The announcers, Charlie Jones, Pat Summerall and George Ratterman had much more incitel than their TV counterparts. They recognized right away that the Jets were attacking to their left, against the aging right side of the Baltimore defense. The TV guys never caught on. One of the best radio broadcasts of all time..
All the announcers had stellar moments ... For the TV broadcast, DeRogatis broke down how the Baltimore zone worked and how Namath would attack the short zones with his backs ... He also predicted that successful running by the Jets would win the game. On radio, Ratterman was the first to point out how the Jets were taking their time at the line of scrimmage with long signal counts ... Summerall had many great moments, breaking down the Colt players but indicated immediately how the early injury to Colt safety Rick Volk affected their defensive strategy ... Gowdy and Jones were excellent but while Jones was informing viewers about the Jets attacking their left side of the Colts defense, Gowdy was spot on about some of the top talent in this game including Mackey, Richardson, Snell, Namath and Sauer ... Rote also pointed out how Namath and Sauer would adjust to the blitzes and Morrall's use of a balanced attack compared to Unitas wanting to always throw, he also pointed out to viewers how important new acquisitions to the Jets team, OG Bob Talamini and backup QB Babe Parilli were to a possible victory. NBC was on top of everything, while Summerall was amazed at how well the Jets attacked the Colt defense.
@@jp783yeah, I've heard it all especially on Morrall's first interception. If you look at the play again, Al Atkinson barely tipped Morrall's pass to Tom Mitchell, which altered the pass and instead of hitting Mitchell in his hands, careened off his shoulder pads, and Randy Beverly had to practically do a full turnaround to intercept the pass. No way that was a fix. Morrall woke up from his dream season and the Jets played a great, ball control game. So what other signs of the fix were in? Surely not Bubba as he said it was a fix. If it was, he was in on it as he played a subpar game and Bubba was irate they lost.
I was there!. Round trip airfare from JFK (then Idlewild), overnight hotel next to Fontainbleu on Collins Ave. 40 yd line seats. All for $219 bucks. Yup $219 bucks. Sat in a Colts booster section with 7 buddies from Levittown. Saw grown men cry that day. Broadway Joe took it to them with Snell being superb that day!
What a gem to find this recording of the national radio broadcast of Super Bowl III. Three in the booth is crowded but I understand why NBC borrowed Pat Summerall, to bring balance because NBC only covered the AFL, and this was the only interleague game that counted. Still there was no talking over each other. And the commentary remained professional and journalistic. Summerall and George Ratterman were both very insightful. And while Charlie Jones slipped into TV-style announcing at the beginning of a lot of plays, he was outstanding on the basics of score, time, down and distance, etc., and especially so in keeping the listener up to speed with personnel in the game at any given time. Thank you for posting this. I considered it three hours well-spent.
The 3-man booth worked extraordinarily well. I was so used to Pat Summerall as a play-by-play man, he did very well as a color commentator in Super Bowl III.
Thank you very much! This was a great broadcast. I'm struck that the "post game show" was pretty matter of fact, without any shouting or any other fan involvement. Amazing. I also found the interview with Pete Rozelle interesting. Then, they were worried about scheduling around baseball. Now sports have to schedule around the NFL! I remember watching this game as a youngster and was glad the AFL won, since we were in an AFL city. Thanks so much again! If you ever get any other AFL Jet games I'd be listening!
Al DeRogatis had a much better handle of who really was the better team. These NFL guys were dinosaurs!! Glad Vince Lombardi was in the crowd watching the changing of the guard. I remember that game like it was yesterday. 6 months after I got Joe Willie's autograph as an 8 year old at the Jets Hofstra training camp!!! :-)
2:54:42 this is the only audios recording of SB I SB III trophy presentation cause of course no footage of the trophy presentation you still can’t find the footage on TH-cam
I remember Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show" commenting after the Jets historic upset ,"Now if we could only get the Mets going!!" Nine months later the New York Mets .. World Champs.The odds of this happening were 100 to 1. They would say"The Mets will win when someone lands on the moon".....And they were right!!!!
