SB 3 Memories

championjets69 · Apr 12, 2015

JStokes said: ↑

Are the pages stuck together?

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Nope why?

championjets69 · Apr 12, 2015

joe said: ↑

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And so they came into Shea, where the winds were howling out of the open end of the stadium at 35 miles an hour, where Davis had built a protective hut for his team that Ewbank had torn down, and where the Raiders were up to their old tricks.

Namath came out of one pileup with a finger bent three different ways.

"I remember lying on the ground grabbing my hand and Birdwell was on his feet with a big grin on his face, yelling, 'Hey Joe, look, you broke your finger.' And I didn't say anything," Namath remembers. "I was a little bit in semi-shock when I saw it was pointing in the wrong direction."

Later in the first half, the Raiders made their only sack of the game count. Lassiter and Davidson met with the quarterback in the middle, Davidson's airborne knee catching Namath in the helmet. At halftime, with the Jets up 13-10, Namath had to be walked into the locker room by trainer Jeff Snedeker. Ewbank told backup Babe Parilli he might have to go in.

Recalls Namath, "They were looking at my head. I got an injection in my finger and both knees and it was fine. We were able to play."

Early in the fourth quarter, Namath threw an interception. Don Maynard had been beating rookie corner George Atkinson all day, but this time the wind held the ball up and Atkinson undercut it. Namath had to shoulder Atkinson out along the sideline.

"I remember that play well because when I did knock Atkinson out of bounds, he started yelling at me, 'I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.' And my reaction was, 'Shut up, rookie, and play football.' I remember going past my players going off the field and just thinking, 'God dang it.' But after Oakland was able to score, I did let our defensive team know we were going to get it back and sure enough . . ."

Trailing by 23-20 after a Pete Banaszak touchdown, Namath ran back onto the field for the signature drive of his career. He played the Raiders like a fiddle in a three-note samba.

On first down, with the Raider corners strangely playing off, he hit Sauer on an out route for 11 yards. That set up his next play because it lured Atkinson andWillie Brown closer to the line to do, as Namath says, "what they do best." That would be bump and run, or what Maynard called "mug and run."

"Earlier in the game, I told Joe, 'Down the road sometime, I've got things set up pretty good and I've got a long one if you need it,'" Maynard says. "So, Joe told us in the huddle, 'Hey we're going to go for it, so make sure, no holding by you linemen, we're going after it.'"

"I can remember it clearly just like I'm describing it," says Namath. "The team was alerted, 'Be ready for the check. If we check, we're going to go to maximum protection and run go (routes). Maynard had told me he could get a step on that guy and sure enough, we broke the huddle and came up to the line and I saw Atkinson and Brown come up, so we audibilized to the pass to Maynard and you know the result."

Maynard calls it his "Million Dollar Catch" because of what it would mean. Here's how he explains it:

"Joe threw the ball and I was going to catch it about 11 o'clock over my inside shoulder. The wind was really blowing that day. I'm reaching out to catch the ball and all of a sudden I'm looking up and the ball is kind of fading and it goes over to 12 o'clock and it goes over to 1 o'clock and my head's looking at the sky, just following the ball. I caught it at about 2 o'clock."

Maynard's momentum took him out of bounds at the 6. Namath says he thought of a taxi driver who once told him the Jets get too conservative near the goal line. He thought the Raiders would be expecting the run. He called a play-action pass. Maynard says he came out of the huddle as the No. 1 receiver and ended up being the No. 4 receiver – on his knees with the ball in the end zone.

The play worked because the Jets line gave Namath time to find Maynard, after his first three options were covered. Namath even tripped on the play, regained his balance and made his throw.

"If you ever look at that film, just watch (Maynard)," Namath says. "He just sets up Atkinson with his pass route prior to his break. Maynard had that clock in his head. He knew if I was coming back to him how long it would take. He was biding his time, man, and made his break at the right instant. He broke clean and I was able to see him and get it to him."

There were plenty of other heroes that day. Because rookie Sam Walton had been schooled by Lassiter in the Heidi Game, Dave Herman had shifted over from his regular right guard spot and was playing tackle for the first time in his life, giving away 25 pounds.

