@@tyelerhiggins300 he literally repeated it before talking about how it wasn’t a complete thought… you can’t claim you misheard something when you repeat it verbatim lol
Remember this is the era of Schoolhouse Rock. So I can see CBS executives saying something like "Let's do something for the kids with one of them cartoons, like 'I'm Just a Bill.' Get it done!" It wasn't really until the Simpsons that mainstream cartoons were made for adults (well, except for the pronographic underground stuff). After viewing the full animation, could this be something the HoF had in a theater to hold children's attention while Dad walks through the Hall? Then maybe they offered it to CBS because it was pretty bizarre?
@@banjoplayingbison2275 point well taken about Looney Toons. I guess the fact that I saw them unedited on Saturday mornings in the 1970s I forgot that they were pre-feature presentations in the cinema 20-30 years prior.
Oh my gosh--I remember this!! I'm officially old. Wow--How did you find this? This was the ultimate in nostalgia. Thank you for this--You made my day. Unreal video :)
He didn't miss a few words. He said, "You know? Before a really big game, I like to come down here and meditate." I heard him fine. Also, it never said that Walter Camp was in the HoF.
You could say that Freddy Football should’ve been spiked into the ground every single second of this film. Also there’s a legend that every time that song about percentages gets played a Chargers head coach goes for it on 4th and 2 at their own 18 yard line.
@Chris Smith Believe me, I don't. I don't even watch the average Sunday, Monday, or Thursday pre-games. It's just a bunch of clowns without a circus to me.
What I don't understand is why CBS went to Cambria of all places to do this thing. Why not Filmation? They were already doing a good chunk of CBS's Saturday morning schedule and educational content in cartoons was already a bit of a thing in their shows, as was music. It seems like a good match if the object was to not just hire Hanna-Barbera to rip themselves off (which was something H-B EXCELLED at). You could have even done a tie-in to Fat Albert, which was not only popular, but had some star power behind it.
And another thing. Freddy Football’s “Hall of Fame” short was the final project for Cambria Studios in 1974. This was not on par with Hanna-Barbera, DePathe-Freleng, and Filmation.
In 1965 and 1966, Cambria Studios produced "The New Three Stooges", a series of five minute animated shorts featuring the Stooges of that era (Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Joe DeRita), with live action wraparounds.
I now want to see a basketball go on the Tonight Show and talk about how it invented the airball. "See, I just didn't want to go in the hoop. I was getting cord burn all game long, so I decided to just faceplant into the floor from 14 ft."
That opening line is "Before a big game _I like to_ come down here…" Not _"then I can_ come down here…" Listen again. lol "Invented the fumble" is kinda cute. The "no sex" bit fits because back then many thought sex drained energy thus lessened performance. Especially in boxing, it was a big debate for a long time. You whippersnapper. You're right about the drop kick bit. What was wrong with it was that the drop kick was still legal at the time, so there was no reason to "bring back the drop kick." But nobody was using it then, so minor error at worst. Artificial turf sucks. Always did, always will, no matter the improvements in the tech. Yeah, the cartoon was stupid, even if the hiccup joke was pretty good. If it's any consolation, Freddie went into the game and got kicked in the ass shortly after the thing ended.
I guess my biggest issue with it is why talk about the Pro Football Hall of Fame 20 minutes before the Super Bowl? You can make a cartoon about the Super Bowl.
I remember Peter Puck quite fondly. And I miss the NBC Sunday afternoon hockey games. It was the only time, if they were the featured game, where I got to see my Flyers in their home white jerseys(back then only road games were televised in the local market). It also gave you an opportunity to see other teams. It was fun seeing games like Seals @ Kings or Red Wings @ Blues and such.
@@chrisjamesr77 I think he might do Hockey history at some point in the future, as he's starting a channel on college football on Monday, and mentioned that he may be branching out to other sports in the intro video this past Wednesday.
@@chrisjamesr77 if you want a great history hockey channel check out Pro Hockey Alumni he’s does fantastic in depth stories on players from the 1970s and 80s.
Agreed about watching the Flyers in their home whites. It was rare. We'd watch all the road games with Gene Hart and Don Earle, but we'd have to listen on the radio when they played at home. Unless they were playing the Rangers or Islanders, in which case we could rig up our TV to get channel 9 in New York. The picture would be a little snowy, but at least we could watch the Flyers. We watched game two of the Rangers semifinal series in '74 that way.
