Little did anyone realize it at the time, but this was the last playoff game for the Jets for a long time. Not only did they miss the playoffs the next 11 seasons, but they didn't even have a winning record for any of the next 11 seasons. Namath would only play sporadically in '70, '71, and '73 due to injuries, and by Namath's last season in New York in '76, the Jets were terrible, and Namath's career was essentially over, save 1 more insignificant year playing for the Rams. The Jets had some fun teams with talent that made the playoffs in the 80's, a very good team in 1998, and a consistent winner in the 00's (including back to back AFC conference title game participants in '09 & '10), but when looking at the long view since this game, 12 playoff appearances and only TWO division titles in the 54 years since the '69 team is pretty bad, and the fact that in 54 years which started with the merger in 1970, they don't have a single AFC title in their trophy case.
The jets were a battered team going into the game, Maynard hurt and Sauer out.. Bake turner was the only healthy Wide Receiver. 1st and goal at the one-yard line and could not score. it was still the toughest game for the Chiefs in the playoffs. Many great players on both teams!
The game against the Raiders was just as much of a tough game, in fact, probably tougher since the Raiders led by 7 and pretty much shut the Chiefs down. A bad call on a long pass to Taylor (who clearly stepped out of bounds) in the 3rd quarter changed that whole game, and there were some very questionable pass interference calls against the Raiders in key spots as well. The weather wasn't anywhere near as tough in Oakland as it had been in New York, that's for sure.
@@jackprecip5389, Frankly, the call on the Taylor pass was probably about as good as could be expected to have been made in the circumstances, given how many players were packed within such a small area at the sideline. I'm inclined to think it wasn't a reception, but I don't believe the evidence we have is demonstrably unequivocal. As far as the pass interference call against Wilson, yes, that was pretty sketchy. On the other hand, the Raiders would never even have had the opportunity to stay in the game if not for the three unforced gift fumbles the Chiefs gave them in the 4th quarter, so....
2 months before the NY Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles 4 straight games to win the 1969 world series on October 12th so the field was pretty torn up by December 1969.
@@robparadise6099 sure miss those times of NY Jets football 🏈....those seasons can never be replaced, Joe, the club, staff, Shea Stadium....thank you, BCM'
Dawson's pass to Taylor was great but his subsequent pass for the TD to Gloster Richardson was even more amazing. There was the gusting wind and a very small "window" to hit him for the reception and TD
The 1969-70 Kansas City Chiefs defeated the defending Super Bowl Champion New York Jets and then their old nemesis , the Oakland Raiders in the AFL playoffs and capped it off with a decisive victory over the NFL Champion Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl 4.
The cheifs had one of toughest roads to get to that super bowl,dealing with the wind,cold in New York and then the following week they had to play the hated raiders in Oakland. Without a doubt in my mind one of the greatest champions ever!
certainly the BEST DEFENSE OF ALL TIME !!!!! i am not a chiefs fan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1/2 the season the chiefs had a third string QB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
Impressive that the Jets played the Chiefs so tough given how brutal and big KC was. Neither Oakland nor Minnesota put up as much of a fight down to the wire.
Dumb comment, since Oakland pretty much shut KC down the entire game and was in a position to win before a bad call on a long pass to Taylor (he was clearly out of bounds) from deep in their own end in the second half changed the whole game, and a couple of really lousy pass interference calls against the Raiders sealed their fate. I suggest you watch the 24 minute NFL Films tape of the '69 title game between the Chiefs and Raiders (it's here on RUclips), I'm pretty sure you won't say Oakland "didn't put up much of a fight to the wire".
@@70sfan17, While they certainly put up a great struggle in this game, I don't believe they had much of a chance to repeat. Owing to injuries and foolish and skinflint personnel decisions made by Ewbank, the Jets pretty clearly receded from their performance the previous year. Not only did their record decline (albeit slightly), they played in a marshmallow soft division and lost every game against teams with winning records (two of them pretty decisively). I'd reckon they would've been swamped by the Raiders (on the road) in a league title game rematch.
That Chiefs' defense must have been brutal to play against, stopping the Jets three times from the one. They convincingly thrashed the Raiders and Vikings in the playoffs, both very tough, physical teams in their own right.
