1969 NFL Championship - Enhanced Partial CBS Broadcast - 1080p/60fps - Browns / Vikings
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- My thanks to romelovesdan for providing me the DVD files used for this project. I've enhanced the partial broadcast recording of the 1969 NFL Championship. I ran the game through Topaz to upscale, denoise, sharpen and double the framerate, then used Da Vinci Resolve to remove a greenish yellow hue, which really makes the colors look NORMAL now. See before/after shots here -- imgbox.com/g/p... -- the broadcast recording ends with about 4 minutes left in the second quarter, so I enhanced and tacked on the remaining highlights from the NFL Films GOTW film
My thanks to romelovesdan for providing me the DVD files used for this project. I've enhanced the partial broadcast recording of the 1969 NFL Championship. I ran the game through Topaz to upscale, denoise, sharpen and double the framerate, then used Da Vinci Resolve to remove a greenish yellow hue, which really makes the colors look NORMAL now. See before/after shots here -- imgbox.com/g/p4bwcOeGwO -- the broadcast recording ends with about 4 minutes left in the second quarter, so I enhanced and tacked on the remaining highlights from the NFL Films GOTW film
Thank you for this!
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Dave, I am so glad to see you're able to share here on YT once again!
I was with you here before and love what you do. But you ran into some legal issues regarding how one can share material here back then. Major props to you for not giving-up and finding-out how to do so under their rules of engagement now!! Seeing your work back on here totally makes my day/summer/year (you name it).
@@brianmccauley7711 Hey Brian! Well I've actually been 'back' for almost 3 years now on this channel :) I wouldn't necessarily say 'legal" issues - just a lawyer for the NFL emailed me stating that I had copyrighted material on my channel and I needed to take it down. I complied. Wasn't sued or anything :) I had this other channel already with hardly anything on it, and then after a few months I started posting more material here. I didn't do anything different though, as I'm obviously still posting NFL stuff, so I'm just waiting for them to shut this channel down now. Fortunately it hasn't happened yet, but with me now posting full games, I'm probably exposing myself more to their watchful eye.
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Glad you're back at it nonetheless... especially now, when it feels like we're having a sports drought on TV.
As for "legal issues", I meant that more as an expression. I've run into similar issues in the past just trying to get my own custom T-shirts printed. A number of companies wouldn't even print the word "Pack" (for the Green Bay Packers) for me, unless I had written permission from the Packers organization. Anyhow, keep on keeping on!
Ya gotta love the commercials, cars, hot babes, beer, and cigarettes, everything a man needed in the 1960s. Oh, and football, REAL football!
You don't get any more 'real' than Joe Kapp.
@@HAL9000s3 No sir!
And playing on real grass
I bet the people from the 30s would think their brand of football was "REAL football"
That commercial with the stewardesses reassembling the Ford Maverick is hilarious (as are many of the other comercials).
I remember this game. They called it FOOTBALL. QBs, WRs, everyone was a player - legal to get hit. Real men playing for more than just money. It was awesome, and i miss it.
The Met! Opposing teams dreaded having to go up there to play in December and January. Always cold and with snow usually piled up along the periphery of the playing field, it made for one of the real home field advantages of that time. Thanks a bunch for posting this. I love watching games from this era.
Thank you Sir for posting! As a life long Vikings Fan I sincerely appreciate your efforts on sharing these classics! This looks 10 times better than the original broadcast👍
@@beyondalpha1072 The first 4 Super Bowls had the NFL champ playing the AFL champ. From 1966-69 the winner of the NFL Championship would go to the Super Bowl. Once the two leagues merged in 1970, there was no longer an NFL Championship and the final ultimate game was the Super Bowl.
BEAUTIFUL work!
Awesome job!!!
A+
Minnesota in January! Domes? We don't need no stinking domes!
Should have kept playing outdoors they had an advantage. They haven’t made it back to a Super Bowl ever since moving to a dome.
@@AD-ur1fk that's right!
Great restoration of the broadcast of the last NFL championship before the merger. Kudos DVolsky! Thank you.
And special recognition of the pleasant surprise that - eight plus hours after DV brought forth another restored gem - not one comment about "this was 'real' football." Yet 🤞🏿😊
This is stunning!! I was 7 ys old when I first watched this game. Thank you, Dave!
