Apologies. The video just got demonetised for a (~15 second) clip of Dawson’s pass to Otis Taylor in the Super Bowl, so I had to blur it. It was not flagged when I first uploaded it otherwise I would have fixed it before uploading. A similar thing happened in my Steve Largent video. I wish it was clear before uploading so it doesn’t ruin it for you.
Boy, this video brought back many memories! I was in 6th grade when the Texans moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs. My hometown was about 80 miles from Kansas City. It didn’t take long for the Chiefs to establish a strong fan base in the area surrounding Kansas City. And it didn’t take long to establish a hated rival, the Oakland Raiders. When these two teams played, either in the AFL or in the NFL, after the merger there was no quarter given. One of my most vivid memories of Len Dawson and Otis Taylor wasn’t the touchdown in Super Bowl IV but a play in a regular season game. It was it was in the 1970 season, the Raiders were playing the Chiefs in old Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. Dawson had taken off on a quarterback keeper around the right end. He had gone to the ground when Raiders’ defensive end Ben Davison dropped his head and speared Dawson in the small of his back. Streaking across the field to protect his quarterback was #89, Otis Taylor. He hit Davidson and the fight was on! That play resulted in a change of the rule for hitting a player on the ground.
That 1970 Super Bowl vs the Vikings was poetic justice for the Chiefs and their owner, Lamar Hunt 1. The Vikings were initially one of the announced AFL cities, but decided to abandon the league before its first season when the NFL offered them an expansion franchise. 2. The 1970 Super Bowl was the last game that matched the AFL vs the NFL champions, and as such, the final game of the AFL. Lamar Hunt founded the AFL, made it a success, ultimately forced a merger which included ALL of the AFL franchises (NFL fought that hard) and then defeated the NFL on the field in the final game of the league he created. Mr Hunt had to have felt very satisfied that day.
Super Bowl IV was the team owned by the founder of the AFL against the team that betrayed the AFL. Super Bowl XI was the team that betrayed the AFL against the team that replaced them.
I'm glad someone else out there appreciates the significance of Super Bowl IV, particularly that bit of schaundenfraude over the Vikings choosing to join the senior league instead of the upstarts. If SB III was the biggest upset in pro football history (and it is), SB IV proved it was no fluke. I can appreciate Len Dawson, the best passer in the history of the AFL, deserved the MVP as a kind of career achievement award. Even if he only threw for 142 yards. I would have awarded it to Curley Culp, who was used by D-line coach Tom Pratt to create the nose tackle, or zero technique, position. Every team in both leagues ran a 4-3 front seven in theory. The line might be unbalanced on occasion, particularly in short yardage situations. But for this final AFL game, Culp spent most of his 47 snaps lined up straight on center Mick Tinglehoff. Culp weighed 265 to Tinglehoff's 237, and used his skills as an NCAA wrestling champion to treat the Vikes center like a practice dummy. This innovation, combined with the 53 defense (putting the strong-side defensive end into a two-point stance) used by the Dolphins during their 1970s Super Bowl run, turned the 3-4 defense into its own system during the course of that decade. This is how Hank Stram described what the coming decade would hold for the now-merged NFL: "Well, the '70s will be the decade of difference-different offensive sets, different defensive formations. What we try to do is to create a moment of hesitation, a moment of doubt in the defense." Well, Stram may have gotten things backwards, since defenses and powerful running attacks would dominate most of the 1970s. So dominant that the rules regarding pass defenses and offensive line techniques would undergo their biggest alteration in league history. After the rule changes instituted in 1978, passing would gradually equal, then overtake running the ball by a wide margin. Well, it's better to be half right than completely off.
@Joe-kg2po I can still recall the D-lines of both teams. Chiefs: Jerry Mays (255), Aaron Brown (260), Buck Buchanan (270), Curley Culp (265). Vikes: Carl Eller (255), Alan Page (248), Gary Larsen (260), Jim Marshall (245). All weights +/- 10 lbs. depending on source. Size difference significant for that era.
Crazy that the Steelers cut both Unitas and Dawson. I think they made up for it once Chuck Noll cane to town and they started drafting Hall-of-Famers every year.