That defense was so dominant that the Chiefs won 5 consecutive regular season games in 1969 where QB Len Dawson didn't even set foot on the field. An injured Dawson missed five consecutive starts, yet the Chiefs defense and special teams combined to outscore the Chiefs offense in several of those five wins. Chiefs backup quarterback Mike Livingston was simply asked to manage the game (i.e. don't screw it up) and let the defense handle the rest. That season culminated with a dominating 23-7 Chiefs victory in _Superbowl IV._ 6 of the 11 starters on that defense are in the _Pro-Football Hall of Fame:_ LB *Bobby Bell,* LB *Willie Lanier,* DT *Junious "Buck" Buchanon,* DT *Curley Culp,* CB *Emmitt Thomas,* S *Johnny Robinson.*
That 1969 AFL Playoff game between the Chiefs & the Jets should be one of the forth cold 🥶 weather games ever. Right behind the Cowboys/Packers, Chargers/Bengals & Ravens/Broncos.
Namath was 14/40 in this game. I know the wind was a factor but he was brilliant the yr before vs Oakland in Shea Stadium in the AFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
I was at both games. At the start of the 68 raider game wind was brutal and field was frozen mud.... I think lamonica was 1-13 at start but then got hot... it calmed down a bit.....but got blustery again..........69 chief game wind never let up......windiest game I ve ever attended in 50+ yrs.........and Namath tried to force ball down field the whole game while Dawson patiently shortened up everything
Paul Zimmerman of Sports Illustrated pointed this out after the game. He questioned how Namath could blame the wind for the loss in '69, while he dealt with similar conditions in '68. Namath hated Zimmerman for that criticism. I agree 100% with the reporter here.
According to Len Dawson, Hank Stram said on the flight back to KC after losing to Oakland in the final game of the regular season, if we beat the Jets in NY, we will win the Super Bowl. He said the Chiefs will not lose to the Raiders 3 times in one season and the Vikings were not as good as the Jets or Raiders. As it turns out, the Jets were the toughest opponent they faced in the 69 playoffs, and were pretty lucky to come away with a 13-6 win that could have gone the other way.
That was a tough season against the Raiders, who beat us both games we played against them. And like always they were very rough games. But we beat them in the playoffs but I used to curse the name Lamonica and Biletnikoff.
The first game the Jets played in the 1969 season was at Buffalo and the Bills fans gave the Jets a standing ovation when they came on the field. Every AFL fan was a Jet fan when they beat the NFL representative and gave legitimacy to the new league.
Buchanan, Culp, Brown, Mays, Lanier, Lynch, Bell, Robinson, Kearney, Thomas and Marsalis. Chiefs "D"...two TD's and 20 total points allowed in three playoff games!
Oddly the Cheifs said in super bowl 4 that when they played the Vikings that they were winning the super bowl for the Jets. To prove that the Jets werent a fluke team beating the colts
In interviews, Len Dawson has said that on the 61 yd pass to Otis Taylor (03:26) he was afraid he had overthrown him but that he forgot that Taylor is able to "shift into another gear" and almost always catch any pass thrown in his direction
@@normbroel4633 The broadcast network didn't even bother to keep the recording of _Superbowl IV._ I doubt the recording of this game was kept either. The NFL Films footage highlights shown here is likely the only video we'll ever see of the game.
This is probably the most footage of this game that exists. I've been watching football for 50 years and I have never seen video from the original NBC telecast. Precious little NFL/AFL television video exists prior to 1970. At least they saved Super Bowl 3, though it's missing the Colts 4th quarter scoring drive.
@@RetroRider6689 yeppers! nbc use to tape over crap to save money. you won't find much of either playoff game from shea at that time. raiders in 68, chiefs in 69
1987 divisional playoff game vs cleveland,. led 20-10 with just over 4 minutes to play. gastineau's spear of kosar sparked browns double overtime 23-20 win. walton wouldn't let o'brien do anything in the ot's thinking the defense would win it in sudden death
@@jimkavanagh4646, Why the sanction on Shula? Ordering the mismanagement of the field? Was such a charge ever proven? In any case, why should the slop have failed to impede the Dolphins as much as it turned out to do to the Jets?
Damn, I was so disappointed n so hurt, even though I was only four yrs old at the time, lol. Dat would b da Jets last chance at a Super Bowl 4 ever, up til this day March 2024.
