@@christianmendozatapia295 Why would I be lying dumb dumb my dad was a Jets fan and I still have the photo of me sitting on his lap watching Super Bowl 3 don’t remember it but I like watching this because of it. Could’ve just kept that to yourself! 🤫
@@xxxxbigrich5752 hey. . . The important thing is that YOU BELIEVE your story. I wasnt there. Maybe you did, maybe you didnt. But its weird, tho. . . You were sitting on your dads lap? Lets say you were 9 years old (WHICH WOULD BE REALLY WEIRD BECAUSE YOUR ON HIS LAP AT 9 😳😳😳).... Super bowl 3 was 1969, how much could you have POSSIBLY REMEMBERED about the afl at 9???
START WATCHING OLD NFL FILMS WITH TVE VOICE OF JOHN FACENDA!! HE WAS THE VOICE OF NFL FILMS. SOME SAY THE VOICE IF GOD!! I LOVED NFL FILMS OF THE 60’s & 70’s!!
Yes ... I do to. But our shytie azz mayor Lanier & his bufu buddy Drayton McClain skrewed the city and the fans royally the Meally mouthed media maggots helped them sale their lies too. Too hell with the whole bunch
@Josef Fort some did some were disappointed with the teams performance. But I bet those fans that you refer to would pick the oilers over the trash ass McNair Texans
@Josef Fort they had just spit the bit to the Bills. Of course the fans were pissed. Bud Adams didn't come out of the bathroom at Bills stadium for almost 3mos after the game was over. And truth be told the media and the Mayor used a smear campaign to trash everything about Bud Adams. The media is an effective tool. 90% of the population believes everything they see on TV.
The Chiefs are back on top, the Patriots are tied for the most super bowl wins, the Broncos and Raiders have 3 rings a piece, and the Dolphins are the only team to have an undefeated season in the super bowl era. The AFL's legacy keeps living on!
@@crowtservo Come a week from Sunday 13/Feb/2022 the Bengals will be the seventh AFL team to win the Lombardi Trophy ironically named at Lamar Hunt’s request for the late Packers and Redskins coach. Oh the irony.
True, but the NFL (NFC) completely dominated the 80s and most of the 90s. Even in the 70s, the AFC won a lot of Super Bowls, but a lot of those were by old NFL teams (Colts, Steelers).
Living in the NFC area I grew up a Fan of NFC football but after watching this series I became a fan of the AFC just because their open opportunities to all races of people. Love it
I really appreciate enjoyed seeing the Jets and Giants go back to the older style helmets in 97 or 98. I agree with the Houston helmets. The Rams went back to their older style helmets last year. Maybe this year the uniforms will get lined out.
@Russ Gallagher I agree have the titans and Texans owners sit down and work out a plan because I'm a native to Houston we want to see that old Sky blue white and red again and that oil derick
I was so grateful for this whole documentary being on UA-cam 5 years ago when I was bed-ridden recovering from a very painful knee replacement surgery. Really helped me get through that tough and frustrating time when I couldnt even sleep some nights because of the pain. Thanks!
@@wvu05 that was great.i remember in the last real super bowl betweem the leagues, the Chiefs wore that famous 'AFL. 10' patch....and we're the last torch bearer for our league....
I recall seeing this originally air on Showtime years back with my dad! Thanks for uploading this great documentary, too bad I haven't seen a complete DVD set of this piece of sports history! 🌎🇺🇸😎
This is an amazing documentary on the early days of the burgeoning AFL. It has all the players, coaches, teams and sharks & showmen that created the fun and excitement of the new league
Actually it is part of the lessor 'Sanitized' NFL version of AFL history. They will not tell you how and why the NFL put a second Pro Football team in Dallas even when after the failure of Pro Football there in '52, or how Halas and the other owners kept the original AFL owners away from the NFL when those owners just wanted a NFL franchise But instead gave a couple of others the opportunity (the NFL got a old of Minnesota group and stole them from AFL) Read "The Ten Gallon War" for a more honest beginning.
I became a fan of the Denver Broncos in 1965 at the ripe old age of 8 years. And will be a fan of Lamar Hunt for starting the AFL. forever. He was the man with the plan. (of coarse it was years later when i knew of him and what he did.) THANK YOU Mr. HUNT
Loved the AFL as a kid. Always liked watching the AFL games better than the NFL games back then. The Buffalo Bills were and still are my team. The 1963-66 Bills were very good football teams...particularly the 1964-65 AFL Championship teams. They were the first AFL team that really resembled a traditional NFL team with their great power running game featuring RB Cookie Gilchrist and their excellent defense. That Bills defense still holds the pro football record for most consecutive games without allowing a rushing TD. I'll never forget that hit by Bills LB Mike Stratton on San Diego Chargers RB Keith Lincoln in the 64 AFL Championship Game that knocked Lincoln out of the game. The Bills ended up winning that game 20-7 and then beat the Chargers again in the 65 AFL Championship...this time a 23-0 shutout in San Diego. They also came within one game of facing Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I but lost the 66 AFL Championship to the Kansas City Chiefs. That's one game I look back on and don't really mind that the Bills lost because they likely would've lost to the Packers anyway in the Super Bowl. The 66 AFL Championship ended up being the last Bills home playoff game until they played the Houston Oilers in the 1988 AFC Divisional Playoff game
@@joshct9426 I watched it when it first aired in 2009. It is the greatest sports documentary ever. I have watched it several times on You Tube. The AFL came into existence when the 60's began. My father worked as a ticket seller for the N.Y. Titans in their first season and continued working for them until 1990. I attended many games in the Polo Grounds and Shea Stadium. Sonny Werblin and Joe Namath helped save the Jets franchise. The 60's was a great era and I am glad to have grown up during that time!