While Walter Camp practically invented the sport, it's the "Pro" Football Hall of Fame, Camp's contributions were almost, if not entirely, at the college level. That said, he still has more right to be there than Abner Doubleday has to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. EDIT: While the Doubleday story is the reason that the Baseball HOF is located in Cooperstown, NY, Abner himself is not actually an enshrinee.
After he invented football, he also made a series of early exercise records made by Health Builders Inc., and made a special portable gramophone called Camp Fone, a windup phonograph from 1923 where you can play 78’s on the go. I still have it, and it’s a collector’s gem.
10:55 That kind of stuff actually happens with baseball announcers on occasion. There are people in the booth who viscerally hate the way the game is played and analyzed today.
@@ajk Walk, Home Run, Strikeout. This is the kind of baseball hardcore analysts like the most. I don't have a problem with those things, in and of themselves, but there's no action in a walk or a strikeout. Home runs aren't very exciting when almost every hitter in the lineup can hit them with some consistency. And most long flyballs that don't make it into the stands are boring, fielder-stands-under-it flyouts. Grounders deep in the hole, baserunning, basestealing, doubles and triples in the gap...that's more exciting. Baseball needs to make the changes necessary to produce more of that kind of baseball. If they do nothing else, deaden the baseball.
1. Hate to be that guy, but Sam Mills passed away in 2005. 2. You mentioned the Vikings practice facility issues before this game. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about all they went through to get a facility acceptable to them, and not one where birds were flying around the showers.
I'm old enough to remember Freddie the Football. I looked on RUclips for YEARS for it without success. AND YES! That Hall of Fame and Percentages songs got stuck in my head since that time.
Actually it's true. NBC is programming 12-14 hours of programming on Super Bowl Sunday 2022. Starting with the Pre Game right after Meet the Press. Then the Rams vs Bengals game itself with the Dr. Dre/Eminem Halftime Show and Post Game. After the Big game then NBC will plan to broadcast another 4-6 hours of Winter Olympic coverage from China. So basically from 12 Noon (ET)/9am West Coast time until around 2am ET/11pm West Coast non stop Sports Programming. That might be a record on Free Basic (non digital cable tv)for most consecutive hours of sports for either CBS, ABC, Fox and NBC on the same day. Someone can confirm but that is what I saw the other day for NBC schedule for 2/13/22.
The "Freddy Football" cartoon is still better than 6 hours of (1) former players and coaches running their mouths about what to do in the upcoming Super Bowl game; and (2) D-level musical acts showing they cannot sing on today's Super Bowl pregame shows.
Besides being Owl in Winnie the Pooh, Hal Smith was also Pooh himself in "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore," Uncle Tex on The Flintstones, and a host of other animated characters. He did a fair amount of live action roles as well, most notably Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show.
I remember that. I was 10yrs old and it was unwatchable and I was saying to myself, "that can't be right". I knew the rules and a little bit of history 😉
I remember the Ditka v OJ Sega game. I was sick during that Super Bowl, so I was stuck on the couch all afternoon. I think I actually thought that it was a good omen for the Bills.
I WOULD LOVE to see a video on the first super bowl which was broadcast on both cbs and nbc . it must have been something with 2 networks setting up shop at the same venue.
To see how weird it is that this studio was chosen prior to Super Bowl VIII, considering they're mostly known for a short-lived cartoon that ended in 1960, this would be like, prior to Super Bowl LVI, a cartoon done by the crew behind Nickelodeon's The X's played as part of the halftime show. Yes, I did some research to find a cartoon that lasted only one year that ended roughly 14 years prior to the last Super Bowl.
It would be possible i suppose to have a field that is uphill both ways, if the field was set on a giant tilt, that shifted up and down depending on what quarter the game is in, or who lost the 'tilt toss' at the beginning of the game. I'd tune in to see the giant tilting field...lol
Just build it on a hill lol, then if you lose the toss you are running uphill, and if you want both going uphill, then just make it so that offence is always up
Sure, the fumble is one of the worst things that can happen... to a ball carrier. The defensive player who causes the fumble and/or picks up the fumble for a TD surely has the opposite feeling. A problem here is that you compared the fumble to an air ball instead of a steal or a blocked shot. Looking at it that way, it can be forgiven. Not to mention that this was 5 years before the fumble brought us the Holy Roller. But that's more of a side note.
