1970… NFL/AFL merger BOSTON Patriots Czonka fumbling Charlie Johnson Oilers beating Steelers Broncos busting OJ Etc. The good old days Pro football at its FINEST. CB Thank you for posting these WONDERFUL videos!!
A super bowl history of the MINNESOTA VIKINGS , BY CBS SPORTS. THE NORSMAN, THE MEN IN PURPLE HELMETS WITH THE WHITE HORN. THE SUPER LOSERS OF THE SUPER BOWL. WHAT IS SECOND PLACE , HECKLED AN UPSET VIKINGS FAN FIRST FUCKING LOSER. FIRST IT WAS SUPER BOWL 4 THE MIGHTY VIKINGS WERE 14 POINT FAVOURITES LIKE THE BALTIMORE COLTS THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE VIKINGS WERE CRUSHED INTO SUBMISSION BY LENNY DAWSON AND HANK STRAM. CHIEFS 23 VIKINGS 7. SUPER BOWL 8 DOLPHINS 24 VIKINGS 7 AGAIN COMPLETELY CRUSHED INTO SUBMISSION BY CSONKA AND THE FISH. ONLY A LATE FRAN TARKINGTON TOUCHDOWN RUN SAVED THE SHUTOUT. AGAIN IT WAS FIRST FUCKING LOSER. SUPER BOWL 9 A RAY OF HOPE THE STEELERS FIRST TIME ON THE EPIC STAGE IT WAS THE VIKINGS 3RD ATTEMPT at super bowl CHAMPIONSHIP glory. Their WOULD be no VIKING CHAMPIONSHIP ON THIS THE STEELERS SO DOMINATED THE VIKINGS ON THIS DAY THE COULD MANAGE A MERE 17 YARDS RUSHING in yet A third consecutive super bowl loss VIKINGS 6 STEELERS 16. THE FOURTH AND FINAL APPERANCE WAS THE MOST LOPSIDED , HOWARD COSSEL SAID THE VIKINGS COULD HAVE LOST BY 60 IN THE OAKLAND RAIDERS Crushing 32-14 SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY. ONLY CHUCK FOREMANS TEARS COULD SHOW THE DEVASTATION OF A FOURTH SUPER BOWL LOSS FOR THE VIKINGS. THE BUFFALO BILLS WOULD EQUAL THE VIKINGS ACCOMPLISHMENTS SOME YEARS LATER AND JOIN THEM AS SUPER LOSERS OF THE SUPER BOWL.
Man, I love these shows and the old NFL films! I still remember names and numbers, even fifty years later. I worshipped these guys as a kid. Thanks for the memories.
@@billmalovich9050, best ever is a tie between Dick Enberg and Al Michaels. Gowdy was the voice of the AFL, and Saturday MAJ.LG. Baseball, but he lost his skill pretty fast after 1976.
There were 2 bread and butter weekly NFL Films shows I watched religiously back then with my Dad and 2 brothers. This Week in Pro Football of course which recapped every game, with Summeral and Brookshier, and the NFL Game of the Week, narrated usually by Jack Whitaker, usually focusing on 1 best game, or usually the 2 best games. Then of course, with the start of Monday Night Football in 1970, we got about 10 minutes of Cosell's Halftime Highlights which would also become must see. In the pre cable, pre ESPN days, those were the only sources to see highlights of games other than your home town team. Loved these shows, knew all the music etc.
I enjoy a lot this old videos. Football history I did not see in the time. To see all those players and teams, helmet logos, etc... is like watching legends to me.
This was pretty much the moment when I became interested in pro football. Beginning of the 1970 season, going into 3rd grade, other kids were interested in it and I just switched on to it. Super Bowl 5 was the first one I remember watching.
I remember hearing a little but not paying attention, barely watching in 1965, '66, and '67. It was at the beginning of 1968, that I got into it more, and by 1969, I knew what was going on. I was then 11..I watched all the way when Dallas beat Detroit 59-13 week one of '68. I watched college in '66, '67, and '68, in person with my aunt in the Astrodome watching U. of Houston football. We went when they were in town, every Saturday nite because my late Uncle Mike Dyer was an assistant trainer at RICE U. and he got free U OF H tickets. That is what I remember.
I'd love to see Atlanta return to their Red Helmets this Spring! I loved those Helmets because that shown the Falcons where a Great ID even in Pro Football.
What a great trip to the past. I was a 5 year old Cowboys fan. Back then, we were known as "Next Year's Team", because we always lost the big game. This year would be no different, losing to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V. Thanks for the upload.
What a gem! 1st year of the merged AFL/NFL. The Boston Patriots, stripes around the ball, the old uniforms. Tackling lead my upper body and shoulders instead of the head. Fun stuff to watch.
Harry Diaz you have a great memory. From what I read the striped balls were to slick because of the type of paint that was used, and in bad weather it was worse. Perhaps also for visibility in night games? By 76 maybe stadium lights no longer warranted stripes? I began following the Patriots in 76. My dad was an interior designer and a few of the players were his clients. So he took me along to their homes. Meeting John Hannah was a thrill. Along with Russ Francis etc. I think I was 9-11 years old
The music being played during the hights is great ..always remember the music while the game film was being broken down..!! Tom and pat ..was the espn version of chris Bergman and tom jackson..of today..I didnt miss a episode of this week in football ..I also luv the back round of the set with the helmets and the.dark setting ..!! This awesome.too see all the games and old stadiums and uniforms..I DONT THINK ANY OF THESE GUYS COULD PLAY IN TODAYS GAME WITH ALL THE RULE CHANGES AND STOPAGE ..THIS WAS REAL FOOTBALL.!! THANK GOD FOR REPLAY A D VIDEO TAPE..!!!