This was a dull game that had tremendous importance. But, it DOESNT SOUND DULL on the radio. You can really feel the excitement of the crowd here, that you cant get from NFL FILMS. And Charlie Jones does an exemplary job filling in the word picture. Top notch. This transmission is just fantastic. Thanks, very much for this gem.
I had the privilege of being at MetLife Stadium in the 2018 season when the Jets played against the Colts (and Jets won) but at halftime, Joe and some of the other guys of the ‘68 team were honored. It was when they unfurled the Super Bowl III Banner and Joe spoke. It was the only time i stayed in my seat at half time.
I was 6. We were from NYC, but temporarily living in the Chicago suburbs. It was the first game I remember watching. My dad was (and still is) a Giants fan. He was not happy with this game. I had no allegiance yet, but I became a Patriots fan. Go AFL/AFC!
1:27:21 Rozelle introduces the wild-card concept. It did not have that name yet, but one year later the Chiefs would become the first regular-season runner-up to win the AFL-NFL pro football championship.
Interesting interview with Pete Rozelle at half time. I’ve always kind of wished they had kept the 2 leagues separate, with the only time they play each other being at the Super Bowl each year.
Never underestimate your opponent and that's what the Baltimore Colts did. The same thing happened the next year in Super Bowl 🏈 4 when the Kansas City Chiefs were double digit underdogs to the Minnesota Vikings.
Of course it didn't affect the outcome but toward the end of 4th Quarter it made no sense for Jets to get penalized twice for delay of game... both times it stopped the clock. If they hiked the ball with one second the clock would have kept running.
I think Charlie Jones was right. If the Colts had scored first, when they were moving the ball, I think the Colts would have won. Blowing their opportunities, I think, gave the Jets more confidence.
You don't hear much about this but Maynard had a sore hammy, otherwise I believe he gets that first long ball. Maynard battling that injury was mainly a decoy.
Two other observations I thought of - the Super Bowl refs, pre-merger, all wore the NFL-style "black and white Zebras," even though the original AFL decked out their officials with red hats and red and white stripes. Also, the AFL's two-point conversion option was disallowed and not originally incorporated into the rules with the merger.
I have always hoped to hear the Jets local broadcast of Merle Harmon of this game and if you have it on reel to reel I hope it can be transferred and shared some day! It wasn't a question of allowing since there's no prohibition rule against separate network and local radio broadcasts of the same event in the same market. WNBC as the NBC flagship already had rights to air the Super Bowl regardless of who played.
Probably, WABC had no choice in that NBC Radio had the network rights - in sync with their television exclusivity - and had a natural and compelling interest to try cutting into the New York radio audience pie using their flagship station. Perhaps there were a few Jet fans not thrilled with the Harmon/Deluca team that wanted an alternative and in saying that, certainly IMO \ Harmon/Deluca were a good team. BTW, on the predictions, could you even conceive, under any circumstances, CBS/NFL stalwart Summerall picking the Jets, even if, deep down, he thought somehow they were capable?
No choice. NBC had national radio rights and it’s that way today. In the local team’s market for the Super Bowl you’ll get the local and national feeds.
For a broadcast that is over 52 years old it is so crystal clear. Compared with the alternate broadcast of super bowl 5. That sounds like it was recorded under water. Also the commentator's in that sound like they were lurch from the addams family.🙊🙉🙈
When the Colts were trailing 16-7 after scoring their only touchdown, you might ask that, after recovering the onside kick and marching down the field, why not try to make the field goal to cut the lead to 16-10? The answer could be Don Shula's apparent lack of confidence in Lou Michaels (brother of Jets assistant - and future head - coach, Walt Michaels, who missed three field goals. Still, if the Colts somehow got the ball one last time and again marched to within close range of the end zone, Shula might still have had to turn to Michaels one last time.
Being down by that margin, with a few minutes left was nothing for Unitas. My dad had told me , so many times in the past, of stories of him getting quick strike td's.; but with a sore arm that day, not to be
I remember as a 6th grader watching, thinking the same thing. Kick the field goal, try another onside kick ? Who knows how it could have changed things
who cares? jets won. ok? get over it. it coulda been much worse, like jets 26, colts 7...remember baltimore didnt score until like what,4 minutes left? soo, they almost shut them out....
