Minnesota Vikings • 1970 Highlights
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- Bought this video/tape on eBay quite a few years ago and thought it was time to share (we're not getting any younger, NFL Films). So, for the "old" fans that are still around, and for the current fans that are just curious, here's what your Minnesota Vikings were doing forty-six years ago...that's assuming CZcams allows me to keep it posted.
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My childhood memories! Every week they would do the league recap, Vikings usually were winners back on those old films. Great video, great to relive the names….
Sure do miss them days.
The first game I've watched with my grandfather I've been a Vikings fan ever sense
I guess what I loved best about this era is the lack of showboating. Nobody grinding away in the end zone. Score a touchdown and hand the ball to the ref. The way to play the game!
Wouldn't fly with Bud Grant or the Vets like Eller , Tinglehoff Bill Brown etc
The Vikings first round exits in 1970 and 1971 stand out as two of the glaring examples of underachieving in NFL playoff history, all because of a slightly above average offense and three backup QB's. The defense must have been biting their tongues after losing to SF and Dallas.
Karl Kassulke was a beast. Sack of landry was one the all time bad ass hits ever.
Too bad you never see that hit on the NFL's Greatest Hits.
I know right? I remember that hit. I thought Landry was dead. I was 8 years old.
That was just and old fashioned drilling. Laundry probably had a slow time getting up after that one.
Saw it live, I was ten. Landry was very slow getting up.
Kassulke became a para or quadriplegic after a severe motorcycle accident ended his career after 10 seasons.
He lived the rest of his life until 2008, paralyzed below the waist.
He died at 67..
R.I.P...
It was simply amazing how a DT like Alan Page could have such an impact on a football game. He was great in 70, and simply spectacular in 71, deserving his MVP status..
a brilliant man too--he went on to law school and is now a Minnesota supreme court judge--interestingly he doesn't like to talk about his football career at all--I think his feeling is that he would like to set an example to youth to excel in school/career and not focus on trying to be a professional athlete which is a longer shot than even winning a lottery
He's now retired from the bench, btw..
Yes, he was never one to wax philosophic about his athletic career to any great extent. I got the impression that he enjoyed the competitive aspects of football games, but he could do without the rest. He was able to move on from football, while others never seem to..
+MassVt it was philosophy that got him traded to the Bears in '78. Alan wanted to be on a vegetarian diet to increase his speed and quickness. Bud Grant disagreed. But I think in the end, Alan was right if you look at the team's afterwards like Jimmy Johnson Cowboys and Bill Belichick's teams. They had speed on the defensive ends.
I don't think that Alan weighedd more than 225 by 1978, and that just isn't enough to play DT in the NFL. You could argue that Grant had a double standard, since he let Jim Marshall play DE at 220, and you might be right. At the very end ( 1977-78), the front four of the Purple gang was very old, and very light, not a good combination.
+MassVt you need the whole team to be committed for speed. DB's and linebackers as well.
Kapp would have made a big difference. Just his presence and enthusiasm would have made the Vikings nearly shoo-ins to repeat as NFC Champs. Too bad ownership was too cheap to re-sign him. 3 years at $150k a year would have been a steal.
One of the biggest sports disappointments of my life to this day. Its the curse that follows the team like trading Ruth followed the Red Sox. Horrible decision.
Agreed, they should have just given him what he wanted. In many of those 1970 regular season games Cuozzo was more lucky than good. The SF 49ers playoff game should have been won, and I firmly believe it would have been if Kapp were there.
Who knows what would have happened if Kapp had been signed. Perhaps a Super Bowl win. On the other had, they may never had traded for Tarkenton in 1972.
My hero joe kapp
@@theskeptic2010 I thought they lost to the Cowboys that year? That was when the Cowboys had that runner Duane Thomas who never spoke the whole year? And not to be confused with the Hail Mary game which was 1975
Amazing that this Vikings defense gave up almost exactly just 200 yards a game. Sure, they gave up 143 points, but 28 points of those were from allowing TDs on special teams. Just 6 passing TDs and 4 rushing TDs allowed all season long!
That loss to the 49ers in 70 was a bitter pill to swallow
One year later in 1971 a little kid from an small Montana town started following the Vikings and I never quit, through it all the ups downs and even getting laughed at with Les Steckel, ugh.
Awesome Greg.Stay with them.We will see a championship someday . GO VIKES !!!!
I miss the years when the Vikings winning the division was just a foregone conclusion.
But playing that weak competition never helped them in the playoffs or especially in super bowls
@@barbaracaroll Well, they couldn't help what division they were in nor their full schedule. It wasn't all that weak. They used to call the Central the "black and blue division" becasue the teams used to beat up on each other. Plus, I remember when the KC Chiefs was the first game on the Vikings schedule the following season after the Chiefs beat them 24-7 in the Super Bowl. The Vikings dominated them 27-10. I wished they could've won one of those Super Bowls but they played some damn good teams.
