When Namath won the Superbowl little he knew the impact the game has today. It was the gift that keeps giving. He was one of the early pioneers. Well, deserved!
I’ll take “Country” Don Maynard over the great Lance Allworth any day of the week. Got to meet wtih him a few times in El Paso where he lived after he retired. Very pleasant person and great competitor.
the story goes that Baltimore's HC Don Shula and QB John Unitas were so bitter that they lost SB 3 to the Jets that they cast a jinx on them so that they would never be in the SB again--54 years later the curse continues
My eyes tear up everytime i see this. The poise. The persona. The characters. The Stadium. These are my Jets. Best game ever. “I got a long route if you need it” “Winning. Nothing else matters to me! WINNING. I catch one or ten. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS FLY HIGH DON MAYNARD. REST IN HARMONY #13 🕊 Forever a Legend!!!!!!!
From a historical standpoint, Super Bowl III was the more celebrated game, but as far as a game - down for down, quarter for quarter, the weather, etc... This was a better game. Would love to see this game again in it's entirety, as it's been nearly 50 years ! Love this old AFL footage !
My father FRANK NANIA was a barber - in Flushing , New York - by the intersection of Sanford avenue and Main Street - Where you could see just by walking over a little bit in the distance SHEA STADIUM - And one of his customers was New York Jets middle linebacker # 51 - RALPH BAKER who was that season - also watch HIM in the SUPER BOWL 3 on January 12 1969 - game too - see him recover the ball - a couple of times at key moments - RALPH BAKER used to bring in these sneaker /shoes to my father as gifts - a few times too - for ME when I was a teenager - 1969 -1970 - white sneakers with black striped designs on them - they looked like football type shoes without the cleats - yes - I remember it well , Joe Nania
100% agree. Today's NFL is too political and boring to watch. Only watch college football... which still maintains the thrill of the game and respect all players give to each other.
I’ll take “Country” Don Maynard over the great Lance Allworth any day of the week. Got to meet wtih him a few times in El Paso where he lived after he retired. Very pleasant person and great competitor.
Besides being a great receiver, Don Maynard is surely one of the funniest guys to ever play the game. One classic concerns his difficult negotiations with Weeb Ewbank over a salary increase. The punch line is when Ewbank tells Maynard he will give him a very small increase, but insists Don not tell any of the other players. Maynard replies, "Don't worry coach, I'm as embarrassed about the amount as you are".
I’ll take “Country” Don Maynard over the great Lance Allworth any day of the week. Got to meet wtih him a few times in El Paso where he lived after he retired. Very pleasant person and great competitor.
At a time when the physical play on the field was at times down right nasty this game, the weather, in New York no less proved that Joe Willy should be named among the greatest QBs of all time.
In case you didn't know kids, there was a time waaaay back in the 20th century, when the Raiders were actually good, and the Jets had an actual franchise quarterback!
There is not enough mentioned about the incredible toughness of Joe Namath! Played injured, and what about that tackle! I remember seeing a clip where he handed the ball off in a reverse and then FLATTENED a defensive end thus springing the running back free for a substantial gain! I liked how they commented how the AFL Championship was tougher then the Super Bowl!
Right on, I JUST noticed after ALL of these years,, I mean, I know how tough a competitor and guy Joe was/IS, but man, the dislocated fingers, extra hard hits in FRIGID conditions against the BIG BAD Raiders, and throwing that AWESOME block, WOW, just watch today's game (For how long???), where the kickers and quarterbacks feebly/embarrassingly run along and then JUMP/BAIL-OUT to safety, not attempting to or even make it LOOK like they are TRYING to stop a ball carrier, and then seeing Broadway Joe lowering the BOOM on that guy!!!!!!!!
I was at this Sunday afternoon on December 29 1968 AFL Championship game at Shea Stadium in Flushing , New York with my cousin Carl Di Tomasso and our friend Pete Donofrio - Yes we all 3 went and as planned jumped over the fence in the area side that faced the number 7 train because it was never really guarded by security - We also made it down to the sidelines and the ushers did not seem to mind these 3 teenage boys who did not have tickets that wanted to get a closer look at the game - NEW YORK JETS 27 - OAKLAND RAIDERS 23 !
Amazing great memories…and what a game to be at, we sat and the watched the entire game on a 20” black and white set, forever Joe and the world champion Jets.
