Bubba Smith comments on possible Super Bowl III fix (2002)

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@the_Brumeister 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this! This is such a buried clip

@rog9601 3 жыл бұрын

I know that there is suspicion of a conspiracy but I have never heard a lot of comments from players and coaches about it before.

@NYNYRaider 9 ай бұрын

Of course super bowls are fixed. This was in 2002 - Rich Gannon was the league MVP, threw only 8 INT’s that year, then 5 in the SB…because of what the conspirators did to Center Barrett Robbins the night before.

@bigjohn8160 3 ай бұрын

Don't forget about the Russell Wilson INT vs the Patriots, and Cam Newton jumping out of the way of the fumble vs the Broncos.

@moonrock5324 Ай бұрын

Listen to Dwight Smith’s interview before Brady’s last SB. He tells all.

@rog9601 11 ай бұрын

And Rosenbloom died under mysterious circumstances too.

@sammyvh11 8 ай бұрын

He bet on his team to lose in SB 3. It was payback time.

@paulg444 9 ай бұрын

Some of those Morrell throws were off the charts odd.

@chrisrobinson8339 7 ай бұрын

Michael Irvin experienced it. How Neil O'Donnell throw all those interceptions in that 1995 Superbowl?

@morrisnettles44 5 ай бұрын

💯

@itzvalentine254 4 ай бұрын

Cowboys fan here even I say Neil O'Donnell threw this game and handed it to us

@jeremiahthompson8951 Ай бұрын

Larry Brown sure capitalized off of it.

@ChrisThaDonStreams Жыл бұрын

Damn in the 20 yard line 5 times and no points is crazy!!!!!

@silversurfer231 11 ай бұрын

Not even field goals? 😂

@sammyvh11 8 ай бұрын

@@silversurfer231 Lou Michaels missed chip shots. See my comment above

@natnaelberhanu-i8w Ай бұрын

Reminds me of the note dame South Florida game from 2011. ND reached the end zone multiple times yet failed to score until the end of the game

@brettshepherd5240 Жыл бұрын

Bubba was telling the truth but of course Tom Arnold and that other Clorox crew person tried to make light of it

@EightFrancs 11 ай бұрын

Sports fans really detest the truth. Respect to Bubba Smith. May he rest in peace. 👊🏿

@cbdyna 11 ай бұрын

Before my dad died, he told me about the '65 field goal the Packers were gifted to beat the Colts. Then he told me about this Jets game being rigged so fans bought into the merger and that it wasnt a secret and rumors were everywhere up and down the East Coast to bet on the Jets. Bubba talked. Other players have talked too about their SB's, like Jerry Rice saying he thought his Raider SB was rigged. Dwight Smith said the same thing and his team won the game. Look at this year. Nobody was beating KC and it was obvious they werent the best team, they just had Taylor Swift and Pfizer boy. I dont know why people are surprised. It is sports Entertainment and legally listed as such that the NFL disclosed in a court of law. I have heard others say the game really ramped up its rigging starting way back in the late '20's when the power structure moved to NY. This isnt to say it wasnt rigged in the midwest either, but cmon, it is sports entertainment. They had to do what they had to do to expand interest and throughought my lifetime, they have most certainly established a pattern of always making sure there was a dynasty team in the making, and even in this free agency era. Right now, it KC's time. They are the NFL darling and I am sure the NFL loves it becuase theres only one thing more popular than those who root for a dynasty in the making and thats those who hate them and want to see them lose. And KC with that little screwball Swift and Pfizer boy has to be the most hated dynasty in the making the NFL has ever come up with.

@G360LIVE 11 ай бұрын

One of the Bucs defensive players who won the 2002 season Super Bowl vs the Raiders said on a radio show that the game is decided off the field and that it doesn't matter which team has the best players. Also, I have a very strong suspicion that a team called the Patriots with red, white, and blue colors didn't just happen to win the Super Bowl only a few months after 9/11.

@scharrah757 11 ай бұрын

You nailed it. As soon as Taylor Swift came into the picture, it was clear as day to me that the chiefs would go all the way. Same with the Rams Bengals a couple years back, I knew there was no chance the home team wasn’t going to win in their own city. Think of all the money the city wouldn’t have made in post game celebrations, and in LA that’s big big money. On a side note, I find it suspicious that chiefs offensive line went without a single penalty in the post season. And yeah I lost all respect for Kelce when he started hocking for big pharma.