The Packers and lions sucked in the 1970s Da Bears improved to average the last couple years of the 1970s
@@blakkat4126, the NFC was weak from 1972 to 1982..
And its irrelevant whether the VIKES could not control their schedule or divisional aasignment. The weak competition in the OLD NFC CENTRAL which in its history only produced 7 SUPER BOWL clubs(4= MINN.) OUT OF ITS 35 seasons, with only TWO PACKER TEAMS(1ST YR. OF THE NFC CENTRAL DIVISION=1967-68 & IN 1995-96) WINNING A SBOWL..AND IN AN NFC which in those 11 seasons('72-73 thru 1982-83) won 1 SUPER BOWL(DALLAS IN 1977-78), HURT THE VIKINGS BECAUSE
Iron sharpens IRON.
The VIKES had DALLAS, S.FRAN.(FIRST QUARTER OF THE DECADE) ST. LOU. CARDS(FIRST 40 PERCENT OF THE DECADE)& LA RAMS AND WASHINGTON TO WORRY ABOUT IN THOSE 11 NFC SEASONS. That was it.
In the AFC, PITT, OAK, AND MIA WERE GOOD OR GREAT ALL DECADE, WITH GOOD TEAMS CINCY, KC AND CLEVELAND IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE DECADE..AND DEN., HOU. OILERS, BALT. COLTS AND NEW ENGLAND IN THE LAST HALF OF THE AFC 11 SEASONS, IN THAT LIST.
Only TBAY AND PHILLY EMERGED IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE DECADE AND ATL. IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 11 YR. "DECADE" IN THE NFC..Even the sprinkle teams(1 OR 2 SEASONS OF W's= TOPS) with THREE= ATLANTA, GREEN BAY, AND THE CHIBEARS, IN THE NFC WERE
outnumbered by SPRINKLERS=BUFF., NY JETS, SAN DIEGO, AND SEATTLE IN THE AFC DURING THOSE 11 SEASONS..
Those are the facts..
The pass defense had 28 interceptions and only gave up six passing touchdowns.
Wow!
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I never have liked the NFL as much as the 1970's
I.miss 1970s NFL football, 1975 viking
Great times
@@lloydkline7245 1973 .1974, viking love the cbs pre game show NFL
@@lloydkline7245 1973,1974 Minnesota Vikings
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I've always believed that if Joe Kapp could have agreed to resign with the Vikings that year (instead of going to Boston where his career essentially ended) the Vikings would have gone on to the Super Bowl. Gary Cuozzo simply didn't energize the offensive the way Kapp did (even though he wasn't the greatest passer he was deeply respected on the field and in the dressing room)
I agree. Had Kapp signed for another three years they could have won at least two Super Bowls.
I'm sure Joe Kapp has regretted that decision all these decades.
@@markmerzweiler909 Yes, I think you're right .
Kapp"s career was married by contratcr disputes .
- Traded in Canada , wanted more$$
- In 67' signed with the Houston Oilers,while STILL under contract with the Tigercats in the CFL
- The with the Vikings
- Finally with the Patriots( 2nd time Rozelle voided ) and ultimately kicked out of the NFL.
The Vikings of 1969-71 finished their regular seasons with a 35-7 mark, and set records for fewest points allowed over a three-year span..
if Kapp had been QB in 1970-they would have beaten San Francisco in the playoffs--hosted Dallas in the NFC Championship (a team they had beaten 54-13 in the regular season) and then won SB V
Why didn’t the Vikes resign Kapp after the 1969 season when he got them to the Super Bowl?
@@KChiefs12 contract dispute..
@@bufnyfan1 I agree - they should have kept Kapp even if it meant paying him more
But never could win a SB
I was at that Rams game in the rain. Box seats without protection from the overhang down what would be down the first base line .we got drenched
Everyone talks about '98, or '09, or old Vikings fans, they talk about 1975: what might have been. But how the hell did the Vikings not win in 1970? It was one of those weird years where it was there for anybody. The Vikings destroyed the defending champs, KC and That Little Toad Hank Stram, they destroyed that year's NFC champ, Dallas. The next year, they beat the defending champs, the Colts. But in 1970, they shat themselves at home in the playoffs against the 49ers. That was it. But maybe this was their year.
They were essentialy the same team as the year before, only difference was no Kapp. They really should have went back to the Super Bowl that year, but were upset by John Brodie and the 49ers. Fred Cox was voted their most valuable player and was the NFLs leading scorer that year. I remember watching that year.
The offense wasn't strong and the running game through 70-72 was virtually nonexistent for the Vikings..
Good lord Randy, it's been decades since I've seen this highlight reel. Thanks for posting! :-)
Of all the Vikings highlight reels during the 60's & 70's of the Bud Grant era, this one rates extremely high in overall production quality as NFL Films was flexing their creative muscles incorporating the music to set the tone and drama of the games throughout the regular season. First game rematch with Kansas City after Super Bowl highlight is a great example of how they did this, then culminating later on with the 2nd victory against the Lions which basically clinched the division title.
