The AFL passed the NFL by in the final two years of the decade.

I loved watching MNF when these guys were announcing! I remember doing my homework while watching them in the 70’s. They knew their football, 🏈 a lot of kids learned their football from these guys and Coach Madden was a good teacher too. The intro to the program got me excited for the game! They definitely knew what they were doing.

Did you notice that all the Raiders cheap shots were intended for Lynn Swann? Well not all of them 😂😂😂

1974 was maybe the greatest NFL season ever. The Raiders should have won it all. Losing to the Steelers in the 74 AFC Championship game still stings.

Great Madden Lite Beer commercial 😂

The Raiders would not lose another game the rest of the season

WFL was poorly planned from what I can tell. The USFL was really well planned and if the could’ve gotten one or two more folks with more $ to help keep it afloat through 88 they could’ve been absorbed by the NFL with some good conditions. They played some really good football. The System really did screw over the USFL and President Trump with the $1 settlement. Screwed over the American Public also imho. I mean imagine Philly having two teams to hate on or the three way NY/NJ teams competing or the wide open Houston Gamblers vs Oilers or the smash mouth rivalry’s that would develop in Chicago and Pittsburgh. Well ifs and buts were candy and nuts we would all have a Merry Christmas.

This is back when I actually watched football. Now even college football sucks.

Great video! If memory serves, MacArthur Lane had some good years with the Chiefs later on, and Homer Jones invented the end zone “spike.” Didn’t know about Larry Browns hearing issue - very astute of Lombardi to notice and then correct it!

Lest we forget

Lest we forget

Taking me back is right. Lonnie Warwick, Ed Podolak!, and Wally Hilgenberg shoving Garret out of bounds. 11:03 I missed most of these games but was a big Viking fan. How traumatic then to lose four superbowls.

Bob Trumpy sighting! Went from being a pretty good tight end to one of the biggest loudmouth color commentators of the 80s and 90s. Poor Bob Criqui, having to put up with that guy year after year.

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Always thought Anderson was underappreciated. He was a good player. I was surprised he only played nine seasons. Playing with that type of offense with the Cardinals I'm surprised he didn't stick around longer

Everyone knew how great Csonka was and he was still underrated. His yards per carry as a fullback were amazing from 1970-1973

Frank being serious and the other 2 are just silly knuckleheads. Love it

Donny Anderson: I wonder if there was ever a player after the two way player era that was ever a punter AND a punt returner.

0:34 who goes to a football game wearing a dress?

Could have made playoffs had they beat the 49ers in Week 14.

Marv Hubbard, Hewitt Dixon, and Van Eagan … You should just do a video on those 3 great players to make up for this one!

Excellent

I better see Marv Hubbard … I’m 4:57 into the video and Van Eegan better make it also

I just brought a new fan to your channel. His name is John Rauch JR … Keep a lookout for his comments because he can supply you with invaluable information. Any true Oakland Raiders fan knows who John Rauch is. Not a lot of us left but we are still here

"Why did they run wild?" Easy one... Because in those days, they might get killed if they didn't!

Miss the mud the blood and the beer.

MAN, the 70's were truly the best of times...So miss the 70's..

didn't Norm Van Brocklin ''the Dutchman '' pass for over 500 yards in one game in the 1950s , unheard of in that era .

Absolutely fantastic video, again! You have every team jersey?😂 Joey in Cleveland

Great stuff ! Maybe it's because ( no offense to players of that era ) they were slower and maybe not as graceful as today's players....those guys back in those days ran HARD ! Maybe it's because the rules were different then, I don't know...but when you see clips of Csonka, Bill Brown, Ken Willard, Marv Hubbard, Grabowski, Anderson etc., they just seem to be running harder than today's backs. And for Bill Brown to average 14.9 YPC for a season ??? Hell, you'd be hard pressed to find many TE's with those numbers ! And YES ! I do believe that the FB WILL make a comeback ! Football is cyclical..it may morph into another name ( like the H - back ) But it's such a great weapon, it allows you to do so many different looks set - wise...Pro Set, Full House, I Formation...you could run the Veer, the Wishbone...especially when you have a guy who can run AND catch, as well as block ! I'd love to see some OC's with enough balls ( and of course TWO talented backs, FB, HB ) to go back to the old 2 back sets...it's not like it stopped working, the league just became pass - happy and had to carry more WR's and TE's and to do that they sacrificed using a "traditional" FB, and made their 2nd or 3rd TE ( that was the best blocker ) into an "H - back". If some brave coaches have the balls to do it ( AND the right personnel ) it WILL come back.

Preston Pearson was an outstanding running back for Dallas. He was a great acquisition.

Looks like HS football.