@skifusya2814 10 ай бұрын

Speaking of KC, it's curious how in SB IV the vaunted Minnesota purple people eaters defense that gave up far and away the fewest points in the NFL (133) laid down and got matriculated all over by the Chiefs, to further "legitimize" the power of and the parity that the AFL had with the NFL to validate the merger, in case anybody missed the storyline from the previous year's show. The superbowl champion Chiefs first NFL season the following year, 1970, they were a pedestrian 7-5-2, while the Vikings kept their (regular season) standards up with a 12-2 record.

@TL2354 6 ай бұрын

You’re a bore

@morrisnettles44 5 ай бұрын

Your dad was a smart man. 👍

@chicken_953 2 жыл бұрын

Bubba Smith was never one to fabricate or say anything that wasn't straight up

@fosbury68 Жыл бұрын

How do you know?

@josephbennett728 8 ай бұрын

He just did they got their ass kicked

@michaelkunkel6264 8 ай бұрын

16 to 7 is an ass kicking? In baseball. Wrong sport dude.

@zziz6137 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this! Fools will watch this and still deny it!

@TimRobinson-hc7mt 4 ай бұрын

I also remember that Rosenbloom put a $3 million bet on the Jets to win AND THAT IS A FACT PEOPLE

@harrychapin808 Жыл бұрын

Morrall threw the game on Rosenbloom's order. Rosenbloom bet 3 million $$ against the COLTS!! He was dancing because he won the bet and the SB would continue for the coming years!! THE GAME WAS FIXED! NAMATH didn't even throw a TD pass. "BROADWAY JOE" was all show and no throw!

@deplorablepepe7576 Жыл бұрын

The $3 million dollar bet was from an advance he received from the NFL for agreeing to move the Colts to the AFC after the merger.

@hansjuker8296 11 ай бұрын

Every time

@GolfChef99 11 ай бұрын

Absolutely. If u watch it it's so obvious. 4 int. I think 3 in the end zone. A missed fg, fumble etc....

@Halfkrazie10 11 ай бұрын

Agree

@theodoreelba4414 11 ай бұрын

@@hansjuker8296I

@sew04ss 11 ай бұрын

@2:55 you trying to get me killed. He knew if he talked to much the blackout boys was going to be sent

@dfrank4life 9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 tell em Bubba!

@jackhammer111 2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't Earl Morrow that missed a field goal on the first drive. On another drive he throws the ball that hits the receiver right in the chest in the end zone and it bounces up and is intercepted. it kind of looks like he was trying to score a touchdown on that one. It was in the receiver's hands and bounced up and was intercepted. Then the Colts missed another field goal. Then Johnnysample jumped in front of a receiver at the goal line and intercepted the ball. And then tomorrow missed the open receiver period Tom Mattie says it was because the band in blue uniforms was standing just beyond the end line of the end zone ready to take the field and Morrow never saw the receiver. That is what Mattie said. Then in the first drive of the third quarter Tom Mattie fumbled. The Jets handled Bubba Smith all day long and he wasn't a factor in the game. His mind made up a conspiracy theory because he just couldn't handle the reality.

@plntntvzn Жыл бұрын

Very good points by you, I actually don't blame Colts TE#84 Tom Mitchell for that pass ricocheting off of him because a Jet DB#42 had deflected it right before that. But that was because Earl Morrall erroneously telegraphed the pass. Yes, the plain truth is Earl Morrall was not looking off defenders and was telegraphing passes at that point in his career. He got better at that part of his game by 1972 in Miami, but back in 1968 he really was not there yet regardless of his NFL MVP award. We know it was no fluke that the AFL won the Super Bowl because the AFL came right back and did the same thing the next year in convincing fashion. Colts were just going through frustration years, such as that 1965 playoff game at Green Bay when I think it was just an honest mistake by the official when they called the FG good and it was luck that went the Packers' way on that call. But we know luck is always going to be a part of the game and the Packers going on to win 1965 NFL championship was no fluke. But I have to admit it would have been unbelievably frustrating as a Colt fan watching that 1965 playoff loss at Green Bay, or going undefeated the entire 1967 season until the final week of the regular season and then not even making the playoffs! Then the Super Bowl III devastating loss, but it goes both ways. Dallas was devastated by losing SB 5 to the Colts especially with Dallas saying they recovered that fumble by their Duane Thomas down at Baltimore goal-line when Dallas was looking at a 20-6 lead or atleast a 16-6 lead, and apparently the Colts (perhaps) were awarded the football that they may have not recovered. Colts eventually came back and won. In 1958 NFL Championship Game that the Colts also won, we know there was controversy over whether or not Frank Gifford had made it on that 3rd & 4 with two minutes remaining.

