RARE 1963 NFL Championship Chicago Bears home movie footage
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- My grandfather was a Chicago #Bears season ticket holder for many years when they played at #Wrigley Field. This is a home movie he took of the Bears defeating the New York #Giants in the #1963 #NFL #Championship game on December 29, 1963 at Wrigley Field. The Bears won 14-10.
NOTE: 0:24 you see Mike #Ditka warming up
Awesome piece of history
Thank you for sharing this family video. I enjoyed watching it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So cool- I was an Andy Frain usher for every Bear game that year including this one, I was still in high school think I got 7 dollars a game.
Great memory- loved Wrigley Field for football also-
very cool, I doubt most people would even know what a Andy Frain Usher was!
Amazing film!!!
Here's a rundown of the Bears who start running out towards the camera at 1:57:
#63 Bob Wetoska (RT), #89 Mike Ditka (TE), #84 Bo Farrington (SE), #28 Willie Galimore (HB), #47 Johnny Morris (FL), #34 Joe Marconi (FB), and #9 Bill Wade (QB).
FARRINGTON AND WILLIE "THE WISP" GALLIMORE would die in a car wreck in training camp the next season in 1964.
Galimore and Farrington would die in a single vehicle car accident on their back to summer camp at St.Joseph's College from the Rensselaer Country Club the following year. One can only speculate their further success had they not perished on that terrible night.
Thanks for posting this.
comeacross9 yup. Very sad. And you’re welcome
I remember that very well. It was so sad.
Pure gold. Thanks!!!
My pleasure
LOL, I can smell the Urine, Beer & Popcorn from here...
Incredible footage!! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
I use to think my Grandpa was losing some portion of his memory when he told me he watched this game on channel 5 (NBC), I says to him: you mean channel 2? He said; it might've been on WBBM, but the reception was better on 5 that day. Flash forward; a week before the Bears played the Redskins in the '84 playoffs, I was going through his belongings after he passed away and discovered he was right via an old newspaper, the Bears defeated the Giants on NBC. ...I always assumed CBS televised every Championship game. Then later I discovered NBC had televised every NFL Championship from 1954 thru 1963. ...never question your Grandfather's knowledge of the Chicago Bears.
Love it! Thanks for sharing that story.
The game was on NBC, but it was blacked out in Chicago, as was the case for all home games-including sellouts-until 1973. Grandpa must’ve watched it on closed circuit at McCormick Place, or driven out of town to watch on an NBC affiliate in Rockford, South Bend, Milwaukee, or somewhere else.
@@johnmanier7968 Yes, he lived in Terre Haute...Indiana
@@johnmanier7968 My Dad also told me he saw the game on channel 8 (NBC) out of Grand Rapids MI
@@johnmanier7968 ...I remember I use to be able to watch ALL the Bears games (home and away) while visiting in Indiana
From all the footage I've seen of this game, Wrigley Field looks jam packed, hard to imagine why NBC would black-out an NFL Championship game in Chicago just because the Bears were playing. I mean, Wrigley only holds about 40,000 seats for football. As far as I could tell from watching old video of this game, Wrigley looked completely sold-out.
NFL rules required home black outs back then, totally stupid. It wasn't until 1973, I think, that the NFL lifted black out rule if games were sold out 72 hours before kick off. We can thank likely Congressional legislation and that great football fan in chief, Richard Nixon, for that over due change. Left alone, the NFL wasn't about to change rule for a long time. Other sports were like that too, but not the Cubs. They televised all their home games. Home black out rules really show what greedy owners think of their fans. And back in 1963 most games were watched on grainy black and white TV's or primitive low quality color TV.
@@stephenkammerling9479, what is really ridiculous is that radio and TV promote interest, and increase attendance because people want to go for the live game experience that radio and tv promotes.
The only place where that doesn't or did not work, apparently, was/ is L.A. where RAM PR DIRECTOR TURNED RAM GM, later NFL/PRO FTBALL/NFL COMMISH= ALVIN "PETE" ROZELLE felt that local broadcasts hurt RAMS attendance.
Thus, the blackouts..
In this era of taxpayer funding of stadiums, it's hard to imagine the NFL getting away with home blackouts. I think home blackout rules for non sold out games have been suspended, hopefully never to return. If a team can't put a**es in the seats, blacking out the game locally is one of the worst things they can do. I remember being so angry in 1963 when the NFL title game between NY Giants and Chicago Bears was blacked out in Chicago area. The game was played in Wrigley which had about a 44 to 45 thousand attendance for football, obviously a hard ticket to get. Temporary stands were placed in right field to increase capacity for football.