The Jets declined because Namath started his string of injuries that hurt the QB'g of the team. Hot and cold Woodall and good ol' Bob Davis - won't win championships with those 2 guys.
I lived in LA and did not get to watch this game. Maybe it was blacked out there too. I was surprised and bummed to find out the Jets did not win. And then of course I thought the Raiders would beat the Chiefs the next week. This is why I do not gamble.
@@donmurphy1685 actually don murphy i am a rams fan so it did not matter to me ,BUT MANY of my friends were jets fans and they could not figure out why a sold out came could not be televised let alone a tremendous playoff game !!!!!!!!!!! when it come to ice hockey where in the late 1970's and early 1980's when the new york rangers would play the new york islanders NONE OF THOSE PLAYOFF GAMES WERE TELEVISED in the 5 boroughs of new york city !!!!!!!!!!
The Chief front seven especially, were not only great players, they had athleticism in players like Bell, Lanier, and Culp, that gave them a step up in those days. Just not enough bodies on offense to block these guys.
@@smitskee Jets still needed to run the ball. No reason why they threw twice as much as they ran in a 6-6 game in the 4th quarter on a cold blustery windy day
@@howardcosell2022 Tough sledding on the ground. Matt Snell had one 15 yard pop, otherwise it was short gains. They must have realized they weren't getting enough of a push up front. Namath tried to get chunks with the pass. It was a gamble, and he lost.
I seriously doubt it was considered, but I wonder if the Jets should have gone for it on 4th down and forced the Chiefs to stop them 4 times from a yard out. At worst, it would've backed up Kansas City on their goal line with a decent chance of getting good field position again.
THE GAME WAS PLAYED ON DECEMBER 20 1969 THE GAME WAS BLACK OUT IN NEW YORK CITY NAMATH PLAYED LIKE SHIT IN THAT GAME IT WAS THE WORST GAME IN HIS CARRER AND I LIKE JOE NAMATH EVEN THOUGH I WAS A COWBOY FAN KENNETH 0
@@smitskee thank you, appreciate the insight, that’s what I’m talking about 🤙🏼 How old were you that season? My pops was like, 14 I believe? 14-15 if memory serves me right...
@@NeoNitty I was 13, and my old man had Jet season tickets. IMO, that group of Jet players peaked that season. They still had some youth, and Joe still had prime skills, but as soon as Joe started getting hurt, the worm turned quick, where the age at certain positions, and weaknesses were exposed.
@@smitskee lately I’ve been watching all the jet games posted on YT from the late 70’s , on...I’m currently in the ‘81 season, I’m up to the first MIA matchup. We went to many games in the 90s..all losses lol...I was at the Dennis Byrd(RIP) game though, 8 years old. Remember it like it was yesterday.
Joe was horrible, and yet the score was still close. IMO, the shitty weather helped the Jets. On a nice chilly calm afternoon, IMO, the Chiefs run the Jets off the field. Joe had to press, because the Jets couldn't run consistently against that team. A team that also had a first rate pass rush and pass defense.
Writers said afterwards that it was cheap Weeb Ewbank (GM as well as h/c) who wouldn't sign Bob Talamini who would have plowed a WIDE hole at 1:55 that contributed to the loss.
Jets losing Don maynard, Jim Hudson, Johnny sample to injury really hurt the jets in this game. Joe Namath being a interception prone dude threw 3 in this game didn’t help. And yes don is playing in the game but he was playing hurt and after this season he wasn’t the same player anymore in the early 70s. Also weeb ewebank not resigning Bob talamani really hurt the jets on that goaline situation. The jets were playing a real tuff team in the Cheifs. Supriseingly the jets were the closest to beating the Cheifs in the post season
@todd long rich caster was a great tight end for the Jets in the 70s he was the only few bright spots of the 70s Jets offense. Micky shulur is the Jets best tight end but rich caster was is top 5 Jets tight end no question. To bad he was on the Jets down years
@@davanmani556 that’s what I meant when he was injured. In that college game. If he didn’t get hurt he would’ve played but after that injury in college he realized his injury was the end of his career
@@howardcosell2022 Pete Lammons was a good tight end god rest his soul. He’s probably the second best tight. People consider micky shulur the best jet tight end
Little did anyone realize it at the time, but this was the last playoff game for the Jets for a long time. Not only did they miss the playoffs the next 11 seasons, but they didn't even have a winning record for any of the next 11 seasons. Namath would only play sporadically in '70, '71, and '73 due to injuries, and by Namath's last season in New York in '76, the Jets were terrible, and Namath's career was essentially over, save 1 more insignificant year playing for the Rams. The Jets had some fun teams with talent that made the playoffs in the 80's, a very good team in 1998, and a consistent winner in the 00's (including back to back AFC conference title game participants in '09 & '10), but when looking at the long view since this game, 12 playoff appearances and only TWO division titles in the 54 years since the '69 team is pretty bad, and the fact that in 54 years which started with the merger in 1970, they don't have a single AFC title in their trophy case.