@@robertsprouse9282 I know that again I was just showing how different it was back then compared to today version..but I like the old stuff better the music qued and played when talking about defense and dick Butkis and music when a running back was going on a long run or a QB sack...tom pat had to be the most laid back guys doing commentating ..not like berman and Jackson with all the screaming and shouting and nicknames ..and just too see all the old stadiums and uniforms no domes or fake turf with rubber pellets ..just grass mud snow and rain..that's football..!!
Charles Klimko likewise..... I can’t get enough of these. When the game was a team sport played by men who respected the league. Much unlike today’s players.
Loved this show - especially the music. I would go to school with those themes playing in my head. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Best line when Tom Brookshier says, "...he stuck to John Gilliam like a tattoo on a sailor."
Good to see the great John Brodie again! I never missed this show in the late’60s & early’70s. I loved the music. Even to this day it often rolls around in my mind! Sumerall & Brookshier were a great team. A great job was done in restoring the films. Takes me back to my youth!
@@dewayneblue1834 wished that game had been Minnesota vs KC in a rematch of SB4 the previous January-but the Minnesota Twins had a game at home that Monday so the game couldn't happen Monday night
Hey big Tex ..that was my all time favorite of coaches being mic's loud Saban and hank stram..are the best..HEHEHE..THE MENTOR...65 TOSS POWER TRAP..DID I TELL YOU BOYS ..!! AND VINCE LOMBARDI..NOBODY TACKLING..NOBODY TACKLING ..JUST GRAB GRAB GRAB..OR THIS ONE FROM VINCE WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON OUT THERE..LOL
Agreed...I painstakingly searched and collected many of NFL Films musical scores on my Mac only to foolishly to re-image without first backing music up. DUHHHH!!!!
Larry you were NEVER a kid. A kid is an animal and GOD created animals first. Adam was next, a mammal not an animal. A kid is a baby goat or lamb! Are you a goat or lamb?
This is so awesome thank you! I remember this well as a kid. (The only thing that came close was years later the original Inside the NFL with Nick buoniconti and Len Dawson) Man, when football was football . We had "NFL Today". Brent Musburger. Jimmy the Greek, Irv Cross. Pat Summerall Broadcasting. Madden was still coaching. Golden years
Those Redskins "R" helmets were the best, Though this game was in San Francisco I ride by RFK everyday and let countless great games run through my memory.
Re Vikings payback demolition of the KC Chiefs 27-10 in the premiere game of the new NFL, SB replay, rumors are that Bud Grant was miked up by the local Minneapolis radio station. One quote I heard was "John Robinson is running around out there like it's a Japanese Hurricane Drill!!"
If you wanted to know what was going on in the NFL each week in 1970 it was this show and the sports section in the local newspaper, that was about it. This film gives a classic look at the Dolphins and the Steelers when they both had the basic parts of their great 1970's teams in place, but were not quite there yet.
Back when you had to be a Green Beret to catch a ball over the middle, nobody danced and celebrated a first down, you had to wear pads in practice, camps were brutal, and players needed off season jobs to make ends meet.
@@lt4161 yup… the first million dollar contract was just that, one million dollars. Think Archie Manning got it, or Steve Bartkowski. I remember one story in SI were a Falcons player valeted parked Michael Irving’s car in the off-season.
Thank you for posting. So many memories, even as I was only 3 years old. Collecting sports cards made these memories so wonderful. Love the fact that this was the first week of the first season of the merger!
bigtex macgonigle I lived in Houston at that time also. I lived there in 1970 and 1971. At the age of 10 and 11. I went to Hunters Creek Elementary School. I lived at 8850 Chatsworth Ave. I went to 2 Houston Oiler Games in the Astrodome. In 1970 I saw the Baltimore Colts led by Johnny Unit as defeat the Oilers 20 to 16. IN 1971 I saw the Detroit Lions beat the Oilers 31 to 7 . I bought my first packs of Baseball and Football Cards in 1970. I am now age 58. I only lived there for 2 years. It was 2 of the best years ever. I am sure it is a shithole now.
@@steveaustin7214 I wish I could've gone to a game at the Astrodome, and you might want to check out your old address on Google Maps street view. Not a shithole by any means!
I remember channel 39😄. I lived (and still do) in Corpus Christi. We would get 39 on cable. I used to watch Paul Bosh and Houston Wrestling, the WFL and Houston Rocket basketball with Calvin Murphy playing guard.
I too loved this show. In '70 I was only 9 but, I was the QB for our Peewee team...the Franklin/Roosevelt Rams lol! We had to combine with Roosevelt Elementary because our 2 schools were the 2 smallest in town. I remember that the best team in town, wasn't even named after the Elementary School where the boys attended. It was named after the business that sponsored them and, it fit perfectly. They were the Greenwood Lakers (it was a small manmade lake in town, that was turned into a huge swimming hole with paddleboats, slides, docks, swings and such) the team of course wore Packer colours lol. All the teams wore replica uniforms and helmets of the Pro teams we chose to be named after. Was great fun playing Football and, I would watch EVERYTHING on TV connected to Football and, watch the QBs of course lol.
I grew up in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area: this used to come on KDFW chan 4 (then a CBS affiliate, now Fox) on Sunday mornings. If I remember correctly the lineup was: the Tom Landry Show, TWIPF, NFL Game of the Week, then NFL Today followed by the game. I was 12...yup, glued to the TV!
Thank You for posting these videos! Some of the greatest moments in Pro Football captured in these highlights. I believe that this show because of Tom Brooksheir and Pat Summerall along with the great music influenced and attracted alot of young kids to become fans of the game. As I read these comments here I can tell that comment is the truth. It certainly was the show that made me a fan of the game.
at around 24:40 when they are talkinga bout John Gilliam having a tough day and he made a catch and they say he celebrated like he scored a touchdown. then all Gilliam did was get up and clap his hands. that is hilarious. today a guy makes a routine catch and they have to get up and run ten yards upfield and wave for a first down and dance and wait for their invitation to the pro bowl before simply going back to the huddle
slip satch I played football, baseball in school, little league Pop Warner, and Babe Ruth leagues,and every coach I ever had in both sports always made us aware to never do anything to show up your opponent. When you score, it's the result of hard work and teamwork. When they score on you, it's the same thing. Respect your opponent. If someone pulled that crap on me on a football field, they would've been made well aware of my displeasure. In fact, I probably would've been benched if I didn't respond.