Amazing footage.
This is spectacular!
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this. Was pretty cool
and JFK was gone just 37 days earlier. man
And the Beatles would be in America less than 60 days later.
0:24 Mike Ditka!
I missed this 1. 1 reason is that i was born on July 31,1963. Oh IRON MIKE at 0
;24. he`d just turned 24yrs here. looks great.
Rozelle wanted Halas to move the game to Soldier Field (which had lights) so the time of the game could be moved up.Halas refused on some bs reason.last championship for the papa bear, who if not for Y.A.Tittle 5 ints would of lost this one.
Halas from what my Dad told me was extremely cheap and never paid his best players and often created acrimony in the clubhouse.
My Dad switched to being a cowboys fan in the mid 60's he loved Coach Landry and Roger Staubach.
I remember him saying Bears don't throw the ball and never have good QB's
couple that with a cheapskate owner and they'll always suck under Halaswho died in 1983 and 2 yrs later......
Unless mitch Tribisky is the real deal (I doubt it) Bears will continue to bottom feed.
At least they & Green Bay still play outdoors.
The brains behind the Bears 1963 NFL Championship was DC George Allen. Supposedly, Halas promised Allen midway through the season that if the Bears won it all he would step down name Allen as his successor. Unfotunately, Halas changed his mind and remained as head coach. Allen left Chicago to become head coach of the Rams while the Bears floundered in Halas' final seasons.
It was Larry Morris' cheap shot on YAT's knee in the first quarter that did YAT in for the game. He could not plant and throw, thus the interceptions.
And what do the Giants do after the season, they traded off 2 of their defensive stars because of the third straight championship game loss, as if it was the defense's responsibility. They gave up 1 TD to the Pack in 62 and a couple of QB sneaks off short drives to the Bears in 63 that were really caused by YAT's interceptions!!
Oh well, after the Giants got rid of my favorite player Sam Huff I became a Jets fan and a huge supporter of the AFL. So, things really did end well, in Super Bowl III!
@@chucklynch6523 Long live the American Football League! You did right switching your allegiance to the Jets. It was an agonizing defeat for my Raiders in that ‘68 AFL championship game, but a giant hooraw when the Jets went on to humble the Colts. Pax.
Awesome Alex ! This is why I LOVE Utube..... also, loved the end of show add-on . Who is / was that at the end ??
My grandfather celebrating afterwards
@@chifanpatt VERY cool stuff.
Dave Dion thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it
2:09 johnny morris!!!!!
this was the first Chicago Bear playoff game I ever watched, there was talk that this game might not even be played? because of the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas! on November 22, a day after my Mothers Birthday! she was never the same afterwards! for Chicagoan's it a Great ending after such a sad tragic event in this country's history! a great game the defense saved the day!
I remember watching this Gd game, especially the football bouncing off Shofner's Gd shoulder pad...in the END ZONE!
Actually, it deflected off the tips of his outstretched fingers. Its was not a good pass by Tittle.
This is awesome. Just for history context this was a month after JFK was shot and about a month and a half before the Beatles came to America. Chicago would of course have to wait 22 more years for another Bears championship.
Go Bears!!!! 9X World Champions
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The NFL was criticized by some for not postponing the games the week of the JFK assassination. If they had the NFL championship a week later it would have been the first time it would have been played in January. Now it will be played well into February.
If game was played a week later weather would likely had been much warmer. That was my first winter in Chicago other than when I was very little. That winter turned quite mild after New Years. NFL should have postponed 11/24 games, but that's the NFL for you. If a player DIES on the field, league requires game to be completed. That happened in Detroit in 1971 in Bears/Lions game. Lion receiver, Chuck Hughes, died on field of a heart attack in final two minutes. No one on either side wanted to complete game, but officials said game had to be completed. Bears therfore won a meaningless game.
The 63’ Chargers would’ve killed the 63’ bears...
If the ‘63 Chargers were so good, how come they didn’t make it to the Championship game? They couldn’t beat the Bears if they couldn’t make it to the game. LOSER.
@@Lucille69caddy hey dumbfuk..go learn the history of the AFL/NFL before talking shit you know nothing about..
@@lancehurley9743 Another thing, limp-noodle: that loser AFL league couldn’t make it, hence the merge.
@@Lucille69caddy fuck off...you’re a dumbfuk...
Teams in the AFL could have beat several teams since they only ran an offense of 3 yards and a cloud of dust in the NFL. Watch the video football in color and maybe you might learn something!