I’m watching this after the Eagles blew out the Giants. I’ll bet you some of those Giants players and/or fans were hoping the Philly crowd would storm the field and end the game early. That was brutal.
This might have been the lead story on local and network TV newscasts that night were it not for the fact that Apollo 8, the first manned flight to orbit the moon, had been launched that morning.
This reminds me of the playoff match between the Seattle Sounders & the Portland Timbers from 1975 in the NASL where the Timbers fans, particularly those that had sideline seats started to storm the field during the OT period (the game had ended 1-1 after 90 minutes) & and at one point a fan tried to block a shot from a Sounders player. This immediately led to Portland mounting a counter attack, earning a corner kick which then resulted in the winning header from Peter Withe that beat the rival Sounders 2-1 & ended their season. Right after nearly all of the 30,000 fans at Civic Stadium (now Providence Park) which was 3,000 overcapacity stormed the field to celebrate. Heck one Timbers fan drove his car onto the field in celebration in one of the rowdiest celebrations the city of Portland has ever seen. However unlike Tom Landry, Sounders coach John Best was absolutely fuming about how the game ended & got into a heated confrontation with the referee in the locker room. He even appealed to the league office to have the result thrown out and the game replayed which the league said no to. As it relates to Cleveland Municipal Stadium, 6 years later it would be host to one of the infamous moments (and the worst promotion) in sports history in Ten Cent Beer Night.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made videos about the following: 1. The controversy before the Browns-Cowboys playoff game the next season. 2. The bizarre incident that occurred with under one minute to play in the first Dallas-Washington game of 1979. At the time of the incident Dallas was trailing…wait for it…31-20.
Fans almost stormed the field the year earlier in the Ice Bowl. Say what you will about people nowadays, but man, NFL fans tended to more reckless then than are now as far as interfering with the game
There would've been more of a protest if this happened in a one-possession game. With that said, thank goodness such foolishness wouldn't happen today.
I think the rotating home field advantage system was used to make things easier for the networks. So, particularly once the AFL comes in and you CBS/NFL begins working with NBC/AFL, you know you'll have one Eastern Division host and a Western Division host. I think that was the idea anyway. Obviously the geography of the divisions and things like Wild Cards kind of tripped that up. But baseball did the same thing in the playoffs until like 1998 and in the World Series until 2003. It's why the Dodgers had home field in both the NLCS and World Series in 1988, despite having significantly worse records than both opponents. Years later, the better home-field advantage model caused an issue when the 49ers and Broncos hosted the championship games and they ended up having to move the times back so the Broncos wouldn't have to kick off at 11:00 local time. Now they just move the games back to later in the day and rotate which one goes first. It's why you get weird things like Seattle hosting the NFC Championship Game earlier in the day and New England hosting the nightcap.
New York was another town where masses of fans stormed the field on several occasions. Yankee Stadium and Shea stadium had some crazy fan rampages. Historically, there were plenty of unruly fan behavior incidents in many other cities besides Cleveland in that era of the late 1960’s and ‘70s.
Okay, I do have to pipe up as the voice of why the NFL used the rotating hosting system: recall that prior to the 1970's, a lot of NFL teams shared their stadiums with other sports - mostly baseball teams. The idea of a rotating hosting situation was that stadium owners - who weren't necessarily NFL owners - would know that their stadium might be used for the NFL championship come late December. Thus, they would know not to schedule any other events - or plans for reconstruction or remodeling - until after then.
When did anyone know of Tom Landry getting in the faces of the officials? I’m pretty sure the refs would have thought twice about ending the game early if Vince Lombardi or especially George Halas were on the opposing sideline.
Or, for a slightly lesser coach, Stram. He would have been in their faces like a shot. Thinking about it, what would Bud Grant have been like in a situation like that?
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What's even crazier about the 1968 season is how it ended. Look who won the Super Bowl. The New York Freaking Jets??? I don't think anyone saw that one coming.
Dallas has those awesome dark royal blue and cadillac blue uniforms back then. I always wonder if Cleveland beating Dallas in 1994-1995 season was a nod to this?
