Used to work nights while going to college in the 80's and was only able to listen to the Monday night games via radio. Now looking back, it was an absolute gem of a broadcast team with Hank Stram and Jack Buck calling MNF for almost 2 decades. Two of the absolute best at what they do - Jack Buck as the skilled and polished broadcaster teamed with the great coaching mind and ever entertaining Hank Stram. I can still remember a classic line from Stram when talking about anybody trying to go up against an oversized opponent - "it's like throwing popcorn at a battleship".
Brent Musburger did halftime and even once speculated that Hank should coach the St. Louis football Cardinals, although after being fired by the Saints, he had enough.
That's right. And Jack would pull his chain on occasion. For instance, "Henry I know you wish they'd turn that 'Ghostbusters' music up just a little." And Hank replied, "Oh geez, that is the worst."
after the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, Stram played in only one more playoff game (against Miami in 1971) and lost. The Chiefs were no competition for the Oakland Raiders who won most of the AFC Western titles right through to their SB win in the 1976 season. Stram would ultimately be fired from KC and went on to a forgettable coaching stint in New Orleans.
As an Englishman I got into American football in the early 80s. A one hour highlights show on a Sunday. But craving live games I found afn radio. I spent many hours listening to Jack Buck and Hank Stram in the late to very early hours. They will always be my favourite duo. They founded my love for and relationship with the greatest sport on the planet! One bit of commentary that sticks with me was when Hank would say.... Jee Jack...he was so open it looked like he ran out of the bleachers. Unforgettable Hank Stram.
I can remember Coach Stram and Jack Buck calling games on the radio and coach saying that, that nights game had because "a real taffy-pull"! He always had a unique and humorous way of putting things!
Stu looks a lot like his father !! Beautiful story too with his dad on that big day !! .......my dad left my life at 14 and never looked at me again{ I am now 56}...I admire Hank Stram !
One aspect that made the mic-ing of Hank Stram astounding for this game was the fact the NFL Films crew were using film motion picture cameras, which meant they only had a couple of minutes of film for recording use before having to stop filming to reload their cameras. Nowadays with digital video cameras, a person can record hours of uninterrupted video recording.
They shot a lot of film. I'm guessing that they used crystal-synch Cp-16 cameras with 400 foot magazines which would have given about 12 minutes continual running time.
The best part of Hank being miked was when he asked the ref how all of them could have missed that play and the ref said we were talking about you being on the field and Hank said NO!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!
He was complaing about a penalty and the ref says . I thought ypu were talking about you being on the field. Ref turns his back with a big zmile and thats were you get that line. There is one lost classic film that he is coaching in pro bowl. So it was 67 or 70. After afc scores he is asking for somebody to play on kickoff team. He had his guys 6 7 270 bell a lb. 69 280 buchannan. 6 1 250 mlb lanier walking off. He asks them and one says . Are you crazy? Butkus is out there and he thinks its a real game. Another says . Why dont you go out there. Like Deacon Jones said. I dont care what they say everyone was scared of Butkus.
sabols should get more credit, they made the NFL what it is today, showed you exciting plays in games we didnt even know happened,stram is a great communicator,could use words most people didnt know what they meant, but they understood his message
I think that Stram was an amazing and wonderfull coach, a guy that enjoyed the game as no one. See him with the game plan rolled, his smilles and comments are so wonderfull. The few nfl films that I seen of him are pure gold. Regards from México thx.!!!
Yes, he was. But not if you were paying attention. He won more AFL games than any coach. He should have been in the HOF years before he was in a wheelchair.
Every time I see this film I feel like it adds a few days to my life. To me, the greatest satisfaction to come out of the Super Bowl 4 victory over the Vikings was the not the win itself, but the loud and clear statement the Chiefs and the rest of the AFL made to the arrogant NFL people at that time: WE'RE BETTER...and you KNOW we're better! For years the AFL put up with the BS line by NFL people that they were superior and that the AFL was somehow inferior. I never had and still don't have any kind of a grudge against the Vikings. In fact, I had abundant respect and admiration for Bud Grant and the Vikings as a team. My only regret was that it wasn't the Packers with Lombardi coaching. That way, in the post-game press conference, Lombardi would have had to admit that the AFL and the Chiefs were better than his Packers and any other team in the NFL. 4-years before in Super Bowl 1, he openly disrespected an entire league by publicly stating that the AFL was an inferior league to the NFL. And the NFL's media partners (sycophants of Pete Rozelle) made sure that that statement was heard through the mainstream media. All that did was strengthen the resolve of everyone in the AFL to soon kick the $#!+ out of NFL teams and let their arrogant owners, executives, coaches, players and fans know the AFL had a better way to play the game. There is a big part of me that wishes the merger never happened, and that the AFL still existed. Thank God for Lamar Hunt and the American Football League. Long live the AFL!!!
The Raiders O line had protected Lamonica beautifully all year, but the Chiefs put ferocious pressure on him all day on January 4, 1970. I was a huge Lamonica (and Raiders) fan, but I will admit the Chiefs deserved that victory.
graciemaemarie11 Despite my love for the Raiders at that time, I will admit that the Chiefs, with their rock-ribbed defense and ball control offense, were probably a better match to go against the Vikings.
No doubt the Raiders could have beaten the Vikings, but the Raiders defense was not as good as the Chiefs, so I think it would have been a closer, higher scoring game.
+bigjoe4110 True -- and don't forget the Chiefs' HUGE goal line stand on December 28, 1969 vs. the New York Jets at old Shea Stadium: with Kansas City leading 6-3 in the fourth quarter, the Jets had a first and goal at the Chiefs' 1 yard line after Kansas City got flagged for pass interference in the end zone. The Chiefs stuffed two consecutive running plays by the Jets, and on third down Jets quarterback Joe Namath was forced to throw the ball into the ground due to VERY HEAVY PRESSURE by the Chiefs front line. That forced the Jets to settle for a game-tying field goal. In my opinion, that's where the Chiefs defense won the game for them, because on the ensuing possession, Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson hit Otis Taylor with a 61 yard pass play to get the ball down to the Jets' 19 yard line, and on the next play Dawson connected with Gloster Richardson for the game's only TD. The Chiefs defense made the 13-6 lead stand up.