This was the first Super Bowl I watched from start to finish. I have absolutely no memory of this cartoon. And I *do* remember Peter Puck. I was 10 years old, so unlike the cartoon producers, I was definitely not on drugs. It bears noting this was the final Super Bowl on CBS before the modern NFL Today era. So Brent Musburger hosted the CBS pregame shows from Super Bowl X through XXIV, and so on.
If they had to fill 6 and a half minutes for a 30 minute pregame with this, you would think the pre-games would have been shortened. That didn't happen. What are they now, 6 hours ?
You're referring to Pierre Puck with that thick Quebec accent? That's what I remembered more from watching Hockey Night in Canada back in the day. As soon as he mentioned a cartoon character, my mind immediately went back to Peter Puck. Thanks for the memory, JG9!
Walter Camp was the guy that invented football. He also made a special windup phonograph called the Camp Fone by Health Builders made a series of exercise records during the 1920’s. When Walter Camp passed away in the late 1920’s, Health Builders no longer exists with the Camp Fone portable windup phonograph.
Just imagining a future super bowl, sponsored by a fictitious An-High-zer Bush Cannibis Company, with the promotion that gives away a free doobie to in-stadium fans upon the conversion of a 4th and 20. Then, this cartoon might make a lot more sense.
Well Super Bowl VIII would have been a LOT MORE ENTERTAINING to WATCH if BOTH the Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings would have just SPIKED the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play. BOTH teams are WELL BELOW a 39.6.
Your complaints are mostly misinterpretations, and the old footballs was done for humor. I watched the video and thought it was fine. It was probably always supposed to be a one off so comparisons with Puck may be invalid. Most Super Bowl stuff is never done again so that doesn't prove anything either. You did cause me to watch this quirky piece of history for the first time though, which I appreciate. I gave your full Freddie Football video a like and this one a dislike so I guess it balances out. I'm still a fan of your channel overall, but this one seemed forced and sloppy.
The opening line says, “before the big game, I like to come down here and meditate…”
I’m sorry, but that’s a complete thought
Yeah I think he's trying too hard to put this down.
I think he just misheard it.
Edit: I did have to rewatch it though, since I heard exactly what you said both times.
@@tyelerhiggins300 he literally repeated it before talking about how it wasn’t a complete thought… you can’t claim you misheard something when you repeat it verbatim lol
Remember this is the era of Schoolhouse Rock. So I can see CBS executives saying something like "Let's do something for the kids with one of them cartoons, like 'I'm Just a Bill.' Get it done!"
It wasn't really until the Simpsons that mainstream cartoons were made for adults (well, except for the pronographic underground stuff). After viewing the full animation, could this be something the HoF had in a theater to hold children's attention while Dad walks through the Hall? Then maybe they offered it to CBS because it was pretty bizarre?
Exactly. That was the vibe I got as well.
Actually stuff like Looney Tunes was made more oriented for a adult audience
However during this era cartoons became more youth oriented
@@banjoplayingbison2275 point well taken about Looney Toons. I guess the fact that I saw them unedited on Saturday mornings in the 1970s I forgot that they were pre-feature presentations in the cinema 20-30 years prior.
@@banjoplayingbison2275 Not to mention Flinstones and the Jetson's of the 60's.
9:35 "After the football rants about the dropkick no longer being a thing"
DOUG FLUTIE HAS ENTERED THE CHAT
(yeah I know that was years later lol)
Burt Reynolds did it in The Longest Yard the referee said he hadn't seen one of those in years
With all the "ball" puns, I'm kinda surprised they didn't say the one who invented the fumble was "Fum Ball"
nice now lets celebrate the fumble all football fans love fumbles for their team....
Did ORENTHAL kill Ditka in the Computer Bowl?
