When they asked Kapp what happened with the hit that knocked Jim Houston out he said "I hit him with my purse." Classic Kapp. He was one of a kind and still is.
Well that was before my time, but has Kapp brought his team back in the 4th quarter 7 times!? didn't think so pal. Tebow brings energy to his teammates and in the games he plays that are unexplained. What happened in the last 2 minutes of the Chicago game? I would call that divine intervention my friend.
for all these modern day nflers that are about mechanics and all that crap... look every sport before the 80's it seems was not about mechanics but about peeps that wanted to win... like look at how these idiots run... arms waving in the air... it looks completely rediculous... but its still got it done
@Smooothify When your BFF Tebow throws seven TDs in one game, get back to me about how he's better than "ol Kappy boy," who threw seven against the Baltimore Colts in week two of the 1969 NFL season. No QB has done it since.
I know all have their favorites, but why people keep saying Kapp was " one" of the toughest QB's ever, is beyond me. Who was tougher, who would hurl them selves at tacklers??Not even close, no one compares to him. Announcers use to say Dan Fouts was as tough,,,,,, oh please!!
Only now, 41 years after Kapps' last game, can we put Tim Tebow in his league.
@TerrorWarrior5000 hahahahahah jemarcus russel????? the jamarcus russel that was drafted first by the raiders and was a complete bust!?!?!? you sir should have a stand up comedy show!!!
@MrArcticRed Not even close--He's a spoiled over paid pansy like most of today's over paid athletes. Joe Kapp was one of the toughest to ever play QB in the NFL or CFL.He could still kick Tebow's ass in a fight to.
Kapp would JUMP over or into tacklers trying to hit them in the face or head with his knees, and on one of these, a Cleveland Brown player gets BAMMMMMM, he is OUT before he hits the ground. That jumping over and into guys used to make guys MAD! But, Kapp was tough, as you can see the 'clothesline tackle' near the end when he scores. If someone did that today? They would be suspended the rest of the year. Kapp was a fighter.
Players are too big and fast today. They'd kill each other if hey'd be allowed to play the way they did back then. The crappy field may slow them down a bit though.
Ever notice he always wore his chin strap along his throat? Threw the ball WITHOUT the laces? Tough, tough, tough. Had the honor of meeting him 2 years ago, gave me a growl, showed his teeth like a boxer (of course I asked him to) and shook his fist. I wouldn't tangle with him even if he is 20 years my senior.
Oh the Good Ol' Days! I remember growing up watching those games. Bud even had snow piled up by the Vikings sideline in Los Angeles one year against the Rams.
The story has been told that Joe wasn't against taking a beer bottle against the head on Saturday night, and being out there insulting the mothers of opposing lineman on Sunday afternoon. Way to go Joe!
Brett Favre will always be my favorite quarteback.... I remember at one time when asked who he felt his style of play resembled, and he said Joe Kapp, because he would do some rather nutty things, or really odd looking throws to keep the play going.... I thought that was awesome, considering I always felt Joe Kapp was awesome and would have loved to have been alive to see him play. His old games and highlights are some of the funnest to watch. He could make something outta nothing. Pansies today
@TheEndofdays311 actually my parents are from pennsylvania, i have dual citizenship....and ya Canadians can be uppity with their Socialism and education system,..... but remember some American hicks are kinda...well, good people, but kinda ignorant..... as for Anti-americanism, some is legit since Americans don't really bother to know or learn anything about Canada, and some is just insecurities living next door to 300 million people.... but we shop at your stores, watch your shows..it all gud!
@PInk77W1 funny story....Joe Kapp and Angelo Mosca just got into a fight a few nights ago at a CFL Alumni banquet.....they're both 73, apparently they've been beefing since a 1963 Grey Cup....Angelo Mosca was a great CFL player and later became a WWF wrestler - Angelo King Kong Mosca.....anyways apparently Joe Kapp knocked him to the floor.
@quincee33 yes i saw the video on youtube, that is what made me watch this video.. very crazy fight between two old pro's. at first the audience laughs, then they are shocked! very crazy.
Respond to this video... my old man never liked Grogan, Bradshaw, Archie Manning, Kenny Anderson, Joe Ferguson, Vince Ferragamo....u name it.....frustrating talking football with him sometimes.... he liked Staubach, Tarkenton and his Favourite was Johnny Unitas.... actually come to think of it, the negative old grump never liked Jaworski, Sonny Jurgenson....... heck he never liked anyone!
@TheEndofdays311 when i was a kid i always wondered why Plunkett looked a little darker....his last name confused me, i didn't realize he was Mexican-american..... my Dad was never a Plunkett fan so i have a bias against him...and he beat my Eagles, but looking over his achievements he and kenny Stabler should both be in the HOF...... i think my Dad said back in the day he wasn't very good with the Patriots but got better.... my Dad is a good man but very negative, he never liked Bradshaw,con'd
@TheEndofdays311 i almost forgot Jeff Garcia was awesome in Calgary, he was Flutie's backup for one year and then Flutie went to Toronto.....i know Garcia has reddish hair and freckles but i'm assuimng he's latino? is he mexican or Cuban? just wondering.....
@TheEndofdays311 cool, well the CFL will be having the 99th GREY CUP in November...... the league has been around a long time! Enjoy the rest of the NFL season, i'm an Eagles fan so i'm not too happy these days!
@TheEndofdays311 is Tony Romo latino? i thought he was italian? And yes the CFL isn't the same as the NFL but it gave black QB's a fair shake way back in the 70's when the NFL wouldn't look at someone like Warren Moon.... it's a good league if you love the game and aren't quite big enough or good enough for the NFL...plus if you kick ass you can always get a shot like Cameron Wake of the Dolphins, and of coarse Moon, Flutie and Theismann.
@TheEndofdays311 No offence taken my friend. He was one of the NFL's greatest players. Look up his stats. And no, a lot of Filipinos are NOT gay. I served with the best of them for years. Even if they were I could care less. I trusted my life to many of them.
@TheEndofdays311 No, probably not, you got me there. I do have 3 sets of Brit darts I won in crete lomg ago when still in the Navy. Don't have to hit the Bull's eye, just have know how to out-game them.... and win.
@TheEndofdays311 google ANTHONY CALVILLO - He plays for the Montreal Allouettes and is NOW the all-time passing lead in professional football ..... He's Mexican-American and a total class act....he's loved in Canada for his skills and his attitude....i know the CFL ain't the NFL but he's really done well for someone from east L..A. and Joe Kapp played in the CFL for the B.C. Lions and Bud Grant was Coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers!
