@rencleavus5213..no kidding. That era was just fun and exciting to watch. So many interesting and unusual players. Rule changes and other contrivances have made the current version of the NFL sort of boring and sometimes unwatchable, regardless of how great the athletes are. One also gets the feeling that outcomes are being tweaked by the league for financial reasons. But whatta I know.
@@barrierjohn6528 I couldn't have said it better myself.. they change the rules to make the game faster and more athletic but not better it's not better
excellent video. I was 14 in 1969, my first year of playing HS football and I couldn't wait for Sunday afternoon to watch NFL/AFL games, about my 5th year of doing so. My dad had bought a color tv a couple years earlier so it was better than ever. Loved weather games. Everything about the games was better in this era.
Thank you for your comments. Your family got a color tv a lot earlier than ours - which was 1976 - it made all the difference in the world when viewing games, like you mentioned.
1969 was the first season I started paying attention to pro football! Started off as a colts fan because of them being defending champs but became a vikings fan after their week 2 rout of Baltimore and am still a long time suffering Vikings fan today! Love the end zone logos and KC's municipal stadium was my favorite field because of the helmet logos. Great job on this video!
@@markgardner9460 That was a amazing game and Ed Podolak went wild 85 yards rushing 110 receiving and 153 kick returns 350 total yards but Miami won 27-24 the longest game in history! It was kinda the Chiefs last hurrah at the time because the team was aging and Miami because the best team in the AFC the next couple of years...
Ed admitted as much. He said that the 1971 season was probably going to be the team's best shot to make it back to the Super Bowl since most of the star players were getting old.
Thanks for mentioning that cheap Motel 6 mattress was draped over the fence in the corner of the endzone for what passed for protection in the video. Even calling it that gave me a chuckle. Some of those Joe Kapp clips remind me of the NFL Films production called 'More Than a Game', especially his jump pass for a touchdown. Besides two sets of numbers on the field at the Cotton Bowl, I remember watching the New Years Day bowl game where the speakers blocked out some of the action. The Rockpile in Buffalo was used in the filming of Robert Redford's 1984 baseball movie 'The Natural'. There was a website that featured old baseball stadiums in Western and Upstate New York and I was amazed to see the number of pillars that blocked the view of baseball or football at War Memorial Stadium. At least some people were protected from the snow though. 10:22 - The band is almost on the field. The Vikings FG against the Packers must have taken place at County Stadium in Milwaukee because Miller High Life advertised on their scoreboard whereas Pabst Blue Ribbon was advertised at Lambeau Field for another couple of decades. 11:15 - Tom Dempsey one year before making placekicking history. 11:33 - I believe that rooftop that advertised WGN would later advertise Budweiser at Cubs games.
I think you are right about the Vikings kick being at County Stadium. You’re right about the beers-Pabst was featured prominently on the old scoreboard at Lambeau. Also, when the Packers still played some games in Milwaukee, they almost always played the Vikings at Milwaukee County Stadium, and they almost Bears in Green Bay. I always figured that was so each had a longer trip to play the Packers to tire them out! The first NFL game I saw in person was at County Stadium in 1981 in windy, cold, drizzly weather in bad seats to see the Packers lose badly to the 49ers. And it was still a good time!
Wayne Rasmussen was my father’s cousin. My mother was a high school classmate of Wayne at Howard High school SD class of 1960 where he played 8 man football.. Wayne’s father Floyd managed the lumber yard in Howard. Wayne was the mvp of the 1963 Div II basketball championship tournament. Wayne played for South Dakota State and was spotted by an NFL scout when they played Nebraska. He also won the South Dakota amateur golf tournament multiple times. He was a great athlete and is still alive today.
Thank you for sharing that information! Rams Running Back Les Josephson played 8 man football, too, in Minneota, Minnesota. Again, I appreciate you letting us know more about Wayne.
I remember that game in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts one of the fans was dancing in the end zone after a Miami touchdown in a huge puddle of water. Great video.
Yes it was! The "players coach" philosophy became more and more prominant. Can you imagine today's players reacting positively to Lombardi's ibcessant yelling?
Thank you! Today's stadiums have better concession stands, rest rooms and what not, but they don't have character or charm like the old ones, in my opinion.
1969 saw a couple pivotal debuts. Roger Staubach came to the Cowboys as a 27 year old rookie. Because of an injury to starter Craig Morton, Coach Landry started Roger in game one vs the Cardinals. Roger played the whole game and Dallas won 24-3. Calvin Hill was another newcomer. Hill was Rookie of the Year in '69. Later Calvin would be the first Cowboys RB to rush for 1,000 yards(1972-1973). Another pivotal debut was myself. Born in the Twin Cities a day after the Vikings trounced the Browns at the Met 51-3. That 1969 Vikings team would be the first of their 4 Super Bowl teams. And quite arguably the best Team Minnesota ever fielded.
My dad was a Dallas fan as they got airtime in Texas. He disliked Morton with a passion that I thought too personal for a fan and he hoped for his replacement for some time before it happened. Nobody was happier than him of Staubach's consistant performance as QB. As a boxing fan I get exposed to enough pre-fight promotional hype to have learned not to take it serious enough to cause me enmity towards anybody laboring in the sport. Maybe a little irritable over repeated fouling by a fighter when hurt. And yeah so 'BeHop' made me a fan when he KOd Trinidad but I never hated. When people get emotional about sports they tend to make bad bets which I like to keep small . . . "You can shear a sheep a hundred times but you can only skin it once" - Amarillo Slim Preston.
I used to be a boxing fan and the '70's was my favorite era. Specifically, the early to mid '70's was my favorite for the heavyweights, while the remainder of the decade for middleweights and some of the other lighter weights. Thank you for commenting!
Excellent footage of some of the old stadiums. I always wondered where the Bengals played prior to Riverfront. I was hoping you might do a video like this. I do recall Staubach executing the jump pass until the end of his career. Landry hated it, but Roger said it helped him see downfield, especially when the pocket broke down. Anytime Boog Powell makes an appearance in an NFL video, it has to be a winner. Top notch, Gardner, Top notch!
