1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: It's the Sunday after Thanksgiving nineteen sixty six. 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 2: The Burgundy and Gold is. 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 1: Set to host the Giants, a five to six Washington 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: team a one eight one New York team. Going into 5 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: this game day, nothing screamed the unprecedented. Perhaps the unbeatable 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: is about to unfold, But that's exactly what happened. This 7 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:42,159 Speaker 1: is hail Tails stories from Washington football history. 8 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: The highest scoring NFL game. 9 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: By the time late November nineteen sixty six rolled around, 10 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: there was a group of players in Washington who were hissed. 11 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: This matchup ahead against New York was specifically circles on 12 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:09,399 Speaker 1: their calendar. 13 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,479 Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Steve Thurlow. I was traded from 14 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 3: the New York Giants to the Washington Redskins in nineteen 15 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 3: sixty six in the middle of the season. 16 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:27,119 Speaker 1: Thurlow, linebacker Jim Carroll, and linebacker Sam Huff had all 17 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: been recently traded from New York. They weren't happy about 18 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: how the Giants and head coach Ali Sherman had handled 19 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: it all. So a game against the g Men was 20 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: an opportunity to get out the emotions, to show their 21 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: opponent what they were missing out on. 22 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 3: I mean hate I don't want to say hat hates 23 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 3: a terrible word to use, but we had a tremendous 24 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 3: negative feeling toward Ali Sherman for having traded us. I'm 25 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 3: not so sure that that wasn't a natural feeling that 26 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 3: everybody who gets traded trading is being rejected. You can't 27 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 3: look at it as though they want they needed somebody else, 28 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 3: you know, to play a different position, and they were 29 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 3: willing to let you. 30 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 4: Go for that. 31 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 3: You know that that is the truth. 32 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 5: You know. 33 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,760 Speaker 3: My feeling was we were pissed, you know that we 34 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,919 Speaker 3: that we were traded, and the three of us had 35 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 3: talked about it all week. 36 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: The bitterness was particularly acute for Sam Huff, the future 37 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, had won an NFL Championship with the 38 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: Giants and was named an All Pro six times. 39 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 6: I think Sam would kind of mentioned that he had 40 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 6: talked to Wellington Marrior or one of the owners of 41 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 6: the team about the fact that he wanted to stay with. 42 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: The team former Washington tight end Pat Richter, who played 43 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: for the team from nineteen sixty three to nineteen seventy. 44 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 6: And they kind of assured him that it was going 45 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 6: to be part of the team forever. 46 00:02:59,120 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 4: All along. 47 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 6: We don't know, but he wasn't going to be traded, 48 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,519 Speaker 6: and then for whatever reason, he was traded. Obviously it 49 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 6: was our benefit to have Sam on the team, but 50 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 6: he was probably looking at family situation and being living 51 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 6: out his career with the Giants where he had been 52 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 6: so successful for many years, and when that didn't happen, 53 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,400 Speaker 6: then that kind of broke open the dam and he 54 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 6: kind of flipped with the religious of the Redskins. 55 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 7: Obviously, puff Peppy Sam huff sprinted off the field after 56 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 7: practice yesterday like the young New York Giant linebacker he 57 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 7: once was. Huff said, the only thing that counts is 58 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 7: what's on the scoreboard. If I could help beat the 59 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 7: Giants fifty to nothing, I would, or any other team, 60 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 7: any other team, well, I do have my preferences, he 61 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 7: said mischievously. 62 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 1: Animosity bubbled in the background, but so too did love, 63 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: at least for a pair of players, the kickers on 64 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: these two teams. They were brothers, Charlie and Peter Gogolak. 65 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 1: The journey to this point for these two was nothing 66 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: short of remarkable. In the mid nineteen fifties, the Gogolak 67 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: family had risked their lives escaping Soviet controlled Hungary. The 68 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: harrowing experience was detailed by Charlie's son Steve for a 69 00:04:38,320 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 1: college filmmaking course in the early two thousands. 70 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 8: We had a family meeting at which it was decided, 71 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 8: I think, through pretty much the forceful desire of my father, 72 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 8: that this was our best chance to leave the country, 73 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 8: that we're going to leave the country. 