No, my friend, you're not alone. Growing up watching Pro Football in the 60's and 70's, I prefer these videos as well any day. I remember when it was a game and fun to watch.Thanks for posting, Dave! - jack
No sir, not by any means!! This is my kind of football watching these old highlights and games (both pro and college) I'd love to find more of these from the other teams of the 1965-79 era. I could watch them all day, forgetting what is going on today. The great John Facenda and Pat Summerall narrating these as well as the fantastic soundtrack playing takes me back. R.I.P Steve Sabol and his father Ed who started these football films and has preserved a great era in football history.
No absolutely not. I would rather watch these highlights over anything from today It brings back memories and I became a fan mainly because of NFL Films.
I'm in my 50's now. I remember growing up in my beloved Washington DC. When my Redskins were playing the Cowboys! The streets of D.C. were empty! I miss those days of watching those games with my Dad and brothers😢. Rip Dad ❤️
My favorite team since childhood. The Redskins are like the big brother I never had. LoveHTTR since 1969. Many warm memories of watching the games with my father after church. He was a minister. RIP daddy.
RIP to our Dads. I lost my Dad as well as we loved watching Football and especially Baseball! We were Milwaukee Brewers fans and Green Bay Packers fans. But in 1990 my Dad got me one of the most incredible Birthday🎁presents🎁ever! It was a down-filled Starter NFL jacket. Not a Packers one. He got me the Washington Redskins jacket. The Packers were sold out. Oddly enough AND I LOVE the Packers, I really LOVED this Redskins jacket! Oh it was soo warm! Sadly someone else loved it as well and at my job it was stolen from the break room! I never found another one like it, unless I would pay $300.00+. To this day that hurts so much! I loved the Redskins logo! And being a Chippewa Indian, I WORE IT WITH PRIDE AS WELL! Unlike the SJW Social Justice Warriors, I never was, have been or will be offended by teams like the Cleveland Indians or the Washington Redskins! Changing them to the Cleveland Guardians and the Washington Commanders? Why? Why? I AM AN INDIAN! This social justice 💩💩 is a joke! THEY'LL ALWAYS BE THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS!
Great observation Roger. Well said and very true. Thanks for the comment. The highlights today do not have the same interest as these of yesteryear. The 1970s in my opinion is the greatest era of NFL Films.
So true Facenda (most of the time) and the other great narrator and Spence (most of the time) and the other great musicians were incredible 60s-70s NFL FILMS was so good, fascinating, and entertaining I was born in 89 but when I saw the NFL films stuff as a kid it had an effect on me that never went away and def made me a football fan loving the lore and the great teams
Although he said he liked Joe Gibbs better because he didn’t try to cheat like Allen did. George used to send spies into the practices acting like members of the press. Landry said that he didn’t trust “the other guy”, meaning Allen. He said Gibbs didn’t do underhanded things like that, he just tried to out coach you and he did too, beating Dallas out of the championship game in 1982.
George Allen disregarded and neglected the draft. He also had priorities Defense number 1 Special teams number 2 and offense number 3. He did do some good a great cheerleader and motivator the nickel defense. He was one of the first coaches to have a special teams coach watch for Marv Levy during this film. He also spent the owners money big time. He had an unlimited budget and exceeded it within weeks. That is all well and good if you are winning the super bowl or even getting to it but this team was goaled toward making the playoffs and then one and done. I have bee a skins fan since the early 1970s and I prefer the methods and success of Joe Gibbs and he has the track record superior.
Yes, Gibbs was better. I believe, Allen wanted to stave off 'Father Time'. But all of his players, like anyone else, had expiration dates. To play as long as they did, is a testament to their willpower. But eventually, the ride comes to an end. Allen never realized, that in order in contention, one has have a good combination of young and veteran. But hey, he had his success.
That montage of the Packers playoff game starting at 13:51 is one of the finest hours of NFL Films. Perfect use of music (Recoil by Peter Reno) and the GOAT of sports narration, the incomparable John Facenda.
As a lifelong Cowboy fan, I , unfortunately remember that devastating defeat the Redskins inflicted on my Cowboys in the 1972 NFC Championship game. Washington just flat out thoroughly dominated Dallas in that game. And as I remember it, the score could have been even worse for the Cowboys. I consider this game the apex, the highest point of George Allen’s coaching career.
I will never stop calling them the Redskins in honor of my fellow worker who died as a result of injuries as a VOLUNTEER firefighter.He told me that renaming was a scam.
Redskins Larry Brown was as good a running back (albeit for a painfully short time) that you will find in the history of the NFL. This coming from a 60's and 70's Cowboys fan.
+t a Larry Brown should be in the Hall of Fame, without a doubt. As far as hard-nosed runners go, you could probably add MacArthur Lane, Brock's partner in GB for a spell, although he could go outside too, in spite of his good size..
I remember that year in DC. I was giving away 21 points...and found no takers. And are there any of you who joined the crowd at Dulles Airport to greet and cheer for the team when they returned from their loss to Dallas? My mom and I were there and we gave them burgundy and gold beanbag frogs we'd made. George's had a crown.
This was the year I became a Washington fan. Was in the 5th grade, knew all the players names, every Sunday in front of the black and white TV. What memories! Stayed a fan all the way until 2010. Could not take Snyder’s dysfunction any more. they fooled me into coming back in 2012 thanks to RGIII but they messed that up too by letting him play in the playoffs, and I left the team for good. When Snyder goes, I’ll come back. But I still have the Allen years and Gibbs years to hang on to.