Reminds me of what FOX tried for NASCAR coverage in 2009 with "Digger the Gopher"
and around 2004 with the baseball (had a name, but I've forgotten it) who explained the different pitches
Oh my gosh--I remember this!! I'm officially old. Wow--How did you find this? This was the ultimate in nostalgia. Thank you for this--You made my day. Unreal video :)
what’s the “Eddie ball” joke? idgi
@@mcsweatshop like the word "edible"
What’s wrong with the name eddie ball? You do realize that edible is an actual word and doesn’t only refer to marijuana infused treats, correct?
I will be honest. What is so clever about Edie ball. Am I caught up in a generation gap.
I don't think eating marijuana was a big thing back then. All I heard is that it makes you hungry.
@Chris Smith are you referring to me or jg9?
Obviously the problem for Mike was they were playing Madden, not Mike Ditka's Power Football
Should've been playing Tecmo Superbowl!
@@jamesage24 and playing as Bo Jackson lol
Best-of-3: one game on Madden, one game on Ditka's game, and if a rubber match is necessary, Joe Montana Football for the Genesis.
@@pronkb000 Better yet, NFL 2K5 (I know it didn't exist yet, but who cares lol)
@@pronkb000 I really liked Joe Montana Football for Sega!
He didn't miss a few words. He said, "You know? Before a really big game, I like to come down here and meditate." I heard him fine.
Also, it never said that Walter Camp was in the HoF.
You could say that Freddy Football should’ve been spiked into the ground every single second of this film. Also there’s a legend that every time that song about percentages gets played a Chargers head coach goes for it on 4th and 2 at their own 18 yard line.
He was bouncing around, so Freddy would be a great spiking ball
"Bring back the grass" sounds like what Tommy Chong would say.
heeeyyyy man....you're....a talking football, far out man.
A 30 minute pregame show sounds refreshing.
@Chris Smith Believe me, I don't. I don't even watch the average Sunday, Monday, or Thursday pre-games. It's just a bunch of clowns without a circus to me.
In case anyone is wondering what "Conduct Control" means at 3:32, it means "breaking up fights".
What I don't understand is why CBS went to Cambria of all places to do this thing. Why not Filmation? They were already doing a good chunk of CBS's Saturday morning schedule and educational content in cartoons was already a bit of a thing in their shows, as was music. It seems like a good match if the object was to not just hire Hanna-Barbera to rip themselves off (which was something H-B EXCELLED at). You could have even done a tie-in to Fat Albert, which was not only popular, but had some star power behind it.
And another thing. Freddy Football’s “Hall of Fame” short was the final project for Cambria Studios in 1974. This was not on par with Hanna-Barbera, DePathe-Freleng, and Filmation.
In 1965 and 1966, Cambria Studios produced "The New Three Stooges", a series of five minute animated shorts featuring the Stooges of that era (Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Joe DeRita), with live action wraparounds.
Freddy Football LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
I now want to see a basketball go on the Tonight Show and talk about how it invented the airball.
"See, I just didn't want to go in the hoop. I was getting cord burn all game long, so I decided to just faceplant into the floor from 14 ft."
This segment makes "Conjunction Junction" an immortal animated cartoon.
That opening line is "Before a big game _I like to_ come down here…" Not _"then I can_ come down here…" Listen again. lol
"Invented the fumble" is kinda cute.
The "no sex" bit fits because back then many thought sex drained energy thus lessened performance. Especially in boxing, it was a big debate for a long time. You whippersnapper.
You're right about the drop kick bit. What was wrong with it was that the drop kick was still legal at the time, so there was no reason to "bring back the drop kick." But nobody was using it then, so minor error at worst.
Artificial turf sucks. Always did, always will, no matter the improvements in the tech.
Yeah, the cartoon was stupid, even if the hiccup joke was pretty good. If it's any consolation, Freddie went into the game and got kicked in the ass shortly after the thing ended.
I guess my biggest issue with it is why talk about the Pro Football Hall of Fame 20 minutes before the Super Bowl? You can make a cartoon about the Super Bowl.
I remember Peter Puck quite fondly. And I miss the NBC Sunday afternoon hockey games. It was the only time, if they were the featured game, where I got to see my Flyers in their home white jerseys(back then only road games were televised in the local market). It also gave you an opportunity to see other teams. It was fun seeing games like Seals @ Kings or Red Wings @ Blues and such.
