The Miracle at the Meadowlands is proof enough that all 60 minutes need to be played... and that you play to win the game.

Seeing Brian Piccolo (41) is rather poignant as he had less than two years to live at this point (cancer took him in June of 1970). The junior high school I went to in Far Rockaway, Queens, NY was named for him and had his number 41 jersey and Bears helmet in a display case near the entrance.

The scoreboard clock did not become the official game clock in the NFL until 1970.. Until then, the officiating crew kept the official time on the field. That's why the game was stopped before the scoreboard clock ran down.

Youve got soccer debacles, inept refs, and a high school musical reference, all in this one jg9 video. Legend

I just want to say your knowledge of the history of football is very impressive. I randomly came across this channel about a year ago. I love hearing stuff like this

I'm impressed you were able to use soccer footage. FIFA is usually like Fort Knox when it comes to digital footage rights.

wow excellent video! I never knew about this. This may have been the only chance for Chicago to make the playoffs with Gayle Sayers and Dick Butkus. Thank you for all the amazing content

If a soccer match is a blowout, I can see blowing the final whistle at precisely the 90th minute, NOT the Tunisia-Mali shamtastic event

I love the football content from before even my dad's time. Always the most entertaining videos to me, regardless of topic

New Common JG phrase: Because this is the story…

Major League Baseball canceled the second game of a doubleheader at the end of the 1981 season between Kansas City and Cleveland because it was “irrelevant”.

My takeaway is that, in 1968, Jack CONCANNON was very nearly a playoff QB. WHAT the ACTUAL.....

Excellent video man. Very well-done. 👍🏻

Missed opportunity here. 6:07 - 6:19 " thanks to a great game by QB Joe Kapp, who completed 70% of his passes, threw two touchdowns while running for one and posted a passer rating of 152.1, just six points shy of the perfect passer rating" Should have continued with "which is much better than if he spiked the ball on every play".

Dear sir, I am an old man and a forever-Bears fan, which is evidenced by that fact that when the Bears played the NY Giants in the 1963 NFL Championship Game, I lived (and still do) in the northern suburbs and can confirm that the Bears home game for the title was blacked out in Chicago. That is, no Chicago TV station aired the game because of the NFL's home-team blackout rule. Because of where I lived, my family was able to pull in the video signal from Milwaukee and so we got to watch the title game with a fuzzy picture which clearly was better than nothing. Anyway, I am now in the midst of your Bears playlist and have a suggestion for you to look up because I recall this vividly, although 1977 is 47 years ago and as a senior citizen, who knows about my recall. Here's the deal: The good news is I am certain there is plenty of video on the game because of something else that happened in the contest so that's in your favor. I also need you to confirm what I believe to be true. That is, the Minnesota Vikings and Bears each finished the '77 season 9-5. The Vikings won the division on a tiebreaker and they then got to beat up I believe on the Rams in the first round of the playoffs while the Bears were cannon fodder for the Cowboys in their first game. My point is, things could have been the other way around, with the Bears beating the Rams in LA and the Vikings getting creamed by the Cowboys except for what, as I recall, was a series of coaching blunders by Bears coach Jack Pardee. In 1977, the tiebreaker between the 9-5 Vikings and 9-5 Bears was 1) head-to-head (they split); 2) division record (both went 6-1 as Tampa Bay in the division played each team just once); 3) conference record (both went 8-4); 4) best record in common games (they both went 1-2). 5) point differential, which the Vikings won because they won by points in the first meeting, and in sthe second meeting the Bears won by 3 points. Now, here's the thing. The second game was in November of 1977 and is famous and there's plenty of video on it because it's the game when Walter Payton rushed for 275 yards to set an NFL single-game rushing record. That's not why I am typing this. The good news is that because the game is famous because of Payton, you likely can get a play-by-play account of the contest. If you do, you will see time after time after time after time after time after time that Bears coach Pardee shunned a sure field goal to go up 6 points by going for it on fourth down in the red zone and getting stuffed. The reason I remember this is that 1977 was the year when I believe point differential was no longer a high spot on the breaking-a-tie list. We as fans did not know that and Bears fans were going crazy during that game because they all thought that the Bears needed to win by 6 or more to gain the tiebreaker. As things turned out as the season played out, the fans were right because all the other tiebreakers did not come into play. Nobody knew that at the time, but in hindsight, Pardee could have easily won that game 19-7 instead of 10-7 and the division title would have gone to the Bears. So, if you're looking for a video to add to the Bears collection or to fill a gap during the NFL's so-called off-season, get a copy of the play-by-play and you'll see how many times Pardee shunned a sure field goal ... and in hindsight set the team up for a non-winnable playoff game vs. the mighty Cowboys. Thanks for reading.

