Great moments in football

[tacitus]

you can’t make this stuff up

[MVKBUGATTI]

@tacitus

you can’t make this stuff up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4fv_yq86d4&feature=aso**touchdown!… Balyor!**

[Warren]

1979: Michigan vs. Indiana - Carter's game winner

[TheBoogieMan]

LOL classic. I remember something similar happening during a Cowboys game some seasons back.

[John_Sebastian]

@tacitus

you can’t make this stuff up

Sad Trombone

[Warren]

1967 NFL Championship

Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers attempting to win an unprecedented third consecutive NFL Championship.

30 second version:

The Longest Yard

Ten minute version:

Commentary:

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[MVKBUGATTI]

@Warren

1967 NFL Championship

Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers attempting to win an unprecedented third consecutive NFL Championship.

Warren are you suggesting The Pack are going to put something on The Vikes.

[Warren]

Superbowl III - Johnny Unitas vs. Joe Namath (January 1969)

Super Bowl III was the third AFL-NFL Championship Game in professional American football, but the first to officially bear the name “Super Bowl”. (The two previous AFL-NFL Championship Games came to be known, retroactively, as “Super Bowls”.)

Wikipedia

intro - (2:46)

Super Bowl III - Game Intro

Unitas intercepted, one minute

Namath and the Jets, one minute

AFL vs. NFL - commentary, four minutes

This game is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in sports history. The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets (11-3) defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts (13-1) by a score of 16–7. It was the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL.

[Warren]

Bo Schembeckler vs. Woody Hayes - Game 1 (November 1969)

@Wikipedia/Schembechler

In 1968, the year before Schembechler became head coach, Hayes made it clear how far Michigan had fallen behind its traditional rival, when the Wolverines lost 50–14. At the end of the game, Hayes decided to pursue a two-point conversion rather than a simple kick for an extra point. Legend has it that when Hayes was asked why he “went for two,” he responded “Because I couldn’t go for three.” The embarrassment of that outcome set the stage for the 1969 rematch.

In 1969, the Buckeyes entered the game as defending national champions and 17-point favorites with the top ranking in the country and a 22-game winning streak. Hayes’ 1969 squad included five first-team All-Americans. But Schembechler’s 7–2 Wolverines dominated a team Hayes later considered his best, beating Ohio State 24–12. In a single afternoon, Schembechler and his charges resurrected Michigan’s football tradition and returned the program among college football’s elite. Both Schembechler and Hayes, who remained personal friends until Hayes’ death in 1987, agreed it was Hayes’ best team and Schembechler’s biggest victory. Michigan’s win over Ohio State in 1969 is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in college football history and the most significant win for a Michigan team ever.

The Wolverines and Buckeyes proceeded to engage in a fierce “Ten Year War” that elevated an already storied Michigan-Ohio State rivalry into one of college football’s greatest annual grudge matches. For ten years the two dominated the Big 10, splitting ten conference titles between them and finishing second eight times. They were so dominant that the Big Ten earned a nickname of “Big Two, Little Eight” during that era. After a decade of memorable on-field stratagems, sideline antics, and locker room psychological ploys, Schembechler held a 5–4–1 advantage.

1969: Michigan 24 #1 Ohio State 12 (PART 1)

1969: Michigan 24 #1 Ohio State 12 (PART 2)

1969: Michigan 24 #1 Ohio State 12 (PART 3)

[P51Mustang]

[P51Mustang]

This is actually a bit better.

[Warren]

Alabama vs. USC, 1970

The Football Game That Broke Racial Barriers

[Warren]

The Immaculate Reception, 1972

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Immaculate Reception is the nickname given to one of the most famous plays in the history of American football. It occurred in the AFC divisional playoff game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Oakland Raiders at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1972. Late in the game, after Frenchy Fuqua, a Pittsburgh halfback, collided with Raiders Safety Jack Tatum as he tried to make a catch, Pittsburgh running back Franco Harris caught the deflected football just before it hit the ground, and ran in for a touchdown that won the game for the Steelers.

NFL Films has chosen it as the greatest play of all time, as well as the most controversial.[1] The play was a turning point for the Steelers, who reversed four decades of futility with their first playoff win ever, and went on to win four Super Bowls by the end of the decade. The play’s name is a neologism derived from the Immaculate Conception, a dogma in the Roman Catholic Church that Mary, mother of Jesus, when conceived by her parents, bore no stain of original sin. The phrase was first used on air by Myron Cope, a Pittsburgh sportscaster who was reporting on the Steelers’ victory. A Pittsburgh woman, Sharon Levosky, called Cope the night of the game and suggested the name, which was coined by her friend Michael Ord. Cope used the term on television and the phrase stuck.

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Wikipedia entry - Immaculate Reception