John Facenda belongs in the NFL Hall of Fame.

The Sabols seemed like genuine, nice guys. The fact that NFL Films became such a success is a credit to them, and to see a Father & Son start such an enterprise together from nothing is certainly an inspiration. It's a shame that Steve did not have his Father's longevity. I enjoy watching these films and I think a lot of others do as well. The Sabols left a proud legacy.

The Lost treasures, NFL Football Folly’s, and the Voice of God, legendary John Facenda.

Still my all time favorite period of the NFL...was playing football in high school at the time and had dreams of kicking for the Rams someday. Even today I can still name most starters back then and my sports room is a shrine to it all. Jack Whitaker passed away 8-18-19 at the age of 95..R.I.P.

The Lost Treasures is one of the finest series NFL Films ever produced. And that is saying something. Imagine so much "throwaway" film that it could be the basis for an entire series. But like Ed Sabol said, "You gotta keep the film." The Lost Treasures is also, sadly, a wonderful tribute to Steve Sabol. The show's theme "A Hero Remembered" was played after Steve's death at a dedication ceremony at NFL Films headquarters.

Howard Cossell nailed the draft bs.

The Lou Saban stuff is priceless

I just relived my Life. I watched this on 01/01/'24 with tears in my eyes. When Minnesota was the real Vikings, & Football was Football. As a kid, we rode bicycles, played outside, we knew who won the Kentucky Derby, the Apolo Program (NASA), & who was the Heavyweight Champion of the World, Boxing & of course Music. I'm glad I lived it all.

The 1960s..... PRO FOOTBALL'S GREATEST DECADE.🏈

Beatles' George Harrison visited Haight Ashbury and basically said the same things as Browns' Bill Glass said. Harrison pictured the Haight as a mecca of great artistic creation and spiritual awakening, but stated, " it wasn't what I thought"..."just a bunch of spotty, drop-out kids on drugs," ..."like The Bowery." George was not an, "Old School," type of guy. Glass was telling the truth.

I played a pickup game on Franklin Field in 1987 with some UPenn area kids and the astroturf was hard as a rock. It was like playing on concrete.

This music is incredible

I miss the Sabol's.

I'm quite proud to have witnessed pro football... as it was in the 1960's... even though I was just in public school. I will be 62 yrs old in Nov... and while I still enjoy the game, that special time/era is forever gone. Nonetheless, we will always have the wonderful memories to take with us, because of pioneers like Ed & Steve Sabol, John Fascenda and a host of others!

I love watching those old films everytime I hear John talk about the frozen tundra of Green bay it takes me back and brings a smile to my face! Gosh I'm old😂

The NFL players of yesteryear were tougher, played for the "love of the game", better behaved, recognized the Coach was the boss! Our NFL has went the way of the country for

The late sixties is when I became a fan of pro football. It was definitely a time of change.

12:43 Always love the old clips when you see some guy smoking on the sidelines

Dick butkis , a guy that big, with a name like that , his life was pretty much determined by high school

That last scene features RDE Bill Glass and QB Fran Tarkenton. Tarkenton had just smoked the Browns at home, 27-17, but Glass is anything but pissed off. He's walking off the field with his friend, showing respect. The game was played on Halloween, 1965. The Browns were having a great year and would go 11-3 but lose to the Packers in the championship game. The Vikings were just emerging from mediocrity and would finish 7-7. Van Brocklin again and again as a coach would pooch it at the end of the season, and the Vikings lost 4 straight coming down the stretch.

I’m now 57 🌈 Classic time to have been a kid ! My Vikes ! ⭐️

EXCELLENT FILM !!!! I REMEMBER WATCHING ALOT OF THE EAGLES TIM ROSSOVICH PROFILE BACK IN 1971 ON "N.F.L. ACTION" WHICH WAS BROADCAST HERE IN NEW YORK CITY ON WABC-TV CHANNEL 7. ALTHOUGH I WAS AN AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE FAN SINCE 1967 I LOVED THE N.F.L. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES !!!! THE NEW YORK JETS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVORITE TEAM, AND THE FIRST TIME I SAW THEM PLAY WAS A 1967 EXHIBITION GAME AGAINST TIM BROWN AND TTHE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES.. A FIST FIGHT BETWEEN JOHNNY SAMPLE AND MIKE DITKA ERUPTED INTO A BENCH CLEARING FREE-FOR-ALL !!!! YEARS LATER TIMMY BROWN STARRED IN AN ACTION MOVIE CALLED "BLACK GUNN" ! HE PLAYED FORMER CLEVELAND BROWNS AND HALL OF FAME RUNNING BACK JIM BROWN'S BROTHER !!!! THANK YOU Sports Revisited FOR POSTING THIS MASTERPIECE !!!! THANK YOU YOU/TUBE !!!!

