What a pleasure to view and to listen to a broadcast the way it ought to be done. No idiotic happy talk, no forced comedy, no pandering, limited commercials. I'm 62 but still remember bits and pieces of the football broadcasts from this era. What a comparison with the dismal product you're forced to sit through today.
I grew up in Minnesota and remember this game. What a great broadcast. None of the over-glitzy stuff Fox does now, no cartoon robots bashing each other. Just football and great announcers. I also remember that the Vikes went on to the Super Bowl and lost to KC, giving me my first taste of pure heartbreak.
Heartbreaks yes .. but also long lasting warm memories of Bud Grant on the sideline, the great Purple Eaters, Karl Kassulke, Joe Kapp (RIP), Clancy Osborn and all the others that wore and represented Minnesota.
Will never forget meeting Pat Summerall in the lobby of a hotel in Washington DC. when I had that SHTY job as a bellhop. It was 1985 and he handed me a 5-dollar bill. "There are TWO BAGS in room TEN TWENTY-FIVE." I thought I was listening to game highlights.
@@muttonchopsgayever He left the room a mess. The shower robe was just lying on the room floor. My mother would have made the bed and hung up the robe and towels.
Goal posts on the goal line, straight ahead kickers, wide receivers in 3 point stances, tackles that would draw penalties today, grass fields open to the elements, etc. Love it!
You got that right on what you say. I watched this game I was around 12 yrs old. Also players didn't wear gloves. Even though the players are faster now, maybe even stronger now they were tougher back then. The equipment was primitive, late hits were rarely called, the QBs were beat up after games. Lastly you can notice the announcers were WW 2 generation much more serious, many had it hard growing up during the depression.
Games were much different back then, players weren’t making money like they are now, QB’s making as much as the whole team was worth, that’s part of why the game has changed so much, can’t afford to lose those guys
Great memories! I was a young man when this game occurred. Now I'm an old one but still love watching the NFL, especially my Niners. We have a tough one tomorrow against the Eagles. I love watching Bill Brown, running back for the Vikings. Bill was sort of a runner like Mike Alstott of the Buccaneers. Both of them were very fun to watch. Tough dudes!
@@NathanSmith-xf7rk Yup, that's what I thought & before I quit that B-team!! Why you'd insist on torturing yourself is beyond me. They've done nothing but embarrass you and make you feel horrible every single season ending loss. I repeat, GROW UP! Your great, great grandparents would be embarrassed for you!
What a better product back then. I was 13 years old and lived for this stuff. 11 starters on offense and 11 on defense, all played 60 minutes and all played EVERY GAME!!! Not like today's "injury" happy league!
The injury thing today is ridiculous Some say it’s the fake turf but nothing was harder than fields back then in Nov-Dec The game is faster but I think it’s bad conditioning practices
What I've stressed over and over again. This is great because it's the actual telecast of the game, meaning VIDEO TAPE as opposed to film which is used in NFL Films documentaries.
What a time capsule!! Could've been the first football game I'd ever seen as a toddler and I've watched every NFL season ever since. Loved the Flame-throwers thawing the field, the broadcasting, the commercials, the play on the field... thanks for posting this amazing video!!!!
This was the last NFL championship game ever played before the AFL-NFL merger of 1970, solidifying the NFL's status as America's most popular professional sports league, a title still held to this day.
I wasn't even born yet, so this is amazing to see. The commercials with the predominant voice-overs, the mild sexism (A car so simply built, we asked some airline stewardesses to reassemble it, and for ONLY $1,995!). The players remove their helmets and stand at attention for the National Anthem. The league was only 50 years old at the time. Compare the stadiums back then to the indoor/heated super stadiums of today. The league has come such a long way. Such quaint and simple times back then. I wasn't even there and I'm pining for those lost times. GREAT stuff.
Thanks for the upload. I can remember starting from the ‘74 season and Tarkenton was the QB. Bob Lee if I remember correctly was the back up. I remember the LA Rams normally had to travel to Minnesota in the post season and always lost. The elements were brutal for the warm city teams. The only year the Vikings traveled to LA in the post season it poured and poured. The Vikings won. Even the cheerleaders were tough, they were in their short skirts in that weather.
I was also amazed at how nonchalant the players were when they scored a touchdown. Just flip the ball to the referee and trot back to the sideline. No dancing, celebrating, leaping into stands, etc...young people watching this probably think it's beyond boring but I miss those days.
Paul Christman died of a heart attack two months later. Vikings were last “NFL” champion. Leagues merged for the 1970 season and the NFL became the NFC. Browns joined Colts and Steelers in moving to the AFL, which became the AFC
At least Buffalo had a lead in some of their S.B.'s. Vikings never had even one lead at any point in any S.B. Vikings always lose big games & always will!
I watched it, but I was only 5 and just learning football rules, asking my dad why the players "hugged" at the beginning of each play. It seems like a long time ago.
I was nine years old at this time, huge Vikings fan. Remember this season and game very well. I can still name every player in this game, lol. Note no bench heaters on the Vikings side, Grant wouldn't allow them.
