70s NFL That Wouldn't Fly Today
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The 1970's were a crazy time for the NFL. And a lot of what went down, wouldn't fly today.
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Trivia fact: the year after the 'Mel Blount Rule' was instituted Mel Blount had a career high in interceptions.
Cause he concentrated less on attempted murder of WRs and played the ball more. Id love to see s bar fight between Blount and Tatum
@@aVerveQuest Night Train Lane would have handled them both
Lol "Oj was a victim of cancel culture" just like the Unibomber was the target of the Big Mailbox lobby
Na Big Envelope was after the Unabomber, Because of his use of only Box's. Poor Bastard never had a chance.
the unibomber was right. he was protesting the way they intended to use technology to control and enslave people. the man was a legit genius with a deep concern for the free future of humanity.
Ted was a genius and completely correct.
@@domusdebellum3042 🤦♂️
@@paulcoover7057 😂
What I also love about the 1970’s was John Fesenda’s voice for NFL Films
NFL films doesn’t even exist after he stopped in 1983.
@@osaji922 I couldn’t agree more
"The winter wind is a pirate..."
thats Facenda,just sayin..
@@LGPelletier That's The Autumn Wind, not winter!
"Before the Juice fell victim to cancel culture..."
Well yes, but actually no.
Five Points thought he was so edgy with that one lol
He was trying to cut to the chase
@@lynchlaflare926 not nearly as much edge as OJ's knife, though.
And a murder trial. 💀
@@psychorabbitt OJ Simpson was found NOT GUILTY
Lmaooo man said oj is a victim of cancel culture.
Love ya 5
The funny thing is that somebody probably thinks that unironically
Didn’t OJ did a lot of that to himself before cancel culture became a thing?
They had no choice after his killer season in 94
@@andrewdotmp4 just about everybody that complains about “cancel culture” doesn’t understand the difference between doing something awful and being held accountable for it and being unfairly blacklisted.
@@shanestanton8 cancel culture has always been a thing
If you look at the statistics, 70’s passing offenses were pretty grim. Obviously the play calling affects the number of attempts, yards, and touchdowns, but they were so inefficient compared to pretty much anything post Bill Walsh. Even the best QB’s were completing about 55% of their passes, and the TD-INT ratios were close to even.
# of QBs with 90.0+ Passer Ratings
1977: 0 QBs
1997: 5 QBs
2017: 15 QBs
2020: 23 QBs
It’s because defenses were allowed to maul and tackle receivers more than 5 yards downfield before 1978
It's because defenses were allowed to be much tougher at the time
@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly And offensive linemen couldn't block with extended arms and open hands.
mel blount rule in 70s changed some,, but the key change in the NFL play style was 'targeting' - protecting the WRs -- they began to take the DB WR collision and concussions seriously -- once you couldnt knock the snot out of the TE/WR in the middle of the field, it opened up a previosuly shut passing lane. At first you saw tight ends down the seam jimmy graham n gronk n such,, -- the strength of the cover 2 was u didnt have to cover that middle because before targeting, you would simply put the WR in the hospital -- (see sammy whites catch in superbowl vs raiders) -- now you have to cover that middle of the field and that opens every other passing lane up
I walked along the Astrodome floor - the Astroturf, in a stadium tour way back. (Everyone should think about stadium tours, though it's redundant when you have Five Points Vids). Two things were crazily obvious: one, it really is rather a thin sheet over concrete. When you played in your childhood front yard, which was better, being tackled on the ground, or on the concrete driveway? The second was the SEAMS. These are invisible to the TV camera and even the stands. It you actually got down there and looked close, you'd see one _or even more_ inch "cliffs" that you sure as spit would not wish to catch with your foot, and imagine it in a full bore sprint! And fully unexpected making it worse: think about being in your front yard, running the fastest you've run in your life, and catching a tree root unseen because it had grass hiding it or it blended in. I concluded Astroturf was human torture.
that sounds absolutely horrific
All 70's Astroturf surfaces were bad. Used to play touch FB and pickup softball on the Ohio Stadium (Ohio State) turf. While they didn't have the seam issue there, while being in the best shape of my life, my 19 year old body ached for two days each time I played there, just from the hardness. I couldn't imagine being planted on it by a 250 lb linebacker.
