if you missed This Week in the Pro Football, you never got another chance to watch the highlights until the Internet was invented! No DVR, DVD, VCR, Netflix! Thanks so much for posting these, they're priceless.
The players were human size back then, they got paid human salaries, and they knocked the living crap out of each other because the rules allowed it. I don't think it was better for the players but for the fans yes.
Keith Yo So do I! About 15-ish years ago the 15-ish disc set was available with both the early Sam Spence music all the way up to the stuff written by Tom Hedden and David Thibodaux in the '90s. Of course, now I don't have any of the music that's been composed since about '99, but I love having all the old stuff.
The greatest weekly football show ever!! Here in NY it use to come on I think at 6 or 7pm on WPIX ch. 11Saturday evening.The slow motion and music together was what made it.
Absolutely love tom & pat. Remember TWIPF & NFL game of the week well. Shown on local non network channels in the 70s in syndication. Old school NFL & old school TV.
It was on one hour before the early games, followed by the network pre-game shows(Back when the pre-game shows were only one half-hour and did not drag things out, how I long for the day(LOL)), where I live.
Love these two gents. I loved this show so much it was syndicated nationally I saw it on WPIX in NYC every Saturday night they had the floating 🏈 helmets in the background how frikin awesome was that..
It amazes me this is about a half a century ago now. It was the first year I remember watching football, I was 9 years old, quickly became a big Rams fan. It seems pretty ancient now but at the time everything seemed ultra-modern. The leagues had merged, we were landing men on the Moon, we had supersonic jets that fired guided missiles that were blowing stuff up in Vietnam. There were real computers, we watched Star Trek on TV. We also watched World War II movies, that happened 25 years before and the most modern thing then was bomber and fighter planes with propellers. Pro football in 1950, 20 years before? It was like the Stone Age. They wore helmets that didn't even have face masks. Everything seemed so modern and high-tech in 1970, they even had Monday Night Football! Long time ago now, a lot has changed, but for 50 years maybe not so much.
Memories. My High school principal in 1970 was an NFL referee. Jim Tunney. He'd get reel to reels of these and show them on rainy day assemblies. Also got us into Rams games. So long ago, sigh.
This was when it was at its best every Saturday night at 10pm during football season. Also this was the only time you got see these highlights from last weeks game and in the case of me being a Giant fan it was the only chance to see the home games which were blacked out back then.
When I was young, 1971ish. I did not know why I loved the Sam Spence music so much-turns out Jazz and big band music in my genes-my grandfather decades earlier lead a Jazz band in NYC-I found out later.
NFL the ONLY professional sport that had its own original music !!!! I bought it all on vinyl from ebay , some of it is on compact disc also if you can find any.
Awesome! The quality of production of this show made footbal seem bigger than life; especially to a kid. The Maxima commercial part way in made me realize that car design has not changed in 50 years. Kinda sad when you think about it. Thanks for posting this!
Miami's Nick Bunicontti (#85) suffered from the effects of multiple concussions that happened during his career and passed away from CTE related dementia---Jim Kiick (#21) also is suffering from the number of head injuries he had-and now lives in an assisted living facility
Great Dolphins gone too early from concussion syndrome. Bob Keutchenberg and Jim Langer also passed away recently in their very early 70’s - likely concussion related as well.
@@davidpridham3741 Jim Kiick has also now passed away--interestingly Larry Csonka despite all the pounding he took-remains cognitively intact (other than arthritis in his knees)
@@bufnyfan1 mercury Morris also looking remarkably good for a guy in his mid- 70s. Looks 20 yrs younger than his actual age. Keutchenberg not being inducted into HOF is a crime. He was as good as Little and Langer who are in the Hall and had a longer career spanning from bob Griese glory years to the Marino era
This was the show back in the day with Pat & Tom and that funky music there shows today don’t have the music or drama of these shows from the 70s . I am blessed to be born in the 60s and to grow up on this .
These videos are a real treasure. I was less than a year old when this aired, but I remember football in the late 70s and sure miss those days. I am just thankful that the teams finally got rid of that awful AstroTurf, however.
This was a great week for the NY Giants in 1970- maybe the most exciting NJ Giants moment and week of that era (before their early-mid 80s resurrection)- that 4th quarter comeback win over Washington. Ron Johnson was a true MVP candidate in 1970. They had a title contending team if not for their terrible start to the season and a disastrous last week. A great but very short era of Giants excitement.