All three of Kansas City's uber sports heroes stayed in the KC metro after their careers in football - Len Dawson, golf - Tom Watson, baseball - George Brett instead of jetting off to swankier digs. We in KC love these guys for that and their exceptional contributions to their sports.
6:47 FYI The Vikings offensive line had 2 Hall Of Famers (Mick Tinglehoff, Ron Yary) and Grady Alderman who went to 7 Pro Bowls. The Chiefs defensive line had 2 Hall Of Famers(Buck Buchanan, Curley Culp), and a member of the AFL All Time team(Jerry Mays).Oh and 2 Hall Of Fame linebackers(Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier) and Hall Of Fame defensive backs Emmitt Thomas and Johnny Robinson.
The Chiefs and Raiders were the two best teams in football .Network color man Al De Rogatiis said in the openg I doubt know who wins this game but the team that does will beat Minnesota in the Super Bowl.
I used to listen to Lenny do color commentary on Chiefs radio. I could hear his pain describing some of the awful play during the Carl Peterson GM era. I sure wish he'd lived long enough to see KC dominate as they have lately. He was a terrific guy.
I watched that double overtime game. The AFL in those days didn't always have the greatest viewership, but they had some really good players and played exciting football.
Hank Stram graduated from Lew Wallace High School in Gary, Indiana the year that I was born in Gary and I also graduated from there and Dawson was a Purdue QB and also played with Stram who was an assistant coach there. What a potent combination! Those two guys were a huge part of making the NFL what it is today way back then…
A lot of Dawson's success was provided by Otis Taylor. Phenomenal receiver. Excellent route discipline and great hands. Of him, Dawson said, ""Otis made my job easy, If you got the pass to Otis, you knew he'd catch it." As a Bills fan, I'd watch in frustration as they'd execute a quick down and out to get another set of downs. If they needed to stop the clock, Taylor would just step out of bounds but if they didn't, look out because he'd whip around and head toward the goal line. How he's not in the HOF is a mystery: th-cam.com/video/6l5A3tDdrTg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=90xNaiIREr6Vvk9s
Leonard had better touch passing skills than most quarterbacks in the league today. Joe Burrow is the only one I’ve seen that consistently shows touch and accuracy today. I don’t see many NFC games though.
Actually back then you had to work offseason because you don't have big contracts like now! He did insurance first and then moved over to broadcasting!
I was anxiously waiting for the English narrator on classic NFL lore to make a mistake, ready to pounce and admonish even the slightest error…it never happened. At least that I could detect from my own first memory. Well done sir. You clearly did your homework on this one.
@@garysarratt1 Namath had a fantastic arm but let’s face it, he was a statue in the pocket. Totally immobile with those glass knees. He really didn’t play very long and his career would have been even shorter if he hadn’t brought that “Hollywood” (or Broadway, as it were) pizzazz to the scene which helped sell tickets (although he was basically warming the bench at the end for the Rams).
@ Partly true, but his mobility may have stayed better if that guy hadn’t clobbered his knee when he was in the ground. The thing is, he is the qb that beat the Colts. He is the one that legitimized the league. He had a high completion percentage. He stayed in demand for a long time, even after he couldn’t run well. He threw way fewer interceptions than Lamonica. He wasn’t the best, but he was surely in the top 5 for the era.
Lenny Dawson is a case of someone's trash(Pittsburgh Steelers) is another person's treasure(Kansas City Chiefs). The highlight of Len Dawson was 2 trips to the Superbowl in which he won one of them which helped solidify the AFL's reputation and led to the merger the very next season.
When they first came to KC, their headquarters was at Swope Park. My mom was the nurse for an ear/nose and throat doctor in the Research medical building up the street. (Dr. Hazen). Broken noses were common for football players of that era. The Chiefs would send the players to Dr. Hazen. One day, Dawson and Fred Arbanas went in. She said Dawson stood in the middle of the waiting room, put his hands on his hips and said, I'm Len Dawson. My mom said, congratulations, when is the award ceremony? He was flustered, Arbanas laughed. The next day Arbanas went back in with a team program autographed by every player and coach, a team photo and 4 tickets to every home game left that season. My mom didn't know who Len Dawson was at the time but thought he thought himself pretty special. Arbanas told her the team got quite a laugh over that. She said when Dawson ever went back to Dr. Hazen, he was as nice as could be and always brought her something, candy, or flowers.
