A Great Game Lost Forever. All We Have Left Is a Bad Highlight Reel.
This film highlights the 1970 Season and features Bill Curry, Bubba Smith, Ernie Accorsi and Mike Curtis sharing there memories.
The NFL Films footage is amazing and well worth the price. Ed Harris does a great job with this video. I can see why he was chosen.
According to many accounts, Super Bowl V was seen as an embarrassment. NFL Films' famed John Facenda dubbed it "The Blunder Bowl". Even some of the former Colts players deemed it an "empty win". Bubba Smith to this day claims he never wore his Super Bowl ring. And to top it all off, the NFL made a ridiculous call awarding the MVP to a player on the losing team. I believe the decision to give the MVP to a loser, forever stamped this game as a disaster. You'll never see that mistake made again. (Sorry Chuck good game but no MVP.)
The emotion that comes out of Bubba Smith, Mike Curtis and Bill Curry is intense. It puzzles me that these guys are not happy about a game they won? OK, they lost to the...
Best Episode of a Great Series
The NFL Film's America's Game is wonderful series. This is the best episode. The 1970 Colts were a team haunted by the failure of Super Bowl III. As Bill Curry describes, the 1968 Colts were on the verge of being proclaimed the greatest team in NFL history. The loss in Super Bowl III not only took that away from them, it forever branded them as the first team to lose to the AFL, to be constantly relived in NFL Films highlights and on ESPN classic. The 1970 Colts used that failure as the catalyst for the 1970 season in attempt to redeem themselves. However, it is only after winning Super Bowl V do they realize that even a Super Bowl victory can not make up for that loss. Growing up a Baltimore Colts fan, I have always understood this. As sports writer Bill Gildea put it, "no one in Baltimore ever got over the loss in Super Bowl III." I am 50 years old and I still haven't gotten over Super Bowl III. The shame of it is that the 1970 Colts should be celebrated for its remarkable...
Tale of Two Cities - Baltimore / Indianapolis
This superbowl V I remember as a youth barely and it was great to re-live this moment on dvd! I always loved Bubba Smith and the Baltimore Colts defense. On this viewing, this Superbowl V was not a very exciting game, filled with turnovers and some sloppy playing on both Baltimore and Dallas but good viewing anyway.
I loved the commentary by Bubba Smith stating that since the organization left in 1983, the Baltimore Colts players have been shuned by the Indianapolis Colts, the present Colts have no history of their team during the Baltimore years or don't respect it, what a shame!!
This dvd is still a great view!
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