Feel like the NFL in the 1970s was just a minefield week in and week out. There's probably a video-worthy story from literally every regular season week of that decade.
I'm sure all the crazy s**t had nothing to do with everyone who played the game at a high level having head injuries. CTE probably explain 80% of the insanity (booze, speed and first gen steroids explain most of the rest)
I grew up in New England, but in pre-cable days we could not get the Pats on television; we were too far north, and could not get the NBC affiliate with our antenna, though CTV in Canada sometimes aired NFL games from the AFC. We grew up with CBS doing NFC games and a succession of bad Giants teams, and occasionally getting to see the Cowboys. And years after this, we thought Rod Rust was a rotten coach...wow.
I grew up in western Mass, and we got the Giants, Bills, and Jets over the air; with the Steelers and Cowboys often too. But the Patriots? No signal. They might as well have been playing out of Mexico City. I literally knew of not one single Pats fan. In their own state!
I worked with Bob Gladieux (the player re-signed from the crowd that was mentioned.) A much better story, told elsewhere online. , so I will recap. Gladieux was a special teams star with the Patriots, and was cut by the Patriots coming out camp to avoid paying a roster bonus. When they could not get to 40 players (because two players had not signed contracts prior to the game, and in typical Sullivan family style, where offered take or leave it contracts. One left it. Leaving an open spot). Gladieux, who had been gone through the same thing before, showed up to game, used his Patriots ID to get in and was in the stands when summoned. One other thing, he had been partying all weekend, and that morning, and was in no condition to play. But when he was able to confirm that he would get his roster bonus if he played, he signed and played. Gladieux, Notre Dame fans will remember, caught the game tying pass in the famous 10-10 tie with Michigan State, and roomed with Rocky Bleier and Terry Hanratty (seniors) that season. Bob was a thorughly class act and a wonderful story teller. When I met him in 1983 I was 18, and when he talked about Notre Dame, and some of his teammates, it was like my football card collection was coming to life. He used his Topps football card on his office door instead of having a name plate.
What a story! Never heard this one before. Don't think I've ever heard of a story like this where a coach was changed midway through a game. Great job of research and reporting this story...and congratulations on 18,000 viewers!! You deserve it. Every football fan should subscribe to this awesome channel.
Not a patreon, so I don't know if this will get considered as a possible topic, but with all the crazy incidents that this channel has documented in footbll history, how a video hasn't been done of Robert Irsay and Carol Rosenbloom swaping the Colts and Rams franchises (sometime in the mid-70's, I want to say) is remarkable.
That was one of the craziest NFL stories ever. There are so many factors leading into it and it impacted the NFL decades later. Dan Reeves moved the 1945 NFL Champion Cleveland Rams to Los Angeles. The AAFC started in 1946. Among the teams were the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts. In 1950, the Browns, Colts and San Francisco 49ers joined the NFL. Cleveland won the NFL Championship, beating the Los Angeles Rams. The original Colts went out of business after the 1950 season. Baltimore subsequenty sued the NFL. In 1952, the NFL took over operations of the Dallas Texans. They finished the season in Hershey, Pennsylvania and were considered to be folded after the season. In 1953, Baltimore was offered the Texans franchise. Rosenbloom was recruited to be the owner and the Colts - with all the players and equipment of the Texans - were reborn in Baltimore. Rosenbloom grew unhappy with Memorial Stadium in Baltimore in the late 1960s. Dan Reeves died of cancer in 1971. His will stipulated that the Rams were to be sold. Bob Irsay bought the Rams. Irsay and Rosenbloom traded teams in 1972. Irsay received, I think, $3 million in the deal. The Colts' fortunes declined after 1977. Irsay was erratic, to say the least, and was also unhappy with Memorial Stadium. Rosenbloom's Rams won seven straight NFC West championships, usually with average quarterbacks, and found a way to lose in the playoffs. The Rams usually payed before 30,000 empty seats in the Coliseum, which Rosenbloom grew to hate, and signed a lease to play in Anaheim starting in 1980. Rosenbloom drowned in 1979. His widow Georgia inherited the team. The Colts' fortunes grew worse in the 1980s. Attendance plunged, the fans hated Irsay and Irsay grew to hate them back. Indianapolis built a new stadium and offered it to the Colts, who seized the opportunity in 1984. Today, the Colts have been in Indianapolis longer than they were in Baltimore. Jump forward to 1993. St. Louis and Baltimore had the best expansion offers, but the Tagliabue led NFL went to Charlotte and Jacksonville instead. The Rams were bad, playing before more empty seats than paying customers in Anaheim. Georgia Fontiere (she remarried - her husband Dominic wrote the themes to numerous TV shows and spent time in prison) grabbed the St. Louis offer and fled Southern California. Also in 1995, Browns owner Art Modell, who was in a decrepit stadium, losing money on his team and his Stadium Corporation having lost the Indians as a tenant, took the Baltimore stadium offer. Not often pointed out was Al Lerner's role in this move. Lerner had connections to Maryland banks that refinanced Modell's debts. The move made Lerner's minority interest in tbe team more valuable and Lerner owened the reactivated Browns in 1999. After Frontiere died, Stan Kroenke bought the St. Louis Rams. The team was terrible under his ownership. The NFL broke its own rules on franchise relocation and let Kroenke move the team back to Los Angeles, which is where the NFL wanted them all along. The NFL just paid out a settlement with St. Louis of almost $800 million. St. Louis City and County were seeking over $1 billion in damages. So who got screwed in the end? St. Louis. Another interesting story would be the history of the franchise that is the Indy Colts, which, I think, dates back to a Dayton, Ohio basketball team from 1928.
