The STRANGEST COACHING in Boston Patriots HISTORY | Bills @ Patriots (1966)

Prior to week 14 of the 1966 AFL season, the Boston Patriots were set to play the Buffalo Bills, with the AFL East title on the line. And Patriots head coach Mike Holovak, for some bizarre reason, decided to talk during his press conference about how good the Bills were, to the point where he was conceding defeat before the game even happened.
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[@VinnyXwolf]

I run a group called History of the Buffalo Bills in Facebook. We have been going through their history game by game and have reached this game. Thanks for this video as it will add to our weekly discussion, Friday night.

[@VinnyXwolf]

Also for future reference, I have heard in Buffalo produced Highlights, before that Bills DB Tom Janik's named is pronounced Yanik. Not sure if that's right, but I tend to trust the home town announced from that era.

[@darrellmayberry7784]

Holovak was right after all as he could not beat the Bills for the AFL East title as two weeks later The Patriots needed a win vs the Jets to win the title but lost 38-28 which allowed the Bills to win the division despite losing to the Patriots twice in 1966. The Bills got to host Kansas City on New Years Day 1967 to see which team would be the AFL team in the first Super Bowl and Buffalo lost 31-7. The game highlighted in this video was Mike Holovak's last great win as Pats coach as after the choke job vs the Jets he had losing seasons in 1967 and 1968 and was fired afterwards to be replaced by the electrified Clive Rush.

[@Fireyninjadog]

Lou saban was the first coach in Patriots history and would later over see the first 2,000 yard rushing season in league history, and no, he and nick saban are not related

[@psychorabbitt]

I guess you could say that he wasn't no Holovak girl.

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

Comment of the day 😂😂😂

[@Deltron3031]

Ahh, Fenway Park football! This was the football season prior to the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox. The Patriots must have brought in a large fraction of the revenue in their minimal home games as compared to the Sox for their 81 home games in 1966. In the years before 1967, the Red Sox were at a real nadir and drawing crowds similar to the Oakland A's current attendance was a regular occurrence.

[@chuckgan]

Is that the same Jim Nantz who is now an NFL announcer? If so, had no clue he ever played football.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Nope. Different spelling. He was Jim Nance

[@chuckgan]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 thanks man!

[@VinnyXwolf]

Also different Race, Jim Nance the Running Back passed away in 1992.

[@WaltGekko]