"Weeb asked me when I was driving him home if I'd do it and I said anything to help us win," Herman recalls. "Then I thought about Lassiter and said, 'God Almighty, this is going to be a challenge.'"

Namath remembers Herman coming back in the first series, saying, "I think I pissed (Lassiter) off," but he won the day as he would against Bubba Smith in the Super Bowl.

Then there was safety Jim Hudson, who had been ejected from the Heidi game, making stop after stop as the Raiders threatened but were turned away with a field goal and a failed try on fourth-and-10. But the Raiders kept coming.

Daryle Lamonica who had been sacked by Verlon Biggs on an earlier fourth-down try and could feel him coming again. He had Charlie Smith on a swing pass but threw behind him, a backward lateral. Jets linebacker Ralph Baker picked it up. Today, he would have scored a touchdown. Then it was a dead ball. But the Jets had it back and Oakland would eventually run out of time.

According to Baker, it was the same play Oakland used to score in the Heidi game when they sent two backs out of the backfield, one up the seam and the other into the flat. Smith went up the seam the last time and scored. This time, the backs reversed positions.

"They wanted to get the ball to Charlie Smith out in the flat," he recalls. "He circled out there and I was waiting for that play all game because it was burning in my mind from the last time. I kind of jumped on the guy out in the flat right away and for whatever reason Lamonica threw behind him. I knew it was a free ball."

The postgame celebration was wild. It was against AFL regulations to have champagne in the dressing room, but 25 cases were smuggled in anyway. Namath poured some of it on talk show host Johnny Carson's head.

"It was especially satisfactory," Namath says. "It was only my fourth year in the league but my experience with (the Raiders) and their players wasn't always good. You just didn't like 'em. I just didn't like 'em and you know what, if they were a poor team, I probably wouldn't have cared. But something happens when a team is good. Then you start to get personal about things.

"It was," he says, "a joy."
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I have newspaper articles from the day after that most glorious day of all NYJ days ever that I am in the process of preparing for posting

championjets69 · Apr 12, 2015

Tunamelt said: ↑

That's an amazing photograph. Look at the sky in the background! You just don't see Super Bowl pictures like this anymore, since they're all played in domes these days...
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I do not think your post is correct as they still play the SB in non domes like when they played in NJ. I also believe the Miami stadium is getting a major F/lift & will be again hosting a SB.

championjets69 · Apr 12, 2015

ukjetsfan said: ↑

Thanks for the kind offer, but I don't want to be in the same library as you, let alone on the same page.

Try to understand that there can be good things in a story even if it ends badly and you will be able to get some enjoyment out of life.
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I really do not think U care 1 iota about my enjoyment. In fact I believe U rather see me underground then typing this post. So in American English U are just plain FOS. Now U will remember for all times that in FB if U R not a WINNER then U R A LOSER. Again to get yourself up to speed U should join Twitter so U really find out about the NYJs & all 31 other teams as well

joe · Apr 12, 2015

Super Bowl III
Jan. 12, 1969 • Miami
Jets Shock Colts in Super Bowl, 16-7

By Dave Brady
Washington Post Staff Writer
January 13, 1969

MIAMI, Jan. 12 — The New York Jets exposed the myth of National Football League superiority over the "little league" as a colossal fraud today by inflicting a 16-7 disaster on the Baltimore Colts in the third Super Bowl game.

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end of article vvv:

Namath at first was reluctant to talk after the game, but not teammate Bake Turner. The substitute split end singled out Pete Rozelle, the former commissioner of the NFL, who now rules all of pro football, and said "Welcome to the American Football League."

Rozelle was not amused, Turner said.

© Copyright 1969 The Washington Post Company

championjets69 · Apr 12, 2015

Brooklyn said: ↑

Champ.

I respect you and your age but seriously you are the bad apple here. Sorry but it is the fact. Why do I hate you? I really don't hate you or anybody. But I dislike you and I don't think I am the only one here.

