The two games that contributed the most to the growth and popularity of the NFL were the 1958 championship game (Colts-Giants) and Super Bowl 3 (Jets-Colts) Both had the same winning, and underrated, head coach Weeb Ewbank.
Namath a Class Act. Namath's narrative tribute to Unitas as they went out to the 50 yard line before the game started changed my view of Namath in to deep respect and admiration! I was a young pup and admired Unitas as his career was ending. I watched that game in a fog as the Jets beat the then Titanic Team in the Colts! (The real BALTIMORE Colts!)
Namath is real classy. Drunk out of his mind on national TV. Now he’s shilling for some worthless junk to senior citizens. Then there were the annual retirements. Remember when he said he would quit football rather than give up his bar (bachelors 3). He even literally cried a little.
Of course. Unitas wasn't just the best QB in the NFL he was Namath's home boy from Western PA. Young Namath modeled his football game on Unitas's game as a high schooler in Beaver Falls.
Three classic quarterbacks: Namath, Unitas, Morrall. I always thought that Namath played his professional career at 75%. That knee injury at Alabama. He got nothing but real bad medical advice and the doctors didn't know shit about knee surgery then. Like Bobby Orr in hockey, Namath played injured and still was really good. If he would have been 100% he would have been one of the best ever and probably won another Super Bowl with the Jets.
Jeffrey G, Morrall, classic? Really? He had some decent seasons before he landed in Baltimore, but for 12 years he had to be considered pretty much a bust for being such a high draft choice. Granted, once in Baltimore, his career morphed into a much more productive one, that earned him an MVP, and a deserved reputation as a great backup. But, in no way, does he even come close to belonging in the conversation of the sport's top quarterbacks.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 The Jet players and coaches that had NFL experience were familiar with Earl Morrall and they did not fear him leading up to Super Bowl III. They thought him mediocre at best, and the game films they watched to prepare for that game confirmed their opinion of him. As for Namath, with the possible exception of Bob Griese, I believe he's certainly the most undeserving QB in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He threw for a lot of yardage, but he also threw way way way too many interceptions. He simply did not make smart decisions from the pocket and did not take care of the ball. He is the only Hall of Fame QB in the modern era of the game that threw more INT's than TD passes. Moreover, after beating the Colts in SB III he played, like 7-8 more years, but in all that time he actually defeated exactly one opponent with a winning record. All his victories thereafter came against opponents that would end up with final records of 3-11, 4-12 or 5-9. He simply wasn't a big game QB (it probably had something to do with all those picks he threw)
@@TheMrSuge The thing with Namath is people say "We'll, he was great at the start of his career and an incredible talent, but injuries did him in, so he deserves to be in HOF for what he accomplished when healthy". Then why doesn't the opposite apply to Jim Plunkett? He was the best QB talent to ever come out of college injured and battered at the start of his career with awfully bad teams, but once he took over the Raiders, he was incredible, 38-19 in the regular season, 8-2 in the playoffs with 2 SB victories. And unlike Joe, Jim could run a little and throw back against his body. Jim should be in if Joe is in. Griese in the HOF is a travesty; he had 1/10 the talent of Namath or Plunkett, was the ultimate game manager who happened to be on one of the greatest teams of his era.
@@jonburrows8602 I agree with you about Plunkett, deserves some HOF consideration. They just put his coach (Tom Flores) in the HOF. He waited too long considering he had a .610 winning pct. as Raiders' coach and coached 2 Super Bowl wins. But maybe now they'll also re-visit and re-evaluate Plunkett's career as well. By beef with Namath is that his knees had nothing to do with his deficiencies as a quarterback. It was his head, NOT his knees that kept him from his potential. He simply made terrible decisions in the pocket. That's a mental deficiency, not a physical one.
@@jonburrows8602 Jim Plunkett _should_ be in the HOF. That doesn't take away from the fact that Namath truly did change the game and how it was played. That's why he's in.
When i was younger, Joe Namath was a hero for me. I collected Joe Namath rookie cards like a mad man. After school, I went into the Army, did a tour in Vietnam, got out and got married. Years later, i mentioned spider man comic books to my mother, and she said if you stoll want them, theyre in the attic. I got up there, and found 12 Namath rookie cards. Almost lost two of them. I was about to leave a copy of Orwell's book, 1984, but remembered i had written stuff in the margins. When i opened it, two pristine Namath rookie cards fell out. It was like finding a gold mine.
Joe had nothing to lose by predicting a Jet victory ? .. Well .. They sure played like they expected to win .. They went balls out like they KNEW they were gonna win ..
It turned out that the Jets' star receiver, Don Maynard, had been injured in the AFL Championship game, but the Colts didn't know it. The Jets used him as a decoy, and the Colts double-covered him so he didn't catch a pass all game, but they left George Sauer in single coverage, and he had a huge game.
i met earl christy from this game the punt returner yesterday in walmart... i have pics lol.... he grabbed my hand and put his super bowl ring on my finger... that was so cool!!
April, 2007, As I concluded with my beloved mom's eulogy, I faced the people in attendance; feeling very humbled and grateful for all the people that were there, especially many of my colleagues, that I never expected to even be there, offering their sincere condolences, because they all knew that my mom died in my arms, & said: "Joe Willie Namath once said it, & now I'm going to say it! 3 weeks from now, I will walk across that stage as I graduate from Law School, I GUARANTEE it." & I did!
Can u imagine a average fan or family going to a super bowl! Quit watching the nfl along time ago. Just watch stuff like this, I'm sure the League cares.
As a member of the Hialeah High Marching Thoroughbred Band I performed in the pregame and halftime shows of both Super Bowl II and Super Bowl III in the Orange 🍊 Bowl in Miami. The Jets warmed up in the East End Zone right in front of us as we sat in temporary bleachers. The speed of the Jets defense, especially the the defensive ends, really affected the Colts timing. Matt Snell ate the Colts up with power runs mostly to the left behind Winston Hill. What cracked the Colts IMO was the same defensive plan that had overwhelmed everyone else was completely diffused by Namath audibles running away from the vaunted blitz and then beating the blitz by quick flares out of the backfield. BTW if you notice in the highlights the Marching Band wearing red coats, blue hats in the East End Zone, that is the Marching Thoroughbred Band. I still vividly remember when Namath trotted out for pregame warmups from the North Sideline, the crowd hooted and booed Namath, who just never looked up or acknowledged anyone. Just trotted out and started launching arching passes effortlessly. Wow 😮
Saw that Super Bowl and the Jets shook up the eworld, we had a great Xmas that year and nothing beat Broadway Joe and eating pnuts and coca cola watching the vaunted Colts get their a## kicked
Just a thought, if your band had been in the opposite end zone, maybe Unitas would have seen how often Jimmy Orr was wide open instead of getting lost in a sea of blue uniforms worn by the Baltimore Colts Marching Band.
What killed the Colts that day was Earl Morrall, who had a terrible day. He made bad decisions from the pocket, threw picks and incomplete passes, missed open receivers. A half-way competant QB would've put 24 points on the board in the first half. The Colts kicker had a bad day, too.
@@TheMrSuge The speed and pressure of the Jets defensive ends, Philbin and Biggs knocked Morral off rythym plus there was a 15-25 mph gusting wind from the Northeast which swirled around the OB. Unitas did not fare much better. The real shock to Baltimore was Namath checking to flare passes to backs to negate vaunted blitz on defense. Imagine that both Don Shula and Chuck Noll were coaching the Colts, who both moved to head coaches in the AFL and won 6 of 10 Super Bowls in the 1970’s.
I know Joe won’t see this but what a hero he was to this little country boy in Michigan . Every time ran outside play football I had scream I’m Joe Namath :) Thanks Mr. Namath made me better ball player just knowing you were playing..
As a life long Jets fan who remembers this game as a kid I always seem to forget Buddy Ryan's presence at SB III. And what about Weeb's direct impact on BOTH the 1958 NFL title game as well as this seminal contest? Uncanny...
The next year Noll became head coach of the Steelers who only won one game that first year Noll was at Pittsburgh but end up winning 4 SB before he retired
@@aarondigby5054 Browns owner Art Modell recommended to Art Rooney that he hire Noll. Noll's Colts had just defeated Modell's Browns in the '68 NFL Championship Game, 34-0. Modell told Rooney that Noll's defense shutting out the Browns was so impressive a feat that he'd probably make a good HC. Rooney agreed to hire Noll, but following the Colts' embarrassing loss in Super Bowl 3 he started having second thoughts. Modell, however, talked him into going through with the hire. Modell probably regretted doing that.
Most don't realize that much of the credit for the Jets' outstanding defense that season goes to the great Buddy Ryan, who was the defensive line coach then. He was instrumental in setting the game plan to defeat Baltimore, and of course, he later became world famous as the defensive coordinator for the 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears, which many consider the greatest defense ever.
12YO Winston-Salem, NC SUPER BOWL CHAMPS First PRE-SEASON game after Jets huge victory in Miami (featured Minnesota Vikings with Joe Kapp) vs. NY JETS with Broadway Joe. Well Namath to Maynard for 73 yard TD. I was amazed at how agile and big pro-players were. What a great game, and incredible day.
I was at that game as a 10 year old. Went with my older brother, his friend and my best friend. I remember Namath getting so mad that he took his helmet off and slammed it to the ground.
Watched this game in Lakewood, California. I was just a college kid at the time and pulling for the underdog and was an incredible victory for the Jets. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah, memories. I'm a Wisconsinite, and was a 14 year old fresh off 2 Packer Super Bowl wins. But there was something about Namath and The Jets that made us pull for them.
Baltimore missed opportunity after opportunity. Earl Moral missing the wide open reciever down the field and throwing the interception was a microcosm of the game. Joe Willy did enough to cement his legacy. I garantee we'll win, he said. And did exactly that. KUDOS!!
@@colinschaeffer3940 Of course in 68/69 ... and earlier. Unitas was doing it back in the 1950's. Paul Brown was criticized by his QB's in the late 50' and early '60's for not allowing them to change the play at the line (because every other QB in the NFL had that authority except for Browns' QB's, and they thought his prohibition was holding back the offense).
Winston Hill made the HOF...well deserved...he literally destroyed Ordel Brasse as he helped Matt Snell rush for 135 yards..Winston wss a real class act and a great lineman that actually had to know how to block...with out the open hand technique..they use today.
More drivel from a boomer. 🤦♂️🤦♂️ You play by the rules at the time. Your comment about the different rules in place at the time sounds like whiny bitterness.