I was the UPS guy for the Truman Sports complex for 8 years. I would have gave a second round pick for a loading dock. Everything coming and going went right by the receptionists desk to the parking lot.
@alanmazzucchelli9013 I remember that. Arbanas got punched in the eye downtown KC. The players in those days weren't like today. They had to have off season jobs because they weren't paid millions like today. Walt Corey was a substitute school teacher and taught at my grade school pretty often. Otis Taylor lived right across the street from the grade school and would come out sometimes when we were playing football on the big side lawn and would teach us little basic things. I played little League football at swope park and a few players sons were on our team. The player dads would come around once in a while and help in practices, give us instruction. Those were fun times. Just regular guys, far cry from today's players.
@@boataxe4605 Ahh, I think you’re right. But my comment was through a misunderstanding: I thought you were saying, [to paraphrase] ‘Nope, Lucky’s are filter tipped cigarettes.’ - Which I responded; ‘not back then…’
My Chiefs jerseys: Len Dawson, Derrick Thomas, and Mahomes. Love the Chiefs. From Taylor, Lanier, and Bell all the way up to Mahomes, Kelsey, and Jones. GO CHIEFS!!!
A great QB and a good man, but his commentary skills need more recognition. His play by play commentary has been recognized and awarded but it is not being held up as a standard for today's in-the-booth media. Commentators are talking about player's careers, draft picks, personalities and other games all while there is a game being played right in front of us. They're not watching the game with us. Dawson would analyze the game as it was happening, telling us what he saw, what that was causing, then what adjustments might come later in the game. He aimed our attention on the game being played for us. *************** "Bill Kenny is hit every time he throws the ball. He never gets to see his pass completed and it's effecting his accuracy." "The defense is swatting at the pass at the line. Block lower to get their hands down." While he was partial to the Chiefs, he never lied to us by trying to hide it, and we got good game coverage whenever he was working.
I was born in the 50's when NFL Football was second fiddle to MLB Baseball! But from the 60's on I was an NFL Guy! And I believe that any Championship NFL/AFL Team from the 60's and 70's could beat any Superbowl Team of the 80's on even my beloved "85" Bears! Under the 60's & 70's NFL rules! Corners can jam receivers, no F_CKING TV Timeouts! An hour long game not 3 hours of commercials! And no offensive holding which happens on every play in the NFL now! No homosexual kickoffs! The QB's of the 60's would carve the New Passing NFL Game UP! They were Great Field Generals, no Coaches in their ear! These were full grown Men that made their own decisions on the field! Dictated by the play on the field! ie, The Ice Bowl! Bart Starr over the Goal Line behind Jerry Kramer & Forrest Gregg! Lombardi called a timeout and asked Starr what he thought? Starr said QB sneak behind Kramer & Gregg over Jethro Pugh! Lombardi said okay and the rest was history! Lenny Dawson was the AFL's Old School QB's! While the NFL was still 3 yards & a cloud of dust and a 4-3 defense! The AFL were a Gun Slingers League throwing the ball all over the place and playing a 3-4 defense! I always thought the AFL games of the 60's were way more interesting and the defense played a wide open game! Especially The Chiefs vs The Raiders! Those games were wang dang doodles! Hank Stram & Lenny Dawson teams were Great Disciplined Teams! Just matriculating the ball down the field! Baby! The 60's before the 1970 Russian Merger CCCP Accord! Were Great Teams! I was Lucky to watch, Great NFL/AFL Football!
Damn what a great time an era in football,long before astro turf,agents,an all the BS that took away what was truly real football back in the day,alot of the rule changes were better for the players for sure,but to many know it all got there greedy hands an ideals involved an turned it into this grotesque unwatchable pos we have today
Not to nitpick, but how do you kick a field goal in a tied overtime game and win by seven? *Edit: by 10. The creator said the final score was 27 to 17.