I enjoyed the old painted end zones, the sounds, the smells, marching bands, ambulance sitting in the corner....God how I dislike the 21st century, I do still love ball.
The wooden snow fence around old war memorial in Buffalo was there to keep fans away from the players benches - since the fans could walk the track circling the field- I did in 1971 and got within 10 feet of OJ on the bench
Thank you for that information. I published a video not too long ago that featured O.J. signing autographs while sitting on the bench. That's cool that you got so close.
The only Vikes TD in the 49er game was a bomb in the snow from Joe Kapp to Gene Washington...the Vikings 12th consecutive win which at the time was the longest since 1934!
In 1969 , my grandpa from NY took me to the Seattle Olympic Hotel for the model train convention. We stood outside an elevator door that opened to reveal Joe Willy Namath . Sporting the white furry coat seen in the pantyhose commercial . My grandpa introduced me to Joe and he shook my hand ( the Day I learned that that was something to do and to do it as if you meant it -I weigh 125 now…) Joe was awesome, talked for a few and acted like he an old buddy . A Rookie named Terry Bradshaw beat the Jets in the yearly Seattle Memorial Stadium exhibition . My grandparents later got all the Lakers autographs using the Elevator/ Escalator method, every one had to use one or other to get in hotel. Good times.
It is a story I tell a lot, my daughters never got it . Also was at a hotel on our downtown bay when we heard a page for Tommie LaSorda the weekend of the All Star game in 1979. Every one was looking for him….
I grew up around Oakland California I saw the Raiders when they were really the Raiders, not what you see now. John Madden Ken Stabler Fred Biletnikoff so many Hall of Famers, now pretty much a joke.
HOF Defensive back Willie Brown came to one of my classes in high school. One time the Raiders had a problem with the practice field so they came and used the field at my school to scrimmage. Sad, those days are long gone.
That sack by Jim Lynch of KC seen in the video is the play where he was injured. He never came back from that injury as it was beyond the medical expertise of that era.
Great video Mark! This was the year of the great Super Bowl IV Chiefs with SO many great players! Now, of course, I'm sick of their greatness and want someone -anyone - to knock them off!😂😂
@@stevenzimmerman4057 I just saw that too. However, Pro Football Reference says he did pass away this past July 4. There is also an obituary for him in a newspaper called the Tribune Democrat from Johnstown, PA.
Thanks again! Dandy Don's last season was actually '68. He went to training camp in '69, but threw in the towel before the start of the regular season.
Both players wore the same uniform number and were extremely large men, so it was an understandable claim. I remember reading about Bob Brown hitting a wooden goal post at a Raiders training camp and knocking it to the ground! I think that John Madden stated that in one of his books.
The hit Cincinnati's QB #12 Greg Cook took (9:15) from KC Jim Linch essentially was the beginning of the end of his career. The injury was far worse than a "sprain" but a torn biceps muscle. Unfortunately, it was misdiagnosed and Cook continued to play through it and when it was finally diagnosed surgery didn't improve it. Cook played ineffectively after this and his promising career came to an end. Cook never got over the way his career ended
I went to a game at Shea Stadium in 1969; Jets vs. Bengals the year Namath led them to the Super Bowl. It was cold and windy. My hands got so numb I could barely move my fingers. I was jumping around the whole game in order to stay warm. Makes you wonder how the receivers could catch passes in that weather - no gloves in those days.
Shea's winds could really cut through ya, I'm told. Add in that cold temperature and it's no wonder that some of Namath's passes fluttered, bounced off receivers hands and were intercepted.
@@markgardner9460 Joe relied on his big backs, Snell and Boozer a lot. Sauer and Maynard were solid possession receivers, even in the swirling winds. I think I got my years wrong - Jets won it in the 1968 season. The game I attended was the Dec. 8th game that NY won 27-14.
The scoreboard at Franklin Field in Philadelphia were so antiquated! The Eagles in 1969 wore Green helmets on the road and white helmets at home! Interesting!
I was at that game against the Vikings. What you don’t see is how cold it was. Started out with the field being frozen and as the game wore on it became a mud bath. Most players changed into clean jerseys at halftime. Shout out to a fellow classmate’s dad, equipment manager Whitey Zimmerman for having those ready
I had no idea Sam Wyche ever played. I remember him being an exasperated coach. One day while mic’ed up and the Bengals were getting beat he was heard saying something like ….”get somebody fresh in there. I don’t care if he’s any good, I just want somebody fresh!”
Jim Turner,Fred Cox..Tom Dempsey,Errol Mann..the straight on kickers were starting to wind down!Most kickers were still straight on but that would change in just a few years!
Thanks Mark, good stuff. Do you think the league had some cheap owners? Most of the players had jobs during the off season. Car salesman was a big one, hey you get a good deal on a car and you can use your player status to facilitate sales. It's hard to imagine a game at the ivy covered brick walls of Wrigley Field (Chicago), but yeah they played there. Gale Sayers had some great games there. The TD catch in Den, was it Tensi to Mike Haffner, network color guy, the Haffner of UCLA & from Iowa. Unfortunately Mike didn't do a whole lot, nice catch though. Bobby Walden sighting. Thanks brother, you're appreciated.
Yes, I've heard that the Bears, Browns and Cowboys were very cheap. I'm sure there were others, too. There were only so many precious roster spots, so I think that some teams thought they could get by doing business that way. They'd tell a disgruntled player "Don't like your salary? What cha gonna do about it?" Not much. Hardly anyone held out back then. You could play out your contract option, but that was risky because the team owners used to circulate nasty rumors about players in order to deter other teams from signing them. Sometimes teams would collude to not sign those players. Look at what happened to Walter Payton the first time he became a free agent - not one team made him a contract offer. The goal: keep fixed expenses in check.
Yes all true....the NFL blew up in revenue and the monopoly the owners had once enjoyed opened up more for paying players. One sad side note the players became entirely greedy also and (they could have) never took more interest in improving benefits for the older retired players e.g. health care and pension.
8:56: Greg Cook. One of the biggest "Might Have Beens". According to Wikipedia, the sack coming up by Jim Lynch tore Cook's rotator cuff. But medical technology at the time could no diagnose that type of injury. He left the game, but came back the next week and played the rest of the season in pain. The damage was so bad at the end that it literally ended his career.