SAME HERE .BOY DOES TIME FLY LOL !!!!!.
Thanks for restoring these classic games, Dave!
One minute commercial breaks. How times have changed!
I love watching vintage footage of any team any season but old Minnesota Vikings footage from the old Met in Bloomington is awesome.
Wow! What a terrible stadium for fans. Endzone seats must have been the best.
This looks amazing even the commercials. It probably didn’t look this good when it was new considering the tv’s most people had back then
Many people still had black & white TV sets.
I recall the color TVs back then required a lot of manual adjustments for brightness, contrast, color hue, and balance. There'd be a knob on the front of the TV to adjust the color hue, then there were three adjustment knobs in the back of the TV to adjust the balance with the red, yellow, and blue color settings.
TV networks/stations back then didn't have a single set standard for color broadcasts, which meant that color adjustments may be needed among the different local TV stations when changing the channels.
I recall in the San Francisco market that KPIX, a CBS station, had bright video with sharp contrast; while KRON, an NBC station, had a softer and defused brightness and contrast.
By the mid-1970s, broadcast standards and auto adjustments with color TV sets pretty much did away with doing manual color adjustments when changing channels.
If anyone out there has the 1969 NFL West Conference Championship Playoff (12-27-69) between the Vikings and Rams, it is one of the "Holy Grails" fans of true Classic Football fans would love to see! Be a Hero!
Would love to see this game again.....I was a big Ram's fan at the time and this one hurt greatly.
@@MrWOLFPACK1974 Sounds similar like a former co-worker felt. He cites that MIN v LA Playoff, like I do with my fascination and frustration with SB XIII, as the worst gut punch game he ever experienced. We both are citing play by plays of games......from ages ago to this day!
I agree that the game was maybe the Vikings greatest win in coming from behind to beat the Rams!!!!
@@JRZEKE99 The NFL GOW should have done TWO complete programs on those NFL Divisional12-27-1969 playoff games MIN vs LA and CLEV at DAL rather than 13:30 mins and 9:30 minutes dedicated respectively to each.
@@romelovesdan I agree! The Dal/Cle game was a joke!!
A true piece of history! The great Ray Scott! Wow! The clarity of the video, just amazing
This is an amazing video, and with the original commercials, makes you feel like you were there again!
This game was played on January 4, 1970. Paul Christman died of a heart attack on March 2, three days before his 52nd birthday.
Man, that’s tremendous, my compliments…,
Part of the forgotten history of the Browns, who stayed right up there for about seven seasons after Jim Brown retired, under Frank Ryan and Leroy Kelly. A couple of post-season wins and Ryan is in the HoF next to his teammate Kelly.
Keep these up Dave! As a a huge classic football fan, I’m finding them so much fun to watch with the enhancements you have made. Do you have any of the HBO Inside the NFL shows starting from the late 1970’s? Love those!
Thank you! I do not have any of those programs :)
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 seems like no one does 😐
IT WAS GREAT TO WATCH JOE KAPP AGAIN AND TO HEAR HIS ROUGH VOICE CALLIN THOSE SIGNALS....WHEN AMERICA WAS GOOD , AND REAL MEN WERE THE ATHLETES
It was fun watching the Vikings when they played outdoors in the frigid cold temperatures. Too bad they play in a indoor stadium now
As a lifelong Browns' fan, did you have to restore THIS ONE? 😂😂😂
In all seriousness, great job as always and I appreciate your hard work!
Sorry George :) I guess you probably weren't too thrilled with my enhancement of the 1968 NFL Championship game a couple weeks back either :)
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Now why would you have ever thought that? LOL!
Watch the 68 championship, that's a real treat!!!
SO many damned times we've only been ONE game away from the SB. ARGH!
@@mattfulmer4243I'm wacko for Flacco!!!!..... Browns in super bowl 2024
That jump pass by Kapp for a TD after the 10:30 mark was extraordinary. I don't know that I've ever seen that.
Back then, you only had to wait one week for the Super Bowl
Unreal!
Lifelong Vikings fan; feels kind of like we actual did win a Championship . The NFL players probably didn’t take the AFL seriously for awhile. These were the big bad Browns!
Very nice copy. It's in color. Growing up, we didn't get a color TV until 1972.
We got our first color TV for the 1969 season and all my friends came over to watch it in color we had the only color TV on the block.