Here are my reasons. I don't think you enjoy the good things about Jets. You focus on the negatives and blame some of us who try to see the good in certain cases. Your interactions with others on this board irritates me. You have zero sense of humor and it is impossible to sustain a meaningful discussion with you. But still, I think you are a colorful personality so please don't go anywhere.
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Well so far I have not spotted a reply to you posting some "good" things that have occurred to the NYJs lately making your claim that I NEVER post anything good about the NYJs was just BS on your part. To get started I will say drafting & signing JWN in 65 was a better then average move. Now it is your turn to post anything good that occurred in modern times about the NYJs

championjets69 · Apr 12, 2015

JStokes said: ↑

Shallow grave?

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I do not think anybody that hates me cares if it is shallow or deep so long as I am underground & not posting any longer

Brook! · Apr 12, 2015

championjets69 said: ↑

Well so far I have not spotted a reply to you posting some "good" things that have occurred to the NYJs lately making your claim that I NEVER post anything good about the NYJs was just BS on your part. To get started I will say drafting & signing JWN in 65 was a better then average move. Now it is your turn to post anything good that occurred in modern times about the NYJs
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Can someone respond to out dear grumpy champ since I am on the phone.

Champ, like I said it is impossible to sustain a meaningful discussion with you. I will just clarify one thing and be done with it.

I am not claiming Jets have been as good a franchise as Steelers or Cowboys. But in those 46 years everything that happened can't be called failure. For you everything is either black or white. I say there is also gray in between and I embrace the gray's such as 2 AFCCG's etc.

You are a pure darksider and that's my problem with you.

PS: How the hell did you make that claim that I wanted to see you dead? And how the hell me asking your age is disrespect? I wanted to know if you were grown up enough yo enjoy our only Superbowl victory.

Brook! · Apr 12, 2015

championjets69 said: ↑

I do not think anybody that hates me cares if it is shallow or deep so long as I am underground & not posting any longer
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Stop with this nonsense. Nobody wants to see you dead. You are grumpy and we accept this fact. Move on already.

championjets69 · Apr 12, 2015

Brooklyn said: ↑

Can someone respond to out dear grumpy champ since I am on the phone.

Champ, like I said it is impossible to sustain a meaningful discussion with you. I will just clarify one thing and be done with it.

I am not claiming Jets have been as good a franchise as Steelers or Cowboys. But in those 46 years everything that happened can't be called failure. For you everything is either black or white. I say there is also gray in between and I embrace the gray's such as 2 AFCCG's etc.

You are a pure darksider and that's my problem with you.

PS: How the hell did you make that claim that I wanted to see you dead? And how the hell me asking your age is disrespect? I wanted to know if you were grown up enough yo enjoy our only Superbowl victory.
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You are totally forgetting the saying wow you must have zero memory retention & I really mean that. IF YOU ARE NOT A WINNER THEN UR A LOSER so the 2 AFGCGs mean ZERO. I really encourage you to broaden your horizons by getting a TWITTER account. What different does it make in your world if I was a grown up or not certainly from the posts I make about the 65/68 NYJs if you had even a small brain U would be able to see very clearly I was not a infant or a teenager when the NYJs won SB 3. Since U confirm U hate me for my posts then please put me on IGNORE now

Brook! · Apr 12, 2015

championjets69 said: ↑

You are totally forgetting the saying wow you must have zero memory retention & I really mean that. IF YOU ARE NOT A WINNER THEN UR A LOSER so the 2 AFGCGs mean ZERO. I really encourage you to broaden your horizons by getting a TWITTER account. What different does it make in your world if I was a grown up or not certainly from the posts I make about the 65/68 NYJs if you had even a small brain U would be able to see very clearly I was not a infant or a teenager when the NYJs won SB 3. Since U confirm U hate me for my posts then please put me on IGNORE now
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Nah. I won't put you in ignore. You are not that important for me to care Carry on please.

championjets69 · Apr 12, 2015

Brooklyn said: ↑

Nah. I won't put you in ignore. You are not that important for me to care Carry on please.
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U R very good in avoiding answering my questions. H'mm wonder why that is?