Too bad this guy doesn't do videos about hockey, because it would funny to see him do one about Fox's "glowing puck" lol
@@chrisjamesr77 I think he might do Hockey history at some point in the future, as he's starting a channel on college football on Monday, and mentioned that he may be branching out to other sports in the intro video this past Wednesday.
@@MrLeoni2 lol I'm 100% down for that!
@@chrisjamesr77 if you want a great history hockey channel check out Pro Hockey Alumni he’s does fantastic in depth stories on players from the 1970s and 80s.
Agreed about watching the Flyers in their home whites. It was rare. We'd watch all the road games with Gene Hart and Don Earle, but we'd have to listen on the radio when they played at home. Unless they were playing the Rangers or Islanders, in which case we could rig up our TV to get channel 9 in New York. The picture would be a little snowy, but at least we could watch the Flyers. We watched game two of the Rangers semifinal series in '74 that way.
While Walter Camp practically invented the sport, it's the "Pro" Football Hall of Fame, Camp's contributions were almost, if not entirely, at the college level. That said, he still has more right to be there than Abner Doubleday has to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
EDIT: While the Doubleday story is the reason that the Baseball HOF is located in Cooperstown, NY, Abner himself is not actually an enshrinee.
After he invented football, he also made a series of early exercise records made by Health Builders Inc., and made a special portable gramophone called Camp Fone, a windup phonograph from 1923 where you can play 78’s on the go. I still have it, and it’s a collector’s gem.
10:55 That kind of stuff actually happens with baseball announcers on occasion. There are people in the booth who viscerally hate the way the game is played and analyzed today.
Yep.....and can back it up in one name. Bob Costas lol.
I could do with less three-outcomes baseball myself. I know it's a better brand of baseball, but it's much less entertaining.
@@dash_r_media less three-outcomes?
@@ajk Walk, Home Run, Strikeout. This is the kind of baseball hardcore analysts like the most. I don't have a problem with those things, in and of themselves, but there's no action in a walk or a strikeout. Home runs aren't very exciting when almost every hitter in the lineup can hit them with some consistency. And most long flyballs that don't make it into the stands are boring, fielder-stands-under-it flyouts.
Grounders deep in the hole, baserunning, basestealing, doubles and triples in the gap...that's more exciting. Baseball needs to make the changes necessary to produce more of that kind of baseball. If they do nothing else, deaden the baseball.
1. Hate to be that guy, but Sam Mills passed away in 2005.
2. You mentioned the Vikings practice facility issues before this game. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about all they went through to get a facility acceptable to them, and not one where birds were flying around the showers.
You can learn more about that by clicking on the card in the upper right hand corner
@@donaldpaluga New to this channel?
Don’t know how #1 slipped past me
@@CTubeMan lost your sense of humor?
I'm old enough to remember Freddie the Football. I looked on RUclips for YEARS for it without success. AND YES! That Hall of Fame and Percentages songs got stuck in my head since that time.
I think Freddie Football accidentally went to the Mr. Potato Head Hall of Fame instead of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The cartoon missed a golden opportunity to talk about the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field.
8:58 I highly doubt they were making a joke about edibles. Like, this was the 60s after all and the stuff was far less potent than it was today
I hate to be that guy but it was 1973.
No edibles oy stuff baked into cookies and brownies
@@flyinelvis69 no worries! Thanks
Did I hear that right?? This year's SB pregame show is SIX hours? Will they sacrifice a virgin at halftime? They'll no doubt have trouble finding one.
Actually it's true. NBC is programming 12-14 hours of programming on Super Bowl Sunday 2022. Starting with the Pre Game right after Meet the Press. Then the Rams vs Bengals game itself with the Dr. Dre/Eminem Halftime Show and Post Game. After the Big game then NBC will plan to broadcast another 4-6 hours of Winter Olympic coverage from China. So basically from 12 Noon (ET)/9am West Coast time until around 2am ET/11pm West Coast non stop Sports Programming. That might be a record on Free Basic (non digital cable tv)for most consecutive hours of sports for either CBS, ABC, Fox and NBC on the same day. Someone can confirm but that is what I saw the other day for NBC schedule for 2/13/22.
2:33 I think Brian McFarlane is Robert Loggia's long lost twin brother.
Ha! I remember that OJ vs. Ditka Madden battle. Ditka (or whoever was playing on his behalf) missed a FG at the end.