Absolutely love the music in the background and the play calling from two of the best ever. Personally I thought the 1970s was one of the greatest decades for pro football,if not the best.It was certainly my favorite.
The studio segments of this show were filmed in the cold, damp basement of NFL Films in Philadelphia before they moved to Mt Laurel New Jersey. Steve Sabol said it was absolutely frigid in that basement. Something I never knew back when I absorbed this program as an 8 year old peewee fb player in suburban Cincinnati.
This really takes me back. I lived for this show on Saturday nights as a pre-teen. Great quality as its film. Interestingly enough, Doesn't look as dated as watching earlier footage of other sports. The skill levels are very high, but the players are smaller. This presentation of the league weekly in such dramatic fashion by NFL Films helped hook a generation of young boomers and fueled the enormous growth of the league.
Timothy Arts 👍 today’s game 1. Money 2. Acting like an idiot by running halfway down field after a routine tackle and beating your chest. 3. Seeing yourself, not your team on sports center 4. Winning
Absolutely, if only injuries did not shorten his career, he would be in the HALL. He was a full sheriff in the offseason. The Raiders let him get away. But, the Broncs let Willie Brown go to Oakland, and Hewritt Dixon.
Every Saturday at 12:30 pm this came on and I planned my entire week around it..then @ 3:30 the NFL GOTW came on and IF I was lucky it would be the Packers...One half hour of GB highlights in SLOW MOTION....!!! I was in heaven...!!!! I was 11 years old..what a great time to be 11...I miss the purity of football back then when players played for the love the game.... that has seemingly long since vanished and now it's all about the money and self promotion....
The music soundtracks are epic... and look at the uniforms and some of the stadiums they were playing in... incredible... look like DIvision II stadiums... it was all so much more authentic and gladiator-like back then... a different game... a much better game... what memories... today's football is nothing compare to this... THIS IS FOOTBALL... (and watch some of the programs of late in the season... where there was snow and dirt and it looked like an epic war...) man, I miss those days...
James Thomas Those Houston uniforms are very unusual because they had no player names on the back. AFL teams had names on the back dating from the start of the league in 1960.
They did have names but it was very small and hard to see. In 1960, the LA Chargers had names for the full year. The rest of the teams only wore it once or twice or not it all. In 1961, all AFL teams wore last names on their jerseys.
@devildog1982z To me the Saints best uniforms are those vintage road white jerseys with the black pants and of course that great helmet. Their old uniforms have always been one of the best in NFL history.
@@JStarStar00, that was on just one of the Oiler players, probably left his name containing uni at home, or he was a late acquisition. The AFL started putting players names on the back for all teams in year two in 1961. Some teams had it in year one in '60, some did not. The L.A. Chargers were the first to do it that season. The Titans of New York, did not until 1961. Harry Wismer their owner was bleeding money and was operating on the cheap. NFL started doing it in 1970 when the AFC was brought in, and when the old AFL went bye bye.
A couple of things this is how we got our football back in the day I was15. And reminded me back when the merger came, how the NFL teams, and the AFL teams, would actually try to kill each other on every play. What a great time machine UA-cam is.
I was wondering where the Browns were, then realised they played the first ever Monday Night Football game that week against Namath and the Jets. Guessing those highlights simply couldn’t be ready in time back then.
My goodness, better days, as in creating a dynasty, were ahead for Terry Bradshaw and the Steelers. Just some early growing pains at Three Rivers Stadium in 1970. A whole memorable decade of greatness was soon coming.
Pat and Tom talked about the preseason in the opening, and it really was a season unto itself. Six games in the preseason I remember as a kid it seem to go on forever. The regular season didn’t start till the third week of September.
I was only 2 in 1970 but remember some of the players like Bob Griese the long time QB for Miami because he was still around a decade after this. I also started collecting BB and FB cards VERY young, around 5, and I solf all my bb cards for $400 in HS but just the other day I found my football cards, almost all from the 1973 season. Don't know what they are worth but again almost all 1973 cards and I have OJ, Bob Griese, George Blanda the kicker of Oakland born 1927, Fran T, Stabler and a bunch of other big names but just around 300 cards total, and they were the only FB cards I ever collected. There were a few BB cards from the back of twinkies boxes I had cut out in 1977.
Maybe, no, definitely one of, the smartest men to play in the NFL. JOHN URSCHEL who came much later was a genius, and there have been a few others, Frank Ryan, etc... But, Johnson after he retired, continued for forty years more being a professor at his old school NEW MEXICO STATE U.(called NMEX.HIGHLANDS when he played there). He taught CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. I love him because he was Denver's qb savior in 1973, giving us our first winning record, the second year I rooted for the team. He just could not stay healthy. He also spent two seasons in the military DURING HIS NFL CAREER in the 1960's, and that cost him stats with the St.Louis Cards. When healthy on the field, he was a great qback, very underrated!
Pat and Tom were the original party boys. Supposedly hungover during steelers-rams an in 1980. Weird to hear boston patriots. Had several homes before moving to Foxboro.
The Patriots were always on at my grandparents house when we'd visit on Sundays and it was usually wall-to-wall moaning and groaning by all of us. This 1970 team was horrible -- they would win only one more game after this surprising opener and Clive Rush would be remembered as one of the worst coaches in the team's history.
TOM and MADDEN saved PAT's life with AN INTERVENTION. TOM had stopped boozing years earlier.. They pulled Tom from Pat's team BECAUSE OF THE DRINKING, and brought in Staubach, etc, until they hit paydirt with MADDEN.
