Fights, hard hits and cheap shots from 1973 are featured. Exciting players from this NFL season will bring back great memories for those that saw them play.
As a kid, i asked my dad why Pro Football is so much more violent then college football. He said "When you get paid and there is another waiting to take your place, you hit harder."
In those days I read that NFL players had second jobs. Raiders' players teaching school! And the city of Oakland would be better off if they were teaching now.
This is the real NFL, football teams playing in baseball stadiums filled with grass, dirt, mud, blood, rain, cold, sleet, snow and playing fourteen games a season, love the 1970's football, this is a super awesome video!!
Thank you, John! I agree - the '70's NFL is the best. I'm working on Part 2 which I think will be even better, so please check it out when it rolls out.
The 1970's was a bridge between the old and modern game. The players got stronger and faster. And the hits were more punishing than ever. Making the game as exciting as in any era.
@@jamessimms415 I think it's less that today's NFL is soft and more that the league prioritizes profit/convenience over anything else. A lot of players have been vocal about how they would prefer to play on grass but the owners pick turf because it's easier/cheaper.
In those days, I was raised On these football games so later on in late 70s, I played that style of football kind of round on. Played in high school very rough in high school in the 80s. Was really crazy from 18 years old to 25 years old we would play every other Sunday or every Sunday on grass field all of the springs get together and play tackle football. And then after a while, I would go there. Nobody would be there. I would think what the hell I found out that they didn’t want to hit too hard elbow and things that wasn’t normal. Except when they tried to tackle me, they tried to kill me. I stopped hanging out with those dudes. 1970s with just the greatest video man very much.
Steve Sabol of NFL Films mentioned that the NFL would get final cut & would not allow any of the fights and cheap shots. He said they have hours of that footage on the cutting room floor. He wanted to make a separate video of some of “more amusing” violence but the NFL who obviously has final say, nixed it. Would be great to get some of video restored. unfortunately will never see the light of day. To be sure, games like the 1977 Dolphins-Cards Thanksgiving Day game which included a massive brawl started by Conrad Dobler have not seen the light of day. The game was up on CZcams several years ago but taken down immediately by the league.
I would love to have that cutting room floor footage! To me, almost every NFL game pre-'80 is worth viewing. There is always something that stands out or is noteworthy. If nothing else, there's always the memories of the players that I grew up watching and the stories that go along with them. Thanks for the comments.....and for watching!
Correct you are, when I was into collecting NFL Films I used to write to Steve and correspond with him directly in the early days because he saw I was buying everything available and once I gained his friendship and trust I begged him for a copy of the Saints at Giants brawl game 1968 at Yankee Stadium which I attended and he told me he couldn't do it. I was able to get highlights and posted them on this channel on another video with other NFL fights.
@@markgardner9460 I had plenty of hand written letters from Steve and he would always send me brochures and catalogs with free NFL logo stickers and once did me a favor making me a copy of the Vikings-Giants opening day Webster game which is when I tried to get the Saints-Giants game and he declined. Otherwise, I bought all the NFL Films releases as they were released in their white clam shell cases and a couple of personal games I desired a copy of which they produced for me.
Sometimes, the toughest guys weren't the ones dishing out the hits, but instead, were the guys that'd actually get up from taking them and still compete at a high level. Let's face it, Pastorini, Manning, Domres, Bradshaw, and guys before them, like Bart Starr, or Unitas, were gutsy. They'd almost get killed on one play, then come back and kill the defense on the next play, or the next offensive series. They just wouldn't quit.
That's absolutely right! I heard Jim Parker say that Unitas, while in the huddle, stuck mud from the field up his nose to stop a bleeding nose that was dripping onto Parker's shoes. All of the QB's that you mentioned were beyond tough. Pastorini and Bradshaw, in particular, had so more serious injuries during their career that it's amazing they played as long as they did. Thanks for bringing this up, Tommy!
True, and there were many other examples - gotta add Billy Kilmer (17) to that list of gutsy QBs. I recall one game where he led the winning touchdown drive with a broken nose. In the postgame TV interview, he was holding a bloody towel to his face. I believe it was a playoff clinching game - Redskins vs Giants.
@@denisceballos9745 Yes Sir, I remember him giving an interview with the towel. Other gutsy QBs, Bobby Lane, Don Meredith, Roger Staubach, Dick Shiner...man, you could go on, and on...
In 1972 I was 12 and got interested in the NFL and was amazed at the athleticism. The rules were wide open and tactics got pretty nasty. Best decade of the NFL by far. The Darryl Stingley incident brought about some big changes.
I still have all of my cards, most still in NM condition from1971-1979. A collection I am very proud of. I need to make a youtube video showing them off. Thanks for the awesome videos. I can watch this stuff forever.@@markgardner9460
THIS IS GOLD! Thanks. Those weren't cheap shots. It's NFL football. I stopped watching the sissy NFL when they started proclaiming Baby Brady as the all time best QB.
Thank you!!! Seriously, how can any QB with a list of plays strapped to his wrist with an Offensive Coordinator speaking in his ear be considered the greatest? Of his era, maybe, but not even close of all-time. Thank you for watching and commenting!!