@@carseye1219 Well put!
Thank fuck fieldturf is a thing lol.
I recall after a 1978 Monday Night FB game between the Steelers and 49ers I had a chance to check out the Astroturf playing surface at Candlestick Park and was appalled with the hardness of the surface: A thin carpet on concrete.
I saw NFL games in the 1970s at Shea Stadium and Giants Stadium. When the Jets and Giants were both awful. Kinda like today
General Shephard (CODMW2) said "the more things change the more they stay the same"
At least their stadium is nice
@@wyatthill6252 not really.
Giants also played at Yankee stadium.They did'nt sell out games
I sold concessions in the stands at Texas stadium in the 70s , fun job for a teenager
That OJ cancel culture line was amazing 😂
Yeah. If you commit double homicide you tend to get canceled.
Were 18 years to early
Kinda like how Ted Bundy got cancelled, kinda feel for em
@@robertandrews6915 Ted Bundy REALLY got cancelled.
He was the canceler himself lls
The entire Raiders teams of the 70's would be cancelled...
I don't think so. They had a few clean players,...a few. Skip Thomas, Matt Millen ( a bad GM but a clean player) Reggie Kinlaw, Phil Villapiano, Wille Brown, Art Shell, Dave Rowe. That's about it. You're right. The rest were psychos.
The game better than the Super Bowl in each year it happened was the AFC Championship between the Raiders and the Steelers. It was a love/hate for me, because I didn't know which team to root for. They were both my favorite.
Well yeah, they were all on steroids
@@penguinsfan251 I think you can find it here on youtube.
what about the steelers
22nd and Mel Blount was such a game changer, literally!
2:00 There is an angle from the nbc broadcast, on CZcams, that clearly shows the ball went off Tatum
thank you senator mitch mcconnell
Grim Reaper
So now we know where the Senate leader is when not purposefully advancing legislation.
I have seen a close-up video of the play and froze it at the moment of impact......it bounces off
My Dad use to tell me Monday Night Football was comedy show back in the 70s. Alex Karras Iowa Legend
I miss hearing Don "sing".
Yeah, the only ones who took it seriously were Keith Jackson in Year 1 (1970) and Frank Gifford in Year 2 and beyond (1971). Both were the play-by-play announcers.
You forgot the Unitas as a Charger, OJ as a 49er, and Namath as an LA ram
John Hadle as a Packer, Joe Kapp as a Patriot
@@dennisbedard9850..and the say Hey jud Willie Mayes returning to NY in '74 to play for the Mets
@@dennisbedard9850the say hey Kid WillieMays returning to NY to play for the Mets.
The entire Raiders organization wouldn't have played in today's NFL. True, their offense was way ahead of its time, but their tactics would have their fine fees in the millions every year. From the Stickum to the facemask holding to the head to head collisions to the hands wrapped in what is basically cement mix to the many of the field issues the players always faced. Hell, Al Davis cheated on the team itself by printing a fake statement that would give him complete control of the organization, basically stripping the other owners of their authority over the team (and this was back when he was basically the team GM).
is this coming from a steeler fan
But did he still have that goofy f***in haircut?
Found the raiders fan in his fee fees.
I rememeber reading a while ago that either Joe Buck or Troy Aikman admitted to drinking tequila during games.
Definitely not Joe Buck, he is only 4 feet tall and would never make the NFL.
probably aikman
I could understand why. It keeps you warm and numbs the aches
Nothing wrong with have a 🍸 its legal.
Probably Aikman so he could handle 3 hours of Joe Buck
You overlooked having to wait until Monday night to see the highlights of Sunday's games.
and even then they didn't show all of them, just 5 or 6.
The Immaculate Reception didn’t propel The Steelers to a Lombardi Trophy. They lost to the ‘72 Dolphins in the AFC Championship Game
Yeah, I know. They may have won 4 Super Bowls in 6 years even had they lost that game.
