1969 was the year I discovered football at 9 years old. These old rivalries were brutal, and I can't think of a better one than the Chiefs and the Raiders.
I became aware of / discovered pro football n the 1969-70 football season as a 7 year old kid in the second grade. I still have great memories of both the AFL and NFL in their last seasons as separate leagues from each other before they officially merged starting with the 1970-71 season. I vividly remember watching both league championship games and Super Bowl 4. In addition to the first four AFL vs NFL Super Bowls from 1966-67 to 1969-70, I wish that there would have been an AFL vs NFL All Star Game between the best players of both leagues during that period of time as well.
Packers vs Bears. That rivalry built the NFL. I'm a Packers fan. If the Packers are in a losing era? I pull for Black and Blue Division. I'm going to say it straight up. Lions are doing it right. Enjoy it Lions fans. I'm diehard Packers fan. It's freaking awesome that our Division is by far is a great Division.
Well said Mike..those 2 Chiefs were a couple of the best to play the game!!..I relive my youth(born 1962)..every time I catch these classic matches on NFL 🎥 FILMS..👌
Another jewel of NFL Films presentations, covering so many postseason contests running from '67 through the early-mid '70's. An outstanding mix of pointed narration, sharp editing, and some of the most moving and stirring musical cues, combine to mark this film as an exemplar, in the kind of mythic and iconographic world-building Sabol and company so outstandingly achieved!!!
I loved the AFL. There was spirit in that league, and it brought pro football to cities deemed too small and not “old, cold” enough for the gritty game. I have such fond childhood memories of seeing the AFL, particularly seeing it go out a winner with Len Dawson, Otis Taylor and Jan Stenerud win the Super Bowl and even the score as the leagues merged.
I too loved the AFL. I was one of those who wished the two leagues had never merged. SCREW the NFL and their arrogant attitudes of SUPPOSED superiority! The AFL struggled in the early years to be sure, but once they hit the 1964 season, (possibly sooner) they were on equal footing with the NFL, even though the NFL A-holes would all say the AFL was still inferior. The 1963 AFL Champion Chargers actually challenged the 1963 NFL Champion Chicago Bears to a game to be played anywhere at any time and the Chargers were willing to use NFL balls for the game. The Bears declined, because they knew if they lost that game that the sports world would see the two leagues as equals and the arrogant, narcissistic NFL couldn't let that happen because of the signing wars going on between the two leagues. God Bless Lamar Hunt for founding the AFL and then funding it when it was short on cash. God Bless Sonny Werblin who bought the NY Jets and signed Joe Namath to the biggest contract in sports history at the time. And LONG LIVE THE AFL!!!!!!
This game goes down in history as a Titanic struggle it deserves to be. If the wrong person was writing this game up, they could have taken the approach that this was a mistake-filled game that was defined by its errors and miscues. Thankfully, this video shows the game in its true light. The mistakes in this game were really the result of taking the two best teams in pro football and putting into the equivalent of a 60-minute head-on collision. In another game, the Colts and Cowboys faced each other in Super Bowl V. Those teams were the two best defenses in pro football that year, but when that game got written up, there was no consideration for how difficult a job both offenses had. The mistakes in that game were just laughed off as incompetence by calling it The blooper Bowl. I'm glad that the Raiders and the Chiefs were appreciated for the job they did and the way they fought each other. This is how these men should be remembered. Those of us lucky enough to have grown up watching pro football in this era have been blessed.
I loved AFL football back in the day. Those were true gladiators !!! My father (RIP) and I were huge KC Chiefs fans and the old man absolutely HATED George Blanda like opponents fans hate Tom Brady. He just wouldn’t retire and go away! Hell, he was still kicking field goals and “relief QB’ing” at like age 46-47. Man we hated him. Great rivalry. John Madden was a real person and not A video game or a commercial!!!! He was the actual head coach of that gang of malcontents and old free agent pirates. Raiders was the right name for that team!!! Oh, those were the days! RIP Otis Taylor. He belongs in the HOF. Fix that HOF old timers committee!!!!
Brian, the last I heard Otis Taylor is still alive. He is suffering from Parkinson's disease and his sister is taking care of him. God Bless her. Otis Taylor was my 1st hero growing up during the 1960's.
This game followed the CBS coverage of the NFL Championship Browns vs Vikings. NBC covered this game-and Curt Gowdy and Kyle Rote were the announcers. There was only one week between these games and SB 4 in Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. RIP Daryle Lamonica RIP Len Dawson
The unusually high number of mistakes in this game defied the true greatness of these two teams. What an epic battle this last AFL game was! The Raiders and the Chiefs in 1969 were likely the two best teams the AFL produced in its history. And the Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl IV validated the AFL as a worthy competitor to the NFL as they headed into the merger in 1970.
