game with the Colts and Cowboys? Thanks!
I was at that Playoff Game yes would like to see it here.
19:17 Chandler knew he had missed it. How about the Colt's secondary? They didn't miss a tackle all day, and half of their tackles ended in the receiver not getting up. Tough group.
The first pass that was called a catch and fumble would be an incomplete pass today. The tying fieldgoal by GB was wide,
When Zeke Bratkowski graduated from Georgia 1953 he was the NCAA career passing leader with 4,863 yards.
Looked back at that tying kick again. Even Chandler knew he missed it; he throws his head back in dismay. How did the ref miss that one?
Because the NFL wanted GB to win.
1965 Lambeau was so much smaller than the current version
Anderson’s first name must have been Thebigtightend
*just try to imagine John Facenda calling him by such a name*
NFL FILMS wrote the script, and the voiceover guy, the legend of Balty, Chuck Thompson, just read what he was contracted to read.
LOL he does say that every time
Bill Anderson went onto be the color commentator on the University of Tennessee football radio broadcasts for many years.
Almost all of them are named that.
Thanks for this version I've never seen this before I've seen the game but not this particular one PS referees have been blowning calls for an awful long time
It's called "home cooking."
Saw this live, and it was a good game. Even though Starr and Unitas were out. Hornung, Anderson and Dowler had good games. The Chandler field goal was really close to tie it. This was really tough smash mouth football. Really liked these kinds of games.
@Jeremiah you cant really tell from that camera angle. But after that season the NFL lengthened the uprights.
@@sej4323 It would have helped if the official had moved to the left so that he was standing under the upright. He stayed in the middle so he was looking at an angle (there was only one official back under the goalpost at that time). Being a Packers fan, I can't say I am disappointed that he didn't take those few steps.
Chandler missed not even that close
Don Shula Colts HC was rightly pissed
and complained bitterly to commissioner Pete Rozelle so the very next season the uprights were raised 10ft and dubbed the "Baltimore uprights"
Actually it was no good 😂😂
The Packer kick to tie the game was wide right. Can’t believe the officials called it good.
sure was .......
No, I just watched it a dozen times. It was not "right down the middle" like the announcer said on this video, but it was good. I remember watching this game live.
@@jerryferko8309 Sure wasn't.
LOL
@@robertbuck1874 LOL
One rule change that emerged after the controversy of the wide kick of Don Chandler being called "good" for a field goal -- the NFL referees began standing with two referees under/beside each field goal upright to more accurately call whether the kick was indeed good.
Have always heard about this game but never knew any details about it
A friend of mine who was a middle linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings has said that Jim Taylor was the toughest running back he ever played against.
He very rarely went out of bounds when given the Chance, he’d hit you head on if he could
Jimmy stayed in shape till his death.
@@phillipabramoff7374 My friend is Lonnie Warwick. We call him Sam. There is a video of him on RUclips being interviewed by Margaret Staggers.
@@billbergendahl2629 I think Lonnie Warwick, his predecessor at MLB on the Vikings, Rip Hawkins, and the Vikings' wide receiver from 1963 to 1967 (rookie of the year in 1963) Paul Flatley, are the three most underrated Vikings in the original great era of the team's history: the 1961-1981 era (the years the team played outdoors at Metropolitan Stadium).
It's hard to say in what order, that they are the most underrated, and it would be great if you could find out from Lonnie what he thought about Rip, the MLB starter from 1961 to 1965 (Lonnie played outside his 1965 rookie year) and if Rip retired early because he saw how good Lonnie was (which is what I suspect) or if he just got tired of the game, for some reason, which is what FranTarkenton states in his autobiography (Tarkenton does praise Hawkins' skills, and says they were roommates on the road for a time).
Why I say those 3 great players: Warwick, Hawkins, and Flatley, are the most underrated Vikings of the great 1961-1981 era, is that I don't think there are any other Vikings as skilled and productive, who are neither on the 25th, 40th, or 50th Anniversary official Vikings teams, and who are also none of them in the Vikings Ring of Fame or Ring of Honor, whichever it's called.