I WISH that the PATRIOTS would do this today!!!!!!!!!! This video is STILL WAY BETTER than SPIKING the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!!!
A Hollywood movie could be made about this team, which provided ample evidence that failure makes for more interesting reading and viewing than success. I can imagine Jason Alexander playing Clive Rush. The bus episode reminds me of that scene in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles": "They say we're going the wrong way." "How do they know where we're going?" The footage of that game in the rain against Miami is hilarious.
John Noe here. This video brings back childhood memories of me when I was a 12 year old Pats fan. You could make a lot of funny and bizarre videos of those late 60's to early 70's Patriots. Best thing that happened to the team was bad team owner Billy Sullivan being forced to sell and Robert Kraft becoming the owner of the team. Yes, ownership matters.
Boy did Bake Turner and Bill Rademacher step down from the '68 Jets. Clive Rush's near-electrocution was a really bad omen. Sir, the 1970 Patriots are begging for a long-form video.
**CALM DOWN CALM DOW! Look before we rush to judgment, we’re going to get some context to what’s going on. It’s not like we are going to go out there and spike the ball on every down. Crap…maybe we should have spiked it on every down.🤔😂
1. Mike Taliaferro might have had the worst final game as a quarterback, but Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about Leon Perry who had the worst final game as a running back. 2. While most people know of the pat’s miracle win against the falcons in 1972, where the falcons kicker missed a ten yard field goal in the final seconds (the goal posts were on the goal line not the end line), most people (who don’t watch this channel) don’t know about their crazy win against the redskins the same year. Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about that game. 3. Later in 1972, the patriots coach Phil Bengtson tried to suspend Carl Garett, but the league blocked it, as Garett was their only good player.
Mike Taliaferro in 1971 actually would have gotten a $7,500 bonus if he played one down that season, but Jim Plunkett played every down in his rookie season.
Did not know about this story. In 1970, Joe Kapp (11), had a terrible season at QB for the Pats. More was expected of him after leading the mighty Vikings to the Super Bowl in 1969. But 1970 was a disaster as seen in this video clip. But the Patriots got the number one draft choice, and drafted Jim Plunkett out of Stanford.
The Patriots may have had more strange events than any team in NFL history with this one. The Coach gets shocked. The Phil Bengston episode. The Fairbanks- Sullivan dispute before a MNF game in Miami. The snow plow game and the player revolt all during Ron Meyer's tenure.Pats coach Raymond Berry blaming his lopsided Super Bowl loss to the Bears on his players being on drugs. The Kiam Mowett and Olson fiasco. Parcells vs Kraft. Spy gate and deflate gate. Kraft's rated x activities before the 2019 AFC title game and Brady vs Belicheck. I am a Dolphins fan so the Sullivan-Fairbanks event along with the snow plow game with spy gate affected the Dolphins as well
yep. all sports were fun back then. rival leagues. teams moving all over the place. some played in cookie cutter stadiums. some played in crap stadiums/arenas. nba playoff games on tape delay cbs. nhl games couldn't be found. fun times indeed.
So Rush tried to kill his team by having the bus go the wrong way down an exit ramp, and coaches them while at risk for a heart attack? He just wanted to die with his players by his side....or he paid off the reaper.
Speaking of Mazur, you might want to look into the "trade" in the 1971 preseason where Duane Thomas was shipped to the Pats for a few days, after the Cowboys had enough of his antics. Thomas was a stand-up two-point stance HB in the I-Formation, but Mazur wanted him in a three-point stance, with Thomas looking right up Jim Nance's huge ass. ("Jim Nance's butt was yaaaay wide." - Thomas) Thomas refused, the trade was dissolved and Thomas rejoined the Cowboys and was a key component in their first championship team.
It gets worse for the Patriots, folks. Since Boston moved from Boston after this season, Billy Sullivan wanted to change the name of the team to get rid of the Boston connection in an attempt to stick it to Boston. They became the Bay State Patriots. Newspaper headline Length made the team look.. well... like Coach Dennis Green's opinion of what you don't treat the 3rd game of the preseason a 16 game year.