Great stuff....NFL Films has preserved get eras from the past...the only way anyone can see football how it was played then is by NFL Films...thanks Ed and Steve Sabol

ultrametric , your comment on bill glass was perfect , and u know the rest of bill glass"s story , a truely great , humble man

all the nfl films are really good. and the retrospectives they've been churning out are among the best. but i think this trilogy of films, of which this is the last, is about the most enjoyable, well written and produced retrospectives nfl films has ever created. i did notice how no one ever refers to nfl films as a documentary film company. which is exactly what they were. also, there's no mention of the late great John Facenda. his distinctive and dramatic voice added a lot to nfl films early popularity. thanks for the uploads. OHHHH MAN! i knew it! i waited until the last 7 minutes to write my comment and it was STILL too early. i'm still not going to change my comment. so there.

Sabol says football is still a violent game... and that’ll never change. Well today’s NFL is doing everything they can to make the game less violent. I think Steve was right.

My God, Cosell had an amazing grasp of the English language.

My first pro football game was at the LA Coliseum in December of 1959. Rams and Colts. Unitas killed the Rams that day. I was 14.

1960's - 1970's- THE best era of the NFL, when it was about the game. There was a focus on code of honor and respect for the game in the playing, the atmosphere and coverage. As for the Bill Glass segment, it is quite evident he was correct in his analysis of SF and the Haight ashbury scene then in the late 60's, as that problem has only worsened to what it is today. After his NFL career, his ministry mainly focused on helping the less fortunate. What a time for the game and the players on the field - THE best; and something to strive for.

I can only imagine what Rossovich did with the donuts that were for reporters, considering Pettigrew said "the donuts were in the middle of Tim."

For those of anyone who appreciates '60s-NFL history, at 31:06-31:14, the Lambeau Stadium scoreboard is visible, behind Coach Lombardi. This was from the final regular-season week of the 1967 season, in which the Steelers (who at the time were the "dregs" of the league), were leading the Packers , late in the 2nd qtr., and would go on to win this game. You'll notice also, that the scoreboard displays game-day scores under "Eastern" & "Western" conference titles. TERRIFIC! Thank you, Ed & Steve Sabol!!

Very interesting period in NFL history. The astroturf concept was simply awful, from both aethestic and health reasons...

Love the old uniforms, fell in love with the NY Giants around 67' when Francis came on board, still am...remember Pettigrew and Rossovich well....

The players were smaller but the game was vicious. I remember going to a so-called super box in 1973 that my Dad's company had at Veterans Stadium and it was thought of as great and today would be considered crap. The quarterbacks would have loved to play with today's rules. Imagine Sonny or John Unitas with the rules today wow!

simply the best !

What a great video

1969/1970 seasons were the best

It's too bad multipurpose stadiums are virtually nonexistent. The Detroit Lions played in Tiger Stadium from 1938-39,1941-74. The team spent the 1940 season at University of Detroit Stadium.

This is what football is all about. Not that pussycat softball crap people watch nowadays. Fewer flags as well. They really let the players play back then.

👏👏👏👍that was f***ing Great!🏈👌🖒. ty,🍻

All bull the only reason stadium got astroturf is owners were getting greedy so didn't want to keep spending money on real grass

14:37: LOL. The guy runs ten yards after the runner is down and pops him the back! Can't do that today....

A great legacy for the Sabols. NFL Films just isn't the same w/o them; it's become too corporate and sterile.

Astroturf makes the game safer.......um no!

8:47 Howard bloviating like only he could.

I agree John belongs in nfl hall of fame

Game was a true game of atrition back then. Im glad a qb and receiver is more protected today. Yup they sittin dunks. Men were hurt awful on catches over the middle.

What did Cowell say?

That guy sounds like the way Bill pollution of the colts played

Did they digitize all the old films?

6:27 Absolute montage of mayhem!

8:47 Cosell was right about the draft then, and it applies to the draft today.

They mention Lombardi being lonely but it was not like he didn't have a family. Of course I have heard he was not a great family man and which my understanding was mentioned in a book about him.

Man I wish Howard Cosell had social media or he lived during social media. He easily would have the most followers because he can get people to love and hate him at the same time lol

Fashion is like traffic on the highway; it goes in and out the boundaries!😂😂😂😂😂

Was that Marty schottenheimer near the end 43:05??

