Love those Saints uniform with the gold numbers and black outline very sharp 👌

Damn, first play of the franchise is a kickoff return touchdown

I love these types of videos from the "old NFL" days! The Saints original uniforms were pretty cool too. They should bring those back sometime.

Ah, the good old days- beat-up fields, fights, and one of the best football names ever- Steve Stonebreaker...

I like the original Saints' uniforms more than any other they've ever had. I even like the oversize fleur-de-lis and striped socks.

I had season tickets in 1967 and 68. Like many, I remember the John Gilliam kickoff return very well. We were in the north end zone just under the upper deck. Gilliam was running right towards us. When he reached about the Saint's 30 you could see he was in the open and going to go the distance. But after that, we couldn't see him anymore because everyone was jumping up and down in front of us... Great memory.....

Im From Delaware . I love My Saints .

Wish I could relive those days all over again. So much better than today.

Billy Kilmer was actually a half back at one time hard to believe looking at him in this clip.

some may find this interesting, but in the highlights from the Falcon game, number 8 making the touchdown catch for the Falcons was Hall of Famer Tommy McDonald, who made his name with the Eagles. Tommy was the last player in league history to play without a facemask.

Been to numerous Tulane Stadium Saints game, and one Super Bowl, Steelers vs Vikings, 16-6 Steelers.

AMAZING footage. I became a die hard Saints fan two years later in 1969 (I was 7).

Abramowicz was ballin' in that Steelers game.

WOW! thanks for this! I was at all of those first season home games.

Great video! Thanks for sharing!!!

Why can't they get the same color gold as this? The current uniforms don't look half as good as these.

I would have loved to be on Bourbon Street after that inaugural win. It must have been one helluva night back in 67.

In the opening game the Rams made a rare appearance in the blue jerseys

Monty Stickles was a good tough tight end.

I wish people were like they were back then. Imagine being able to go to New Orleans and not worry about being shot by some thug. I live near N.O. And we used to go to saints games as teenagers and never worried about anything.

Narrated by the great Don Criqui !

Members of the 1967 Saints in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Doug Atkins Jim Taylor Paul Hornung (offseason, retired before season began) Tom Fears (coach, elected as player)

We may have not been so good back then, but since 2009 and 2010, we will become the dominant team! #IBleedBlackAndGold

These were the best years of the Saints. Best years of the NFL. Best years of our lives!

Thanks for posting my friend

Wow, they cheered the visitors in the first game! Has that happened since? And I have a feeling they had more fun back then. Now it's all corporate advertising and bs like that dominating everything. I hate how loud games have become between the ads and the stuff I hesitate to call music they play.

When I was in High School in San Diego, the Saints use to have their training camp at a college near the ocean in Point Loma, San Diego. I use to watch them train for at least a couple of summers.

Tulane stadium was a blast

I love the cool, cooool music on this video Daddy-O!

STEELERS MAKE IT TOUGH by APOLOGETIX a great football song

Very good film work for the 60s

The New Orleans Saints head coach was Hall of Fame wide receiver Tom Fears. The team he played against was his old team.

Bring back that large logo on the helmets , They wear that jersey as a throwback now

Crazy what I’m about to say but you can’t make it up...I’m a life-long die hard fan of the saints (never been to a game though, SAD i know) but having never even known about Tulane stadium, my brain surmised a crazy dream of going to a home game and it was outside for some reason...I’m 25 and they’ve always played in the super dome so i found that peculiar. Nevertheless, I think I was always meant to be a fan!

I wasn't Born this year and have grown up with the Saints and have been there Good and Bad

Don Criqui was one of the best announcers.

Chills

falcons blew a 21 point lead at halftime in their first game against the saints

8:27--linebacker Steve Stonebreaker, who started a Saints tradition of unique names. Later would come the likes of Jubilee Dunbar, D'Artagnian Martin, Tinker Owens, Hoyle Granger, Bivian Lee, Delles Howell, Elois Grooms, Derland Moore, Hokie Gajan, Hoby Brenner, and Jumpy Geathers.

John Gilliam,Doug Atkins, Jim Taylor, & Bill Kilmer were all on this team...

You can trust your car to the man who wears the star...

Hey, Man. First of all, congrats on your material, as it brings back quite the memories and it's been really helpful in filling some historical voids. And on that note, you think that it'd be possible to use some clips of it for educational, researching and custom purposes? It'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

That kick return was the very first play in the saints history how ironic considering their history.

I worked with a guy who attended that first New Orleans Saints season opener in 1967 against the Rams. Legend has it that after that Saints opening kickoff touchdown, there was so much pandemonium in the stand that the game was delayed 20 minutes. Anyone has the real story?