Fran Tarkenton still has as many pro bowl seasons as a Giant than any QB that has followed him in New York. Ron Johnson and Larry Brown had some terrific duels
It's great seeing the odd things players used to do to warm up and the old beat up fields with low fences behind the end zones and tracks around them. In another video from a 60s game, I saw one stadium that had some kind of ramp behind the end zone where players ended up running onto it if momentum carried them there. Fun stuff
I was at that Saints vs. Dolphins game. It was the very first NFL game that I ever attended and I still have the program, which featured Marvel characters on the front cover, each representing an NFL linebacker. Great stuff!
Bengals QB Virgil Carter was also incredibly intelligent--outside of football he had a graduate degree in mathematics and taught at the university level
@@tomb4575 Bob Trumpy remained friends with Mr. Cook for the rest of his life--he said Mr. Cook never got over how his career ended and fell into a deep depression-the late Bill Walsh (who coached the 49ers to many Super Bowls)-was QB coach in Cincinnati under Paul Brown--he said that Mr. Cook was the best QB he ever saw (including Joe Montana)
What's with the chain link fences killing everyone? Sheesh. Nice tiptoe TD catch by Tommy Mason for the Rams. Chargers vs Pats Mudbowl looks awesome, great catches in that game too. No magic sticky gloves like they wear today.
Love the fact that uniforms got dirty and gritty. they played on sloppy fields back then. to me, that's FOOTBALL...!!! You don't see that anymore.... uniforms stay clean, fields look perfect all the time...it somehow takes away the core & nostalgia of the game... I miss those days...
1perfectstrangerr , l totally agree with you, I miss the mud covered uniforms, watching those dudes slide into those bone-jarring hits, throwing and catching in the worse conditions, that was skill, definitely real football. Guys were still getting “neck-tied” back then, I know it’s illegal now, but stuff like that gave the game character.
Astroturf, they called it Polyturf in the Orange Bowl, not only helped shorten careers, it took muddy fields away, there was nothing good about watching players hydroplane on their asses for 10-12 yards before gliding to a soaking wet stop wearing a clean uniform.
I grew up in the 40's and 50's on Chicago's north side. The Bears had a 30 Min. TV show on WGN every Monday Night during the season. It was hosted by Jack Brickhouse along with Red Grange and George Halas as it's weekly Bear stars. That show was the first time I ever saw a football high lite show of any kind. The show itself was corny but how I looked forward to it every week. Red Grange had a very funny way with words, you had to hear him speak, I can't explain it. Back then it was a 12 week season and only one NFL Championship play off game between the EASTERN CONFERANCE winner and the WESTERN winner, A simpler time.
36:00 I remember watching this game on TV. The Redskins were way ahead of the Giants so I (14) went outside and kicked the football around in my backyard. I came back in and couldn't believe we lost it by 2 points. That same night Ed Sullivan rubbed it in more by having Ron Johnson stand up in the audience.
Dick Anderson said this was the players part time job. I believe he earned 20 grand a season playing pro football. They had full time jobs during the off season.
@@frederickpando9444 Besides statistics, the backs of football cards back then contained limited biographical information such as what their job was during the off season.
@@dantean, so FRANK RYAN..DR. FRANK RYAN a UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT AT BOSTON U. AND RICE U. AND I BELIEVE YALE OR HARVARD, mostly played for the money?.. or future BEATRICE CORP. CEO, JEAN FUGETT an in the future black gazillionaire, or restaurant owner JOHNNY UNITAS, OR ONE DAY TO BE CONGRESSMAN, DICK ANDERSON only played for money, or dentists BILLY CANNON AND GARY CUOZZO only played for money? What money? That compared to what they earned in their normal occupations or life's aspirations? What about JOE KAPP already getting movie roles, he's out there with the BOSTON PATRIOTS one of the dregs of the AFC that season. Or, what about Jack Kemp a near RHODES SCHOLAR heading toward politics, but still playing by 1969? These guys were more well rounded than you think. Bobby Mitchell had just retired with a bachelor's from Illinois, on his way to 33 years as an executive with the Washington R-SKINS. No, more than you think played for more than just money. And, if they got it from the owners, you really believe many of them would have just quit their other pursuits? Charlie Johnson the former CARDS, OILER, AND BRONCO QBACK, has been a professor of chemical engineering at his alma mater NEW MEXICO ST. for almost 45 years. You think he really just cared about money? Today, you may be right. Back then, with no money, the ones I listed were better off just pursuing their goals 365-24-5/7, most of those entailed making a helluva lot more money than what they could have made, or did make playing pro football. They played because it was competition, they were some of the few in the world that were good at it, with skills few had, and they loved the game that fed their egos, and they loved being around their teammates. Most players who retire or who have been, cite that as the first thing they miss. Money? Not so much..