Barron Hilton always said he never chose the name “Chargers” as a means to promote Carte Blanche (his credit card business); he chose the name because he always liked the bugle call followed by crowd yelling “Charge!” during USC games at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
old chargers' logos had a horse and lightning bolts......I've always believed the name refers to a jousting horse, which is called.....a charger.....but somehow the lightning bolt stayed, and the horse went away
Isn't that kind of like the first owner and founder of the Chicago Blackhawks Major Frederic McLaughlin supposedly naming the team after his restaurant in Chicago called the Black Hawk?
Never get tired of watching this documentary - all five episodes! Every time I watch Episode One, I have to laugh at 44:19 when George Blanda says "we threw two or three interceptions in the first half". George, we all loved watching you play, but we all know who threw those interceptions.
Jack Tate The ghost of Pete Rozelle. Davis didn’t like playing by the NFL’s rules, and there was a huge lawsuit over the Raiders relocating to Los Angeles in the early 1980’s. That was the territory of the LA Rams. Rozelle had his work cut out for him just trying to manage the owners. It was like herding cats. You should read about the protracted negotiations among the owners over the new alignment when the two leagues merged. To balance the two new “Conferences” meant three NFL teams had to switch Conferences to the AFL/AFC.
Before this season, 1962 was the last time the Chiefs (Texans) and Titans (Oilers) squared off for any kind of championship. One of them will punch their ticket to the Super Bowl next week.
these films are the coolest most fun football films to watch ......... the story of the AFL are so very cool........ " u gotta get it done ....u gotta get it done ....once more ya gotta get it done "
8:33 It’s strange that Paul Brown would say that the players shouldn’t pay attention to the AFL and that it would fail because the Browns were originally an AAFC team and they were competitors to the NFL in the late 40’s.
@@rockvilleraven The merger had already been agreed to in 1966. That's the ONLY reason Paul Brown created the Bengals, otherwise the Bengals would have never existed at all. He didn't care about the city of Cincinnati or the AFL, he just wanted back in the NFL and had a grudge against Art Modell. Brown copied the Browns from the initials of the team C.B. to the orange of the unis.
Isn't that amazing that the ref didn't do anything? I understand it was a massive effort to get the fans off the field from the play before, as they thought the game was over. Actually, being Boston, I'd have to say that fans stormed the field KNOWING that maybe a second or two was left on the clock, and as such, there was one more offensive play for the Texans, from the Patriots one yard line, but figured simply that 'strength in numbers' would prevail, and the refs would consider the task of trying to clear the field to 'tall', and call the game. Well, as one can see, before the snapped the ball on the last play, the left side of the end zone is covered by fans, and of course the one clown, who by the way, came on the field needless to say before, but never left. He instead, stayed on the field (ten yard line), and even joined the refs who were huddled up discussing the situation. A friggin' cop had to come and escort him to the back of the end zone. Evidently the cop didn't keep a hold on him, as the SAME fan, is the one who runs back out in the middle of the defense, and deflects the pass attempt. If it's any consolation to the Texans, you can see that the ball had no chance of being caught by the Texan receiver, as the ball was thrown way behind him. Without the fan there, the ball hits the ground and the game is over-same result.
I loved the old AFL. I followed them when I first became interested in football back in 1966 - because the uniforms were so colorful and the play was more exciting with pass-oriented offenses, trick plays, etc...
I was 13 and growing up in suburban Dallas. My Dad took me to all the Texans games. He said after the NFL told Lamar Hunt to "go to the devil," that we were going to support the Texans all the way. He wouldn't even let me watch the Cowboys on TV or listen on the radio. Of course, he changed his allegiance to the Cowboys when Hunt moved the Texans to Kansas City.
Kenneth Hoffman Yes, those three corner hats that were so common in the late 18th Century. The re-enactors in Foxborough still wear them. I remember seeing some being sold in 1975-76, during the Bicentennial.
Lol lol - looked awkward on their helmets - like the logos they have now.They are bucking a undefeated season again this season as in 2007,until they lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl - so they still remember that and are not impressed by their current success.Doesn't mean too much. THEY WANT RING #7.
Why no special DVD HD box set available for the series???...toss in a informative booklet and maybe a bonus DVD with interviews with many of former AFL greats...I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
41:26 I just noticed this, but in the picture of the New York Titans' coaching staff, one of them was George Sauer, Sr. (in the middle of the back row, standing) whose son would later be playing for the Jets.
The best part of watching Full Color Football is to read the genuine comments by the fans. I love the honesty and devotion to the way football was played in the past. Today, I watch the games but I'm not a fan any longer.
I remember those days and the main difference between the leagues was that in the AFL there was a lot more passing! This made the games more entertaining and a lot more fun to watch! At least that is how I remember it.
Are you lying right now? It seems easy to say this in hindsight. Are you sure you're not just repeating what this doc said...... like a Mandela effect. Are you sure you even remember.
Aside from the cheesy soundalike pop songs throughout this documentary, this is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Would love to own this on Blu-ray.
Thanks mr.hunt,the afl was the best thing to happen to the NFL.it was a more pass happy league.lamonica,fouts & Lenny oh yeah that kid from Pennsylvania named Namath was fun too.