@@markgardner9460 LOL! Exactly. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone when I hear a group of guys saying how great he is. Brady wouldn't last a quarter if he was sent back to the 70's. Thanks again!
A lot of those hits were so blatant. Most often, no flag was thrown. But it was a part of the game. Some players (and some teams) had a reputation for delivering cheap shots more than others. But teams had to be able to dish it out - as well as take it, if they wanted to win.
"it was a part of the game", indeed. Players who were hit out of bounds or late just accepted it as such. No sense asking the refs to throw a flag cuz it's not going to happen.
Hi Denis, the NFL and NHL policed themselves back then, if you crossed the line there would be retribution and paybacks, they weren't so concerned about yardage, ha.
@@brotzmannsax Exactly, Good point. The NHL always had an “enforcer” on the team - ready to drop the gloves at the appropriate time. It was just part of the game. You had to be tough to play these sports - you had to enjoy the challenge. Often times the price was high.
Dan Pastorini had a career of getting destroyed just like he did on this video. When he went to Oakland in 1980, he broke his leg early in the season, which led to the resurgence of Jim Plunkett. It is often forgotten that Pastorini also punted for a period in his career. Loved the Houston light blue helmet.....I never understood why they eventually went white.
That light blue helmet is one of my favorites! I have an 8 X 10 color photo of Bradshaw punting. Oddly, out of all of the positional players to have pulled double duty with their main position, as well as punter, the quarterback position is probably one of the most played positions (Bob Waterfield, Sammy Baugh, Norm Van Brocklin, John Hadl, etc)
How did Dan Pastorini survive all those shots to his head plus his head getting bounced off the concrete Astrodome field? The players endured all those head shots leading to CTE.
@@brotzmannsax His offensice line was porous. Defense was lousy...no rushing attack until Earl Campbell, so he had to pass and the opposing defense tee'd off on him big time.
In the Super Bowl between the Redskins and Dolphins, an upright came into play which most likely caused the Redskins a touchdown (Kilmer pass hit it when a receiver was open in the end zone). The score would most likely would have been 14 to 14 and the first overtime in Super Bowl history would have taken place. Time to move the goalposts to the end lines.
I agree...field level or in some cases ground level views are just outstanding. Much better than views now which are too distant. Thank you for watching
@@markgardner9460 I was about 7 years old during this period of football. I remember my father got me the NFL 72 stamp book from DX/Sunoco and I studied it for hours on end so most of these players i recognize by name Thx again
Love seeing the NFL during the 70's, was a huge Ram fan. Side note---Merlin Olsen tackle had to have been before '73, that's when the Rams changed their team colors. Thanks for posting.
I had season tickets at Yankee Stadium for the Giants from 1965-1973 and attended the Houston at Giants game shown here, the next to last game for the Giants at Yankee Stadium with the last game being a 23-23 tie against the Eagles midway thru the 1973 season before headed to the Yale Bowl.
@@markgardner9460 We had 4 tickets right on the 50 yard line about a dozen rows up right behind the Giants bench, my father had connections. He took me to most games from Brooklyn to the Bronx and later gave up on the poor team and I wound up going with my friends the last few seasons. The Eagles game was the last game I attended at Yankee Stadium and never went to the Yale Bowl or Shea Stadium in 1975. My father pulled off 4 more seats for relocation from the Stadium and we had season tickets at Giants Stadium from the first game against Dallas in 1976 to the end. I moved out of NY and never attended Met Life Stadium.
@@markgardner9460 Attending games at Yankee Stadium was exciting mostly in 1970 when we beat the Vikings opening day and went to the last home game hoping to make the playoffs only to lose to the Rams slaughter. In 1972 we beat our rival Eagles 62-10 which was fun as well as the last game ever there in the tie against Philly. My father was connected and we had great seats there although nobody believed we sat right on the 50 yard line. When we got the 4 tickets transferred to Giants Stadium we were in section 140 all those years around thee 15/20 yard line, not as good but at least we went. There my favorite games were beating SF in the 85 playoff game and the Redskins for the NFL Championship game the next season 17-0 in the coldest game I ever attended. I had a gam,e program for every Giants game I ever attended but eventually sold most of them on Ebay thru the years as they were starting to go, I had hundreds with home and away games but kept probably a dozen in my Giants collection including playoff games and the Super Bowls.
@@brotzmannsax I think that Tarkenton's Giants twice beat the heavily favored Vikings...once at each stadium. You must have had a bunch of programs...great stuff. Plus you are a super fan going to that many Giants games. I know that week 1 of 1980 was an away game, but I remenber Earnest Gray's 4 receiving td's in the Giants 41 to 35 win over the Cardinals. Thank you for your great comments!
For Part II, you gotta have Jack Tatum lighting up Riley Odoms at the Oakland Coliseum, plus Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson getting clobbered at Denver. Also Redskin cornerback Pat Fischer jumping up and giving 49er receiver Gene Washington an elbow to the head. Also in Week 14 in St. Louis, Staubach got clotheslined on one play and hit late in his back on another. And don't forget Bear cornerback Charlie Ford shoving Ram receiver Jack Snow in one of Soldier Field's dugout benches which they had until 1979. Also Part 5 of the "Lost Treasures Of NFL Films" series had another Bear defender yanking Chuck Foreman into one of those dugouts.