CBS announcer Paul Christman sadly would die just a few months after this game at age 51 from a heart attack
The great John Facenda even narrated a NFL films documentary on the rock band Journey in 1983.🎼🎹🎸🥁🎙️❤️
58:25 "Nelson, will have to go to the air more often than he would like." The NFL has changed so much.
Comrade dobbler is a great TH-cam site as well
I wanted to watch this with the advertisements, just to get a feel for the culture of that era. But the only thing I was left with was the urge to smoke and drive.
I forgot just how good a running back Jim Osborn, #41 was.
Ray Scott. He knew when to say something...and when to say nothing at all. Professional all the way.
Why are the benches on the same sideline? Its not like they're tight for space on the other side.
Obvious question but important: Did they have the second half available play-by-play or is that all we get?
That Kellogg’s Product No. 19 looks delicious
The Vikings lost their identity when they switched helmets and uniforms and went indoors.
Len Dawson said the Jets and Raiders would have beaten the vikes.
Len Dawson made sure that didn't happen his team beat the Jets and Raiders in the playoffs
It wasn't going to be the Browns day when Joe Kapp scored on a broken play and a Browns DB slipped on that touchdown pass to Gene Washington
Joe Kapp was my favorite in 69...
I cried when they lost to KC
Kapp was a unit!
The "Me and My Winstons" commercial at 44:29 was interesting.
This was real hard hitting football on a real field. Not climate control with gold and jewelry.
this is the year before the superbowl
The year before the Super Bowl? It was the year before Super Bowl FIVE. This particular season there was Super Bowl IV, which the Vikings lost to the Chiefs
Joe kapp one of the toughest players ever in the NFL……. He was in the longest yard….
Damn Capp throwing the ball like Derek Jeter at Shortstop
... a better world then.
People often forget that although the Minnesota Vikings have never won a Super Bowl, they were the NFL Champions back in 1969.
And that team's statistics were among the best of modern times.
@@romelovesdan Scored 50 points three times, only the 2007 Patriots have matched that.
@@CarlosReyes-qe2iq See that? Impressive isn't it? Thank you for spreading the word regarding the history of that team.
@@romelovesdan They also set a modern day NFL record with a 12 game winning streak. They lost their first game, 24-23 to the Giants in Yankee stadium, and their last one, 10-3 to the Falcons in Atlanta. In Week 2 against the Colts in their home opener, Kapp became the fifth quarterback in history to throw seven TDs in one game. By one of the strangest coincidences in sports history, Adrian Burk who by then was an NFL referee, officiated that game. 17 years before in 1952 for the Eagles, Burk became the second quarterback to throw seven TDs in one game. Also, Eller, Larsen, Page, and Marshall are the only front four ever to make the Pro Bowl in the same season.
this would of mattered if it was 1965, the pre- super bowl era
I loved Ray Scott. He did not try to make a 4 yard run sound like someone had cured cancer.
Dave, thank you soooo much for this.
Same as Summerall's play-by-play style. Less is more. From the '90-'91 Giants/Niners NFC Championship when Leonard Marshall destroyed Joe Montana...Pat's report of a very woozy Montana shown on the sideline: "The word from the bench is 'everything hurts' "
@@williamparker9817 Ha! Hilarious. I saw that game but did not remember this quote.
"Starr...............Dowler................Touchdown"
@@stevenfarley4738 Amen, brother! (I actually did LOL when I read this... perfect)
@@manuginobilisbaldspot2 Not for people with more imagination than a turnip.
This truly like Christmas in July.....this is my favorite season growing up as a child. Such fond memories.....thanks for your hard work and efforts in posting these videos....
This is also the same season that the Los Angeles Rams started the season 11-0 then preceded to lose their last three games of the season (one of them to the Minnesota Vikings @ Los Angeles) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂then the Rams went to Minnesota in the divisional round the week before this game and lost that game also to the Vikings @ Minnesota 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The 69 Vikings are one of the greatest teams in NFL history I know they went on and lost the Super Bowl but at that point the Super Bowl wasn't what we think of it today the Vikings pretty much viewed themselves as the champions of football by winning the NFL Championship look up the statistics on the 69 Vikings one of the most imposing and physically dominant teams ever they literally destroyed everybody
Just dont know what happened against the Chiefs in SB4 this Viking team should have crushed them but for some reason they just forgot how to play Viking football in every SB they played in .