I attended a number of the games that season, including that playoff loss against the Niners.
That game was a brutal defensive stand-off; 2nd half play if I remember correctly consisted of a series of like 6 or 7 consecutive 3 and out series by both teams.
Still looking for that 1968 Vikings Highlight Film titled "The Way Up", the footage in that reel of the final game of the season in Philadelphia and their playoff loss in Baltimore are just epic as NFL Films really started to come of age incorporating many of the sideline/endzone cameras for unique angles they rarely utilized before.
+Patriots In The News I recently wrote an article on that Vikings-Niners 1970 playoff game. From watching the film, the Viking receivers and runners had one of their worst games in that contest.
It was just horrid. On the Vikings first posession, they let Clinton Jones run on two consecutive wide sweeps on the left side, picking up first downs both times, back to back. We figured this would be a portent of things to come. That was basically it for the running game looking respectable for the rest of the game.
This was back in the day when someone at the Met would invariably bring a radio to the game and crank it up loud enough so people around had a clue what the hell was going on. I specifically remember sometime in the second half after 4 or 5 back to back 3 and outs the Vikings announcer on the radio saying "It's obvious the Minnesota offense lacks the spark generated by a Quarterback capable of leading them". He didn't mention Kapp by name, but everyone in section 32 knew exactly who he was referring to.
+Patriots In The News It was this game that inspired Grant to trade for Norm Snead, thinking that he would take the QB spot from Cuozzo. It never happened, as Snead, Cuozzo and Lee shared the position n 1971, and none of them were successful. The Viking defense had to do everything that year..
+Maroons1p The Viking receivers dropped everything in this game. I believe that Cuozzo went 9-27, but many of the incompletions were not his fault..
+Patriots In The News This particular video about the 70 Vikings was one of the best ever made, I agree. Thye music matches the action, and they feature a number of players for brief cameos. I've got quite a few of these, and this might be my favorite..
LOVED THIS!!! Great memories. :)
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“Super kicker” Fred Cox missed only three extra points in 387 attempts between 1963-1973. He was drafted by Cleveland as a running back and had never placekicked prior to 1963.
1969 through 1971 were missing ring years for the Vikings. They were the best regular season teams, but couldn't get it done in the playoffs.
Zoyx. I absolutely agree with you. even though not a great offense, they would have beaten any other teams in those years. even though defense was great in mid 70's when they got back to super bowl, I believe they were past their primes and AFC caught up to nfc and actually at that point had the bigger, better, younger teams. But 69,70, 71 teams were toughest. Timing is everything.
steve nervo timing is everything. Time for you to stop with your uneducated sports comments.
Russell Steve Nervo at least has an opinion. All you do is call people a dumbass. You appear to be the uneducated one.
@@northernlight4614 you tell him!
The 1971 team had a little trouble on offense , they beat Green Bay at home 3-0
The now Vikings should watch these films
Cuozzo was kinda like Don Strock. Both had numerous chances to be the number 1 QB. Coming off the bench, they had their moments, but they proved time after time, they we'ren number one material. Cuozzo's best game may have been the 1st game of the 1969 season. He also played mostly in the last game against the falcons.....both times they lost. Strictly a backup QB, no way could he commandeer a team the whole season to a championship.
+6400az I always viewed Cuozzo to be the kind of QB you could feel relatively safe with if your starter went down as you were headed into the 4th quarter holding a 10 point lead.
If it was the other way around, you were basically screwed. :-)
+Patriots In The News I think that's a good characterization of him. he had the job in 1970 and was carried by the defense. In 1971 the Vikings didnt'k now what to do about his ineptness so they brought in Norm Snead ( this would've been the perfect time to bring back Kapp who was out of football by the beginning of the season ) they ended up using 3 QB's that year. They where so bad, not even an out of this world defense could save them.
Looking back at the records, and the point differentials, the two best teams in the entire NFL in 1970 just might have been the Vikings ( +193) and the Lions ( +145). Neither one made it out of the 1st round, although both beat many good teams during the season..
As a long suffering 49ers fan, I figgered the Niner's had a "snowballs chance in Hell.....er....ah....Minnesota" to beat the Vikes at home in the snow that year. We did it !!!! then lost to the hated (at least in my book) Dallas Cowboys in the last professional game ever played in Kezar Stadium. Either way, it was a great year for the Niner's and one of the more underrated teams that they had.
Vikings were great in the 70's.. they choked in all 4 super bowls though but sense then they haven't even made it to a super bowl. I bet knowing that for vikings fans hurts the most..
Didnt really choke. They where expected to lose in all but IV.
Although they were upset in the playoffs, they still had quite a season. They beat the NFL champion Chiefs, trashed Dallas, won a defensive struggle with the strong Rams, and won two great games with the wild-card Lions.