There is actually one other Viking, from a later portion of that great initial 20 year era of the franchise: 1961-1981, who is similarly on none of those anniversary teams nor the Ring of Honor, but whose play, when observed closely, is perhaps equally on the level of greatness represented by Warwick, Hawkins, and Flatley. That would be cornerback Nate Wright, again whom I amazed at his talent. Wright played cornerback for the Vikings from 1971-1980, after his 1st couple of years in the league with the Falcons and Cardinals.
I love these old games and the Lombardi-era Packers and Shula-era Colts, but the Vikings are my favorite team from the 60s and 70s.
He had a nice career. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Warwick
Bart Starr...”it sucks playing Defense”. 3:06
Did not realize how good # 12 was!
Most teammates, and even Starr, considered Zeke to have the better arm. Not sure how the Rams traded him away. He was one of the NFL’s better backups.
Real football men who loved the game not the money don’t watch anymore 🤙🤙🤙🤙
"Under further review, the tying field goal was wide right" - that kick missed by YARDS, not inches! LOL
You're right! I went back and reviewed the play and the kick missed by at least a yard. Good call!
Wide right, for sure.
That kicker kicked strait like a stiff man...whith the top of his cleat 😄
@@marcorangel9256 That's the way they used to do it.
Even the kick knew it was not good. Look at his reaction.
Carroll Dale was vastly underrated and clutch in the postseason ... had a TD called back due to a penalty in SB I for GB ...
Agreed
He suffered frostbite from the ice bowl
Great video. When was the last time you saw 'Colt 45' as a program sponsor, eh?
And "National Beer", ah the good old days!
Lonnie Warwick, who was the middle linebacker of the Minnesota Vikings, has said that Jim Taylor was the toughest running back he ever played against.
Maybe you’ve heard this quote from a Packers teammate. “Most backs break the line of scrimmage, they look for the end zone. Jimmy breaks through and looks for the first safety to hit.” Watch his highlights. And it’s true. In the secondary, he doesn’t run towards space; he runs towards defenders.
Chandler's game winning FG-Right Down the Middle .
Huh ???
Do this day most NFL historians say that he missed it.
Years later in a 1996 interview, Chandler said “When I looked up, the ball was definitely outside the post." Spurred on by the controversy, the NFL raised the height of the uprights to the 30’ level and also added another official under the goalpost to assist in making the “good/no good” call from the officials.
I have to wonder how the official missed that. Was the angle where he was standing that bad?
It didn't even look close...the FG looked wide...how did the ref miss that. ?
At 19:16 the kick did go over the right goal post.
The official wasn’t standing under the upright where he would have been able to have the proper perspective on whether the kick was good or not. It certainly looks wide and Don Chandler agreed. The game winning kick was definitely good, though. You can see the ball go inside the right post on the film.
Watched this game with my father at my Godfather's house on his new color TV...first game I ever saw in color...can't watch a game at Lambeau today without thinking about it...
Jimmy Taylor was an iron man. What a beating he took. Still the best fullback next to Jim Brown.
Is Taylor the last white man to win an NFL rushing title?
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Jim Taylor a legendary Green Bay packer. This game had two coaching legends Don Shula and Vince Lombardi.
Hall of Fame members: Green Bay Packers: Vince Lombardi, Jim Taylor, Forrest Gregg, Bart Starr, Ray Nitscke, Herb Adderley, Willie Davis, Willie Woods, Henry Jordon, Paul Hourning, Dave Robinson, Jerry Kramer.
Baltimore Colts: Don Shula, Johnny Unitas, Jimmy Parker, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, John Mackey
Jim Taylor a legendary Green Bay packer. This game had two coaching legends Don Shula and Vince Lombardi.