@@markgardner9460 Even the security and some plain clothes were getting some shots in, ha. I enjoy these videos and your commentary, nice work and great jerseys, I loved Czonka being a Giants fan now living in Miami.
While teams and their players suffered from cheap shots the Bears also suffered from cheap thanks to Cheapo George Halas. From 1963 to 1983, the Bears saw the playoffs two times.
At 7:49, the player sacking Jim Del Gaizo is Jim Laslavic, who later played for the Air Coryell-era Chargers and later became a long time sports talk-radio host in San Diego.
Laslavic was one of those pretty good Penn State linebackers that every team seemed to have. The Lions had a special hatred for Jim Del Gaizo. One time he came in as a sub and completed a 4th-and-27 that helped the Packers steal a game from Detroit.
At 3:11, kinda surprised the ref actually threw a flag on that in 1973. Also pretty funny how the ref looked up, as if to admire how high he threw it.😄
Two requests I have for you to consider, now that Conrad Dobler has passed perhaps dig up his famous interview and dirty highlights for a Dobler tribute video. Also, take all the clothes lines tackles from the 50's to the 80's and make a clothes line tackle video. Check out Night Train Lane and some of those vicious 50's games if possible.
Ha! I guessed you're an AFC guy even before the jersey reveal. Judging by your scene selections, maybe still a little bitter over SB VI.😉 Good quality footage though.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I placed whatever I thought the best footage was, regardless of the teams or players. I hope you check out Part 2 - it's a good video, too. Thanks again.
Grew up watching John Brodie and Gene Washington, loved that team. Played HS football in the 70's, but watching this now, it's actually disturbing how violent it was back then. These guys left the game and were disabled.
the good old days when defense was actually permitted, and offenses had to actually, you know, run, pass, game plan, etc, instead of dink n dunk, and or hope for a PI flag...like today's teams.
That footage of the the LA Ram player is NOT from 1973. He was wearing the white pants which they wore up until 1972. From 1973 to 1999 the Rams wore sunflower gold pants.
Looks like Lions played rough ball. Namath gets a separated shoulder getting pounded by the Colts. I dislocated a shoulder playing high school ball and that's some pretty horrific pain.
Yeah, the thing about dislocated shoulders is that it seems to me that they are more susceptible to further dislocations....at least it was with a friend of mine.
Owners told the NFL that they want their high priced ballplayers protected as much as possible against injury so they can get their monies worth......and the NFL complied. Now they have a "tackling zone" that is the size of a postage stamp which is why we see all the stiff arming going on which causes plays that should only go for 4 yards instead go for 12 because the players are chicken fighting all the way down the field,
What about Boobie Clark's hit on the Denver safety with his forearm, which fractured some of the guy's neck vertebrae and led to a years-long lawsuit? I think it was in Clark's very first NFL game, opening day '73. Maybe the NFL has scrubbed that footage from the archives...
I can't stomach todays NFL. It's weak and its fixed. So, what I do now is watch college football, but mostle I watch SportsStatsNGad highlights from when I was a kid, say 1969-1978. Don't know how you got express written consent...LOL, don't care, just keep it coming, ah...but more Oilers please. This was back in the day when T.V. was free and the game was played by men!!
Thank you for watching and commenting! I will take into consideration your request for more Oilers-related videos. In the meantime, have you checked out "The Worst NFL Team Of All-Time(Non-Expansion)? and Part 2? They're located in the Special Features section of my Playlist. Thanks again.
Actually, I have and those are two more of the great videos or files or whatever, that you provide. Good stuff. 71 and 72 if I recall. I wasnt complaining about not enough Oilers stuff. I love your stuff. Keep up the good work and thank you@@markgardner9460
Thank you! I have a Pastorini video that I'd like to make, along with one for Burrough. Of course my list is long, but hopefully I'll get to it some day.
Oh yeah…..back when football was real. Not like today where you get penalized for just about everything. The team with the least amount of players hauled off the field would win! 😅
As a kid, i asked my dad why Pro Football is so much more violent then college football. He said "When you get paid and there is another waiting to take your place, you hit harder."
Yes, the pros hit harder than the college players because they are paid more.
Thank you for watching and commenting - I appreciate it!
In those days I read that NFL players had second jobs. Raiders' players teaching school!
And the city of Oakland would be better off if they were teaching now.
This is the real NFL, football teams playing in baseball stadiums filled with grass, dirt, mud, blood, rain, cold, sleet, snow and playing fourteen games a season, love the 1970's football, this is a super awesome video!!
Thank you, John! I agree - the '70's NFL is the best. I'm working on Part 2 which I think will be even better, so please check it out when it rolls out.
Now they play in stadiums that look like something out of Star Trek with fake turf, it's so phoney.
@@smokesletsgo2374 it's so sterile...no character
Playing youth floorball in the 70s , we played on dirt fields and there were more rocks than dirt !