They actually became the New England Patriots. I believe the Red Sox kicked them out of Fenway Park (which they shared with the Pats before that). You had also (something I suggested JaguarGator do a video on) is the bizarre happenings at the end of the 1966 Major League Baseball season that in part were because from what I could piece together the Patriots insisted the Red Sox move their final three-game homestand at the end of that season against the then-Washington Senators to earlier in the season as the Pats had home dates that September 25 and October 2 and apparently didn't want the Red Sox using Fenway between those games at all, even if that season was to end on Saturday, October 1 in that case). Under normal circumstances, the Red Sox and Senators would simply have swapped dates for their series at the end of that season but the Senators couldn't because RFK Stadium already had George Washington University scheduled to play a home game that Saturday 10/1 (1966 was GW's final season of major college football). Instead, the Red Sox had to move up what was supposed to be their closing series against the Senators to earlier in the season, with MLB having to rearrange the schedule somewhat as the Red Sox and Senators I believe played two of those games in the standalone July 4 doubleheader and the other game sometime before that. As a result of that, the Red Sox wound up ending their 1966 season five days before all other teams were scheduled to that Sept. 26 and 27 with back-to-back doubleheaders in Washington (making up a two-game series rained out the weekend before in DC that drew only 485 fans, the smallest crowd for a doubleheader in MLB history I believe) that Monday 9/26 and the next day in Chicago against the White Sox, possibly because the Pats wanted the Red Sox cleaned out of Fenway before they played their Oct. 2 home game that season (the Red Sox actually played all 162 games in that compressed scheduled with five off days at the end). There were two other bizzare events that involved the teams the Red Sox played in those final doubleheaders that season. That Monday doubleheader against the Senators turned out to be their final two games that season as what was supposed to become their final three games of the season against the Yankees were all rained out and not made up (plus a two-game series in Baltimore between the Orioles and then-Kansas City A's that also was rained out). This came a week after the Yankees had a ONE game series against the White Sox scheduled for Tuesday 9/20 be postponed two days by rain to that Thursday (9/22). That game drew 413 fans, the third smallest crowd in MLB history and is widely believed to be the game that ended Red Barber's career as a play-by-play voice of MLB full-time (he would be fired the following Monday by New Yankees President Mike Burke, whose first game was that infamous 9/22 game) though allowed to finish the 1966 season. That happened because Barber wanted cameramen working the game for WPIX-TV (Channel 11) in New York, which was televising that game (though no known footage exists) to show the stands though they were instructed not to, with Barber stating the attendance, and not the game itself was the story (though apparently, Barber was going to be fired anyway because there had been friction with other Yankee announcers during that year). It was during a VERY rainy stretch in late September and early October 1966 that was so bad it messed up a lot of the MLB schedule those final two weeks and likely had a direct effect on the 1966 World Series as the Dodgers had to win the second game of a doubleheader on the final day forced by rain against the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium to win the National League Pennant, with that doubleheader leaving them without their top two pitchers for the first two games of the 1966 World Series the Orioles swept (back then, there were no divisions and the league winners went straight to the World Series).
I remember this well as it was my very first NFL game to see in person. So glad this franchise was able to achieve so much success over the years since then. From the Patsies to the Patriots!
Weird to think the Patriots played at Harvard for a while. I think my dad saw them at Nickerson Field (BU) once. The Sullivan family seemed to be a day late and a dollar short the entire time they owned the team.
It's a small thing, but thank you for finally retiring the "spike the ball into the ground every play" quote! We had definitely heard enough of it and you figured that out lol
You mentioned how this played out like a Hollywood movie. Well (semi-spoiler alert), this was part of the plot of the movie Necessary Roughness. You also said Jim Nantz scored the only touchdown for the Patriots that day. Did he spike the ball then yell, “Hello Friends!”?
THIS is probably not important but if you ever did a video on Steve Littlw my dad would play baseball with him my dad was 15 he was 13. Gene . Steve's brother would play baseball too . This was in Norway. Pretty sure their family was also airforce.
Boston/New England Patriots 1960-2000 one of the worst franchises in the NFL and everyone justifiably laughed at them and their ineptness. New England Patriots 2001-2019, the most dominant team in the NFL for the nearly 20 years, and everyone outside of NE hated them. Wondering which way the roller coaster goes next.
Goes to show you that ownership of a team really matters. Biggest change in New England was Bob Kraft buying the team. He was a disgruntled season ticket holder back then.
In 1970 the team's owner's were Billy Sullivan and his idiot sons. Their lack of competence in football related matters was absolutely astounding. They were bitter,carried grudges and were pretty much an embarrassment to not just New England but to the entire NFL. Sullivan's son Pat actually tried to attack Matt Millan after a game,needless to say it didn't turn out well for Patsy. One season during their reign of stupidity the paychecks given to the players,bounced. The league had handle the team's finances. They hired a long line of totally useless headcoaches and for many years were not only the worst run team in football,they were the worst organization in all of professional sports. Not surprisingly when the Sullivan's were forced to sell the team,after they lost millions after being bilked by Michael Jackson and Don King(it's a long story)the team started to turn around. The Clive Rush fiasco is just one of the many bizarre stories that made up the Sullivan era.
All of this led to Jim Plunkett being taken by the soon-to-become-New England Patriots in the 1971 NFL Dradft as they moved to Foxboro after the 1970 season.
