Bing Crosby introduces 1963 LOOK Magazine All-American Team | Jimmy Sidle, Dick Butkus

[@TonyBoyOhBoy]

I was dining at a local restaurant a few months back and happened to notice Carl Eller at the next table with some friends. I was a huge fan of Carl and The Purple People Eaters as a kid. I didn't want to bother him but as we were leaving my wife stopped and told him. He insisted I sit down and he chatted with me for a bit. He was very warm and friendly - what a class act.

[@antonhrebec2103]

Enjoyed all the smiling faces, great young people! Fun to hear Bing Crosby talk about them.

[@dietpepsivanilla3095]

Great names here. Dick Butkus, Bob Brown, Carl Eller and Roger Staubach.

[@CurtRenz]

Butkus was only a college junior in 1963 when the Illini won the Big-10 title and the 1964 Rose Bowl. As a freshman I attended all of the Illini home games that year, and Butkus was a thrill to watch. He then joined his hometown Bears in the summer of 1964 to start his magnificent Hall of Fame NFL career. It was fun seeing him as a kid in this video.

[@Diogenes-ty9yy]

Having grown up in Chicago, there were many apocryphal stories told of Dick Butkus. One is that, as a football player for Chicago Vocational HS, there was one day he was on a practice field and saw someone in an automobile pull up next to a CVS cheerleader who was Butkus' girlfriend and, later, Mrs. Butkus. Dick was instantly so incensed that someone else was talking to his girl that he ran across the field, jumped into the car through the passenger side window, and began to wail on this ignorant fellow. His teammates came over en masse and pulled him out of the car and let the unfortunate fellow drive away and saved his life. Definitely a bad person to mess with. On a personal note, I watched the last game of the bears '69 season against the Lions at Wrigley Field. The Bears were 1 and 12 and this was to be their 13th loss, 39-0. Anyway, the crowd was in and ugly mood on a cold and overcast day there were exactly 2 times they cheered: First, when the refs were introduced and Burl Toler slipped on some ice and fell in the mud wearing the white pants they wore in those days. The second was on a Detroit kickoff when the kick was short and Butkus, who led the blocking wedge, caught the kick, looked at the ball for a second, then proceeded to run at every Lion in his path, finally still running when bumped out of bounds. The crowd went wild! And, it was the only Bears highlight from a terribly forgettable, though highly memorable, day.

[@garyglover6767]

Butkus, mobey dick in a goldfish bowl...nuff said...never ever will there be another like him!

[@marcschneider4845]

@@Diogenes-ty9yy Was the guy supposed to know that the cheerleader was Butkus's girlfriend?

[@garyfaught3769]

When I turned 70 a couple of years ago I received a #70 Scott Appleton ( complete with his name on the back) jersey. In '63 he was All Southwest Conference, 1st team All American, and won the Outland Trophy. He anchored a Longhorn defense that gave up a TOTAL of only 71 points in 11 games, including only 6 to Heisman Trophy winner Roger Staubach in the '64 Cotton Bowl. Texas went 11-0 that year and claimed their first National Championship. RIP Scott.

[@lwmson]

He talked about how certain players -- like Staubach -- couldn't appear on the telecast because a lot of college games had been re-scheduled the previous month (6:45). That re-scheduling must have been brought upon by the JFK assassination.

[@jamesfields2916]

You are correct.

[@TipToe67]

no question. My father said everyone was sick for about four months. The rumors were running rampant!

[@jamie49868]

JFK was a Navy Man, as was Roger the Dodger. Must have been trying times. for everybody

[@adambaum9732]

I loved seeing this video with Bing Crosby.

[@stephaniedykes4157]

The hair styles of the bowl queens are amazing!

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

They look like bowls.

[@lablaine1981]

I'll bet someone sprayed aquanet hairspray on this appearance...my 2 sisters did back in 1963 America

[@AlanSenzaki]

i have some home made cream shampoo i can spray on their hair!😮

[@akrenwinkle]

@@AlanSenzaki What an absurd comment. Nobody makes their own shampoo, and besides, they... wait... okay, I get it.

[@manny4552]

Dick butkus..bob brown.. Carl eller..billy lothridge.. Roger staubach..sherm lewis..i remember those guys well

[@scottgoodson1964]

I was born in '64 and named after Scott Appleton of Texas.

