Broke our hearts when the Cardinals left St. Louis. My hero was Larry Wilson. A 7th round draft choice who I think turned out to be the best safety ever. Smart fast and tough.
I agree about Wilson. Great Blitzer, Run Supporter, and had the back end covered. I remember Jerry Kramer spoke glowingly about Wilson in his book Instant Replay. I believe Kramer called him the best player in the NFL.
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan. Couldn't agree more about Larry Wilson. WHAT an awesome player he was. Definitely my favorite all-time Cardinals defensive player. IMO, he defined what the NFL was all about.🏈
Absolutely amazed at the quality of such old footage. Another thing that I love is that the offensive linemen are blocking with their SHOULDERS & FOREARMS, not the BS grabbing & holding that routinely take place on every play in today's game! This was a great era of football as Anthony Felker has commented. However it was the end of an era for the N.Y. Giants. They won their 3rd consecutive NFL Eastern Division title in '63. Then starting in 1964 after disastrous trades, players retiring, chronic injuries, poor drafting, & poorer coaching, they'd descend into the NFL depths of despair for many torturous decades to follow.
@@Steve915 Very true! The last Yankees home game of 1966 drew only 413 people. They finished last in the AL. The 1966 Giants finished at 1-12-1, last in the Eastern Conference. The defense gave up 501 points. The fans at Yankee Stadium chanted "Goodbye Allie". A far cry from that final glory year of 1963.
Thanks for this chance to re-live this old St. Louis Cardinals game. Although their best St. Loiis Cardinals teams are remembered as the Don Coryell teams of the 1970s, the Cardinals had a couple of excellent seasons in the 1960s as well that would have made the playoffs if they only played the East first place versus the West first place at the end of the season unless there was a tie for first place. Charley Johnson was the quartback of the 1960s with Jim Hart coming on next. The Cardinals came up just a little short and rememberr once coming in second just a half game out despite being very comptetive with the Jim Brown Cleveland Browns. I sure remember this New York Giants team as well.
There is nothing like watching footage of the older games and the team I loved in the Cardinals- as a little boy going too every game with my older brother and uncles to Busch 2 stadium. Those where the days and really cold it seemed back them PLEASE BRING ON MORE- THIS IS GREAT!!!
This game was played 2 days after the assassination of President Kennedy and a day before his funeral. The NFL played their full schedule of games that day. The AFL did not play that day
Absolutely. Pete Rozelle attended this game in person. A man approached him and said: “Are you Pete Rozelle?” When Pete said “yes,” the man proceeded to punch Rozelle in the face. True story.
Two days after JFK I believed. And as a kid born in 1958 and raised in STL, we've watched two NFL teams come and go. The greatest offensive players during that time? Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk. The greatest defensive player? #8 Larry Wilson. Looked like Popeye and played like Brutus!
This game never should have been played. Grossly inappropriate to do so. The country was suffering from the national disgrace of 11/22/63. We were all in deep mourning. And then play a game? Commissioner Pete Rozelle attended this game on 11/24/63. During the game, a fan approached his seat and punched Rozelle in the face. Literally. True story. This game should never have been played. And Pete Rozelle was responsible for the farce of NFL football on 11/24/63.
Looking at these old videos I helps me to appreciate the older players like ex-Cardinals WR Sonny Randle who was one of better deep threats of the early '60s.
And the guy on the other side, flanker Bobby Joe Conrad. I think he still has the record for catching passes in consecutive games, 93 straight, and that wasn't revealed until the early 90s, when it was found that Don Hutson of the Packers of the 1930s and 40s did not hold the record after all. I real goof-up. Bobby demanded to be traded after the 1967 season because he only had two passes thrown to him in the game that stopped the streak, and it was supposed to be one game short of Hutson's record, but that wasn't true, being one ahead.
@@ldfreitas9437 Thanks for the information about these forgotten heroes I have developed a certain fascination with WHITE WRs with size and speed and these guys fit the bill.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1968, as a 12 kid, I attended a Washington at Dallas game at the Cotton Bowl. Sonny was a back-up at that stage of his career along with Pete Gent, backing up Lance Rentzel & Bob Hayes. Sonny got in the game, with no receptions, none even thrown his way. He obviously was great as a Card before injuries robbed him of a long career. Great stats for a receiver during the "running" era of the NFL. R.I.P. Sonny Randle #88🏈 GOD BLESS OUR BOYHOOD PRO FOOTBALL HEROES FROM A BYGONE ERA.
@@lakemichigan6598 I hear you Buddy. The NFL (&AFL) during the 1960s was my first love. If I had studied in school like I studied pro football, I could have been a college professor at Harvard😅. But like you say, I have forgotten some of the more obscure players from back in the day. R.I.P. to all of the ones that have passed away. 🏈
@@t4texastomjohnnycat978 Paul Naumoff was a late 60's early 70's linebacker for the Lions out of the University of Tennessee. An excellent player, not Pro Bowl material but still very good. Well, I was going through a list of people who had passed a couple years ago and saw his name. It's hard to believe young, tough, agile, fast, and indestructible NFL players like Naumoff, someone I looked up to as a kid. somehow aged to the point he got old, sick, and died. Each athlete I remember from that era's death is a sad passing inevitably reminding me my own end is no longer as far away as it once was.
