the radio guy is terrible...but these old school highlites ROCK!! Thanks, back door.

@@bishlap That 'radio guy' is Lon Simmons, who was a radio broadcaster for the 49ers, Giants, and A's for 45 years. I grew up listening to him call A's games in the early 80's. He was actually quite good and had a great sense of humor.

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 I'm surprised at how amateurish he sounds (at least 1st Qtr) bc I've known about Lon from the 60's and never heard anything but good about him. Anyway, those Niner teams were Super Bowl material, just never caught a break, especially that killer Dallas game/comeback, UGH!! I'm a NYG fan, so I pulled for whomever played the Cowboys...niners broke my heart that day.

@@bishlap For those 1970-72 seasons, the Niners were near the top of the heap, but yeah, could never get by Dallas in the postseason. Brodie is borderline HOF material in my book, and he might be in had the Niners gotten to the Super Bowl any of those seasons.

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 NO argument here. 1 SB win and Brodie's in. Ironic that Niners were better and probably would have beaten the Dolphin team that Cowboys smashed in SB. The next year was the unbeaten team, but that previous year I'm certain Niners would have dusted Miami same way Dallas had.

It's nice to see someone else recalling those days of the blackout rule. Today's NFL audiences don't realize how easy they have it to view the games on TV. What was paradoxical back then was ABC-TV not blacking-out the college games that were played locally. The occasional Stanford or Cal game played at home were televised locally.

I didn't realize until recently that all NFL playoff games back then were blacked out in the local markets. I wasn't quite six years old then, but neither of the Colts' playoff games that year (they had home field for both the divisional and championship playoff) were't televised in the Baltimore area. Pete Rozelle, otherwise a rather forward thinker when it came to football and television, was adamant about the rule, claiming the blackouts were necessary in order to encourage fans to buy tickets to the games rather than staying at home and watching on television. It wasn't until 1973 that the league implemented the "72-hour rule" meaning that the game needed to be a sellout 72 hours before game time in order for the blackout to be lifted in the home team's local viewing area.

Yep, can't stand today's game and the overproduction of it.

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Thank HEAVENS there are still people like you, Back Door, around. I feel like I'm the lone voice in the woods when I watch today's NFL.

The ugliness of the "old" NFL is when shitty refs calls were made - especially in late game critical situations - there was no way to challenge the call and expose the error. More ugliness was the players were paid peanuts and had poor medical/pension coverage; when those players retired, many of their family lives were severely compromised from poor medical/retirement issues. None of the owners from this era had any such problems.

@@waldolydecker8118 who cares about that shit--the game today is flag football... as for your social concerns...run for office.

Thanks Gregg!

Championship caliber qb ?? What they had sucked......I mean, they where just horrid! An average QB would've done better ..

@@6400az I saw Cuozzo, Snead and Lee as strong back-ups but only decent average starting QB's. The gap between such QB's and Brody was large enough to outweigh the Vikings better defense.

@@sportshistorybuff Yes, you're right. It seemed Cuozzo had some moments in 1970,just not in this game smh. Truly, one of the Vikings darkest losses..... Hail Mary and SB's included.

They realized that trading Tarkenton was a mistake (although they got great draft choices from the Giants) and got him back in 1972.

Thanks Daffy :) This particular video is actually a new one that I just put together this week.

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Even Better! My dad will be THRILLED! Hey random inquiry, but do you have the Lon Simmons broadcast of Superbowl 23? I've always wanted to hear him call the 4th quarter, but I can't find any bits that are not on NFL Films Presents.

No, don't have that.

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Just thought I'd ask. Thanks for all your work!

Don Meredith was better then Brodie and he's not in there. That's back when you could correctly call your team the San Francisco 49ers. Now they're the Sad Fagsicko 69ers.

You're very welcome Mike! Glad we were able to resurrect a good portion of this one :)

I was 12 years old. This is the 49ers team I grew up with.

@@robertsprouse9282 I’d say there is an amazing resemblance 😂

Hey, thanks!

Yep. So weird :)

Played the same position too-wide receiver. Vikings Gene wore 84, SF Gene wore 18.

Thank you! Not forever, but it did take time :)

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 I've noticed a lot of classic NFL films are at a slower speed, you had to speed it up just the right amount to match the radio? And, love how you've included the sideline audio in between plays too

Yes, the slow-motion of NFL Films was their signature, and the majority of their film was shot at two-thirds normal speed. I had to speed up each clip by about a third in order to get it to match the calls, so yeah, lots of meticulous work just doing that :) And the sideline audio was a bonus - most NFL Films footage of games doesn't have that.

or that the Cowboys were in the Super Bowl after winning the first NFC Championship game the next week against the 49ers in the last game played at Kezar Stadium.

Don't forget Red "FIRST DOOOOOWN" Cashion and Ben "Giving him the business" Dreith. 😂😂😂

Or professional wrestling for that matter.

Amen! OL in that day had to BLOCK, not hold! During warmups (ha!) prior to the Ice Bowl, Forrest Gregg asked Jerry Kramer if they should wear gloves. Kramer thought, "Why not? We're (OL) the only ones that don't have to use our HANDS."

Sam Spence's 'The Edge'

I'd never heard that. I wasn't around back then having been born in '72, but looking at the game logs from that season, I see that Munson started the first 8 games at QB for the Lions, and they went 5-1 in the first 6 games, with Munson throwing just one interception in 115 attempts. Landry was getting some playing time during those 8 games as well, appearing in 6 of them and throwing no interceptions in 24 attempts. Games 7 and 8 were losses though for the Lions, as Munson came back to earth, throwing 3 picks in each game. It appears those two games caused Munson to lose his starting job. Landry finished off the game 8 loss and started the final 6 games of the regular season, losing the week 9 game, but then winning 5 straight to put Detroit in the playoffs. Landry was very effective in those 5 wins, throwing 95 passes, tossing 8 TD's, and only being picked off 3 times. Hindsight may be 20/20, but the Lions were riding high on Landry at that point. They weren't going to replace him to start the playoffs.

Greg Landry played very well in the 2nd half of the 70 season, and he offered the art of scrambling and occasionally running the ball, something that Munson lacked. Both were above average, but you can't argue with the Lions' success from 1970-72, and Landry mostly at the helm, with 3 strong winning seasons..

@@massvt3821 I think it was Alex Karras whose reason for retiring after 1970 was disgust at the coach favoring Landry. But it's hard to argue with three winning seasons in a row.

@@sportshistorybuff319 The 1970 Lions were a very solid team, and they destroyed the 49ers during the season. Considering the opposition, with a break or two, they could have won the Super Bowl that year..no hyperbole whatsoever...