Chiefs at Steelers - that was Billy Cannon's last good day as a pro. His two receiving TDs were his only ones of the year, his first and last in the NFL after 4 years with the Oilers and 6 with the Raiders in the AFL.
I watched his son Billy Cannon Jr. play linebacker at Texas A&M. He was so fast he was the Aggie punt returner and was a great returner too. The Cowboys took him in the first round but he broke his neck his rookie season and had to retire.
These are real highlights, unlike the crap they show as today’s ADD version of highlights. No complete plays, less actual action, and way more shots of nothing.
I know, like guys hi fiving in slow motion or walking off the field like the guys are in Reservoir Dogs. Or the same twenty yard runs over and over again without watching them finish the runs off, often the best part.
Kudos for correctly calling this Week 9, despite ESPN's blurbs throughout the broadcast (and even from the host at the beginning of the show) that it was week 10 of the '70 season.
In the Packers Bears game, number 30 is rookie Larry Krause a 17th round draft choice from St Norbert College. He’s in because of injuries to Anderson and Mercein. Larry told us the final drive started with Bart saying in the huddle something like, we’re taking this ball down the field to score and anyone who doesn’t believe it can get the hell out. The drive is reminiscent of the final drive in the 67 Ice Bowl.
Want to know how much I love these old films? Back in the 80's they would be aired on Christmas Eve-and I stayed home alone -my choice and watched on big screen t.v. while my family went visiting at cousins and uncle's house. They thought I was crazy-but already an adult they could not force me out. lol
Raiders - the was George Blanda's 22nd year as a pro (1949-1970) - he would have 5 more. He won the Bert Bell Player of the Year award at the age of 43!
@@herbpetrillo163 The would have finished 6-7-1 if Blanda hadn't led the Raiders to a win or tie in 4 consecutive games, weeks 7-10, November 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd.
Patriots - No one ever fell farther than Joe Kapp. After a tough-as-nails campaign in 1969 in which Kapp & Co. were nearly unbeatable, the Vikings end up getting smoked in the Super Bowl by the Chiefs, Kapp storms off after a contract dispute, and his new team the Patriots go 2-12 in 1970 and they weren't even THAT good. It was Kapp's last year as a pro although he was only 32. Wow.
he basically was an idiot. but honestly, he got what he deserved! to this day we still enjoy aaron brown pulverising 'tough guy' joe, to the ground in the super bowl.....49 years on, yet we still laugh at the 'tough guy' wincing on the sideline......justice ....proving that bullies do get theirs....we show this to students of anti-bullying...as a message to wanna-be bullies...what happened to this bully who lorded it over jim houston....WILL happen to any wanna be tough guy like this bully....
I remember when Minnesota Vikings had our number in Detroit from 1967-1974. When Lions finally got passed Vikings in October 1974 I could not believe it. Lions were actually a good team. Never quite were the same once Silverdome was built.
@@howardcosell2022 Lions were actually a decent teams. Once they departed for the Silverdome then Lions started to collapse. Till Fred Flintstone became head coach and Barry arrived on the scene.
I thought it was 8 pm, but 7 pm makes more sense. They probably showed a movie at 8. This was the best TV show in history, in my subjective, football-loving opinion.
San Francisco channel 2 KTVU had it Saturdays @ 4pm. I think 49er Huddle with Bob Murphy was on after. KRON channel 4 had Raider highlights Saturdays at 5pm with frank Dill in 1970.
I have always wondered how Lions QB Greg Landry #11 ever got up and walked away from the hit he took (41:26)-from Minnesota's Karl Kassaulke #29--sadly Kassaulke became paralyzed a few years later following a motorcycle accident
16:05 Special bonus item - the great polka CD package!! Happy songs for happy people !! Also available on convenient 45rpm records, delivered right to your home, 1 a week for the next 17 years.
My goodness.... 1970 the NFL had teams like the Boston Patriots (Harvard Stadium) and Philadelphia Eagles (Franklin Field) playing in inadequate stadiums .....
Roderic watch the 1971 highlights of the Oilers..I made a comment about Holmes taking out two Buffalo Bills on a run...He was very deceptive also...he ran wobbly from side to side , but was hard to tackle.