@@markgardner9460 Yes. If Gayle Sayers had played 30 years later, he would have gotten proper surgery and then who knows what kind of records he may have best.
It's the question of "What if?". John Unitas would have added greatly to his career statistics, too, if he would have had the benefit of modern medicine. He played for awhile with an elbow tendon that was not laying properly on the bone!
I remember seeing that Bob Brown video clip with the goalpost like a year after I put out a Bob Brown video. Noooooooooo lol. I have no idea how NFL films missed that gem either.
Marc time to put on my 1969 Rams Home white jersey for this video of Mike Lahood number 64 who played against the Vikings in the championship game that year. By the way, I received my Lance Alworth 1963 reproduction jersey from 🎉d the other day and it’s sweet. I have that jersey that Sam Huff made that interception in the video as a reproduction
The worst mud games I've seen film of were '68 Eagles at Lions Thanksgiving game and a 74 or 75 Eagles at Giants game played in the Yale bowl. There's also video of an early 1960s st. Louis cardinals mud game but I'm not certain of the opponent. I believe those clips are on one of the early lost treasures episodes by NFL Films. I believe there was also a San Diego at Boston game in 1970 that was played in a Noreaster
@7:08...i remember Don Cockroft. Was still in diapers in 1969 but Cockroft played until 1980(didnt start watching the NFL until '77 playoffs) He got released after the '80 season partly because he missed 2 extra pt kicks in the '80 divisional playoff against the Raiders(one of them was blocked). Brian Sipe went for the touchdown late in the game instead of kicking the game winning field goal. The Browns would've won 15-14, but lost 14-12 on that end zone interception by Mike Davis.
Thanks for commenting. Cockroft actually missed just one extra point attempt in that playoff game, but he also missed two field goal attempts. It was the second coldest NFL playoff game in history up to that point (Ice Bowl in '67 was the coldest).
@@markgardner9460 Thanks for that info. I saw that game live(only the 4th qtr) and the NBC announcers made light of Cockroft missing those kicks. My mom made me go to church that morning so I missed the 1st 3 quarters of that game.🤣 I knew that game was going to be cold/freezing because I read our local paper(Memphis)and our sports section mentioned their weather forecast.❄🌬But it was a coincidence that Cockroft was let go immediately after this game.
Oh no - missed the first 3 quarters. I just read where his college uniform number, 0, was retired by Adams State. He's got to be the only Kicker that I've heard of to wear 0.
@@markgardner9460 🤣🤣I missed a lot of Sunday sporting events that started from 11AM-1PM. From the age of 9 until 18, my mom(RIP)would literally force me to go to church. We would be in church from 11AM until 1PM and sometimes later. Missed a lot of NBA and NFL games because of church, as soon as we got home I would run out of the car into my mom's room or den to catch the rest of a game.😁😁
Joe Namath wore a plain white jersey at 4:26. I wonder if this was a pre-season game. Greg Cook was supposed to be one of the best quarterbacks ever, according to his teammates. I saw a documentary on him. He was pretty damn good and that even after his shoulder was ruined with a bad rotator cuff, which is extremely painful.
In 1:44 that guy looked like most of today's NY Giants fans in 2024 & 25 season after going 3-13. We'll probably look like that next season due to the GM and Coach Daboll are still on the team.
As far as I'm concerned, those uniforms at 13:02 are the only acceptable Rams colors. I don't care that the team sported blue and yellow for most of its history, only the blue and white unis look right to me. Everything else just feels weird.
Lots to say here. I would like to hear everyone say who they are to start, as i feel there is a great community here. Also will help the channel. Me, Im David. 55. Lifelong Dallas Cowboy fan, Staubach my favorite player of all time, and objective NFL historian. Hope to start a thread . . .
I'm Mark...Mr. SportsStatsNGab. I'm a bit older than you - grew up in MN, but moved to TX a few years ago. Please let me know, anyone, what type of video you'd like to watch and I'll see if I can accomodate. Thank you!
Evan here. age 57. I grew up in Michigan and have been Lions fan. I also enjoyed the Redskins and Bengals in the 70’s. Moved to Michigan from Columbus, Ohio in 1974. That was when I became a sports fan. Prior to ‘74, I don’t have much memory of any sporting events. Welcome to the community! You’ll enjoy the videos and comments. I learn something on every one. Lots of good memories.
Incidentally the Vikings victory against Green Bay at the University of Minnesota 19-7 the Packers scored with 15 seconds left it would have been the first shut out in Vikings history,but they got it the next week at Chicago 31-0.
@markgardner9460 always remember the Heidi bowl in 68 when the network cut the game off .I still hear my father and my two older brothers yelling at the tv.
"Mark" you have "become" quite" prolific" at these "compilations" highlighting" the "quirky behavior" ...of " players" and " coaches" on and "off the field"..."what" coach" would "lite a " cigarette" on the "sideline"..when the "going got rough"..such as "Van Brocklin"😂..that would be "Unheard of "🔥🔥!!
@@markgardner9460 Same with Giant coach Alex Webster (seen during their Monday night game at Philadelphia in 1970). Also Oiler coach Wally Lemm, Charger coach Sid Gillman, 49er and Saint coach Dick Nolan (he even did a Camel billboard as a Giant player--in uniform!), and Steeler defensive assistant George Perles (saw him smoking on the sideline during Super Bowl X).
Craig Cooke. I can never forget that name. It was mystical and magical to me. And I want to see Lenny Dawson doing it. I want to see Fran Tarkenton to me magical what he did. And Joe Kapp, the god. And who can forget Daryle Lamonica. Those were the days of the best of times. Let me throw myself into the ditch of forgotten time with these giants of faultless memory.
As a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan.....and even though they have not been doing well as of late, I still take great pride in their past history and glorious legacy. From the 1966-67 NFL season through the 1985-86 NFL season (that is 19 years and 20 seasons) the Dallas Cowboys had 20 consecutive winning seasons and only missed making the playoffs twice, in 1974 and 1984. The Cowboys made it to 5 Super Bowls in the 1970s, winning 2 of them. They made it to 2 pre merger NFL Championship games and 10 NFC championship games winning 5 of them. They won their NFL/ NFC eastern conference / division 13 times. And of courseI I also fondly remember the Dallas Cowboys from 1991-92 to 1996-97 when they made the playoffs 6 straight times and winning 3 Super Bowls, 3 NFC championship games and 6 NFC eastern division titles.