@@lakemichigan6598 I definitely remember Paul Naumoff playing for U.Tenn, and then later for the Lions. He was a terrific player. The Lions had a very tough defense in those days..... Naumoff, Lucci, Walker, Karras, Hand, LeBeau, & Barney just to name a few. I wasn't aware that Naumoff had passed away. I miss seeing him play college ball by one season when Tenn came to Rice Stadium to play the Owls in 1968. Thanks Lake Michigan for your comments, and for informing me about Paul Naumoff. I sure miss 1960s & 1970s NFL ball.🏈👍😊
@@t4texastomjohnnycat978 Wayne Walker, another linebacker, was also the Lion's place kicker for quite a few years. Back then, about half of each kicker's attempts were good in contrast to today's specialists who often hit around 9 of 10. But in the 60's everyone played outside - and by November & December the completely torn up field/monsoons/blizzard season was upon them making hitting a field goal then very problematic for even the best kickers.
This game was played 2 days after the Kennedy assassination and wasn't seen on television. Pete Rozelle later regretted not cancelling the games that week
Didn't recognize Joe Walton without his hat on backwards. Head shots of Cardinals players taken 9/28 at Forbes Field Pittsburgh. @ 4:29 the stacked up chairs behind end zone are the original box seat chairs from when The Stadium opened in 1923. They were replaced in 1947-8 as part of renovations that also moved Yanks dugout to 1st base side. The "first blood"description was a bad choice of words considering the circumstances the past week. Even as a wise-guy Brooksie couldn't be that tone deaf?
The commissioner of professional football should be ashamed of himself at the time when Kennedy got assassinated on Friday and you never canceled the football games on Sunday.
the president of the united states, john fitzgerald kennedy assassinated 2 days earlier. notice the demeanor of the players, most weren't happy about having to play... none of the nfl games (7 of them) were broadcast live, the 3 networks were wall to wall coverage of the assassination and funeral. lee harvey oswald, kennedy's assassin was gunned down 39 minutes before 12 o'clock games started. the vietnam war would escalate under johnson as president, and little to no mention of the war (for years) made broadcast t.v. other than the nightly news. the smothers brothers were infamously cancelled for ignoring warnings from cbs to stop with the political commentary against the war and nixon. they were the top-rated show at the time.
loved the cards of the sixties .........gave the browns a lot of grief ........lee .........i hear u , when the browns left cleveland in 1995 . that was it for me ...............these old films are better than anything i see in pro ball today ..............TODAYS GAME ........TERRIBLE !
If you lived in an NFL market, you only got to see your home team when they were playing on the road. Home games were blacked out in a 75 mile radius from where it was being played. If you didn't have a ticket for the game, you listened on radio. I grew up in NY and the closest market that picked up Giants home games was Hartford, CT.
2 days after 9/11, the WWF had a live event in San Antonio. It was really what we needed. Hearing the wrestlers talk about how they felt, Vince McMahon's speech at the beginning. Gave me goose bumps. The same kind of thing here, I think.
A young Tom Brookshire, he still has some of his football bulk here. I also like him doing boxing with Jerry Quarry on CBS. The 1960's early 70's golden age of NFL, this is the only football that I watch can't stand this modern mess.
Hard to believe the disrespect towards the Kennedy family, by not canceling the NFL games. I remember being marched out of parochial school and being sent home, when the news came that JFK was assassinated. And watching Jack Ruby shooting Oswald on live tv. Remember it like it was yesterday.
JFK Press Secretary Pierre Salinger recommended the games should be played, supposedly with the agreement of Robert F. Kennedy. The games featured no pregame introductions and no band music. At Yankee Stadium the crowd sang the national anthem a capella. The overdubbed oompah-roompah marching band music is ridiculous for this clip; in reality the game was played in eerie near silence.
I was in 4th grade at the time, in a Catholic school in which the majority of teachers, nuns then, were Irish-American. My teacher had a hard time keeping it together. We were not sent home, as news of the assassination happened right after recess at 10am, on the Pacific Coast. I got home and my mom had the TV on, watching the news. It's a day I will never forget, and when our teacher announced that Kennedy had been shot will be a memory always. It was surreal. Also happened to be the worst season for the 49ers up to then.
It's funny that Pete Rozelle got so much criticism for not calling off the games that weekend, but look at the grandstands. They're packed. Obviously there were a lot of people who weren't so broken up by the events of that weekend that they stayed home to mourn. And this is New York, which was Kennedy territory.
I remember watching this game.. at the time it got people's mind off of the non stop assassination coverage...the highlight of the day was when Ruby killed Oswald...
Some ppl criticize NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle for not cancelling games during this weekend (JFK assassinated) the day before but,NFL stadiums were still packed with spectators including btw this game,and Rozelle was named sportsman of the year by Sports Illustrated just to lend a little perspective.
During this particular game on 11-24-63, (the weekend of the JFK assassination and funeral), a fan approached the NFL commissioner and said: “Are you Pete Rozelle?” He replied: “Why yes, I’m Pete Rozelle.” The fan then proceeded to punch the NFL commissioner in the face; presumably due to the sheer anger he felt that this game was even being played at a time of national mourning for the tragic death of President Kennedy. True story.
Because they won this game, The Cardinals found themselves in a three way tie with the Browns and Giants at 8-3. On the outside but looking in were the Steelers at 6-3-2, having just tied the eventual champions, the Bears. Ironically, two weeks later, it would be the Steelers versus the Giants for all the marbles, the Giants winning 33-17.