@ralphmelvin1046 Жыл бұрын

Bubba Smith, brings up a very good point.. Johnny Orr was the primary receiver!! An Earl Morrall never looked at him never even looked his way🤔 and then throws a horrible pass down the middle that was easily intercepted what was he looking at,and thinking? Receiver wasn't open for one And he under throws him 🙄

@silversurfer231 11 ай бұрын

At this point u would have to be a complete dumbas to go against a player who was actually in the game.

@greggsloate4677 10 ай бұрын

Very good points. And then there's the fact that Johnny Unitas threw an interception, too, not just Earl. Also, in a team sport with 22 guys per side plus special teams' players participating, plus Shula and other coaches, paying off ONE guy-- the quarterback -- is supposed to do the trick? That's a crucial position, true, but again, they brought in the ailing Unitas, and he did them little good. And if you listen to the Jets talk about that game, many of them felt that Baltimore was going to be somewhat of an easy mark for them, based on the films they saw prior to the game. In their eyes, this was not in any way a game where Baltimore should have been favored at all. All due respect to Bubba, who was a great player and whom I loved mostly as Al Bundy's nemesis, Spare Tire Dixon, in that great episode of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, but that's an awful big accusation to make with ZERO evidence. Rosenbloom dancing at a party he had planned is somehow evidence that he got what he wanted in throwing a game, when he didn't need the money in the first place? No, it's not evidence of anything. And in fairness to the undeniably great Bubba, how did HE do in this game? Oh yeah-- badly. He was almost useless. Dave Hermann was blocking his behind very well for all four quarters. So maybe, just maybe, great players like Bubba were shut down by . . . a superior team. Oh yeah, Morrall on his best day was no Namath. And Namath was not the greatest thing since sliced bread, either, #100 on the NFL's all-time 100 players list here on KZbin, with a lot of QBs ahead of him on that list. But he was far superior to Morrall. The merger of the two leagues was the reason for an allegedly fixed SB III game? Uh, no. That merger was already underway and a fate accompli well before this game was ever played.

@michaelkunkel6264 7 ай бұрын

That pass was so high, no wonder it bounced off Tom Mitchell's chest. Rotten throw!!!

@davanmani556 10 ай бұрын

Dave Manders recovered that fumble in Super Bowl V.

@sammyvh11 Жыл бұрын

Jimmy the Greek said on tv that right before SB 3 an NFL owner put down a bet on the Jets over a million at insane odds. He did not say what owner. I had lunch with one of Rosenblooms Baltimore buddies in about 1985. This guy was asked back in the early 1950s to be a partner of the Baltimore Colts and he declined. I said why did you decline? He said... Because I know Carrol and he's a crook and hangs with gangsters. My personal opinion is there was some chicanery. Rosenbloom, Shula, Morrall, and the Colts kicker where in on it. Nobody else from the team. It also had the blessing of some NFL owners. If you look what happpens over the next two years with the principles it's even clearer. Shula is let go strangely when Rosenbloom is in Africa ends up in Miami and is GIVEN 10% of the team. NOBODY has ever been given a team ownership stake to be the head coach since or ever will be. And he just lost the biggest upset in NFL history. He then goes on to be coach for life and dies worth a billion. Morrall plays a few more years for who? Shula then retires in Florida leads a charmed life. Lou Michaels who missed two field goals one a chip shot heads to the hills of PA and never seen again. Rosenbloom swaps the Colts for the Rams also never done again in NFL history and dies a suspicious death for screwing over some outfit. Every NFL owner becomes a billionare over the next 30 years. Bubba was right but never had the details. They are all dead now so its a mute point

@doncrews2301 3 ай бұрын

Ain't no way Shula would have been in on it. That man was the epitome, of high moral and character

@MrJdubb3rd 10 ай бұрын

The 3 min mark scared the hell out of me…. 😂😂😂

@bobbyodell8676 3 жыл бұрын

Just like the 2022 KC-CIN afc championship?