just goes to show you how lucky they were to beat the colts
Joe was overrated can't understand how he made the HOF
@@georgemeara2562, No luck involved. They were simply the better team that day.
The jets were a battered team going into the game, Maynard hurt and Sauer out.. Bake turner was the only healthy Wide Receiver. 1st and goal at the one-yard line and could not score. it was still the toughest game for the Chiefs in the playoffs. Many great players on both teams!
The game against the Raiders was just as much of a tough game, in fact, probably tougher since the Raiders led by 7 and pretty much shut the Chiefs down. A bad call on a long pass to Taylor (who clearly stepped out of bounds) in the 3rd quarter changed that whole game, and there were some very questionable pass interference calls against the Raiders in key spots as well. The weather wasn't anywhere near as tough in Oakland as it had been in New York, that's for sure.
@@jackprecip5389, Frankly, the call on the Taylor pass was probably about as good as could be expected to have been made in the circumstances, given how many players were packed within such a small area at the sideline. I'm inclined to think it wasn't a reception, but I don't believe the evidence we have is demonstrably unequivocal.
As far as the pass interference call against Wilson, yes, that was pretty sketchy. On the other hand, the Raiders would never even have had the opportunity to stay in the game if not for the three unforced gift fumbles the Chiefs gave them in the 4th quarter, so....
That Chiefs defense was one of the best ever. 6 HOF, 2 from each level . Man they were playing on dirt, no grass on that field at all.
2 months before the NY Mets beat the Baltimore Orioles 4 straight games to win the 1969 world series on October 12th so the field was pretty torn up by December 1969.
@gregoryevans8179, Same as the dirt bowl in Baltimore. Just watch the NFL Films feature of the '70 championship game there!!!
Narrated by the great Charlie Jones.
Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier, Johnny Robinson ... these guys are the gods of modern football
Long Live the AFL!
Yes they are as the AFC
@@michaelleroy9281 Hardly
My Father attended this game and I still have the program....The wind was ridiculous!!!!
Thats was great...we were away from Christmas holiday and watched on NBC Greenville...hated to see the Jets fall at Shea stadium...
Besides the wind, the field was hard as rock.
@@robparadise6099 sure miss those times of NY Jets football 🏈....those seasons can never be replaced, Joe, the club, staff, Shea Stadium....thank you, BCM'
that program has some nice monetary value !
Dawson's pass to Taylor was great but his subsequent pass for the TD to Gloster Richardson was even more amazing. There was the gusting wind and a very small "window" to hit him for the reception and TD
What a great year it was to start watching your hometown Chiefs for the first time at age 14.
Loved Charlie Jones!
Rest in peace len Dawson, Otis Taylor and bud Grant. I missed anyone I apologize.
Jets, Raiders, and Chiefs were my all-time three favorite teams.
I think a lot of us would agree as far as the AFL was concerned.
How could you like the Raiders AND the Chiefs? :)
Jets still better be.
Sad that in the past year both Len Dawson of the Chiefs and Daryle Lamonica of the Raiders have passed away.
dominated AFL from 1967-1969
When the NY JETS uniforms were beautiful😊!
testfy brother!...
The 1969-70 Kansas City Chiefs defeated the defending Super Bowl Champion New York Jets and then their old nemesis , the Oakland Raiders in the AFL playoffs and capped it off with a decisive victory over the NFL Champion Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl 4.