In Otis Taylor's book-"The Need to Win"-he noted that when ever he was in Stram's office he would see cases of chocolates, candies etc piled up all around the room---these were "perks" from candy companies in the KC area who Stram did promotions for--Stram's "sweet tooth" ultimately caught up to him and he ultimately developed diabetes and eventually passed away from complications related to it
diabetes is more related to being overweight or hereditary factors than eating sweets. I'm sure the candies he snacked on did him no good but not necessarily the cause. in any event---what a character Stram was, and a great coach that was ahead of his time
@@loyaldude10 Chiapas Mexico has the highest incidence of diabetes in the world. An assessment of the causes showed that heredity had nothing to do with it. The reason was everyone drinks cane sugar-infused Coca-Cola. They have the highest rate of Coke consumption in the world. So yes excessive consumption of sweets CAN cause diabetes. The beta cells of the pancreas can't produce enough insulin to keep blood glucose levels in control.
Note the name of the blitz George Allen has on the board (:43). Now, it is not Buddy Ryan's 46, but it is a 7 man pressure. You don't see that any more since one of the eligible receivers will be uncovered. And those Chiefs did indeed open a can on the Vikings in SB IV. I love how his son chokes up about going to the SB. What a great memory.
Nothing beats the just keep matriculating the ball down the field boys. If he only did this stuff on camera, it would be crap, but the fact he always talked this way made it genuine and classic. What a wardrobe!
I believe one of the guys carrying Hank after the game was Ernie Ladd, who played for the Chiefs before retiring because he was making more money in pro wrestling.
I remember they asked Bud Grant to wear a microphone and he refused , Hank asked for and got I believe $300 . You can hear him on the audio of S.B. 4 calling Len Dawson , Lenard ? Len Dawson said he only called him that when he was angry and played the microphone like a new toy ! " Come on boys , just keep reticulating the ball down the field " . I am a Vikings fan but I still enjoyed watching him ham it up !
I think the "He" in Stram's statement "He can't cover that (quick pass)" was Minnesota's smallish CB Earsell Macbee. who was eaten up by the Chiefs' much bigger Otis Taylor. One of NFL Films' greatest features here! RIP Steven Sabol and Henry Stram.
+King Bee Possibly, but maybe he was reffering to Ed Sharockman who was covering Frank Pitts, an even better matchup for the Chiefs as he was being covered by aging CB who wasn't even suppose to be in the line up ( Bryant injured)
He was a Monday Night Football radio announcer and was great at it. As teams lined up he would always say looks like something right or looks like something left. Really like listening to him call the game.
Those Chiefs teams of the mid to late 1960s were revolutionary in regards to his off season fitness training regimen Hank made his players go through- he was one of the first coaches to emphasize weight training for his players.
The Chiefs and Raiders rivalry from about 1967 through 1971 or 1972 was the most intense rivalry ever, matched only perhaps by the Cowboys-Redskins rivalry from about 1966-1975.
loyaldude10 The Raiders-Steelers was truly intense, but I would say the Raiders-Chiefs rivalry from 1967-1972 was about equal, each meeting was a war. I will agree the Cowboys-Redskins rivalry did not really heat up until the early 1970's.
That's dead on. There was almost always a bench clearing brawl when those two teams met. Truly authentic and intense rivalry like none others of that time.
As Dick Enberg said before a Raiders-Chiefs game in 1990 (a rainy one in november, at Arrowhead), it was a big, bitter rivalry, played to the limit and beyond. The intensity, the cheap shots, the brawls, and the great names made this a major one of professional football. He mentioned the names, I will not. We know them well and I might botch the writing for some of them
What made Super Bowl IV even sweeter for the Chiefs, Stram and owner and AFL founder Lamar Hunt, was the Vikings stabbed him and the AFL in the back by reneging on their AFL offer and joining the NFL. Rozelle helped power that deal and had to eat shit after that.
@@dietpepsivanilla3095 I guess - I dont think it was that horrible for him - i think whatever disappointment he realized the chiefs and jets wins were good for the merger. At as I recall from “America’s game” book
Steve Sabol said, "Coin of the realm." But Ed Sabol said it was initially, "Hey Smush, how 'bout an honorarium?" .....which is even funnier. I rooted for the Chiefs against the Eagles. Why? Fond childhood memories of the mentor. Hank Stram was as integral to the Kansas City franchise as the Hunt family.
@thegorn68 . . . and back then $500 was big money, considering gasoline was selling for around 20 ~ 25 cents a gallon at that time. Lucky for NFL Films that they had that cash available, as the money earned back then was a pittance when compared to today.
Although not an innovator, Stram ( like Lombardi ) led by force of personality. You can take a second or third rate team and motivate them to play first rate. I like Stram for one reason: he required the players to wear a shirt, tie and suit coat with KC logo. Today, players dress like hoodlums; back then, Stram, Landry and other discipline-driven coaches demanded professionalism off the field as well.
While I think one can be an individual in a uniformed environment in dress and demeanor, what strikes me about why Hank worked in that context is that while it may have been a uniform, it was a GOOD LOOKING uniform. Sometimes I loved working for restaurants that required me to be in all black, black tie and a black or red apron. One of the classiest looks ever and it MADE me walk taller. Uniformity, I believe, works best when it's not just about rules but about pride and Hank was WAY ahead of his time on that. More than professionalism, he brought class to the game.
BigBlack81 great comment, well put. Today's million dollar players dress like high school kids, listen gangster rap with earphones and due to no leadership from coaching and front office staff act like hoodlums and thugs. What truly stands out as unique is the era in which this was accomplished: the rampant promiscuity of the 60's and 70's. Stram mandated short hair, no mustaches, beards, soul patches - the seminal look of the counter culture - and was not only successful, but won a few championships within those stringent guidelines. Tom Landry ( of whom I am an acolyte ) not only allowed long hair, beards, all manner of craziness including a thriving drug culture within the Cowboys organization - never struck back against it. Stram did.
" Not an innovator " !!!?? Hank Stram WAS an innovator of the Highest Order and the finest type. When Hank Stram went into a restaurant, the waiters and waitresses would remove the cotton table cloths and replace them with paper because Coach Stram would literally design whole new offensive plays RIGHT THERE AT DINNER on those table cloths! Many noted his fully racially integrated squads because the NFL was still predominantly white. Hank Stram did NOT care about skin color and did not need the civil rights movement to tell him how to butter his bread. Even the style of his huddles...no one huddled like the AFL Chiefs...the play shifts before the snap of the ball Stram did it like NO one did. The formations were nothing short of bewildering- ask The Minnesota Vikings and Lombardi himself. Lombardi played the chiefs in Superbowl One and everyone knew that the Packers never ever blitz. Against Kansas City they had to FLOOD the backfield to get to the quarterback cause KC had the world's first rolling pocket. And the Master stroke: KC-styled Play-Action-Pass - OMG! The triple-stack Defense: The linemen actually BLOCKED for the best defensive linebacking trio- I would put Willie Lanier WAYYY past Dick Butkus because Willie Had as much power AND HE could RUN! He could pass cover. Stram picked these people and then gave them INNOVATIVE new defenses and Offenses to play with - yes, I think you were looking at someone else you thought was Stram with regard to your statement. After they won the Superbowl, NO team was as heavily scouted as The chiefs because it took so much effort to play at their level of pure innovation - yu had to see it. The NFL was just no fun compared to the AFL and Stram: 3-yards and a cloud of dust football from the 1920's...sheeesh!
