Three classic quarterbacks: Namath, Unitas, Morrall. I always thought that Namath played his professional career at 75%. That knee injury at Alabama. He got nothing but real bad medical advice and the doctors didn't know shit about knee surgery then. Like Bobby Orr in hockey, Namath played injured and still was really good. If he would have been 100% he would have been one of the best ever and probably won another Super Bowl with the Jets.
Jeffrey G, Morrall, classic? Really? He had some decent seasons before he landed in Baltimore, but for 12 years he had to be considered pretty much a bust for being such a high draft choice. Granted, once in Baltimore, his career morphed into a much more productive one, that earned him an MVP, and a deserved reputation as a great backup. But, in no way, does he even come close to belonging in the conversation of the sport's top quarterbacks.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 The Jet players and coaches that had NFL experience were familiar with Earl Morrall and they did not fear him leading up to Super Bowl III. They thought him mediocre at best, and the game films they watched to prepare for that game confirmed their opinion of him. As for Namath, with the possible exception of Bob Griese, I believe he's certainly the most undeserving QB in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He threw for a lot of yardage, but he also threw way way way too many interceptions. He simply did not make smart decisions from the pocket and did not take care of the ball. He is the only Hall of Fame QB in the modern era of the game that threw more INT's than TD passes. Moreover, after beating the Colts in SB III he played, like 7-8 more years, but in all that time he actually defeated exactly one opponent with a winning record. All his victories thereafter came against opponents that would end up with final records of 3-11, 4-12 or 5-9. He simply wasn't a big game QB (it probably had something to do with all those picks he threw)
@@TheMrSuge The thing with Namath is people say "We'll, he was great at the start of his career and an incredible talent, but injuries did him in, so he deserves to be in HOF for what he accomplished when healthy". Then why doesn't the opposite apply to Jim Plunkett? He was the best QB talent to ever come out of college injured and battered at the start of his career with awfully bad teams, but once he took over the Raiders, he was incredible, 38-19 in the regular season, 8-2 in the playoffs with 2 SB victories. And unlike Joe, Jim could run a little and throw back against his body. Jim should be in if Joe is in. Griese in the HOF is a travesty; he had 1/10 the talent of Namath or Plunkett, was the ultimate game manager who happened to be on one of the greatest teams of his era.
@@jonburrows8602 I agree with you about Plunkett, deserves some HOF consideration. They just put his coach (Tom Flores) in the HOF. He waited too long considering he had a .610 winning pct. as Raiders' coach and coached 2 Super Bowl wins. But maybe now they'll also re-visit and re-evaluate Plunkett's career as well. By beef with Namath is that his knees had nothing to do with his deficiencies as a quarterback. It was his head, NOT his knees that kept him from his potential. He simply made terrible decisions in the pocket. That's a mental deficiency, not a physical one.
@@jonburrows8602 Jim Plunkett _should_ be in the HOF. That doesn't take away from the fact that Namath truly did change the game and how it was played. That's why he's in.
When i was younger, Joe Namath was a hero for me. I collected Joe Namath rookie cards like a mad man. After school, I went into the Army, did a tour in Vietnam, got out and got married. Years later, i mentioned spider man comic books to my mother, and she said if you stoll want them, theyre in the attic. I got up there, and found 12 Namath rookie cards. Almost lost two of them. I was about to leave a copy of Orwell's book, 1984, but remembered i had written stuff in the margins. When i opened it, two pristine Namath rookie cards fell out. It was like finding a gold mine.
Joe had nothing to lose by predicting a Jet victory ? .. Well .. They sure played like they expected to win .. They went balls out like they KNEW they were gonna win ..
Namath a Class Act. Namath's narrative tribute to Unitas as they went out to the 50 yard line before the game started changed my view of Namath in to deep respect and admiration! I was a young pup and admired Unitas as his career was ending. I watched that game in a fog as the Jets beat the then Titanic Team in the Colts! (The real BALTIMORE Colts!)
Namath is real classy. Drunk out of his mind on national TV. Now he’s shilling for some worthless junk to senior citizens. Then there were the annual retirements. Remember when he said he would quit football rather than give up his bar (bachelors 3). He even literally cried a little.
Of course. Unitas wasn't just the best QB in the NFL he was Namath's home boy from Western PA. Young Namath modeled his football game on Unitas's game as a high schooler in Beaver Falls.
The two games that contributed the most to the growth and popularity of the NFL were the 1958 championship game (Colts-Giants) and Super Bowl 3 (Jets-Colts) Both had the same winning, and underrated, head coach Weeb Ewbank.
It turned out that the Jets' star receiver, Don Maynard, had been injured in the AFL Championship game, but the Colts didn't know it. The Jets used him as a decoy, and the Colts double-covered him so he didn't catch a pass all game, but they left George Sauer in single coverage, and he had a huge game.
Tom Matte came off as the definition of a sore loser here. For a grown man still to be holding grudges and acting that way, he should be ashamed of himself.
@@davidr5961 Sample wasn't a dirty player. What did he do? He covered receivers as well as he could, made tackles and interceptions! Matte is a CRY BABY!
Greatest? How many playoff wins and appearances? How many winning seasons? Way more pics than touchdowns, abysmal completion percentage. Let's also not forget the fact the FBI has hundreds of pages of documents that indicate he was in on or knew of people helping to fix games. Not to lose but to stay within the betting line. Also how Namath was partying on Saturday night before the SB with 3 defensive players from the Colts. I am supposed to believe that game was on the level? Preposterous!!! Read the book Interference by Dan Moldea and you will learn that ole Joe Willie helped run numbers in Beaver Falls as a teenager. He had indisputable connections to the the underworld. He wasn't the only one ,Lennox Dawson, Alex Karras, Paul Hornung and many others. Billy Kilmers strange relationship with Clint Murchison ( Dall-ass Cowboys original owner) a friendship that should have been investigated by the league but never was.
Can u imagine a average fan or family going to a super bowl! Quit watching the nfl along time ago. Just watch stuff like this, I'm sure the League cares.
Winston Hill made the HOF...well deserved...he literally destroyed Ordel Brasse as he helped Matt Snell rush for 135 yards..Winston wss a real class act and a great lineman that actually had to know how to block...with out the open hand technique..they use today.
More drivel from a boomer. 🤦♂️🤦♂️ You play by the rules at the time. Your comment about the different rules in place at the time sounds like whiny bitterness.
i met earl christy from this game the punt returner yesterday in walmart... i have pics lol.... he grabbed my hand and put his super bowl ring on my finger... that was so cool!!
As a member of the Hialeah High Marching Thoroughbred Band I performed in the pregame and halftime shows of both Super Bowl II and Super Bowl III in the Orange 🍊 Bowl in Miami. The Jets warmed up in the East End Zone right in front of us as we sat in temporary bleachers. The speed of the Jets defense, especially the the defensive ends, really affected the Colts timing. Matt Snell ate the Colts up with power runs mostly to the left behind Winston Hill. What cracked the Colts IMO was the same defensive plan that had overwhelmed everyone else was completely diffused by Namath audibles running away from the vaunted blitz and then beating the blitz by quick flares out of the backfield. BTW if you notice in the highlights the Marching Band wearing red coats, blue hats in the East End Zone, that is the Marching Thoroughbred Band. I still vividly remember when Namath trotted out for pregame warmups from the North Sideline, the crowd hooted and booed Namath, who just never looked up or acknowledged anyone. Just trotted out and started launching arching passes effortlessly. Wow 😮
Saw that Super Bowl and the Jets shook up the eworld, we had a great Xmas that year and nothing beat Broadway Joe and eating pnuts and coca cola watching the vaunted Colts get their a## kicked
Just a thought, if your band had been in the opposite end zone, maybe Unitas would have seen how often Jimmy Orr was wide open instead of getting lost in a sea of blue uniforms worn by the Baltimore Colts Marching Band.
What killed the Colts that day was Earl Morrall, who had a terrible day. He made bad decisions from the pocket, threw picks and incomplete passes, missed open receivers. A half-way competant QB would've put 24 points on the board in the first half. The Colts kicker had a bad day, too.
@@TheMrSuge The speed and pressure of the Jets defensive ends, Philbin and Biggs knocked Morral off rythym plus there was a 15-25 mph gusting wind from the Northeast which swirled around the OB. Unitas did not fare much better. The real shock to Baltimore was Namath checking to flare passes to backs to negate vaunted blitz on defense. Imagine that both Don Shula and Chuck Noll were coaching the Colts, who both moved to head coaches in the AFL and won 6 of 10 Super Bowls in the 1970’s.
As a life long Jets fan who remembers this game as a kid I always seem to forget Buddy Ryan's presence at SB III. And what about Weeb's direct impact on BOTH the 1958 NFL title game as well as this seminal contest? Uncanny...
The next year Noll became head coach of the Steelers who only won one game that first year Noll was at Pittsburgh but end up winning 4 SB before he retired
@@aarondigby5054 Browns owner Art Modell recommended to Art Rooney that he hire Noll. Noll's Colts had just defeated Modell's Browns in the '68 NFL Championship Game, 34-0. Modell told Rooney that Noll's defense shutting out the Browns was so impressive a feat that he'd probably make a good HC. Rooney agreed to hire Noll, but following the Colts' embarrassing loss in Super Bowl 3 he started having second thoughts. Modell, however, talked him into going through with the hire. Modell probably regretted doing that.
9:53 - Namath single-handedly -- or, if you're a bitter Colts fan, single-mouthedly -- made NFL football the most popular professional sport in the country. And the Colts players are actually responsible for this, because the only reason Namath guaranteed victory was that he was tired of listening to them shoot *their* mouths off about how they were going to demolish the Jets.
I agree. The first two Super Bowls had poor attendance and ratings, and the Packers easily won. At that time the general feeling among many was that the NFL was football and the AFL was mickey mouse football. Joe Namath was a flashy personality who sort of pushed the boundaries of what was considered proper. He had sort of long hair and for a football player that was different back then. Plus he was very talented and confident and outspoken. Someone yelled out 'Hey Joe the Colts are gonna kick your ass' and Joe said 'hey now, I've heard about enough of that. We're a better football team. We're gonna win. I guarantee it.' or something close to that. That probably did more to boost the ratings of Super Bowl 3 and make it a prime time event than anything else. I bet the network carrying the game loved it when he said that. And after the Jets came away the winner it made the Super Bowl the premiere football game of the year ever since. I cannot think of any other player guaranteeing that his team would win the super bowl. Namath just said what was on his mind in his normal, honest, brash, confident way. His personality and the notoriety of his hard drinking, skirt chasing lifestyle made him an admired, and hated player. People had an opinion of him one way or the other. Namath and the Jets made the Super Bowl the blockbuster ratings event it became and has been ever since.
Bill Dawson That whole year was scripted entertainment. Jets, Mets, Knicks, Lunar landing, they didn't fix hockey because nobody gave a rats ass about it
@@VMan29397 Not even remotely a Baltimore fan. It was a statement of the time period. Not of Baltimore sports. It was a time when people were much more gullible and naive. The wool was easily pulled over peoples eyes. I.E. Lava Lamps, Pet Rocks, and most notably government lying about Vietnam to a very susceptible public. Before you reply that I'm a salty 60's, 70's person, not at all, like Cosell, just telling it like it is.
Baltimore missed opportunity after opportunity. Earl Moral missing the wide open reciever down the field and throwing the interception was a microcosm of the game. Joe Willy did enough to cement his legacy. I garantee we'll win, he said. And did exactly that. KUDOS!!
This is Actually "NFL Films; Greatest Games Superbowl" III aka Joe's Guarantee. There's 18 or so episodes but this is one of my favorites with all the Film of Smashmouth runblocking; Matt Snell really was the Jets MVP or their Secondary picking balls off.
12YO Winston-Salem, NC SUPER BOWL CHAMPS First PRE-SEASON game after Jets huge victory in Miami (featured Minnesota Vikings with Joe Kapp) vs. NY JETS with Broadway Joe. Well Namath to Maynard for 73 yard TD. I was amazed at how agile and big pro-players were. What a great game, and incredible day.