Hall of Fame members: Green Bay Packers: Vince Lombardi, Jim Taylor, Forrest Gregg, Bart Starr, Ray Nitscke, Herb Adderley, Willie Davis, Willie Woods, Henry Jordon, Paul Hourning, Dave Robinson, Jerry Kramer.
Baltimore Colts: Don Shula, Johnny Unitas, Jimmy Parker, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore, John Mackey
And yet, Jim Brown never did anything against Green Bay.
Whereas Jim Taylor was always the superior back when GB played against the Browns.
One of the greatest NFL games of the NFL in the 1960s.
@3:00 that Colts returned TD would of Totally been ruled an incomplete pass today. Lol when I saw that, I'm like WTH?? When are the refs going to call that??
If you watch a game from say 1993 to 2003., there’s not a huge difference. If you go 10 years into the future from this game to 1975. It looks like an entirely different game. Especially the speed of the receivers.
Back when NFL wasn’t fake and indebted to the tv networks
They literally called a missed fg good lmfaooo
You mean like tuck rule game?
Maybe the NFL was just indebted to Lombardi in this game. Bet the Colts thought this game was rigged. That "good" FG and fumble not given to Baltimore was total BS.
They had defenses too
If you think it's fake then don't watch
Great goal line stance by Colts at half, Dennis Gabautz was instrumental
Chandlers game tying FG was no good.. even Chandler new it was no good when he kicked the ground in disgust after the ball left his foot...
Official Jim Tunny # 32 Field Judge & Long time prominent NFL Official, 36 years old at the Time, called it Good , and signaled with both hands in the air, HE said it curved around the Goal Post and was good ! Bart Starr, the holder, always said it was inside and then curved away, but it was higher than the pipe. "
Starr, commenting on the kick, said: "I saw it as being good. The NFL Rules Committee , endeavoring to find a way to prevent a recurrence, took immediate action. It placed two officials under the goal post and added 10 feet to each upright. The new uprights were facetiously called the "Baltimore extensions."
Starr was wrong. Chandler admitted it over and over, to his credit. He knew it was no good. Other Packers reacted the same way. Tunney blew it. Period.
@@normanrust5910 Norman, NFL Officials Ruled it good. 55 years ago. Was here at game. It curved in. Than Packers won in over time. To avoid future controversy goal posts were raised. We could care less of your stupid a$$ Opinion. Colts were losers in 64 , 65, 66,67,68,69 onward get a life
The Kick was good, very close. Jim TunneyNFL official ruled it good. 55 years ago. Go get a life
@@normanrust5910 The ref’s botched call most likely prevented the Cleveland Browns from repeating as NFL champions in 1965. Not definitely, but most likely.
Oh, I believe you Doc - Although only 1 year old, I remember our family being excited for the Cowboys first game and wondering if Tom Landry was the right coach. I remember my peach pablum was a bit warm that night as well..... C'mon, bro.
The late field goal by Green Bay was wide. The kick should not have been ruled good.
The field goal by Don Chandler to make the score 10 - 10 appeared as if the field goal was wide to the left. I remember the game as the "Matte game," because Tom Matte had the plays scripted on his wrist band. The game was a classic. Although the game would have been far better if both John Unitas and Bart Starr could have quarterbacked each of his respective teams.
Ah the memories
Strange to see football without all the celebration after every play .
If they dared to celebrate their head would be taken off on the next play.
Notice how no player celebrates or gets overly exuberant?? Just doing their job....and run off the field.
Lombardi's famous instruction to his players was that when you get into the end zone "Act like you've been there before".
I know. I hate the game today for all of that stuff.
They raised the field goal 20 feet in 1966 because of that game, he still was about 6 in to the right. Then in 74 they put the field goal in the back of the end zone. I would have loved to have played in that era.
Obviously you mean
"goal posts".
So many things that wouldn't fly today
I remember my Dad (a Packers fan) saying "they should use a replay to decide, that kick wasn't close".
That gash on Ken Bowman's forehead must have been torture, with his helmet rubbing directly on it.
