Nothing beats NFL Films..John Facenda narrating, the music, the closeup camera shots from ground level, the slow motion shot of following the ball in the air. Everything was great from NFL Films.
OMG...OMG...OMG... Just too much .. Flags..flags, flags, Flags, Too much hitting, too much contact, too much physicality!!! I can't believe they let that man drive him into the ground like that.. I can't bear to watch!!! Of course Tom Brady and today's players would have that same stats if they played in this Era ... NOT
Yes, NFL Films definitely gave a magnificent account of that season, underpinned by those background musical pieces and John Facenda's epic narration. Nothing can beat that, even to this day (although the late Eddie Butler gave it a good try when NFL was shown on the BBC)
Best decade period. The music alone--across genres--has never been equalled. And the movies! Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes and Jaws all happened within just a few years in the 70s, among many other great ones. And for teenagers, there was never a decade as free as the 70s were. People always talk about the 60s nostalgically, but it was actually an extremely violent, uncertain decade. It was only in the 70s that the supply of psychedelics finally caught up with the demand. And the Vietnam War finally ended.
This was real football. Crack backs,Horse collars,Leg sweeps,and Clothes line tackles. And let’s not forget STICKUM. Has to be a real badass back then.
@alonzomadero9413 thank you Alonzo but it's everybody for the last 6 years it's, as well ,as well ,why do they copy each other when it sounds so stupid?
I know Bake Turner from Alpine Tx he has 2 super bowl rings, these guys got cheated from the league their blood, sweat, and tears created and get less than peanuts from the mutibillion NFL.
Lots of these guys don't even know who they are at this point. I enjoyed watching it too, but it isn't worth being a cripple for your last several decades of life.
00:40 For some reason, Bo Scott's run and fake lateral to deke George Atkinson has stayed in my head since I first saw it as a 9-year-old Browns fan, and here as a 62-year-old watching NFL films to get away from the world for a minute and actually seeing it again for the first time since then has made my night. Really, I can't believe I saw it again. Thank you!
How good was this throwback video?! The ultimate time capsule!! The wild west of the rising NFL empire; the league was savage and innocent at the same time and teams had personalities without free agency. Loved the drama of these old NFL Films productions. Thanks for posting this!!
OMG - didn't even know this what on the web! I started following the NFL (specifically my beloved Broncos) in the UK in 1985, so this is going to be a treasure trove of history for me to catch up on! Thanks so much for posting these films 😀
That shows you how the NFL has changed yes they all had to have second jobs today overpaid high-priced crybabies these hits you see on this film shows you why Tom Brady couldn't have lasted nowhere near as long as he, as he does today that includes every other quarterback in today's, NFL!!
Watching this as a retired official, man you can see how the game has changed. Half these plays would be called back today on penalties and up the NFL would run out of players with all the suspensions. I miss the good old days
My most unfavorite thing is touch downs being called back for holding, it’s my opinion that some sort of holding is going on every play and it’s officials looking to call back a TD to balance the game.
@@lohengrin4009 My onfield experience is that is an urban legend. My issue is with the ticky tack calls that do not affect the play. Too many off ball calls, that I agree with. The officials are now so scared of being down graded by film evaluators that they call everything hoping that instant replay will save them.
@@lancecampbell4323 Unlike rugby, football and basketball do not have advantage laws that allow a play go go on despite a seen penalty. One exception might be with offside by defense, and play not being whistled right away by the referees. It's then a free play for the offense. And a flag for holding isn't going to be called until play is over, so play goes on.
Those were the days, these videos made you feel like you were watching an epic film. So many memories of holidays around the tv with the whole family, switching between 2 of the 4 channels on the console tv, that was also an 8 track player, turntable and radio.
As an 11-year-old then I'm surprised as a 64-year-old now the dozens of names I instantly recalled. This crystal clear restoration sure helped as I was watching most of these games on Black and White TV. Only 2 of my friends had color then. Thanks for this brilliant upload.
I'll never forget that game. I wasn't even going to watch the kick because I didn't think he had a snowballs chance in hell. Glad I watched it. Football back then was the absolute BEST.
What was amazing about that kick was that at the time, the record was 56 yards. And here is is making a kick SEVEN yards longer on the last play of the game. It'd be like someone making a seventy yarder today.
@@bunpeishiratori5849 I've always wondered if the shoe gave him an advantage. Not PC to ask that question about a handicapped person, but I could never help but wonder. People in wheelchairs do marathons much faster than the fastest runners.
@@bunpeishiratori5849Kara’s said that he and the other linemen just stood up at the snap and stood motionless when the ball was kicked. They assumed that there was no way the ball could make it so they didn’t even try to block it. It would have been blocked based on on low the trajectory was and if the lineman pushed forward and jumped. So the hall of famer and his line handed the Saints the game and Dempsey the record. What if other kickers chopped half their foot off. It probably made the ball go farther
@@bunpeishiratori5849 And Alex Karras was on the field for the Lions. After the game he said : "Football is a game of inches. Today we lost by half a foot" I remember it like it was yesterday.
I'm going to thank you for the post even before I watch it 😁. Nothing is better than films of the NFL in their golden age of the 60's and 70's. Will look forward to more posts, hopefully.
At the tender of 12yrs young,1970 was the year I began to take an INTEREST in watching professional sports. It started with MLB, the Cincinnati Reds, from there it went to the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Los Angeles Lakers....Can you say Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain?...This was ALL possible because of MY BIG BROTHER who passed away in February of 2022.....A DAMN GOOD ATHLETE!!....RIP.