@TheEndofdays311 Could not agree more. I myself am of German decent and as white as they come yet I appreciate men, and people for that matter, like this. Roman Gabriel was of Asian heritage, as was Jim Plunkett and many others. I grew up in the Central San Joaquin Valley in CA. Worked in the grape sheds in Shafter CA when i was a teenager to get money for clothes for school. I guess I'm an old man now, but damn, I have good memories of that, and GREAT memories of watching men like this.
@quincee33 Well if he was he was another tough SOB. Phillipino decent if I'm correct. And I don't think that matters a bit. I'm a 30 year Navy vet and it never mattere to me what my Shipmate "may have been". Only what he could do.
Still tough as nails to this day. What...70+ years old and will give you that growl and shake a fist at you. I guess the whole point to this is determination to win. I believe that is what the players of yore had over anything else, because there was nothing else. No celebrity stardom, great facilities to train or off-season gurus. I love today's game but will always yearn for yesterday's game.
I respected Kapp, but being a LA Ran fanatic I hated him too. That playoff loss
still haunts me. I still say we were the better team and would have faired better in the Superbowl. Sour grapes for sure. I know get over it, but I know I never will.
@andrewr62: Being a life long MN Vikings fan, I'm not trying to start any fight with you, but, the Rams hosted the Vikings in mid-November 1969. Basically, the winner of that game gets home field advantage....i.e. no snow or ice or cold weather....if L.A. had won? They didn't!
The Vikings broke the Rams 11 game winning streake in that game. From that point on they lost their next 4 in a row including the playoff to the Vikings.
Regardless, even if the Rams had won and ended up with a better record, doesn't matter. Back then the teams with best record did'nt get home field advantage, It was done on a rotation bases.
Heres the thing about toughness. Players back then could take those kinds of hits but then they were human sized people. nowdays you hve these huge 350+ leviathans walking around . Look at these clips and look at the refs in the clips about the same size. Today the refs look like dwarfs compared to the players. if they played the same way today there would be a death every Sunday
@amensupremera Take the most physical conditoned player today, take him back 50 years and put him on the field. He will either be good as it gets (Jim Brown type) or get his ass kicked. One thing about Joe Kapp, he had a big butt, couldn't throw well all the time.. But damn, he was hard-nosed and tough!
@mgwilliams1000 Kapp was a tough son of a bitch, but look at that close line shot and tell me that he could take that same hit from Ray Lewis or James Harrison. The dudes nowadays are bigger and more athletic. If they let them go at it like it was back in the day there would be mass death. Put Kapp up against these guys today, he might not even be pro
To comapare cross gerneration athletes you compare how they did agains the competition during their respective eras
Ofcourse you would'nt compare how Kapp would do against Harrison or Lewis...his time was 40 years prior!
Kapp took on the toughest competition as they came. Butkus, Curtis,Bubba Smith, Nitscke, Houstin, Jones etc.You wound't say Joe Louis could beat one of the one of the Klitscko brothers. Yet he's considered far and above a greater fighter.
@6400az Thats the point I'm making! People are saying the players were tougher then and I'm saying they were different human beings then. The way players are built today, if they were allowed to do things like closeline tackle or other rough tactics they got away with "40 years ago" there would be a death every sunday. Todays players are bigger stronger and faster and they get injured more easily and more often b/c the level athlete has changed. No what the point is b/f you just start typing
Really no need for your last sentence friend. I responded to your post as best as I understood it.
What people may mean when they say the players from back then where tougher, is in the mindset. They where in fact hell for leather, they were'nt stronger. If you take a 1969 Kapp and insert him in todays game, no way would he KO Lewis or Harrison like he did Jim Houston. For him to have the same results Kapp would have had to metamorphosized into a Tim Tebow type strong man.
@amensupremera Those 350+ leviathans would do that and KILL the player comming at them back then if we put them there, no denial here. They would ALSO suffer something horrible to themselves one to two plays later from at least four men bent on revenge and the "little" ref would look the other way. Your missing my point... not about thier conditioning and training. I think they miss heart at times. Joe Kapp would still fist fight you today (at his age today) when a Favre would back down.
@mgwilliams1000 I can't sit behind a computer and talk about pro football players lacking heart. My whole point (which I think you miss) is that people compare the play from the '60s and the hits and the close line etc, and say that they were tougher back then but miss the point that rules have changed because the level of athlete has changed and if they played like that today they'd kill each other.
@amensupremera You are right. I never meant to disrespect your opinion, and the rules today are there for a very good reason. Guess we both love the game a whole lot, and sigh.... probably won't see much of it this fall.
@mgwilliams1000 Your last comment brings a tear to my eye. I'm still holdong out hope that they'll get the season underway this year. But at least theres college football.....hell I might go checkout the local high school games
A leader. The players responded to him. He did not have a great arm, but he had so much more in other areas. The players loved him. Unfortunately that was not always the case with Tarkenton.
It's just that his wobblers don't appear to be going to fast.. If you can get your hands on the Superbowl IV actual game broadcast, you'll see him put it up some 70 yards in the air. He also had great touch and a quick release. Today, his hell- for- leather, tough guy legend is such that it dwarfs many of the skills he possesed.
@6400az That's very interesting because the book on him was a suspect arm, but I didn't know that he could put it up that far. 70 yards is huge even for today...
I'll take your word that the book on him was was a questionable arm . However, I tend to think the suspicion was more because of his wobblers wich automatically brought his arm into question. Regardless how you slice it, a wobbler, even if it comes form John Elway does'nt look to be going very fast/ hard.
I really wish people can see first hand that Superbowl IV mighty heave . To be honest, I too did'nt think he could throw it THAT far.
I've read that some on the team did'nt really care for Tarkenton. His biggest critic was Ron Yary..( who incidentally mentioned Fran in his HOF speech). Yary claimed that Tarkenton threw at the expense of the team. And if they had played Bob Lee in the Superbowl against the Raiders they'd have won.
Who's to say if this IS true, but that's what I read. For my money, Kapp was far and away a better leader, his presence simpley could'nt be ignored.
Joe Kapp started his professional career in the Canadian Football League with Calgary, then British Columbia (Vancouver). Hall of Famer up here (in Canada). Just an aweso9me player!
You're right. Players now (well, many) are prima donnas and whiners. Just get out and play the game. Don't bitch about a broken fingernail, or the weather, or the field conditions!!
One of true "Tough Nose" quarterbacks of the NFL. Minnesota be proud. Farve was nothing next to this guy. Beat my "blue and white" rams and Roman Gabriel more than once.
Kapp should have been named one of the 50 greatest Vikings. Tarkenton wasn't being so modest. When Kapp got clubbed in the end-zone against the 49ers Middle Linebacker, the player from San Francisco would have been fined and suspended by todays rules. I can't believe the refs didn't call a personal foul penalty on Kapp's touchdown run against San Francisco in Kezar Stadium in San Francisco!