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson started it mostly. And let's be honest. How many black players were in the NFL in those days? And how many today? Check out the start of the modern era of celebrations:. ruclips.net/video/K0EVm7fi0iQ/видео.html
I think about Dave Casper catching the winning touchdown in a double overtime playoff game December 24 1977.And none of the ridiculous celebration stuff you see now days.
@LD Yep, you're sure right LD. I definitely remember those days/years. Crow, Willard, Stickles...... there's some pretty doggone tough dudes. They don't make 'em like them anymore, do they LD.🏈 Thanks for your comments Buddy. 👋🏻😊👍
He moved to Tight End. In his last Season (late) SF came to Atlanta. I guess SF was in contention. Some sportswriters articled that he might return to backfield to gain the few yards to reach 5,000. The score was close and couldn’t.
Tom Brookshier was drunk this broadcast and he shouted the whole time and his producer and Director kept telling him to calm down and they finally had to give him a shot of Jack Daniels any calm down but he was shouting the whole time
Lots of Larry Wilson fans here! I'd like to remind everyone that Wilson INVENTED the safety blitz. It was in 1960 and Wilson sacked Giant QBs nine times!
They did not get paid very well then. They were almost semi-pros to be honest. That changed in a few years with Namath and his big contract of $400K. The highest paid player in 1954 was YA Tittle of the 49ers, at $20K a year. A 49er who played from 1960 until the mid-70s was Len Rhode. He taught second semester English at Overfelt High in San Jose during much of his career, and then started to buy a few Jack in the Boxes or one of the other fast food outlets. Probably made much more money from that.
This was a little before my time so,I don’t recognize most of the names. But,this #84,Joe Robb,of St. Louis made two HUGE sacks near the end of the game to secure the win. Pretty impressive.
Ruby was shooting Oswald not too long before the opening kickoff I think. NBC was the only network covering it live. The other two were covering the 6 grey horses hauling the casket to the U.S. Capitol. They didn't have cable or ESPN. There's no way this game was broadcast live.
In Assassination Radio Coverage for 11/24/63 the program switches a bit to Cleveland/Dallas game the Reporter in the stands said everyone had Transistor Radios on Assassination Coverage. If Game was in Dallas no way the Game would go on. As it was nobody uttered the word “Dallas”.
I couldn't find out who won this game until the Night Owl edition of the Daily News came out.I wonder if the players were in the dark with regard to Oswald?
@classicrockbeagle, Hardly surprising as he was at the end of the line, physically, and barely had regular plays from scrimmage over the last two years of his career.
Looking back, it's easy to see now that NO NFL games should have been played that weekend. I believe Mr. Rozelle said it was his biggest regret as commissioner of the NFL...
It was controversial that the scheduled NFL games were allowed to be played. I wasn't a football fan then but I do remember, while sledding a few weeks later at a nearby park, hearing from someone that the Bears had just beaten the Giants to win the NFL championship.
You’d think that Tom Brookshier could have made mention of the terrible circumstances of this game on 11-24-63, two days after the JFK assassination. In his narration, he acts as if it’s just another game. This game should never, never, never, have even been played.
@@frederickrapp5396 The games scheduled for that Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963 should've been re-scheduled. The AFL did not play that day. They re-scheduled those games to Sunday, Dec. 22 and moved their championship game from Dec. 29, 1963 to the following Sunday, Jan. 5, 1964. The NFL could've done the same.
My favorite era of football was that 10-year period of 1960-1969. There was a nice run-pass balance, and playbooks had a lot more interesting variations than today's inside zone, stretch, draw, and 40 different pass variations. The contrasts between the NFL and AFL added interest. Could the 1963 Chargers have beaten the 1963 Bears? Thanks for posting this video. A cousin of mine was one of the team doctors for the football Cardinals back when they still played at Sportsman's Park.
Good question could have the Chargers beaten the Bears...on paper the Chargers offensive was awsome and if they played the Bears at a warm weather site who nos...on the other hand the Bears had an awesome defense back in the day when u could play defense..it was a great presumed match up that never was...any ones guess who would have won...that's why they play the game...(The bears beat my team the giants to make it to the presumed match up)
This was November 24th '63? Wasn't JFK's casket going to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda that day? I thought everything was postponed. I realize Kennedy himself enjoyed football, but geeeeze.😮 On a football note, as glamorous as YA Tittle was he sure didn't have much hair did he?
You don;t think of the Cardinals being good in these years. But I was born in 1969 and I vividly remember six of the Cards: tackle Ernie McMillan, quarterback Charley Johnson, tight end Jackie Smith, cornerback Pat Fischer, linebacker (though it looks like he's setting up as a down lineman in this game) Larry Stallings, and kicker Jim Bakken
The man was in his mid thirties by this time. I think he was the uncle of Lance McElhenny who was a standout QB for Southern Methodist Univ. back in the mid 80's.
These GOTW shows were shown during the summer of 1964 as a lead up to the new season. Brookshier makes comments during the breaks about trades that would effect the '64 season.
Before Pete Rozelle passed away, he said the greatest regret of his career was playing the games on the weekend of JFK's assassination. Supposedly, it was Pierre Salinger who coaxed Rozelle to play that Sunday. On a related note, the Kennedy family insisted the Army-Navy game be played despite the wishes of the two service academies to cancel that year's game. It was played on Dec. 7, 1963, one week after its originally scheduled date.
