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Background of the game (from Wikipedia):
Super Bowl III was the third AFL–NFL Championship Game in professional American football, and the first to officially bear the name “Super Bowl”.[6] The game, played on January 12, 1969, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in American sports history.[7] The heavy underdog American Football League (AFL) champion New York Jets defeated the National Football League (NFL) champion Baltimore Colts by a score of 16–7.
This was the first Super Bowl victory for the AFL. Before the start of the game, most sports writers and fans believed that AFL teams were less talented than NFL clubs, and expected the Colts to defeat the Jets by a wide margin. Baltimore posted a 13–1 record during the 1968 NFL season before defeating the Cleveland Browns, 34–0, in the 1968 NFL Championship Game. The Jets finished the 1968 AFL season at 11–3, and defeated the Oakland Raiders, 27–23, in the 1968 AFL Championship Game.
Undaunted, Jets quarterback Joe Namath made an appearance three days before the Super Bowl at the Miami Touchdown Club and brashly guaranteed a victory. His team backed up his words by controlling most of the game, building a 16–0 lead by the fourth quarter off of a touchdown run by Matt Snell and three field goals by Jim Turner. Colts quarterback Earl Morrall threw three interceptions before being replaced by Johnny Unitas, who then led Baltimore to its only touchdown during the last few minutes of the game. With the victory. the Jets remain the only winning Super Bowl team to only score one touchdown (either offensive, defensive, or special teams). Namath, who completed 17 out of 28 passes for 206 yards, was named as the Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player, despite not throwing a touchdown pass in the game or any passes at all in the fourth quarter.
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I'm 57 now but I remember this game.Watched it from Titusville FL.Dad was with the space program and the race to the moon.This is one of the most influential games in NFL history.It change society.It was like an Ali Frazier bout,or Shorter bringing home the marathon gold at Munich.
This game is great the only jet Super Bowl win the best one ever
Super Bowl 3 tickets were 6, 9 or 12 bucks!
Corners won the game…
Outstanding video footage of superbowl lll
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I’m posting this on the 50 yr anniv of this game a great milestone. I wasn’t around for this but I certainly understand the historical impact as someone who happened to be born in queens
Namath very similar to Dan Marino.
Any sad jet fans watching after super bowl 53?
I like how the official signaled the Colts field goal no good on their first drive.
I don’t think this game looked like it was rigged like Bubba Smith said, but not throwing to Orr is really suspect. Also, Morral’s 2nd INT looked suspect as well. Supposedly, Matte was in a good mood and partying after the game. Why? His fumble was a big reason they lost. I was expecting to see smoking guns, but the reality is there isn’t any. If it was rigged, it was very subtle.
The Colts had their chances. So many turn overs by Baltimore. (INT/FUMBLES) Missed FG's too. Kicked themselves in the foot. Missed that WR wide open down the sideline. #41, RB of the Colts played great. Snell should have been MVP. Great highlights, thanks! Coach Chuck Noll was an assistant for the Colts, next stop… Pittsburgh. Wow!!
Reading a book about the 1968 Jets and this game. A number of Jets, including several assistant coaches, did not have much respect for the Colts, whom they considered slow, somewhat old and predictable. They also felt Oakland, whom the Jets beat in Super Bowl III, was a better team, and that other AFL squads, such as San Diego and Kansas City, had better players at certain positions.
John Mackey deserves a lot more credit. Of all the tight ends that era John Mackey was like trying to tackle a house on a diesel engine. Look at that first BALT play. He gets the ball and breaks 3 tackles and it looks like two of them get it really bad in the head.
AS a non-American I've learned about American football thanks to the video games, it was the only way to learn about NFL back in past, now thanks to the globalization and the Internet the NFL is in every place you could imagine. However is a nice sport and i could say i am a JETS Fan , but I don't understand why is so popular in United States and is getting popular around the world. Watching a game in the present is hard to be enjoyable in my opinion. Too much commercial ads, and you see a lot of times different rulings under the same circumstances seems like it is based in which team are they ruling for. After watching this game and the way they use play now i understand why is such a great sport, too bad in the present the matches don't look like that.
Colts threw the game
R. I. P.
#13 Don Maynard 🏈
"Mr. NY Titan"
"Mr. NY Jet"
"Mr. AFL"
God bless our pro football heroes from a by-gone era.
Jets Time!!!!! After this is nothing, hm!!!
Bills could never bozos
Earl Morrall really sucked in this game.
Why in blue blazes didn't Baltimore try for a field goal on that 4th and 5, making it 16 to 10, and the Colts got the ball back. Don Shula really goofed on that one!
Every guy on the field played hard! you can see the difference from then and now
I love how enthusiastic the officials are when they don't have the microphone to explain the call.