I grew up in San Francisco in the hippie era. Page Street is one block from Haight Street. And the only thing you could smell is sandlewood incense and "Grass".

Interesting to see the early thoughts on "turf" as even todays fake fields continue to be linked to increased injury rate and intensity. Also Cosell's breakdown of the Draft, which is totally true. HC would die of a laugh attack at what todays draft has become in terms of presentation and even more that thousands of fans choose to attend in person.

I liked the Eagles white helmets.

The Vikings became a great team1968 70

63 ,64 ,65 66 BILLS JUST MISSED A DYNYSTY

Jees its funny what he says to vince. Your gonna be the john w. Of football

Huge thumbs down for this presentation. It's at least 3 hours too short.

I'm Bill pellingtion

Is there any chance you can upload 1972 World Series Game 7 A's at Reds and 1974 World Series Game 5 Dodgers at A's Please, I Like Those World Series Games.

The league had to eliminate a lot of the violence that the NFL had by changing a lot of the rules. a lot of stars were going down ...You have to much money invested in these players today. .. You would have a lot of careers finished if they didn't. ..

Didn't old man Sabol own a pawn shop in Vegas ? Kidding ..

that was wonderful got me choked up for that bygone era of sport..

The biggest lie ever told was the League and Owners saying Astro Turf would cut down on injuries. They even got the trainers to lie about it. The rise in knee injures and Brain damage CTE with players heads hitting concrete like turf when it was freezing cold in November and December. Football was always meant to be played on grass and there was something about seeing players get dirty and muddy that had a certain appeal to me as a fan who has been watching since 1963 when My Giants lost to the Bears.

Yep. It was the yellow teeth people era. (see thumbnail)

The game today is too nice, the field is too perfect from its colors to its surface. Not an imperfection in the field or turf left. Games in Dome stadium's or stadiums with retractable roofs. All you needed in stadiums was a regulation size field with 10 yard end zones at each end and 100 yards in between. This surrounded by seats or bleachers for fans to sit on. That is all that is needed. You don't need luxury indoor box booths and seating, fancy built in restaurants or souvenirs, advertisements and signs you don't care to look at, you are there to watch the game or stay home. Who cares about the weather, the perfect field with plastic grass color painted perfectly with permanent lines painted in place. Where are the grass stains, the dust, the mud, dirt, and if it rains or even snows so be it. It is all fair when both teams have to play in it. These imperfections did not cause more injuries, they actually presented an appeal that is missing now that use to be there. Artificial turf actually caused more injuries and was like actual concrete when frozen. No more really rain soaked fields as they have drainage built in. Bottom line is the NFL and any sport really has made alot of additions that are not needed and what people just don't want to see like an advertisement for a chiropractor. Too many concessions. A game lasts three hours, eat before or after, if you can't go without eating during that time and are willing to pay what they now charge you are a PIG plain and simple. Dress appropriately, soft drinks or water are fine, get up to use the bathroom that is it. Otherwise stay in/at your seat and do what you came to do, watch the darn game. If you want to watch at the stadium like you are sitting in your livingroom then stay at home with your easy chair, gourmet, beer, and remote. Two changes about games and stadiums I like because they are for darn good reasons. First one is large or larger scoreboards around the stadium inside with video/replay of the game. Some people miss play angles based on their view. Certain views/seating is obviously closer and better than others sitting up in the upper deck or at the top in the clouds and behind the stupid drunk(s) that won't sit down blocking your view. The other change was moving goal posts from the goal line to the back line of the endzone many years ago. Keeps players from colliding with them on scoring or attempted scoring plays. The game itself has a long list of things defenses can no longer do that use to be legal. Now with a perfect field and perfect surface that isn't any help either. Do you really like to see defenses stopping offenses or offenses just stopping themselves? Last team that gets the ball wins? Yes, a 13-10 game is as exciting and hard hitting as a 52-48 game. Defense is exciting, so is Special Team play, kickoffs are a joke, just start at the 25, forget the kickoff. Injuries are still a big part of the game as it always was, just more of them are recognized and taken more seriously like concussions. The NFL use to have alot of appeal, much of it to do with unique fields and stadiums, imperfections, now it is almost like watching a Madden computer game.

not so much today...with turf

bela Lugosi , looks just like em

Could 3 years be considered an "era"?

Hippes bad...unkay??

Teeth are like hens teeth

Racism was still around in the 1960s as it is today.