I was a teen when Joe Kapp played for the Vikings; we were always in awe when Joe connected with a wobbly pass, as well as when he scrambled due to a broken play or a planned one. He was unique and great to watch, underrated in my opinion.
Seemed like every game at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington Minnesota was like -10 degrees in the frozen tundra with Bud Grant standing on the sidelines like the stoic masthead on a Viking ship. Joe Kapp was bigger than life. Nothing but charisma and heart. He was the Upper Midwest version of Joe Namath. Perfect quarterback for the nearly perfect 1969 Vikings.
Oh yes. What a time of frozen blood with frozen breath like buffalo & bigger than life it sure seemed. Now not so much. All the grit is gone. Just athletic perfection is all that is left. Kapp was so fun to watch in the snow like a pit bull.
@@dutdut2.059 if you going criticize my hero 1969/ 1970 Minnesota viking: go all the way get beat by high school football team,, laugh laugh;;Minnesota viking not scary of a college football ream currently
It was a more stoic time...when nobody danced in the endzone. I miss that kind of play while acknowledging today players are stronger, faster and are in better shape.
Very few guy's would be able to play with those players back then. Those quarterbacks back then had to work so much harder than todays nfl qb's. Even though most of these guy's today are more skilled, still today's rules and refs seem to baby sit them throughout today's game. That's why it's sickening when, people always so quick to point out who's the greatest of alltime. We will actually really never know, different era's, different styles, different rules, different teammates. So' thank god for nfl films, at least we can enjoy watching them all!!!
Being a life-long, die-hard Los Angeles Rams fan, the image of Kapp rolling to his left and hurtling over Jim Nettles for the go-ahead TD still haunts to this day.
Joe’s been out of the league for about 50 years but to this day when I throw a wobbly pass I call it a Joe Kapp pass. He could also throw a beautiful spiral.
Some great memories! Viking fan for over 45 years win, lose or draw from a little town in California called Corcoran. One of my favorite Vikings players.
they were suited for each other . both knew how to play in the cold weather. the weather in Oct or Nov. for the most part isn't cold as it is in Dec or Jan in Min.
I’ve been a Viking fan since 1965, Joe Kapp is still one of my favorite players. He threw ducks, but somehow they made it to the receiver and he is still one of toughest men to ever play his position. His 1969 Vikings, brought us our first NFL Championship, and dominated the league the way few teams have, blowing out opponents week after week. To hell with Super Bowl IV. SKOL VIKINGS!! Thanks Joe!!
The play starting at 3;21 (it's also shown earlier) will forever be etched in the memomries of all of us old Viking diehards.Kapp around the left side following Bill Brown, the late Jim Vellone and Dave Osborn, and then hurdling Rams Jim Nettles for the score. ...finally giving them the lead. It was also the first time ever they led in a post season game.THAT play was symbolic of the start of it all. All the glory the struggles and dissapointments that lay ahead.God bless our Purple Gang!
The 1969 Divisional playoff game.Minnesota Vikings vs LA Rams was a classic!!!NFL films should replay it!!!SKOL!!!p.s.Mick Tingelhoff,Jim Marshall should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame!!!
Players back then were epitomy of tough. They didn't make much and they were smaller and slower then todays players, but they came to play. I love to watch Joe Kapp..
Brett Favre will always be my favorite quarteback.... I remember at one time when asked who he felt his style of play resembled, and he said Joe Kapp, because he would do some rather nutty things, or really odd looking throws to keep the play going.... I thought that was awesome, considering I always felt Joe Kapp was awesome and would have loved to have been alive to see him play. His old games and highlights are some of the funnest to watch. He could make something outta nothing. Pansies today
the victory over the rams in the nfc playoffs(23-20) was so awesome. vikes down 17-7 at half and they rally for the win. joe kapp at his best leading the purple down field and carl eller sacking gabriel in the end zone for a safety.
I am a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, and pulled for them religiously. But the Bud Grant Vikings, led by this tough-as-nails QB #11 Joe Kapp, were so fun to watch. Playing in my favorite enemy ballyard...... Metropolitan Stadium, I loved and appreciated pretty much everything about the '60s & '70s Minnesota Vikings. Bill Brown was probably my favorite Viking, but there were SO many great players on those teams, that it's hard, and unfair, to name just one. Obviously, Metropolitan Stadium should have NEVER been torn down. God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era.🏈
Joe Kapp was a tough SOB. One bar for a face mask. Built like a linebacker. Played outdoors in snowy Met Stadium in the winter. I didn't see him play, but I've seen the footage, and like it.
+Mike Garcia Yes. And the Vikings messed up by not re-signing him. Had they re-signed him for 70 and 71, they would have won a Super Bowl. Instead they had to have a guy name Gary Cuozzo at QB.
+Mike Garcia Yes. And the Vikings messed up by not re-signing him. Had they re-signed him for 70 and 71, they would have won a Super Bowl. Instead they had to have a guy name Gary Cuozzo at QB.
Love these video clips of the 60's NFL football. Joe Kapp was not afraid to take a hit unlike the QB's today. The famous one is against the Browns where he injures the tackler on a run.
Tom Miltenberger I really think the Vikings could have gone all the way the next year if they had managed to re-sign Kapp. He was exciting to watch. It's a shame the Vikings receivers weren't better then.
FDzerzhinsky Tark came back. Knapp had play 6 or 7 years up north before his 3 years with the Vikings. Add that with his final year with the Pats he had a long career. lot of hits that today's QB'S don't indure. with Staubach tearing it up in Dallas we needed to keep pace...
Oh the Good Ol' Days! I remember growing up watching those games. Bud even had snow piled up by the Vikings sideline in Los Angeles one year against the Rams. The story has been told that Joe wasn't against taking a beer bottle against the head on Saturday night, and being out there insulting the mothers of opposing lineman on Sunday afternoon. Way to go Joe!