Earl Ritter today's players AREN"T allowed to tackle. anytime there is a nice hit in a game today you have to look for a flag. it's not the players' faults, it is the league
Even the Washington Redskins lost to Super Bowl VII, they had their greatest year since 1942,when they won the NFC Championship. I have a record of that memorable season,narrated by former play-by-play announcer Steve Gilmartin,the voice of the Redskins from 1964-73.
New Years Eve, 1972. Rout of the Cowboys. No one will ever know how close that Super Bowl loss to the Dolphins was. But Steve Sabol is such a master filmmaker, like Bruce Brown in Endless Summer, he leaves out all details of the Super Bowl because to this film they do not matter. His use of orchestration incredible, check out Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King. Sabol was a master...
larry brown was my favorite player ever I llived in silver spring md big redskins fan I was10 years old he was at a awards dinner givin my the aflcio and he got a laugh at my exspenes. I was at the urinal and I ask him if I could get his autogragh and before I could finish my sentence he said can you wait til I'm done kid a the whole mens room bust out laughing
Great story thanks for sharing. I met a guy once he didn't know my name I didn't know his but he claimed he was related to Larry. I wonder to this day if he was on the level.
Pat Fischer was a fairly regular customer at a truck stop/gas station/convenience store I used to work at in Chantilly, Virginia called Croson's Store. Very nice guy. I wouldn't have recognized him because I was very young when he was still playing but another customer told me who he was after he walked out one night. A few days later I was wearing an Irving Fryar (Dolphins) jersey (not a Dolphins fan by any means but I liked Fryar) , when behind me I heard someone ask if I knew what college he (Fryar) went to. I turned around and saw that it was Pat and though I knew that both of them went to Nebraska, I totally blanked. He had to tell me. Anyway, we talked football for a while (business was slow that day) and he left. He came back in another night when it was busier and while he was at the register we started talking football again but he had to move for people behind him. I'm not quite sure but I think he stepped to the side to wait for things to slow down but they didn't. I've always wished I had just told the other people to take their business elsewhere so I could talk to Pat.
Fun story. My father was friends with him because Pat worked in the same office as a stockbroker in the off-season in Vienna. I met him as a kid. Definitely an inspiration.
This video is so great because it goes back to a time when the players didn't make tons of money. Linemen were the grunts... Not million dollar baby's... This was a TEAM!!! Also the fans didn't have to pay big bucks!!!
I loved watching Brown run the ball ... he was Sweetness before Payton ran for the Bears ....They had similar running styles with the high leg gait ...
Love that Locker Room Scene after their win over the Green Bay Packers in the Divisional Playoffs. After defeating the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Championship, it was too bad to see them lose to an Undefeated Team in the Super Bowl.
@@davidozab2753 Not a Miami Dolphins Fan: The Redskins defeated a Miami Team with a 4th Rate Quarterback. Had they had Hardship in Football like they had in Basketball, perhaps Dan Marino could’ve been drafted one year earlier and given Miami a far better chance to win Super Bowl XVIII. But unfortunately for the Dolphins, Dan Marino was A Senior at Pittsburgh at the time.
The music at the beginning is almost exactly the same as used in a segment of the 1976 Super Bowl (Raiders vs Vikings) highlights........just a slight change in tone. Really cool to hear it. And this video is awesome.
There was something about this team in the early 70's. RFK Stadium. Great sports teams in that era and Roberto Clemente's tragic death during that time.
The Skins Cowboy game was actually the first game that I watched...that was the beginning of my football fanship. And, so there is where the rivalry started-- that game.
Six years later Jack Pardee would replace George Allen as head coach! Richie Petitbon would be a Redskin head coach in the future! Plus Marv Levy was their Special Teams coach, 19 years later he would take on the Redskins in Super Bowl XXVI!
The beginning of this film shows the locker room at Candlestick Park after being defeated by the San Francisco 49ers. Interesting fact is that cornerback Pat Fisher should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and George Allen mentioned it in a documentary about him. Hall of Fame members George Allen, Chris Hanberger, Charlie Taylor.
@michaelleroy9281 Washington would get their chance at redemption ten years later…defeating the Cowboys at home in the NFC Championship game and the Dolphins in the Super Bowl in the greater Los Angeles area too.
RIP George Allen (1918-1990); posthumous Hall of Fame inductee; Class of 2002 RIP Charley Taylor (1941-2022); Hall of Fame Wide Receiver; Class of 1984. RIP Pat Fischer (1940-2024); like Jerry Smith, should have a bust in Canton, Ohio.
The Pack played the skins during this same year and George Allen installed the 5 man front to stifle the running game. Dan Devine made zero adjustments from that game into the playoff game - terrible coaching job.
This got you a subscriber sir! I wish I'd have seen this sooner. I may be a lifetime Packers fan, but I am also a 🏈🏈NFL🏈Football🏈🏈 fan as well. Also I have a great respect and love for any team that fought and struggled like the Redskins did. Also I am a Chippewa Indian and I loved the Redskins logo. OMG a Indian who "LIKES" the Redskins logo? Or isn't offended!?? WTH!? LMFAO! My Dad who was a full blooded Chippewa Indian, bought me a Redskins Starter Jacket for my Birthday 🎁present🎁 and I LOVED IT! I WORE IT WITH PRIDE! I was NOT offended by the logo or the name! I may love the Green Bay Packers, but I am also a Redskins FAN as well! Washington will ALWAYS BE THE REDSKINS! This was a epic video, thank you for sharing it with us. God Bless us all, everywhere! Take care everyone and be safe and happy!