I was at that game as a 10 year old. Went with my older brother, his friend and my best friend. I remember Namath getting so mad that he took his helmet off and slammed it to the ground.
@@colinschaeffer3940 Of course in 68/69 ... and earlier. Unitas was doing it back in the 1950's. Paul Brown was criticized by his QB's in the late 50' and early '60's for not allowing them to change the play at the line (because every other QB in the NFL had that authority except for Browns' QB's, and they thought his prohibition was holding back the offense).
I officiate football today and Sauers fumble then would definitely be an incomplete pass today....new officials are also instructed to call it that way..
Most don't realize that much of the credit for the Jets' outstanding defense that season goes to the great Buddy Ryan, who was the defensive line coach then. He was instrumental in setting the game plan to defeat Baltimore, and of course, he later became world famous as the defensive coordinator for the 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears, which many consider the greatest defense ever.
@@joeclayton2121 The 2010 AFC Divison Round against the Asterisks was also a thing of beauty. I would like to see at least one more playoff win, though.
@@danieldougan269 you haven't won anything since the Eagles won it you lost to the Jets in a wild card game, the Jets hahahahaha that must have hurt colts missed the playoffs in 2021 bills beat them in a wild card game in 2020 missed the playoff in 2019 and now you have caron wentz last season will be his best season he gets hurt a lot and he's not clutch losing seasons in our future
Gowdy is wrong about Jim Hudson..he DID NOT attend Oklahoma...he went to the university of Texas...he was part of their 1963 national championship team...
U. TEXAS, TEX TECH, AND UTEP produced the stars other than NAMATH, for the JETS. LAMMONS, HUDSON, SAUER ALL U.TEX..UTEP(TEXAS WESTERN)= MAYNARD.. TEX. TECH= BAKE TURNER..
@@mitchellmelkin4078, solid receiver for Namath in their three to four player rotation. During his AFL career had two seasons over 900 yards(a lot of yards back then). Yes, he was cut by the NFL, I believe Baltimore or NYGIANTS earlier in the decade, but made some nice catches in the playoffs that year for NYJETS in '68-69, and was still in the pros, in the NFL post merger with N.E., also jumped to the WFL, but was about thru at that point when the WIFFLE folded..he and SAUER were hurt in the WFL, and when the NY STARS became the Charlotte Hornets and the Houston Texans became the Shreveport Steamer..they quit.
1969 was not a good year for Baltimore - First in January the JETS beat the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl then in October The METS beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series
With modern replay would George Sauer's fumble be ruled not a catch? It doesn't look like he ever had control. He certainly didn't make 'a football move'.
Super Bowl 3 was also significant because The Jets win kept all the AFL teams together in the AFC with 3 NFL teams joining them, had the lost the AFL and NFL teams would have been shuffled toghether.
The AFL ceased to exist after the 1969 AFL Championship Game! Super Bowl III proved the AFL's best team was better than the NFL's best team! Super Bowl IV proved the same thing!
No upset here - Jets were a great team in 1968/1969 - Give them some credit - The Jets had "upset" the Colts ? Give some credit to the JETS for being a great all around team back then !
Wisconsin is this was an excellent video I enjoyed learning about Mr nameth Moore he was an excellent player I didn't know him personally but I seen him in 1981 on The Love boat thank you Mr nemeth can I see you on television doing ads for insurance keep up the good work you're an excellent example to other players God bless from Wisconsin the man from Wisconsin remembers Mr name with on television in his acting career thank you😅
Honestly in 2007 after the Giants gave the Patriots a battle in the final week of the season i said that if they play again in the super bowl they would win and i put my money where my my was--cha ching, at 4 to 1, i also had them +6.5 at 2 to 1 and the regular +13.5, i had the under too, that was easy money.
April, 2007, As I concluded with my beloved mom's eulogy, I faced the people in attendance; feeling very humbled and grateful for all the people that were there, especially many of my colleagues, that I never expected to even be there, offering their sincere condolences, because they all knew that my mom died in my arms, & said: "Joe Willie Namath once said it, & now I'm going to say it! 3 weeks from now, I will walk across that stage as I graduate from Law School, I GUARANTEE it." & I did!
I know Joe won’t see this but what a hero he was to this little country boy in Michigan . Every time ran outside play football I had scream I’m Joe Namath :) Thanks Mr. Namath made me better ball player just knowing you were playing..
Watched this game in Lakewood, California. I was just a college kid at the time and pulling for the underdog and was an incredible victory for the Jets. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah, memories. I'm a Wisconsinite, and was a 14 year old fresh off 2 Packer Super Bowl wins. But there was something about Namath and The Jets that made us pull for them.
After reading Mike Curtis' book, I realized the Colts took this game for granted. They were allowed to bring their family's down. Not much curfew I don't think. The Jets? No wives and a curfew. I was a hard core Colts fan. Only 12. I was crushed. I'm still a Colts fan, just not an Indy Colts fan. I'm living my football life in limbo. I'm also a Vols fan. Seeing Peyton Manning in a Colts helmet I thought it was the second coming of Johnny U. Almost!
I certainly think the Colts were maybe the strongest of all NFL teams, but the Jets were good enough to beat them. The Colts wasted chance after chance to put them away early. I was very disappointed, but you can't give great teams like the Jets all those opportunities to stay in the game.
When you think about it this was not really an upset.The Jets matched up very well against the Colts.The Jets offensive line was far superior to the Colts.Snell and Boozer were better than Matte and whomever.Maynard and Lammons were better than than Orr and Mackey(getting old).Only Richardson was a threat but Morrall's arm was suspect , Finally Morrall beating Namath? No Way.The Jets defense was not spectacular but they were solid and coached by Buddy Ryan.The bookies must have had a killing on this one.
@@docsmithdc, Morrall's arm wasn't suspect (he was the league MVP). That belonged to Unitas. If the former had made even one less of his grievous errors, the game's outcome may well have been otherwise, even precluding the latter's entrance, which must have felt galvanizing to the team. Mind you, I'm not suggesting that Morrall was anywhere near Namath's equal (or any of the other AFL QB's whom Namath claimed were better than his opposite number). But, he had shown the capability necessary to, at a minimum, keep the Colts on pace with the Jets during the game, if not win it outright. That he demonstrably choked, may owe to his never having been placed in such an exalted game, with a genuinely worthy opponent, at any time, in an already long NFL career.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 I thought that Johnny Sample's comment about Morrall'spasses were telling.His comments also reminded me of something I told die hard NFL supporters about the quarterback for the Vikings that would play in the next Superbowl and that was that every time Joe Kapp put the ball in the air it would be intercepted and I was right.
This has never been brought up. It's now 50 yrs later. When the Colts had the ball, 4th & 5, late in the game.... why didn't Shula just kick the FG?? It was a chip shot. That would have made the score 16-10. And... Shula still had 3 timeouts. Simply kickoff to the Jets, you know they are going to try to run the clock, and burn your timeouts. The Colts would have gotten the ball back with a shot.
@@mikeforte7585 Well, he was a decent defensive lineman, in fact, made the Pro Bowl twice. Even by '68, it was becoming rare to see position players be the full time kickers. Based on the standards of the era in which he played, he was about average in accuracy, or a bit better, over the course of his career, at nearly 55%. Still, he didn't exactly shine in that game. The Colts didn't 'fix' their kicking situation until 1970, by drafting O'Brien. Even though he was nothing to write home about, I wonder if he had been around in '68, it might have made a substantive difference in the game's outcome. On the other hand, despite making the gimme game winner in Super Bowl V, his performance on that stage, was hardly stellar.
That game changed The NFL! They merged in 1970! The Russian Accord CCCP that's how I remember the NFL teams that move into the AFL to even up the sides! Colts, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the basement dwelling Pittsburgh Steelers! Most people that watch the NFL now! Don't even know those teams were in the NFL? With it's 8 commercials per half! TV Timeouts! That changes the momentum of the game! And watching a live game is not as exciting now! The Jets beating the Mighty Colts was earth shattering or should I say a tremor of the Changes too come! No longer could the NFL or its fans claim superiority over the Pass Happy AFL and its 3-4 defense! Broadway Joe made his impact on football like no other QB of that time! His Guarantee was unheard of! at that time! Or as Robert Duval once said! " That's a bold statement for a one eyed Fatman" but Broadway Joe backed it up!
Sabol sort of alludes to it, but I suspect the rationale for producing this revised version, is all the hubbub over the years, that the original was overtly biased in favor of the Colts, both Sabols being confirmed NFL partisan. Interestingly, after watching it innumerable times, with but a few exceptions, I've never found it to be anywhere near as tilted, as has been so often remarked upon, and that it's easy to be comfortable with, whichever league (or team) one may have been a fan of.
Had the Colts won this game, they would still be in Baltimore to this day. They never would have moved to Indianapolis. The name "Indianapolis Colts" still doesn't roll off the tongue right.
Huh? The Colts didn’t move until after the 1983 season over 14 years later. They moved cause the city had no intention of investing in a new stadium and Indianapolis just built the Hoosier Dome.
Please explain how losing Super Bowl III is the reason why the colts moved to Indianapolis. The Colts won Super Bowl V did isn't the reason why they would have stayed in Baltimore. The Colts moved to Baltimore because Indianapolis made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Idk, I don't think that there is any football player that should play in a game that has a doubt about winning!!! If you don't think your team can win the game, then you shouldn't even be on the field!!! Cuz imho, if you're not confident in winning the game your team DOESN'T NEED YOU ON THE FIELD!!! And honestly that goes for any team sport. My aunt M.A. Myers was an airbrush artist that graduated from the University of Alabama & she used to say that Joe Namath knew her as "Moonpie" in college. But anyway, she lived near Denver, CO and there was a contest to design a flag for Lakewood, CO. And the newspaper guy, who didn't even talk to her quoted her as saying "That she had no idea that she would win!" And she said "that it was complete rubbish, that she knew she would win otherwise she would not have worked so hard to be able to win! But just like Joe, you have to be confident about what you do. If you "think" you might lose the game the other team has already won!
The reality is that the NFL was very behind the curve offensively compared to the AFL, with the exception of the Cowboys. The Jets were defending far more sophisticated offenses week in and week out. Joe was right pre game, Earl Morrall was not a top 5 QB in the AFL, might not have been top 10. The Colts' stand by defense overwhelmed sorry dinosaur NFL offenses, but all they did was set up the Jets' game plan. The game would have been an even bigger blowout if Maynard was healthy.
SHULA had a lot of struggles in big games. Morral stunk up the FIELD. 5 turnovers and many blown opportunities. COLTS could have easily won 28-13. What is interesting is you also had the MIRICLE METS IN 69. HMMM.
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Every rule change for the worse ! Biggest bullshit was rules that eliminated roughly 12 plays a game in NFL Used be managing clock you could be down 3 touchdowns 7 minutes left not out of it !; The best play in basketball jump ball they eliminated ! The Sports rules refected the degeneration of the world!!
Joe had a solid game, but I agree, Snell was the best player on the field that day. Had the best game of his life. The Jets could not run right on the Colts, but props to Hill, Talamini, and Boozer blocking left. They did the job, but credit Snell. He was slash pounding 2-3 yard gains into 5-6 yard gains. I think his longest run was 12 yard. He also caught 3-4 passes for good yardage.
Huge impact on the era and society. 19 pt underdog is still the most points against a team in a championship game in any sport ANYWHERE AND YET THEY WON! The AFL Hippies. The Rebels beat The NFL Squares. The Establishment. The Man. Joe was huge. HOFer if he only played THAT GAME! Hey BTW the 1969 Jets were GOOD. HOFers & near HOFers. Professionals.
Joe Willie was the first QB to throw for 4000 yards. His arm, release, dropback combo is probably history's finest. An UNGODLY right arm. There was substance underneath the glitter of the Broadway Joe persona. An extraordinary talent. A champion.