That was their first time ever in rhe playoffs. The Mike Renfro non TD gave them an extra Super Bowl
The First steelers superbowl 9 could have been changed with instant replay. With the score of 9-6, Steeler receiver caught a pass and fumbled the ball. The head linesman said he was down before the fumble. The steelers scored on the drive and won 16-6. Nobody knows if the correct call had been made.
@@b.d.cooper8671 you are correct.
@@mikejohnson9606 The correct call was made because that's what the ref called.
Ernie Holmes once sacked John Hadl and then ran to the stands and grabbed something from a screaming woman. He then spiked it right on top of John Hadl's bald head. What was it that he spiked onto the quarterback? It was a 6 month old Roger Goodell.
The game has suffered ever since.
I would love a video of things that are common today that wouldn’t fly in the 70s
I like that a lot of the players had different facemasks, everyone wasn't the same and the pads were much bigger.
Yeah, the Mel Blount Rule was the first step towards today's insanely pass-heavy offenses. My favorite part of that rule, though, is that in interviews I've seen, Mel seemed pretty proud of it. "That's fine. I can still do a lot of damage in 5 yards!" - the man's a legend.
Rules were subtlety changing for that before
He was talented but a cheap shot dirty player.
I loved your very accurate description of Astro turf. My high school got some in the late 80’s and I played 4 years on it in the 90’s. I still have scars on my elbows from where I got a turf burn. They hurt so bad and never healed because every day you would rip them open again.
I used to play HS football in Hawaii...it was big back in the day and we used to play varsity games in Aloha Stadium when it had AstroTurf. I used to both like it (I like the faster game, big crowds under the lights) and hate it: just like you're saying, turf burn was nasty...you had to wear high socks and I remember several teammates having brutal and serious infections (we used to call them "gribbles" or "infucktions") on their elbows or knees that wouldn't heal and would continue to get reopened every week during the season. Yikers.
Love the 70's thanks for this Vid Fivepoints
There are many sports that require playing near the edge of some lines or a physical zone. Two examples would be tennis and the sidelines and, pitching to a strike zone. Big time professional tennis has adopted the technology. I look for the day when pitches will be called with technology too.
Same. Especially after last season.
This is the first video from five points I'm actually clicking on.
Please don't let me down.
I remember that missed Oilers call. It essentially cost Coach Bum Phillips his job. Btw, speaking of the Oilers and running backs, due to the abuse that is well described in this video, poor Earl Campbell is basically a paraplegic today.
I remember listening to a game on the radio in the '80s they probably ran at 90% of the time with him running it obviously took an effect on his body
@@gdr205 The poor guy can't walk. This, of course, was decades before "player safety" was even a term!
You forgot about smoking in the locker room before, during halftime, and after the game.
and on the sidelines during the game
Where did you get your Bluetooth cassette player for those books on tape though?
All the points in this video were valid. The most important points are the ones about instant replay and hitting receivers. As a DB, we used to make it a point to attempt to drill, spear, crank or physically KO receivers if they caught a pass over the middle and were coached specifically to do so. We wanted them to drop passes or not attempt a high reception in that area. That's why so many DBs loved Jack Tatum back in the day. Oh...and the whole idea of not hitting the QB today vs. what went on in the '70s...that's a point that was missed here.
Renfro's TD would have only tied the game early in the 4th quarter. Was it a big missed call? Sure. Did it cost the Oilers a trip to the Super Bowl? No.
Football in the 70s was pretty lit!
What about the Raiders' "Holy Roller" play against the Chargers in 1978? 😜
😂my man puts OJ on this. Great video 5, cant wait for the next one
I started watching the NFL in the 80's when they started showing it in the UK. I really miss the great runners they were the exciting players in the League. Go Hawks
I guess anyone could commentate back then. Then again I’m fairly sure they wouldn’t let Joe Buck commentate back then
Back then Buck Jr. would have had a job carrying a bucket around so the important announcers didn't have to leave the booth to urinate.
@@From-North-Jersey indeed
Joe Yuck
My grandad was the biggest NFL fan i had ever known..i miss him dearly but part of me is thrilled that he didn't see what an absolute JOKE the NFL has turned into.
Yeah it's an absolute clown show at this point. One big shty reality show where no one gives a sht about the game they just care about the ratings.