I think the NFL did a great service to play in the aftermath of the JFK assassination 2 days earlier. We needed an escape during this time of mourning.
@@rentslave NFL scores were announced during the coverage of the JFK assassination. IIRC, WNEW, the Giants flagship radio station in 1963, aired the Giants-Cardinals game on tape delay a few days later.
@LD You know, I'd forgotten about Gallimore's death. I remember now my soon to be stepdad, a big Bears fan, told me about his getting killed at some point not long after it happened.
@LD Ron Kramer was still a Packer in 1963 and not party to the betting scandal. He was traded to Detroit in 65' or 66' for a first round draft choice that I believe turned out to be either Donny Anderson or Jim Grabowski. Kramer was into his 30's by then and well past his prime. He did very little for us. Another dumb move by the Lions. In my life I saw two games live at Tiger Stadium - both against the Bears with Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus early in their careers while at their peaks. Sayers showed that extra gear he could always turn to for immediate separation and Butkus played like he was viciously unhinged and belonged in permanent lockup.
@LD Because we lived well outside of Detroit, we got to see all the Lions' games on TV. But as a very young boy, either 4 or 5, I saw a west coast Lions game on our B&W television with my Dad. I think it was SF we were playing but I'm not sure.
@LD In looking at his stats, Gallimore had a very respectable football career. Averaging 4.5 yards per carry in his years with the Bears and over 10 yards per reception each season he played is excellent NFL work regardless of the era.
A lot of these 60s highlight videos have pregame clips from different games. I remember seeing a St. Louis/Dallas video from the early 60s and they were showing pregame shots of the players at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
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Broke our hearts when the Cardinals left St. Louis. My hero was Larry Wilson. A 7th round draft choice who I think turned out to be the best safety ever. Smart fast and tough.
Yeah man! I’m from Detroit and I saw the St. Louis Cardinals 3X’s at Tiger Stadium. You’re right, Larry Wilson was the best safety.
My favorite!
I agree about Wilson. Great Blitzer, Run Supporter, and had the back end covered. I remember Jerry Kramer spoke glowingly about Wilson in his book Instant Replay. I believe Kramer called him the best player in the NFL.
@@anthonyfelker1712 Wilson was voted recently as one of the greatest safeties in the history of the NFL.
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan. Couldn't agree more about Larry Wilson. WHAT an awesome player he was. Definitely my favorite all-time Cardinals defensive player. IMO, he defined what the NFL was all about.🏈
Larry Wilson and Jim Hart greatest cards through and through.
Absolutely amazed at the quality of such old footage. Another thing that I love is that the offensive linemen are blocking with their SHOULDERS & FOREARMS, not the BS grabbing & holding that routinely take place on every play in today's game! This was a great era of football as Anthony Felker has commented. However it was the end of an era for the N.Y. Giants. They won their 3rd consecutive NFL Eastern Division title in '63. Then starting in 1964 after disastrous trades, players retiring, chronic injuries, poor drafting, & poorer coaching, they'd descend into the NFL depths of despair for many torturous decades to follow.
Both the Giants and the Yankees collapsed after 1963 and 1964. Bleak times at Yankee Stadium in the late 1960s.
@@Steve915 Very true! The last Yankees home game of 1966 drew only 413 people. They finished last in the AL. The 1966 Giants finished at 1-12-1, last in the Eastern Conference. The defense gave up 501 points. The fans at Yankee Stadium chanted "Goodbye Allie". A far cry from that final glory year of 1963.
Terrific film, great quality! Thanks!
Hey man you alive still?
@@Handle.213he responded, no he’s dead.
Love it
Thanks for this chance to re-live this old St. Louis Cardinals game. Although their best St. Loiis Cardinals teams are remembered as the Don Coryell teams of the 1970s, the Cardinals had a couple of excellent seasons in the 1960s as well that would have made the playoffs if they only played the East first place versus the West first place at the end of the season unless there was a tie for first place. Charley Johnson was the quartback of the 1960s with Jim Hart coming on next. The Cardinals came up just a little short and rememberr once coming in second just a half game out despite being very comptetive with the Jim Brown Cleveland Browns. I sure remember this New York Giants team as well.
Amazing vid, took a trip back in time. Thank you.
Great post! Thanks.
Love those old uniforms and playing on the natural surface.
There is nothing like watching footage of the older games and the team I loved in the Cardinals- as a little boy going too every game with my older brother and uncles to Busch 2 stadium. Those where the days and really cold it seemed back them PLEASE BRING ON MORE- THIS IS GREAT!!!
They did a great job editing this. thanks for posting.
From out West. St. Louis was out West in 1963.
Cards fan as akid loved Charlie johnson and Larry wilson Jerry stover Bobby joe conrad fond memories
Wow, This is Great! Thanks for putting this out. I love this era of Football.
What a great early film, so enjoyed seeing this NFL history.
This game was played 2 days after the assassination of President Kennedy and a day before his funeral. The NFL played their full schedule of games that day. The AFL did not play that day
KENNEDY SUNDAY. THE GAMES THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN PLAYED. AFL CANCELLED THAT WEEKEND, SHOWED RESPECT.