***** Different coaching styles. Hank and Lombardi believed you should dress like a professional. And they actually cared about the well-being of their players. They weren't robots who merely executed plays. It wasn't, Just Win Baby, it was win with class.
D'Mathmoth Tutinean Stram told a story that the night before the AFL championship in 1969 against the Raiders in Oakland he received a phone call from a waiter in San Francisco who told him Daryle Lamonica was having dinner with a member of the Raiders coaching staff and had been sketching plays on napkins and threw them out as they left---he asked if Stram would be interested in seeing them--Stram was worried it was a "setup" by the Raiders and had the Chiefs pastor (who travelled with the team) to meet the waiter (who gave the waiter some game tickets for his trouble)---when the pastor returned he showed Stram the napkins and he then realized that these sketches were legitimate and had the Chiefs defensive coaches let the players know about them just in case--this story was from Stram's book-"They're playing my Game" he wrote in the 1970's
In "A Football Life" Ed Sabol states that he convinced Hank Stram to wear the mike without being paid an honorarium. I think this account is probably the real story. Hank may have been a loveable guy....but he wasn't a dope.
You have no idea what it was like to grow up a Vikings fan in the 1970s, when there were four TV channels and shite-talking Hank Stram miked for Super Bowl IV by NFL Films aired like once a month year-round. Even as a kid too young to recall the game itself, I watched it over and over. I understand the attraction -- it was a first-time, historic thing. It was a spectacle. But it was brutal. That game and NFL Films literally kept Mick Tingelhoff out of the HOF for decades. When Stram died all the old Vikings were glad and made no attempt to hide it. I don't endorse that, but I get it. For whatever reason, the Vikings were not ready to play in SBIV. That's to take nothing away from the Chiefs, who had some great, great players, especially on defense. But that group never won another playoff game after 1969. The next year the Vikings, sans Joe Kapp, smoked KC in the season opener. But the Chiefs had that one moment and made the most of it. I'll always believe the Vikings were the better team, but obviously KC was far better that day. Also, my father, now well into his 80s, to this day, will only refer to Hank Stram as "that little toad." I've never told him that in 1990s, when Stram was calling MNF games on the radio with Jack Buck, that I enjoyed those broadcasts.
Interesting view point. I also grew up in the 70's , lived and breathed everything Vikings Vikings. What disillusion as a boy when they lost. SB IV , did keep Tinglehoff out of the HOF . He never made the probowl in the 70's either. In this, and all other SB's the Vikings lost the very same way. Sure, the other teams where great, but so where the Vikings. They looked so disorganized, about the only thing they did right in the SB's was stand in attention for the anthem.
Stram was very lucky to even get to Super Bowl IV--the old AFL allowed 4 teams to be in the playoffs that year (where previously only the East and West division champs made it)-the Chiefs finished 2nd to the Raiders that year in the West (Raiders 12-1-1/Chiefs 11-3)-Then in the AFL championship Len Dawson completed a pass to Otis Taylor from his endzone that was clearly out of bounds on replay but the officials said was caught-that catch allowed the Chiefs to go on to score a TD that led to their 17-7 win and a trip to the Super Bowl. I completely agree the Vikings had very little time to prepare to play a team in an atmosphere (Super Bowl hype etc) that the Chiefs had been to before (Super Bowl I). After being able to review the films and then have almost 9 months to prepare-they thoroughly beat the Chiefs in the following season opener 27-10-and I have always believed the score would have been even far worse if Joe Kapp had signed in the offseason and been the Vikings starting QB instead of leaving for Boston (Gary Cuazzo was the Vikings QB that day and didn't provide the same "spark" on offense that Kapp used to)
david graham All things aligned for the Chiefs that year, and their meteorite for the post season was Otis Taylor. He made critical, if not hallmark plays in each game. However....!! That long pass form the end zone was clearly out of bounds. I've seen it a bunch of times , up close and in slow motion. He bobbled it secured it out of bound first and second step out ! He're the irony though. There where TWO officials right there. One about 10 yards behind him and another even closer in front. The official behind signals incomplete......but then NFL Films cuts away and onto the next plays. ...........WTF !! Personally I think it's a very sad thing that Kapp didn't get another crack at the Chiefs while with the Vikings as he did with the Colts in 69', after losing in the playoff sin 68.A Kapp led Vikings team in 70 and 71 would have produced extraordinary results.
I agree with your observations. After that SB IV film came out I couldn't stand Stram and his empty cotton candy holder!!!! I enjoyed him as a TV analyst. Never really heard him on radio although I understand lots of folks turned the volume off their TVs and listened to the radio broadcast with Stram and Buck.
GET OVER IT DAVID!!! The Chiefs won Super Bowl 4, 23-7. The AFL team ruled/dominated/waxed the NFL team and all the pro-NFL people saw that there actually WAS parity, that the AFL teams were just as good as the NFL teams and in some cases, were better. If you can't get past this, I would suggest some counseling.
What are you talking about---27-10 was the game in Minnesota-September 1970 (a game the Viking dominated from start to finish)--yea sure KC won the AFL championship 17-7 only because of that blown call on the pass (that was clearly out of bounds) between Dawson/Taylor and the fact Lamonica was injured--the Chiefs went on to do nothing in the 1970's (including losing to Miami at home in a playoff game that they should have won if Stenerud hadn't "choked" on the last play of regulation)--
Back when I was a kid I disliked Stram because 1) he ran his mouth in that Super Bowl IV highlight film and 2) he always appeared to be carry around a cotton candy paper cone during games!! 😁 But I later found him to be an awesome broadcaster!
A trap play involves a fake. A defensive player is unblocked initially and drawn across the line of scrimmage, before being blasted. Dawson faked a pitch out and came back inside to Garrett.
The weird thing about 65 Toss Power Trap is that Len Dawson didn’t even run it right. He’s suppose to fake the toss sweep then hand inside. It didn’t matter. That trap was so wide open
Hank Stram expected his players to conduct themselves professionally both on and off the field--to instill discipline he arranged that on game day all the players game to the stadium in blazers with the Chiefs emblem on it
Stram was Saints coach in 1976 and 1977 , his ability was gone by then. He was an atrocious coach couldn't even beat Tampa Bay . Was a horrible embarrassment as a Saints fan.
