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"Joe Namath brought swagger to the forefront of the AFL-NFL battle, as he guaranteed the Jets would defeat the highly-favored Baltimore Colts in the third AFL-NFL Championship."
From the NFL
This is perhaps my favorite time of year, its either the holiday season or the start of summer which for Marylanders is late May, because I love football history, pro football and otherwise and I have a lot of these games, at least the highlights of them in my DVD library. And out of all the games in Baltimore pro football history (whether it's the Colts, Stars, Stallions or Ravens) its this game right here.
This is perhaps my favorite time of year, its either the holiday season or the start of summer which for Marylanders is late May, because I love football history, pro football and otherwise and I have a lot of these games, at least the highlights of them in my DVD library. And out of all the games in Baltimore pro football history (whether it's the Colts, Stars, Stallions or Ravens) its this game right here.
We'll never know this for a fact, but let's say Colts QB John Unitas, who I and a lot of others believe is the great QB of all time, including my father, is healthy for this game, the Colts beat the Jets by the amount that they were favored to. They probably either cover the seventeen point spread or come close to it.
If John Unitas was healthy and played the whole game, this wouldn't of been the biggest blowout in Super Bowl history. The Jets did have a very good, if not great team in 1968. I'm not taking anything away from them. But just look at the game, look at those two touchdown passes that Colts QB Earl Morral missed, one of them went for an incompletion, the other fell short for an INT, Morrall misses a wide open Jimmy Orr in the end zone for a td pass early in the game.
If John Unitas is healthy and plays the whole game, the Colts in the first half probably up with a couple of scores to take control of the game. But instead go scoreless in the first half, because QB Earl Morrall, misses Jimmy Orr, who was wide-open in the end zone. And then he throws an INT, when they Colts were already in field goal territory. And then the Colts missed chip chop field goal. We will never know this for sure, but this is the mostly likely outcome, had John Unitas been healthy and played this game.
If John Unitas is healthy and plays the whole game, the Colts in the first half probably up with a couple of scores to take control of the game. But instead go scoreless in the first half, because QB Earl Morrall, misses Jimmy Orr, who was wide-open in the end zone. And then he throws an INT, when they Colts were already in field goal territory. And then the Colts missed chip chop field goal. We will never know this for sure, but this is the mostly likely outcome, had John Unitas been healthy and played this game.
The Jets played very well but they also got some big breaks, like not having to face the best QB in pro football, until the second half when he wasn't at full strength. And the Colts simply not playing well as they should've and leaving two touchdowns on the field, as well as another touchdown in the second half.