I am no Viking fan but THIS WAS the MINNESOTA VIKINGS...! Snow covered fields in the elements, tough image, gritty players, the mud, the blood, & the beer... they have NEVER been the same since they left Bloomington Field... I was so DISAPOINTED when they announced that their new stadium would be yet another DOME.... They should have a Lambeau Field style stadium and name it after Bud Grant... But UN-LIKE Green Bay, the Vikes have no tradition.... Those new Unies suck with FLAT purple helmets and the AFL style designs...and I'm sorry but ANY team that plays indoors is more interested in the fringe {show up when they're winning} fan than the REAL fan who shows up regardless... too bad. They were fun to watch back in the day...
+1perfectstrangerr The Vikings were the epitomy of playing in harsh weather. Now, you're lucky to see a single player on either team that has as much as a dirt stain on them. Pansies aren't too inspiring, coupled with pansy rules. We played a lot of football back in the day, in the street in my neighborhood since the yards were so small (though there was some yard play if you thought the neighbors whom didn't want you playing in their yard, might not be watching), and I cannot imagine a kid today doing anything like that. Do they even play tackle the man with the ball anymore? You know, there's a lot of kids in the old neighborhood, as my mom still lives there, and I think I would actually cheer if I saw the kids playing football AT ALL. For some odd reason her neighborhood has like 6 portable basketball goals by the curb, whereas my much more racially mixed area doesn't have a one. I've never seen those kids even throw a football out there, much less try to make some sort of "two below" game out of it. God forbid they actually play tackle in the yards!
+1perfectstrangerr ...I couldn't agree more, well said....I grew up watching this and if you remember this division was called the black and blue division, you don't hear it called that anymore because the Lions and Vikings moved indoors...I sent an email to the Lions begging them not to build another domed stadium but they did anyway and now the Vikings are all set for 30 more years of dome football...I wish some people with big money would start a new league called the outdoor football league, no domes allowed. Im so glad the Rams are moving back to California and out of that ugly dome they have now
+impassable I have a partial solution. Why not let the elements get to the game field, but not the spectators? This would take place in a domed stadium of course, but one that is retractable. You would allow the weather into the place up to a certain point and the turf would be actual ground and real grass. In other words, we would like to see some snow out there if it started to fall, or maybe even rain as well, as we want the elements affecting the filed as much as possible, though we might like to keep the place heated. Some combination of all of this would be ideal. But if nobody would want to build a dome where you let in the elements at times, then why not have your 70 degree field with a dome, but play it entirely on real ground with real grass (though hosing it down during rains would add to the effect, that is assuming you gave a domed stadium which isn't retractable)? This way you have all the benefits of the domed stadium and fans get comfort, but the field, other than lack of wind or any precipitation, also get the look of playing outside, as jerseys get dirty or even muddy.
Charles 22 One thing I noticed over the years is that the season starts in the summer so the first few games are played in warm or hot weather, then you move to fall and the next few games are played in fall weather. By the time you hit December you only have like two home games left, so unless you make the playoffs there aren't many real bad weather games anyway. Maybe just one or two.
+impassable You're right about that, but the silly thing is the season drags on forever (the whole thing), because the NFL is dead set in dragging everything out, especially straining at the fan cash by making all that delay about the Super Bore. The Super Bore parallels the marketers racketing Christmas up earlier every year. You drag things out you get either more money, or more boredom and hatred of it. I'm afraid in both their cases it bores me and gives me much more contempt for marketers. While I like them having a bye week in a way, that drags the season out another week, and the Super Bore dragging out to two weeks, often makes me care even less than I originally did. They give you a week to live without NFL football (no, the Pro Bore isn't NFL football, and is even more a joke by not having either the champion teams represented), and it's going to be over soon at that point anyway, so who cares about two teams any more when you've already been weaned from the football habit, about teams you probably don't care about anyway? Also, I think not seeing bad weather, equates to thinking there's not bad weather, unless you live there. So many of these cold weather sites are indoors anyway, so you sure don't see it on the field. There's only so many cold weather teams in the playoffs each year, combined with a fairly consistent wet weather, to where you would notice it even for outdoor play. And how many of them play on artificial turf? So most of what you see is guys breathing vapors, and maybe some rain or snow coming down. How many times do you see a guy's uniform and he looks like he got tackled even once? I guess the greed hungry NFL will have to go to sticking advertising on players, as if the Susan G Komen fiasco weren't enough. You can't see advertising on players' jerseys if they're all muddied up!
Kapp was tough and gritty an all that. But many are under the false notion that because of it he didn't have skills. By the time he got to the NFL he had sustained a fair number of injuries in Canada including a knee injury, so he may not have looked as elegant running with the ball. But he DID have the skill set to play QB. We always hear about his wobblers, but he threw spirals as well 1:14
Thank you! Thank you! Even though I grew up an hour north of Pittsburgh, Joe Kapp was my boyhood hero and the Vikes my favorite team--though I'll never forgive them for "going dome."
i was 8 in 1969, nfl was on cbs afl on nbc. became a viking fan even though i lived nyc. snow, mud, cold is the way the sport was meant to be played.one bar face masks suspension helmets ,tough guys playing a tough game. the beauty of the game destroyed by synthetic turf and indoor stadiums.
Those were the days. I grew up in B& B division land so it was a rite of passage to be tough. Met Butkus back in the day. The snow also let us know it was Christmas time & man it was so fun back then. Now so sterile. Kapp was an enemy of my Bears but so fing cool.
Always the consummate player respected by his teammates. I remember watching him run the ball down the left side of the field and actually straddled an oncoming defensive player. Amazing!
Thomas Vasiloff. I remember that play well! I jumped up and stood there with my mouth open: I could not believe what I had just seen! Amazing, YES!! That's how I remember Joe Kapp! That's professional football at its finest!!