Dawson was good but he was a product of Hank Stram. What really put the Chiefs over was their defense. Stram had no problem pursuing black players from black colleges and was the first coach in the AFL to room a black and whyte player together. Dawson’s SB MVP is the direct result of racism as he didn’t even have that good of a game but he was whyte which was a sign of the times. Chiefs defense won that SB. They were way to fast and athletic. The league had never seen anything like it and other coaches took notice. One of my friends growing up was Antonio Kearny who was the grandson of Jim Kearny, who tied the record of most INTs returned for TDs at 4
LENNY DAWSON WHOOPED MY FAVORITE QB....JOE KAPP...AND THE VIKINGS.....JUST LIKE JOE NAMATH....THEY MADE A FAN OUT A ME....OTIS TAYOR...PODALAK.. GARRET ...AND THE DEFENSE...THE CHIEFS WERE TUFF AS NAILS...
Apologies. The video just got demonetised for a (~15 second) clip of Dawson’s pass to Otis Taylor in the Super Bowl, so I had to blur it. It was not flagged when I first uploaded it otherwise I would have fixed it before uploading. A similar thing happened in my Steve Largent video. I wish it was clear before uploading so it doesn’t ruin it for you.
I'm really getting fed up with youtube
@@farpointgamingdirect when there is no accountability for those reviewing, there is no fairness or rules for that matter.
Mr. Dawson was ALWAYS a class act on Inside the NFL when I used to watch it in the 90s. Loved his perspective.
Boy, this video brought back many memories!
I was in 6th grade when the Texans moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs. My hometown was about 80 miles from Kansas City. It didn’t take long for the Chiefs to establish a strong fan base in the area surrounding Kansas City. And it didn’t take long to establish a hated rival, the Oakland Raiders. When these two teams played, either in the AFL or in the NFL, after the merger there was no quarter given.
One of my most vivid memories of Len Dawson and Otis Taylor wasn’t the touchdown in Super Bowl IV but a play in a regular season game. It was it was in the 1970 season, the Raiders were playing the Chiefs in old Municipal Stadium in Kansas City. Dawson had taken off on a quarterback keeper around the right end. He had gone to the ground when Raiders’ defensive end Ben Davison dropped his head and speared Dawson in the small of his back.
Streaking across the field to protect his quarterback was #89, Otis Taylor. He hit Davidson and the fight was on!
That play resulted in a change of the rule for hitting a player on the ground.
A lot of rule changes due to the Raiders
The photo of Lennie smoking a cigarette at halftime 4:45 really does highlight the old NFL vs the new!
right lol
It's awesome. Before the days of politically correct, woke BS.
Before chemicals in cigs
It was 'Lucky' beer he was drinking, lol. Yucky, lol.
@@CC-xu2yztoday i learned woke=athletes not smoking cigarettes
As a little kid, Len Dawson was my favorite Quarterback. I also liked to listen to him as a commentator.
Here in Kansas City he was the sports caster anchor on channel 9 for 30+ years....we saw him 5 times a week...he was good...
That 1970 Super Bowl vs the Vikings was poetic justice for the Chiefs and their owner, Lamar Hunt
1. The Vikings were initially one of the announced AFL cities, but decided to abandon the league before its first season when the NFL offered them an expansion franchise.
2. The 1970 Super Bowl was the last game that matched the AFL vs the NFL champions, and as such, the final game of the AFL. Lamar Hunt founded the AFL, made it a success, ultimately forced a merger which included ALL of the AFL franchises (NFL fought that hard) and then defeated the NFL on the field in the final game of the league he created. Mr Hunt had to have felt very satisfied that day.
Super Bowl IV was the team owned by the founder of the AFL against the team that betrayed the AFL. Super Bowl XI was the team that betrayed the AFL against the team that replaced them.
Another great video. Thanks!