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The football that I grew up with. So much better than today.
Way better than today you have characters in the game back then
@rencleavus5213..no kidding. That era was just fun and exciting to watch. So many interesting and unusual players. Rule changes and other contrivances have made the current version of the NFL sort of boring and sometimes unwatchable, regardless of how great the athletes are. One also gets the feeling that outcomes are being tweaked by the league for financial reasons. But whatta I know.
@@barrierjohn6528 I couldn't have said it better myself.. they change the rules to make the game faster and more athletic but not better it's not better
now it's like watching a video game
@@barrierjohn6528 I think that's a distinct possibility!
Born in 61 so 69 is about my earliest memories of football. Mud fields, red flags and goal posts on the goal line.
The sloppy fields add sort of a romantic tone that never happens anymore
All shiny fake grass and players with pristine uniforms that are so tight they look like they were painted on their skin. I hate it. NFL is 🗑️ now
And the fans on the field
excellent video. I was 14 in 1969, my first year of playing HS football and I couldn't wait for Sunday afternoon to watch NFL/AFL games, about my 5th year of doing so. My dad had bought a color tv a couple years earlier so it was better than ever. Loved weather games. Everything about the games was better in this era.
Thank you for your comments. Your family got a color tv a lot earlier than ours - which was 1976 - it made all the difference in the world when viewing games, like you mentioned.
Nothing like watching a team run the ball in one of those mud games... today's game is too sterile.
I agree!!
Stopped watching 20 years ago dont miss it. The game was here not today.
@@paulkeilman3510 I stopped watching when they got rid of the Redskins. That was last straw. NFL is 🗑️ now.
Love these NFL way back when videos.
1969 was the first season I started paying attention to pro football! Started off as a colts fan because of them being defending champs but became a vikings fan after their week 2 rout of Baltimore and am still a long time suffering Vikings fan today! Love the end zone logos and KC's municipal stadium was my favorite field because of the helmet logos. Great job on this video!
My first memory of Municipal Stadium is the 1961 Christmas thriller between the Chiefs and Dolphins. Thanks for commenting!
@@markgardner9460 That was a amazing game and Ed Podolak went wild 85 yards rushing 110 receiving and 153 kick returns 350 total yards but Miami won 27-24 the longest game in history! It was kinda the Chiefs last hurrah at the time because the team was aging and Miami because the best team in the AFC the next couple of years...
Ed admitted as much. He said that the 1971 season was probably going to be the team's best shot to make it back to the Super Bowl since most of the star players were getting old.
@@markgardner9460 One of the most amazing things about the game that it was 63 degrees in Kansas City on Christmas;
When the storied Green Bay Packers started towards the darkness they didn't get out of until Brett Favre came to town.
Thanks for mentioning that cheap Motel 6 mattress was draped over the fence in the corner of the endzone for what passed for protection in the video. Even calling it that gave me a chuckle.
Some of those Joe Kapp clips remind me of the NFL Films production called 'More Than a Game', especially his jump pass for a touchdown.
Besides two sets of numbers on the field at the Cotton Bowl, I remember watching the New Years Day bowl game where the speakers blocked out some of the action.
The Rockpile in Buffalo was used in the filming of Robert Redford's 1984 baseball movie 'The Natural'. There was a website that featured old baseball stadiums in Western and Upstate New York and I was amazed to see the number of pillars that blocked the view of baseball or football at War Memorial Stadium. At least some people were protected from the snow though.
10:22 - The band is almost on the field.
The Vikings FG against the Packers must have taken place at County Stadium in Milwaukee because Miller High Life advertised on their scoreboard whereas Pabst Blue Ribbon was advertised at Lambeau Field for another couple of decades.
11:15 - Tom Dempsey one year before making placekicking history.
11:33 - I believe that rooftop that advertised WGN would later advertise Budweiser at Cubs games.
Great info! Especially about Miller High Life vs. PBR (gimme PBR any day).
I think you are right about the Vikings kick being at County Stadium. You’re right about the beers-Pabst was featured prominently on the old scoreboard at Lambeau. Also, when the Packers still played some games in Milwaukee, they almost always played the Vikings at Milwaukee County Stadium, and they almost Bears in Green Bay. I always figured that was so each had a longer trip to play the Packers to tire them out!
The first NFL game I saw in person was at County Stadium in 1981 in windy, cold, drizzly weather in bad seats to see the Packers lose badly to the 49ers. And it was still a good time!
Wayne Rasmussen was my father’s cousin. My mother was a high school classmate of Wayne at Howard High school SD class of 1960 where he played 8 man football.. Wayne’s father Floyd managed the lumber yard in Howard. Wayne was the mvp of the 1963 Div II basketball championship tournament. Wayne played for South Dakota State and was spotted by an NFL scout when they played Nebraska. He also won the South Dakota amateur golf tournament multiple times. He was a great athlete and is still alive today.
Thank you for sharing that information! Rams Running Back Les Josephson played 8 man football, too, in Minneota, Minnesota. Again, I appreciate you letting us know more about Wayne.
It goes without saying that I enjoyed the video Mark! Nice job as always!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
I remember that game in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts one of the fans was dancing in the end zone after a Miami touchdown in a huge puddle of water. Great video.
Thank you and thanks for watching!
Very well done Mark. I love it. When Lombardi retired it really was the end of an era.
Yes it was! The "players coach" philosophy became more and more prominant. Can you imagine today's players reacting positively to Lombardi's ibcessant yelling?
@ No way. Very good point.
He didn't retire; he died on September 3, 1970 of cancer while still head coach of the Redskins.
@ He was the man.
@@orbyfan Rest in peace Vince Lombardi and Washington Redskins.
Fantastic video Mark. I’d take those fields and stadiums over any of today’s soulless, corporatized schlock stadiums.
