Plimpton! The Great Quarterback Sneak
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- George Plimpton, journalist extraordinaire, trains with and then performs as Quarterback for the Baltimore Colts. The opposing team: the Detroit Lions. The setting: a pre-season exhibition game before 100, 000 fans at Ann Arbor Stadium.
Directed by William Kronick Written by George Plimpton and William Kronick
This is an absolutely fantastic documentary during a time when the NFL was so much better to watch
So true
I read Paper Lion before I ever saw the movie. My favorite sports book ever. The movie was good, but not how I pictured Plimpton playing, and of course they changed a few things. It was so great to see this documentary, to actually see and hear George do the things I had read about in Mad Ducks and Bears. A great man
plimpton did not get 5 yds on his 4th play. He got THREE.
I read Mad Ducks and Bears first. Both great reads!
I remember watching this when it first aired and enjoying the chance to see the players I grew up watching on Sundays. Johnny U, Bubba Smith, 'Mad Dog' Mike Curtis and even Don Nottingham though was a rookie. In particular, John Mackey really impressed me because he was such a force on the field, but came across as pretty thoughtful and soft spoken. I didn't really pull for the Colts, but I admired Unitas and Curtis.
12:32--Colt center Bill Curry does a little coaching. He would later become the head coach at Georgia Tech for several years.
I have not seen this since its second airing around 1972. nice to see it again. thanks.
I remember the George Plimpton tv specials that were ABC back in the early 70s, loved those shows.
That guy had guts that's for sure! Fantastic writer too.
I Remember watching this when it was aired... Big Baltimore Colts fan then, and now!!! Great to see Unitas and others, during training days!!! Thank you for sharing, loved it!!!
Sir, you are doing the Lord's Work. Keeping these alive...thank you!
I've been looking for this for years!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting!
The book resulting from this teevee film, "Mad Ducks and Bears." is fantastic. It's a long wide ranging book. The sections covering Plimpton's time with the Colts in 1971 are shorter but more enjoyable are the chapters dealing with Alex Karras and John Gordy, the "Mad Duck and Bear" of the title, and also a chapter on Lions HOF quarterback Bobby Layne, then retired in Texas, whose bar-hopping exploits were legendary.
If you do search out the book, make sure you get the original version from 1973-74, not the edited shortened version from the 1990s which eliminates many of the more enjoyable chapters.
I have this book which I bought when it first came out as a high school sophomore and I think it is absolutely hilarious and heartwarming at the same time.
Karras was cut by the Lions, by former teammate Joe Schmidt, three or four weeks after the game in Ann Arbor. This turned out to be the final season for Johnny Unitas with the Colts; he was benched midway throught the season and then traded to San Diego the next season.
Schmidt quit as coach of the Lions at the end of the next season, McCafferty took the Lions' job but died of a heart attack after one season.
@Dave Volsky You are absolutely right. I saw Unitas against Roger Staubach at Memorial Stadium in 1972. Saw Joe Namath play there the following year.
Johnny Unitas played one year AFTER this one, then went to the Chargers.
It's amazing how cool football used to be..before...
The book that came out of this, "Mad Ducks & Bears" is fantastic, and extremely funny (especially Alex Karras).
Steven Roth Alex was cut after this preseason. Joe Schmidt didn’t like his fitness.
@@davanmani556yes indeed.
Plimpton lost about 30 yards in his 1963 stint with the Lions. In his four plays in 1971 with the Colts, he gained about 20 yards, including a 15 yard penalty and a gain of 5 yards on the final play.
The Colts were the defending Super Bowl champions. The Lions had been very good the previous season, going 10-4 and making the playoffs as a wild card team, but losing their playoff game against Dallas 5-0.
A young Ted Hendricks at 36:36.
Very
Plimpton in the Trenches!!
George Plimpton was an interesting character. A native New Yorker (with a British accent), who didn't fit into a box.
40:40 Mike Curtis. Just learned that he passed away in April. RIP
Colts won Super Bowl 5 that year, McCaferty was a real gentleman, was fired after winning the Super Bowl only coach to have done that.
great documentary.
