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.
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.
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
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 ❤️
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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..
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
George Allen hated Sonny so much that he didn't include Jurgenson in the team photo that year .. And was always trying to pit Kilmer against Sonny .. Allen would tell Kilmer one thing and Sonny something else.. What Allen didn't know was Billy and Sonny were friends and hung out and partied together... They would tell each other what George said.. George Allen was a great innovator of defense and special teams ,but was too conservative on offense and it cost them in close games .. They were too predictable...Allen sold they future for present ,and was an egomaniac , paranoid insecure coach ... He wasted too much money on broken down players... Although he got all they could give ... He simply wasn't good enough to keep with guys like Landry , Grant , Knoll or Shula ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 ...
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
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...
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 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.
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
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.
Hard to believe Washington was favored to win Super Bowl VII, playing the undefeated Dolphins. Washington was the best team in the NFC in ‘72 but nowhere near the caliber of Miami, Pittsburgh or Oakland.
Eh, I could see it. It could be argued that the AFC that year was particularly weak. Who else was there except for the Raiders at that time? The Steelers and browns made the playoffs that year sure, but this was prior to the Steelers dynasty.
I think Washington was favored over Miami due to the fact Dallas stomped Miami 24-3 in the superbowl the year before. Washingtons blowout of Dallas was very impressive. Miami also played one of the easiest schedules in 72 as well. Shula was also known as a coach who could not win the big one. He lost sb 3 and sb 6 with teams who managed 10 points total in those 2 games. Sb 7 was the rise of Shula and the Dolphins. A truly great team for the ages.
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.
All those ex-Rams (Pardee, Pottios, Talbert, Pettitbon, Wilbur) wanted to beat the Packers as badly as the Cowboys, even though the only Lombardi-era Packers left were Dave Robinson, Ken Bowman, Bob Brown, Ray Nitschke and Gale Gillingham (who missed most of the 1972 season when he tore up his knee playing DEFENSE, a very stupid move by Dan Devine).
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.
The 1972 Packers were indeed a big, intensely physical team, with little/no finesse. Their passing game may have been the worst in NFL playoff history.
It was as though that the Packers had just discovered that the forward pass existed. There were junior high teams that had a more sophisticated passing game than Green Bay. The Redskins played a 5-man defensive line, daring GB to throw. I remember watching that game..
Bart Starr coached QBs that season. He wanted to throw long against the five-man front. He wanted to use Lane and Brockington on 15-20 yard circle routes and get them one-on-one against Fischer and Bass, who would have been overpowered.
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.
Dolphins’ Manny Fernandez made 16 unassisted tackles mostly in the Washington Redskins backfield. The only difference Jurgensen would have made is the name of the losing quarterback.
7:05 "There's something about playing for the Redskins that brings out the best in a man." I doubt that will ever be said about the "Commanders." 😥 Stupid politics and wokeness ruined a franchise. #HTTR4EVER
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 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!
The Redskins uniforms that season were fire!
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.
RIP Charley Taylor #42 gone but will never before forgotten.
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
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 ❤️
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.
Those uniforms with the yellow pants are great.
Redskins first year in their burgandy, striped helmets. The spear and arrow (1965-1969) is the best design ever produced for pro football, IMHO.
charley waters trying to cover charley taylor--BIG MISTAKE.
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!
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.
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
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?
Fight for old DC. Never RIP..Hail.
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
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
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.
Larry Brown. A lighter version of Earl Campbell. Tough, elusive, and strong.
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?
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.
Been the Redskins for decades and all of a sudden people are offended 🤔
It doesn't get any better than John Facenda and NFL Films.
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. .
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.
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.
Larry Brown...legend...you don’t have guys like that in modern football. What a man!
What A blast from the past. Thanks for the upload And Hail to the REDSKINS
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.
Shame on the name change Redskins always and Forever!
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.
They will always be the redskins. Not trying to hurt anyone respectfully
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!!
The passion, toughness, selflessness and intensity we saw prior to 2000? won't ever be equaled. RIP NFL
The Over The Hill Gang! Classic team!
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.
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
Today we mourn the team formerly know as the Washington Redskins
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
Gotta love Sonny's beer belly
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!
Larry Brown was Awesome !!! Loved his style !!!
When football was great
Skins lost their chance of winning SB when #9 got injured !!!
George Allen hated Sonny so much that he didn't include Jurgenson in the team photo that year .. And was always trying to pit Kilmer against Sonny .. Allen would tell Kilmer one thing and Sonny something else.. What Allen didn't know was Billy and Sonny were friends and hung out and partied together... They would tell each other what George said.. George Allen was a great innovator of defense and special teams ,but was too conservative on offense and it cost them in close games .. They were too predictable...Allen sold they future for present ,and was an egomaniac , paranoid insecure coach ... He wasted too much money on broken down players... Although he got all they could give ... He simply wasn't good enough to keep with guys like Landry , Grant , Knoll or Shula ...