+MassVt The Lions finished 10-4 that season with 2 of those losses coming to the Vikings who ended up 12-2. The woulda coulda shoulda's are all over this one. Detroit had a propensity of finding a way to screw themselves out of golden opportunities to beat the Vikings back then and Minnesota was only too happy to take advantage of it. :-)
Sucked to be a Lions fan when Bud Grant was the head coach, Minnesota owned them for a majority of the decade.
+MassVt It was really sad that after a tremendous 12-2 record the Vikings came out "flat" against the 49ers--would have loved to see what they would have done against Dallas in the NFC championship (the Vikings completely crushed the Cowboys in the regular season 54-13 which I beiieve is still the worst loss Dallas has ever had)
A Dallas-Minnesota title game would have been great, and much closer than the regular season tilt. Minnesota was a plus-193 for the season, but lost in the 1st round, when their offensive shortcomings started to show up. The 1971 Vikings became a team with great defense, but unfortunately, no QB.
The 1970 playoff game showed the Viking offense at its worst, in frigid conditions, and convinced Grant to go after Norm Snead in the off-season. He made no difference in 1971..
Actually, I think the 44-0 loss the Chicago Bears handed them in Dallas during the 1985 season is the most lopsided defeat the Cowboys have ever had. But the 54-13 beat down the Vikings gave them wasn't the only time they were totally blown out in 1970. Earlier that year, the Cardinals blanked them 38-0 in the Cotton Bowl in their MNF debut.
Patriots In The News Not to mention the amazing 63-yard field goal by Mr.Tom Dempsey certainly didn't help.
Hamms...the beer refreshing...Hamms!
A much better era of football
The biggest game of the year was week one, those NFL schedule makers were geniuses
Previous year weak vs. weak and strong vs. strong in the first month of the sked, always.
Its been done that way since the 12 teams played 72 games(12 apiece) each season.
That way the teams that would mostly be mediocre at best, there was not free agency in today's form then= ROZELLE RULE OF COMPENSATION FOR LOSING PLAYERS WHO PLAYED OUT THEIR OPTION, would not bury themselves early on like they would if they were playing stronger clubs.
Conversely, the strong ones would not run away and hide= romping in the standings because they would be playing other strong teams, instead of weak ones early on.
9:07, still one of the hardest, clean hits on a QB ever! Landry felt it, Kassulke felt, the crowd heard and felt it, and I feel it every time I see this hit on various NFL films. One of the most "oh no" plays in football. Its not the blind side blitz, its the front side off the corner where the QB is so focused on downfield, and its timed perfectly by the defensive back, he's almost hidden, and by the time the QB turns his head to lift his arm its POW!!! Right in the kisser! I got hit like that once, and you'd rather get the blind side hit because you don't see it and your body just goes with the flow. But the front side, you get that half a second of "oh no", your body tenses up when you get hit, and you could be injured. A hit like that and you find out how tough your QB really is. No doubt. btw....Greg Landry, the QB taking that hit wasn't a bad QB. He had a nice career with the Lions and Colts.
+spryfol It was incredibly tragic that Kassulke's career ended following a motorcycle accident that left him a paraplegic just before the start of the 1974 season
+david graham 1973 season
+Shelton Walden The 1973 Viking team highlight shows Kassulke in a wheelchair, encouraging his teammates before a game. Jeff Wright basically took his place at strong safety..
+MassVt Yes, I know - I remember seeing the highlights on local tv in 1974.
+spryfol I agree - a good clean hit, not dirty. Minnesota was my favorite team in those days. They had players who knew the right way to tackle like Paul Krause. Great teams who never won the big one!
That's real game man wouldn't mind being at 1 of them (Games)👍
PAINFUL TO WATCH AGAIN BUT MAKES ME MORE HUNGRY! I AM SUPER EXCITED FOR OUR RECENT CHANGES OF GM AND COACH! NEXT YEAR WILL BE A NEW BEGINNING OF A MARCH TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!
Thanks for posting this!
+Ken Hidaka Thanks Ken...gotta warn you though, just yesterday, the NFL decided to block the 1976 Minnesota Vikings video I had posted, so watch what you wanna watch as soon as you can, cuz my gut tells me the rest of my posted Vikings videos will eventually be blocked.
+Ken Hidaka Trust me Ken, I did not post the videos knowing that any of them would eventually be blocked. I cannot for the life of me, understand why these forty-something year-old videos cannot be posted and shared with the fans, especially when it's the fans that made the NFL what it is today.
+Randy Fast - they focus on codewords. Some have succeeded by using codes or something like that.
+metrolax - MnVkgs or something like that might fly below the radar
+Ken Hidaka Hey, I thought I was the one who has been causing the destruction of everyone's channels!