I'm glad someone else out there appreciates the significance of Super Bowl IV, particularly that bit of schaundenfraude over the Vikings choosing to join the senior league instead of the upstarts. If SB III was the biggest upset in pro football history (and it is), SB IV proved it was no fluke. I can appreciate Len Dawson, the best passer in the history of the AFL, deserved the MVP as a kind of career achievement award. Even if he only threw for 142 yards. I would have awarded it to Curley Culp, who was used by D-line coach Tom Pratt to create the nose tackle, or zero technique, position. Every team in both leagues ran a 4-3 front seven in theory. The line might be unbalanced on occasion, particularly in short yardage situations. But for this final AFL game, Culp spent most of his 47 snaps lined up straight on center Mick Tinglehoff. Culp weighed 265 to Tinglehoff's 237, and used his skills as an NCAA wrestling champion to treat the Vikes center like a practice dummy. This innovation, combined with the 53 defense (putting the strong-side defensive end into a two-point stance) used by the Dolphins during their 1970s Super Bowl run, turned the 3-4 defense into its own system during the course of that decade. This is how Hank Stram described what the coming decade would hold for the now-merged NFL: "Well, the '70s will be the decade of difference-different offensive sets, different defensive formations. What we try to do is to create a moment of hesitation, a moment of doubt in the defense." Well, Stram may have gotten things backwards, since defenses and powerful running attacks would dominate most of the 1970s. So dominant that the rules regarding pass defenses and offensive line techniques would undergo their biggest alteration in league history. After the rule changes instituted in 1978, passing would gradually equal, then overtake running the ball by a wide margin. Well, it's better to be half right than completely off.
@@jefferyroy2566Kansas City Chiefs defense defensive line had a size advantage against Vikings offensive line.
@Joe-kg2po I can still recall the D-lines of both teams. Chiefs: Jerry Mays (255), Aaron Brown (260), Buck Buchanan (270), Curley Culp (265). Vikes: Carl Eller (255), Alan Page (248), Gary Larsen (260), Jim Marshall (245). All weights +/- 10 lbs. depending on source. Size difference significant for that era.
johnny unitas was another player who was finally given a chance and became one of the best quarterbacks ever.
yep - just made a video about him
Unitas cut by the Steelers who had a 3rd string QB that made the Hall of Fame--Jim Finks better known as the GM for Vikings, Bears, Saints.
Crazy that the Steelers cut both Unitas and Dawson. I think they made up for it once Chuck Noll cane to town and they started drafting Hall-of-Famers every year.
All Jews. The game is not authentic.
@@captain_orange go see a doctor about your problem.
On behalf of the Dawson family, good job and thanks
I am too old to have seen him play but I remember him well from his Inside the NFL days. A big part of my childhood.
that means a heck of a lot! Thank you 🙏
He had great voice also. Loved listening to him as a commentator.
I grew up with Len Dawson and the Chiefs....thanks for this 👍👍
thank you for watching 🙏
My All Time favorite Quarterback.
All three of Kansas City's uber sports heroes stayed in the KC metro after their careers in football - Len Dawson, golf - Tom Watson, baseball - George Brett instead of jetting off to swankier digs. We in KC love these guys for that and their exceptional contributions to their sports.
As a Kansas City kid in the 60s, we didn't call it "going outside to play football"... we played "Len Dawson and Otis Taylor."
During halftime, my father and I always went outside to play catch.
6:47 FYI The Vikings offensive line had 2 Hall Of Famers (Mick Tinglehoff, Ron Yary) and Grady Alderman who went to 7 Pro Bowls. The Chiefs defensive line had 2 Hall Of Famers(Buck Buchanan, Curley Culp), and a member of the AFL All Time team(Jerry Mays).Oh and 2 Hall Of Fame linebackers(Bobby Bell, Willie Lanier) and Hall Of Fame defensive backs Emmitt Thomas and Johnny Robinson.
Otis Taylor was a great receiver.
@@ronaldrhatigan7652 “When I first saw Jerry Rice, the person I thought of was Otis Taylor” - Don Klosterman
Otis Taylor was a beast! Big, strong and fast! D-Backs of the day really were overwhelmed by him!!!
He was the first Megatron.
Len Dawson was always a favorite of mine, even when he beat the Oilers for the AFL championship!
Len was a cool dude!
As a young boy growing up in Kansas City I idolized Len Dawson. Actually, everyone on the team was a hero to me but Lenny was the hero of heroes.
