Chandler#81 Posted yesterday at 09:25 AM Posted yesterday at 09:25 AM Perhaps the finest video from an AFL regular season game. Rookie Joe Namath’s 1st start as the Bills are on their way to a repeat title. Worth the watch’ 2 15 Quote
PonyBoy Posted yesterday at 11:39 AM Posted yesterday at 11:39 AM Lol!! The Jet's new $400,000 a year rookie QB Joe Namath. To put that in perspective now, Caleb Williams made about $580,000 per game as a rookie QB. 1 Quote
Stranded in Boston Posted yesterday at 12:03 PM Posted yesterday at 12:03 PM Thanks, Chan. That was (just a tad) before I was aware of the Bills, but did anyone in Buffalo actually refer to Jack Kemp as "Jackie" back then, or was that just a highlight-reel thing? Also, my brothers and I sure didn't care for Joe Namath back in the day (with his shaving cream and panty-hose commercials and all that, LOL), but I have to admit -- he did throw a nice ball. 2 1 Quote
Chandler#81 Posted yesterday at 12:50 PM Author Posted yesterday at 12:50 PM 44 minutes ago, Stranded in Boston said: Thanks, Chan. That was (just a tad) before I was aware of the Bills, but did anyone in Buffalo actually refer to Jack Kemp as "Jackie" back then, or was that just a highlight-reel thing? Also, my brothers and I sure didn't care for Joe Namath back in the day (with his shaving cream and panty-hose commercials and all that, LOL), but I have to admit -- he did throw a nice ball. Yes. It was common as he went by Jackie as a scrub in the NFL his first couple years. (Giants and Steelers) 3 Quote
Watching since 1964 Posted yesterday at 01:03 PM Posted yesterday at 01:03 PM Thanks for posting.🙂 2 Quote
RobbRiddick Posted yesterday at 01:04 PM Posted yesterday at 01:04 PM Love the innocence of this. "Our slow motion camera capturing the action!" 1 1 Quote
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted yesterday at 01:06 PM Posted yesterday at 01:06 PM 1 minute ago, RobbRiddick said: Love the innocence of this. "Our slow motion camera capturing the action!" Still faster than Keon? 🤔 * I know, I'm going to Hell. 🙁 1 2 Quote
US Egg Posted yesterday at 01:07 PM Posted yesterday at 01:07 PM Again, the red stripe refs. Got to have them back for a retro AFL game. Quote
dave mcbride Posted yesterday at 01:14 PM Posted yesterday at 01:14 PM It’s really clear to me from this that Namath had a great arm. 1 2 Quote
Chandler#81 Posted yesterday at 02:02 PM Author Posted yesterday at 02:02 PM Worth noting from this game, Duby broke his leg on that TD pass in the end zone. The next week, we lost Bass for the season as well. Eddie R would start and we traded for Bo Roberson from Oakland and still repeated as champs. 1 Quote
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago (edited) 1 hour ago, Chandler#81 said: Worth noting from this game, Duby broke his leg on that TD pass in the end zone. The next week, we lost Bass for the season as well. Eddie R would start and we traded for Bo Roberson from Oakland and still repeated as champs. "Mr. Wilson, have someone call an ambulance! We have to get Elby to a hospital!" Ralph: "Do you know what those things cost?! Have the assistant equipment manager take him in his car. And tell him to park on the street...I am not paying to park in the ramp!" Edited 23 hours ago by Ridgewaycynic2013 4 Quote
PromoTheRobot Posted 21 hours ago Posted 21 hours ago 3 hours ago, Chandler#81 said: Worth noting from this game, Duby broke his leg on that TD pass in the end zone. The next week, we lost Bass for the season as well. Eddie R would start and we traded for Bo Roberson from Oakland and still repeated as champs. It looked like something happened on that catch. 2 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: "Mr. Wilson, have someone call an ambulance! We have to get Elby to a hospital!" Ralph: "Do you know what those things cost?! Have the assistant equipment manager take him in his car. And tell him to park on the street...I am not paying to park in the ramp!" Ralph is cheap. 1 Quote
Utah John Posted 21 hours ago Posted 21 hours ago I've seen some videos of the Bills playing at WMS where the field was in terrible shape, but for this game it looked great. It's amazing that the Bills cruised to a second straight championship without Cookie (traded before the season), Dubenion (injured in this game) and Bass (injured the following week). The key was the defense, which unfortunately got very little attention in this video. 2 Quote
machine gun kelly Posted 20 hours ago Posted 20 hours ago Thanks Chandman as we a,ways appreciate the memories, and is a little before my time. I still love it. 1 Quote
RobbRiddick Posted 19 hours ago Posted 19 hours ago Tell you what stood out to me. When they showed the Bills FG, for a second I was like "hey, that's a modern style of kicking for back then", then I heard the announcer say Gogolak's name and realized why Quote
cas22 Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 8 hours ago, PonyBoy said: Lol!! The Jet's new $400,000 a year rookie QB Joe Namath. To put that in perspective now, Caleb Williams made about $580,000 per game as a rookie QB. actually the 400.000 was for the length of the contract, his contract was the main reason the NFL merged the AFL and in fact the AFL owners were all in together in agreement to give Namath the money to let the NFL believe they were gonna sign all the up and coming college players. 1 Quote
Augie Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago 11 hours ago, Chandler#81 said: Perhaps the finest video from an AFL regular season game. Rookie Joe Namath’s 1st start as the Bills are on their way to a repeat title. Worth the watch’ Thanks, that brought back a lot of memories. I don’t think I was at that game, but what an enormous experience game day was for this young kid. It’s interesting, but the scenes from outside the stadium seem to strike a chord even more than the stuff inside the stadium. Walking up to those gates felt like the Roman Colosseum to me. On a trip back a few years ago a buddy took me by the still standing gates. Like so many things from your youth, it’s not quite what you remember, but it’s still special. 1 1 Quote
flmike Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago Lamonica sighting! Still wonder what it would have been like to have kept him. BTW the Beatles played at the Jets' stadium just a few months prior to that game. 1 Quote
sonyab1974 Posted 18 hours ago Posted 18 hours ago Thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is awesome!!!! Hmmm. I don't see Josh Allen. He must be taking a break.🤭😂 1 Quote
oldmanfan Posted 17 hours ago Posted 17 hours ago 7 minutes ago, flmike said: Lamonica sighting! Still wonder what it would have been like to have kept him. BTW the Beatles played at the Jets' stadium just a few months prior to that game. Dumbest trade the Bills ever made. Quote
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