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Harris was damn good...thank you for this video!

I'm 56 yrs old and I love this "old school' footage anytime I can get it (NFL Films anyone?). I never heard of Hoyle Granger, 'sounding' like a B minus version of the great Earl Campell (if for some reason you haven't watch Campell's 'great runs' video ... best RB I ever saw...) who took too much of a beating averaging over 250 carries for 5 NFL seasons with the Oilers (Granger an Oiler too). Granger averaged about 210 carries a season for 3 years and he was , basically, done. Makes Campell's accomplishments that much more impressive. Earl played on unforgiving astroturf in Houston, too. Great video by SportsStatsNGab

I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, since 1963. Paul Warfield without question was a great receiver. But IMO, Raymond Berry, Don Maynard, Lance Alworth, Steve Largent, and Jerry Rice are the greatest receivers in modern ('50s thru '90s) pro football history.🏈

Sad that in a hall of fame career Jackie Smith will always be remembered for the one pass he didn't catch. Sports can be cruel that way

Dick Butkus didn't need some silly nickname- he just came to play...

My favorite running back and football player of all time period

Most of what you call "cheap shots" were permissible under the rules of the time. The game in the 1960s was much more violent. Clothes-lining, leg-whipping and horse collar tackles were all legal. Referees didn't throw the hankie nearly as much as they do today.

The new players are faster, bigger, stronger, but will never be as good.

This is the way I played football in high school in the early to mid seventies. I was 5’11” and 230. I played middle linebacker.

I would setrle for a regular season game being played at half of this intensity.

Thank you for the message ❤️‍🩹🇺🇲

I started watching the NFL in 1980. So Ken Riley is my NFL connection to the 60's.

The 2008 Lions at 0-16 have the Oilers beat. Houston did lose three of their games by less than a TD that season. I think the 73 team was a bit worse statistically than '72, but they went 7-7 in '74 and '10-4 (not making the playoffs) in '75.

Your soundtrack is spot on, love it.

I was at the Rams 35-23 beat down of Don Coryell s ST Louis Cardinals in 1975. The Rams were all set to fly to Minnesota for the NFC Championship game when Roger Staubach threw a “Hail Mary to Drew Pearson who pushed off on DB Nate Wright Incredibly the referee called a penalty on Wright. Drew caught the pass and Dallas came to Los Angeles one week later and destroyed the Rams. We drove up from San Diego for the Cowboys VS Rams and wished we hadn’t!!! It was over before it started. I haven’t watched your “Gamebreakers of the 1970 s yet. I hope Harold Jackson is on your video. I’m not sure if Harold is in the Hall of Fame but this is just a guess he has more career Receptions and TDs than Lynn Swannand Cliff Branch and many other receivers who are in The HOF. Tom Fears had many former Rams appear in the 1979 film North Dallas Forty with Nick Nolte and Mac Davis. Fears was fired by the Rams ( I’m not sure if he worked for a NFL team ever again??? ) Many players who appeared in NDF were blacklisted by the NFL. Tommy Reamon and others But Danny Bunz who played Douglass did sign with the 4 9Ers and was instrumental in their 1982 Super Bowl win over the Bengals making 3 goal line tackles. The movie didn’t hurt the football careers of Louie Kelcher and Don Macek or John Matuszak.

The 1972 Oilers uniforms just might be my favorite football uniforms of all time! Shame the Texans can't wear them now due to obvious reasons.

Even though both my parents were quite racist, I never bought into it. Even when I was very young, the terrible things they'd say just made no sense to me. I always thought _everybody has a color, who cares?_ It's a shame, though, that Harris and the other early black QBs had to face all the B.S. they did. Literally _shame,_ on those who thought of or treated them badly.

""Mighty Fine"".. mini bio" ..."Mark" ...of "Mr James" journey" down thru the "NFL"...in my ""humble opinion"he was "trailblazer"...in "spite" of "societal norms" or "stigma" associated" with the"Era" that he " participated"in...." Whether" it was " perception" or reality

Great job again Mark, never realized the Mad Stork played for the Pack.

