i went to the jets- k c playoff game at shea stadium ,standing room only tickets ,the price was 7.50 ,thats right 7 dollars and 50 cents . it was freezing,jets lost 13- 6, dec 20 1969 ,it was a saturday ,,the monday before tickets went on sale at shea ..as i was on line i saw joe namath walking to his his car i was about 14 ,and i loved namath ,i ran over to him. he was sitting in his jaguar ,i asked him for his autograph he was more than happy to give it to me ,,he was my hero, all these years later i still have it .i love watching these games from the 60s and 70s ,playing on grass.i
I used to watch this every week as a kid. After it was over, I would go in my backyard and play games in my head as I played. I remember one cold and rainy day, my brother dared me to go out and play on my own. Got my football and went out and made plays like these in the highlights. My brother paid me, lol. I miss being a kid in those times, nobody knew what a mess this world is at that time. It was a really good time to be alive, today, not so much.
Same here! I did the same exact thing…However, I disagree that you think it’s better then - it’s waaaaay better NOW - you can actually watch every single TWIPF episode here on RU-vid and relive those incredible memories…the problem is 2 things: there’s too much i.e. too many choices & 2. The younger folks don’t appreciate it
In the mid 70s. didnt they have huge real to real machines for their video highlights? Somehow I remember Pat Summerall going over to the machine and dramatically pushing the button when he started the highlights... maybe its a Mandela deal, but I recall loving that
I watched ˋthe week in pro football´ religously, even as an 11 year old. While playing two-hand touch football on the streets of New Yorkˋs little Italy, i could hear the music soundtrack in my head imagining to be in uniform and would fantasize i was one of those players. Incredible we played between traffic . Artificial turf seems harmless in comparison 😃. Brings back memories of times long gone😌
POST THE ENTIRE 1969 SEASON, INCLUDING PLAYOFFS. I LOVE THE NFL/AFL HIGHLIGHTS. This was the last year both leagues played separate schedules. From the 1966 season(after the merger agreement), until '69, the only time the NFL/AFL played each other was the preseason and the Super Bowl.
+elwin38 Unfortunately I have posted all I have for TWIPF. But I have a poor quality copy of Chiefs vs Colts 1970 MNF week 2 and a U.S. Open women's tennis final from the 90s i'll get around to after I get my google fiber installed. There is a guy that posted inthe comment section of one of the TWIPF I uploaded that has several years of This Week in the NFL for trade if you're interested. Glad you liked the uploads.
Two classic play by play callers in Pat and Charlie. They don't make guys like that anymore for these kind of shows. I rarely missed an episode back then. The NFL films soundtrack gave a sense of drama and action. The dialogue tells it exactly how it was. And the old stadiums back then and the weather & no sissy domes. I wish VCRs were out back in '69 as no doubt some of these films are lost.
Hank Stram (KC Head Coach at this time) had deeply admired the FG kicking style of Buffalo's Pete Gogolak (who was the first soccer-style kicker). After losing SB 1 to the Packers he urged his scouts to find him a kicker who kicked in this way. Ultimately the Chiefs were able to sign Jan Stenerud who was from Norway but attended the Montana State on a ski jumping scholarship. One day he was kicking a football around to loosen up when he was discovered by a trainer who told the Montana football coach about him. Stenerud made the team and during a college game in 1965 kicked a 59 yd FG and ultimately the Chiefs drafted him
Of the 26 head coaches this day, five are still alive as of 22 February 2020: Don Shula (BAL), Joe Schmidt (DET), Bud Grant (MIN), John Madden (OAK) and Charley Winner (STL)
TWIPF was the greatest NFL highlight show ever produced. Tom, Pat and Charley really made it must-see viewing every week.. Great classic music, especially during the Redskin-Eagle game. Great game in the Coliseum, with the Vikes getting past the Rams in a battle of NFL titans..
Mr. Jones was an accomplished lawyer from Houston as well--He and Curt Gowdy were huge supporters of the old AFL and resented the fact that the established NFL thought their brand of football was far superior to the upstart AFL--I don't think anyone got as much satisfaction over the Jets and Chiefs winning SB III and IV than Mr. Gowdy and Mr. Jones did
@@bufnyfan1, lawyer? I thought he was a pro broadcaster from practically beginning to end. He did the Chiefs and the Dallas Texans play by play on radio, but worked in radio and TV in Corpus Christi and Dallas, later in KC on radio after the Chiefs moved. Then, with NBC from '66 on.. He is originally from ARKANSAS.
