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The NFL's Greatest Games - Super Bowl III (New York Jets vs. Baltimore Colts) | 
 enlarge | Actors: New York Jets, Baltimore Colts, Joe Namath
Studio: NFL
Category: Video
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 8066
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6304570430
UPC: 044004643931
EAN: 9786304570432
ASIN: 6304570430
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
Release Date: September 16, 1997
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Sports historians will long argue the significance of the third championship football game, but most agree it put the word super in Super Bowl, as NFL Films poignantly shows in this 75-minute video. The best thing about this video is that you get to see every play at least once, and the key plays several times. You also get valuable insight from N.Y. Jets quarterback Joe Willie Namath, Jets coach Weeb Ewbank, Colts coach Don Shula, and other players. The key figure, just as he was in the game, is Namath, the flamboyant quarterback whose style stood out during an era when flamboyance and wild styles were the norm. He launched the Super Bowl as a sports spectacular by stating, "We're gonna win this game. I guarantee it." NFL Films, with announcer Curt Gowdy, who did the play-by-play for NBC on January 12, 1969, goes into great depth to explain the historical importance of the outcome. It certified the old AFL, represented by the Jets, as a sports entity and legitimized the merger of the NFL and AFL into one league in 1970. Add to this Namath's statement and the turbulent times in America in 1969, and this game takes on significant historical meaning. This is an entertaining video about a sports moment that launched the NFL on its spiraling orbit upward. --Gordie Sholtys
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 The game was great, NFL Films could have done better August 14, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Having grown up with the AFL in the late 60's, hearing Curt Gowdy's call of this game is a great way to relive those fall Sunday afternoons. My only complaint is NFL Films' production of the video could have been better. Since Curt Gowdy's calls were recreated, the calls sometimes give away what happens next. Also, when Gowdy is talking about Unitas as "one of the greats" they show a close-up of Earl Morral. Finally, the fake crowd noise was distracting. Minor points, but enough to stop me from giving it five stars. On a positive note, this approach to the game, showing most all of the plays in sequence, is a lot better than the typical highlight video.
 TEM MOVIES June 30, 2002
Kathleen J Grover (Haverhill, MA United States)
1 out of 16 found this review helpful
IT IS DEAN FASULO AT 373-0994 SUPER BOWL 3 IS GOOD THE SUPER BOLW DO A SUPER BOLW MOVIES 2 TIME A YEARS THE TEM AT WINE HAVER TOO MOVIES THE SUPER BOLW MOVIES AND THE TEM MOVIES THE SUPER BOLW IS 60 MI THE TEM IS 24 MI THEM ON MOVIES THE GAME SAME THE HILLITT A NO THE SAME SUPER IS 19.95 THE TEM IS 14.95 34 TEM MOVIES COME ONE TIME A YEAR
Football When The Grass Was Green! August 19, 2001
Mcgivern Owen L (NY, NY USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Super Bowl III remains, for many New Yorkers, the pinnacle of sports events. I can well remember seeing the game at the Black Orchid Bar, on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, MA. The patrons, it seemed, were Holy Cross students or Mafiosi. This tape will take the viewer back to that wondrous 1969 Sunday afternoon in Miami when the underdog New York Jets upset the highly favored Baltimore Colts. If there was ever an "establishment" in sports, it was represented by the hideously "big business" NFL Commissioner, Pete Rozelle. And if there was ever an "underdog," it was ANY AFL team going to the Super Bowl. A trivia question: Wasn't this the first time the phrase "Super Bowl" was used? Viewers will immediately appreciate not the Jets vaunted passing attack, but their solid running game. The big backs Matt Snell, Bill Mathis and Emerson Boozer run LEFT, not the traditional power sweep to the right. . Did the Jets have secret intelligence about Colt cornerback Lenny Lyles tonsillectomy? What about defensive end Ordell Brasse's bad leg? Is that why the Jets concentrated their attack to the left? We Jets fans are reminded how the finger of fate was on our side that afternoon. 5 times in the first, the Colts drove into the Jets "red zone" and came away with NOTHING due to 2 missed FGs and 3 deep interceptions; by Randy Beverly, Jim Hudson and Johnny Sample. I always thought the Colts threw in the towel at halftime. Super Bowl III features the biggest 7-0 halftime lead of all time. Everyone I knew thought the Jets had the game at that point. There is crisp commentary on the key plays by Curt Gowdy, the '60s voice of the AFL. We hear form Joe Namath, Johnny Sample and Coach Ewbank of the Jets. Coach Shula and RB Tom Matte share the Colts viewpoint. The colors are sharp and clear in this first class 73-minute production.By the 4th quarter, we see the sweat and grass-stained uniforms! Buy the tape and relive that epic winter afternoon.This is pro football from the old pre-free agent days. This is pro football from when there were 2 distinct leagues. This is pro football with no soccer style place kickers. This is pro football from when the grass was green. 5 stars all around!
