These NFL Films programs have lots of good film footage, but are nothing but sales propaganda for the league. Rarely do they reveal anything critical about the coaching or play of the teams. I was fascinated by them as an adolescent, but realized they were a lot of bullshit by the time I became an adult.
I live in Tennessee in Titans Country so it is nice to see the Titans roots the Houston Oilers.The 1969 Oilers uniforms are far better than the current Titans uniforms and Coach Wally Lemm is the last Oilers-Titans coach to win a League Championship in 1961.The 1969 Oilers did make the playoffs at 6-6-2 but were routed 56-7 at Oakland after falling 28-0 in the 1st quarter.I noticed that disaster was not mentioned in this highlight film.
Strangely, this film focused on only one specific game -- the monsoon at Kansas City. They let you know the Chiefs won, but they don't mention the final score -- 24-0. The Oilers had more turnovers in tha game (9) than first downs (7). Then again, the 1969 Oilers had no memorable wins -- all 6 wins and both ties came against teams with losing records. The Oilers had a worse record than the Chargers (8-6), but the 1969 AFL rules provided that both second-place teams made the playoffs, rather than the two teams with the best records after the division winners. So the Oilers made the playoff and got massacred by the Raiders (who'd needed a late TD bomb to beat Houston 21-17 in the season opener in Oakland).
@@PreFabInternationalCine Crazy thing is my first memory of the Oilers is probably 1970 or 71. But definitely the silver helmet. I live in Cleveland so I saw them play the Browns twice a year, and the Bengals and Steelers were also televised a lot. I was only 2 in 71. Crazy thing is the Oilers became my favorite team in 1978.
@@whataboutrob442, Campbellite? Earl Campbell? Campbellites were people who split the Church of Christ into two denominations back in the 19th.century, led by a guy named Campbell. I am an agnostic and former churchgoer in the CHURCH OF CHRIST denomination and that is how I knew that. I was using Earl Campbell the great Oiler runningback with a play on words. Got it?
@@johnmanier7968, that is why KANSAS CITY which was second in the AFL WEST that season is not retroactively listed as a WILD CARD. That finish is not considered a WILD CARD team's spot because WILD CARDS are teams whose finished spot is not guaranteed before the season as a playoff qualifier. It is almost as if the Chiefs were treated like a division champ, except they could only host the AFL EAST's second place Oilers in the playoffs, something that did not happen. The WILD CARD concept by the way was first pushed by the late, great DON SHULA after his 11-1-2 '67 COLTS failed to make the playoffs despite an identical record with the RAMS who won the NFL WEST's COASTAL DIVISION in a point-differential tiebreak of their two regular season meetings= which back then was tiebreak one, not head to head results and then on to a second tiebreak level. When the NFL decided to have three divisions in each conference in '70, the WILD CARD was born. Thanks Coach Shula, R.I.P.
Thanks for the upload . This was my first season of watching the NFL at 8 years old ! My fav player was Zeke Moore , because I liked his rough house style !
I agree, as neat as the original Patriots' uniforms. Hard to define & figure that secondary color- unless the burnt orange was meant to symbolize processed oil...?
@@67marlins81, it was a darker Columbia Blue than they wore in the NFL post- mid'70's. I read one time that Columbia Blue was the color of the company blazers worn by the PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. that OILERS OWNER BUD ADAMS daddy started in Phillips and Bartlesville, OKLA, the one where ADAMS made, and inherited a fortune. You know it by Phillips 66 today. That color explanation is what I read.
Joe Kapp signed with Houston Oliers in 1967 th but the BC Lions claimed Houston interference with the signing and Then NFL Commissioner Peter Roselle agreed and contract was voided.
The first extension of the uprights on the goal posts came as a result of a playoff game between the Colts and Packers in 1965. The Packers won by 3 points, and they had a field goal called good that sailed high above the top of the goal post. On the replay it was easy to see it was wide and no good. The taller goal posts became known as "Baltimore extensions."