Super Bowl Jan 1982 with SF and Ciny was my dad and I first game we spent together it was on the radio while we were working together that day. We would also listen to the '82 Cowboys/Packers playoff game on the radio while working. He passed away in 2018. I am 59.
@ there’s nothing like having your Dad next to you , watching a game together. I remember Dad pointing out Johnny Unitas as he was warming up. Johnny U. looked like the boss on the field and his arm moved like a freshly lubricated machine as he warmed up. His arm looked so smooth, like it was spinning around his shoulder. Seemed like as soon as he threw a ball 🏈 another would appear in his hand and that one would disappear as he released so quickly, with machine like efficiency. My Dad had a big smile on his face as he watched Johnny U. warm up and he beamed as he spoke, telling me about some of Johnny’s accomplishments. “ He’s getting a bit old now but you should’ve seen him when he was younger, son!”
I was 15, What wonderful memories! Great play all around, in an era where compared to today, it seemed they were moving in slow motion. LOL Thanks for the memories, and God bless you and yours always!!
Last season for the 49ers at Kezar Stadium, last season of the Boston Patriots before moving to Foxborough, last season of the Eagles at Franklin Field, last full season of the Cowboys at the Cotton Bowl, and I think last season of the Bears at Wrigley Field. Next-to-last season of the Chiefs at Municipal Stadium.
@@jaydouglas8845 be silent you coward. Today's players will share the same fate, except for QBs. As will MMA, boxers, hockey players, veteran soldiers who've seen action, etc.
Before 1970 Major League Baseball dominated the four major sports. From 1970 to now the NFL dominates. I believe the change was due to three main things: the initiation of e Super Bowl, the NFL/AFL merger, and Monday Night Football.
Became a lion's fan following them this season. Oh the heartache. Lem barney picking up that ball while the other team was standing around (a punted ball) and running for a touchdown brought a little tear to my eye (and also a smile .GO LIONS!
John Facenda....the voice of pro football in the 60's and 70's. The late 60's were my favorite years in pro football but the 70's were a close second. I think because I preferred the two separate leagues.
Loved the audio at the 2:30 mark (and going forward to the 2:40), when talking of the Ohio rivalry between Blanton Collier's Browns and Paul BROWN's Bengals. Of course Brown's last name is the actual team name, since their entry into the NFL in 1946, when fans that inaugural season voted for the name of the teams first head coach.
Top notch production by the old NFL Films Sabol crew. With the unmatchable narrative talents of John Faciendo. Can't remember how to spell his name but no one before or since has narrated the NFL like him. Same thing can be said for the TV announcers that called those games. No over editorializing. No pop culture antics. Just calling the games the way they're supposed to be called !!!
The old footballs were slick, thick, and wobbly. The sleeker Ultra Pebble football wasn't introduced until 1981. The nighttime footballs with the two white stripes were even wobblier. The JV5 football used in college was the size of a blimp, so teams that didn't have Joe Namath would run every single play. The Mel Blount Rule wasn't until 1979, so the defenders could literally crush the wide receivers. It's amazing the QBs were able to complete 50% of their passes, which is why they had almost perfect throwing form in those days. Patrick Mahomes would have been seriously injured if he ran across the middle of the field in those dangerous days.
1970 was certainly a year of change. This British student of the game was amazed with the intensity of the play - especially the hits, a fair few coming from the late Dick Butkus.
I think the merger season was as exciting as it was billed. Some AFC teams really layed it on the supposedly superior NFC. Denver really took out the Falcons and Saints in convincing fashion and beat a couple of other NFC squads that were pretty good. Vikings, however, were ready this time around, for the Chiefs' complex offense at Bloomington and scorched them, as well as beating the Cowboys soundly. Cowboys struggled early on, while the Cardinals faded away late in the season after a monster start, crushing Dallas and Houston in resounding shutouts. Giants came through with a 9-5 record, but should have been 10-4. Terrible call cost Aaron Thomas a touchdown vs New Orleans and the Saints got the win, a loss which ruined the Giants. And 49ers looked unbeatable, at times, going 10-3-1. I think the tie came against a stubborn Saints team at Kezar. I remember the huge fight in that Oakland/Kansas City game and the miracles of old George Blanda. Was a hell of a season.
The Saints were really bad back then. They were a fairly new expansion team then and wins were few and far between. It was decades later they finally managed to have a winning season and make the playoffs. Saints did tie one game I don't know which one but we only won 2 games that year.
@@mythrapi73 Believe it, or not, the Saints tied the top-ranked 49ers, who went 10-3-1that year. One thing about the New Orleans team was they did not quit, even though 1970 was a shoddy season for them.
Tht first Raiders Chiefs game I’ll remember forever. Len Dawson had scrambled for the first down that would have iced the game. Ben Davidson speared Dawson and started a huge fight that resulted in offsetting personal foul penalties that forced a replayed down that KC couldn’t convert. 6’11” Morris Stroud tried to block the kick at the crossbar and just missed. My 10 year old self was crushed.
I saw this in the footage above, thought I was seeing things. I can't believe that was allowed? A guy can try to swat a kick down at the crossbar and if he's successful, it's a "missed" FG? How long was this allowed to happen? I've never seen it as an option in football and I'm 60.
The Raiders and the Chiefs were a true rivalry. That is before players could just switch teams willy nilly. I was a Dolphins fan, but I loved watching the Raiders and Chiefs play each other - you knew there was going to be some tough games between those two. And George Blanda was amazing to watch. He pulled off so many last minute wins. Man, that was when football was the real deal.
