This is very similar to how many in the Cameroonian media, the president of the country (who is still in charge of the country today) along with many of the coaching staff felt heading into the opening game of the 1990 World Cup vs the defending champion Argentina & Diego Maradona. Heck even one newspaper in Cameroon suggested that the national team not take the field because they in their words would get absolutely smashed 15-0 by Argentina. Cameroon's coach was more concerned about not giving up more than 5 goals to Argentina than he was about winning. However unlike this, Cameroon's players refused to listen to any of the negative talk & in one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history beat Argentina 1-0. Cameroon made it all the way to the quarterfinals of that World Cup only losing to England in extra time, becoming the first African team to do so (though Senegal in 2002, Ghana in 2010 & Morocco at the last World Cup have joined them in this regard with Morocco making even more history by becoming the first African team to make the semifinals).
Oddly, after going 1-29 at Virginia, Dick Voris was hired by Vince Lombardi, and was an assistant coach with the Packers' 1961 and 1962 championship teams. He eventually spent a season as an assistant coach with the Colts, but that was in 1973, after the team had collapsed. Voris was an assistant coach with several other NFL teams, concluding with the legendary 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After losing his last 23 games as the U of V's head coach, Voris concluded his NFL assistant coaching career with a 16-game losing streak (he was with the 3-11 New York Jets in 1975, and they lost their last two games). He did go 20-0-1 as a junior college head coach, which indicates his level of competence.
My high school team (on which I was the QB for many games), over 3 years, went 1-9-1, 0-11, and 1-8-2. Not once did any of our coaches say anything like that. (At least, not publicly - I mean, come on, nobody could realistically have expected us to win anything, though we ourselves never gave up.)
Under the previous coach, Red Hickey, in 1960 the 49ers were 4-4 and were heavy underdogs going into Baltimore in week 9. Figuring he had nothing to lose, Hickey installed an early version of the shotgun formation: "Anything we could do to change their defense had to be in our favor," Hickey said. "We decided to go to this formation because we didn't feel we were strong enough to beat the Colts doing the ordinary." Riding the surprise of the unexpected offense, San Francisco beat Baltimore 30-22 and would finish the year 7-5. At least some of the 49ers coaches were around then too, so they had no excuses for not taking inspiration from that and going for broke in this game as well.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about what happened before a Patriots-Bills game that same season, when Patriots Coach Mike Holovak showed similarly little faith in his team’s chances to win.
And that game likely cost the Patriots the chance to go to the AFL Championship Game as the Bills won the Eastern Division by a half-game over the Pats. Whether or not they beat the Chiefs (likely at Fenway given the way the playoffs rotated then and the Championship was the ONLY playoff game in each league besides the Super Bowl then) is another question. That 1966 Patriots team caused a bizarre situation for Major League Baseball as the Pats first two home games that season (against the Chiefs 9/25 and the Jets 10/2) I believe was why MLB was forced to move the Red Sox season-ending series at Fenway against the then-Senators to a standalone July 4 doubleheader with their scheduled opponents on the 4th, the Yankees and White Sox respectively having two games from a Sept. 20-22 series moved up to a similar doubleheader that day at Yankee Stadium as it appears the Pats, who were playing at Fenway at the insistence of the city of Boston at the time forced the Pats out of Fenway once their home schedule began to the point where the Red Sox had to finish their 1966 season (playing the full 162 games) five days ahead of everyone else with a doubleheader in Chicago against the White Sox on Tuesday 9/27/'66, a day after a makeup of a two-game series from a week earlier against the Senators in DC drew just 485 fans on Monday 9/26/'66, eighth-smallest crowd in MLB history and smallest for a doubleheader in what turned out to be the final two games of 1966 for the Senators as their final three-game series of that season at home against the Yankees was subsequently completely rained out with the Senators playing their final game six days ahead of everyone else. That rained-out series against the Yankees were supposed to be the final games for baseball play-by-play legend Red Barber, who had been fired Monday 9/26 by the Yankees. While proven later to be false, it was widely believed (including by Barber himself) that came from remarks about the small crowd of 413 fans at Yankee Stadium on Thursday 9/22/'66 in what was a ONE game series delayed two days by rain against the White Sox (the other two games of that series played as noted on July 4), fifth-smallest crowd in MLB history as that to Barber was the story and not the game itself. All of this was caused by a series of storms that hit the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions during the final two weeks of the 1966 MLB season.