They were even wobblier before Sonny gave him some tips, including the need to use the hips in making the throw. Kilmer was a converted running back, and he basically just flung the ball during his early years as as QB. Billy was grateful for Sonny's help -- they became close lifelong friends --and the improvements in his passing game are confirmed by his rising passer rating after coming to Washington.
I wasn't really that close. Final score should have been 17-0. And Miami's way was to control the ball and the clock and play great defense. The outcome was never in doubt.
The outcome was definitely in doubt. Kilmer had a TD pass hit the goal post and threw an int on the next play. Knight missed a very makeable FG. And they turned the ball over a couple of times. All things they didn't do during the season or NFC playoffs.
During the highlights vs. Green Bay, it is actually two games inter-cut. The Redskins beat the Packers 21-16 the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Ways to tell if the highlights are from the playoff game: (a) bunting in the background; (b) Scott Hunter at QB for the Packers (Jerry Tagge did not play in December, but did in November); (c) numbers on the field are painted yellow and gold. The post pass from Kilmer to Jefferson for the TD was from the playoffs. Had the weather for the two games been significantly different, NFL Films could not have gotten away with the ruse.
justaman6972 Brown was one tough running back. Not big, not fast with above average moves and yet he got more out of what he had then any runner of his era
Sonny may be the most loved Skin!! I like Sonny, grew up in N.C. watching the Skins on TV every Sunday. I almost never miss a game since 1962 and I am 74. I was born on the same day like Joe Theisman, 09/09/1949 and I meet Sonny. My friends call me "Chief". WIN, LOSE, OR TIE, I WILL BE A REDSKINS FAN, TIL I DIE!!!! I am also a fan of The Washington D.C. Commanders Football Team formally known as THE REDSKINS.
The Redskins Special Team was known and feared all the way through the 70s, 80s, and early 90s. Then it wasn't stressed as a necessary component as "conventional" offense and defense strategies became the dominant training doctrine. George Allen made it. Joe Gibbs followed it, but with not as much emphasis. Then after Gibbs left it passed into Redskins history.
The 1972 Redskins were a great overachiever. They would never come close to being in another Super Bowl in the Allen Era. The following years they were one and done in the playoffs 1973 1974 and 1976. They were hungry this season. The shame of it all is that Sonny was badly injured and was not only in the team picture of the NFC Championship team but not even allowed on the sidelines during Super Bowl 7.
9 blocked kicks in one year!! today we are lucky if we get one or two a decade....kickers are not faster...snappers are not faster....its practice and determination and drafting players just for that skill that matter
Jim Hanbury no he didn't. while the greatest coach of all time, Lombardi did start the turn around, it was Allen that brought in many if not most of the players that would go to the Super Bowl.
Lombardi gave hope. If he had lived he would have built a champion. Allen though had a different approach, and it worked well but it did have its limitations
Jim Hanbury Most of “The Over the Hill Gang” were George Allen’s Little Lambs, where Allen would’ve went after being fired by the Los Angeles Rams, Those Lambs(Like Jack Pardee) we’re sure to go.
As a longtime Skins fan I was sorry that we didn't win the Super Bowl. But credit the Miami Dolphins for their win. They were a really good football team at that time. Anyway we got our revenge. And that time we came out on top. Don Shula Larry Csonka and the rest of the dolphins we're good.
Hanburger tried to take Staubachs helmet off with that forearm but he slipped right under it and gained about 15 more yards. He would've knocked him cold
Check out the segment on the divisional playoff game vs. Green Bay (13:27 to 16:30). The footage is inconsistent. A little background: The Redskins and Packers met earlier in '72 (Week 11 at RFK; Skins won 21-16). Footage from that game is found in many places during the playoff segment. How can you tell? The Packers' uniform number font in the regular-season game is "bolder" than the font in the playoff game. Some examples: Fred Carr (53), at 13:53; QB Jerry Tagge (17), RBs John Brockington (42) and MacArthur Lane (36), from 14:49 to 15:23; defensive players, including Bob Brown (78), Dave Robinson (89), Jim Carter (50), and Alden Roche (87), from 15:46 to 15:56. Another clue: Tagge played in the Week 11 meeting, not in the playoff game.
Bob Scott Also, the Packers wore their cold weather road jerseys in their regular-season matchup with the Redskins which were characterized by sewn-on numbers and stripes sewn into the jersey sleeves. For the playoff game the Packers elected to go with their nylon mesh warm-weather road jerseys which had the numbers, letters, and sleeve-stripes heat-applied to the jerseys.
Bob Scott Another clue is to look at the "TV" numbers on the sleeves of the Packers' jerseys. The numbers on the jerseys they wore in their regular-season game were closer together on the sleeves (example: 78) whereas the sleeve numbers on the warm-weather jerseys they wore in their playoff game have more distance between them (example: 7 8).
Bob Scott NFL films of the Facenda era were notorious of using these flash cut tactics that do not retain continuity, its all about invoking a visceral response
The big tipoff is to look at the field numbers. For the playoff game, Skins painted gold and red fields surrounding the field numbers, which they did not for the regular season game.