I still content this '70 Patriots team is one worst of all time. But, most folks simply don't recall because back then coverage wasn't as saturated as it is now
There is an entertaining story that centers on a good player and a Patriots game in 1970. Let me know if you would like to hear it. It would make a very nice addition to these videos.
How many fans were at that game in the pats high school stadium that day? Or was it empty ass fenway? Back when the pats were just an afterthought in ne/boston hidden on the back of the sports pages. Do a video on the fan that ran onto the field to break up a pass to help pats win an afl playoff game. oops i guess it was harvard stadium. pats had a different stadium every season for 10 years.
cbs sports nfl guy jim nantz scored in the game. And kapp must have had flashbacks to s b iv all season long with the beatings he took. Just like chiefs did in the s b. And another game that season. And pats had an on side kick returned for a td against them too? Why in the #k were they on side kicking down something like 38-18 later in fourth quarter. The tanking for plunkett must have been in full force already.
John Noe lifelong Pats fan now in his sixties here. You would be correct sir, as things were tough to watch and tough being a Pats fan back then. Never dreamed we would be like we were in the first two decades of the 21st Century. Man, did Tom Brady, Bill Belicheck, and Robert Kraft did a great job of erasing those bad memories. That was ancient history now, so I am now over it.
@around 2:18 it was stated the lowest wins team in the league in 1969 was the Miami Dolphins . 2 years later they would make the super bowl. They would win the championship 3 and 4 years after being the worst team in the league. That, ......could never happen today. Not in 10 billion years. For various reasons. Salary cap. Now the QB cannot be touched, so they can play into their mid forties comfortably. And the draft stock is pretty well set. Of the 1970's there were four great teams. Dolphins, Cowboys , Steelers, Raiders. The best ? I like the Raiders.
Worst to first happens a lot in the nfl . If the browns keep getting better they could do it . The rams were awful and went to the super bowl two years later . It happens
@@jewsco Yea but that team had talent . Not a bad roster, then they got a coach that had a different offense. The Rams are an outlier. How about the Bucs? Like the NBA meets Tom Brady . Every old former pro bowler signed. The Bucs only beat the packers because of all the draft talent they aquired by going 13 years without a playoff appearance . Check their roster. The young guys on defense drafted over years won that team a championship. Way under salary cap when signing all the former pro bowlers. I don't see that happening again any time soon.
hahaha. 3:59. Look at jets in the pure white jerseys. Were their real jerseys left behind? Or did someone forget to pick them up from the laundry mat? And it took a #kn half hour to go thru a 15 minute video. Thanks for the ad naseum.
He died in 1980 @ 49 yrs. That means he won an upset super bowl @ 37 as offensive coordinator . How many years past these are we . 41 years to 1980. Me, personal , trust in Jesus Christ . Make a point.
Feel like the NFL in the 1970s was just a minefield week in and week out. There's probably a video-worthy story from literally every regular season week of that decade.
I'm sure all the crazy s**t had nothing to do with everyone who played the game at a high level having head injuries. CTE probably explain 80% of the insanity (booze, speed and first gen steroids explain most of the rest)
"That's worse than -- well, just about everything." I hope everybody caught that, and took a drink nonetheless.
Hic...yup.
I grew up in New England, but in pre-cable days we could not get the Pats on television; we were too far north, and could not get the NBC affiliate with our antenna, though CTV in Canada sometimes aired NFL games from the AFC. We grew up with CBS doing NFC games and a succession of bad Giants teams, and occasionally getting to see the Cowboys. And years after this, we thought Rod Rust was a rotten coach...wow.
I grew up in western Mass, and we got the Giants, Bills, and Jets over the air; with the Steelers and Cowboys often too. But the Patriots? No signal. They might as well have been playing out of Mexico City. I literally knew of not one single Pats fan. In their own state!
Tey would also blackout game if not enough tickets were sold, that happened a lot
Was this in maine?
I worked with Bob Gladieux (the player re-signed from the crowd that was mentioned.) A much better story, told elsewhere online. , so I will recap. Gladieux was a special teams star with the Patriots, and was cut by the Patriots coming out camp to avoid paying a roster bonus. When they could not get to 40 players (because two players had not signed contracts prior to the game, and in typical Sullivan family style, where offered take or leave it contracts. One left it. Leaving an open spot). Gladieux, who had been gone through the same thing before, showed up to game, used his Patriots ID to get in and was in the stands when summoned. One other thing, he had been partying all weekend, and that morning, and was in no condition to play. But when he was able to confirm that he would get his roster bonus if he played, he signed and played. Gladieux, Notre Dame fans will remember, caught the game tying pass in the famous 10-10 tie with Michigan State, and roomed with Rocky Bleier and Terry Hanratty (seniors) that season.
Bob was a thorughly class act and a wonderful story teller. When I met him in 1983 I was 18, and when he talked about Notre Dame, and some of his teammates, it was like my football card collection was coming to life. He used his Topps football card on his office door instead of having a name plate.