Super Bowl 3 was also significant because The Jets win kept all the AFL teams together in the AFC with 3 NFL teams joining them, had the lost the AFL and NFL teams would have been shuffled toghether.
The AFL ceased to exist after the 1969 AFL Championship Game! Super Bowl III proved the AFL's best team was better than the NFL's best team! Super Bowl IV proved the same thing!
Sabol sort of alludes to it, but I suspect the rationale for producing this revised version, is all the hubbub over the years, that the original was overtly biased in favor of the Colts, both Sabols being confirmed NFL partisan. Interestingly, after watching it innumerable times, with but a few exceptions, I've never found it to be anywhere near as tilted, as has been so often remarked upon, and that it's easy to be comfortable with, whichever league (or team) one may have been a fan of.
This is Actually "NFL Films; Greatest Games Superbowl" III aka Joe's Guarantee. There's 18 or so episodes but this is one of my favorites with all the Film of Smashmouth runblocking; Matt Snell really was the Jets MVP or their Secondary picking balls off.
The game was so much better back then. It was amazing how close Shula was, with the opportunity to have gone thru undefeated seasons, that year, and then four years later in Miami
I was just 6 years old and this was the first football game I remember watching. We were from NYC, but living for a few years in the Chicago suburbs. My father is a Giants fan and he was mad the Jets won.
Greatest? How many playoff wins and appearances? How many winning seasons? Way more pics than touchdowns, abysmal completion percentage. Let's also not forget the fact the FBI has hundreds of pages of documents that indicate he was in on or knew of people helping to fix games. Not to lose but to stay within the betting line. Also how Namath was partying on Saturday night before the SB with 3 defensive players from the Colts. I am supposed to believe that game was on the level? Preposterous!!! Read the book Interference by Dan Moldea and you will learn that ole Joe Willie helped run numbers in Beaver Falls as a teenager. He had indisputable connections to the the underworld. He wasn't the only one ,Lennox Dawson, Alex Karras, Paul Hornung and many others. Billy Kilmers strange relationship with Clint Murchison ( Dall-ass Cowboys original owner) a friendship that should have been investigated by the league but never was.
After reading Mike Curtis' book, I realized the Colts took this game for granted. They were allowed to bring their family's down. Not much curfew I don't think. The Jets? No wives and a curfew. I was a hard core Colts fan. Only 12. I was crushed. I'm still a Colts fan, just not an Indy Colts fan. I'm living my football life in limbo. I'm also a Vols fan. Seeing Peyton Manning in a Colts helmet I thought it was the second coming of Johnny U. Almost!
Honestly in 2007 after the Giants gave the Patriots a battle in the final week of the season i said that if they play again in the super bowl they would win and i put my money where my my was--cha ching, at 4 to 1, i also had them +6.5 at 2 to 1 and the regular +13.5, i had the under too, that was easy money.
It was a must win for the AFL in a lot more ways then one. One was getting the Fan base in a very big way for exceptance of the AFL and getting more interest in the upcoming Super Bowls.
No, the AFC dominated. After the Chiefs win, the Colts, Cowboys, and Steelers, won 7 out of 10 Super Bowls. All were NFL teams. The Colts, and Steelers, moved to the AFC, after the merger.
@@treypatterson7856 I would explain the difference to you, but it looks like you wouldn't understand it. The teams I mentioned, that dominated the next ten years, were never part of the AFL. Get someone to explain it to you.
The Colts was involved in two of the greatest champions in football history. The 1958 world championship Vs. the New York Giants & 1968-69 superbowl championship Vs. the New York Jets..Weeb Ewbank was the coach of the 58' Colts & the 68' Jets.
I grew up not far from Joe in Youngstown, OH and he was my childhood hero! He used to frequent a bar where my dad bartended and my dad played a lot of pool with him. My dad said he was a great pool player and never caused any problems. My dad LOVED Joe!
Joe had a solid game, but I agree, Snell was the best player on the field that day. Had the best game of his life. The Jets could not run right on the Colts, but props to Hill, Talamini, and Boozer blocking left. They did the job, but credit Snell. He was slash pounding 2-3 yard gains into 5-6 yard gains. I think his longest run was 12 yard. He also caught 3-4 passes for good yardage.
I love to watch your game God bless to all of you live long long happy healthy life many many years to come all of you did a super job i came to canada 1970 i never know about this before
9:53 - Namath single-handedly -- or, if you're a bitter Colts fan, single-mouthedly -- made NFL football the most popular professional sport in the country. And the Colts players are actually responsible for this, because the only reason Namath guaranteed victory was that he was tired of listening to them shoot *their* mouths off about how they were going to demolish the Jets.
I agree. The first two Super Bowls had poor attendance and ratings, and the Packers easily won. At that time the general feeling among many was that the NFL was football and the AFL was mickey mouse football. Joe Namath was a flashy personality who sort of pushed the boundaries of what was considered proper. He had sort of long hair and for a football player that was different back then. Plus he was very talented and confident and outspoken. Someone yelled out 'Hey Joe the Colts are gonna kick your ass' and Joe said 'hey now, I've heard about enough of that. We're a better football team. We're gonna win. I guarantee it.' or something close to that. That probably did more to boost the ratings of Super Bowl 3 and make it a prime time event than anything else. I bet the network carrying the game loved it when he said that. And after the Jets came away the winner it made the Super Bowl the premiere football game of the year ever since. I cannot think of any other player guaranteeing that his team would win the super bowl. Namath just said what was on his mind in his normal, honest, brash, confident way. His personality and the notoriety of his hard drinking, skirt chasing lifestyle made him an admired, and hated player. People had an opinion of him one way or the other. Namath and the Jets made the Super Bowl the blockbuster ratings event it became and has been ever since.
Bill Dawson That whole year was scripted entertainment. Jets, Mets, Knicks, Lunar landing, they didn't fix hockey because nobody gave a rats ass about it
@@VMan29397 Not even remotely a Baltimore fan. It was a statement of the time period. Not of Baltimore sports. It was a time when people were much more gullible and naive. The wool was easily pulled over peoples eyes. I.E. Lava Lamps, Pet Rocks, and most notably government lying about Vietnam to a very susceptible public. Before you reply that I'm a salty 60's, 70's person, not at all, like Cosell, just telling it like it is.
Wisconsin is this was an excellent video I enjoyed learning about Mr nameth Moore he was an excellent player I didn't know him personally but I seen him in 1981 on The Love boat thank you Mr nemeth can I see you on television doing ads for insurance keep up the good work you're an excellent example to other players God bless from Wisconsin the man from Wisconsin remembers Mr name with on television in his acting career thank you😅
I was so happy when The Jets won The AFL Championship Game & when they won Superbowl 111 . I have loved Joe Namath since the 1960s & I still do . To me he will always be the best Quarterback & he will always be my favorite , love Broadway Joe 🏈💚❤
Every rule change for the worse ! Biggest bullshit was rules that eliminated roughly 12 plays a game in NFL Used be managing clock you could be down 3 touchdowns 7 minutes left not out of it !; The best play in basketball jump ball they eliminated ! The Sports rules refected the degeneration of the world!!
Gowdy is wrong about Jim Hudson..he DID NOT attend Oklahoma...he went to the university of Texas...he was part of their 1963 national championship team...
U. TEXAS, TEX TECH, AND UTEP produced the stars other than NAMATH, for the JETS. LAMMONS, HUDSON, SAUER ALL U.TEX..UTEP(TEXAS WESTERN)= MAYNARD.. TEX. TECH= BAKE TURNER..
@@mitchellmelkin4078, solid receiver for Namath in their three to four player rotation. During his AFL career had two seasons over 900 yards(a lot of yards back then). Yes, he was cut by the NFL, I believe Baltimore or NYGIANTS earlier in the decade, but made some nice catches in the playoffs that year for NYJETS in '68-69, and was still in the pros, in the NFL post merger with N.E., also jumped to the WFL, but was about thru at that point when the WIFFLE folded..he and SAUER were hurt in the WFL, and when the NY STARS became the Charlotte Hornets and the Houston Texans became the Shreveport Steamer..they quit.
@@dennissaunders5247 Yeah, that was interesting. Gowdy was the NBC main football and baseball guy back then, but he also worked during the winter months for Roone Arledge at ABC, as one of the hosts for The American Sportsmen.
Kurt Gowdy with Paul Christman on AFL games in the 1960s were the best. What a time for pro football.... the AFL on ABC, then NBC and the NFL on CBS. I wish they had kept the 2 leagues separate, with the 2 league champions playing in the Super Bowl each year.
@@Steve915 That would have delighted Al Davis, as you undoubtedly know, as he was the AFL Commissioner, and wanted to continue full bore with the signing war, in which players were being offered outlandish (for the time) contracts to jump ship.
I still have my # 41 Colts Tom matte jersey , but I learned a lot that day about winning and losing . I still have the # 12 Joe Namath jersey I bought later . Namath was great that day , period ! I remember from his book " The Long Pass " , it was after a lost to the Bills where he threw 4 ints. . He took the blame for the loss and began to play ball control , throwing to his backs , that killed the Colts . We destroyed Joe Kapp with that blitz in the Western Conference title game , and Joe Namath was praying we would blitz . A real artists !
@@davidbruce5377 That games is like a slow bad dream ! The missed field goals , flea flicker TD ( 28 Orr ) missed . Interceptions in the end zones . Matte's fumble ! 58 yard run for nothing ? Namath controlled the 3rd quarter then the game ! It 's like your on the Titanic and you know its going down and the clock keeps ticking ! I still watch those drives ending with a touchdown instead of an interception ? Jimmy Orr gathering that easy TD pass all alone in the end zone before the half ? Bubba Smith destroying Dave Herman on route to Joe Namath , again and again ? Not going to happen ! They simply outplayed the Colts ! Weeb won two world championships in 1958-59 . Shula lost a world championship to Cleveland in 1964 ? Why were the Jets 18 point underdogs ?
Ironic that Snell and Matte wore 41 and Matte preceded Snell at OSU. Fumble notwithstanding, Matte was the MVP if the Colts won. He ran wild all day. Bill Curry said Matte was the best football player on the Colts. He was also, a great hockey player.
@@davidbruce5377... Matte hated Sample because he had been a Colt and was caught rifling the pockets of his teammates pants in the locker room. Sample was cut and unofficially blackballed even though he was very good, forcing him into the AFL, undoubtedly because Ewbank remembered him.
Great odd moment in American sports history, and this game opened the door to more democratic forms of sports fanfare, where the underdog could be considered wonderful. If only such doors didn't lead to chaos, this would've cemented a permanent Colts-Jets rivalry! Wonderful documentary!
