My thanks to romelovesdan for providing me the DVD files used for this project. I've enhanced the partial broadcast recording of the 1969 NFL Championship. I ran the game through Topaz to upscale, denoise, sharpen and double the framerate, then used Da Vinci Resolve to remove a greenish yellow hue, which really makes the colors look NORMAL now. See before/after shots here -- imgbox.com/g/p4bwcOeGwO -- the broadcast recording ends with about 4 minutes left in the second quarter, so I enhanced and tacked on the remaining highlights from the NFL Films GOTW film
Dave, I am so glad to see you're able to share here on YT once again! I was with you here before and love what you do. But you ran into some legal issues regarding how one can share material here back then. Major props to you for not giving-up and finding-out how to do so under their rules of engagement now!! Seeing your work back on here totally makes my day/summer/year (you name it).
@@brianmccauley7711 Hey Brian! Well I've actually been 'back' for almost 3 years now on this channel :) I wouldn't necessarily say 'legal" issues - just a lawyer for the NFL emailed me stating that I had copyrighted material on my channel and I needed to take it down. I complied. Wasn't sued or anything :) I had this other channel already with hardly anything on it, and then after a few months I started posting more material here. I didn't do anything different though, as I'm obviously still posting NFL stuff, so I'm just waiting for them to shut this channel down now. Fortunately it hasn't happened yet, but with me now posting full games, I'm probably exposing myself more to their watchful eye.
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Glad you're back at it nonetheless... especially now, when it feels like we're having a sports drought on TV. As for "legal issues", I meant that more as an expression. I've run into similar issues in the past just trying to get my own custom T-shirts printed. A number of companies wouldn't even print the word "Pack" (for the Green Bay Packers) for me, unless I had written permission from the Packers organization. Anyhow, keep on keeping on!
These are absolutely the best looking classic football games that I've EVER SEEN!! These are amazing. Having a chance to watch some of these classic games in full HD? Being able to see the players that made football what it is! Being able to watch the broadcasts of these games when the Broadcasts were actually about the game, the teams, and other VITAL information. This is unbelievable. Words can't express or describe what being able to see these games from the 60's, 70's, and 80's means to me. As I said previously, I was born in 1967, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I used to beg either my Parents or my Grandparents to let me stay up so I could get to watch the Half-Time Highlights on Monday Night Football! It was one of the few times I got to see teams that I normally never got a chance to see, unless they were playing the Packers. These decades brought us some of the most ICONIC, TALENTED, and FLAT OUT DOMINANT PLAYERS to ever play the game! Thank you again. My only regret is that your channel wasn't in my recommendations sooner. I could have been binge watching these classic games for months now! However I am just going to have to catch up and watch more. Please keep up this incredible work sir. And if it is possible, could you please get one or two games from the Washington Redskins back in the late 60's and early 70's. When the either had the maroon helmet with the Florida State Seminole logo. The spear w/ the feathers, or the yellow helmet with the ®️🪶 and the red stripe down the middle? I am a Chippewa Indian and my Dad being a Chippewa Indian as well, he had bought me a Starter Jacket for my birthday and it was a Washington Redskins down filled jacket and I loved it, and wore it with PRIDE. I'd love to see a game or two with their classic 60's and 70's helmets and uniforms. Thank you.
Glad you found the channel :) Don't worry, you're not too late to the party. I only started posting enhanced games about 5 weeks ago, though I have a TON of other stuff on my channel I'm sure you'd find interesting. Afraid there aren't any late 60's/early 70's Redskin games that exist with the old helmets, except for a black/white 1969 preseason game (which I don't have).
This truly like Christmas in July.....this is my favorite season growing up as a child. Such fond memories.....thanks for your hard work and efforts in posting these videos....
This is also the same season that the Los Angeles Rams started the season 11-0 then preceded to lose their last three games of the season (one of them to the Minnesota Vikings @ Los Angeles) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂then the Rams went to Minnesota in the divisional round the week before this game and lost that game also to the Vikings @ Minnesota 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The 69 Vikings are one of the greatest teams in NFL history I know they went on and lost the Super Bowl but at that point the Super Bowl wasn't what we think of it today the Vikings pretty much viewed themselves as the champions of football by winning the NFL Championship look up the statistics on the 69 Vikings one of the most imposing and physically dominant teams ever they literally destroyed everybody
Same as Summerall's play-by-play style. Less is more. From the '90-'91 Giants/Niners NFC Championship when Leonard Marshall destroyed Joe Montana...Pat's report of a very woozy Montana shown on the sideline: "The word from the bench is 'everything hurts' "
I was a baby at the time. Later these voices of the NFL were my introduction to the games. I didn’t know that Don Criqui was with CBS BACK THEN LOL. I grew up with him on NBC as I was getting older.
@@romelovesdan They also set a modern day NFL record with a 12 game winning streak. They lost their first game, 24-23 to the Giants in Yankee stadium, and their last one, 10-3 to the Falcons in Atlanta. In Week 2 against the Colts in their home opener, Kapp became the fifth quarterback in history to throw seven TDs in one game. By one of the strangest coincidences in sports history, Adrian Burk who by then was an NFL referee, officiated that game. 17 years before in 1952 for the Eagles, Burk became the second quarterback to throw seven TDs in one game. Also, Eller, Larsen, Page, and Marshall are the only front four ever to make the Pro Bowl in the same season.
I remember this game. They called it FOOTBALL. QBs, WRs, everyone was a player - legal to get hit. Real men playing for more than just money. It was awesome, and i miss it.
Just amazes me - even though we were already into the Super Bowl era, this was the NFL championship and look how low-key the production is. And the great analysis before game. I can't put my finger on how announcing has decreased - but look how cerebral and analytical it was. Then John Madden came along and made it more understandable. Then these days announcers have become entertainers and sacrificed good detailed analysis for appealing to non-fans.