@@CTubeMan Oh okay. Still, the lost the AFL East by half a game to the Bills. That may in the eyes of some Red Sox fans may have been looked at as Karma given what they went through that season.
Can you do a short about Dwight Clark’s grave? It’s in the exact proximity from the same goal post as the catch on his Montana ranch. It’s fuckin badass
The Colts beat the 49ers in the season finale as well by 30-14, and it was actually a one possession game heading into the 4th quarter before the Colts put the game away with a 31 yard TD from Unitas to Richardson, then a Lou Michaels 43 yard FG, which back then was extremely difficult. The 49ers committed 3 turnovers.
You mentioned the Tommy Prothro speech against the Steelers in 1975. Reminder that that wasn’t even the only dumb speech by a coach, instilling as little confidence in his players as possible before a game, that you did a video on from that *season*, as you also made one on Jets interim head coach Ken Shipp and his overwhelmingly self-defeating pregame speech before a showdown against the Cardinals.
@DolFan316, the niners in 1965 had the nfl's #1 offense. John Brodie throwing 30 tds, triple crown reciever dave parks. They scored 421 points, an average of over 30 points a game
Were the 60s 49ers as bad as the Dennis Erickson, Mike Nolan, and Mike Singletary coached teams from 2004-2010? I know they had 2 2-14 seasons in 1978 and 79
Really need to do something about the audio. I have to crank every one of your videos up because the audio level is so low compared to every other video I watch.
I like the majority of these videos but I believe the coaches were just doing what coaches do. Talk up the other team. Perhaps hoping to catch the Colts in a lull. The coach passing out I can’t believe it was from watching film. Could have been blood sugar. The media blows everything up. Sorry but I take this video as fluff and a little drama.
This is very similar to how many in the Cameroonian media, the president of the country (who is still in charge of the country today) along with many of the coaching staff felt heading into the opening game of the 1990 World Cup vs the defending champion Argentina & Diego Maradona. Heck even one newspaper in Cameroon suggested that the national team not take the field because they in their words would get absolutely smashed 15-0 by Argentina. Cameroon's coach was more concerned about not giving up more than 5 goals to Argentina than he was about winning. However unlike this, Cameroon's players refused to listen to any of the negative talk & in one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history beat Argentina 1-0. Cameroon made it all the way to the quarterfinals of that World Cup only losing to England in extra time, becoming the first African team to do so (though Senegal in 2002, Ghana in 2010 & Morocco at the last World Cup have joined them in this regard with Morocco making even more history by becoming the first African team to make the semifinals).
The fact that this has nothing to do with Pete McCulley is a head-scratcher.
Oddly, after going 1-29 at Virginia, Dick Voris was hired by Vince Lombardi, and was an assistant coach with the Packers' 1961 and 1962 championship teams. He eventually spent a season as an assistant coach with the Colts, but that was in 1973, after the team had collapsed. Voris was an assistant coach with several other NFL teams, concluding with the legendary 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After losing his last 23 games as the U of V's head coach, Voris concluded his NFL assistant coaching career with a 16-game losing streak (he was with the 3-11 New York Jets in 1975, and they lost their last two games). He did go 20-0-1 as a junior college head coach, which indicates his level of competence.
Oh lord
My high school team (on which I was the QB for many games), over 3 years, went 1-9-1, 0-11, and 1-8-2. Not once did any of our coaches say anything like that. (At least, not publicly - I mean, come on, nobody could realistically have expected us to win anything, though we ourselves never gave up.)
Under the previous coach, Red Hickey, in 1960 the 49ers were 4-4 and were heavy underdogs going into Baltimore in week 9. Figuring he had nothing to lose, Hickey installed an early version of the shotgun formation: "Anything we could do to change their defense had to be in our favor," Hickey said. "We decided to go to this formation because we didn't feel we were strong enough to beat the Colts doing the ordinary." Riding the surprise of the unexpected offense, San Francisco beat Baltimore 30-22 and would finish the year 7-5. At least some of the 49ers coaches were around then too, so they had no excuses for not taking inspiration from that and going for broke in this game as well.
the niners -" the colts can't be beat".
joe namath - " watch this"
Jack Christansen would later be head coach for Stanford from 1972-1976, & guess who replaced him as Stanford head coach, non other than Bill Walsh
“Why are you so afraid of horses?”
*The 49ers:*
I'm sure bigger upsets had happened in the old guard NFL and the AFL by that point. There's a reason why they play the games.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about what happened before a Patriots-Bills game that same season, when Patriots Coach Mike Holovak showed similarly little faith in his team’s chances to win.