The cheifs had one of toughest roads to get to that super bowl,dealing with the wind,cold in New York and then the following week they had to play the hated raiders in Oakland. Without a doubt in my mind one of the greatest champions ever!
that 1969 kc chiefs defense IS THE BEST OF ALL TIME !for about half the season the chiefs were playing with a 3rd string QB !!!!!!!!!!!!!
the late 60's Jets, Chiefs, Raiders rivalry defined football for me being a dogged AFL fan ... Joe, Len, Daryle & their teams === brilliance !!!
Crazy that the Bengals destroyed both the Chiefs and Raiders that year
certainly the BEST DEFENSE OF ALL TIME !!!!! i am not a chiefs fan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1/2 the season the chiefs had a third string QB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
@@barbaracaroll They won by 5 points over the Chiefs who were using their 3rd string QB.
This Chiefs team is my favorite team of all-time.
@@smitskee Totally agree.
Yo , the chiefs dumped joe Willie and his new yawk jets. 🏈🏈🏈🏆🏆🏆🏆🥁🥇
Impressive that the Jets played the Chiefs so tough given how brutal and big KC was. Neither Oakland nor Minnesota put up as much of a fight down to the wire.
I mean...the Jets were the defending Super Bowl champions
Dumb comment, since Oakland pretty much shut KC down the entire game and was in a position to win before a bad call on a long pass to Taylor (he was clearly out of bounds) from deep in their own end in the second half changed the whole game, and a couple of really lousy pass interference calls against the Raiders sealed their fate. I suggest you watch the 24 minute NFL Films tape of the '69 title game between the Chiefs and Raiders (it's here on RUclips), I'm pretty sure you won't say Oakland "didn't put up much of a fight to the wire".
@@jackprecip5389, Yes, largely the case, though both teams exchanged a numbing array of turnovers in the game's last quarter.
That season was a really good chance for the Jets to win another Super bowl, after they lost this game it went totally downhill!
@@70sfan17, While they certainly put up a great struggle in this game, I don't believe they had much of a chance to repeat.
Owing to injuries and foolish and skinflint personnel decisions made by Ewbank, the Jets pretty clearly receded from their performance the previous year. Not only did their record decline (albeit slightly), they played in a marshmallow soft division and lost every game against teams with winning records (two of them pretty decisively). I'd reckon they would've been swamped by the Raiders (on the road) in a league title game rematch.
One thing the Jets could say was it took the new SB Champs to unseat them.
Chiefs won 3 AFL titles (1st one as Dallas Texans in '62) never had a home game for any of them.
Went crazy watching Glosters TD on the couch 3rd grade!
Namath's hunchback gear is wild.
thats not hunchback gear its Namaths back that was round
That Chiefs' defense must have been brutal to play against, stopping the Jets three times from the one. They convincingly thrashed the Raiders and Vikings in the playoffs, both very tough, physical teams in their own right.
That defense was so dominant that the Chiefs won 5 consecutive regular season games in 1969 where QB Len Dawson didn't even set foot on the field. An injured Dawson missed five consecutive starts, yet the Chiefs defense and special teams combined to outscore the Chiefs offense in several of those five wins. Chiefs backup quarterback Mike Livingston was simply asked to manage the game (i.e. don't screw it up) and let the defense handle the rest. That season culminated with a dominating 23-7 Chiefs victory in _Superbowl IV._ 6 of the 11 starters on that defense are in the _Pro-Football Hall of Fame:_ LB *Bobby Bell,* LB *Willie Lanier,* DT *Junious "Buck" Buchanon,* DT *Curley Culp,* CB *Emmitt Thomas,* S *Johnny Robinson.*
Similar to 76 Steelers, playing without Bradshaw
@@oubrioko My first year watching (lived sw of kc) the Chiefs and to this day I remember most of the numbers of the starters.
It was F IN COLD especially in the open end .
That 1969 AFL Playoff game between the Chiefs & the Jets should be one of the forth cold 🥶 weather games ever. Right behind the Cowboys/Packers, Chargers/Bengals & Ravens/Broncos.
I was there! It was my first year as Chiefs fan and I have never looked back.
Looks like there was more dirt than grass on the field. I'm surprised too, since baseball season was over by the time this game was played.
Namath was 14/40 in this game. I know the wind was a factor but he was brilliant the yr before vs Oakland in Shea Stadium in the AFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
I was at both games. At the start of the 68 raider game wind was brutal and field was frozen mud.... I think lamonica was 1-13 at start but then got hot... it calmed down a bit.....but got blustery again..........69 chief game wind never let up......windiest game I ve ever attended in 50+ yrs.........and Namath tried to force ball down field the whole game while Dawson patiently shortened up everything
@@Cefdfsacq Jets couldn't run on The Chiefs front four.