Astroturf was also hot ASF... like burning beach sand
70s porno-esq music will always be cool 😎
10) The games back then had a rythum and flow
9) Iconic announcers (that knew how to STFU when nothing needed saying)
) When's the last time you saw dirt on a uniform?
) Imagine that, teams actually knew how to Block for running backs..power football
) America loved OJ
Uh earlier this season. Lol.
Do one for the 80s 90s and 00s
Already one for the 80s
@@coldworldkel eh
Last but not least on my list I would like to see the players layer up more when they play in the cold going sleeveless in the cold weather is not showing toughness this is batshit craziness i feel cold just watching them.
3 bomb jokes back to back! Loved it
OJ's first organized football was in junior high, at a San Francisco school with a primarily student body. When his coaches first saw the relatively larger Simpson, they made him a tackle. Of course, his speed soon became apparent, and he was switched to the backfield.
fun video mr. five points. love your stuff.
Actually the turning point for replay was the USFL, although the Renfrow catch was crucial.
I listened to Jack Buck for many years, and it seems to me Joe must have been nearby often enough. God bless his longtime partner Mike Shannon! One of the best (one of my favorites at least) impaired announcers of all time! Seems like that boy Joe missed a goldmine.
Also remember the rules were different back then too. The Butch Johnson diving catch in the SB was legit bc he had possession over the goal line which was the rule back then. Also the Renfro’s catch in the corner wasn’t to take the lead but make the game closer, I believe.
Good point about the announcers getting hammered. Some of them still sound like it today, I'm looking at you Collinsworth.
Ohhh do hockey next plz
70’s NFL is just too awesome
Except they all got brain damage
I’d say football pre 1980s was football at its most ruggedness.
Defenses were beating offenses to a pulp. QBs put up awful stats compared to later generations and so teams were built on strong running games aka smash mouth football.
Once the 80s began it started to become more of a passing league and players like Montana and Marino laid the foundation for the modern QBs.
@@Huckle15 worth it
@@Huckle15 didn’t ask
Definitely a different game from era to era! Makes it hard for player & team comparisons!
Ok I read about ten comments and all of them said how funny your OJ line was. But I have to speak on it too. Props to possibly the best line ever said on CZcams. If that was said at a CC roast it would be the line everybody would be talking about the next day. Well done brother.
What is a CC roast?
i wish i was alive to witness the 76 Raiders.
Damn son... I laughed so much. Good job, mate.
Thanks Mario!
Remember the beer commercials with all the NFL Legends and the late '70s and 80s I miss those now everything's got to be square
"Hello CZcams world this is yours truly..." I love you FivePoints
I played a couple games at Texas stadium in the mid 70s and that turf was brutal & hot in early September i have a scar on my elbow to remind of it
I remember huddling up with my friends on the school yard on Monday mornings to talk about the games. Since it was way before the internet and ESPN, we’d have to rely on what we could remember from the halftime highlights. Every conversation would begin with, Did you see….?
70’s...I watch games from the 90’s and they’d turn out completely different today due to the pussification of football. It’s 7 on 7 now with girlie refs, coaches, and players. Cam Newton should retire and be a runway model.
Cam could be Mugatu in Zoolander 3
Ya made me laugh. Thx u;)
I loved the running game. How play action could freeze the pass rush. How a running back could punish the defense and literally wear them down. Can't even watch football anymore. Stadiums are like amusement parks and the uniforms look like dancing girls.
The goat has uploaded
Best OJ bit I've ever seen
I can’t believe the Seahawks didn’t run the ball.
Justice served in replay....only if the play is eligible to be reviewed. They're still working on that bit. One thing you missed is the size of the players compared to now. Rayfield Wright, for example, is a HOF offensive lineman for the 70s Cowboys. His playing weight was 255, and he was 6-6. He'd be 40-50 lbs bigger if he played today, at a minimum, or else he'd be a TE. Tyron Smith, a current Cowboy, is an inch shorter but he's 325 and built like a tank compared to most lineman.