Really can't believe he was'nt in the top 50. Say what you want about him,but the whole rough and tumble, invincible, never say quit Vikings, was instilled by Joe Kapp. He led the Vikings to their first run at greatness.
Check it out at 2:49. Kapp and Jim Marshall exchange a fist bump. That was either 1968 or 1969... Guess the fist bump has been around quite a while longer than most of us thought...
One time, in a game in November of '68, the conditions were just so, and the winds were just right and o'l Joe Kapp went back in the pocket and threw a spiral. They still talk about that throw in Minnesota.
Joe Kapp couldn't throw a spiral to save his life. He got the job done though. If the guards had used him instead of Ed (Captain Knauer) Lauter at QB they would have beaten the cons in 1974s "The Longest Yard".
Joe Kapp is Mexican-American for all you doubters in here. ALL Mexicans have Spanish ancestry in their blood even you fickled New Mexican's who want to claim direct Spanish lineage in here. Quit your crap. Joe Kapp is Mexican American and is embraced as just that in the Mexican-American community. Others you probably didn't know are of Mexican lineage...Dan Rather, Mark Bulger of the St. Louis Rams, Eduardo Najera of the NBA, Linda Carter (Wonder Woman), Linda Ronstadt. Be informed.
I missed those days when football was played in the rain, snow and mud. Where Bud Grant of the Vikings wouldn' t have any heaters on his side of the field for his players. He wanted them to adapt to the conditions of mother nature. And football was a game not a business. For Georgia Frontiere of the St. Louis Rams...Fuck You.
@beerborn IM with you....and when they played the game for the sake of the game and none of this look at me BS...I feel sorry for kids now that they will never see football like it was supposed to be....ah the memories
One of the best kept secrets,is that Joe Kapp was a Jake Lammota type. Yes, he was a brawler, but this man was one hell of an athlete as well. He has been voted CAL's second greatest athlete of all time. By the time he got to the NFL , he was'nt that young and he did have a severe knee injury in Canada. His passes may not have all benn spirals, but some where. And he had a huge arm to boot.
Too bad we didn't have Kapp at New Orleans. Even at his advanced age he probably would have suited up and ran over some linebackers to get the Vikes 10 to 15 yards closer for a field goal without fumbling the ball.
That's it right there. Favre was hurt and all, but Kapp would have taken on whom ever was in front of him. Maybe we can get Jim Houston to weigh in on this.....
I, too, cannot help but wonder what would have happened if we had Kapp for that one fateful 3rd down play. Definitely, he would done exactly as you've prescribed! Problem solved! Favre/AP are referred to as 'tough' but Kapp was on a different level - we needed that at that moment in time....that was the difference.
Precisely, "a different level of toughness". Kapp was a hell for leather type , now a day you have a finess type of tough at best. In the Favre 3rd down play, you HAD to do Kapp impression. Forget the throw, THAT was the time to make use of you helmet for Gods sake!!!
The 1969 Divisional playoff game.Minnesota Vikings vs LA Rams was a classic!!!NFL films should replay it!!!SKOL!!!p.s.Mick Tingelhoff,Jim Marshall should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame!!!
Dad was German but apparently with his coloring and pride in his mothers' race he never tried to pass himself off as white as so many of that predjudiced era would have. Probably what made him such a badass. I enjoyed watching Tarkenton for many years but his forte was avoiding contact where Kapps was the opposite. This is reflected in their respective length of careers. In Kapps' day football was a contact sport and you couldn't be pussified if you wanted your team to follow your lead.
@Steelyfan19 Yes, you are right. I'm all too aware of Theismann being the last non kicker/ punter to don the one bar. BUT his style of play and Kapps' , where significantly different you must agree.
Every hispanic in the world should take pride in this mans toughness and leadership. In college when he played QB for Cal the SC players were playing dirty and taking cheap shots. At the half Kapp went to the SC locker room and told the SC players that if it continued he would meet them personally in the parking lot after the game. I guess they got the message. What fucking balls.
I know the name is misleading maybe he was adopted, I'll look it up on Wikipedia. To my knowledge he is pure Mexican which of course is a mixture of native and euro blood. Seems like he got the best from both heritages!
I've seen the NFL Films clip of Mick Tinglehoff, the center, telling a funny story about Joe. Seems there was a linebacker for the Rams(#58) that Joe was pissed off at. Joe starts barking the signals: Hut one, Hut two.....F*@k you 58!!! lol
Joe Kapp is awesome. no, his career stats arent gonna wow anyone, and unfortunately he wont make it into the hall of fame more than likely, but damn it, he played with so much guts and determination. him and unitas are two of the toughest to ever play the QB position. long live the man of machismo!
I was a 9 year old New Jersey kid that fell in love with Joe Kapp and the Vikings in about 68. It's hard to describe the way they played the game then, and the way Kapp and the Vikings exemplified hard ass tough football. They were thrilling and wonderfull and Kapp was King as far as I'm concerned. I'll never forget him.
Like they say, you could read Pete Rozelle's signature on the ball as it went down the field, but he had the guts of a linebacker, the machismo of a defensive lieman and the heart of a little boy. Injun' Joe was very special. The memories are amazing.
LOL! God how I used to love watching the real Super Mex Joe Kapp play football in the elements! The guy ran like he had 10 inch hemorrhoids hanging out his ass and his passes would flutter in the wind like a wounded duck, but that bastard knew how to have fun and play the game the way it was meant to be played! We sure could use some of that moxie in today's brand of NFL football!
Oh yeah, that was a Thomas Hearns- like KO. Just cleaned Jim Houston's clock...and he was 6-3, 240. Can you imagine Marino, or Elway or Rothlisberger go after a linebacker the way Kapp did here ?? Or can anyone fathom the posibility of Kapp sliding like Staubach and so may others.
Just for a second,picture him doing something like that.!! Only then can one appreciate what a truly different type of QB he was. The one player the Vikings HAD to have kept.
Thanks. No, I cannot imagine any QB doing that today unless they were an angry/excited 3rd stringer in the game. Kapp was tough as nails. These old films (yes, I know they are highlights; limited looks at the old game) serve to show how different the game is today. This is workmanship: no hype, no flash and glitz. Nearly the opposite of what the NFL has morphed into today.
Staubach DID slide. Not always ,but he DID slide, especially towards the later part of his career when he suffered concussions.
Secondly, if you go to any of the Pearson Hail Mary videos, you will see how many times I have defended Pearson and the Cowboys, saying it WAS NOT a push off, but a totally legitimate play.
So much for jumping to quick conclusions hih friend !!
I regret being too young to have been able to watch him in action. He must have been some tough as nails dude. First Vikes game I watched was the 1970 playoff against the 69ers. I have been a fan ever since.
Is Tebow the next Joe Kapp? No. Kapp was a legit professional QB. Borderline HOF. But Tebow's young. We'll see. Similar styles, though.