This show was the best. Great clips, commentary & music. As a kid, every Saturday
This show was treasured like gold back in the day.
Appointment TV for sure
Saturday nights at 7:30 if I remember correctly.
OH YEAH!!! We waited all week for this for sure.
Saturdays at 11AM where I was (San Antonio, TX).
Saturdays Noon on WAPI Channel 13 in Birmingham.B.W.
if you missed This Week in the Pro Football, you never got another chance to watch the highlights until the Internet was invented! No DVR, DVD, VCR, Netflix! Thanks so much for posting these, they're priceless.
Monday night football showed highlights at half time
Saturday morning. We never missed it. The music is forever in my head. Bring back super slow motion!
Brookshier and Summerall were one hell of a great duo of calling this highlight show, I miss those two guys.
In the booth too
For so many years I haven't thought about the great music used in this. I remember every note now!
Used to watch this every week waiting for the games to start on Sunday afternoon
Loved this program as a kid. I would run home from church to see it!!
I loved this show then and do now. Great memories!
Memories abound here almost 50 years later. Pat and Brookie loved to party after work wherever they were.
I loved this show as a kid. Football was better back then IMHO.
Better by FAR
The players were human size back then, they got paid human salaries, and they knocked the living crap out of each other because the rules allowed it. I don't think it was better for the players but for the fans yes.
Hell yeah it was! I started watching in '67. A Rams fan growing up in Jersey lol.
I remember watching this back in the day. It seems like old times . I think I'll get out my electric football game and relive it all over .
Have fun with the one player who goes in circles all game!
I had the electric football game too- not as much fun as Strat-o-matic Football.
And the player pieces either didn't move or went backwards.
the old electric football game. It's pretty funny when you stop and think how jankey those things were.
Ha! Those vibrating football games. What a dumb idea. But we had fun with it anyway
Best music I've heard in 35 years.
P Brickley Sam Spence died just this past year.
P Brickley
i have it all on cd
Keith Yo
So do I! About 15-ish years ago the 15-ish disc set was available with both the early Sam Spence music all the way up to the stuff written by Tom Hedden and David Thibodaux in the '90s. Of course, now I don't have any of the music that's been composed since about '99, but I love having all the old stuff.
kayper54
nice... i don't have that many songs and anyone that used Bill The Cat has to be cool😆😀😎
Why "35 years" exactly??
The greatest weekly football show ever!! Here in NY it use to come on I think at 6 or 7pm on WPIX ch. 11Saturday evening.The slow motion and music together was what made it.
7pm
Absolutely love tom & pat. Remember TWIPF & NFL game of the week well. Shown on local non network channels in the 70s in syndication. Old school NFL & old school TV.
It was on one hour before the early games, followed by the network pre-game shows(Back when the pre-game shows were only one half-hour and did not drag things out, how I long for the day(LOL)), where I live.
@@jeffreyt.steptoe5306 In the New York City area it was shown at 7PM on Saturday nights followed by the Game Of The Week at 8PM.
@@frederickpando9444 yes it was I think on either WPIX (11)OR WOR(9) in NYC
Love these two gents. I loved this show so much it was syndicated nationally I saw it on WPIX in NYC every Saturday night they had the floating 🏈 helmets in the background how frikin awesome was that..
It amazes me this is about a half a century ago now. It was the first year I remember watching football, I was 9 years old, quickly became a big Rams fan. It seems pretty ancient now but at the time everything seemed ultra-modern. The leagues had merged, we were landing men on the Moon, we had supersonic jets that fired guided missiles that were blowing stuff up in Vietnam. There were real computers, we watched Star Trek on TV. We also watched World War II movies, that happened 25 years before and the most modern thing then was bomber and fighter planes with propellers. Pro football in 1950, 20 years before? It was like the Stone Age. They wore helmets that didn't even have face masks. Everything seemed so modern and high-tech in 1970, they even had Monday Night Football! Long time ago now, a lot has changed, but for 50 years maybe not so much.
Wow - nobody did football like Summerall and Brookshier !!!!!!!
Man what memories pat, Tom narrating and remembering Irv Cross
I also had a lot of 7-11 football trading cups.
Ah that music! Old school.......love the old Redskin helmets. Thanks G0Chiefs for this treat taking me back to being a kid!
The music is sooo frigging cool, always loved this show.
Ron Johnson led the league in scoring and all purpose yards. Great and underrated back for NYG
Browns were crazy for trading Ron Johnson for Homer Jones.