The crazy thing is that the NFL didn't realize, apparently, that there was a huge demand for pro football that was being unmet in the early 1960s. The stupidity of not expanding until forced to do so is sort of mind boggling. You had two other networks that wanted pro football. Why wouldn't they have realized that adding teams would simply expand the pie for everyone. It always struck me as stupid. All the AFL owners really wanted were NFL franchises. They had no real desire to compete with the NFL, as they proved when they merged.
He got revenge...1/11/1970 . the last real super bowl between the 2 leagues...Chiefs 23 betrayers 7....and the back stabbing betrayers lost 3 more...in fact, the Minnesota BETRAYERS. never scored a single point in the first half in all their super bowl games ( loses) ...BETRAYERS got theirs.....RIP Lamar hunt
Im a Bills fan and I wouldve liked to see the 1964 AFL Champion Bills vs. the 1964 NFL Champion Cleveland Browns. Or the 1963 AFL Champion San Diego Chargers vs the 1963 NFL Champion Chicago Bears. I've heard the Chargers challenged the Bears to a game but the Bears declined. They knew they'd get blown out
Any of you oldtime Wrestling fans see the great Wahoo McDaniels at around the 13:53 to 13:57 mark. There's a closeup of that big beautiful mug. I heard the Nature Boy say that Wahoo was released by the NY Jets because they couldn't afford to pay 2 Superstars 'cuz some cat Joe Willie was coming in from Alabama. Maybe someone heard of him.😏
Thanks mr.hunt,the afl was the best thing to happen to the NFL.it was a more pass happy league.lamonica,fouts & Lenny oh yeah that kid from Pennsylvania named Namath was fun too.
I'd like to see a good documentary about the AAFC; several teams still playing came from that league, SFran and Baltimore (Cleveland). The original AAFC Colts also joined the NFL, but only lasted one season. The original Buffalo Bills played in the AAFC as well.
I have mixed feelings about Ralph. He was an absentee owner most of the time, someone who kept season tickets for the Detroit Lions. He threatened multiple times to move the team out of Buffalo. He really only reached beloved status during the Bills' Super Bowl run.
Wilson was a horrible owner. He was much more interested in the bottom line than he was in winning. The Pegula's aren't the greatest owners but they're definitely more committed to winning than Wilson was. I was actually hoping Donald Trump was the winning bidder to buy the team. Donald Trump would not tolerate losing the way Ralph Wilson did
The Super Bowl competition now stands even at AFC-AFL 29 and the NFC-NFL 29. The AFC leads the NFC 30-16-8 in interconference regular season play winning 52% of the games.
This documentary probably got it's title ("Full Color Football") from the fact that when TV coverage of the American Football League moved to NBC in 1965, the network televised nearly all of it's 1965 AFL schedule in color. By contrast, only one regular-season NFL game on CBS that year (the Thanksgiving game in Detroit) and that year's playoff games were shown in color. It wouldn't be until 1966 that most of CBS's NFL games were seen in color. Additionally, the NFL television "blackout" rules in the early 1960's stipulated that if an NFL team was playing at home, not only was that game blacked-out from local TV in the city the game was being played in, but no NFL game could be televised in that city that week. These facts cannot be overlooked; in NFL cities during the early 1960's, the AFL game was the only pro football game on television on seven of the fourteen Sundays of the regular season.
The NFL probably wishes they had handled that whole era differently. It was old guard thinking, at a time when they could have been using out of the box approaches. Old NFL 1950’s voice: “Expand our league with the injection of huge new money, and add the new cities of Houston, Denver, Buffalo, Boston, Dallas, Twin Cities to the NFL? Second teams in NY and LA? No way… !!… Wait, what, they are forming their OWN league?! Quick, about face, we have to put our own teams in Dallas and the Twin Cities so that that Minnesota team has to go to Oakland!!! Total reactionary thinking and a gross misjudgment of the number of talented players and coaches that were available.
I still can’t get over how they played with the goal posts (2 of them!) sitting in the middle of the field! How they didnt affect game play is baffling.
The Cowboys were absolutely atrocious in the early 60's. Too bad owner Lamar Hunt couldn't get Cowboy GM Tex Schramm to agree to an exibition match in the Cotton Bowl. The Texans would have trounced the Cowboys.
The Dallas Cowboys were the first expansion team in NFL. They did not win a game in their maiden season, going 0-11-1. From 1960-64, they had five consecutive losing seasons. The Dallas Texans had become a contending team and won the AFL Championship in 1962. The Cowboys became the team of the city and subsequently were drawing fans. The Texans lost money and moved to Kansas City and became the Chiefs.
The NFL placed a team in Dallas in 1948. They were the Texans. They also went without a win but the owner wasn't solvent and the team for the most part became the Baltimore Colts. This info makes the Colts Cowboys Superbowl now takes on more nostalgia because it also did not have a AFL team in it. There is a bunch of great history associated with this leagues history. But I am from Houston and am partial.
Paul Brown, as great an innovator and coach as he was, released or traded more good football players than one could imagine. He might have drafted or signed more good players than he could keep, but often the castoffs were better than the players he kept.
That's actually Fred Cusick, who was the legendary local TV play-by-play guy for the Boston Bruins. Any classic Bruins highlights from the 70s and 80s on YT and you'll probably hear him.
The afl, w passing, aggressive recruiting in black colleges, and not taking the fans for granted, brought pro football into the 21st century. The afl didn't conform to the NFL, it improved it.