@@integrity-ut8ff We played on similar fiekds. Moms hated all the torn shirts and pants, but nothing they said could stop us from playing.
The 1970's was a bridge between the old and modern game. The players got stronger and faster. And the hits were more punishing than ever. Making the game as exciting as in any era.
That's right - on all accounts.
100% correct
The Real NFL...Love these old clips...Thanks !!!!
Thank you. I appreciate it!
Love this. Way the game should be played on natural grass & mud. Todays nfl has become soft……
@@jamessimms415 I agree; the game should be played on natural grass fields
@@jamessimms415 I think it's less that today's NFL is soft and more that the league prioritizes profit/convenience over anything else. A lot of players have been vocal about how they would prefer to play on grass but the owners pick turf because it's easier/cheaper.
In those days, I was raised On these football games so later on in late 70s, I played that style of football kind of round on. Played in high school very rough in high school in the 80s. Was really crazy from 18 years old to 25 years old we would play every other Sunday or every Sunday on grass field all of the springs get together and play tackle football. And then after a while, I would go there. Nobody would be there. I would think what the hell I found out that they didn’t want to hit too hard elbow and things that wasn’t normal. Except when they tried to tackle me, they tried to kill me. I stopped hanging out with those dudes. 1970s with just the greatest video man very much.
Yeah, I hear ya. Some of our games in the park got kinda rough, too. Great memories.
Steve Sabol of NFL Films mentioned that the NFL would get final cut & would not allow any of the fights and cheap shots. He said they have hours of that footage on the cutting room floor. He wanted to make a separate video of some of “more amusing” violence but the NFL who obviously has final say, nixed it. Would be great to get some of video restored. unfortunately will never see the light of day. To be sure, games like the 1977 Dolphins-Cards Thanksgiving Day game which included a massive brawl started by Conrad Dobler have not seen the light of day. The game was up on CZcams several years ago but taken down immediately by the league.
I would love to have that cutting room floor footage! To me, almost every NFL game pre-'80 is worth viewing. There is always something that stands out or is noteworthy. If nothing else, there's always the memories of the players that I grew up watching and the stories that go along with them. Thanks for the comments.....and for watching!
Correct you are, when I was into collecting NFL Films I used to write to Steve and correspond with him directly in the early days because he saw I was buying everything available and once I gained his friendship and trust I begged him for a copy of the Saints at Giants brawl game 1968 at Yankee Stadium which I attended and he told me he couldn't do it. I was able to get highlights and posted them on this channel on another video with other NFL fights.
@@brotzmannsax Wow, that is so cool to hear! Thanks for sharing. Did he ever give you any other collectibles?
@@markgardner9460 I had plenty of hand written letters from Steve and he would always send me brochures and catalogs with free NFL logo stickers and once did me a favor making me a copy of the Vikings-Giants opening day Webster game which is when I tried to get the Saints-Giants game and he declined. Otherwise, I bought all the NFL Films releases as they were released in their white clam shell cases and a couple of personal games I desired a copy of which they produced for me.
@@brotzmannsax That's great stuff. I never received anything close to that good in my Aunt Helen's letters...LOL
Sometimes, the toughest guys weren't the ones dishing out the hits, but instead, were the guys that'd actually get up from taking them and still compete at a high level.
Let's face it, Pastorini, Manning, Domres, Bradshaw, and guys before them, like Bart Starr, or Unitas, were gutsy. They'd almost get killed on one play, then come back and kill the defense on the next play, or the next offensive series. They just wouldn't quit.
That's absolutely right! I heard Jim Parker say that Unitas, while in the huddle, stuck mud from the field up his nose to stop a bleeding nose that was dripping onto Parker's shoes. All of the QB's that you mentioned were beyond tough. Pastorini and Bradshaw, in particular, had so more serious injuries during their career that it's amazing they played as long as they did. Thanks for bringing this up, Tommy!
True, and there were many other examples - gotta add Billy Kilmer (17) to that list of gutsy QBs. I recall one game where he led the winning touchdown drive with a broken nose. In the postgame TV interview, he was holding a bloody towel to his face. I believe it was a playoff clinching game - Redskins vs Giants.
@@denisceballos9745 Yes Sir, I remember him giving an interview with the towel. Other gutsy QBs, Bobby Lane, Don Meredith, Roger Staubach, Dick Shiner...man, you could go on, and on...
@@denisceballos9745 Don Meredith was tough...took a lot of clotheslines from The Hangman, Chris Hanburger.
Don't forget Joe Namath, doing what he did on two crippled knees.
I love watching these clips! Would rather prefer this than today's game to be honest.
I love making these videos and am working on Part 2 right now. Thank you for watching them - I appreciate it.
@@markgardner9460 Keep them coming!
Today's games are a corporate product played like girls, thank goodness for the Sabol's and NFL Films!!
Great film - as always. Gracias!
Thank you - I'm glad that you enjoy watching my videos!
In 1972 I was 12 and got interested in the NFL and was amazed at the athleticism. The rules were wide open and tactics got pretty nasty. Best decade of the NFL by far. The Darryl Stingley incident brought about some big changes.