The Chiefs and Raiders were the two best teams in football .Network color man Al De Rogatiis said in the openg I doubt know who wins this game but the team that does will beat Minnesota in the Super Bowl.
Good man and a great broadcaster… we miss him here in KC.
Great Video! Thanks! I Liked and Subscribed.
thank you so much Gerald!
I used to listen to Lenny do color commentary on Chiefs radio. I could hear his pain describing some of the awful play during the Carl Peterson GM era. I sure wish he'd lived long enough to see KC dominate as they have lately. He was a terrific guy.
Carl Peterson put football back on the map in K.C. Apparently no one told you about the 70's and 80's.
@@tanker335 True. See QB Todd Blackledge drafted in front of super star QBs by the Chiefs because of, of, of..............................
Dawson, a great, a classic. At a time when QBs got hit as hard as any other football player🏈
I watched that double overtime game. The AFL in those days didn't always have the greatest viewership, but they had some really good players and played exciting football.
Compare stats between Dawson and Namath. Dawson blows him away.
Thank you! I lived through it but didn’t remember all of those early details.
great! Thank you for watching Roger
Hank Stram graduated from Lew Wallace High School in Gary, Indiana the year that I was born in Gary and I also graduated from there and Dawson was a Purdue QB and also played with Stram who was an assistant coach there. What a potent combination! Those two guys were a huge part of making the NFL what it is today way back then…
Legend of the Game, Lenny the Kool .
Thank you for this! Well done! I really enjoyed it. But when did Len leave the NFL? The ending felt rushed.
appreciate the feedback, you're right. I will work on the conclusion to my videos 👍
A lot of Dawson's success was provided by Otis Taylor.
Phenomenal receiver. Excellent route discipline and great hands.
Of him, Dawson said, ""Otis made my job easy, If you got the pass to Otis, you knew he'd catch it."
As a Bills fan, I'd watch in frustration as they'd execute a quick down and out to get another set of downs. If they needed to stop the clock, Taylor would just step out of bounds but if they didn't, look out because he'd whip around and head toward the goal line.
How he's not in the HOF is a mystery:
th-cam.com/video/6l5A3tDdrTg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=90xNaiIREr6Vvk9s
Leonard had better touch passing skills than most quarterbacks in the league today. Joe Burrow is the only one I’ve seen that consistently shows touch and accuracy today. I don’t see many NFC games though.
Actually back then you had to work offseason because you don't have big contracts like now! He did insurance first and then moved over to broadcasting!
Great video!
thank you!
I watched Lenny play on black and white TV. He was the best.
Although I'm a lifelong Steelers fan when I was much younger Dawson was my favorite player.
Would you be willing to make a video about Jack Youngblood?
sure let me add it to the list. I've got a couple lined up already, but I'll make a video before Christmas. Anything specific you'd like to see in it?
He was a Legend and Legends live forever
A square peg, does not fit a round hole, but a little adjustment ... it fits perfectly ...
I was anxiously waiting for the English narrator on classic NFL lore to make a mistake, ready to pounce and admonish even the slightest error…it never happened. At least that I could detect from my own first memory. Well done sir. You clearly did your homework on this one.
@@psidvicious that means a lot, I appreciate it.
I like the old chiefs icon . NFL will never be the same as compared to the games of the 60s and 70s today NFL football is like flag football
I remember him as a kid..
I had forgotten these facts
do one on the mad bomber- he and Dawson were the afl, not Namath.
You got it sir, I’ll add him to my list of videos to make
What do you have against Namath?
I miss those days when football wasn't to bid to fail.$$$$
@@garysarratt1 Namath had a fantastic arm but let’s face it, he was a statue in the pocket. Totally immobile with those glass knees. He really didn’t play very long and his career would have been even shorter if he hadn’t brought that “Hollywood” (or Broadway, as it were) pizzazz to the scene which helped sell tickets (although he was basically warming the bench at the end for the Rams).