Good Lord Paul Brown was a jerk. Telling Hank Stram that Len Dawson couldnt play. Proved him wrong. Then later undermining Bill Walsh. Then Walsh defeated Brown's Bengals in 2 Super Bowls. Proved him wrong. Wow.😊
3:36 Footage of Jack Kemp playing for the Chargers (against the Broncos, it looks like). It's easy to forget that he started out with the Chargers before the Bills claimed him off waivers after the 1962 season.
Mr. Hunt, thank you. Thank you so much for everything.
65 toss power trap!!!!!!
HarbingerOfBattle YES YES YES!!!!!! and now 60 years later your reward: SBLIV CHAMPS
History of Pro Football Mount Rushmore: George Halas, Pete Rozelle, Paul Brown, & Lamar Hunt
@@mikeyoungblood1642 Remove Rozelle and add Al Davis.
I've watch this several times. This is why I'm still to this day a Jets fan. I love the AFL days
Are you lying? Seems easy to say this in hindsight
@@christianmendozatapia295 Why would I be lying dumb dumb my dad was a Jets fan and I still have the photo of me sitting on his lap watching Super Bowl 3 don’t remember it but I like watching this because of it. Could’ve just kept that to yourself! 🤫
@@xxxxbigrich5752 hey. . . The important thing is that YOU BELIEVE your story.
I wasnt there. Maybe you did, maybe you didnt.
But its weird, tho. . . You were sitting on your dads lap? Lets say you were 9 years old (WHICH WOULD BE REALLY WEIRD BECAUSE YOUR ON HIS LAP AT 9 😳😳😳)....
Super bowl 3 was 1969, how much could you have POSSIBLY REMEMBERED about the afl at 9???
@@xxxxbigrich5752 you sure youre not. . . . . Lying, sir? Maybe you. . . . Exaggerated a little, huh?
Its okay if you did. . . 🤥🤥🤥
When you use ... you need a space befores you uses da dotz ...@@christianmendozatapia295
The greatest sports documentary ever
19:54
As a American football fan in the UK I love the history and the greatest sport ever created, I started watching in 1985, thanks
NFL Films is the league's secret weapon in terms of presenting the history of the game. Enjoy.
START WATCHING OLD NFL FILMS WITH TVE VOICE OF JOHN FACENDA!! HE WAS THE VOICE OF NFL FILMS. SOME SAY THE VOICE IF GOD!! I LOVED NFL FILMS OF THE 60’s & 70’s!!
@@MIKIEEYEZ1975 Facenda left us too soon!😢
Love this. As a kid, my Dad liked to watch the AFL. He thought it was much more exciting than the NFL.
And he wasn't wrong
Are you lying? It seems trendy to say stuff in hindsight. So I dont believe you
im 70 i totally remember the oilers chiefs game.it was great
You shud half a comma after "hindsight" and knot a periododo@@christianmendozatapia295
I keep re-watching this series every preseason, love it! I wish the Oilers had stayed in Houston though.
Yes ... I do to. But our shytie azz mayor Lanier & his bufu buddy Drayton McClain skrewed the city and the fans royally the Meally mouthed media maggots helped them sale their lies too. Too hell with the whole bunch
@Josef Fort some did some were disappointed with the teams performance. But I bet those fans that you refer to would pick the oilers over the trash ass McNair Texans
@Josef Fort they had just spit the bit to the Bills. Of course the fans were pissed. Bud Adams didn't come out of the bathroom at Bills stadium for almost 3mos after the game was over. And truth be told the media and the Mayor used a smear campaign to trash everything about Bud Adams. The media is an effective tool. 90% of the population believes everything they see on TV.
Instablaster.
Still root for them through the titans
this was a great documentary...i started to watch football in the late sixties and i remember the AFL well...thanks for uploading this.
Are you lying? Seems easy to say this in hindsight
The Chiefs are back on top, the Patriots are tied for the most super bowl wins, the Broncos and Raiders have 3 rings a piece, and the Dolphins are the only team to have an undefeated season in the super bowl era.
The AFL's legacy keeps living on!
Former AFL teams have won five out of six of the most recent Super Bowls.
@@crowtservo Come a week from Sunday 13/Feb/2022 the Bengals will be the seventh AFL team to win the Lombardi Trophy ironically named at Lamar Hunt’s request for the late Packers and Redskins coach. Oh the irony.
True, but the NFL (NFC) completely dominated the 80s and most of the 90s. Even in the 70s, the AFC won a lot of Super Bowls, but a lot of those were by old NFL teams (Colts, Steelers).
@@prestonlindbeck1197 Uh, no.
This is true for back then. But now, they are a permanent part of the AFC landscape.
I love this documentary; the way football was supposed to be played.
Living in the NFC area I grew up a Fan of NFC football but after watching this series I became a fan of the AFC just because their open opportunities to all races of people. Love it
Fantastic documentary! I still think the greatest helmets in AFL/NFL history are the original Oilers blue helmet and the “Pat Patriot” logo.
I really appreciate enjoyed seeing the Jets and Giants go back to the older style helmets in 97 or 98. I agree with the Houston helmets. The Rams went back to their older style helmets last year. Maybe this year the uniforms will get lined out.
The current Buffalo Bills helmet is the best ever.
Lmao
@Russ Gallagher I agree have the titans and Texans owners sit down and work out a plan because I'm a native to Houston we want to see that old Sky blue white and red again and that oil derick
I liked the chargers powder blue also,that's the sandiego chargers &Oakland raiders.allways will be.