The John Facenda-narrated and Pat Summerall-introduced segment on the history of the NFL's first fiddy was a nice treat. Thank you DV for keeping it.
I was a baby at the time. Later these voices of the NFL were my introduction to the games. I didn’t know that Don Criqui was with CBS BACK THEN LOL. I grew up with him on NBC as I was getting older.
These are absolutely the best looking classic football games that I've EVER SEEN!! These are amazing. Having a chance to watch some of these classic games in full HD? Being able to see the players that made football what it is! Being able to watch the broadcasts of these games when the Broadcasts were actually about the game, the teams, and other VITAL information. This is unbelievable. Words can't express or describe what being able to see these games from the 60's, 70's, and 80's means to me. As I said previously, I was born in 1967, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I used to beg either my Parents or my Grandparents to let me stay up so I could get to watch the Half-Time Highlights on Monday Night Football! It was one of the few times I got to see teams that I normally never got a chance to see, unless they were playing the Packers. These decades brought us some of the most ICONIC, TALENTED, and FLAT OUT DOMINANT PLAYERS to ever play the game! Thank you again. My only regret is that your channel wasn't in my recommendations sooner. I could have been binge watching these classic games for months now! However I am just going to have to catch up and watch more. Please keep up this incredible work sir. And if it is possible, could you please get one or two games from the Washington Redskins back in the late 60's and early 70's. When the either had the maroon helmet with the Florida State Seminole logo. The spear w/ the feathers, or the yellow helmet with the ®️🪶 and the red stripe down the middle? I am a Chippewa Indian and my Dad being a Chippewa Indian as well, he had bought me a Starter Jacket for my birthday and it was a Washington Redskins down filled jacket and I loved it, and wore it with PRIDE. I'd love to see a game or two with their classic 60's and 70's helmets and uniforms. Thank you.
Glad you found the channel :) Don't worry, you're not too late to the party. I only started posting enhanced games about 5 weeks ago, though I have a TON of other stuff on my channel I'm sure you'd find interesting. Afraid there aren't any late 60's/early 70's Redskin games that exist with the old helmets, except for a black/white 1969 preseason game (which I don't have).
Thank you for posting vids like this! Including not cutting out the commercials. It definitely takes me back to my childhood. (Born in 1963.)
Yes..this is a treat. Great visual quality too. Vikings purple looks terrific.
Excellent job! EVERYTHING about this is helluva lot better than ANY NFL broadcasts of today's completely ANNOYING and boring NFL. Which I quit watching around 2004 and started to watch rugby instead!
The great Ray Scott......as an announcer.....economy of word use.....would never overtalk....just set the action and let the play run and the picture would tell the story. I was announcing a TV PBS broadcast of Wash. State basketball in 1971 or 72 on KWSU TV, and a local regional network was also airing the broadcast for the West Coast audience. I looked to my left, and Ray Scott was the announcer of the regional telecast. Big surprise, but a good one. I should have at least introduced myself, but our instructors always told us we were, although student, professional announcers; so I thought "big deal I've got my own pre game to get ready for." Whoa....now I wish I would have talked to him. The foolishness of youth.
You said a mouth full my friend, 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
A week later Kansas City dismantled the supposedly superior Vikings.
And in the very first regular season game of the following season, the Vikings returned the favor by beating the Chiefs 27-10. Vicious cycle :)
@@davevolskysbackdoor5673it is a vicious cycle, but I guarantee (like Joe) that if you ask all the remaining Vikings, they would have preferred winning the Super Bowl. And yes, I am a total AFL fan. Maybe the Vikings should have played Gary Cuozzo instead of Kapp.
Gary Cuozzo - now that's a guy that had no business seeing as many starts in his career as he did.
I wish I could relive that day seeing my whole family together again. 😞
The Vikings outdoor experience was brutal yet it was a beautiful time
For those who think the Vikings never won an NFL championship in the Super Bowl Era, here's the footage that will show that the purple people eaters did manage to win the NFL Championship before losing in the super bowl....
The Vikings should have stuck with Joe Kapp and he would have won them a championship! He was a winner! RIP Joe!
Kapp was a rough and tumble player but when it came to being a “pure passer”, Fran Tarkenton was a much better QB.