Mattress Outlet -Very true--check out the Browns 1968 video--they mixed up a regular season game with the Colts with the playoff game against the same Colts. The difference? The regular season game was played in sunshine in Balimore, while the title game was played in sub-freezing temps in Cleveland. Video all mixed up..
You probably don't remember that Billy Kilmer threw two passes that SB and hit the goal posts on two different drives that ended in field goals instead of TD's. That's how well the Skins played that day. What year did the NFL move the goal posts to the back of the end zone?
These 70s hightlight videos are more fun to watch than today's NFL.
Today NFL 🏈 football players too big & strong; NFL schedules too long
I AGREE with you 1,000% because this was when football was football. The NFL is now CRAP & isn't worth watching anymore. LOVE YOUR COMMENT.
Am I the only one who prefers watching 70s TV on TH-cam to modern TV?
No, my friend, you're not alone. Growing up watching Pro Football in the 60's and 70's, I prefer these videos as well any day. I remember when it was a game and fun to watch.Thanks for posting, Dave! - jack
No sir, not by any means!! This is my kind of football watching these old highlights and games (both pro and college) I'd love to find more of these from the other teams of the 1965-79 era. I could watch them all day, forgetting what is going on today. The great John Facenda and Pat Summerall narrating these as well as the fantastic soundtrack playing takes me back. R.I.P Steve Sabol and his father Ed who started these football films and has preserved a great era in football history.
No sir you are not.
No absolutely not. I would rather watch these highlights over anything from today It brings back memories and I became a fan mainly because of NFL Films.
no!!
I'm in my 50's now. I remember growing up in my beloved Washington DC. When my Redskins were playing the Cowboys! The streets of D.C. were empty! I miss those days of watching those games with my Dad and brothers😢. Rip Dad ❤️
My favorite team since childhood. The Redskins are like the big brother I never had. LoveHTTR since 1969. Many warm memories of watching the games with my father after church. He was a minister. RIP daddy.
RIP to our Dads. I lost my Dad as well as we loved watching Football and especially Baseball! We were Milwaukee Brewers fans and Green Bay Packers fans. But in 1990 my Dad got me one of the most incredible Birthday🎁presents🎁ever! It was a down-filled Starter NFL jacket. Not a Packers one. He got me the Washington Redskins jacket. The Packers were sold out. Oddly enough AND I LOVE the Packers, I really LOVED this Redskins jacket! Oh it was soo warm! Sadly someone else loved it as well and at my job it was stolen from the break room! I never found another one like it, unless I would pay $300.00+. To this day that hurts so much! I loved the Redskins logo! And being a Chippewa Indian, I WORE IT WITH PRIDE AS WELL! Unlike the SJW Social Justice Warriors, I never was, have been or will be offended by teams like the Cleveland Indians or the Washington Redskins! Changing them to the Cleveland Guardians and the Washington Commanders? Why? Why? I AM AN INDIAN! This social justice 💩💩 is a joke! THEY'LL ALWAYS BE THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS!
Love the team video footages they had of this period. The background music and the narrator gives the video a another deep dimension
Great observation Roger. Well said and very true. Thanks for the comment. The highlights today do not have the same interest as these of yesteryear. The 1970s in my opinion is the greatest era of NFL Films.
I totally agree
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So true Facenda (most of the time) and the other great narrator and Spence (most of the time) and the other great musicians were incredible
60s-70s NFL FILMS was so good, fascinating, and entertaining
I was born in 89 but when I saw the NFL films stuff as a kid it had an effect on me that never went away and def made me a football fan loving the lore and the great teams
The Redskins uniforms that season were fire!
They even had them during The Joe Gibbs Era of the Redskins.
RIP Charley Taylor #42 gone but will never before forgotten.
I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, LARRY BROWN (43) WAS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST RUNNING BACKS IN THE NFL!! NO ONE GAVE HIS BODY UP MORE THAN THAT GUY!!
He was really tough.
He was my favorite player growing up in Dallas. I am a huge Washington fan.
He was my favorite when I was a little kid
Larry Brown showed heart. Brian Robinson is showing heart now for Washington
100% truth!! My favorite player and favorite Redskin of all time. Graceful and brutal at the same time. I love Larry Brown!
Those uniforms with the yellow pants are great.
Love the scene of Pat Fischer tackling Riggins when he was with the Jets. Kind of like the past meeting the future head on.
Wondered if anyone else saw that
Saw an interview with Tom Landry after George Allen died. Said great rivals and good friends. Two of the best.
Yep, and Landry outlived him by ten years.
Although he said he liked Joe Gibbs better because he didn’t try to cheat like Allen did. George used to send spies into the practices acting like members of the press. Landry said that he didn’t trust “the other guy”, meaning Allen. He said Gibbs didn’t do underhanded things like that, he just tried to out coach you and he did too, beating Dallas out of the championship game in 1982.
Redskins first year in their burgandy, striped helmets. The spear and arrow (1965-1969) is the best design ever produced for pro football, IMHO.
George Allen was not only the head coach but a cheerleader as well. I truly miss him.
R.I.P.: George Allen. His impact was felt even deeper here in Los Angeles.