Absolutely. Pete Rozelle attended this game in person. A man approached him and said: “Are you Pete Rozelle?” When Pete said “yes,” the man proceeded to punch Rozelle in the face. True story.
@@frederickrapp5396 good!
Charley Johnson, Larry Wilson, Pat Fischer a truly great group of players who should’ve won a championship this year.
Joe Morrison, you couldn't ask for a better utility player than him.
Two days after JFK I believed. And as a kid born in 1958 and raised in STL, we've watched two NFL teams come and go. The greatest offensive players during that time? Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk. The greatest defensive player? #8 Larry Wilson. Looked like Popeye and played like Brutus!
This game never should have been played. Grossly inappropriate to do so. The country was suffering from the national disgrace of 11/22/63. We were all in deep mourning. And then play a game? Commissioner Pete Rozelle attended this game on 11/24/63. During the game, a fan approached his seat and punched Rozelle in the face. Literally. True story. This game should never have been played. And Pete Rozelle was responsible for the farce of NFL football on 11/24/63.
Can you believe the league played those games. Rozelle had a brain cramp that weekend
@@ronnywestbrooks3794Your comments are an example of gross understatement.
Looking at these old videos I helps me to appreciate the older players like ex-Cardinals WR Sonny Randle who was one of better deep threats of the early '60s.
And the guy on the other side, flanker Bobby Joe Conrad. I think he still has the record for catching passes in consecutive games, 93 straight, and that wasn't revealed until the early 90s, when it was found that Don Hutson of the Packers of the 1930s and 40s did not hold the record after all. I real goof-up. Bobby demanded to be traded after the 1967 season because he only had two passes thrown to him in the game that stopped the streak, and it was supposed to be one game short of Hutson's record, but that wasn't true, being one ahead.
@@ldfreitas9437 Thanks for the information about these forgotten heroes I have developed a certain fascination with WHITE WRs with size and speed and these guys fit the bill.
Sonny Randall later became the head football coach at Marshall University.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1968, as a 12 kid, I attended a Washington at Dallas game at the Cotton Bowl. Sonny was a back-up at that stage of his career along with Pete Gent, backing up Lance Rentzel & Bob Hayes. Sonny got in the game, with no receptions, none even thrown his way. He obviously was great as a Card before injuries robbed him of a long career. Great stats for a receiver during the "running" era of the NFL.
R.I.P. Sonny Randle #88🏈
GOD BLESS OUR BOYHOOD PRO FOOTBALL HEROES FROM A BYGONE ERA.
So many of the team players names mentioned during the game are ones I remember from my childhood - many of which I haven't heard since back then.
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I hear you Buddy.
The NFL (&AFL) during the 1960s was my first love. If I had studied in school like I studied pro football, I could have been a college professor at Harvard😅.
But like you say, I have forgotten some of the more obscure players
from back in the day.
R.I.P. to all of the ones that have passed away. 🏈
@@t4texastomjohnnycat978 Paul Naumoff was a late 60's early 70's linebacker for the Lions out of the University of Tennessee. An excellent player, not Pro Bowl material but still very good. Well, I was going through a list of people who had passed a couple years ago and saw his name. It's hard to believe young, tough, agile, fast, and indestructible NFL players like Naumoff, someone I looked up to as a kid. somehow aged to the point he got old, sick, and died. Each athlete I remember from that era's death is a sad passing inevitably reminding me my own end is no longer as far away as it once was.
@@lakemichigan6598
I definitely remember Paul Naumoff playing for U.Tenn, and then later for the Lions. He was a terrific player. The Lions had a very tough defense in those days.....
Naumoff, Lucci, Walker, Karras, Hand, LeBeau, & Barney just to name a few. I wasn't aware that Naumoff had passed away. I miss seeing him play college ball by one season when Tenn came to Rice Stadium to play the Owls in 1968.
Thanks Lake Michigan for your comments, and for informing me about Paul Naumoff. I sure miss
1960s & 1970s NFL ball.🏈👍😊
@@t4texastomjohnnycat978 Wayne Walker, another linebacker, was also the Lion's place kicker for quite a few years. Back then, about half of each kicker's attempts were good in contrast to today's specialists who often hit around 9 of 10. But in the 60's everyone played outside - and by November & December the completely torn up field/monsoons/blizzard season was upon them making hitting a field goal then very problematic for even the best kickers.
Schmidts is the schitzs
Nice.
Old habits die hard. The commentator after the 2nd quarter referred to the Giants as the NY Football Giants.
Tom Brookshire before he teamed with pat sumerall John madden way before this was the might 60's
This game was played 2 days after the Kennedy assassination and wasn't seen on television. Pete Rozelle later regretted not cancelling the games that week
If I could go back to 1963 ..I’d go to my nearest Chevy dealership and order me an Impala with a 4-speed dual-quad posi-traction 409..
Has a musical ring to it.
@@MarcKevinSmith hmm..🤔kinda does...
Didn't recognize Joe Walton without his hat on backwards.
Head shots of Cardinals players taken 9/28 at Forbes Field Pittsburgh.
@ 4:29 the stacked up chairs behind end zone are the original box seat chairs from when The Stadium opened in 1923. They were replaced
in 1947-8 as part of renovations that also moved Yanks dugout to 1st base side.
The "first blood"description was a bad choice of words considering the circumstances the past week. Even as a wise-guy Brooksie couldn't be that tone deaf?