I was so grateful for this whole documentary being on UA-cam 5 years ago when I was bed-ridden recovering from a very painful knee replacement surgery. Really helped me get through that tough and frustrating time when I couldnt even sleep some nights because of the pain. Thanks!
i was in the same kind of pain and i watched pornos and they really helped a lot. just a tip for a football fan!
I'd like to see all the original AFL teams wear the AFL logo on their uniforms like the KC Chiefs do!
I would like to see all ten former AFL teams wear it.
Remember the American Football League.
I love that all the Raiders Super Bowl rings have the AFL logo on them and not the NFL.
@@chrisbacos When it was a game?
@@wvu05 that was great.i remember in the last real super bowl betweem the leagues, the Chiefs wore that famous 'AFL. 10' patch....and we're the last torch bearer for our league....
The Best Football Docu-Series Ever!!!!
I’ve watched this so many times and it gets better every time. #raiders
Peter Coyote reading a well-written script + archival footage & interviews = outstanding documentary film.
I recall seeing this originally air on Showtime years back with my dad! Thanks for uploading this great documentary, too bad I haven't seen a complete DVD set of this piece of sports history! 🌎🇺🇸😎
This is a true entrepreneur story in many ways. It also shows you no one took the easy road they made sacrifices.
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This is an amazing documentary on the early days of the burgeoning AFL. It has all the players, coaches, teams and sharks & showmen that created the fun and excitement of the new league
Actually it is part of the lessor 'Sanitized' NFL version of AFL history. They will not tell you how and why the NFL put a second Pro Football team in Dallas even when after the failure of Pro Football there in '52, or how Halas and the other owners kept the original AFL owners away from the NFL when those owners just wanted a NFL franchise But instead gave a couple of others the opportunity (the NFL got a old of Minnesota group and stole them from AFL) Read "The Ten Gallon War" for a more honest beginning.
I became a fan of the Denver Broncos in 1965 at the ripe old age of 8 years. And will be a fan of Lamar Hunt for starting the AFL. forever. He was the man with the plan. (of coarse it was years later when i knew of him and what he did.) THANK YOU Mr. HUNT
This should be on DVD and Blu ray
Loved the AFL as a kid. Always liked watching the AFL games better than the NFL games back then. The Buffalo Bills were and still are my team. The 1963-66 Bills were very good football teams...particularly the 1964-65 AFL Championship teams. They were the first AFL team that really resembled a traditional NFL team with their great power running game featuring RB Cookie Gilchrist and their excellent defense. That Bills defense still holds the pro football record for most consecutive games without allowing a rushing TD. I'll never forget that hit by Bills LB Mike Stratton on San Diego Chargers RB Keith Lincoln in the 64 AFL Championship Game that knocked Lincoln out of the game. The Bills ended up winning that game 20-7 and then beat the Chargers again in the 65 AFL Championship...this time a 23-0 shutout in San Diego. They also came within one game of facing Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I but lost the 66 AFL Championship to the Kansas City Chiefs. That's one game I look back on and don't really mind that the Bills lost because they likely would've lost to the Packers anyway in the Super Bowl. The 66 AFL Championship ended up being the last Bills home playoff game until they played the Houston Oilers in the 1988 AFC Divisional Playoff game
Did you go to the Rock pile? I did!
Possibly the best sports DOC ever. Anyone else think so? 1 day after the super bowl and I'm watching old AFL stuff :)
This documentary is far more entertaining than that super bowl ever could be.
Definitely the Best Sports Documentary ever!
@@seveglider8406 Hey Steve. Did you watch every episode? Studying the AFL and old Pro Football is fascinating
@@joshct9426 I watched it when it first aired in 2009. It is the greatest sports documentary ever. I have watched it several times on You Tube. The AFL came into existence when the 60's began. My father worked as a ticket seller for the N.Y. Titans in their first season and continued working for them until 1990. I attended many games in the Polo Grounds and Shea Stadium. Sonny Werblin and Joe Namath helped save the Jets franchise. The 60's was a great era and I am glad to have grown up during that time!
I agree…and I lived through the initial years of the AFL. Always fun.
this was great to see. I learned all about the AFL today.
1701patrick yippee
I was growing up when the AFL got started and loved watching the teams. They were more wide open and entertaining.
Beautifully narrated. Top notch
Barron Hilton always said he never chose the name “Chargers” as a means to promote Carte Blanche (his credit card business); he chose the name because he always liked the bugle call followed by crowd yelling “Charge!” during USC games at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
old chargers' logos had a horse and lightning bolts......I've always believed the name refers to a jousting horse, which is called.....a charger.....but somehow the lightning bolt stayed, and the horse went away
Isn't that kind of like the first owner and founder of the Chicago Blackhawks Major Frederic McLaughlin supposedly naming the team after his restaurant in Chicago called the Black Hawk?
Yes the 10,000 fans that showed up for the games
Seen this awhile back. Its badass.
Never get tired of watching this documentary - all five episodes! Every time I watch Episode One, I have to laugh at 44:19 when George Blanda says "we threw two or three interceptions in the first half". George, we all loved watching you play, but we all know who threw those interceptions.
Al Davis looks so young here, very smart man with nothing but success in his future. He is an icon.
And you are??
@Sub if you want Hillary In prison It makes you an orange traitor.