Paul Zimmerman of Sports Illustrated pointed this out after the game. He questioned how Namath could blame the wind for the loss in '69, while he dealt with similar conditions in '68. Namath hated Zimmerman for that criticism.
I agree 100% with the reporter here.
So much dust and dirt it looked like a cold day rodeo.
That was Shea Stadium - windy too with the sound of Jet airplanes ✈️ landing and taking off from nearby La Guardia. The team was aptly named.
Wind was howling, Len Dawson: 12/27 201 yds 1 TD 0 int Joe Namath: 14/40 169 yds 0 TD 3 Int. Mike Garrett: 18 carries 67 yds Matt Snell: 12 carries 61 yds.
I remember I was so mad when Battle fumbled the punt..
According to Len Dawson, Hank Stram said on the flight back to KC after losing to Oakland in the final game of the regular season, if we beat the Jets in NY, we will win the Super Bowl. He said the Chiefs will not lose to the Raiders 3 times in one season and the Vikings were not as good as the Jets or Raiders. As it turns out, the Jets were the toughest opponent they faced in the 69 playoffs, and were pretty lucky to come away with a 13-6 win that could have gone the other way.
That was a tough season against the Raiders, who beat us both games we played against them. And like always they were very rough games. But we beat them in the playoffs but I used to curse the name Lamonica and Biletnikoff.
“The fantastic Chiefs defense had come off the field in tears. That’s how emotionally high they were” - Tom Hedrick
Once again thank you Comrade...
Len Dawson said that he cried watching the Jets beat the Colts in Super Bowl 3
I believe him. So did a lot of AFL lifers
@@ciesaro The Colts and many NFL loyalists are still crying about the Jets Super Bowl victory.
@@seveglider8406 including me
@@ciesaro The Jets won the Super Bowl on Jan. 12, 1969. I stopped celebrating and I suggest You get over it!
The first game the Jets played in the 1969 season was at Buffalo and the Bills fans gave the Jets a standing ovation when they came on the field. Every AFL fan was a Jet fan when they beat the NFL representative and gave legitimacy to the new league.
Buchanan, Culp, Brown, Mays, Lanier, Lynch, Bell, Robinson, Kearney, Thomas and Marsalis. Chiefs "D"...two TD's and 20 total points allowed in three playoff games!
Hall of fame defense, nobody ever talks about, 6 in the hall out of 12, 6!!!!
Marsalis, Kearney and lynch all made pro bowls
Mays all decade team for afl
Aaron brown was also a stud and may have had the best layoffs on 1969, he was a stud, that’s all of them, can’t get better than that
Chiefs proved in SB lV that Jets
win vs. NFL a year prior was no
fluke.
Oddly the Cheifs said in super bowl 4 that when they played the Vikings that they were winning the super bowl for the Jets. To prove that the Jets werent a fluke team beating the colts
Namath greeted them home by wearing a red blazer in their honor. LOTS of AFL pride back then.
The chiefs paid homage to the Jets after Super Bowl 3
In interviews, Len Dawson has said that on the 61 yd pass to Otis Taylor (03:26) he was afraid he had overthrown him but that he forgot that Taylor is able to "shift into another gear" and almost always catch any pass thrown in his direction
Otis belongs in the Hall of Fame
Magnificent receiver.
@@howardcosell2022 Sadly, he will get in the Hall of Fame posthumously.
Rest in peace Len Dawson and Otis Taylor.
@Howard Cosell if Otis played in NYC or the west coast he would be in HOF..
Would love to see the entire game if someone would post it.
They found the radio version of the game. The television version must be around somewhere.
@@normbroel4633 The broadcast network didn't even bother to keep the recording of _Superbowl IV._ I doubt the recording of this game was kept either. The NFL Films footage highlights shown here is likely the only video we'll ever see of the game.
How is Otis Taylor not in the HOF? Insane.
If anyone out there has more(preferably video) on this game? Please upload it on RUclips!