74 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 9: We had to pass a checkpoint and I was sitting 75 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 9: in the backseat of the car and the person who 76 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 9: drove the car, I did not know who that person was, 77 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 9: and basically that person showed an ID to Kevin I. 78 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 8: D I thought that we were all cooked and done for. 79 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 8: When we came up to this checkpoint in front of 80 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 8: the chain bridge. 81 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 4: We were told that once we arrived in this little town, 82 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 4: maybe about fifteen miles inside Hungary from the Austrian border, 83 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 4: we're going to go to this little house and there's 84 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 4: going to be a guide, somebody that going to help 85 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 4: us at night, in the middle of the night take 86 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:02,480 Speaker 4: us across the border. 87 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 8: And we finally got to where we heard German spoking 88 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 8: and it was Austrian soldiers or Austrian border guard on 89 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 8: the other side. 90 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 4: And when the sun was coming up. We arrived a 91 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 4: little Austrian town, so we probably walked from I would 92 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 4: say probably from eight thirty nine o'clock at night till 93 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 4: six in the morning and stopped very, very seldom. 94 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 2: It was. 95 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 4: You know, it was a hell of a trip. 96 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: The gogel Acts eventually fled to and settled in the US. 97 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: While in high school, Peter and Charlie, in the process 98 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 1: of figuring out how to fit into American culture, were 99 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: introduced to football. 100 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 2: It started with older brother Peter. 101 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 4: Went to see my first football game, and to my 102 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 4: total amazement, I realized, this part of the football game 103 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 4: is some kicking. 104 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 8: I am not certain that he knew that there was 105 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 8: a kicking aspect of the game. You know, football sounds 106 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 8: like there's a foot involved someplays. But other than that, 107 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 8: I don't think you knew too much about it. 108 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 4: I really didn't enjoy the game that much, but you know, 109 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 4: it has something to do, and you know, I like 110 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 4: the exercise. I liked the I did like looking tough 111 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:17,559 Speaker 4: and putting the helmet on his shoulder, pans and anything else. 112 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,119 Speaker 8: And when the coach was looking for you know, maybe 113 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 8: a week before the first game, he said, do you, 114 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 8: We've got to find somebody to kick off, and so 115 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 8: Peter went at it, went at the ball from an 116 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 8: angle which was absolutely natural, sort of a forty five 117 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 8: degree type angle. 118 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: The quote traditional way of kicking in American football had been. 119 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 2: The straight on toe kick. 120 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: The soccer style kick which Peter then Charlie showcased on 121 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: high school fields in upstate New York would go on 122 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: to change the sport forever. 123 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,800 Speaker 10: What was special about it is that nobody had ever 124 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 10: done it before. 125 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 2: Charlie Goglack in twenty twenty five in. 126 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 10: College kicked six field goals again Princeton against Rutgers. People 127 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 10: began to pay attention and said, hey, this must be 128 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 10: a pretty good way to kick. 129 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 11: Against a longtime rival Rutgers. Princeton begins at sixty five 130 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 11: season at Palmer Studium on September twenty fifth. Highlight of 131 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 11: the game is a modern field goal kicking record by 132 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 11: Charlie Goglac. Here he kicks fifty two yards the long 133 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 11: list of his six against Rutgers. Princeton goes on to 134 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,280 Speaker 11: win the game thirty two to six with the help 135 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 11: of Charlie's field goal barage. 136 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: The pro football world took notice of the brothers after 137 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: a standout career at Cornell, Peter played two seasons with 138 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 1: the Bills in the AFL before being poached by Giants 139 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 1: owner Wellington Mara. Meanwhile, in the nineteen sixty six NFL Draft, 140 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: Charlie became the first placekicker to be selected in the 141 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: first round, as Washington took him with the sixth overall pick. 142 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: Individual brilliance aside, the Goglack brothers started their NFL career 143 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: on teams that were having a hard time. Washington Post 144 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: reporter Scott Allen paints the picture heading into that nineteen 145 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: sixty six Week twelve game the. 146 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 12: Giants and the Redskins had played earlier that year at 147 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 12: Yankee Stadium. It was a very forgettable thirteen to ten 148 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 12: Giants win Washington Blue a ten to nothing lead. Neither 149 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 12: team was an offensive juggernaut. Neither team was particularly good 150 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 12: coming into the rematch. I think Washington was five and 151 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 12: six their first year under coach Auto Graham. The Giants 152 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 12: were in the midst of their worst season in franchise history. 