With modern replay would George Sauer's fumble be ruled not a catch? It doesn't look like he ever had control. He certainly didn't make 'a football move'.
Two things: Watching the hitting in this game, makes one realize it's impossible to compare today's players with this old, tough players. If Namath came up today, he'd be Tom Brady. Weeb was so underrated. The only coach to win championships in both leagues, but only us old folks from NY and Baltimore know that (and of course, Joe Benigno! :-)
“There were the 30,000 empty seats (at the L.A. Coliseum for Super Bowl I)”. And there are enough people who claimed to have been there to fill the L.A. Coliseum at least five times...
How many people saw the game on both networks?I watched it live on NBC then saw the CBS tape in April that year as the network showed it on a Saturday afternoon because of a strike prevented them for televising a golf tournament.Even better,I saw it on black and white on NBC and in color on CBS.
@@robertsprouse9282 His family is from the same town in Ireland as was my grandfather,but that's all I know. I met John at Yonkers in Jan.1973.He was drawing a name for a trip to the upcoming Superbowl.I kidded around with him that there would have been a riot had he picked out my entry.
A lot of people are still crying today! We should have had a best 2 out of 3. Baltimore. Just like in SB 4, the Chiefs and the Vikings opened the 1970 season and the Vikings thrashed them.
@@Mr.56Goldtop, but the teams going in knew they had just one shot, and that was equal on a neutral field for both clubs. A one game shot is a de-facto game seven or in 2 of 3, game three. Secondly, and by no stretch am I a CHIEFS FAN= BRONCOS instead, KAPP held out and was released the next season, eventually getting hurt and washing out with BOSTON THAT SEASON. Gary Cuozzo a decent starter, mostly backup, was the qback starter. KC in a roadgame took MINNY lightly and knew they were not in a must-win as in a Super Bowl. The following week in Balty, CHIEFS fully engaged in a must-win beat the eventual World Champs 44-24.. That Chiefs team still did not make the playoffs that season, but did make them the following campaign, only to lose in KC to MIAMI in double o-time. That same Chiefs group never again after the 2 ot loss, made the playoffs. It wasn't till Mackovic in the mid '80's that they made the playoffs in the wild card, and lost..
I officiate football today and Sauers fumble then would definitely be an incomplete pass today....new officials are also instructed to call it that way..
The Colts came into this game flat and overconfident--the number of turnovers, blown plays, etc clearly illustrate this. Namath called a smart game with ball control and sustained drives, and the Jets took care of the football. They were CLEARLY the better team on this day. (I think if they played each other 10 times the Colts would win 7--but you can't cough up the football 5 times and expect to beat any quality opponent, which the Jets certainly were!)
The Colt team was coached by Weeb Eubank before Shula was hired after he was fired. The Jets were the better team and the Colts changed nothing for game. Namsths quick release & drop back. If they played ten games, Jets would have won nine of them,
Huge impact on the era and society. 19 pt underdog is still the most points against a team in a championship game in any sport ANYWHERE AND YET THEY WON! The AFL Hippies. The Rebels beat The NFL Squares. The Establishment. The Man. Joe was huge. HOFer if he only played THAT GAME! Hey BTW the 1969 Jets were GOOD. HOFers & near HOFers. Professionals.
Joe Willie was the first QB to throw for 4000 yards. His arm, release, dropback combo is probably history's finest. An UNGODLY right arm. There was substance underneath the glitter of the Broadway Joe persona. An extraordinary talent. A champion.
Pop culture does not define morality. Cause and effect does. Squares= people who cannot be rolled into any direction, like circles, that fads push them toward= individual thinkers who respect cause and effect, and don't let other peer pressure change their view of logic and responsibility. I think the 1960's were one of the most overrated decades in history thanks to the rise of copycat "individuality", which of course is contradictory; aint it? It was also the beginning of the sexual revolution which brought on high divorce, abortion, single parent households, a spike in rape stats, and lack of responsibility, and worship of the birth control pill instead of abstinence and adulthood. Then, there was the extended adolescence with perpetual dating, and living together, and the ending of marriage as the ultimate ideal, or faithfulness in marriage, for that matter.. And, I did not even get into drug usage spikes..and nihilistic violence. Yep, busted up families, and a decaying society. Austin Powers was full of bleep! The only good thing from the 1960's was civil rights stands by American Blacks. Otherwise... 1960's= OVERRATED That is what I think.
@@robertsprouse9282 As to your grand sociological ponderings, my response is 😴😴😴 Nice conservative humdrum, but no real substance. Our society's true decline began with the beginning of the attenuation of the middle class, around 1980. As it happens, just around the time that a conservative champion took office, whose domestic policies, in the main, were shown to be quite destructive.
@@joeclayton2121 The 2010 AFC Divison Round against the Asterisks was also a thing of beauty. I would like to see at least one more playoff win, though.
@@danieldougan269 you haven't won anything since the Eagles won it you lost to the Jets in a wild card game, the Jets hahahahaha that must have hurt colts missed the playoffs in 2021 bills beat them in a wild card game in 2020 missed the playoff in 2019 and now you have caron wentz last season will be his best season he gets hurt a lot and he's not clutch losing seasons in our future
Tom Matte came off as the definition of a sore loser here. For a grown man still to be holding grudges and acting that way, he should be ashamed of himself.
@@davidr5961 Sample wasn't a dirty player. What did he do? He covered receivers as well as he could, made tackles and interceptions! Matte is a CRY BABY!
I was curious about the play before the half, the "flea-flicker" where Morrall doesn't see Orr, after watching this. If you find the full game posting, you see there is no band in the endzone, but there is special seating that comes down almost right to the back of the endzone (within 5 yards). These are the faces you see behind Orr in the video here. The full posting also shows a replay from the endzone view and it really looks like Morrall never looks for Orr. Seems like he locks in on Hill the whole play. You can also find a "this week in pro football" (TWIPF) for week two of 1968 and one of the highlights is that exact play run against Atl and Morrall throws to Orr. They ran the play from the same location on the field and also fooled Atl for an easy touchdown catch by Orr.
Maury Himes, The play against Atlanta, was also shown in the original NFL Films Super Bowl production. Granted, it was run against a putrid defense (save Humphreys, Nobis, and Reaves), but Orr was the sole target when the Colts used it then, resulting in a laughably easy score. Putting aside all the speculation of shenanigans since then (Morrall was paid off), it seems hard to fathom of any possible excuse, revolving around a time-sensitive issue (the angle of the sun at that end of the field, the band's presence, or the seating you mention, being distractions), that plausibly could've forced Morrall to totally ignore the single receiver the play was designed to target. Hell, even if it was thrown poorly in Orr's direction, he could've easily (and without a defender to prevent it) made an adjustment to catch the pass, which might have prevented him from scoring, but would've put the Colts, very close in with a play or two remaining to get some points on the board by halftime, and capitalize on such a vital opportunity.
That's what makes Morrall's INT throw to Hill so perplexing. Orr was the primary receiver on the play and Morrall NEVER even looked at him. Gowdy says that Orr was wide open but Morrall didn't see him. But how can you not notice the play's primary receiver ? Morrall had a terrible game that day and cost the Colts BTW - the Colts, having learned no lesson about running this play, also ran it two years later on the exact same field in Super Bowl V against the Cowboys. Sam Havrilak took the handoff and was supposed to lateral back to Morrall, but the Cowboys sniffed it out and forced Havrilak to keep the ball instead. He threw downfield to John Mackey, but Eddie Hinton grabbed it instead. Hinton turned upfield and looked about to score when he was caught from behind by Cornell Green, and he fumbled into and through the endzone for a touchback. So the Colts ran this play twice in the Super Bowl, both times with disastrous results.
I grew up in beaver falls .right across the street from beaver falls high school, I remember all the practices,football,Larry Bruno, baseball ,don casy ,joe smarts,track and field,I was 9 years old,my brother played football and track and field’s, I remember coaches saying tackle them by the knees,it’s the closest thing to you,I swear to god I played at 10 year old midgets football first play in pads Sid Robinson , 2 years of midget football ,right at my knees could not walk 6 months I was big and strong ,I was done in football, forever,later I found my a little was tore up,I would say joe Namath got tore up in beaver falls, and all the woman wanted to rent by the high school because of joe
The Colts were a great team but the Jets were underrated...in single elimination any thing can happen....look at Jim Valvano with NC State in 1983...not a fan of either team but when I look back it's one of the precious memories of being a fan..
18:05 - Perhaps the most overlooked contributing factor to the Jets' upset victory over the Colts was the kicking game. New York's Jim Turner was simply a better placekicker than Baltimore's Lou Michaels. Two of Turner's three field goals were from 30 and 32 yards; Michaels, by contrast, couldn't even make one from 27. If each had played for the other team, the game would have been tied at 10 at the end of the fourth quarter.
Fantastic point, ST. as a Jets fan I was terrified that the Colts were not only going to win decisively, but they would hurt Namath. First drive they come rolling down the field, looking like a college team going against the freshman. When Michaels missed that short FG attempt, I was elated. Felt like Jets had dodged a bullet. Jets kept getting turnovers and did some scoring - and the miracle was on.
@@kelvinkloud, except when he had that fg kick blocked vs Washington in Super Bowl 7 and volleyballed it into Mike Bass long td return to put the Skins on the board. That cost my late Dad 200 bucks.
I certainly think the Colts were maybe the strongest of all NFL teams, but the Jets were good enough to beat them. The Colts wasted chance after chance to put them away early. I was very disappointed, but you can't give great teams like the Jets all those opportunities to stay in the game.
When you think about it this was not really an upset.The Jets matched up very well against the Colts.The Jets offensive line was far superior to the Colts.Snell and Boozer were better than Matte and whomever.Maynard and Lammons were better than than Orr and Mackey(getting old).Only Richardson was a threat but Morrall's arm was suspect , Finally Morrall beating Namath? No Way.The Jets defense was not spectacular but they were solid and coached by Buddy Ryan.The bookies must have had a killing on this one.
@@docsmithdc, Morrall's arm wasn't suspect (he was the league MVP). That belonged to Unitas. If the former had made even one less of his grievous errors, the game's outcome may well have been otherwise, even precluding the latter's entrance, which must have felt galvanizing to the team. Mind you, I'm not suggesting that Morrall was anywhere near Namath's equal (or any of the other AFL QB's whom Namath claimed were better than his opposite number). But, he had shown the capability necessary to, at a minimum, keep the Colts on pace with the Jets during the game, if not win it outright. That he demonstrably choked, may owe to his never having been placed in such an exalted game, with a genuinely worthy opponent, at any time, in an already long NFL career.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 I thought that Johnny Sample's comment about Morrall'spasses were telling.His comments also reminded me of something I told die hard NFL supporters about the quarterback for the Vikings that would play in the next Superbowl and that was that every time Joe Kapp put the ball in the air it would be intercepted and I was right.