@@AndyWitmyer , or she was an actress who didn't necessarily have to smoke to do a smoking commercial. I think they hired her first and foremost because the character/role she played was supposed to be "smoking", as in hot. Now, if she did smoke and has died, you're right, that cig could've killed her. Its the polonium 238 in nicotine that brings radioctivity into the lungs' cells= cancer. Yep..
that was Tom Harmon in the commercial father of Mark Harmon from NCIS. and the grandchildren in the commercial was Ricky Nelson kids married to Tom's daughter and Mark's sister. Tom won the 1940 Heisman Trophy for Michigan and Mark played football for UCLA in the early 70's.
@@mikehedrick7223 Do you remember Tom Harmon hosting the NFL Countdown to Kickoff show. Here in New York it aired on CBS Saturday afternoons. It was an hour long review of the previous weeks games and a preview of the next day's games. At the end of the show Frank Gifford and Jackie Gleason would be speaking by phone with the Great One making his predictions.
@mikehedrick7223 Thanks for pointing that out! I remember my dad telling me that Mark Harmon's dad was a successful football player when I was a kid (and I remember Mark playing for UCLA).
@@jayfrank1913 Mark wanted to play for Oklahoma in the early 1970's as a wishbone QB, but they had a freshman QB named Steve Davis and Mark's dad wanted him to play closer to home so he went to UCLA. You can see him play on RUclips.
The final NFL Championship game before the merger completed featured a matchup that is permissible in the Super Bowl, as the Browns joined the AFC in 1970 while the Vikings became part of the NFC. In total, 11 NFL titles games before the merger featured matchups that can happen in the Super Bowl. Most of them involved the Browns, who played the Lions, Packers, Rams, or Vikings in these games. The other two had the Colts beat the Giants. The Steelers didn't play for a championship until after the merger, before then they were perennial cellar-dwellers.
I didn't become a Vikings fan until 1972 but that team and the team the year before were the true beginnings of the Purple Power. So much promise only to be lost by 4 Super Bowl loses. However, I live for a Super Bowl WIN before I leave this good Earth. I had the fortune of working with the Cubs and let someone lay their father's ashes on the Wrigley Field Ivy. I broke a rule but his father was there when the Cubs won the 2016 World Series. 😊
Well, the Cubs won back-to-back W.S. Championships in 1907 & 1908. Your Vikings have never won ANYTHING & never will. Quit torturing yourself, no one cares about the Vikings!!
The vikings were 12-2 in the regular season but lost the Superbowl. Bringing back Fran Tarkenton did not help them get over the hump. they went on to lose 4 super bowls.
This is a treat to watch and it is clear to see how the game has evolved. Thank you for this upload. Our Vikes have always been in the hunt but never have brought home the trophy. I know they will bring home many some day and hopefully before I pass.
Love Pat’s look at NFL History at the beginning. The Bears were a dynasty? Wow, Halas sure blew that. They went from top to bottom, run by penny-pinching short-sighted, goofs who had no incentive to win (Bears fan here). It’s unfortunate that Halas did not sell the Bears to Debartolo, or a similar owner in the 1970s.
Kapp went from the penthouse to the outhouse when he was traded to the Boston Patriots. I bet he regretted turning down the Vikings 3 year $100,000 per year contract extension which was about 10 times the average salary for other NFL players at that time.
Lifelong Browns fan, I'm only 46 so I'm too young to remember this game. But it's interesting to think how this was what would have previously been the championship game, with the advent of the Super Bowl to contend with the AFL winner it became only the equivalent of the AFC or NFC championship. This would be the closest my Browns would come to the Super Bowl until my childhood hero Bernie Kosar took us to the AFC Championship game in '86.
Vikings went on to the first of 4 Super Bowl losses in Super Bowl IV; losing 23-7 to the Chiefs. The Browns went on to never playing in a Super Bowl. This was the final game of the old NFL before the merger with the AFL.
The field was right in the middle of the Mall of America. There used to be a plaque on the floor saying were Home Plate used to be located and they had a seat mounted high on the east wall showing were Harmon Killebrew hit the longest home run ever hit at Metropolitan Stadium The first year I had season tickets to the Vikings was 1969 and my buddy and I were at this game. Had seats just up from home plate. At the 2 minute warning we headed for the field. We watched the end of the game from the sideline right in front of the first base dugout. Good Memories
Fun to have this game pop into my feed. A good friend of my sister has an uncle that played LT (Schafrath) for the Browns in this game. Very cool to see him in action.
I thought for sure that the Browns would get revenge on Minnesota for getting pulverized by 51-3 during the regular season. But they looked absolutely scared in the Championship game. When Kapp ran into Bill Brown, and still scored a TD on the opening drive, I knew it was going to be a long day. Vikings could have won this game by 50-0 if they wanted to. Total domination.
What I find interesting in Ray Scott was that he was of an era when most sports announcers had made the transition from radio to television but kept the necessary descriptiveness that radio required. Scott realized that all the radio talk was unnecessary for television, and let the game speak for itself, probably one of the first announcers to do so. Another interesting aspect of television 50 years ago were the commercials. The music was more prominent, and the target audience was a much different consumer than is targeted today. Music was employed a lot more then to frame the setting of the commercial. The game itself changed a great deal. It was a much more raw game where quarterbacks were not protected, like on one play in this game where the Browns' linebacker pulls Joe Kapp to the ground when he was technically out of bounds. Today that would be a personal foul. Defenses were a lot less sophisticated, which opened up more exciting long passing opportunities, whih Minnesota used to their advantage with a receiver like Gene Washington. And quarterbacks called their own plays, which I think led to more volatility of play outcomes, and made the game a lot more interesting because of the frequency of turnovers than today's choreographed play-calling where the quarterback doesn't have to think nearly as much.