If it hadn't been for a blown call in the AFL championship game (a pass from Dawson to Taylor that was clearly out of bounds on replay-even Willie Lanier admitted it was missed) the Chiefs wouldn't have been in SB4. And if you fast forward to September 1970 the Vikings had absolutely no trouble with the Chiefs at home 27-10--the Vikings just had a bad game--it wasn't anything to do with the Chiefs being the better team---in fact over the same time period the Oakland Raiders were the better team
david graham your history is all wrong. 1. the pass where Taylor was out of bounds had nothing to do with the outcome of the game. Chiefs were already up 17 to 7. And 2. Raiders were not as good at all during the same time. Chiefs were the greatest AFL team in the conference and it wasn't even close. Won more games than any other team. and 3. Chiefs were hands down better than the Vikings. Vikings got lucky in that first game of the 1970 season because they were at home. On a mutual field, Chiefs were hands down better and they proved it
what does home field have to do with it?? a good team can win on the road as well as at home----Bud Grant finally had a better handle on who his team was playing and prepared accordingly--and the result was a dominating 27-10 win (and it would have been far worse if Joe Kapp had been QB instead of Gary Cuozzo)--and the Raiders sure didn't have any problems with the Chiefs at home in 1970 (a game that meant the division title)-20-6
No way--The Chiefs were not up 17-7 at the time of Taylor's out of bound catch--it was 7-7-the Chiefs went down the field after that catch---and again there was another call for interference (that wasn't) against the Raiders that moved the Chiefs to the Raider goal line (Holmes took it in to make the score 14-7)
david graham What is your point? Do you want to rewrite history? Well you can't! That was a great Chiefs team and it doesn't matter if the Vikings beat them the following year! The Chiefs won the game that mattered ; the last AFL vs NFL game before the merger! You can whine about referees' calls , but you can't change history!
Well David, I've read just about enough of your derogatory BS posts about the 1969 Chiefs who went on to beat your Vikings in Super Bowl 4, and who in your estimation were unqualified even to be in the playoffs. My advice to you: GET OVER IT! And, as a rebuttal, I'll submit that you are incorrect about what would've happened in that Championship game at Oakland. Whether or not Taylor caught that ball out of bounds, the Chiefs would've found a way to beat the Raiders in that game, regardless of the circumstances. They were that good of a team. Secondly, they soundly defeated your overrated Vikings 23-7 in Super Bowl 4, a game that actually counted for something. Thirdly, the curious circumstances surrounding the actual scheduling of that rematch game in September of 1970 at Met Stadium in Minneapolis was a total BS move by the NFL. That game should have been scheduled for sometime in mid-season instead of it being the very first game to start the season! THAT scheduling affectation was done by the NFL A-holes who couldn't stand the fact that an AFL team embarrassed their SUPPOSEDLY superior NFL team in Super Bowl 4. So Rozelle and his cronies (along with most of the NFL owners) decided that the Vikings should get their 1st home game the very next season against the Chiefs, the team that blew them away that January. That way they (the Vikings) would be jacked up to play and have their best chance at avenging the Super Bowl loss for themselves and...the NFL. The Vikings won that game 27-10 but it wasn't a "domination from the start" as you wrote in an earlier post. Dawson hit Taylor for an 80-something yard TD bomb early in the game and the contest was close up to halftime. Go on line and check the box score. 2nd half turnovers led to the Vikings win, NOT Viking domination. The Chiefs gifted that game to the Vikings and the old guard NFL A-holes got a smidgen of satisfaction, but they still knew the Chiefs were the better team. And by the way, had the Vikings still had Kapp as their QB...it would've been a re-run of Super Bowl 4. He'd have been battered by the Chiefs defense again! Cuozzo was a much better QB than Kapp, who couldn't run worth a damn and threw knuckle ball passes.
2:44 terrible tackling by Minnesota. This and the dropped kickoff return may have caused Minnesota to lose their best chance at winning a super bowl in 57 years.
If my boss asks me to work over the holidays, I'm going to tell him I need some "coin of the realm."
Ha-ha Word!
Groovy !
a few dead presidents also
LOL, made me laugh
I never knew Hank called himself the Mentor. That is classic. I could listen him talk all day.
A priest whom Stram befriended gave him the nickname. Stram invited him to all the Chiefs games for a long time.
Used to work nights while going to college in the 80's and was only able to listen to the Monday night games via radio. Now looking back, it was an absolute gem of a broadcast team with Hank Stram and Jack Buck calling MNF for almost 2 decades. Two of the absolute best at what they do - Jack Buck as the skilled and polished broadcaster teamed with the great coaching mind and ever entertaining Hank Stram. I can still remember a classic line from Stram when talking about anybody trying to go up against an oversized opponent - "it's like throwing popcorn at a battleship".
Brent Musburger did halftime and even once speculated that Hank should coach the St. Louis football Cardinals, although after being fired by the Saints, he had enough.
That's right. And Jack would pull his chain on occasion. For instance, "Henry I know you wish they'd turn that 'Ghostbusters' music up just a little." And Hank replied, "Oh geez, that is the worst."
too bad Jack Buck's son is so useless as an announcer--I turn off the volume when he calls a game in football, baseball etc
My fave SB highlight film SB IV Facenda and Stram hard to beat.
After the 65 toss power trap, Hank yells "the mentor" - and I never knew til this moment what he was saying...
Good for you, Stu Stram, you went to the game. What a beautiful story about a beautiful man, your father.
One of the most underrated coaches in NFL history. Stram was a great leader and mentor!
after the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, Stram played in only one more playoff game (against Miami in 1971) and lost. The Chiefs were no competition for the Oakland Raiders who won most of the AFC Western titles right through to their SB win in the 1976 season. Stram would ultimately be fired from KC and went on to a forgettable coaching stint in New Orleans.
5:30 the greatest sound bite in nfl history
As an Englishman I got into American football in the early 80s.
A one hour highlights show on a Sunday.
But craving live games I found afn radio.
I spent many hours listening to Jack Buck and Hank Stram in the late to very early hours.
They will always be my favourite duo. They founded my love for and relationship with the greatest sport on the planet!
One bit of commentary that sticks with me was when Hank would say....
Jee Jack...he was so open it looked like he ran out of the bleachers.
Unforgettable Hank Stram.
I can remember Coach Stram and Jack Buck calling games on the radio and coach saying that, that nights game had because "a real taffy-pull"! He always had a unique and humorous way of putting things!
Stu looks a lot like his father !! Beautiful story too with his dad on that big day !! .......my dad left my life at 14 and never looked at me again{ I am now 56}...I admire Hank Stram !