The commissioner of professional football should be ashamed of himself at the time when Kennedy got assassinated on Friday and you never canceled the football games on Sunday.
Now this is tough football no fakes! Wish St.Louis still had the Cards
If I am not mistaken, I think that there was no TV or radio live coverage of NFL games that weekend.
Love those helmets
Memories.
the president of the united states, john fitzgerald kennedy assassinated 2 days earlier. notice the demeanor of the players, most weren't happy about having to play... none of the nfl games (7 of them) were broadcast live, the 3 networks were wall to wall coverage of the assassination and funeral. lee harvey oswald, kennedy's assassin was gunned down 39 minutes before 12 o'clock games started. the vietnam war would escalate under johnson as president, and little to no mention of the war (for years) made broadcast t.v. other than the nightly news. the smothers brothers were infamously cancelled for ignoring warnings from cbs to stop with the political commentary against the war and nixon. they were the top-rated show at the time.
A whole lot of former Niners, playing for the Giants in this game.
loved the cards of the sixties .........gave the browns a lot of grief ........lee .........i hear u , when the browns left cleveland in 1995 .
that was it for me ...............these old films are better than anything i see in pro ball today ..............TODAYS GAME ........TERRIBLE !
Sunday afternoons in the 50's, early 60's, only one game in b & w and it was your home team
If you lived in an NFL market, you only got to see your home team when they were playing on the road. Home games were blacked out in a 75 mile radius from where it was being played. If you didn't have a ticket for the game, you listened on radio. I grew up in NY and the closest market that picked up Giants home games was Hartford, CT.
2 days after 9/11, the WWF had a live event in San Antonio. It was really what we needed. Hearing the wrestlers talk about how they felt, Vince McMahon's speech at the beginning. Gave me goose bumps. The same kind of thing here, I think.
I heard people who attended NFL games that Sunday in 1963 say the same thing.
Doesn't matter. They shouldn't have played. It showed a lack of respect. Anyone can justify anything if they want to.
two days after Kennedy's murder
A young Tom Brookshire, he still has some of his football bulk here. I also like him doing boxing with Jerry Quarry on CBS. The 1960's early 70's golden age of NFL, this is the only football that I watch can't stand this modern mess.
Hard to believe the disrespect towards the Kennedy family, by not canceling the NFL games. I remember being marched out of parochial school and being sent home, when the news came that JFK was assassinated. And watching Jack Ruby shooting Oswald on live tv. Remember it like it was yesterday.
JFK Press Secretary Pierre Salinger recommended the games should be played, supposedly with the agreement of Robert F. Kennedy.
The games featured no pregame introductions and no band music. At Yankee Stadium the crowd sang the national anthem a capella.
The overdubbed oompah-roompah marching band music is ridiculous for this clip; in reality the game was played in eerie near silence.
I was in 4th grade at the time, in a Catholic school in which the majority of teachers, nuns then, were Irish-American. My teacher had a hard time keeping it together. We were not sent home, as news of the assassination happened right after recess at 10am, on the Pacific Coast. I got home and my mom had the TV on, watching the news. It's a day I will never forget, and when our teacher announced that Kennedy had been shot will be a memory always. It was surreal. Also happened to be the worst season for the 49ers up to then.
It's funny that Pete Rozelle got so much criticism for not calling off the games that weekend, but look at the grandstands. They're packed. Obviously there were a lot of people who weren't so broken up by the events of that weekend that they stayed home to mourn. And this is New York, which was Kennedy territory.
I remember watching this game.. at the time it got people's mind off of the non stop assassination coverage...the highlight of the day was when Ruby killed Oswald...
Some ppl criticize NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle for not cancelling games during this weekend (JFK assassinated) the day before but,NFL stadiums were still packed with spectators including btw this game,and Rozelle was named sportsman of the year by Sports Illustrated just to lend a little perspective.
Before Pete Rozelle died, he said he regretted allowing games to be played on the weekend following JFK's assassination.
During this particular game on 11-24-63, (the weekend of the JFK assassination and funeral), a fan approached the NFL commissioner and said: “Are you Pete Rozelle?” He replied: “Why yes, I’m Pete Rozelle.” The fan then proceeded to punch the NFL commissioner in the face; presumably due to the sheer anger he felt that this game was even being played at a time of national mourning for the tragic death of President Kennedy. True story.
Nov 24, 1963....two days after Kennedy killing?
Greatest video ever
It was sad because it was two days after the assignation of John F.Kennedy.
2 days after the Assassination
Because they won this game, The Cardinals found themselves in a three way tie with the Browns and Giants at 8-3. On the outside but looking in were the Steelers at 6-3-2, having just tied the eventual champions, the Bears. Ironically, two weeks later, it would be the Steelers versus the Giants for all the marbles, the Giants winning 33-17.
how did pro football go from this, mild to no celebrations on a good play and TDs to the ridicules crap you see todays players do
I would have to say because of overpaid, clowns who do not appreciate the game or what they have, It's all about 'them' and nothing else...
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson started it mostly. And let's be honest. How many black players were in the NFL in those days? And how many today? Check out the start of the modern era of celebrations:.
ruclips.net/video/K0EVm7fi0iQ/видео.html
I think about Dave Casper catching the winning touchdown in a double overtime playoff game December 24 1977.And none of the ridiculous celebration stuff you see now days.
R.I.P.