I was just coming into my own, learning to take an INTEREST in sports and that was the early fall of '69 at the tender age of 11. I didn't KNOW the AFL and the NFL were two separate leagues....But I did KNOW the name Jim Brown....He, like Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle were the ALL AMERICAN house hold names. Everyone KNEW who they were.... Shortly thereafter I LEARNED who the New York Jets were and a Man named Joe Willie Namath!!....He brought CREDIBILITY to the AFL!!.... Through this time period from '69 to '70 I became a KC Chiefs fan.....That was MY TEAM!!
classic "Duke it out "throwback black n blue teams,..John Facenda narration, NFL FILMS sound track.(priceless)....yousto watch these epic battles 30 mins condensed versions..nearly every Saturday in those oh,so early 1970s..formative years of my youth..most enjoyable to admire these relics in my senior(61)years!!..thank you for posting!!🎥👌
I think the Chiefs were clearly the best team in football that year, and the way they took out the Vikings could not be misconstrued as a fluke win by the AFL. I did not see the previous Super Bowl of the year before as a case of, "the best team won." The Colts were the most awesome team in football in 1968, but seemed to have left their intensity in Cleveland (NFL Championship game) and the Jets were good enough to beat them that day.
I liked the AFL from day one ... and actually never wanted to see the two Leagues merge. The two championship games which changed the sport and fostered the merger were the JETS upsetting the COLTS, then the CHIEFS whipping the Vikings the following year.
Hi Raiderdan. A little fun fact for you. Lamar Hunt, the man who founded the AFL and Kansas City Chiefs actually had conversations with Tex Schramm of the Dallas Cowboys and then Pete Rozelle and a few of the other NFL owners about a merger between the two leagues as early as 1965. They ultimately agreed to a merger deal in that time and a common draft was then held and the 1st Super Bowl was played in January of 1967 between the Packers and Chiefs. But the convincing wins by the Jets and Chiefs in Super Bowls 3 & 4 were what solidified the merger in the way that both leagues believed it was going to work out well, and it actually did. I was a fan who wished the two leagues never merged, but unfortunately for me, the money talked a little too loudly. Regardless,....LONG LIVE THE AFL!!!!
@@Chiefsfansince-qb1ktThe AFL's two championships before the regular season merger in 1970 gave the league much needed credibility as before, absolutely no respect given by the older league and the general public
Man I hated Lamonica and Bilitnikof that season 1969. My first year watching football and becoming a Chiefs fan at 14. Great players, of course, but I was 14.
I remember " The 5th Dimensions " sang " The Age of Aquarius " at half time. My Brothers 2 favorite teams were the Raider and Chiefs. Then he put a hex on my Vikings and I watched in horror as they we beaten as my beloved Colts were beaten by magic the year before by that Warlock Joe Namath ! . The Gods of Football did not accepted the burnt Barbie Dolls @ I offered to appease them as a young plebian ?
The referees let the players play; the Chiefs Mike Garrett would been called down today, instead of a fumble. Chiefs Willie Mitchell would have been called for unnecessary roughness on the Raiders WR.
Integrity? Like allowing Otis Taylor's Grab where he was clearly out of bounds once he gained control? That tainted the whole game. Personally, I think with instant replay, today's game has more integrity.
@@jonburrows8602, I won't gush over Dawson's superb pass and the effort Taylor made in catching it (reminiscent of the Bradshaw to Swann sideline hookup in SB X) as by default, justifying the call. However, given the number of player's proximate to the reception, their spacing, and the position on the field it took place, I can feel reconciled the referee involved, likely did as well as he could, enabling a remarkable moment to be given legitimacy. I don't think a supposed lack of integrity had anything to do with it, unless of course, if one's a Raiders' partisan seeking to establish one of the very first instances of the neverending string of officials screwing their team over. Allegedly.
wow i cant believe NFL films or whoever is responsible would get the date wrong with John Facenda's voice no less. The last AFL game was Jan. 4th 1970!! not Jan 5th!! i know, most will say "big deal" but if it was your birthday people, franchises, or corporations, got wrong, you would wanna voice up as well. just have the NFL send me some free tickets and we'll call it even
The American Football League (AFL) was the best thing to ever happen to the National Football League (NFL) and to pro football in general. I am glad enough that I was old enough to actually remember watching this game as a 7 year old kid and then watching Super Bowl 4 the following week.
WRONG!! Taylor got control of the ball before his right foot hit out of bounds, plus there was contact by Raider defender George Atkinson and by rule, that is considered a force-out. I've viewed this play frame-by-frame from two different angles, and Taylor got control of the ball while his left foot was still in bounds and pulled it in cleanly without any bobble of the ball before his right foot hit out of bounds. That, combined with the contact by George Atkinson, means that the refs did correctly rule it a catch.