Pop culture does not define morality. Cause and effect does. Squares= people who cannot be rolled into any direction, like circles, that fads push them toward= individual thinkers who respect cause and effect, and don't let other peer pressure change their view of logic and responsibility. I think the 1960's were one of the most overrated decades in history thanks to the rise of copycat "individuality", which of course is contradictory; aint it? It was also the beginning of the sexual revolution which brought on high divorce, abortion, single parent households, a spike in rape stats, and lack of responsibility, and worship of the birth control pill instead of abstinence and adulthood. Then, there was the extended adolescence with perpetual dating, and living together, and the ending of marriage as the ultimate ideal, or faithfulness in marriage, for that matter.. And, I did not even get into drug usage spikes..and nihilistic violence. Yep, busted up families, and a decaying society. Austin Powers was full of bleep! The only good thing from the 1960's was civil rights stands by American Blacks. Otherwise... 1960's= OVERRATED That is what I think.
@@robertsprouse9282 As to your grand sociological ponderings, my response is 😴😴😴 Nice conservative humdrum, but no real substance. Our society's true decline began with the beginning of the attenuation of the middle class, around 1980. As it happens, just around the time that a conservative champion took office, whose domestic policies, in the main, were shown to be quite destructive.
“There were the 30,000 empty seats (at the L.A. Coliseum for Super Bowl I)”. And there are enough people who claimed to have been there to fill the L.A. Coliseum at least five times...
How many people saw the game on both networks?I watched it live on NBC then saw the CBS tape in April that year as the network showed it on a Saturday afternoon because of a strike prevented them for televising a golf tournament.Even better,I saw it on black and white on NBC and in color on CBS.
@@robertsprouse9282 His family is from the same town in Ireland as was my grandfather,but that's all I know. I met John at Yonkers in Jan.1973.He was drawing a name for a trip to the upcoming Superbowl.I kidded around with him that there would have been a riot had he picked out my entry.
The Colts came into this game flat and overconfident--the number of turnovers, blown plays, etc clearly illustrate this. Namath called a smart game with ball control and sustained drives, and the Jets took care of the football. They were CLEARLY the better team on this day. (I think if they played each other 10 times the Colts would win 7--but you can't cough up the football 5 times and expect to beat any quality opponent, which the Jets certainly were!)
The Colt team was coached by Weeb Eubank before Shula was hired after he was fired. The Jets were the better team and the Colts changed nothing for game. Namsths quick release & drop back. If they played ten games, Jets would have won nine of them,
No, the AFC dominated. After the Chiefs win, the Colts, Cowboys, and Steelers, won 7 out of 10 Super Bowls. All were NFL teams. The Colts, and Steelers, moved to the AFC, after the merger.
@@treypatterson7856 I would explain the difference to you, but it looks like you wouldn't understand it. The teams I mentioned, that dominated the next ten years, were never part of the AFL. Get someone to explain it to you.
@@dennissaunders5247 Yeah, that was interesting. Gowdy was the NBC main football and baseball guy back then, but he also worked during the winter months for Roone Arledge at ABC, as one of the hosts for The American Sportsmen.
Kurt Gowdy with Paul Christman on AFL games in the 1960s were the best. What a time for pro football.... the AFL on ABC, then NBC and the NFL on CBS. I wish they had kept the 2 leagues separate, with the 2 league champions playing in the Super Bowl each year.
@@Steve915 That would have delighted Al Davis, as you undoubtedly know, as he was the AFL Commissioner, and wanted to continue full bore with the signing war, in which players were being offered outlandish (for the time) contracts to jump ship.
None of the old COLTS fans are going to believe the AFL was a better league in those two seasons, '68-69&'69-70. They don't know that in the preseason, played with more starters and more passion back then, the AFL DOMINATED THE NFL in 1968, or the common draft from '67 paid immediate dividends..Or, the NFL had added four teams in seven years, and as a consequence after the PACK's RUN WAS OVER was an old man's watered down league featuring green, young expansion club players, outside of Dallas, and somewhat, Minny. Only 5 of the 16 NFL teams were competitive that season. While the same number were competitive in the AFL..OUT OF TEN TEAMS..that season and the next..The best young players were in the AFL. HBCUs producing players were more likely to be drafted by the AFL, especially KC and OAKLAND, than by the NFL. THE COMBINED SBOWLS IN 69&70= AFL 39- NFL 14..The combined NFL records going into those games was 29-3-0. The AFL was 25-6-0. And, in the preseason, the JETS IN '69 BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF THE GIANTS when both teams were playing hard. FURTHER, back in '67 Denver beat Detroit AFTER ALEX KARRAS said he would walk home if that happened. And, KC beat CHIBEARS 66-24..ALL AFTER THE COMMON DRAFT IN '67. THE AFL had gotten better and the NFL had slipped a notch.. Its indisputable.
Robert Sprouse, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and, obviously, the Colts, were a bit more than just competitive. In fact, I'm not at all sure that either the Rams or Cowboys, wouldn't have handled the Jets, even pretty easily. As for the Jets grudge match against the Giants the following pre-season, despite Tarkenton's presence, the Giants were still a pretty bad team, though they were much improved by '70, and didn't miss the playoffs by much.
@@mitchellmelkin4078, LA AND BALTY had big records vs. watered down competition. And I clearly said FIVE NFL TEAMS were competitive, the problem was it was 5 of 16.. The AFL was 5 of 10.. And no, neither Cleve nor Dallas would've beaten the JETS. CLEVE was weaker than they were in '64. Kelly was very good, but he was not JIM BROWN. Ryan was a shadow of himself in '68&69 vs RYAN IN '64&65.. BILL NELSEN was a STEELERS reject who could not stay healthy. Dallas was killed in both '68&69 by the BROWNS.. If the Browns beating the Jets was such a fait accomplis, how do you explain in 1970 JUST TWO SEASONS LATER, THE BROWNS with many of the same players COULD NOT EVEN BEAT OUT AN 8-6 BENGALS THIRD SEASON TEAM FOR THE AFC CENTRAL? Nor could the BROWNS IN the NFL TITLEGAME THEN, BEAT A VIKES TEAM, losing by 20 points IN '69, nor a COLTS TEAM IN '68, LOSING BY 34 POINTS IN CLEVELAND..that both lost SUPER BOWLS 39-14 CUMULATIVELY. The '69 JETS lost to KC at home in the AFL SEMIS BY ONLY 7 POINTS.. KC BEAT MINNY BY 16 POINTS IN SUPE IV ON A NEUT FIELD..THE SAME MINNY WHO BEAT THE BROWNS BY 20. THEY WERE THE SAME BROWNS WHO BEAT DALLAS BY FOUR SCORES IN THE COTTON BOWL IN '69, AND BY 11 IN CLEVELAND IN '68, IN THE EASTERN CONF. CHAMPIONSHIP. So, no.. its no foregone conclusion that EVERYBODY WHO WAS GOOD IN THE NFL IN '68 WAS GOING TO BEAT THE JETS..the COLTS WHO BEAT EVERY NFL TEAM IN THE '68 SEASON(1-1 VS. CLEVE.) SCORED 7 POINTS VS THE JETS.. AFL TEAMS DID A LOT BETTER THAN THAT VS NYJ. OAKLAND SCORED 43 AND 23...ALONE SORRY, there is no evidence that the JETS would've lost to inferior teams below the one THE JETS ACTUALLY BEAT..BY TWO SCORES AT A NEUTRAL SITE. It does not even pass the evidence test. Next..
@@robertsprouse9282 On any given Sunday, No ASTERISK for so called watered down competition , that is PUNDIT talk . These teams all played in Professional football league , not some semi pro league , weak schedules mean nothing on GAME DAY, the two leagues playing against each other proved AFL was not a weak league and the JETS won, KC won , Miami won , Oakland won . Same thing is said about the 1972 Miami Dolphins , only a weak schedule helped them go 17 - 0 despite playing 10 games with 38 year old Morrall, despite playing 4 Super Bowl teams since this one - 1969 on the road and winning all 4 , at KC , at Minn, at Baltimore, at N.Y.Jets despite leading the league in points FOR and points AGAINST , Scoring Offense and Scoring Defense , 1st - 1st - 1st - 1st , despite accumulating 56 TURNOVERS , despite going to Pittsburgh for AFC title game 15 - 0, NOWHERE in the Historical Records does it say World Champions because of weak schedules or watered down competition .The term for that is called an UPSET .It is a bogus argument for any competitive SPORT . People continue to make that Argument and it has NO place in the Record books of History , Its just conjecture .When the last game is played ONE Team wins with band aids all over them and they deserve all the accolades of what they Accomplished that season, no ifs and or buts about it .
@@fritterfoof5146, you're absolutely right. And, you're singing to the choir= me. The AFC was superior in 1972. The Redskins would've never scored if it wasn't for YEPREMIAN.. Hitting the goalpost with a pass had happened before in pro football back then. Qbacks knew they had to avoid that. Kilmer who was always a fun qb to watch, blew it. He blew it because of Miami pressure. FERNANDEZ ate the vaunted REDSKINS o-line for lunch, breakfast, dinner, and an after-dinner aparatif. No one pushed the Skins around that season like MIAMI did in that SBOWL, NO ONE.
Only man to win titles in both the AFL AND NFL= EWBANK. PAUL BROWN who EWBANK coached under, won in the AAFC AND THE NFL. BROWN IS STILL THE ONLY man to HEAD COACH IN ALL THREE of the BIG LEAGUES. I don't consider the AFL OF '26 AND LATE 30's big leagues. The Browns made the AAFC big league and proved it with the NFL title in '50 their first year out of that league after the merger. The WFL was bush league, and the USFL was under the NFL, although, it did feature some young guys that would later star in the NFL, just as the AAFC did with TITTLE, and LAYNE, etc...USFL= KELLY, YOUNG, WALKER.. By the way, Tom Landry started in the AAFC as a player. BROWN head coached, and owned a piece of, CINCY in the AFL the last two years of the league. So, he alone is the answer to the three league trivia question.
Weeb is never mentioned when discussing this game...He obviously had a tremendous roll in the outcome..when discussing the game it's always said that Shuls lost...never Weeb won!!
He wasn't a great coach, but he had some successful years. He coached 20 years with the Colts and Jets. He only had 6 winning seasons as a head coach. However, he won 2 NFL Titles in the 3 winning seasons with the Colts, and one AFL Title in the 3 winning seasons with the Jets. SB3, is his crowning achievement, as its the most important win in AFL history.. He was certainly a good coach, but not great. He was lucky to have John Unitas and Joe Namath. When the going got tough, and he had key players hurt, he was not a coach who could still find a way to win. He was also a lousy GM with the Jets, as he did everything on the cheap. His lifetime record as a coach is around 500.
@@smitskee His obstinancy (read cheapness), cost the Jets several crucial players from returning in 1969. They still gave the Chiefs all they could handle in the playoffs, and might well have moved on to play Oakland. If that had occurred, I think the Raiders would have earned a fairly easy revenge for their loss to the Jets the year before, at Shea.
Earl Morrall. MVP of NFL. Best player in that tired, bloated, arrogant league. Great game, Earl. Great game Colts. You were beat by a smarter, nimbler, wiser and tougher bunch of players, led by the immortal Joe Namath. How bout them Jets!
Tougher bunch of players, yeah, right! This 'tough bunch' lost to both the Buffalo Bills and the Denver Broncos, two of the WORST teams in football that year. Stop with the hyperbole without facts. The Colts went into Cleveland and beat the dog shit out of the Browns 34-0 in the NFL championship, the 'tough' Jets wouldn't have done that on their best day. Joe Namath was an overrated drunk who couldn't read defenses and threw more Ints. than TDs., some immortal. If the NFL was so 'tired', why did the hyped up AFL steal the NFL's playbook and start to build around the running game and defense??? Hey, wait, THAT is the what the 'tired, bloated NFL' was doing right??Funny how the NFL was kicking the AFL's ass in the first 2 Super Bowl's so much that this third game almost was the last one played due to the embarrassment of the AFL getting their behinds whupped!! The AFL had two good teams, the Chiefs and the Raiders, and you see what happened to them the first 2 Super Bowl's. Another AFL/Namath ass kisser on here hyping up this FLUKE of a game! SMDH
I am just telling the TRUTH, like I always do. Seems like when YOU can't handle the TRUTH, you attack by saying I am 'bitter'???? What did I say here that was not TRUTH?? Don't take my word for it? Look it all up, It's there in black and white.