HTTR FOREVER REDSKINS FOOTBALL.
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.
The year I was born. I was destined to be a Redskins fan. HTTR
RIP Sam Wyche
This was about lifting others up when you praise them and intern making you feel good . Hail to the Redskins
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 ".
What's weird is and I just found out that this year was the only year that GA won the division????
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.
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
This should be shown at every training camp! Was that Riggins Fischer tackled? Brilliant scheme with a 5 man D line!
I don't know who these new guys are; but I sure do miss the Washington Redskins.
Redskins over Cowboys!!!!YEAH!!!!🏈🏆
They got the Cowboys when it really mattered ( NFC Championship)
My favorite win until Superbowl XVII!
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.
@ 20:15 "Die you yellow dog"
That's Sam Wyche.
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
Why isn't Larry Brown in the HOF?!!?
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 ...
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
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...
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.
The Championship Game against the Cowboys was like their Superbowl ,then they had to play the undefeated Dolphins
great white men
NFL players today don't need a locker room they need a powder room!!!
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 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
This makes a Redskins fan,toughness
Larry Brown was the toughest football player I have ever seen to this very day.
I dont really watch that much football but these old highlights are awesome and fun. HTTR
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.
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
This was awesome !!
Ioved this team #HTTR
Hard to believe Washington was favored to win Super Bowl VII, playing the undefeated Dolphins. Washington was the best team in the NFC in ‘72 but nowhere near the caliber of Miami, Pittsburgh or Oakland.
Agreed. It is likely all those teams would have defeated them.
The NFL bias was still strong.
Eh, I could see it. It could be argued that the AFC that year was particularly weak.
Who else was there except for the Raiders at that time? The Steelers and browns made the playoffs that year sure, but this was prior to the Steelers dynasty.
I think Washington was favored over Miami due to the fact Dallas stomped Miami 24-3 in the superbowl the year before. Washingtons blowout of Dallas was very impressive. Miami also played one of the easiest schedules in 72 as well. Shula was also known as a coach who could not win the big one. He lost sb 3 and sb 6 with teams who managed 10 points total in those 2 games. Sb 7 was the rise of Shula and the Dolphins. A truly great team for the ages.
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.
Redskins. Wouldve. Beaten. Miami. With. Sonny. Thats. Not a. Knock. Against. Kilmer
All those ex-Rams (Pardee, Pottios, Talbert, Pettitbon, Wilbur) wanted to beat the Packers as badly as the Cowboys, even though the only Lombardi-era Packers left were Dave Robinson, Ken Bowman, Bob Brown, Ray Nitschke and Gale Gillingham (who missed most of the 1972 season when he tore up his knee playing DEFENSE, a very stupid move by Dan Devine).
George allen looks like sosa from the scarface movie.
Anyone know the name of the song being played at 21:18?
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.
Old. Whiskey. Killmer was. So. Accurate. Great leader
The 1972 Packers were indeed a big, intensely physical team, with little/no finesse. Their passing game may have been the worst in NFL playoff history.
They sure didn't pass in that playoff game. Thanks for nothing, Dan Devine.
It was as though that the Packers had just discovered that the forward pass existed. There were junior high teams that had a more sophisticated passing game than Green Bay. The Redskins played a 5-man defensive line, daring GB to throw. I remember watching that game..
@Matt Pizzano Devine was AFRAID to throw in the NFL. Even back then, one has to throw the football.
Bart Starr coached QBs that season. He wanted to throw long against the five-man front. He wanted to use Lane and Brockington on 15-20 yard circle routes and get them one-on-one against Fischer and Bass, who would have been overpowered.
The 2014 Cardinals were worse, but only because they had no QB. At least they had Fitz.
"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
❤ George. Allen's. Over. The. Hill. Gang and. You. Tube. Channel
Love. You tube. 70s. Games. Keep. Them. Coming
Dolphins’ Manny Fernandez made 16 unassisted tackles mostly in the Washington Redskins backfield. The only difference Jurgensen would have made is the name of the losing quarterback.
What could have been if Lombardi doesn't pass and Jurgenson doesn't get hurt.😊
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7:05 "There's something about playing for the Redskins that brings out the best in a man." I doubt that will ever be said about the "Commanders." 😥 Stupid politics and wokeness ruined a franchise. #HTTR4EVER
Bring back the Redskins. Great old school football in that decade.
Sonny Jurgenson, Joe Thiesmann and Alex Smith. All injured against the Giants.
You guys got rekd by the dolphins
Random Thought: Corniest Super Bowl participant of all time? And if not, give me better examples.
Awesome. Hitting and. Tackling