Football When The Grass Was Green! August 18, 2001
Mcgivern Owen L (NY, NY USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Super Bowl III remains, for many New Yorkers, the pinnacle of sports events. I can well remember seeing the game at the Black Orchid Bar, on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, MA. The patrons, it seemed, were Holy Cross students or Mafiosi. This tape will take the viewer back to that wondrous 1969 Sunday afternoon in Miami when the underdog New York Jets upset the highly favored Baltimore Colts. If there was ever an "establishment" in sports, it was represented by the hideously "big business" NFL Commissioner, Pete Rozelle. And if there was ever an "underdog," it was ANY AFL team going to the Super Bowl. A trivia question: Wasn't this the first time the phrase "Super Bowl" was used? Viewers will immediately appreciate not the Jets vaunted passing attack, but their solid running game. The big backs Matt Snell, Bill Mathis and Emerson Boozer run LEFT, not the traditional power sweep to the right. . Did the Jets have secret intelligence about Colt cornerback Lenny Lyles tonsillectomy? What about defensive end Ordell Brasse's bad leg? Is that why the Jets concentrated their attack to the left? We Jets fans are reminded how the finger of fate was on our side that afternoon. 5 times in the first, the Colts drove into the Jets "red zone" and came away with NOTHING due to 2 missed FGs and 3 deep interceptions; by Randy Beverly, Jim Hudson and Johnny Sample. I always thought the Colts threw in the towel at halftime. Super Bowl III features the biggest 7-0 halftime lead of all time. Everyone I knew thought the Jets had the game at that point. There is crisp commentary on the key plays by Curt Gowdy, the '60s voice of the AFL. We hear form Joe Namath, Johnny Sample and Coach Ewbank of the Jets. Coach Shula and RB Tom Matte share the Colts viewpoint. The colors are sharp and clear in this first class 73-minute production.By the 4th quarter, we see the sweat and grass-stained uniforms! Buy the tape and relive that epic winter afternoon.This is pro football from the old pre-free agent days. This is pro football from when there were 2 distinct leagues. This is pro football with no soccer style place kickers. This is pro football from when the grass was green. 5 stars all around!
The football game that changed everything March 23, 2001
A. Hogan (Brooklyn, NY USA)
Super Bowl III. The BaLtimore colts versus the NY Jets. The NFL vs. the AFL. Broadway Joe vs. Johnny U.{though an aging Unitas was injured}.White shoesVs. High tops. The 17-21 point favorite colts, having waxed the cleveland browns in the NFL champoinship game, were lookingfoward to squashing the Jets. This tape brings that game and time together very well. Namath,being young arrogant{and probably having a few in him at the time} guaranteed victory before hand. He almost got into a fist fight with Lou michales, the colts place kicker a couple of days before the game.Everyone,every sportswriter of the time predicted a colts victory{except for Dave Anderson of the NY TIMES}.What happened was the greatest single game upset of a team sport in professioanl sports . Namath, playing disciplined , ate up the colts and the clock. Weeb Ewbank, the underrated head coach of the Jets{who had coached the colts to victory in 1958, th other most significant game in football history}badly outcoached a young Don Shula,who, in viewing theis video seems INCREDULOUS that this was happening. 30 years later, many of the colts still cant belive that this happened. Watch this tape.It expains it very well. Namath became an icon of the young after this game, and probably certified his place in the hall of fame with this win. Sweetvengance for ewbank, a sour day for Shula, the colts and the old AFL. Good fun, a great tape,evoking wonderful memories of a time when, for a little while, NY was FUN CITY and Braodway Joe owned the town.
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