Jack Tate The ghost of Pete Rozelle. Davis didn’t like playing by the NFL’s rules, and there was a huge lawsuit over the Raiders relocating to Los Angeles in the early 1980’s. That was the territory of the LA Rams. Rozelle had his work cut out for him just trying to manage the owners. It was like herding cats. You should read about the protracted negotiations among the owners over the new alignment when the two leagues merged. To balance the two new “Conferences” meant three NFL teams had to switch Conferences to the AFL/AFC.
I'd like to see some full length AFL broadcasts.
Robert Slydell That would be terrific !
Most of those were "wiped", as in erased.
The 1962 AFL Championship Game is one of the games that is on UA-cam in full. You can watch it at ua-cam.com/video/UWrRfL2YYNQ/v-deo.html
I just saw the 1964 and 1965 championships game in its entirety! The 65game had announcers.
Never forget the New England Patriots' "Pat Patriot" logo!!!
This is great...Cant believe that there aren't more views.
Thank UA-cam I didn’t have Showtime then so I missed it. This is a great documentary.
Before this season, 1962 was the last time the Chiefs (Texans) and Titans (Oilers) squared off for any kind of championship. One of them will punch their ticket to the Super Bowl next week.
YES.. HE WAS A GREAT MAN.. AS WAS LAMAR HUNT!!
these films are the coolest most fun football films to watch ......... the story of the AFL are so very cool........ " u gotta get it done ....u gotta get it done ....once more ya gotta get it done "
I think it's shameful the KC's stadium isn't called Lamar Hunt Stadium. Shameful.
8:33 It’s strange that Paul Brown would say that the players shouldn’t pay attention to the AFL and that it would fail because the Browns were originally an AAFC team and they were competitors to the NFL in the late 40’s.
And the only way Paul Brown could get an NFL team for Cincinnati was get an expansion team in the AFL and wait for the merger to be completed.
@@rockvilleraven The merger had already been agreed to in 1966. That's the ONLY reason Paul Brown created the Bengals, otherwise the Bengals would have never existed at all. He didn't care about the city of Cincinnati or the AFL, he just wanted back in the NFL and had a grudge against Art Modell. Brown copied the Browns from the initials of the team C.B. to the orange of the unis.
Something that you will never see again: 36:11 A crazy fan makes the play of the game and the game ends.
Ironically enough when the Texans got the game films, Coach Hank Stram said "That;s the best defender I've seen this year!"
We saw the video....
I hadn't laughed in so long.glad I found it
Isn't that amazing that the ref didn't do anything? I understand it was a massive effort to get the fans off the field from the play before, as they thought the game was over. Actually, being Boston, I'd have to say that fans stormed the field KNOWING that maybe a second or two was left on the clock, and as such, there was one more offensive play for the Texans, from the Patriots one yard line, but figured simply that 'strength in numbers' would prevail, and the refs would consider the task of trying to clear the field to 'tall', and call the game. Well, as one can see, before the snapped the ball on the last play, the left side of the end zone is covered by fans, and of course the one clown, who by the way, came on the field needless to say before, but never left. He instead, stayed on the field (ten yard line), and even joined the refs who were huddled up discussing the situation. A friggin' cop had to come and escort him to the back of the end zone. Evidently the cop didn't keep a hold on him, as the SAME fan, is the one who runs back out in the middle of the defense, and deflects the pass attempt. If it's any consolation to the Texans, you can see that the ball had no chance of being caught by the Texan receiver, as the ball was thrown way behind him. Without the fan there, the ball hits the ground and the game is over-same result.
Needed a rule change for that. Replay the down for example.
had a smile on my face the entire part 1 ........
Peter Coyote is a great narrator👍
He's done some great narrating on a few Ken Burns documentaries
He named himself coyote after seeing a coyote on an acid or peyote trip in the 60’s
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Him and Liev Schreiber are my two favorite narrators!
I loved the old AFL. I followed them when I first became interested in football back in 1966 - because the uniforms were so colorful and the play was more exciting with pass-oriented offenses, trick plays, etc...
Love the Lou Saban sound bite at the beginning!
You got to get it done . Love it
This should be on DVD and Blu-ray.
True!!!!
I was 13 and growing up in suburban Dallas. My Dad took me to all the Texans games. He said after the NFL told Lamar Hunt to "go to the devil," that we were going to support the Texans all the way. He wouldn't even let me watch the Cowboys on TV or listen on the radio. Of course, he changed his allegiance to the Cowboys when Hunt moved the Texans to Kansas City.
THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE GREATEST DOCUMENTARY ON THE AFL & ALL FOOTBALL 🏈!!
The Patriots original helmets were interesting.
Kenneth Hoffman Yes, those three corner hats that were so common in the late 18th Century. The re-enactors in Foxborough still wear them. I remember seeing some being sold in 1975-76, during the Bicentennial.
Lol lol - looked awkward on their helmets - like the logos they have now.They are bucking a undefeated season again this season as in 2007,until they lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl - so they still remember that and are not impressed by their current success.Doesn't mean too much. THEY WANT RING #7.
I wish they kept their old logo of Pat Patriot and not the Elvis logo as it's now been dub
The worst original AFL uniforms were DEFINITELY the Denver Broncos. Disgusting lol
@@jeremythompson9122 oh 💯% dude
Why no special DVD HD box set available for the series???...toss in a informative booklet and maybe a bonus DVD with interviews with many of former AFL greats...I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
41:26 I just noticed this, but in the picture of the New York Titans' coaching staff, one of them was George Sauer, Sr. (in the middle of the back row, standing) whose son would later be playing for the Jets.