Ultra cool
The vikings team of 1970 and 1971 needed a QB to win a super bowl. These were dominant teams in between kapp's exit and tarkenton's return. Had they had joe or franny they would've won a super bowl with these teams.
+purple sword Kapp held out for a new contract and ultimately ended up with the Patriots where he was worse than mediocre and where his NFL career ultimately ended. Bud Grant has said that although Kapp wasn't a "hall of fame QB" he brought a spark/enthusiasm to the locker room and on the field that the Vikings never had again (although Tarkenton did go on to take the Vikings to many NFC Championships)
Yeah true i just think joe was perfect for that viking team of the late 60's. I would of liked to have seen him QB the 70 and 71 teams.
purple sword their defense undoubtedly was at its peak. unfortunately they didn't have an offensive to match it until Tarkenton got there but by then although defense was still real good, they were past their prime at that point. agree that with Kapp I think they would have won a few before the AFC started to become dominant. they couldn't at that point beat those AFC opponents
steve nervo Dallas beat Miami there goes your a.f.c dominance theory dumbass .
Thats once.
Although, "The Hail Mary" loss the Cowboys was both shocking and disappointing. This loss to the 49ners is one of the darkest losses in team history. This team was almost as devastating as the 1969 team, the ONLY difference was Joe Kapp. Regardeless, here they had a California team in frozen Met Stadium, just like the year before. Unbelievably they lose !! Don't know what the point spread may have been, but surely more than a touchdown Vikings.
The offense lost that game for them as it basically did the next yr vs Dallas at home..and I think a punt return gave San Francisco great field position for a TD..
Yes! This is maybe the most underrated Vikings' could-have-been season. (And gawd knows, there are a lot of candidates.) Weird year, first year of the NFL merger, where there was no truly great team. Vikings could have easily won it all in 1970. But like every other Vikings season, it didn't happen.
@@bitterangrydrunk Even Joe Namath that year commented that in his opinion the Vikings were actually the best team in the NFL that year, not the Cowboys or Colts, playing in their "Blooper Bowl". Vikings handed the Cowboys their ass in a regular season blowout. This Vikings team never seemed to have a problem with the Colts either. Plus they made short work of defending champion Hank Stram's KC Chiefs in the season opener rematch. Agreed, it was a strange year and I was there to watch it all.
The Vikings were 7-point favorites, but nobody really gave the 49ers a chance. Minnesota's problem was a poor offense. They had only 2 decent drives -- their first, which ended in an INT, and their last, which ended in a last-minute TD. Otherwise, they were stifled. Had Minnesota won, they would have had to play the NFC Championship at Dallas, based on the weird rotation formula for home field they had from 1970-1974 (it wasn't based on W-L record until 1975). I think the Cowboys would've had a very good chance to get revenge on the Vikings for that 54-13 loss in October. The Doomsday defense likely would've suffocated the Vikings' suspect offense. Even in the blowout win, Minnesota gained only 258 total yards on Dallas, but forced 4 turnovers and scored TDs on a blocked punt and pick-6. After losing 38-0 to St. Louis in Week 9, Dallas gave up only 36 points in the next 6 games, including only 15 points (and zero offensive TDs) in the 5 games leading up to the NFC Championship.
@@johnmanier7968 True, although as Purple Gang fan, if you're scoring 54 pts, you're also kicking off constantly, and thus not possessing the ball...
Remember that season well as a life long fan from The Excelsior district.I will now and then will play on my audio cd the 1970 playoff game CBS live feed with Ray Scott and Pat Summerall broadcasting in its entirely.
I met this guy today at Texas roadhouse
Steve, it would 've been like 1969 except with a happier ending. Everyone was back except Earsell Mackbee and BIll Harris ( am I missing any ? ) Kapp was at the top of his game. Had they beaten the 49ners they would have had a so-so Cowboys team with a rag tag armed QB in the NFC Championship game, then the Colts in SB V. It was there for the taking.
+6400az Dallas has turned its season around in late '70, but the offense has lost its explosiveness. Minnesota should definitely have found a way to win, even with a somewhat suspect offense. The Colts were nothing special.
Seriously, the Vikings really should have won Super Bowls 4 & 5.
Kapp was traded to New England after a contract dispute with the Vikings. Gary Cuozzo was the QB.
The 1970 Vikings went as far as their sick defense could take them. When the defense was steller,
Cuozzo was good enough to lead the offense. But when the defense was merely good, and the Vikings needed the offense to step up, such as in the 49ers playoff game, they missed the leadership of Kapp.
He wouldn't have been pretty, but in a must-win home playoff game, Kapp would have made the difference in 1970 and gotten the Vikings back to the Super Bowl.
@@jayNicks10 Except that KC was a clearly better team.
@@marcschneider4845 The Vikings thrashed the Chiefs in the 70’s opener. They should have never lost Super Bowl IV. They played their worst game of the year in the Super Bowl. Too many fumbles and mistakes. Vikes were the best team in football in 1969. Only team in history to have scored more points than any other team and given up
less points than any other team. Record still holds 53 years later.