What a story! Never heard this one before. Don't think I've ever heard of a story like this where a coach was changed midway through a game. Great job of research and reporting this story...and congratulations on 18,000 viewers!! You deserve it. Every football fan should subscribe to this awesome channel.
I'm amazed that Rush was still employed by the Pats after seemingly trying to kill his players in San Diego.
These days he might be in jail. At a minimum the nflpa would throw a fit and force him to get fired.
He should make a video of that incident
Not a patreon, so I don't know if this will get considered as a possible topic, but with all the crazy incidents that this channel has documented in footbll history, how a video hasn't been done of Robert Irsay and Carol Rosenbloom swaping the Colts and Rams franchises (sometime in the mid-70's, I want to say) is remarkable.
The franchise swap happened in 1972 between the Colts and Rams.
That was one of the craziest NFL stories ever. There are so many factors leading into it and it impacted the NFL decades later.
Dan Reeves moved the 1945 NFL Champion Cleveland Rams to Los Angeles.
The AAFC started in 1946. Among the teams were the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Colts.
In 1950, the Browns, Colts and San Francisco 49ers joined the NFL. Cleveland won the NFL Championship, beating the Los Angeles Rams.
The original Colts went out of business after the 1950 season.
Baltimore subsequenty sued the NFL.
In 1952, the NFL took over operations of the Dallas Texans. They finished the season in Hershey, Pennsylvania and were considered to be folded after the season.
In 1953, Baltimore was offered the Texans franchise. Rosenbloom was recruited to be the owner and the Colts - with all the players and equipment of the Texans - were reborn in Baltimore.
Rosenbloom grew unhappy with Memorial Stadium in Baltimore in the late 1960s.
Dan Reeves died of cancer in 1971. His will stipulated that the Rams were to be sold. Bob Irsay bought the Rams.
Irsay and Rosenbloom traded teams in 1972. Irsay received, I think, $3 million in the deal.
The Colts' fortunes declined after 1977. Irsay was erratic, to say the least, and was also unhappy with Memorial Stadium.
Rosenbloom's Rams won seven straight NFC West championships, usually with average quarterbacks, and found a way to lose in the playoffs. The Rams usually payed before 30,000 empty seats in the Coliseum, which Rosenbloom grew to hate, and signed a lease to play in Anaheim starting in 1980. Rosenbloom drowned in 1979. His widow Georgia inherited the team.
The Colts' fortunes grew worse in the 1980s. Attendance plunged, the fans hated Irsay and Irsay grew to hate them back.
Indianapolis built a new stadium and offered it to the Colts, who seized the opportunity in 1984. Today, the Colts have been in Indianapolis longer than they were in Baltimore.
Jump forward to 1993. St. Louis and Baltimore had the best expansion offers, but the Tagliabue led NFL went to Charlotte and Jacksonville instead.
The Rams were bad, playing before more empty seats than paying customers in Anaheim. Georgia Fontiere (she remarried - her husband Dominic wrote the themes to numerous TV shows and spent time in prison) grabbed the St. Louis offer and fled Southern California.
Also in 1995, Browns owner Art Modell, who was in a decrepit stadium, losing money on his team and his Stadium Corporation having lost the Indians as a tenant, took the Baltimore stadium offer. Not often pointed out was Al Lerner's role in this move. Lerner had connections to Maryland banks that refinanced Modell's debts. The move made Lerner's minority interest in tbe team more valuable and Lerner owened the reactivated Browns in 1999.
After Frontiere died, Stan Kroenke bought the St. Louis Rams. The team was terrible under his ownership. The NFL broke its own rules on franchise relocation and let Kroenke move the team back to Los Angeles, which is where the NFL wanted them all along.
The NFL just paid out a settlement with St. Louis of almost $800 million. St. Louis City and County were seeking over $1 billion in damages.
So who got screwed in the end? St. Louis.
Another interesting story would be the history of the franchise that is the Indy Colts, which, I think, dates back to a Dayton, Ohio basketball team from 1928.
The amount of research mr jaguar gator does to find these stories is just incredible. Much respect
I WISH that the PATRIOTS would do this today!!!!!!!!!! This video is STILL WAY BETTER than SPIKING the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!!!
😂🤣
The Patriots were constantly screwing up in Boston once they got rid of Mike Holovak as head coach.
A Hollywood movie could be made about this team, which provided ample evidence that failure makes for more interesting reading and viewing than success. I can imagine Jason Alexander playing Clive Rush. The bus episode reminds me of that scene in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles": "They say we're going the wrong way." "How do they know where we're going?"
The footage of that game in the rain against Miami is hilarious.
John Noe here. This video brings back childhood memories of me when I was a 12 year old Pats fan. You could make a lot of funny and bizarre videos of those late 60's to early 70's Patriots. Best thing that happened to the team was bad team owner Billy Sullivan being forced to sell and Robert Kraft becoming the owner of the team. Yes, ownership matters.
Boy did Bake Turner and Bill Rademacher step down from the '68 Jets. Clive Rush's near-electrocution was a really bad omen. Sir, the 1970 Patriots are begging for a long-form video.