John Gordy kept himself in pretty good shape in the couple of years after he retired; he looks lighter than his playing weight.
According to the book he lost 30lbs
I was there..8 yrs old I think..with dad and Grandad..the thing was it was the first and only Pro game ever played at Michigan stadium.. great memories
My dad made the movie the paper lion. A proud part of our family history
Thank you for sharing this.
10:41 Ballistic stretching would be outlawed by govt's physical fitness program council by the early 80's. Attributed to many torn hamstrings and ruptured spinal discs, along with adverse effects to your back muscles.
Is that where the changes came from?
I remember the first time I saw troops wearing "runners" (we called them tennis shoes) instead of jump boots and issued combat boots for PT like we had to wear, sometime around '84
Now, they don't even do sit ups because they may hurt themselves...they do crunches...oh Brother!!
Bravo George!!!!!!!
Plimpton wore #0 during his 1963 stint with the Lions, so #1 was an upgrade for him.
JStarStar00 funny the Yankees are going to have their first 0, maybe George stated a trend
What a great time to be alive.
Tom Matte seemed like such a great guy.
5:24--those helmets back then. As one poster called them, "Toys-R-Us--Approved Helmets".
Dave, what do you do to sharpen your image and make it look this good? I dub VHS tapes a lot for my channel; might be nice to enhance the image.
Glad you're still around.
Better than the Hard Knocks series...
Colts camp at a college. Staying in dorms it should be spartan. I had the privilege of becoming friends with Earl Morale. He was a great person with a wonderful personality and sense of humor.
I miss those days, I went to see the Ravens training camp at McDaniel College (Formerly Western Maryland), you just drive the 50 miles, stop and get a sub to eat there and enjoy training camp. But back then, the team was in a nearby hotel. Next CBA, you had go in a lottery for training camp seats at their facility.
But not good enough friends to spell his name correctly apparently.....
Love how they of the clothesline as a legal tackling technique.
Quintessential raconteur writer sportsman who played with Detroit Lions akin to Walter Winchell, William Contrite, Phil Rizzuto.
I used to enjoy these. I liked the one he did where he was working with The Duke, and Wayne kept calling him "Pemberton".
I'm 99% sure my parents were at Michigan Stadium for that game
What are coaches doing wearing jackets or windbreakers in mid-July? I assume Westminster, Maryland gets as hot & humid in July as the rest of the eastern U.S. In that practice, it was sunny and looked like it was mid to late afternoon.
..wonder who ended up with Plimpton's jersey?
Better than Paper Lion
Le wow. Who will be dans le super bowl.
12:54--rookie running back Don Nottingham, who would have a fairly long, successful career with the Colts and the Dolphins.
Loved the book when it came out. Didn't like the movie. The I found this documentary. It was great, so well done. I recommend it highly.
John Mackey before the CTE
3:47 - What the $%& does he mean "In an exhibition game at halftime"? He came in during the game, not at halftime.
Jared Goff stars in Paper Lion 2
Goff had more turnovers than Plimpton
That Transatlantic accent is too much! Literally sounds like an old English man. 😂
what year was this do you know?
If memory serves me well it would have been in the early to mid 70'S. I was high school when his specials were popular. They were great. I wish I could find more of them.
I Looked it up, 1971.
1971, after the Colts won Super Bowl V, 16-13 over the Cowboys
@@hellomyfriend67
O'Brien! O'Brien! O'Brien!!
Bubba calling Baltimore a big nothing town,,haha...sure was blunt in his answers. Obviously early in his career when he was at an impressionable age. He came from Orange TX which I'll venture was the size of a pea compared to Baltimore.
He was surely speaking of Westminster MD.?
The league used to deliberately isolate all the training camps in small colleges empty for the summer, and or team facilities out in the middle of rural areas.
I just read recently that most teams have moved their Spring training camps at least once or twice, but the Pittsburgh Steelers have used the same facility in Latrobe PA. since 1966!
@@kidmack1121 Interesting
This guy had no business on the field. Absolutely NO Athletic abilities. My Grandmother could have made a better showing
40:55 #32 Mike ”Mad Dog” Curtis was one mean physical and brutal player.