@@tracyisbest well I think the “reason” Stroud was back there was to be ready to return the kick if it was short. And I don’t know that it was legal then. Since he missed it was never questioned What has changed is the personal foul call. Today the play would stand and the penalties would be dead ball fouls. Watch a replay of that play. Talk about a brawl.
@@greenbeagle13 Blanda was Legend. I think he was 49 or 50 when he retired. Lamonica was the Mad Bomber but he never worried me. Blanda always seemed clutch
That seems like a fair assessment. The Dolphins and Steelers hadn't emerged yet, and the Super Bowl winning Colts were actually starting on their decline. The Cowboys weren't the best team in the NFC either. Minnesota probably was. There really wasn't a true standout team that year. Just a bunch of teams at around the same level.
For those that don't remember, this was the high water point for NFL, 1970. It's been all downhill since. 1970, it was just incredible. So if you think you've got it good now at your billion dollar NFL stadium with your Avocado Shrimp Tacos & your Belgian monk crafted beer, well, you totally missed out on 1970. Players were earning $10,000. A couple made $100,000. Sure, you've got your 100 million contracts today, but things were so much better THEN!
Fantastic!!! Just a wee lad of 7 that year. Browns fan here so I thought I'd see a bit of the first Monday Night Football game. Had to pause it a few times to remember players' names. Jim Osborne #41, Roger Wherli #22, for example. Why did Joe Kapp leave the Vikings? I loved watching "This Week in Pro Football" with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire for the recaps. Also Howard Cosell's halftime show on MNF to see what happened the previous day! Thank you for taking me back to my childhood!!!!
So crazy to see these old plays. Watching some of the blocks that allowed running backs to rack up so many yards and seeing quarterbacks actually getting tackled without penalties makes you wonder why this game we watch today, has to share the records and stats with real football of yesteryear.
Best Clip...Bullet Bob Hayes leaving those stinking Redskins in the dust for a td. What great memories! Even the television game announcers were better and made games that much more enjoyable. Lindsey Nelson, Jack Whitaker just to name a couple, were awesome listening too.
Back when teams (smaller rosters, I know) just sent their normal O-Lineman down to cover punts. Now, they place backup LB/S in the coverage team. Anyone know who first coach to make that adjustment was? Maybe Gibbs w/Skins or Marv levy?
Nice start up with 'Bullet' Bob Hayes on punt return and Bo Scott of the Browns at fullback. Maybe it's just me, but I liked the NFL so much better then. I even like the uniforms and helmets better than what they wear today.
That defense was one of the greatest ever, in three successive seasons they allowed 133 points, 143 points, and 139 points, no team and I mean no team has ever done that, not the bears, not the steel curtain, it's a darn shame they didn't have an offense, and no quarterback except one year with Joe kapp in 69!
When I was a kid, I used to go outside with my football after watching one of these NFL films. I’d “run” in slow motion creating my own highlights in my mind as I went. I’m sure the Halls, the Littles and the Orems who all lived across the street from my family thought I was cuckoo out there all the time exaggeratedly walking in the front yard with a hyper intense look on my face and occasionally falling to the ground and rolling around.
Thanks for posting this, I was seven and this is the year I fell in love with football and the Oakland Raiders. (In a house full of forty niner fans)....
I was too young to understand an opening scene in North Dallas 40 that shows a wide receiver, played by Nick Nolte recovering from a game the day after and after this video it makes perfect sense. Today it’s called assault and battery back then it “next down!”
1970 began a great decade for pro football, at least for me. I was 10 years old and my team was the Dallas Cowboys, the team that couldn't win the big one. How prophetic that I'm still a Cowboys fan waiting for this team to win the big one and return to the glory days.
I remember 1970 as the season before. The season before I went to Super Bowl VI in pre-Superdome New Orleans. Also a Cowboys fan, I was a high school senior and in study hall with three buddies, we saw an ad in the Wall Street Journal for Super Bowl tickets from Murray's Tickets in Los Angeles. We called Murray and he told us since we were high school kids he'd sell us end zone seats in Tulane Stadium for (what seemed exorbitant to us) $55 each. Murray demanded a cashier's check to include a $10 service charge for a total of $65 per ticket. In the Cowboys ' inaugural season of 1960, my father took me to the Cotton Bowl to watch the Cowboys get destroyed by Cleveland's Jim Brown and we had been dreaming of a Cowboys Super Bowl victory since 1960. Summoning all my courage, after school I told my Dad that Jimmy, Mickey, Joe and I had scraped together some money, purchased a Cashier's Check and mailed it to Murray for Super Bowl tickets and I was looking forward to the trip... with his blessing of course. Dad said "lemme get this straight." You and your knucklehead friends just sent a cashier's check to a guy in LA who said he'd mail you the Super Bowl tickets and you believed him. Son..... Well, Murray was true to his word and we drove to New Orleans, slept in the car in Audubon Park and enjoyed the Cowboys victory over the Dolphins 24-3. I'm 70 years old now and still cherishing the memories from Super Bowl VI. How 'Bout Them Cowboys! .
Dude, you've won five of them. Let's not act like you didn't get to experience that joy even once. Imagine what it must be like for a Vikings fan. Or Browns or Chargers or Lions. Or Cardinals. I'm just thankful the Eagles are no longer on that list of "never winners".
@@bunpeishiratori5849 Hey, I'm just saying that it was a long haul between the last Super Bowl win in 1978 to Feb. 1992, and now we're waiting for our first ring since 1996. Totally sympathize with Viking fans and Bills fans. Going 0-4 must be tough..... (he says with a mischievous smirk).
Mud, grass, tons of outdoor football with big hits that would be 100's of flags today. I try and think about what's better about today's game compared to then. Maybe the 2 point conversion added in 1994.