“Just keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys” Hank Stram at his classic best👍!
keep on matriculating the ball down the field! Hank Stram was a character, as well as great innovative coach
loyaldude10 ...This is a great piece! His son looks just like him! Touching when he speaks of his Father. A great era!
Winningest Coach in AFL History.
One aspect that made the mic-ing of Hank Stram astounding for this game was the fact the NFL Films crew were using film motion picture cameras, which meant they only had a couple of minutes of film for recording use before having to stop filming to reload their cameras. Nowadays with digital video cameras, a person can record hours of uninterrupted video recording.
They shot a lot of film. I'm guessing that they used crystal-synch Cp-16 cameras with 400 foot magazines which would have given about 12 minutes continual running time.
I would love to hear the whole game from Hank's perspective. Likely impossible considering what you've said
Stram amf Sabol...two sages that are sorely missed.
The best part of Hank being miked was when he asked the ref how all of them could have missed that play and the ref said we were talking about you being on the field and Hank said NO!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!
+PanteraMark Stram got owned by that official!
where's that clip
"Coach pumped it in there boys." "They can't cover that in a million years. That's like stealing."
He was complaing about a penalty and the ref says . I thought ypu were talking about you being on the field. Ref turns his back with a big zmile and thats were you get that line. There is one lost classic film that he is coaching in pro bowl. So it was 67 or 70. After afc scores he is asking for somebody to play on kickoff team. He had his guys 6 7 270 bell a lb. 69 280 buchannan. 6 1 250 mlb lanier walking off. He asks them and one says . Are you crazy? Butkus is out there and he thinks its a real game. Another says . Why dont you go out there. Like Deacon Jones said. I dont care what they say everyone was scared of Butkus.
@@Stacie45”Mister Official! Mister Official”
Classic that he calls Dawson "Leonard"....
Love the fact they show Hank Stram's closet.
Excellent film!! Hank Stram was certainly a unique individual.
Hank Stram was calling money dead presidents 20 years before that became a common trope in hip hop songs
Hank Stram one of footballs great characters.
I would love to see the entire Super Bowl footage of Hank Stram! That would be pure entertainment.
the blazer and red vest are on point. the arrowhead on his chest. nice look. he said chinese fire drill... love that shit lol
sabols should get more credit, they made the NFL what it is today, showed you exciting plays in games we didnt even know happened,stram is a great communicator,could use words most people didnt know what they meant, but they understood his message
The most feelings any Super Bowl ever had.
How can you not watch that and smile? I've watched that supe video a million times but now that I know "The Mentor", gawddamn that's funny
I think that Stram was an amazing and wonderfull coach, a guy that enjoyed the game as no one. See him with the game plan rolled, his smilles and comments are so wonderfull. The few nfl films that I seen of him are pure gold. Regards from México thx.!!!
I was 9 years old and fell in love with the Chiefs and the NFL on that super bowl Sunday. And I'm from LA.
Hank Stram, Lenny Dawson, Otis Taylor, buck, Willie Lanier, Bobby Bell -- All Great KC Chiefs
Hank was a great coach.
Incredible stuff!!
rest in peace Sabol.
I kept thinking the Coach’s name was Ratz. Now I got a clear. Good story with Hanks son. That was cool.
Hank Stram was very underrated
Yes, he was. But not if you were paying attention. He won more AFL games than any coach. He should have been in the HOF years before he was in a wheelchair.
Every time I see this film I feel like it adds a few days to my life. To me, the greatest satisfaction to come out of the Super Bowl 4 victory over the Vikings was the not the win itself, but the loud and clear statement the Chiefs and the rest of the AFL made to the arrogant NFL people at that time: WE'RE BETTER...and you KNOW we're better! For years the AFL put up with the BS line by NFL people that they were superior and that the AFL was somehow inferior. I never had and still don't have any kind of a grudge against the Vikings. In fact, I had abundant respect and admiration for Bud Grant and the Vikings as a team. My only regret was that it wasn't the Packers with Lombardi coaching. That way, in the post-game press conference, Lombardi would have had to admit that the AFL and the Chiefs were better than his Packers and any other team in the NFL. 4-years before in Super Bowl 1, he openly disrespected an entire league by publicly stating that the AFL was an inferior league to the NFL. And the NFL's media partners (sycophants of Pete Rozelle) made sure that that statement was heard through the mainstream media. All that did was strengthen the resolve of everyone in the AFL to soon kick the $#!+ out of NFL teams and let their arrogant owners, executives, coaches, players and fans know the AFL had a better way to play the game. There is a big part of me that wishes the merger never happened, and that the AFL still existed. Thank God for Lamar Hunt and the American Football League. Long live the AFL!!!
Well said hockey John, well said!
Hockey John Us original AFLers gotta stick together, even if we hate each other’s guts. (Raider fan)
The Raiders O line had protected Lamonica beautifully all year, but the Chiefs put ferocious pressure on him all day on January 4, 1970. I was a huge Lamonica (and Raiders) fan, but I will admit the Chiefs deserved that victory.
graciemaemarie11 Despite my love for the Raiders at that time, I will admit that the Chiefs, with their rock-ribbed defense and ball control offense, were probably a better match to go against the Vikings.
bigjoe4110 still think the Raiders could have also beaten the Vikings
No doubt the Raiders could have beaten the Vikings, but the Raiders defense was not as good as the Chiefs, so I think it would have been a closer, higher scoring game.
That was a great achievement, especially with the first two on the road, and even the 3rd was in a NFL city (new Orleans).
+bigjoe4110 True -- and don't forget the Chiefs' HUGE goal line stand on December 28, 1969 vs. the New York Jets at old Shea Stadium: with Kansas City leading 6-3 in the fourth quarter, the Jets had a first and goal at the Chiefs' 1 yard line after Kansas City got flagged for pass interference in the end zone. The Chiefs stuffed two consecutive running plays by the Jets, and on third down Jets quarterback Joe Namath was forced to throw the ball into the ground due to VERY HEAVY PRESSURE by the Chiefs front line. That forced the Jets to settle for a game-tying field goal. In my opinion, that's where the Chiefs defense won the game for them, because on the ensuing possession, Kansas City quarterback Len Dawson hit Otis Taylor with a 61 yard pass play to get the ball down to the Jets' 19 yard line, and on the next play Dawson connected with Gloster Richardson for the game's only TD. The Chiefs defense made the 13-6 lead stand up.