@rangers94ism 2 жыл бұрын

You are catching on

@bigjames4621 11 ай бұрын

So did Russell Wilson throw the game?

@morrisnettles44 5 ай бұрын

Yes.

@targetegrat 3 ай бұрын

That was politics in the game or than throwing the game. If Lynch had scored that TD he would become the face of the NFL by default for scoring the clutch TDin the super bowl. I can't prove this but I'm sure most of the NFL owners did not want to see that happen. It had to be another player on SEA to win the game.

@VashTheDamnFiend 2 жыл бұрын

So many fanboys in the comments can’t cope with the fact their sport is rigged

@patricksmith5282 Жыл бұрын

I “Guarantee” it was. Seems awfully coincidental that the AFL needed a win to solidify the merger.

@silversurfer231 11 ай бұрын

They so hurt 😂 true definition of cognitive dissonance

@sammyvh11 8 ай бұрын

Exactly money talks and S***T walks. Plus no social media in 1969.

@jameskennelly4764 5 ай бұрын

My comments about Rosenbloom betting on The Jets and arranging a very simple vanilla defensive package to insure The Jets would cover the point spread was taken down. I know why and now the world does to!

@rog9601 5 ай бұрын

Wow, did YT tell you they were doing that?

@sew04ss 11 ай бұрын

Adam Sandler said the samething in the movie: the longest yard

@bigjames4621 11 ай бұрын

That 2nd Denver Manning Superbowl looked very suspicious. Manning threw what, 100 yards?

@Galilelo_Telescope 7 ай бұрын

Mannings arm barely worked that entire season. The panthers dominated every team they played the whole year and then just forgot how to play in the Super Bowl. Not to mention cam Newton not going for the ball on that fumble.

@morrisnettles44 5 ай бұрын

@@Galilelo_Telescope Exactly.

@franksinatracovers6280 4 ай бұрын

“Was Eral Morral driving the cab”. Great line by Tom Arnold.

@edwardcricchio6106 3 ай бұрын

I agree with Bubba. The Jets have been paying this debt off for 55 seasons.

@josephmcfarland8442 Жыл бұрын

Look at the spreads for the Jets in 1968. I believe 2 if not 3 Spreads the Jets purposely didn't cover.

@scott-o3345 5 ай бұрын

There's a very interesting documentary called, An Unauthorized History of the NFL. It goes into great detail about the ties between organized crime and the league. It explains how the rigging is done.

@johnnyangel9163 2 жыл бұрын

With Rosenbloom anything is possible!He was a junkie gambler.Look at the 58 game!The Colts were favored by 4!Unitas was in on it!

@rog9601 2 жыл бұрын

It would be great to have a documentary on this conspiracy.

@DG-zo6kc 2 жыл бұрын

@@rog9601 See 'Unofficial History of the NFL'

@sammyvh11 Жыл бұрын

I know people who knew CR . He was a crook in highest degree.

@irish89055 Жыл бұрын

@@rog9601In My memory, one of the first Frontline PBS TV shows was about Rosenberg

@rog9601 11 ай бұрын

@@DG-zo6kcI have seen it. It's very interesting.

@pjt03 8 ай бұрын

real man, real talk

@kevinhope8279 11 ай бұрын

Then morral goes to Miami with Shula Griese gets hurt Morral leads them to the perfect season. Go figure.

@sammyvh11 8 ай бұрын

How about that! And Joe Robbie stole Shula and gave him 10% ownership of Miami for showing up. Suddenly Earl is cut and is his backup again. What other head coach in NFL history got that deal????? NONE!!!!

@frankandrews9522 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not pointing fingers: Earl Morrall completed a TD pass to a wide-open Jimmy Orr on that same play in the opening game of that season (1968). I can't vouch to what Morrall was thinking when he changed up and threw the interception.

@rog9601 2 жыл бұрын

It would be nice to know the full story on any possible fixing on this one.

@stephaniegormley9982 2 жыл бұрын

The famous Baltimore Sun sportswriter John Steadman theorized that the Colts marching band, standing directly behind Orr and wearing colors very similar to the Colts unis, camouflaged Orr so Morrall never saw him. A bit far fetched but possible

@shrapnel77 2 жыл бұрын

The ONLY other theory I heard about was the sun was in his eyes. At that time of day, the angle of the sun caused Morrall to miss Orr completely. I'm not buying it.