Good, you can sit out in the frozen tundra 2.0 like it was at Met Stadium, it was a home field advantage for the Vikings, but not for the fans sitting outside.
Absolutely! People forget most of the year the games were played on sunny fall days. Perfect football weather. But teams did fear playing at the Met in December and January. They rarely lost at the Met. They lost their identity when they moved inside. Indoor football sucks!
The Browns in back to back League championship games were outscored 61-7, the lone TD coming with less than 2 minutes to go in this game, which is surprising considering they had superior offensive talent. I guess back then at least defense did win championships
I particularly enjoyed this Minnesota Viking victory over the Cleveland Browns because the Browns had absolutely humiliated my Dallas Cowboys the week before in the opening round of the 1969-70 NFL playoffs by the score of 38-14 in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl. Earlier in the season Cleveland had also stomped Dallas 42-10 in Cleveland. And then the next week Clevelsnd got stomped even harder by Minnesota 51-3. I will always have a special and soft spot in my heart for the 1969-70 Minnesota Vikings because of the crushing defeats they inflicted on those bleeping Browns in the 1969-70 NFL season and post season. I rooted for the Vikings in Super Bowl 4 against the Kansas City Chiefs and was truly stunned by the Chiefs' decisive victory over the Vikings.
The Minnesota Vikings: champions of the NFL in 1969. That afternoon in Bloomington was the last time that trophy saw the light of day. It hasn't been seen since.
It's interesting how modern, in many respects, the game of football already was in 1969. Many of the formations, the language used by the broadcasters ("rollout", "busted play", "penalty marker down", "line drive", "slot", "pass intended for", "inside the 15", "up the seam", "draw play", etc), the visual style of player uniforms (albeit with notably smaller helmets), the legal text of the rebroadcasting of the game being prohibited was basically identical, etc. However, there were also some striking differences in other respects: the uprights were VERY close to the goal line instead of at the back of the end zone, the distance of the crowd seating from the field (could just be this stadium tho), 90-95% of the teams were white, the numbers on the field are noticeably smaller, a striking (and very welcome) lack of penalties, no players kneeling for the anthem, teams could apoarently choose to wear whatever type of shoe they wanted, etc. As for broadcast itself and how it differs from today's product: the ads back then were short, to the point, and minimally intrusive (large portions of any given drive were completely uninterrupted), the broadcasters said only what was necessary to understand what was happening on the field and refrained from pointless, cringey small talk (with the color commentator only occasionally jumping in with something relevant), cigarette ads 😂 I loved watching this game. Thanks for sharing it! As someone born in 1983 and has loved football his whole life, it's great to see what the game was like pre-merger. Tbh, I think I like the 1969 product more than the bloated 2023 iteration!
It's a freaking tragedy that no one acknowledges the Vikings as a legitimate NFL Champion. The history books always have an asterisk next to their name.
Technically the leagues were not merged until 1970 so the “super bowl” was not an official NFL game at that point. The Colts and the Vikings were champions of the NFL in 1968 and 1969, who just happened to lose an extra-league game afterwards against the champion of a rival league. Those accomplishments should definitely still be acknowledged though
I agree. Although they lost the Super Bowl to Kansas City, they still won the NFL Championship and they should hold their heads high for accomplishing that.
@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 I disagree. The leagues were legally merged when they started the common draft. Congress passed a law permitting the merger because, otherwise, the merger might well have violated federal antitrust laws because of the draft.
Trust me, I do. They were the last NFL Champions before the Merger. Prior to that, all teams in the League we call today through NFL and its variants were NFL Champions. The Vikings were no exception
This was the last game Minnesota QB Joe Kapp ever played for the Vikings at the Met Stadium (his last game as a Viking was SB4). Never understood why the Vikings didn't make a stronger effort to resign him. I will always believe if he had been the Vikings QB in 1970 the Vikings would have gone on to SB5
@@gregmengelt2812 NO--Tarkenton didn't come back to Minnesota until several years later. Tarkenton wasn't even on the Viking's "radar" in 1970. They thought Gary Cuazzo or Bob Lee could take over. Neither had the same "spark" Kapp did. The last straw was the lousy 7-7 year in 1972--Bud Grant told management to do whatever it took to bring in Tarkenton at that point.
Ray Scott did Packers games on CBS and Twins baseball. As Twins tv voice He split play by play of the 1965 world series with Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. Paul Crisman did AFL games on NBC before going to CBS.
I remember the Vikings that year being really good. They lost their first and last game, and won every game in between during the regular season (12-2). I didn't think anyone could stop them from taking it all.
They stopped themselves in SB IV with all the turnovers. Kapp played without a contract. Today they would have resigned him, back them they were alot tighter with their coin. He only asked for a new 3 year deal for $300,000. Tarkenton was making $100,000 a year back then, but then the Mira's weren't so tight with their money as Ole' and his partners.