Some of these guys took some epic. naps. That's a great Csonka jersey you have 👍 back when the Dolphins had great uniforms
Thank you, David! The Dolphins should have never changed their uniforms, in my opinion. Thanks for watching!
I Effing LOVE it !
1973 - what a great year! I graduated high school back then!
And I started school that year.
Love these!!!!
Thank you...and thanks for watching!
I was 12 years old in 1973 and I do remember some of these NFL games
Almost 50 years ago and those games have stuck with you...means they were quality games, in my opinion
exactly the same here! 12 years old in 1973 and now visions of the football cards I had of these players pop into my head.
@@muttonchopsgayever 50 years later and I can still picture those cards. Great memories.
1973 was when Johnny Unitas was replaced by Dan Fouts, and also Dick Butkus' final season.
I still have all of my cards, most still in NM condition from1971-1979. A collection I am very proud of. I need to make a youtube video showing them off. Thanks for the awesome videos. I can watch this stuff forever.@@markgardner9460
Nicely done - thank you!
Glad you liked it! Part 2 is right around the corner.
Keep it coming Dude Lol loving the memories great work
Thanks a lot, Robert. I appreciate it! Looking forward to delivering an entertaining Part 2 soon.
Some of those hits were criminal. Surprised there werent more fights
that hit on joe willie was brutal. he even went down but it was too late.
THIS IS GOLD! Thanks. Those weren't cheap shots. It's NFL football. I stopped watching the sissy NFL when they started proclaiming Baby Brady as the all time best QB.
Thank you!!! Seriously, how can any QB with a list of plays strapped to his wrist with an Offensive Coordinator speaking in his ear be considered the greatest? Of his era, maybe, but not even close of all-time. Thank you for watching and commenting!!
@@markgardner9460 LOL! Exactly. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone when I hear a group of guys saying how great he is. Brady wouldn't last a quarter if he was sent back to the 70's. Thanks again!
A lot of those hits were so blatant. Most often, no flag was thrown. But it was a part of the game. Some players (and some teams) had a reputation for delivering cheap shots more than others. But teams had to be able to dish it out - as well as take it, if they wanted to win.
"it was a part of the game", indeed. Players who were hit out of bounds or late just accepted it as such. No sense asking the refs to throw a flag cuz it's not going to happen.
Yep, physical intimidation was viewed as a strategy for winning.
Hi Denis, the NFL and NHL policed themselves back then, if you crossed the line there would be retribution and paybacks, they weren't so concerned about yardage, ha.
@@brotzmannsax Exactly, Good point. The NHL always had an “enforcer” on the team - ready to drop the gloves at the appropriate time. It was just part of the game. You had to be tough to play these sports - you had to enjoy the challenge. Often times the price was high.
The NBA and ABA were the same way back then too.
Awesome 👌
Thank you! I'm working on Part 2. These types of videos take quite a bit of time putting together, but I think that it's worth it for sure.
Love that old Eagles 🦅 uniform!
I do, too! Classic!!!
Just had a slip on my Grogan jersey to watch this
I have not seen anyone on the streets wear that one. I'd like to score a Pats #73
New has parents in the 70s and 80s. ...that's a man who played through pain.
Thank you for the video. Damn the game was mean😊 it was football!
Yeah, it was kind of like boxing...you knew you were going to get hit, but most of the time not when and where. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Great video!
Thank you - I appreciate it. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Dan Pastorini had a career of getting destroyed just like he did on this video. When he went to Oakland in 1980, he broke his leg early in the season, which led to the resurgence of Jim Plunkett. It is often forgotten that Pastorini also punted for a period in his career. Loved the Houston light blue helmet.....I never understood why they eventually went white.
That light blue helmet is one of my favorites! I have an 8 X 10 color photo of Bradshaw punting. Oddly, out of all of the positional players to have pulled double duty with their main position, as well as punter, the quarterback position is probably one of the most played positions (Bob Waterfield, Sammy Baugh, Norm Van Brocklin, John Hadl, etc)
Your channel is Awesome. The Hits,the Music. Binge worthy. Great job. Really great job.
Thank you, Jeff. I really appreciate that! Thank you for watching and commenting!
Great video
Thank you, John! More episodes like this to come
Keep up the Good Work 👍
Thanks, Steve. I'll do my best.
Back in that time players tried to hurt each other really bad you have to feel sorry for those poor quarterbacks my god brutal !
Had to have your head on a swivel at all times cuz someone was out to get ya
How did Dan Pastorini survive all those shots to his head plus his head getting bounced off the concrete Astrodome field? The players endured all those head shots leading to CTE.
@@brotzmannsax His offensice line was porous. Defense was lousy...no rushing attack until Earl Campbell, so he had to pass and the opposing defense tee'd off on him big time.
Look at the bears hitting the Detroit lions QB looks like he was severely injured
@@dominicsosa7405 Amazingly, neither team has had a great quarterback since Sid Luckman and Bobby Layne.
After a long day..I have a glass of wine..and watch Mel Gray..Larry Brown..Roger Staubach play football with conviction..Thank You!
You're welcome. Real football.