153 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 12: They'd finished one twelve and one, so their one win 154 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,960 Speaker 12: that season was against Washington. That thirteen to ten win 155 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 12: that I mentioned and on top of that, the Giants 156 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 12: were starting a quarterback, Tom Kennedy, who made his first 157 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 12: and only career start in that game. Their veteran earl 158 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 12: Morrile had broken his wrist a few weeks earlier and 159 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 12: missed much of the season. Sonny Jurgensen started for Washington, 160 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 12: so obviously people know that name, but Washington was by 161 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 12: no means an offensive juggernaut that year. 162 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 7: November twenty seventh, nineteen sixty six. The Giants are coming 163 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 7: here today labeled as a smash flop direct from Broadway. 164 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 7: Hopefully the memory of the game last month in New 165 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 7: York will have the proper effect on the Redskins. They 166 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:23,160 Speaker 7: were also favored that day, but managed to waste a 167 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 7: ten to nothing lead and lost thirteen to ten, ending 168 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 7: a three game winning streak in the process. Today they'll 169 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 7: be more concerned about not extending their three game losing streak. 170 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 13: The New York Giants against the Washington red Skins eat 171 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 13: Goga line kicks off for the Giants. 172 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: The onslaught started early, with Washington scoring three unanswered touchdowns. 173 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 13: The Redskins now have it second and five of the 174 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 13: Giant five. Jurgensen to a d Whitfield for the first 175 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 13: score of the game. The Redskins lead six stood uping 176 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 13: take him down at eleven. Now at the Red Skin 177 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 13: thirty seven a d. Whitfield gets the handoff number seventy four. 178 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 13: Jim Snowden makes a fine screen block. Whitfield cuts back, 179 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 13: makes the touchdown. Kennedy goes back, but Chris Hanberger hits 180 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 13: him a wall the ball of shaking loose and Briggawins 181 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 13: picks it up a sixty two yard return with the bubble. 182 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 14: I just remember it. 183 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: Six time All Pro linebacker Chris Hanberger. 184 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 14: I think that was my second tier and with the team, 185 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 14: and I was on it. I think all the special 186 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 14: teams plus playing defense, and it was like I was 187 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 14: never off the field. The offense would go out, score touchdown, 188 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 14: and very quickly. Now we got to play defense, and 189 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 14: of course we didn't. We didn't play great defense. 190 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:00,640 Speaker 2: The Giants do get going offensively. 191 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 13: Alan Jacobs all the way for the New York score 192 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:07,839 Speaker 13: the Giants on the. 193 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: Scoreboard, but New York never seriously finds its way back 194 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 1: into the contest. 195 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 12: The game was put away early. 196 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: Former Washington offensive tackle Ray Shanky, who played for the 197 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 1: team from nineteen sixty six to nineteen seventy five. 198 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,439 Speaker 5: And then it just was like who could score. 199 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: The action suddenly just seems to be incessant. 200 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 6: Well, it was kind of a crazy game, and there 201 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,480 Speaker 6: it was just we scored. 202 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 13: The give us to Whitfield and he is in scoring 203 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 13: his third touchdown of the afternoon by score, and around 204 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,080 Speaker 13: the end with nobody there for the TV. 205 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 5: And once it started, I mean, it became sort of 206 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:50,959 Speaker 5: like you couldn't believe what was going on. 207 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 13: We scored Joe don Looney, watch the speed he's in 208 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 13: for the touchdown, base car, third down. 209 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:02,200 Speaker 2: And two. 210 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 13: Fine block and Gary Wood lets it go. Homer Jones 211 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,679 Speaker 13: out in front of his man takes it for a 212 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 13: New York touchdown. 213 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 5: He would think that somebody would say time out, you 214 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 5: know enough, we don't need any more scores, but it 215 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,360 Speaker 5: just didn't. Everybody wanted more. 216 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 13: It's second down and seven at the thirty two. Jurgensen 217 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 13: looking for a receiver and he spots Charlie Taylor. The 218 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 13: passes on the money and Washington has another touchdown more 219 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 13: and Jurgensen fires again the tailor more and Ernie Cooy 220 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:48,439 Speaker 13: punts from his goal line. Ricky Harris takes it at 221 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 13: the forty eight yard line of Washington up the middle, 222 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 13: cuts back in and drives all the way for the 223 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 13: touchdown fifty two yard return. 224 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 12: There didn't seem to be a lot of let's just 225 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 12: run the clock out and get out of here. 226 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 2: Washington kept a lot of their starters in. 227 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 13: But it is picked off by brig Owens. He's in 228 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 13: for the touchdown. 