Dactuck 2 days ago
When qbs had more heart than skill.
MrRkp1957 1 week ago
When they asked Kapp what happened with the hit that knocked Jim Houston out he said "I hit him with my purse." Classic Kapp. He was one of a kind and still is.
thomas49368 1 week ago
SPORTSMANSHIP!!!
TwelveBells 2 weeks ago
I enjoyed this, it's maybe the best assembled/edited tribute I've seen.
You should throw in a clip of Kapp knocking that dirty old prick Mosca on his ass.
Tebow is a born leader, but we're all sick of his sanctimonious crap.
The step to the Hall of Fame are littered with college stars who had the guts or the arm but not both.
Tebow has a long way to go to prove he's in the same class as say . . . Tom Brady ?
procrastinator41 2 weeks ago
Wow, Kapp knocked the krapp outta Cleveland's All-Pro LB Jim Houston, didn't he!
broadwayjoe12jets 2 weeks ago
tim tebow guys a freaking fluke guy can't throw the ball and he never will be able to
maxwellh2356 3 weeks ago
Vikings need to go back to playing outside.
prplhze2000 1 month ago 3
What's the name of the second song?
Jigglypoof 1 month ago
Thank you for doing this tribute!
danparish63 1 month ago
Well that was before my time, but has Kapp brought his team back in the 4th quarter 7 times!? didn't think so pal. Tebow brings energy to his teammates and in the games he plays that are unexplained. What happened in the last 2 minutes of the Chicago game? I would call that divine intervention my friend.
Smooothify 1 month ago
Joe Kapp was the toughest quarterback I ever saw play the game. He was one tuff S.O.B.
mellett1 1 month ago
for all these modern day nflers that are about mechanics and all that crap... look every sport before the 80's it seems was not about mechanics but about peeps that wanted to win... like look at how these idiots run... arms waving in the air... it looks completely rediculous... but its still got it done
Viperstrike28 1 month ago
Bill Cosby sent me, too!
SupermanHopkins 1 month ago
hahaha i think Tebow is just a tad bit better off his release than ol Kappy boy :)
Smooothify 1 month ago
@Smooothify When your BFF Tebow throws seven TDs in one game, get back to me about how he's better than "ol Kappy boy," who threw seven against the Baltimore Colts in week two of the 1969 NFL season. No QB has done it since.
sd31263 1 month ago
*Kapp....my bad.
mm122880 1 month ago
Thank you Mr. Cosby. Tebow plays just like Capp! BRONCOS ALL DAY!
mm122880 1 month ago
UNLEASH Joe Kapp, All he does is win games
michaelfrigginvance 1 month ago
The 1 dislike is Angelo Mosca.
DefyTheTyrantz 1 month ago
The homey bill cosby put me on to this video
mrnunyabiz2222 1 month ago
Whenever I watch Tebow highlights I'm going to mute them and put this soundtrack on instead.
BaconIsHealthFood 1 month ago
bill cosby makes the video go from 15,000 hits to almost 60,000
bucksandrut 1 month ago
Oh man Bill Cosby is so right. The throwing motion the running the JUMPPASS! BTW 90% of those hits would have been penalties fine and suspensions...
TheSgtBrown 1 month ago
I know all have their favorites, but why people keep saying Kapp was " one" of the toughest QB's ever, is beyond me. Who was tougher, who would hurl them selves at tacklers??Not even close, no one compares to him. Announcers use to say Dan Fouts was as tough,,,,,, oh please!!
Only now, 41 years after Kapps' last game, can we put Tim Tebow in his league.
6400az 1 month ago
Bill Cosby, thanks for sending me here. What a player in Joe Kapp and yes Tim Tebow plays like him. Wonderful.
Maevenish 1 month ago
@TW5000 did you just compare Jamarcus Russell to Joe Kapps Were you hit in the fucking head with a tack hammer.
icey024 1 month ago
Joe Kapp sucks and is not a real athletic quarterback and man like Jamarcus Russell
TerrorWarrior5000 1 month ago
@TerrorWarrior5000 hahahahahah jemarcus russel????? the jamarcus russel that was drafted first by the raiders and was a complete bust!?!?!? you sir should have a stand up comedy show!!!
relmofyou 1 month ago
great video. Got to love the old minnesota stadium
BillbuddyD88 1 month ago 2
Bill Cosby sent me here!
MrMark19148 1 month ago 56
@MrMark19148
right on!
Mpower77i 1 month ago
@MrMark19148
Thats funny! Bill sent me in search of Joe too and I am glad he did.
jellystop 1 month ago
Thumbs up if you think Tim Tebow plays like this guy.
MrArcticRed 1 month ago 3
@MrArcticRed Not even close--He's a spoiled over paid pansy like most of today's over paid athletes. Joe Kapp was one of the toughest to ever play QB in the NFL or CFL.He could still kick Tebow's ass in a fight to.
fender4444 1 month ago
Its Tim Tebow
NateSine89 1 month ago 3
tim tebow
MsMabry08 1 month ago
I really hope he didn't kick the shit of his dog everyday.
CosmicJew 1 month ago
Exceptional!
46dc9er 1 month ago
Seoul2k11, he'd kick your ass today!
Orn941 1 month ago
Joe Kapp is to this day the toughest son of a bitch to ever play QB.... Period!
Orn941 1 month ago
Kapp would JUMP over or into tacklers trying to hit them in the face or head with his knees, and on one of these, a Cleveland Brown player gets BAMMMMMM, he is OUT before he hits the ground. That jumping over and into guys used to make guys MAD! But, Kapp was tough, as you can see the 'clothesline tackle' near the end when he scores. If someone did that today? They would be suspended the rest of the year. Kapp was a fighter.
BenPaine55 1 month ago
SPORTSMANSHIP!
thaKG 2 months ago
A crappy field, muddy jerseys, and hard hits that are not penalized. Why can't we have that now?
RDarth 2 months ago
@RDarth
Players are too big and fast today. They'd kill each other if hey'd be allowed to play the way they did back then. The crappy field may slow them down a bit though.
6400az 1 month ago
Joe kapp was as tough as they come!
1957thack 2 months ago
Knocked the fuck out at 2:10!
vikings844 2 months ago
Ever notice he always wore his chin strap along his throat? Threw the ball WITHOUT the laces? Tough, tough, tough. Had the honor of meeting him 2 years ago, gave me a growl, showed his teeth like a boxer (of course I asked him to) and shook his fist. I wouldn't tangle with him even if he is 20 years my senior.
mgwilliams1000 2 months ago
the man was a quarterback god
capablekel 2 months ago
He named his dog Angelo, and he kick the shit out of it every day!
richie8811 2 months ago 12
Go kick some more ass, Kapp!!!
jorgekluney 2 months ago
Joe Kapp is a fucking fag
seoul2k11 2 months ago
@seoul2k11 Impossible.... he just floored a big dummy wrestler with one overhand right!
jorgekluney 2 months ago
This was when the NFL was a "RELIGION" Now it's just a bunch of young Prima Donnas all in it for themselves and nothing else
colemanjr 2 months ago 4
Really good compilation of clip into 1 video. Good choice of music also. Thanks for posting.