This is probably the most footage of this game that exists. I've been watching football for 50 years and I have never seen video from the original NBC telecast. Precious little NFL/AFL television video exists prior to 1970. At least they saved Super Bowl 3, though it's missing the Colts 4th quarter scoring drive.
@@RetroRider6689 yeppers!
nbc use to tape over crap to save money. you won't find much of either playoff game from shea at that time. raiders in 68, chiefs in 69
Without a doubt the most devastating loss in NY Jets history
1987 divisional playoff game vs cleveland,. led 20-10 with just over 4 minutes to play. gastineau's spear of kosar sparked browns double overtime 23-20 win. walton wouldn't let o'brien do anything in the ot's thinking the defense would win it in sudden death
The Mud Bowl in Miami. Shula should get thrown out of the HOF for that. Jets would have won it all that year.
@@jimkavanagh4646, Why the sanction on Shula? Ordering the mismanagement of the field? Was such a charge ever proven?
In any case, why should the slop have failed to impede the Dolphins as much as it turned out to do to the Jets?
Damn, I was so disappointed n so hurt, even though I was only four yrs old at the time, lol.
Dat would b da Jets last chance at a Super Bowl 4 ever, up til this day March 2024.
Played the Steelers for AFC Championship in 2010
jets declined quickly after this game. chiefs were good for a few seasons after but they also had a long dry spell before winning another sb.
The Jets declined because Namath started his string of injuries that hurt the QB'g of the team. Hot and cold Woodall and good ol' Bob Davis - won't win championships with those 2 guys.
Last day in my life jets played a game as World Champions .
Isn't Shea Stadium in Queens and not Long Island?
it was a SHAME that the chiefs-jets game WAS BLACKED OUT IN THE NEW YORK AREA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I lived in LA and did not get to watch this game. Maybe it was blacked out there too. I was surprised and bummed to find out the Jets did not win. And then of course I thought the Raiders would beat the Chiefs the next week. This is why I do not gamble.
@@smitskee Mystery solved. At that young age I probably did not know they played adult football on Saturdays.
Over 50 years ago, time to get over that.
@@donmurphy1685 actually don murphy i am a rams fan so it did not matter to me ,BUT MANY of my friends were jets fans and they could not figure out why a sold out came could not be televised let alone a tremendous playoff game !!!!!!!!!!! when it come to ice hockey where in the late 1970's and early 1980's when the new york rangers would play the new york islanders NONE OF THOSE PLAYOFF GAMES WERE TELEVISED in the 5 boroughs of new york city !!!!!!!!!!
Those two won't meet in the Playoffs again until 1986
5:14 Narrator didn't know how to pronounce, "Marsalis."
Kansas City defense was too good for the Jets they didn't stand a chance.
The Chief front seven especially, were not only great players, they had athleticism in players like Bell, Lanier, and Culp, that gave them a step up in those days. Just not enough bodies on offense to block these guys.
@@smitskee Jets still needed to run the ball. No reason why they threw twice as much as they ran in a 6-6 game in the 4th quarter on a cold blustery windy day
@@howardcosell2022 Tough sledding on the ground. Matt Snell had one 15 yard pop, otherwise it was short gains. They must have realized they weren't getting enough of a push up front. Namath tried to get chunks with the pass. It was a gamble, and he lost.
12 years old. The weather conditions, the field. Beautiful just beautiful.
Namath!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Long Island? Wasn't Shea Stadium in Queens?
Shea Stadium was located in Queens, not Long Island.
Queens and Brooklyn are considered the western end of Long Island
Queens and Brooklyn are part of NYC. But they are on the island that is called Long Island.
I hate domed stadiums, and I hate fake grass. Football was meant to be played in sub-zero temperatures on grass/dirt field.
Long Island? The Jets played in Queens.
The Borough of Queens is on Long Island, as is The Borough of Brooklyn, in fact The Bronx is the only borough situated on the United States mainland.
Why did it say 15-6 at 4:30, I thought the final was 13-6
I seriously doubt it was considered, but I wonder if the Jets should have gone for it on 4th down and forced the Chiefs to stop them 4 times from a yard out. At worst, it would've backed up Kansas City on their goal line with a decent chance of getting good field position again.
Chiefs defense was nothing nice. They held Oakland and the Vikings each to 7 points the following 2 games.
