Just remember folks....if you witnessed Joe Washington at OU.....well, just feel blessed to have lived through it. You'll never see the likes of Little Joe or those Switzer teams again for the rest of your life.

I watched Joe Washington when he was in College and even as a USC Fan I thought he was one of best backs I ever saw and that Monday Night game vs the Patriots was pure Art.

Joe W was my favorite all-time back, and I’ve seen some great ones in person, Herschel, Bo, Jamal Lewis, and lived in OKC for two years and saw Marcus D. and Mike Rozier.... but nobody could cut like Joe.... beautiful football in those days.

I truly thank God for allowing me to be here Long enough to witness The breathtaking ankle Breaking moves of my Home Boy Little Joe Washington from high school to college to the NFL well he actually has a Super Bowl ring I truly thank you for all the wonderful memories Because of you I’am a OU fan and always much love to you and your family. Just a excellent job little Joe🙏🏾🌟🐝🦾. Scribing so hard to be A bumblebee🐝🐝🐝😎,

I remember listening to the '75 OU - MIZZ game on the radio with announcer Mike Trepps, OU was down by 7 with a couple of minutes left on the clock. "Davis options right to Washington, Washington cuts back left jukes a tackler, jukes another breaks into the open the 50 - the 40 - Go Joe go - the 20 - the 10 TOUCHDOWN OKLAHOMA!!! Joe Washington has done it, Joe Washington has done it. Joe Washington has just run 74 yards for touchdown. Man was it exciting, I'll never forget it.

According to Barry Switzer, Archie Griffin has two Heisman Trophies that rightfully belong to Joe Washington. Joe probably doesn't care, since he's got two national championship rings and one Super Bowl ring.

I have a few disabling diseases and this memory makes me smile!!

Grad from OU in 75 - love you SOONERS ,. still do - love being able to see these clips, thanks for posting!!

I agree with you 100 hundred percent, he was my favorite and my idol. I patterned all my jukes after 'Lil Joe because no one else had moves like him, until Barry Sanders came along years later.

Thank god for players like Joe Washington. Without him college football would have been boring as hell in the 1970s: 3 yards and an AstroTurf rug burn.

Some of the best moves I ever saw in the open field. Excellent punt returner and pass catcher.

Joe Washington is the original when it comes to moves

Another great wishbone team under Barry Switzer. Switzer, whether you admired him or not, was probably the overall best football coach during the 1970's.

I was a freshman at OU in the fall of '74. National Championship '74 & '75. I joined the OU Ruf/Neks in '76 & '77. Silver Shoes is still the greatest of all the great running backs we have enjoyed. The 74 yard run against Missou plus the 2 point extra point for the win was one for the ages. BOOMER!

Thank God for KZfaq and the internet......I went to every home game from 70 through 78 as a kid & I will always remember the teams with Joe Washington. He is the best back who gets the least recognition in my opinion.

He was more fun to watch than any RB we ever had. It didn't hurt that he played on such great teams in the mid 70s

Can you imagine playing these guys? Chase Joe Washington then get worn out by the Selmon brothers!

If only OU wasn't on TV probation during those two years. It would be him winning two Heismans instead of Griffin.

I'm from Baltimore born and raised 1970 Joe Washington came to the Colts I was around 8 or 9 and I got to stay up and watch Monday Night Football and he put on some shows

Lil Joe was voted one of the top 50 Washington Redskins of all time but what I meant about solid was he lasted in the NFL but won't be in the Hall of Fame. Trust me i've been an OU fan since 1973 and will always remember Lil Joe's run at Missouri and where I was at when it happened.

Greg Pruitt started it. I had never seen a running like him before, then Joe, Billy and the rest.I've been watching Oklahoma since 1972, but it's nothing like how it was back in the day.

Punt Returner, Running Back, All American 🏈

The Pitt University game matched OU's Joe Washington vs Pitt's Tony Dorsett, a battle of two great running backs!

My ALL TIME favorite Sooner!!!