@plntntvzn Жыл бұрын

@@stephaniegormley9982 Tom Matte supported that theory during "NFL's Greatest Games" version of Super Bowl III.

@Guy_Incognito1 2 жыл бұрын

Of course it was rigged. The owners wanted to merge the 2 leagues, but they needed to legitimize the AFL. They also wanted to elevate Namath's status. 0 TDs yet he wins MVP? More INTs than TDs yet he's in the HOF?

@rog9601 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, something was up that just wasn't quite right. Just like the 2020 election, something went wrong somewhere and put to rest quickly. I have learned more about this game over the years, I am sort of surprised there is not a documentary or something more in depth about it although I did read a chapter in a sports conspiracy book about it. Bubba is the only one from that game that I have ever heard comment about the suspicion, at least so far.

@joshuacruz4244 2 жыл бұрын

Ridiculous conspiracy theory man, if that was the case they would've done it in the first or second super bowl. The reality is is that colts were just outplayed by a jets team that had the number 1 ranked defense in the Afl. If you look at that game they forced the colts into making bad throws and got like 4 pics. Matt snell was tearing up the colts weak side and George seauer and Don manyard made big catches. Jets won the super bowl fair and square.

@scottodonnell7121 Жыл бұрын

Unitas has more INTs than TDs and he is a HOFer.

@silversurfer231 11 ай бұрын

Joshuacruz ppl like yo u are why the world is full of dumbasses

@randydaytona5615 10 ай бұрын

@@scottodonnell7121 the starter had three interceptions.

@everettalexander5990 Жыл бұрын

After the merger the New York Jets struggled to be an 500 team, the Miami Dolphins dominated the AFC East, Namath threw for a lot of yards, but not many wins, the Houston Oilets only win of the 1972 season was against the New York Jets, Namath had a good game.

@edwardcricchio6106 11 ай бұрын

That is so true. Usually a Super Bowl team that wins can hang around for a few years as a real contender. The Jets went back to mediocority very quickly after that win.

@chrisrobinson8339 7 ай бұрын

Dude just cut Michael Irvin off. Rude ASF.

@dougcummings4729 Жыл бұрын

Like the Miracle Mets later in 1969 (opponents of another “unbeatable “ Baltimore ball club) and the Miracle on Ice hockey team of 1980, sometimes the so-called experts get it wrong. That is why games are actually played and championship trophies are not given to the team that looks better “on paper.” Sour grapes pure and simple.

@EightFrancs 11 ай бұрын

You are extremely naive my boy.

@dwightwilson7148 2 жыл бұрын

Look at the 1965 NFL Western conference playoff fixed

@stephaniegormley9982 2 жыл бұрын

You mean the field goal that was about 10 feet wide but called good? Yeah that was terrible.

@ControlledOpposition 2 жыл бұрын

What? I need to see this lol

@ell3655 2 жыл бұрын

I’ll never understand how they got away with that one

@thunderlightning1980 Жыл бұрын

Carroll was a gambler and he and Rozelle hated each other.

@MCPGCGR 11 ай бұрын

Are you sure about that? Rozelle was the GM for the Rams when Carroll owned them and it was Carroll who brokered the deal to have Rozelle replace Bell when he retired.

@sammyvh11 8 ай бұрын

@@MCPGCGR I know it for a fact he was a degenerate gambler but all the principles are now dead.

@TheSSUltimateGoku 2 жыл бұрын

It was not rigged Baltimore Colts beat them selves. Period. Jets had a great number one defense in the AFL. Jets head coach was Weeb Ewbank Who used to coach for the Baltimore Colts and knew the Colts offense. The idea that Earl Moral would rig the game when Johnny Unitas came in later on there and almost pulled off the comeback.

@lf2417 2 жыл бұрын

He just said he was in on it, doesn't mean he was the only one. Obviously a lot of money was probably involved and with multiple parties

@plntntvzn Жыл бұрын

@irish89055 Жыл бұрын

"Look at Boozer run!"..." honey, is Dean Martin on already?"...

