Jets at Bills 1965 highlights

[Augie]

8 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. 

 

 

 

My sister saw both the Beatles and the Stones very close together back then. I just remember her and her friends running up and down the street practicing their screaming before the Beatles concert. She said you couldn’t hear a damn thing from the Beatles at the concert. Shocking! 😂 

 

Her husband was at Woodstock, and they have some great stories to tell. 

[Sargent Hulka]

I don't see one person in the stands wearing any merch; lot of coats and ties though.

[ChasBB]

Thanks for posting.  Anyone else freeze the video on crowd shots looking for relatives or am I the only oddball that does this?  My dad had season tickets throughout the 60s and I always try to see if I can spot him when the camera pans to the crowd - no luck yet.

[Chandler#81]

On 5/4/2025 at 3:43 PM, RobbRiddick said:

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

He was the Pioneer of soccer style football kicking 

[Greybeard]

  Namath with good knees was amazing.

[chris heff]

On 5/4/2025 at 5:00 PM, Augie said:

 

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. 

I was at that game with my father and yes he wore a sport coat, tie and a fedora.

[MJS]

On 5/4/2025 at 6:39 AM, 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. 

That's worth about $4 million today. Not too shabby.

[ColoradoBills]

36 minutes ago, chris heff said:

I was at that game with my father and yes he wore a sport coat, tie and a fedora.

 

That's how my dad went to the games too.

 

I wish I would have kept his fedoras.

[Augie]

On 5/4/2025 at 7:56 PM, Sargent Hulka said:

I don't see one person in the stands wearing any merch; lot of coats and ties though.

 

Good observation. It was a different time. Other than on the golf course or in the hospital, I never once saw my FIL without a tie. He was more old school than my father. 

 

Ohh, and they learned how to make more money from us. There is certainly that. But that is a decision we make. 

 

 

 

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Edited 22 hours ago by Augie

[Chandler#81]

On 5/4/2025 at 7:56 PM, Sargent Hulka said:

I don't see one person in the stands wearing any merch; lot of coats and ties though.

No merch was available then. If you saw a regular guy wearing a pro football jersey, he was gifted it by a player. It was truly a different time.

[Gregg]

On 5/4/2025 at 7:56 PM, Sargent Hulka said:

I don't see one person in the stands wearing any merch; lot of coats and ties though.

 

I guess it was normal for the times, but I can never imagine going to a football game wearing a suit and tie. When I was kid 70's + 80's fans didn't wear much team merchandise either. Most showed up in t-shirts, sweatshirts depending on the time of year. Just regular clothes without the team colors or logo on them. Now many fans show up wearing jerseys of their favorite players

Edited 11 hours ago by Gregg