I used to watch this with my stepfather he was very good at that. and I also remember Ray Scott calling this game! He was one of the best broadcasters of our time.
I seem to recall computerized results on radio in 1970 of pre selected NFL game of the week. Ray Scott gave play by play. Other weeks it was C harlie Jones.
This picture is so much better than the fuzzy B&W in our Hastings, Minn. living room that cold January Sunday. Also the Vikings’ O line could block! Loved the short commercial breaks and absence of advertising bombardment at Met Stadium. And, no over-the-top celebrations for every play.
The Met! Opposing teams dreaded having to go up there to play in December and January. Always cold and with snow usually piled up along the periphery of the playing field, it made for one of the real home field advantages of that time. Thanks a bunch for posting this. I love watching games from this era.
I have this game on dvd from a collector. Your cleaned up version is even sharper than what I watched live back in 1970! You are sooooo apreciated by us true NFL fans! Thank you evah so much!
I was there...they completely controlled the game.i was here in 1974 and 1976 for nfc title wins vs rams.the orher nfc title game was won in dallas 1973
Thank you Dave and all for your invaluable and excellent efforts on this incredible and timeless footage from THE greatest era of professional sports, especially the NFL.
Thank you Sir for posting! As a life long Vikings Fan I sincerely appreciate your efforts on sharing these classics! This looks 10 times better than the original broadcast👍
@@beyondalpha1072 The first 4 Super Bowls had the NFL champ playing the AFL champ. From 1966-69 the winner of the NFL Championship would go to the Super Bowl. Once the two leagues merged in 1970, there was no longer an NFL Championship and the final ultimate game was the Super Bowl.
Excellent job! EVERYTHING about this is helluva lot better than ANY NFL broadcasts of today's completely ANNOYING and boring NFL. Which I quit watching around 2004 and started to watch rugby instead!
The great Ray Scott......as an announcer.....economy of word use.....would never overtalk....just set the action and let the play run and the picture would tell the story. I was announcing a TV PBS broadcast of Wash. State basketball in 1971 or 72 on KWSU TV, and a local regional network was also airing the broadcast for the West Coast audience. I looked to my left, and Ray Scott was the announcer of the regional telecast. Big surprise, but a good one. I should have at least introduced myself, but our instructors always told us we were, although student, professional announcers; so I thought "big deal I've got my own pre game to get ready for." Whoa....now I wish I would have talked to him. The foolishness of youth.
In the 1968-69 NFL season the Cleveland Browns soundly defeated the Dallas Cowboys 31-20 in the opening round of the NFL playoffs and then were crushed by the Baltimore Colts 34-0 in the 1968-69 NFL Championship game , who then went on to lose Super Bowl 3 to the AFL Champion New York Jets by the score of 16-7. In the opening round of the 1969-70 NFL playoffs the Cleveland Browns again defeated the Dallas Cowboys by the score of 38-14. And the next week in the 1969-70 NFL Championship game the Minnesota Vikings easily defeated the Cleveland Browns 27-7. The Vikings then advanced to play the AFL Champion Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 4, losing to the Chiefs 23-7.
I remember this game I was 9 years old, back then the muddy games were the best, this game I watched in Blue Ridge Texas , me and my cousin played football in the yard that day good ole days
Christman worked most frequently with Curt Gowdy in the mid 1960’s, moving back to CBS in ‘68 and being paired with Ray Scott. He died much too young at 51.
Great restoration of the broadcast of the last NFL championship before the merger. Kudos DVolsky! Thank you. And special recognition of the pleasant surprise that - eight plus hours after DV brought forth another restored gem - not one comment about "this was 'real' football." Yet 🤞🏿😊
I love the enhanced reproduction despite being a Browns fan. I do not watch the NFL much anymore, but love to look back on the older games. I am not sure, but Joe Kapp may have been the first QB to win the Rose Bowl, Grey Cup and NFL Championship. Great job
For those who think the Vikings never won an NFL championship in the Super Bowl Era, here's the footage that will show that the purple people eaters did manage to win the NFL Championship before losing in the super bowl....
Many people still had black & white TV sets. I recall the color TVs back then required a lot of manual adjustments for brightness, contrast, color hue, and balance. There'd be a knob on the front of the TV to adjust the color hue, then there were three adjustment knobs in the back of the TV to adjust the balance with the red, yellow, and blue color settings. TV networks/stations back then didn't have a single set standard for color broadcasts, which meant that color adjustments may be needed among the different local TV stations when changing the channels. I recall in the San Francisco market that KPIX, a CBS station, had bright video with sharp contrast; while KRON, an NBC station, had a softer and defused brightness and contrast. By the mid-1970s, broadcast standards and auto adjustments with color TV sets pretty much did away with doing manual color adjustments when changing channels.
As a very young kid the CBS NFL introduction in the 1960s was what originally got me to be a football fan. These warriors running onto the field and putting on their helmets preparing for battle with the rat-tat-tat music introduction was mind blowing. Old school NFL football was as close as you could get to the ancient gladiator wars for a young child.
You did such a great job, sharpening the telecast. Makes it look like it was played recently. Love the commercials. Feels like I'm 6 years old again. I was lucky enough to watch the superbowl, in color! Thanks a ton for your effort. Wish they'd go back to those uniforms. There's no mistaking those big, badass horns.
Thank you! As for Super Bowl IV in color, check out the enhanced version of that which I did a few months back -- ruclips.net/video/y7VnLWgxk7c/видео.html&pp=ygUMc3VwZXIgYm93bCA0
If anyone out there has the 1969 NFL West Conference Championship Playoff (12-27-69) between the Vikings and Rams, it is one of the "Holy Grails" fans of true Classic Football fans would love to see! Be a Hero!