And the Philadelphia eagles hadn't won a title since 1960 before 2017 your point ? Red Sox didn't win a world series since 1918 before 2004 even the Chicago cubs won a world series after 100 years so what ? The jets can get it done one day you never know.
Between Morall's interception and Tom Matte's fumble, a lot of people starting saying the fix was in. At the time nobody seemed to want to accept that the Jets were clearly the better team on this day.
Amazing how few flags there were in this game until near the end of the 4th Q when play got a little chippy. If this game were played today, there would be constant interruptions with flags and replay review. Among many historic artifacts in this game is Gowdy's referral to periods and not quarters.
and it was the chief's win in SB IV that actually solidified the AFL's parity with the NFL. but, sadly, it was the last game played by any AFL team. I think it would've been better if the 2 leagues remained separate and met just once a year in the super bowl. MLB has been doing this over a century now and its seems to work really well.
This has never been brought up. It's now 50 yrs later. When the Colts had the ball, 4th & 5, late in the game.... why didn't Shula just kick the FG?? It was a chip shot. That would have made the score 16-10. And... Shula still had 3 timeouts. Simply kickoff to the Jets, you know they are going to try to run the clock, and burn your timeouts. The Colts would have gotten the ball back with a shot.
@@mikeforte7585 Well, he was a decent defensive lineman, in fact, made the Pro Bowl twice. Even by '68, it was becoming rare to see position players be the full time kickers. Based on the standards of the era in which he played, he was about average in accuracy, or a bit better, over the course of his career, at nearly 55%. Still, he didn't exactly shine in that game. The Colts didn't 'fix' their kicking situation until 1970, by drafting O'Brien. Even though he was nothing to write home about, I wonder if he had been around in '68, it might have made a substantive difference in the game's outcome. On the other hand, despite making the gimme game winner in Super Bowl V, his performance on that stage, was hardly stellar.
@ 30:00 Johnny Sample showed class...... @ 30:07 Tom Matte does not. But I like how Matte says he won't talk about Sample, right after he talked about Sample.
Sample class??. You need another sample here. Two different things in what you say versus how you act. How was it class what Sample did to Matte in in SB III.......
Had the Colts won this game, they would still be in Baltimore to this day. They never would have moved to Indianapolis. The name "Indianapolis Colts" still doesn't roll off the tongue right.
Huh? The Colts didn’t move until after the 1983 season over 14 years later. They moved cause the city had no intention of investing in a new stadium and Indianapolis just built the Hoosier Dome.
Please explain how losing Super Bowl III is the reason why the colts moved to Indianapolis. The Colts won Super Bowl V did isn't the reason why they would have stayed in Baltimore. The Colts moved to Baltimore because Indianapolis made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
The first hint of Earl Morrall's bad day? 17:25 See how wide-open Jerry Richardson was in the corner of the end zone on that incomplete pass to Tom Mitchell in the right flat. Also, Curt Gowdy's "play by play" is interesting, clearly he's just doing a voice-over to the game film... not bad, just an interesting trick by NFL Films to attempt a "live broadcast" personality to the show.
@@ajhartman8589 No, it wasn't. This was not the PBP Gowdy did in the original NBC telecast it's a fake PBP call done for this presentation only. They did a similar thing with Ray Scott for their Ice Bowl film (these were the days when NFL Films REALLY had an aversion to using original telecast material and were the last major sports league to permit replays of classic telecasts). They should have used the authentic radio call for this and not used a fake call manufactured decades after the fact. The NBC telecast you can find elsewhere on YT and you''ll know right away this is not the original version.
@@epaddon Wow. I thought for sure it was live. btw, I thank you muchly for that YT post of the radio broadcast. That's how I experienced Super III. I was 12 on a bus riding back through snow and the Poconos from Easton, Pennsylvania (relatives) to Rochester, New York (family). A few old men (well, old to me at the time) had a transistor radio and got increasingly frustrated as the bus rolled North. I remember the signal kept fading in and out through the mountains but that just added to the tension. When the game was over, I was the only happy person listening, But I never let on that I was rooting for the Jets (AFL, Broadway Joe, white shoes - perfect for a rebellious almost teenager). Anyway, thanks again for the radio broadcast. I won't have a chance to listen until I'm home from work, but I am quite looking forward to it. Pure nostalgia. I may even turn on the blender now and then to add some "static". " )
R.I.P.
#13 Don Maynard 🏈
"Mr. AFL"
God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era.
Maynard was a mean ole boy that could beat anybody deep one on one.
The two games that contributed the most to the growth and popularity of the NFL were the 1958 championship game (Colts-Giants) and Super Bowl 3 (Jets-Colts) Both had the same winning, and underrated, head coach Weeb Ewbank.
Namath a Class Act. Namath's narrative tribute to Unitas as they went out to the 50 yard line before the game started changed my view of Namath in to deep respect and admiration! I was a young pup and admired Unitas as his career was ending. I watched that game in a fog as the Jets beat the then Titanic Team in the Colts! (The real BALTIMORE Colts!)
I was 9 yrs old when I watched that game and it took almost 40 years for me to "forgive" Namath/Jets. I still hate The Jets though, sorry, not sorry.
Namath is real classy. Drunk out of his mind on national TV.
Now he’s shilling for some worthless junk to senior citizens.
Then there were the annual retirements.
Remember when he said he would quit football rather than give up his bar (bachelors 3). He even literally cried a little.
@@sludge4125 You're just being creepy.
@@sludge4125, does he owe you money?
Of course. Unitas wasn't just the best QB in the NFL he was Namath's home boy from Western PA. Young Namath modeled his football game on Unitas's game as a high schooler in Beaver Falls.
Three classic quarterbacks: Namath, Unitas, Morrall. I always thought that Namath played his professional career at 75%. That knee injury at Alabama. He got nothing but real bad medical advice and the doctors didn't know shit about knee surgery then. Like Bobby Orr in hockey, Namath played injured and still was really good. If he would have been 100% he would have been one of the best ever and probably won another Super Bowl with the Jets.
Jeffrey G, Morrall, classic? Really? He had some decent seasons before he landed in Baltimore, but for 12 years he had to be considered pretty much a bust for being such a high draft choice. Granted, once in Baltimore, his career morphed into a much more productive one, that earned him an MVP, and a deserved reputation as a great backup. But, in no way, does he even come close to belonging in the conversation of the sport's top quarterbacks.
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The Jet players and coaches that had NFL experience were familiar with Earl Morrall and they did not fear him leading up to Super Bowl III. They thought him mediocre at best, and the game films they watched to prepare for that game confirmed their opinion of him.
As for Namath, with the possible exception of Bob Griese, I believe he's certainly the most undeserving QB in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He threw for a lot of yardage, but he also threw way way way too many interceptions. He simply did not make smart decisions from the pocket and did not take care of the ball. He is the only Hall of Fame QB in the modern era of the game that threw more INT's than TD passes. Moreover, after beating the Colts in SB III he played, like 7-8 more years, but in all that time he actually defeated exactly one opponent with a winning record. All his victories thereafter came against opponents that would end up with final records of 3-11, 4-12 or 5-9. He simply wasn't a big game QB (it probably had something to do with all those picks he threw)
@@TheMrSuge The thing with Namath is people say "We'll, he was great at the start of his career and an incredible talent, but injuries did him in, so he deserves to be in HOF for what he accomplished when healthy". Then why doesn't the opposite apply to Jim Plunkett? He was the best QB talent to ever come out of college injured and battered at the start of his career with awfully bad teams, but once he took over the Raiders, he was incredible, 38-19 in the regular season, 8-2 in the playoffs with 2 SB victories. And unlike Joe, Jim could run a little and throw back against his body. Jim should be in if Joe is in. Griese in the HOF is a travesty; he had 1/10 the talent of Namath or Plunkett, was the ultimate game manager who happened to be on one of the greatest teams of his era.
@@jonburrows8602 I agree with you about Plunkett, deserves some HOF consideration. They just put his coach (Tom Flores) in the HOF. He waited too long considering he had a .610 winning pct. as Raiders' coach and coached 2 Super Bowl wins. But maybe now they'll also re-visit and re-evaluate Plunkett's career as well.
By beef with Namath is that his knees had nothing to do with his deficiencies as a quarterback. It was his head, NOT his knees that kept him from his potential. He simply made terrible decisions in the pocket. That's a mental deficiency, not a physical one.
@@jonburrows8602 Jim Plunkett _should_ be in the HOF. That doesn't take away from the fact that Namath truly did change the game and how it was played. That's why he's in.
When i was younger, Joe Namath was a hero for me. I collected Joe Namath rookie cards like a mad man. After school, I went into the Army, did a tour in Vietnam, got out and got married. Years later, i mentioned spider man comic books to my mother, and she said if you stoll want them, theyre in the attic. I got up there, and found 12 Namath rookie cards. Almost lost two of them. I was about to leave a copy of Orwell's book, 1984, but remembered i had written stuff in the margins. When i opened it, two pristine Namath rookie cards fell out. It was like finding a gold mine.
Joe had nothing to lose by predicting a Jet victory ? .. Well .. They sure played like they expected to win .. They went balls out like they KNEW they were gonna win ..
Joe just said what everyone on the Jets was already thinking.
SB 2 Lamonica said what Joe willie did , We're gonna win! WTH.
It was in the script.
@1USACitizen192 Script is right. This SB like many others was predetermined.
@@eac1235 Money and gambling corrupt all sport.
It turned out that the Jets' star receiver, Don Maynard, had been injured in the AFL Championship game, but the Colts didn't know it. The Jets used him as a decoy, and the Colts double-covered him so he didn't catch a pass all game, but they left George Sauer in single coverage, and he had a huge game.
True and The Colts Were Shocked of What They Saw That Day in Super Bowl 3!
@@vinceniederman Namath worked the colts zone defense very well, ball control and timely passes. Sauer had a great game as did Matt Snell.
@@victorsforza6213 So True and Matt Should Had Been MVP Instead!
@@vinceniederman could made a case for sauer as well. Still it was Joe Namath who was the star no problem that he was named MVP of SB 3
@@victorsforza6213 Yup Dispite Not Throwing a TD Pass at All!
i met earl christy
from this game the punt returner yesterday in walmart... i have pics lol.... he grabbed my hand and put his super bowl ring on my finger... that was so cool!!