@@MrHmg55, CLIVE RUSH= good Jets OFFENSIVE COORD. assistant, terrible PATS head coach. Mike Holovak great g.m. with Houston, terrible Pats head coach.. COACH CHUCK FAIRBANKS, STEVE GROGAN, SAM "BAM" CUNNINGHAM, JOHN HANNAH, and good defenders along with Schaeffer Stadium, saved your franchise. Otherwise, it would have left.
@@robertsprouse9282 The end of the Sullivan ownership helped, too, even if the stadium was built on that family's watch. The franchise has been close to leaving twice since then. Everyone who got on the bandwagon in 2000 has no idea what the first 39 years of Patriots football were like. If you were to drop 15-year-old 1970 me into 2020 and tell me that the Patriots have won six Super Bowls and had a state-of-the-art stadium in Foxboro, I'd likely just stare at you and say, "The Patriots? The Patriots? The Patriots????" The Fairbanks Pats were exciting, but even that brief bright period ended in typical Pats fashion, with Fairbanks quitting right before the first playoff game.
In 1970 I was 8 and probably the smallest in a group of kids in the neighborhood that used to play every Sunday..rain or snow it didn't matter...I would come home bloody muddy and bruised. I didn't care..man I miss those days.
1970…
NFL/AFL merger
BOSTON Patriots
Czonka fumbling
Charlie Johnson
Oilers beating Steelers
Broncos busting OJ
Etc.
The good old days
Pro football at its FINEST. CB
Thank you for posting these
WONDERFUL videos!!
This was my favorite show as an 11 year old kid.
And mine as a 15 year old kid.
There with you brother. Still my favorite show as an adult!
R F Me too! I always looked forward to the highlights. Plus the Sam Spence music is unforgettable. Great stuff.
Mine to as another 11 yr old...nothing like football in the 70's..Go Vikings
I was also 11; great season of football
I watched this show every week. One of the coolest things with this show was the music. ✌
Me , too!
Me and my Brother always watched this weekly review!! Hard to believe it’s been 50 Years!!
1970, I was eight years old, I remember playing football with the gang in the snow here in MI.
A super bowl history of the MINNESOTA VIKINGS , BY CBS SPORTS. THE NORSMAN, THE MEN IN PURPLE HELMETS WITH THE WHITE HORN. THE SUPER LOSERS OF THE SUPER BOWL.
WHAT IS SECOND PLACE , HECKLED AN UPSET VIKINGS FAN FIRST FUCKING LOSER. FIRST IT WAS SUPER BOWL 4 THE MIGHTY VIKINGS WERE 14 POINT FAVOURITES LIKE THE BALTIMORE COLTS THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE VIKINGS WERE CRUSHED INTO SUBMISSION BY LENNY DAWSON AND HANK STRAM. CHIEFS 23 VIKINGS 7. SUPER BOWL 8 DOLPHINS 24 VIKINGS 7 AGAIN COMPLETELY CRUSHED INTO SUBMISSION BY CSONKA AND THE FISH. ONLY A LATE FRAN TARKINGTON TOUCHDOWN RUN SAVED THE SHUTOUT. AGAIN IT WAS FIRST FUCKING LOSER. SUPER BOWL 9 A RAY OF HOPE THE STEELERS FIRST TIME ON THE EPIC STAGE IT WAS THE VIKINGS 3RD ATTEMPT at super bowl CHAMPIONSHIP glory. Their WOULD be no VIKING CHAMPIONSHIP ON THIS THE STEELERS SO DOMINATED THE VIKINGS ON THIS DAY THE COULD MANAGE A MERE 17 YARDS RUSHING in yet A third consecutive super bowl loss VIKINGS 6 STEELERS 16. THE FOURTH AND FINAL APPERANCE WAS THE MOST LOPSIDED , HOWARD COSSEL SAID THE VIKINGS COULD HAVE LOST BY 60 IN THE OAKLAND RAIDERS Crushing 32-14 SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP VICTORY. ONLY CHUCK FOREMANS TEARS COULD SHOW THE DEVASTATION OF A FOURTH SUPER BOWL LOSS FOR THE VIKINGS. THE BUFFALO BILLS WOULD EQUAL THE VIKINGS ACCOMPLISHMENTS SOME YEARS LATER AND JOIN THEM AS SUPER LOSERS OF THE SUPER BOWL.
Man, I love these shows and the old NFL films! I still remember names and numbers, even fifty years later. I worshipped these guys as a kid. Thanks for the memories.
You're so right .
"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."
Marve Levy used to say that.
Act like your playing a freaking game...AND CELEBRATE!!!
Unless your team is getting blown out.
I miss the NFL of the 1970s.
Yeah it didn’t have all the hype of today’s game. It was just football.
Oh yeah the NFL of the 60s and 70s the best by far
I miss Curt Gowdy, he's still not been surpassed by any current announcer.
......no kneeling at the National Anthem......
@@billmalovich9050, best ever is a tie between Dick Enberg and Al Michaels.
Gowdy was the voice of the AFL, and Saturday MAJ.LG. Baseball, but he lost his skill pretty fast after 1976.
We never missed a week of the greatest highlight show Ever!
There were 2 bread and butter weekly NFL Films shows I watched religiously back then with my Dad and 2 brothers. This Week in Pro Football of course which recapped every game, with Summeral and Brookshier, and the NFL Game of the Week, narrated usually by Jack Whitaker, usually focusing on 1 best game, or usually the 2 best games. Then of course, with the start of Monday Night Football in 1970, we got about 10 minutes of Cosell's Halftime Highlights which would also become must see. In the pre cable, pre ESPN days, those were the only sources to see highlights of games other than your home town team. Loved these shows, knew all the music etc.
Isn't this background music rollicking and great?? Perfect for that era...
That old NFL Film music brings back great memories
I enjoy a lot this old videos. Football history I did not see in the time. To see all those players and teams, helmet logos, etc... is like watching legends to me.
