Help me out football historians: what was going on in football in the late 1960s?

[Kevin Greene]

Just now, panthers55 said:

What a stupid comment. No one said anything was Namaths fault. You must be related to be so defensive. But signing guys like Namath to the AFL in 1965 began the intense competition between the league's and legitimized the AFL especially when he later won the Super Bowl. It forced the NFL to take the AFL seriously as real competition.

Fug off with your arrogant BS.

[panthers55]

Just now, Kevin Greene said:

Fug off with your arrogant BS.

And how about acting like you have a grain of intelligence and aren't just a dick.

[Kevin Greene]

Just now, panthers55 said:

And how about acting like you have a grain of intelligence and aren't just a dick.

Again, fug off.

[panthers55]

Just now, Kevin Greene said:

Again, fug off.

More evidence you just can't fix stupid

 

[Kevin Greene]

Just now, panthers55 said:

More evidence you just can't fix stupid

 

You need to get over yourself.

[PhillyB]

[tiger7_88]

7 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Here's what I can tell you of my earliest football memories:

The Cowboys, Steelers and Raiders were the teams that got the most talk. Even back then, in my uninformed youth, I still had the good sense to hate the Cowboys.

As I recall, most of the better teams were in the AFC by that time, though I could be wrong. There definitely wasn't parity like there is now. Some teams were always good while others always sucked.

There were only 28 teams and six divisions, so two divisions were short (AFC Central and NFC West I think). The Sunday games were on CBS and NBC. I preferred CBS. 

The now hated Falcons and Saints were mostly afterthoughts in the NFC West. New Orleans did have this really good QB named Manning though.

Joe Namath was popular, but he never really got back to the level of his Super Bowl year.

There was some guy named John Madden coaching the Raiders. He seemed a little crazy.

I was a big Rams fan. Loved guys like Lawrence McCutcheon, Fred Dryer, Jim and Jack Youngblood and John Cappelletti. I also remember this quarterback named Ron Jaworski but he went to the Eagles later. Mid 70s they got a kicker named Tom Dempsey who only had half a foot. I thought that was kinda cool.

Liked the Steelers too. Bradshaw, Swann, Franco and a lesser known guy named Rocky Bleier were cool on offense; Jack Ham, Mel Blount and Joe Greene on defense.

I remember hating the Vikings. I liked Tarkenton, but they beat my favored Rams in a heartbreaker so I despised the team. Particularly disliked a receiver named Sammy White who made a big play in that game.

Remember the first time I saw an ad for this new sensation called ABC Monday Night Football starring some guy named Howard Cosell. I thought I'd found the coolest thing ever. Threw a fit if anyone in my family wanted to watch something else.

There was no such thing as free agency, so you never lost your favorite players unless they got cut or traded. No sports channels either. I eagerly awaited the Tuesday newspapers so I could check the standings.

And I swear it seemed like nearly every team had a great quarterback.

Don't know how much those memories help, but maybe there's something you can use there.

Manning wasn't drafted by the Saints until 1971 though. In 1968, Manning would have been a sophomore at Ole Miss.

And back then college rules didn't allow freshman players to play varsity. Most colleges had freshman teams for the freshmen.

[Pimpdaddy]

...Browns were relevant...

[Mr. Scot]

2 hours ago, tiger7_88 said:

Manning wasn't drafted by the Saints until 1971 though. In 1968, Manning would have been a sophomore at Ole Miss.

And back then college rules didn't allow freshman players to play varsity. Most colleges had freshman teams for the freshmen.

I know.  I started watching in 1972 (age 5).

I was talking about some of my earliest memories.  They start later than Philly was looking but I thought they might have some relevance anyway.

[Mr. Scot]

7 hours ago, thomas96 said:

Jim Brown was a bad mother shut yo mouth even before Shaft came along.

A good buddy of mine growing up was a Browns fan. One of his favorite stories was about the first time Jim Brown faced Dick Butkus (apparently related by Butkus himself in an interview).

Brown took a handoff and Butkus was waiting for him, slammed him to the ground then looked down at him and taunted "Boy, you stink".

Next play: another handoff and another hard tackle by Butkus. He even repeated the same line, but with added emphasis. "Boy you stink!"

Then the following play. Handoff again, only this time Brown juked Butkus out of his shorts and blew right past him for a huge gain.

As he was running away, Brown reportedly turned his head to yell back at Butkus, "HOW DO I SMELL NOW, MOTHER@#$%&*?!"

[Khaki Lackey]

12 hours ago, PhillyB said:

looks like they added the saints in 1967 too

"Can you believe they put a team in the cesspool that is New Orleans?"

"Really..a bunch a drug addicted degenerates in that city. It wouldn't surprise me if they eventually had a drug addict as a head coach!"

"I wish a big storm would blow that place off the map"

"Meh..the commissioner would just arrange them a pity Super Bowl win."

....aaaand scene.

You're welcome.

[The Huddler]

PhillyB is the most boring dude on the planet

[CatMan72]

I think it was the last time the Browns played for the NFL championship, they were beaten 34-0 by the Colts and went into rebuilding mode... been rebuilding ever since.