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Wish the Rams would go back to these uniforms

1970s were the best era i miss The American football league Boston Patriots

Yes Mark Middleton was good but Dickey didnt play in 78 broken leg.and yes Eddie Lee Ivory didnt have big stats hurt too much

If the packers wouldve had a Dorsett type Lynn Dickey wouldve been more effective and made the pro bowl

Great footage but what's up with that music? @ 7:15 aounds like a Laurel and Hardy movie.

What I hate most about that call is the ref in front of it didn’t throw the flag

Jeff Smith? Nebraska? Sand guy who had the a huge game vs Miami in the National championship game that night

A couple of big time throws by Kenney

Its too bad my packers couldnt someone close too Tonys claliber

Mark thanks for the great insight on the vikings draft history interesting

Tex Schram enginered a trade with Seattle for the number 2 choice in the 77 draft and Bud Grant of Minnesota was very upset

The Saints never did wear those black helmets they were thinking of wearing in 1969

I grew up an STL Football Cardinals fan in the 1960s starting their first year after moving from Chicago in 1960. The Cleveland Browns were their main rival after being in the East conference with them the prior years. The Browns were always a little better. One thing frustrating though was how the Cardinals would be very good one year and poor the next so often in the 1960s. Maybe it was injury related. St. Louis refused to build an all footbal stadium for the Cardinals in 1988 so the owner moved to Arizona thinking they would right away fund a stadium, but ended up playing their first 18 years at Arizona State. Then St. Louis after threats from owner Stan Kroenke to move from a 20 year old Dome stadium came up with yet another stadium to build learning their lesson from the Cardinals only to have Kroenke move the Rams anyway.

He was always a threat to go all the way

Hard to hit head on

Tony was complete

Yes Tony is underated

Great reciever

10 x better than Emmitt

Great guy yes class totally

I ❤ the shot of the blonde cheerleader at the start😊

The Cardinals finished 2nd that year even though they beat the Browns twice that season. But because they tied the hapless Steelers the Browns won the division.

🤣 Thanks Mark… Now when I think of Timex, the face of Billy Kilmer comes to mind.

Brodie was a great QB in a brutal era. He should be in the Hall of Fame without question. Shame on the NFL. MVP - 31K+ Yards - 200+ TDs. Huge numbers before all the rule changes and indoor football.

My Cardinals growing up. Seemed like we would tie Pittsburgh, who were horrible then, and finish a half game behind the Browns, every year!

I miss the Big Red...

I was 7 at the time, and this is the very first Rams game I remember watching on TV. After 3 quarters, I couldn't take anymore. Turned off the set and went across the street to my friends house. 😊

YES!!!

Pitt is east

As an addendum to this video, I recommend the movie Number One with Charleton Heston that came out in 1969, if you can find it. A good flick that many in the NFL at the time said it captured the essence of the game.

WoW, another fantastic production on pro football! You do a great job, Sir! 1. Roger Staubach 2. Steve Young 3. Johnny Unitas 4. Pat Mahomes 5. Otto Graham

I remember a few of the stand outs in '68, this was when I caught the NFL virus and have been a fan(atic) since....did you notice the great Andy Russel playing special teams? Jackie Smith, great player unfairly remembered for his drop w/the Cowboys in (was it) SB 13....maybe earlier. I always loved Kilmer, tough, gritty, clutch, he didn't look the part - more like a junior high shop teacher. I noticed several players, including Billy that went on to greatness on other teams. Leroy Kelly one of the greatest unfortunately shadowed by a plethora of '70s backs. Thanks again brother, appreciated.

Mark, I love all of the old footage, Thank You! Yeah, when I was a teen in the 70's I never could understand why the Saints and Falcons were in the NFC West and then the St. Louis Cardinals were in the NFC East. In 1960 to 1966 the Colts were in the Western and St. Louis was in the Eastern. In 1961 when Minnesota came into the league in the Western, instead of moving the Colts to the Eastern they moved Dallas to the Eastern. A lot of extra travel miles for the Colts.

The 9-4-1 Cardinals were unbeaten in Division play, but their four losses (Colts, Cowboys, Rams and 49ers) weren't close. The tie against the Steelers cost St. Louis the Century Division title.

The 6-3 Steelers win over the Eagles was the worst game I personally saw. It was knowN as the “futility bowl” and the O.J. Simpson bowl as both teams were 0-6. I remember the eagles getting an interception at their own 1 then going for it on 4th down at their 10, the Steelers stopping them, then kicking the winning FG. Of course neither teams drafted OJ, but the Steelers got some defensive linemen whose name was Greene I believe in the 69 draft.

Excellent stuff !!! 😎💯

No endless replays/reviews, refs who knew no one came to games to see them toss flag after flag, announcers who called the game without self promotion, no side line reporters, no woke commercials…. Yes, it was a great time for the NFL!

These players actually had Jobs that they had to work during the off season. They were not spoiled brats making millions!

What fun! As I was 3 at the time I have some memories, but not of football, great time capsule! 😊

recall 68 like yesterday, I was 13 and we had season ducts on the 45 for the cowboys... damn, those were the days with archie bunker!

Just a few years away from the best Division in football history, in my opinion. That would be the AFC Central Division. Houston, Cincinatti, and two of the three new teams to the AFC, Pittsburg and Cleaveland. The best because I was raised in Houston. Great rivalries. Again, Mark great video.

Impeccable job Mark! Thank you! The Browns and Steelers were the only geographical paring in that Century division. If you look at Shiners career, he just didn't get a break and the chance to develop his skills. He had a good arm and delivery.

Well done again! Thanks buddy

Paul Warfield, LeRoy Kelly

Cool history, thanks.

clowns and steelers were still in the nfl (nfc) so they made sense and i guess because cards were now in st.l nfl considered cards closest to n o with boys not being taken away from their east rivals. Even tho the other new nfc arrival falcons were n o true rival and would have to wait until after merger to be in same division as nfl pre-merger with n o, atl, and miami added looked to go more south for teams. And another newbie cincy couldn't be added to steeler/clown division being in afl until after the merger which saw colts jump conferences too. Yet even after merger divisions still didn't make sense. Why were n o/atl. then car. in nfc west? tb started in afc west and seahawks in nfc west before flipping conferences. And cards as phx.,az played in nfc east until 2002 re-alignment.

what kind of football team names themselves after a fairy? Nobody, that's who. The time line I am from the Browns were named after Paul Brown, not a fairy.

This was right about when I started getting into nfl football wish I had a time machine.

So it was the Saints and the Giants who (for some reason) went back-and-forth between the Century and Capitol divisions. This covers the one season out of three when it was the Saints instead of the Giants in the Century division.

Cleveland’s Frank Ryan (13) was at the tail end of his career in ‘68, and was replaced by Bill Nelsen (16) at QB. Nelsen had been a decent QB with the lowly Steelers, but he stepped up big time and surprised a lot of folks with the Browns, leading them to the NFL Championship game twice. In the video, Ryan was still holding for place kicks and did start a couple of games.