The year 1968 was on of the worst in US history with the Pueblo incident Tet Offensive Orangeburg Massacre MLK and RFK killed so there probably was a lot of drug and alcohol use that year to numb people of the bad news and that could explain that the TV execs who put Heidi on over the end of the Jets-Raiders game. The Fans who threw snow balls at Santa and the Officials that ended the Packers-Bears early may have been under the influence of something but this incident may have been the right move. The NFL did not want another Chicago which was the mayhem at the Democratic Convention that year and sending Cops to force the crowd off the field with billy clubs and tear gas would not be good for the NFL image so end the game with 40 seconds was the better option.
my fav team is the browns and im pretty sure they’re gonna ball out in the regular season like the eagles because that’s what the NFL script sticks to!!!!!!!
As Lou Reed once said, "Those were different times." Landry knew his team had no chance, so why make a stink. Anyway, the Browns fans got their karma from the Colts the following week, seeing their team get creamed 0-34 in the NFL Title Game, as it was still called.
Imagine if fans stormed right when the Cowboys had a clear chance to score just like when the Band went the field during the USC California game. It would've been played multiple times. Pfft
Lance Rentzal was married to Joey Heatherton. She divorced him after he exposed himself to an underage girl. It came out he had done the same thing as a member of the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings shipped him to the Cowboys without mentioning this.
What is this, "The ref called the game for some reason", nonsense. Fans storming the field when the game was decided, the Browns being ahead by 2 scores with 30 seconds left.
reffs still rigging games to this day, just ask the Dolphins, they got that 1st down last week, instead, they said the runner was short and Buffalo ended up winning
You know you shouldn't call the rotation for the NFL Championship stupid? Major League Baseball did that as well, until 2003 when the winner of the Major League All Star Game decided home field advantage for the World Series! And before 1971 (when the Bears moved to Soldier Field) , they played at Wrigley Field, which did not have lights until August of 1988!
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1968 seemed to be the year where no one cared if the clocks hit triple zeroes. With the referees and the heidi game
I’m watching this after the Eagles blew out the Giants. I’ll bet you some of those Giants players and/or fans were hoping the Philly crowd would storm the field and end the game early. That was brutal.
This might have been the lead story on local and network TV newscasts that night were it not for the fact that Apollo 8, the first manned flight to orbit the moon, had been launched that morning.
This was Don Meredith's last game. Two years later he would be in the Monday Night Football booth.
He said that at this point, the game wasn't fun for him anymore. So he quit and ended up on MNF.
This game was so bad for Dandy Don that JG9 used the dreaded "39.6" line at 9:20...
PS Noted Browns fan Abraham Abraham gets some screen time at about 8:30 as he congratulates Leroy Kelly on a TD.
And Don Perkins last game also
Can you imagine what the NFL diehards would have said had this type of event occurred in the AFL?
NFL diehards would've called the AFL "Minor league football whose fans are goons"
The 1968 cowboys scored 132 points in their first 3 games. An average of 44 ppg. Dallas also allowed only 2 rushing tds all season
As far as the rotation of who hosts the divisional game, baseball used to be the same way with the world series and even the lcs i believe.
This reminds me of the playoff match between the Seattle Sounders & the Portland Timbers from 1975 in the NASL where the Timbers fans, particularly those that had sideline seats started to storm the field during the OT period (the game had ended 1-1 after 90 minutes) & and at one point a fan tried to block a shot from a Sounders player. This immediately led to Portland mounting a counter attack, earning a corner kick which then resulted in the winning header from Peter Withe that beat the rival Sounders 2-1 & ended their season. Right after nearly all of the 30,000 fans at Civic Stadium (now Providence Park) which was 3,000 overcapacity stormed the field to celebrate. Heck one Timbers fan drove his car onto the field in celebration in one of the rowdiest celebrations the city of Portland has ever seen. However unlike Tom Landry, Sounders coach John Best was absolutely fuming about how the game ended & got into a heated confrontation with the referee in the locker room. He even appealed to the league office to have the result thrown out and the game replayed which the league said no to. As it relates to Cleveland Municipal Stadium, 6 years later it would be host to one of the infamous moments (and the worst promotion) in sports history in Ten Cent Beer Night.