Ron Johnson and Tucker Fredrickson a great running tandem for the NYG.
That music! Whatever your age, the only way this music doesn't send a tingle up your spine is if you're missing one!
That sack by Kalssulke on Landry was brutal!
its ok, the busher got his....
@@graciemaemarie11jones16busher?
Memories. My High school principal in 1970 was an NFL referee. Jim Tunney. He'd get reel to reels of these and show them on rainy day assemblies. Also got us into Rams games. So long ago, sigh.
He is in the Hall of Fame now.
#32 👍
One of the best to ever officiate a game in the NFL
brings back great memories...wonderful stuff
Totally lived for this...
1:40 "Mumphord muffled the mumbling..." Well played Tom Brookshier, well played.
tom was drunk, as usual....
This was when it was at its best every Saturday night at 10pm during football season. Also this was the only time you got see these highlights from last weeks game and in the case of me being a Giant fan it was the only chance to see the home games which were blacked out back then.
Much more fun to watch back then. I miss those days
When I was young, 1971ish. I did not know why I loved the Sam Spence music so much-turns out Jazz and big band music in my genes-my grandfather decades earlier lead a Jazz band in NYC-I found out later.
This Week in Football does take you back. Just in time for Retro Day today!!!
Nothing can ever match that music, ever.
NFL the ONLY professional sport that had its own original music !!!! I bought it all on vinyl from ebay , some of it is on compact disc also if you can find any.
Awesome! The quality of production of this show made footbal seem bigger than life; especially to a kid. The Maxima commercial part way in made me realize that car design has not changed in 50 years. Kinda sad when you think about it. Thanks for posting this!
This recording aired in the early '90s as part of the Classic Sports Network free weekend in Kansas City. The commercials are from then.
Miami's Nick Bunicontti (#85) suffered from the effects of multiple concussions that happened during his career and passed away from CTE related dementia---Jim Kiick (#21) also is suffering from the number of head injuries he had-and now lives in an assisted living facility
Great Dolphins gone too early from concussion syndrome. Bob Keutchenberg and Jim Langer also passed away recently in their very early 70’s - likely concussion related as well.
@@davidpridham3741 Jim Kiick has also now passed away--interestingly Larry Csonka despite all the pounding he took-remains cognitively intact (other than arthritis in his knees)
@@bufnyfan1 mercury Morris also looking remarkably good for a guy in his mid- 70s. Looks 20 yrs younger than his actual age.
Keutchenberg not being inducted into HOF is a crime. He was as good as Little and Langer who are in the Hall and had a longer career spanning from bob Griese glory years to the Marino era
This was the show back in the day with Pat & Tom and that funky music there shows today don’t have the music or drama of these shows from the 70s . I am blessed to be born in the 60s and to grow up on this .
What memories. I waited for this program every Saturday afternoon. And I would try to mimick the slow motion moves
These videos are a real treasure. I was less than a year old when this aired, but I remember football in the late 70s and sure miss those days. I am just thankful that the teams finally got rid of that awful AstroTurf, however.
This was a great week for the NY Giants in 1970- maybe the most exciting NJ Giants moment and week of that era (before their early-mid 80s resurrection)- that 4th quarter comeback win over Washington. Ron Johnson was a true MVP candidate in 1970. They had a title contending team if not for their terrible start to the season and a disastrous last week. A great but very short era of Giants excitement.
Fran Tarkenton still has as many pro bowl seasons as a Giant than any QB that has followed him in New York. Ron Johnson and Larry Brown had some terrific duels
It's great seeing the odd things players used to do to warm up and the old beat up fields with low fences behind the end zones and tracks around them. In another video from a 60s game, I saw one stadium that had some kind of ramp behind the end zone where players ended up running onto it if momentum carried them there. Fun stuff
THANK YOU KEEP EM COMING
Love the polka collection commercial. Favorite polka songs: “The Chest Thomping Polka”, and “Who’s Your Baby Mama Polka”.
I was 16 and a junior in high school in the fall of 1970. The great old days in more ways than one. Thanks for posting these amazing memories.
I was at that Saints vs. Dolphins game. It was the very first NFL game that I ever attended and I still have the program, which featured Marvel characters on the front cover, each representing an NFL linebacker. Great stuff!
