Both these teams uniforms are pure basic perfection, smeared with just the right amount of mud. No modern colors or fancy graphics can make them look better.
@@ciesaro I'm with ya' on that. These titty-babies today would be appalled if they got word from their licensing agent and attorneys that teams would no longer put the player's names on the back of the jerseys. Lawsuits would be filed enmass across the NFL.
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, and IMO this particular game is one of the best in NFL history. Two of the best and toughest teams, particularly the Met Stadium-Joe Kapp-Bill Brown Vikings......to ever play pro football. I'm sad to say that the excitement and aura that pro football used to have is gone..... right along with Metropolitan Stadium. God bless our pro football heroes from a bygone era.🏈
As a Viking fan since 1963, I remember this game like it was played last week. I was at old Metropolitan Stadium, sitting in the press box with my uncle, a young sports reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. In the tear stained stigmata that is being a Viking fan, this was one of my proudest moments.. The “Purple Gang” went on to beat Cleveland, for the NFL Championship, but ultimately succumbed to Kansas City in Super Bowl IV. However, for that one year 1969, the final season before the merger, I can proudly say to this day that my Vikings were NFL Champions.
I grew up a Rams fan and very much remember the “The Purple Peale Eaters”. Lots of heartbreak break when the Rams played the Vikings in playoff games. Great memories with my dad though seeing the Rams play.
willie ellison rushing for 247 yards in 1971 versus the saints was a classic !!!!!!!!!!! at that time it became a new nfl record for total rushing yards!!!!!!!!!!
I was at a Rams/Saints game in 1971 where willie broke the single game rushing record. I was 9 and it was the start of my fascination of the running back position
What a great game between 2 incredibly tough teams. Never realized how close the Rams were to winning this game; definitely the best Rams team of the George Allen era. Page & Eller, damn, those guys were great for so many years; it’s a shame they never got a ring. And Kapp wasn’t that talented but was tough as nails. And Gabriel was a pretty tough QB as well; look at the tackle he made on Page at the end (you’d never see Jim Everett or most of the current QBs make that tackle).
agree. me too. rams shoulda won. only scoring 3 points in the 2nd half was key. they woulda beat cleveland no doubt....they wouldnt have won the super bowl, no,of course,but at least they wouldve gotten there and wouldve given the Chiefs a good game....losing, yes, but not embarressed.
@@graciemaemarie11jones16 Agree. However I attended a Ram preseason game vs. the Chiefs in '69. After having his quarterback harassed, Coach Stram tried the shotgun, something novel back then. Rams couldn't handle it. 42-14 Chiefs. I know it was only preseason but that Chief team was impressive.
Two great defensive lines. Two classic old school QB's. Still remember watching these with my dad. I was 5. I can't stand the NFL over the last decade.
I think games had more drama then because it was so much harder to score. If your team was behind by a td in 4th quarter every first down was intensified. Now if a team is down by 14 in 4th quarter you feel like your team can still comeback if you have good offense. Too easy to score now.
I was born in Minnesota that very year. Watching the Vikings during the 70's. We lived only about 10 minutes from the Old Met. That was a special time of Football.
I wonder if anyone has a copy of the full game? I would love one. It was the only big sporting event I ever missed growing up. My brother got married that day.
The Vikings had the Rams number in the late 60s thru the 70s, they flat out knew how to beat them it didn't matter if it was in the regular season or playoffs.
How true. I remember Vikings going to LA week 12 and totally outplaying the Rams. Coach Allen established an excellent game plan for playoff game but it wasn’t enough to overcome. Rams needed all the breaks and only got the one when Vikes went offsides on opening series negating Eller’s Td. In my opinion one of greatest game ever played. Unfortunately the outcome never changes when I revisit this site.