GratefulBeing1 2 months ago
i was 11yrs old back then. I use to worship the NFL, now i just watch.
it should b mandatory for football to b outside!!!!!
PInk77W1 2 months ago
Oh the Good Ol' Days! I remember growing up watching those games. Bud even had snow piled up by the Vikings sideline in Los Angeles one year against the Rams.
The story has been told that Joe wasn't against taking a beer bottle against the head on Saturday night, and being out there insulting the mothers of opposing lineman on Sunday afternoon. Way to go Joe!
bvmiller57 2 months ago
Brett Favre will always be my favorite quarteback.... I remember at one time when asked who he felt his style of play resembled, and he said Joe Kapp, because he would do some rather nutty things, or really odd looking throws to keep the play going.... I thought that was awesome, considering I always felt Joe Kapp was awesome and would have loved to have been alive to see him play. His old games and highlights are some of the funnest to watch. He could make something outta nothing. Pansies today
jstark069 2 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 actually my parents are from pennsylvania, i have dual citizenship....and ya Canadians can be uppity with their Socialism and education system,..... but remember some American hicks are kinda...well, good people, but kinda ignorant..... as for Anti-americanism, some is legit since Americans don't really bother to know or learn anything about Canada, and some is just insecurities living next door to 300 million people.... but we shop at your stores, watch your shows..it all gud!
quincee33 3 months ago
@quincee33 learn anything about Canada? i just open my freezer, done deal!!!!!
oh canadaaaaaaa, sorry i couldnt resist. i do love Mr neil young and joni mitchell
PInk77W1 2 months ago
@PInk77W1 funny story....Joe Kapp and Angelo Mosca just got into a fight a few nights ago at a CFL Alumni banquet.....they're both 73, apparently they've been beefing since a 1963 Grey Cup....Angelo Mosca was a great CFL player and later became a WWF wrestler - Angelo King Kong Mosca.....anyways apparently Joe Kapp knocked him to the floor.
quincee33 2 months ago
@quincee33 yes i saw the video on youtube, that is what made me watch this video.. very crazy fight between two old pro's. at first the audience laughs, then they are shocked! very crazy.
PInk77W1 2 months ago
Respond to this video... my old man never liked Grogan, Bradshaw, Archie Manning, Kenny Anderson, Joe Ferguson, Vince Ferragamo....u name it.....frustrating talking football with him sometimes.... he liked Staubach, Tarkenton and his Favourite was Johnny Unitas.... actually come to think of it, the negative old grump never liked Jaworski, Sonny Jurgenson....... heck he never liked anyone!
quincee33 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 when i was a kid i always wondered why Plunkett looked a little darker....his last name confused me, i didn't realize he was Mexican-american..... my Dad was never a Plunkett fan so i have a bias against him...and he beat my Eagles, but looking over his achievements he and kenny Stabler should both be in the HOF...... i think my Dad said back in the day he wasn't very good with the Patriots but got better.... my Dad is a good man but very negative, he never liked Bradshaw,con'd
quincee33 3 months ago
Reminds me of Tebow.
aar0n262 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 i almost forgot Jeff Garcia was awesome in Calgary, he was Flutie's backup for one year and then Flutie went to Toronto.....i know Garcia has reddish hair and freckles but i'm assuimng he's latino? is he mexican or Cuban? just wondering.....
quincee33 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 cool, well the CFL will be having the 99th GREY CUP in November...... the league has been around a long time! Enjoy the rest of the NFL season, i'm an Eagles fan so i'm not too happy these days!
quincee33 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 is Tony Romo latino? i thought he was italian? And yes the CFL isn't the same as the NFL but it gave black QB's a fair shake way back in the 70's when the NFL wouldn't look at someone like Warren Moon.... it's a good league if you love the game and aren't quite big enough or good enough for the NFL...plus if you kick ass you can always get a shot like Cameron Wake of the Dolphins, and of coarse Moon, Flutie and Theismann.
quincee33 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 No offence taken my friend. He was one of the NFL's greatest players. Look up his stats. And no, a lot of Filipinos are NOT gay. I served with the best of them for years. Even if they were I could care less. I trusted my life to many of them.
mgwilliams1000 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 Yes, I know. Good Lord, I spent enough time there over the years. I have to ask... just what is your point?
mgwilliams1000 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 No, probably not, you got me there. I do have 3 sets of Brit darts I won in crete lomg ago when still in the Navy. Don't have to hit the Bull's eye, just have know how to out-game them.... and win.
mgwilliams1000 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 google ANTHONY CALVILLO - He plays for the Montreal Allouettes and is NOW the all-time passing lead in professional football ..... He's Mexican-American and a total class act....he's loved in Canada for his skills and his attitude....i know the CFL ain't the NFL but he's really done well for someone from east L..A. and Joe Kapp played in the CFL for the B.C. Lions and Bud Grant was Coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers!
quincee33 3 months ago
Dude, this guy is amazing. And actually looks like the original Tim Tebow!
TheRealWinterZero 3 months ago
Injun Joe was one tough son of a gun.
headley62 3 months ago
@TheEndofdays311 Could not agree more. I myself am of German decent and as white as they come yet I appreciate men, and people for that matter, like this. Roman Gabriel was of Asian heritage, as was Jim Plunkett and many others. I grew up in the Central San Joaquin Valley in CA. Worked in the grape sheds in Shafter CA when i was a teenager to get money for clothes for school. I guess I'm an old man now, but damn, I have good memories of that, and GREAT memories of watching men like this.
mgwilliams1000 5 months ago
@mgwilliams1000 i heard Roman Gabriel was gay? i'm not trying to start somethin', i really could care less... but have you heard these rumours?
quincee33 3 months ago
@quincee33 Well if he was he was another tough SOB. Phillipino decent if I'm correct. And I don't think that matters a bit. I'm a 30 year Navy vet and it never mattere to me what my Shipmate "may have been". Only what he could do.
mgwilliams1000 3 months ago
Still tough as nails to this day. What...70+ years old and will give you that growl and shake a fist at you. I guess the whole point to this is determination to win. I believe that is what the players of yore had over anything else, because there was nothing else. No celebrity stardom, great facilities to train or off-season gurus. I love today's game but will always yearn for yesterday's game.
mgwilliams1000 6 months ago
I respected Kapp, but being a LA Ran fanatic I hated him too. That playoff loss
still haunts me. I still say we were the better team and would have faired better in the Superbowl. Sour grapes for sure. I know get over it, but I know I never will.
andrewr62 7 months ago
@andrewr62: Being a life long MN Vikings fan, I'm not trying to start any fight with you, but, the Rams hosted the Vikings in mid-November 1969. Basically, the winner of that game gets home field advantage....i.e. no snow or ice or cold weather....if L.A. had won? They didn't!
thomqkat 7 months ago
@thomqkat
The Vikings broke the Rams 11 game winning streake in that game. From that point on they lost their next 4 in a row including the playoff to the Vikings.