Tom Matte using Jerry Hill 45 on the classic Baltimore Colt trap play, which Chuck Noll Colt assistant took with him to Pittsburgh in 1969. The Steeler trap is really the Baltimore Colt trap, invented by Weeb Ewbank and John Unitas.
@ 19:16 you can clearly see pk Don Chandler yank his head in disgust as HE thought he missed.
The football I remember.
That field goal from Chandler was NO good!!
Chandler certainly thought so.
This botched kick most likely cost the Cleveland Browns from repeating as NFL champions in 1965. Not definitely, but most likely.
@@frederickrapp5396 Colts would have been jacked to get revenge. And the game would have been in Baltimore.
@@DNSKansas, the Colts with Cuozzo, Unitas, or...Matte at qback?
Absolutely looked wide right..
Well, so much has changed. That first TD for the Colts is ruled an incomplete in today's game. This any many other things have changed.
And also on the RETURN of the fumble for a TD, the replay would have placed him at the 2 yard line where he stepped out of bounds.😎
Magnificent video! It was, however, before Ed and Steve Sabol worked their magic on NFL films. Nothing against this narrator, but there is nobody quite like John Facenda as a narrator.
I forgot that the linemen were not fat in the 1960's. Pretty amazing to see the difference in size 55 years ago.
Oh, there were plenty of fat linemen in the '60s. But they look smaller, because in 1965, 250 lbs was "big."
This game very possibly created video review decades later.
Shula pushed for it very hard in the 1980's..citing the '65 Chandler field goal fiasco as one of his examples that called for review. In addition, in '67-68 L.A. beat out Baltimore for the COASTAL DIVISION TITLE, in the first season without tiebreaker games and with four divisions. SHULA's team was 11-1-2 to match the RAMS, but LA in the two Coastal Div. games won one and tied one with the Colts, and via tiebreaking rules= head to head, and not a game, went to the WESTERN CONF. CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT G.BAY on the alternating awarding of homefield despite the fact that GB only went 9-4-1 that injury-plagued and last hurrah Packer year in the first year, weaker CENTRAL DIVISION. GB BEAT LA 28-7 IN MILWAUKEE..
Three years later, Shula saw his gripe after that '67 season, and many years later, that it was a shame the '67 Colts could not go to the playoffs, was listened to as he had the league's "ear" pre-competition committee.
Instead of a bye for the top team in each conference, AFC, OR NFC, and the other division champs playing a single conf. semifinal/divisional, game, four playoff teams went from each conference, with the intro of the WILD CARD, four seasons too late.
Yes, TV wanted the two games in the first round (3 divisional champs and one wildcard), but it was Shula that wanted the WILD CARD before, because as he said- without a playoff game, and with four divisions, the NFL was bound to have a very good team beaten out by a mediocre team.
Sure enough, in the AFC IN '70-71, CINCY went 8-6-0 and won the weak AFC CENTRAL, but under the rules at the time had a lesser record by percentage points than KC who went 7-5-2, or per rule= 7-5= .583 vs. CINCY AT .571, as ties did not count as a half win and half loss until the mid-seventies. But, KC would have only been WCARD#2 if the rules had that back then; they did not; because MIAMI's 10-4-0 was the single WILD CARD IN THE AFC..
IRONICALLY, THE OLD AFL used a half win&half loss rule for game-tying's role in winning percentage, but the NFL wanted no part of it..until... they did.
One more thing after the hit/miss by Chandler, the very next season the league increased the height of the goalposts..
What a landmark game..
After the Rams were awarded the Coastal Division title in 1967, I became a huge Green Bay Packers for 1 game. I was so happy to see the Rams on the losing end of a 28-7 score. Karma.
@@bobscott7440, why is it "karma"?
Since the RAMS legitimately beat the COLTS out for the division title under the rules; how is it karma?
If there had not been two divisions in each conference, the Colts still would not have made the playoffs without a tiebreaker game, and there is no guarantee they would have won that because in two meetings, a tie and a win, LA outscored BALTY in the aggregate 58-34..24 POINTS. The Colts did not surpass the Rams in record.