IMO, George Allen was one of the most overrated coaches in NFL history. In his career, he won a total of two playoff games, both with Washington, but lost the one Super Bowl he was in. The Rams were an incredibly talented team, mostly with players that Allen inherited and later took to Washington as he had an aversion to young players verging on paranoia. In Washington, he preferred Bill Kilmer as his QB to Sonny Jurgensen, which tells you something about Alllen. He was also an very unethical man, who would trade draft picks he didn't have. All in all, I'm glad the Vikings beat the Rams; I was a Colts fan at the time and was glad to see the Rams lose.
This was the NFL. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and I miss everything about pro football back then. Quarterbacks under center, two back sets, the ground game even the uniforms were so much better back then. Rule changes, need to protect highly paid QBs and the almighty dollar has changed the game. I still love watching the NFL, but wish it were still the game of decades ago. I loved Roman Gabriel. He made his acting debut in 1969 in the John Wayne, Rock Hudson movie "The Undefeated". Awesome hearing Jack Whitaker again.
@@robertsprouse9282 ...the L.A/ St Louis Rams went 9 consecutive seasons without a post season appearance, until their Lombardy year in 1999...but my initial comment was regarding the two organizations relative to the inception of the Super Bowl era in 1966, in which both organizations were highly competitive for the first 25 years of the Super Bowl era, yet never won it
Yes I definitely remember the game I was 13 years old and I had to go to work with my mom she worked at the Brown Derby in Akron Ohio and I watch the game in the back of the kitchen eating chicken and yellow rice sadly my mom's no longer here and neither is to Brown Derby
@@thomasgoshaw6406 Met Stadium was a complete dump. It's embarrassing that the Vikings ever played there. Today's football, and today's stadiums, are vastly superior.
RIP Bob Brown who played in this game for LA, he did go to the Hall of Fame in 2004. He was in the company of future Hall of Famers when he was traded by LA to the Oakland Raiders.
Winning 11 in a row, then blowing their last four games including this one. The Rams have ruined more weekends than the family drunk at holiday dinners.
Could not agree more. If they had just sucked that would have been one thing. But to have been so good, for so long, get your hopes up and then stomp on your heart, year after year. Being a Rams fan in the 60's and 70's was really hard.
To be fair sometimes the Rams fell off like that because they got key guys injured as the season went on. People labelled them chokers but if you look closer they had some bad luck with injuries.
But in retrospect, how many times did that happen with George Allen's teams, both in Los Angeles and later with the Redskins. Granted, he never had another team win that many in a row, but Allen's teams almost always ran out of gas at the end of the season. The exception to that was 1972, when he did manage to lead the Redskins to the Super Bowl, but his teams, mainly because they were older (particularly when he was in Washington), always seemed to run out of gas at the end of the season. But '72 was to be the only season in which he won a post-season game, despite all the contending teams he had in Los Angeles and Washington.
I was born in Minnesota 1969. The year the Vikings went to their 1st Super Bowl. We lived close to the Old Met for a long time. Still miss it. Alan Page 88 was my favorite also. Skol
@@jstube36 My Grandfather took me to a preseason game at Metropolitan Stadium in 1971. Gary Cuozzo was the Vikings QB, they played the Patriots. The Pats' QB was a rookie named Jim Plunkett. Vikes won 17-10.
I remember watching this game. I met Gabriel a year or two before this game at a NCSU fundraiser. Still have a signed hat from him. I was so sad when they lost this game. Boy, what an era of football.
I was 19. This game nearly killed me. I’ll never forget that Gabriel interception. I was so glad the Vikings lost every Super Bowl in which they appeared.
This game was the very first NFL game I remember watching and being into. I would have been 8 at the time. Easily became an NFL fan. Unfortunately over the past few tears or so the NFL lost me.
FUN FACT: The Rams started the year 11-0 and lost their last 3 regular season games, including one to the Vikings, and this divisional playoff game to the same Vikes.