the grass field at the old Municipal Stadium in Kansas City (51:15)-was looked after by groundskeeper George Toma (the "God of Sod")-Mr. Toma came up with the idea of putting the helmet decal of the Chiefs home opponent for each game (in this film the Buffalo Bills) on one side of the 50 yd line and the Chiefs helmet logo on the other side--when the NFL-AFL merger was announced in 1966 the late NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle travelled to KC and was so impressed by Mr. Toma's work that he asked him to look after the Super Bowl fields for many of the Super Bowl games that followed in the 1970's and 80's
Great football memories. The NFL had a strange alignment in 1969 with 4 Divisions, the Capitol and the Century in the Eastern Conference, and the Central and the Coastal in the Western Conference. The NFC North teams of today were the SAME teams of the NFL Central in 1969. Of course the merger in 1970 was wildly successful for the NFL from a financial standpoint, however, it ended a classic NFL rivalry between the Browns and the Giants, two teams which had dominated the NFL Eastern Division/Conference for the previous 20 years. Our family started becoming familiar with the AFL in the mid to late 1960's, as CBS had the NFL TV contract and NBC had the AFL contract in those days before cable. Our local NBC affiliate had a much stronger signal to our part of town than our CBS affiliate had.
Cincinnati QB Greg Cook (48:45) was one of the most tragic stories in the history of the NFL. The late Bill Walsh was quoted as saying that Cook was by far the most talented QB to ever come out of college and was even better than HOF QB Joe Montana. In Cook's first year with the Bengals he defeated both the Raiders and Chiefs in the regular season but injured his right shoulder following a hit by KC LB Jim Lynch in the 3rd game of the 1969 season--the injury was essentially misdiagnosed and never healed properly (torn rotator cuff muscles)-orthopedic surgery in those days was not nearly as advanced as they are today and Cook never really recovered and his career ended after a few attempts at a come back. Bob Trumpy (one of his teammates on the Bengals) said Mr. Cook lived with regrets for what his career could have been for the rest of his life
Trumpy also said he would have multiple rings if Cook had stayed healthy. The Bengals were that good. But Paul Brown not naming Walsh head coach over Tiger Johnson didn't help.
The fact that NFL Films covered the AFL games beginning in 1968 was part of the merger agreement...The separate shows in 1968 were both shown in New York on WPIX-TV, channel 11
@Matt Pizzano, AFL FILMS ran for two years. 68-69&69-70, and I imagine combining the two shows was just easier to do, especially with 1970-71 coming up. I do not know if the merger agreement in legal text called for the NFL to promote the AFL, but NFL FILMS sure did with their AFL FILMS.
as a young, 11 year old k. c. chiefs' fan i watched this show every week during the 1969 season. it was a magical and wonderful year for the chiefs. but i watched and followed the nfl as well as the afl. i was a fan of dick butkus, roman gabriel and gale sayers as much as joe namath, lance alworth and willie lanier. i just loved football back then.
There were two separate shows in 1968: the AFL show was hosted by Charlie Jones and was a half hour. Pat Summerall hosted the NFL show which was an hour long. They combined it two shows in 1969. Charlie Jones left NFL Films replaced by Tom Brookshier for 1970. 1968 was the first year NFL Films covered AFL games as part of the merger agreement.
Back when Sunday football was Sunday football. In the central time zone the games started at noon for the early and almost always ended at 6 pm for the late. So when I was a kid I never missed "The Wonderful World of Disney". When you were allowed to get two games on the TV that day. When if your local or market team was playing you just did not get that game to watch. When, (I think), the halftime highlights was some guy in a suit telling you about the rest of the League action because they had no film to show. And when Charlie Jones had hair.
This is 50 years ago, half a century ago. It seems ancient compared to 2019, modern players, modern stadiums, modern media, and so on. But compare it to just 20 years before and it was ultra-modern in comparison. In 1950 NFL players wore helmets that didn't have facemasks. The U.S. military flew airplanes with propellers in 1950. 1969 is old school now, but at the time it was cutting edge compared to anything before.
I was in my early teens when this was originally aired and I recorded it onto my cassette recorder. Upon hearing Pat Summerall's NFL pick my mom exclaimed "Dallas?!" Her skepticism was well grounded as the Cowboys lost to Cleveland in their first game. Kansas city beat Minnesota in SB four 23-7.
Falcons MLB All Pro, Tommy Nobis, knocked out earlier in the season with knee injury, replaced by Don Hansen #58, who was good. But then, Hansen went out, replaced by Ron Acks, 52. Both men did a great job. Hansen played his career with Atlanta and Acks ended up a Patriot. It is Acks who blocks the Saint punt in this clip.
Kezar Stadium was often a mess, especially late in the season when California's rainy season would set in. When George Allen coached the Rams, he had to coach a game there every year. He once said that Kezar Stadium was the worst stadium in pro football.
