Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League - 12 of 15

SHOWTIME Sports and the National Football League celebrated the 50th season of the maverick American Football League, from its tumultuous beginnings to its unlikely merger with the rival NFL, through an insightful NFL Films-produced five-part documentary entitled:
Full Color Football: The History of the American Football League.

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[impassable]

Uncalled facemask at 3:02 03

[white6keys]

wow, i bet you could hear crickets when you stand in line to buy super bowl tickets in those days. but now you'll be lucky to even buy 1 no matter how much money you could spend.

[farmasyst]

In retrospect, the Jets were clearly the better team in SBIII. They were quicker and more sophisticated on defense, had more reliable deep threats and had plaid more competitive teams throughout the season. The only other NFL team that could have played against the Colts in 1968 was Dallas. Cleveland knocked them out in the first week of the playoffs, allowing the Colts an easy shot to the SB. I remember my dad predicting that Namath would engineer an upset.

[WatchVenusSpa]

Joe Nameth was in the Colts' heads, you play that game 10 times the Jets win them all by bigger scores than the previous one.

[gb6710]

@observer9670 Well, from the standpoint from the talent on each of the rosters, the Colts should have won that game. I honestly believe that if they played 10 times that the Colts would have won at least eight of them.

[Substantive64]

7:16 No, Tim , Fred Williamson more or less predicted the Chiefs were gonna beat Green Bay in SB1.

[Substantive64]

5:56 Suuuuuuuure ya were,Larry, mr.tall tale. Hear from Sandy Koufax lately?

[cbaldwinjr]

@observer9670 Yep...you could argue Snell was the MVP.

[observer9670]

While the Colts respected Namath's arm, they had little regard for the Jets' running game or defense. And that's what beat them - the Jets' ground game and defense.

[marquettefootball]

@MIKECNW If the rule was "first to 20 wins," you'd have a point. But the Jets' defense was outstanding while, on that one day, the usually solid Earl Morrall was pathetic.