In some ways, I'm sure SOME Red Sox fans may have felt it was karma for the way the Red Sox got yanked around by the Pats in 1966 (as the Yawkeys, who owned the Red Sox and Fenway Park as I remember reading were forced by the city of Boston to let the Patriots play at Fenway, which continued until the Pats were kicked out following the 1968 season). That 1966 season for the Red Sox was originally supposed to end with a two-game series at home against the then-Washington Senators (now Texas Rangers) that Saturday and Sunday (October 1-2) following an eight-game road trip to Washington, New York and Chicago to face the Senators, Yankees and White Sox respectively. Problem was, the Red Sox apparently were being kicked out of Fenway Park following their series prior to that road trip against the California Angels (now Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) as the Patriots had home games that Sept. 25 against the Chiefs (home opener) and October 2 against the Jets. I suspect Major League Baseball tried to get the Patriots to let the Red Sox play that Friday and Saturday (Sept. 30 and October 1) and end their season a day ahead of everyone else but were denied. The two series with the Senators could not be flipped because the Senators home, DC (later RFK) Stadium had George Washington University, playing their final season of what then was called Major College Football had a home game at DC Stadium that Saturday 10/1 along with the Redskins having a game the next day there against the Steelers (that JG9 noted in a subsequent video here on KZbin) that could not be moved to accommodate a flip of the two Red Sox-Senators series. That resulted in MLB having to scramble and have the Red Sox interrupt a road trip that July 4 to play the original season-ending series against the Senators in a standalone doubleheader, while the Yankees and White Sox (whom the Red Sox and Senators respectively were originally scheduled to play that July 4) also playing a standalone doubleheader in Yankee Stadium using games borrowed from a series originally slated for that Sept. 20-22 leaving that as a ONE game series scheduled for Tuesday 9/20 with the games against their original opponents made up as part of doubleheaders a couple of days later. That led to the bizarre scenario where the Red Sox finished their season five days ahead of everyone else playing the full 162 games on Tuesday 9/27 playing the White Sox in a doubleheader as apparently, the Patriots wanted the Red Sox completely out of Fenway as soon as possible. That was actually the second of back-to-back doubleheaders for the Red Sox as the day before, the Red Sox following the series with the Yankees had to return to DC to make up a two-game series with the Senators that was rained out the previous Tuesday and Wednesday (9/20-21). That doubleheader drew just 485 fans, the eighth smallest crowd in MLB history AND the smallest EVER for a doubleheader (and the Red Sox actually have at Fenway had three of the six smallest crowds in MLB history as a year earlier on Sept. 28-29, 1965, a two game series with the Angels drew 461 and 409 fans respectively for 870 total, smallest EVER for a regular two-game series and on Oct. 1, 1964 drew just 306 fans for a game against the then-Cleveland Indians (now Guardians) for the smallest ever). That doubleheader on Sept. 26, 1966 occurred on the day Red Barber, a legendary play-by-play voice for the Yankees was told HIS contract was not being renewed but was going to be allowed the finish the 1966 season, this after four days earlier (Sept. 22, 1966) the Yankees played that infamous ONE game series against the White Sox (delayed two days by rain) that drew just 413 fans to Yankee Stadium, smallest in Yankee Stadium history and the fifth-smallest in MLB history where he noted the attendance for that game and not the game itself was the story. The Red Sox-Senators doubleheader wound up being the final games of that season for the Senators as all three games of what was to have become their season-ending series with the Yankees (due to the original final series at Fenway being moved up to July 4) seeing all three games being rained out. This also meant Barber was unable to do a farewell telecast as he was never scheduled to work the Yankees final series of 1966 against the White Sox, a series where the Yankees completed a two-year "first to worst" fall from winning the AL Pennant in 1964 and finishing 10th in 1966. I'd love to see JG do this on his JG7 channel because this was bizarre and is not the whole story because the National League was also affected by the same series of storms that hit the northeast the final two weeks of the 1966 season that led to some of the AL wackiness. This included the Dodgers on the final day of the 1966 season having to win at least one game against the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium to win the NL Pennant and avoid having to sweat out the Giants having to play a makeup game in Cincinnati the day after the 1966 season ended (Monday 10/3) where if the Giants won, the Dodgers and Giants would have had to have play a best-of-three playoff for the NL Pennant. That series in Philly did affect the Dodgers in the World Series and many felt it contributed to the Orioles sweeping the Dodgers in the 1966 World Series.

[@marcus813]

I know those Bills were awesome, but given that the Patriots swept them, I'm left wondering what made Holovak so pessimistic about his Pats. His team proved him wrong!

[@tedkijeski339]

Mike Holovak was a different breed of coach.

[@anthony0358]

Excellent video. I miss the AFL , I miss December playoff games and I miss the days when only division champions made the playoffs

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made two videos about coaches telling their teams before games they had no shot of winning. These were both in 1975. You made another video about Tom Landry bashing the Giants before a 1977 game.

[@DanStrayer]

This unofficial Official historian of the unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone that this unofficial Official historian of the unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian has watched all three of these videos start to finish.

[@CTubeMan]

@@DanStrayer Love it!

[@stevenbauer4799]

jim nantz/rb cbs broadcaster. and lou saban the great quitter spotted. that dude would make pee wee players cry.

[@VinnyXwolf]

Jim Nance the Patriots RB died in 1992, Jim Nantz the CBS Broadcaster was 7 when this game was played.

[@JoeBatson]

Here before anyone else says it. The Patriots coach was no Hollaback girl

[@CTubeMan]

For The Gwen!

[@markbrian7179]

I'm surprised at this because Mike Holovak was usually a positive person.

[@CTubeMan]

At 3:28, “Hello Friends.”

[@DanStrayer]

What a moment!

[@RetroJR3379]

Jim Nantz looked good for his age 😆

[@VinnyXwolf]

Jim Nance the Patriots RB died in 1992, Jim Nantz the CBS Broadcaster was 7 when this game was played.

[@paulframe85]

Nah, it's still Matt Patricia coaching offense in 2022

[@thewarden6050]

The team that beat the bills before and was runner up for 1st place in the division was thought as a push over by their own coach? And then proceeded to say that to the media, I dunno how anyone would think that is smart to do.

[@alangordon9223]

Is one one thwse guys Lou Saban?

[@mrmoose6619]

He coached the University of Maryland in 1966 after leaving Buffalo with back to back AFL Championships in 1964 & 65.

[@stevenbauer4799]

cheating (boston) pats once won an afl playoff game at fenway when a fan ran onto the field to break up a pass late in a pat playoff win.