On original 16mm Sound and Color Film!

     Known for their outstanding defense, the Minnesota Vikings are favorites to beat the Browns in the NFL Championship Game at Met Stadium.  Closeups shots before the game show quarterbacks Joe Kapp of Minnesota and Bill Nelsen of Cleveland warming up, as well as coaches Bud Grant and Blanton Collier.  Throughout the game, you'll see many of the stars on both teams in action: Nelsen, Walt Sumner, Jim Houston, Leroy Kelly, Bo Scott, Erich Barnes, Gary Collins, John Garlington, Mike Howell, Bill Andrews and Paul Warfield of the Browns, and Kapp, Bill Brown, Gene Washington, Lonnie Warwick, John Henderson, Oscar Reed, Milt Sunde, Paul Krause, Karl Kassulke and Alan Page of the Vikings.  Probably the two most outstanding players of the game are the Vikings' Wally Hilgenberg on defense and Dave Osborn on offense.

     The first score of the game comes on a broken play, when Viking QB Kapp runs into Bill Brown.  Kapp stays on his feet and rumbles the 7-yds needed for the TD to put Minnesota in front, 7-0.  Later in the first quarter, defender Erich Barnes slips and falls, and Kapp hits Gene Washington for a 75-yd TD bomb to give the Vikings a 14-0 lead.  Meanwhile, pressure from the "Purple People Eaters" is affecting Nelsen's timing, and the Cleveland running game is stymied.  Wally Hilgenberg is leading a defense which is shutting off the Cleveland power sweep.  The Viking tandem of Brown and Dave Osborn is moving the ball for Minnesota, but when a drive stalls at the Cleveland 30, Fred Cox boots a FG to up the score to 17-0.  Osborn next caps a 60+yd first half with a 20-yd TD run to make the score 24-0 at intermission.  The Browns change into sneakers for the second half, but a Paul Krause interception ends a nice Browns drive to open the third quarter.   Later, Cox's second FG makes the score 27-0 Vikings.  The Browns don't score until the final quarter, when a 3-yd TD pass from Nelsen to Gary Collins makes the final score 27-7.    Narrated by Jack Whitaker. 

Condition:   Film has original countdown, with a splice at the end of the countdown.   Has all beginning titles.   First scene is missing the beginning and starts showing snow on the ground at Met stadium and portable blow torch used to try to melt ice off the field before the game.  No other splices, although the ending credits and "NFL FILMS" is cut short, so I've added a replacement B & W tail to the end of the film.   Normal wear lines and film color is warming, as is normal for NFL films from the late '60's.  Over 870 feet long, film has been cleaned and inspected, and is in perfect running condition!   Film is mounted on brown steel reel (see picture).   No Vinegar!    

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