@@brdempsey69horse hockey. I just watched it again. He didn't get pushed out of bounds he didn't get two feet inbounds after catching the ball. Blown call.
@@wsbill14224 The only horse hockey is located squarely between your ears. It is a judgement call by the official as to whether or not the receiver would come down with both feet in bounds & if Atkinson had made no contact with Taylor, there is zero doubt Taylor would have came down with both feet in bounds. Atkinson used that same forearm club on Taylor that he used on Lynn Swann several years later that knocked Swann out of the game. It was not a blown call just because you say so. The visual evidence proves that it was the right call.
@@brdempsey69 I disagree. There can be contact by the DB, but it doesn't mean he forced Taylor out of bounds. Taylor's momentum led himself out of bounds, and at the time, he only had one hand on the ball when that right foot landed on the sidelines. He definitely didn't have control of the ball yet. Bang bang play, and with no replay back then for the refs, it is what it is. Still, blown call, just like the interference call later on the same drive.
@@Nick23at63 Taylor had control of the ball before he hit out of bounds. He never bobbled it and never put both hands on the ball, even after he went to the ground -- that's still a catch, just simply a one-handed one. Still was contact by a defender that disrupted Taylor from making a clean catch in bounds. Not a blown call. The interference call was a result of Nemiah Wilson throwing his left arm up at Taylor as the ball arrived -- the announcers called that out when the play happened in real time.
1960's & 1970's were the Gladiators. Players played for the love of the gameand not money.I believe if you put the best players in those 2 decades as a team they would beat todays players.They were much tougher and talented.
The 68' and 69' AFL Championship games were dependent on a long ball in critical situations . Both times, George Atkinson on coverage ( albeit caught out of bounds here ) 15:29
What the fuck does that mean? Before the NFL decided it had no future if the issues of CTE and preventable injuries were not addressed that the game was more "manly?" Read about what the wife of Mike Webster had to say about living with a violent, forgetful man whose brain was the basis of the movie "Concussion." The league faced a difficult long-term future of it did not stop denying the existence of traumatic brain injuries in a large percentage of players. Football is not about inflicting pain on your opponent. Do you have any concept of sportmanship, or is cruelty the true measure of masculinity?
Gracie Mae Marie 11 Jones tells it like it was in that Era. Playing the Raiders was "Criminal Territory." Their real motto wasn't Commitment to Excellence." It was "If You Can't Beat Em, Cheat Em." Al Davis seemed to have constructed a team straight from San Quentin. " If you don't have a Criminal Record, We Don't Want You," was their mantra. A you can also see, as evidenced by this game, that single minded philosophy cost them dearly in big games. Cheap shotting the Chiefs to the degree, that even the officials of that era were compelled to call critical personal fouls. Football in that era featured a no holds barred philosophy. Even the officials weren't safe in that era. Tom Brady wouldn't have a 24 year career in that era. Probably more like 24 minutes.
@donaldschmidt2990, There's more than a little exaggeration present in your description of how the Raiders' lineup was constituted during that time, even if bears the kernel of truth. Also, interestingly, just a season later, this same rivalry saw Oakland benefitting from their sometimes reckless play. Ben Davidson's headlong leap to inflict mayhem on an already downed Len Dawson led to the penalties, which allowed the Raiders to escape Kansas City with a tie in the final moments. This result largely enabled the Raiders to reverse the course of their campaign and edge the Chiefs for the division title.
Raiders fans think Otis Taylor was out of bounds. If you play it in slow motion, you can see a split moment after the ball hit his hand, which he never lost control of, his right foot landed then his left foot clearly was in bounds. His right foot was an inch out, but he had already landed two feet in.
What has to be accounted for is the contact made by Raider DB George Atkinson on Taylor that was enough to jolt Taylor in the direction of the sideline. By rule, that is considered a force-out.
@@6400az, Given the speed shown in the clip here, I hardly agree the play is so simple to spot, as you claim. I can readily accept that without the benefit of a replay allowing for it to be seen conclusively, the referee who made the call likely did as good a job as was possible, taking into account how tightly covered the play was and the very constricted part of the field in which it took place.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 I agree with you. It was a close one, can't really argue that one in the days of no replay review. The PI on Nehemiah Wilson - now, that's a different story.