April, 2007, As I concluded with my beloved mom's eulogy, I faced the people in attendance; feeling very humbled and grateful for all the people that were there, especially many of my colleagues, that I never expected to even be there, offering their sincere condolences, because they all knew that my mom died in my arms, & said: "Joe Willie Namath once said it, & now I'm going to say it! 3 weeks from now, I will walk across that stage as I graduate from Law School, I GUARANTEE it." & I did!
Congratulations
18:19 How times have changed. Can u imagine a fan at this year's Super Bowl being able to grab the football after a missed field goal?
And how about no nets to catch the extra points going into the stands?
Can u imagine a average fan or family going to a super bowl! Quit watching the nfl along time ago. Just watch stuff like this, I'm sure the League cares.
As a member of the Hialeah High Marching Thoroughbred Band I performed in the pregame and halftime shows of both Super Bowl II and Super Bowl III in the Orange 🍊 Bowl in Miami. The Jets warmed up in the East End Zone right in front of us as we sat in temporary bleachers.
The speed of the Jets defense, especially the the defensive ends, really affected the Colts timing. Matt Snell ate the Colts up with power runs mostly to the left behind Winston Hill. What cracked the Colts IMO was the same defensive plan that had overwhelmed everyone else was completely diffused by Namath audibles running away from the vaunted blitz and then beating the blitz by quick flares out of the backfield.
BTW if you notice in the highlights the Marching Band wearing red coats, blue hats in the East End Zone, that is the Marching Thoroughbred Band. I still vividly remember when Namath trotted out for pregame warmups from the North Sideline, the crowd hooted and booed Namath, who just never looked up or acknowledged anyone. Just trotted out and started launching arching passes effortlessly. Wow 😮
Saw that Super Bowl and the Jets shook up the eworld, we had a great Xmas that year and nothing beat Broadway Joe and eating pnuts and coca cola watching the vaunted Colts get their a## kicked
Just a thought, if your band had been in the opposite end zone, maybe Unitas would have seen how often Jimmy Orr was wide open instead of getting lost in a sea of blue uniforms worn by the Baltimore Colts Marching Band.
What killed the Colts that day was Earl Morrall, who had a terrible day. He made bad decisions from the pocket, threw picks and incomplete passes, missed open receivers. A half-way competant QB would've put 24 points on the board in the first half. The Colts kicker had a bad day, too.
@@TheMrSuge The speed and pressure of the Jets defensive ends, Philbin and Biggs knocked Morral off rythym plus there was a 15-25 mph gusting wind from the Northeast which swirled around the OB. Unitas did not fare much better. The real shock to Baltimore was Namath checking to flare passes to backs to negate vaunted blitz on defense. Imagine that both Don Shula and Chuck Noll were coaching the Colts, who both moved to head coaches in the AFL and won 6 of 10 Super Bowls in the 1970’s.
I know Joe won’t see this but what a hero he was to this little country boy in Michigan . Every time ran outside play football I had scream I’m Joe Namath :) Thanks Mr. Namath made me better ball player just knowing you were playing..
Great story! Joe influenced my family in the same way.
As a life long Jets fan who remembers this game as a kid I always seem to forget Buddy Ryan's presence at SB III. And what about Weeb's direct impact on BOTH the 1958 NFL title game as well as this seminal contest? Uncanny...
Chuck Noll was on the sidelines for the Colts.
The matchup that day was Buddy Ryan's defense against Chuck Noll's defense.
@@TheMrSugethe next year Chuck Noll became head coach of the Steelers and ended up winning 4 SB
The next year Noll became head coach of the Steelers who only won one game that first year Noll was at Pittsburgh but end up winning 4 SB before he retired
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Browns owner Art Modell recommended to Art Rooney that he hire Noll. Noll's Colts had just defeated Modell's Browns in the '68 NFL Championship Game, 34-0. Modell told Rooney that Noll's defense shutting out the Browns was so impressive a feat that he'd probably make a good HC. Rooney agreed to hire Noll, but following the Colts' embarrassing loss in Super Bowl 3 he started having second thoughts. Modell, however, talked him into going through with the hire. Modell probably regretted doing that.
Most don't realize that much of the credit for the Jets' outstanding defense that season goes to the great Buddy Ryan, who was the defensive line coach then. He was instrumental in setting the game plan to defeat Baltimore, and of course, he later became world famous as the defensive coordinator for the 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears, which many consider the greatest defense ever.
Walt Michaels was the defensive coordinator, Ryan was the defensive line coach.
Ryan was the DC for the Jets, also DC for the Viking SB teams and Bears he coached 3 SB defenses
12YO Winston-Salem, NC SUPER BOWL CHAMPS First PRE-SEASON game after Jets huge victory in Miami (featured Minnesota Vikings with Joe Kapp) vs. NY JETS with Broadway Joe. Well Namath to Maynard for 73 yard TD. I was amazed at how agile and big pro-players were. What a great game, and incredible day.
Yeah , living in camel city too, wanted to go to that exhibition awful bad. I envy you.
I was at that game as a 10 year old. Went with my older brother, his friend and my best friend. I remember Namath getting so mad that he took his helmet off and slammed it to the ground.
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Watched this game in Lakewood, California. I was just a college kid at the time and pulling for the underdog and was an incredible victory for the Jets. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah, memories. I'm a Wisconsinite, and was a 14 year old fresh off 2 Packer Super Bowl wins. But there was something about Namath and The Jets that made us pull for them.
Baltimore missed opportunity after opportunity. Earl Moral missing the wide open reciever down the field and throwing the interception was a microcosm of the game. Joe Willy did enough to cement his legacy. I garantee we'll win, he said. And did exactly that. KUDOS!!
Yeah. I kept thinking that Baltimore's flaw was a QB that couldn't throw a pass hard on a line. Namath was so much better.
fascinating explanation by Namath about how they would call many plays right at the line after looking at the defense :)
Every team does that.
@@TheMrSuge Not in 68/69.
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Of course in 68/69 ... and earlier. Unitas was doing it back in the 1950's. Paul Brown was criticized by his QB's in the late 50' and early '60's for not allowing them to change the play at the line (because every other QB in the NFL had that authority except for Browns' QB's, and they thought his prohibition was holding back the offense).
I was a young Navy Seabee in the barracks that Sunday afternoon. I'm 75 now and wish I was back at Lemore NAS again.
Winston Hill made the HOF...well deserved...he literally destroyed Ordel Brasse as he helped Matt Snell rush for 135 yards..Winston wss a real class act and a great lineman that actually had to know how to block...with out the open hand technique..they use today.
And, was a Colts cut years earlier, right? As was Sample..
@@robertsprouse9282 ur right about that
@@mikeforte7585, Sample also played for WASH.& PITT. IN THE NFL..
More drivel from a boomer. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
You play by the rules at the time. Your comment about the different rules in place at the time sounds like whiny bitterness.
Joe NAMATH puso la moda de zapatos Blancos
Gerry Philbien was another unsung hero,along with George Sauer.
@29:00 Tom Matte is wrong, Johnny Sample never stepped on him...John Elliot (#80) was the one who stepped on Matte.
Hes just being a bitch cuz they lost.
Yes, I went over the replay.. Sample didn't step on him. To this day.. I wonder if Sample ever found out what Matte was pissed about.
john sample was known as a somewhat dirty player but not on this play. Great call. 😊
Curt Gowdy’s broadcasting alone makes this game a hit
Pro trick : watch series on kaldrostream. Me and my gf have been using it for watching a lot of movies these days.
pro tip: you can watch series on flixzone. I've been using them for watching lots of of movies recently.
@Lewis Benson yea, I've been using flixzone} for months myself :)
He's been my favorite announcer for 60 years
JET @ THE COLTS SEPT 24 1972 IWAS THERE IT WAS THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME
You got me to check a YT on that game, narrated by ray Scott. Sure enough, that was a tremendous game.
That was a great game..
Football was better back then.
Super Bowl 3 was also significant because The Jets win kept all the AFL teams together in the AFC with 3 NFL teams joining them, had the lost the AFL and NFL teams would have been shuffled toghether.
Super Bowl IV is what really established the AFL.
The AFL ceased to exist after the 1969 AFL Championship Game! Super Bowl III proved the AFL's best team was better than the NFL's best team! Super Bowl IV proved
the same thing!
Saw this game on tv.. Baltimore blew every chance.. Jets took the moment to the max
And that's the last time the Jets would ever take a moment to the max
Keeping that perfect record intact
Joe Namath was and still is my favorite quarterback.
Namath was average, it was his image that was huge
@@joeclayton2121 he said "favorite" not "best"
@@alexsolimani so? i stated my opinion.
if it "offended" you, go to your "safe space"
@@joeclayton2121 go read the first comment again before firing insults at me for absolutely no reason dumbass
@@joeclayton2121 Namath was a well above average QB whose value far transcended mere statistics
Great documentary. Thanks for sharing.
Sabol sort of alludes to it, but I suspect the rationale for producing this revised version, is all the hubbub over the years, that the original was overtly biased in favor of the Colts, both Sabols being confirmed NFL partisan. Interestingly, after watching it innumerable times, with but a few exceptions, I've never found it to be anywhere near as tilted, as has been so often remarked upon, and that it's easy to be comfortable with, whichever league (or team) one may have been a fan of.
This is Actually "NFL Films; Greatest Games Superbowl" III aka Joe's Guarantee. There's 18 or so episodes but this is one of my favorites with all the Film of Smashmouth runblocking; Matt Snell really was the Jets MVP or their Secondary picking balls off.
george sauer anyone?
The game was so much better back then. It was amazing how close Shula was, with the opportunity to have gone thru undefeated seasons, that year, and then four years later in Miami
I was just 6 years old and this was the first football game I remember watching. We were from NYC, but living for a few years in the Chicago suburbs. My father is a Giants fan and he was mad the Jets won.
Namath was one of the greatest QBs in history but his knees were so bad they expected to get maybe four years out of him in the NFL.
You're correct!
Meh
Greatest? How many playoff wins and appearances? How many winning seasons? Way more pics than touchdowns, abysmal completion percentage. Let's also not forget the fact the FBI has hundreds of pages of documents that indicate he was in on or knew of people helping to fix games. Not to lose but to stay within the betting line. Also how Namath was partying on Saturday night before the SB with 3 defensive players from the Colts. I am supposed to believe that game was on the level? Preposterous!!! Read the book Interference by Dan Moldea and you will learn that ole Joe Willie helped run numbers in Beaver Falls as a teenager. He had indisputable connections to the the underworld. He wasn't the only one ,Lennox Dawson, Alex Karras, Paul Hornung and many others. Billy Kilmers strange relationship with Clint Murchison ( Dall-ass Cowboys original owner) a friendship that should have been investigated by the league but never was.