[@trade0714]

Dick Butkus, Carl Eller, and Roger Staubach.

[@thrivnak787]

Butkus was ,plain and simple,the best LB ever,no one even comes close.

[@markgolden6265]

Sorry Willie Lanier was better!

[@ChefDuane]

@@markgolden6265 Nope. It's Butkus all day.

[@markgolden6265]

@@ChefDuane Butkus was not the best in that division he was not better than Ray Niski, Niski was way better.

[@markgolden6265]

@@ChefDuane Butkus was slow. He couldn't play in the era of speed. He couldn't cover fast RB coming out of the backfield. A great could play in any era.

[@ChefDuane]

@@markgolden6265 I'd still take him over Lanier. Butkus could change an opponents game plan simply through intimidation. If you had a poll of best MLB'ers Butkus would win in a landslide. And ask running backs who they feared most. Butkus all day.

[@ramonhamm3885]

Dick Butkus had a strong screen presence, it was great to see his turn into an actor.

[@ikelasider1051]

Bob Brown was one of the Top Lineman of all time , Never forget the game Nov,17 1968 at Yankee Stadium ..The 6-3 NY Giants were playing the 0-9 Eagles ..The Giants Jim Katcavage was at the end of his illustrious career ,he was old and slow and was up against Bob Brown , who was enormous , quick and an absolute beast ...I was focusing in on this matchup as the game was so boring ended up 7-6 Giants in a snooze-fest..anyhow every play Brown would instantly knock Kat to the ground ,,Then by the 2nd quarter ..I noticed something " Watch Katcavage " I told my friend ..Every play as soon as the ball was hiked ..Katcavage instantly fell to the ground on his own accord ..Bob Brown would hesitate a moment then go block someone else ..Kat would wait till he left , then give pursuit somewhere !

[@gilbertgiles]

Brilliant! Wondrous--- what an outstanding memory

[@jgowin66]

At 3:26, next year's ('64) John Outland Trophy winner Steve Delong, of Tennessee, enters the stage wearing the hideous "Halloween" jersey, which Tennessee wore for one season only, 1963. In 1964, new head coach Doug Dickey restored the Orange and White jersey, and added a new part of the uniform that's been there ever since: the trade-mark Orange "T" on the helmet. This aired when the nation was still in mourning, less than a month after the JFK assassination in Dallas.

[@KenCostlow]

Do you remember the Vols adding the black crosses on the T in 1965 after three of their assistant coaches were killed in an automobile-train collision?

[@jgowin66]

@@KenCostlow Yes. On the Monday morning following "Third Saturday in October", just after Tennessee tied eventual national champion Alabama (in Birmingham), UT assistant coaches Bob Jones, Bill Majors and Charlie Rash were killed when their automobile was hit by a train in Knoxville. The next game, against Houston, which was five days later, in Neyland Stadium, the players wore a Black cross over the "T". After that game, they changed the Black cross to a single Black bar, horizontally crossing the "T".

[@KenCostlow]

@@jgowin66 I remember Bill Majors was Johnny's middle brother.

[@jgowin66]

@@KenCostlow I think you're right. There were five football-playing Majors brothers born to Shirley and Elizabeth Majors, and I believe the order was: Johnny, Joe, Bill, Larry and Bobby. Johnny and Bobby are of course legends at UT, and Bill was also a starting safety for the Vols, and earned second-team All SEC in his senior year. Joe was a quarterback, and a safety at Florida State, and eventually made the Houston Oilers as a back-up safety during their inaugural 1960 season (winning the first AFL title). Larry played for his dad, Shirley, at Sewanee. According to people who knew Bill Majors, including Doug Dickey, he was destined to one day be a head coach in college football. Some have speculated that he would have been a logical candidate for the UT job when Dickey bolted to Florida. Sad to ponder the "what ifs" when it comes to such potential dying so young.

[@Junior_Rocky]

Ya know, I think that I heard of those Staubach, Eller, Brown and Butkus guys. 🤔

[@lewisbolt8450]

Interesting to see who had Great NFL,careers

[@Mister8224]

Where is gridiron star Joe Biden? Didn't he stand out at Navy with Staubach & Joe Bellino? He was probably student teaching already, preparing for his professorship at Penn. Or be coulda been driving 18 wheeler, marching for racial justice with KKK friends, or sparring with Cornpop.