18:05 - Perhaps the most overlooked contributing factor to the Jets' upset victory over the Colts was the kicking game. New York's Jim Turner was simply a better placekicker than Baltimore's Lou Michaels. Two of Turner's three field goals were from 30 and 32 yards; Michaels, by contrast, couldn't even make one from 27. If each had played for the other team, the game would have been tied at 10 at the end of the fourth quarter.
Fantastic point, ST. as a Jets fan I was terrified that the Colts were not only going to win decisively, but they would hurt Namath. First drive they come rolling down the field, looking like a college team going against the freshman. When Michaels missed that short FG attempt, I was elated. Felt like Jets had dodged a bullet. Jets kept getting turnovers and did some scoring - and the miracle was on.
@@kelvinkloud, except when he had that fg kick blocked vs Washington in Super Bowl 7 and volleyballed it into Mike Bass long td return to put the Skins on the board. That cost my late Dad 200 bucks.
I was so happy when The Jets won The AFL Championship Game & when they won Superbowl 111 . I have loved Joe Namath since the 1960s & I still do . To me he will always be the best Quarterback & he will always be my favorite , love Broadway Joe 🏈💚❤
That looks right. It did look like it was Elliot, not Sample, and it did look accidental. Sample had a reputation for being a dirty player and the Colts had cut him a few years earlier when he was caught stealing money from players' cubicles during practices. I guess Tom was mad because they were losing what they thought would be an easy game.
@ 30:00 Johnny Sample showed class...... @ 30:07 Tom Matte does not. But I like how Matte says he won't talk about Sample, right after he talked about Sample.
Sample class??. You need another sample here. Two different things in what you say versus how you act. How was it class what Sample did to Matte in in SB III.......
The Colts was involved in two of the greatest champions in football history. The 1958 world championship Vs. the New York Giants & 1968-69 superbowl championship Vs. the New York Jets..Weeb Ewbank was the coach of the 58' Colts & the 68' Jets.
Great odd moment in American sports history, and this game opened the door to more democratic forms of sports fanfare, where the underdog could be considered wonderful. If only such doors didn't lead to chaos, this would've cemented a permanent Colts-Jets rivalry! Wonderful documentary!
Two things: Watching the hitting in this game, makes one realize it's impossible to compare today's players with this old, tough players. If Namath came up today, he'd be Tom Brady. Weeb was so underrated. The only coach to win championships in both leagues, but only us old folks from NY and Baltimore know that (and of course, Joe Benigno! :-)
I still have my # 41 Colts Tom matte jersey , but I learned a lot that day about winning and losing . I still have the # 12 Joe Namath jersey I bought later . Namath was great that day , period ! I remember from his book " The Long Pass " , it was after a lost to the Bills where he threw 4 ints. . He took the blame for the loss and began to play ball control , throwing to his backs , that killed the Colts . We destroyed Joe Kapp with that blitz in the Western Conference title game , and Joe Namath was praying we would blitz . A real artists !
@@davidbruce5377 That games is like a slow bad dream ! The missed field goals , flea flicker TD ( 28 Orr ) missed . Interceptions in the end zones . Matte's fumble ! 58 yard run for nothing ? Namath controlled the 3rd quarter then the game ! It 's like your on the Titanic and you know its going down and the clock keeps ticking ! I still watch those drives ending with a touchdown instead of an interception ? Jimmy Orr gathering that easy TD pass all alone in the end zone before the half ? Bubba Smith destroying Dave Herman on route to Joe Namath , again and again ? Not going to happen ! They simply outplayed the Colts ! Weeb won two world championships in 1958-59 . Shula lost a world championship to Cleveland in 1964 ? Why were the Jets 18 point underdogs ?
Ironic that Snell and Matte wore 41 and Matte preceded Snell at OSU. Fumble notwithstanding, Matte was the MVP if the Colts won. He ran wild all day. Bill Curry said Matte was the best football player on the Colts. He was also, a great hockey player.
@@davidbruce5377... Matte hated Sample because he had been a Colt and was caught rifling the pockets of his teammates pants in the locker room. Sample was cut and unofficially blackballed even though he was very good, forcing him into the AFL, undoubtedly because Ewbank remembered him.
A lot of people are still crying today! We should have had a best 2 out of 3. Baltimore. Just like in SB 4, the Chiefs and the Vikings opened the 1970 season and the Vikings thrashed them.
@@Mr.56Goldtop, but the teams going in knew they had just one shot, and that was equal on a neutral field for both clubs. A one game shot is a de-facto game seven or in 2 of 3, game three. Secondly, and by no stretch am I a CHIEFS FAN= BRONCOS instead, KAPP held out and was released the next season, eventually getting hurt and washing out with BOSTON THAT SEASON. Gary Cuozzo a decent starter, mostly backup, was the qback starter. KC in a roadgame took MINNY lightly and knew they were not in a must-win as in a Super Bowl. The following week in Balty, CHIEFS fully engaged in a must-win beat the eventual World Champs 44-24.. That Chiefs team still did not make the playoffs that season, but did make them the following campaign, only to lose in KC to MIAMI in double o-time. That same Chiefs group never again after the 2 ot loss, made the playoffs. It wasn't till Mackovic in the mid '80's that they made the playoffs in the wild card, and lost..
The NFL got a glimpse of Joe Namath for a brief period. Namath had 4 good seasons. How he did it and when he did it made him great. The FIRST OF THE REAL JOE'S!
7:40 When I think of Joe Willie I think of this play. He just flicks that pass. NFL films shows great judgement and leaves the honey shots from the original broadcast in. If these teams played 10 times, the Colts win 9. But the Jets got the one that counted.
Quiet .. The Jets were a very, very solid team at evry position, i wasnt surprised the COLTS WERE BEAT.... GIVE CREDIT TO THE COACHING.. THE JETS HAD THE COLTS BEAT BEFORE THEY GOT TO THE FIELD!!!
R.I.P.
#13 Don Maynard 🏈
"Mr. AFL"
God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era.
Maynard was a mean ole boy that could beat anybody deep one on one.
Three classic quarterbacks: Namath, Unitas, Morrall. I always thought that Namath played his professional career at 75%. That knee injury at Alabama. He got nothing but real bad medical advice and the doctors didn't know shit about knee surgery then. Like Bobby Orr in hockey, Namath played injured and still was really good. If he would have been 100% he would have been one of the best ever and probably won another Super Bowl with the Jets.
Jeffrey G, Morrall, classic? Really? He had some decent seasons before he landed in Baltimore, but for 12 years he had to be considered pretty much a bust for being such a high draft choice. Granted, once in Baltimore, his career morphed into a much more productive one, that earned him an MVP, and a deserved reputation as a great backup. But, in no way, does he even come close to belonging in the conversation of the sport's top quarterbacks.
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The Jet players and coaches that had NFL experience were familiar with Earl Morrall and they did not fear him leading up to Super Bowl III. They thought him mediocre at best, and the game films they watched to prepare for that game confirmed their opinion of him.
As for Namath, with the possible exception of Bob Griese, I believe he's certainly the most undeserving QB in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He threw for a lot of yardage, but he also threw way way way too many interceptions. He simply did not make smart decisions from the pocket and did not take care of the ball. He is the only Hall of Fame QB in the modern era of the game that threw more INT's than TD passes. Moreover, after beating the Colts in SB III he played, like 7-8 more years, but in all that time he actually defeated exactly one opponent with a winning record. All his victories thereafter came against opponents that would end up with final records of 3-11, 4-12 or 5-9. He simply wasn't a big game QB (it probably had something to do with all those picks he threw)
@@TheMrSuge The thing with Namath is people say "We'll, he was great at the start of his career and an incredible talent, but injuries did him in, so he deserves to be in HOF for what he accomplished when healthy". Then why doesn't the opposite apply to Jim Plunkett? He was the best QB talent to ever come out of college injured and battered at the start of his career with awfully bad teams, but once he took over the Raiders, he was incredible, 38-19 in the regular season, 8-2 in the playoffs with 2 SB victories. And unlike Joe, Jim could run a little and throw back against his body. Jim should be in if Joe is in. Griese in the HOF is a travesty; he had 1/10 the talent of Namath or Plunkett, was the ultimate game manager who happened to be on one of the greatest teams of his era.
@@jonburrows8602 I agree with you about Plunkett, deserves some HOF consideration. They just put his coach (Tom Flores) in the HOF. He waited too long considering he had a .610 winning pct. as Raiders' coach and coached 2 Super Bowl wins. But maybe now they'll also re-visit and re-evaluate Plunkett's career as well.
By beef with Namath is that his knees had nothing to do with his deficiencies as a quarterback. It was his head, NOT his knees that kept him from his potential. He simply made terrible decisions in the pocket. That's a mental deficiency, not a physical one.
@@jonburrows8602 Jim Plunkett _should_ be in the HOF. That doesn't take away from the fact that Namath truly did change the game and how it was played. That's why he's in.
When i was younger, Joe Namath was a hero for me. I collected Joe Namath rookie cards like a mad man. After school, I went into the Army, did a tour in Vietnam, got out and got married. Years later, i mentioned spider man comic books to my mother, and she said if you stoll want them, theyre in the attic. I got up there, and found 12 Namath rookie cards. Almost lost two of them. I was about to leave a copy of Orwell's book, 1984, but remembered i had written stuff in the margins. When i opened it, two pristine Namath rookie cards fell out. It was like finding a gold mine.
Joe had nothing to lose by predicting a Jet victory ? .. Well .. They sure played like they expected to win .. They went balls out like they KNEW they were gonna win ..
Joe just said what everyone on the Jets was already thinking.
SB 2 Lamonica said what Joe willie did , We're gonna win! WTH.
It was in the script.
@1USACitizen192 Script is right. This SB like many others was predetermined.
@@eac1235 Money and gambling corrupt all sport.
Namath a Class Act. Namath's narrative tribute to Unitas as they went out to the 50 yard line before the game started changed my view of Namath in to deep respect and admiration! I was a young pup and admired Unitas as his career was ending. I watched that game in a fog as the Jets beat the then Titanic Team in the Colts! (The real BALTIMORE Colts!)
I was 9 yrs old when I watched that game and it took almost 40 years for me to "forgive" Namath/Jets. I still hate The Jets though, sorry, not sorry.
Namath is real classy. Drunk out of his mind on national TV.
Now he’s shilling for some worthless junk to senior citizens.
Then there were the annual retirements.
Remember when he said he would quit football rather than give up his bar (bachelors 3). He even literally cried a little.
@@sludge4125 You're just being creepy.
@@sludge4125, does he owe you money?
Of course. Unitas wasn't just the best QB in the NFL he was Namath's home boy from Western PA. Young Namath modeled his football game on Unitas's game as a high schooler in Beaver Falls.
@29:00 Tom Matte is wrong, Johnny Sample never stepped on him...John Elliot (#80) was the one who stepped on Matte.
Hes just being a bitch cuz they lost.
Yes, I went over the replay.. Sample didn't step on him. To this day.. I wonder if Sample ever found out what Matte was pissed about.
john sample was known as a somewhat dirty player but not on this play. Great call. 😊
Sample did not step on Matte. Sample dropped his knees to Matte's ribs.
The two games that contributed the most to the growth and popularity of the NFL were the 1958 championship game (Colts-Giants) and Super Bowl 3 (Jets-Colts) Both had the same winning, and underrated, head coach Weeb Ewbank.
It turned out that the Jets' star receiver, Don Maynard, had been injured in the AFL Championship game, but the Colts didn't know it. The Jets used him as a decoy, and the Colts double-covered him so he didn't catch a pass all game, but they left George Sauer in single coverage, and he had a huge game.
True and The Colts Were Shocked of What They Saw That Day in Super Bowl 3!
@@vinceniederman Namath worked the colts zone defense very well, ball control and timely passes. Sauer had a great game as did Matt Snell.