I loved the AFL. And the ABA.
After reading Mike Curtis' book, I realized the Colts took this game for granted. They were allowed to bring their family's down. Not much curfew I don't think. The Jets? No wives and a curfew. I was a hard core Colts fan. Only 12. I was crushed. I'm still a Colts fan, just not an Indy Colts fan. I'm living my football life in limbo. I'm also a Vols fan. Seeing Peyton Manning in a Colts helmet I thought it was the second coming of Johnny U. Almost!
This game and the first SB (NFL-AFL Championship) were the only SB's that I missed. Don't know why or what I was doing back then to miss this one.
Thanks for sharing this :O)
When football was simply about football.
I know...you were drunk when you posted this insipid rubbish.
1969 was when Miami was still a habitable city. Of course Jimmy Carter and Castro’s Mariel boat lift changed all that. Now it is a cesspool.
Honestly in 2007 after the Giants gave the Patriots a battle in the final week of the season i said that if they play again in the super bowl they would win and i put my money where my my was--cha ching, at 4 to 1, i also had them +6.5 at 2 to 1 and the regular +13.5, i had the under too, that was easy money.
The Jets had many unsung heroes in this game.
Personally, I would have voted Sample for MVP. Then Namath, Snell, & Sauer in order.
Great presentation of a truly iconic game!
It was a must win for the AFL in a lot more ways then one. One was getting the Fan base in a very big way for exceptance of the AFL and getting more interest in the upcoming Super Bowls.
no better pocket passer and what a arm! Joe Willie Namath!
Except for all those interceptions he threw ...
@@TheMrSuge Yeah, and, really, compared to his contemporaries, he wasn’t very special at all.
But for that one day...
As much as I thought Namath directed a great game...I thought Matt Snell should have been the MVP. I wasn't disappointed when Namath won it though...
Remember the following Super Bowl Years. The AFL dominated, this game was no fluke, it was the beginning.
No, the AFC dominated. After the Chiefs win, the Colts, Cowboys, and Steelers, won 7 out of 10 Super Bowls. All were NFL teams. The Colts, and Steelers, moved to the AFC, after the merger.
@@MichaelSimmons. yeah and the Houston Astros are a National League team??
@@treypatterson7856 I would explain the difference to you, but it looks like you wouldn't understand it. The teams I mentioned, that dominated the next ten years, were never part of the AFL. Get someone to explain it to you.
After all these years still my favorite Super Bowl.
The Colts was involved in two of the greatest champions in football history. The 1958 world championship Vs. the New York Giants & 1968-69 superbowl championship Vs. the New York Jets..Weeb Ewbank was the coach of the 58' Colts & the 68' Jets.
The new york jets dominated
The baltimore
Colts got to love it
I remember that game I was 9 years old & a big colts fan still hurts !
I grew up not far from Joe in Youngstown, OH and he was my childhood hero! He used to frequent a bar where my dad bartended and my dad played a lot of pool with him. My dad said he was a great pool player and never caused any problems. My dad LOVED Joe!
Matt Snell was outstanding in this game. Could have been game mvp
Should have been.
Joe had a solid game, but I agree, Snell was the best player on the field that day. Had the best game of his life. The Jets could not run right on the Colts, but props to Hill, Talamini, and Boozer blocking left. They did the job, but credit Snell. He was slash pounding 2-3 yard gains into 5-6 yard gains. I think his longest run was 12 yard. He also caught 3-4 passes for good yardage.
loyaldude10 definitely
@@smitskee Snell also was in the first Lite Beer Commercial.
Naturally the man who made the guarantee was given MVP
I love to watch your game God bless to all of you live long long happy healthy life many many years to come all of you did a super job i came to canada 1970 i never know about this before
9:53 - Namath single-handedly -- or, if you're a bitter Colts fan, single-mouthedly -- made NFL football the most popular professional sport in the country. And the Colts players are actually responsible for this, because the only reason Namath guaranteed victory was that he was tired of listening to them shoot *their* mouths off about how they were going to demolish the Jets.
I agree. The first two Super Bowls had poor attendance and ratings, and the Packers easily won. At that time the general feeling among many was that the NFL was football and the AFL was mickey mouse football. Joe Namath was a flashy personality who sort of pushed the boundaries of what was considered proper. He had sort of long hair and for a football player that was different back then. Plus he was very talented and confident and outspoken. Someone yelled out 'Hey Joe the Colts are gonna kick your ass' and Joe said 'hey now, I've heard about enough of that. We're a better football team. We're gonna win. I guarantee it.' or something close to that.
That probably did more to boost the ratings of Super Bowl 3 and make it a prime time event than anything else. I bet the network carrying the game loved it when he said that. And after the Jets came away the winner it made the Super Bowl the premiere football game of the year ever since.
I cannot think of any other player guaranteeing that his team would win the super bowl. Namath just said what was on his mind in his normal, honest, brash, confident way. His personality and the notoriety of his hard drinking, skirt chasing lifestyle made him an admired, and hated player. People had an opinion of him one way or the other. Namath and the Jets made the Super Bowl the blockbuster ratings event it became and has been ever since.
Has a QB EVER guaranteed a win since this game? Even in regular season? It was beyond the perfect sound bite!
Bill Dawson That whole year was scripted entertainment. Jets, Mets, Knicks, Lunar landing, they didn't fix hockey because nobody gave a rats ass about it
@@russellguercio5357 salty baltimore fan alert
@@VMan29397 Not even remotely a Baltimore fan. It was a statement of the time period. Not of Baltimore sports. It was a time when people were much more gullible and naive. The wool was easily pulled over peoples eyes. I.E. Lava Lamps, Pet Rocks, and most notably government lying about Vietnam to a very susceptible public. Before you reply that I'm a salty 60's, 70's person, not at all, like Cosell, just telling it like it is.
Wisconsin is this was an excellent video I enjoyed learning about Mr nameth Moore he was an excellent player I didn't know him personally but I seen him in 1981 on The Love boat thank you Mr nemeth can I see you on television doing ads for insurance keep up the good work you're an excellent example to other players God bless from Wisconsin the man from Wisconsin remembers Mr name with on television in his acting career thank you😅
Boy just listening to Curt Gowdy again is fantastic, he was the best of the best,there will never be another like him.
bob costas, cosell, madden were all great
I was so happy when The Jets won The AFL Championship Game & when they won Superbowl 111 . I have loved Joe Namath since the 1960s & I still do . To me he will always be the best Quarterback & he will always be my favorite , love Broadway Joe 🏈💚❤
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@@adrianhorodecky5264 Thank you for sharing . Do you know how I can buy on DVDS of the 1968 AFL CHAMPIONSHIP game & Superbowl 111 1969 ?
@@deeely7176 the 1968 AFL championship is not on DVD. NBC must have it in their vaults somewhere. czcams.com/video/s_jtbgcdq50/video.html
I have Super Bowl 3 on a home burned DVD from a VHS tape. It's the same as that link.
This game is a time capsule. The OB is long gone but it played a big role.
I remember this game because I had to report to Fort Leonardwood for Combat Engineer AIT. The reception Sgt was watching the game.
That Sauer fumble is an incomplete pass in the present day
I officiate HS and college football...ur exactly right it should have been ruled an incomplete pass..
Every rule change for the worse ! Biggest bullshit was rules that eliminated roughly 12 plays a game in NFL Used be managing clock you could be down 3 touchdowns 7 minutes left not out of it !; The best play in basketball jump ball they eliminated ! The Sports rules refected the degeneration of the world!!
Gowdy is wrong about Jim Hudson..he DID NOT attend Oklahoma...he went to the university of Texas...he was part of their 1963 national championship team...
And a darn good safety he was.😎
U. TEXAS, TEX TECH, AND UTEP produced the stars other than NAMATH, for the JETS. LAMMONS, HUDSON, SAUER ALL U.TEX..UTEP(TEXAS WESTERN)= MAYNARD..
TEX. TECH= BAKE TURNER..
@@robertsprouse9282 Bake Turner, a true name from the past, though he was a league all-star once.
@@mitchellmelkin4078, solid receiver for Namath in their three to four player rotation.
During his AFL career had two seasons over 900 yards(a lot of yards back then).
Yes, he was cut by the NFL, I believe Baltimore or NYGIANTS earlier in the decade, but made some nice catches in the playoffs that year for NYJETS in '68-69, and was still in the pros, in the NFL post merger with N.E., also jumped to the WFL, but was about thru at that point when the WIFFLE folded..he and SAUER were hurt in the WFL, and when the NY STARS became the Charlotte Hornets and the Houston Texans became the Shreveport Steamer..they quit.
I love these old games that were played on real grass it just adds realism.
Kurt was always my favorite. RIPKurtGowdy
Kurt GOWDY one of the all time GREATS. I loved his fishing shows.
I think it was the AMERICAN SPORTSMEN.
@@dennissaunders5247 Yeah, that was interesting. Gowdy was the NBC main football and baseball guy back then, but he also worked during the winter months for Roone Arledge at ABC, as one of the hosts for The American Sportsmen.
Kurt Gowdy with Paul Christman on AFL games in the 1960s were the best. What a time for pro football.... the AFL on ABC, then NBC and the NFL on CBS. I wish they had kept the 2 leagues separate, with the 2 league champions playing in the Super Bowl each year.
@@Steve915 That would have delighted Al Davis, as you undoubtedly know, as he was the AFL Commissioner, and wanted to continue full bore with the signing war, in which players were being offered outlandish (for the time) contracts to jump ship.
I still have my # 41 Colts Tom matte jersey , but I learned a lot that day about winning and losing . I still have the # 12 Joe Namath jersey I bought later . Namath was great that day , period !
I remember from his book " The Long Pass " , it was after a lost to the Bills where he threw 4 ints. . He took the blame for the loss and began to play ball control , throwing to his backs , that killed the Colts . We destroyed Joe Kapp with that blitz in the Western Conference title game , and Joe Namath was praying we would blitz . A real artists !
I wonder if #80 Elliot (Jets) had ever admitted stepping on #41 Matte's groin?