Look at 24:36, the Cincinnati triple-reverse handoff and pass. That's a Bill Walsh play! The 49ers executed the same play *against* the Bengals a decade later in Super Bowl XVI.
The introduction of the first instant replay systems in the mid-1960s changed the presentation of games. It gave fans a close look at the individual battles taking place amidst the 22 player melee. But it was really in the 1970s, as the technology improved, that the popularity of the game took off. Nowadays of course replay technology is so far along it's used in football and many other big sports to verify what really happened on the field. In a way it's fitting that an old warrior like Johnny Unitas won the Super Bowl that year (kind of; he was injured and Erroll Morell finished the game). He'd been instrumental in popularizing the pro football. But he was at the end of his career, and it was other up and coming players mentioned this film - Terry Bradshaw, Bob Griese - who went on to have great achievements as the decade went on.
~~ the lack of so many dumb rules back then made the game a lot more fun - QB's were mostly fair game - none wore skirts - but one thing the refs did not put up with was excessive celebrations - and most players seemed perfectly happy with that - after big plays & TD's etc. - nobody was dancing or diving into the stands etc. - they just went back to the huddle & back to work - that was also better than today's game ..
That was nice,oooh the memories. We moved a lot but @ the time lived in Cincinnati, can remember dad rooting for Whyce,Virgil Carter & Bill Bergey. The SB was kind of a dud. It usually was a lousey game for the longest time. As John Facenda would say now i live in Tampa playing out the autumn of my career!
Nothing beats NFL Films..John Facenda narrating, the music, the closeup camera shots from ground level, the slow motion shot of following the ball in the air. Everything was great from NFL Films.
OMG...OMG...OMG...
Just too much ..
Flags..flags, flags, Flags,
Too much hitting, too much contact, too much physicality!!!
I can't believe they let that man drive him into the ground like that.. I can't bear to watch!!!
Of course Tom Brady and today's players would have that same stats if they played in this Era ... NOT
Incredible time for the NFL, Johns Voice simply magnifies & that Music gives ya goose bumps, Lol's Tears in my eyes now!
Idk how you can watch this...the jerseys and field are devoid of corporate branding. Looks terrible.
Yes, NFL Films definitely gave a magnificent account of that season, underpinned by those background musical pieces and John Facenda's epic narration. Nothing can beat that, even to this day (although the late Eddie Butler gave it a good try when NFL was shown on the BBC)
TRUTH & FACT 💯%
Absolutely a GREAT post. Best decade in NFL history. Of course my opinion.
Your opinion is absolutely correct. I couldn’t agree more. I grew up watching football in this era. None better …especially compared to today’s crap.
Best decade period. The music alone--across genres--has never been equalled. And the movies! Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Soylent Green, Planet of the Apes and Jaws all happened within just a few years in the 70s, among many other great ones. And for teenagers, there was never a decade as free as the 70s were. People always talk about the 60s nostalgically, but it was actually an extremely violent, uncertain decade. It was only in the 70s that the supply of psychedelics finally caught up with the demand. And the Vietnam War finally ended.
Agreed! Absolutely the best decade. Not even close.
It's the greatest decade in NFL history ! 😉😎
@@garywright313
Couldn't agree more. Even very early 80's didn't suck that bad. But in my opinion, by '83 it started to really change for the worse.
Can’t underestimate the impact NFL Films had on this era as well. Who didn’t get pumped up watching and listening to these great productions?
Agreed! That's why it's such a shame that NFL Films is now just a shell of it's former self.
Indeed. John Facenda's narration made all the difference.
Well, my grampa came back from Vietnam blind and deaf, so I guess he didn't.
@@fjr70ify Old man yells at cloud.
NFL Films had a major impact on the game as a whole. Without it the league wouldn't be what it is today.
NFL Films and John Facenda's narrative really moved the NFL to new heights. Loved watching this as a kid
John Facenda some called him the voice of God. For sure he was the voice of the NFL and NFL films
Imagine life without the Sabols or Facendas,football wouldn't be what it is today FR..
Same
Ha! I was 7 when this was made and I loved watching NFL Films as a young kid too. Ed Sabol was an awesome producer!
This was real football. Crack backs,Horse collars,Leg sweeps,and Clothes line tackles. And let’s not forget STICKUM.
Has to be a real badass back then.
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@@tuby6521 For Echo
"Men were men and goyls were goyls."
You forgot The Head Slap, Jack Tatum style!
True men played the game back then
I was 8. This is when I feel in love with Football. Real Football!!
We can't have fun like this anymore
@@CRsunsout you’re absolutely right.
@alonzomadero9413 thank you Alonzo but it's everybody for the last 6 years it's, as well ,as well ,why do they copy each other when it sounds so stupid?
I had forgotten why I fell in love with the NFL. This reminded me. Thx.
You had to be one tough son of gun to play in that era.
In today's NFL all those violent hits shown are flagged!
I know Bake Turner from Alpine Tx he has 2 super bowl rings, these guys got cheated from the league their blood, sweat, and tears created and get less than peanuts from the mutibillion NFL.
Lots of these guys don't even know who they are at this point. I enjoyed watching it too, but it isn't worth being a cripple for your last several decades of life.
Football was so good back then
00:40 For some reason, Bo Scott's run and fake lateral to deke George Atkinson has stayed in my head since I first saw it as a 9-year-old Browns fan, and here as a 62-year-old watching NFL films to get away from the world for a minute and actually seeing it again for the first time since then has made my night. Really, I can't believe I saw it again. Thank you!