@@MrWOLFPACK1974 Sounds similar like a former co-worker felt. He cites that MIN v LA Playoff, like I do with my fascination and frustration with SB XIII, as the worst gut punch game he ever experienced. We both are citing play by plays of games......from ages ago to this day!
@@JRZEKE99 The NFL GOW should have done TWO complete programs on those NFL Divisional12-27-1969 playoff games MIN vs LA and CLEV at DAL rather than 13:30 mins and 9:30 minutes dedicated respectively to each.
Excellent telecast. What memories as a teenager. Bruce Roberts doing a segment. The Confidence song CBS used as the intro for each NFL game is a treasure. Thank you.
Dave, GREAT job on this. Much appreciated. To younger fans: notice how less often commercials intrude on the game. Notice the clean no-nonsense uniforms that don't like a child's pyjamas. Notice that the coaches are not calling in plays from the sideline. The QB called his own offensive plays; the MLB called the defense. Notice how hyper-aggressive the defenders seem. They were skilled tacklers who enjoyed contact. Notice that a pass defender could make contact with the receiver as long as the receiver had touched the ball first. There was no "football move" rule. Notice that offensive linemen did not reach out to grab defenders; that was holding. Notice that the players don't hot-dog after every play and the announcers don't sound like they're having an orgasm during the game. Not to your liking? Well, okay but it wasn't infected by TV yet. It wasn't some kind of reality show. It was just football.
For those that are fans of the CBS-TV show "NCIS" and actor Mark Harmon: Check out the video @8:13 where Mark's dad, Tom Harmon, does a TV commercial for the Product 19 cereal product. In researching about Tom Harmon, come to discover he was *_only 50 years old_* in that TV commercial, as he was born in 1919. It's an eyebrow raiser to know that Mark Harmon, playing the part of Special Agent Gibbs in NCIS, left that TV series at age 70; yet, he looked no older than his dad at age 50. BTW: Mark Harmon was a teenager at the time of this telecast.
Situation remedied!......Fans and subscribers, our faithful host, and enhancement technician, Mr. Volsky, worked around many technical issue to get this to us! Tip your cap and wave your pennants....
Amazing work on this game Dave!!! This truly was a great game for the Vikings!!! Actually I think their greatest game was the week before this game when they came from behind to beat the Rams!!! That would be a really great game to see!!!
Joe Kapp was an amazing fellow. He was 6' 2" and weighed in at 215 - a big QB for the day. He was involved in so many weird trade transactions during his career, including one between the CFL and NFL. His career was notable also for his challenging of the NFL's free agent rule. I'm 64 and remember being overjoyed when the Boston Patriots picked him up for the 1970 season. We now had a quarterback that had played in the Super bowl!!! I thought our fortunes had turned. Unfortunately they went 2 - 12, and ended up drafting Jim Plunkett with their first round pick. Kapp quit football there and then.
He also got into a fistfight with his old CFL nemesis Angelo Mosca at a 2011 CFL Alumni event, allegedly over a dirty hit in a 1963 game. Old grudges must have died hard with him.
There's so much history in this video, Dave! A young Pat Summerall narrating a summary of the NFL Championship on the 50-year anniversary. But right before _that,_ 2:34 catch the voice in the Hertz commercial...hint: "This guy will kill you to death inside of three rounds!" And another famous actor "playing" Ernie the Standard Oil mechanic at 1:13:30 ... Kenneth Tobey!
I was a senior in high school in January 1969. A different world...drove a '64 Plymouth Valiant, made $25 a week at a part time job, had it made. The NFL? No one in Atlanta cared.
Dave, you might be the most appreciated man in the world according to us old dudes who sit back shaking their heads thinking what the hell happened the the game of football..... We all loved watching Billie "White Shoes" Johnson do his TD celebration without moving anywhere, shake his legs It was different but it was just him and as far as any of us wanted to go..... We had Jack "the Assassin" Tatum, who would drive your head in the damn ground... Mean Joe Greene, who might have been gentle off the field but on it, would gouge your eyes out Or Conrad Dobler, who blocked, kicked, held, stuck his finger in your eye or grab your cup.... Lyle freaking Alzado, a man you never knew who might show up but was all about kicking your ass, twice.... No hand shaking after the game.... A one hour pregame special and a 15 minute halftime at the super bowl... No braods in the room... But we did like Phylis George and I especially liked Jayne Kennedy (oh my) But they knew their place..... The players kept complaining at a low level..... You could expect to see some of the guys during the off-season by watching Wrestling...... If your star QB stayed up all night drinking and sleeping with triplets, you did not panik and expected him to have a great game..... And what about Joe Willie Nameth putting on panty hose because HE COULD!!!!! Ahhh, this was off the top of my head.... If I spent more time, this list would be very very long
Dave Osborne was such a great determining young man at running back, i’m just so sorry in his career he never won a Super , and the legendary front four the purple people eaters,
This championship game was before the merger and it was still the NFL versus the AFL. The Browns and the Steelers went to the AFC when both leagues merged and it became AFC versus the NFC afterwards. Superbowl was Vikings (NFL) versus Chiefs (AFL) that year.
This is beautifully restored. I see the analyst had papers at his elbow that looked like it yellow highlighter on it. I was so sure those didn't come around until the 70s, but it turns out these actually came around in the 60s. Everything was interesting to watch, even the commercials. The Vikings loss in that Superbowl was the first of 4. This was the only one where it was an upset loss, meaning they should have won. In the other 3, the Vikings had no chance. The 70s was an era of AFC dominance. The talent level was much better in the AFC in those years. The players look noticeably smaller and slower compared to players today--as is to be expected. The players also didn't celebrate after plays like they do now.