Regardless, even if the Rams had won and ended up with a better record, doesn't matter. Back then the teams with best record did'nt get home field advantage, It was done on a rotation bases.
6400az 6 months ago
Heres the thing about toughness. Players back then could take those kinds of hits but then they were human sized people. nowdays you hve these huge 350+ leviathans walking around . Look at these clips and look at the refs in the clips about the same size. Today the refs look like dwarfs compared to the players. if they played the same way today there would be a death every Sunday
amensupremera 8 months ago
@amensupremera
Good, point but also,many tacklers led with the shoulder.
6400az 8 months ago
@amensupremera Take the most physical conditoned player today, take him back 50 years and put him on the field. He will either be good as it gets (Jim Brown type) or get his ass kicked. One thing about Joe Kapp, he had a big butt, couldn't throw well all the time.. But damn, he was hard-nosed and tough!
mgwilliams1000 7 months ago
@mgwilliams1000 Kapp was a tough son of a bitch, but look at that close line shot and tell me that he could take that same hit from Ray Lewis or James Harrison. The dudes nowadays are bigger and more athletic. If they let them go at it like it was back in the day there would be mass death. Put Kapp up against these guys today, he might not even be pro
amensupremera 7 months ago
@amensupremera
To comapare cross gerneration athletes you compare how they did agains the competition during their respective eras
Ofcourse you would'nt compare how Kapp would do against Harrison or Lewis...his time was 40 years prior!
Kapp took on the toughest competition as they came. Butkus, Curtis,Bubba Smith, Nitscke, Houstin, Jones etc.You wound't say Joe Louis could beat one of the one of the Klitscko brothers. Yet he's considered far and above a greater fighter.
6400az 6 months ago
@6400az Thats the point I'm making! People are saying the players were tougher then and I'm saying they were different human beings then. The way players are built today, if they were allowed to do things like closeline tackle or other rough tactics they got away with "40 years ago" there would be a death every sunday. Todays players are bigger stronger and faster and they get injured more easily and more often b/c the level athlete has changed. No what the point is b/f you just start typing
amensupremera 6 months ago
@amensupremera
Really no need for your last sentence friend. I responded to your post as best as I understood it.
What people may mean when they say the players from back then where tougher, is in the mindset. They where in fact hell for leather, they were'nt stronger. If you take a 1969 Kapp and insert him in todays game, no way would he KO Lewis or Harrison like he did Jim Houston. For him to have the same results Kapp would have had to metamorphosized into a Tim Tebow type strong man.
6400az 6 months ago
@amensupremera Those 350+ leviathans would do that and KILL the player comming at them back then if we put them there, no denial here. They would ALSO suffer something horrible to themselves one to two plays later from at least four men bent on revenge and the "little" ref would look the other way. Your missing my point... not about thier conditioning and training. I think they miss heart at times. Joe Kapp would still fist fight you today (at his age today) when a Favre would back down.
mgwilliams1000 7 months ago
@mgwilliams1000 I can't sit behind a computer and talk about pro football players lacking heart. My whole point (which I think you miss) is that people compare the play from the '60s and the hits and the close line etc, and say that they were tougher back then but miss the point that rules have changed because the level of athlete has changed and if they played like that today they'd kill each other.
amensupremera 7 months ago
@amensupremera You are right. I never meant to disrespect your opinion, and the rules today are there for a very good reason. Guess we both love the game a whole lot, and sigh.... probably won't see much of it this fall.
mgwilliams1000 7 months ago
@mgwilliams1000 Your last comment brings a tear to my eye. I'm still holdong out hope that they'll get the season underway this year. But at least theres college football.....hell I might go checkout the local high school games
amensupremera 7 months ago
@mgwilliams1000 YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!!!
YlliksenMummo 2 months ago
A leader. The players responded to him. He did not have a great arm, but he had so much more in other areas. The players loved him. Unfortunately that was not always the case with Tarkenton.
cesar1963able 10 months ago
@cesar1963able
Actually Kapp did in fact, have a huge arm.
It's just that his wobblers don't appear to be going to fast.. If you can get your hands on the Superbowl IV actual game broadcast, you'll see him put it up some 70 yards in the air. He also had great touch and a quick release. Today, his hell- for- leather, tough guy legend is such that it dwarfs many of the skills he possesed.
6400az 10 months ago
@6400az That's very interesting because the book on him was a suspect arm, but I didn't know that he could put it up that far. 70 yards is huge even for today...
ripperduck 9 months ago
@ripperduck
I'll take your word that the book on him was was a questionable arm . However, I tend to think the suspicion was more because of his wobblers wich automatically brought his arm into question. Regardless how you slice it, a wobbler, even if it comes form John Elway does'nt look to be going very fast/ hard.
I really wish people can see first hand that Superbowl IV mighty heave . To be honest, I too did'nt think he could throw it THAT far.
6400az 9 months ago
@cesar1963able
I've read that some on the team did'nt really care for Tarkenton. His biggest critic was Ron Yary..( who incidentally mentioned Fran in his HOF speech). Yary claimed that Tarkenton threw at the expense of the team. And if they had played Bob Lee in the Superbowl against the Raiders they'd have won.
Who's to say if this IS true, but that's what I read. For my money, Kapp was far and away a better leader, his presence simpley could'nt be ignored.
6400az 6 months ago
@6400az did Kapp play in 1 SB and Tarkenton in 3?
quincee33 3 months ago
@quincee33
It was Kapp, no one but him was better suited for that 1969 Vikings team.
6400az 3 months ago
Nice video! Thanks for posting...
Hedwallfxtd 10 months ago
Joe Kapp started his professional career in the Canadian Football League with Calgary, then British Columbia (Vancouver). Hall of Famer up here (in Canada). Just an aweso9me player!