Who would win: Freddy Football vs Cleatus
"Before a really big game, I like to come down here and meditate."
The "Freddy Football" cartoon is still better than 6 hours of (1) former players and coaches running their mouths about what to do in the upcoming Super Bowl game; and (2) D-level musical acts showing they cannot sing on today's Super Bowl pregame shows.
LMAO at having a Freddy Football" segment return to the 24 hour pregame show.
Besides being Owl in Winnie the Pooh, Hal Smith was also Pooh himself in "Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore," Uncle Tex on The Flintstones, and a host of other animated characters. He did a fair amount of live action roles as well, most notably Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show.
Hal Smith's best role was Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show.
Good news Scooter
You're no longer the worst lol
I would like to see a video about the worst halftime performing group, Up With People.
And they did it FIVE TIMES.
I remember that. I was 10yrs old and it was unwatchable and I was saying to myself, "that can't be right". I knew the rules and a little bit of history 😉
This whole thing is like some fever play you see after losing consciousness on the field.
9:34 Mr. Monopoly makes a guest appearance.
I think that were going for football lore not fact . Eddie ball wasn't a common term back then
I remember the Ditka v OJ Sega game. I was sick during that Super Bowl, so I was stuck on the couch all afternoon. I think I actually thought that it was a good omen for the Bills.
I actually saw this cartoon while watching the Super Bowl VIII pregame show on Obsolete Video's channel.
I WOULD LOVE to see a video on the first super bowl which was broadcast on both cbs and nbc . it must have been something with 2 networks setting up shop at the same venue.
12:58 - That’s a very old looking football
Can someone explain Eddie ball?
Edible. Not a thing in 1973 but a big deal 50 years later
Somebody at CBS probably asked the animation studio how half assed can you make it
This is pretty damn weird, all things considered. Now imagine if they combined it with a talent show.
Hal Smith is best known as Mayberry's town drunk, Otis Campbell.
To see how weird it is that this studio was chosen prior to Super Bowl VIII, considering they're mostly known for a short-lived cartoon that ended in 1960, this would be like, prior to Super Bowl LVI, a cartoon done by the crew behind Nickelodeon's The X's played as part of the halftime show.
Yes, I did some research to find a cartoon that lasted only one year that ended roughly 14 years prior to the last Super Bowl.
Can someone help me? I don't understand the Ed E. Ball joke
Edible. A drug reference.
@@jamesage24 thanks!
I had to dig hard to find that clip. I remember it was the pregame opening for Super Bowl VIII. I was 10 yrs old at the time.
Is the voice of Freddy Football the same Hal Smith that played Otis the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show?
Yes. Hal had a long career as a voice actor as well. Most notably Disney, Warner Bros, Cambria, and Hanna Barbara.
If Freddie Football had been better received, could he have become a long-term part of their "NFL Today" pregame show?
Peter Puck sounds like a Cool and informative idea.
10:37 Damm, the invention of Physics hit the NFL pretty hard.
It would be possible i suppose to have a field that is uphill both ways, if the field was set on a giant tilt, that shifted up and down depending on what quarter the game is in, or who lost the 'tilt toss' at the beginning of the game. I'd tune in to see the giant tilting field...lol
Just build it on a hill lol, then if you lose the toss you are running uphill, and if you want both going uphill, then just make it so that offence is always up
That would at least finally make sense when these talking heads refer to a ball carrier "running downhill"!
The AstroTurf of the 70s was anything but "soft" lol
The producers of "Freddie Football" should have fact checked with the Hall Of Fame to make sure the facts were accurate.
Cambria Studios' "New Three Stooges" was produced in 1965 and 1966.
Freddy Football would turn out to be Cambria’s final project for the studio.
The hall of fame doesn’t look like that anymore.
Sure, the fumble is one of the worst things that can happen... to a ball carrier. The defensive player who causes the fumble and/or picks up the fumble for a TD surely has the opposite feeling. A problem here is that you compared the fumble to an air ball instead of a steal or a blocked shot. Looking at it that way, it can be forgiven. Not to mention that this was 5 years before the fumble brought us the Holy Roller. But that's more of a side note.
Like others I hear, "I like to come down here and meditate." First sentence sounds fine.
cbs should have just spiked the singing football and quit with that one.