George Allen disregarded and neglected the draft. He also had priorities Defense number 1 Special teams number 2 and offense number 3. He did do some good a great cheerleader and motivator the nickel defense. He was one of the first coaches to have a special teams coach watch for Marv Levy during this film. He also spent the owners money big time. He had an unlimited budget and exceeded it within weeks. That is all well and good if you are winning the super bowl or even getting to it but this team was goaled toward making the playoffs and then one and done. I have bee a skins fan since the early 1970s and I prefer the methods and success of Joe Gibbs and he has the track record superior.
What you see is the emotion. What you don't see is Allen ran 3-4 hour practices during the season, often in full pads.
Yes, Gibbs was better. I believe, Allen wanted to stave off 'Father Time'. But all of his players, like anyone else, had expiration dates. To play as long as they did, is a testament to their willpower. But eventually, the ride comes to an end.
Allen never realized, that in order in contention, one has have a good combination of young and veteran. But hey, he had his success.
jetsea agreed and well said
That montage of the Packers playoff game starting at 13:51 is one of the finest hours of NFL Films. Perfect use of music (Recoil by Peter Reno) and the GOAT of sports narration, the incomparable John Facenda.
What A blast from the past. Thanks for the upload And Hail to the REDSKINS
Love these Redskin season highlights!! Thank god for youtube.
Amen
As a lifelong Cowboy fan, I , unfortunately remember that devastating defeat the Redskins inflicted on my Cowboys in the 1972 NFC Championship game. Washington just flat out thoroughly dominated Dallas in that game. And as I remember it, the score could have been even worse for the Cowboys. I consider this game the apex, the highest point of George Allen’s coaching career.
Yes it was! Unfortunately it was his last playoff victory.
Larry Brown...legend...you don’t have guys like that in modern football. What a man!
the golden age of football.... more perfectly taught form tackles in the first 30 seconds of this film than in a whole game now.
t a you mean in a HIGHLIGHT film they showed great tackles? what are the chances?
I will never stop calling them the Redskins in honor of my fellow worker who died as a result of injuries as a VOLUNTEER firefighter.He told me that renaming was a scam.
Yes. Redskins. FOREVER
To football purists that's who they will always be.
Love. You tube. 70s. Games. Keep. Them. Coming
The passion, toughness, selflessness and intensity we saw prior to 2000? won't ever be equaled. RIP NFL
Redskins Larry Brown was as good a running back (albeit for a painfully short time) that you will find in the history of the NFL. This coming from a 60's and 70's Cowboys fan.
+Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. A great running back who was too tough for his body.
+kelime many straight ahead hard-nosed runners were--john brockington a perfect example too.
+t a Larry Brown should be in the Hall of Fame, without a doubt.
As far as hard-nosed runners go, you could probably add MacArthur Lane, Brock's partner in GB for a spell, although he could go outside too, in spite of his good size..
loved larry brown's style, but i don't believe he belongs in the hall of fame.
+MassVt Macarthur Lane was a great fullback. his blocking-pass catching-running skills were top notch for a fullback.
Fight for old DC. Never RIP..Hail.
This was about lifting others up when you praise them and intern making you feel good . Hail to the Redskins
I remember that year in DC. I was giving away 21 points...and found no takers. And are there any of you who joined the crowd at Dulles Airport to greet and cheer for the team when they returned from their loss to Dallas? My mom and I were there and we gave them burgundy and gold beanbag frogs we'd made. George's had a crown.
This was the year I became a Washington fan. Was in the 5th grade, knew all the players names, every Sunday in front of the black and white TV. What memories! Stayed a fan all the way until 2010. Could not take Snyder’s dysfunction any more. they fooled me into coming back in 2012 thanks to RGIII but they messed that up too by letting him play in the playoffs, and I left the team for good. When Snyder goes, I’ll come back. But I still have the Allen years and Gibbs years to hang on to.
a lot of people feel that way
Todays players haven't a clue how to tackle. Watch this video and learn. Larry Brown was unbelievable, should be in the HOF!!!!
Earl Ritter today's players AREN"T allowed to tackle. anytime there is a nice hit in a game today you have to look for a flag. it's not the players' faults, it is the league
Are Larry Brown and Doug Williams should be in the Hall of Fame be in the Hall of Fame
Praying together for each other in the locker room, and being thankful with and for each other. That's a team of men. I wonder if that happens today.
The year I was born. I was destined to be a Redskins fan. HTTR
I dont really watch that much football but these old highlights are awesome and fun. HTTR
It doesn't get any better than John Facenda and NFL Films.
Larry Brown was Awesome !!! Loved his style !!!
The Over The Hill Gang! Classic team!
Even the Washington Redskins lost to Super Bowl VII, they had their greatest year since 1942,when they won the NFC Championship. I
have a record of that memorable season,narrated by former play-by-play announcer Steve Gilmartin,the voice of the Redskins from
1964-73.
Yes, and WAS only lost by 7 and Billy wood have thrown a T D if not for the goal post bring in front of the goal line!!
Awesome. Hitting and. Tackling
I don't know who these new guys are; but I sure do miss the Washington Redskins.
CHRIS HANBURGER MY FAVORITE PLAYER BACK IN THE DAY TOO BAD IT TOOK THE HOF 37 YEARS TO LET HIM IN
+scott bowen remember that name being called non stop every time i watched redskins-giants or skins-cowboys.
One very fine linebacker.