The leagues were equal by Super Bowl I. The Packers with Lombardi were equally better than everyone else and showed it twice. Without Lombardi coaching the Packers, the Super Bowl was wide open.
Sorry, my math was off on the last post. If Michaels had converted the hypothetical field goal, the Colts would have been in a position to win and would have had to have scored a touch down and then convert the PAT. If the Colts had somehow made it 16-14 after getting the onside kick and got the ball one final time, then Shula might still have had to turn to Michaels. One other aside, interesting that, in the early years of the Super Bowl, the network not covering it that year still supplied a broadcaster to give their league's perspective. In this case, Pat Summerall from CBS. Would be like Fox lending Joe Buck to the NBC team of Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. Also, note they didn't even make a big deal over the coin toss! Apparently, opting to leave people guessing until the kickoff itself. Why?
Interestingly enough, I always figured that, had the Colts somehow come back to win 17-16, they wouldn't haven't felt so great about it. After all, they were HUGE favorites and a squeaker of a win, while better than an L, would have been somewhat of an embarrassment given the NFL's supposed superiority.
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George Ratterman, who was the regular NBC AFL expert paired with Jones in other broadcasts. Summerall was already working for CBS but was loaned to NBC for this broadcast (including a pregame feature on the NBC telecast) to offer an NFL perspective since this was still when the different networks had exclusive rights on the respective leagues.
It's George Ratterman, a commentator/color man and former Cleveland Browns quarterback. He worked NBC games on TV/radio in the late 60s and early 70s after the network first landed the AFL broadcast contract - taking over for ABC - in 1965. Totally unrelated to his football/broadcasting career, Ratterman was later elected a county sheriff for the Kentucky county directly across from Cincinnati and was embroiled in some kind of political scandal for which he was eventually vindicated. There are more details on this - I think - on his Wikipedia page.
@@epaddon In the first Super Bowl, both CBS and NBC covered the game. Ratterman and Summerall both interviewed Vince Lombardi, the coach of the Green Bay Packers during the post game. But they only had one microphone. So Ratterman and Summerall fought for the mic during the post game interview.
Yes, they had their own separate radio broadcasts heard locally on their regular stations (WABC in New York; I don't recall which station did the Colts) while the national broadcast would have been heard on the NBC affiliate (WNBC in this case in New York). I have never heard either local broadcast surface.
@@epaddon WABC had Merle Harmon and former Jet, Sam DeLuca doing the radio broadcast. I have only heard highlights of their Super Bowl broadcast on the commercially released album "Super Jets".
Jets did not dominate, total yards were virtually even. The four interceptions the Jets obtained were the difference, just think how different the outcome would have been without those.
"You really think New York will score 41 on the Colts defense?" The intro of the broadcast on score predictions was worth its own show.
The announcers, Charlie Jones, Pat Summerall and George Ratterman had much more incitel than their TV counterparts. They recognized right away that the Jets were attacking to their left, against the aging right side of the Baltimore defense. The TV guys never caught on. One of the best radio broadcasts of all time..
All the announcers had stellar moments ...
For the TV broadcast, DeRogatis broke down how the Baltimore zone worked and how Namath would attack the short zones with his backs ... He also predicted that successful running by the Jets would win the game.
On radio, Ratterman was the first to point out how the Jets were taking their time at the line of scrimmage with long signal counts ...
Summerall had many great moments, breaking down the Colt players but indicated immediately how the early injury to Colt safety Rick Volk affected their defensive strategy ...
Gowdy and Jones were excellent but while Jones was informing viewers about the Jets attacking their left side of the Colts defense, Gowdy was spot on about some of the top talent in this game including Mackey, Richardson, Snell, Namath and Sauer ...
