NFL Fabulous 50's

[@chrishall6419]

These bring back great memories of watching football with my dad and cousins...love ole Art Donovan...

[@Salvatore1268]

These VHS tapes were absolutely wonderful and a godsend in my pre cable days 3:39 awesome song awesome work

[@rockvilleraven]

Gino Marchetti is also famous for the Gino's Restaurant Chain, that innovated fast food dining rooms and had the territorial rights to serve Kentucky Fried Chicken from the Col. One burger they sold was the "Gino's Giant' after his nickname. He revived the chain around the year 2000 but its more of a "fast causal" format.

[@kidmack3556]

I've recently learned that Marchetti and Matson were both on the fantastic '52 USF Don's team. I knew Matson was from San Francisco but had never heard that of Marchetti. USF hasn't fielded a varsity football team in quite a while due to politics...

[@stevekloepping9634]

I love the chicken eating contest story. Art Donavan is awesome.

[@rockvilleraven]

Even when they didn't have a NFL team, Baltimore had a football talk show,, "Barase, Donavan and Fans, hosted by Tom Davis. Artie usually stole the show, it was on Home Team Sports. It evolved into todays Touchdown Baltimore on MASN. But it just Tom and Sportswriter for the Sun and Bruce Laird and is more of an X's and O's type of show.

[@LuVanBramer]

Pat summeral old giant fans remember the impossible field goal he made against the browns in a blizzard. In 1958. Went on to become one of the greatest announcers ever what a difference between him and the blabber mouths we have today

[@HENDRIX2099]

Most of the people back when by having going thru the hardships of life knew what was really a privilege and the real value of what was earned. :)

[@MrMenefrego1]

If NFL great Hardy Brown thought that the NFL was "a sissy game" back in the extremely violent '80’s, What would his description of the league be in the 21st century, is there a level below 'Sissy'? I played football in the 1960's-'70's in school, and yes it was violent but, we FREEKIN' LOVED IT!

[@connarcowanakacliffordoneo9095]

Trivia fact: in the early 50s the great curly lambeau coached the Cardinals and in the late 1950s bud Adams and lamar hunt tried to but the team and move them to Texas. Failures with those deals lead to the formation of the American football league

[@rockvilleraven]

And then the NFL broke their promise to expand by putting the Dallas Cowboys in the same town as Hunt's Dallas Texans in 1960's so Hunt would get any traction there. After winning the AFL title in 1962, he saw the handwriting on the wall and moved his team to Kansas City which gave him a sweetheart deal, 2 years free rent of Municipal Stadium, 25000 guaranteed Season tickets, actually it was 15000 sold but twice as much was sold when he was in Dallas. The Cowboys bought his old practice field and paid for part of the move.

[@gluserty]

I love Steve Sabol's shirt & tie here, and so would Sonny Crockett.

[@veggieoilerfan2940]

Hardy Brown referred to the NFL as a sissy game back in the 80’s. What would his exact description of the league be now?

[@gluserty]

That's a great question: likely, he'd be appalled. Compared to the 2010's-current, the 1980's are the epitome of rugged play (with nasty defenses, especially in the NFC like the Bears & Giants, it officially was pretty brutal. In 1988, all around the league QB's went down like one of Mike Tyson's opponents). The 1950's players like Chuck Bednarik though, some of them survived combat missions in WWII, so a game of pigskin was simply a rolling good time and a way to practice some legal violence.

[@dutdut2.052]

he’d probably be shocked at how much better of athletes they were than in his era

[@MIKECNW]

Could care less what he thought. I sort of have mixed feelings about pro-football now and then. It's possible the NFL has gotten overprotective but then again some may have over did it a bit. My understanding Hardy was a bit of a nut. I understand he hot with his shoulder pad which I'm guessing not every player did and hurt other badly and he seemed to have thought it was funny judging my his interviews. Even heard he knocked out someone's eye. quite a disturbed man.

[@steverottschaefer8972]

@@MIKECNW waaaahhh

[@MIKECNW]

@@steverottschaefer8972 Fuck off.

[@tomservo5347]

LOL the players thought Chuck Bednarik actually killed Frank Gifford when they saw him being wheeled off on a gurney.

[@24quorthonschuldiner62]

That chicken eating story from Art Donovan was also featured on NFL Films video Follies, Crunches and Highlights

[@alextomlin5674]

My dad played for the chicago bears one season in 1961 drafed by the St louis cardinals went but got traded to the bears during the draft , he told me stories on all of some these guys in the fifties he played against especially bounties on players before it got exposed by Sean Payton's Saints ... Then he said to me " Son we never went together from opposing teams to the same locker. Rooms " ,, .He said if a player cheap shot you in the first half , I would get him back in the 2nd half after haftime and lay his ass out... [ another words ok Im gonna get you back , when you least expected it.. I ask him how much how much did you get , $3000 he said for a year.. He said Mike Ditka was his teammate . HE Said The Reason Ditka went to the Cowboys Because offer more money $ 40,000 and George Hallas of. The Bears was Cheap.. He said look at all the old NFLfilms on the bears and you never see there faces with there helmets off. He said you take your helmet off do interviews you be fined or off the team or you wanted more money.. Hallas was old school . I think one bear player from Nfl lost treasures forgot his name he was linebacker defensive end guy took his helmet off an saw his face.. One last thing, Hallas Had the fences covered in black during practices , so he didn't want spies of other teams know what he was doing... WOW,,, ( Hallas was good coach , but did crazy things... ) my Dad said,,,,

[@alextomlin5674]

Sorry I misspelled Halas Last name one L not 2...