Nothing beats 1970s classic NFL football
How good was this throwback video?! The ultimate time capsule!! The wild west of the rising NFL empire; the league was savage and innocent at the same time and teams had personalities without free agency. Loved the drama of these old NFL Films productions. Thanks for posting this!!
As a kid, remember a few years before this but was obsessed in the 70's. Miss the players. So many legends.
Indeed, RIP Johnny U and other decedents.
OMG - didn't even know this what on the web! I started following the NFL (specifically my beloved Broncos) in the UK in 1985, so this is going to be a treasure trove of history for me to catch up on! Thanks so much for posting these films 😀
Tough is an understatement. And in the off-season they all had to get another job at Sears to support their families.
That shows you how the NFL has changed yes they all had to have second jobs today overpaid high-priced crybabies these hits you see on this film shows you why Tom Brady couldn't have lasted nowhere near as long as he, as he does today that includes every other quarterback in today's, NFL!!
Some players, like Bobby Bell, of the Chiefs held a full time job during the season. He stated he was a foreman at the local automobile plant.
so true..making millions like today's players was not even thought possible
True with most players from other sports.
@@frederickpando9444 Interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks!
Terrific film!
John Fascenda makes it come alive with his great script and vintage voice
Watching this as a retired official, man you can see how the game has changed. Half these plays would be called back today on penalties and up the NFL would run out of players with all the suspensions. I miss the good old days
My most unfavorite thing is touch downs being called back for holding, it’s my opinion that some sort of holding is going on every play and it’s officials looking to call back a TD to balance the game.
@@lohengrin4009 My onfield experience is that is an urban legend. My issue is with the ticky tack calls that do not affect the play. Too many off ball calls, that I agree with. The officials are now so scared of being down graded by film evaluators that they call everything hoping that instant replay will save them.
Ref myself, today's so called football is bullshit and woke!!!
@@lancecampbell4323 Unlike rugby, football and basketball do not have advantage laws that allow a play go go on despite a seen penalty. One exception might be with offside by defense, and play not being whistled right away by the referees. It's then a free play for the offense. And a flag for holding isn't going to be called until play is over, so play goes on.
Alan Page was one of the top five defensive linemen ever!!
He was so fast into backfield❗judge 8n MN 30 yrs,took lot of hits and is still doing good things in MN in 2023
Lilly Jones Donald White Greene.
This will forever be remembered as the George Blanda miracle season
His "King of the World" game was on the same day, almost the same moment, as Tom Dempsey's 63-yard field goal.
Great seeing that again.
@@randyhanson4973 the 5 game stretch!
Those were the days, these videos made you feel like you were watching an epic film. So many memories of holidays around the tv with the whole family, switching between 2 of the 4 channels on the console tv, that was also an 8 track player, turntable and radio.
I still can't get over the fact that Paul Brown was coaching against the team that was named after HIM
The first season of the modern-era NFL with two new conferences. The AFC and NFC and the first year of Monday Night Football on ABC.
As an 11-year-old then I'm surprised as a 64-year-old now the dozens of names I instantly recalled. This crystal clear restoration sure helped as I was watching most of these games on Black and White TV. Only 2 of my friends had color then. Thanks for this brilliant upload.
This guys voice + Football = perfection
Back in the day I knew the son of the orthopedic practitioner who made Tom Dempsey's special shoe that he wore when he kicked the record field goal.
I'll never forget that game. I wasn't even going to watch the kick because I didn't think he had a snowballs chance in hell. Glad I watched it. Football back then was the absolute BEST.
What was amazing about that kick was that at the time, the record was 56 yards. And here is is making a kick SEVEN yards longer on the last play of the game. It'd be like someone making a seventy yarder today.
@@bunpeishiratori5849 I've always wondered if the shoe gave him an advantage. Not PC to ask that question about a handicapped person, but I could never help but wonder. People in wheelchairs do marathons much faster than the fastest runners.
@@bunpeishiratori5849Kara’s said that he and the other linemen just stood up at the snap and stood motionless when the ball was kicked. They assumed that there was no way the ball could make it so they didn’t even try to block it. It would have been blocked based on on low the trajectory was and if the lineman pushed forward and jumped. So the hall of famer and his line handed the Saints the game and Dempsey the record. What if other kickers chopped half their foot off. It probably made the ball go farther
@@bunpeishiratori5849 And Alex Karras was on the field for the Lions. After the game he said : "Football is a game of inches. Today we lost by half a foot" I remember it like it was yesterday.
I'm going to thank you for the post even before I watch it 😁. Nothing is better than films of the NFL in their golden age of the 60's and 70's. Will look forward to more posts, hopefully.
What a perfect football voice.
At the tender of 12yrs young,1970 was the year I began to take an INTEREST in watching professional sports. It started with MLB, the Cincinnati Reds, from there it went to the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Los Angeles Lakers....Can you say Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain?...This was ALL possible because of MY BIG BROTHER who passed away in February of 2022.....A DAMN GOOD ATHLETE!!....RIP.
Props and credit to Steve Sabol for starting NFL Films
It was his father who started it. Steve was in his twenties and worked for his dad.
Genius. What other sport would you watch slow motion highlights of past games? And want to see more?
The hits in the 70's were hard....💯👍🇺🇲
1970 season i became a Saints and NFL fan. Didnt know it would take another 39 years for my team to reach the mountain top , but was worth it
They showed is this film at our little league end-of-season banquet in 1971- Thank you!
Super Bowl V, was the first Super Bowl my Dad and I watched together. Dad passed away in 2010 and I’m 63 now.