Rote also pointed out how Namath and Sauer would adjust to the blitzes and Morrall's use of a balanced attack compared to Unitas wanting to always throw, he also pointed out to viewers how important new acquisitions to the Jets team, OG Bob Talamini and backup QB Babe Parilli were to a possible victory.
NBC was on top of everything, while Summerall was amazed at how well the Jets attacked the Colt defense.
that may be true, but this game was the most fixed game of all fixed games ever fixed, and there have been a LOT of fixed games.
@@jp783 Really? Do you have proof? Show it to us.
@@dietpepsivanilla3095 there is proof games were rigged. Read Moldea's Interference and Tuohy's Larceny Games
@@jp783yeah, I've heard it all especially on Morrall's first interception. If you look at the play again, Al Atkinson barely tipped Morrall's pass to Tom Mitchell, which altered the pass and instead of hitting Mitchell in his hands, careened off his shoulder pads, and Randy Beverly had to practically do a full turnaround to intercept the pass. No way that was a fix. Morrall woke up from his dream season and the Jets played a great, ball control game. So what other signs of the fix were in? Surely not Bubba as he said it was a fix. If it was, he was in on it as he played a subpar game and Bubba was irate they lost.
Thx for sharing. I was on pin and needles watching this amazing game. This geezer shall never forget!
Wonderful announcers and wonderful presentation of a very historic Super Bowl, a game that changed the NFL forever.
You tell em' Murph !!!
I was there!. Round trip airfare from JFK (then Idlewild), overnight hotel next to
Fontainbleu on Collins Ave. 40 yd line seats. All for $219 bucks. Yup $219 bucks.
Sat in a Colts booster section with 7 buddies from Levittown. Saw grown men
cry that day. Broadway Joe took it to them with Snell being superb that day!
richard carlson awesome! TY for sharing! That had to be an incredible game to be at.
Snell should’ve won MVP.
Do you still have the ticket?
I read somewhere that Joe gave Matt Snell that 69 Charger that he got for being MVP.
R.I.P
#13 Don Maynard 🏈
"Mr. AFL"
God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era.
What a gem to find this recording of the national radio broadcast of Super Bowl III. Three in the booth is crowded but I understand why NBC borrowed Pat Summerall, to bring balance because NBC only covered the AFL, and this was the only interleague game that counted. Still there was no talking over each other. And the commentary remained professional and journalistic. Summerall and George Ratterman were both very insightful. And while Charlie Jones slipped into TV-style announcing at the beginning of a lot of plays, he was outstanding on the basics of score, time, down and distance, etc., and especially so in keeping the listener up to speed with personnel in the game at any given time. Thank you for posting this. I considered it three hours well-spent.
The 3-man booth worked extraordinarily well. I was so used to Pat Summerall as a play-by-play man, he did very well as a color commentator in Super Bowl III.
These comments are most insightful and well thought out by a person who is quite sports profound. This is an outstanding post.
Summerall played very minor role; almost an afterthought compared with George Ratterman
Love Charlie Jones
Great job here, my friend! Superb audio quality!
All though I like the Curt Gowdy TV calling of the game, Charlie Jones take on the game was more exciting and much more informative I think.
I always liked Charlie Jones as a broadcaster.
Thank you very much! This was a great broadcast. I'm struck that the "post game show" was pretty matter of fact, without any shouting or any other fan involvement. Amazing. I also found the interview with Pete Rozelle interesting. Then, they were worried about scheduling around baseball. Now sports have to schedule around the NFL! I remember watching this game as a youngster and was glad the AFL won, since we were in an AFL city. Thanks so much again! If you ever get any other AFL Jet games I'd be listening!
The announcers back then were every bit as good as today..maybe even better.
Much better than today!! You don't have 5 clowns all talking at once and saying nothing in the booth....I'll take this!!!
Better by far.
It was great it was my first football game I watched I was 8. Never heard the radio call!@@michaellyons9820
They were not hyper-critical of the players like they are today.
36:24. The incomplete pass to Maynard forced the colts to cover him more, making the other targets easy for Namath.
Coach Ewbank was very gracious and humble in victory.
A class coach who never gets the credit he deserves ... 4 - 0 in championship games ...
