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In black and white, but still, amazing...
Great Find! N B C 1971 A F C Championship Game Highlights
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So that's what a defense looks like.
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And an inoffensive offensive
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We have to live in the past because the present is a dumpster fire...Thanks for posting though and its interesting to see the terrible towels were in Miami long before they showed up in Pitt or should I say...terrible Hankies.
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Jake Scott and Dick Anderson were maybe the greatest Safety combination in NFL history, yet neither is in Canton. Scott had 49 career picks and a Super Bowl MVP, but he's not in. ****in' joke!
this is what keeps me hanging on these losers, i was a boy and thought it would last forever, little did i know that we would be still watching grainy black and white film, kinda like the Hindenburg footage to see what a great team looks like
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Thats good stuff right there, i watched that game with my Dad, was 7 at the time.
Thank you. Great video.
I watched that game in Naples. We attended most of the home games that year but did not have season tickets. Then for the playoffs the season ticket holders got top priority and otherwise it was extremely difficult and costly to obtain tickets.
There was a 75 mile blackout rule in that era. The home games were not televised in Miami. So my dad drove the family to Naples and we rented a hotel for the day. We didn't even spend the night. We got there during the early stages of the 49ers/Cowboys NFC Championship Game but we weren't watching that game as much as nervous anticipation and discussion of the Dolphins game.
For some reason I remember my mom was nervous about Hubert Ginn. He was a kickoff returner and backup running back. Ginn must have screwed up and fumbled in a recent game. Or brought the ball out of the end zone when he should not have. He had an occasional tendency to do that. I remember my mom worrying about whether or not the Dolphins would receive the opening kickoff, while saying, "I hope that it is not Hubert Ginn."
The game was obviously joyous, especially the late amazing interception return by Dick Anderson.
Then my dad was nervous about driving back to Miami in the dark. Alligator Alley was a 2-lane death trap in those days.
The next year be bought season tickets for the family for the first time. I like to say my dad had Perfect timing for the Perfect Season but mostly I think he realized it was almost as cheap to buy the season tickets than to make those drives out of town for the 75 mile rule. We had done the same thing to Ft. Pierce for the 1967 season Super Bowl II between the Packers and Raiders.
I was stunned when home games were allowed to be televised. I was not alone. Many people were astonished and we were convinced it could not last. It felt like stealing. I think it took 5 or 10 years before I accepted that it would not go back to the old 75 mile rule.
I watched that game in Naples. We attended most of the home games that year but did not have season tickets. Then for the playoffs the season ticket holders got top priority and otherwise it was extremely difficult and costly to obtain tickets.
There was a 75 mile blackout rule in that era. The home games were not televised in Miami. So my dad drove the family to Naples and we rented a hotel for the day. We didn't even spend the night. We got there during the early stages of the 49ers/Cowboys NFC Championship Game but we weren't watching that game as much as nervous anticipation and discussion of the Dolphins game.
For some reason I remember my mom was nervous about Hubert Ginn. He was a kickoff returner and backup running back. Ginn must have screwed up and fumbled in a recent game. Or brought the ball out of the end zone when he should not have. He had an occasional tendency to do that. I remember my mom worrying about whether or not the Dolphins would receive the opening kickoff, while saying, "I hope that it is not Hubert Ginn."
The game was obviously joyous, especially the late amazing interception return by Dick Anderson.
Then my dad was nervous about driving back to Miami in the dark. Alligator Alley was a 2-lane death trap in those days.
The next year be bought season tickets for the family for the first time. I like to say my dad had Perfect timing for the Perfect Season but mostly I think he realized it was almost as cheap to buy the season tickets than to make those drives out of town for the 75 mile rule. We had done the same thing to Ft. Pierce for the 1967 season Super Bowl II between the Packers and Raiders.
I was stunned when home games were allowed to be televised. I was not alone. Many people were astonished and we were convinced it could not last. It felt like stealing. I think it took 5 or 10 years before I accepted that it would not go back to the old 75 mile rule.
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right, it was Rick weaver and henry barrow his sidekick
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I have always wanted to watch that game. I do not believe any copies of it exist or they would have surfaced by now.
I vaguely remember seeing Curt Gowdy's intro as broadcast by WCKT/NBC at 12:01 AM as per league rules, but I was 11 years old and had to go to school the next morning.
No other game the Dolphins have ever played in their history sends chills up my spine like the memory of that game. The 1981 San Diego playoff (which I watched live in the northeastenmost seat of the lower deck of the Orange Bowl) WOULD have, but something called Rolf Benirschke happened...
I vaguely remember seeing Curt Gowdy's intro as broadcast by WCKT/NBC at 12:01 AM as per league rules, but I was 11 years old and had to go to school the next morning.
No other game the Dolphins have ever played in their history sends chills up my spine like the memory of that game. The 1981 San Diego playoff (which I watched live in the northeastenmost seat of the lower deck of the Orange Bowl) WOULD have, but something called Rolf Benirschke happened...
Actually you got Uwe Von Schamann'ed
and Andra Franklined