bryan thomsen I’m too young to remember Bert Jones but my late dad, who loved the Colts until they moved to Indy, said the same thing. He thought Jones had the potential to be greater than Unitas.
The Chargers and Colts had the two worst defenses in the NFL that season. The difference was that the Chargers had the best offense and the Colts didn't.
Arguably the beginning of the end for the Colts in Baltimore was when Joe Thomas was forced out as GM in 1976. The Colts never drafted well after that (until the Elway debacle in 1983).
I agree about Chester, although he dug his own grave with his mocking comment about Bert Jones to the press after the 1977 playoff game agains the Raiders. Jones missed a wide open Chester during the first OT period that should have been the winning TD. After the game a reporter asked Chester about the play and he replied that he (Chester) better not make a critical comment about Superboy (or something along those lines). As for Mitchell, didn’t the Colts get Joe Washington back in that trade? If so it seems like a decent deal, especially since Mitchell never really did anything after leaving Baltimore.
Chris Snyder Although I’ve also read that Accorsi was actually making pretty progress toward signing Elway when Irsay pulled the rug out by deciding to trade him.
Elway was so good you could NOT have passed him up in draft. Colts unfortunately panicked when he said he wasn't going to sign and essentially gave him away. If they didn't think they could sign him they should have traded him prior to draft
There were two starting wide receiver Gene Washingtons playing simultaneously in the NFL; one starred at Michigan State and with the Vikings and the other Stanford and the 49ers. The latter, who decades later served in the league office, is the game analyst here. Like Andrew Catalon today, Phil Stone was usually assigned one of the lesser games on a weekly basis. Why? Because he sounded exactly like Roy Firestone's Biff Barnes, a spoof of the worst type of sportscasters. The only people that I can think of that sounded like Stone but were really good at their craft are Ron Lundy and Steve Cangialosi.
@@PerpetualArt False the 1981-82 Baltimore Colts defense gave up 533 points which equals out to 33ppg even the 1980-85 Chargers defenses weren't that atrocious.
@@nikosuavesworldofsportsmusic + I guess my point was that the Chargers defense sucked, and that's why they couldn't win big playoff games. I really didn't even know how bad the Colts were on defense. After they lost to Oakland in 77, they never got back to winning.
The 1981 Colts set NFL records for defensive ineptitude allowing 533 points (still a record) and 6,793 yards allowed (the latter broken by the 2012 New Orleans Saints). After starting the season with a one point win against New England, they lost their next 14 games and won their season finale against the Pats by two points. Because of New England also going 2-14 that season, the 81 Colts probably have the distinction of having the worst tiebreaker of all time when it comes to determining the standings.
Went to this game and 3 others in 1981. Wow that defense was bad. Only 81 game that I attended that was even close was against the Dolphins. First game I remember was Ghost to the Post so I caught the best Colts years..ha. I literally went to about 12 Colts games in my life from 78-83 and they lost every fricking one except the last one against the Oilers in 83. Of course that was the last Colt game ever.
Ah, some names I hadn't heard of in a while....Curtis Dickey, Joe Federspeil, Bert Jones, etc. The Chargers took a while to get the offense going that year after the contract debacle with John Jefferson. Same for the defense with Fred Dean, another inexplicable mistake. They had traded for Wes Chandler, and he got going late in the season. Chargers righted the ship and made it back to the AFCCG that year, while the Colts continued their sad decline.
Actually the Chargers averaged 37ppg the first 7 games of the season when they started off 5-2 & averaged 38.7ppg when they started out 3-0 before they acquired wide receiver Wes Chandler in a trade from the New Orleans Saints.
@@DeeJayRoyalT2 They traded him to the Bengals before the 1984 season for running back Pete Johnson. Brooks would play 8 season with the Bengals in which he made 3 pro bowls, gained over 9,400 all purpose yards and scored 64 touchdowns. Johnson would only play in 3 (yes three) games for the Chargers and retire after the 1984 season.
It’s weird and funny that that the Baltimore Colts Sunday afternoon home games would start at 2:00 pm EST. instead of the rest of the Sunday traditional 1:00 pm kick off times and I don’t remember the league or pregame shows giving an explanation as to why.
Just over 3 min left to play, Chargers up by a ton and they still throw for a TD from inside the 5 yard line. LOL. Coryell wasn't worried about being accused of running up the score :-D
They had an even better chance the previous season, but they blew it with a mistake-prone 1st half against the Raiders in the AFC Championship game at Jack Murphy Stadium.
The Chargers lost 40-17 to the Bengals at Jack Murphy in '81. Home field might not have mattered. As for 1980, the Chargers were F**KED when the Browns called Red Right 88.
@@DNSKansas + The Bengals would have probably won that game even if it was played in San Diego. Like you said the Bengals had the Chargers # that year.
+Cat Man San Diego Chokers choked 79-82. Never went anywhere. Like Hurt Jones and Dan Marino. They had home field advantage 79-80 and still blew it. They would lose to people like Gifford Neilson, Jim Plunkett and David Woodley in the playoffs.
@@snakeoiler1292 + I agree with your assessment of the Chargers, and I never liked them for some reason. Big Oilers fan, so I remember them beating the Chargers in 79.
@@bigchee8263 The politics and social justice issues haven't stopped points from being scored or tackles being made. It just made a sizeable chunk of the audience not care anymore about touchdowns or tackles.
Colts 2 Superbowls. Chargers 0. Should have had 4 in a row 1979-82. But lost to people like Dennis Neilson, Jim Plunkett and a David Woodley. Eugene Klein was such a tightwad. Poor Hurt Jones had potential but no offensive line.