Another interesting note. From 1969-1978 the Rams would make the Playoffs 7 times. Each time they would be eliminated by either the Cowboys or the Vikings
I talk about this game a lot my family watched it. I was a Rams fan. I thought we were going to win at halftime. No one could beat the Vikings in that cold weather. The went to 4 Super Bowls when they played outside. The haven’t been back since they moved in a Dome
I was 6 on this day and LOVED " The VIKES " Up until 2009 , 40 years of HEARTBREAK HOTEL was enough !! I wish them well, but have not watched the NFL since !! 1998 should have did it for me !!
yup...but it didn't end in the late sixties...their excellence also carried over into the next 2 decades ...as a matter of fact, from the inception of the the super bowl era in 1966 until the end of the 1980's, the Los Angeles Rams organization accumulated the 3rd highest win total in all of pro football...25 years of consistent excellence and no Lombardy's to show for it...depressing
The Fearsome Foursome was highly overrated all you have to do is look at the rankings between them and the Vikings defense of 1969 there is no contest the Viking front for was much better facts don't lie there in black-and-white just look at the stats
@@robertmay44 Bull. You are comparing the teams of the 1970's, those weren't the real Fearsome Foursome. The Fearsome Foursome were Jones, Olsen, Grier and Lundy, they played in the 1960's when the Vikings were still a raw expansion team. Vikings DL in the 1970's, Eller, Page, Larsen and Marshall were arguably better than the Rams DL in the 1970's, but that was not the Fearsome foursome. In 1969 only Jones and Olsen were left. The Fearsome Foursome never got to a championship, but the Purple Gang had the honor of getting shoved around and knocked on their butts in 4 Super Bowls.
Hoped to see this game again. Thank you! I was 17 years old, a Viking/Joe Kapp fan watching the game with my die hard Ram buddies. I recall all the drama and especially the hard hitting, talent, guts and ..without the steroids. Rams were talented and tough. I will admit that the Refs were not favorable to the Rams, but sense the outcome the same.
This game was AWESOME!! I remember every detail. I was 11 and a Vikings fan from Connecticut - and my brother was 15 and a Rams fan. The tension in the house was unreal!! My mom even had to yell at use to “keep it down” while for most of the game my brother was busting my balls and pissing me off - since the Rams had the lead most of the game. When the Vikings took the lead the tables were turned!! What sweet revenge. If I remember correctly before the day was over my brother got tired of me busting his balls and we ended up fighting. Obviously being 4 years younger I took a whooping - but it was worth it!!
I was just 13 when I watched this game in its entirety all alone while still living in Florida. I was crushed by the Rams loss and really disliked Joe Kapp who seemed like a crude barroom brawler compared to the lithe and graceful Roman Gabriel. Kapp's sloppy game winning touchdown in the 4th Qtr really disgusted me. Two weeks later I was euphoric while watching the Chiefs literally destroy Minnesota in the Super Bowl 23-7. When the Chiefs knocked Kapp out of the game with a vicious hit I was overjoyed! Such sweet revenge! Len Dawson instantly became my newest hero as he methodically picked apart the Vikings defense and led the Chiefs to a dominant win. Sure, Super Bowl IV was fun. But it was this dramatic playoff game between the Rams and Vikings in Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, MN in the freezing cold on December 27, 1969 that got me hooked on the NFL. I'll never forget it!
I remember watching this as a 13 year old on cbs...and remember a couple of times there were commercials for the new james bond movie: 'On her majesty's secret service'....which co-starred my boyhood crush, Diana rigg.....i remember this like it was last week, i swear....
Bud Grant. The days when u just penciled in the Vikes for a playoff spot. When the greatest coaches are mentioned, Grant never comes up. I know he lost 4 super bowls but this isn't the bills who won the afc by default. The vikes had to deal with the cowboys, Redskins and Rams and still won the nfc 4 times in an 8 year period.
