NFL Year In Review 1964

[@brötzmannsax]

DC Stadium, gorgeous cars, great fans, Sonny J. & Charlie T. oh Lord take me back!

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Bill McPeak coached the first Redskins team to play in D.C. Stadium in 1961. On October 1, 1961, the New York Giants spoiled the Redskins debut in their palatial new home with a 24-21 victory before 36,367 fans. Incidentally, the Redskins were celebrating their 25th anniversary season in the Nation's Capitol.

[@howardcosell2022]

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 The Skins lost home field advantage when they moved away from RFK

[@johnhorn3344]

Another fantastic NFL (Blair) Films production. I could watch these all day.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Blair Motion Pictures started these NFL highlight films in 1962, beginning with the World Championship Game between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants at Yankee Stadium. All it took was a Philadelphia coat maker named Ed Sabol, who was filming his son,Steve, playing college football with a Bell and Howell camera. To do this big game, Blair Motion Pictures got the then-14 team league to pay $400,000 apiece to film this game. Chris Schenkel, then a CBS broadcaster, narrated. It proved successful. In 1965, the NFL took over the company and it was renamed NFL Films. (A bit of trivia: Blair is Ed Sabol's daughter .)

[@michaelleroy9281]

The name was changed to NFL Films in 1965 Blair was bought by the NFL

[@t4texastom587]

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 Kudos to you my friend for providing that very interesting information. Great story on the Sabol family.🏈

[@kevincone1674]

I really hope the Washington team show up to pay honor to Charley Taylor at his memorial service April 2nd. R.I.P. #42

[@dustyrustymusty3577]

When football was football. A million thanks for posting.

[@1111mort]

Notice how most of the pass plays are thrown DOWNFIELD as opposed to today’s preponderance for short passes. The NFL today isn’t even close to as entertaining as the old days.

[@CowSaysMooMoo]

I'm 55 and not a Wash fan, but I love Sonny, and I'll ALWAYS call them the Redskins. I encourage others to do the same.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

I liked the name Redskins.

[@lloydkline1518]

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 like Chicago Blackhawks! Cleveland Indians

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

@@lloydkline1518 I'd wish Cleveland's baseball team stayed the Indians. Poor Louis Sockalexis is turning in his grave. The Indians were allegedly named for Sockalexis,in 1915, a Penobscot who was believed to be the first Native American to play in the majors. He played for the old Cleveland Spiders from 1897-99. Getting rid of Chief Wahoo was sad; a block "C" motif and the name Indians did not take, so in 2021 it was dropped.

[@wallyb55232]

Just about every pass Sonny threw was with perfect touch, right on the money hitting the receiver in stride. What a pure passer.

[@karch139]

Mitchell Taylor and Sonny are probably the best qb-Wr-wr combo in nfl history.

[@juliettehughes2851]

And Jerry Smith who arrives '65

[@chrisfulmer6000]

Awesome video! Reminds me how much the game has changed. Love Sonny J. those Redskins teams of the 1960s.

[@theawesomebrothers7928]

Number 43 is my cousin on this team

[@theawesomebrothers7928]

11:08

[@chickey333]

Yes... 43 at the goal line behind the no. 7 referee. Got it... thanks.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Rookie Tom Walters (1964-67). He was the last Redskins player to wear 43 before Larry Brown (1969-76).

[@martinober249]

That Washington win over the Giants gave linebacker Sam Huff a lot of satisfaction. He never forgave the Giants for trading him.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Yes, watch Giants at Redskins game from 1966

[@michaelleroy9281]

When the team in Washington had a name

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

I still say there is nothing wrong with the name Redskins. It was not intended to be a racial slur. In 1992, former owner Jack Kent Cooke tried to convince a Native American that Redskins was not a dig at his people. Cooke contended the name Redskins meant pride, not dishonor. Commanders is just an okay name. HTTR!

[@theprofessor8589]

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 Jack Kent Cooke was never the most 'racially sensitive' person around, so for you to say he 'assured' an indigenous person that there was nothing wrong with that obviously racist name is both scary and laughable at the same time. The name was racist, simple and plain.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

@@theprofessor8589 My story stands. At least Jack Kent Cooke was a real owner. The owner who was more racist was the man who brought the Redskins to D.C. was George Preston Marshall, but it wasn't over the name. Marshall refused to integrate the Redskins during the 1950s, when the league had black talent. It wasn't until 1962, when he was forced to the locker room of his new home in D.C. Stadium or he'd suffer serious consequences.