Due to the NFL blackout policies of the time this game wasn’t shown live in Minneapolis on WCCO. They did show the game on tape delay that night following the late local news
I am 55 years old and was just a year and two month old baby back then. Didn't know the Vikings won the NFL championship that year. Old school football at it's best back then.
The decade of the 1960s was and still is my very favorite decade for pro football. I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan. I've been watching the NFL since the late 1950s and began watching the Cowboys in earnest in 1963. While the Cowboys were without question my favorite team, I had favorite players from other teams too. I loved the stadiums of that era.... particularly Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis. When the merger between the NFL and the AFL happened, I didn't like the idea of moving Baltimore, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh over to the newly-formed AFC, although I understand the reason it was done. Also I thought implimenting interplay between the NFC and the AFC was a mistake. In my opinion, it removed the drama for the Super Bowl. God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era 🏈
Just dont know what happened against the Chiefs in SB4 this Viking team should have crushed them but for some reason they just forgot how to play Viking football in every SB they played in .
I’m from Buffalo & the Vikings were my 2nd Favorite team. I still remember these guys when I was a kid. No gloves, or hand warmers! Great football back then!!
Sad to say, but maybe you are the reason neither team has won a Super Bowl despite numerous opportunities. Ha! Hope that will change one day before you pass.
Part of the forgotten history of the Browns, who stayed right up there for about seven seasons after Jim Brown retired, under Frank Ryan and Leroy Kelly. A couple of post-season wins and Ryan is in the HoF next to his teammate Kelly.
Joe Kapp ✊🏈 was a STUD ⭐️ this was the first year I started loving the Vikes ❤️ because of the uniforms….I’m now 60 and we know the rest of the Vikings history 💔
This was my first year (1969)watching professional football, but it was the toughness of Joe cap, The beauty of those white horns against the purple helmet that got my attention to choose the Minnesota Vikings as my team forever, after watching them lose all four Super Bowls a host of NFL championship games. I am still waiting perhaps the two JJ’s., JJ, McCarthy and Justin Jefferson and the other 51 Man roaster can get us old guys a Super Bowl win very soon.
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My thanks to romelovesdan for providing me the DVD files used for this project. I've enhanced the partial broadcast recording of the 1969 NFL Championship. I ran the game through Topaz to upscale, denoise, sharpen and double the framerate, then used Da Vinci Resolve to remove a greenish yellow hue, which really makes the colors look NORMAL now. See before/after shots here -- imgbox.com/g/p4bwcOeGwO -- the broadcast recording ends with about 4 minutes left in the second quarter, so I enhanced and tacked on the remaining highlights from the NFL Films GOTW film
Thank you for this!
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Dave, I am so glad to see you're able to share here on YT once again!
I was with you here before and love what you do. But you ran into some legal issues regarding how one can share material here back then. Major props to you for not giving-up and finding-out how to do so under their rules of engagement now!! Seeing your work back on here totally makes my day/summer/year (you name it).
@@brianmccauley7711 Hey Brian! Well I've actually been 'back' for almost 3 years now on this channel :) I wouldn't necessarily say 'legal" issues - just a lawyer for the NFL emailed me stating that I had copyrighted material on my channel and I needed to take it down. I complied. Wasn't sued or anything :) I had this other channel already with hardly anything on it, and then after a few months I started posting more material here. I didn't do anything different though, as I'm obviously still posting NFL stuff, so I'm just waiting for them to shut this channel down now. Fortunately it hasn't happened yet, but with me now posting full games, I'm probably exposing myself more to their watchful eye.
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Glad you're back at it nonetheless... especially now, when it feels like we're having a sports drought on TV.
As for "legal issues", I meant that more as an expression. I've run into similar issues in the past just trying to get my own custom T-shirts printed. A number of companies wouldn't even print the word "Pack" (for the Green Bay Packers) for me, unless I had written permission from the Packers organization. Anyhow, keep on keeping on!
These are absolutely the best looking classic football games that I've EVER SEEN!! These are amazing. Having a chance to watch some of these classic games in full HD? Being able to see the players that made football what it is! Being able to watch the broadcasts of these games when the Broadcasts were actually about the game, the teams, and other VITAL information. This is unbelievable. Words can't express or describe what being able to see these games from the 60's, 70's, and 80's means to me. As I said previously, I was born in 1967, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I used to beg either my Parents or my Grandparents to let me stay up so I could get to watch the Half-Time Highlights on Monday Night Football! It was one of the few times I got to see teams that I normally never got a chance to see, unless they were playing the Packers. These decades brought us some of the most ICONIC, TALENTED, and FLAT OUT DOMINANT PLAYERS to ever play the game! Thank you again. My only regret is that your channel wasn't in my recommendations sooner. I could have been binge watching these classic games for months now! However I am just going to have to catch up and watch more. Please keep up this incredible work sir. And if it is possible, could you please get one or two games from the Washington Redskins back in the late 60's and early 70's. When the either had the maroon helmet with the Florida State Seminole logo. The spear w/ the feathers, or the yellow helmet with the ®️🪶 and the red stripe down the middle? I am a Chippewa Indian and my Dad being a Chippewa Indian as well, he had bought me a Starter Jacket for my birthday and it was a Washington Redskins down filled jacket and I loved it, and wore it with PRIDE. I'd love to see a game or two with their classic 60's and 70's helmets and uniforms. Thank you.
Glad you found the channel :) Don't worry, you're not too late to the party. I only started posting enhanced games about 5 weeks ago, though I have a TON of other stuff on my channel I'm sure you'd find interesting. Afraid there aren't any late 60's/early 70's Redskin games that exist with the old helmets, except for a black/white 1969 preseason game (which I don't have).
I love watching vintage footage of any team any season but old Minnesota Vikings footage from the old Met in Bloomington is awesome.