What a pleasure to view and to listen to a broadcast the way it ought to be done. No idiotic happy talk, no forced comedy, no pandering, limited commercials. I'm 62 but still remember bits and pieces of the football broadcasts from this era. What a comparison with the dismal product you're forced to sit through today.
Precisely.
Born in '55. I remember from 10 years old through my teens. Saturday Game of the Week, too.
Amén
Football today is a borderline unwatchable mess.
@@Muffinarm_ Remove “borderline” and I’ll agree with you!
I grew up in Minnesota and remember this game. What a great broadcast. None of the over-glitzy stuff Fox does now, no cartoon robots bashing each other. Just football and great announcers. I also remember that the Vikes went on to the Super Bowl and lost to KC, giving me my first taste of pure heartbreak.
And no players doing silly dance routines or camera poses after each score.
I grew up watching the Vikes and the Rams go at it in the NFC championship game every year. Such a great time. Now too much money has ruined it.
Heartbreaks yes .. but also long lasting warm memories of Bud Grant on the sideline, the great Purple Eaters, Karl Kassulke, Joe Kapp (RIP), Clancy Osborn and all the others that wore and represented Minnesota.
Will never forget meeting Pat Summerall in the lobby of a hotel in Washington DC. when I had that SHTY job as a bellhop. It was 1985 and he handed me a 5-dollar bill. "There are TWO BAGS in room TEN TWENTY-FIVE." I thought I was listening to game highlights.
@@muttonchopsgayever He left the room a mess. The shower robe was just lying on the room floor. My mother would have made the bed and hung up the robe and towels.
Goal posts on the goal line, straight ahead kickers, wide receivers in 3 point stances, tackles that would draw penalties today, grass fields open to the elements, etc. Love it!
You got that right on what you say. I watched this game I was around 12 yrs old. Also players didn't wear gloves. Even though the players are faster now, maybe even stronger now they were tougher back then. The equipment was primitive, late hits were rarely called, the QBs were beat up after games. Lastly you can notice the announcers were WW 2 generation much more serious, many had it hard growing up during the depression.
One official use gun at the end of quarter ..´BANG’ 😂
No hauling a dumbass off the field in a golf cart for a broken toe.
Games were much different back then, players weren’t making money like they are now, QB’s making as much as the whole team was worth, that’s part of why the game has changed so much, can’t afford to lose those guys
I’m an old throwback fan but who wants goalposts on the goal line 😂 Let the CFL have that!
Ray Scott, the greatest football play by play man that I ever heard. No one even close. What a voice! R.I.P. Ray.
The voice of " Doom " ! A Hall of famer !
My favorite by a mile. There’s a CBS college announcer that reminds me of Scott. Great voice.
He was a genius
Dale to the left and Dowler to the right.
@@eddievangundy4510 Yes, I can still hear Ray saying that.
I miss John Facsenda. The classic voice of NFL Films.
Upon Further Review!
This is the original broadcast with the very best, Ray Scott, doing play-by-play.
@@eddievangundy4510 Yes I know, just made me think of John F.
Love the huge Viking horn on the helmets
Me as well. In 1973, they gradually went with the one piece, much smaller sticker horn.
Great memories! I was a young man when this game occurred. Now I'm an old one but still love watching the NFL, especially my Niners. We have a tough one tomorrow against the Eagles. I love watching Bill Brown, running back for the Vikings. Bill was sort of a runner like Mike Alstott of the Buccaneers. Both of them were very fun to watch. Tough dudes!
Ray Scott said more with less words. Some of today’s broadcasters could take a lesson from him.
That's for sure.
@@rw7039 Precisely. Annoying.
" Some of today’s broadcasters could take a lesson from him."
@@JP-su8bp Precisely. All.
Facts
That CBS intro...gives me chills.
I have loved the Vikes since I was 10 years old in 1970 , still waiting for that big win 😎
Me too!!!
browns fan since i was 13 in 1976. i feel the same way!
@NathanSmith, GROW UP! Forget the Vikings!! All they ever did was give you misery since 1970!!!!
@@dbdouglas Never, I will be a Vikings fan still the life in my body is gone, Skol brother 👍
@@NathanSmith-xf7rk Yup, that's what I thought & before I quit that B-team!! Why you'd insist on torturing yourself is beyond me. They've done nothing but embarrass you and make you feel horrible every single season ending loss. I repeat, GROW UP! Your great, great grandparents would be embarrassed for you!
I stopped watching football in the mid 80's due to the on field antics, showboating. Mis this era of TEAM play.
What a better product back then. I was 13 years old and lived for this stuff. 11 starters on offense and 11 on defense, all played 60 minutes and all played EVERY GAME!!! Not like today's "injury" happy league!
The injury thing today is ridiculous Some say it’s the fake turf but nothing was harder than fields back then in Nov-Dec The game is faster but I think it’s bad conditioning practices
It took it's toll though. I can concede these were were much tougher.