This was pretty much the moment when I became interested in pro football. Beginning of the 1970 season, going into 3rd grade, other kids were interested in it and I just switched on to it. Super Bowl 5 was the first one I remember watching.
I remember hearing a little but not paying attention, barely watching in 1965, '66, and '67. It was at the beginning of 1968, that I got into it more, and by 1969, I knew what was going on. I was then 11..I watched all the way when Dallas beat Detroit 59-13 week one of '68.
I watched college in '66, '67, and '68, in person with my aunt in the Astrodome watching U. of Houston football. We went when they were in town, every Saturday nite because my late Uncle Mike Dyer was an assistant trainer at RICE U. and he got free U OF H tickets.
That is what I remember.
I recall TWIPF being on every Sunday morning before the network pregame show. Brookie and Summerall.
This was a great show love the background with all the helmets. Two guys just talking football and narrating highlights. Love it!
100 percent agree. Watched it every week.
Raymond Chester was-is one of the best TE to ever play in the NFL......underrated big time!
I'd love to see Atlanta return to their Red Helmets this Spring! I loved those Helmets because that shown the Falcons where a Great ID even in Pro Football.
I loved this show, Pat & Brookie were a wonderful pair...Hoyle Granger, such a very, cool, name....
What a great trip to the past. I was a 5 year old Cowboys fan.
Back then, we were known as "Next Year's Team", because we always lost the big game. This year would be no different, losing to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V.
Thanks for the upload.
Kenneth C. Bishop but the Cowboys were “NEXT YEARS TEAM” in the 1970 season.
Remember this show well, couldn't get enough of the slow motion, watched with my Dad
I loved this team calling a game back in the day. Thanks!
This is awesome! LOVED Tom and Pat back in the day. I was 15 in 1970, the first year of Monday Night Football.
Pat & Tom were through 1980,then came Madden.
Real football at last, miss the golden days of the NFL!
Joaquin Fernandez I miss it!
Me too. Today's game is a circus and not one I enjoy.
Damn right!!!
I miss the old NFL, too!
So do I ! ua-cam.com/video/miXs70Vgxfs/v-deo.html
Loved those bushes at Tulane Stadium..Abramowicz was reported missing for one quarter.
How about the campus buildings in the background at Franklin Field? Such great old stadiums the NFL used to play in!
A great Stadium.
Saw Saints play there many time as a kid
Good one, 68!!!
What a gem! 1st year of the merged AFL/NFL. The Boston Patriots, stripes around the ball, the old uniforms. Tackling lead my upper body and shoulders instead of the head. Fun stuff to watch.
Harry Diaz ya it got me curious. I googled it and apparently they were used until 76.
Harry Diaz you have a great memory. From what I read the striped balls were to slick because of the type of paint that was used, and in bad weather it was worse. Perhaps also for visibility in night games? By 76 maybe stadium lights no longer warranted stripes? I began following the Patriots in 76. My dad was an interior designer and a few of the players were his clients. So he took me along to their homes. Meeting John Hannah was a thrill. Along with Russ Francis etc. I think I was 9-11 years old
The music being played during the hights is great ..always remember the music while the game film was being broken down..!! Tom and pat ..was the espn version of chris Bergman and tom jackson..of today..I didnt miss a episode of this week in football ..I also luv the back round of the set with the helmets and the.dark setting ..!! This awesome.too see all the games and old stadiums and uniforms..I DONT THINK ANY OF THESE GUYS COULD PLAY IN TODAYS GAME WITH ALL THE RULE CHANGES AND STOPAGE ..THIS WAS REAL FOOTBALL.!! THANK GOD FOR REPLAY A D VIDEO TAPE..!!!
Tom nor Pat talked during each of the other's narrated highlights. Tommy J. did that with Berman. That was their style.
@@robertsprouse9282 I know that again I was just showing how different it was back then compared to today version..but I like the old stuff better the music qued and played when talking about defense and dick Butkis and music when a running back was going on a long run or a QB sack...tom pat had to be the most laid back guys doing commentating ..not like berman and Jackson with all the screaming and shouting and nicknames ..and just too see all the old stadiums and uniforms no domes or fake turf with rubber pellets ..just grass mud snow and rain..that's football..!!
Brookshier and Summerall were a great team. Miss these kinds of commentators.
Drawing attention to the action, not themselves. Refreshing.
i loved this show, when I was a kid.
Charles Klimko likewise..... I can’t get enough of these. When the game was a team sport played by men who respected the league. Much unlike today’s players.
I would sit in front of the t.v., holding a microphone up to the tiny speaker, and make audio cassettes of this show.
Mark Ensel 😂👍that’s awesome
Jazz + NFL hilites was the ticket
Me on Saturday afternoon.
Loved this show - especially the music. I would go to school with those themes playing in my head. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Best line when Tom Brookshier says, "...he stuck to John Gilliam like a tattoo on a sailor."
Good to see the great John Brodie again! I never missed this show in the late’60s & early’70s. I loved the music. Even to this day it often rolls around in my mind! Sumerall & Brookshier were a great team. A great job was done in restoring the films. Takes me back to my youth!
Back when a Bengals Browns game was really confusing.
PAUL BROWN stuck it to Cleveland.
Great commentary,
Great music,
Great presentation!
Good ol smashmouth football!
I watched this in high school on Thursday nights early 1970's, I believe Channel 29 in Philadelphia area.
@Bubba B, Channel 39 in Houston, Tx. at 11am Saturday Morning, later moved to Saturday afternoon..
you notice no Jets or Browns highlights. They were to meet Monday night in the very first telecast of Monday Night Football
Good point! With Cosell, Jackson and Meredith in the booth...
@@dewayneblue1834 wished that game had been Minnesota vs KC in a rematch of SB4 the previous January-but the Minnesota Twins had a game at home that Monday so the game couldn't happen Monday night
Thank you very much for posting this. Ah, the memories! Thanks again.
The old Denver Broncos helmets were a gazillion times better than the current.
Woody Hayes Agreed. Patriots were better then, too.
