1959 NFL Championship

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[@brianwolf6166]

Unitas to Moore ... one of the most beautiful TD passes ever thrown !!

[@t4texastomjohnnycat978]

Raymond Berry... probably the greatest route runner, PLUS best hands in NFL history.🏈 God bless our NFL heroes from a bygone era. THANKS FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO.

[@jstube36]

Thanks for viewing.

[@oswaldboelcke5470]

Steve Largebt may have had the best hands in the history of the NFL.

[@kuyarickkelley4719]

I watch this at least once a month

[@kevinjohnson4599]

When football was football. Thank You so very much for posting this game. I LOVE IT VERY MUCH.

[@jefferyroy2566]

When players were captives of management due to no free agency. The league was 80% white, with the Redskins all-white by intent and did not have a single black player until Hall of Famer Bobby Mitchell in 1962! The fields could be hard as parking lots, the helmets were too tight and poorly padded, and the cleats sucked. Only 12 games per season, no playoffs except for the league championship, no TV coverage of the entire season until 1956. No MRIs, knee surgery probably ends or curtails career, players provided benzedrine and codeine by trainers and not doctors, injured players shamed into playing just to save coaching careers. I could go on but you get the point. If you actually watched this game live, then you started watching pro football seven years before I did. There are things I miss from bygone days, such as QBs calling plays, receivers without gloves, the excitement of watching a completed pass. The world is always changing, and what is lost is replaced by gains in other areas. The players of today could run rings around these dudes, and some of these linemen weighed less than 220 lbs. Over sixty years of separation between 1959 and now makes for interesting comparisons. But all the bullshit glitz and glamor of today's NFL is just something to fast-forward past to get to the action. In 1959, if you didn't watch the game live you were SOL catching it later. Most of what I've learned about the in-and-outs of pro football has occurred in the last 20 of the 57 seasons in my experience thanks to modern technology. Which includes this too-long online harangue from me about the "bad" old days, made possible by the interweb. This means you can tell me I'm full of it if that pleases you, right from the comfort of your easy chair. Or we could start a deeper conversation about what's good and what's not in the NFL of today. I would prefer the latter option, of course.

[@kingofnewyork7765]

@@jefferyroy2566the players couldn’t control that, and the league allowed more Black players as the the years went on in the 60s and 70s. The league right now is 56% Black

[@carrite]

I just scored a nice copy of that game program on eBay for about $50 and it was a treat to see somebody selling it. The Colts had really cool cover art during this era.

[@bacchys]

Johnny U. just handed the ref the ball after running for the go-ahead score. You'd think he just ran for a two yard gain back on his own 25.

[@shawndavis8802]

I love watching these old films mainly for the pass rushers since their sacks weren't kept as official stats, and there seemed to be quite a few sacks in this game!

[@kotaowens6978]

Some cool shots of Unitas!

[@dirtylemon3379]

My takeaway is the guy standing by the bus at 2:06 has the best hat I've ever seen.

[@guyfletcher45]

Telling that Johnny Sample scored a game-changing touchdown at 25:40 and the three Colts closest to him didn't even congratulate him. That is because Sample was at the center of a controversy that year in which players accused him of stealing from their lockers.

[@davidcarter5813]

Gene Lipscomb gave Sample a big hug coming off the field.

[@gilbertgiles]

Guys did not make a big deal about congratulatingonfield like now. There were handshakes all around in the clubhouse after.

[@kevinmadden1645]

I believe it. Sample was a reprehensible individual.

[@ericmiller2254]

This is great - thanks for sharing.

[@kuyarickkelley4719]

FIRST OFF .... JOHNNY SAMPLE??? MVP OF THE GAME

[@brianwolf6166]

John Sample has a HOF case ... this great game and SB III ...

[@kennetholiver9651]

THAT WAS THE LAST GAME FOR TOM LANDRY AS A GIANT ASSISTANT COACH HE BECAME THE HEAD COACH OF THE DALLAS. COWBOYS IN 1960. KENNETH O

[@keithmotsinger918]

Never knew how much the loss of Alan Ameche , hurt the Colts in later years . No knock on Tom Matte .

[@Playsinvain]

Under center, Unitas looks like an adult playing with a junior high team.

[@brianwolf6166]

DT Art Donovan : "You better get outta here Charlie, youre gonna get killed" ...

[@carrite]

Go, Hosses!

[@brycenlewis1323]

My great grandpa played for the colts

[@kevinjohnson4599]

God Bless your Great Grandfather.

[@joshuaneuman]

Who's your great grandpa?

[@timculp4126]

Decent quality film considering it's as old as I am.

[@jstube36]

It's a very significant game. It marked the end an era. It was the last time the NFL would stand without rival. At least for the next ten years. As the AFL set up shop the next season. It was also Tom Landry's last game as the Giants Defensive Coordinator. The next year he became Head Coach of the expansion Dallas Cowboys.

[@timculp4126]

Yes indeed. It was also the beginning of the Lombardi era in a small town in Wisconsin.

[@ren6203]

@@timculp4126 You old elderly fuck

[@kevinmadden1645]

If Webster makes that first down in fourth and less than one the Giants win . If Jimmy Patton and Lindon Crow aren' t hurt during the game the Giants win .

[@TuberOnTheLoose]

It must have been cold in that studio. The dude didn't even take off his heavy coat.

[@mikeforte7585]

Or drink the beer

[@robertperrella4194]

at the 22:00 mark of the video where the giants decide to go for it on 4th and inches ,mel triplitt should have gotten the football instead !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@theredbaronlives9889]

This game was more competitive then the final score would indicate. Colts would have a very frustrating next decade as the 60's would hex them. YT has video of the 1965 tiebreaker playoff game Colts vs Packers and Don Shula's Colts got screwed over on the GB tying fg as chandlers kick was obviously not good he even shakes his head in disgust knowing he missed but the refs blew it. The following yr the uprights got raised and we're dubbed the Baltimore uprights! Lombardi intimidated the referees his whole career as coach.

[@jstube36]

Yes the game in 65 was very controversial.

[@chandlerlewis3309]

It was competitive until it wasn't

[@brianwolf6166]

Colts were victimized by a "made" FG in this game as well.

[@mikeforte7585]

That FG wasn't even close....absolutely pathetic

[@michaelleroy9281]

Last season before the AFL started

[@carrite]

Colts down 7-3, and it's 4th-and-8 from the 22 - and Weeb Ewbank goes for it?!?!?!?

[@brianwolf6166]

Losing Rote early hurt the Giants

[@anthonytorres24]

Cool

[@RRaquello]

"Baseball and Ballantine… Baseball and Ballantine Beer". Hey, wait. This is football. I guess 1959 wasn't a good year for the Ballantine teams. Yankees lose the pennant and the Giants lose in the NFL title game, but Ballantine are good sports and still pay for the film. Frank Gifford's ahead of his time. He's the only giuy who gets off the bus carrying a briefcase. You could see he had plans for bigger things than football in his future.