In Otis Taylor's book-"The Need to Win"-he noted that when ever he was in Stram's office he would see cases of chocolates, candies etc piled up all around the room---these were "perks" from candy companies in the KC area who Stram did promotions for--Stram's "sweet tooth" ultimately caught up to him and he ultimately developed diabetes and eventually passed away from complications related to it
diabetes is more related to being overweight or hereditary factors than eating sweets. I'm sure the candies he snacked on did him no good but not necessarily the cause. in any event---what a character Stram was, and a great coach that was ahead of his time
@@loyaldude10 Chiapas Mexico has the highest incidence of diabetes in the world. An assessment of the causes showed that heredity had nothing to do with it. The reason was everyone drinks cane sugar-infused Coca-Cola. They have the highest rate of Coke consumption in the world. So yes excessive consumption of sweets CAN cause diabetes. The beta cells of the pancreas can't produce enough insulin to keep blood glucose levels in control.
Very nice piece here! Was it really a surprise when Hank Stram became a broadcaster once his coaching career was over? May he and Steve Sabol RIP
Note the name of the blitz George Allen has on the board (:43). Now, it is not Buddy Ryan's 46, but it is a 7 man pressure.
You don't see that any more since one of the eligible receivers will be uncovered.
And those Chiefs did indeed open a can on the Vikings in SB IV.
I love how his son chokes up about going to the SB. What a great memory.
Nothing beats the just keep matriculating the ball down the field boys. If he only did this stuff on camera, it would be crap, but the fact he always talked this way made it genuine and classic. What a wardrobe!
great observation - the players all said - "this was Hank" - the man was a flat out character as well as a HOF coach
I believe one of the guys carrying Hank after the game was Ernie Ladd, who played for the Chiefs before retiring because he was making more money in pro wrestling.
Yep,that's the big cat all right.played for chargers,chiefs & oilers.
Ladd retired because of a knee injury.
I remember they asked Bud Grant to wear a microphone and he refused , Hank asked for and got I believe $300 . You can hear him on the audio of S.B. 4 calling Len Dawson , Lenard ? Len Dawson said he only called him that when he was angry and played the microphone like a new toy ! " Come on boys , just keep reticulating the ball down the field " . I am a Vikings fan but I still enjoyed watching him ham it up !
That was fucking awesome.
You had to love Hank
I think the "He" in Stram's statement "He can't cover that (quick pass)" was Minnesota's smallish CB Earsell Macbee. who was eaten up by the Chiefs' much bigger Otis Taylor. One of NFL Films' greatest features here! RIP Steven Sabol and Henry Stram.
+King Bee Possibly, but maybe he was reffering to Ed Sharockman who was covering Frank Pitts, an even better matchup for the Chiefs as he was being covered by aging CB who wasn't even suppose to be in the line up ( Bryant injured)
He was a Monday Night Football radio announcer and was great at it.
As teams lined up he would always say looks like something right or looks like something left. Really like listening to him call the game.
Those Chiefs teams of the mid to late 1960s were revolutionary in regards to his off season fitness training regimen Hank made his players go through- he was one of the first coaches to emphasize weight training for his players.
I love Hank Stram great coach
Best dressed coach of all time......rip
Hanks vocabulary was awesome. He was a great coach and he had a sense of humor.
5:27 "Chinese fire drill "
LOL!!
How I've longed to see the inside of Hank Stram's closet.
The Chiefs and Raiders rivalry from about 1967 through 1971 or 1972 was the most intense rivalry ever, matched only perhaps by the Cowboys-Redskins rivalry from about 1966-1975.
Raiders Steelers of 1970s was more intense. Redskins Cowboys didnt start until about 1972
loyaldude10 The Raiders-Steelers was truly intense, but I would say the Raiders-Chiefs rivalry from 1967-1972 was about equal, each meeting was a war. I will agree the Cowboys-Redskins rivalry did not really heat up until the early 1970's.
That's dead on. There was almost always a bench clearing brawl when those two teams met. Truly authentic and intense rivalry like none others of that time.
As Dick Enberg said before a Raiders-Chiefs game in 1990 (a rainy one in november, at Arrowhead), it was a big, bitter rivalry, played to the limit and beyond. The intensity, the cheap shots, the brawls, and the great names made this a major one of professional football.
He mentioned the names, I will not. We know them well and I might botch the writing for some of them
What made Super Bowl IV even sweeter for the Chiefs, Stram and owner and AFL founder Lamar Hunt, was the Vikings stabbed him and the AFL in the back by reneging on their AFL offer and joining the NFL. Rozelle helped power that deal and had to eat shit after that.
Screw the NFL. The AFL RULED!!
How did rozelle have to eat shit? Getting the vikings was good for the nfl.
@@andrewhungocar5736 He had to eat shit when the Chiefs beat the Vikings. Just like he did when the Jets beat the Colts.
@@dietpepsivanilla3095 I guess - I dont think it was that horrible for him - i think whatever disappointment he realized the chiefs and jets wins were good for the merger. At as I recall from “America’s game” book
I think Hank would be proud of how Mahomes and company matriculate the ball down the field today
Steve Sabol said, "Coin of the realm." But Ed Sabol said it was initially, "Hey Smush, how 'bout an honorarium?" .....which is even funnier. I rooted for the Chiefs against the Eagles. Why? Fond childhood memories of the mentor. Hank Stram was as integral to the Kansas City franchise as the Hunt family.
Those were the days.
That's so hilarious that he pimped them for $500.
@thegorn68 . . . and back then $500 was big money, considering gasoline was selling for around 20 ~ 25 cents a gallon at that time. Lucky for NFL Films that they had that cash available, as the money earned back then was a pittance when compared to today.
@@bloqk16 In another interview with Sabol, he claims it was $1000.
Great Stuff!
If this doesn't make you love sports, you aren't human.
STEVE SABLE WAS AN NFL TREASURE
He understood the transition from the college game to the pro game. How could he not? He matriculated down the field.
65 past trap 65 toss power trap
"...65 Toss Power Trap..."
Although not an innovator, Stram ( like Lombardi ) led by force of personality. You can take a second or third rate team and motivate them to play first rate. I like Stram for one reason: he required the players to wear a shirt, tie and suit coat with KC logo. Today, players dress like hoodlums; back then, Stram, Landry and other discipline-driven coaches demanded professionalism off the field as well.
While I think one can be an individual in a uniformed environment in dress and demeanor, what strikes me about why Hank worked in that context is that while it may have been a uniform, it was a GOOD LOOKING uniform. Sometimes I loved working for restaurants that required me to be in all black, black tie and a black or red apron. One of the classiest looks ever and it MADE me walk taller. Uniformity, I believe, works best when it's not just about rules but about pride and Hank was WAY ahead of his time on that. More than professionalism, he brought class to the game.