Thank you! Today's stadiums have better concession stands, rest rooms and what not, but they don't have character or charm like the old ones, in my opinion.
Another great one Mark!! Loved seeing them jump passes from Kapp to Washington!!!!
Thank you, Hammer! That 2nd jump pass to Washington at the back of the end zone had a level of difficulty of 10. That's how incredible that pass was.
There were two Gene Washington wide receivers. Viking number 84 and 49er number 18.
1969 saw a couple pivotal debuts. Roger Staubach came to the Cowboys as a 27 year old rookie. Because of an injury to starter Craig Morton, Coach Landry started Roger in game one vs the Cardinals. Roger played the whole game and Dallas won 24-3. Calvin Hill was another newcomer. Hill was Rookie of the Year in '69. Later Calvin would be the first Cowboys RB to rush for 1,000 yards(1972-1973). Another pivotal debut was myself. Born in the Twin Cities a day after the Vikings trounced the Browns at the Met 51-3. That 1969 Vikings team would be the first of their 4 Super Bowl teams. And quite arguably the best Team Minnesota ever fielded.
Lance Rentzel hauled in a 75 yard scoring strike from Staubach and a 53 yard touchdown by Calvin Hill in that game.
@@markgardner9460 That was the last season the Cowboys played on grass at home. The Cotton Bowl went to Turf in 1970.
Seemed like most of the time the Cotton Bowl grass was dry and crispy, so that was probably a good move to the artificial turf.
My dad was a Dallas fan as they got airtime in Texas. He disliked Morton with a passion that I thought too personal for a fan and he hoped for his replacement for some time before it happened. Nobody was happier than him of Staubach's consistant performance as QB.
As a boxing fan I get exposed to enough pre-fight promotional hype to have learned not to take it serious enough to cause me enmity towards anybody laboring in the sport. Maybe a little irritable over repeated fouling by a fighter when hurt. And yeah so 'BeHop' made me a fan when he KOd Trinidad but I never hated. When people get emotional about sports they tend to make bad bets which I like to keep small . . . "You can shear a sheep a hundred times but you can only skin it once" - Amarillo Slim Preston.
I used to be a boxing fan and the '70's was my favorite era. Specifically, the early to mid '70's was my favorite for the heavyweights, while the remainder of the decade for middleweights and some of the other lighter weights. Thank you for commenting!
Excellent ! Brings back great memories I remember practically all these players , was a big fan as a child
I was a huge fan, too - watched every game that I could. It didn't matter who was playing.
Excellent footage of some of the old stadiums. I always wondered where the Bengals played prior to Riverfront. I was hoping you might do a video like this. I do recall Staubach executing the jump pass until the end of his career. Landry hated it, but Roger said it helped him see downfield, especially when the pocket broke down. Anytime Boog Powell makes an appearance in an NFL video, it has to be a winner. Top notch, Gardner, Top notch!
Glad you enjoyed it! Killebrew won the A.L. MVP in '69, but Boog took it in '70!
@@evanmeier3570 boog powell eating nachos out of his batting helmet all game then pinch hitting wen he played for the dodgers ....gotta love boog
Bengals originally played at Crowley Field I believe.
@@robertroberts9782 Classic!
@@1223jamez Thank you.
Loved the way they painted the end zones and put team logos on the field ! The football helmets at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City were unique!
Both teams' helmets were represented
@@markgardner9460 Yes I thought that was kinda neat!
I enjoyed the old painted end zones, the sounds, the smells, marching bands, ambulance sitting in the corner....God how I dislike the 21st century, I do still love ball.
Fantasting video! Was born in '63 so I have some very limited memories of this season.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Me, too! I loved this video as well.
One of the best football videos ever made!! I hope you do more. Have a great day. Dave
Thanks, Dave!! Will do!!
The wooden snow fence around old war memorial in Buffalo was there to keep fans away from the players benches - since the fans could walk the track circling the field- I did in 1971 and got within 10 feet of OJ on the bench
Thank you for that information. I published a video not too long ago that featured O.J. signing autographs while sitting on the bench. That's cool that you got so close.
Thanks for yet another great video!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!
The only Vikes TD in the 49er game was a bomb in the snow from Joe Kapp to Gene Washington...the Vikings 12th consecutive win which at the time was the longest since 1934!
Bears?
@markgardner9460 Correctamundo!
Thank you, awesome stuff!! I'll take old school football and those times over today's 100x over.
I'm really glad that you enjoyed it - thanks!
I've got a picture at my NFL Past Players site of Joe Kapp doing that Jump-Pass against Lou Cordileone of the Saints.
In 1969 , my grandpa from NY took me to the Seattle Olympic Hotel for the model train convention.
We stood outside an elevator door that opened to reveal Joe Willy Namath .
Sporting the white furry coat seen in the pantyhose commercial .
My grandpa introduced me to Joe and he shook my hand ( the Day I learned that that was something to do and to do it as if you meant it -I weigh 125 now…)
Joe was awesome, talked for a few and acted like he an old buddy .
A Rookie named Terry Bradshaw beat the Jets in the yearly Seattle Memorial Stadium exhibition .
My grandparents later got all the Lakers autographs using the Elevator/ Escalator method, every one had to use one or other to get in hotel.
Good times.
That's so cool to read. Thank you for sharing!
It is a story I tell a lot, my daughters never got it .
Also was at a hotel on our downtown bay when we heard a page for Tommie LaSorda the weekend of the All Star game in 1979. Every one was looking for him….
I remember that game because Rod Carew hit two triples in his first two at bats in San Diego on a Monday night.
Great soundtrack on this one!!!
Thank you - I'm glad you liked it!
I love these old football highlights from the days before i was born... Born in 1971 i didnt become a football fan until 1978...
I like hearing that! I've always been interested in the sports era before my time, too.
Good video this was the stuff and the era that I remember as a kid.
Me too - totally different now
I grew up around Oakland California I saw the Raiders when they were really the Raiders, not what you see now. John Madden Ken Stabler Fred Biletnikoff so many Hall of Famers, now pretty much a joke.
Those Raiders teams of the late '60's through the early '80's were amazing. The offense basically had a Hall of Famer at every position.