I grew up in the Chicago area, but I've always been a Packer fan. The kids who lived across the street were Bears fans. I remember one of them telling me about some old Bears fans who had been drinking and one of them came up with this song sung to the Kingston Trio's Tom Dooley. It went like this: Hang down your head Jim Dooley Hang down your head and drink some booze Hang down your head Jim Dooley Poor boy you're gonna lose

Good show. It's a stretch... a wild stretch... but yeah, they should have played out the few seconds remaining.

Based on the newspaper article you referenced, it sounds like the officials determined that Butkus committed a “palpably unfair” act by purposely jumping offsides. The officials have wide discretion to remedy such a situation based upon what’s equitable under the circumstances. In this case, they decided to let the game end.

It’s interesting you mention the soccer match. The referee Janny Sikazwe, also refereed a World Cup match between Canada and Belgium. The resulting decisions made caused FIFA to tell him that he was no longer required to ref any more matches. There was a hand ball on a ball heading into the net, which was mentioned to the ref, leading to a VAR, and a penalty kick, and yet a yellow, not a red card. Also, there was another play in the box with no penalty. I’m impressed you mentioned the African kerfuffle, I didn’t know about that, until just before the match started.

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made three videos about the Packers coach that day, Phil Bengtson. 1. How he alienated Herb Adderley so badly Adderley demanded a trade. 2. How Bengtson became the interim coach of the Patriots in 1972. 3. How as interim coach he suspended Running Back Carl Garrett.

I hope one day you make a video on joe kapps career

What's that movie "high school musical"? Is it similar to the movie Hoosiers?

@Official JaguarGate9 can you do NFL stories dating back to 1920 or before to 1963?

It wasn’t called Hail Mary until the 70’s

This loss broke the Bears, as they went 1-13 the next season and didn't have another record over .500 until 1977. Never underestimate the power of an incompetent referee.

You should do a dumb decision video on Marty Mornhinweg electing to kick off to start OT against the Bears in 2002. You can probably guess what happened in overtime

Baltimore Colts back then were one hell of a team wish I could of seen them play

Have a Happy 2023 New Year everyone.

Before anyone feels bad for the Bears, please keep in mind that the reason Chicago wasn't already eliminated, was because only a week earlier, on Dec. 8, 1968, the refs made an even more embarrassing call that kept the Bears alive, while costing the LA Rams a playoff spot. With that controversial game on the line, the refs got the down wrong, in favor of Chicago. That terrible call eliminated the Rams.

Wow! The Bears AND soccer??? Santa really delivered this past couple weeks! Happy Holidays!

Great game for the Packers; Don Horn (13) threw two TDs, Ray Nitschke (66) had a huge game, and Boyd Dowler (86) had two long TD catches. The Bears have only themselves to blame for this one. They had a shambolic defense on that December afternoon in 1968.

The Vikings won the last game against the Eagles at Franklin Field and the fans threw snowballs at Santa Claus

You can't compare games of the '60s to today's game. Nothing would have changed had there been one more play. The Packers would have fallen on it, and that would have been it.