Don't care at all if I know who wins the game or not. I will watch 60's, 70's NFL all day long
In NY and NJ this and the NFL Game of the Week..would come on Channel 9 WOR on Friday and Saturday nights..great memories with the music of Sam Spence
Bengals QB Virgil Carter was also incredibly intelligent--outside of football he had a graduate degree in mathematics and taught at the university level
Greg Cook was ticketed for stardom but a rotor cuff killed his arm.
@@tomb4575 Bob Trumpy remained friends with Mr. Cook for the rest of his life--he said Mr. Cook never got over how his career ended and fell into a deep depression-the late Bill Walsh (who coached the 49ers to many Super Bowls)-was QB coach in Cincinnati under Paul Brown--he said that Mr. Cook was the best QB he ever saw (including Joe Montana)
Mike Reid his teammate DT was a concert pianist he also wrote songs recorded by some big stars .
What's with the chain link fences killing everyone? Sheesh. Nice tiptoe TD catch by Tommy Mason for the Rams. Chargers vs Pats Mudbowl looks awesome, great catches in that game too. No magic sticky gloves like they wear today.
you tube MaCarthur Lane crashing into a fence. brutal
Thanks. Please keep'em coming!
+Michael Head Do you sell copies of this and other NFL films shows from this era?
Love the fact that uniforms got dirty and gritty. they played on sloppy fields back then. to me, that's FOOTBALL...!!! You don't see that anymore.... uniforms stay clean, fields look perfect all the time...it somehow takes away the core & nostalgia of the game... I miss those days...
1perfectstrangerr , l totally agree with you, I miss the mud covered uniforms, watching those dudes slide into those bone-jarring hits, throwing and catching in the worse conditions, that was skill, definitely real football. Guys were still getting “neck-tied” back then, I know it’s illegal now, but stuff like that gave the game character.
Astroturf, they called it Polyturf in the Orange Bowl, not only helped shorten careers, it took muddy fields away, there was nothing good about watching players hydroplane on their asses for 10-12 yards before gliding to a soaking wet stop wearing a clean uniform.
No question. Screw these damn dome stadiums..... A N D fattass linemen.
R.I.P. NFL🏈
@@t4texastomjohnnycat978 long live the XFL
@@p.s.9031 One and done... That league is awful Quality of play is mid level college at best. QBs are awful
I grew up in the 40's and 50's on Chicago's north side. The Bears had a 30 Min. TV show on WGN every Monday Night during the season. It was hosted by Jack Brickhouse along with Red Grange and George Halas as it's weekly Bear stars. That show was the first time I ever saw a football high lite show of any kind. The show itself was corny but how I looked forward to it every week. Red Grange had a very funny way with words, you had to hear him speak, I can't explain it. Back then it was a 12 week season and only one NFL Championship play off game between the EASTERN CONFERANCE winner and the WESTERN winner, A simpler time.
Now it's 14 teams in the playoffs, money driven.
“...marked the beginning of one more bruise on Bob Berry”, followed by “battered and beaten”. Ah the alliteration is awesome.
36:00 I remember watching this game on TV. The Redskins were way ahead of the Giants so I (14) went outside and kicked the football around in my backyard. I came back in and couldn't believe we lost it by 2 points. That same night Ed Sullivan rubbed it in more by having Ron Johnson stand up in the audience.
I met Johnson before he passed. great guy
@@30RonJon Had a brother, "Alex", who played Major League Baseball.
@@jeffreyt.steptoe5306 Yes, Alex led the AL in hitting one year; Ron led in all purpose yards and TDs. Good genes
Ed Sullivan could b a Jerk !!!!
Real football. When they loved the game more than money.
Dick Anderson said this was the players part time job. I believe he earned 20 grand a season playing pro football. They had full time jobs during the off season.
So true- well stated
@@frederickpando9444 Besides statistics, the backs of football cards back then contained limited biographical information such as what their job was during the off season.
Don't be silly. They just couldn't GET money out of the owners in those days. Plus, it paid slightly better than bagging groceries.
@@dantean, so FRANK RYAN..DR. FRANK RYAN a UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT AT BOSTON U. AND RICE U. AND I BELIEVE YALE OR HARVARD, mostly played for the money?.. or future BEATRICE CORP. CEO, JEAN FUGETT an in the future black gazillionaire, or restaurant owner JOHNNY UNITAS, OR ONE DAY TO BE CONGRESSMAN, DICK ANDERSON only played for money, or dentists BILLY CANNON AND GARY CUOZZO only played for money? What money? That compared to what they earned in their normal occupations or life's aspirations?