[@theprofessor8589]

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 Actually Marshall did way more to help build the NFL into a first rate league than JKC, and brought a first rate product to DC, so to say JKC was a 'real owner' is misleading at best. Was Marshall a psychotic racist? Yes, the NFL version of Donald J Trump.

[@ChrisBChronisterJr92]

Not a Redskins fan. But this history stuff is awesome.

[@tommythomason6187]

I think this was the first year the Cowboys used silver uniforms, replacing the white. I think the Redskins ditched the strange featherstripe, with the spear and feather logos on the helmets. Redskins defense here looks stronger than in the Otto Graham years - 1966-68.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The Redskins had the maroon helmets with the feather stripe between 1959-64. In 1965, they changed to the spear and feather helmets; they were much easier to see if a game was on television.

[@tommythomason6187]

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 Yes, and those unis, from 1965-1968, were classics, copied endlessly by semipro, college and high school squads for years to come. They were modified in Vince Lombardi's only year as coach, to a magenta colored helmet and lighter gold pants. This is my all-time favorite of all gridiron togs. Other classics, IMHO: 49ers, Chargers, 1966 -1973, Oilers' silver, 1968, 1970, 1971, then Columbia blue helmets, 1972 -1974, and Broncos, 1968 -1996 (with slight variations), early New Orleans Saints, 1967-1969, Falcons (red helmets/black jerseys, 1966 -1970, Cowboys (charcoal pants/royal blue jerseys,) 1969 -1974, Bengals, 1968 -1980, and Eagles, 1974 -1984, then Buddy Ryan era, 1985 -1996.

[@buckyoung4578]

It is interesting how people are different. My favorite helmet was the featherstripe down the middle. But, I did like the spear and feather logos on the side also. Sure miss the Skins. And, sad that there is no pro football team in Washington, DC today. There is a new restaurant called the Washington Commanders slop house.

[@michaelleroy9281]

@@buckyoung4578 My favorite was the yellow one with the "R" worn in 1970 and 1971

[@t4texastom587]

@@tommythomason6187 Loved those Redskins uniforms.....'65 - '68. CLASSIC.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Future Viking , rookie Paul Krause had 12 int's

[@chickey333]

Yup.. Paul Krause from Flint (Burton) Bendle High School. The dude could do it all.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Final season the Redskins had that unique helmet looks like a feather as a stripe and this season they wore the white jerseys at home

[@anthonyqgarcia391]

This is just beautiful !

[@CreepyComic]

Charley Taylor was an RB that year!

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

Yes. That season Charlie Taylor caught 53 passes as a rookie to set a then-NFL record for a running back in 1964.

[@sadhumarga7422]

Nice to hear Washington Redskins instead of D.C. football team. But notice no footage versus the Browns.

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The eventual World Champion Browns swept them that season.

[@sadhumarga7422]

Yes! And I was 10 and so excited watching that 27 to zip destruction of the then Baltimore Colts. Ryan to Collins tore them apart.

[@howardcosell2022]

@@sadhumarga7422 Jim had 114 yards rushing also

[@sadhumarga7422]

@@howardcosell2022 the greatest fullback ever! In 63 or 64 my dad took me to Hiram to watch spring training. A big man rubbed my head and my dad told me that was Jim Brown- wow!

[@howardcosell2022]

@@sadhumarga7422 Touched by a legend

[@dennishipsley8703]

The Redskins feather helmets were the best in NFL history

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The Redskins had the stylized feather helmets between 1959-64.

[@t4texastom587]

I liked these very much, but IMO the uniforms and helmet that the Redskins wore AFTER these are one of the best, if not THE best, in NFL history.🏈

[@gdw967]

Sunny Jurgensen had nothing to do with the Commanders. He was a Redskin.

[@eddiekulp1241]

Redskins put on there war paint and give heap big trouble to the giants narrator now days would never be allowed to say that

[@armorybrunotjr.3204]

The narrator is a former Redskins broadcaster from the 1950s, Jim Gibbons.

[@Playsinvain]

Te refs might take you more seriously Dave, if you weren’t wearing one of those plastic mini helmets. 8:50

[@sandrabecht4489]

👍🇩🇪sad they changed their name

[@MichaelSekich]

1964 they were the redskins

[@jrewing-i3m]

Redskins

[@rockyhines5842]

I think they should go back to Redskins, although the new name "Commodes" describes their play and their coach much better.

[@rockyhines5842]

Oh how racist to call the Washington defense "The Wigwam". 🤣