Super Bowl Jan 1982 with SF and Ciny was my dad and I first game we spent together it was on the radio while we were working together that day. We would also listen to the '82 Cowboys/Packers playoff game on the radio while working. He passed away in 2018. I am 59.
@ there’s nothing like having your Dad next to you , watching a game together. I remember Dad pointing out Johnny Unitas as he was warming up. Johnny U. looked like the boss on the field and his arm moved like a freshly lubricated machine as he warmed up. His arm looked so smooth, like it was spinning around his shoulder. Seemed like as soon as he threw a ball 🏈 another would appear in his hand and that one would disappear as he released so quickly, with machine like efficiency. My Dad had a big smile on his face as he watched Johnny U. warm up and he beamed as he spoke, telling me about some of Johnny’s accomplishments. “ He’s getting a bit old now but you should’ve seen him when he was younger, son!”
Thanks so much for uploading these
The year I turned 15 and cemented my love of pro football and became the best NFL artist in America.
I was 15, What wonderful memories! Great play all around, in an era where compared to today, it seemed they were moving in slow motion. LOL Thanks for the memories, and God bless you and yours always!!
Bullet Bob Hayes and Bob Lilly were great heartbreaking days to be a Dallas fan.
Last season for the 49ers at Kezar Stadium, last season of the Boston Patriots before moving to Foxborough, last season of the Eagles at Franklin Field, last full season of the Cowboys at the Cotton Bowl, and I think last season of the Bears at Wrigley Field. Next-to-last season of the Chiefs at Municipal Stadium.
Cool info, thx!!!
It's hard to imagine a decade earlier, there were only 12 NFL teams and no AFL! The postwar boom was hitting America in a big way!
I wish we still had this game. The hits are amazing! Be afraid QBs!
Nonsense. 90 percent of those older players are suffering from Chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
@@jaydouglas8845 be silent you coward. Today's players will share the same fate, except for QBs. As will MMA, boxers, hockey players, veteran soldiers who've seen action, etc.
Before 1970 Major League Baseball dominated the four major sports. From 1970 to now the NFL dominates. I believe the change was due to three main things: the initiation of e Super Bowl, the NFL/AFL merger, and Monday Night Football.
Joe Namath.
Became a lion's fan following them this season. Oh the heartache. Lem barney picking up that ball while the other team was standing around (a punted ball) and running for a touchdown brought a little tear to my eye (and also a smile .GO LIONS!
John Facenda....the voice of pro football in the 60's and 70's. The late 60's were my favorite years in pro football but the 70's were a close second. I think because I preferred the two separate leagues.
1970: The first year of *Monday Night Football* , the program that changed Monday night forever.
Great musical score!!! The best of the best. Fantastic!!!!
I want this man to narrate my life. Even he could make my average life sound incredible.
Hilarious dude😆🤣
Loved the audio at the 2:30 mark (and going forward to the 2:40), when talking of the Ohio rivalry between Blanton Collier's Browns and Paul BROWN's Bengals. Of course Brown's last name is the actual team name, since their entry into the NFL in 1946, when fans that inaugural season voted for the name of the teams first head coach.
Top notch production by the old NFL Films Sabol crew. With the unmatchable narrative talents of John Faciendo. Can't remember how to spell his name but no one before or since has narrated the NFL like him. Same thing can be said for the TV announcers that called those games. No over editorializing. No pop culture antics. Just calling the games the way they're supposed to be called !!!
exactly. I thank god for my mute button on my remote for both the constant ads and the annoying as hell announcers they have now lol
great stuff...i was 16 in 1070 and the NFL was a big part of my life...those were the days...
“They came with great expectations”… and great sideburns. 😂
Pretty sure Mr. Sideburns was a young Howard Stern. 0:10 in.
A couple of years later, Brodie and Washington were on an episode of the detective show "Banacek."
As a Giants fan, I remember the 1970 season well. Thanks for the memories.
The 1970s is the exact decade I would choose if I could go in fresh and watch a specific period of NFL football.
The old footballs were slick, thick, and wobbly. The sleeker Ultra Pebble football wasn't introduced until 1981. The nighttime footballs with the two white stripes were even wobblier. The JV5 football used in college was the size of a blimp, so teams that didn't have Joe Namath would run every single play. The Mel Blount Rule wasn't until 1979, so the defenders could literally crush the wide receivers. It's amazing the QBs were able to complete 50% of their passes, which is why they had almost perfect throwing form in those days. Patrick Mahomes would have been seriously injured if he ran across the middle of the field in those dangerous days.
Good points! Perspective is everything.
Thanks for sharing this!! Brings back great memories - even as a 9 year old Saints fan back then
1970 was certainly a year of change. This British student of the game was amazed with the intensity of the play - especially the hits, a fair few coming from the late Dick Butkus.
7:56, I just love the voice of the great John Facenda💯
The blocks below the waist were brutal…..😳
I think the merger season was as exciting as it was billed. Some AFC teams really layed it on the supposedly superior NFC. Denver really took out the Falcons and Saints in convincing fashion and beat a couple of other NFC squads that were pretty good.
Vikings, however, were ready this time around, for the Chiefs' complex offense at Bloomington and scorched them, as well as beating the Cowboys soundly.
Cowboys struggled early on, while the Cardinals faded away late in the season after a monster start, crushing Dallas and Houston in resounding shutouts.
Giants came through with a 9-5 record, but should have been 10-4. Terrible call cost Aaron Thomas a touchdown vs New Orleans and the Saints got the win, a loss which ruined the Giants. And 49ers looked unbeatable, at times, going 10-3-1. I think the tie came against a stubborn Saints team at Kezar.