Good bye world champion NY Jets...13-6 Chiefs 🏈/😢
Good Lord. It looks like they were playing on the surface of the moon. Do they not have grass in New York?
100 yds and not one blade of grass!
Did they not have grass in 1969?
frozen mud painted green
Otis Taylor, still not in the Hall of Fame.
Crazy
THE GAME WAS PLAYED ON DECEMBER 20 1969 THE GAME WAS BLACK OUT IN NEW YORK CITY NAMATH PLAYED LIKE SHIT IN THAT GAME IT WAS THE WORST GAME IN HIS CARRER AND I LIKE JOE NAMATH EVEN THOUGH I WAS A COWBOY FAN KENNETH 0
saturday afternoon!
remember listening to the jets set radio network with merle harmon and sam deluca
Anyone think the jets would’ve beaten the vikes if they made it back?
Don't be silly. Of course the Jets would have won. : )
@@smitskee thank you, appreciate the insight, that’s what I’m talking about 🤙🏼
How old were you that season? My pops was like, 14 I believe? 14-15 if memory serves me right...
@@spiritualarchitect4276 lol. I hear you brother I hear you
@@NeoNitty I was 13, and my old man had Jet season tickets. IMO, that group of Jet players peaked that season. They still had some youth, and Joe still had prime skills, but as soon as Joe started getting hurt, the worm turned quick, where the age at certain positions, and weaknesses were exposed.
@@smitskee lately I’ve been watching all the jet games posted on YT from the late 70’s , on...I’m currently in the ‘81 season, I’m up to the first MIA matchup.
We went to many games in the 90s..all losses lol...I was at the Dennis Byrd(RIP) game though, 8 years old. Remember it like it was yesterday.
namath was horrible in this game!
And the Chiefs defense was very good which had a lot to do with him beings horrible
Joe was horrible, and yet the score was still close. IMO, the shitty weather helped the Jets. On a nice chilly calm afternoon, IMO, the Chiefs run the Jets off the field. Joe had to press, because the Jets couldn't run consistently against that team. A team that also had a first rate pass rush and pass defense.
@@slundgr No reason why the Jets throw the ball twice as much as they ran in a tight 6-6 game in the 4th QTR with bad playing conditions
Writers said afterwards that it was cheap Weeb Ewbank (GM as well as h/c) who wouldn't sign Bob Talamini who would have plowed a WIDE hole at 1:55 that contributed to the loss.
@@robparadise6099 exactly.....Weeb was a cheap SOB...
How chiefs beat jets in 69 when the jets beat colts in super bowl 69?
Because the super bowl was in 1969 for the 1968 season, just like all the super bowls are in the next calendar year.
typical jets lol
They didn't beat one team with a plus .500 record in 1969. I think they went 10-4.
@@frogger1952 yeah, they weren't as good as in 68
@@jamessollazzo4860, Injuries and skinflint Ewbank let several key players go, especially Talamini.
Why isn’t Otis Taylor in the Hall of Fame.
Because he played in a small market..
If he played in NYC or the west coast he would already be there...
Jets not getting in from one yard line cost them game. Chiefs went on to destroy the Vikings in SB. Jets would have beaten Vikes too
Jets losing Don maynard, Jim Hudson, Johnny sample to injury really hurt the jets in this game. Joe Namath being a interception prone dude threw 3 in this game didn’t help. And yes don is playing in the game but he was playing hurt and after this season he wasn’t the same player anymore in the early 70s. Also weeb ewebank not resigning Bob talamani really hurt the jets on that goaline situation. The jets were playing a real tuff team in the Cheifs. Supriseingly the jets were the closest to beating the Cheifs in the post season
@todd long rich caster was a great tight end for the Jets in the 70s he was the only few bright spots of the 70s Jets offense. Micky shulur is the Jets best tight end but rich caster was is top 5 Jets tight end no question. To bad he was on the Jets down years
Johnny Sample didn’t play the ‘69 season due to him punching Otto Graham in the College All-Star game.
@@davanmani556 that’s what I meant when he was injured. In that college game. If he didn’t get hurt he would’ve played but after that injury in college he realized his injury was the end of his career
@@user-oh6eg4ny3h People forget about Pete Lammons.....RIP
@@howardcosell2022 Pete Lammons was a good tight end god rest his soul. He’s probably the second best tight. People consider micky shulur the best jet tight end