The fullback is part and of the special O packages using the 3 TE set where it’s usually lineman eligible or an actual TE that can take a pitch block or short catch. Alas the day the FB barreling into the hole and decleating LBs or Safeties are gone Mike Alstot comes to mind

For the time it was a normal play Nowadays it’s a penalty thanks to these woke snowflakes who ruined NFL football 🏈

When Larry Czonka gained 20 yards on a run,he didn't gain that yardage,he rumbled 😊

Larry Csonka was the best of his era and is in the Hall of Fame for good reason. He was incredibly difficult to tackle and no one on the field was tougher. He benefited from playing behind some Hall of Fame lineman, but honestly, he could also run block as well as they could, even the great Larry Little. At 6'3" and 250 lbs on game day (not on the football card) he was also comparable in size to the offensive linemen in front of him and throughout the league at that time. The Dolphins had the best wide receiver in the league at that time, Paul Warfield, but threw to him sparingly because Csonka was so dependable. The great Warfield, often the skinniest guy on the field, became a huge threat as a blocker, perfecting the vicious crack back block that was outlawed partially due to his proficiency with it. It sprung Csonka on sweeps where hapless DBs had to find a way to slow down Csonka enough to get gang tackled.

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"Analytics"being "what it is "today"used to"grade"and "vet" players"or "predict" certain"outcomes"...."was unheard of...it was just"X's and "O's"! "Thanks"Mark" point " proven"!!

Poor Billy Kilmer was beat on a regular basis . Larry Brown 43. Took some hits also . Both Very Tough. Men .

I started watching. Football as a kid when Donnie Anderson came to the ST. Louis Cardinals . I remember him . I was a Cardinals fan growing up . I also liked the KC. Chiefs. Ed podalack . Misspelled ! No “14

Lance was catching more than TD's

I was there. Greatest game I've ever seen.

Good footage as always Mark.

As a diehard Vikings fan my entire life, who grew up only a few miles away from old Metropolitan Stadium, and watched my Vikes completely dominate the Ewes from 1969 to 1977 (8-2-1, 4-0 in playoff games, 2-0 in NFC Championships), I absolutely treasure the cruel irony of this playoff game. The Rammies fans always complained that they had to play all those playoff games in the cold Minnesota weather which was unfair because the Vikes were used to playing in cold weather and the Ewes were not. I thought that was a cop out, and the Ewes actually psyched themselves out to a large extent when they had to travel to Minn. So I remember tuning into watch this game, in a year where Tarkenton was injured and not playing, leaving the game to a fairly inexperienced Bob Lee. The Rams had beaten the Vikings bad during the season 35-3 in LA. So this looked like the year the Vikings dynastic run from 1969 to then might be over. Lo and behold, we get a pouring rainstorm before and during the game in the LA Coliseum, turning the field into a quagmire. I remember laughing and laughing at the scene, knowing passing would be more difficult. The poor Ewes!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 The Vikes played ball control Off perfectly and the Vikings old Purple People Eaters D had one more glorious game left in them. The Hollywood Ewes once again faltered in a big playoff game, a run of failure dating all the way back to the 1967 West Conference Playoff drubbing by a beat up Packers team 28-7. Once again the Ewes were too soft to handle the adversity of bad weather and bad field conditions. The Vikes came ready to play, the Hollywood Actors once again flubbed their lines. That victory tasted so sweet because everyone wanted the Vikings to lose, no one gave them a chance in LA, and once again the Vikes found themselves in the League Championship Game for the 4th time in the last 5 years, and 1 game from a 4th Super Bowl in the last 5 years, and a possible 5th SB in the last 9 years! While the poor Ewes sat at home again, with no chance at being in the Super Bowl for the 12th straight year. That was a fun and memorable day of OLD SCHOOL FOOTBALL!!!

1970, had there only been the Wild Card system in use today!

Love the Mecklenburg jersey!!

My pick: Tom Nowatzke; first round pick in 1965 by the Detroit Lions. Super Bowl Champ in 1971 (Super Bowl V), where his 4th Quarter Touchdown tied the game. His truck & trailer repair shop is just up the road from me in Whitmore Lake, MI.

Love MNF during this era

As someone who was born in 1966 I feel so fortunate & blessed to have watched football when it was truly a man's sport. The players from football's early days through the 1970s & early eighties were tough as nails. I know he's fairly popular but I've always admired Rocky Blier physical toughness. I hear all the time that today's player's are bigger, faster, stronger, etc. None of those attributes equates to physical & mental toughness, which these men had in spades. I always thought Jerome Bettis had the physical toughness of these older backs. John Riggins did as well in his day. Thanks for a wonderful video and football time capsule. It's sad that the current NFL is both weak & woke in my opinion.