Good stuff
Thank you! Love your thumbnail
Another good video.👍
Thank you! Looking forward to rolling out Part 2 which may be even better.
no way you could get away with any of this good stuff these days.
Not anymore. Next season they're doing away with the hip drop tackle. It won't be too long and it won't even be tackle football.
Some of these hits were totally legal hits in 1973
They were - it's amazing that they didn't get some of the rules changed sooner than they did - would have saved a lot of aches and pains
I'm surprised it took the NFL until 74 to move the goalposts back. Seemed like a pain always getting in the way
In the Super Bowl between the Redskins and Dolphins, an upright came into play which most likely caused the Redskins a touchdown (Kilmer pass hit it when a receiver was open in the end zone). The score would most likely would have been 14 to 14 and the first overtime in Super Bowl history would have taken place. Time to move the goalposts to the end lines.
Good stuff as usual
Thank you! Is there a particular team, year, rivalry match-up, player, etc that you'd like to see in a new video?
@@markgardner9460 not really I like all your stuff especially the late 1960s through the 1970s Oh and did you try that 506 archive site yet I love it
@@barbaracaroll I'm looking now, but don't think that I see it. I searched for "506 archive". Search for something else?
@@markgardner9460 I just googled it myself it came right up Maybe use chrome see if that works for you
Great vantage points! Felt like I was on the sidelines. Much better than today's birds eye view camera angles.
I agree...field level or in some cases ground level views are just outstanding. Much better than views now which are too distant. Thank you for watching
Count your lucky stars for the Sabol family.
Back when players didnt have to prop pillows before each hit. Jack Tatum was an absolute terror on the field
There's good reason as to why Tatum was nicknamed "The Assassin"
The Soul Patrol.
Your video quality is amazing.
Thank you, Thomas. I appreciate that and thank you for watching! I hope that you will check out my other videos, as well. Thanks for commenting, too.
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I was about 7 years old during this period of football. I remember my father got me the NFL 72 stamp book from DX/Sunoco and I studied it for hours on end so most of these players i recognize by name Thx again
@@thomasgallagher7092 I remember that stamp book! Almost forgot about it. Thanks for bringing that up!
When football was a contact sport 🇺🇲
Aint it the truth?
Nice Csonka jersey! I have the white road jersey and it's one of my favorites.
Right on! I'd like to get a Memphis Southmen jersey of his. A rather difficult find, I'm sure.
White was the Dolphins home jerseys also
@@michaelleroy9281 Yes, indeed: For daytime games.
I finally got one a few years ago. It's awesome.
@@billstout2118 a Southmen's jersey or a Dolphins jersey?
They wouldn’t get away with these hits in today game 🏈
Love seeing the NFL during the 70's, was a huge Ram fan. Side note---Merlin Olsen tackle had to have been before '73, that's when the Rams changed their team colors. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Desde 1975 veo los juegos, tengo 54 y always a Steelers ✨fan. Los logos vintage son grandiosos💙Aquí en México rock City 🇲🇽 amamos el 🏈
I didn't understand all of that but I did understand "Steelers fan"!!! Thank you for watching and commenting!
1973 the new stadium in Buffalo opened ( the house that OJ built)
I think Buffalo lead the NFL in attendance for 3 or 4 years in a row after Rich Stadium was built
I had season tickets at Yankee Stadium for the Giants from 1965-1973 and attended the Houston at Giants game shown here, the next to last game for the Giants at Yankee Stadium with the last game being a 23-23 tie against the Eagles midway thru the 1973 season before headed to the Yale Bowl.
That's so cool. Did you watch any games at Yale Bowl? Where were your seats at Yankee Stadium?
@@markgardner9460 We had 4 tickets right on the 50 yard line about a dozen rows up right behind the Giants bench, my father had connections. He took me to most games from Brooklyn to the Bronx and later gave up on the poor team and I wound up going with my friends the last few seasons. The Eagles game was the last game I attended at Yankee Stadium and never went to the Yale Bowl or Shea Stadium in 1975. My father pulled off 4 more seats for relocation from the Stadium and we had season tickets at Giants Stadium from the first game against Dallas in 1976 to the end. I moved out of NY and never attended Met Life Stadium.
@@brotzmannsax Now those are some great seats! Do you have any game programs? Any particular game(s) stick out as your favorite?
@@markgardner9460 Attending games at Yankee Stadium was exciting mostly in 1970 when we beat the Vikings opening day and went to the last home game hoping to make the playoffs only to lose to the Rams slaughter. In 1972 we beat our rival Eagles 62-10 which was fun as well as the last game ever there in the tie against Philly. My father was connected and we had great seats there although nobody believed we sat right on the 50 yard line. When we got the 4 tickets transferred to Giants Stadium we were in section 140 all those years around thee 15/20 yard line, not as good but at least we went. There my favorite games were beating SF in the 85 playoff game and the Redskins for the NFL Championship game the next season 17-0 in the coldest game I ever attended. I had a gam,e program for every Giants game I ever attended but eventually sold most of them on Ebay thru the years as they were starting to go, I had hundreds with home and away games but kept probably a dozen in my Giants collection including playoff games and the Super Bowls.