@kevinhope8279 11 ай бұрын

And played against Al Bundy

@archie7186 2 жыл бұрын

so earl morral throws 3 picks on purpose unitas throws a pick on purpose , matte fumbles on purpose the entire colt defensive line which bubba is part of lets the jets front line run the ball straight up the colts ass for close to 8 minuets on one drive alone. lou Michaels missed 2 fg.s on purpose , now what happened was weeb with out any doubt out coached Shula from the get go , Namath called the game of his life snell ran up and down on the colt defense and the rest of the jets play that game as if was there last, THE COLTS GOT THERE ASS KICKED . rip in peace daryle Lamonica if you would have got by the jets you would have kick the colts ass too,

@rog9601 2 жыл бұрын

I wish there was a documentary on this event or at least I have not heard of one. There is a book about sport conspiracies and this game is one of the chapters.

@plntntvzn Жыл бұрын

Yes, the plain truth is Earl Morrall was not looking off defenders and was telegraphing passes at that point in his career. He got better at that part of his game by 1972 in Miami, but back in 1968 he really was not there yet regardless of his NFL MVP award. We know it was no fluke that the AFL won the Super Bowl because the AFL came right back and did the same thing the next year in convincing fashion. Colts were just going through frustration years, such as that 1965 playoff game at Green Bay when I think it was just an honest mistake by the official when they called the FG good and it was luck that went the Packers' way on that call. But we know luck is always going to be a part of the game and the Packers going on to win 1965 NFL championship was no fluke. But I have to admit it would have been unbelievably frustrating as a Colt fan watching that 1965 playoff loss at Green Bay, or going undefeated the entire 1967 season until the final week of the regular season and then not even making the playoffs! Then the Super Bowl III devastating loss, but it goes both ways. Dallas was devastated by losing SB 5 to the Colts especially with Dallas saying they recovered that fumble by their Duane Thomas down at Baltimore goal-line when Dallas was looking at a 20-6 lead or atleast a 16-6 lead, and apparently the Colts (perhaps) were awarded the football that they may have not recovered. Colts eventually came back and won. In 1958 NFL Championship Game that the Colts also won, we know there was controversy over whether or not Frank Gifford had made it on that 3rd & 4 with two minutes remaining. But I am thinking Mad Bomber Lamonica's Achilles Heel was having to throw short, especially the swing pass (slight understatement). I am thinking Lamonica was the next best thing to great, but not truly great. Zone coverages were the downfall of Lamonica (especially with the Raiders' defense never running zone coverages themselves and always ran man coverages, which meant Lamonica could not practice against zone coverages. On NFL Films Lost Treasures when they highlighted, Steve Sabol apologized to the Jets and showed some soundbites of the Jets' sidelines showing confident the Jets were that day, as Dom Maynard said, "I'd like to play against this zone every week. Are you kidding me?" It is on "1960s AFL documentary NFL Lost Treasures" @26:35-40. Point being, the Colts running zone coverage defenses, I don't think Lamonica would have been able to beat it. But more to your point, Steve Sabol conceded the Jets were the better team.

@silversurfer231 11 ай бұрын

Dude stfu the nfl is rigged been rigged since it inception. The nfl chooses who they want to win cuz its all about gambling and money. There not letting billionof dollars to go to chance amd ,ay the best team win

@greggsloate4677 10 ай бұрын

Agreed! Very good points. And then there's the fact that Johnny Unitas threw an interception, too, not just Earl. Also, in a team sport with 22 guys per side plus special teams' players participating, plus Shula and other coaches, paying off ONE guy-- the quarterback -- is supposed to do the trick? That's a crucial position, true, but again, they brought in the ailing Unitas, and he did them little good. And if you listen to the Jets talk about that game, many of them felt that Baltimore was going to be somewhat of an easy mark for them, based on the films they saw prior to the game. In their eyes, this was not in any way a game where Baltimore should have been favored at all. All due respect to Bubba, who was a great player and whom I loved mostly as Al Bundy's nemesis, Spare Tire Dixon, in that great episode of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, but that's an awful big accusation to make with ZERO evidence. Rosenbloom dancing at a party he had planned is somehow evidence that he got what he wanted in throwing a game, when he didn't need the money in the first place? No, it's not evidence of anything. And in fairness to the undeniably great Bubba, how did HE do in this game? Oh yeah-- badly. He was almost useless. Dave Hermann was blocking his behind very well for all four quarters. So maybe, just maybe, great players like Bubba were shut down by . . . a superior team. Oh yeah, Morrall on his best day was no Namath. And Namath was not the greatest thing since sliced bread, either, #100 on the NFL's all-time 100 players list here on KZbin, with a lot of QBs ahead of him on that list. But he was far superior to Morrall. The merger of the two leagues was the reason for an allegedly fixed SB III game? Uh, no. That merger was already underway and a fate accompli well before this game was ever played.