Joe Namath is the absolute worst QB in the Hall of Fame. Terrible QB. Nearly 100% hype. I understand QB's pre-60's having a HORRIBLE TD/INT rate. Pre-60's and up to mid-70's ground and pound was the offense de juer. But even by the lax standards of QB play, Namath was particularly bad. Horrible in fact. More INT'S than TD's by a large margin ... before knee injuries hobbled him. Honestly, Jets running game and their defense is what won SB3. Certainly wasn't Namath. Honestly? He couldn't make taxi squad in today's league. I have doubts that he could make XFL or whatever the spring league is called now. Plus? Add this: Unitas could have started for the Colts, Shula held Unitas out until it was nearly impossible to win. I smell fix. A newly united league and the Jr league can't compete against Sr league? AFL loses 3 in a row? We're talking $$$. Colts were FAR, FAR superior to the Jets. Offenively the Colts were a scoring machine. Namath was a turnover machine. Against the #1 defense in the NFL. Yet? Suddenly? Colts can't get a first down. Against a Jets defense that was average in the AFL. How good were both teams after SB3? Jets sucked and have sucked since. Colts won SB 2 years later, as well as again. Jets have had good seasons, but? Mostly? Jets have sucked. I believe that the reason why the Jets have sucked ass since SB3 is because SB3 was fixed. The NFL keeps grudges. This also explains why the Cardinals will not win the NFL Championship for a long, long time. Cardinals owners did something to piss off the League and the League is still holding on to the grudge. I am looking into that reason. Seriously? Cardinals have good seasons. Even Kurt Warner great seasons. Yet? They always fall short.
wow,did warren wells give no effort after thomas INT at 19:25. total loser non team player...lamonica, beat up as he was , angled thomas oub.this shows the difference between a team player vs a prima donna
graciemaemarie11jones16, You have no idea what you're talking about. His teammates would never have characterized him in such a way, as Wells was a consummate competitor whose contributions as a blocker and on special teams were plain to see and widely known, contemporaneously. Well, I suppose one can be thankful, at least, you didn't go down the usual dangerous thug trope in describing Wells. 🙄 🙄 🙄
1969 was the year I discovered football at 9 years old. These old rivalries were brutal, and I can't think of a better one than the Chiefs and the Raiders.
Bruce, you discovered football in the perfect season!
I became aware of / discovered pro football n the 1969-70 football season as a 7 year old kid in the second grade. I still have great memories of both the AFL and NFL in their last seasons as separate leagues from each other before they officially merged starting with the 1970-71 season. I vividly remember watching both league championship games and Super Bowl 4. In addition to the first four AFL vs NFL Super Bowls from 1966-67 to 1969-70, I wish that there would have been an AFL vs NFL All Star Game between the best players of both leagues during that period of time as well.
Cartoons on Saturday and football on Sunday.
Packers vs Bears. That rivalry built the NFL. I'm a Packers fan. If the Packers are in a losing era? I pull for Black and Blue Division. I'm going to say it straight up. Lions are doing it right. Enjoy it Lions fans. I'm diehard Packers fan. It's freaking awesome that our Division is by far is a great Division.
Rest in peace Len Dawson and Otis Taylor.
Mike please see the post above.
I thought Otis Taylor was still alive, but is suffering from Parkinson's disease. I loved that guy!
Well said Mike..those 2 Chiefs were a couple of the best to play the game!!..I relive my youth(born 1962)..every time I catch these classic matches on NFL 🎥 FILMS..👌
Another jewel of NFL Films presentations, covering so many postseason contests running from '67 through the early-mid '70's. An outstanding mix of pointed narration, sharp editing, and some of the most moving and stirring musical cues, combine to mark this film as an exemplar, in the kind of mythic and iconographic world-building Sabol and company so outstandingly achieved!!!
True!!!
I loved the AFL. There was spirit in that league, and it brought pro football to cities deemed too small and not “old, cold” enough for the gritty game. I have such fond childhood memories of seeing the AFL, particularly seeing it go out a winner with Len Dawson, Otis Taylor and Jan Stenerud win the Super Bowl and even the score as the leagues merged.
I too loved the AFL. I was one of those who wished the two leagues had never merged. SCREW the NFL and their arrogant attitudes of SUPPOSED superiority! The AFL struggled in the early years to be sure, but once they hit the 1964 season, (possibly sooner) they were on equal footing with the NFL, even though the NFL A-holes would all say the AFL was still inferior. The 1963 AFL Champion Chargers actually challenged the 1963 NFL Champion Chicago Bears to a game to be played anywhere at any time and the Chargers were willing to use NFL balls for the game. The Bears declined, because they knew if they lost that game that the sports world would see the two leagues as equals and the arrogant, narcissistic NFL couldn't let that happen because of the signing wars going on between the two leagues. God Bless Lamar Hunt for founding the AFL and then funding it when it was short on cash. God Bless Sonny Werblin who bought the NY Jets and signed Joe Namath to the biggest contract in sports history at the time. And LONG LIVE THE AFL!!!!!!