@@brotzmannsax I think that Tarkenton's Giants twice beat the heavily favored Vikings...once at each stadium. You must have had a bunch of programs...great stuff. Plus you are a super fan going to that many Giants games. I know that week 1 of 1980 was an away game, but I remenber Earnest Gray's 4 receiving td's in the Giants 41 to 35 win over the Cardinals. Thank you for your great comments!
they hit harder because theyre bigger faster stronger. its a whole another level of play.
It was indeed a different world back then.
Only 3 tv channels on our monster-sized black and white tv
Shout out to all who played this way without pads🇺🇲
Watched mayhem every Sunday and Monday a beautiful thing growing up Lol 😂
As a kid, the NFL got me through all of life's "stuff". I was glued to the tube for every game I could watch.
I remember football
For Part II, you gotta have Jack Tatum lighting up Riley Odoms at the Oakland Coliseum, plus Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson getting clobbered at Denver. Also Redskin cornerback Pat Fischer jumping up and giving 49er receiver Gene Washington an elbow to the head. Also in Week 14 in St. Louis, Staubach got clotheslined on one play and hit late in his back on another. And don't forget Bear cornerback Charlie Ford shoving Ram receiver Jack Snow in one of Soldier Field's dugout benches which they had until 1979. Also Part 5 of the "Lost Treasures Of NFL Films" series had another Bear defender yanking Chuck Foreman into one of those dugouts.
Most of those will be accounted for. Still working on it. Thank you for the reminder/heads up!
I thought I've seen all NFL brawls but never saw that St. Louis at Washington fight, so many cheap shots thrown in the few seconds of footage.
That was as wild a one as I've seen. I think that it happened at the end of the game, but not sure what caused it.
@@markgardner9460 Even the security and some plain clothes were getting some shots in, ha.
I enjoy these videos and your commentary, nice work and great jerseys, I loved Czonka being a Giants fan now living in Miami.
Villapiano had a tackling technique called the can opener basically a clothesline with extra credit for popping the helmet off
"extra credit"......love it!!
He demonstrated it on O.J. in 1972.
@@3243_ I've seen that play. Knocked his helmet completely off and left him reeling. Vicious
While teams and their players suffered from cheap shots the Bears also suffered from cheap thanks to Cheapo George Halas. From 1963 to 1983, the Bears saw the playoffs two times.
Old George was so tight that he squeaked.
A Buckeye-on-Buckeye unnecessary roughness is unusual but Jack Tatum did just that against Paul Warfield!
Nice attention to detail - could tell that Jack was pleased with himself because he clapped his hands after the hit.
Lets just say that the game wasn't as regulated with the rules as it is today.
...nor were the regulations enforced as consistently as today.
At 7:49, the player sacking Jim Del Gaizo is Jim Laslavic, who later played for the Air Coryell-era Chargers and later became a long time sports talk-radio host in San Diego.
I didn't know that ab out Laslavic - thanks for sharing! Lions had solid LB's back then and of course prior to that with Joe Schmidt.
Laslavic was one of those pretty good Penn State linebackers that every team seemed to have. The Lions had a special hatred for Jim Del Gaizo. One time he came in as a sub and completed a 4th-and-27 that helped the Packers steal a game from Detroit.
@@daveconleyportfolio5192 converting a 4th and 27 against any defense would cause serious hatred....unreal Thanks for the info...love it!
Boy I sure miss REAL FOOTBALL….. Not now a days….
Now it's for casual fans and fantasy football players
The good old days
They didn't get much better. Thank you for watching and commenting!
I like when the defensive lineman wore the 80s as uniforms!
What do you mean? I'm not sure I understand.
@@markgardner9460 like Vern Den Herder. 83. 88 Alan Page, 81 Carl Eller
@@kingofallmediums2123 Oh, I gotcha!
3:57 Jack Tatum changed to his college number, 32, the next year.
Great point! He was something else at Ohio State - wrecking ball
At 3:11, kinda surprised the ref actually threw a flag on that in 1973. Also pretty funny how the ref looked up, as if to admire how high he threw it.😄
I saw that, too! Probably went home and bragged to his wife about how high he threw it.
NFL films in its heyday. I was hoping to hear Facendas voice but , beggars can't be choosers.
"The Autumn Wind is a pirate......."
🐬💦🐧🐆😎Right On Go DOLPHINS 🐬💦🐬💦🐧🐆✊
Loved the early '70's Dolphins!!
1970s NFL RULES PERIOD.
No other decade is even close...so many iconic games and intense rivalry games + Monday Night Football
Two requests I have for you to consider, now that Conrad Dobler has passed perhaps dig up his famous interview and dirty highlights for a Dobler tribute video.
Also, take all the clothes lines tackles from the 50's to the 80's and make a clothes line tackle video. Check out Night Train Lane and some of those vicious 50's games if possible.
I will add these to the list for sure! My Part 2 video has a few clothesline tackles in it.
Dude ya gotta do a Not For Long take on qb's hanging out receivers. In all years of the 70s
All right - I'll definately take that into consideration. Thank for the suggestion!