10/4 partner....he is the "man" and was such an important part to their team success....once a viking Fan, a viking fan you will be forever..............PKMan
There's no better footage of NFL films than that of the Minnesota Vikings, Snow storms, muddy playing fields, hard hitting brutal tackling, The Purple People Eaters would rip you apart in that Bloomington arctic, How I wish the Vikings were still outdoors.
Kapp was a winner in both the CFL and NFL, playing the same style in both leagues. He was great on busted plays, running for first downs. The big game in 1969 was the NFL championship game against the Browns, which the Vikings won. The Super Bowl was still just an exhibition game then, not an official championship game.
I wished I've gotten to see Joe Kapp, during his time with the Vikings. I was very young at the time, but I have heard ALL of Kapp's stories! I watched HIM playing with the Vikings, thanks to NFL films! I was fortunate to have met him in 1989, he definitely was an awesome MAN! The single bar across his face, the dirty uniforms, old Metrodome stadium! I was lucky to watch Fran Tarkenton play for the Vikings, best damn scrambler I ever seen! Thanks Joe, RIP #11! You're tougher than $2 dollar steak, and you WILL be missed! Skol Joe Kapp! Skol Vikings!
Man the uniforms sure got dirty back then .football at its purest...the outdoor stadiums, the old school jerseys, the snow, the rain ,the mud..Man that's so cool..
I know Kapp only played for the Vikings 3 years, and in the NFL 4 years (last year with the Patriots). I know he had the contract dispute, ending up with him going to the Patriots. And I wonder if his Super Bowl injury affected his final season passing ability. But for all the reasons this video shows, and many more, it's too bad that Joe Kapp was not selected as one of the Vikings Top 50 players for their first 50 years. Same goes for Lonnie Warwick, and I would suggest even for WR John Henderson, despite him statistically having only two good seasons for the team: 1969 and 1970. Here in Denver, I was proud to know it was Kapp who was the last player to throw for 7 touchdowns in a game, before Peyton Manning did it during the 2013 Broncos season. By the way, it is nothing against Tarkenton to also be a fan of Kapp. There's no need to compare them; I highly admire them both. I also agree with Bud Grant that Fran Tarkenton was the greatest quarterback of all time.
I still remember his passing stats from the 69 season he completed 120 out of 210 for something like 1600 yds. but they were 12-2 that season, that defense caused the opponents kids to be born with bruises.
@cesar1963able Actually Kapp did in fact, have a huge arm. It's just that his wobblers don't appear to be going to fast.. If you can get your hands on the Superbowl IV actual game broadcast, you'll see him put it up some 70 yards in the air. He also had great touch and a quick release. Today, his hell- for- leather, tough guy legend is such that it dwarfs many of the skills he possesed.
My Father said something that stuck with a young boy! That man (Kapp) is a real football player, not just a QB. My first game was watching them win the NFL Championship in the 69-70 season. I have rooted for them since and will not die until the win the SB. But the reason I respond to this video, this is old school in your face FB. Only the east in the NFC still understands that. Nasty wins!
I was a bit late to the party. Missed Kapp by a couple years. Loved NFL films, and Kapp was a legend my friend, two years older and a Vikings fan for several years, made sure I knew about. I’ve seen a lot of football films with Kapp, and he was a force! I imagine he’s having fun now. Great clip!
Those were the good old days (2:53) . Probably no penalty those days. Now if you touch a quarterback you get penalized 15 yards, etc. That is why you are seeing Brady, Manning, Favre, and most likely Brees play in their 40s
Back when guys were insurance or car salesmen in the off-season to make ends meet. Kapp looked like he'd be your local butcher. First saw him in "The Longest Yard".
Fran Tarkenton is my favorite QB ever. But the first Vikings QB I rooted for, at the age of 2, was Joe Kapp. And my parents told me I rooted for him big time. Probably due to his presence and strength and Viking personality. This is awesome.
That was one team you did not want to play after November. Playing at the Met in the blistering cold weather was agonizing for the opponent. If Minnesota could play in that stadium in January, they would be in the Super Bowl every year. You did not win there, you did not want to play there.
Paul Calhoun yep. Sat in that end zone beneath the scoreboard many a game. lol Sat about twenty feet from the guy who threw the bottle that hit the ref in the head with the non call on Drew Pearson . that was crazy!
LOL! God how I used to love watching the real Super Mex Joe Kapp play football in the elements! The guy ran like he had 10 inch hemorrhoids hanging out his ass and his passes would flutter in the wind like a wounded duck, but that bastard knew how to have fun and play the game the way it was meant to be played! We sure could use some of that moxie in today's brand of NFL football! SKOL Vikings!
We all know about Kapp's bravado and herat. It's there for all to see. But you don't get your team to the Rosebowl, Grey Cup AND the Superbowl without having SOME skills. He rarely gets credit for having one of the strongest arms in the league ( 70 yrd throw in SB IV ). Had a super quick release, threw on the run and had great touch on his passes.( starting at 2:22 ). He was fearless and macho, but the man could also play a little football.
I actually played against Joe! After the Joe Kapp led BC Lions won the Grey Cup in 1964, Joe and the team played an exhibition basketball game against my high school in Vancouver. Joe and the other BC Lions were great characters and a lot of fun - they beat us 76-75! RIP Joe.
I went to Hart High School in Newhall, CA (Same school Joe went to). I played Football there and wore #11 just like Kapp. Met him at a local hotel in 2005. He was larger than life. Rest in Peace Joe.
@@raiderd8189 He was born in Santa Fe according to Wikipedia. Sports Illus. called him "The Toughest Chicano" which is saying something! Loved him as a Vike. Cheers from Canada!
I remember. This was football! In the hard Minnesota weather, just a bar across the face, no gloves. Joe Kapp was the toughest. He once gave a post game interview with a bloody nose!
I grew up an LA Rams fan - ORIGINAL LA Rams. Roman Gabriel, Jack Snow, Willie Ellison, the Fearsome Foursome LA RAMS!Rams would win the West and the Vikings would win the Central to set up a monumental battle! Real men, real football, real tough. Loved it!!