Wow yup i use to love watching him play watching this now glad i just happen to think of him and said let me see if i can find him yup he had some nice moves i would do all my work around the house my mom would have me do then get set to watch football as it happened ou was on tv a lot back then that wish bone but dam did he have moves would see his any more bad dude he was its good to watch the real ball carriers from back in the day and real blockers as well thanks utube this makes my days when i have time off from work to watch up find good stuff my days are never boring and yup i still clean up my crib ok let me watch this again

Joe could do anything you'd ask him to do on a football field. I was watching some old MNF halftime highlights the other day, where he made as spectacular of a diving one-handed catch of a long bomb, as ANY receiver I've ever seen make!

I loved you , Joe!

He was an extremely smart player with incredible physical talent, athletic agility, and ability. Nobody could stop, jump, and cut as smoothly as Joe Washington.

One of the best open-field runners ever.

Joe Washington was fun to watch. Grew up in Yukon Oklahoma. I remember watching him and then watched him play for the Washington Redskins.

I saw him play, most elusive rb in Oklahoma sooner history

I had a pair of sneakers that I painted silver. My dad thought I had lost my mind!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Very underrated rb.

Running the option with the late Steve Davis. Helluva follow up to the Jack Mildren- Greg Pruitt show. Then followed by Thomas Lott and Billy Sims. Some badass wishbone teams in the 70s. I believe Washington's team was on probation, though, right. Couldn't see 'em on TV, had to wait for Sunday morning highlight clips.

funnest runner to watch, even over my fave gale sayers. he has the most natural casual gait i've ever seen and he never looks like he's carrying the ball. he runs like someone running WITHOUT a ball. only description that comes to mind is bruce lee's "be like water"

So sad that I wasn't alive when Little Joe played, but having watched all the highlights I can get my hands on, Joe is my favorite OU running back of all-time. And that's saying something, considering AD was at OU the same time I was.

I think Joe was the most fun to watch of any back OU ever had. A close second was Greg Pruitt. AD gets the most recognition because of how good he was right out of high school, but Joe Washington was just plain fun to watch. It helped that he played on such great OU teams.

Mr. Washington was a head of his day..... As an Alabama fan, big time, I was always concerned about playing against him......I knew Alabama in the 70s would have a hard time stopping that powerful offense.....

AWESOME!!!

He was a work horse!

I was at the game 1973 in the LA Coliseum....

He should have won the Heisman over over Archie that year!! He is one of the all time greats at OU. As for the NFL he still holds the Monday Night Football record with all the different ways he accounted for the TD’s

My first memory of OU football. This childhood memory only second to EVS field goal after Von Schamann led the crowd jeers, orchestrating with his hand and then just drills it dead center and the Buckeye crowd goes silent.

Here is a funny Joe Washington story that I heard Archie Griffin tell. Griffin and Washington came out of college the same year. Their senior year they attended a prominent sports banquet here in Columbus, Ohio. The banquet had all kinds of athletes from all kinds of sports. Two of the athletes were two junior national doubles tennis champions, who were 13y/o girls. Someone yells out, "Hey Archie, why don't you and Joe Washington play the girls in tennis?". Joe and Archie didn't want to play but got talked talked into it. The giggly girls whipped Joe and Archie's butts 6-0, 6-0, because while they were great athletes, they never played tennis before. The crowd thought Joe and Archie were tanking, the girls were the only ones who knew they were not. Griffin said the first thing he bought with his Bengals signing bonus that he didn't really need was tennis lessons.

My Favorite OU Player of All time! Little Joe, Billy Sims & Baker Mayfield!

Sooner Magic was born on a fall afternoon in Columbia Missouri when Little Joe Washington went 75 yards for a TD in the closing moments and then scored on a 2pt conversion as the Sooners came from behind 28-27.

Remember Little Joe well. Exciting games. Joe would sometimes just jump over players...he was magic on the field.

Joe Washington over Johnny Rodgers.....Little Joe not only ran the ball but he also threw it pretty well.. He was a great return man as well and a good example of that is a video of lil Joe breaking 10 or so tackles on a 3 yard loss against defending 72 champion usc in september 73 in Los Angeles. Lil Joe had a solid NFL career as well with about 9,000 total yards and a Superbowl ring in about 9 years. Great 3rd down specialist and the 1st I ever remember as being such.