229 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 6: Back and forth, and back and forth. 230 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,280 Speaker 13: It's third down and three brig Owens for the tackle, 231 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 13: but Thomas is in the end zone for a New 232 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 13: York TD Redskins ball first and ten at the forty five. 233 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 13: Bobby Mitchell gets the handoff from his half back spot 234 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 13: and he is gone all the way for the touchdown 235 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 13: on The score is now Washington sixty nine, New York 236 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 13: forty one. Google act tis an NFL record with a 237 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 13: point after and breaks the Redskins record for extra points 238 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 13: in one game. 239 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 15: We didn't have the nets up in sixty six. 240 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 1: Longtime Washington equipment manager Tommy McBean. 241 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 15: So now the score is getting higher and higher, and 242 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 15: I'm running out of footballs. I wanted to save the 243 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 15: passing balls to continue the game. I threw the one 244 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 15: of the old balls to the referee, and the referee says, 245 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 15: what the hell is this? I said, we're running out 246 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 15: of the balls, man, I got they're just kicking them 247 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 15: in the stand. Let him kick the They're easier to 248 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 15: kick anyway. He said, fine, So that's we had to 249 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 15: use the old kicking balls at the end of the 250 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 15: game because we were running out. 251 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: Finally, with football bags near depleted, the shootout is just 252 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: about over. 253 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 2: They are about seven seconds left. 254 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,600 Speaker 12: One of the crazy things about this game is that 255 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 12: Washington scored their final touchdown with a little over a 256 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 12: minute ago on a Bobby Mitchell touchdown run. He had 257 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 12: been converted to receiver for many years, but Washington's other 258 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:47,120 Speaker 12: running backs in this game either got hurt or got 259 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,600 Speaker 12: tired from scoring so many touchdowns. So Mitchell comes in 260 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 12: at running back and runs for a forty five yard score. Afterwards, 261 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 12: Auto Graham is like he didn't even know the play 262 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,760 Speaker 12: from the running back position, but still did it. That's 263 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 12: how good Hall of Famer he was. But yeah, Washington 264 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 12: scores on that touchdowns a little more than a minute 265 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 12: to play, the Giants get the ball back, and you 266 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 12: figure they can't wait to just take a few knees 267 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 12: and get out of there with that huge loss, but 268 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 12: instead Tom Kennedy has been reinserted in the game. At 269 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 12: this point, he thinks that it's there's like under ten 270 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 12: seconds to go. He thinks that it's third down, so 271 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 12: I guess to give the Giants another desperation play. He 272 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 12: throws the ball out of bounce, but it turns out 273 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 12: it was fourth down. So Washington takes over in Giants territory, 274 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 12: territory at their twenty one and you figure at that 275 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 12: point Washington is gonna take a knee or just run 276 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 12: the ball at the middle and end this game, which 277 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 12: is sixty nine to forty one at this point. 278 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 10: It's close to the end of the game. Sam Huff 279 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 10: and other players that congregated there are some of them 280 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 10: as the leaders as a team, and so Sam said, okay, 281 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 10: you guys, that's going on three one two three, say 282 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 10: field goal, field goal team put in it. So theylled 283 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 10: at the top of the launch. Field goal team get 284 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:06,480 Speaker 10: in there. So the field goal team, they thought they 285 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,560 Speaker 10: were being sent in to kick a field goal by 286 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 10: the coach. Well, the coach who we send them in, 287 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 10: Sam Huff, was the one. 288 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,679 Speaker 5: I don't think he masked autogram. He just sent him 289 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 5: out himself. 290 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 6: Sam was a big, bigger than white presidence of the team, 291 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 6: and obviously your leadership and nobody was going to say no, 292 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 6: let's not do it. Sam wanted to kick a field goal. 293 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 6: We're going to kick a field goal. 294 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 3: I mean, we were all for it. 295 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: Chirley Povich of The Washington Post would later write. 296 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:41,120 Speaker 7: This was perhaps the first field goal ever aimed at 297 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 7: the jugular. 298 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: Charlie Goglack trots out and makes the kick. 299 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,440 Speaker 2: Another ball gone. 300 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 12: I think the report was they lost fourteen footballs, three 301 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 12: hundred and fifteen dollars worth of footballs, which was a 302 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:56,479 Speaker 12: lot back then. I guess they went for twenty two 303 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 12: to fifty apiece. 