PED’s and overuse…
What I've stressed over and over again. This is great because it's the actual telecast of the game, meaning VIDEO TAPE as opposed to film which is used in NFL Films documentaries.
and. not crappy kinescope either. video tapes from the 60’s were large and used over and over so I thank the person from cbs who preserved this one.
What a time capsule!! Could've been the first football game I'd ever seen as a toddler and I've watched every NFL season ever since. Loved the Flame-throwers thawing the field, the broadcasting, the commercials, the play on the field... thanks for posting this amazing video!!!!
I would give anything to relive those days, wow
To watch them lose in horrible fashion again? Nope.
Football was so much better in 1969
Ray Scott's voice is so iconic
This was the last NFL championship game ever played before the AFL-NFL merger of 1970, solidifying the NFL's status as America's most popular professional sports league, a title still held to this day.
2:32 - 2:58/ Good to hear Burgess Meredith's voice-over work in TV commercials! ❤
It's very interesting how NFL football was presented back in the 1960s!
Way, way better
January 4th 1970@@broughmar
I wasn't even born yet, so this is amazing to see. The commercials with the predominant voice-overs, the mild sexism (A car so simply built, we asked some airline stewardesses to reassemble it, and for ONLY $1,995!). The players remove their helmets and stand at attention for the National Anthem. The league was only 50 years old at the time. Compare the stadiums back then to the indoor/heated super stadiums of today. The league has come such a long way. Such quaint and simple times back then. I wasn't even there and I'm pining for those lost times. GREAT stuff.
Thanks for the upload. I can remember starting from the ‘74 season and Tarkenton was the QB. Bob Lee if I remember correctly was the back up. I remember the LA Rams normally had to travel to Minnesota in the post season and always lost. The elements were brutal for the warm city teams. The only year the Vikings traveled to LA in the post season it poured and poured. The Vikings won.
Even the cheerleaders were tough, they were in their short skirts in that weather.
the good old days when the pre game show was on the same level as the actual play
I’m only three minutes into this and already I’m struck by the dignity of the commercials.
Wow…..helmets off for the Anthem. Good old days.
I was also amazed at how nonchalant the players were when they scored a touchdown. Just flip the ball to the referee and trot back to the sideline. No dancing, celebrating, leaping into stands, etc...young people watching this probably think it's beyond boring but I miss those days.
Yes
Paul Christman died of a heart attack two months later. Vikings were last “NFL” champion. Leagues merged for the 1970 season and the NFL became the NFC. Browns joined Colts and Steelers in moving to the AFL, which became the AFC
Yes, Vikings lost in Super Bowl the last time they were "champions". Vikings most over rated team ever.
At least Buffalo had a lead in some of their S.B.'s. Vikings never had even one lead at any point in any S.B. Vikings always lose big games & always will!
Thank You, Howard Cosell......
The highlight of this game is the great announcer RAY SCOTT. He was one of the all-time greats.
Watched this game live, as if it were last evening…..thanks Billy
Did you enjoy it?
@@Dex-mx4jg Cleveland could do nothing right all day.
I watched it, but I was only 5 and just learning football rules, asking my dad why the players "hugged" at the beginning of each play. It seems like a long time ago.
@@jayfrank191353 years ago, so much more class, than today ‼️
did you watch it in color then ?
You don't hear that kind of traditional national anthem anymore.
And with the original commercials as well. Good stuff. I remember this game.
I was nine years old at this time, huge Vikings fan. Remember this season and game very well. I can still name every player in this game, lol. Note no bench heaters on the Vikings side, Grant wouldn't allow them.
Maybe if coach Grant had allowed the heaters they'd have won 4 super bowls, instead of losing ALL OF THEM!!! lol
@@dbdouglas All four super bowl's were in locations that didn't require heaters anyway. 😉
Had nothing to do with those games.
@@johnpancoast3236 But, that's why I quit liking the Vikings, they ALWAYS lose the final game!!!
@@dbdouglas Of course; anyone has the option to be a fair weather fan or not. 😉
@@dbdouglas The AFC was just a better conference at the time.
It's nice to see the Purple People Eaters again.
Oh my, a rare comment from an old friend. The guy who caught the only TD pass I ever threw in high school!!! haha
As a kid Alan Page and OJ Simpson were my favorite players.
I enjoy watching old stuff. It's interesting to hear how people talked and see how they dressed and acted.
RIP Bud Grant
I love watching these old Viking games. The use of the flame thrower on wheels cracked me up.
“A cold day at Wrigley Field…” 😂. Classic.
Was great to see one of my favorite Chicago sportscaster the late Bruce Roberts.
Notice how both teams benches are on the same side of the field. Typical when these teams played in baseball stadiums.
The Winston commercial in the ski lodge was voiced by legendary New York disc jockey Dan Ingram
I wasn't paying attention to the voiceover guy. That guy's co-star had my attention.
Just think, she is probably dead or 80..lol
@@robertsprouse9282 If dead, probably from lung cancer 😂
@@AndyWitmyer , or she was an actress who didn't necessarily have to smoke to do a smoking commercial.
I think they hired her first and foremost because the character/role she played was supposed to be "smoking", as in hot.
Now, if she did smoke and has died, you're right, that cig could've killed her.
Its the polonium 238 in nicotine that brings radioctivity into the lungs' cells= cancer.