**CALM DOWN CALM DOW! Look before we rush to judgment, we’re going to get some context to what’s going on. It’s not like we are going to go out there and spike the ball on every down. Crap…maybe we should have spiked it on every down.🤔😂
it's a shame that there isn't video footage of that bus ride
1. Mike Taliaferro might have had the worst final game as a quarterback, but Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about Leon Perry who had the worst final game as a running back.
2. While most people know of the pat’s miracle win against the falcons in 1972, where the falcons kicker missed a ten yard field goal in the final seconds (the goal posts were on the goal line not the end line), most people (who don’t watch this channel) don’t know about their crazy win against the redskins the same year. Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about that game.
3. Later in 1972, the patriots coach Phil Bengtson tried to suspend Carl Garett, but the league blocked it, as Garett was their only good player.
Mike Taliaferro in 1971 actually would have gotten a $7,500 bonus if he played one down that season, but Jim Plunkett played every down in his rookie season.
Wtf Driving a bus the wrong way... 😂
Rod Serling must've been following Cleve Rush around in 1969 and 1970! :)
Mike Taliaferro had a start so bad (HOW BAD WAS IT???) It was so bad that even JaguarGator didn’t even bother to make his passer rating joke.
That's almost as embarrassing as switching coaches in the middle of the introductory press conference. Am I right, Jets fans?
Meh he is nothing with out Brady .
Did not know about this story. In 1970, Joe Kapp (11), had a terrible season at QB for the Pats. More was expected of him after leading the mighty Vikings to the Super Bowl in 1969. But 1970 was a disaster as seen in this video clip. But the Patriots got the number one draft choice, and drafted Jim Plunkett out of Stanford.
But those red Patriots jerseys rocked!
The Patriots may have had more strange events than any team in NFL history with this one. The Coach gets shocked. The Phil Bengston episode. The Fairbanks- Sullivan dispute before a MNF game in Miami. The snow plow game and the player revolt all during Ron Meyer's tenure.Pats coach Raymond Berry blaming his lopsided Super Bowl loss to the Bears on his players being on drugs. The Kiam Mowett and Olson fiasco. Parcells vs Kraft. Spy gate and deflate gate. Kraft's rated x activities before the 2019 AFC title game and Brady vs Belicheck. I am a Dolphins fan so the Sullivan-Fairbanks event along with the snow plow game with spy gate affected the Dolphins as well
5:00 - Spiking the ball at every play looks better in the stat books.
The other teams in the league chipped in and sent the Patriots a doormat as a gift for the late 1960s.
The 70s were like the second coming of the Wild West in the entire sports world. It was crazy but fun!
yep. all sports were fun back then. rival leagues. teams moving all over the place. some played in cookie cutter stadiums. some played in crap stadiums/arenas. nba playoff games on tape delay cbs. nhl games couldn't be found. fun times indeed.
@@stevenbauer4799 The idea of baseball and football working well in the same stadium is pretty much the height of 1970s stupidity.
So Rush tried to kill his team by having the bus go the wrong way down an exit ramp, and coaches them while at risk for a heart attack? He just wanted to die with his players by his side....or he paid off the reaper.
Speaking of Mazur, you might want to look into the "trade" in the 1971 preseason where Duane Thomas was shipped to the Pats for a few days, after the Cowboys had enough of his antics. Thomas was a stand-up two-point stance HB in the I-Formation, but Mazur wanted him in a three-point stance, with Thomas looking right up Jim Nance's huge ass. ("Jim Nance's butt was yaaaay wide." - Thomas)
Thomas refused, the trade was dissolved and Thomas rejoined the Cowboys and was a key component in their first championship team.
Yeah, they got into that quite a bit in the America's Game documentary for the 1970(71?) Cowboys.
It gets worse for the Patriots, folks. Since Boston moved from Boston after this season, Billy Sullivan wanted to change the name of the team to get rid of the Boston connection in an attempt to stick it to Boston. They became the Bay State Patriots. Newspaper headline Length made the team look.. well... like Coach Dennis Green's opinion of what you don't treat the 3rd game of the preseason a 16 game year.
They actually became the New England Patriots. I believe the Red Sox kicked them out of Fenway Park (which they shared with the Pats before that).