@sammyvh11 8 ай бұрын

@@rog9601 Jets knew nothing. Only 4 Colts in on it. Rosenbloom, Shula, Morrall, and Lou Michaels the kicker. They put Unitas in for show and he couldnt throw with tendonitis. Sealed the deal .

@Thesandwich10196 6 ай бұрын

I've been a diet Coke fan since 1963, even if the Jets had lost the emoji still would have happened because it had already been set. Besides, the Chiefs dominance over the Vikings the following year was enough evidence to show that parody had almost been established between the two leagues.

@scottodonnell7121 5 ай бұрын

Both NFL teams lost to superior AFL teams. Just that the world wasn't ready for them.

@MarkMadeMan 11 ай бұрын

Well I’m waiting on JETS to make another Super Bowl and rigg it so they can win again 😅

@kevingallagher2127 2 жыл бұрын

With respect to the late Bubba Smith, he's lost. What about Matt Snell walking the vaunted Colts defense up and down the field all game? Yeah, no comment on that. Or Lenny Lyles, his defensive teammate, getting repeatedly torched all game by George Sauer? Not a word about that, either. So Earl Morrall must've choreographed Al Atkinson's deflection of his pass to Tom Mitchell on the first interception? Yeah, no. Sorry, Bubba. And I guess Unitas was in on it too, as he threw an end zone INT as well? This is sour grapes nonsense.

@daveparker5541 2 жыл бұрын

Game was fixed

@Ps-jk9jc 2 жыл бұрын

@@daveparker5541 def fixed games today are fixed back then must’ve been way to easy inside the 20yardline 5 times and no pts as a 19/12 favorite? Yea fixed

@theprofessor8589 2 жыл бұрын

You sound like a Jets/Joe Namath fan. The Game was fixed. New York team, the Mob territory??? Come on, you are like the rest who are AFRAID to deal with and cannot handle the truth. Morrall looked like a deer in headlights, AFTER he went to Cleveland and destroyed the Browns, and he throws idiot like interceptions to who... Randy freakin Beverly??? Come on, it was FIXED. The AFL dies if the Colts, like they should have, stomp the Jets. Snell played good, but that still would not have been enough to beat a team hailed as the greatest of all time just two weeks before that game???? It was fixed, deal with it!!

@plntntvzn Жыл бұрын

@devonlatrell5767 Жыл бұрын

Yea cuz he threw the ball at his helmet 100 miles an hour.. it wasn't supposed to intercepted but it wasn't thrown to be caught.. watch the game

@Califresh21 Ай бұрын

Mike Irvin know it’s true

@fosbury68 Жыл бұрын

So was KC's beat down of the Vikings in SB IV fixed too? This is total silliness. Jets were just better, pure and simple. (then again, maybe Bud Grant did throw 4 Super Bowls LOLOL)

@thunderlightning1980 Жыл бұрын

Carroll Rosenbloom sells the team to a Jew mobster, Robert Irsay.

@ReaperRells 2 ай бұрын

Who ever cut off Michael Irvin from asking the Super Bowl question is a hater n a loser. Didn’t want Irvin to get their shine

@jamespowell9008 2 жыл бұрын

It's based on money,power,politics and positioning.

@65TossTrap 2 жыл бұрын

If you look at the tapes, Morrall just missed Orr. It happens.

@TheChallenger1000 Жыл бұрын

If you look at the tapes, you'll see that he missed way more than just Orr. He played as if he forgot every play in the playbook. It was fishy AF.

@ckobo84 Жыл бұрын

So he just thought his wide receiver disappeared into another dimension? Pretty sure he knew where his receiver was supposed to be and there was no portal to the Bermuda triangle that got him.

@scottodonnell7121 5 ай бұрын

@@ckobo84 he was the primary receiver and Morrall never looked at him!