JStokes · Apr 12, 2015

Brooklyn said: ↑

Nah. I won't put you in ignore. You are not that important for me to care Carry on please.
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Ignore is for quitters.

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LongIslandBlitz · Apr 12, 2015

Hopefully we can make a Superbowl 50 memories thread soon,This way guys who were born after the invention of the color television have something to talk about seeing

Brook! · Apr 12, 2015

championjets69 said: ↑

U R very good in avoiding answering my questions. H'mm wonder why that is?
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Champ. You never let go, do you? I already declared you a victor of this argument. I got no answers to you. You win Mr Grumpy Darksider. Move on already.

Walt White · Apr 12, 2015

Brooklyn said: ↑

Champ. You never let go, do you? I already declared you a victor of this argument. I got no answers to you. You win Mr Grumpy Darksider. Move on already.
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Champ is old school yo.

Go Jets...Never Say Die!!

nycarl · Apr 12, 2015

joe said: ↑

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And so they came into Shea, where the winds were howling out of the open end of the stadium at 35 miles an hour, where Davis had built a protective hut for his team that Ewbank had torn down, and where the Raiders were up to their old tricks.

Namath came out of one pileup with a finger bent three different ways.

"I remember lying on the ground grabbing my hand and Birdwell was on his feet with a big grin on his face, yelling, 'Hey Joe, look, you broke your finger.' And I didn't say anything," Namath remembers. "I was a little bit in semi-shock when I saw it was pointing in the wrong direction."

Later in the first half, the Raiders made their only sack of the game count. Lassiter and Davidson met with the quarterback in the middle, Davidson's airborne knee catching Namath in the helmet. At halftime, with the Jets up 13-10, Namath had to be walked into the locker room by trainer Jeff Snedeker. Ewbank told backup Babe Parilli he might have to go in.

Recalls Namath, "They were looking at my head. I got an injection in my finger and both knees and it was fine. We were able to play."

Early in the fourth quarter, Namath threw an interception. Don Maynard had been beating rookie corner George Atkinson all day, but this time the wind held the ball up and Atkinson undercut it. Namath had to shoulder Atkinson out along the sideline.

"I remember that play well because when I did knock Atkinson out of bounds, he started yelling at me, 'I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.' And my reaction was, 'Shut up, rookie, and play football.' I remember going past my players going off the field and just thinking, 'God dang it.' But after Oakland was able to score, I did let our defensive team know we were going to get it back and sure enough . . ."

Trailing by 23-20 after a Pete Banaszak touchdown, Namath ran back onto the field for the signature drive of his career. He played the Raiders like a fiddle in a three-note samba.

On first down, with the Raider corners strangely playing off, he hit Sauer on an out route for 11 yards. That set up his next play because it lured Atkinson andWillie Brown closer to the line to do, as Namath says, "what they do best." That would be bump and run, or what Maynard called "mug and run."

"Earlier in the game, I told Joe, 'Down the road sometime, I've got things set up pretty good and I've got a long one if you need it,'" Maynard says. "So, Joe told us in the huddle, 'Hey we're going to go for it, so make sure, no holding by you linemen, we're going after it.'"

"I can remember it clearly just like I'm describing it," says Namath. "The team was alerted, 'Be ready for the check. If we check, we're going to go to maximum protection and run go (routes). Maynard had told me he could get a step on that guy and sure enough, we broke the huddle and came up to the line and I saw Atkinson and Brown come up, so we audibilized to the pass to Maynard and you know the result."

Maynard calls it his "Million Dollar Catch" because of what it would mean. Here's how he explains it:

"Joe threw the ball and I was going to catch it about 11 o'clock over my inside shoulder. The wind was really blowing that day. I'm reaching out to catch the ball and all of a sudden I'm looking up and the ball is kind of fading and it goes over to 12 o'clock and it goes over to 1 o'clock and my head's looking at the sky, just following the ball. I caught it at about 2 o'clock."

Maynard's momentum took him out of bounds at the 6. Namath says he thought of a taxi driver who once told him the Jets get too conservative near the goal line. He thought the Raiders would be expecting the run. He called a play-action pass. Maynard says he came out of the huddle as the No. 1 receiver and ended up being the No. 4 receiver – on his knees with the ball in the end zone.