Funny, I always wanted to know where good 'Ole Pete was that day. We wanted to play Monster Tag and needed another player. He lived two doors down from us....The Dunn's. His mother was so sweet and let us kids hop over the walls from house to house on good old 150th Street.
a cannon right arm....TOUGH....desire....A REBEL....will to win......QUICKEST RELEASE IN FOOTBALL....the ONLY thing that held him back was his knees...but he STLL CHANGED THE GAME FOREVER!!!
@@michaelleroy9281 Actually, Stabler was drafted in 1968 in the second round. His first training camp with the Raiders was not good. He did not make the active roster, and was on the practice squad. In 1969, he was a mess, and almost quit football. He came back in 1970. I believe 1970 is listed as his rookie year, when in reality it was not. He had rough start. The rest is history.
The great Don Maynard is so underrated at WR! ( 11,000+ yds and 88 TD's in his career!!) He was clutch!! HOF! * Namath has that great smile to this day! The guy had a life like Elvis!
I watch this vid at least once a week during the season...gives me goose bumps every time. Namath was one tough s.o.b. I was 10 yrs old in December, 1968 and a Raiders fan, but soon became a Namath fan after this game.
i love watching these old clips from the sixties and seventies, i was lucky to start watching football from the late sixties onward....thank you for the great upload..
As a lifelong fan from the mid 60's, I have to say that the NFL sharing these videos is GREAT for the game in numerous ways. I think you (NFL Films & NFL) spending EXTRA effort in sharing these videos (the whole timeline and genres) will pay off in a broader fan base that will come to appreciate that even though nothing is 'perfect', that does not mean it can't be a hell of a lot of fun along the way. On a side note: Thank you (NFL) also for your growing support for players and outreach to local communities. I realize there are some owners that have different goals but other owners (e.g. Ravens, Seahawks:-( seem to have a symbiotic and supportive 'team' approach to community outreach. That is, the front office encourages and supports players community outreach efforts. I would also plug the Ravens environmental record. It is QUITE impressive and worth showcasing by the NFL Films. Thanks again. ALWAYS been a fan.
Say he's among all time greatest quarterbacks in the history of American football. WALTER CAMP might agree. EDDIE ROBINSON might agree. BEAR BRYANT, WEEB EWBANK and VINCE LOMBARDI would agree.
@@davidvenesky9053 You probably weren't around back then, I was. Teams used to play real football, not this modern, watered-down BS of today. Most owners now are okay just making a profit, only a few really want the SB trophy.
Marino should've been the heir apparent to Namath [let's not even count Todd & others]. Both Joe & Dan had quick releases; both were from Pennsylvania steel mill country; both had a bad knee & both were available for the Jets to draft. But they drafted Ken O'Brien 'cause they found out that Marino liked to "party" in college. What a mistake!!
The last time the Jets were good, which was before I was born and my father was still in Vietnam on the U.S.S. Saint Paul(May he Rest In Peace 3/28/47 - 1/11/20). Been a Jets fan since 1981.
NFL 2020 - pristine fields with prima donna social justice warriors engaged in ceaseless self-aggrandizement in their Nike swooshes. Oh yes, give me more of this.
Just read Maynard's book 'You Can't Catch Sunshine'. Very enjoyable. Anybody that questions Joe Namath's ranking as one of the greatest QBs of all time never lived to watch him from 1965 to 1974. This guy had such an impact. To me Hollywood can be measured as before Brando and after. Pro Football is the 45 years pre- Namath, then every thing after. To heck with career stats measured against today's run free wide receiver era.
In June 2019 Joe Namath was selected by Pro Football Journal as Player of the Decade for the period covering 1965-75: nflfootballjournal.blogspot.com/2019/06/players-of-decade1965-75.html?m=
Not really a fan of the Jets or Raiders, but just wanted to say that football back then was real football. A catch was a catch, a fumble was a fumble, you didn't have all these technical bs rules to tell you which was which. QB's took there beatings like men, they didn't cry about it like QB's of today, hence look at the beating Namath took in that game and the Jets still won.
Namath was a GREAT quarterback! The thing that impressed me most about this footage, was the tackle Joe Willie put on George Atkinson after he intercepted Namath! NO QUARTERBACK in today's NFL would have have stuck his nose in to make a tackle like that! I was a QB and Joe Willie was the player I tailored my game after!