You're not kidding. It used to resemble the Battle of Hastings. Now, it's just slick, sterile, corporate sports entertainment garbage played by a bunch of spoiled divas. God forbid they should have to play on real grass or a baseball infield. God forbid receivers should have to play without their synthetic shark skin gloves that make it nearly impossible to drop a pass. I can't remember the last time I watched a Super Bowl from start to finish. I'll take the best marching band in the country over the phony uber-modern halftime shows any day of the week and I don't care who they get. It has nothing to do with football. Once upon a time, there was this great game called football...
Great Stuff! Glory Days! I lost sleep over this game. Sadly that season was the end for a lot of key personal, Joe Kapp was traded to the Patriots after Super Bowl 4 and retired the year after, George Allen would move on the Red Skins after Lombardi passed away, Thanks for Posting
And the two Leagues would merge. The Steelers, Browns, and Colts would switch to the AFC. Monday Night Football goes on the air. And Super Bowl V would be the first of five appearances in the next decade for America's Team. How Bout Them Cowboys. Thanks for viewing.
Detroit Lions 1962, I believe they were 11-3 , they were 2nd behind the 13-1 Packers, only the Eastern and Western Conference champions play in one game, 1967 Baltimore Colts 11-1-2 and they were home for the holidays
I wonder what the 69 Rams would have been like if George Allen had kept Harold Jackson, who he traded to Philadelphia before the season. Jackson goes on to become an All-Pro with the Eagles that season, and Wendell Tucker never stays healthy enough to really become the deep threat the Rams needed. L.A. could have really used Jackson on their final drive.
Nice job for uploading this. Starting following the rams in the early 70's. My father was a big ram fan since the 50's. Went to my first game in 71 on a Monday night game with father and uncle. They would get to playoffs but never a super bowl championships. They ultimately had to go to st Louis to win a super bowl. Of course lost again this year in the Super bowl. Raiders were the only super bowl winner to represent los angeles
Actually the Rams are the only team to win Titles from three different cities. Cleveland Rams won it in1945, Los Angeles Rams 1951, and St Louis Rams 1999.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="610">10:10</a> Gabe needed to see Eller coming and climb the pocket rather than continuing backward into the end zone. Might not have made a difference in the outcome, but taking a sack for a short loss (it would have been called a dump then) would not have been as big a blow as taking a safety. That play was probably the killer for the Rams.
Gabe really blew it for the Rams. You're right, he was lame on the safety. But also the game ending pick. Did he have money on the Vikes? He practically gave it to Page. Roman choked a lot.
It's Super Bowl Weekend, 2022. I'm in the way-back machine Saturday night before Cincy v LA. I love watching these old NFL films, especially classic playoff games on this night. Reminds me of my youth back in the 80's when ESPN showed every SB highlight film until Sunday morning.
Jack Snow (#84) of the Rams in mentioned at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="742">12:22</a>-Mr. Snow went on to be an announcer for Rams TV/radio coverage even after they had moved to St. Louis--sadly Mr. Snow died of staph infection sepsis--it is believed he acquired the infection while doing an interview in the Rams dressing room
Ah the good old days when every game ever played in Minnesota was cold and miserable as hell! I still haven't gotten over the fact that they lost to the chiefs in the super bowl!
especially after they totally hammered the Chiefs in 1970 in the Vikings home opener (27-10)-in Super Bowl 4 the Vikings played a team they had never played before/had only one week to prepare and weren't used to "hype" of a Super Bowl game (the Chiefs had already been to a Super Bowl before)--with an offseason to review films/design a game plan to deal with KC's intricate offensive formations--Bud Grant and his boys had no problem with the Chiefs
They didn't just lose to Kansas City. They were humiliated by them. This was back when the AFL was still considered inferior to the NFL. This game changed a lot of minds about that.
I watch this game on CBS broke my heart when my Rams loss do you remember they went 11 and o to start the season then lost their last three regular-season games to the Detroit Lions Minnesota Vikings and the Baltimore Colts
That music at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="400">6:40</a>...still gives me chills some 50 yrs later. The horns mixed with the strings, stirring up a dramatic scene.