You're right. Players now (well, many) are prima donnas and whiners. Just get out and play the game. Don't bitch about a broken fingernail, or the weather, or the field conditions!!
lgcrooks 11 months ago
One of true "Tough Nose" quarterbacks of the NFL. Minnesota be proud. Farve was nothing next to this guy. Beat my "blue and white" rams and Roman Gabriel more than once.
mgwilliams1000 1 year ago
Was watching the 70s tv show the rookies on Netflix an Joe kapp was in the episode the informanent
richmjr67 1 year ago
Kapp should have been named one of the 50 greatest Vikings. Tarkenton wasn't being so modest. When Kapp got clubbed in the end-zone against the 49ers Middle Linebacker, the player from San Francisco would have been fined and suspended by todays rules. I can't believe the refs didn't call a personal foul penalty on Kapp's touchdown run against San Francisco in Kezar Stadium in San Francisco!
raazada4060 1 year ago
Too bad he wasn't named one of the 50 greatest Vikings. Robbery!
joebag36 1 year ago
@joebag36
Really can't believe he was'nt in the top 50. Say what you want about him,but the whole rough and tumble, invincible, never say quit Vikings, was instilled by Joe Kapp. He led the Vikings to their first run at greatness.
6400az 1 year ago
Back in the day, players didn't complain about a frozen solid turf. They're all a bunch of prima donnas now.
usafcop8494 1 year ago
Oh the good old days at the old met. The Vikings used to be unbeatable there. Now lays a dang mall!!
gymcoach15 1 year ago
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Excellent music.
EmptyPot 1 year ago
Excellent music.
EmptyPot 1 year ago
Check it out at 2:49. Kapp and Jim Marshall exchange a fist bump. That was either 1968 or 1969... Guess the fist bump has been around quite a while longer than most of us thought...
jc2140 1 year ago
@jc2140 If they tried to shake hands they would have been stuck in that damn MN weather....
ripperduck 9 months ago
One time, in a game in November of '68, the conditions were just so, and the winds were just right and o'l Joe Kapp went back in the pocket and threw a spiral. They still talk about that throw in Minnesota.
ThePretzelHead 1 year ago
Joe Kapp couldn't throw a spiral to save his life. He got the job done though. If the guards had used him instead of Ed (Captain Knauer) Lauter at QB they would have beaten the cons in 1974s "The Longest Yard".
bax323 1 year ago
@bax323
Of course, Ed Lauter went on to have key roles in Death Hunt AND Death Wish 3.
Briggsy3365 1 year ago
Injun Joe Kapp, 40 for 60, Heart and Sole with Super Dave Osborn #41
terrymalloy69 1 year ago
Kapp wasn't the greatest thrower, but he knew how to maximize the efforts from the other Viking players to play their best.
raazada4060 1 year ago
Joe Kapp is a funny guy. I remember watching Americas Game where he told Decan Jones "Fuck You!" ROFL
metalmilitia1890 1 year ago
Joe Kapp is Mexican-American for all you doubters in here. ALL Mexicans have Spanish ancestry in their blood even you fickled New Mexican's who want to claim direct Spanish lineage in here. Quit your crap. Joe Kapp is Mexican American and is embraced as just that in the Mexican-American community. Others you probably didn't know are of Mexican lineage...Dan Rather, Mark Bulger of the St. Louis Rams, Eduardo Najera of the NBA, Linda Carter (Wonder Woman), Linda Ronstadt. Be informed.
TheManFromAcme 1 year ago
JOE IS CHICANO,I ASKED HIS NEPHEW.WHATEVER HE IS,HE WAS GREAT
auggdogrules 1 year ago
This is when the Vikings were...vikings!!
spacegasp 1 year ago
I missed those days when football was played in the rain, snow and mud. Where Bud Grant of the Vikings wouldn' t have any heaters on his side of the field for his players. He wanted them to adapt to the conditions of mother nature. And football was a game not a business. For Georgia Frontiere of the St. Louis Rams...Fuck You.
beerborn 1 year ago
@beerborn IM with you....and when they played the game for the sake of the game and none of this look at me BS...I feel sorry for kids now that they will never see football like it was supposed to be....ah the memories
baco62 1 year ago
@TheEndofdays311 Hes my great uncle and im not sure if he is mexican american or not.
I just know my spanish side comes from him.
XRXproductions 1 year ago
He is spanish not mexican.
XRXproductions 1 year ago
This is Tim Tebow's future.
AGL9281990 1 year ago
@AGL9281990 You know, you might be right about that.
rayjr62 1 year ago
That's a beauty at 2:35 Great pass and show of athleticism
morningbirdfeeder 1 year ago
@morningbirdfeeder
One of the best kept secrets,is that Joe Kapp was a Jake Lammota type. Yes, he was a brawler, but this man was one hell of an athlete as well. He has been voted CAL's second greatest athlete of all time. By the time he got to the NFL , he was'nt that young and he did have a severe knee injury in Canada. His passes may not have all benn spirals, but some where. And he had a huge arm to boot.
6400az 1 year ago
joe kapp was a bum, couldnt win the big one and stunk it up at new england
dbullmueller 1 year ago
@dbullmueller And what does that make you. . . loser?
Yep, sure does.
rayjr62 1 year ago
@dbullmueller New England. ?
XRXproductions 1 year ago
@ 0:15...Thank God that one bar of his was placed at that exact, precise angle !!!
6400az 1 year ago
"No one" like the ringleader of the purple gang.......Thanks Joe for your enthusiasm for the game
Vezzo55 1 year ago 2
When FOOTBALL players were REAL football players. QB's actually played.
roostertrigger 1 year ago
That's Hall of fame linebacker Dave Wilcox at 2:54 putting a clothesline on Joe! Who could not only dish it out but take it Too.
kentmotsinger 1 year ago
joe kapp is an unbelievable person. known him my entire life because i am great friends with his son. great coach, player, and mentor.
bardone07 1 year ago
He takes on the Colts head on @ 1:10 in 68'. Then @ 1:15 he procedes to take them apart in 69'!!!
PS...The man could in fact throw a spiral.
6400az 1 year ago
Joe was a pretty good actor too, I just saw him in the movie "Climb An Angry Mountain" with Fess Parker!
kentmotsinger 2 years ago
Too bad we didn't have Kapp at New Orleans. Even at his advanced age he probably would have suited up and ran over some linebackers to get the Vikes 10 to 15 yards closer for a field goal without fumbling the ball.
iowafester 2 years ago 7
@iowafester
That's it right there. Favre was hurt and all, but Kapp would have taken on whom ever was in front of him. Maybe we can get Jim Houston to weigh in on this.....
6400az 2 years ago
Yes iowafester!
I, too, cannot help but wonder what would have happened if we had Kapp for that one fateful 3rd down play. Definitely, he would done exactly as you've prescribed! Problem solved! Favre/AP are referred to as 'tough' but Kapp was on a different level - we needed that at that moment in time....that was the difference.
chichedare 2 years ago
@chichedare
Precisely, "a different level of toughness". Kapp was a hell for leather type , now a day you have a finess type of tough at best. In the Favre 3rd down play, you HAD to do Kapp impression. Forget the throw, THAT was the time to make use of you helmet for Gods sake!!!