I want to know if anyone remembers the noise in Tulane Stadium. I remember when the Saints made a good play, we would stomp our feet on the metal flooring and yell at the same time. It sounded like the whole stadium was going to fall down. When I got to the Superdome, it just didn't seem like enough noise for me. I tried slaming the seats up and down but no one caught on. That made a good pounding noise......Yes, I agree, this was the "hayday" of the NFL and AFL. It was called KILL YOUR APPONENT!! Eat your heart out Roger Goodell with your Bounty Gate BS. This was real football. They gave their bodies up for the game and loved it..... I can just about remember all of the players names that year and the year after. But if we had 4 wins we would call that a winning season. We've come a long way since then and got the respect we long deserved. I just hope our unfortunate changes will bring us a new fortune.

Don Criqui must have been young when he narrated this film. I don't think he was even 30 years old.

The year and city I was born!

3:50--looks like the Saints had a bench-clearer in their first ever game. They would have a near-riot at Yankee Stadium against the Giants a couple of weeks later.

The kickoff shown at 1:20 was not the opening kickoff of the inaugural game. That return was 94 yards and if you watch the video there was another player next to Gilliam when he received the kick. Nice video though.

Number 42 John Gilliam who took the opening kickoff for a touchdown. Is this the same John Gilliam who would later play for the Minnesota Vikings in 2 Super Bowls?

We are told that players now days are bigger,stronger and faster I don't think so.

Read the Atlanta paper after the Falcons' loss in New Orleans and the writer said the dejected silence in the Atlanta locker room was deafening. The Falcons would only tie the woebegone, defenseless Redskins and beat the Vikings in 1967. A Saints player said he wished they could get the Falcons every week and, needless to say, the Atlanta players cared nothing for it. THIS...is where the rivalry started; a bitter, last-minute defeat to an upstart team they were sure they'd beat, and then, the gloating. Next year in Atlanta Stadium (pre season, Falcons won it) a bench-clearing free-for-all erupted towards the end of the game because of a late hit. It was completely out of control. NFL Films has it somewhere in a piece called, "Your Father's Mustache." Today, the rivalry is total bullcrap, cooked up off the fumes of something that was ONCE real during THAT time with THOSE players from each team, and fanned around by phony PR departments from both teams. In the late 1960's, those guys on the Saints and the Falcons had a genuine dislike for one another. Back in the 80's a reporter asked a Falcon about the rivalry. He responded that the Saints were the same guys as the Falcons, except that they wore gold uniforms and to him, it was just another game.

I've seen this on ESPN classic

My Dallas Cowboys look so beautiful. WOW, that Cowboys game is really amazing. Here is the box score of the game. You will see Dan Reeves fumbled after hand off from #13 Jerry Rhome. Jerry was our third string QB. Meredith was injured and they must have pulled Morton or Landry was rotating Morton and Rhome at QB. In the box score Jerry is not a record of playing so they must have pulled Morton or he was injured and Jerry did not throw a pass. Thankfully GOOD OLE Billy Kilmer, the deadskin that he is fumbled. **ALSO.., they played the Cowboys twice this season and they used those highlights in this film as well. The Cowboys wore their blue jerseys against them at New Orleans. I so love those uniforms and do NOT believe the bullshit rumor of them being "bad luck" since they had a wining record in those jerseys. OMG my Cowboys blue uniforms were so amazing for that time. What makes me mad is this exciting finish for the game played in Dallas was NOT included in the Cowboys 1967 highlight film so now I have to save for my Cowboys video collection. Thanks for posting here are both Cowboys box scores. www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/196710150dal.htm and second game www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/196711120nor.htm

Can't do much better than their first ever play

The saints looked like the University of purdue.

It was a college atmosphere back then

Even the names of the players back then were cooler.

ALLTHOUGH I AM NOT A SANTS FAN I LOVE THOSE OLD UNIFORMS YHEY WORE IN 1967 YES THAT IS THE SAME JONH GILLIAM HE PLAY FOR THE VIKINGS & AND THE ST LOUIS CSRDINALS TOO KENNETH O

Ernie,the wheell,Wheelright,from the Giants

Never knew the N.F.L. had a player with the #0, saw some #00(Really "100" but of course, no room on a jersey for the three digits), but never knew there was #0 worn by any N.F.L./Professional football player.

LOT OF LATE HITS IN THE 60'S

Don Criqui. Awesomeness.

I/2 a gigabyte for a 30 minute program..interesting.

who dat beat them saints!!

The Philadelphia Eagles

Were they Tulane or new Orleans

Wonder why the Saints in the day wore their white jerseys at home, possibly the humidity of the south?

WHO DAT

Paul Hornung retired before the season so he didn't play with Jim Taylor

"Gumbo"(LOL).

I don't think Jim Taylor played the whole season.

Who wore no(0) for New orleans?

The wins were presented in wrong order , Redskins win was last not the Falcons

yes the saints foolishly traded him to st. louis, he ended up in minnesota, they also foolishly traded ken burrough to the oilers

Why did they have the visiting team's name in one of the endzones?

Now they got trashy rap music. Disgusting. America is doomed.

Why would a team that had such great uniforms go to that godawful black from neck to shoes "leotard" look of today?