He had a massive, rocket for an arm.Today his toughness is what stand out,and overshadow many of the true skills he had as a QB. Kapp could throw the ball as far as any of the top QB's in the game today.
I use to do it too when I wasa a kid. My father ran track in Cuba ( 110 meter hurdler ) he swore Kapp had to have done the same at some point. I met him many years ago and asked him, he said he never did. I'm sure he did this to avoid getting hit on his bad knee. If you take a look at the Jim Houston KO 2:08. Just as Houston came at him, Kapp was starting his jump and his knee caugh Houston flush on the temple. MMA worthy!!
We also need a (running back) Dave Osborn video on CZcams; Kapp's teammate! His second effort running and short-yardage touchdowns were spectacular to behold. And he ran for practically 1,000 yards in 1967! I also think great emphasis, even to be studied by the running backs of today, should be made of Dave Osborn's amazing pass-blocking abilities, and his toughness and grasp of football fundamentals. I just love to see Osborn totally take out his man on pass blocking. One highlight I've seen has him doing that, then catching the pass afterwards on the same play. Too bad perhaps the most seen single-play highlight that includes Dave Osborn, out of his entire career, is the botched handoff resulting in a safety in Super Bowl IX. One wonders if the fault on that play was his, or if it was Tarkenton's.
Osborne needed about 50 yards or so to get 1000 in 67'. He was a classic Bud Grant, blue collar type player along the lines of Kapp, Hilgenberg. Tinglehoff , Kassulke etc. Although excellent for the times,I don't think he may have fared as well in the 70's . The game was changing fast and he may not have been as effective. That honor goes to Chuck Foreman, a marvelous athlete who had the speed to play in the modern, fast artificial turf stadiums and the toughness to play in Metropolitan Stadium.He too was a great blocker. I've dissected the fumble in SB IX many times. In super slow motion while zooming in. It was entirely Tarkentons fault. He pulled back too fast from center. All through the time he made his pivot, he was barely holding on. By the time he tried to fake the handoff all Osborne did was graze the ball and it came out.
6400az...god!...every where I go you're talkin old school Viking football! ...its Joe (make work time) Kapp! ...one of my favorite lines when he starred in "The Longest Yard" with Burt Reynolds. ...make work time!
olofpalme63 I just love it.. Now as I did back then. It was just beyond a passion The players , the times etc. Takes me back to a time where things where really mattered.....at least in a kids mind....lol
We all know how tough Kapp was, but rarely doe he ever get credit ofr his athleticism. By the time he got to the NFL he was'nt all that youg, plus he had a dvastating knee in juriy in Canada. The jump ball throw is an example of his abilities. Today, whenever Peyton Hillis hurdle someone, it's an automatic highlight reel. Kapp was doing the same over 40 years ago.Nevermind his wobblers or unothodox style, he could really play ball.
Joe Kapp was a great competitor, who played with guts and determination.
Football seemed so cool back then. These guys were our heroes. Injun Joe Kapp. One tough SOB.
I barely watch my home team Buccaneers anymore
I was a teen when Joe Kapp played for the Vikings; we were always in awe when Joe connected with a wobbly pass, as well as when he scrambled due to a broken play or a planned one. He was unique and great to watch, underrated in my opinion.
I met him in Vancouver when he played for the BC lions. I was 7 at the time.
Seemed like every game at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington Minnesota was like -10 degrees in the frozen tundra with Bud Grant standing on the sidelines like the stoic masthead on a Viking ship. Joe Kapp was bigger than life. Nothing but charisma and heart. He was the Upper Midwest version of Joe Namath. Perfect quarterback for the nearly perfect 1969 Vikings.
Oh yes. What a time of frozen blood with frozen breath like buffalo & bigger than life it sure seemed. Now not so much. All the grit is gone. Just athletic perfection is all that is left. Kapp was so fun to watch in the snow like a pit bull.
Rumor has it the ok trapper won the super bowl of walleye poaching!!!!!
Joe Kapp was quite a warrior - he fit playing in cold, rugged Minnesota The musical accompaniment for this video is excellent!
Joe Kapp Will ALWAYS Be A "B.C. LION" To Me! 🇨🇦 🏈
Kapp = class act. Tough, well-respected by his players. Not afraid to take a hit.
My favorite QB of all time. Tough, no nonsense and a LEADER.I remember one play when heran left and down field and straddled the opposing linebacker!
One of the toughest players to ever play in the NFL
This the football I remember. No posing, just hard play.
Lmao sup old man
these guys would get dominated by a modern college team
@@dutdut2.059 if you going criticize my hero 1969/ 1970 Minnesota viking: go all the way get beat by high school football team,, laugh laugh;;Minnesota viking not scary of a college football ream currently
@@lloydkline1518 i’m sure they were very fine players in their day. that’s all ill say
It was a more stoic time...when nobody danced in the endzone. I miss that kind of play while acknowledging today players are stronger, faster and are in better shape.
Very few guy's would be able to play with those players back then. Those quarterbacks back then had to work so much harder than todays nfl qb's. Even though most of these guy's today are more skilled, still today's rules and refs seem to baby sit them throughout today's game. That's why it's sickening when, people always so quick to point out who's the greatest of alltime. We will actually really never know, different era's, different styles, different rules, different teammates. So' thank god for nfl films, at least we can enjoy watching them all!!!
Joe Kapp and Warren Moon: I liked them both in the CFL. Moon had THE arm, but Kapp had the HEART.
Man, Joe Kapp is the most exciting quarterback ever. Love to watch films of Kapp.
Toughest QB I've ever seen play Injun Joe!
Being a life-long, die-hard Los Angeles Rams fan, the image of Kapp rolling to his left and hurtling over Jim Nettles for the go-ahead TD still haunts to this day.
Joe’s been out of the league for about 50 years but to this day when I throw a wobbly pass I call it a Joe Kapp pass. He could also throw a beautiful spiral.
