1962 NFL Playoff Bowl Pittsburgh Steelers vs Detroit Lions HD! January 6, 1963
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- 1962 Playoff Bowl Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Detroit Lions
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The 1962 playoff bowl was played between the conference runners-up, for third place in the league. This was its third year (of ten) and was played a week after the title game in the Orange Bowl in Miami on January 6, 1963. It featured the Pittsburghs Steelers vs. the Detroit Lions.
Featuring Hall of Fame players: Dick Night Train Lane, Alex Carras, Joe Schmidt, Yale Larry, Dick LeBeau (Lions) Bobby Layne, John Henry Johnson, and Ernie Stautner (Steelers).
Also the first game the Steelers played in their now iconic black helmets!
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I remember watching that 3-0 game against the Bears. I was 9 years old and it was the first pro game I had ever seen.
That was 1962's season finale. The Lions won the first meeting 11-3 with 3 field goals and a safety, so neither team scored a touchdown in either meeting.
The era when white paper things littered the fields and players made a tackle and just got up and went back to their huddle instead of turning into a Rockette.
Bobby Layne's pass at 3:20 was the last of his Hall of Fame career. I read a biography of Bobby Layne a couple years ago, but I didn't know that his last NFL game was against his old team. Bobby never lost a game, time just ran out on him.
This game is memorable because the Steelers unveiled their current uniforms. It was Bobby Layne's last game.
Close, they unveiled their current logo
@@1983jblack Right you are!
That has to be the one and only Van Patrick on the call. Simply the greatest football announcer of all time. Voiced the Lions and Notre Dame games for many, many years.
The man loved his Hamms Beer...
At 3:44, the Steelers' black helmets have magically turned yellow! This playoff bowl was the first game in which the Steelers wore black helmets with a steel industry logo on one side. The short clip at 3:44 was undoubtedly from the Steeler/Lion game at the start of the 1962 season. Why it was added here is anyone's guess.
Film editing wasn't all it could have been in those days. 😆
Wow, I never noticed that!
The Steeler logo on the one side was introduced that season on the yellow helmets as well. 'Big Daddy' Lipscomb 76 is also shown in the clip taking off his helmet. He would pass away during the summer of 1963
It suddenly got a lot sunnier, too.
Love the opening screen shot of Lou Michaels rushing the QB a second too late and a little wide right, and bringing back those wonderful memories of Super Bowl III.
Lou is and was one of my all time favorite characters as a New York Jets fan!!
And the one time he made a field goal, the film didn't show it.
0:29 This is a shot of the Orange Bowl game. Note the position of the goal posts.
I would rather watch a 1962 Playoff Bowl
than ANY NFL game today.
R. I. P.
Bobby 22🇨🇱 Layne
Buddy 84🇨🇱 Dial
A N D the other participants that have passed on.
God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era 🏈
The Lions won this game for the third straight year, since it first began. The Lions beat Cleveland following the 1960 season and Philadelphia following the 1961 season (in which Sonny Jurgensen left the game with a shoulder separation from which it took the entire off-season to recover).
Van Patrick - voice of the Lions 50s-60s.
My autographed Lions football hss msny of these players on it
For some reason I always thought this was called the Runnerup Bowl but I guess I was wrong!
I believe Vince Lombardi called this game "The Sh*t Bowl."
Lol
He also called it a Hinky Dink game in a Hinky Dink town,
@@michaelleroy9281 then capped off his run as packers coach by winning sb 2 in that same hinky dink town
@UncleT4life And playing in the Hinky Dink game in 1963
Great video, the playoff bowl would never work now, but i would watch the nfc and afc championship losers play in a 3rd place game. That would be a much better watch than the pro-bowl.
Not the championship game losers, the two top seeded teams not playing in the Super Bowl. This year it would have been Packers vs. Titans.
Your proposed matchup is basically still the Playoff Bowl.
@@shannonrhett3304 yes that's what I'm saying, I know it would not work but I would watch it
@@Alan13448 If you put the two top seeded teams not playing in the Super Bowl in the playoff bowl, it would guarantee that the two top seeded teams in each conference would get a bowl game.
@@tomcollins5112 🤨
The Playoff Bowl . Second best teams compete . I remember these worthless games . Shows how old I am .
I don’t even remember the Playoff Bowl. And I wad quite alive then. I’m 71.
Nice job upscaling! It is beautiful!
Bring this game back and do away with that stilly Pro Bowl.
Anyone remember anything about Gus Krantz , OT for Detroit , Drafted in '61 ?
Is this the great VanPatrick announcing?
The Lion teams back then were good. Many names in the HOF.Alex Karras, Mike Schmidt and Dick "Night Train" Lane. Perhaps Yale Lary and Roger Brown?
Regardless of what Vince Lombardi termed the game, I enjoyed it much like the collegiate All Star game when the previous collegiate senior All Stars played the NFL Champions.
Mike Schmidt played 3b for the Phillies. You mean Joe Schmidt.
@@dukeford Yeah. Got em mixed up. But other than this little mistake ... I do know Jack Schmidt!😎
STEELERS MAKE IT TOUGH by APOLOGETIX a great football song
I believe that the proceeds went to the players’ pension fund, so the game was not just extraneous.
You are correct. It was played for the same reason that Major League Baseball played two All Star games every year from 1959-1962.
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The toilet bowl as Lombardi would call it
Playing a game to determine who is in 3rd place at end of season seems like a senseless one
Brady Keys owned alot of Burger Kings in Detroit back in the 80's
The playoff bowl was a useless football game concept. You lose a playoff game and have to play for third place.
Not in those days. This and the Championship were the only "playoff" games.
NFL was looking to get more exposure on TV after New Year's Day. The second place finishers got a trip to Miami in early January. Not a bad consolation prize. The NFL Championship Game was usually played on the last Sunday in December, alternating between the Eastern and Western Conference winners ballpark. Those games were often played in frigid conditions.