The best part of watching Full Color Football is to read the genuine comments by the fans. I love the honesty and devotion to the way football was played in the past. Today, I watch the games but I'm not a fan any longer.
I remember those days and the main difference between the leagues was that in the AFL there was a lot more passing! This made the games more entertaining and a lot more fun to watch! At least that is how I remember it.
Are you lying right now? It seems easy to say this in hindsight. Are you sure you're not just repeating what this doc said...... like a Mandela effect. Are you sure you even remember.
Aside from the cheesy soundalike pop songs throughout this documentary, this is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Would love to own this on Blu-ray.
Thanks mr.hunt,the afl was the best thing to happen to the NFL.it was a more pass happy league.lamonica,fouts & Lenny oh yeah that kid from Pennsylvania named Namath was fun too.
mr hunt yes 🙌🏼 a driving force
The crazy thing is that the NFL didn't realize, apparently, that there was a huge demand for pro football that was being unmet in the early 1960s. The stupidity of not expanding until forced to do so is sort of mind boggling. You had two other networks that wanted pro football. Why wouldn't they have realized that adding teams would simply expand the pie for everyone. It always struck me as stupid. All the AFL owners really wanted were NFL franchises. They had no real desire to compete with the NFL, as they proved when they merged.
this is a treat~!
Hank Stram is one of the most unique coaches in AFL/NFL History and that's why I love him
Also the winningest coach in AFL History.
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Just on the cusp of the future.... Going to the Moon, Jet Travel, Color TV, Muscle Cars, Shopping Malls and the AFL.......
John Madden R.I.P
That was great thanks !
As a broncos fan thank you Lamar hunt and family for giving the city a team and chance
My local abc affiliate wfaa tv good job for airing the Dallas texans games.
Thank you. This is Awesome
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Growing up in the early sixties. I loved the afl, it was a passing league with Oakland, sandi
buffalo
Lamar Hunt never forgave the Vikings for betraying the AFL.
He got revenge...1/11/1970 . the last real super bowl between the 2 leagues...Chiefs 23 betrayers 7....and the back stabbing betrayers lost 3 more...in fact, the Minnesota BETRAYERS. never scored a single point in the first half in all their super bowl games ( loses) ...BETRAYERS got theirs.....RIP Lamar hunt
Im a Bills fan and I wouldve liked to see the 1964 AFL Champion Bills vs. the 1964 NFL Champion Cleveland Browns. Or the 1963 AFL Champion San Diego Chargers vs the 1963 NFL Champion Chicago Bears. I've heard the Chargers challenged the Bears to a game but the Bears declined. They knew they'd get blown out
The 1963 Chargers did challenge the 1963 Bears and the Bears refused to play!
On behalf of all the bros appreciate that afl
At that period Dallas was the second smallest market in the NFL, just ahead of Green Bay.
A fast clip of wahoo McDaniels who become a jet played on a team with Broadway Joe and wrestled Ric Flair
Any of you oldtime Wrestling fans see the great Wahoo McDaniels at around the 13:53 to 13:57 mark. There's a closeup of that big beautiful mug. I heard the Nature Boy say that Wahoo was released by the NY Jets because they couldn't afford to pay 2 Superstars 'cuz some cat Joe Willie was coming in from Alabama. Maybe someone heard of him.😏
Hank's wig is outrageous.
Thanks mr.hunt,the afl was the best thing to happen to the NFL.it was a more pass happy league.lamonica,fouts & Lenny oh yeah that kid from Pennsylvania named Namath was fun too.
The NFL Films Lost Classics is the best thing ever.
always loved the lions uniforms. and nobody looked better in them than Barry Sanders
R.I.P. Len Dawson (1935-2022)
NFL-3 yards and a cloud of dust
AFL-13 yards a lateral and a puff of smoke
I like to see how the league got started and the team orgins.
Peter Coyote was a great choice to do narration for this.
Excellent narrator!
I'd like to see a good documentary about the AAFC; several teams still playing came from that league, SFran and Baltimore (Cleveland). The original AAFC Colts also joined the NFL, but only lasted one season. The original Buffalo Bills played in the AAFC as well.
Great video!!!!!
Raiders' original uniforms influenced by The Chicago Bears I see. Even had rounded numerals, albeit a slightly different font.
Actually they were heavily inspired by the old Army uniforms the Knights of the Hudson
That gangster died in the Passaic River water skiing with lead skis I fell off my chair laughing when I heard that
I STILL miss you Ralph Wilson
I have mixed feelings about Ralph. He was an absentee owner most of the time, someone who kept season tickets for the Detroit Lions. He threatened multiple times to move the team out of Buffalo. He really only reached beloved status during the Bills' Super Bowl run.
Wilson was a horrible owner. He was much more interested in the bottom line than he was in winning. The Pegula's aren't the greatest owners but they're definitely more committed to winning than Wilson was. I was actually hoping Donald Trump was the winning bidder to buy the team. Donald Trump would not tolerate losing the way Ralph Wilson did
an imperfect past has led to a perfect legacy.
thank you to the foolish club
I'm A LIFE LONG PACKERS FAN, BUT CHARGERS HAVE COOLEST UNIFORMS.
Those original patriot hats would look real good on throwback uniform day
30:17 this story always cracks me up lol Alex Kroll is brilliant in this
The Super Bowl competition now stands even at AFC-AFL 29 and the NFC-NFL 29. The AFC leads the NFC 30-16-8 in interconference regular season play winning 52% of the games.