Some great memories! Viking fan for over 45 years win, lose or draw from a little town in California called Corcoran. One of my favorite Vikings players.
ya, joe was amazing in canada, Bud Grant, the vikings coach was a great coach in the CFL too.
they were suited for each other . both knew how to play in the cold weather. the weather in Oct or Nov. for the most part isn't cold as it is in Dec or Jan in Min.
"BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS" GREATEST QUARTERBACK!
The two-handed shovel pass at 0:35 is a thing of beauty.
I’ve been a Viking fan since 1965, Joe Kapp is still one of my favorite players. He threw ducks, but somehow they made it to the receiver and he is still one of toughest men to ever play his position. His 1969 Vikings, brought us our first NFL Championship, and dominated the league the way few teams have, blowing out opponents week after week. To hell with Super Bowl IV. SKOL VIKINGS!! Thanks Joe!!
Joe Kapp had grit and fire. How many QB's do you see now in the NFL have those two qualities?
0.
We had one more recently, his name was Brett Farve.
He was always getting in fist fights!!
Love this guy
The throw at 2:34 is the coolest throw i have ever seen.
Memories about him will never fade 😔💜
The play starting at 3;21 (it's also shown earlier) will forever be etched in the memomries of all of us old Viking diehards.Kapp around the left side following Bill Brown, the late Jim Vellone and Dave Osborn, and then hurdling Rams Jim Nettles for the score. ...finally giving them the lead. It was also the first time ever they led in a post season game.THAT play was symbolic of the start of it all. All the glory the struggles and dissapointments that lay ahead.God bless our Purple Gang!
The 1969 Divisional playoff game.Minnesota Vikings vs LA Rams was a classic!!!NFL films should replay it!!!SKOL!!!p.s.Mick Tingelhoff,Jim Marshall should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame!!!
Players back then were epitomy of tough. They didn't make much and they were smaller and slower then todays players, but they came to play. I love to watch Joe Kapp..
Brett Favre will always be my favorite quarteback.... I remember at one time when asked who he felt his style of play resembled, and he said Joe Kapp, because he would do some rather nutty things, or really odd looking throws to keep the play going.... I thought that was awesome, considering I always felt Joe Kapp was awesome and would have loved to have been alive to see him play. His old games and highlights are some of the funnest to watch. He could make something outta nothing. Pansies today
the victory over the rams in the nfc playoffs(23-20) was so awesome. vikes down 17-7 at half and they rally for the win. joe kapp at his best leading the purple down field and carl eller sacking gabriel in the end zone for a safety.
I am a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, and pulled for them religiously. But the Bud Grant Vikings, led by this tough-as-nails QB
#11 Joe Kapp, were so fun to watch. Playing in my favorite enemy ballyard...... Metropolitan Stadium, I
loved and appreciated pretty much everything about the '60s & '70s Minnesota Vikings. Bill Brown was probably my favorite Viking, but there were SO many great players on those teams, that it's hard, and unfair, to name just one. Obviously, Metropolitan Stadium should have NEVER been torn down.
God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era.🏈
they dont make em like joe anymore - what a tough hornery dude - made watching fball fun- such a character - born leader
Joe Kapp was a tough SOB. One bar for a face mask. Built like a linebacker. Played outdoors in snowy Met Stadium in the winter. I didn't see him play, but I've seen the footage, and like it.
+Mike Garcia Yes. And the Vikings messed up by not re-signing him. Had they re-signed him for 70 and 71, they would have won a Super Bowl. Instead they had to have a guy name Gary Cuozzo at QB.
+Mike Garcia Yes. And the Vikings messed up by not re-signing him. Had they re-signed him for 70 and 71, they would have won a Super Bowl. Instead they had to have a guy name Gary Cuozzo at QB.
+Bill Brown I thought the brought back Fran Tarkanton from the giants.
marty Zimmerman They did. But that wasn't until '72. The year the Dolphins went 17-0.
Bill Brown I thought so but Joe Kapp should have had another shot in the NFL .
Love these video clips of the 60's NFL football. Joe Kapp was not afraid to take a hit unlike the QB's today. The famous one is against the Browns where he injures the tackler on a run.
Tom Miltenberger I really think the Vikings could have gone all the way the next year if they had managed to re-sign Kapp. He was exciting to watch. It's a shame the Vikings receivers weren't better then.
FDzerzhinsky Tark came back. Knapp had play 6 or 7 years up north before his 3 years with the Vikings. Add that with his final year with the Pats he had a long career. lot of hits that today's QB'S don't indure. with Staubach tearing it up in Dallas we needed to keep pace...
FDzerzhinsky Gene Washington was All Pro
great video, started watching football in 68 with joe as the quarterback
All football highlights should be shown with this soundtrack.
Oh the Good Ol' Days! I remember growing up watching those games. Bud even had snow piled up by the Vikings sideline in Los Angeles one year against the Rams.
The story has been told that Joe wasn't against taking a beer bottle against the head on Saturday night, and being out there insulting the mothers of opposing lineman on Sunday afternoon. Way to go Joe!
I am no Viking fan but THIS WAS the MINNESOTA VIKINGS...! Snow covered fields in the elements, tough image, gritty players, the mud, the blood, & the beer... they have NEVER been the same since they left Bloomington Field... I was so DISAPOINTED when they announced that their new stadium would be yet another DOME.... They should have a Lambeau Field style stadium and name it after Bud Grant... But UN-LIKE Green Bay, the Vikes have no tradition.... Those new Unies suck with FLAT purple helmets and the AFL style designs...and I'm sorry but ANY team that plays indoors is more interested in the fringe {show up when they're winning} fan than the REAL fan who shows up regardless... too bad. They were fun to watch back in the day...