@greggsloate4677 10 ай бұрын

Where's the evidence of ANY of this? Then there's the fact that Johnny Unitas threw an interception, too, not just Earl. Also, in a team sport with 22 guys per side plus special teams' players participating, plus Shula and other coaches, paying off ONE guy-- the quarterback -- is supposed to do the trick? That's a crucial position, true, but again, they brought in the ailing Unitas, and he did them little good. And if you listen to the Jets talk about that game, many of them felt that Baltimore was going to be somewhat of an easy mark for them, based on the films they saw prior to the game. In their eyes, this was not in any way a game where Baltimore should have been favored at all. All due respect to Bubba, who was a great player and whom I loved mostly as Al Bundy's nemesis, Spare Tire Dixon, in that great episode of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, but that's an awful big accusation to make with ZERO evidence. Rosenbloom dancing at a party he had planned is somehow evidence that he got what he wanted in throwing a game, when he didn't need the money in the first place? What was he supposed to do, change the party to a funeral? Who died? No, it's not evidence of anything. And in fairness to the undeniably great Bubba, how did HE do in this game? Oh yeah-- badly. He was almost useless. Was HE in the tank? Dave Hermann was blocking his behind very well for all four quarters. So maybe, just maybe, great players like Bubba were shut down by . . . a superior team. Oh yeah, Morrall on his best day was no Namath. And Namath was not the greatest thing since sliced bread, either, #100 on the NFL's all-time 100 players list here on KZbin, with a lot of QBs ahead of him on that list. But he was far superior to Morrall. The merger of the two leagues was the reason for an allegedly fixed SB III game? Uh, no. That merger was already underway and a fate accompli well before this game was ever played.

@sammyvh11 8 ай бұрын

Unitas was 50% all season with chronic tendonitis of his throwing elbow. He was put into the game for show they had to he WAS NOT IN THE FIX. When he threw the interception lots of people suddenly got much richer and made it look legit.

@midnight-2021 22 күн бұрын

You are blind dude!

@Colt-ii4qn 2 жыл бұрын

Colts never got over this loss, Joe Namath beat them straight up. Excuses, Bubba is way wrong 😑 👎

@rog9601 11 ай бұрын

That game meant a lot for the whole NFL - AFL I would not be surprised if there was something behind it.

@billbergendahl2911 2 жыл бұрын

I have always believed Super III was rigged.

@rog9601 2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know more as I have not heard many players or coaches comment on it.

@joshuacruz4244 2 жыл бұрын

Nonsense. This is nothing but a conspiracy theory please watch the game for yourself and see how the colts just were outplayed by a better jets team. From the beginning to the end the jets forced key turnovers that changed the pace of the game over and over again. Their ground game was too much for the colts and their defense was top notch. That 1968 Jets team was completely overlooked and underrated by the NFL experts of that time who thought it would be a domination. They thought wrong ! This guy Bubba Smith was just salty that his team was defeated. Jets had a tougher and better team than those colts end of story. Super bowl 3 Champion NY jets.

@plntntvzn Жыл бұрын

@glostonandersoniii2443 11 ай бұрын

Too many coincidences is not a coincidence.

@silversurfer231 11 ай бұрын

The fact u you used the term conspiracy theory i know your a dumb sheep

@brdempsey69 3 ай бұрын

@joshuacruz4244 You are 100% right. I've watched SB III, in its entirety, & there is ZERO evidence of the game being fixed. The Colts were only trailing 7-0 at the half, but what happened in the 3rd QTR is what everybody should take notice of. The Colts just flat out got smothered by the Jets in the 3rd QTR and that is where the game was really lost for the Colts.

@livelyricsbyluc-pw7ud 9 ай бұрын

You conspiracy nuts are something else...sad, soulless people who want to take away the joy from regular folks. Even the commentators in the clip don't believe it by their expressions...

@morrisnettles44 5 ай бұрын

🤡

@fosbury68 2 жыл бұрын

Bubba making excuses for getting his ass kicked.

@rog9601 2 жыл бұрын

You never know, but things seemed to be set in motion for an upset.

@scottodonnell7121 2 жыл бұрын

Bubba confronted Joe Namath once and told him it was a fixed game and a cheap win for the Jets. So Namath replied, well you were there too. So if there was a fix you must have been in on it because you didn't do anything all day!

@Colt-ii4qn 2 жыл бұрын

No doubt