+scott bowen 55 is in and that all that matters . =)
an all time great linebacker, and to think, stiffs like hollywood henderson got more praise than 55 just bc he played for the cowgirls.
Hanburger never got credit, but the 'skins of that era couldn't have been as successful as they were without him.
charley waters trying to cover charley taylor--BIG MISTAKE.
This was awesome !!
New Years Eve, 1972. Rout of the Cowboys. No one will ever know how close that Super Bowl loss to the Dolphins was. But Steve Sabol is such a master filmmaker, like Bruce Brown in Endless Summer, he leaves out all details of the Super Bowl because to this film they do not matter. His use of orchestration incredible, check out Grieg’s Hall of the Mountain King. Sabol was a master...
larry brown was my favorite player ever I llived in silver spring md big redskins fan I was10 years old he was at a awards dinner givin my the aflcio and he got a laugh at my exspenes. I was at the urinal and I ask him if I could get his autogragh and before I could finish my sentence he said can you wait til I'm done kid a the whole mens room bust out laughing
Great story thanks for sharing. I met a guy once he didn't know my name I didn't know his but he claimed he was related to Larry. I wonder to this day if he was on the level.
I grew up in Alexandria. Larry Brown was my favorite player too.
Pat Fischer was a fairly regular customer at a truck stop/gas station/convenience store I used to work at in Chantilly, Virginia called Croson's Store. Very nice guy. I wouldn't have recognized him because I was very young when he was still playing but another customer told me who he was after he walked out one night. A few days later I was wearing an Irving Fryar (Dolphins) jersey (not a Dolphins fan by any means but I liked Fryar) , when behind me I heard someone ask if I knew what college he (Fryar) went to. I turned around and saw that it was Pat and though I knew that both of them went to Nebraska, I totally blanked. He had to tell me. Anyway, we talked football for a while (business was slow that day) and he left. He came back in another night when it was busier and while he was at the register we started talking football again but he had to move for people behind him. I'm not quite sure but I think he stepped to the side to wait for things to slow down but they didn't. I've always wished I had just told the other people to take their business elsewhere so I could talk to Pat.
Fun story. My father was friends with him because Pat worked in the same office as a stockbroker in the off-season in Vienna. I met him as a kid. Definitely an inspiration.
+Dave Nevins --Anyone notice Marv Levy ( future Bill head coach) jogging with the team in the opening credits?
+MassVt Marv Levy = Pat Paulsen:
+Rick Elder Pat 5foot nothing 100 pounds nothing but played like a giant of a man when he hit you
Quote from the movie " Rudy ".
Today we mourn the team formerly know as the Washington Redskins
This video is so great because it goes back to a time when the players didn't make tons of money. Linemen were the grunts... Not million dollar baby's... This was a TEAM!!! Also the fans didn't have to pay big bucks!!!
This should be shown at every training camp! Was that Riggins Fischer tackled? Brilliant scheme with a 5 man D line!
Love ya, George. Miss you.
Larry Brown. A lighter version of Earl Campbell. Tough, elusive, and strong.
Ioved this team #HTTR
Bring back the Redskins. Great old school football in that decade.
I loved watching Brown run the ball ... he was Sweetness before Payton ran for the Bears ....They had similar running styles with the high leg gait ...
Love that Locker Room Scene after their win over the Green Bay Packers in the Divisional Playoffs. After defeating the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC Championship, it was too bad to see them lose to an Undefeated Team in the Super Bowl.
Arguably the best post game TEAM celebration. I’m so pissed right now..Hail.
And ten years later, the Redskins won their first over the Dolphins. HTTR!!!
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Not a Miami Dolphins Fan:
The Redskins defeated a Miami Team with a 4th Rate Quarterback. Had they had Hardship in Football like they had in Basketball, perhaps Dan Marino could’ve been drafted one year earlier and given Miami a far better chance to win Super Bowl XVIII.
But unfortunately for the Dolphins, Dan Marino was A Senior at Pittsburgh at the time.
@@Jiltedin2007 No Miami had Woodley and Strock. That's two fourth rate QBs 😆
@@davidozab2753 Lol
Been the Redskins for decades and all of a sudden people are offended 🤔
Gotta love Sonny's beer belly
The music at the beginning is almost exactly the same as used in a segment of the 1976 Super Bowl (Raiders vs Vikings) highlights........just a slight change in tone. Really cool to hear it. And this video is awesome.
These were the best of times
There was something about this team in the early 70's. RFK Stadium. Great sports teams in that era and Roberto Clemente's tragic death during that time.
They will always be the redskins. Not trying to hurt anyone respectfully
I remember very well the Redskin win over Dallas in the NFC title game. The grandstands at RFK were literally shaking near the end of the game.
They will
The Skins Cowboy game was actually the first game that I watched...that was the beginning of my football fanship. And, so there is where the rivalry started-- that game.
Miss RFK.
larry brown man he could run with that ball ..how many years did he play
+scott bowen Long time he was one of them over the hill gang of coach allens But great time they had winning
8 yrs
Lombardi set the tone for this team.
Indeed, he instilled the toughness, Allen instilled the togetherness.
@@Psyfi85 And Joe Gibbs built on that foundation to win three Lombardis. HTTR!!!
@@davidozab2753 No doubt, Gibbs had some good teachers as well.
@@Psyfi85 Like Don Coryell
@@davidozab2753 Exactly
This makes a Redskins fan,toughness
Larry Brown was the toughest football player I have ever seen to this very day.