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The NFL STINKS removing these old videos .....I'M DONE with the NFL
What a block by Osborne !! 9:35
I noticed that; completely cut down Lion LB Wayne Walker. Incredible 2nd game with Detroit..
MassVt really a fantastic comeback by the Vikings, I actually have that game in Game of the Week. Looking at this game, and others, I still don't see how they lost to the 49ners in the 1970 playoff. Cuozzo had a couple of moments in 70' , I guess he just couldn't make it last and was finally exposed. Coming into the playoffs the Vikings had won 4 straight and in the last two games they scored 35 and 37 points against the Patriots and Falcons and had close to ( or over ) 400 yards total offense. Not the greatest of teams but enough to say they hit the post season on a roll. What choke job, good God !
They had some weird names in that secondary.. Hackbart, Kassulke, Sharockmen, Krauss.. It's like they all just came off a Viking warrior ship straight from Norway
THis season featured two great games with the Lions, who became the NFC wild-card team with a great late-season surge..
Greg landry the lion QB probably still has nightmares of carl eller crashing in on him from his DE position.
+MassVt but it was tragic that Detroit actually played a great game in the 1st round playoff game in Dallas (played at the old Cotton Bowl as Texas Stadium was still being built in Irvine)-only to lose 5-0
Tough loss for a very gallant Detroit team, that won 5 straight games against playoff-caliber competition just to get the wild-card slot. Dallas ran well on this day, and the Lion offense did very little.
Randy Fast rules !!!!!
Once in a great while, the clouds of chance overshadow the plans of man" 5:58
John Facenda in Super Bowl V
I'm down with the Hamm's beer. Burgie beer also, as well as Schmidt of course, what we called Animal Beer because of the cans. Even in the early 80's that stuff was like $2.99 for a 12-pack, the cheapest get-drunk beer you could find for a weekend in college when money was tight.
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Vikings did everything well. Except win Super Bowls. But I loved them dearly
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The playoff loss to the 49ers was a great disappointment, in which the offense, and special teams, played poorly. I remember Viking receivers dropping passes all over the cold field ( only about 5 degrees at kickoff)..
I remember that game well. 17-14 niners. Paul Krause returned a fumble for a TD but the offense could never get it in gear. Frustrating loss.
purple sword I was 10 yrs old and nines game was first fb game I watched. when I saw purple uniforms and horns on the helmets breath coming from their face masks they became my team that day. never will forget it
love love love this team....Vikes should go back to this shade of purple
So this was a rematch of the previous Super Bowl, a couple weeks ago I was watching an NFL game and an announcer said "no two teams that played in the super Bowl have ever played each other the next season,much less the 1st game,I immediately thought of this game...K.C. vs, Vikes.
Awesome video and thanks for include closed-captioned.
Nice.
They really laid it on the Chiefs, didn't they?! Bet those Vikes wanted that one. Atlanta's last game ever in the cool black jerseys. They'd beaten Minnesota in Atlanta, 10-7 in 1969, but no way in 1970 on the same field, 37-7.
10-3
@@michaelleroy9281 My bad. Thanks, you are right. Listened to the whole game on the radio. Claude Humphrey runs for that TD. Great time for falcon fans then.
Damn
This is a great highlights film; hard rocking music! This may be the most disappointing season of the Bud Grant era/the 49ers game the most disappointing loss, in terms of what might have been a championship team, all except for the 4 Super Bowl losses. What a season Ed Sharockman had! Led the team with 7 picks, 3 in one game, against the Cowboys, with two of those being pick 6's, plus had 2 picks against the Patriots. I love the focus on Dave Osborn, one of my favorite players in Vikings history.
Where were they on 65 toss power trap? Stram saw they were not getting off their blocks I guess.
This was the year the Vikes could have won a superbowl if the Vikings had a QB and some offense
A real star quarterback and a couple of big running backs is all they would have needed. They had everything else. Recievers were good enough, Cox was still good, and Purple People Eaters defense still intact.
Minnesota viking didn't know to draft in lower round of NFL draft &
The Purple People Eaters, best D line I've ever seen ! And I'm a Bears fan. And then having Dave Osborne on offense, we invented a game 2 on 1 football played in the coldest of weather in the snow . It was named Dave Osborne ,even living in Chicago and being a Bears fan there was only one name for a game of football in the winter and that was for our favorite Viking,
slip satch
They were tough. That was required to play at Metropolitan Stadium or Lambeau Field. Much respect.
This was a game invented by us when we were kids 11-13 years old
Gary Cuozzo could never fill Joe Kapp’s shoes. What BS.
65 toss power trap.
Total regular season touchdowns allowed by the Viking defense:
1969: 12
1970: 10
1971: 13
Missed opportunity.