I’ll take “Country” Don Maynard over the great Lance Allworth any day of the week. Got to meet wtih him a few times in El Paso where he lived after he retired. Very pleasant person and great competitor.
Namath was a remarkable athlete. Had a rocket for an arm, and you ever see his vertical leap. His famous jump pass. Throwing his back out on Raquel Welch took a few years off his career.
Before his knees were ripped as a jr in college, he could dunk a b-ball behind his back. Also could run a 4.6 40..... the Namath you see here was literally nearly a cripple.... playing on pure instincts, wooden legs and one of the greatest natural arms ever.
I’ll take “Country” Don Maynard over the great Lance Allworth any day of the week. Got to meet wtih him a few times in El Paso where he lived after he retired. Very pleasant person and great competitor.
Namath to Maynard.....Namath to Sauer.....Namath hands off to Snell.....Deadly offense of The New York Jets.....Shea Stadium was one of the best sports venues.....to be in the crowd for The Jets was nothing short of spectacular.....
If Namath, as he was at that age, had simply had the same knees he had just before his senior year in college, he could easily have played in today's league. His throwing arm and overall talent as a quarterback were that good. Unfortunately he came into the league with a damaged right knee (damaged to the point of making him ineligible for the military draft), didn't have the luxury of the pass-friendly rule changes that were instituted in 1978, and was subjected to all kinds of physical punishment that would not have been allowed today -- or even twenty years ago.
SingleTax he was incredibly tough which may have been his own undoing. Who now plays when their knee is dislocated and popped back in place? Not healing properly could have hurt more than helped, but he was such a tough competitor. Joe Montana considers him his idol. Enough said.
This is an example of the brainwash people have digested about Namath. For one, Namath couldn't read a defense if you gave him the other team's playbook. He was an interception machine that blew more games than can be remembered. The only reason he'd be able to play in today's era at all is because defenses are in handcuffs, but he'd still be just a mediocre QB today because he lacked the football IQ that a top flight NFL QB has. What people either choose to forget or don't know about is that Namath was in a battle to keep his job a number of times because his play was so often poor. One such battle was with what history would call a total nobody name Mike Taliaferro. He nearly lost his job to Taliaferro and to be clear Taliaferro was not a good QB. Secondly, Namath wasn't some kind of legendary "tough". Resilient sure, but let's not get carried away. Jim Brown was legendary TOUGH, he never missed a game. Third, regardless of not playing in the "pass friendly era", Namath was still near the bottom of his era when it comes to performance from what is considered the top level of QB's. Just compare his stats to Johnny Unitas' for a perfect example, and Unitas played his ENTIRE career in the defensively tougher NFL. Daryle Lamonica was the AFL's best QB and he remained a threat in the NFL. The man only lost 16 ball games his entire career. 16 ball games. Lastly, Joe Montana may consider Namath his idol, but Namath wasn't even good enough to have carried Montana's jockstrap. If Super Bowl 3 wouldn't have happened without the guarantee and win, Namath would've been nothing but a mere footnote in history and rightfully so. His play was nothing more than footnote worthy, but unfortunately people have spent a half century romanticizing on him as more than what he was.
I saw Joe's last game a Shea, and It was kinda sad. He didn't have much left at that point. If he played under today's rules, he would have made Brady look like a fool.
Those Kelly Green Jets jerseys were beautiful. To be honest, they were before their time, and Namath being the first QB I had to be when I got a hold of a football, jersey I had to have. It took some years, but...I have a Kelly Green 1968 Namath that I proudly wear. Same fit, same polyester materials. Seing this make me want to put it on. Hahaha
after 3 hits like the ones he took in game, Brady would have been broken in 2 or at the very least cried to the officials. And, play on that type of field...today's QB's have no idea.
@@reddlc28 I don't no if he's a Brady hater but it's a different game today...players today are bigger stronger and faster....alot of the rule changes have made the game safer not because the owners care about the players but because of money...Robert Kraft and the owners don't want to pay players millions of dollars to sit injured on the bench..I was always a Joe Montana fan but I have to tip my hat to Tom Brady he has done amazing things that no one will come close to doing plus alot of players want to play with him...He in my opinion is the GOAT...i have been watching football since 1962 and Tom Brady could have played back then..