Wow! What a terrible stadium for fans. Endzone seats must have been the best.
This truly like Christmas in July.....this is my favorite season growing up as a child. Such fond memories.....thanks for your hard work and efforts in posting these videos....
This is also the same season that the Los Angeles Rams started the season 11-0 then preceded to lose their last three games of the season (one of them to the Minnesota Vikings @ Los Angeles) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂then the Rams went to Minnesota in the divisional round the week before this game and lost that game also to the Vikings @ Minnesota 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The 69 Vikings are one of the greatest teams in NFL history I know they went on and lost the Super Bowl but at that point the Super Bowl wasn't what we think of it today the Vikings pretty much viewed themselves as the champions of football by winning the NFL Championship look up the statistics on the 69 Vikings one of the most imposing and physically dominant teams ever they literally destroyed everybody
I loved Ray Scott. He did not try to make a 4 yard run sound like someone had cured cancer.
Dave, thank you soooo much for this.
Same as Summerall's play-by-play style. Less is more. From the '90-'91 Giants/Niners NFC Championship when Leonard Marshall destroyed Joe Montana...Pat's report of a very woozy Montana shown on the sideline: "The word from the bench is 'everything hurts' "
@@williamparker9817 Ha! Hilarious. I saw that game but did not remember this quote.
"Starr...............Dowler................Touchdown"
@@stevenfarley4738 Amen, brother! (I actually did LOL when I read this... perfect)
@@manuginobilisbaldspot2 Not for people with more imagination than a turnip.
Ya gotta love the commercials, cars, hot babes, beer, and cigarettes, everything a man needed in the 1960s. Oh, and football, REAL football!
You don't get any more 'real' than Joe Kapp.
@@HAL9000s3 No sir!
And playing on real grass
I bet the people from the 30s would think their brand of football was "REAL football"
That commercial with the stewardesses reassembling the Ford Maverick is hilarious (as are many of the other comercials).
The John Facenda-narrated and Pat Summerall-introduced segment on the history of the NFL's first fiddy was a nice treat. Thank you DV for keeping it.
I was a baby at the time. Later these voices of the NFL were my introduction to the games. I didn’t know that Don Criqui was with CBS BACK THEN LOL. I grew up with him on NBC as I was getting older.
Yes..this is a treat. Great visual quality too. Vikings purple looks terrific.
It’s so great to go back to a simpler time. The quality is incredible it’s like it was recorded yesterday. Thank you 💪
Thank you for posting vids like this! Including not cutting out the commercials. It definitely takes me back to my childhood. (Born in 1963.)
People often forget that although the Minnesota Vikings have never won a Super Bowl, they were the NFL Champions back in 1969.
And that team's statistics were among the best of modern times.
@@romelovesdan Scored 50 points three times, only the 2007 Patriots have matched that.
@@CarlosReyes-qe2iq See that? Impressive isn't it? Thank you for spreading the word regarding the history of that team.
@@romelovesdan They also set a modern day NFL record with a 12 game winning streak. They lost their first game, 24-23 to the Giants in Yankee stadium, and their last one, 10-3 to the Falcons in Atlanta. In Week 2 against the Colts in their home opener, Kapp became the fifth quarterback in history to throw seven TDs in one game. By one of the strangest coincidences in sports history, Adrian Burk who by then was an NFL referee, officiated that game. 17 years before in 1952 for the Eagles, Burk became the second quarterback to throw seven TDs in one game. Also, Eller, Larsen, Page, and Marshall are the only front four ever to make the Pro Bowl in the same season.
this would of mattered if it was 1965, the pre- super bowl era
I remember this game. They called it FOOTBALL. QBs, WRs, everyone was a player - legal to get hit. Real men playing for more than just money. It was awesome, and i miss it.
This is awesome, and the retrospective on the NFL's first 50 years at the beginning makes it even better.
I was seven,these were the days I really enjoyed football, not so much anymore. Thanks for bringing this back.
I really love seeing how television was produced 50 years ago. You again did wonderful work with this. Well done.
Just amazes me - even though we were already into the Super Bowl era, this was the NFL championship and look how low-key the production is. And the great analysis before game. I can't put my finger on how announcing has decreased - but look how cerebral and analytical it was. Then John Madden came along and made it more understandable. Then these days announcers have become entertainers and sacrificed good detailed analysis for appealing to non-fans.
Now, I'm not a Vikings necessarily, but I wish they still played outdoor and on natural grass. Those were so fun to watch!
This ONE IS A BIG and pleasant surprise thank you Dave!
I used to watch this with my stepfather he was very good at that. and I also remember Ray Scott calling this game! He was one of the best broadcasters of our time.
I seem to recall computerized results on radio in 1970 of pre selected NFL game of the week. Ray Scott gave play by play. Other weeks it was C harlie Jones.
Minnesota in January! Domes? We don't need no stinking domes!
Should have kept playing outdoors they had an advantage. They haven’t made it back to a Super Bowl ever since moving to a dome.
@@AD-ur1fk that's right!
This picture is so much better than the fuzzy B&W in our Hastings, Minn. living room that cold January Sunday. Also the Vikings’ O line could block! Loved the short commercial breaks and absence of advertising bombardment at Met Stadium. And, no over-the-top celebrations for every play.
The Met! Opposing teams dreaded having to go up there to play in December and January. Always cold and with snow usually piled up along the periphery of the playing field, it made for one of the real home field advantages of that time. Thanks a bunch for posting this. I love watching games from this era.
This is beautiful work! I have seen the other version. Such great work!!!!!
I have this game on dvd from a collector. Your cleaned up version is even sharper than what I watched live back in 1970! You are sooooo apreciated by us true NFL fans! Thank you evah so much!
BEAUTIFUL work!