@@victorsforza6213 So True and Matt Should Had Been MVP Instead!
@@vinceniederman could made a case for sauer as well. Still it was Joe Namath who was the star no problem that he was named MVP of SB 3
@@victorsforza6213 Yup Dispite Not Throwing a TD Pass at All!
Tom Matte came off as the definition of a sore loser here. For a grown man still to be holding grudges and acting that way, he should be ashamed of himself.
but you have to admit, Sample was such a dirty player
Embarassment does not go away..
@@davidr5961 Sample wasn't a dirty player. What did he do? He covered receivers as well as he could, made tackles and interceptions! Matte is a CRY BABY!
Namath was one of the greatest QBs in history but his knees were so bad they expected to get maybe four years out of him in the NFL.
You're correct!
Meh
Greatest? How many playoff wins and appearances? How many winning seasons? Way more pics than touchdowns, abysmal completion percentage. Let's also not forget the fact the FBI has hundreds of pages of documents that indicate he was in on or knew of people helping to fix games. Not to lose but to stay within the betting line. Also how Namath was partying on Saturday night before the SB with 3 defensive players from the Colts. I am supposed to believe that game was on the level? Preposterous!!! Read the book Interference by Dan Moldea and you will learn that ole Joe Willie helped run numbers in Beaver Falls as a teenager. He had indisputable connections to the the underworld. He wasn't the only one ,Lennox Dawson, Alex Karras, Paul Hornung and many others. Billy Kilmers strange relationship with Clint Murchison ( Dall-ass Cowboys original owner) a friendship that should have been investigated by the league but never was.
Football was better back then.
So was your moms box
18:19 How times have changed. Can u imagine a fan at this year's Super Bowl being able to grab the football after a missed field goal?
And how about no nets to catch the extra points going into the stands?
Can u imagine a average fan or family going to a super bowl! Quit watching the nfl along time ago. Just watch stuff like this, I'm sure the League cares.
Winston Hill made the HOF...well deserved...he literally destroyed Ordel Brasse as he helped Matt Snell rush for 135 yards..Winston wss a real class act and a great lineman that actually had to know how to block...with out the open hand technique..they use today.
And, was a Colts cut years earlier, right? As was Sample..
@@robertsprouse9282 ur right about that
@@mikeforte7585, Sample also played for WASH.& PITT. IN THE NFL..
More drivel from a boomer. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
You play by the rules at the time. Your comment about the different rules in place at the time sounds like whiny bitterness.
Joe NAMATH puso la moda de zapatos Blancos
As much as I thought Namath directed a great game...I thought Matt Snell should have been the MVP. I wasn't disappointed when Namath won it though...
i met earl christy
from this game the punt returner yesterday in walmart... i have pics lol.... he grabbed my hand and put his super bowl ring on my finger... that was so cool!!
JET @ THE COLTS SEPT 24 1972 IWAS THERE IT WAS THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME
You got me to check a YT on that game, narrated by ray Scott. Sure enough, that was a tremendous game.
That was a great game..
Buddy Ryan, never should have never been a head coach for any team. D coordinator that’s it.
Saw this game on tv.. Baltimore blew every chance.. Jets took the moment to the max
And that's the last time the Jets would ever take a moment to the max
Keeping that perfect record intact
As a member of the Hialeah High Marching Thoroughbred Band I performed in the pregame and halftime shows of both Super Bowl II and Super Bowl III in the Orange 🍊 Bowl in Miami. The Jets warmed up in the East End Zone right in front of us as we sat in temporary bleachers.
The speed of the Jets defense, especially the the defensive ends, really affected the Colts timing. Matt Snell ate the Colts up with power runs mostly to the left behind Winston Hill. What cracked the Colts IMO was the same defensive plan that had overwhelmed everyone else was completely diffused by Namath audibles running away from the vaunted blitz and then beating the blitz by quick flares out of the backfield.
BTW if you notice in the highlights the Marching Band wearing red coats, blue hats in the East End Zone, that is the Marching Thoroughbred Band. I still vividly remember when Namath trotted out for pregame warmups from the North Sideline, the crowd hooted and booed Namath, who just never looked up or acknowledged anyone. Just trotted out and started launching arching passes effortlessly. Wow 😮
Saw that Super Bowl and the Jets shook up the eworld, we had a great Xmas that year and nothing beat Broadway Joe and eating pnuts and coca cola watching the vaunted Colts get their a## kicked
Just a thought, if your band had been in the opposite end zone, maybe Unitas would have seen how often Jimmy Orr was wide open instead of getting lost in a sea of blue uniforms worn by the Baltimore Colts Marching Band.
What killed the Colts that day was Earl Morrall, who had a terrible day. He made bad decisions from the pocket, threw picks and incomplete passes, missed open receivers. A half-way competant QB would've put 24 points on the board in the first half. The Colts kicker had a bad day, too.
@@TheMrSuge The speed and pressure of the Jets defensive ends, Philbin and Biggs knocked Morral off rythym plus there was a 15-25 mph gusting wind from the Northeast which swirled around the OB. Unitas did not fare much better. The real shock to Baltimore was Namath checking to flare passes to backs to negate vaunted blitz on defense. Imagine that both Don Shula and Chuck Noll were coaching the Colts, who both moved to head coaches in the AFL and won 6 of 10 Super Bowls in the 1970’s.
As a life long Jets fan who remembers this game as a kid I always seem to forget Buddy Ryan's presence at SB III. And what about Weeb's direct impact on BOTH the 1958 NFL title game as well as this seminal contest? Uncanny...
Chuck Noll was on the sidelines for the Colts.
The matchup that day was Buddy Ryan's defense against Chuck Noll's defense.
@@TheMrSugethe next year Chuck Noll became head coach of the Steelers and ended up winning 4 SB
The next year Noll became head coach of the Steelers who only won one game that first year Noll was at Pittsburgh but end up winning 4 SB before he retired
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Browns owner Art Modell recommended to Art Rooney that he hire Noll. Noll's Colts had just defeated Modell's Browns in the '68 NFL Championship Game, 34-0. Modell told Rooney that Noll's defense shutting out the Browns was so impressive a feat that he'd probably make a good HC. Rooney agreed to hire Noll, but following the Colts' embarrassing loss in Super Bowl 3 he started having second thoughts. Modell, however, talked him into going through with the hire. Modell probably regretted doing that.
Gerry Philbien was another unsung hero,along with George Sauer.
9:53 - Namath single-handedly -- or, if you're a bitter Colts fan, single-mouthedly -- made NFL football the most popular professional sport in the country. And the Colts players are actually responsible for this, because the only reason Namath guaranteed victory was that he was tired of listening to them shoot *their* mouths off about how they were going to demolish the Jets.
I agree. The first two Super Bowls had poor attendance and ratings, and the Packers easily won. At that time the general feeling among many was that the NFL was football and the AFL was mickey mouse football. Joe Namath was a flashy personality who sort of pushed the boundaries of what was considered proper. He had sort of long hair and for a football player that was different back then. Plus he was very talented and confident and outspoken. Someone yelled out 'Hey Joe the Colts are gonna kick your ass' and Joe said 'hey now, I've heard about enough of that. We're a better football team. We're gonna win. I guarantee it.' or something close to that.
That probably did more to boost the ratings of Super Bowl 3 and make it a prime time event than anything else. I bet the network carrying the game loved it when he said that. And after the Jets came away the winner it made the Super Bowl the premiere football game of the year ever since.
I cannot think of any other player guaranteeing that his team would win the super bowl. Namath just said what was on his mind in his normal, honest, brash, confident way. His personality and the notoriety of his hard drinking, skirt chasing lifestyle made him an admired, and hated player. People had an opinion of him one way or the other. Namath and the Jets made the Super Bowl the blockbuster ratings event it became and has been ever since.
Has a QB EVER guaranteed a win since this game? Even in regular season? It was beyond the perfect sound bite!
Bill Dawson That whole year was scripted entertainment. Jets, Mets, Knicks, Lunar landing, they didn't fix hockey because nobody gave a rats ass about it
@@russellguercio5357 salty baltimore fan alert
@@VMan29397 Not even remotely a Baltimore fan. It was a statement of the time period. Not of Baltimore sports. It was a time when people were much more gullible and naive. The wool was easily pulled over peoples eyes. I.E. Lava Lamps, Pet Rocks, and most notably government lying about Vietnam to a very susceptible public. Before you reply that I'm a salty 60's, 70's person, not at all, like Cosell, just telling it like it is.
Baltimore missed opportunity after opportunity. Earl Moral missing the wide open reciever down the field and throwing the interception was a microcosm of the game. Joe Willy did enough to cement his legacy. I garantee we'll win, he said. And did exactly that. KUDOS!!
Yeah. I kept thinking that Baltimore's flaw was a QB that couldn't throw a pass hard on a line. Namath was so much better.
This is Actually "NFL Films; Greatest Games Superbowl" III aka Joe's Guarantee. There's 18 or so episodes but this is one of my favorites with all the Film of Smashmouth runblocking; Matt Snell really was the Jets MVP or their Secondary picking balls off.
george sauer anyone?
12YO Winston-Salem, NC SUPER BOWL CHAMPS First PRE-SEASON game after Jets huge victory in Miami (featured Minnesota Vikings with Joe Kapp) vs. NY JETS with Broadway Joe. Well Namath to Maynard for 73 yard TD. I was amazed at how agile and big pro-players were. What a great game, and incredible day.
Yeah , living in camel city too, wanted to go to that exhibition awful bad. I envy you.
I was at that game as a 10 year old. Went with my older brother, his friend and my best friend. I remember Namath getting so mad that he took his helmet off and slammed it to the ground.
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Joe Namath was and still is my favorite quarterback.
Namath was average, it was his image that was huge
@@joeclayton2121 he said "favorite" not "best"
@@alexsolimani so? i stated my opinion.
if it "offended" you, go to your "safe space"
@@joeclayton2121 go read the first comment again before firing insults at me for absolutely no reason dumbass
@@joeclayton2121 Namath was a well above average QB whose value far transcended mere statistics
fascinating explanation by Namath about how they would call many plays right at the line after looking at the defense :)
Every team does that.
@@TheMrSuge Not in 68/69.
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Of course in 68/69 ... and earlier. Unitas was doing it back in the 1950's. Paul Brown was criticized by his QB's in the late 50' and early '60's for not allowing them to change the play at the line (because every other QB in the NFL had that authority except for Browns' QB's, and they thought his prohibition was holding back the offense).
@@colinschaeffer3940 It was sort of a new option back then - to call the plays after seeing what the defense was doing right at that moment !
On the Sauer fumble, there was no so-called-today "football move," therefore incomplete, right. Watch and wait for it.
In the present day that’s an Incomplete pass
I officiate football today and Sauers fumble then would definitely be an incomplete pass today....new officials are also instructed to call it that way..
Agree. It just looked like a dropped pass. Incomplete.
Most don't realize that much of the credit for the Jets' outstanding defense that season goes to the great Buddy Ryan, who was the defensive line coach then. He was instrumental in setting the game plan to defeat Baltimore, and of course, he later became world famous as the defensive coordinator for the 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears, which many consider the greatest defense ever.
Walt Michaels was the defensive coordinator, Ryan was the defensive line coach.
Ryan was the DC for the Jets, also DC for the Viking SB teams and Bears he coached 3 SB defenses
My Jets.... Greatest upset...
only one you'll probably ever see too...like me and my eagles lol
@@joeclayton2121 The 2010 AFC Divison Round against the Asterisks was also a thing of beauty. I would like to see at least one more playoff win, though.
Have they done anything since? I believe their best season since then was 2009, when my Colts kicked their asses in the AFC Championship.
@@danieldougan269 A season later, your Colts lost to these very Jets in the Wild Card Round.
@@danieldougan269 you haven't won anything since the Eagles won it
you lost to the Jets in a wild card game, the Jets hahahahaha that must have hurt
colts missed the playoffs in 2021
bills beat them in a wild card game in 2020
missed the playoff in 2019
and now you have caron wentz
last season will be his best season
he gets hurt a lot and he's not clutch
losing seasons in our future
Gowdy is wrong about Jim Hudson..he DID NOT attend Oklahoma...he went to the university of Texas...he was part of their 1963 national championship team...