Yep..
And no TV Timeouts! No three hours commercials where a football game breaks out! Unlike today's NFL! Remember watching this game!
Yes, that's what I miss. love the cigarette commercial.
without them you wouldn't be watching football on TV
I was there.
Great.No nonsense.No buffoonary.Total professional at all levels."And thats the way it was..."
A big fan of Ray Scott.
Me too
What a great upload! This was before I was born but always heard my dad talk about it.
Good old Kellogs Product 19. I wish they still sold it so I could live forever.😅
that was Tom Harmon in the commercial father of Mark Harmon from NCIS. and the grandchildren in the commercial was Ricky Nelson kids married to Tom's daughter and Mark's sister. Tom won the 1940 Heisman Trophy for Michigan and Mark played football for UCLA in the early 70's.
@@mikehedrick7223 Do you remember Tom Harmon hosting the NFL Countdown to Kickoff show. Here in New York it aired on CBS Saturday afternoons. It was an hour long review of the previous weeks games and a preview of the next day's games. At the end of the show Frank Gifford and Jackie Gleason would be speaking by phone with the Great One making his predictions.
@mikehedrick7223 Thanks for pointing that out! I remember my dad telling me that Mark Harmon's dad was a successful football player when I was a kid (and I remember Mark playing for UCLA).
@@jayfrank1913 Mark wanted to play for Oklahoma in the early 1970's as a wishbone QB, but they had a freshman QB named Steve Davis and Mark's dad wanted him to play closer to home so he went to UCLA. You can see him play on RUclips.
The final NFL Championship game before the merger completed featured a matchup that is permissible in the Super Bowl, as the Browns joined the AFC in 1970 while the Vikings became part of the NFC.
In total, 11 NFL titles games before the merger featured matchups that can happen in the Super Bowl. Most of them involved the Browns, who played the Lions, Packers, Rams, or Vikings in these games. The other two had the Colts beat the Giants. The Steelers didn't play for a championship until after the merger, before then they were perennial cellar-dwellers.
It was ironically 1969 when they hired a certain coach from Cleveland, Charles Henry Noll. And have since then had only 3 head coaches including him.
The commercials were the best. Cigs, 727s, tires…so good
When men were men.I miss the old school NFL
I didn't become a Vikings fan until 1972 but that team and the team the year before were the true beginnings of the Purple Power.
So much promise only to be lost by 4 Super Bowl loses. However, I live for a Super Bowl WIN before I leave this good Earth.
I had the fortune of working with the Cubs and let someone lay their father's ashes on the Wrigley Field Ivy. I broke a rule but his father was there when the Cubs won the 2016 World Series. 😊
Well, the Cubs won back-to-back W.S. Championships in 1907 & 1908. Your Vikings have never won ANYTHING & never will. Quit torturing yourself, no one cares about the Vikings!!
The vikings were 12-2 in the regular season but lost the Superbowl. Bringing back Fran Tarkenton did not help them get over the hump. they went on to lose 4 super bowls.
This is a treat to watch and it is clear to see how the game has evolved. Thank you for this upload. Our Vikes have always been in the hunt but never have brought home the trophy. I know they will bring home many some day and hopefully before I pass.
That's Don Criqui doing the opening
Love Pat’s look at NFL History at the beginning. The Bears were a dynasty? Wow, Halas sure blew that. They went from top to bottom, run by penny-pinching short-sighted, goofs who had no incentive to win (Bears fan here). It’s unfortunate that Halas did not sell the Bears to Debartolo, or a similar owner in the 1970s.
Kapp went from the penthouse to the outhouse when he was traded to the Boston Patriots. I bet he regretted turning down the Vikings 3 year $100,000 per year contract extension which was about 10 times the average salary for other NFL players at that time.
Or the Vikings regretted not offering more.
Always liked his spirit but he really wasn’t a long term solution at quarterback for the Vikings.
Lifelong Browns fan, I'm only 46 so I'm too young to remember this game. But it's interesting to think how this was what would have previously been the championship game, with the advent of the Super Bowl to contend with the AFL winner it became only the equivalent of the AFC or NFC championship.
This would be the closest my Browns would come to the Super Bowl until my childhood hero Bernie Kosar took us to the AFC Championship game in '86.
@8:19. “Product 19” commercial. if the product is still on shelves, may consider changing that name, post-pandemic.
Listen to Ray Scott. This is how you do it.
Ray Scott was quite simply, the best.
Seems like the Vikings had a better shade of purple back then and of course were playing in the snow like they're supposed to. Miss that team.
RIP Joe Kapp
When the nfl games were real and not scripted
The NFL theme at 30:08 brings back memories. Confidence.
Vikings went on to the first of 4 Super Bowl losses in Super Bowl IV; losing 23-7 to the Chiefs. The Browns went on to never playing in a Super Bowl.
This was the final game of the old NFL before the merger with the AFL.
Why aren't they showing Taylor Swift?? I'm changing the channel.
She got put on the IR list
Frozen tundra, meet your bigger more northern, more frozen brother.
The Viking home field was considered the best home field advantage in the NFL until they went indoors.