You had also (something I suggested JaguarGator do a video on) is the bizarre happenings at the end of the 1966 Major League Baseball season that in part were because from what I could piece together the Patriots insisted the Red Sox move their final three-game homestand at the end of that season against the then-Washington Senators to earlier in the season as the Pats had home dates that September 25 and October 2 and apparently didn't want the Red Sox using Fenway between those games at all, even if that season was to end on Saturday, October 1 in that case). Under normal circumstances, the Red Sox and Senators would simply have swapped dates for their series at the end of that season but the Senators couldn't because RFK Stadium already had George Washington University scheduled to play a home game that Saturday 10/1 (1966 was GW's final season of major college football). Instead, the Red Sox had to move up what was supposed to be their closing series against the Senators to earlier in the season, with MLB having to rearrange the schedule somewhat as the Red Sox and Senators I believe played two of those games in the standalone July 4 doubleheader and the other game sometime before that. As a result of that, the Red Sox wound up ending their 1966 season five days before all other teams were scheduled to that Sept. 26 and 27 with back-to-back doubleheaders in Washington (making up a two-game series rained out the weekend before in DC that drew only 485 fans, the smallest crowd for a doubleheader in MLB history I believe) that Monday 9/26 and the next day in Chicago against the White Sox, possibly because the Pats wanted the Red Sox cleaned out of Fenway before they played their Oct. 2 home game that season (the Red Sox actually played all 162 games in that compressed scheduled with five off days at the end).
There were two other bizzare events that involved the teams the Red Sox played in those final doubleheaders that season. That Monday doubleheader against the Senators turned out to be their final two games that season as what was supposed to become their final three games of the season against the Yankees were all rained out and not made up (plus a two-game series in Baltimore between the Orioles and then-Kansas City A's that also was rained out). This came a week after the Yankees had a ONE game series against the White Sox scheduled for Tuesday 9/20 be postponed two days by rain to that Thursday (9/22). That game drew 413 fans, the third smallest crowd in MLB history and is widely believed to be the game that ended Red Barber's career as a play-by-play voice of MLB full-time (he would be fired the following Monday by New Yankees President Mike Burke, whose first game was that infamous 9/22 game) though allowed to finish the 1966 season. That happened because Barber wanted cameramen working the game for WPIX-TV (Channel 11) in New York, which was televising that game (though no known footage exists) to show the stands though they were instructed not to, with Barber stating the attendance, and not the game itself was the story (though apparently, Barber was going to be fired anyway because there had been friction with other Yankee announcers during that year). It was during a VERY rainy stretch in late September and early October 1966 that was so bad it messed up a lot of the MLB schedule those final two weeks and likely had a direct effect on the 1966 World Series as the Dodgers had to win the second game of a doubleheader on the final day forced by rain against the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium to win the National League Pennant, with that doubleheader leaving them without their top two pitchers for the first two games of the 1966 World Series the Orioles swept (back then, there were no divisions and the league winners went straight to the World Series).
This is entirely something I’d expect from a Bills Patriots game but I’d never expect it to be the Patriots who did this
Where do you find this old footage of the New England Patriots? I cant find anything before 1977.
Keep doing videos on the Patriots pre-2000. It will all eventually make sense. Trust me.
Obviously Rush thought himself a warrior and wanted to retire from the bench, not the room or hospital. Not too hard to grasp.
Clearly the Patriots would've had more success if they did nothing but spike the ball on every play.
Was there a reason they didn't play Butler?
@@82dorrin If there is, we'll never know it.
Still the Patriots with their best uniforms (red ones) and best logo ever...pat the patriot
I remember this well as it was my very first NFL game to see in person. So glad this franchise was able to achieve so much success over the years since then. From the Patsies to the Patriots!
Weird to think the Patriots played at Harvard for a while. I think my dad saw them at Nickerson Field (BU) once. The Sullivan family seemed to be a day late and a dollar short the entire time they owned the team.
It's a small thing, but thank you for finally retiring the "spike the ball into the ground every play" quote! We had definitely heard enough of it and you figured that out lol
I mean he ordered the driver to do it but why would the driver comply?
You mentioned how this played out like a Hollywood movie. Well (semi-spoiler alert), this was part of the plot of the movie Necessary Roughness.
You also said Jim Nantz scored the only touchdown for the Patriots that day. Did he spike the ball then yell, “Hello Friends!”?
Jim Nance. He was the Patriots' stud running back from the mid-60s to early 70s.
Wow how does one get away with nearly killing their players, the hell kind of message was he trying to send?
THIS is probably not important but if you ever did a video on Steve Littlw my dad would play baseball with him my dad was 15 he was 13. Gene . Steve's brother would play baseball too . This was in Norway. Pretty sure their family was also airforce.
Boston/New England Patriots 1960-2000 one of the worst franchises in the NFL and everyone justifiably laughed at them and their ineptness.
New England Patriots 2001-2019, the most dominant team in the NFL for the nearly 20 years, and everyone outside of NE hated them.
Wondering which way the roller coaster goes next.
Goes to show you that ownership of a team really matters. Biggest change in New England was Bob Kraft buying the team. He was a disgruntled season ticket holder back then.
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Oh, that was so cruel @ 5:00
No, it was MERCIFUL.
Call me crazy, but I would have fired Rush after the bus incident.
I always thought the pats were a shocking team
In 1970 the team's owner's were Billy Sullivan and his idiot sons. Their lack of competence in football related matters was absolutely astounding. They were bitter,carried grudges and were pretty much an embarrassment to not just New England but to the entire NFL. Sullivan's son Pat actually tried to attack Matt Millan after a game,needless to say it didn't turn out well for Patsy. One season during their reign of stupidity the paychecks given to the players,bounced. The league had handle the team's finances. They hired a long line of totally useless headcoaches and for many years were not only the worst run team in football,they were the worst organization in all of professional sports. Not surprisingly when the Sullivan's were forced to sell the team,after they lost millions after being bilked by Michael Jackson and Don King(it's a long story)the team started to turn around. The Clive Rush fiasco is just one of the many bizarre stories that made up the Sullivan era.