Statistically, it's a shame that Namath played during that era when you could pound the hell out of quarterbacks and mug receivers going down the field because he was as talented as anyone that played the game. No one threw a prettier, tighter pass than Joe Namath. To watch him just flick his wrist and send a football on a line down the field was a thing of beauty and I've never seen any quarterback since who threw like Namath.
@@macofalltrades6396 He threw a better deep ball than Favre. Both prone to picks. Namath could have been like Rogers if he stayed healthy. But the Favre comparison works.
Namath put up crazy stats in some of the worst conditions. This game was a perfect example at Shea stadium. Trying to pass in high, gusty and cold winds. I remember him throwing a 10 yard out pattern. He threw it 15 yards ahead of the line of scrimmage. Wind bent it back 5 yards to Maynard perfectly. Genius.
I remember watching this game live. I grew up in Cleveland. The Browns were hosting the Colts at the exact same time and our game was blacked out locally so this was the only game on the TV that day. What I most remember was that after the game a kid (about my age) jumped in this little jet mobile car and drove it across the field. I was jealous.
I was there for that game. 14 y/o and the 53 yd. catch by Maynard was right in front of us. My father was a big NYG fan and on the long waiting list for season tickets. The day the Jets drafted Namath my father, who went to Alabama in the late 40s, ordered Jets season tickets and our whole family became Jets fans. What a game and what a season. Sadly, it's been a torturous drought since then.
Few QBs were as tough and took such beatings in their careers as Broadway Joe. Don Meredith and Joe Kapp (who dished it out as well as he took it) being in Joe's class. And Joe did it with two bum knees.
the play by play was from the actual radio broadcast on WABC radio in New York...the announcer was long time Jet broadcaster Merle Harmon...his color guy was former Jet lineman Sam DeLuca....the excerpts were included in a New York Daily News record album entitled "The Super Jets"..
The gentleman is quite right...I have a copy on audio cassette...I remember listening to the Jets games that entire season (the WABC was the very same "Musicradio 77 WABC" that featured Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie)...stations ID's were prefaced by "Your dial is Jet Set"
The Jets Raiders rivalry was a great one back in those days. Namath and Lamonica battled back and forth. The QBs took a beating. Different game today. That is why it is hard to look at QB stats and compare the different eras.
Notice at the end of the game, Namath in the middle of the field, he could barely walk. Like a boxer at the end of a very tough fight. He took a lot of punishment in this game. His toughness gets overlooked.... finally the bomb to Maynard on the audible was ice veins money... Namath was a gamer. The bigger the moment, the more he embraced it and let his arm shine.
That's what made football special-they played outside and in rugged conditions.Some teams still do it.But I've been in too many domes that make me feel as if I'm in San Juan.
Joe Namath Was A Tough Son Of A Gun. He Played The Game With Guts, Heart, & Toughness. That's Why He's In The HOF. You Were The Heart, & Soul Of The New York Jets. Much Love.
Maynard had around 11,000 career receiving yards. Around 88 total TD's. One SB. 🏆 A HOF legend at it's finest. Back then that's a killer record, now a day Maynard would've set the league on fire.
I’ll take “Country” Don Maynard over the great Lance Allworth any day of the week. Got to meet wtih him a few times in El Paso where he lived after he retired. Very pleasant person and great competitor.
One others thing The Mad Bomber has left us watch towards the end where he and Lamonica are standing face to face and Lamonica gives him a Pat on the helmet! Just oozes respect RIP #3!
My buddies and I had seasons tickets during those "Joe Willie" glory years. Our seats were in the upper deck, and boy did Shea Stadium get cold in late November and December, with the wind blowing in from Flushing Bay.
Johnny Yum ... $15,000.00 in 1968'(adjusted for inflation)is the equivalent of $107,500.00 in 2018' !! Considering that the average player salary in 1968' was $25,000.00 per year($156,000.00 today),then $15,000.00 for winning one football game was a pretty damn good bonus!!
@@dann547 He's saying AFL receivers, so NFL receivers don't count, before or after the merger. I think maybe Otis Taylor of the Chiefs belongs on there. I don't know who Hennigan is.
"Winnin! Nothin else matters to me, winnin.. whether i catch 1 or 10. Nothin else matters." What a quote. That Texas twang does it for me. True man right there.