Disco demolition night in Comisky park in 1979 too 0:35
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made videos about the following:
1. The controversy before the Browns-Cowboys playoff game the next season.
2. The bizarre incident that occurred with under one minute to play in the first Dallas-Washington game of 1979. At the time of the incident Dallas was trailing…wait for it…31-20.
“Bring on Baltimore”
Haha yeah…. And get blown out 34-0 one week later
who then lose to the Jets in the Super Bowl..not sure Cleveland gets past New York either.
Fans almost stormed the field the year earlier in the Ice Bowl. Say what you will about people nowadays, but man, NFL fans tended to more reckless then than are now as far as interfering with the game
@Matt Joseph and in soccer leagues mainly in Europe & South America
There would've been more of a protest if this happened in a one-possession game. With that said, thank goodness such foolishness wouldn't happen today.
Not in this type of football
9:21 for one of our favorite catchphrases
Years from now, when JG9 sheds his mortal coil, this should be on his tombstone.
@@PAGoTribe1963 🤣🤣🤣
Do a video on the Divisional game between the Browns and the Jets in 1986
I think the rotating home field advantage system was used to make things easier for the networks. So, particularly once the AFL comes in and you CBS/NFL begins working with NBC/AFL, you know you'll have one Eastern Division host and a Western Division host. I think that was the idea anyway. Obviously the geography of the divisions and things like Wild Cards kind of tripped that up. But baseball did the same thing in the playoffs until like 1998 and in the World Series until 2003. It's why the Dodgers had home field in both the NLCS and World Series in 1988, despite having significantly worse records than both opponents.
Years later, the better home-field advantage model caused an issue when the 49ers and Broncos hosted the championship games and they ended up having to move the times back so the Broncos wouldn't have to kick off at 11:00 local time. Now they just move the games back to later in the day and rotate which one goes first. It's why you get weird things like Seattle hosting the NFC Championship Game earlier in the day and New England hosting the nightcap.
i would love to see footage of this full game one day.
Ask NFL throwback
I watched the whole game on CBS back on 12 21 68
@@michaelleroy9281 You did.
New York was another town where masses of fans stormed the field on several occasions. Yankee Stadium and Shea stadium had some crazy fan rampages. Historically, there were plenty of unruly fan behavior incidents in many other cities besides Cleveland in that era of the late 1960’s and ‘70s.
Okay, I do have to pipe up as the voice of why the NFL used the rotating hosting system: recall that prior to the 1970's, a lot of NFL teams shared their stadiums with other sports - mostly baseball teams. The idea of a rotating hosting situation was that stadium owners - who weren't necessarily NFL owners - would know that their stadium might be used for the NFL championship come late December. Thus, they would know not to schedule any other events - or plans for reconstruction or remodeling - until after then.
I'm trying to imagine if there was Hot Take Sports Radio back then, what they would've said.
My guess is that any security force in 1968 was too small. Only a threat over the PA system to forfeit to the Cowboys would have changed things.
Great history tidbit.
Abraham Abraham, the OG Dawg Pound member at 8:30!
Yes, i noticed him in his orange suit!
When did anyone know of Tom Landry getting in the faces of the officials? I’m pretty sure the refs would have thought twice about ending the game early if Vince Lombardi or especially George Halas were on the opposing sideline.
Or, for a slightly lesser coach, Stram. He would have been in their faces like a shot. Thinking about it, what would Bud Grant have been like in a situation like that?
9:11-9:25 Is this what y'all came for?
Anyone else notice that Don Meredith wore a linebackers' face guard on his helmet for the 1968 season?
Lucky they didn't have the same rules as they do in baseball. The Senators lost their last game in 1971 because fans stormed the field.
And the Indians had to forfeit a game on Ten Cent Beer Night.