And a darn good safety he was.😎
U. TEXAS, TEX TECH, AND UTEP produced the stars other than NAMATH, for the JETS. LAMMONS, HUDSON, SAUER ALL U.TEX..UTEP(TEXAS WESTERN)= MAYNARD..
TEX. TECH= BAKE TURNER..
@@robertsprouse9282 Bake Turner, a true name from the past, though he was a league all-star once.
@@mitchellmelkin4078, solid receiver for Namath in their three to four player rotation.
During his AFL career had two seasons over 900 yards(a lot of yards back then).
Yes, he was cut by the NFL, I believe Baltimore or NYGIANTS earlier in the decade, but made some nice catches in the playoffs that year for NYJETS in '68-69, and was still in the pros, in the NFL post merger with N.E., also jumped to the WFL, but was about thru at that point when the WIFFLE folded..he and SAUER were hurt in the WFL, and when the NY STARS became the Charlotte Hornets and the Houston Texans became the Shreveport Steamer..they quit.
Thanks for sharing this :O)
When football was simply about football.
I know...you were drunk when you posted this insipid rubbish.
EXACTLY - REAL MEN WITH REAL DREAMS - NOT BEE - ESS POLITICAL RACIST CRAP - - PLAY BALL ALREADY -
1969 was not a good year for Baltimore - First in January the JETS beat the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl then in October The METS beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series
With modern replay would George Sauer's fumble be ruled not a catch? It doesn't look like he ever had control. He certainly didn't make 'a football move'.
Under the interpretation of the catch rule in force in 1968, THAT was indeed considered a catch and a fumble.
Super Bowl 3 was also significant because The Jets win kept all the AFL teams together in the AFC with 3 NFL teams joining them, had the lost the AFL and NFL teams would have been shuffled toghether.
Super Bowl IV is what really established the AFL.
The AFL ceased to exist after the 1969 AFL Championship Game! Super Bowl III proved the AFL's best team was better than the NFL's best team! Super Bowl IV proved
the same thing!
No upset here - Jets were a great team in 1968/1969 - Give them some credit - The Jets had "upset" the Colts ? Give some credit to the JETS for being a great all around team back then !
Curt Gowdy’s broadcasting alone makes this game a hit
Pro trick : watch series on kaldrostream. Me and my gf have been using it for watching a lot of movies these days.
pro tip: you can watch series on flixzone. I've been using them for watching lots of of movies recently.
@Lewis Benson yea, I've been using flixzone} for months myself :)
He's been my favorite announcer for 60 years
Wisconsin is this was an excellent video I enjoyed learning about Mr nameth Moore he was an excellent player I didn't know him personally but I seen him in 1981 on The Love boat thank you Mr nemeth can I see you on television doing ads for insurance keep up the good work you're an excellent example to other players God bless from Wisconsin the man from Wisconsin remembers Mr name with on television in his acting career thank you😅
The Jets had many unsung heroes in this game.
Personally, I would have voted Sample for MVP. Then Namath, Snell, & Sauer in order.
Honestly in 2007 after the Giants gave the Patriots a battle in the final week of the season i said that if they play again in the super bowl they would win and i put my money where my my was--cha ching, at 4 to 1, i also had them +6.5 at 2 to 1 and the regular +13.5, i had the under too, that was easy money.
April, 2007, As I concluded with my beloved mom's eulogy, I faced the people in attendance; feeling very humbled and grateful for all the people that were there, especially many of my colleagues, that I never expected to even be there, offering their sincere condolences, because they all knew that my mom died in my arms, & said: "Joe Willie Namath once said it, & now I'm going to say it! 3 weeks from now, I will walk across that stage as I graduate from Law School, I GUARANTEE it." & I did!
Congratulations
I know Joe won’t see this but what a hero he was to this little country boy in Michigan . Every time ran outside play football I had scream I’m Joe Namath :) Thanks Mr. Namath made me better ball player just knowing you were playing..
Great story! Joe influenced my family in the same way.
Watched this game in Lakewood, California. I was just a college kid at the time and pulling for the underdog and was an incredible victory for the Jets. Thanks for the memories.
Yeah, memories. I'm a Wisconsinite, and was a 14 year old fresh off 2 Packer Super Bowl wins. But there was something about Namath and The Jets that made us pull for them.
Funny to see these comments about a game from 50 years ago. It's over Jets won 16-7
After reading Mike Curtis' book, I realized the Colts took this game for granted. They were allowed to bring their family's down. Not much curfew I don't think. The Jets? No wives and a curfew. I was a hard core Colts fan. Only 12. I was crushed. I'm still a Colts fan, just not an Indy Colts fan. I'm living my football life in limbo. I'm also a Vols fan. Seeing Peyton Manning in a Colts helmet I thought it was the second coming of Johnny U. Almost!
I certainly think the Colts were maybe the strongest of all NFL teams, but the Jets were good enough to beat them. The Colts wasted chance after chance to put them away early. I was very disappointed, but you can't give great teams like the Jets all those opportunities to stay in the game.
When you think about it this was not really an upset.The Jets matched up very well against the Colts.The Jets offensive line was far superior to the Colts.Snell and Boozer were better than Matte and whomever.Maynard and Lammons were better than than Orr and Mackey(getting old).Only Richardson was a threat but Morrall's arm was suspect , Finally Morrall beating Namath? No Way.The Jets defense was not spectacular but they were solid and coached by Buddy Ryan.The bookies must have had a killing on this one.
@@docsmithdc, Morrall's arm wasn't suspect (he was the league MVP). That belonged to Unitas. If the former had made even one less of his grievous errors, the game's outcome may well have been otherwise, even precluding the latter's entrance, which must have felt galvanizing to the team.
Mind you, I'm not suggesting that Morrall was anywhere near Namath's equal (or any of the other AFL QB's whom Namath claimed were better than his opposite number). But, he had shown the capability necessary to, at a minimum, keep the Colts on pace with the Jets during the game, if not win it outright. That he demonstrably choked, may owe to his never having been placed in such an exalted game, with a genuinely worthy opponent, at any time, in an already long NFL career.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 I thought that Johnny Sample's comment about Morrall'spasses were telling.His comments also reminded me of something I told die hard NFL supporters about the quarterback for the Vikings that would play in the next Superbowl and that was that every time Joe Kapp put the ball in the air it would be intercepted and I was right.
The Colts could've very easily scored 24 first half points.
But they played like a bunch of turds whenever they got in the Red Zone
This has never been brought up. It's now 50 yrs later. When the Colts had the ball, 4th & 5, late in the game.... why didn't Shula just kick the FG?? It was a chip shot. That would have made the score 16-10. And... Shula still had 3 timeouts. Simply kickoff to the Jets, you know they are going to try to run the clock, and burn your timeouts. The Colts would have gotten the ball back with a shot.
@Jim Stark totally agree. Michaels had a bad game, but you still have to try that kick at that time. *note, his longest kick was 53 yds.
@Jim Stark totally agree..Michaels was pathetic..
@@mikeforte7585 Well, he was a decent defensive lineman, in fact, made the Pro Bowl twice. Even by '68, it was becoming rare to see position players be the full time kickers. Based on the standards of the era in which he played, he was about average in accuracy, or a bit better, over the course of his career, at nearly 55%. Still, he didn't exactly shine in that game. The Colts didn't 'fix' their kicking situation until 1970, by drafting O'Brien. Even though he was nothing to write home about, I wonder if he had been around in '68, it might have made a substantive difference in the game's outcome. On the other hand, despite making the gimme game winner in Super Bowl V, his performance on that stage, was hardly stellar.
Shula was a young and inexperienced coach probably overthinking
@@VMan29397 Shula was HC since 63. Five winning season. Conference Champs 3-4 times. He was young, but not green.
no better pocket passer and what a arm! Joe Willie Namath!
Except for all those interceptions he threw ...
@@TheMrSuge Yeah, and, really, compared to his contemporaries, he wasn’t very special at all.
But for that one day...
That game changed The NFL! They merged in 1970! The Russian Accord CCCP that's how I remember the NFL teams that move into the AFL to even up the sides! Colts, Cleveland, Cincinnati and the basement dwelling Pittsburgh Steelers! Most people that watch the NFL now! Don't even know those teams were in the NFL? With it's 8 commercials per half! TV Timeouts! That changes the momentum of the game! And watching a live game is not as exciting now! The Jets beating the Mighty Colts was earth shattering or should I say a tremor of the Changes too come! No longer could the NFL or its fans claim superiority over the Pass Happy AFL and its 3-4 defense! Broadway Joe made his impact on football like no other QB of that time! His Guarantee was unheard of! at that time! Or as Robert Duval once said! " That's a bold statement for a one eyed Fatman" but Broadway Joe backed it up!
Great documentary. Thanks for sharing.
Sabol sort of alludes to it, but I suspect the rationale for producing this revised version, is all the hubbub over the years, that the original was overtly biased in favor of the Colts, both Sabols being confirmed NFL partisan. Interestingly, after watching it innumerable times, with but a few exceptions, I've never found it to be anywhere near as tilted, as has been so often remarked upon, and that it's easy to be comfortable with, whichever league (or team) one may have been a fan of.
Had the Colts won this game, they would still be in Baltimore to this day. They never would have moved to Indianapolis. The name "Indianapolis Colts" still doesn't roll off the tongue right.
Huh? The Colts didn’t move until after the 1983 season over 14 years later. They moved cause the city had no intention of investing in a new stadium and Indianapolis just built the Hoosier Dome.
@@Agent-xn1hr ur exactly right...it was 14 years later...that's an eternity..
Please explain how losing Super Bowl III is the reason why the colts moved to Indianapolis. The Colts won Super Bowl V did isn't the reason why they would have stayed in Baltimore. The Colts moved to Baltimore because Indianapolis made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
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And Robert Irsay was from Chicago, and Indianapolis was closer to Chicago than was Baltimore
Idk, I don't think that there is any football player that should play in a game that has a doubt about winning!!! If you don't think your team can win the game, then you shouldn't even be on the field!!! Cuz imho, if you're not confident in winning the game your team DOESN'T NEED YOU ON THE FIELD!!! And honestly that goes for any team sport. My aunt M.A. Myers was an airbrush artist that graduated from the University of Alabama & she used to say that Joe Namath knew her as "Moonpie" in college. But anyway, she lived near Denver, CO and there was a contest to design a flag for Lakewood, CO. And the newspaper guy, who didn't even talk to her quoted her as saying "That she had no idea that she would win!" And she said "that it was complete rubbish, that she knew she would win otherwise she would not have worked so hard to be able to win! But just like Joe, you have to be confident about what you do. If you "think" you might lose the game the other team has already won!
I loved the AFL. And the ABA.
The reality is that the NFL was very behind the curve offensively compared to the AFL, with the exception of the Cowboys. The Jets were defending far more sophisticated offenses week in and week out. Joe was right pre game, Earl Morrall was not a top 5 QB in the AFL, might not have been top 10.
The Colts' stand by defense overwhelmed sorry dinosaur NFL offenses, but all they did was set up the Jets' game plan. The game would have been an even bigger blowout if Maynard was healthy.
SHULA had a lot of struggles in big games. Morral stunk up the FIELD. 5 turnovers and many blown opportunities. COLTS could have easily won 28-13. What is interesting is you also had the MIRICLE METS IN 69. HMMM.
That fumble 20:40 was actually an incomplete pass imo
Thr Colts were overconfident. Namath and the Jets outplayed them the whole game. The Jets win saved the Super Bowl as we know it today.
1969 was when Miami was still a habitable city. Of course Jimmy Carter and Castro’s Mariel boat lift changed all that. Now it is a cesspool.
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That Sauer fumble is an incomplete pass in the present day
I officiate HS and college football...ur exactly right it should have been ruled an incomplete pass..