HTTR FOREVER REDSKINS FOOTBALL.
Six years later Jack Pardee would replace George Allen as head coach! Richie Petitbon would be a Redskin head coach in the future! Plus Marv Levy was their Special Teams coach, 19 years later he would take on the Redskins in Super Bowl XXVI!
Great. Post
The beginning of this film shows the locker room at Candlestick Park after being defeated by the San Francisco 49ers. Interesting fact is that cornerback Pat Fisher should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and George Allen mentioned it in a documentary about him.
Hall of Fame members George Allen, Chris Hanberger, Charlie Taylor.
Thanks for posting! It's fun to watch the glory days. I doubt they'll ever happen again with Snyder owning the team.
Yeah thanks -a special time
Well yeah now they don’t even have a team name anymore.
The "Over the hill gang" These Redskins during this time were awesome!!
The Championship Game against the Cowboys was like their Superbowl ,then they had to play the undefeated Dolphins
@michaelleroy9281 Washington would get their chance at redemption ten years later…defeating the Cowboys at home in the NFC Championship game and the Dolphins in the Super Bowl in the greater Los Angeles area too.
RIP Harold McClinton... He died after being hit by a car... RIP Jerry Smith... An original gay player who couldn't come out... GREAT Receiver. .
RIP George Allen (1918-1990); posthumous Hall of Fame inductee; Class of 2002
RIP Charley Taylor (1941-2022); Hall of Fame Wide Receiver; Class of 1984.
RIP Pat Fischer (1940-2024); like Jerry Smith, should have a bust in Canton, Ohio.
The Pack played the skins during this same year and George Allen installed the 5 man front to stifle the running game. Dan Devine made zero adjustments from that game into the playoff game - terrible coaching job.
This got you a subscriber sir! I wish I'd have seen this sooner. I may be a lifetime Packers fan, but I am also a 🏈🏈NFL🏈Football🏈🏈 fan as well. Also I have a great respect and love for any team that fought and struggled like the Redskins did. Also I am a Chippewa Indian and I loved the Redskins logo. OMG a Indian who "LIKES" the Redskins logo? Or isn't offended!?? WTH!? LMFAO! My Dad who was a full blooded Chippewa Indian, bought me a Redskins Starter Jacket for my Birthday 🎁present🎁 and I LOVED IT! I WORE IT WITH PRIDE! I was NOT offended by the logo or the name! I may love the Green Bay Packers, but I am also a Redskins FAN as well! Washington will ALWAYS BE THE REDSKINS! This was a epic video, thank you for sharing it with us. God Bless us all, everywhere! Take care everyone and be safe and happy!
Ha. nice. God bless you as well Edster. I'm also an Aaron Rogers fan
Why in the Hell is Larry Brown NOT in the HOF?!
Yea good question!!
It is a joke that he isn't.
Why aren't alot of players in the Hall of Fame that should be there?
That's the hardest hitting Defense we've ever had a whole d full of Sean Taylor's .. Shut down 2nd Dary..Fisher, Pardee,Owen's & Bass
What's weird is and I just found out that this year was the only year that GA won the division????
Redskins over Cowboys!!!!YEAH!!!!🏈🏆
Remember that Redskin team but they thought of beating Dallas in the NFC championship game was there super bowl !
Agreed Roger that was the super bowl for them.
But 11 years later, they would scream for Dallas AGAIN, and win, but this time, took it to the summit.
"Bill Kikmer's wobbly ball. " And, they were that!
They were even wobblier before Sonny gave him some tips, including the need to use the hips in making the throw. Kilmer was a converted running back, and he basically just flung the ball during his early years as as QB. Billy was grateful for Sonny's help -- they became close lifelong friends --and the improvements in his passing game are confirmed by his rising passer rating after coming to Washington.
@@yusufu9billy Kilmer really: didn't throw a pretty looking football
Although they didn't win the big one (they came damned close tho!) the 80s would end the drought
I wasn't really that close. Final score should have been 17-0. And Miami's way was to control the ball and the clock and play great defense. The outcome was never in doubt.
The outcome was definitely in doubt. Kilmer had a TD pass hit the goal post and threw an int on the next play. Knight missed a very makeable FG. And they turned the ball over a couple of times. All things they didn't do during the season or NFC playoffs.
When football was great
During the highlights vs. Green Bay, it is actually two games inter-cut. The Redskins beat the Packers 21-16 the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Ways to tell if the highlights are from the playoff game: (a) bunting in the background; (b) Scott Hunter at QB for the Packers (Jerry Tagge did not play in December, but did in November); (c) numbers on the field are painted yellow and gold. The post pass from Kilmer to Jefferson for the TD was from the playoffs.
Had the weather for the two games been significantly different, NFL Films could not have gotten away with the ruse.
This was the only season in which George Allen won in the playoffs in the NFL. He was 0-4 in the postseason prior to the 1972 season.
RIP Sam Wyche
Damn, them lil' one-piece helmets Kilmer and Theismann wore! No padding, at all. Kilmer gets smashed, and still gets up!
No chin strap on his helmet; Peter Liske was another QB of that era who didn't wear a chin strap.
They never won the Superbowl but in my heart George Allen and the Over the Hill gang are the greatest team of all time.