JOHN DAVID CROW # 44🏈
@LD
Yep, you're sure right LD. I definitely remember those
days/years.
Crow, Willard, Stickles......
there's some pretty doggone tough dudes. They don't make 'em like them anymore, do they LD.🏈
Thanks for your comments Buddy.
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He moved to Tight End. In his last Season (late) SF came to Atlanta. I guess SF was in contention. Some sportswriters articled that he might return to backfield to gain the few yards to reach 5,000. The score was close and couldn’t.
Tom Brookshier was drunk this broadcast and he shouted the whole time and his producer and Director kept telling him to calm down and they finally had to give him a shot of Jack Daniels any calm down but he was shouting the whole time
Must have been a stock film of the outside of Yankee Stadium; the flags are not at half-staff
Lots of Larry Wilson fans here! I'd like to remind everyone that Wilson INVENTED the safety blitz. It was in 1960 and Wilson sacked Giant QBs nine times!
The players back in those olden days had regular jobs during the off season .
They did not get paid very well then. They were almost semi-pros to be honest. That changed in a few years with Namath and his big contract of $400K. The highest paid player in 1954 was YA Tittle of the 49ers, at $20K a year. A 49er who played from 1960 until the mid-70s was Len Rhode. He taught second semester English at Overfelt High in San Jose during much of his career, and then started to buy a few Jack in the Boxes or one of the other fast food outlets. Probably made much more money from that.
This was a little before my time so,I don’t recognize most of the names. But,this #84,Joe Robb,of St. Louis made two HUGE sacks near the end of the game to secure the win. Pretty impressive.
DE Joe Robb was an all pro for the Cardinals - tough as they came!
Ruby was shooting Oswald not too long before the opening kickoff I think. NBC was the only network covering it live. The other two were covering the 6 grey horses hauling the casket to the U.S. Capitol.
They didn't have cable or ESPN. There's no way this game was broadcast live.
So what? It was still played, right?
No games were televised...CBS had no regular programming from Friday through the funeral on Monday
In Assassination Radio Coverage for 11/24/63 the program switches a bit to Cleveland/Dallas game the Reporter in the stands said everyone had Transistor Radios on Assassination Coverage. If Game was in Dallas no way the Game would go on. As it was nobody uttered the word “Dallas”.
❤️ oldie NFL 1960S/ 1970S
Wow 😲
Only 2 days after the Kennedy assassination. Oswald was shot this day.
I couldn't find out who won this game until the Night Owl edition of the Daily News came out.I wonder if the players were in the dark with regard to Oswald?
Tiddle is still looking for Gifford today. Lol
You can't tell from watching this that Hugh McIlhenny is a Hall of Famer
@classicrockbeagle, Hardly surprising as he was at the end of the line, physically, and barely had regular plays from scrimmage over the last two years of his career.
"Schmidts, a beautiful beer?" That stuff was goat piss.
It was a little sweet but drinkable.
the giants special teams hurt them dropping kick returns and fumbling the punt.
I saw Hall of Famer Hugh McElhaney no. 39 but he was not mentioned in the intro.
"The King"
Not a good game for Charley Johnson, but Cardinals still win! The offensive line could have done a little better to protect him.
Why were the Giant players sitting below ground level on their benches?...Could it be so the fan's view was not blocked?...
This was two days after the assassination of JFK.
Half highlites and half real time play by play from the recently retired due to injury, broadcaster, TOM BROOKSHIER..
I don't know why, but Larry Wilson's #8 is so abnormal! I can't think of another #8 that was popular.
Think hard about a guy who played for the Yankees at that time.
Looking back, it's easy to see now that NO NFL games should have been played that weekend. I believe Mr. Rozelle said it was his biggest regret as commissioner of the NFL...
It was controversial that the scheduled NFL games were allowed to be played. I wasn't a football fan then but I do remember, while sledding a few weeks later at a nearby park, hearing from someone that the Bears had just beaten the Giants to win the NFL championship.
You’d think that Tom Brookshier could have made mention of the terrible circumstances of this game on 11-24-63, two days after the JFK assassination. In his narration, he acts as if it’s just another game. This game should never, never, never, have even been played.
@@frederickrapp5396 The games scheduled for that Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963 should've been re-scheduled. The AFL did not play that day. They re-scheduled those games to Sunday, Dec. 22 and moved their championship game from Dec. 29, 1963 to the following Sunday, Jan. 5, 1964. The NFL could've done the same.
@@frdjr2527 You are 100% correct in your analysis. You nailed it. There’s nothing more needing to be said.
@@frederickrapp5396 NFL played that day at the insistence of Pierre Salinger and the blessing of RFK. I don't know if they approached the AFL.
Biggest mistake Pete Rozelle ever made.
My favorite era of football was that 10-year period of 1960-1969. There was a nice run-pass balance, and playbooks had a lot more interesting variations than today's inside zone, stretch, draw, and 40 different pass variations. The contrasts between the NFL and AFL added interest. Could the 1963 Chargers have beaten the 1963 Bears? Thanks for posting this video. A cousin of mine was one of the team doctors for the football Cardinals back when they still played at Sportsman's Park.