This game goes down in history as a Titanic struggle it deserves to be. If the wrong person was writing this game up, they could have taken the approach that this was a mistake-filled game that was defined by its errors and miscues. Thankfully, this video shows the game in its true light. The mistakes in this game were really the result of taking the two best teams in pro football and putting into the equivalent of a 60-minute head-on collision.
In another game, the Colts and Cowboys faced each other in Super Bowl V. Those teams were the two best defenses in pro football that year, but when that game got written up, there was no consideration for how difficult a job both offenses had. The mistakes in that game were just laughed off as incompetence by calling it The blooper Bowl.
I'm glad that the Raiders and the Chiefs were appreciated for the job they did and the way they fought each other. This is how these men should be remembered. Those of us lucky enough to have grown up watching pro football in this era have been blessed.
I loved AFL football back in the day. Those were true gladiators !!! My father (RIP) and I were huge KC Chiefs fans and the old man absolutely HATED George Blanda like opponents fans hate Tom Brady. He just wouldn’t retire and go away! Hell, he was still kicking field goals and “relief QB’ing” at like age 46-47. Man we hated him. Great rivalry. John Madden was a real person and not
A video game or a commercial!!!! He was the actual head coach of that gang of malcontents and old free agent pirates. Raiders was the right name for that team!!! Oh, those were the days! RIP Otis Taylor. He belongs in the HOF. Fix that HOF old timers committee!!!!
Brian, the last I heard Otis Taylor is still alive. He is suffering from Parkinson's disease and his sister is taking care of him. God Bless her. Otis Taylor was my 1st hero growing up during the 1960's.
@@Chiefsfansince-qb1kt Otis died March 9, 2023 unfortunately
This game followed the CBS coverage of the NFL Championship Browns vs Vikings. NBC covered this game-and Curt Gowdy and Kyle Rote were the announcers. There was only one week between these games and SB 4 in Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. RIP Daryle Lamonica RIP Len Dawson
gowdy,rote and most importantly,al derogotis
Glory Days! The Record setting Chiefs Defense only gave up 20 points in all three play off games!
Until 1985 Bears!
Correct. However, for the AFL , there were two weeks between 1st round playoff and this game
Lenny Dawson the greatest afl qb ever
More interesting than anything I've seen from the NFL in years.
The unusually high number of mistakes in this game defied the true greatness of these two teams. What an epic battle this last AFL game was! The Raiders and the Chiefs in 1969 were likely the two best teams the AFL produced in its history. And the Chiefs' victory in Super Bowl IV validated the AFL as a worthy competitor to the NFL as they headed into the merger in 1970.
Thank God for youtube and thank you for sharing my childhood.
the music, the slo mo, the narration !!🔥🔥
RIP Otis Taylor 😥
I was just coming into my own, learning to take an INTEREST in sports and that was the early fall of '69 at the tender age of 11. I didn't KNOW the AFL and the NFL were two separate leagues....But I did KNOW the name Jim Brown....He, like Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle were the ALL AMERICAN house hold names. Everyone KNEW who they were.... Shortly thereafter I LEARNED who the New York Jets were and a Man named Joe Willie Namath!!....He brought CREDIBILITY to the AFL!!.... Through this time period from '69 to '70 I became a KC Chiefs fan.....That was MY TEAM!!
classic "Duke it out "throwback black n blue teams,..John Facenda narration, NFL FILMS sound track.(priceless)....yousto watch these epic battles 30 mins condensed versions..nearly every Saturday in those oh,so early 1970s..formative years of my youth..most enjoyable to admire these relics in my senior(61)years!!..thank you for posting!!🎥👌
I think the Chiefs were clearly the best team in football that year, and the way they took out the Vikings could not be misconstrued as a fluke win by the AFL. I did not see the previous Super Bowl of the year before as a case of, "the best team won." The Colts were the most awesome team in football in 1968, but seemed to have left their intensity in Cleveland (NFL Championship game) and the Jets were good enough to beat them that day.
The Raiders and Jets would have beaten the Vikings as well that year.
Great rivalry! So many great NFL names. Chiefs defense was tremendous!
Raiders D was pretty tough too
True!!!
I was 15 years old at the time living in Chicago and I was rooting for the Chiefs in this game they did it!
This Chiefs team is so under-rated. Their defense was stinkin amazing
Agreed!!!
John Madden’s rookie season
14:21 Holy Crap! Look at the dent on that helmet!!!
I know Right!!!
Bodies were flying on every play,so much competition by inches.There is no way todays NFL comes close to excite.