I was 7 years old. Remember this well. My best friend was a Vikings fan. We watched it together. I cried when it was over. Tough loss. But mad respect to that Viking team. Mad respect. Two classically trained and coached professional football players. Wow.
I was born in Minneapolis. The Purple People Eaters were so exciting. Alan Page 88 was my favorite. I feel it's a shame that Jim Marshall 70 is not in the Hall Of Fame. And thanks for sharing those memories. These are priceless.
The game was blacked out in the Twin Cities based on NFL rules at the time. However WCCO TV rebroadcast the game after the evening news so local Viking fans could watch. I was 12 at the time, but parents let me stay up late to watch. Even though I knew the outcome, I remember being nervous during the game replay, as if the game might play differently the second time around.
The Vikings had to win a whole slew of playoff games to get to 4 Super Bowls in an 8 year period. Unbeaten in league championship games from 69 until 1977. The frozen tundra of Metropolitan Stadium certainly helped. Neither the Rams or George Allen's Redskins could beat the Vikes in Minn (0-5 from 69 to 76 in the playoffs at the Met). It was a cold beautiful thing.
THe Interference Call On Jim Nettles At The 6"48 Mark ............ Nope .......... Terrific Game .......Thanks For The Video .......... How Wierd ...But Very Cool At Metrpolitan Stadium U had The Fences Just BEyond The Back Of Both End Zones ........And It Looked Liked The Stands Were Far Away From The Field........ Because Of The Baseball Diamond For The Twins ??
Thiaswas the game that put the Vikings on the map. They did make the playoffs in 1968, but they weren't a truly strong team. They would remain an NFL/NFC power for a decade. In many ways, the Rams did, too...
the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="720">12:00</a> mark,alan page made a TREMENDOUS play but gabriel had jack snow wide open on a down and out !!!!!!! roman gabriel by fra WAS THE TOUGHEST QB OF ALL TIME!!!!!!! but that "no look" short pass symbolized gabriel's weakness WHICH IS CARELESSNESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh my goodness,at the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="407">6:47</a> mark that pass intereference call on jim nettles is WORSE THAN ATROCIOUS !!!!! the so called late hit on jack pardee IS EVEN WORSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the clipping call on Bob Brown when the RAMS were on the verge of moving in for a TD. And the long pass completion to Gene Washington when his foot was out of bounds. And Gabriel was pulled back into the end zone on the safety. Yeah, the zebras had the queens backs, no doubt.
@@OBESPRING1982 i love watching the nfl from previous generations of EVERY team on you tube and i have seen MANY bad calls ! so today we have instant replay which is fair !!!!!!!
George Allen's Rams were among the top teams in football during the late 1960s, but they had a tendency to run out of gas late in the season or in the playoffs. In 1967, they went 11-1-2, and led Green Bay 7-0 early in the Western Conference playoff. However, they then faltered after that and lost 28-7. The following season, the Rams could have played Baltimore for the Coastal Division championship in the regular-season finale, but fell to Chicago the week before, which gave the Colts the title. In 1969, the Rams started 11-0, but lost their last three games and then blew a 10-point lead in this game.
You can add 74, 76 and 77 to that list of playoff ineptitude. People love to rag on the Vikings 4 SB losses in 8 years, but those 4 SB losses meant that the Rams didn't even sniff the SB for over a decade because the Packers and the Vikings were always in the way, and the Rams psychologically and physically couldn't handle the cold.
@@OBESPRING1982 WAAAAAAHHHHH!!! I'm a prissy Ewes fan who lives in La La land and we couldn't win ANY important playoff games in the 60s and 70s until we got to play Tampa Bay in 79, we puzzies blame it all on the refs because we are wimpy eunuchs who love to whine and cry. WAAAAAHHHHH!! We don't like the cold! We don't like the mud! We have an audition in Burbank to prepare for (see Bernie Casey, Merlin Olsen, Fred Dryer, Rosey Grier etc)! We have no balls! WAAAAAHHHHH!!!
wow at the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="509">8:29</a> mark gabriel had les josephson WIDE,,,,WIDE,,,OPEN !!!!!!!! that might have been a touchdown !!!!!!!