HOF Defensive back Willie Brown came to one of my classes in high school. One time the Raiders had a problem with the practice field so they came and used the field at my school to scrimmage. Sad, those days are long gone.
Great job collecting these vids! These weren’t tough athletes, they were tough men!
Glad you like them!
Greg Cook...a tragic story! A lot of folks thought he would be a great quarterback but shoulder issues derailed him...
Didn't play after the '69 season until briefly in '73
@markgardner9460 Yeah I've seen a lot of people thought he was headed for greatness 6'4 220 he was definitely good sized!
That sack by Jim Lynch of KC seen in the video is the play where he was injured. He never came back from that injury as it was beyond the medical expertise of that era.
@@denisceballos9745 Good information!
I thought doctors had misdiagnosed his injury?
Great video🎉
Thanks for the visit!!
This is awesome.
Glad you like it!!
Great video Mark! This was the year of the great Super Bowl IV Chiefs with SO many great players!
Now, of course, I'm sick of their greatness and want someone -anyone - to knock them off!😂😂
The Lions haven't won the NFL championship since 1957, so they're due. Maybe they'll knock 'em off if they meet in the Super Bowl.
Love watching these bad weather games!
Great stuff as always!
Glad you enjoy it!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!
Love the way the uniforms used to be with the sleeves past the elbow.
Today's NFL lives on the shoulders of its past. This video proves it! Great images from a bygone era.
Thank you; I'm glad that you enjoyed the video!
Great video and dig the tunes.😂
Thank you. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video.
Entertaining as always. Thanks Mark.
Glad you enjoyed it, Mr. Hanson!
Great video, thank you 😊
You’re welcome 😊
Different game, different world and I loved it back then
You said it!!
Welcome back Mark
Those days , stadiums, uniforms had like personality
Maybe bring these things back Mark
Awesome footage 😄
Thank you very much! I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
11:05 the now late Greg Landry. Was a helluva a player.
Yeah a tough quarterback!!He passed away in October...RIP Mr.Landry!
I understand also one of Landry's receivers, Larry Walton, also passed away this year.
@@3243_ I just checked Wikipedia and Walton is still alive.....
@@stevenzimmerman4057 I just saw that too. However, Pro Football Reference says he did pass away this past July 4. There is also an obituary for him in a newspaper called the Tribune Democrat from Johnstown, PA.
@@3243_ That's odd!
Great job again! Don Meredith's last season too
Actually, 1968 had been Meredith's final season.
Thanks again! Dandy Don's last season was actually '68. He went to training camp in '69, but threw in the towel before the start of the regular season.
@@markgardner9460 Good catch buddy
@@3243_ Yes, you're correct. I knew he didn't make it to 1970
Topps made a '69 card for him, but I remember reading in Roger Staubach's autobiography that Meredith was disinterested in training camp.
GREAT footage Mark, thank you! One correction, that is Rosey Grier in the very beginning hitting the goalposts with his shoulder.
Rosey retired after the '66 season. The footage shown is from the '69 season, so the #76 depicted is Bob Brown. I'm glad that you enjoyed the video!
I stand corrected! I must've turned the nine upside down and made it 1966! Thank you for correcting my erroneous passing glance. Fabulous video!
Both players wore the same uniform number and were extremely large men, so it was an understandable claim. I remember reading about Bob Brown hitting a wooden goal post at a Raiders training camp and knocking it to the ground! I think that John Madden stated that in one of his books.
Cool video
Thank you! I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
The hit Cincinnati's QB #12 Greg Cook took (9:15) from KC Jim Linch essentially was the beginning of the end of his career. The injury was far worse than a "sprain" but a torn biceps muscle. Unfortunately, it was misdiagnosed and Cook continued to play through it and when it was finally diagnosed surgery didn't improve it. Cook played ineffectively after this and his promising career came to an end. Cook never got over the way his career ended
Great video! Thanks 🙏 😊😊😊😊😊
Thank you too!
I went to a game at Shea Stadium in 1969; Jets vs. Bengals the year Namath led them to the Super Bowl. It was cold and windy. My hands got so numb I could barely move my fingers. I was jumping around the whole game in order to stay warm. Makes you wonder how the receivers could catch passes in that weather - no gloves in those days.
Shea's winds could really cut through ya, I'm told. Add in that cold temperature and it's no wonder that some of Namath's passes fluttered, bounced off receivers hands and were intercepted.
@@markgardner9460 Joe relied on his big backs, Snell and Boozer a lot. Sauer and Maynard were solid possession receivers, even in the swirling winds. I think I got my years wrong - Jets won it in the 1968 season. The game I attended was the Dec. 8th game that NY won 27-14.
Do you recall what general area of the stadium you sat? How were the sightlines?
Joe Kapp and the jump pass!
2:54. When is the last time you saw stadium security with a Billy club
They meant business!
Roman Gabriel was the last MVP of the NFL before the merger.
1969 was the year I really got into football. Great video. Was 1969 not John Maddens 2nd year as Oakland coach?
It was his first year. At age 32, he was the youngest Head Coach in either the AFL or NFL. He was the Raiders Libebackers Coach in 1967 and 1968.
some good tunes on this
Thank you. Almost all of my videos have music from the era depicted.
The scoreboard at Franklin Field in Philadelphia were so antiquated! The Eagles in 1969 wore Green helmets on the road and white helmets at home! Interesting!
That IS interesting. It hadn't clicked with me before! Thanks for the info.
@markgardner9460 I kinda stumbled into it! I was looking at Franklin Field and I came across that!
Your videos have a way of making me go digging! I enjoy it!
Vince Lombardi's final year....
And the Eagles were the first NFL team to play on artificial synthetic turf.
Great work.
Thank you, Paul; I appreciate that.
😮 fans just wandering onto the field grabbing joe willy how awsome 04:30
That's not happening today
Shea Stadium also hosted baseball's Miracle Mets in '69, and the fans ran wild on the field after they won the World Series in October.
I remember watching that on live tv. All my Dad could say was "I don't believe it!" because the Mets had lost 100+ every year from '62 - '65.
Harmon Wages Atlanta Falcons number #5?..Love this!