[@vistatiger7493]

I was not around during these days but remember and miss when Bob Hope did this in the 80's.

[@garyd2553]

I remember when Bob Hope used to do this on his Christmas does idk every year. Great memories.

[@triplennnoflaf]

That was very cool to see for the first time. I always thought that was only Bob Hope's thing. Never knew Bing Crosby ever did this.

[@BrianONEILL-qf2cs]

Bob had eye surgery shortly before this show was taped, so Bing filled in. It's also the first time the Christmas song 'Do You Hear What I Hear?' was performed.

[@billyhigh4690]

Doesn’t just seem like a different era more like a different planet!

[@1223jamez]

These were men not like the little boys who play in the NFL today!

[@stratplayr6997]

Cool to see Butkus & Eller before they turned pro - if they only knew that they'd be Hall of Famers when this was filmed. Too bad Staubach couldn't be there.

[@musicman76enator]

0:31 Beautiful women back then. We'll never have beauty standards like this ever again.

[@mikeforney354]

Ennedy assassinated and Vietnam less then a year away from really getting going. That video really was the end of innocence.

[@Classicrocker6119]

Perhaps it could stated that this telecast was somehow a bit of a comfort in light of the recent events a month earlier.

[@JClaus1221]

Sherman Lewis, 4 Super Bowl Rings as a coach for the Niners and Packers.

[@60zeller]

Butkus already looks pissed

[@AmericasChoice]

Yup

[@gocygo63]

...Tommy Vaughan, Iowa State! ...played for the Lions in the NFL & was Earl Bruce's running backs coach at Iowa State in the 1970's...

[@tek6423]

Yup, I saw the ‘67 version yesterday, many repeat jokes

[@phildickson9171]

Give me the hair spray concession for the bowl queens!

[@rudolphbradshaw6124]

Steve DeLong was drafted by the Bears along with Sayers and Butkus but signed with the Chargers , he did sign with the Bears in the seventies

[@boomerreb4997]

Kenny Dill of Ole MIss served as a very good mayor of his hometown, West Point, MIssissippi, for many years after his playing days were over.

[@kellycoleman715]

My late daddy was a sports writer for the Dallas Morning News in the late 1940’s and knew Blackie Sherrod.

[@blairpenny1526]

Its wild to hear him talking about quarterbacks like they are running backs and fullbacks in the same group like that. Man the game has changed

[@jamie49868]

I like the 'the rushed/passed" for 700yds. It was a different game.

[@kenhobbs9251]

Backs quarter half and full Were mostly runners in college back then

[@moonrich3492]

@@jamie49868 ...and many fewer games

[@TipToe67]

Amazing how 11/22/63 had a stain on this !

[@44032]

They all look so lean - in good shape but not bulky. A big reason- they still played both ways and a player might have to play 50 minutes, as Tom Vaughn did. You couldn't weigh 300+ pounds and do that.

[@AmericasChoice]

Good point. I hear Mal Moore say the exact same thing. He said Bear Bryant always focused on conditioning and endurance.

[@jamesfields2916]

Bob Brown just passed away.

[@mgoldman60]

Some real HOFers in there. And Bing pronounced Lankenau Hospital correctly!

[@rickpat-x9u]

*In the 1960s-70s, IT WAS A VERY BIG DEAL TO BE ON THE **_'LOOK MAGAZINE'_** , & LATER CALLED THE **_KODAK_** "ALL-AMERICAN TEAM", CELEBRATED ON NATIONAL TV JUST BEFORE THE EARLY BOWL GAMES STARTED....DURING BING CROSBY OR BOB HOPE'S 'HOLIDAY' TV SPECIALS*

[@scottcass4243]

American the way I remember it.

[@richardruiz6972]

Wow the 16 year old beauty queen would be 76 today :0

[@johnschuh8616]

Ever wonder about what happens to young women like this? Just a brief moment of fame. if that.

[@williamschlenger1518]

I was twenty years old when this came out.👍

[@joeharris3878]

That was a good time to be a football fan. We didn't even know there were professional teams.

[@timburr4453]

Bob Brown University of Nebraska - future NFL HALL OF FAMER Steve DeLong - future pro bowler. 8 years in the AFL/NFL. 15.5 sacks in 1969 (before it became an official stat) Rick Redman - 9 years in the AFL/NFL - Pro Bowl in 1967. Sadly passed away fairly recently Scott Appleton -5 seasons in the AFL Carl Eller - legendary Hall of Famer

[@Instramark]

I totally dated everyone of those beauty queens and married two of them.