Pure passer,...and just how does that matter??.. Keep in mind Jurgensen and Marino are considered pure passerst yet they have as many Superbowl wins as Kapp right....
Kapp had a much stronger arm and could stretch the field. better. For the record, Tarkentons performance in the Superbowls were nothing short of horrendus.....despite being the better " pure passer"@@scarletmacaw
The saddest reminder of this broadcast is the fact that Paul Christman died only a couple of months after this game...
Christman worked most frequently with Curt Gowdy in the mid 1960’s, moving back to CBS in ‘68 and being paired with Ray Scott. He died much too young at 51.
@@natch27 I think he had a heart attack?
@@futuremath08 Yessir. He apparently had a history of heart issues and he held on for two days after being admitted before succumbing on 3/2/70.
I was there...they completely controlled the game.i was here in 1974 and 1976 for nfc title wins vs rams.the orher nfc title game was won in dallas 1973
This is awesome, and the retrospective on the NFL's first 50 years at the beginning makes it even better.
Now, I'm not a Vikings necessarily, but I wish they still played outdoor and on natural grass. Those were so fun to watch!
Situation remedied!......Fans and subscribers, our faithful host, and enhancement technician, Mr. Volsky, worked around many technical issue to get this to us! Tip your cap and wave your pennants....
I really love seeing how television was produced 50 years ago. You again did wonderful work with this. Well done.
Just amazes me - even though we were already into the Super Bowl era, this was the NFL championship and look how low-key the production is. And the great analysis before game. I can't put my finger on how announcing has decreased - but look how cerebral and analytical it was. Then John Madden came along and made it more understandable. Then these days announcers have become entertainers and sacrificed good detailed analysis for appealing to non-fans.
It’s so great to go back to a simpler time. The quality is incredible it’s like it was recorded yesterday. Thank you 💪
A+ (again!)
This picture is so much better than the fuzzy B&W in our Hastings, Minn. living room that cold January Sunday. Also the Vikings’ O line could block! Loved the short commercial breaks and absence of advertising bombardment at Met Stadium. And, no over-the-top celebrations for every play.
I love the enhanced reproduction despite being a Browns fan. I do not watch the NFL much anymore, but love to look back on the older games. I am not sure, but Joe Kapp may have been the first QB to win the Rose Bowl, Grey Cup and NFL Championship. Great job
only one i can think of
This ONE IS A BIG and pleasant surprise thank you Dave!
For those that are fans of the CBS-TV show "NCIS" and actor Mark Harmon: Check out the video @8:13 where Mark's dad, Tom Harmon, does a TV commercial for the Product 19 cereal product.
In researching about Tom Harmon, come to discover he was *_only 50 years old_* in that TV commercial, as he was born in 1919.
It's an eyebrow raiser to know that Mark Harmon, playing the part of Special Agent Gibbs in NCIS, left that TV series at age 70; yet, he looked no older than his dad at age 50.
BTW: Mark Harmon was a teenager at the time of this telecast.
You left out the part of Harmon Sr. winning the Heisman Trophy. Playing for the University of Michigan.
This is beautiful work! I have seen the other version. Such great work!!!!!
I know it was "for the fans", but it just wasn't a good idea to move the Vikings indoors. That was the single biggest HFA in the game of football!
RIP, Joe Kapp...
Yeah big mistake, they underestimate the fans ability to watch football in tough conditions, just look at the Packers and Bills fans
@@theholyvineofdavid647 They would have done it!
Indoor stadium allows a lot more uses than just football. Concerts, basketball tournaments, pro wrestling, etc.
@@stephenh5944 Oh - I completely agree with that. Still - the Vikings have nowhere near the HFA now that they used to.
I was 7 when this game was played and I was so excited we (vikes) played so good. I thought we’d hammer the Chiefs.
Lmao and the vikings got hammered 23/7 hank stram schooled that jerk hugh grant hank treated his players like MEN❤
Scott’s play-by-play was exceeded only by Chuck Thompson’s colorful descriptions. But I want to know whether there are any “full service banks” in my area. Can anyone tell me?
The final NFL championship before the merger
Another nice restoration and share, thanks so much Dave! Very "old school" football.