I remember the huge fight in that Oakland/Kansas City game and the miracles of old George Blanda.
Was a hell of a season.
But then there was the death during a Detroit Lion game of Chuck Hughes.
@@mf7482 Read that it was something that Butkus never wanted to discuss. It bothered him greatly, from what I've read.
that was in 71@@mf7482
The Saints were really bad back then. They were a fairly new expansion team then and wins were few and far between. It was decades later they finally managed to have a winning season and make the playoffs. Saints did tie one game I don't know which one but we only won 2 games that year.
@@mythrapi73 Believe it, or not, the Saints tied the top-ranked 49ers, who went 10-3-1that year. One thing about the New Orleans team was they did not quit, even though 1970 was a shoddy season for them.
This was a great season. Nice look back at it. Thanks for sharing.
Tht first Raiders Chiefs game I’ll remember forever. Len Dawson had scrambled for the first down that would have iced the game. Ben Davidson speared Dawson and started a huge fight that resulted in offsetting personal foul penalties that forced a replayed down that KC couldn’t convert. 6’11” Morris Stroud tried to block the kick at the crossbar and just missed. My 10 year old self was crushed.
I saw this in the footage above, thought I was seeing things. I can't believe that was allowed? A guy can try to swat a kick down at the crossbar and if he's successful, it's a "missed" FG? How long was this allowed to happen? I've never seen it as an option in football and I'm 60.
The Raiders and the Chiefs were a true rivalry. That is before players could just switch teams willy nilly. I was a Dolphins fan, but I loved watching the Raiders and Chiefs play each other - you knew there was going to be some tough games between those two. And George Blanda was amazing to watch. He pulled off so many last minute wins. Man, that was when football was the real deal.
@@tracyisbest well I think the “reason” Stroud was back there was to be ready to return the kick if it was short. And I don’t know that it was legal then. Since he missed it was never questioned
What has changed is the personal foul call. Today the play would stand and the penalties would be dead ball fouls. Watch a replay of that play. Talk about a brawl.
@@greenbeagle13 Blanda was Legend. I think he was 49 or 50 when he retired. Lamonica was the Mad Bomber but he never worried me. Blanda always seemed clutch
@@tracyisbest It's no longer allowed. My guess is that it was outlawed around the time they move the goal post to the back of the endzone.
1970 was one of the most competitive seasons in NFL history
That seems like a fair assessment. The Dolphins and Steelers hadn't emerged yet, and the Super Bowl winning Colts were actually starting on their decline. The Cowboys weren't the best team in the NFC either. Minnesota probably was. There really wasn't a true standout team that year. Just a bunch of teams at around the same level.
I remember the LA Rams winning 10, 11 games a season with Roman Gabriel at QB, but never getting over the hump.
Thank you for the post and bringing back the memories
Fantastic video! Great music too. Gotta love 70s and 80s media production.
This is AWESOME....thanks for sharing!
This is hitting at its purest form. I use to wake up as a kid looking forward to This Is The NFL and NFLs greatest moments.
This video has such great music.
The music is epic.
For those that don't remember, this was the high water point for NFL, 1970. It's been all downhill since. 1970, it was just incredible. So if you think you've got it good now at your billion dollar NFL stadium with your Avocado Shrimp Tacos & your Belgian monk crafted beer, well, you totally missed out on 1970. Players were earning $10,000. A couple made $100,000. Sure, you've got your 100 million contracts today, but things were so much better THEN!
I second that!
I’ll take that craft beer over a Pabst Blue anyday 🤣
I remember going to Cleveland stadium with the dirt infield. Now that was football… in the mud.
Loved watching the NFL Films and listening to John narrate. Epic!
Fantastic!!!
Just a wee lad of 7 that year. Browns fan here so I thought I'd see a bit of the first Monday Night Football game.
Had to pause it a few times to remember players' names. Jim Osborne #41, Roger Wherli #22, for example.
Why did Joe Kapp leave the Vikings?
I loved watching "This Week in Pro Football" with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire for the recaps. Also Howard Cosell's halftime show on MNF to see what happened the previous day!
Thank you for taking me back to my childhood!!!!
I love these clips!
So crazy to see these old plays. Watching some of the blocks that allowed running backs to rack up so many yards and seeing quarterbacks actually getting tackled without penalties makes you wonder why this game we watch today, has to share the records and stats with real football of yesteryear.
Well, you could just ignore it.
Yeah, great downfield blocking by wide receivers on those long runs by Bo Scott and Larry Brown and others. Technically perfect blocking.
What a video! I missed this season - RVN
Nfl films back in the day was great. Hahaha the goal post IN the endzone😊
Best Clip...Bullet Bob Hayes leaving those stinking Redskins in the dust for a td. What great memories! Even the television game announcers were better and made games that much more enjoyable. Lindsey Nelson, Jack Whitaker just to name a couple, were awesome listening too.
Back when teams (smaller rosters, I know) just sent their normal O-Lineman down to cover punts. Now, they place backup LB/S in the coverage team. Anyone know who first coach to make that adjustment was? Maybe Gibbs w/Skins or Marv levy?
Nice start up with 'Bullet' Bob Hayes on punt return and Bo Scott of the Browns at fullback. Maybe it's just me, but I liked the NFL so much better then. I even like the uniforms and helmets better than what they wear today.
Great old uniforms
O my gosh, thank you!
The Minnesota Vikings defense that year was called the “Purple People Eaters”, NOT the “Purple People BEATERS”! 😂😂😂
That defense was one of the greatest ever, in three successive seasons they allowed 133 points, 143 points, and 139 points, no team and I mean no team has ever done that, not the bears, not the steel curtain, it's a darn shame they didn't have an offense, and no quarterback except one year with Joe kapp in 69!