I was at that game against the Vikings. What you don’t see is how cold it was. Started out with the field being frozen and as the game wore on it became a mud bath. Most players changed into clean jerseys at halftime. Shout out to a fellow classmate’s dad, equipment manager Whitey Zimmerman for having those ready
He wore #5 because his idol as a kid was Paul Hornung
I had no idea Sam Wyche ever played. I remember him being an exasperated coach. One day while mic’ed up and the Bengals were getting beat he was heard saying something like ….”get somebody fresh in there. I don’t care if he’s any good, I just want somebody fresh!”
I remember that! Thanks for bringing that up.
Jim Turner,Fred Cox..Tom Dempsey,Errol Mann..the straight on kickers were starting to wind down!Most kickers were still straight on but that would change in just a few years!
The Gogolak brothers were starting to alter the game in that regard.
@markgardner9460 Absolutely correct!
@@markgardner9460 The first time I saw soccer style kickers I was thinking it probably won't last long! I think I missed the boat there!
I remember tv announcers saying the same thing...that they'd shank a lot of the kicks.
I agree I think one of the one of the last remaining ones was Mark Mosley of the Redskins later on
Even like the catchy retro music!
This WAS THE BEEEST!!😫FOOTBALL EVER!!😫😫AND I MISS IT😭😔
Thanks Mark, good stuff. Do you think the league had some cheap owners? Most of the players had jobs during the off season. Car salesman was a big one, hey you get a good deal on a car and you can use your player status to facilitate sales. It's hard to imagine a game at the ivy covered brick walls of Wrigley Field (Chicago), but yeah they played there. Gale Sayers had some great games there.
The TD catch in Den, was it Tensi to Mike Haffner, network color guy, the Haffner of UCLA & from Iowa. Unfortunately Mike didn't do a whole lot, nice catch though. Bobby Walden sighting.
Thanks brother, you're appreciated.
Yes, I've heard that the Bears, Browns and Cowboys were very cheap. I'm sure there were others, too. There were only so many precious roster spots, so I think that some teams thought they could get by doing business that way. They'd tell a disgruntled player "Don't like your salary? What cha gonna do about it?" Not much. Hardly anyone held out back then. You could play out your contract option, but that was risky because the team owners used to circulate nasty rumors about players in order to deter other teams from signing them. Sometimes teams would collude to not sign those players. Look at what happened to Walter Payton the first time he became a free agent - not one team made him a contract offer. The goal: keep fixed expenses in check.
Yes all true....the NFL blew up in revenue and the monopoly the owners had once enjoyed opened up more for paying players. One sad side note the players became entirely greedy also and (they could have) never took more interest in improving benefits for the older retired players e.g. health care and pension.
0:40, Pretty cool that his last interception was a pick six.
8:56: Greg Cook. One of the biggest "Might Have Beens". According to Wikipedia, the sack coming up by Jim Lynch tore Cook's rotator cuff. But medical technology at the time could no diagnose that type of injury. He left the game, but came back the next week and played the rest of the season in pain. The damage was so bad at the end that it literally ended his career.
Too bad that medical practicioning back then was still being treated as if they played in the pre-historic era.
@@markgardner9460 Yes. If Gayle Sayers had played 30 years later, he would have gotten proper surgery and then who knows what kind of records he may have best.
It's the question of "What if?". John Unitas would have added greatly to his career statistics, too, if he would have had the benefit of modern medicine. He played for awhile with an elbow tendon that was not laying properly on the bone!
Awesome 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for the visit!
I remember seeing that Bob Brown video clip with the goalpost like a year after I put out a Bob Brown video. Noooooooooo lol. I have no idea how NFL films missed that gem either.
I've watched your Bob Brown video - fantastic! The guy was so agressive. He used to do dumbbell curls while eating at the team cafeteria.
@@markgardner9460 Brown was a bad dude!
Went to the same school as Bad Leroy Brown.
Games played in the mud I love it 😊
Yes indeed Jimmy Orr was definitely underrated! A 25 round pick! Wow
I didn't even know that they had that many rounds!
Marc time to put on my 1969 Rams Home white jersey for this video of Mike Lahood number 64 who played against the Vikings in the championship game that year. By the way, I received my Lance Alworth 1963 reproduction jersey from 🎉d the other day and it’s sweet. I have that jersey that Sam Huff made that interception in the video as a reproduction
Eversfield, eh? I will have to check 'em out and see if I can land my hard-to-find wants.
The worst mud games I've seen film of were '68 Eagles at Lions Thanksgiving game and a 74 or 75 Eagles at Giants game played in the Yale bowl. There's also video of an early 1960s st. Louis cardinals mud game but I'm not certain of the opponent. I believe those clips are on one of the early lost treasures episodes by NFL Films. I believe there was also a San Diego at Boston game in 1970 that was played in a Noreaster
Thr Vikings/Lions Thanksgiving Day snowstorm was a bad weather game, too.
@7:08...i remember Don Cockroft. Was still in diapers in 1969 but Cockroft played until 1980(didnt start watching the NFL until '77 playoffs) He got released after the '80 season partly because he missed 2 extra pt kicks in the '80 divisional playoff against the Raiders(one of them was blocked). Brian Sipe went for the touchdown late in the game instead of kicking the game winning field goal. The Browns would've won 15-14, but lost 14-12 on that end zone interception by Mike Davis.
Thanks for commenting. Cockroft actually missed just one extra point attempt in that playoff game, but he also missed two field goal attempts. It was the second coldest NFL playoff game in history up to that point (Ice Bowl in '67 was the coldest).
@@markgardner9460 Thanks for that info. I saw that game live(only the 4th qtr) and the NBC announcers made light of Cockroft missing those kicks. My mom made me go to church that morning so I missed the 1st 3 quarters of that game.🤣 I knew that game was going to be cold/freezing because I read our local paper(Memphis)and our sports section mentioned their weather forecast.❄🌬But it was a coincidence that Cockroft was let go immediately after this game.
Oh no - missed the first 3 quarters. I just read where his college uniform number, 0, was retired by Adams State. He's got to be the only Kicker that I've heard of to wear 0.