Redskins #37 Pat Fischer one tough SOB!
justaman6972 Brown was one tough running back. Not big, not fast with above average moves and yet he got more out of what he had then any runner of his era
Huge fan of Sonny Jurgensen!
amen. great guy
Sonny may be the most loved Skin!! I like Sonny, grew up in N.C. watching the Skins on TV every Sunday. I almost never miss a game since 1962 and I am 74. I was born on the same day like Joe Theisman, 09/09/1949 and I meet Sonny. My friends call me "Chief". WIN, LOSE, OR TIE, I WILL BE A REDSKINS FAN, TIL I DIE!!!! I am also a fan of The Washington D.C. Commanders Football Team formally known as THE REDSKINS.
The Redskins Special Team was known and feared all the way through the 70s, 80s, and early 90s. Then it wasn't stressed as a necessary component as "conventional" offense and defense strategies became the dominant training doctrine. George Allen made it. Joe Gibbs followed it, but with not as much emphasis. Then after Gibbs left it passed into Redskins history.
at 17:54 the Cowboys are walking down their tunnel to the field at Texas Stadium, not the visitors' tunnel at RFK
Billy. Kilmet olf. Whiskey. Rocked
The 1972 Redskins were a great overachiever. They would never come close to being in another Super Bowl in the Allen Era. The following years they were one and done in the playoffs 1973 1974 and 1976. They were hungry this season. The shame of it all is that Sonny was badly injured and was not only in the team picture of the NFC Championship team but not even allowed on the sidelines during Super Bowl 7.
Yeah, and I believed that hurt him. Allen shouldn't had done that.
Shame on the name change Redskins always and Forever!
9 blocked kicks in one year!! today we are lucky if we get one or two a decade....kickers are not faster...snappers are not faster....its practice and determination and drafting players just for that skill that matter
Vince Lombardi built a great team for George Allen.
Jim Hanbury no he didn't. while the greatest coach of all time, Lombardi did start the turn around, it was Allen that brought in many if not most of the players that would go to the Super Bowl.
Lombardi gave hope. If he had lived he would have built a champion. Allen though had a different approach, and it worked well but it did have its limitations
Jim Hanbury
Most of “The Over the Hill Gang” were George Allen’s Little Lambs, where Allen would’ve went after being fired by the Los Angeles Rams, Those Lambs(Like Jack Pardee) we’re sure to go.
Allen traded for most of those players
As a longtime Skins fan I was sorry that we didn't win the Super Bowl. But credit the Miami Dolphins for their win. They were a really good football team at that time. Anyway we got our revenge. And that time we came out on top. Don Shula Larry Csonka and the rest of the dolphins we're good.
Hanburger tried to take Staubachs helmet off with that forearm but he slipped right under it and gained about 15 more yards. He would've knocked him cold
Well, Staubach said, "it's easy to avoid the 'Hangman'. IF you know where he is."
Hamburger was a cheap-shot chump. Usually out of position, chasing the play or missing a hangman tackle.
Larry Brown, man. Epic.
Check out the segment on the divisional playoff game vs. Green Bay (13:27 to 16:30). The footage is inconsistent. A little background: The Redskins and Packers met earlier in '72 (Week 11 at RFK; Skins won 21-16). Footage from that game is found in many places during the playoff segment. How can you tell? The Packers' uniform number font in the regular-season game is "bolder" than the font in the playoff game. Some examples: Fred Carr (53), at 13:53; QB Jerry Tagge (17), RBs John Brockington (42) and MacArthur Lane (36), from 14:49 to 15:23; defensive players, including Bob Brown (78), Dave Robinson (89), Jim Carter (50), and Alden Roche (87), from 15:46 to 15:56. Another clue: Tagge played in the Week 11 meeting, not in the playoff game.
Bob Scott Also, the Packers wore their cold weather road jerseys in their regular-season matchup with the Redskins which were characterized by sewn-on numbers and stripes sewn into the jersey sleeves. For the playoff game the Packers elected to go with their nylon mesh warm-weather road jerseys which had the numbers, letters, and sleeve-stripes heat-applied to the jerseys.
Bob Scott Another clue is to look at the "TV" numbers on the sleeves of the Packers' jerseys. The numbers on the jerseys they wore in their regular-season game were closer together on the sleeves (example: 78) whereas the sleeve numbers on the warm-weather jerseys they wore in their playoff game have more distance between them (example: 7 8).
Bob Scott NFL films of the Facenda era were notorious of using these flash cut tactics that do not retain continuity, its all about invoking a visceral response
The big tipoff is to look at the field numbers. For the playoff game, Skins painted gold and red fields surrounding the field numbers, which they did not for the regular season game.
Mattress Outlet -Very true--check out the Browns 1968 video--they mixed up a regular season game with the Colts with the playoff game against the same Colts. The difference? The regular season game was played in sunshine in Balimore, while the title game was played in sub-freezing temps in Cleveland. Video all mixed up..
The Miami Dolphins NEEDED a SACRIFICIAL LAMB in Super Bowl VII. The 1972 Washington Redskins were just THAT. And ONLY THAT.
You probably don't remember that Billy Kilmer threw two passes that SB and hit the goal posts on two different drives that ended in field goals instead of TD's. That's how well the Skins played that day. What year did the NFL move the goal posts to the back of the end zone?
Why do pedohiles like you exist
NFL players today don't need a locker room they need a powder room!!!