Al DeRogatis had a much better handle of who really was the better team. These NFL guys were dinosaurs!! Glad Vince Lombardi was in the crowd watching the changing of the guard. I remember that game like it was yesterday. 6 months after I got Joe Willie's autograph as an 8 year old at the Jets Hofstra training camp!!! :-)
DeRogatis was one of best ... predicting plays 50 years before Tony Romo
al picked the jets and also picked the afl winner the next season. very sharp guy
2:54:42 this is the only audios recording of SB I SB III trophy presentation cause of course no footage of the trophy presentation you still can’t find the footage on TH-cam
BTW-In that newspaper,there was a sports cartoon by Bill Gallo who drew two kids sitting around and asking:"Who's next,the Mets?"
Crazy ...January '69: NY Jets beat Baltimore ColtsOctober '69: NY Mets beat Baltimore Orioles
UNBELIEVABLE.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!
That's awesome! The Amazin's!
I remember Johnny Carson on the "Tonight Show" commenting after the Jets historic upset ,"Now if we could only get the Mets going!!" Nine months later the New York Mets .. World Champs.The odds of this happening were 100 to 1. They would say"The Mets will win when someone lands on the moon".....And they were right!!!!
Amazin, amazin, amazin ...
I need to get that computer training that Joe Garagiola was talking about. 10-12 even 15k a yr was decent money back then.
Yeah, that computer training might come in handy, eh?!
Don’t forget George Sauer!
This was a dull game that had tremendous importance.
But, it DOESNT SOUND DULL on the radio.
You can really feel the excitement of the crowd here, that you cant get from NFL FILMS.
And Charlie Jones does an exemplary job filling in the word picture.
Top notch.
This transmission is just fantastic.
Thanks, very much for this gem.
@Bigpappasmurf Z: It wasn't a boring game if you were a fan of the Jets or the AFL!
Dull? Maybe. Fixed? Absolutely!!!
I remember this game. We were in New York that afternoon and got home in time to catch the fourth quarter.
50 full years ago today 12 Jan 1969!!!!
I had the privilege of being at MetLife Stadium in the 2018 season when the Jets played against the Colts (and Jets won) but at halftime, Joe and some of the other guys of the ‘68 team were honored. It was when they unfurled the Super Bowl III Banner and Joe spoke. It was the only time i stayed in my seat at half time.
I was 6. We were from NYC, but temporarily living in the Chicago suburbs. It was the first game I remember watching. My dad was (and still is) a Giants fan. He was not happy with this game. I had no allegiance yet, but I became a Patriots fan. Go AFL/AFC!
1:27:21 Rozelle introduces the wild-card concept. It did not have that name yet, but one year later the Chiefs would become the first regular-season runner-up to win the AFL-NFL pro football championship.
Joe Garigiola with the future. Those who got in on that grand opportunity were golden because 'ol Joe knew it was going to be a BIG THING!
I was thinking the same thing. Lol
Kickoff starts at 17:59
Interesting interview with Pete Rozelle at half time. I’ve always kind of wished they had kept the 2 leagues separate, with the only time they play each other being at the Super Bowl each year.
Raiding each other's players would have damaged both leagues beyond repair.
@@thescatman5029 They still could have remained separate and work towards a common draft. The AFL got rooked in the long run.
@dietpepsivanilla3095 Raiding each other's draft picks was costing both leagues a lot of money. It was getting real ugly in the mid 60s.
Never underestimate your opponent and that's what the Baltimore Colts did. The same thing happened the next year in Super Bowl 🏈 4 when the Kansas City Chiefs were double digit underdogs to the Minnesota Vikings.
Wow, this is like a sort of holy grail of pro football history! Forever in your debt epaddon!
This is pure gold. Along with the Giants-Colts championship game in the 1950’s, this is one of the two most important games in pro football history.
Of course it didn't affect the outcome but toward the end of 4th Quarter it made no sense for Jets to get penalized twice for delay of game... both times it stopped the clock. If they hiked the ball with one second the clock would have kept running.
