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 16 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 5 hours ago by Gregg