Monday, September 21, 2015

NFL69


The National Football League's 50th season started today (Sept. 21) 1969 with the following games:

-- San Francisco 49ers 12 at Atlanta Falcons 24
-- Washington Redskins 26 at New Orleans Saints 20
-- Chicago Bears 0 at Green Bay Packers 17
-- Cleveland Browns 27 at Philadelphia Eagles 20
-- St. Louis Cardinals 3 at Dallas Cowboys 24 
-- Detroit Lions 13 at Pittsburgh Steelers 16
-- Minnesota Vikings 23 at New York Giants 24
-- Los Angeles Rams 27 at Baltimore Colts 20

The AFL season is already two weeks old after today 1969, and my Dolphins are 0-2! This item ran on A1 of The Miami News the morning after the first loss:


Here's what happened in the Sept. 14, 1969, Week 1 games:

-- Miami Dolphins 21 at Cincinnati Bengals 27
-- Boston Patriots 7 at Denver Broncos 35
-- New York Jets 33 at Buffalo Bills 19
-- Kansas City Chiefs 27 at San Diego Chargers 9
-- Houston Oilers 17 at Oakland Raiders 21

Then, in Week 2, here were the results:

-- Miami Dolphins 17 at Oakland Raiders 20 (on Saturday, Sept. 20)
-- Kansas City Chiefs 31 at Boston Patriots 0
-- New York Jets 19 at Denver Broncos 21
-- Houston Oilers 17 at Buffalo Bills 3
-- San Diego Chargers 20 at Cincinnati Bengals 34

I wonder if Bob Griese played much Jeannie C. Riley or Jack Greene on his weeknight country-music radio show.


2 comments:

  1. This 1969 NFL Logo does a better job with the "50" theme than does the gold and navy logo the NFL is going with for the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl.

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  2. One of my hopes for heaven is that all media from the history of this world will be available for unlimited consumption. Another of my hopes is that I will be interested in media from this world, and another still is that time will exist in such a way that I have no regrets about consuming media instead of doing something else with my time. Of course, my primary hope about heaven is that I get to go.

    In any event, I'm sad to report that archives of The Miami News disappeared from the free public Internet about two months after this post--and about three months before the Dolphins hired Don Shula away from Baltimore in my pretend 1970 world.

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