I am pretty sure Peter Puck originated in Canada on the CBC.
This was the first Super Bowl I watched from start to finish. I have absolutely no memory of this cartoon. And I *do* remember Peter Puck. I was 10 years old, so unlike the cartoon producers, I was definitely not on drugs. It bears noting this was the final Super Bowl on CBS before the modern NFL Today era. So Brent Musburger hosted the CBS pregame shows from Super Bowl X through XXIV, and so on.
I really wish I were around and watching hockey in the days of Peter Puck because I could see myself really enjoying that.
We need Freddy Football merch on the JG9 shop ASAP
Or have him take a drink whenever JG9 says, “Which is better than if you spiked the ball into the ground on every single play.”
So, to sum up: Peter Puck >>> Scooter the Baseball >>> Freddie Football.
Peter Puck RULES!!!
If they had to fill 6 and a half minutes for a 30 minute pregame with this, you would think the pre-games would have been shortened. That didn't happen. What are they now, 6 hours ?
Girl, that's an almond.
Freddie Football was a better CBS decision than hiring Jayne Kennedy.
This was honestly kinda cute, clearly an early attempt to keep kids entertained in a boring spot while wanting them to still pay attention to football
Freddie the Footbal should be a hall of famer
Hey! Save every animated cartoon Peter Puck and send it to the NHL NETWORK as soon as possible
That's why they refer to the 1970s as the "Dark Age of American Animation" knowing how bad that cartoon is.
It the Dark Age of American Animation right now
Peter Puck was loved by Canadian and U.S hockey fans, never heard of Freddy Football
Keep Pounding!!!
(note: certain details in the audio of this video found to had been vulgar, unprofessional, and/or detrimental)
Peter Puck was not so fondly remembered in Canada
You're referring to Pierre Puck with that thick Quebec accent? That's what I remembered more from watching Hockey Night in Canada back in the day. As soon as he mentioned a cartoon character, my mind immediately went back to Peter Puck. Thanks for the memory, JG9!
It only referred to Walter Camp. It didn't claim he was in the Hall. The name was probably used cause it was easy to rhyme.
Walter Camp was the guy that invented football. He also made a special windup phonograph called the Camp Fone by Health Builders made a series of exercise records during the 1920’s. When Walter Camp passed away in the late 1920’s, Health Builders no longer exists with the Camp Fone portable windup phonograph.
Just imagining a future super bowl, sponsored by a fictitious An-High-zer Bush Cannibis Company, with the promotion that gives away a free doobie to in-stadium fans upon the conversion of a 4th and 20. Then, this cartoon might make a lot more sense.
Don't give Snoop any ideas
Wow. Kinda happy I don't remember any of this. Was never really interested in any pre-game, post-game offerings.
It's a lemon that had a stroke
How is Walter Camp not in the HOF?
who animated the football
That looks fine.. what is the issue?
Oh, how unfortunate it was for the Lions to lose on a record-setting field goal in 1970.
Good thing it never happened again!
I dunno, after OBJ's ACL injury at this past Super Bowl, ol Timothy has a point
Who remembers Punt & Runt lol
I guess my 40-year-old self not knowing about this cartoon wasn't a bad thing. I wish I could've seen Peter Puck, though.
I was 3 at the time
Well Super Bowl VIII would have been a LOT MORE ENTERTAINING to WATCH if BOTH the Miami Dolphins and Minnesota Vikings would have just SPIKED the football into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play. BOTH teams are WELL BELOW a 39.6.
Why does it look like schoolhouse rock cartoon
Love the green coats!
So low budget and quickly put together, they couldn't afford to do research.
What were the chances that all three of the NHL announcers had won the Masters??!!
It's obvious JG9 has never watched an episode of Mystery Science Theater. MSTies eat stuff like this for breakfast.
Your complaints are mostly misinterpretations, and the old footballs was done for humor. I watched the video and thought it was fine. It was probably always supposed to be a one off so comparisons with Puck may be invalid. Most Super Bowl stuff is never done again so that doesn't prove anything either. You did cause me to watch this quirky piece of history for the first time though, which I appreciate. I gave your full Freddie Football video a like and this one a dislike so I guess it balances out. I'm still a fan of your channel overall, but this one seemed forced and sloppy.
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