The play worked because the Jets line gave Namath time to find Maynard, after his first three options were covered. Namath even tripped on the play, regained his balance and made his throw.

"If you ever look at that film, just watch (Maynard)," Namath says. "He just sets up Atkinson with his pass route prior to his break. Maynard had that clock in his head. He knew if I was coming back to him how long it would take. He was biding his time, man, and made his break at the right instant. He broke clean and I was able to see him and get it to him."

There were plenty of other heroes that day. Because rookie Sam Walton had been schooled by Lassiter in the Heidi Game, Dave Herman had shifted over from his regular right guard spot and was playing tackle for the first time in his life, giving away 25 pounds.

"Weeb asked me when I was driving him home if I'd do it and I said anything to help us win," Herman recalls. "Then I thought about Lassiter and said, 'God Almighty, this is going to be a challenge.'"

Namath remembers Herman coming back in the first series, saying, "I think I pissed (Lassiter) off," but he won the day as he would against Bubba Smith in the Super Bowl.

Then there was safety Jim Hudson, who had been ejected from the Heidi game, making stop after stop as the Raiders threatened but were turned away with a field goal and a failed try on fourth-and-10. But the Raiders kept coming.

Daryle Lamonica who had been sacked by Verlon Biggs on an earlier fourth-down try and could feel him coming again. He had Charlie Smith on a swing pass but threw behind him, a backward lateral. Jets linebacker Ralph Baker picked it up. Today, he would have scored a touchdown. Then it was a dead ball. But the Jets had it back and Oakland would eventually run out of time.

According to Baker, it was the same play Oakland used to score in the Heidi game when they sent two backs out of the backfield, one up the seam and the other into the flat. Smith went up the seam the last time and scored. This time, the backs reversed positions.

"They wanted to get the ball to Charlie Smith out in the flat," he recalls. "He circled out there and I was waiting for that play all game because it was burning in my mind from the last time. I kind of jumped on the guy out in the flat right away and for whatever reason Lamonica threw behind him. I knew it was a free ball."

The postgame celebration was wild. It was against AFL regulations to have champagne in the dressing room, but 25 cases were smuggled in anyway. Namath poured some of it on talk show host Johnny Carson's head.

"It was especially satisfactory," Namath says. "It was only my fourth year in the league but my experience with (the Raiders) and their players wasn't always good. You just didn't like 'em. I just didn't like 'em and you know what, if they were a poor team, I probably wouldn't have cared. But something happens when a team is good. Then you start to get personal about things.

"It was," he says, "a joy."
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I remember having to listen to that game on the radio because of blackout rules. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Championship game has never been seen by anyone since that day. You'd think there'd be a copy of it somewhere.

championjets69 · Apr 13, 2015

Brooklyn said: ↑

Champ.

I respect you and your age but seriously you are the bad apple here. Sorry but it is the fact. Why do I hate you? I really don't hate you or anybody. But I dislike you and I don't think I am the only one here.

Here are my reasons. I don't think you enjoy the good things about Jets. You focus on the negatives and blame some of us who try to see the good in certain cases. Your interactions with others on this board irritates me. You have zero sense of humor and it is impossible to sustain a meaningful discussion with you. But still, I think you are a colorful personality so please don't go anywhere.
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NEW SUGGESTION. Why not write a essay of what good has been incurred by the NYJs in losing from the 1970 season to the 2014 season. Now make sure that you post said essay on this blog for all to see

championjets69 · Apr 13, 2015

The Waterboy said: ↑

He was born April 19, 1940 so that would have made him 28 at the time of the game.
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Nah U are incorrect as where ever U got the date from was made up by me

championjets69 · Apr 13, 2015

nycarl said: ↑

I remember having to listen to that game on the radio because of blackout rules. Correct me if I'm wrong but the Championship game has never been seen by anyone since that day. You'd think there'd be a copy of it somewhere.
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I have attempted many avenues to find it but so far no success

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