Being plastic “grass” Astroturf has a springy feel to it, so yes you get more “boost” while running, but it can catch a cleat wrong and there goes your leg for the season. Even more modern “turfice” requires special cleats because it’s kind of rubbery (Did the stadium tour in the Skydome/Rogers Centre in Toronto in 2007. They had a piece of the old Astroturf you can try out, and they let use on the baseball diamond even though the outfield was still being put together after a CFL game the night before. Actually the modern artificial surface had the ability to have a different feel underfoot, so the warning track was more fake rubber grass, just brown, and rougher feeling, so the players can get a sense that the wall was close. Still not even close to real grass and a real brick dust warning track.)
Ive played on both old turf and new. The old turf is horrific. The new turf is better, but just feels fake.
There are so many receivers and QBs in today's NFL who wouldn't survive the 70s NFL --and who wouldn't be nearly as successful without the restrictions placed on DBs in today's game. Not saying one era is better --but the rules basically make QBs and receivers flag football players, no contact.
The Cincinnati Bengals were a very good team in the first half of the 70s.
1970:Started 1-6 won final 7 games to win AFC central division
1971:Bengals drafted Kenny Anderson in the NFL draft
1973:Won AFC central division
1975:Finished 2nd in AFC central division
1975 off-season:Bengals founder and head coach Paul Brown retires
Juice isn't really the best example of cancel culture and more an example of a guilty man getting away with murder
Replay makes sure Justice is served! All fans peeped out the bathroom when we heard that line 😄.
Joe Greene would be banned from new era nfl😂😂
.... so would Deacon Jones with the head slap.
Indeed
You forgot that you were able to tackle in the 70s that gets flagged today
The things the Steel Curtain defense in '74, '75 and '76 didn't even fly by '78.
I miss real football...
You mean CTE
@@geleneceline2310 CTE is a mith, begone, filthy meddler
@@arturalexma you know many people have died from it
@@geleneceline2310 allegedly
@@geleneceline2310 a lot
I'm going on vacation and I'm totally using the Raycon earbuds!!
Don’t
Dallas would have beat Denver even if Johnson’s TD didn’t count. The final score was 27-10. The Steelers non call TD that cost Houston a TD would have only tied the game. The final score was 27-13. Instant replay may have altered the score but not history.
Man, I thought we were gonna see those tearaway jerseys and punishing 70s hits.
Fivepoints talking about bad hairlines is like Nathan Peterman becoming a QB coach
8:13 Another fine example of 70's culture...😉
I wish I was alive during the '70s. You could do a lot of cool stuff back then
You also weren't under constant state surveillance, your dollar was worth something, and politicians at least had the courtesy of hiding their corruption.
Good times.
I played on astroturff every day at Legion Field in Birmingham back in 1994‐95. It wasn't fun
Ouch
My high school in California was Astroturff as well, it was pretty bad. All of our rival high school football teams hate us because we had Astrotruff, but the those other high schools in the next town had to share one field and that field was mostly dirt half the time
The OJ Simpson stuff was funny!
70s NFL looks awesome
Great video
Well done on the vid..
Over/under on the number of times he mentions weed? I’m gonna set it at 15.5. Normal videos whose subject matter is completely unrelated to weed still mention it at least 4-5 times, so a video about the 1970’s is going to be huge. Huge!
(Holy shit, a whole-ass section on weed. Incredible)
A Raycon sponsorship plug and my man still finds a reason to show butts in tiny bikinis.
This is a true man of culture right here.
Jack Tatum wouldn't even be allowed on the field and if he was he would be ejected before half-time.
Hitting the QB. Covering the receiver.
Just because Renfro’s catch should have been ruled a touchdown doesn’t mean that the Oilers would have won
Great vid
OJ is known best for his Twitter 😂 😂 😂
An era caught brilliantly in the best football movie ever. "North Dallas Forty." "Phil, uhm do you speak Canadian?"
Super Bowl V (January 1971) was the first Super Bowl played on artificial turf.
We should get rid of instant replay and the five-yard rule. Bring back the running game.
OJ Simpson: A victim of cancel culture....
Norm MacDonald: Who's the real victim here.....?
You are chill
Ahhh!! Miss the 70s... oh wait! I was born in 85, lol