"You won't be goin' to Pittsburgh..." LOL 17:12
Which was a good thing, since in those days if you went to the Pittsburgh Steelers prior to the merger, you went there to die.
This documentary probably got it's title ("Full Color Football") from the fact that when TV coverage of the American Football League moved to NBC in 1965, the network televised nearly all of it's 1965 AFL schedule in color.
By contrast, only one regular-season NFL game on CBS that year (the Thanksgiving game in Detroit) and that year's playoff games were shown in color. It wouldn't be until 1966 that most of CBS's NFL games were seen in color.
Additionally, the NFL television "blackout" rules in the early 1960's stipulated that if an NFL team was playing at home, not only was that game blacked-out from local TV in the city the game was being played in, but no NFL game could be televised in that city that week.
These facts cannot be overlooked; in NFL cities during the early 1960's, the AFL game was the only pro football game on television on seven of the fourteen Sundays of the regular season.
altfactor ya think?
Ok ok got ya, thanks for the insight .
The NFL probably wishes they had handled that whole era differently. It was old guard thinking, at a time when they could have been using out of the box approaches. Old NFL 1950’s voice: “Expand our league with the injection of huge new money, and add the new cities of Houston, Denver, Buffalo, Boston, Dallas, Twin Cities to the NFL? Second teams in NY and LA? No way… !!… Wait, what, they are forming their OWN league?! Quick, about face, we have to put our own teams in Dallas and the Twin Cities so that that Minnesota team has to go to Oakland!!! Total reactionary thinking and a gross misjudgment of the number of talented players and coaches that were available.
If the NFL had expanded to Boston, Buffalo, Houston, and Denver in 1960, the AFL might never have existed.
The best game narrated by the best documentary narrator: Peter Coyote.
Michael McCambridge did a great job narrating this AFL.
Can someone name every starting QB for the opening season of the 1960 AFL? If you do, I salute you!
Boston-Butch Songin
Buffalo-Richie Lucas
Dallas-Cotton Davidson
Denver-Frank Tripucka
Houston-George Blanda
Los Angeles-Jack Kemp
New York-Al Dorow
Oakland-Babe Parilli
I still can’t get over how they played with the goal posts (2 of them!) sitting in the middle of the field! How they didnt affect game play is baffling.
The Texans were better than the Cowboys.
The Cowboys were absolutely atrocious in the early 60's. Too bad owner Lamar Hunt couldn't get Cowboy GM Tex Schramm to agree to an exibition match in the Cotton Bowl. The Texans would have trounced the Cowboys.
The Dallas Cowboys were the first expansion team in NFL. They did not win a game in their maiden season, going 0-11-1. From 1960-64, they
had five consecutive losing seasons. The Dallas Texans had become
a contending team and won the AFL Championship in 1962. The
Cowboys became the team of the city and subsequently were
drawing fans. The Texans lost money and moved to Kansas City
and became the Chiefs.
The Cowboys were horrible before 1966. The Texans/Chiefs were way better
The NFL placed a team in Dallas in 1948. They were the Texans. They also went without a win but the owner wasn't solvent and the team for the most part became the Baltimore Colts. This info makes the Colts Cowboys Superbowl now takes on more nostalgia because it also did not have a AFL team in it. There is a bunch of great history associated with this leagues history. But I am from Houston and am partial.
@@jeremythompson9122In 1965 they were 7-7 the great team was on the way
I wish they would have kept the AFL a separate league.
That was actually an idea to run the NFL like major league baseball two separate leagues
@@kyleshiflet9952 . MLF. Not a bad idea. :-)
@@rockyracoon3233 it's not but Pete Rozelle shot it down
@@kyleshiflet9952 . Sad that such a thing happened. It was the NFL that cried uncle in the Draft war to begin with.
@@rockyracoon3233 yes they did and it was funny
RIP John Madden #legend
Paul Brown, as great an innovator and coach as he was, released or traded more good football players than one could imagine. He might have drafted or signed more good players than he could keep, but often the castoffs were better than the players he kept.
That sounds like Dean Jagger narrating those earliest days of the Patriots setting up shop!
That's actually Fred Cusick, who was the legendary local TV play-by-play guy for the Boston Bruins. Any classic Bruins highlights from the 70s and 80s on YT and you'll probably hear him.
Len Dawson R.I.P
The afl, w passing, aggressive recruiting in black colleges, and not taking the fans for granted, brought pro football into the 21st century.
The afl didn't conform to the NFL, it improved it.
You're just regurgitating what this doc said. The nfl is a business and made this doc in a nice package
Good Lord Paul Brown was a jerk. Telling Hank Stram that Len Dawson couldnt play. Proved him wrong. Then later undermining Bill Walsh. Then Walsh defeated Brown's Bengals in 2 Super Bowls. Proved him wrong. Wow.😊
13:54 Ed "Wahoo" McDaniel - NWA pro wrestler
Wahoo and the late, great Ernie "The Big Cat" Ladd were two of the all-time great wrestlers and AFL stars.
Don't forget Manny Fernandez.
I didn't know that. Who did Manny play for?
NVM. I always thought that the Manny Fernandez who played for the Dolphins was the same guy as Raging Bull Manny Fernandez. They are not.
I've heard that the Ragin' Bull got a tryout with the Kansas city Chiefs, but was cut
3:36 Footage of Jack Kemp playing for the Chargers (against the Broncos, it looks like). It's easy to forget that he started out with the Chargers before the Bills claimed him off waivers after the 1962 season.
These episodes originally was on Showtime.