BigBlack81 great comment, well put. Today's million dollar players dress like high school kids, listen gangster rap with earphones and due to no leadership from coaching and front office staff act like hoodlums and thugs. What truly stands out as unique is the era in which this was accomplished: the rampant promiscuity of the 60's and 70's. Stram mandated short hair, no mustaches, beards, soul patches - the seminal look of the counter culture - and was not only successful, but won a few championships within those stringent guidelines. Tom Landry ( of whom I am an acolyte ) not only allowed long hair, beards, all manner of craziness including a thriving drug culture within the Cowboys organization - never struck back against it. Stram did.
" Not an innovator " !!!?? Hank Stram WAS an innovator of the Highest Order and the finest type. When Hank Stram went into a restaurant, the waiters and waitresses would remove the cotton table cloths and replace them with paper because Coach Stram would literally design whole new offensive plays RIGHT THERE AT DINNER on those table cloths!
Many noted his fully racially integrated squads because the NFL was still predominantly white. Hank Stram did NOT care about skin color and did not need the civil rights movement to tell him how to butter his bread.
Even the style of his huddles...no one huddled like the AFL Chiefs...the play shifts before the snap of the ball Stram did it like NO one did. The formations were nothing short of bewildering- ask The Minnesota Vikings and Lombardi himself.
Lombardi played the chiefs in Superbowl One and everyone knew that the Packers never ever blitz. Against Kansas City they had to FLOOD the backfield to get to the quarterback cause KC had the world's first rolling pocket.
And the Master stroke: KC-styled Play-Action-Pass - OMG!
The triple-stack Defense: The linemen actually BLOCKED for the best defensive linebacking trio- I would put Willie Lanier WAYYY past Dick Butkus because Willie Had as much power AND HE could RUN! He could pass cover.
Stram picked these people and then gave them INNOVATIVE new defenses and Offenses to play with - yes, I think you were looking at someone else you thought was Stram with regard to your statement.
After they won the Superbowl, NO team was as heavily scouted as The chiefs because it took so much effort to play at their level of pure innovation - yu had to see it.
The NFL was just no fun compared to the AFL and Stram: 3-yards and a cloud of dust football from the 1920's...sheeesh!
***** Different coaching styles. Hank and Lombardi believed you should dress like a professional. And they actually cared about the well-being of their players. They weren't robots who merely executed plays.
It wasn't, Just Win Baby, it was win with class.
D'Mathmoth Tutinean Stram told a story that the night before the AFL championship in 1969 against the Raiders in Oakland he received a phone call from a waiter in San Francisco who told him Daryle Lamonica was having dinner with a member of the Raiders coaching staff and had been sketching plays on napkins and threw them out as they left---he asked if Stram would be interested in seeing them--Stram was worried it was a "setup" by the Raiders and had the Chiefs pastor (who travelled with the team) to meet the waiter (who gave the waiter some game tickets for his trouble)---when the pastor returned he showed Stram the napkins and he then realized that these sketches were legitimate and had the Chiefs defensive coaches let the players know about them just in case--this story was from Stram's book-"They're playing my Game" he wrote in the 1970's
Don't forget Wendell Hayes
The question I would have is....did Hank Stram act this way for all his games. Did he do this against the Packers in SB I ??
Trivia. Who is back up QB, in headset behind Stram on sideline?
1:44 - The Clue - Sam Spence
In "A Football Life" Ed Sabol states that he convinced Hank Stram to wear the mike without being paid an honorarium. I think this account is probably the real story. Hank may have been a loveable guy....but he wasn't a dope.
That's odd, because there is also footage of Sabol claiming to have paid $1000.
You have no idea what it was like to grow up a Vikings fan in the 1970s, when there were four TV channels and shite-talking Hank Stram miked for Super Bowl IV by NFL Films aired like once a month year-round. Even as a kid too young to recall the game itself, I watched it over and over. I understand the attraction -- it was a first-time, historic thing. It was a spectacle. But it was brutal. That game and NFL Films literally kept Mick Tingelhoff out of the HOF for decades. When Stram died all the old Vikings were glad and made no attempt to hide it. I don't endorse that, but I get it. For whatever reason, the Vikings were not ready to play in SBIV. That's to take nothing away from the Chiefs, who had some great, great players, especially on defense. But that group never won another playoff game after 1969. The next year the Vikings, sans Joe Kapp, smoked KC in the season opener. But the Chiefs had that one moment and made the most of it. I'll always believe the Vikings were the better team, but obviously KC was far better that day.
Also, my father, now well into his 80s, to this day, will only refer to Hank Stram as "that little toad." I've never told him that in 1990s, when Stram was calling MNF games on the radio with Jack Buck, that I enjoyed those broadcasts.
Interesting view point. I also grew up in the 70's , lived and breathed everything Vikings Vikings. What disillusion as a boy when they lost. SB IV , did keep Tinglehoff out of the HOF . He never made the probowl in the 70's either. In this, and all other SB's the Vikings lost the very same way. Sure, the other teams where great, but so where the Vikings. They looked so disorganized, about the only thing they did right in the SB's was stand in attention for the anthem.
Stram was very lucky to even get to Super Bowl IV--the old AFL allowed 4 teams to be in the playoffs that year (where previously only the East and West division champs made it)-the Chiefs finished 2nd to the Raiders that year in the West (Raiders 12-1-1/Chiefs 11-3)-Then in the AFL championship Len Dawson completed a pass to Otis Taylor from his endzone that was clearly out of bounds on replay but the officials said was caught-that catch allowed the Chiefs to go on to score a TD that led to their 17-7 win and a trip to the Super Bowl. I completely agree the Vikings had very little time to prepare to play a team in an atmosphere (Super Bowl hype etc) that the Chiefs had been to before (Super Bowl I). After being able to review the films and then have almost 9 months to prepare-they thoroughly beat the Chiefs in the following season opener 27-10-and I have always believed the score would have been even far worse if Joe Kapp had signed in the offseason and been the Vikings starting QB instead of leaving for Boston (Gary Cuazzo was the Vikings QB that day and didn't provide the same "spark" on offense that Kapp used to)
david graham All things aligned for the Chiefs that year, and their meteorite for the post season was Otis Taylor. He made critical, if not hallmark plays in each game. However....!! That long pass form the end zone was clearly out of bounds. I've seen it a bunch of times , up close and in slow motion. He bobbled it secured it out of bound first and second step out ! He're the irony though. There where TWO officials right there. One about 10 yards behind him and another even closer in front. The official behind signals incomplete......but then NFL Films cuts away and onto the next plays. ...........WTF !! Personally I think it's a very sad thing that Kapp didn't get another crack at the Chiefs while with the Vikings as he did with the Colts in 69', after losing in the playoff sin 68.A Kapp led Vikings team in 70 and 71 would have produced extraordinary results.