304 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: Thirteen of those were lost on extra attempts and one 305 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 1: was thrown away as part of a brig Owens touchdown 306 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: celebration two. 307 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:09,399 Speaker 13: Yard return and a football in the stand. 308 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 12: The football back then even said the Duke on it, 309 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,399 Speaker 12: which was the nickname of the Giants owner. So it 310 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 12: was kind of like, this is happening against the Giants 311 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 12: and there goes your footballs too. 312 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: Final score Washington seventy two, New York forty one. 313 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,080 Speaker 7: It was a great defensive battle, said Auto Graham with 314 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,840 Speaker 7: a wry smile. Graham, the winning coach, was being funny 315 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 7: following a game that seemed hilarious to the capacity crowd 316 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 7: of fifty four hundred and thirty nine and to the Redskins, 317 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 7: but not the poor Giants. 318 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: The players were happy, but probably the biggest winners of 319 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 1: them all weren't even on the field. 320 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 10: I'm happy for my parents, who who've sat allegedly on 321 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 10: two different sorts of the field, but I'm not sure 322 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 10: that they did. But they sacrificed a lot for their 323 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 10: for their kids. Can you imagine that if it's something new, 324 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 10: A mother who escaped Hungary in nineteen fifty and her 325 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,960 Speaker 10: her sons are all of a sudden, not just sety plays, 326 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,640 Speaker 10: but DC Stadium that was that was a huge deal 327 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 10: to have two of her sons involved in this game. 328 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 10: And I from a purest point of view, I was 329 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 10: happy to win the game, and I would have been 330 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 10: happy for Peter if his kick won the game. I 331 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,359 Speaker 10: could could not root against my brother. 332 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 1: When questioned by the reporters about the final field goal, 333 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 1: Auto Graham insisted there were no nefarious intentions behind it. 334 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to make history on that front. 335 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 7: Hell No, Graham said, I didn't know anything about records. 336 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,919 Speaker 7: I wanted gogole Act to try a field goal. He 337 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 7: hadn't had a chance all day, and he missed two 338 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,320 Speaker 7: against Cleveland last Sunday. I'm not one to run up 339 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 7: a score on anyone. 340 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 1: The field goal ensured Washington broke the record from most 341 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 1: points scored by a team in a regular season game, 342 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 1: a record that had been previously set by the Rams 343 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: sixteen years prior with seventy points. Washington's nineteen sixty six 344 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: win over New York also holds the record for most 345 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,040 Speaker 1: combined points in an NFL game, with one hundred and thirteen. 346 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,760 Speaker 1: So many decades later, the question has to be asked, 347 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 1: if these records. 348 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 2: Haven't been broken by now, will they ever? 349 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 5: It's highly unlikely because because the idea is you want 350 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 5: to win, you got to win column and if you 351 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 5: if you're head by three touchdowns, you don't need four. 352 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 5: You don't need six touchdowns to be ahead. And what 353 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 5: you really want to do is be saving your team, 354 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 5: particularly in today's background, because your playoffs are so important. 355 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 5: Get to the playoffs. Your team health is important, and 356 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 5: so are you trying to hold out injuries and back 357 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 5: then it wasn't that way. 358 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 12: For a game in nineteen sixty six to still be 359 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 12: the record for most combined points in an NFL game 360 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 12: is crazy when you think about almost sixty years later, 361 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 12: when you think about just the offensive explosion, the way 362 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 12: the game has changed in the years since. 363 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 10: You know what they say, never say never. I think 364 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:55,280 Speaker 10: it's held up a long time, from sixty six to 365 00:21:55,400 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 10: twenty twenty five, So that's other years for a record 366 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 10: to stand. 367 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: This episode of Hailtal's was narrated, produce, and research by 368 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: me Hannah Liechtenstein, senior copywriter for the Washington Commanders. 369 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 2: It was produced and edited. 370 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 1: By Jason Johnson, Additional editing by Nick Leanos. Executive producers 371 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: are Ryan Yoakum and Kevin Klein. Additional voiceover help comes 372 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: from Bran Weinstein. Graphics designed by Zach Osborne and Matt Cashman. 373 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: Voting is now open for the twenty twenty five People's 374 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: Choice Podcast Awards. Vote now for Hailtales for best Historical Podcasts. 375 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 1: Go to podcast Awards dot com. Thank you to our 376 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:43,640 Speaker 1: guests for their contributions, and thank you for listening.