This was the biggest upset in NFL history until the wild card 10-6 New York Giants beat the 16-0 New England Patriots in 2007.
Not close...not even close...
The newspaper shown here was the final edition.On Sunday Night,the headline read:WHAT POINTS?JETS WIN,16-7.
Yes, that is the edition with the front page picture of Bubba Smith about to engulf Joe Namath.
Biggest upset in football history!!!
Only one close to it was Pats beating greatest show on turf Rams
Nah, I’d say the 10-6 Giants defeating the undefeated 18-0 Patriots is a bigger upset.
I think Charlie Jones was right. If the Colts had scored first, when they were moving the ball, I think the Colts would have won. Blowing their opportunities, I think, gave the Jets more confidence.
One of the few who picked the Jets to win was the Newark Star-Ledger's Ike Kuhn.
He had it 26-24,Good Guys.
Were you ever able to transfer your WABC broadcast reel of this game?
I still have an unopened tube of Score in it's original box.
You don't hear much about this but Maynard had a sore hammy, otherwise I believe he gets that first long ball. Maynard battling that injury was mainly a decoy.
2:47:40 The end of the final play.
Two other observations I thought of - the Super Bowl refs, pre-merger, all wore the NFL-style "black and white Zebras," even though the original AFL decked out their officials with red hats and red and white stripes. Also, the AFL's two-point conversion option was disallowed and not originally incorporated into the rules with the merger.
By 1968 and 1969, the AFL refs adopted the NFL style officials' uniforms for all games.
1:26:43 “What is the future of the Super Bowl?” Yes, there was a question about whether it would continue once the leagues were merged in 1970.
Go AFL. Summerall was a cheerleader for the NFL.
I'm surprised that WABC allowed WNBC to have the game as well.I have most of the WABC version on reel to reel.
I have always hoped to hear the Jets local broadcast of Merle Harmon of this game and if you have it on reel to reel I hope it can be transferred and shared some day! It wasn't a question of allowing since there's no prohibition rule against separate network and local radio broadcasts of the same event in the same market. WNBC as the NBC flagship already had rights to air the Super Bowl regardless of who played.
Probably, WABC had no choice in that NBC Radio had the network rights - in sync with their television exclusivity - and had a natural and compelling interest to try cutting into the New York radio audience pie using their flagship station. Perhaps there were a few Jet fans not thrilled with the Harmon/Deluca team that wanted an alternative and in saying that, certainly IMO \ Harmon/Deluca were a good team. BTW, on the predictions, could you even conceive, under any circumstances, CBS/NFL stalwart Summerall picking the Jets, even if, deep down, he thought somehow they were capable?
No choice. NBC had national radio rights and it’s that way today. In the local team’s market for the Super Bowl you’ll get the local and national feeds.
For a broadcast that is over 52 years old it is so crystal clear. Compared with the alternate broadcast of super bowl 5. That sounds like it was recorded under water. Also the commentator's in that sound like they were lurch from the addams family.🙊🙉🙈
When the Colts were trailing 16-7 after scoring their only touchdown, you might ask that, after recovering the onside kick and marching down the field, why not try to make the field goal to cut the lead to 16-10? The answer could be Don Shula's apparent lack of confidence in Lou Michaels (brother of Jets assistant - and future head - coach, Walt Michaels, who missed three field goals. Still, if the Colts somehow got the ball one last time and again marched to within close range of the end zone, Shula might still have had to turn to Michaels one last time.
Being down by that margin, with a few minutes left was nothing for Unitas. My dad had told me , so many times in the past, of stories of him getting quick strike td's.; but with a sore arm that day, not to be
I remember as a 6th grader watching, thinking the same thing. Kick the field goal, try another onside kick ? Who knows how it could have changed things
who cares? jets won. ok? get over it. it coulda been much worse, like jets 26, colts 7...remember baltimore didnt score until like what,4 minutes left? soo, they almost shut them out....
J.E.T.S .... jets jets jets!!!
1:24:22. The infamous flea flicker.
The biggest play of the game.