@@Stacie45, yep and with the ability to make metal uprights more stable, the uprights will continue to grow to make it easier on the officials. The same thing as '65 benefitted the Pack in 1962's NFL TITLEGAME vs. the GIANTS in YANKEE STADIUM. JERRY KRAMER said he missed a field goal called good. The PACK won 16-7 over NEW YORK. KRAMER's FG made it 13-7.. Whereas, in the NFL WEST tiebreak playoff game of'65, the Pack had to hit that field goal to send the game eventually into overtime over SHULA's COLTS playing with runner TOM MATTE instead of regular injured qbs Unitas and Cuozzo= first wristband ever full of plays used. GBAY won on a field goal in o-time. They then beat CLEVELAND there, 23-12 for the last non-SUPER BOWL season's NFL title, the first of three NFLs in a row by the PACK.
They did. As I recall Houston was well known for having some very big men on the Defensive line......and it was exciting to see the durable Elvin Bethea on this film while so young! Once Coach Phillips came in 1975, and then with a good offensive line, then Campbell, you really saw Dante could do great things. I grew up a Steelers fan, but I'll tell anyone Pastorini was very underrated. A great arm, and INCREDIBLY TOUGH. Dante missed 5 games......in 9 YEARS.... !
My dad was Elvin Bethea's roomate, and his name was Tom Domres. Dad was featured at the 12:37 mark on the video, and he scored a touchdown while on the Houston Defense. He loved playing in the NFL, and he was exceptionally proud of his touchdown.
@@howardcosell2022, and then CHARLIE was injured. But, that is ok. He ended up going to my Broncos and providing them their first ever above breakeven season in 1973.. He was one of the smartest players ever to play PRO FTBALL. Helck, he consulted for NASA in the offseason. Johnson ended up being a chemical engineering professor at NEW MEX. STATE for 40+ years.. And, he is retired and still with us.
Love those Oiler uniforms! Absolutely hate the current monochromatic "leotard" look going around. Used to like the Redskins look. The Commanders' burgundy all the way down to the shoes is ugly. The Saints used to look good in gold pants. All black looks bad. Pats had a great uni with the silver pants until last year. This all blue look sucks!
I see footage of a Houston Oilers vs Dallas Cowboys game in this video. Since this was before the merger it was not a regular season game. Doing a little research I see they played in a preseason game in the Astrodome on August 28 1969. Does anyone know which team won that game or the score?
@@robertsprouse9282 Awesome, thank you! Some people think preseason games suck but IMO that is where you watch the teams being formed for the upcoming year. Some college stars flame out and others rise to fame. I like the preseason games.
@@Stacie45, no thanx necessary..oops too late, you already did, lol.. The next preseason the Oilers won 37-21 in HOUSTON. But, when the end of '70 rolled around, DALLAS CRUSHED HOUSTON 52-10 IN DALLAS at the COTTON BOWL stadium on Astroturf. The defense scored the only TD= PEACOCK with the 40+ yard fumble return, I believe, if memory serves.
@@robertsprouse9282 I think I recall that blowout by the Cowboys in 1970. It is pretty easy to find highlights and records of regular season games from 50 years ago but much harder to find anything on preseason games. The first pro football game I ever went to was a Vikings-Patriots preseason game my Grandpa took me to in 1971. Patriots QB was a rookie, some guy named Jim Plunkett.
I was 5 months in September of 1969. My first memory of the Oilers was those silverish helmets.
Gotta love those Cool Color Uniforms from back in the day. was only 1 year old.
Thanks for posting, I appreciate this even though I
was only 2 years old for Fall 1969, long before the Oilers became one of my favorite teams.
The nfl network or some nfl streaming outlet should show these NFL films shows they are excellent
These NFL Films programs have lots of good film footage, but are nothing but sales propaganda for the league. Rarely do they reveal anything critical about the coaching or play of the teams. I was fascinated by them as an adolescent, but realized they were a lot of bullshit by the time I became an adult.
They are not meant to teach about coaching or playing they are yearbooks meant for a keepsake over time I for one love them
I like the NFL netwerk.
when i was little the games meant something to our Local Teams.
but if you don't win the
I live in Tennessee in Titans Country so it is nice to see the Titans roots the Houston Oilers.The 1969 Oilers uniforms are far better than the current Titans uniforms and Coach Wally Lemm is the last Oilers-Titans coach to win a League Championship in 1961.The 1969 Oilers did make the playoffs at 6-6-2 but were routed 56-7 at Oakland after falling 28-0 in the 1st quarter.I noticed that disaster was not mentioned in this highlight film.