How do you measure a year?

No play clocks or Hail Marys in 1968.

Do a video how the referees messed up with this Bears vs Rams game the week before this game

And Gale Sayers was out with a career-threatening knee injury.

A long shot, but a good point. We've seen worse🙂 By the way. Did you notice the Chargers did the trick play against the Colts. Monday night? The same one Earl Morrall blew against the Jets in Super Bowl 3. Add insult to injury🙂

What ever it takes to get my Vikes in the playoffs. Even if we had to grease some palms *Wink, wink*

Leave it to the Bears to find new and exciting ways to lose to the damn Packers.

Do A Don Horn Video

My favorite "wrong national anthem" moment happened in 2012 when Kazakhstan won an international competition and they played what they thought was the Kazakhstan national anthem. Well, they technically weren't wrong--if Borat Sandigev wasn't fictional.

And people complain about the officiating today

that dude smacked every dude ass he saw

Maybe the ref was a Viking fan?

the nfl soon to be nfc was becoming a weak abyss now that the pack dynasty got old and was finished. jets, kc made nfl look foolish. then with the '70's phins and steelers became the new powers of the afc.

Santa deserved it BTW

Most fans: "What? This sounds so awful. Who could ever be this unlucky?" Bears fans like me: "What else is new?"

i can't believe that halas didn't file a protest over this

The Packers and the refs: a 60 year love affair

they wouldnt have been in this situation vs the packers if they had beaten the 2-12 falcons

And the Bears didn't even come close to playoffs again until 1977

Maybe the ref was double parked?

Yeah, nowadays, you NEVER see something like that happening. The NFL will play out all 60 minutes no matter what. The 82 NFC championship game the Redskins tried to run the clock out but turned the ball over on downs, even though everyone thought the game was over, there was like 10 seconds left. Washington was up 31-17 but the refs made both teams come back out and finish the game, something like a 15 minute delay. Then, of course, bottlegate in Cleveland. 48 seconds left, the refs called the game, but then the NFL called and ordered both teams back out to run out the clock.

7:46 The Packers had plenty to play for. That being to be a spoiler for their rivals.

Have you seen the ending of the 1984 Washington/Dallas game in week 15? Washington had the lead and the ball and was just taking 'victory formation.' Obviously these were bitter rivals, so rather than simply let them do it, the Cowboys were diving in on Joe Theismann and practically spearing him and it looked like the game might break down into a fight. The refs put an end to it by simply calling the game, saying something to the effect of: "The team committing the penalty is behind and has no timeouts left. The game is over." And just like that, they sent the teams to their locker rooms with Washington winning a hugely important game that would help lead to their third straight division crown. Madden and Summerall praised the decision by the refs and nothing more was made of it.

You mean the Packers won a game as a direct result of officials making terrible calls and decisions that directly benefit the Packers? I am shocked, shocked I tell you!

I can't stand kneel downs. Teams should have to play it out.

The Bears did get screwed, sure, but a team in position to win a division title shouldn't be trailing a team as bad as those Packers by 18 points, especially at home.

The Rams got cheated out of the playoffs by that stupid Chicago game that should never happen total incompetence by the referees and the NFL

karma minny turn your back on the AFL

Better ending was eagles fkn themselves out of the no. pick in the '69 draft by WINNING meaningless season ending game that cost them o j. and sending the fans wrath onto the poor fill in santa who got pelted with snowballs unmercifully. Eagles could have used a 'cancellation'. And vikes couldn't beat the 'powerful' colts in nfl playoffs anyway.

It’s Soccer! Who cares?

Didnt change the outcome. Bears get screwed, Packers suck, and Vikings make the playoffs. I see no problem whatsoever here. SKOL

So they had 10 seconds left didn’t have the ball and had no legitimate chance of winning? Yea the thumbnail is MORE than just a little misleading for this one. You should stop lying in your titles. It’s gonna cause you lose out on a lot of viewers