+1perfectstrangerr The Vikings were the epitomy of playing in harsh weather. Now, you're lucky to see a single player on either team that has as much as a dirt stain on them. Pansies aren't too inspiring, coupled with pansy rules. We played a lot of football back in the day, in the street in my neighborhood since the yards were so small (though there was some yard play if you thought the neighbors whom didn't want you playing in their yard, might not be watching), and I cannot imagine a kid today doing anything like that. Do they even play tackle the man with the ball anymore? You know, there's a lot of kids in the old neighborhood, as my mom still lives there, and I think I would actually cheer if I saw the kids playing football AT ALL. For some odd reason her neighborhood has like 6 portable basketball goals by the curb, whereas my much more racially mixed area doesn't have a one. I've never seen those kids even throw a football out there, much less try to make some sort of "two below" game out of it. God forbid they actually play tackle in the yards!
+1perfectstrangerr ...I couldn't agree more, well said....I grew up watching this and if you remember this division was called the black and blue division, you don't hear it called that anymore because the Lions and Vikings moved indoors...I sent an email to the Lions begging them not to build another domed stadium but they did anyway and now the Vikings are all set for 30 more years of dome football...I wish some people with big money would start a new league called the outdoor football league, no domes allowed. Im so glad the Rams are moving back to California and out of that ugly dome they have now
+impassable I have a partial solution. Why not let the elements get to the game field, but not the spectators? This would take place in a domed stadium of course, but one that is retractable. You would allow the weather into the place up to a certain point and the turf would be actual ground and real grass. In other words, we would like to see some snow out there if it started to fall, or maybe even rain as well, as we want the elements affecting the filed as much as possible, though we might like to keep the place heated. Some combination of all of this would be ideal. But if nobody would want to build a dome where you let in the elements at times, then why not have your 70 degree field with a dome, but play it entirely on real ground with real grass (though hosing it down during rains would add to the effect, that is assuming you gave a domed stadium which isn't retractable)? This way you have all the benefits of the domed stadium and fans get comfort, but the field, other than lack of wind or any precipitation, also get the look of playing outside, as jerseys get dirty or even muddy.
Charles 22 One thing I noticed over the years is that the season starts in the summer so the first few games are played in warm or hot weather, then you move to fall and the next few games are played in fall weather. By the time you hit December you only have like two home games left, so unless you make the playoffs there aren't many real bad weather games anyway. Maybe just one or two.
+impassable You're right about that, but the silly thing is the season drags on forever (the whole thing), because the NFL is dead set in dragging everything out, especially straining at the fan cash by making all that delay about the Super Bore. The Super Bore parallels the marketers racketing Christmas up earlier every year. You drag things out you get either more money, or more boredom and hatred of it. I'm afraid in both their cases it bores me and gives me much more contempt for marketers. While I like them having a bye week in a way, that drags the season out another week, and the Super Bore dragging out to two weeks, often makes me care even less than I originally did. They give you a week to live without NFL football (no, the Pro Bore isn't NFL football, and is even more a joke by not having either the champion teams represented), and it's going to be over soon at that point anyway, so who cares about two teams any more when you've already been weaned from the football habit, about teams you probably don't care about anyway? Also, I think not seeing bad weather, equates to thinking there's not bad weather, unless you live there. So many of these cold weather sites are indoors anyway, so you sure don't see it on the field. There's only so many cold weather teams in the playoffs each year, combined with a fairly consistent wet weather, to where you would notice it even for outdoor play. And how many of them play on artificial turf? So most of what you see is guys breathing vapors, and maybe some rain or snow coming down. How many times do you see a guy's uniform and he looks like he got tackled even once? I guess the greed hungry NFL will have to go to sticking advertising on players, as if the Susan G Komen fiasco weren't enough. You can't see advertising on players' jerseys if they're all muddied up!
Good old classic ball. Gotta love it.
Dude, this guy is amazing. And actually looks like the original Tim Tebow!
Kapp was tough and gritty an all that. But many are under the false notion that because of it he didn't have skills. By the time he got to the NFL he had sustained a fair number of injuries in Canada including a knee injury, so he may not have looked as elegant running with the ball. But he DID have the skill set to play QB. We always hear about his wobblers, but he threw spirals as well 1:14
Agreed kapp was also a good athlete as well.
Unfairly overshadowed by Tarkenton historically. Tough as nails. Underrated.
JOE KAPP SALUTE!!!
Brings back great memories as a kid. Vikings were my favorite team until the NFL granted a team to Seattle. Loved the old games in Bloomington.
Thank you! Thank you! Even though I grew up an hour north of Pittsburgh, Joe Kapp was my boyhood hero and the Vikes my favorite team--though I'll never forgive them for "going dome."
This is Joe slower and tougher. what a man!
Watching this is as a former rams fan is still a nightmare. However, kudos to kapp. He was great in '69.
At 2:08, I remember that play from 1969 when I was 8. Number 82 is literally out cold.
It was Jim Houston of the Cleveland Browns. Kapp broke the guys ribs.
The 40 for 60 guy. He gave everything, every game. He is one of my four or five favorite Vikings of all time.
i was 8 in 1969, nfl was on cbs afl on nbc. became a viking fan even though i lived nyc. snow, mud, cold is the way the sport was meant to be played.one bar face masks suspension helmets ,tough guys playing a tough game. the beauty of the game destroyed by synthetic turf and indoor stadiums.
Those were the days. I grew up in B& B division land so it was a rite of passage to be tough. Met Butkus back in the day. The snow also let us know it was Christmas time & man it was so fun back then. Now so sterile. Kapp was an enemy of my Bears but so fing cool.
Always the consummate player respected by his teammates. I remember watching him run the ball down the left side of the field and actually straddled an oncoming defensive player. Amazing!
You mean hurdled him ?
Thomas Vasiloff LA Rams........Remember it well lol
Thomas Vasiloff. I remember that play well! I jumped up and stood there with my mouth open: I could not believe what I had just seen! Amazing, YES!! That's how I remember Joe Kapp! That's professional football at its finest!!