Pat Summerall called the Pats' very first Super Bowl win...Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans, which was televised on Fox back in 2002! It was the last Super Bowl he would ever call!
Gotta love those Philly fans. They once booed Santa Claus at halftime and here they have Sonny hanging from a rope and a "Who's Vince?" banner! Great stuff!
True and it is a shame but players are so big strong and fast nowadays that if the rules were as loose as back then there would be players getting killed every week. Instead sometimes it seems like half the game gets cancelled by penalties. We want it violent but it can't be too violent. And of course the money changes everything. These guys used to have side jobs in the offseason to make ends meet.
@@richardmorris7063 I liked the 1970 Redskins yellow helmets, the logo was kinda lame, just a maroon R in place of the Native American profile, I was 4 years old in 1970 and yellow was my favorite color at the time.
If you're talking AFL/NFL merger that was in 1970. The Super Bowls did start in '66 though. So i'm thinking it was already being planned in '66. Both leagues had 2 expansion teams each from '66-'68. dolphins, bengals, saints and falcons.
@@G0Chiefs: The NFL/AFL merger was in 1966. By Super Bowl I, the two leagues had essentially become one entity joined at the head, (Pete Rozelle was named Commissioner of BOTH leagues in 66) but the leagues only maintained separate schedules until 1970 due to their existing TV contracts. Until that point, the only part of the merger that hadn't already occured, was on the field.
they could have done it right away. it would have been great for the fans. but the NFL wanted to maintain their "air of superiority" over the despised AFL.
that game was sold out within a few minutes of tickets going on sale--the Rams went into that game 11-0 and the Vikings 10-1--sadly for the Rams when they lost 17-14 they never won again that year-including the Western Conference Championship game in Minnesota (23-20)
So nice to see football played on REAL GRASS. Also receivers who are able to catch the football in all types of weather (Without Gloves). REAL FOOTBALL AT IT'S FINEST
Those picks, Dallas and Oakland, was the first foyer into the Dallas/Oakland SB "dream" matchup, that lasted into the late '70s...but never was. Too bad.
For 1970, Tom Brookshier replaced Charlie Jones as the co-host of "This Week in Pro Football". Any combination of the three would have been fine with me, as all three ( Tom, Pat and Charlie ) were fun and well-informed..
That Redskins-Eagles game was the only game Vince Lombardi coached on artificial turf. Redskins 34, Eagles 29 The Eagles and Oilers were the only teams playing on fake stuff in 1969. By 1972, the 49ers, Cowboys, Chiefs, Cardinals, Saints, Bears, Bengals, Steelers, Eagles, Dolphins and Patriots had also gone ersatz.
Green Bay was old, and it looks like the Browns were just getting tougher and tougher. Redskins should have kept those cool "arrow" burgundy helmets. Bears, always known as scrappers on defense, look horrible - slow and poor tacklers. The Falcon game was blacked out in Atlanta, but the big win over the Saints (whom they genuinely disliked in those days) was all over the morning newspaper, with lots of photos of the Harmon Wages wrecking of the pitiful Saints defense.
I noticed that after someone scored a TD, they just threw or handed the ball back to the ref. No ridiculous celebrations like what you see today, where these overpaid billionaires thump their chests, point to themselves when they do their jobs.
Always watched this back then 13 years old. In 1969 was a big Daryl Lamonica fan the mad bomber 34 touxhdowns in 1969 but also 25 interceptions. Afl player of the year in 1969. Raiders of Oakland 12.1.1. But Lamonica could never win the big one . In one Superbowl January 1968 a 33 to 14 loss to the Green Bay Packers. Raiders were 13 and 1 that year
@@geoffaldwinckle1096, funny you should mention that. Sam Spence the early Music guy, along with Art Spieller, for NFL FILMS was in Europe until his death a few years ago..CONDUCTING THE MUNICH ORCHESTRA. Yep, the music was and is FIRST RATE.. and you say...
@@robertsprouse9282 yeah i read in a book by Mike McCambridge that he was in Europe. Clearly didnt see too many NFL games eh ? Thanks for the info on his passing.
@@geoffaldwinckle1096, NFL FILMS brought Sam to the NFLF studios when he was in the Music Dept at USC..He saw NFL FILMS footage, eh? As a matter of fact, STEVE SABOL suggested to SPENCE to use some ideas that STEVE had regarding childhood campsongs: ex-AS SHE RISES EARLYYY IN THE MORNING, was just one of those THAT STEVE who has seen many football games, shot many, suggested WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE GAME. And, you say..?
4:17 Safety Joe Scarpati for the Eagles pointing to the ball on the ground that Jerry Smith never caught so the idiot ref could see it. To no avail and that TD was the difference in the final margin.