@ Partly true, but his mobility may have stayed better if that guy hadn’t clobbered his knee when he was in the ground. The thing is, he is the qb that beat the Colts. He is the one that legitimized the league. He had a high completion percentage. He stayed in demand for a long time, even after he couldn’t run well. He threw way fewer interceptions than Lamonica. He wasn’t the best, but he was surely in the top 5 for the era.
Lenny Dawson is a case of someone's trash(Pittsburgh Steelers) is another person's treasure(Kansas City Chiefs). The highlight of Len Dawson was 2 trips to the Superbowl in which he won one of them which helped solidify the AFL's reputation and led to the merger the very next season.
The other Pittsburgh trash draft pick was John Unitas. It's no wonder they didn't make Big Ben a LB.
My dad's cousin was a gorgeous TWA flight attendant and had a couple dates with Lennie
When they first came to KC, their headquarters was at Swope Park. My mom was the nurse for an ear/nose and throat doctor in the Research medical building up the street. (Dr. Hazen). Broken noses were common for football players of that era. The Chiefs would send the players to Dr. Hazen. One day, Dawson and Fred Arbanas went in. She said Dawson stood in the middle of the waiting room, put his hands on his hips and said, I'm Len Dawson. My mom said, congratulations, when is the award ceremony? He was flustered, Arbanas laughed. The next day Arbanas went back in with a team program autographed by every player and coach, a team photo and 4 tickets to every home game left that season. My mom didn't know who Len Dawson was at the time but thought he thought himself pretty special. Arbanas told her the team got quite a laugh over that. She said when Dawson ever went back to Dr. Hazen, he was as nice as could be and always brought her something, candy, or flowers.
Fred was blind in one eye and another player had a steel plate in his head. Fullback Mack L Lee Hill died from a blood clot during a knee operation.
I was the UPS guy for the Truman Sports complex for 8 years. I would have gave a second round pick for a loading dock. Everything coming and going went right by the receptionists desk to the parking lot.
@alanmazzucchelli9013 I remember that. Arbanas got punched in the eye downtown KC. The players in those days weren't like today. They had to have off season jobs because they weren't paid millions like today. Walt Corey was a substitute school teacher and taught at my grade school pretty often. Otis Taylor lived right across the street from the grade school and would come out sometimes when we were playing football on the big side lawn and would teach us little basic things. I played little League football at swope park and a few players sons were on our team. The player dads would come around once in a while and help in practices, give us instruction. Those were fun times. Just regular guys, far cry from today's players.
I wonder if his smoke of choice was Lucky Strike?
Nope,that’s a filter tipped cigarette.
@@boataxe4605 Not back then they weren’t.
@@psidvicious You can see that it is a filter tip if you look closely.
@@boataxe4605 Ahh, I think you’re right. But my comment was through a misunderstanding: I thought you were saying, [to paraphrase] ‘Nope, Lucky’s are filter tipped cigarettes.’ - Which I responded; ‘not back then…’
Host of HBO’s Inside the NFL.
Drafted over Jim Brown!!!!
Chiefs got Buck Buchanon for a backup QB?
Milt Plum was a great quarterback for the Detroit Lions
Are you related.
My Chiefs jerseys: Len Dawson, Derrick Thomas, and Mahomes. Love the Chiefs. From Taylor, Lanier, and Bell all the way up to Mahomes, Kelsey, and Jones. GO CHIEFS!!!
Lennie the cool!
No doubt he was one cool cat.
Dawson was fun to watch! Bobby Lane was drunk every game and still won.
what a time to be a football player
A great QB and a good man, but his commentary skills need more recognition.
His play by play commentary has been recognized and awarded but it is not being held up as a standard for today's in-the-booth media.
Commentators are talking about player's careers, draft picks, personalities and other games all while there is a game being played right in front of us. They're not watching the game with us.
Dawson would analyze the game as it was happening, telling us what he saw, what that was causing, then what adjustments might come later in the game. He aimed our attention on the game being played for us.
***************
"Bill Kenny is hit every time he throws the ball. He never gets to see his pass completed and it's effecting his accuracy."
"The defense is swatting at the pass at the line. Block lower to get their hands down."
While he was partial to the Chiefs, he never lied to us by trying to hide it, and we got good game coverage whenever he was working.