They were moving to Texas at the time
@@coreylevine8095 last game before they moved they were winning too.
@Official JaguarGator9 Dude, I Just found A RECENT Fox moment from 2017 in which they stopped bonus coverage of Cowboys-Broncos for The Orville premiere. Can you do A video on this and explain the context better please? Thanks.
that Cowboys Broncos game was delayed for a bit during the game because of lightning iirc.
What's even crazier about the 1968 season is how it ended.
Look who won the Super Bowl.
The New York Freaking Jets???
I don't think anyone saw that one coming.
The Colts wanted to shut Namith's mouth so bad. The result? Namith wins MVP!
@@raymondhopwood9393 that makes Broadway Joe's guarantee that much more of a mythic statement. He backed it up.
I don’t know what to think about those Cowboys jerseys
I was there and boy was it loud
Imagine if the point spread was in question today
Dallas has those awesome dark royal blue and cadillac blue uniforms back then. I always wonder if Cleveland beating Dallas in 1994-1995 season was a nod to this?
See the new Browns would have found a way to blow a 11 point lead with 40 seconds left.
The year 1968 was on of the worst in US history with the Pueblo incident Tet Offensive Orangeburg Massacre MLK and RFK killed so there probably was a lot of drug and alcohol use that year to numb people of the bad news and that could explain that the TV execs who put Heidi on over the end of the Jets-Raiders game. The Fans who threw snow balls at Santa and the Officials that ended the Packers-Bears early may have been under the influence of something but this incident may have been the right move. The NFL did not want another Chicago which was the mayhem at the Democratic Convention that year and sending Cops to force the crowd off the field with billy clubs and tear gas would not be good for the NFL image so end the game with 40 seconds was the better option.
Cleveland Browns & crazy go well together, don't they? 😆
Stadium clock was not official back then. The official keeping the time could have just said, oops, time’s up.
my fav team is the browns and im pretty sure they’re gonna ball out in the regular season like the eagles because that’s what the NFL script sticks to!!!!!!!
As we say in red cities on Ohio: Cleveland is going to be Cleveland.
Nice!
As Lou Reed once said, "Those were different times." Landry knew his team had no chance, so why make a stink. Anyway, the Browns fans got their karma from the Colts the following week, seeing their team get creamed 0-34 in the NFL Title Game, as it was still called.
Imagine if fans stormed right when the Cowboys had a clear chance to score just like when the Band went the field during the USC California game. It would've been played multiple times. Pfft
It was Stanford, not USC. At least six guys claim to be the trombone player who got clobbered.
Fans were really nasty back then
The browns really should use that logo in this videos thumbnail
@Matt Joseph it beats their current setup
@@themouthofsauron6926 yeah or least a modern version of it instead of a helmet.
Lance Rentzal was married to Joey Heatherton. She divorced him after he exposed himself to an underage girl. It came out he had done the same thing as a member of the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings shipped him to the Cowboys without mentioning this.
What is this, "The ref called the game for some reason", nonsense. Fans storming the field when the game was decided, the Browns being ahead by 2 scores with 30 seconds left.
Maybe they would have for the Eagles Giants. 😐
reffs still rigging games to this day, just ask the Dolphins, they got that 1st down last week, instead, they said the runner was short and Buffalo ended up winning
Good Luck DUVALLLL from Cincinnati. Chiefs have a hard time against cat teams...Kitty goes Meow
Chiefs win by seven.
@@raymondhopwood9393 It was a good game unlike Giants Eagles lol
You know you shouldn't call the rotation for the NFL Championship stupid? Major League Baseball did that as well, until 2003 when the winner of the Major League All Star Game decided home field advantage for the World Series! And before 1971 (when the Bears moved to Soldier Field) , they played at Wrigley Field, which did not have lights until August of 1988!
i have to disagree with there,the team with best record should always have home field.
@@jesuschristismylordandsavi3880 amen i guess you agree with me there.
Nah, all of it is stupid.
"No lights! No lights! No lights!" So many people protested the installation of lights at Wrigley.
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Lets go jags