Ha! I guessed you're an AFC guy even before the jersey reveal. Judging by your scene selections, maybe still a little bitter over SB VI.😉 Good quality footage though.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I placed whatever I thought the best footage was, regardless of the teams or players. I hope you check out Part 2 - it's a good video, too. Thanks again.
Nice Zonk jersey! I have the same one. Where do you get your background music?
Thanks! Filmora is what I use
They're not booing; they're saying "Boooo-laich."
BIG Boo!
Thanks
Grew up watching John Brodie and Gene Washington, loved that team. Played HS football in the 70's, but watching this now, it's actually disturbing how violent it was back then. These guys left the game and were disabled.
Gene Washington made All-Pro each of his first 3 years. He was dynamite!
Every single defender in this video would be arrested in 2024 lol🇺🇲
the good old days when defense was actually permitted, and offenses had to actually, you know, run, pass, game plan, etc, instead of dink n dunk, and or hope for a PI flag...like today's teams.
Today's defenses are so hampered by the rules - it's a joke.
Is it me or does it seem Dan Pastorini and Roger Staubach get steamrolled more often than others. Damn.
I agree - add Archie Manning and Bradshaw, too. Pastorini was the only pocket passer of the four, so he had no chance of avoiding the pummeling.
Reporter: Deacon..what's your key to beating Colts today? . Jones: We have to beat up and knock Unitas out of the game
whoever the big play guy was on a team, that's who was getting targeted for sure
To be a QB in the early days, whew!!😂😂😂
That footage of the the LA Ram player is NOT from 1973. He was wearing the white pants which they wore up until 1972. From 1973 to 1999 the Rams wore sunflower gold pants.
When football was football.
No choreographed team dances after touchdowns
Back wen men were men.
what is that car @ 3:33? amc??
Plymouth Satellite or Duster?
🛑🛑 These Clips, are from when REAL Men Played The Game.
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They gave 100% and played team ball, for the most part.
Looks like Lions played rough ball. Namath gets a separated shoulder getting pounded by the Colts. I dislocated a shoulder playing high school ball and that's some pretty horrific pain.
Yeah, the thing about dislocated shoulders is that it seems to me that they are more susceptible to further dislocations....at least it was with a friend of mine.
@@markgardner9460 So true about shoulder dislocations.
@0:25....😂Talk about cheap shot! Did you see how that rail hit that football player?? Geesh...I mean calm down rail!!
I guess that qualifies as a hard hit.
The $ is different between then and now. It has dramatically affected how the game is played on the field.
Owners told the NFL that they want their high priced ballplayers protected as much as possible against injury so they can get their monies worth......and the NFL complied. Now they have a "tackling zone" that is the size of a postage stamp which is why we see all the stiff arming going on which causes plays that should only go for 4 yards instead go for 12 because the players are chicken fighting all the way down the field,
What about Boobie Clark's hit on the Denver safety with his forearm, which fractured some of the guy's neck vertebrae and led to a years-long lawsuit? I think it was in Clark's very first NFL game, opening day '73. Maybe the NFL has scrubbed that footage from the archives...
I don't believe that I have that footage - I hadn't heard of that.
Can you find the footage of czonk saying he gets a weapon..... the football!
I have not heard of that footage before.
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I'm glad you liked it!
4;36 not charlie watt but cliff
I am suprised there were not more Raiders
There is a Part 2 to this 1973 season presentation, so feel free to check that one out in my Playlist. Thanks for watching this one!
These poor guys needed cocaine to play. And they did play like they were under the influence of it. Good to see The Juice ( at 2:28 )
Awww poor little nah love the real nfl
I can't stomach todays NFL. It's weak and its fixed. So, what I do now is watch college football, but mostle I watch SportsStatsNGad highlights from when I was a kid, say 1969-1978. Don't know how you got express written consent...LOL, don't care, just keep it coming, ah...but more Oilers please. This was back in the day when T.V. was free and the game was played by men!!
Thank you for watching and commenting! I will take into consideration your request for more Oilers-related videos. In the meantime, have you checked out "The Worst NFL Team Of All-Time(Non-Expansion)? and Part 2? They're located in the Special Features section of my Playlist. Thanks again.
Actually, I have and those are two more of the great videos or files or whatever, that you provide. Good stuff. 71 and 72 if I recall. I wasnt complaining about not enough Oilers stuff. I love your stuff. Keep up the good work and thank you@@markgardner9460
Thank you! I have a Pastorini video that I'd like to make, along with one for Burrough. Of course my list is long, but hopefully I'll get to it some day.
That's Mel Gray for the Cardinals not Mel Green
I must have misspoke. Sorry about that
Football back then so much more entertaining than it is now. Today's game is boring by comparison. No defense allowed anymore
A defender can't do anything - it's a complete joke! They want every game to be 54 to 51.
1973 definitely not the game for today's pretty boys in the NFL.
That's why they wore the big boy pads back then. Today they basically don't wear any.
Oh yeah…..back when football was real. Not like today where you get penalized for just about everything. The team with the least amount of players hauled off the field would win! 😅
They should just play flag football today