10/4 partner....he is the "man" and was such an important part to their team success....once a viking Fan, a viking fan you will be forever..............PKMan
There's no better footage of NFL films than that of the Minnesota Vikings, Snow storms, muddy playing fields, hard hitting brutal tackling, The Purple People Eaters would rip you apart in that Bloomington arctic, How I wish the Vikings were still outdoors.
Joe Kapp was the toughest quarterback I ever saw play the game. He was one tuff S.O.B.
Joe Kapp played in the CFL .... He definitely could throw the ball.
Kapp was a winner in both the CFL and NFL, playing the same style in both leagues.
He was great on busted plays, running for first downs.
The big game in 1969 was the NFL championship game against the Browns, which the Vikings won.
The Super Bowl was still just an exhibition game then, not an official championship game.
I wished I've gotten to see Joe Kapp, during his time with the Vikings. I was very young at the time, but I have heard ALL of Kapp's stories! I watched HIM playing with the Vikings, thanks to NFL films! I was fortunate to have met him in 1989, he definitely was an awesome MAN! The single bar across his face, the dirty uniforms, old Metrodome stadium! I was lucky to watch Fran Tarkenton play for the Vikings, best damn scrambler I ever seen! Thanks Joe, RIP #11! You're tougher than $2 dollar steak, and you WILL be missed! Skol Joe Kapp! Skol Vikings!
Joe Kapp - famous for the "lame duck" pass. We loved it!
Man the uniforms sure got dirty back then .football at its purest...the outdoor stadiums, the old school jerseys, the snow, the rain ,the mud..Man that's so cool..
I know Kapp only played for the Vikings 3 years, and in the NFL 4 years (last year with the Patriots). I know he had the contract dispute, ending up with him going to the Patriots. And I wonder if his Super Bowl injury affected his final season passing ability.
But for all the reasons this video shows, and many more, it's too bad that Joe Kapp was not selected as one of the Vikings Top 50 players for their first 50 years. Same goes for Lonnie Warwick, and I would suggest even for WR John Henderson, despite him statistically having only two good seasons for the team: 1969 and 1970.
Here in Denver, I was proud to know it was Kapp who was the last player to throw for 7 touchdowns in a game, before Peyton Manning did it during the 2013 Broncos season.
By the way, it is nothing against Tarkenton to also be a fan of Kapp. There's no need to compare them; I highly admire them both. I also agree with Bud Grant that Fran Tarkenton was the greatest quarterback of all time.
I really can't understand how Kapp wasn't amongst the 50 greatest Vikings? I mean taking Culpepper over Kapp..........is that even legal ??
@@6400az he carried the Minnesota Vikings to the super bowl
Joe Theismann!!! Played in the 70's,80's!Don't get me wrong.I love Joe Kapp!!!I lived in Adrian,MN when he guided the Vikings to SBIV!!!
I get purple and yellow 💜💛 goosebumps watching this. Real 🏈 played by real men in dirt and mud and snow..
Kapp was a tough SOB, but I've never seen a quarterback throw so many ducks in my life!
Kapp didn't use the laces so he didn't throw spirals, but he got the ball there.
I still remember his passing stats from the 69 season he completed 120 out of 210 for something like 1600 yds. but they were 12-2 that season, that defense caused the opponents kids to be born with bruises.
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Actually Kapp did in fact, have a huge arm.
It's just that his wobblers don't appear to be going to fast.. If you can get your hands on the Superbowl IV actual game broadcast, you'll see him put it up some 70 yards in the air. He also had great touch and a quick release. Today, his hell- for- leather, tough guy legend is such that it dwarfs many of the skills he possesed.
My Father said something that stuck with a young boy! That man (Kapp) is a real football player, not just a QB. My first game was watching them win the NFL Championship in the 69-70 season. I have rooted for them since and will not die until the win the SB. But the reason I respond to this video, this is old school in your face FB. Only the east in the NFC still understands that. Nasty wins!
I was a bit late to the party. Missed Kapp by a couple years. Loved NFL films, and Kapp was a legend my friend, two years older and a Vikings fan for several years, made sure I knew about.
I’ve seen a lot of football films with Kapp, and he was a force!
I imagine he’s having fun now.
Great clip!
Those were the good old days (2:53) . Probably no penalty those days. Now if you touch a quarterback you get penalized 15 yards, etc. That is why you are seeing Brady, Manning, Favre, and most likely Brees play in their 40s
Ted65 he got a concussion. I read about it in his autobiography.
Back when guys were insurance or car salesmen in the off-season to make ends meet. Kapp looked like he'd be your local butcher.
First saw him in "The Longest Yard".
Fran Tarkenton is my favorite QB ever. But the first Vikings QB I rooted for, at the age of 2, was Joe Kapp. And my parents told me I rooted for him big time. Probably due to his presence and strength and Viking personality. This is awesome.
Joe was a pretty good actor too, I just saw him in the movie "Climb An Angry Mountain" with Fess Parker!
He was also with Burt Reynolds, in "The Longest Yard".
Awesome Video. It makes you continue to be a Viking Fan!!!
That was one team you did not want to play after November. Playing at the Met in the blistering cold weather was agonizing for the opponent. If Minnesota could play in that stadium in January, they would be in the Super Bowl every year. You did not win there, you did not want to play there.
Paul Calhoun yep. Sat in that end zone beneath the scoreboard many a game. lol Sat about twenty feet from the guy who threw the bottle that hit the ref in the head with the non call on Drew Pearson . that was crazy!
Paul Calhoun frozen turf add that both teams on same sideline......mere inches past the endzones was the fence. talk about home field advantage
LOL! God how I used to love watching the real Super Mex Joe Kapp play football in the elements! The guy ran like he had 10 inch hemorrhoids hanging out his ass and his passes would flutter in the wind like a wounded duck, but that bastard knew how to have fun and play the game the way it was meant to be played! We sure could use some of that moxie in today's brand of NFL football!