[@musicman76enator]

How did the divorces go?

[@choward5430]

Bob Brown, Dick Butkus and Carl Eller

[@lynntempleton9640]

Rick Redman died last year. One of the greatest Washington Huskies of all time.

[@edpinkerton7947]

Butkus as a junior could have started on all 12 NFL Teams

[@starguy2718]

Bill George was the longtime MLB for the Bears, and a future hall of famer; then Butkus shows up, and the Bears trade George to the Niners, where he finished his career.

[@markgolden6265]

No. He would have beaten out Mike Stratton in the AFL Buffalo Bills.

[@timburr4453]

Valerie Vestal😍

[@doublemrclean]

Bob Hope told the same jokes four years later.

[@jbwillson]

Bob Hope told the same jokes for 70 years.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@jbwillson I found Jack Benny hilarious, but Bob Hope and George Burns always made me wonder: could everybody possibly be wrong about them? Were they really funny?

[@NewFrontier4.0]

​@@akrenwinklethe reason George Burns had a job comes down to two words Gracie Allen.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@NewFrontier4.0 He had a long career after she died, which makes me wonder... did I not get his act, or did people have really poor taste?

[@smilanesi98]

Obviously, this was before the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. A number of these schools were not integrated yet. And even those that were integrated were difficult to enter due to other requirements. Unfortunately, the great Roger Staubach was not actually present. He was a class act.

[@spankyharland9845]

life was simple back then.

[@californiagold3857]

All are around 80 yrs. old today.

[@nicolek.3614]

Valerie looked super baked! 😵‍💫

[@chrisspathelf2310]

They used the same jokes for over 30 years.

[@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536]

"He has intercepted more passes than "

[@giffysstiffy887]

Your parents used the same joke every time they had a kid🤢

[@eutimiochavez415]

Yea but they were clean and they are still good jokes ?❤❤❤❤

[@Carnaza]

Go Vern Burke!

[@yeildo1492]

1:49 Attagirl!

[@violetbrown3584]

Roger Stauback came to play for the Dallas Cowboys.

[@jamesbowman8138]

5:48 packers coach

[@brucedavis3816]

Mam carl eller was a good looking dude!!!!

[@Playsinvain]

Butkus then Carl Eller best of them all. Staubach 3

[@darcyhodges309]

Liberty Queen looks 40

[@Wixom2200]

All the Bowl queens from the south, except Philly.

[@moonrich3492]

'Cause all the bowl games except Philly and Rose Bowl were played in the south.

[@bobanderson6656]

Played in warm weather cities

[@lorenzobeckmann3736]

era still of 2 way play. limited substitution of 2 players per play. that's why you see (for instance) Butkus center/linebacker

[@williamhancock6489]

Isn't that Bob Hope's job? He uses some of the same lines in 1967.

[@bobfrapples1208]

We used to be a proper country.

[@garyaugustus690]

Notice, no splibs...

[@akrenwinkle]

06:32 That grin... (sigh.)

[@wahkeeblaster]

6:12 💪💪

[@michaleenyproductions4007]

Just a month after JFK murder. how innocent we were? and everything changed thereafter except football popularity and TV cheesecake.

[@Chatta-Ortega]

The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan about two months later.

[@teevee2145]

Long gone americana...

[@paulmicheldenverco1]

The selectors were color blind, but only a little.

[@gordonhall9871]

I guess games were cancelled because of JFK

[@tonypanzarella9387]

Bing refers to games that had to be canceled and rescheduled ... due to ... the assassination of John F Kennedy.

[@briannat1086]

Yay! Bing. The most hated father in history....well almost. Lol

[@robertlevinson9188]

Bing read Cue Cards written by nitwits.

[@JKerr-iy2jr]

The laugh track is almost as fake as Crosby’s jokes.

[@gerarddevita-xl5ji]

Can't stand crosby A terrible person

[@seldomseensavage3459]

Tommy Nobis better

[@markjasper1127]

Stats not impressive by today’s standards, although in fewer games played.

[@doovie101]

Miss Gator Bowl looks like she was smoking a bowl.

[@lancehurley9743]

Bob Brown scared people even back then…