And that game likely cost the Patriots the chance to go to the AFL Championship Game as the Bills won the Eastern Division by a half-game over the Pats. Whether or not they beat the Chiefs (likely at Fenway given the way the playoffs rotated then and the Championship was the ONLY playoff game in each league besides the Super Bowl then) is another question.
That 1966 Patriots team caused a bizarre situation for Major League Baseball as the Pats first two home games that season (against the Chiefs 9/25 and the Jets 10/2) I believe was why MLB was forced to move the Red Sox season-ending series at Fenway against the then-Senators to a standalone July 4 doubleheader with their scheduled opponents on the 4th, the Yankees and White Sox respectively having two games from a Sept. 20-22 series moved up to a similar doubleheader that day at Yankee Stadium as it appears the Pats, who were playing at Fenway at the insistence of the city of Boston at the time forced the Pats out of Fenway once their home schedule began to the point where the Red Sox had to finish their 1966 season (playing the full 162 games) five days ahead of everyone else with a doubleheader in Chicago against the White Sox on Tuesday 9/27/'66, a day after a makeup of a two-game series from a week earlier against the Senators in DC drew just 485 fans on Monday 9/26/'66, eighth-smallest crowd in MLB history and smallest for a doubleheader in what turned out to be the final two games of 1966 for the Senators as their final three-game series of that season at home against the Yankees was subsequently completely rained out with the Senators playing their final game six days ahead of everyone else. That rained-out series against the Yankees were supposed to be the final games for baseball play-by-play legend Red Barber, who had been fired Monday 9/26 by the Yankees. While proven later to be false, it was widely believed (including by Barber himself) that came from remarks about the small crowd of 413 fans at Yankee Stadium on Thursday 9/22/'66 in what was a ONE game series delayed two days by rain against the White Sox (the other two games of that series played as noted on July 4), fifth-smallest crowd in MLB history as that to Barber was the story and not the game itself. All of this was caused by a series of storms that hit the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions during the final two weeks of the 1966 MLB season.
@@WaltGekko man this was a journey.
@@WaltGekkoThe Patriots actually won that game.
@@CTubeMan Oh okay. Still, the lost the AFL East by half a game to the Bills. That may in the eyes of some Red Sox fans may have been looked at as Karma given what they went through that season.
Can you do a short about Dwight Clark’s grave? It’s in the exact proximity from the same goal post as the catch on his Montana ranch. It’s fuckin badass
Cool
Figures it would be a Montana ranch
The Colts beat the 49ers in the season finale as well by 30-14, and it was actually a one possession game heading into the 4th quarter before the Colts put the game away with a 31 yard TD from Unitas to Richardson, then a Lou Michaels 43 yard FG, which back then was extremely difficult. The 49ers committed 3 turnovers.
You mentioned the Tommy Prothro speech against the Steelers in 1975. Reminder that that wasn’t even the only dumb speech by a coach, instilling as little confidence in his players as possible before a game, that you did a video on from that *season*, as you also made one on Jets interim head coach Ken Shipp and his overwhelmingly self-defeating pregame speech before a showdown against the Cardinals.
Pour yourself a Cognac!
And then you realize san Francisco had beaten green bay that year. The Packers just so happened to be too good
From '64-66 the Packers actually had some trouble with the 49ers, going just 3-2-1 against them, with no wins in the 3 road games.
@DolFan316, the niners in 1965 had the nfl's #1 offense. John Brodie throwing 30 tds, triple crown reciever dave parks. They scored 421 points, an average of over 30 points a game
The 49ers fortunes would get better when Dick Nolan arrives in 1968.
They were from 1970-1972.
Were the 60s 49ers as bad as the Dennis Erickson, Mike Nolan, and Mike Singletary coached teams from 2004-2010?
I know they had 2 2-14 seasons in 1978 and 79
'78-'79 were the OJ Simpson years.
Their worst season was 1963, when they went 2-12. 1964 wasn't much better when they went 4-10.
Really need to do something about the audio. I have to crank every one of your videos up because the audio level is so low compared to every other video I watch.
I like the majority of these videos but I believe the coaches were just doing what coaches do. Talk up the other team. Perhaps hoping to catch the Colts in a lull. The coach passing out I can’t believe it was from watching film. Could have been blood sugar. The media blows everything up. Sorry but I take this video as fluff and a little drama.
Totally the m.o. here, and modern moral shaming past events....but this guy has a shtick and it's quality nostalgia hits