Every rule change for the worse ! Biggest bullshit was rules that eliminated roughly 12 plays a game in NFL Used be managing clock you could be down 3 touchdowns 7 minutes left not out of it !; The best play in basketball jump ball they eliminated ! The Sports rules refected the degeneration of the world!!
the only fluke was baltimore beating cleveland 34-0.the browns were a lot better than that.
Matt Snell was outstanding in this game. Could have been game mvp
Should have been.
Joe had a solid game, but I agree, Snell was the best player on the field that day. Had the best game of his life. The Jets could not run right on the Colts, but props to Hill, Talamini, and Boozer blocking left. They did the job, but credit Snell. He was slash pounding 2-3 yard gains into 5-6 yard gains. I think his longest run was 12 yard. He also caught 3-4 passes for good yardage.
loyaldude10 definitely
@@smitskee Snell also was in the first Lite Beer Commercial.
Naturally the man who made the guarantee was given MVP
I was a young Navy Seabee in the barracks that Sunday afternoon. I'm 75 now and wish I was back at Lemore NAS again.
Huge impact on the era and society. 19 pt underdog is still the most points against a team in a championship game in any sport ANYWHERE AND YET THEY WON! The AFL Hippies. The Rebels beat The NFL Squares. The Establishment. The Man. Joe was huge. HOFer if he only played THAT GAME! Hey BTW the 1969 Jets were GOOD. HOFers & near HOFers. Professionals.
Joe Willie was the first QB to throw for 4000 yards.
His arm, release, dropback combo is probably history's finest.
An UNGODLY right arm.
There was substance underneath the glitter of the Broadway Joe persona.
An extraordinary talent.
A champion.
Pop culture does not define morality. Cause and effect does.
Squares= people who cannot be rolled into any direction, like circles, that fads push them toward= individual thinkers who respect cause and effect, and don't let other peer pressure change their view of logic and responsibility.
I think the 1960's were one of the most overrated decades in history thanks to the rise of copycat "individuality", which of course is contradictory; aint it? It was also the beginning of the sexual revolution which brought on high divorce, abortion, single parent households, a spike in rape stats, and lack of responsibility, and worship of the birth control pill instead of abstinence and adulthood.
Then, there was the extended adolescence with perpetual dating, and living together, and the ending of marriage as the ultimate ideal, or faithfulness in marriage, for that matter..
And, I did not even get into drug usage spikes..and nihilistic violence.
Yep, busted up families, and a decaying society.
Austin Powers was full of bleep!
The only good thing from the 1960's was civil rights stands by American Blacks.
Otherwise...
1960's= OVERRATED
That is what I think.
@@robertsprouse9282 As to your grand sociological ponderings, my response is 😴😴😴 Nice conservative humdrum, but no real substance. Our society's true decline began with the beginning of the attenuation of the middle class, around 1980. As it happens, just around the time that a conservative champion took office, whose domestic policies, in the main, were shown to be quite destructive.
How about 42 to 1?
WILLIE JOE THE BEST!!!!
Roll Tide!
Funny to watch . Colt fans still can’t get over this loss..lmfao.
“There were the 30,000 empty seats (at the L.A. Coliseum for Super Bowl I)”.
And there are enough people who claimed to have been there to fill the L.A. Coliseum at least five times...
How many people saw the game on both networks?I watched it live on NBC then saw the CBS tape in April that year as the network showed it on a Saturday afternoon because of a strike prevented them for televising a golf tournament.Even better,I saw it on black and white on NBC and in color on CBS.
@@rentslave, related to the JETS player and future announcer John Dockery?
@@robertsprouse9282 His family is from the same town in Ireland as was my grandfather,but that's all I know.
I met John at Yonkers in Jan.1973.He was drawing a name for a trip to the upcoming Superbowl.I kidded around with him that there would have been a riot had he picked out my entry.
The Colts came into this game flat and overconfident--the number of turnovers, blown plays, etc clearly illustrate this. Namath called a smart game with ball control and sustained drives, and the Jets took care of the football. They were CLEARLY the better team on this day. (I think if they played each other 10 times the Colts would win 7--but you can't cough up the football 5 times and expect to beat any quality opponent, which the Jets certainly were!)
Yes, it could have easily been 28-7, Colts, at the half. I was a 6th grader and still ticked that Unitas didn't start the 2nd half.
The Colt team was coached by Weeb Eubank before Shula was hired after he was fired. The Jets were the better team and the Colts changed nothing for game. Namsths quick release & drop back. If they played ten games, Jets would have won nine of them,
Fixed
@@mikemcpherson4785 bullshit- easily coulda been 23 -0 jetsearly in 4th qtr.
bullshit. 7 of 10? jets easily win 6 of 10. remember, the jets beat a better team in oakland to get to the super bowl.
Remember the following Super Bowl Years. The AFL dominated, this game was no fluke, it was the beginning.
No, the AFC dominated. After the Chiefs win, the Colts, Cowboys, and Steelers, won 7 out of 10 Super Bowls. All were NFL teams. The Colts, and Steelers, moved to the AFC, after the merger.
@@MichaelSimmons. yeah and the Houston Astros are a National League team??
@@treypatterson7856 I would explain the difference to you, but it looks like you wouldn't understand it. The teams I mentioned, that dominated the next ten years, were never part of the AFL. Get someone to explain it to you.
Kurt was always my favorite. RIPKurtGowdy
Kurt GOWDY one of the all time GREATS. I loved his fishing shows.
I think it was the AMERICAN SPORTSMEN.
@@dennissaunders5247 Yeah, that was interesting. Gowdy was the NBC main football and baseball guy back then, but he also worked during the winter months for Roone Arledge at ABC, as one of the hosts for The American Sportsmen.
Kurt Gowdy with Paul Christman on AFL games in the 1960s were the best. What a time for pro football.... the AFL on ABC, then NBC and the NFL on CBS. I wish they had kept the 2 leagues separate, with the 2 league champions playing in the Super Bowl each year.
@@Steve915 That would have delighted Al Davis, as you undoubtedly know, as he was the AFL Commissioner, and wanted to continue full bore with the signing war, in which players were being offered outlandish (for the time) contracts to jump ship.
None of the old COLTS fans are going to believe the AFL was a better league in those two seasons, '68-69&'69-70.
They don't know that in the preseason, played with more starters and more passion back then, the AFL DOMINATED THE NFL in 1968, or the common draft from '67 paid immediate dividends..Or, the NFL had added four teams in seven years, and as a consequence after the PACK's RUN WAS OVER was an old man's watered down league featuring green, young expansion club players, outside of Dallas, and somewhat, Minny.
Only 5 of the 16 NFL teams were competitive that season. While the same number were competitive in the AFL..OUT OF TEN TEAMS..that season and the next..The best young players were in the AFL.
HBCUs producing players were more likely to be drafted by the AFL, especially KC and OAKLAND, than by the NFL.
THE COMBINED SBOWLS IN 69&70= AFL 39- NFL 14..The combined NFL records going into those games was 29-3-0. The AFL was 25-6-0.
And, in the preseason, the JETS IN '69 BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF THE GIANTS when both teams were playing hard.
FURTHER, back in '67 Denver beat Detroit AFTER ALEX KARRAS said he would walk home if that happened. And, KC beat CHIBEARS 66-24..ALL AFTER THE COMMON DRAFT IN '67.
THE AFL had gotten better and the NFL had slipped a notch..
Its indisputable.
Robert Sprouse, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and, obviously, the Colts, were a bit more than just competitive. In fact, I'm not at all sure that either the Rams or Cowboys, wouldn't have handled the Jets, even pretty easily. As for the Jets grudge match against the Giants the following pre-season, despite Tarkenton's presence, the Giants were still a pretty bad team, though they were much improved by '70, and didn't miss the playoffs by much.
@@mitchellmelkin4078, LA AND BALTY had big records vs. watered down competition.
And I clearly said FIVE NFL TEAMS were competitive, the problem was it was 5 of 16..
The AFL was 5 of 10..
And no, neither Cleve nor Dallas would've beaten the JETS. CLEVE was weaker than they were in '64. Kelly was very good, but he was not JIM BROWN.
Ryan was a shadow of himself in '68&69 vs RYAN IN '64&65..
BILL NELSEN was a STEELERS reject who could not stay healthy. Dallas was killed in both '68&69 by the BROWNS..
If the Browns beating the Jets was such a fait accomplis, how do you explain in 1970 JUST TWO SEASONS LATER, THE BROWNS with many of the same players COULD NOT EVEN BEAT OUT AN 8-6 BENGALS THIRD SEASON TEAM FOR THE AFC CENTRAL?
Nor could the BROWNS IN the NFL TITLEGAME THEN, BEAT A VIKES TEAM, losing by 20 points IN '69, nor a COLTS TEAM IN '68, LOSING BY 34 POINTS IN CLEVELAND..that both lost SUPER BOWLS 39-14 CUMULATIVELY.
The '69 JETS lost to KC at home in the AFL SEMIS BY ONLY 7 POINTS..
KC BEAT MINNY BY 16 POINTS IN SUPE IV ON A NEUT FIELD..THE SAME MINNY WHO BEAT THE BROWNS BY 20. THEY WERE THE SAME BROWNS WHO BEAT DALLAS BY FOUR SCORES IN THE COTTON BOWL IN '69, AND BY 11 IN CLEVELAND IN '68, IN THE EASTERN CONF. CHAMPIONSHIP.
So, no.. its no foregone conclusion that EVERYBODY WHO WAS GOOD IN THE NFL IN '68 WAS GOING TO BEAT THE JETS..the COLTS WHO BEAT EVERY NFL TEAM IN THE '68 SEASON(1-1 VS. CLEVE.) SCORED 7 POINTS VS THE JETS..
AFL TEAMS DID A LOT BETTER THAN THAT VS NYJ.
OAKLAND SCORED 43 AND 23...ALONE
SORRY, there is no evidence that the JETS would've lost to inferior teams below the one THE JETS ACTUALLY BEAT..BY TWO SCORES AT A NEUTRAL SITE.
It does not even pass the evidence test.
Next..
@@robertsprouse9282 On any given Sunday, No ASTERISK for so called watered down competition , that is PUNDIT talk . These teams all played in Professional football league , not some semi pro league , weak schedules mean nothing on GAME DAY, the two leagues playing against each other proved AFL was not a weak league and the JETS won, KC won , Miami won , Oakland won . Same thing is said about the 1972 Miami Dolphins , only a weak schedule helped them go 17 - 0 despite playing 10 games with 38 year old Morrall, despite playing 4 Super Bowl teams since this one - 1969 on the road and winning all 4 , at KC , at Minn, at Baltimore, at N.Y.Jets despite leading the league in points FOR and points AGAINST , Scoring Offense and Scoring Defense , 1st - 1st - 1st - 1st , despite accumulating 56 TURNOVERS , despite going to Pittsburgh for AFC title game 15 - 0, NOWHERE in the Historical Records does it say World Champions because of weak schedules or watered down competition .The term for that is called an UPSET .It is a bogus argument for any competitive SPORT . People continue to make that Argument and it has NO place in the Record books of History , Its just conjecture .When the last game is played ONE Team wins with band aids all over them and they deserve all the accolades of what they Accomplished that season, no ifs and or buts about it .
@@fritterfoof5146, you're absolutely right. And, you're singing to the choir= me.
The AFC was superior in 1972. The Redskins would've never scored if it wasn't for YEPREMIAN..
Hitting the goalpost with a pass had happened before in pro football back then.
Qbacks knew they had to avoid that. Kilmer who was always a fun qb to watch, blew it. He blew it because of Miami pressure.
FERNANDEZ ate the vaunted REDSKINS o-line for lunch, breakfast, dinner, and an after-dinner aparatif.
No one pushed the Skins around that season like MIAMI did in that SBOWL, NO ONE.
For all of his success,coach Ewbank was never acknowledged as a great football coach.
Only man to win titles in both the AFL AND NFL= EWBANK.