The leagues were equal by Super Bowl I. The Packers with Lombardi were equally better than everyone else and showed it twice. Without Lombardi coaching the Packers, the Super Bowl was wide open.
I agree.in sb 1 the chiefs coulda beaten Dallas and in sb 2, Oakland woulda beaten Dallas...
Jim Turner....' WELCOME TO THE AFL'...
3:11:07 - Vic Roby V/O.
Biggest upset in N.F.L. history!...
Just as an aside - the Joe Garsgiola commercial - "Soon, everything is going to be computerized." As of January 1969? Really Joe?
Only took a couple of decades. :)
I was waiting for Joe to talk about smartphones next!@@philroche4792
Summerall did not like the AFL/AFC. His last broadcast was Tom Brady’s first Super Bowl win when the Patriots beat the Rams in 2002.
The Colts made Pat Summerall and George Ratterman look like NFL homers. No way would I ever take a 18pt spread in a Championship situation.
they didn't make them look like anything....summerall ALWAYS WAS a nfl homer. summerall was BUSH LEAGUE
Sorry, my math was off on the last post. If Michaels had converted the hypothetical field goal, the Colts would have been in a position to win and would have had to have scored a touch down and then convert the PAT. If the Colts had somehow made it 16-14 after getting the onside kick and got the ball one final time, then Shula might still have had to turn to Michaels. One other aside, interesting that, in the early years of the Super Bowl, the network not covering it that year still supplied a broadcaster to give their league's perspective. In this case, Pat Summerall from CBS. Would be like Fox lending Joe Buck to the NBC team of Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. Also, note they didn't even make a big deal over the coin toss! Apparently, opting to leave people guessing until the kickoff itself. Why?
field goal would of made it a one score game at 16-10, but they would of had to recover a second onside kick to have a chance!
Interestingly enough, I always figured that, had the Colts somehow come back to win 17-16, they wouldn't haven't felt so great about it. After all, they were HUGE favorites and a squeaker of a win, while better than an L, would have been somewhat of an embarrassment given the NFL's supposed superiority.
i remember my dad used SCORE
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50 years ago yesterday.
By the way, who is the third voice on this? I recognize Charlie Jones and Pat Summerall.
George Ratterman, who was the regular NBC AFL expert paired with Jones in other broadcasts. Summerall was already working for CBS but was loaned to NBC for this broadcast (including a pregame feature on the NBC telecast) to offer an NFL perspective since this was still when the different networks had exclusive rights on the respective leagues.
epaddon I love these old broadcasts. Thank you!
It's George Ratterman, a commentator/color man and former Cleveland Browns quarterback. He worked NBC games on TV/radio in the late 60s and early 70s after the network first landed the AFL broadcast contract - taking over for ABC - in 1965. Totally unrelated to his football/broadcasting career, Ratterman was later elected a county sheriff for the Kentucky county directly across from Cincinnati and was embroiled in some kind of political scandal for which he was eventually vindicated. There are more details on this - I think - on his Wikipedia page.
@@epaddon In the first Super Bowl, both CBS and NBC covered the game. Ratterman and Summerall both interviewed Vince Lombardi, the coach of the Green Bay Packers during the post game. But they only had one microphone. So Ratterman and Summerall fought for the mic during the post game interview.
Did the Jets and Colts radio announcers broadcast the game?
Yes, they had their own separate radio broadcasts heard locally on their regular stations (WABC in New York; I don't recall which station did the Colts) while the national broadcast would have been heard on the NBC affiliate (WNBC in this case in New York). I have never heard either local broadcast surface.
@@epaddon
WABC had Merle Harmon and former Jet, Sam DeLuca doing the radio broadcast. I have only heard highlights of their Super Bowl broadcast on the commercially released album "Super Jets".
@@paulsarna5066 Would love to have heard the Baltimore radio crew for this game, especially Chuck Thompson ...
Jets did not dominate, total yards were virtually even. The four interceptions the Jets obtained were the difference, just think how different the outcome would have been without those.
Jets dominated score, turnover battle and time of possession.
Should have shut them out.
The interceptions were part of the game.
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