What about JOE KAPP already getting movie roles, he's out there with the BOSTON PATRIOTS one of the dregs of the AFC that season. Or, what about Jack Kemp a near RHODES SCHOLAR heading toward politics, but still playing by 1969?
These guys were more well rounded than you think.
Bobby Mitchell had just retired with a bachelor's from Illinois, on his way to 33 years as an executive with the Washington R-SKINS.
No, more than you think played for more than just money. And, if they got it from the owners, you really believe many of them would have just quit their other pursuits?
Charlie Johnson the former CARDS, OILER, AND BRONCO QBACK, has been a professor of chemical engineering at his alma mater NEW MEXICO ST. for almost 45 years. You think he really just cared about money?
Today, you may be right.
Back then, with no money, the ones I listed were better off just pursuing their goals 365-24-5/7, most of those entailed making a helluva lot more money than what they could have made, or did make playing pro football.
They played because it was competition, they were some of the few in the world that were good at it, with skills few had, and they loved the game that fed their egos, and they loved being around their teammates. Most players who retire or who have been, cite that as the first thing they miss. Money? Not so much..
Nothing like playing outside on real grass and mud.
Chiefs at Steelers - that was Billy Cannon's last good day as a pro. His two receiving TDs were his only ones of the year, his first and last in the NFL after 4 years with the Oilers and 6 with the Raiders in the AFL.
I watched his son Billy Cannon Jr. play linebacker at Texas A&M. He was so fast he was the Aggie punt returner and was a great returner too. The Cowboys took him in the first round but he broke his neck his rookie season and had to retire.
One of the most awesome videos from 1970s football I have ever seen. The music is the same as the "Fry Cook Games" in Spongebob. LOL
Wow ,does this bring back the memories, thanks, pal.
These are real highlights, unlike the crap they show as today’s ADD version of highlights. No complete plays, less actual action, and way more shots of nothing.
I know, like guys hi fiving in slow motion or walking off the field like the guys are in Reservoir Dogs. Or the same twenty yard runs over and over again without watching them finish the runs off, often the best part.
Yeah it’s funny because I would rather watch this from 1970 than anything from now.
Roman Gabriel was my hero as a kid even though I grew up in Lions den.
Roman Gabriel was one of the few quarterbacks that could beat the Lions..... way back then.
Keep em coming - thanks
Kudos for correctly calling this Week 9, despite ESPN's blurbs throughout the broadcast (and even from the host at the beginning of the show) that it was week 10 of the '70 season.
I didn't know Mark Mosely started off the the Eagles.
Love the music and the slo mo!
christ, i remember this jets game. 4-10 in 1970 mostly without namath, but two huge upsets over vikings and rams that season!
Billy Cannon the ''dentist''🤣
In the Packers Bears game, number 30 is rookie Larry Krause a 17th round draft choice from St Norbert College. He’s in because of injuries to Anderson and Mercein. Larry told us the final drive started with Bart saying in the huddle something like, we’re taking this ball down the field to score and anyone who doesn’t believe it can get the hell out. The drive is reminiscent of the final drive in the 67 Ice Bowl.
The track for the Chiefs Steelers game is "Get The Job Done" by Sam Spence. He wrote tons of tracks for NFL Films
Want to know how much I love these old films? Back in the 80's they would be aired on Christmas Eve-and I stayed home alone -my choice and watched on big screen t.v. while my family went visiting at cousins and uncle's house. They thought I was crazy-but already an adult they could not force me out. lol
IKR,I use to relish the times my parent's were leaving the house to visit the relatives during holidays and I could watch NFL Films uninterrupted
47:05 Back then this was normal, but today you don't see this kind of sportsmanship in football no more.
Raiders - the was George Blanda's 22nd year as a pro (1949-1970) - he would have 5 more. He won the Bert Bell Player of the Year award at the age of 43!
George Blanda should have been NFL MVP in 1970.
@@davidcobb2693 agree.they woulda had a losing record if not for blandam
@@herbpetrillo163 The would have finished 6-7-1 if Blanda hadn't led the Raiders to a win or tie in 4 consecutive games, weeks 7-10, November 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd.