Karma would have been in place if a 9-4-1 PACKERS team would've lost.
GBAY doesn't even make the playoffs in '67, if it had been 1966, or any other season preceding that '67 campaign.
I am not a fan of either team, but facts are the facts.
The RAMS were 11-1-2 and outscored BALTY..that is a pretty good football team.
How is it karma?
@@bobscott7440
The Rams and Colts tied for the Division title with identical 11-1-2 records.
Head-to-head against each other the Rams were 1-0-1, while the Colts were 0-1-1 vs. the Rams.
In the final week of the '67 regular season the Rams blew out the Colts, 34-10.
The Rams were declared Division champs by virtue of winning the head-to-head tie breaker vs. the Colts.
Therefore it is simply moronic of you to insinuate the Rams didn't deserve their division crown. They earned it. The Colts did not.
The Colts were pretty much choke artists throughout the 1960's.
Choked to the Browns in '64
Choked to the Packers in '65
Choked to the Rams in '67
Choked to the Jets in '68.
A missed field goal that was still counted changed history.
Don Shinnick of the Colts was a beast! Still holds the NFL record for interceptions (37) by a linebacker.
Hey thanks for that, did not know Shinnick was that good.
I remember watching this game growing up in St. Louis a football Cardinals fan. I remember Tom Matte started for Baltimore but had forgotten Bart Starr also getting injured in the game. It was unique since the teams had tied in their conference during the regular season so a playoff was needed prior to the NFL title game. Otherwise these were the days the best of the East simply played the best of the West for the title. Why was Batlimore in the West? This was before the days of overtime and ties were counted. Twice during the 1960s the Cardinals finished just a half game out of first place but otherwise would have had a playoff game as well for the East conference title.
The Kick. Need more be said?
I did not no the big U, for the Colts was out. Then Bart Star, out for the game. WOW!
I was 8 years old when this game was played and I remember Matte at quarterback..He did pretty good since he wasn't used to playing that position in the pros.
I sure Lombardi was livid at the half
He said " What the hell is going on out here"
Ahh the good old days when half the players were playing concussed.
Just give em the smelling salts and they are good to go again. :)
@@gordons-alive4940 Unless they got kneed in the head they were usually ok. Tackling used to be down low, not trying to deliver shoulder to shoulder kill shots, like they do today.
@@randywalsh8383 Maybe you should do a search for "Hardy Brown". You might think differently.
@@patrickmorgan4006 Yes, I remember the technique Hardy used from playing ''at the home'' Thankfully, Hardy had a patent on that one. Chris Hamburger was the other one that didn't like to bend his back and tackle either.
Spearing by Colts linebacker Steve Stonebreaker @ 22:22. "Givin' him the bizzness".
This game occurred w neither Bart Starr or Johnny Unitas under center for their respective teams in this game? The 1st time I saw the film of this one.
I had completely forgotten the former Nebraska quarterback Dennis Claridge played backup QB for the Packers. I think that he was Bob Devany's first QB.
At 3:06 the two Packers got creamed at the goal line on the Shinnick fumble recovery…..booom ! Love my BALTIMORE COLTS !!!!!
No offense intended, but that last Packer cheerleader heading into frame at 2:27 looks kinda sorta like she could've been Ray Nitschke's replacement at middle linebacker if he would've been injured.
LOL!!
Haha I noticed as well.
Wide right on that field goal. This game and the NFL championship game against Cleveland were the swan song for Hornung. Within 5-6 seasons, most of the Packer players in this clip would be out of football as well.
Most of the key players had already been in the NFL for at least 7 years so it's no surprise they were out within 5-6 years. The surprise is that they all stayed in and played so well for as long as they did.
@1910 min...the "tying" field goal was wide right. The ref had a perfect angle and still blew the call. A hometown call at best or a brown envelope envelope at worst. Sad situation either way.