SKOL Vikings!
We all know about Kapp's bravado and herat. It's there for all to see. But you don't get your team to the Rosebowl, Grey Cup AND the Superbowl without having SOME skills.
He rarely gets credit for having one of the strongest arms in the league ( 70 yrd throw in SB IV ). Had a super quick release, threw on the run and had great touch on his passes.( starting at 2:22 ). He was fearless and macho, but the man could also play a little football.
I actually played against Joe! After the Joe Kapp led BC Lions won the Grey Cup in 1964, Joe and the team played an exhibition basketball game against my high school in Vancouver. Joe and the other BC Lions were great characters and a lot of fun - they beat us 76-75! RIP Joe.
R.I.P. Joe Kapp. One of the reasons I became a Vikings fan.
I went to Hart High School in Newhall, CA (Same school Joe went to). I played Football there and wore #11 just like Kapp. Met him at a local hotel in 2005. He was larger than life. Rest in Peace Joe.
Joe Kapp.... One Tough Man
Joe's one of the main reasons I'm a Viking fan & always will be. He was somethin' else.
Go Vikes!
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@@raiderd8189 He was born in Santa Fe according to Wikipedia. Sports Illus. called him "The Toughest Chicano" which is saying something! Loved him as a Vike. Cheers from Canada!
@@bullobca hell yeah! Chicano!
He Was Great In The CFL
I remember. This was football! In the hard Minnesota weather, just a bar across the face, no gloves. Joe Kapp was the toughest. He once gave a post game interview with a bloody nose!
I grew up an LA Rams fan - ORIGINAL LA Rams. Roman Gabriel, Jack Snow, Willie Ellison, the Fearsome Foursome LA RAMS!Rams would win the West and the Vikings would win the Central to set up a monumental battle! Real men, real football, real tough. Loved it!!
Bill Cosby, thanks for sending me here. What a player in Joe Kapp and yes Tim Tebow plays like him. Wonderful.
Joe Kapp was awesome. He left it al on the field. Loved watching the Vikes when he was the QB.
i was 11yrs old back then. I use to worship the NFL, now i just watch.
it should b mandatory for football to b outside!!!!!
Excellent footage. Love the music too.
One of my all time favorites along with Roman Gabriel & Sonny Jurgenson
Rest in Piece Joe! Their is a special place in heaven for these NFL greats. Thanks for you sacrifices, you made the game great. And m not a Viking Fan
He had a massive, rocket for an arm.Today his toughness is what stand out,and overshadow many of the true skills he had as a QB. Kapp could throw the ball as far as any of the top QB's in the game today.
Wow what a clothesline he took! The Walking Boss!
Keith Froehlich yeah about 10 feet deep in the end zone .....yikes
I use to do it too when I wasa a kid. My father ran track in Cuba ( 110 meter hurdler ) he swore Kapp had to have done the same at some point.
I met him many years ago and asked him, he said he never did. I'm sure he did this to avoid getting hit on his bad knee.
If you take a look at the Jim Houston KO 2:08. Just as Houston came at him, Kapp was starting his jump and his knee caugh Houston flush on the temple.
MMA worthy!!
Iconic shot of Joe Kapp at 3:34. THAT is how I remember him!
He tore up the CFL, tougher than a linebacker !!
We also need a (running back) Dave Osborn video on CZcams; Kapp's teammate! His second effort running and short-yardage touchdowns were spectacular to behold. And he ran for practically 1,000 yards in 1967!
I also think great emphasis, even to be studied by the running backs of today, should be made of Dave Osborn's amazing pass-blocking abilities, and his toughness and grasp of football fundamentals.
I just love to see Osborn totally take out his man on pass blocking. One highlight I've seen has him doing that, then catching the pass afterwards on the same play.
Too bad perhaps the most seen single-play highlight that includes Dave Osborn, out of his entire career, is the botched handoff resulting in a safety in Super Bowl IX. One wonders if the fault on that play was his, or if it was Tarkenton's.
Bill Brown was good too.
Agreed! Bill Brown was outstanding, also!Timothy Abell
Osborne needed about 50 yards or so to get 1000 in 67'. He was a classic Bud Grant, blue collar type player along the lines of Kapp, Hilgenberg. Tinglehoff , Kassulke etc.
Although excellent for the times,I don't think he may have fared as well in the 70's . The game was changing fast and he may not have been as effective. That honor goes to Chuck Foreman, a marvelous athlete who had the speed to play in the modern, fast artificial turf stadiums and the toughness to play in Metropolitan Stadium.He too was a great blocker.
I've dissected the fumble in SB IX many times. In super slow motion while zooming in. It was entirely Tarkentons fault. He pulled back too fast from center. All through the time he made his pivot, he was barely holding on. By the time he tried to fake the handoff all Osborne did was graze the ball and it came out.
6400az...god!...every where I go you're talkin old school Viking football! ...its Joe (make work time) Kapp! ...one of my favorite lines when he starred in "The Longest Yard" with Burt Reynolds. ...make work time!
olofpalme63 I just love it.. Now as I did back then. It was just beyond a passion The players , the times etc. Takes me back to a time where things where really mattered.....at least in a kids mind....lol
Man has never thrown a spiral in his life, but oh what grit he had.
Joe Capp was a tough as anyone that ever played NFL football.
Joe was a LEADER and tough as nails. Whatever it took to get the job done !!! I loved that guy!!
RIP Gangster # 11 wasn't a viking fan but enjoyed your work & heart !
We all know how tough Kapp was, but rarely doe he ever get credit ofr his athleticism. By the time he got to the NFL he was'nt all that youg, plus he had a dvastating knee in juriy in Canada. The jump ball throw is an example of his abilities. Today, whenever Peyton Hillis hurdle someone, it's an automatic highlight reel. Kapp was doing the same over 40 years ago.Nevermind his wobblers or unothodox style, he could really play ball.