The Vikings must have had money on GB with tackling like this: 3:28
Vikings coverage on Kickoffs wasn't always considered one of their strong points back then.
+Patriots In The News You're putting it mildly. The 1970 Vikings had several kickoffs run back for TDs against them, and their punt coverage team wasn't much better. Very slow personnel..
+MassVt Slow personnel except when they ran through the personnel office to pick up their checks and off for liquor and the ladies.
5:00
3 of my vikes "under the radar" guys from this period- BOBBY BRYANT, OSCAR REED, ED SHROCKMAN.
The very least you could do when naming " your Vikes " is to spell the names correctly, ED SHAROCKMAN!
The Vikings and Bills were good for getting revenge in games to teams they lost to in the games that really mattered.
In week 1 the defense of the 60s put down 👇 the offense of the 70s
i'm not a Vikings fan, but I love watching old sports videos, and this one was fun to watch but why oh why did I have to listen to the annoying voice of hank stram at the beginning?
the opening game victory over the KC Chiefs (27-10) just proves that if the Vikings had more time to prepare and had a better idea of their opponent the Vikings would have easily won SB IV
The vikings had alot of trouble in super bowl 4 with the chiefs ''power I'' which kept them off balance most of the game. They learned from that terrible defeat and beat the chiefs soundly at home.
+purple sword They had even a bigger problem in that game with the KC defense which caused the offensive line fits by stacking Defensive Tackle Buck Buchanan directly over center Mick Tingelhoff for a majority of the game. NFL defenses at the time RARELY did this and it messed up blocking assignments for much of the game. KC went with a 5-2-4 set and Minnesota didn't have a sophisticated enough passing attack that was designed to compensate for this kind of defense. Years later, Kapp went on record saying he kicked himself for not capitalizing on the lone weakness of the KC defense that day, by not throwing more to WR John Henderson who was basically open almost every time Kapp targeted him and as a result caught a majority of the passing yards in the game. The old sports metaphor of "take what they give you" until they are forced to make the adjustment , was obviously evident in this instance.
+Patriots In The News If it wasn't Buck Buchanon, it was Curley Culp, and either way, it meant trouble. And yet, the Oakland Raider O-line didn't have too much trouble blocking the Chiefs d-line--I guess because they met twice a year, every year..
Yikes, you're correct, my bad, it was Culp. Thanks for the heads up. Interesting insight on that 65 toss power trap call on that 3rd and goal in the Super Bowl. Apparently, KC ran that same exact play a few times the week before against Oakland in the AFL championship game and the Raiders defense stopped Garrett cold each time for no gain. When the play was sent in, Garrett looked at Dawson and asked him "are you sure that's what he wants us to go with?" Dawson rolled his eyes and went with what Stram called and the Chiefs got their TD before the half. I guess Stram was gambling that even though the Vikings clearly saw this play from the game films in advance, that KC wouldn't run the risk of having similar results on a key play a week later.
Patriots in the News--It was Buchanon or Culp, depending on the play, although there were times when the would line up opposite Minnesota guards Sunde and Vellone. I think that the 65 toss-power trap was just a glorified draw play, and the guards would just push both DTs away from the middle, or just "finesse" them away..
Stram was so obnoxious on the Super Bowl 4 highlight film. At the very end of that piece, Dale Hackbart pushes a KC fan who gets either too close to him or is too exuberant.
I hear Cowboys Walt Garrison at 2240
Fuck da game, I just want the Hamms!!!!
that's what must have happen to the Detroit lions vs Dallas Cowboys 1970 playoff game tape I remember watching it on here not to long ago. Even though I live in Michigan I love the Purple people eaters I took a lot of pain from my older brothers because Minnesota beat Detroit every year I remember at my junior high school football end of year celebration somebody ask the Detroit lion player there how come you lose to Minnesota
Brian Crudele
Joe Kapp wanted too much money I guess. That was the reaction by management.
Right here Dave :)
6:52 LOL @ Detroit Lions mascot
Can anyone share the music track name beginning at 8:01 mark?
Hank Stram didn't do much as head coach of the Saints
Nor mike ditka.
Why is Pat promoting beer? Sad looking back on it. The man admittedly had a drinking problem
Money.
Back when NFL fans were civilized
8:14...--Phil Manzanera on lead guitar?
Cool. Phil was about 20 years old at the time.
Whatever happened to WR Gene Washington ?
Injured in 1971-72, traded to Denver, career over. John Gilliam became the team's deep threat..
I miss Met Stadium. I do not like the new Stadium or the old Dome. The Vikings won the central division 10 times when playing outdoors. Tailgate parties where fun . And the crowd rocked the bleachers in the cold weather.
I heard the site of the old Met Stadium is now an IKEA parking lot-(part of the Mall of America complex)-apparently a marker stands there commemorating what used to be there
Russell Ebnet. Seems like nearly every year there was a playoff game at the Met during this period.