Good question could have the Chargers beaten the Bears...on paper the Chargers offensive was awsome and if they played the Bears at a warm weather site who nos...on the other hand the Bears had an awesome defense back in the day when u could play defense..it was a great presumed match up that never was...any ones guess who would have won...that's why they play the game...(The bears beat my team the giants to make it to the presumed match up)
This was November 24th '63? Wasn't JFK's casket going to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda that day? I thought everything was postponed.
I realize Kennedy himself enjoyed football, but geeeeze.😮
On a football note, as glamorous as YA Tittle was he sure didn't have much hair did he?
He was the bald eagle
You don;t think of the Cardinals being good in these years. But I was born in 1969 and I vividly remember six of the Cards: tackle Ernie McMillan, quarterback Charley Johnson, tight end Jackie Smith, cornerback Pat Fischer, linebacker (though it looks like he's setting up as a down lineman in this game) Larry Stallings, and kicker Jim Bakken
The great Hugh McElhenny reduced to returning kickoffs for the Giants.
The man was in his mid thirties by this time. I think he was the uncle of Lance McElhenny who was a standout QB for Southern Methodist Univ. back in the mid 80's.
50’s was his Decade.
@@davidcouch6514hey, it's a professional football job and thats what Hugh Mcelhenny is known for.
2 days afterJFK's murder.
It wasn't bad enough they played the games, they also presented these highlights like it's just another football weekend.
These GOTW shows were shown during the summer of 1964 as a lead up to the new season. Brookshier makes comments during the breaks about trades that would effect the '64 season.
Before Pete Rozelle passed away, he said the greatest regret of his career was playing the games on the weekend of JFK's assassination. Supposedly, it was Pierre Salinger who coaxed Rozelle to play that Sunday. On a related note, the Kennedy family insisted the Army-Navy game be played despite the wishes of the two service academies to cancel that year's game. It was played on Dec. 7, 1963, one week after its originally scheduled date.
I think the NFL did a great service to play in the aftermath of the JFK assassination 2 days earlier. We needed an escape during this time of mourning.
Most feel it was a big mistake though. Rozelle said it was his biggest regret.
@@johnpersechini4951 And he’s probably right.
What escape?
The games weren't on TV and in New York,no radio coverage either.
Now that I think about it, they shouldn't have played in the aftermath of the JFK assassination. I regret that comment.
@@rentslave NFL scores were announced during the coverage of the JFK assassination. IIRC, WNEW, the Giants flagship radio station in 1963, aired the Giants-Cardinals game on tape delay a few days later.
They didn't say anything about JFK death because they show has to go on
Check out the limp wrist at @ 1:35 😂
That's Hugh Mcilhenny one of the greatest RB of all time
Ken Siefert No shit! I caught it too. And nobody busted his balls walking around like that
Lol ,I couldn't figure that out either.
@1:35 a little sugar in that tank, smdh.
Just a few days after the JFK assassination.
The Bears big year. Obviously, if it weren't for a few injuries, it might have been a back 2 back 2 back year for the mighty Pack.🏈
@LD The Detroit Lions lost the services of All Pro Alex Karras that same year for the same reason. He died just a few years ago of Alzheimer Disease.
@LD You know, I'd forgotten about Gallimore's death. I remember now my soon to be stepdad, a big Bears fan, told me about his getting killed at some point not long after it happened.
@LD Ron Kramer was still a Packer in 1963 and not party to the betting scandal. He was traded to Detroit in 65' or 66' for a first round draft choice that I believe turned out to be either Donny Anderson or Jim Grabowski. Kramer was into his 30's by then and well past his prime. He did very little for us. Another dumb move by the Lions. In my life I saw two games live at Tiger Stadium - both against the Bears with Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus early in their careers while at their peaks. Sayers showed that extra gear he could always turn to for immediate separation and Butkus played like he was viciously unhinged and belonged in permanent lockup.
@LD Because we lived well outside of Detroit, we got to see all the Lions' games on TV. But as a very young boy, either 4 or 5, I saw a west coast Lions game on our B&W television with my Dad. I think it was SF we were playing but I'm not sure.
@LD In looking at his stats, Gallimore had a very respectable football career. Averaging 4.5 yards per carry in his years with the Bears and over 10 yards per reception each season he played is excellent NFL work regardless of the era.
2:29--Look in the background at the scoreboard. You'll see that the Giants are playing the Browns and not the Cardinals.
A lot of these 60s highlight videos have pregame clips from different games. I remember seeing a St. Louis/Dallas video from the early 60s and they were showing pregame shots of the players at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
@@StLouisFootballCardinals Exactly correct. Obviously the Giants played the Cardinals on that day.
Tom Brookshire the announcer did a real lousy job, made like 50 mistakes
Probably drunk. But better than you could ever do on the mic asshole.
Say what you want to about Pete Rozelle, I believe he really tried to execute what was in the best interest of the NFL
Rozelle no doubt was the LAST good commissioner.🏈
Kenneth Lucas Best interest? Our President was just assassinated 48 hours earlier!
Idiot!
Are you aware that Rozelle regretted this decision for the rest of his life?
The Giant rbs, for the most part, were big and rather slow of foot...well done, Brookie...
The entire country was in mourning. The nfl, though is apparently bigger than the whole country.
In today's lingo, giant fail Pete.
Oswald got shot by a corrupt police set up minutes before this game.
Neither one of these teams could do anything today they would all have to be taken away on the meat wagon
Watch Sam Huff for a series he was so overrated and that jelly belly was getting his butt kicked all game. Ha ha ha