6400az 2 years ago
Wow!!!That was good!!!
Steelyfan19 1 year ago
@iowafester didn't Da Saints have Archie Manning bakc then?
quincee33 3 months ago
@iowafester didn't you have archie manning on the Saints back then?
quincee33 3 months ago
The 1969 Divisional playoff game.Minnesota Vikings vs LA Rams was a classic!!!NFL films should replay it!!!SKOL!!!p.s.Mick Tingelhoff,Jim Marshall should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame!!!
Steelyfan19 2 years ago
Dad was German but apparently with his coloring and pride in his mothers' race he never tried to pass himself off as white as so many of that predjudiced era would have. Probably what made him such a badass. I enjoyed watching Tarkenton for many years but his forte was avoiding contact where Kapps was the opposite. This is reflected in their respective length of careers. In Kapps' day football was a contact sport and you couldn't be pussified if you wanted your team to follow your lead.
larry1369 2 years ago
You wanna talk about his toughness. Just look at his headgear. Who would play as reckless as he did ,all while wearing a one bar mask ?
6400az 2 years ago
Joe Theismann!!! Played in the 70's,80's!Don't get me wrong.I love Joe Kapp!!!I lived in Adrian,MN when he guided the Vikings to SBIV!!!
Steelyfan19 2 years ago
@Steelyfan19 Yes, you are right. I'm all too aware of Theismann being the last non kicker/ punter to don the one bar. BUT his style of play and Kapps' , where significantly different you must agree.
6400az 2 years ago
I do!!!miss Kapp's improvisation!!!& his no nonsense B.S.
Steelyfan19 1 year ago
Every hispanic in the world should take pride in this mans toughness and leadership. In college when he played QB for Cal the SC players were playing dirty and taking cheap shots. At the half Kapp went to the SC locker room and told the SC players that if it continued he would meet them personally in the parking lot after the game. I guess they got the message. What fucking balls.
larry1369 2 years ago
ya dude,is he fully Mexican-american? just wondering cuz the last name Kapp. He was awesome in the CFL too.
quincee33 2 years ago
I know the name is misleading maybe he was adopted, I'll look it up on Wikipedia. To my knowledge he is pure Mexican which of course is a mixture of native and euro blood. Seems like he got the best from both heritages!
larry1369 2 years ago
I've seen the NFL Films clip of Mick Tinglehoff, the center, telling a funny story about Joe. Seems there was a linebacker for the Rams(#58) that Joe was pissed off at. Joe starts barking the signals: Hut one, Hut two.....F*@k you 58!!! lol
Navdan87 2 years ago
@BarnabyBones No doubt. He could dish it too.
He had a bad knee injury in Canada, hence the limp.
6400az 2 years ago
Joe Kapp was a great competitor, who played with guts and determination.
bracefacee15 2 years ago 10
@bracefacee15 Minnesota was not my favorite team but Joe Kapp WAS my favorite player...awesome video
baco62 1 year ago
Awesome video!!! I was young, but I remember Joe Kapp playing for the BC Lions too.
cfl4evr 2 years ago
Joe Kapp is awesome. no, his career stats arent gonna wow anyone, and unfortunately he wont make it into the hall of fame more than likely, but damn it, he played with so much guts and determination. him and unitas are two of the toughest to ever play the QB position. long live the man of machismo!
jls1505 2 years ago
No Lie...
this is my Great uncle.
on my dads side...
u probally dont belive me but...
Im Serious!
XRXproductions 2 years ago
Man Im not a Vikes fan but would love to see outdoor football in Minnesota again
IowaRocker1 2 years ago
Joe's one of the main reasons I'm a Viking fan & always will be. He was somethin' else.
Go Vikes!
bullobca 2 years ago
I was a 9 year old New Jersey kid that fell in love with Joe Kapp and the Vikings in about 68. It's hard to describe the way they played the game then, and the way Kapp and the Vikings exemplified hard ass tough football. They were thrilling and wonderfull and Kapp was King as far as I'm concerned. I'll never forget him.
doug5759 2 years ago
Like they say, you could read Pete Rozelle's signature on the ball as it went down the field, but he had the guts of a linebacker, the machismo of a defensive lieman and the heart of a little boy. Injun' Joe was very special. The memories are amazing.
LEROTHECAT 2 years ago
LOL! God how I used to love watching the real Super Mex Joe Kapp play football in the elements! The guy ran like he had 10 inch hemorrhoids hanging out his ass and his passes would flutter in the wind like a wounded duck, but that bastard knew how to have fun and play the game the way it was meant to be played! We sure could use some of that moxie in today's brand of NFL football!
SKOL Vikings!
BigMoInAZ 2 years ago 2
Can't stop watching this. It's great! At 2:09 does Kapp knock that guy out?
cochranexyz 2 years ago
@cochranexyz
Oh yeah, that was a Thomas Hearns- like KO. Just cleaned Jim Houston's clock...and he was 6-3, 240. Can you imagine Marino, or Elway or Rothlisberger go after a linebacker the way Kapp did here ?? Or can anyone fathom the posibility of Kapp sliding like Staubach and so may others.
Just for a second,picture him doing something like that.!! Only then can one appreciate what a truly different type of QB he was. The one player the Vikings HAD to have kept.
6400az 2 years ago
Thanks. No, I cannot imagine any QB doing that today unless they were an angry/excited 3rd stringer in the game. Kapp was tough as nails. These old films (yes, I know they are highlights; limited looks at the old game) serve to show how different the game is today. This is workmanship: no hype, no flash and glitz. Nearly the opposite of what the NFL has morphed into today.
cochranexyz 2 years ago
Sliding like Staubach? Hilariously incorrect. I'm sure you're gonna say Pearson pushed off too.
On a side note, Kapp would've have won a SB with the Vikes eventually, but they had to go get back whiney ass Tartkenton instead. Shame.
Jikk 2 years ago
Respectfully NOT incorrect sir.
Staubach DID slide. Not always ,but he DID slide, especially towards the later part of his career when he suffered concussions.
Secondly, if you go to any of the Pearson Hail Mary videos, you will see how many times I have defended Pearson and the Cowboys, saying it WAS NOT a push off, but a totally legitimate play.
So much for jumping to quick conclusions hih friend !!
6400az 2 years ago
Tarkenton was good, but yur right he's a winey prick these days.
quincee33 2 years ago
I regret being too young to have been able to watch him in action. He must have been some tough as nails dude. First Vikes game I watched was the 1970 playoff against the 69ers. I have been a fan ever since.
Varangian1915 2 years ago
Greatest. I wish I lived in the 60s. He would have been my favorite.
zulaboolah 2 years ago