Metropolitan Stadium was ultimately torn down and is now a parking lot for an IKEA store at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota
The field was right in the middle of the Mall of America. There used to be a plaque on the floor saying were Home Plate used to be located and they had a seat mounted high on the east wall showing were Harmon Killebrew hit the longest home run ever hit at Metropolitan Stadium The first year I had season tickets to the Vikings was 1969 and my buddy and I were at this game. Had seats just up from home plate. At the 2 minute warning we headed for the field. We watched the end of the game from the sideline right in front of the first base dugout. Good Memories
Fun to have this game pop into my feed. A good friend of my sister has an uncle that played LT (Schafrath) for the Browns in this game. Very cool to see him in action.
The Vikings are the last team to win the NFL Championship and lose the Superbowl in the Same Year
Wished the Vikes could've kept Joe Capp..
During the regular season the Vikings pummeled the Browns 51-3 at Met Stadium
I thought for sure that the Browns would get revenge on Minnesota for getting pulverized by 51-3 during the regular season. But they looked absolutely scared in the Championship game. When Kapp ran into Bill Brown, and still scored a TD on the opening drive, I knew it was going to be a long day. Vikings could have won this game by 50-0 if they wanted to. Total domination.
What I find interesting in Ray Scott was that he was of an era when most sports announcers had made the transition from radio to television but kept the necessary descriptiveness that radio required. Scott realized that all the radio talk was unnecessary for television, and let the game speak for itself, probably one of the first announcers to do so.
Another interesting aspect of television 50 years ago were the commercials. The music was more prominent, and the target audience was a much different consumer than is targeted today. Music was employed a lot more then to frame the setting of the commercial.
The game itself changed a great deal. It was a much more raw game where quarterbacks were not protected, like on one play in this game where the Browns' linebacker pulls Joe Kapp to the ground when he was technically out of bounds. Today that would be a personal foul. Defenses were a lot less sophisticated, which opened up more exciting long passing opportunities, whih Minnesota used to their advantage with a receiver like Gene Washington. And quarterbacks called their own plays, which I think led to more volatility of play outcomes, and made the game a lot more interesting because of the frequency of turnovers than today's choreographed play-calling where the quarterback doesn't have to think nearly as much.
I was eight and living in Minneapolis. You can bet I was watching this. Paul Krause's daughter was in my class at school!
Vikings should of remained an outdoor team.Playing in Domes since 1982 and 0 SB appearances that's not a coincidence.
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Outdoor yes but not that stadium 🥴. Fans looked like they were a cab ride away from the field.
Good, you can sit out in the frozen tundra 2.0 like it was at Met Stadium, it was a home field advantage for the Vikings, but not for the fans sitting outside.
They played 5 more seasons at Metropolitan Stadium after Super Bowl XI, 1977-81 no championships so I don't think that was much of a difference
Absolutely! People forget most of the year the games were played on sunny fall days. Perfect football weather. But teams did fear playing at the Met in December and January. They rarely lost at the Met. They lost their identity when they moved inside. Indoor football sucks!
The Browns in back to back League championship games were outscored 61-7, the lone TD coming with less than 2 minutes to go in this game, which is surprising considering they had superior offensive talent. I guess back then at least defense did win championships
The fearsome foursome and the purple people eaters to name a couple
People today need "entertainment" diversions. I remember watching sports on b&w tv in the late 60s and early 70s.
Love the beginning. Ray Scott was the best. Let the picture do the talking and he just fills in. Less is more. Pat Summeral also.
Oh man, that image of the flame throwing machine on the field. Amazing how things have changed.
Bud Grant won an NBA Championship,CFL Championship,and NFL Championship but never the Super Bowl RIP
He was a great man 😎👏
A great coach; in Super Bowls, went up against the great coaches in Stram, Don Shula, Chuck Noll, and Madden though
NBA?
@@ecrearden1639 Yes NBA as a member of the Lakers
@coreylevine8095 when and in what capacity? Thanks
The NFL has become "The Hotdog Show". Loved it back in the day but haven't watched since the knees started dropping.
I particularly enjoyed this Minnesota Viking victory over the Cleveland Browns because the Browns had absolutely humiliated my Dallas Cowboys the week before in the opening round of the 1969-70 NFL playoffs by the score of 38-14 in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl. Earlier in the season Cleveland had also stomped Dallas 42-10 in Cleveland. And then the next week Clevelsnd got stomped even harder by Minnesota 51-3. I will always have a special and soft spot in my heart for the 1969-70 Minnesota Vikings because of the crushing defeats they inflicted on those bleeping Browns in the 1969-70 NFL season and post season. I rooted for the Vikings in Super Bowl 4 against the Kansas City Chiefs and was truly stunned by the Chiefs' decisive victory over the Vikings.
May Joe Kapp rest in peace. And may each of his loved ones be comforted and healed.
Maybe Joe was not a great QB but he is what playing football is all about. I saw him hurdle a defender once.
I did like Kapp for those teams, they should have kept him
The Minnesota Vikings: champions of the NFL in 1969. That afternoon in Bloomington was the last time that trophy saw the light of day. It hasn't been seen since.
I think the found it and it was for some reason in the Green Bay hall of fame and didn’t have the last two championship scores recorded on it.