I agree with your observations. After that SB IV film came out I couldn't stand Stram and his empty cotton candy holder!!!! I enjoyed him as a TV analyst. Never really heard him on radio although I understand lots of folks turned the volume off their TVs and listened to the radio broadcast with Stram and Buck.
GET OVER IT DAVID!!! The Chiefs won Super Bowl 4, 23-7. The AFL team ruled/dominated/waxed the NFL team and all the pro-NFL people saw that there actually WAS parity, that the AFL teams were just as good as the NFL teams and in some cases, were better. If you can't get past this, I would suggest some counseling.
What are you talking about---27-10 was the game in Minnesota-September 1970 (a game the Viking dominated from start to finish)--yea sure KC won the AFL championship 17-7 only because of that blown call on the pass (that was clearly out of bounds) between Dawson/Taylor and the fact Lamonica was injured--the Chiefs went on to do nothing in the 1970's (including losing to Miami at home in a playoff game that they should have won if Stenerud hadn't "choked" on the last play of regulation)--
Cry baby, whine a little more.
what piece of music used at 4:50 mark?
Ed Budde RIP.
They won 17-7, not 10-7...that call didn't change the result. Get over it. The Chiefs were the winningest team in the history of the AFL.
8 thumbs down 👎, must be Vikes fans.
Which team got a lot of balls have we got any
What is the music at 1:46?
Back when I was a kid I disliked Stram because 1) he ran his mouth in that Super Bowl IV highlight film and 2) he always appeared to be carry around a cotton candy paper cone during games!! 😁
But I later found him to be an awesome broadcaster!
Nottoway boys that's what we came here to do
“Bad, very bad” sounded more like Rodney Dangerfield.
''65 toss power trap''... where was the toss? I didn't see any toss. and i'm not matriculating either.
A trap play involves a fake. A defensive player is unblocked initially and drawn across the line of scrimmage, before being blasted. Dawson faked a pitch out and came back inside to Garrett.
The weird thing about 65 Toss Power Trap is that Len Dawson didn’t even run it right. He’s suppose to fake the toss sweep then hand inside. It didn’t matter. That trap was so wide open
Hank called it. It would pop wide open
Just keep matriculating the ball down the field boys!.....lol 😂
What a colorful coach! If the Chiefs get to the Superbowl they have to run 65 toss power trap...lol
Hank Stram expected his players to conduct themselves professionally both on and off the field--to instill discipline he arranged that on game day all the players game to the stadium in blazers with the Chiefs emblem on it
Stram was Saints coach in 1976 and 1977 , his ability was gone by then. He was an atrocious coach couldn't even beat Tampa Bay . Was a horrible embarrassment as a Saints fan.
Keep matriculating down the field boys.
If it hadn't been for a blown call in the AFL championship game (a pass from Dawson to Taylor that was clearly out of bounds on replay-even Willie Lanier admitted it was missed) the Chiefs wouldn't have been in SB4. And if you fast forward to September 1970 the Vikings had absolutely no trouble with the Chiefs at home 27-10--the Vikings just had a bad game--it wasn't anything to do with the Chiefs being the better team---in fact over the same time period the Oakland Raiders were the better team
david graham your history is all wrong. 1. the pass where Taylor was out of bounds had nothing to do with the outcome of the game. Chiefs were already up 17 to 7. And 2. Raiders were not as good at all during the same time. Chiefs were the greatest AFL team in the conference and it wasn't even close. Won more games than any other team. and 3. Chiefs were hands down better than the Vikings. Vikings got lucky in that first game of the 1970 season because they were at home. On a mutual field, Chiefs were hands down better and they proved it
what does home field have to do with it?? a good team can win on the road as well as at home----Bud Grant finally had a better handle on who his team was playing and prepared accordingly--and the result was a dominating 27-10 win (and it would have been far worse if Joe Kapp had been QB instead of Gary Cuozzo)--and the Raiders sure didn't have any problems with the Chiefs at home in 1970 (a game that meant the division title)-20-6
No way--The Chiefs were not up 17-7 at the time of Taylor's out of bound catch--it was 7-7-the Chiefs went down the field after that catch---and again there was another call for interference (that wasn't) against the Raiders that moved the Chiefs to the Raider goal line (Holmes took it in to make the score 14-7)
david graham What is your point? Do you want to rewrite history? Well you can't! That was a great Chiefs team and it doesn't matter if the Vikings beat them the following year! The Chiefs won the game that mattered ; the last AFL vs NFL game before the merger! You can whine about referees' calls , but you can't change history!
Well David, I've read just about enough of your derogatory BS posts about the 1969 Chiefs who went on to beat your Vikings in Super Bowl 4, and who in your estimation were unqualified even to be in the playoffs. My advice to you: GET OVER IT! And, as a rebuttal, I'll submit that you are incorrect about what would've happened in that Championship game at Oakland. Whether or not Taylor caught that ball out of bounds, the Chiefs would've found a way to beat the Raiders in that game, regardless of the circumstances. They were that good of a team. Secondly, they soundly defeated your overrated Vikings 23-7 in Super Bowl 4, a game that actually counted for something. Thirdly, the curious circumstances surrounding the actual scheduling of that rematch game in September of 1970 at Met Stadium in Minneapolis was a total BS move by the NFL. That game should have been scheduled for sometime in mid-season instead of it being the very first game to start the season! THAT scheduling affectation was done by the NFL A-holes who couldn't stand the fact that an AFL team embarrassed their SUPPOSEDLY superior NFL team in Super Bowl 4. So Rozelle and his cronies (along with most of the NFL owners) decided that the Vikings should get their 1st home game the very next season against the Chiefs, the team that blew them away that January. That way they (the Vikings) would be jacked up to play and have their best chance at avenging the Super Bowl loss for themselves and...the NFL. The Vikings won that game 27-10 but it wasn't a "domination from the start" as you wrote in an earlier post. Dawson hit Taylor for an 80-something yard TD bomb early in the game and the contest was close up to halftime. Go on line and check the box score. 2nd half turnovers led to the Vikings win, NOT Viking domination. The Chiefs gifted that game to the Vikings and the old guard NFL A-holes got a smidgen of satisfaction, but they still knew the Chiefs were the better team. And by the way, had the Vikings still had Kapp as their QB...it would've been a re-run of Super Bowl 4. He'd have been battered by the Chiefs defense again! Cuozzo was a much better QB than Kapp, who couldn't run worth a damn and threw knuckle ball passes.
2:44 terrible tackling by Minnesota. This and the dropped kickoff return may have caused Minnesota to lose their best chance at winning a super bowl in 57 years.
Worst hairpiece in NFL history. Should be in the Hall of Fame. Nearly gets knocked off at 3:49.
One of the few things he wasn't really good at: hairpieces
The music is overbearing.