Both 1968 NFL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES

All the highlights of the 1968 NFL Championship Game at Cleveland, plus both NFL Conference Championship Games (at Cleveland and Baltimore) are now together on DVD for nostalgic viewing!

In Saturday's NFL Eastern Conference Championship Game at old Municipal Stadium, the Cleveland Browns host the favored Dallas Cowboys. But veteran Cowboy quarterback Don Meredith's last game will prove to be one he'd rather forget. After a 38-yard Don Cockroft field goal gives the Browns an early lead, Chuck Howley picks up a Bill Nelsen fumble and goes 44-yards to make it 7-3 Cowboys in the first quarter. A Mike Clark FG has Dallas in front 10-3 near the end of the first half, but Nelsen tosses a 44-yard TD bomb to Leroy Kelly to tie the score at 10-10 just before halftime. On the first play of the second half, the game turns around when linebacker Dale Lindsey intercepts Meredith and goes all the way for a TD to make the score 17-10 Browns! On the next Dallas series, Ben Davis hauls in a deflected pass, and then on a sweep to the right, Kelly carries to another TD, upping the score to 24-10, and essentially putting the game away within the first two minutes of the second half. Ernie Green scores Cleveland's final TD en route to a decisive 31-20 Eastern Conference Championship victory!

Next day at Memorial Stadium, Baltimore, the Colts host Joe Kapp's defense-minded Minnesota Vikings. In a scoreless game, Willie Richardson makes one of the great catches of the year, pulling in an Earl Morrall bomb only a couple yards from paydirt! On second and short, Morrall hits Tom Mitchell for a TD and the Colts lead 7-0 at the half in what has been a tough defensive struggle. There is no further scoring until midway through the third quarter, when John Mackey grabs another Morrall pass for a 50-yard TD and a

14-0 Baltimore lead. On the Viking's next possession, Joe Kapp is blindsided by Ordell Braase and Bubba Smith and the ball is knocked into the hands of Mike Curtis, who rumbles 60 yards to score the Colt's second TD in less than two minutes! Although this play breaks the game open, the Vikings score in the final quarter on a Kapp to Billy Martin pass to make the score 21-7. With the Colts leading 24-7 late in the game, the Vikings score the game's final points when Bill Brown catches a Kapp pass in the end zone to make the final score read 24-14.

THE BIG ONE!

With its many parallels to the 1964 NFL Championship, this 1968 game was memorable, especially for Colts fans! The contest capped a near-perfect season for the mighty Colts, who were now only a game away from their historic meeting with the Jets in pro football's third Superbowl. Before the game, nice closeup shots show coaches Blanton Collier and Don Schula, plus Leroy Kelly, Erich Barnes, Frank Ryan, Bill Nelsen, Willie Richardson, Tom Matte and the NFL MVP for '68, Colts quarterback Earl Morrall. Throughout the game, you'll see many of the stars on both teams: Ben Davis, Gary Collins, Milt Morin, Paul Warfield, Charlie Harraway, Jim Kanicki, Jim Houston and Bob Matheson for the Browns, and Lou Michaels, Bob Boyd, Jimmy Orr, Jerry Smith, Fred Miller, Bubba Smith, Ordell Braase, John Mackey, Don Shinnick, Dennis Gaubatz, Rick Volk, Mike Curtis, Tom Mitchell, Roy Hilton, Glenn Ressler, Tim Brown and Terry Cole all in action for Baltimore.

After a scoreless first period, Lou Michaels boots a 27-yard FG and the Colts lead 3-0. Later, Tom Matte takes a handoff on the 1-yard line and scores to give Baltimore a 10-0 lead. The Colts get the ball back when Mike Curtis intercepts Nelsen and runs the ball out on the Brown's 32. Then Matte's long TD run makes the score 17-0 Colts before the half. To begin the third quarter, the error-prone Browns drive to the Colts 20. But another in a string of costly penalties wipes out a big gain, and Cockroft misses on a 50-yd FG attempt. On the Colts next series, Richardson hauls in a Morrall pass on the Browns 5-yd line! Matte's five-yard TD run extends the score to 24-0 at the end of the third quarter. In the final period, Michaels kicks a 10-yard FG to make the score 27-0 Colts. In the waning moments of the game, a Baltimore FG try is missed, but the Browns are penalized and the Colts get a first down. At this point, Tim Brown caps the scoring with a 5-yard touchdown run, making the final score 34-0 Colts. Tom Matte's three TD's in a Championship Game tie a Gary Collins record set against the Colts in Cleveland four years earlier.

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