I know, right? In Lamonica's face all day. Daps to the Chiefs that day...actually slowed (to a crawl) the Oakland O
Today's NFL is unwatchable by these standards.
It's fun to watch the hits in the classic NFL games of yesterday and point out, THAT'S A PENALTY, THAT'S A PENALTY ETC ETC!!! LOL!!!@@paganjew0108
@@paganjew0108 OK, BOOMER.
@thomasthomsoniii so you were not in agreement here?
So close so many times for the Raiders from 65 thru 75
The Chiefs of the late 60's would destroy this current Chiefs team . Mahommes couldn't take real pressure like was in past
I liked the AFL from day one ... and actually never wanted to see the two Leagues merge. The two championship games which changed the sport and fostered the merger were the JETS upsetting the COLTS, then the CHIEFS whipping the Vikings the following year.
Hi Raiderdan. A little fun fact for you. Lamar Hunt, the man who founded the AFL and Kansas City Chiefs actually had conversations with Tex Schramm of the Dallas Cowboys and then Pete Rozelle and a few of the other NFL owners about a merger between the two leagues as early as 1965. They ultimately agreed to a merger deal in that time and a common draft was then held and the 1st Super Bowl was played in January of 1967 between the Packers and Chiefs. But the convincing wins by the Jets and Chiefs in Super Bowls 3 & 4 were what solidified the merger in the way that both leagues believed it was going to work out well, and it actually did. I was a fan who wished the two leagues never merged, but unfortunately for me, the money talked a little too loudly.
Regardless,....LONG LIVE THE AFL!!!!
@@Chiefsfansince-qb1ktThe AFL's two championships before the regular season merger in 1970 gave the league much needed credibility as before, absolutely no respect given by the older league and the general public
Man I hated Lamonica and Bilitnikof that season 1969. My first year watching football and becoming a Chiefs fan at 14. Great players, of course, but I was 14.
Hated, sure. Saw some great players tho..on both sides 🏈
I remember " The 5th Dimensions " sang " The Age of Aquarius " at half time. My Brothers 2 favorite teams were the Raider and Chiefs. Then he put a hex on my Vikings and I watched in horror as they we beaten as my beloved Colts were beaten by magic the year before by that Warlock Joe Namath ! . The Gods of Football did not accepted the burnt Barbie Dolls @ I offered to appease them as a young plebian ?
The referees let the players play; the Chiefs Mike Garrett would been called down today, instead of a fumble. Chiefs Willie Mitchell would have been called for unnecessary roughness on the Raiders WR.
Only one way to describe these rivalries. 'Blood baths or World War III on the playing field.
Pretty much.
Agreed!!!
No jersey swaps after the game either!!!@@JustJeph33
@@MrBeyondbeliefYes, now that you mentioned it!!!!
All they have to do is run out the clock. Famous last words....
Yes indeed!!!!
Back when the game had integrity.
No integrity in today’s game? Really?
And dents in the helmets! The guys from that era were tough as nails!
Integrity? Like allowing Otis Taylor's Grab where he was clearly out of bounds once he gained control? That tainted the whole game. Personally, I think with instant replay, today's game has more integrity.
@@jonburrows8602 he did look out of bounds, didn't he.
@@jonburrows8602, I won't gush over Dawson's superb pass and the effort Taylor made in catching it (reminiscent of the Bradshaw to Swann sideline hookup in SB X) as by default, justifying the call.
However, given the number of player's proximate to the reception, their spacing, and the position on the field it took place, I can feel reconciled the referee involved, likely did as well as he could, enabling a remarkable moment to be given legitimacy. I don't think a supposed lack of integrity had anything to do with it, unless of course, if one's a Raiders' partisan seeking to establish one of the very first instances of the neverending string of officials screwing their team over. Allegedly.
As they did in the SB the Chiefs D Line dominated.
True!!!!
Great stuff
Yes indeed!!!!
I watched this game and during the 4th quarter with all those turnovers on both sides I was saying, "Geez, doesn't anybody want to win this thing?!"
The AFL had better quarterbacks than the NFL at that time with the exception of Johnny Unitas and Bart Starr.
Brady wouldn't last as season back then.
A season? how about one game
@@michaelleroy9281exactly....I can hear Tom bitchin to the officials now because he's getting killed....LOL!
@@MichaelForte-jn5pnTrue!!!
@@michaelleroy9281Agreed!!!