Awesome job!!!
A+
I was there...they completely controlled the game.i was here in 1974 and 1976 for nfc title wins vs rams.the orher nfc title game was won in dallas 1973
Incredibly sharp and clear footage. Thanks
Thank you Dave and all for your invaluable and excellent efforts on this incredible and timeless footage from THE greatest era of professional sports, especially the NFL.
Thank you Sir for posting! As a life long Vikings Fan I sincerely appreciate your efforts on sharing these classics! This looks 10 times better than the original broadcast👍
@@beyondalpha1072 The first 4 Super Bowls had the NFL champ playing the AFL champ. From 1966-69 the winner of the NFL Championship would go to the Super Bowl. Once the two leagues merged in 1970, there was no longer an NFL Championship and the final ultimate game was the Super Bowl.
Excellent job! EVERYTHING about this is helluva lot better than ANY NFL broadcasts of today's completely ANNOYING and boring NFL. Which I quit watching around 2004 and started to watch rugby instead!
The great Ray Scott......as an announcer.....economy of word use.....would never overtalk....just set the action and let the play run and the picture would tell the story. I was announcing a TV PBS broadcast of Wash. State basketball in 1971 or 72 on KWSU TV, and a local regional network was also airing the broadcast for the West Coast audience. I looked to my left, and Ray Scott was the announcer of the regional telecast. Big surprise, but a good one. I should have at least introduced myself, but our instructors always told us we were, although student, professional announcers; so I thought "big deal I've got my own pre game to get ready for." Whoa....now I wish I would have talked to him. The foolishness of youth.
You said a mouth full my friend, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
I wish I could relive that day seeing my whole family together again. 😞
The Vikings outdoor experience was brutal yet it was a beautiful time
In the 1968-69 NFL season the Cleveland Browns soundly defeated the Dallas Cowboys 31-20 in the opening round of the NFL playoffs and then were crushed by the Baltimore Colts 34-0 in the 1968-69 NFL Championship game , who then went on to lose Super Bowl 3 to the AFL Champion New York Jets by the score of 16-7. In the opening round of the 1969-70 NFL playoffs the Cleveland Browns again defeated the Dallas Cowboys by the score of 38-14. And the next week in the 1969-70 NFL Championship game the Minnesota Vikings easily defeated the Cleveland Browns 27-7. The Vikings then advanced to play the AFL Champion Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 4, losing to the Chiefs 23-7.
I remember this game I was 9 years old, back then the muddy games were the best, this game I watched in Blue Ridge Texas , me and my cousin played football in the yard that day good ole days
The saddest reminder of this broadcast is the fact that Paul Christman died only a couple of months after this game...
Christman worked most frequently with Curt Gowdy in the mid 1960’s, moving back to CBS in ‘68 and being paired with Ray Scott. He died much too young at 51.
@@natch27 I think he had a heart attack?
@@futuremath08 Yessir. He apparently had a history of heart issues and he held on for two days after being admitted before succumbing on 3/2/70.
Great restoration of the broadcast of the last NFL championship before the merger. Kudos DVolsky! Thank you.
And special recognition of the pleasant surprise that - eight plus hours after DV brought forth another restored gem - not one comment about "this was 'real' football." Yet 🤞🏿😊
I love the enhanced reproduction despite being a Browns fan. I do not watch the NFL much anymore, but love to look back on the older games. I am not sure, but Joe Kapp may have been the first QB to win the Rose Bowl, Grey Cup and NFL Championship. Great job
only one i can think of
This is stunning!! I was 7 ys old when I first watched this game. Thank you, Dave!
SAME HERE .BOY DOES TIME FLY LOL !!!!!.
For those who think the Vikings never won an NFL championship in the Super Bowl Era, here's the footage that will show that the purple people eaters did manage to win the NFL Championship before losing in the super bowl....
This looks great! The resolution is like, say, a pre-HD 2005 broadcast.
This looks amazing even the commercials. It probably didn’t look this good when it was new considering the tv’s most people had back then
Many people still had black & white TV sets.
I recall the color TVs back then required a lot of manual adjustments for brightness, contrast, color hue, and balance. There'd be a knob on the front of the TV to adjust the color hue, then there were three adjustment knobs in the back of the TV to adjust the balance with the red, yellow, and blue color settings.
TV networks/stations back then didn't have a single set standard for color broadcasts, which meant that color adjustments may be needed among the different local TV stations when changing the channels.
I recall in the San Francisco market that KPIX, a CBS station, had bright video with sharp contrast; while KRON, an NBC station, had a softer and defused brightness and contrast.
By the mid-1970s, broadcast standards and auto adjustments with color TV sets pretty much did away with doing manual color adjustments when changing channels.
the video quality on this is amazing!
Thank you Dave.
As a very young kid the CBS NFL introduction in the 1960s was what originally got me to be a football fan. These warriors running onto the field and putting on their helmets preparing for battle with the rat-tat-tat music introduction was mind blowing. Old school NFL football was as close as you could get to the ancient gladiator wars for a young child.
Another nice restoration and share, thanks so much Dave! Very "old school" football.
One minute commercial breaks. How times have changed!
You did such a great job, sharpening the telecast. Makes it look like it was played recently. Love the commercials. Feels like I'm 6 years old again. I was lucky enough to watch the superbowl, in color!
Thanks a ton for your effort. Wish they'd go back to those uniforms. There's no mistaking those big, badass horns.
Thank you! As for Super Bowl IV in color, check out the enhanced version of that which I did a few months back -- ruclips.net/video/y7VnLWgxk7c/видео.html&pp=ygUMc3VwZXIgYm93bCA0
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 I started watching it last night.
Wow.
Other than the commercials, it did not look dated. Nice job!
@@Seemsayin Thanks!