I was born in the 50's when NFL Football was second fiddle to MLB Baseball! But from the 60's on I was an NFL Guy! And I believe that any Championship NFL/AFL Team from the 60's and 70's could beat any Superbowl Team of the 80's on even my beloved "85" Bears! Under the 60's & 70's NFL rules! Corners can jam receivers, no F_CKING TV Timeouts! An hour long game not 3 hours of commercials! And no offensive holding which happens on every play in the NFL now! No homosexual kickoffs! The QB's of the 60's would carve the New Passing NFL Game UP! They were Great Field Generals, no Coaches in their ear! These were full grown Men that made their own decisions on the field! Dictated by the play on the field! ie, The Ice Bowl! Bart Starr over the Goal Line behind Jerry Kramer & Forrest Gregg! Lombardi called a timeout and asked Starr what he thought? Starr said QB sneak behind Kramer & Gregg over Jethro Pugh! Lombardi said okay and the rest was history! Lenny Dawson was the AFL's Old School QB's! While the NFL was still 3 yards & a cloud of dust and a 4-3 defense! The AFL were a Gun Slingers League throwing the ball all over the place and playing a 3-4 defense! I always thought the AFL games of the 60's were way more interesting and the defense played a wide open game! Especially The Chiefs vs The Raiders! Those games were wang dang doodles! Hank Stram & Lenny Dawson teams were Great Disciplined Teams! Just matriculating the ball down the field! Baby! The 60's before the 1970 Russian Merger CCCP Accord! Were Great Teams! I was Lucky to watch, Great NFL/AFL Football!
With the same rules, no 60’s/70’s team would physically matchup with the modern players.
Mahomes will break Len Dawson's records, but Len was 10x as cool. Mahomes can never match that. With that match light a smoke Len.
1957 draft. 4 of the top 8 players drafted went into the Hall of Fame.
helluva draft
FILTER-TIPPED cigarettes ... Smart Man
And then the nfl didnt draft Warren Moon. Smh
Damn…I thought this was Johnny Manziel….
Purdue grad. ❤
I thought this was going to be Plunkett.
got a video on him coming up soon
I thought that initial thumbnail was Sonny Jergunson.
Beating ND finally got my attention
Damn what a great time an era in football,long before astro turf,agents,an all the BS that took away what was truly real football back in the day,alot of the rule changes were better for the players for sure,but to many know it all got there greedy hands an ideals involved an turned it into this grotesque unwatchable pos we have today
This sounds like baker mayfield
Are you saying Tampa are SB59 winners 👀
How the heck does Jim Brown get drafted sixth?
Paul Brown wanted Len Dawson/John Brodie too so if either was available, Brown would have gone even lower
Not to nitpick, but how do you kick a field goal in a tied overtime game and win by seven?
*Edit: by 10. The creator said the final score was 27 to 17.
They won by 3.
@@johnhardman825 yep, you are correct.
terrible miss by me! You’re right. Final score of 20-17, not 27-17. Apologies🤦♂️
Dawson was good but he was a product of Hank Stram. What really put the Chiefs over was their defense. Stram had no problem pursuing black players from black colleges and was the first coach in the AFL to room a black and whyte player together. Dawson’s SB MVP is the direct result of racism as he didn’t even have that good of a game but he was whyte which was a sign of the times. Chiefs defense won that SB. They were way to fast and athletic. The league had never seen anything like it and other coaches took notice. One of my friends growing up was Antonio Kearny who was the grandson of Jim Kearny, who tied the record of most INTs returned for TDs at 4
Nonsense. You are blinded by your own racism.
buck buchanan: the original ozzy osbourne.
LENNY DAWSON WHOOPED MY FAVORITE QB....JOE KAPP...AND THE VIKINGS.....JUST LIKE JOE NAMATH....THEY MADE A FAN OUT A ME....OTIS TAYOR...PODALAK.. GARRET ...AND THE DEFENSE...THE CHIEFS WERE TUFF AS NAILS...
It is obvious this guy knows little to nothing about football. AI makes everyone an “expert.”
Thanks ;)
He wasn't better than Joe Montana!
Nobody was ! And I’m a Brady fan !