It wasn't just a rivalry between the Chiefs and Raiders. These hated each other!
wow i cant believe NFL films or whoever is responsible would get the date wrong with John Facenda's voice no less. The last AFL game was Jan. 4th 1970!! not Jan 5th!! i know, most will say "big deal" but if it was your birthday people, franchises, or corporations, got wrong, you would wanna voice up as well. just have the NFL send me some free tickets and we'll call it even
@jomic9060, To be precise, the final game in AFL history took place on January 17, in the Astrodome, being the League's All-Star Game.
@@mitchellmelkin4078lol
I am in my 70's, a vikings fan since 1961. I disliked most AFC teams.
blanda was a unique twist that I will always remember.
Lamonica was so dang smart!
The American Football League (AFL) was the best thing to ever happen to the National Football League (NFL) and to pro football in general. I am glad enough that I was old enough to actually remember watching this game as a 7 year old kid and then watching Super Bowl 4 the following week.
Curt Gowdy defines chiefs at raiders
At 15:30 we can see Otis Taylor stepped out of bounds with both feet but got credit for the catch anyway.
WRONG!! Taylor got control of the ball before his right foot hit out of bounds, plus there was contact by Raider defender George Atkinson and by rule, that is considered a force-out. I've viewed this play frame-by-frame from two different angles, and Taylor got control of the ball while his left foot was still in bounds and pulled it in cleanly without any bobble of the ball before his right foot hit out of bounds. That, combined with the contact by George Atkinson, means that the refs did correctly rule it a catch.
@@brdempsey69horse hockey. I just watched it again. He didn't get pushed out of bounds he didn't get two feet inbounds after catching the ball. Blown call.
@@wsbill14224 The only horse hockey is located squarely between your ears. It is a judgement call by the official as to whether or not the receiver would come down with both feet in bounds & if Atkinson had made no contact with Taylor, there is zero doubt Taylor would have came down with both feet in bounds. Atkinson used that same forearm club on Taylor that he used on Lynn Swann several years later that knocked Swann out of the game. It was not a blown call just because you say so. The visual evidence proves that it was the right call.
@@brdempsey69 I disagree. There can be contact by the DB, but it doesn't mean he forced Taylor out of bounds. Taylor's momentum led himself out of bounds, and at the time, he only had one hand on the ball when that right foot landed on the sidelines. He definitely didn't have control of the ball yet. Bang bang play, and with no replay back then for the refs, it is what it is. Still, blown call, just like the interference call later on the same drive.
@@Nick23at63 Taylor had control of the ball before he hit out of bounds. He never bobbled it and never put both hands on the ball, even after he went to the ground -- that's still a catch, just simply a one-handed one. Still was contact by a defender that disrupted Taylor from making a clean catch in bounds. Not a blown call. The interference call was a result of Nemiah Wilson throwing his left arm up at Taylor as the ball arrived -- the announcers called that out when the play happened in real time.
Always thought my Rams would have beat Chiefs in that Super Bowl but no way. Chiefs D would have destroyed slow moving Rams.
Rams weren't anywhere near the Super Bowl that year, correct??
1960's & 1970's were the Gladiators. Players played for the love of the gameand not money.I believe if you put the best players in those 2 decades as a team they would beat todays players.They were much tougher and talented.
AFL & NFL !
You could go hog wild on QB's back then, and they did.
I wish Frank Caliendo would do an impression of this narrator's voice.
I don't know, man. So unique, even the best wouldn't be close. No offence to the Cal, tho. Best Madden next to the man himself!
In 68 coach Hank Steam was losing his hair; in 69 it all grew back!!😅
Just lose baby.
It would have been interesting to see how the game would have turned out if Otis Taylor was ruled out of bounds on the long pass from the end zone...
The 68' and 69' AFL Championship games were dependent on a long ball in critical situations . Both times, George Atkinson on coverage ( albeit caught out of bounds here ) 15:29
True!!!!
What??? No Al Davis conspiracy theory after this game as to why the Raiders lost????
I was wondering the same thing!!!!
15:29 Taylor was out of bounds. And the PI call on him later wasn't. The Raiders were twice robbed. Get used to that happening a lot in the 70s
at 16:27 you can see that there was no interference. Bogus penalty
Too bad they don't have a tape of the whole game. We could count all the holding penalties that were not called.
Three lost fumbles on running plays in the 4th quarter by the Chiefs. How the hell did they win?
destiny
Back before the game was unisex.
What the fuck does that mean? Before the NFL decided it had no future if the issues of CTE and preventable injuries were not addressed that the game was more "manly?" Read about what the wife of Mike Webster had to say about living with a violent, forgetful man whose brain was the basis of the movie "Concussion." The league faced a difficult long-term future of it did not stop denying the existence of traumatic brain injuries in a large percentage of players. Football is not about inflicting pain on your opponent. Do you have any concept of sportmanship, or is cruelty the true measure of masculinity?