Minnesota becoming a dome team in 1982 was that franchise worst mistake as they have not been to a SB since 1976! Being an outdoor cold weather team was a tremendous advantage,[ask LA] meanwhile both GB and Chicago remain outside teams and both have won super bowls since the last time Minnesota appeared in one. That's not a coincidence!
Back when football was actually football there were no hotdoggers back then if a guy made a great play he just got up and headed the ball to the referee No 5 minutes of dancing if a guy sack the quarterback he went back to the defensive huddle no showboating the guys today are just in it for themselves
@@jackkitchen737 Well, considering there is video on the web that has surfaced showing Donald's facemask being blatantly grabbed as well as a hold of Brockers that went uncalled on the very same play, I'd say the entire controversy over the non call of the PI is just sensationalism by crybaby aints nation and the media to discredit the Rams victory when they were clearly the better team.
I'm just having fun lol. Bad calls happen all the time. I had to live through the Hail Mary BS myself. I do like listening to New Orleans cry about it all week.
The Rams had little chance against the Vikings in 1969 (losing both home and away to the Vikes). Interestingly, the year before the Rams blasted the Vikings 31-3 in December 1, 1968 in Minnesota. Sadly, with no wild-card the Rams missed the playoffs at 10-3-1 and the Vikings won their division despite a sorry 8-6 record. Plenty of unfairness then and even today in the NFL playoff system. The teams with the best records should be in the playoffs and throw out the weak division winners. But they will never do that.
1975, home field for the NFC Championship, going to the SB for sure. NOPE. Cowboys. Tom Landry. Flex Defense. 37-7. I was 14, at that moment I wanted a pistol or a razor blade. I was done. I realized I could not afford to like a football team that much if they were going to get my hopes up and then get destroyed like that. Ram fans have a thick veneer of cynicism.
Officials: R #40 Pat Haggerty, U #15 Ralph Morcroft, HL #26 Ed Marion, LJ #24 Bruce Alford, BJ #12 Adrian Burk, FJ #50 Tony Skover. I began following the zebras a couple of years before when I was 14 years old.
now that the Rams haved moved back to L.A. this great rivalry will continue into the 21 century. The Last 2 years they played The Vikings won 24-7 in the House of Pain. [ 2017 ] and the Rams won 38-31 in LA. [ 2018 ]
Rams were a pretty strong team under George Allen, but had a tendency to fall just short. They had good teams in 1968 (10-3-1) and 1970 ( 9-4-1), but just missed the playoffs. One thing I have noticed about the Rams in the time period was a certain lack of speed in the skill positions, and a tendency to relie on a short passing game. The conservatism of George Allen sometimes came back to bite him..
The Vikings beat George Allen's Rams in 69 playoffs; and his 73 and 76 Redskins teams in divisional playoff games, all on the frozen tundra of the Met. Allen was the Richard Nixon of coaches, lol.
Allen was an excellent defensive coach and he emphasized special teams early on, being the first to hire a special teams coach. But his offenses held him back. They were very conservative and more concerned about not giving points away rather than with putting points on the board. Imo, this is why the teams he was head coach of were 2-7 in the playoffs. A player like Sonny Jurgensen was anathema to George Allen and his offensive philosophy. He wouldn't let Sonny do what he did best which was to throw and lead the team downfield. Unlike Lombardi, I don't think Allen knew how to use gifted offensive players who didn't fit in with his system. He was inflexible and as a result he didn't use some of his players' full abilities. The only NFL championship Allen won was as a defensive assistant under Papa Bear Halas for the 1963 Bears. That Bears team btw had an excellent defense, allowing 144 points in 14 games. The next lowest points allowed were the 1963 Packers at 206.