69 vs the Rams and Browns
70 vs the 49ers
71 vs the Cowboys (Christmas Day)
73 vs the Redskins
74 vs the Cardinals and Rams
75 vs the Cowboys (the Hail Mary game)
76 vs the Redskins and Rams
@@bufnyfan1 not true. You can stand on what was home plate INSIDE the "Sprall of America,
I'm 67 years old I liked the Metrodome and now US Bank Stadium, I'm too old to sit out in winter ❄️🥶 weather ☁️🌡️
Joe kapps's departure after the 1969 super bowl run was a big loss, cuozzo was a decent QB but not the leader that joe was.
+purple sword Kapp was screwed over by GM Jim Finks when he dared to ask for a bonus and a renegotiated contract following the 69 season. This is considered my many to be the genesis of free agency in the NFL. If memory serves me correctly, the write up in the Minneapolis Tribune indicated that Kapp had asked for like $25-30k signing bonus plus 40% pay raise, which at the time would have placed him near 6 figures (keep in mind, this was 1970). Finks wouldn't budge, and Grant had very little say in the matter. Kapp is dealt off to Boston to get his ass handed to him behind one of the worst offensive lines in the NFL and Kapp's career comes to a grinding halt shortly afterwards.
+Patriots In The News Kapp would have been about 32 at that time, and I'm sure that he was looking for a strong contract that would enable him to retire with a financial cushion. I don't think he made too much money in the CFL of the 60s, even though he was quite successful..
Yes i remember that. Joe had a contract dispute with the vikes and was dealt to a horrible patriots team where he had no chance to win.
+purple sword And when the Pats drafted Plunkett,Joe's fate was basically sealed!!!!
I believe that Joe asked for a pretty expensive, long-term contract, since he was already about 32. The Vikings balked at paying, and Joe wound up in Boston, with a team that was struggling, to put it mildly. Joe's value had to do with the intangibles that he brought to the game, and I think that it would be difficult to be a "fire and brimstone" kind of guy for every single game, year after year...
12-2 and yet can't beat the 49ers, who couldn't beat the Cowboys, who lost to the Vikings 54-13 during the season.
+Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. Massive choke by the Vikings. there have been many heartbreaking losses, but the on in 70' against the 49ners was jut devastating. Would have had a great shot against the Colts
6400az ...I wonder what would have happened if Kapp,and not Cuozzo,was playing Quarterback in 1970
+Steve Zimmerman Kapp and not Cuozzo, I guess we'll never know-zzo.
Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. Cuozzo was a journeyman quarterback who rarely had a really good game...Kapp was much more of a leader!
+6400az That 1970 Colts team was a shadow of what they had been 2 seasons earlier when they lost to the Jets in SB III. There was a write-up in Pro Football weekly or The Sporting News before SB V that had numerous quotes from a number of NFL players/coaches/writers for their take on the match-up and I think it may have been Namath (ironically enough) that came out saying that Minnesota was clearly the best team in the NFL in 1970 and it was shame they weren't representing the conference in that game.
Ytube can be such a-holes on nonsensical blocks.....and not block the gross, vulgar stuff they should.
If they had gotten past the 49ers, they probably would have beat Dallas and Baltimore in SB5. The offense went flat against San Francisco, even though the defense held its own.
26:09 Sack...Today he would have been FINED, EJECTED...To bad the game is not like this any longer. Quarterbacks now wear Pink Dresses.
I remember those days when men stood for the anthem and only kneeled before God. Thank you Randy!
Complete with 70's porn music.
hooah
Vikings skol
and how many championships do they have? As much of chokers as the 70's Rams were!!!
Regarding the NFL forcing you to remove your videos: I love NFL football, but I HATE the NFL. It is one of the most greedy organizations I've ever seen. Do you know that beverage and snack companies cannot use the word "Super Bowl" in their advertising without paying the NFL for the privilege? And the way they have taken premier matchups and put them on their own, pay-per-view network is unconscionable.
Sounds like U need the nuthouse,eh Joe????
What an unwarranted, snarky response, "Maruice." Don't tell me, you're Roger Goodell's little butt buddy?
+Joe Leicht It's your inner child I'm tired of hearing,understand????
It's true, Joe, if the particular advertiser doesn't not pay for the license, it has to refer the Super Bowl, simply as "The Big Game"(SMH)>
These are not the 70s stop whining like a freaking old man whining about the good old days too many people are living in the past
Almost 50 years later and still ZERO titles. Even the pathetic Eagles have one :-\ Not even a Super Bowl APPEARANCE for the Viqueens since the Seahawks and Buccaneers were NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW!!!!!!!!!!
The Vikings are the most successful football organization that never won a title. Hell, the Vikings are
a more successful franchise than many of the clubs that won Super Bowls.
The Vikings made their last Super Bowl appearance for the 1976 season, the same year the Buccaneers and Seahawks came into the league