@@davidbruce5377 That games is like a slow bad dream ! The missed field goals , flea flicker TD ( 28 Orr ) missed . Interceptions in the end zones . Matte's fumble ! 58 yard run for nothing ? Namath controlled the 3rd quarter then the game ! It 's like your on the Titanic and you know its going down and the clock keeps ticking ! I still watch those drives ending with a touchdown instead of an interception ? Jimmy Orr gathering that easy TD pass all alone in the end zone before the half ? Bubba Smith destroying Dave Herman on route to Joe Namath , again and again ? Not going to happen ! They simply outplayed the Colts ! Weeb won two world championships in 1958-59 . Shula lost a world championship to Cleveland in 1964 ? Why were the Jets 18 point underdogs ?
Ironic that Snell and Matte wore 41 and Matte preceded Snell at OSU.
Fumble notwithstanding, Matte was the MVP if the Colts won. He ran wild all day. Bill Curry said Matte was the best football player on the Colts. He was also, a great hockey player.
@@davidbruce5377... Matte hated Sample because he had been a Colt and was caught rifling the pockets of his teammates pants in the locker room. Sample was cut and unofficially blackballed even though he was very good, forcing him into the AFL, undoubtedly because Ewbank remembered him.
Great odd moment in American sports history, and this game opened the door to more democratic forms of sports fanfare, where the underdog could be considered wonderful. If only such doors didn't lead to chaos, this would've cemented a permanent Colts-Jets rivalry! Wonderful documentary!
With modern replay would George Sauer's fumble be ruled not a catch? It doesn't look like he ever had control. He certainly didn't make 'a football move'.
Under the interpretation of the catch rule in force in 1968, THAT was indeed considered a catch and a fumble.
Two things:
Watching the hitting in this game, makes one realize it's impossible to compare today's players with this old, tough players. If Namath came up today, he'd be Tom Brady.
Weeb was so underrated. The only coach to win championships in both leagues, but only us old folks from NY and Baltimore know that (and of course, Joe Benigno! :-)
Wonderful production. NFL films was top entertainment.
The Jets were a pretty big team, all those years and times I've watch this game i just now noticed that😊
“There were the 30,000 empty seats (at the L.A. Coliseum for Super Bowl I)”.
And there are enough people who claimed to have been there to fill the L.A. Coliseum at least five times...
How many people saw the game on both networks?I watched it live on NBC then saw the CBS tape in April that year as the network showed it on a Saturday afternoon because of a strike prevented them for televising a golf tournament.Even better,I saw it on black and white on NBC and in color on CBS.
@@rentslave, related to the JETS player and future announcer John Dockery?
@@robertsprouse9282 His family is from the same town in Ireland as was my grandfather,but that's all I know.
I met John at Yonkers in Jan.1973.He was drawing a name for a trip to the upcoming Superbowl.I kidded around with him that there would have been a riot had he picked out my entry.
Ray Scott and Curt Gowdy are examples of how a game should be called
Curt always called the 4PM AFL game on Sundays. It was the greatest of times. School homework just HAD to wait.
Personally, i always liked Frank Giff
Joe Proctor I grew up listening to Curt Gowdy, he was then and he would be today one of the best.
The announcers were Curt Gowdy, Kyle Rote and Al DeRogatis. Who is Ray Scott?
I kinda like Keith Jackson version of game calling.
I'm 77 and have been a Jets fan forever
I cried for a week !!!!
And, you were what 32, then?
A lot of people are still crying today! We should have had a best 2 out of 3. Baltimore. Just like in SB 4, the Chiefs and the Vikings opened the 1970 season and the Vikings thrashed them.
@@Mr.56Goldtop, but the teams going in knew they had just one shot, and that was equal on a neutral field for both clubs. A one game shot is a de-facto game seven or in 2 of 3, game three.
Secondly, and by no stretch am I a CHIEFS FAN= BRONCOS instead, KAPP held out and was released the next season, eventually getting hurt and washing out with BOSTON THAT SEASON. Gary Cuozzo a decent starter, mostly backup, was the qback starter. KC in a roadgame took MINNY lightly and knew they were not in a must-win as in a Super Bowl. The following week in Balty, CHIEFS fully engaged in a must-win beat the eventual World Champs 44-24..
That Chiefs team still did not make the playoffs that season, but did make them the following campaign, only to lose in KC to MIAMI in double o-time. That same Chiefs group never again after the 2 ot loss, made the playoffs. It wasn't till Mackovic in the mid '80's that they made the playoffs in the wild card, and lost..
@Mike Fleming, glad to inadvertently help, lol..
It was a MNFOOTBALL LOSS IN BALTY. KC LED 24.. or 31-7 AT THE HALF, I THINK..
@M Flem , 1970 Chiefs, not '71. The Super Bowl victory capped the 1969 season.
It's nice to see professional athletes behaving like adults on the field.
Well done
On the Sauer fumble, there was no so-called-today "football move," therefore incomplete, right. Watch and wait for it.
In the present day that’s an Incomplete pass
I officiate football today and Sauers fumble then would definitely be an incomplete pass today....new officials are also instructed to call it that way..
Agree. It just looked like a dropped pass. Incomplete.
The Colts came into this game flat and overconfident--the number of turnovers, blown plays, etc clearly illustrate this. Namath called a smart game with ball control and sustained drives, and the Jets took care of the football. They were CLEARLY the better team on this day. (I think if they played each other 10 times the Colts would win 7--but you can't cough up the football 5 times and expect to beat any quality opponent, which the Jets certainly were!)
Yes, it could have easily been 28-7, Colts, at the half. I was a 6th grader and still ticked that Unitas didn't start the 2nd half.
The Colt team was coached by Weeb Eubank before Shula was hired after he was fired. The Jets were the better team and the Colts changed nothing for game. Namsths quick release & drop back. If they played ten games, Jets would have won nine of them,
Fixed
@@mikemcpherson4785 bullshit- easily coulda been 23 -0 jetsearly in 4th qtr.
bullshit. 7 of 10? jets easily win 6 of 10. remember, the jets beat a better team in oakland to get to the super bowl.
Huge impact on the era and society. 19 pt underdog is still the most points against a team in a championship game in any sport ANYWHERE AND YET THEY WON! The AFL Hippies. The Rebels beat The NFL Squares. The Establishment. The Man. Joe was huge. HOFer if he only played THAT GAME! Hey BTW the 1969 Jets were GOOD. HOFers & near HOFers. Professionals.
Joe Willie was the first QB to throw for 4000 yards.
His arm, release, dropback combo is probably history's finest.
An UNGODLY right arm.
There was substance underneath the glitter of the Broadway Joe persona.
An extraordinary talent.
A champion.
Pop culture does not define morality. Cause and effect does.
Squares= people who cannot be rolled into any direction, like circles, that fads push them toward= individual thinkers who respect cause and effect, and don't let other peer pressure change their view of logic and responsibility.
I think the 1960's were one of the most overrated decades in history thanks to the rise of copycat "individuality", which of course is contradictory; aint it? It was also the beginning of the sexual revolution which brought on high divorce, abortion, single parent households, a spike in rape stats, and lack of responsibility, and worship of the birth control pill instead of abstinence and adulthood.
Then, there was the extended adolescence with perpetual dating, and living together, and the ending of marriage as the ultimate ideal, or faithfulness in marriage, for that matter..
And, I did not even get into drug usage spikes..and nihilistic violence.
Yep, busted up families, and a decaying society.
Austin Powers was full of bleep!
The only good thing from the 1960's was civil rights stands by American Blacks.
Otherwise...
1960's= OVERRATED
That is what I think.
@@robertsprouse9282 As to your grand sociological ponderings, my response is 😴😴😴 Nice conservative humdrum, but no real substance. Our society's true decline began with the beginning of the attenuation of the middle class, around 1980. As it happens, just around the time that a conservative champion took office, whose domestic policies, in the main, were shown to be quite destructive.
How about 42 to 1?
My Jets.... Greatest upset...
only one you'll probably ever see too...like me and my eagles lol
@@joeclayton2121 The 2010 AFC Divison Round against the Asterisks was also a thing of beauty. I would like to see at least one more playoff win, though.
Have they done anything since? I believe their best season since then was 2009, when my Colts kicked their asses in the AFC Championship.
@@danieldougan269 A season later, your Colts lost to these very Jets in the Wild Card Round.
@@danieldougan269 you haven't won anything since the Eagles won it
you lost to the Jets in a wild card game, the Jets hahahahaha that must have hurt
colts missed the playoffs in 2021
bills beat them in a wild card game in 2020
missed the playoff in 2019
and now you have caron wentz
last season will be his best season
he gets hurt a lot and he's not clutch
losing seasons in our future
Funny to watch . Colt fans still can’t get over this loss..lmfao.
Wish Super Bowl 4 had a recap like this
That fumble 20:40 was actually an incomplete pass imo
Tom Matte came off as the definition of a sore loser here. For a grown man still to be holding grudges and acting that way, he should be ashamed of himself.
but you have to admit, Sample was such a dirty player
Embarassment does not go away..
@@davidr5961 Sample wasn't a dirty player. What did he do? He covered receivers as well as he could, made tackles and interceptions! Matte is a CRY BABY!
This is an awesome game
I was curious about the play before the half, the "flea-flicker" where Morrall doesn't see Orr, after watching this. If you find the full game posting, you see there is no band in the endzone, but there is special seating that comes down almost right to the back of the endzone (within 5 yards). These are the faces you see behind Orr in the video here. The full posting also shows a replay from the endzone view and it really looks like Morrall never looks for Orr. Seems like he locks in on Hill the whole play. You can also find a "this week in pro football" (TWIPF) for week two of 1968 and one of the highlights is that exact play run against Atl and Morrall throws to Orr. They ran the play from the same location on the field and also fooled Atl for an easy touchdown catch by Orr.
Maury Himes, The play against Atlanta, was also shown in the original NFL Films Super Bowl production. Granted, it was run against a putrid defense (save Humphreys, Nobis, and Reaves), but Orr was the sole target when the Colts used it then, resulting in a laughably easy score.
Putting aside all the speculation of shenanigans since then (Morrall was paid off), it seems hard to fathom of any possible excuse, revolving around a time-sensitive issue (the angle of the sun at that end of the field, the band's presence, or the seating you mention, being distractions), that plausibly could've forced Morrall to totally ignore the single receiver the play was designed to target.
Hell, even if it was thrown poorly in Orr's direction, he could've easily (and without a defender to prevent it) made an adjustment to catch the pass, which might have prevented him from scoring, but would've put the Colts, very close in with a play or two remaining to get some points on the board by halftime, and capitalize on such a vital opportunity.
That's what makes Morrall's INT throw to Hill so perplexing.