[@majik_man]

Thanks for the comments great story! Hlas sounds like he would suck playing for him.

[@steveswangler6373]

today's players are "bigger, faster and stronger". but how many of them could play real football like they used to play last century? does anyone really believe that today's quarterbacks would have the success they had playing when quarterbacks were treated as actual football players and were allowed to be hit?

[@beatlejim64]

"REAL" football players!!!

[@dutdut2.052]

today’s players would kill these guys

[@beatlejim64]

@@dutdut2.052 You're dreaming!!! The stuff that they did back in the 1950's would get them thrown out of a game today! You can't do anything today! It's basically touch football! Guys always running out of bounds...falling down after catching a pass before they get hit. These "players" today are shit! You must be young!!!

[@georgemcfly3482]

Hardy Brown @ 13:00

[@larryrogers361]

Brady would have quit after the first full contact drill

[@dutdut2.052]

imagine one of them trying to tackle derrick henry lmaooooo

[@toddhursey7418]

Derrick Henry vs Hardy Brown. All my money is on Brown.

[@toddhursey7418]

@@dutdut2.052 millennials lololololol

[@steveswangler6373]

crybrady would have quit as soon as he heard "full contact" i get sick every time i hear someone refer to him as GOAT. NO ONE PLAYING TODAY EVEN QUALIFIES IN THE ARGUMENT BECAUSE THEY DONT PLAY REAL FOOTBALL ANYMORE. (let alone crybrady is a cheating POS)

[@snowballcorners]

Detroit Lions 4 divisional championships in the 50s, add 3 league championships all 3 coming at the expense of Cleveland.

[@sdgakatbk]

Yep. I count dominance in terms of championships and nothing else. So for the 50's, the Lions and Browns were the dominant teams, both with 3 championships.

[@nosportsteamfollower516]

Last year players wore flags on the sides of their uniforms and I can't figure out why. Did anyone else notice that?

[@robertbateman2355]

Half of the players would be ineligible to play for Paul Brown in today’s No Fun League

[@peace-yv4qd]

Grew up in the fifties. The last decent decade.

[@dutdut2.052]

moron

[@toddhursey7418]

@@dutdut2.052 punk

[@kdinva]

If Tom Brady played in the '50's; he would have quit after 3 games...

[@dutdut2.052]

lmao no he wouldn’t modern athletes are so much better imagine them trying to tackle derrick henry

[@toddhursey7418]

@@dutdut2.052 how about Marion motley,Larry csonka. Heard of them. Notice through out this program they say TOUGH, A HUNDRED TIMES. Not anymore.

[@kidmack1121]

It would be extremely difficult for Brady to have been successful back then... Too immobile.

[@steveswangler6373]

@@dutdut2.052 you are clueless. Jim Brown, the greatest running back in history played in the fifties. they had difficulty tackling him but they did it. and oh yeah, back then DEFENSES WERE ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO HIT THE OFFENSIVE PLAYERS. IN SHORT, PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS. TODAY'S NFL ISN'T EVEN FOOTBALL.

[@steveswangler6373]

CRYBRADY WOULD NOT HAVE EVEN MADE IT INTO THE LEAGUE. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CUT IN PRESEASON FOR BEING A PANSY.

[@Psilanderfan1884]

Roger Goodell 🌈 would have shrieked and fainted watching football in the 50’s....!!

[@SuperBamaBob]

️🏈️🏈️🏈

[@beatlejim64]

Call it "wussball" now...

[@toddhursey7418]

Hardy Brown!!!!!!!! Were have you gone? Jesus loves you more then you will know.Modern day Football is for sissies, Sorry millennials.

[@snowballcorners]

xx

[@sd31263]

Not one word about the Detroit Lions? Seriously? All that time wasted on the Chicago Cardinals, the worst team of the decade, while ignoring a team that won three NFL championships against the sainted Cleveland Browns.

[@majik_man]

I agree, and the Lion's beat the Ram's in 52 which were a dyno team at that point, coming off the 51 Championship. The Ram's faded fast after that. For me personally i think if the 49 Brown's coulda played the NFL champions the 49 Eagles that would been the best game of the first 40 years of the NFL. Team's faded fast in these year's due to injury and Motley was pretty faded after the 1950 season. When i think of the great Brown's i think 49 & 1950. The 49 Cleveland Brown's isn't barely acknowledged due to the league. Paul brown did a good job rebuilding them, definitely not a great job as he traded away SO much talent. Had he not been so difficult & stubborn they would have probably won every year of the 50's. He got rid of multiple hall of fame players.

[@adestra6840]

There is a second part of this documentary which features Bobby Layne and the Lions. Hopefully it's on KZbin somewhere.

[@Prfdt3]

There is something missing in todays game compared to back then.