The Oilers had these unis for about five years and not many people remember them. But they ARE great.
Strangely, this film focused on only one specific game -- the monsoon at Kansas City. They let you know the Chiefs won, but they don't mention the final score -- 24-0. The Oilers had more turnovers in tha game (9) than first downs (7). Then again, the 1969 Oilers had no memorable wins -- all 6 wins and both ties came against teams with losing records. The Oilers had a worse record than the Chargers (8-6), but the 1969 AFL rules provided that both second-place teams made the playoffs, rather than the two teams with the best records after the division winners. So the Oilers made the playoff and got massacred by the Raiders (who'd needed a late TD bomb to beat Houston 21-17 in the season opener in Oakland).
@@PreFabInternationalCine Crazy thing is my first memory of the Oilers is probably 1970 or 71. But definitely the silver helmet. I live in Cleveland so I saw them play the Browns twice a year, and the Bengals and Steelers were also televised a lot. I was only 2 in 71. Crazy thing is the Oilers became my favorite team in 1978.
@@whataboutrob442, Campbellite?
Earl Campbell?
Campbellites were people who split the Church of Christ into two denominations back in the 19th.century, led by a guy named Campbell.
I am an agnostic and former churchgoer in the CHURCH OF CHRIST denomination and that is how I knew that.
I was using Earl Campbell the great Oiler runningback with a play on words.
Got it?
@@johnmanier7968, that is why KANSAS CITY which was second in the AFL WEST that season is not retroactively listed as a WILD CARD. That finish is not considered a WILD CARD team's spot because WILD CARDS are teams whose finished spot is not guaranteed before the season as a playoff qualifier. It is almost as if the Chiefs were treated like a division champ, except they could only host the AFL EAST's second place Oilers in the playoffs, something that did not happen. The WILD CARD concept by the way was first pushed by the late, great DON SHULA after his 11-1-2 '67 COLTS failed to make the playoffs despite an identical record with the RAMS who won the NFL WEST's COASTAL DIVISION in a point-differential tiebreak of their two regular season meetings= which back then was tiebreak one, not head to head results and then on to a second tiebreak level.
When the NFL decided to have three divisions in each conference in '70, the WILD CARD was born.
Thanks Coach Shula, R.I.P.
Thanks for the upload . This was my first season of watching the NFL at 8 years old ! My fav player was Zeke Moore , because I liked his rough house style !
They had 3 players that made the Hall of Fame. Ken Houston, Elvin Bethea and Charlie Joiner
George webster was a shoe in if not for imjuries
Joiner would be the last AFL player to play in the NFL.
look at that scoreboard!! took a long time for other stadiums to catch up
The one and only Astrodome, Eighth Wonder of the World!
Best uniforms ever !
I agree, as neat as the original Patriots' uniforms. Hard to define & figure that secondary color- unless the burnt orange was meant to symbolize processed oil...?
The Oilers' colors were Columbia blue, red, and white. They only had silver as part of their color scheme from 1966-71.
@@67marlins81, it was a darker Columbia Blue than they wore in the NFL post- mid'70's.
I read one time that Columbia Blue was the color of the company blazers worn by the PHILLIPS PETROLEUM CO. that OILERS OWNER BUD ADAMS daddy started in Phillips and Bartlesville, OKLA, the one where ADAMS made, and inherited a fortune.
You know it by Phillips 66 today.
That color explanation is what I read.
Oiler coach Wally Lemm would retire following the 70 season because of health issues he was only in his early 50s.
Thank You 2 "the Sabol Family to have kept these Tapes.
Signed with the Oilers in 67', but contract was over ruled by both Joe Foss and Pete Rozelle 22:51
Joe Kapp signed with Houston Oliers in 1967 th but the BC Lions claimed Houston interference with the signing and Then NFL Commissioner Peter Roselle agreed and contract was voided.
Look at those oldschool goalposts. Not just at the goal line, but how they aren't very tall.
The first extension of the uprights on the goal posts came as a result of a playoff game between the Colts and Packers in 1965. The Packers won by 3 points, and they had a field goal called good that sailed high above the top of the goal post. On the replay it was easy to see it was wide and no good. The taller goal posts became known as "Baltimore extensions."