If anyone out there has the 1969 NFL West Conference Championship Playoff (12-27-69) between the Vikings and Rams, it is one of the "Holy Grails" fans of true Classic Football fans would love to see! Be a Hero!
Would love to see this game again.....I was a big Ram's fan at the time and this one hurt greatly.
@@MrWOLFPACK1974 Sounds similar like a former co-worker felt. He cites that MIN v LA Playoff, like I do with my fascination and frustration with SB XIII, as the worst gut punch game he ever experienced. We both are citing play by plays of games......from ages ago to this day!
I agree that the game was maybe the Vikings greatest win in coming from behind to beat the Rams!!!!
@@JRZEKE99 The NFL GOW should have done TWO complete programs on those NFL Divisional12-27-1969 playoff games MIN vs LA and CLEV at DAL rather than 13:30 mins and 9:30 minutes dedicated respectively to each.
@@romelovesdan I agree! The Dal/Cle game was a joke!!
Thanks for restoring these classic games, Dave!
I was 7 when this game was played and I was so excited we (vikes) played so good. I thought we’d hammer the Chiefs.
Lmao and the vikings got hammered 23/7 hank stram schooled that jerk hugh grant hank treated his players like MEN❤
This might be the best upgrade of them all...
I watched this as a kid. Why would I want to see it again? But I will. Damn, that Joe Kapp...
Brings back so many great memories. Millions of thanks for posting 🎉
Excellent telecast. What memories as a teenager. Bruce Roberts doing a segment. The Confidence song CBS used as the intro for each NFL game is a treasure. Thank you.
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Wow. Johnny Unitas, John Mackey, Mike Ditka, plus several shots of the Bears. Thanks.
Joe Kapp was definitely one of the toughest QB's you'll ever see. A real badass imo.
It was the cat toughness
A true piece of history! The great Ray Scott! Wow! The clarity of the video, just amazing
This is about the best-looking video I’ve ever seen from that era. HQ quality; truly remarkable.
Dave, GREAT job on this. Much appreciated. To younger fans: notice how less often commercials intrude on the game. Notice the clean no-nonsense uniforms that don't like a child's pyjamas. Notice that the coaches are not calling in plays from the sideline. The QB called his own offensive plays; the MLB called the defense. Notice how hyper-aggressive the defenders seem. They were skilled tacklers who enjoyed contact. Notice that a pass defender could make contact with the receiver as long as the receiver had touched the ball first. There was no "football move" rule. Notice that offensive linemen did not reach out to grab defenders; that was holding. Notice that the players don't hot-dog after every play and the announcers don't sound like they're having an orgasm during the game. Not to your liking? Well, okay but it wasn't infected by TV yet. It wasn't some kind of reality show. It was just football.
Agree, but the defenders on that first touchdown looked they couldn’t tackle my grandma😂
Thank you for this!....longtime Viking fan living in South Jersey now....this is so clear to watch!
These commercials are gold.
For those that are fans of the CBS-TV show "NCIS" and actor Mark Harmon: Check out the video @8:13 where Mark's dad, Tom Harmon, does a TV commercial for the Product 19 cereal product.
In researching about Tom Harmon, come to discover he was *_only 50 years old_* in that TV commercial, as he was born in 1919.
It's an eyebrow raiser to know that Mark Harmon, playing the part of Special Agent Gibbs in NCIS, left that TV series at age 70; yet, he looked no older than his dad at age 50.
BTW: Mark Harmon was a teenager at the time of this telecast.
You left out the part of Harmon Sr. winning the Heisman Trophy. Playing for the University of Michigan.
This game was played on January 4, 1970. Paul Christman died of a heart attack on March 2, three days before his 52nd birthday.
Man, that’s tremendous, my compliments…,
Situation remedied!......Fans and subscribers, our faithful host, and enhancement technician, Mr. Volsky, worked around many technical issue to get this to us! Tip your cap and wave your pennants....
Amazing work on this game Dave!!! This truly was a great game for the Vikings!!! Actually I think their greatest game was the week before this game when they came from behind to beat the Rams!!! That would be a really great game to see!!!
I was 2 years old when this game was played. Very clear picture. Thanks for uploading this..
I knew those old Vikings Jerseys were more purple than they are now and this proves it! Awesome Purple People Eaters!
Another awesome job Dave!
Joe Kapp was an amazing fellow. He was 6' 2" and weighed in at 215 - a big QB for the day. He was involved in so many weird trade transactions during his career, including one between the CFL and NFL. His career was notable also for his challenging of the NFL's free agent rule. I'm 64 and remember being overjoyed when the Boston Patriots picked him up for the 1970 season. We now had a quarterback that had played in the Super bowl!!! I thought our fortunes had turned. Unfortunately they went 2 - 12, and ended up drafting Jim Plunkett with their first round pick. Kapp quit football there and then.
He also got into a fistfight with his old CFL nemesis Angelo Mosca at a 2011 CFL Alumni event, allegedly over a dirty hit in a 1963 game. Old grudges must have died hard with him.
He also tried to hurdle the Browns Jim Houston and kneed Houston in the heat. Houston was down for a long time
There's so much history in this video, Dave! A young Pat Summerall narrating a summary of the NFL Championship on the 50-year anniversary. But right before _that,_ 2:34 catch the voice in the Hertz commercial...hint: "This guy will kill you to death inside of three rounds!" And another famous actor "playing" Ernie the Standard Oil mechanic at 1:13:30 ... Kenneth Tobey!
"He'll knock ya to tomorrow, Rock!"
I was a senior in high school in January 1969. A different world...drove a '64 Plymouth Valiant, made $25 a week at a part time job, had it made. The NFL? No one in Atlanta cared.
I never realized how ubiquitous the Voice of The Lost In Space Robot was in commercial narration. I heard his voice in 3 or 4 different commercials.