It's interesting how modern, in many respects, the game of football already was in 1969. Many of the formations, the language used by the broadcasters ("rollout", "busted play", "penalty marker down", "line drive", "slot", "pass intended for", "inside the 15", "up the seam", "draw play", etc), the visual style of player uniforms (albeit with notably smaller helmets), the legal text of the rebroadcasting of the game being prohibited was basically identical, etc.
However, there were also some striking differences in other respects: the uprights were VERY close to the goal line instead of at the back of the end zone, the distance of the crowd seating from the field (could just be this stadium tho), 90-95% of the teams were white, the numbers on the field are noticeably smaller, a striking (and very welcome) lack of penalties, no players kneeling for the anthem, teams could apoarently choose to wear whatever type of shoe they wanted, etc.
As for broadcast itself and how it differs from today's product: the ads back then were short, to the point, and minimally intrusive (large portions of any given drive were completely uninterrupted), the broadcasters said only what was necessary to understand what was happening on the field and refrained from pointless, cringey small talk (with the color commentator only occasionally jumping in with something relevant), cigarette ads 😂
I loved watching this game. Thanks for sharing it! As someone born in 1983 and has loved football his whole life, it's great to see what the game was like pre-merger. Tbh, I think I like the 1969 product more than the bloated 2023 iteration!
Both teams went to the same sidelines. Remember it well.
I think the stadium only had one side for bleachers.
It's a freaking tragedy that no one acknowledges the Vikings as a legitimate NFL Champion. The history books always have an asterisk next to their name.
The last NFL champion from the old league
Technically the leagues were not merged until 1970 so the “super bowl” was not an official NFL game at that point. The Colts and the Vikings were champions of the NFL in 1968 and 1969, who just happened to lose an extra-league game afterwards against the champion of a rival league. Those accomplishments should definitely still be acknowledged though
I agree. Although they lost the Super Bowl to Kansas City, they still won the NFL Championship and they should hold their heads high for accomplishing that.
@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 I disagree. The leagues were legally merged when they started the common draft. Congress passed a law permitting the merger because, otherwise, the merger might well have violated federal antitrust laws because of the draft.
Trust me, I do. They were the last NFL Champions before the Merger. Prior to that, all teams in the League we call today through NFL and its variants were NFL Champions. The Vikings were no exception
1:11:30 Hit out of bounds or going out of bounds would be called with today’s rules. Great upload, thank you!
Nobody better than Ray Scott
This was the last game Minnesota QB Joe Kapp ever played for the Vikings at the Met Stadium (his last game as a Viking was SB4). Never understood why the Vikings didn't make a stronger effort to resign him. I will always believe if he had been the Vikings QB in 1970 the Vikings would have gone on to SB5
RIP Joe
@@gregmengelt2812 NO--Tarkenton didn't come back to Minnesota until several years later. Tarkenton wasn't even on the Viking's "radar" in 1970. They thought Gary Cuazzo or Bob Lee could take over. Neither had the same "spark" Kapp did. The last straw was the lousy 7-7 year in 1972--Bud Grant told management to do whatever it took to bring in Tarkenton at that point.
@@bufnyfan1 Fran Tarkenton was the starting Vikings QB in 1972 and went to the Pro Bowl.
Grant maybe like Tarlkenton better remember Vanbrocklin didn't like Tarkington much probly want him out
@@bufnyfan1 or they thought Bill Cappleman would be the one to take over
Real grass and mud!! No silliness during the game, I’ll take THIS over today’s NFL.
Ray Scott I was 10 it seemed like he always called Bears,Packers and Vikings games.
Wow, I was 3 yrs old!
Ray Scott did Packers games on CBS and Twins baseball. As Twins tv voice He split play by play of the 1965 world series with Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. Paul Crisman did AFL games on NBC before going to CBS.
I wish football game play by play announcers were like these guys. No BS talk. Just call the game. Period.
This seems like a hundred years ago and yet it seems like yesterday.
I watched this game live as a kid. Is it me or do these players back then, look older than the NFL players today currently playing ?
What a great country this used to be.
I wish the Vikings had not gone indoors. That weather was such an advantage to us in those days.
Bro... the Winston cigarette and Schlitz Malt Liquor commercials... Hahahahaha
I got it now, it’s January 1970
The Vikings got their doors blown off by the Chiefs in the Super Bowl...but they were tough back then
I remember the Vikings that year being really good. They lost their first and last game, and won every game in between during the regular season (12-2). I didn't think anyone could stop them from taking it all.
They finished #1 ranked in offense and defense.. allowed only 9.5 points a game! Incredible numbers.
They stopped themselves in SB IV with all the turnovers. Kapp played without a contract. Today they would have resigned him, back them they were alot tighter with their coin. He only asked for a new 3 year deal for $300,000. Tarkenton was making $100,000 a year back then, but then the Mira's weren't so tight with their money as Ole' and his partners.
@@s.tavares3257 #1 in points scored. They had a pedestrian offense back then not like when Tarkenton came back.
They lost to Dallas in their last game.The Cowboys were somewhat of an albatross for the Vikings. They always seemed to be intimidated by Dallas.
@@chrissims9351 in 70', 73, and 74' they had Dallas number