And then? They faced Lombardi's Packers.
Gracie Mae Marie 11 Jones tells it like it was in that Era. Playing the Raiders was "Criminal Territory." Their real motto wasn't Commitment to Excellence." It was "If You Can't Beat Em, Cheat Em." Al Davis seemed to have constructed a team straight from San Quentin. " If you don't have a Criminal Record, We Don't Want You," was their mantra. A you can also see, as evidenced by this game, that single minded philosophy cost them dearly in big games. Cheap shotting the Chiefs to the degree, that even the officials of that era were compelled to call critical personal fouls. Football in that era featured a no holds barred philosophy. Even the officials weren't safe in that era. Tom Brady wouldn't have a 24 year career in that era. Probably more like 24 minutes.
@donaldschmidt2990, There's more than a little exaggeration present in your description of how the Raiders' lineup was constituted during that time, even if bears the kernel of truth.
Also, interestingly, just a season later, this same rivalry saw Oakland benefitting from their sometimes reckless play. Ben Davidson's headlong leap to inflict mayhem on an already downed Len Dawson led to the penalties, which allowed the Raiders to escape Kansas City with a tie in the final moments. This result largely enabled the Raiders to reverse the course of their campaign and edge the Chiefs for the division title.
Raiders fans think Otis Taylor was out of bounds. If you play it in slow motion, you can see a split moment after the ball hit his hand, which he never lost control of, his right foot landed then his left foot clearly was in bounds. His right foot was an inch out, but he had already landed two feet in.
What has to be accounted for is the contact made by Raider DB George Atkinson on Taylor that was enough to jolt Taylor in the direction of the sideline. By rule, that is considered a force-out.
Many on the Raiders thought the catch by Taylor was out of bounds
Many of the Raiders ?? How about anyone with at least one eye.Clearly out of bounds.!!
@@6400az, Given the speed shown in the clip here, I hardly agree the play is so simple to spot, as you claim. I can readily accept that without the benefit of a replay allowing for it to be seen conclusively, the referee who made the call likely did as good a job as was possible, taking into account how tightly covered the play was and the very constricted part of the field in which it took place.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 I agree with you. It was a close one, can't really argue that one in the days of no replay review.
The PI on Nehemiah Wilson - now, that's a different story.
True!!
love to see chiefs fans in criminal territory celebrating at the 10:28-10:32 mark...
"Taylor's spectacular catch" was no catch at all !!
Joe Namath is the absolute worst QB in the Hall of Fame. Terrible QB. Nearly 100% hype. I understand QB's pre-60's having a HORRIBLE TD/INT rate. Pre-60's and up to mid-70's ground and pound was the offense de juer. But even by the lax standards of QB play, Namath was particularly bad. Horrible in fact. More INT'S than TD's by a large margin ... before knee injuries hobbled him. Honestly, Jets running game and their defense is what won SB3. Certainly wasn't Namath. Honestly? He couldn't make taxi squad in today's league. I have doubts that he could make XFL or whatever the spring league is called now. Plus? Add this: Unitas could have started for the Colts, Shula held Unitas out until it was nearly impossible to win. I smell fix. A newly united league and the Jr league can't compete against Sr league? AFL loses 3 in a row? We're talking $$$. Colts were FAR, FAR superior to the Jets. Offenively the Colts were a scoring machine. Namath was a turnover machine. Against the #1 defense in the NFL. Yet? Suddenly? Colts can't get a first down. Against a Jets defense that was average in the AFL. How good were both teams after SB3? Jets sucked and have sucked since. Colts won SB 2 years later, as well as again. Jets have had good seasons, but? Mostly? Jets have sucked. I believe that the reason why the Jets have sucked ass since SB3 is because SB3 was fixed. The NFL keeps grudges. This also explains why the Cardinals will not win the NFL Championship for a long, long time. Cardinals owners did something to piss off the League and the League is still holding on to the grudge. I am looking into that reason. Seriously? Cardinals have good seasons. Even Kurt Warner great seasons. Yet? They always fall short.
Davis was a creepy owner
wow,did warren wells give no effort after thomas INT at 19:25. total loser non team player...lamonica, beat up as he was , angled thomas oub.this shows the difference between a team player vs a prima donna
Why did they continue to pass against the Chiefs? Must have been 4 INTs in that half. Should have tried some draw plays against that pass rush.
graciemaemarie11jones16, You have no idea what you're talking about. His teammates would never have characterized him in such a way, as Wells was a consummate competitor whose contributions as a blocker and on special teams were plain to see and widely known, contemporaneously.
Well, I suppose one can be thankful, at least, you didn't go down the usual dangerous thug trope in describing Wells. 🙄 🙄 🙄