I was an 8 yr old little Vikings fan. The Purple People Eaters ruled my world.
When I was a kid, I used to go outside with my football after watching one of these NFL films. I’d “run” in slow motion creating my own highlights in my mind as I went. I’m sure the Halls, the Littles and the Orems who all lived across the street from my family thought I was cuckoo out there all the time exaggeratedly walking in the front yard with a hyper intense look on my face and occasionally falling to the ground and rolling around.
I miss 1970's NFL, they just killed each other on the field.
Me Too!!!!
Thanks for posting this, I was seven and this is the year I fell in love with football and the Oakland Raiders. (In a house full of forty niner fans)....
I'm amazed it took them so long to figure out that the goalposts did not belong in the end zone.
Yes hard to believe, Jesus
Telephone pole and street lights in the end zone.
I needed a chiropractor when I finished watching this.
I was too young to understand an opening scene in North Dallas 40 that shows a wide receiver, played by Nick Nolte recovering from a game the day after and after this video it makes perfect sense. Today it’s called assault and battery back then it “next down!”
70s NFL. BEST DAMN DECADE FOR FOOTBALL PERIOD.
this quality is amazing
1970 began a great decade for pro football, at least for me. I was 10 years old and my team was the Dallas Cowboys, the team that couldn't win the big one. How prophetic that I'm still a Cowboys fan waiting for this team to win the big one and return to the glory days.
I remember 1970 as the season before. The season before I went to Super Bowl VI in pre-Superdome New Orleans.
Also a Cowboys fan, I was a high school senior and in study hall with three buddies, we saw an ad in the Wall Street Journal for Super Bowl tickets from Murray's Tickets in Los Angeles.
We called Murray and he told us since we were high school kids he'd sell us end zone seats in Tulane Stadium for (what seemed exorbitant to us) $55 each. Murray demanded a cashier's check to include a $10 service charge for a total of $65 per ticket.
In the Cowboys ' inaugural season of 1960, my father took me to the Cotton Bowl to watch the Cowboys get destroyed by Cleveland's Jim Brown and we had been dreaming of a Cowboys Super Bowl victory since 1960.
Summoning all my courage, after school I told my Dad that Jimmy, Mickey, Joe and I had scraped together some money, purchased a Cashier's Check and mailed it to Murray for Super Bowl tickets and I was looking forward to the trip... with his blessing of course.
Dad said "lemme get this straight." You and your knucklehead friends just sent a cashier's check to a guy in LA who said he'd mail you the Super Bowl tickets and you believed him. Son.....
Well, Murray was true to his word and we drove to New Orleans, slept in the car in Audubon Park and enjoyed the Cowboys victory over the Dolphins 24-3.
I'm 70 years old now and still cherishing the memories from Super Bowl VI. How 'Bout Them Cowboys!
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Dude, you've won five of them. Let's not act like you didn't get to experience that joy even once. Imagine what it must be like for a Vikings fan. Or Browns or Chargers or Lions. Or Cardinals. I'm just thankful the Eagles are no longer on that list of "never winners".
@@bunpeishiratori5849 Hey, I'm just saying that it was a long haul between the last Super Bowl win in 1978 to Feb. 1992, and now we're waiting for our first ring since 1996. Totally sympathize with Viking fans and Bills fans.
Going 0-4 must be tough..... (he says with a mischievous smirk).
Mud, grass, tons of outdoor football with big hits that would be 100's of flags today. I try and think about what's better about today's game compared to then. Maybe the 2 point conversion added in 1994.
And the uniforms look better than today's version
No, I like the Bengals more now.
No color unitards!
Look at 24:36, the Cincinnati triple-reverse handoff and pass. That's a Bill Walsh play! The 49ers executed the same play *against* the Bengals a decade later in Super Bowl XVI.
In their own end zone too! Insane
Thanks a Million my friend. The NFL as a product today i don't like. It's nice to see what it used to be years ago when i was a kid.
I was 9 ìn 1970 and grew up in Baltimore so this was the magical season the lead to the Super Bowl 5 Jim O'Brian kick.
We used to watch NFL films during P.E. class when it rained.
The introduction of the first instant replay systems in the mid-1960s changed the presentation of games. It gave fans a close look at the individual battles taking place amidst the 22 player melee. But it was really in the 1970s, as the technology improved, that the popularity of the game took off. Nowadays of course replay technology is so far along it's used in football and many other big sports to verify what really happened on the field.
In a way it's fitting that an old warrior like Johnny Unitas won the Super Bowl that year (kind of; he was injured and Erroll Morell finished the game). He'd been instrumental in popularizing the pro football. But he was at the end of his career, and it was other up and coming players mentioned this film - Terry Bradshaw, Bob Griese - who went on to have great achievements as the decade went on.
Epic, thanks for posting
Well, 1970 was the year I got hooked
~~ the lack of so many dumb rules back then made the game a lot more fun - QB's were mostly fair game - none wore skirts - but one thing the refs did not put up with was excessive celebrations - and most players seemed perfectly happy with that - after big plays & TD's etc. - nobody was dancing or diving into the stands etc. - they just went back to the huddle & back to work - that was also better than today's game ..
That was nice,oooh the memories. We moved a lot but @ the time lived in Cincinnati, can remember dad rooting for Whyce,Virgil Carter & Bill Bergey. The SB was kind of a dud. It usually was a lousey game for the longest time. As John Facenda would say now i live in Tampa playing out the autumn of my career!