@@Stacie45, yep and with the ability to make metal uprights more stable, the uprights will continue to grow to make it easier on the officials.
The same thing as '65 benefitted the Pack in 1962's NFL TITLEGAME vs. the GIANTS in YANKEE STADIUM. JERRY KRAMER said he missed a field goal called good. The PACK won 16-7 over NEW YORK. KRAMER's FG made it 13-7.. Whereas, in the NFL WEST tiebreak playoff game of'65, the Pack had to hit that field goal to send the game eventually into overtime over SHULA's COLTS playing with runner TOM MATTE instead of regular injured qbs Unitas and Cuozzo= first wristband ever full of plays used.
GBAY won on a field goal in o-time. They then beat CLEVELAND there, 23-12 for the last non-SUPER BOWL season's NFL title, the first of three NFLs in a row by the PACK.
They had some good defenses from 67-69 but they just couldn’t move the ball.
They did. As I recall Houston was well known for having some very big men on the Defensive line......and it was exciting to see the durable Elvin Bethea on this film while so young!
Once Coach Phillips came in 1975, and then with a good offensive line, then Campbell, you really saw Dante could do great things.
I grew up a Steelers fan, but I'll tell anyone Pastorini was very underrated. A great arm, and INCREDIBLY TOUGH. Dante missed 5 games......in 9 YEARS.... !
Trading pass happy George Blanda to Oakland hurt the Oiler passing game until the arrival of Charley Johnson
My dad was Elvin Bethea's roomate, and his name was Tom Domres. Dad was featured at the 12:37 mark on the video, and he scored a touchdown while on the Houston Defense. He loved playing in the NFL, and he was exceptionally proud of his touchdown.
@@howardcosell2022, and then CHARLIE was injured.
But, that is ok.
He ended up going to my Broncos and providing them their first ever above breakeven season in 1973..
He was one of the smartest players ever to play PRO FTBALL.
Helck, he consulted for NASA in the offseason.
Johnson ended up being a chemical engineering professor at NEW MEX. STATE for 40+ years..
And, he is retired and still with us.
Marty domres
This team drafted surprisingly well. Think the GMs name was Klostermen ? A lot of HOFs and future all pro players just couldn’t get it together
Their '67 draft was epic.
Bud Adams was a terrible owner...
Love those Oiler uniforms! Absolutely hate the current monochromatic "leotard" look going around. Used to like the Redskins look. The Commanders' burgundy all the way down to the shoes is ugly. The Saints used to look good in gold pants. All black looks bad. Pats had a great uni with the silver pants until last year. This all blue look sucks!
Agreed.
AB SO LUTE LY
I gotta do some research and re-learn who was playing quarterbacks back then.....
I see footage of a Houston Oilers vs Dallas Cowboys game in this video. Since this was before the merger it was not a regular season game. Doing a little research I see they played in a preseason game in the Astrodome on August 28 1969. Does anyone know which team won that game or the score?
I wish I did. I love the history of the old AFL.
DALLAS 14 - HOUSTON 11
@@robertsprouse9282 Awesome, thank you! Some people think preseason games suck but IMO that is where you watch the teams being formed for the upcoming year. Some college stars flame out and others rise to fame. I like the preseason games.
@@Stacie45, no thanx necessary..oops too late, you already did, lol..
The next preseason the Oilers won 37-21 in HOUSTON.
But, when the end of '70 rolled around, DALLAS CRUSHED HOUSTON 52-10 IN DALLAS at the COTTON BOWL stadium on Astroturf. The defense scored the only TD= PEACOCK with the 40+ yard fumble return, I believe, if memory serves.
@@robertsprouse9282 I think I recall that blowout by the Cowboys in 1970. It is pretty easy to find highlights and records of regular season games from 50 years ago but much harder to find anything on preseason games. The first pro football game I ever went to was a Vikings-Patriots preseason game my Grandpa took me to in 1971. Patriots QB was a rookie, some guy named Jim Plunkett.
It was either this or Vietnam, I guess. I was 2 years old.
They should NEVER allow football to be played on a baseball field.
Guys us ed to wear ties to football games...
Was there a dress code 🤔 ?
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