That move he makes at1:07 is just plain sick!! I never saw a move like that, and I have seen Gale Sayers' best.

The definition of Sooner Magic

This guy was a good pro also.

Man I miss the 'bone.

The most fun to watch bar none.

The play at 0:50 where he spins is just freaking awsome.

WOW, Lil Joe was SWEEEEET!!! Not many like him EVER, he was nicer than Billy Sims! Which is saying more than a lot!

1976 NFL Draft.....1. Leroy Selmon, 2. Tight End from Notre Dame (Can't remember his name right off) 3. Chuck Muncie, 4. Joe Washington....This was the draft that featured the only 2 time Heisman winner Archie Griffin. I'm not sure when Archie Griffin was selected but Chuck Muncie and lil Joe were both running backs who were selected ahead of Griffin. A couple of years later the Colts would trade Muncie to the Chargers for Washington or vice versa. It was a good trade for both teams.

Back in the 1970s, I once heard a Nebraska player say that he hated playing OU because afterwards, he always felt like he’d been in a massive car wreck. He was a defensive lineman and said playing everyone else, he did all the hitting. But playing against OU, THEY did all the hitting. And IF you happened to avoid getting hit by the OU linemen, the OU running backs would hit you, and they would hit you every bit as hard as the OU linemen would. And about the time you figured out you had to brace yourself for the impact of someone like Billy Sims, they juke you so bad that you’d about break an ankle, leaving you tackling the air, and be embarrassed on national television.

Joe had that balance!!!

Barry Sanders before there was Barry Sanders.

It's interesting to watch today's running backs routinely use moves that Joe Washington basically invented and perfected almost 50 years ago. Yet none of them can do those moves with the flair and panache' that Little Joe had.

Look at the line played behind

At 2:46 into the video, dude in the blue bell bottoms can't stay with Joe either 😆

That was A BAD man right there ankle-breaker inventor...

1:52 "Go Joe!" Mike Trepps, OU play by play caller

They used to get away with a lot of clips

Maybe you should have mentioned the stats of that game. Joe Washington.166 yards on 23 carries. Tony Dorsett 17 yards on 12 carries. Think Dorsett also won the Heisman this same year?

More moves than Bobby Fischer

Bring back the wishbone!!!

Them silver cleats are exhibited at the Texas state sports HOF in Waco .

Should have won 🏆college football Heisman in 1975

And OU was on probation and didn't get no TV love that season - until the Orange Bowl

Joe Washington proved that you did not necessarily have to be a 200 plus pound running back to be successful in big time college football or the NFL. Nobody his size is supposed to be that durable on the gridiron.

Too much of a music video. Short, edited cuts of Joe. Show more full runs by Washington.

Solid NFL career? Was a bit more than solid. Ask Joe Theismann what he thinks of Little Joe Washington.

Luv the wishbone

That facemask, though.

They tackled and face masked Joe in the middle of the end zone lol. Did football players back then know when you cross the goal line that's a touchdown ? Sheesh. Joe did some video game spin moves before there were video game spin moves.

If ou would have been on TV he would have won back to back trophys...better than barry sanders

Some guys never would have been able to tackle him if he hadn't worn a face mask. That's the only thing they could grab. Smoke through a keyhole (Darrel Royal quote)

He could juke a linebacker out of his jock-strap.

How a team on probation wins the national championship is beyond me they should not have even been eligible. Still This OU team was dam good.

Like smoke through a keyhole......

who was better Joe Washington or Nebraska's Johnny The Jet Rodgers?

Joe should have won the Heisman in 74

:53 = PlayStation spin move

No, no. Chuck Foreman spin move...0:53

Joe should have won the heisman

Wat happenedl to the cut back backs inside outs carrying the ball natral in stead of high an thigh break way speed. Power i formations they play better back then than here an now day these running backs wer boring now about to watch billy sims an earl Campbell then marcus dupree an terry metcalf greg pruit

He was far more talented than mr all time overrated Archie Griffith, Their respective pro careers prove it.

Getting his face mask grabbed every other play.

Reggie Bush's style is very similar to Joe Washington's. Especially in college.

NFL offensive schemes are generally ill-conceived, this was an entirely better way to play the game.