tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post6893167237653550923..comments2024-03-17T18:19:49.076-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: January 5, 1974Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-25527733094700649632018-08-15T14:43:30.174-04:002018-08-15T14:43:30.174-04:00I'm a serious football fan and I have to disag...I'm a serious football fan and I have to disagree with you all the way on the early Super Bowls. Green Bay's wins in 1 and 2 were played exactly the way Green Bay played football. If you want to see it as conservative, so be it, but any real football fan wouldn't have expected anything else. As far as the Jets huge upset, often ranked as one of the greatest upsets in sports history, if you couldn't feel and appreciate the tension, the great defense played by the Jets (against a team that was considered to have possibly the best defense in NFL history) then maybe you should have switched to another sport if you needed more excitement. JoeMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891491974360684371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-72837948577859106262014-01-08T18:01:42.033-05:002014-01-08T18:01:42.033-05:00You bring up a good point, Jacob. It's quite ...You bring up a good point, Jacob. It's quite interesting, looking back at the history of the Super Bowl, how many people held the game in disdain. The early games tended to be conservative, lacking in drama and action (even the Jets' famous upset of the Colts in 1969), and seldom competitive. The two descriptions I've most frequently run across are "Stupor Bowl" and "Super Bore." (Or, in the case of Super Bowl V, the "Blunder Bowl.")<br /><br />In a way, the game has come full circle; now that the spectacle overwhelms the game itself, the real football fan may be just as frustrated as he was back when it was only the game, and the game was often lacking. Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-4599526514561259882014-01-08T12:45:47.353-05:002014-01-08T12:45:47.353-05:00Well, in your mention of the recap of 1973; you re...Well, in your mention of the recap of 1973; you referred to that Super Bowl as the "Stupor Bowl". I had seen that name used for game 5 two years earlier; as the only thing that had any "Stupor" was Miami Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian's sad attempt to pass the ball after his field goal attempt was blocked late in the game.<br /><br />As for Number One; Charlton Heston was actually tutored on passing by Billy Kilmer (the Saints quarterback at the time the film was made; though he had moved to the Washington Redskins by this point). Also, three members of the 1968 Saints played Dallas Cowboy defensive linemen in the scene where Heston's character suffers a career-ending injury toward the end. Also, according to an NFL Films piece on Kilmer from around 1997; Heston stayed around to provide halftime entertainment during that 1968 season.Jacobnoreply@blogger.com