@@brucedale6278 - yes, absolutely
Bills' were better too!
Completely agree!
Also when facemasks looked quite different.
My first year watching the NFL. I loved this show.
Wow those old Ridell suspension helmets brought back high school memories.... I think. Lol
1970 was the best year the LIONS have had since 1957 in my opinion. Len Barney , Charlie Sanders and Dick LeBeau all in the Hall of Fame.
Those days are long over.
Steve Austin Alex Karras and Mike Lucci probably should be in the HOF.
Steve Austin I was 12. I watched that 5-0 playoff loss to Dallas at my grandmas house. I was pissed as hell.
No offense
Davan Mani Your clueless . Mel Farr and Altie Taylor at RB. Greg Landry and Bill Munson at QB. These guys were all solid players.
Lou Saban: "They're killin' me Whitey!!...They're killin' me!!"
I still use that today. I tell my wife you're killing me Genie, you're killing me.🤣
Hey big Tex ..that was my all time favorite of coaches being mic's loud Saban and hank stram..are the best..HEHEHE..THE MENTOR...65 TOSS POWER TRAP..DID I TELL YOU BOYS ..!! AND VINCE LOMBARDI..NOBODY TACKLING..NOBODY TACKLING ..JUST GRAB GRAB GRAB..OR THIS ONE FROM VINCE WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON OUT THERE..LOL
@copyright Police Julio Jones, Deandre Hopkins, Tyreek Hill, Ju Ju Smith-Schuster....etc, etc. Robert Woods.
Whitey: "I know"
Now I know where Denzel got that line from Remember the Titans: “You’re killing me, Petey!”
The music from thus era of NFL films was the absolute best.....I really miss those days..
Agreed...I painstakingly searched and collected many of NFL Films musical scores on my Mac only to foolishly to re-image without first backing music up. DUHHHH!!!!
@@144wychwood, Oh no. I have the LP records, and the AUTUMN THUNDER CDS..They are fantastic.
I loved watching this. Was 11 years old and watched with my dad.
never missed this as a kid...
NEVER!!
Yup every Saturday afternoon
This & Soul Train were must see's
Larry you were NEVER a kid. A kid is an animal and GOD created animals first. Adam was next, a mammal not an animal. A kid is a baby goat or lamb! Are you a goat or lamb?
Timothy Ball Uh??
Brings back memories of me watching this show when I was a little kid.
This is so awesome thank you!
I remember this well as a kid. (The only thing that came close was years later the original Inside the NFL with
Nick buoniconti and Len Dawson)
Man, when football was football .
We had "NFL Today". Brent Musburger. Jimmy the Greek, Irv Cross.
Pat Summerall Broadcasting.
Madden was still coaching.
Golden years
Those Redskins "R" helmets were the best, Though this game was in San Francisco I ride by RFK everyday and let countless great games run through my memory.
Re Vikings payback demolition of the KC Chiefs 27-10 in the premiere game of the new NFL, SB replay, rumors are that Bud Grant was miked up by the local Minneapolis radio station. One quote I heard was "John Robinson is running around out there like it's a Japanese Hurricane Drill!!"
100% The BEST NFL show then and now.
I used to watch this as a child and it brings back so many memories of the 70"s and the SIMPLE TIMES
If you wanted to know what was going on in the NFL each week in 1970 it was this show and the sports section in the local newspaper, that was about it. This film gives a classic look at the Dolphins and the Steelers when they both had the basic parts of their great 1970's teams in place, but were not quite there yet.
Thanks for uploading -- I use to watch every week-- Great Show..
I remember being 6 or 7 and watching this every weekend. I loved the image of the helmets on the back wall.
Back when you had to be a Green Beret to catch a ball over the middle, nobody danced and celebrated a first down, you had to wear pads in practice, camps were brutal, and players needed off season jobs to make ends meet.
U could relate to the players. Now it is diva nonsense
Off season jobs you can’t be serious
@@lt4161 100%. Unless you were a superstar
@@Grandizer8989 that’s fucked up
@@lt4161 yup… the first million dollar contract was just that, one million dollars. Think Archie Manning got it, or Steve Bartkowski. I remember one story in SI were a Falcons player valeted parked Michael Irving’s car in the off-season.
Thank you for posting. So many memories, even as I was only 3 years old. Collecting sports cards made these memories so wonderful. Love the fact that this was the first week of the first season of the merger!
1960s NFL A N D AFL.....
ABSOLUTELY the greatest era of
pro football. The 70s were good, but not quite as good.🏈
Wow, 50 years ago, cool Eagles helmets, I was only 6 in 1970!
This used to come on Friday nights at 8pm on Channel 39 in Houston, Tx...I'd sit glued to the tv watching this..I was 11 yrs old...great memories.
bigtex macgonigle I lived in Houston at that time also. I lived there in 1970 and 1971. At the age of 10 and 11. I went to Hunters Creek Elementary School. I lived at 8850 Chatsworth Ave. I went to 2 Houston Oiler Games in the Astrodome. In 1970 I saw the Baltimore Colts led by Johnny Unit as defeat the Oilers 20 to 16. IN 1971 I saw the Detroit Lions beat the Oilers 31 to 7 . I bought my first packs of Baseball and Football Cards in 1970. I am now age 58. I only lived there for 2 years. It was 2 of the best years ever. I am sure it is a shithole now.
@@steveaustin7214 I wish I could've gone to a game at the Astrodome, and you might want to check out your old address on Google Maps street view. Not a shithole by any means!
I remember channel 39😄. I lived (and still do) in Corpus Christi. We would get 39 on cable. I used to watch Paul Bosh and Houston Wrestling, the WFL and Houston Rocket basketball with Calvin Murphy playing guard.