Patriots - No one ever fell farther than Joe Kapp. After a tough-as-nails campaign in 1969 in which Kapp & Co. were nearly unbeatable, the Vikings end up getting smoked in the Super Bowl by the Chiefs, Kapp storms off after a contract dispute, and his new team the Patriots go 2-12 in 1970 and they weren't even THAT good. It was Kapp's last year as a pro although he was only 32. Wow.
he basically was an idiot. but honestly, he got what he deserved! to this day we still enjoy aaron brown pulverising 'tough guy' joe, to the ground in the super bowl.....49 years on, yet we still laugh at the 'tough guy' wincing on the sideline......justice ....proving that bullies do get theirs....we show this to students of anti-bullying...as a message to wanna-be bullies...what happened to this bully who lorded it over jim houston....WILL happen to any wanna be tough guy like this bully....
I remember when Minnesota Vikings had our number in Detroit from 1967-1974.
When Lions finally got passed Vikings in October 1974
I could not believe it.
Lions were actually a good team.
Never quite were the same once Silverdome was built.
Lions did have a better winning percentage at the Silverdome than Tiger Stadium
@@howardcosell2022 Lions were actually a decent teams.
Once they departed for the Silverdome then Lions started to collapse.
Till Fred Flintstone became head coach and Barry arrived on the scene.
@@56077 Meathead Millen really took them back to the stone ages. Cannot believe they may go winless again this year
In New Jersey and New York, it came on at 11:00 PM on Saturday nights on WPIX-TV, Channel 11...
+Tom Strauss Are u sure it was that late? I thought it was on at 8 pm.
starting in 1971 it came on at 7...but in '70 it was an 11:00 air time
Wow, Tom goes back before us. I also saw it aired at 7 since I was young-happy for that time. 11 I was sleeping.
I thought it was 8 pm, but 7 pm makes more sense. They probably showed a movie at 8. This was the best TV show in history, in my subjective, football-loving opinion.
San Francisco channel 2 KTVU had it Saturdays @ 4pm. I think 49er Huddle with Bob Murphy was on after. KRON channel 4 had Raider highlights Saturdays at 5pm with frank Dill in 1970.
Wow what a hit by that vikeing lineman on that lions qb surprised he got ☝ up😬👍
This is better than what we see today
I lived this show every week.lol
Love the music. And the Dolphin highlights. Jim Kiick, master of the stutter step run.
I'm from KC and a big Chief's fan!
I wonder if it's too late to order "Everybody Polka"? Those were some serious jamz.
They had great music on this show.
I have always wondered how Lions QB Greg Landry #11 ever got up and walked away from the hit he took (41:26)-from Minnesota's Karl Kassaulke #29--sadly Kassaulke became paralyzed a few years later following a motorcycle accident
kassulke is running around likes its a chinese firedrill.....lol....lol...
31:25 Any wonder Chiefs RB Robert Holmes' nickname was "Tank"? This was Earl Campbell-esque.
I wish all the 1970 weeks were available on TH-cam
When football was football. Not sure what you call today's game...maybe virtual football.
Al Woodall's greatest moment in his career!
He also led the Jets from 10-0 down to a 14-10 win against Miami in '71.
Yeah, he threw a nice ball...
That jets victory over LA at the COLLESSUM Probably cost the rams a playoff spot. The 4-10 jets beat LA and Minnesota in 1970..
16:05 Special bonus item - the great polka CD package!! Happy songs for happy people !!
Also available on convenient 45rpm records, delivered right to your home, 1 a week for the next 17 years.
Wow listen at that nfl music spactacular👍😎
During the 70’s NFL players were called ‘The Men of Autumn’.
26 for dolphins Mumphord ,his family has awesome bbq place in Victoria Texas called Mumfords
My goodness.... 1970 the NFL had teams like the Boston Patriots (Harvard Stadium) and Philadelphia Eagles (Franklin Field) playing in inadequate stadiums .....
Any NFL films video that has LB Marty Schottenheimer on the cover is a friend of mine.
I miss Classic Sports Network.
Love how the games were played in tough conditions .THE WAY FOOTBALL SHOULD BE PLAYED !!!!!!!.
I remember being a little boy watching TWIP dreaming about being a NFL star. It didn't happen. Love the program anyway.
thanks for the memories!
Roderic watch the 1971 highlights of the Oilers..I made a comment about Holmes taking out two Buffalo Bills on a run...He was very deceptive also...he ran wobbly from side to side , but was hard to tackle.
RIP Bart Starr
7:02 Unfortunately, I had to use that product a couple of times in the 80s.
Eeeew, std like crabs? Give us some tea. Lol
3:33 great place for a chain link fence
Kept them from going into the baseball dougout though, which might have been worse.
@@bricksalthouse didn't see the dugout, you're right.