Orr was the primary receiver on the play and Morrall NEVER even looked at him.
Gowdy says that Orr was wide open but Morrall didn't see him. But how can you not notice the play's primary receiver ?
Morrall had a terrible game that day and cost the Colts
BTW - the Colts, having learned no lesson about running this play, also ran it two years later on the exact same field in Super Bowl V against the Cowboys. Sam Havrilak took the handoff and was supposed to lateral back to Morrall, but the Cowboys sniffed it out and forced Havrilak to keep the ball instead. He threw downfield to John Mackey, but Eddie Hinton grabbed it instead. Hinton turned upfield and looked about to score when he was caught from behind by Cornell Green, and he fumbled into and through the endzone for a touchback. So the Colts ran this play twice in the Super Bowl, both times with disastrous results.
agreed, Orr was the primary receiver @@mitchellmelkin4078
I grew up in beaver falls .right across the street from beaver falls high school, I remember all the practices,football,Larry Bruno, baseball ,don casy ,joe smarts,track and field,I was 9 years old,my brother played football and track and field’s, I remember coaches saying tackle them by the knees,it’s the closest thing to you,I swear to god I played at 10 year old midgets football first play in pads Sid Robinson , 2 years of midget football ,right at my knees could not walk 6 months I was big and strong ,I was done in football, forever,later I found my a little was tore up,I would say joe Namath got tore up in beaver falls, and all the woman wanted to rent by the high school because of joe
I was in Naval Aviation School, NAS Memphis.
Joe Willie, was THE man !
The Colts were a great team but the Jets were underrated...in single elimination any thing can happen....look at Jim Valvano with NC State in 1983...not a fan of either team but when I look back it's one of the precious memories of being a fan..
18:05 - Perhaps the most overlooked contributing factor to the Jets' upset victory over the Colts was the kicking game. New York's Jim Turner was simply a better placekicker than Baltimore's Lou Michaels. Two of Turner's three field goals were from 30 and 32 yards; Michaels, by contrast, couldn't even make one from 27. If each had played for the other team, the game would have been tied at 10 at the end of the fourth quarter.
Fantastic point, ST. as a Jets fan I was terrified that the Colts were not only going to win decisively, but they would hurt Namath. First drive they come rolling down the field, looking like a college team going against the freshman. When Michaels missed that short FG attempt, I was elated. Felt like Jets had dodged a bullet. Jets kept getting turnovers and did some scoring - and the miracle was on.
@CJ Dillon thank u
good point. shula learned when he got to miami.... garo was a much better kicker & was $.
If my Aunt had nuts, she'd be my uncle.
@@kelvinkloud, except when he had that fg kick blocked vs Washington in Super Bowl 7 and volleyballed it into Mike Bass long td return to put the Skins on the board.
That cost my late Dad 200 bucks.
I certainly think the Colts were maybe the strongest of all NFL teams, but the Jets were good enough to beat them. The Colts wasted chance after chance to put them away early. I was very disappointed, but you can't give great teams like the Jets all those opportunities to stay in the game.
When you think about it this was not really an upset.The Jets matched up very well against the Colts.The Jets offensive line was far superior to the Colts.Snell and Boozer were better than Matte and whomever.Maynard and Lammons were better than than Orr and Mackey(getting old).Only Richardson was a threat but Morrall's arm was suspect , Finally Morrall beating Namath? No Way.The Jets defense was not spectacular but they were solid and coached by Buddy Ryan.The bookies must have had a killing on this one.
@@docsmithdc, Morrall's arm wasn't suspect (he was the league MVP). That belonged to Unitas. If the former had made even one less of his grievous errors, the game's outcome may well have been otherwise, even precluding the latter's entrance, which must have felt galvanizing to the team.
Mind you, I'm not suggesting that Morrall was anywhere near Namath's equal (or any of the other AFL QB's whom Namath claimed were better than his opposite number). But, he had shown the capability necessary to, at a minimum, keep the Colts on pace with the Jets during the game, if not win it outright. That he demonstrably choked, may owe to his never having been placed in such an exalted game, with a genuinely worthy opponent, at any time, in an already long NFL career.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 I thought that Johnny Sample's comment about Morrall'spasses were telling.His comments also reminded me of something I told die hard NFL supporters about the quarterback for the Vikings that would play in the next Superbowl and that was that every time Joe Kapp put the ball in the air it would be intercepted and I was right.
The Colts could've very easily scored 24 first half points.
But they played like a bunch of turds whenever they got in the Red Zone
What's more amazing than this game is that 53 years later the Jets still haven't been back to the Super bowl.
And the Philadelphia eagles hadn't won a title since 1960 before 2017 your point ? Red Sox didn't win a world series since 1918 before 2004 even the Chicago cubs won a world series after 100 years so what ? The jets can get it done one day you never know.
It just shows that when you get to the SB you better damn well win it!!!
But I gotta feeling😜😜😆
@@joshuacruz4244they would've definitely made it if Aaron Rodgers hadn't got hurt
Between Morall's interception and Tom Matte's fumble, a lot of people starting saying the fix was in. At the time nobody seemed to want to accept that the Jets were clearly the better team on this day.
Amazing how few flags there were in this game until near the end of the 4th Q when play got a little chippy. If this game were played today, there would be constant interruptions with flags and replay review. Among many historic artifacts in this game is Gowdy's referral to periods and not quarters.
AND commercials
They were called both.
The reference to the period in the NFL, has not totally disappeared from the lexicon of broadcasters, as insignificant as the point truly is
and it was the chief's win in SB IV that actually solidified the AFL's parity with the NFL. but, sadly, it was the last game played by any AFL team. I think it would've been better if the 2 leagues remained separate and met just once a year in the super bowl. MLB has been doing this over a century now and its seems to work really well.
Interleague play from '97 on in MLBASEBALL..
What are you talking about?
This has never been brought up. It's now 50 yrs later. When the Colts had the ball, 4th & 5, late in the game.... why didn't Shula just kick the FG?? It was a chip shot. That would have made the score 16-10. And... Shula still had 3 timeouts. Simply kickoff to the Jets, you know they are going to try to run the clock, and burn your timeouts. The Colts would have gotten the ball back with a shot.
@Jim Stark totally agree. Michaels had a bad game, but you still have to try that kick at that time. *note, his longest kick was 53 yds.
@Jim Stark totally agree..Michaels was pathetic..
@@mikeforte7585 Well, he was a decent defensive lineman, in fact, made the Pro Bowl twice. Even by '68, it was becoming rare to see position players be the full time kickers. Based on the standards of the era in which he played, he was about average in accuracy, or a bit better, over the course of his career, at nearly 55%. Still, he didn't exactly shine in that game. The Colts didn't 'fix' their kicking situation until 1970, by drafting O'Brien. Even though he was nothing to write home about, I wonder if he had been around in '68, it might have made a substantive difference in the game's outcome. On the other hand, despite making the gimme game winner in Super Bowl V, his performance on that stage, was hardly stellar.
Shula was a young and inexperienced coach probably overthinking
@@VMan29397 Shula was HC since 63. Five winning season. Conference Champs 3-4 times. He was young, but not green.
@ 30:00 Johnny Sample showed class...... @ 30:07 Tom Matte does not. But I like how Matte says he won't talk about Sample, right after he talked about Sample.
Sample class??. You need another sample here. Two different things in what you say versus how you act. How was it class what Sample did to Matte in in SB III.......
I am talking about the interview in this clip. Matte said it was an accident and 5 seconds later said it wasn't. Freudian slip?
That incident, where Matte accused the wrong dude, and the aftermath shows how, to this day, the Colts never got over that day......!
@@dallasbrubaker6054, Freudian facetious sarcasm..
@devildog1982z, maybe he did not look at it too closely, and stuck with his original assumption..
Thr Colts were overconfident. Namath and the Jets outplayed them the whole game. The Jets win saved the Super Bowl as we know it today.
@54:10 Return man Preston pearson played for Pittsburgh in the sixties snd Dallas in the seventies
Had the Colts won this game, they would still be in Baltimore to this day. They never would have moved to Indianapolis. The name "Indianapolis Colts" still doesn't roll off the tongue right.
Huh? The Colts didn’t move until after the 1983 season over 14 years later. They moved cause the city had no intention of investing in a new stadium and Indianapolis just built the Hoosier Dome.
@@Agent-xn1hr ur exactly right...it was 14 years later...that's an eternity..
Please explain how losing Super Bowl III is the reason why the colts moved to Indianapolis. The Colts won Super Bowl V did isn't the reason why they would have stayed in Baltimore. The Colts moved to Baltimore because Indianapolis made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
@@Agent-xn1hr
And Robert Irsay was from Chicago, and Indianapolis was closer to Chicago than was Baltimore
The first hint of Earl Morrall's bad day? 17:25 See how wide-open Jerry Richardson was in the corner of the end zone on that incomplete pass to Tom Mitchell in the right flat. Also, Curt Gowdy's "play by play" is interesting, clearly he's just doing a voice-over to the game film... not bad, just an interesting trick by NFL Films to attempt a "live broadcast" personality to the show.
FYI, that WAS Gowdy's play-by-play. It was edited for this film, but not written or or recorded for it.
@@ajhartman8589 No, it wasn't. This was not the PBP Gowdy did in the original NBC telecast it's a fake PBP call done for this presentation only. They did a similar thing with Ray Scott for their Ice Bowl film (these were the days when NFL Films REALLY had an aversion to using original telecast material and were the last major sports league to permit replays of classic telecasts). They should have used the authentic radio call for this and not used a fake call manufactured decades after the fact. The NBC telecast you can find elsewhere on YT and you''ll know right away this is not the original version.
@@epaddon Wow. I thought for sure it was live. btw, I thank you muchly for that YT post of the radio broadcast. That's how I experienced Super III. I was 12 on a bus riding back through snow and the Poconos from Easton, Pennsylvania (relatives) to Rochester, New York (family). A
few old men (well, old to me at the time) had a transistor radio and got increasingly frustrated as the bus rolled North. I remember the signal kept fading in and out through the mountains but that just added to the tension. When the game was over, I was the only happy person listening, But I never let on that I was rooting for the Jets (AFL, Broadway Joe, white shoes - perfect for a rebellious almost teenager).
Anyway, thanks again for the radio broadcast. I won't have a chance to listen until I'm home from work, but I am quite looking forward to it. Pure nostalgia. I may even turn on the blender now and then to add some "static". " )
@@ajhartman8589 Enjoy it! I'm glad my uploads have been able to bring back great memories for so many people.