I too loved this show. In '70 I was only 9 but, I was the QB for our Peewee team...the Franklin/Roosevelt Rams lol! We had to combine with Roosevelt Elementary because our 2 schools were the 2 smallest in town. I remember that the best team in town, wasn't even named after the Elementary School where the boys attended. It was named after the business that sponsored them and, it fit perfectly. They were the Greenwood Lakers (it was a small manmade lake in town, that was turned into a huge swimming hole with paddleboats, slides, docks, swings and such) the team of course wore Packer colours lol. All the teams wore replica uniforms and helmets of the Pro teams we chose to be named after. Was great fun playing Football and, I would watch EVERYTHING on TV connected to Football and, watch the QBs of course lol.
I grew up in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area: this used to come on KDFW chan 4 (then a CBS affiliate, now Fox) on Sunday mornings. If I remember correctly the lineup was: the Tom Landry Show, TWIPF, NFL Game of the Week, then NFL Today followed by the game.
I was 12...yup, glued to the TV!
Thank You for posting these videos! Some of the greatest moments in Pro Football captured in these highlights. I believe that this show because of Tom Brooksheir and Pat Summerall along with the great music influenced and attracted alot of young kids to become fans of the game. As I read these comments here I can tell that comment is the truth. It certainly was the show that made me a fan of the game.
at around 24:40 when they are talkinga bout John Gilliam having a tough day and he made a catch and they say he celebrated like he scored a touchdown. then all Gilliam did was get up and clap his hands. that is hilarious. today a guy makes a routine catch and they have to get up and run ten yards upfield and wave for a first down and dance and wait for their invitation to the pro bowl before simply going back to the huddle
He also didn't actually catch it. He was celebrating getting away with an incomplete pass. Ah, the days before instant replay.
Steve Swangler Today’s NFL is STUPIDITY in the Nth DEGREE!
@@williamvasquez7889 absolutely
I love it. No hotdoggin' or dancing in the endzone after a score. Just run off the field.
Is the dancing really a problem to you Slug? With all the issues going on in the world, football players dancing is your issue? LOL.
Slug McGurk You’re part of the No Fun League bullshit.
Do you all hotdog or dance when you make a copy at work or drive a nail into a board...no?...why not? It’s your job?...yeah I guess that makes sense.
slip satch I played football, baseball in school, little league Pop Warner, and Babe Ruth leagues,and every coach I ever had in both sports always made us aware to never do anything to show up your opponent. When you score, it's the result of hard work and teamwork. When they score on you, it's the same thing. Respect your opponent. If someone pulled that crap on me on a football field, they would've been made well aware of my displeasure. In fact, I probably would've been benched if I didn't respond.
Old curmudgeons, smh.
You got to love throwback football and that music!
Awesome........this is pure football game...rough and humble by the players
Absolutely love the music in the background and the play calling from two of the best ever.
Personally I thought the 1970s was one of the greatest decades for pro football,if not the best.It was certainly my favorite.
The studio segments of this show were filmed in the cold, damp basement of NFL Films in Philadelphia before they moved to Mt Laurel New Jersey. Steve Sabol said it was absolutely frigid in that basement. Something I never knew back when I absorbed this program as an 8 year old peewee fb player in suburban Cincinnati.
This is STILL my favorite TV show! Nothing like it. Thank you SO much for uploading these gems!
Thanks for posting this. Love looking at the old unis.
This really takes me back. I lived for this show on Saturday nights as a pre-teen. Great quality as its film. Interestingly enough, Doesn't look as dated as watching earlier footage of other sports. The skill levels are very high, but the players are smaller. This presentation of the league weekly in such dramatic fashion by NFL Films helped hook a generation of young boomers and fueled the enormous growth of the league.
The quality of this video is outstanding.
Man,the music was CLASSIC and ICONIC!
I love this!! my youth I couldn't wait to get highlights in my town of Boise.
Wow. Shula's first Miami game. Bradshaw's first Pittsburgh game. Man. History.
Love those touchdown end zone celebrations - a handshake with other team players or maybe a jump - Yippee!
Just doing their job..
Loved watching this as kid, great memories.
1970=FOOTBALL 1ST - MONEY 2ND
Timothy Arts 👍 today’s game 1. Money 2. Acting like an idiot by running halfway down field after a routine tackle and beating your chest. 3. Seeing yourself, not your team on sports center 4. Winning
Tim Farts; horse manure.
@@sludge4125, yep just like the sludge you find in a sewer. You are well named, twit.
@@johnsteward132 Johnny Sewer, I am so hurt. But, at least I'm not butt hurt, like you are after a night with RuPaul.
Rich ‘Tombstone’ Jackson, one of the most underrated players in NFL history
Should be in the hall of fame.
Absolutely, if only injuries did not shorten his career, he would be in the HALL. He was a full sheriff in the offseason. The Raiders let him get away. But, the Broncs let Willie Brown go to Oakland, and Hewritt Dixon.
Every Saturday at 12:30 pm this came on and I planned my entire week around it..then @ 3:30 the NFL GOTW came on and IF I was lucky it would be the Packers...One half hour of GB highlights in SLOW MOTION....!!! I was in heaven...!!!! I was 11 years old..what a great time to be 11...I miss the purity of football back then when players played for the love the game.... that has seemingly long since vanished and now it's all about the money and self promotion....
The music soundtracks are epic... and look at the uniforms and some of the stadiums they were playing in... incredible... look like DIvision II stadiums... it was all so much more authentic and gladiator-like back then... a different game... a much better game... what memories... today's football is nothing compare to this... THIS IS FOOTBALL... (and watch some of the programs of late in the season... where there was snow and dirt and it looked like an epic war...) man, I miss those days...
love those old oiler uniforms
James Thomas Those Houston uniforms are very unusual because they had no player names on the back. AFL teams had names on the back dating from the start of the league in 1960.
They did have names but it was very small and hard to see. In 1960, the LA Chargers had names for the full year. The rest of the teams only wore it once or twice or not it all. In 1961, all AFL teams wore last names on their jerseys.