RIP Floyd Little, Gayle Sawyers

Hi Marc… I always wondered why he really never got a good shot at being a regular starting quarterback. He was better than the pills starting quarterback at that time from San Diego State. By the way, I’m going to wear my 1983 Eagles fishnet gamer From their left guard Ron Baker this video # 63

Great vid. I always considered Harris really good and not a great qb. He was good enough to beat you. Marlin was before my total interest and Fandom Broncos. I do remember Briscoe was fun to watch. Both Harris & Briscoe could Play in today's game. Thanks brother, you're appreciated.

Steve Furness " bucket head" one of the most underrated Steeler defenders.

Contrary to what this video and Wikipedia say, James Harris was not the first black quarterback to start a season opener in the NFL. Joe Gilliam beat out Terry Bradshaw as the Steelers' starter to begin the 1974 season.

Hey, Let's not forget about Mark Van Eeghan , I believe he had 2 1,000 yard seasons or 1 thousand yard season &a couple in the 900 yd. range. Puts a smile on my face thinking of those great Raider teams. What a bunch of characters,to say the least !!

Great Footage ! Great Clips !

The Rams shoulda stuck with Harris… They might of won a SB….

Love the Rams but that got pretty painful going through so many QBs at the end of their careers.

Everyone Falling on players when their on the ground. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Really like all the memories of McCutcheon, Bryant, Jackson, Hadl, etc. Harold Jackson had more receptions in his career than Swann and Branch and more receiving yards than Swann, Branch, and Harold Carmichael. I would think he would be considered for HOF. Thank you.

The 59-0 blowout of the Falcons looked as it was played in an empty stadium!

Meshach is one of the three Hebrews the Lord brought through Nebuchadnezzar's blazing furnace described in Daniel 3. That may have been who Mr. Harris' father nicknamed his son after.

That extra curricular that Mike Ditka put on was Ben Davis, Angela Davis’s brother.

Great info. I didn't know that Harris played for the Chargers.

Great video! Thanks! 🙏 😊😊😊😊😊

I always thought James Harris (12) was named “Shack” after the famous movie with Richard Roundtree. You learn something every day. Harris was definitely a groundbreaker - paving the way for others after him. Doug Williams (12), another Grambling St. alumnus, gives him a ton of credit.

Harris wasn't on my radar until he played for the Rams. I remember they had a great 75 season with only 1 loss not to the Cowboys and had the number one defense. They lost convincingly to the underdog Cowboys in the NFC Championship! Game!

Great stuff, as usual. But, "advance the plight"?

Harris was an excellent QB who likely could have led an excellent Rams team to a SB

Very good topic. I think coaches had a very short leash in those days with the black QB. Any mistakes or poor interceptions were magnified by the fans and media. Harris was a big strong guy with a cannon. Doug Williams was in the same mold, but with Tampa spending a Number 1 pick on him, he had more latitude to make errors and still play. Harris also had some injury issues at inopportune times. He certainly was a groundbreaker and being on an outstanding team in a huge market paved the way for others. Excellent video Mark!

I still can't believe they traded him to the Chargers for Joe Namath. I wonder if he were still able to play in 1979 in the Super Bowl against the Steelers, Iwonder if the Rams would have played better.😮

Without consistency at QB it's hard for any team to succeed. It was fortunate the Rams had an outstanding Defense and powerful Run game. But the lack of commitment to one signal caller might have been a factor in why the Cowboys and Vikings took turns knocking them from the post-season. I remember watching the Rams and Chargers in preseason games. Their colors were so similar it looked like a scrimmage. And how was Hadl player of the year in '73. Considering OJ Simpson should have been the run-away choice.

you make me cry for 70s football thank you.

Damn as a Viking fan I just got a gut punch! Tommy Kramer just announced that he has early onset dementia..not good 😢😢😢

Didnt keep sack stats in 1967.😅😅

I was 18 in 1975 , now i feel like crap . Thank you very much.😅

1:14 Sport was a great magazine with great photos but if I recall the magazine started going downhill in the mid 70’s.

Lot of hard hits and dirty plays resulted from late hits. Classic.

Hadl thew for 59 yards and 2 interceptions against Green Bay in a losing effort so 2 weeks later Green Bay sends a couple of 1st rounders to LA for Hadl? Makes sense to me