PAUL BROWN who EWBANK coached under, won in the AAFC AND THE NFL. BROWN IS STILL THE ONLY man to HEAD COACH IN ALL THREE of the BIG LEAGUES. I don't consider the AFL OF '26 AND LATE 30's big leagues. The Browns made the AAFC big league and proved it with the NFL title in '50 their first year out of that league after the merger. The WFL was bush league, and the USFL was under the NFL, although, it did feature some young guys that would later star in the NFL, just as the AAFC did with TITTLE, and LAYNE, etc...USFL= KELLY, YOUNG, WALKER..
By the way, Tom Landry started in the AAFC as a player.
BROWN head coached, and owned a piece of, CINCY in the AFL the last two years of the league.
So, he alone is the answer to the three league trivia question.
Weeb is never mentioned when discussing this game...He obviously had a tremendous roll in the outcome..when discussing the game it's always said that Shuls lost...never Weeb won!!
He wasn't a great coach, but he had some successful years. He coached 20 years with the Colts and Jets. He only had 6 winning seasons as a head coach. However, he won 2 NFL Titles in the 3 winning seasons with the Colts, and one AFL Title in the 3 winning seasons with the Jets. SB3, is his crowning achievement, as its the most important win in AFL history.. He was certainly a good coach, but not great. He was lucky to have John Unitas and Joe Namath. When the going got tough, and he had key players hurt, he was not a coach who could still find a way to win. He was also a lousy GM with the Jets, as he did everything on the cheap. His lifetime record as a coach is around 500.
@@smitskee, he was better than you think. Shula learned from him..
Jets were awful when he took over..so were the Colts. He put Unitas in as qback.
@@smitskee His obstinancy (read cheapness), cost the Jets several crucial players from returning in 1969. They still gave the Chiefs all they could handle in the playoffs, and might well have moved on to play Oakland. If that had occurred, I think the Raiders would have earned a fairly easy revenge for their loss to the Jets the year before, at Shea.
I was 18 to me the Colts we're a bunch of old Fuddy Duddies.
Hay 41, you got your ass kicked
Earl Morrall. MVP of NFL. Best player in that tired, bloated, arrogant league. Great game, Earl. Great game Colts. You were beat by a smarter, nimbler, wiser and tougher bunch of players, led by the immortal Joe Namath. How bout them Jets!
dont forget weeb one hell of a game plan he put together
Tougher bunch of players, yeah, right! This 'tough bunch' lost to both the Buffalo Bills and the Denver Broncos, two of the WORST teams in football that year. Stop with the hyperbole without facts. The Colts went into Cleveland and beat the dog shit out of the Browns 34-0 in the NFL championship, the 'tough' Jets wouldn't have done that on their best day. Joe Namath was an overrated drunk who couldn't read defenses and threw more Ints. than TDs., some immortal. If the NFL was so 'tired', why did the hyped up AFL steal the NFL's playbook and start to build around the running game and defense??? Hey, wait, THAT is the what the 'tired, bloated NFL' was doing right??Funny how the NFL was kicking the AFL's ass in the first 2 Super Bowl's so much that this third game almost was the last one played due to the embarrassment of the AFL getting their behinds whupped!! The AFL had two good teams, the Chiefs and the Raiders, and you see what happened to them the first 2 Super Bowl's. Another AFL/Namath ass kisser on here hyping up this FLUKE of a game! SMDH
the professor Do I detect a note of bitterness here?
I am just telling the TRUTH, like I always do. Seems like when YOU can't handle the TRUTH, you attack by saying I am 'bitter'???? What did I say here that was not TRUTH?? Don't take my word for it? Look it all up, It's there in black and white.
How about 'em? That season..
Where were the Jets when the Colts won it all in 70?
Ray Scott and Curt Gowdy are examples of how a game should be called
Curt always called the 4PM AFL game on Sundays. It was the greatest of times. School homework just HAD to wait.
Personally, i always liked Frank Giff
Joe Proctor I grew up listening to Curt Gowdy, he was then and he would be today one of the best.
The announcers were Curt Gowdy, Kyle Rote and Al DeRogatis. Who is Ray Scott?
I kinda like Keith Jackson version of game calling.
colts could have won on FGs
Sadly, the Jets have done nothing NOTHING since then!
Matt Snell Should Had Been MVP of Super Bowl 3 and Not Joe Namath Since He Didn't Throw a Single TD Pass in The Game!
18:05 - Perhaps the most overlooked contributing factor to the Jets' upset victory over the Colts was the kicking game. New York's Jim Turner was simply a better placekicker than Baltimore's Lou Michaels. Two of Turner's three field goals were from 30 and 32 yards; Michaels, by contrast, couldn't even make one from 27. If each had played for the other team, the game would have been tied at 10 at the end of the fourth quarter.
Fantastic point, ST. as a Jets fan I was terrified that the Colts were not only going to win decisively, but they would hurt Namath. First drive they come rolling down the field, looking like a college team going against the freshman. When Michaels missed that short FG attempt, I was elated. Felt like Jets had dodged a bullet. Jets kept getting turnovers and did some scoring - and the miracle was on.
@CJ Dillon thank u
good point. shula learned when he got to miami.... garo was a much better kicker & was $.
If my Aunt had nuts, she'd be my uncle.
@@kelvinkloud, except when he had that fg kick blocked vs Washington in Super Bowl 7 and volleyballed it into Mike Bass long td return to put the Skins on the board.
That cost my late Dad 200 bucks.
I was so happy when The Jets won The AFL Championship Game & when they won Superbowl 111 . I have loved Joe Namath since the 1960s & I still do . To me he will always be the best Quarterback & he will always be my favorite , love Broadway Joe 🏈💚❤
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@@adrianhorodecky5264 Thank you for sharing . Do you know how I can buy on DVDS of the 1968 AFL CHAMPIONSHIP game & Superbowl 111 1969 ?
@@deeely7176 the 1968 AFL championship is not on DVD. NBC must have it in their vaults somewhere. ua-cam.com/video/s_jtbgcdq50/v-deo.html
I have Super Bowl 3 on a home burned DVD from a VHS tape. It's the same as that link.
That looks right. It did look like it was Elliot, not Sample, and it did look accidental. Sample had a reputation for being a dirty player and the Colts had cut him a few years earlier when he was caught stealing money from players' cubicles during practices. I guess Tom was mad because they were losing what they thought would be an easy game.
I thought it was Larry Grantham , # 60 , who stepped on Matte. After all these years, someone should have told him
@ 30:00 Johnny Sample showed class...... @ 30:07 Tom Matte does not. But I like how Matte says he won't talk about Sample, right after he talked about Sample.
Sample class??. You need another sample here. Two different things in what you say versus how you act. How was it class what Sample did to Matte in in SB III.......
I am talking about the interview in this clip. Matte said it was an accident and 5 seconds later said it wasn't. Freudian slip?
That incident, where Matte accused the wrong dude, and the aftermath shows how, to this day, the Colts never got over that day......!
@@dallasbrubaker6054, Freudian facetious sarcasm..
@devildog1982z, maybe he did not look at it too closely, and stuck with his original assumption..
Buddy Ryan never seems to get enough credit, for the job the Jets D did in that game
It wasn’t Buddy Ryan’s Defense. It was Walt Michaels defense.
@CJ Dillon, what did Buddy coach then? Linebackers?
The Colts was involved in two of the greatest champions in football history. The 1958 world championship Vs. the New York Giants & 1968-69 superbowl championship Vs. the New York Jets..Weeb Ewbank was the coach of the 58' Colts & the 68' Jets.
The new york jets dominated
The baltimore
Colts got to love it
Great odd moment in American sports history, and this game opened the door to more democratic forms of sports fanfare, where the underdog could be considered wonderful. If only such doors didn't lead to chaos, this would've cemented a permanent Colts-Jets rivalry! Wonderful documentary!
Two things:
Watching the hitting in this game, makes one realize it's impossible to compare today's players with this old, tough players. If Namath came up today, he'd be Tom Brady.
Weeb was so underrated. The only coach to win championships in both leagues, but only us old folks from NY and Baltimore know that (and of course, Joe Benigno! :-)
I still have my # 41 Colts Tom matte jersey , but I learned a lot that day about winning and losing . I still have the # 12 Joe Namath jersey I bought later . Namath was great that day , period !
I remember from his book " The Long Pass " , it was after a lost to the Bills where he threw 4 ints. . He took the blame for the loss and began to play ball control , throwing to his backs , that killed the Colts . We destroyed Joe Kapp with that blitz in the Western Conference title game , and Joe Namath was praying we would blitz . A real artists !
I wonder if #80 Elliot (Jets) had ever admitted stepping on #41 Matte's groin?
@@davidbruce5377 That games is like a slow bad dream ! The missed field goals , flea flicker TD ( 28 Orr ) missed . Interceptions in the end zones . Matte's fumble ! 58 yard run for nothing ? Namath controlled the 3rd quarter then the game ! It 's like your on the Titanic and you know its going down and the clock keeps ticking ! I still watch those drives ending with a touchdown instead of an interception ? Jimmy Orr gathering that easy TD pass all alone in the end zone before the half ? Bubba Smith destroying Dave Herman on route to Joe Namath , again and again ? Not going to happen ! They simply outplayed the Colts ! Weeb won two world championships in 1958-59 . Shula lost a world championship to Cleveland in 1964 ? Why were the Jets 18 point underdogs ?
Ironic that Snell and Matte wore 41 and Matte preceded Snell at OSU.
Fumble notwithstanding, Matte was the MVP if the Colts won. He ran wild all day. Bill Curry said Matte was the best football player on the Colts. He was also, a great hockey player.
@@davidbruce5377... Matte hated Sample because he had been a Colt and was caught rifling the pockets of his teammates pants in the locker room. Sample was cut and unofficially blackballed even though he was very good, forcing him into the AFL, undoubtedly because Ewbank remembered him.
Shula goes to Johnny U after 1st half different game...Jets probably still win but different game😊
Namath!
I cried for a week !!!!
And, you were what 32, then?
A lot of people are still crying today! We should have had a best 2 out of 3. Baltimore. Just like in SB 4, the Chiefs and the Vikings opened the 1970 season and the Vikings thrashed them.
@@Mr.56Goldtop, but the teams going in knew they had just one shot, and that was equal on a neutral field for both clubs. A one game shot is a de-facto game seven or in 2 of 3, game three.
Secondly, and by no stretch am I a CHIEFS FAN= BRONCOS instead, KAPP held out and was released the next season, eventually getting hurt and washing out with BOSTON THAT SEASON. Gary Cuozzo a decent starter, mostly backup, was the qback starter. KC in a roadgame took MINNY lightly and knew they were not in a must-win as in a Super Bowl. The following week in Balty, CHIEFS fully engaged in a must-win beat the eventual World Champs 44-24..
That Chiefs team still did not make the playoffs that season, but did make them the following campaign, only to lose in KC to MIAMI in double o-time. That same Chiefs group never again after the 2 ot loss, made the playoffs. It wasn't till Mackovic in the mid '80's that they made the playoffs in the wild card, and lost..
@Mike Fleming, glad to inadvertently help, lol..
It was a MNFOOTBALL LOSS IN BALTY. KC LED 24.. or 31-7 AT THE HALF, I THINK..
@M Flem , 1970 Chiefs, not '71. The Super Bowl victory capped the 1969 season.
The NFL got a glimpse of Joe Namath for a brief period. Namath had 4 good seasons. How he did it and when he did it made him great. The FIRST OF THE REAL JOE'S!
7:40 When I think of Joe Willie I think of this play. He just flicks that pass. NFL films shows great judgement and leaves the honey shots from the original broadcast in. If these teams played 10 times, the Colts win 9. But the Jets got the one that counted.
They only play 1 Super Bowl. I believe if they played 10 times the Jets would have won 10 times!
Joe Willie, was THE man !
Quiet .. The Jets were a very, very solid team at evry position, i wasnt surprised the COLTS WERE BEAT.... GIVE CREDIT TO THE COACHING.. THE JETS HAD THE COLTS BEAT BEFORE THEY GOT TO THE FIELD!!!
I Did An Oral Book Report On Johnny Samlple's AutoBiography. Received An A.😄
NAMATH!!!!!!!!!!!!