Amazing historical recap of the first decades of the NFL
A+ (again!)
Dave, you might be the most appreciated man in the world according to us old dudes who sit back shaking their heads thinking what the hell happened the the game of football.....
We all loved watching Billie "White Shoes" Johnson do his TD celebration without moving anywhere, shake his legs
It was different but it was just him and as far as any of us wanted to go.....
We had Jack "the Assassin" Tatum, who would drive your head in the damn ground...
Mean Joe Greene, who might have been gentle off the field but on it, would gouge your eyes out
Or Conrad Dobler, who blocked, kicked, held, stuck his finger in your eye or grab your cup....
Lyle freaking Alzado, a man you never knew who might show up but was all about kicking your ass, twice....
No hand shaking after the game....
A one hour pregame special and a 15 minute halftime at the super bowl...
No braods in the room...
But we did like Phylis George and I especially liked Jayne Kennedy (oh my)
But they knew their place.....
The players kept complaining at a low level.....
You could expect to see some of the guys during the off-season by watching Wrestling......
If your star QB stayed up all night drinking and sleeping with triplets, you did not panik and expected him to have a great game.....
And what about Joe Willie Nameth putting on panty hose because HE COULD!!!!!
Ahhh, this was off the top of my head....
If I spent more time, this list would be very very long
This looks so beautiful too bad the full game is gone forever
This is amazingly clean footage.
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The breakdown of the Vikings and Browns offense and defense on that board is what things were like before the graphics of today. But it was effective.
Dave Osborne was such a great determining young man at running back, i’m just so sorry in his career he never won a Super , and the legendary front four the purple people eaters,
Thank you. Never realized Cleveland came within one game of Super Bowl IV (they would of course move to the AFC after the NFL merger).
This championship game was before the merger and it was still the NFL versus the AFL. The Browns and the Steelers went to the AFC when both leagues merged and it became AFC versus the NFC afterwards. Superbowl was Vikings (NFL) versus Chiefs (AFL) that year.
Ray Scott, Pat Summerall and John Facenda. Threesome made in heaven.
Great work, its fun to see the old tv commercials too.
IT WAS GREAT TO WATCH JOE KAPP AGAIN AND TO HEAR HIS ROUGH VOICE CALLIN THOSE SIGNALS....WHEN AMERICA WAS GOOD , AND REAL MEN WERE THE ATHLETES
I especially like the review of the NFL's first 50 years (and the utter refual to acknowledge the AAFC and AFL :) )
This is beautifully restored. I see the analyst had papers at his elbow that looked like it yellow highlighter on it. I was so sure those didn't come around until the 70s, but it turns out these actually came around in the 60s. Everything was interesting to watch, even the commercials. The Vikings loss in that Superbowl was the first of 4. This was the only one where it was an upset loss, meaning they should have won. In the other 3, the Vikings had no chance. The 70s was an era of AFC dominance. The talent level was much better in the AFC in those years. The players look noticeably smaller and slower compared to players today--as is to be expected. The players also didn't celebrate after plays like they do now.
Nobody called a game with the gravity of Ray Scott. THE truly first voice of the NFL.
Due to the NFL blackout policies of the time this game wasn’t shown live in Minneapolis on WCCO. They did show the game on tape delay that night following the late local news
I am 55 years old and was just a year and two month old baby back then. Didn't know the Vikings won the NFL championship that year. Old school football at it's best back then.
I'll take that flamethrower the grounds crew was using for Christmas.
Wow this is awesome, who would have thought we could see this video of the game.
The decade of the 1960s was and still is my very favorite decade for pro football.
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan.
I've been watching the NFL since the late 1950s and began watching the Cowboys in earnest in 1963.
While the Cowboys were without question my favorite team, I had favorite players from other teams too.
I loved the stadiums of that era.... particularly Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis.
When the merger between the NFL and
the AFL happened, I didn't like the idea of
moving Baltimore, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh over to the newly-formed AFC, although I understand the reason it was done.
Also I thought implimenting interplay between the NFC and the AFC
was a mistake.
In my opinion, it removed the drama
for the Super Bowl.
God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era 🏈
Just dont know what happened against the Chiefs in SB4 this Viking team should have crushed them but for some reason they just forgot how to play Viking football in every SB they played in .
I’m from Buffalo & the Vikings were my 2nd Favorite team. I still remember these guys when I was a kid. No gloves, or hand warmers! Great football back then!!
Sad to say, but maybe you are the reason neither team has won a Super Bowl despite numerous opportunities. Ha! Hope that will change one day before you pass.
@@daryllaumann5132 Me too! Lol
I remember this game (the real game) like it was yesterday!!! Was really fkn cold that day!!! And the Vikes earned me a quick 500 bucks!
Amazing commercials & content.
Thank you it makes it real again, these guys were giants, omg.
Part of the forgotten history of the Browns, who stayed right up there for about seven seasons after Jim Brown retired, under Frank Ryan and Leroy Kelly. A couple of post-season wins and Ryan is in the HoF next to his teammate Kelly.
Joe Kapp ✊🏈 was a STUD ⭐️ this was the first year I started loving the Vikes ❤️ because of the uniforms….I’m now 60 and we know the rest of the Vikings history 💔
This was my first year (1969)watching professional football, but it was the toughness of Joe cap, The beauty of those white horns against the purple helmet that got my attention to choose the Minnesota Vikings as my team forever, after watching them lose all four Super Bowls a host of NFL championship games. I am still waiting perhaps the two JJ’s., JJ, McCarthy and Justin Jefferson and the other 51 Man roaster can get us old guys a Super Bowl win very soon.
It was fun watching the Vikings when they played outdoors in the frigid cold temperatures. Too bad they play in a indoor stadium now