@@markgardner9460 🤣🤣I missed a lot of Sunday sporting events that started from 11AM-1PM. From the age of 9 until 18, my mom(RIP)would literally force me to go to church. We would be in church from 11AM until 1PM and sometimes later. Missed a lot of NBA and NFL games because of church, as soon as we got home I would run out of the car into my mom's room or den to catch the rest of a game.😁😁
I can relate, as I missed watching football games due to cutting, splitting and stacking wood. I don't miss that one bit.
4:04 Injured Charlie Cowan taken to the locker room in a folding chair on a push cart. Unbelievable.
Mopping the field..very effective lmao
I have to say I enjoyed the game much more back then.
Joe Namath wore a plain white jersey at 4:26. I wonder if this was a pre-season game. Greg Cook was supposed to be one of the best quarterbacks ever, according to his teammates. I saw a documentary on him. He was pretty damn good and that even after his shoulder was ruined with a bad rotator cuff, which is extremely painful.
It was a regular season game. My guess is that his first jersey was torn to shreds.
Remember this season well!👍
In 1:44 that guy looked like most of today's NY Giants fans in 2024 & 25 season after going 3-13. We'll probably look like that next season due to the GM and Coach Daboll are still on the team.
I got a chuckle out of that. Thanks!
Greatness in cinema
Great to hear from you again!
As far as I'm concerned, those uniforms at 13:02 are the only acceptable Rams colors. I don't care that the team sported blue and yellow for most of its history, only the blue and white unis look right to me. Everything else just feels weird.
A lot of fans echo your take, too. That simple blue and white look is crisp, clean and uncluttered.
I watched the ice bowl as a kid
Lots to say here. I would like to hear everyone say who they are to start, as i feel there is a great community here. Also will help the channel.
Me, Im David. 55. Lifelong Dallas Cowboy fan, Staubach my favorite player of all time, and objective NFL historian. Hope to start a thread . . .
I'm Mark...Mr. SportsStatsNGab. I'm a bit older than you - grew up in MN, but moved to TX a few years ago. Please let me know, anyone, what type of video you'd like to watch and I'll see if I can accomodate. Thank you!
Evan here. age 57. I grew up in Michigan and have been Lions fan. I also enjoyed the Redskins and Bengals in the 70’s. Moved to Michigan from Columbus, Ohio in 1974. That was when I became a sports fan. Prior to ‘74, I don’t have much memory of any sporting events. Welcome to the community! You’ll enjoy the videos and comments. I learn something on every one. Lots of good memories.
Incidentally the Vikings victory against Green Bay at the University of Minnesota 19-7 the Packers scored with 15 seconds left it would have been the first shut out in Vikings history,but they got it the next week at Chicago 31-0.
I did not know that. I always learn something from you, Steven.
@markgardner9460 I'm sure I learn more from you but I like to add some information!
What was with the gold end zones in the Cotton Bowl?
Hmmm. Very good question. Maybe a Cowboys fan will let us know.
Bring back the old stadiums along with the mud and dirt.
Grew up during the joe Namath's rise with the jets,still go back and watch those 60's games
A hair before my time to watch him those first few years with the Jets. I wish that I could get my hands on some entire Jets games from the '60's.
@markgardner9460 always remember the Heidi bowl in 68 when the network cut the game off .I still hear my father and my two older brothers yelling at the tv.
Have you seen the un-aired game footage? I have it, but haven't watched it in awhile.
@markgardner9460 yes,I saw it somebody put on u tube a while back.
I miss football!
I think '69 was Chuck Noll's first year as HC
You are correct
@@markgardner9460 They may have drafted Joe Green in 69 too
Correct. They also nabbed Terry Hanratty, Jon Kolb and L.C. Greenwood in that draft class.
The glory days. The NFL I remember. Mens men.
"Mark" you have "become" quite" prolific" at these "compilations" highlighting" the "quirky behavior" ...of " players" and " coaches" on and "off the field"..."what" coach" would "lite a " cigarette" on the "sideline"..when the "going got rough"..such as "Van Brocklin"😂..that would be "Unheard of "🔥🔥!!
Thank you - I appreciate that. Tommy Prothro was another big cig smoker and I've seen footage of John Madden firing away at a heater, too.
@@markgardner9460 Same with Giant coach Alex Webster (seen during their Monday night game at Philadelphia in 1970). Also Oiler coach Wally Lemm, Charger coach Sid Gillman, 49er and Saint coach Dick Nolan (he even did a Camel billboard as a Giant player--in uniform!), and Steeler defensive assistant George Perles (saw him smoking on the sideline during Super Bowl X).
@@markgardner9460 "Okay" didn't know that"!👍👍!
Dick Nolan: I utilized that Camel ad in a video not that long ago. I didn't know about the others. Thanks for the info!
What a catch by the Denver Receiver!
I think that was Mike Haffner
Craig Cooke. I can never forget that name. It was mystical and magical to me. And I want to see Lenny Dawson doing it. I want to see Fran Tarkenton to me magical what he did. And Joe Kapp, the god. And who can forget Daryle Lamonica. Those were the days of the best of times. Let me throw myself into the ditch of forgotten time with these giants of faultless memory.
WOW! The fan at 1:51! Indeed where was security!
Men of steel .
The over served guy in Minnesota looked frozen still as they were trying to remove him from the field!!
My Steelers Head Coach Chuck Knoll first season we won the first game against the Lions and lost the rest 3 head coaches since 1969 cool
That is more than cool that the Steelers have only had 3 Head Coaches in the last 55 years!
As a lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan.....and even though they have not been doing well as of late, I still take great pride in their past history and glorious legacy. From the 1966-67 NFL season through the 1985-86 NFL season (that is 19 years and 20 seasons) the Dallas Cowboys had 20 consecutive winning seasons and only missed making the playoffs twice, in 1974 and 1984. The Cowboys made it to 5 Super Bowls in the 1970s, winning 2 of them. They made it to 2 pre merger NFL Championship games and 10 NFC championship games winning 5 of them. They won their NFL/ NFC eastern conference / division 13 times. And of courseI I also fondly remember the Dallas Cowboys from 1991-92 to 1996-97 when they made the playoffs 6 straight times and winning 3 Super Bowls, 3 NFC championship games and 6 NFC eastern division titles.