In the 1968-69 NFL season the Cleveland Browns soundly defeated the Dallas Cowboys 31-20 in the opening round of the NFL playoffs and then were crushed by the Baltimore Colts 34-0 in the 1968-69 NFL Championship game , who then went on to lose Super Bowl 3 to the AFL Champion New York Jets by the score of 16-7. In the opening round of the 1969-70 NFL playoffs the Cleveland Browns again defeated the Dallas Cowboys by the score of 38-14. And the next week in the 1969-70 NFL Championship game the Minnesota Vikings easily defeated the Cleveland Browns 27-7. The Vikings then advanced to play the AFL Champion Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 4, losing to the Chiefs 23-7.
Thank you Dave.
One of the best moments of this NFL Championship game.....@51:28....Kapp misfires on a bomb to Gene Washington. Then two plays later, he corrects it and makes the Browns pay. Game over.
This video could be a good trivia question. What team won the last NFL title before the NFL AFL merger? How many would guess The Vikings?
The two leagues not playing each other before the title match was, to me, more interesting in lots of ways. MLB switching to everyone plays everyone every year + expanded playoffs is short-sighted.
I used to watch this with my stepfather he was very good at that. and I also remember Ray Scott calling this game! He was one of the best broadcasters of our time.
I seem to recall computerized results on radio in 1970 of pre selected NFL game of the week. Ray Scott gave play by play. Other weeks it was C harlie Jones.
Joe Kapp wasn't the most talented QB, but he was fearless! I would have fought alongside him anytime!
I remember this game I was 9 years old, back then the muddy games were the best, this game I watched in Blue Ridge Texas , me and my cousin played football in the yard that day good ole days
I miss the tough guy qbs of this era kapp,gabriel , snead who would pummel those trying to sack them.
the video quality on this is amazing!
Paul Christman lived on my street and would be dead in just a few months after this broadcast
The Browns' regular-season loss to the Vikings really only tied the record for the worst defeat in franchise history; they also lost by 48 points to the Packers two years earlier.
I'll take that flamethrower the grounds crew was using for Christmas.
I believe Gene Washington could play in modern day NFL.
Due to the NFL blackout policies of the time this game wasn’t shown live in Minneapolis on WCCO. They did show the game on tape delay that night following the late local news
Dave, you might be the most appreciated man in the world according to us old dudes who sit back shaking their heads thinking what the hell happened the the game of football.....
We all loved watching Billie "White Shoes" Johnson do his TD celebration without moving anywhere, shake his legs
It was different but it was just him and as far as any of us wanted to go.....
We had Jack "the Assassin" Tatum, who would drive your head in the damn ground...
Mean Joe Greene, who might have been gentle off the field but on it, would gouge your eyes out
Or Conrad Dobler, who blocked, kicked, held, stuck his finger in your eye or grab your cup....
Lyle freaking Alzado, a man you never knew who might show up but was all about kicking your ass, twice....
No hand shaking after the game....
A one hour pregame special and a 15 minute halftime at the super bowl...
No braods in the room...
But we did like Phylis George and I especially liked Jayne Kennedy (oh my)
But they knew their place.....
The players kept complaining at a low level.....
You could expect to see some of the guys during the off-season by watching Wrestling......
If your star QB stayed up all night drinking and sleeping with triplets, you did not panik and expected him to have a great game.....
And what about Joe Willie Nameth putting on panty hose because HE COULD!!!!!
Ahhh, this was off the top of my head....
If I spent more time, this list would be very very long
Incredibly sharp and clear footage. Thanks
This looks great! The resolution is like, say, a pre-HD 2005 broadcast.
Another awesome job Dave!
As a very young kid the CBS NFL introduction in the 1960s was what originally got me to be a football fan. These warriors running onto the field and putting on their helmets preparing for battle with the rat-tat-tat music introduction was mind blowing. Old school NFL football was as close as you could get to the ancient gladiator wars for a young child.
It sounds hard to believe but, at the moment this game was played, the Cleveland Browns had the best winning % of any NFL team in history. Even though they were not competitive in both the '68 & '69 NFL Championship games, my favorite childhood memories were the two playoff wins over the Cowboys. Even then Dallas got a lot more media coverage than they deserved, were favored in both years over the Browns but Cleveland face-planted them both times!
true, although the Cowboys face planted the Brown 52-14 the week before the Ice Bowl game.