Oilers had great uniforms in the 70s
@devildog1982z To me the Saints best uniforms are those vintage road white jerseys with the black pants and of course that great helmet. Their old uniforms have always been one of the best in NFL history.
@@JStarStar00, that was on just one of the Oiler players, probably left his name containing uni at home, or he was a late acquisition. The AFL started putting players names on the back for all teams in year two in 1961. Some teams had it in year one in '60, some did not. The L.A. Chargers were the first to do it that season. The Titans of New York, did not until 1961.
Harry Wismer their owner was bleeding money and was operating on the cheap.
NFL started doing it in 1970 when the AFC was brought in, and when the old AFL went bye bye.
I love seeing this old footage. John Facenda was the greatest narrator I ever heard. Thanks for posting.
He did not narrate this..lol.
brings back wonderful memories of my early youth
A couple of things this is how we got our football back in the day I was15. And reminded me back when the merger came, how the NFL teams, and the AFL teams, would actually try to kill each other on every play. What a great time machine UA-cam is.
I was wondering where the Browns were, then realised they played the first ever Monday Night Football game that week against Namath and the Jets. Guessing those highlights simply couldn’t be ready in time back then.
I LOVE THIS OLD FOOTAGE!!!!!!😃
So nice to see simplicity of NFL 50 years ago. No broadway productions after scoring touch downs or ugly monochrome and fluorescent coloured uniforms.
What's the best time in my life watching the game of the week with a great music in the background
My goodness, better days, as in creating a dynasty, were ahead for Terry Bradshaw and the Steelers. Just some early growing pains at Three Rivers Stadium in 1970. A whole memorable decade of greatness was soon coming.
They open with Miami and Pittsburgh, two teams that dominated the 70s
The theme music sounds like it could have been a rejected soundtrack for Johnny Quest. Love it. Cheers!
kw19193 This music is on UA-cam. I listen to it all the time @ work.
kw19193- wow! man you are so right. That is so funny. Nice catch!
Pat and Tom talked about the preseason in the opening, and it really was a season unto itself. Six games in the preseason I remember as a kid it seem to go on forever. The regular season didn’t start till the third week of September.
I was only 2 in 1970 but remember some of the players like Bob Griese the long time QB for Miami because he was still around a decade after this. I also started collecting BB and FB cards VERY young, around 5, and I solf all my bb cards for $400 in HS but just the other day I found my football cards, almost all from the 1973 season. Don't know what they are worth but again almost all 1973 cards and I have OJ, Bob Griese, George Blanda the kicker of Oakland born 1927, Fran T, Stabler and a bunch of other big names but just around 300 cards total, and they were the only FB cards I ever collected. There were a few BB cards from the back of twinkies boxes I had cut out in 1977.
ALWAYS an excellent program...Charley Johnson was an underrated Q..B. IMO...
Maybe, no, definitely one of, the smartest men to play in the NFL. JOHN URSCHEL who came much later was a genius, and there have been a few others, Frank Ryan, etc... But, Johnson after he retired, continued for forty years more being a professor at his old school NEW MEXICO STATE U.(called NMEX.HIGHLANDS when he played there). He taught CHEMICAL ENGINEERING.
I love him because he was Denver's qb savior in 1973, giving us our first winning record, the second year I rooted for the team. He just could not stay healthy.
He also spent two seasons in the military DURING HIS NFL CAREER in the 1960's, and that cost him stats with the St.Louis Cards.
When healthy on the field, he was a great qback, very underrated!
Used to love watching this as a kid
This video is worth watching for the music alone!
Those were the best days of the NFL by far. I was a Baltimore Colts fan. I wonder what Johnny Unitas would have looked like with dread locks.
You beat my Cowboys in that season's Super Bowl...good game👊
Classic. Thank you
AWESOME! I REMEMBER WATCHING THE VIKINGS AND THE CHIEFS. THANK YOU!!!
Hearing Terry Bradshaw being called a bust is wild now
Bradshaw's career had a rough start. His game improved mostly when the team around him improved.
Pat and Tom were the original party boys.
Supposedly hungover during steelers-rams an in 1980.
Weird to hear boston patriots. Had several homes before moving to Foxboro.
The Patriots were always on at my grandparents house when we'd visit on Sundays and it was usually wall-to-wall moaning and groaning by all of us. This 1970 team was horrible -- they would win only one more game after this surprising opener and Clive Rush would be remembered as one of the worst coaches in the team's history.
TOM and MADDEN saved PAT's life with AN INTERVENTION. TOM had stopped boozing years earlier..
They pulled Tom from Pat's team BECAUSE OF THE DRINKING, and brought in Staubach, etc, until they hit paydirt with MADDEN.
@@MrHmg55, CLIVE RUSH= good Jets OFFENSIVE COORD. assistant, terrible PATS head coach. Mike Holovak great g.m. with Houston, terrible Pats head coach..
COACH CHUCK FAIRBANKS, STEVE GROGAN, SAM "BAM" CUNNINGHAM, JOHN HANNAH, and good defenders along with Schaeffer Stadium, saved your franchise.
Otherwise, it would have left.
@@robertsprouse9282 The end of the Sullivan ownership helped, too, even if the stadium was built on that family's watch. The franchise has been close to leaving twice since then. Everyone who got on the bandwagon in 2000 has no idea what the first 39 years of Patriots football were like. If you were to drop 15-year-old 1970 me into 2020 and tell me that the Patriots have won six Super Bowls and had a state-of-the-art stadium in Foxboro, I'd likely just stare at you and say, "The Patriots? The Patriots? The Patriots????"
The Fairbanks Pats were exciting, but even that brief bright period ended in typical Pats fashion, with Fairbanks quitting right before the first playoff game.
Denver should really bring back a modern version of these uniforms I love these orange pants.
In 1970 I was 8 and probably the smallest in a group of kids in the neighborhood that used to play every Sunday..rain or snow it didn't matter...I would come home bloody muddy and bruised. I didn't care..man I miss those days.