All of this led to Jim Plunkett being taken by the soon-to-become-New England Patriots in the 1971 NFL Dradft as they moved to Foxboro after the 1970 season.
I still content this '70 Patriots team is one worst of all time. But, most folks simply don't recall because back then coverage wasn't as saturated as it is now
OJ really killed the Pats that day!
There is an entertaining story that centers on a good player and a Patriots game in 1970. Let me know if you would like to hear it. It would make a very nice addition to these videos.
Didn't Howard Schnellenberger get fired during halftime of a Monday Night Football game by the Baltimore Colts in the 1970's?
How many fans were at that game in the pats high school stadium that day? Or was it empty ass fenway? Back when the pats were just an afterthought in ne/boston hidden on the back of the sports pages. Do a video on the fan that ran onto the field to break up a pass to help pats win an afl playoff game. oops i guess it was harvard stadium. pats had a different stadium every season for 10 years.
What qb is the all-time leader in spiking the ball to the ground?
Certainly not Joe Pisarcik.
@@NosferatusCoffin Yeah you have to be in a position to have a game winning drive. ;) Poor Joe
Do you remember Mike Martz?
If he'd died during his introduction press conference at least he'd have finished his tenure undefeated. .
cbs sports nfl guy jim nantz scored in the game. And kapp must have had flashbacks to s b iv all season long with the beatings he took. Just like chiefs did in the s b. And another game that season. And pats had an on side kick returned for a td against them too? Why in the #k were they on side kicking down something like 38-18 later in fourth quarter. The tanking for plunkett must have been in full force already.
Not the same Jim Nance. The Nance who played in that game passed away in 1992 at the young age of 49.
@@capsfan3940I know. Just a haha. rip jim nance.
The story: this guy's in his 50's. The math: thos guy's in his 30's. What?
What's behind the decision to pronounce his name "CL-EE-VE" instead of "CL-EYE-VE"??
Dare I say it? It looks like the 1965 to 1975 Patriots were as bad a team as the 2008 to 2018 Browns? Only 1 winning season out of 20.
John Noe lifelong Pats fan now in his sixties here. You would be correct sir, as things were tough to watch and tough being a Pats fan back then. Never dreamed we would be like we were in the first two decades of the 21st Century. Man, did Tom Brady, Bill Belicheck, and Robert Kraft did a great job of erasing those bad memories.
That was ancient history now, so I am now over it.
At least the team was inspired to go score 10 points?
@around 2:18 it was stated the lowest wins team in the league in 1969 was the Miami Dolphins . 2 years later they would make the super bowl. They would win the championship 3 and 4 years after being the worst team in the league.
That, ......could never happen today. Not in 10 billion years. For various reasons. Salary cap. Now the QB cannot be touched, so they can play into their mid forties comfortably. And the draft stock is pretty well set.
Of the 1970's there were four great teams. Dolphins, Cowboys , Steelers, Raiders. The best ? I like the Raiders.
Worst to first happens a lot in the nfl . If the browns keep getting better they could do it . The rams were awful and went to the super bowl two years later . It happens
@@jewsco Yea but that team had talent . Not a bad roster, then they got a coach that had a different offense.
The Rams are an outlier. How about the Bucs? Like the NBA meets Tom Brady . Every old former pro bowler signed.
The Bucs only beat the packers because of all the draft talent they aquired by going 13 years without a playoff appearance . Check their roster. The young guys on defense drafted over years won that team a championship.
Way under salary cap when signing all the former pro bowlers. I don't see that happening again any time soon.
@@rickshafer6688 the dolphins were bad for awhile too collecting talent thru the draft
@@jewsco Weren't they formed in 1968 ?
Expansion got castoffs in those days.
@@rickshafer6688 1966
hahaha. 3:59. Look at jets in the pure white jerseys. Were their real jerseys left behind? Or did someone forget to pick them up from the laundry mat? And it took a #kn half hour to go thru a 15 minute video. Thanks for the ad naseum.
I always thought his name was pronounced to rhyme with "hive."
Apparently he said it was "cleave" as in "leave."
Well rush showed more guts then Simone biles.
He died in 1980 @ 49 yrs. That means he won an upset super bowl @ 37 as offensive coordinator .
How many years past these are we . 41 years to 1980.
Me, personal , trust in Jesus Christ . Make a point.
Clive Rush was only 49 years old when he died in 1980. Just using him for clickbait, as this channel does regularly.
51 Years Ago
Get to the point, who cares 2 bad teams trade bad coaches during a game .
Dude, your content is good, but why don't you hire a narrator? Your delivery is atrocious. You can find one easy on Fiverr. Cheap too.