GeographyDude
Gone Fishin'
Without Broadway Joe being a huge star, how much of a lower trajectory for NFL?
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/dbwi-jets-win-super-bowl-iii.426632/
I explored this a while ago - long story short, the POD is Shula gets sick of Morrall’s shit early on and puts in Unitas in the second quarter. Unitas plays lights-out and the Colts win.
In any case, the Jets were a dumpster fire in the 60s - they did get their shit together eventually, but maybe there’s a chance they go out of business by 1970. Interesting POD - if the NFL replaces them in 1970 (we went with the Seahawks joining early,) that team gets Terry Bradshaw - it doesn’t torpedo the Steelers but it makes their dynasty weaker, plus it adds an instant competitor in the AFC.
Monday Night Football was a risk because it required a bigger prime time audience.I think if the Colts win, it slows the development of the marketing juggernaut that the NFL has become. . .
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/dbwi-jets-win-super-bowl-iii.426632/
. . . (we went with the Seahawks joining early,) that team gets Terry Bradshaw - it doesn’t torpedo the Steelers but it makes their dynasty weaker, . . .
. . . Also, without Miami, the Steelers probably start their dynasty in 1972 instead of 74.
Again, maybe no Monday Night Football.https://books.google.com/books?id=M...ection did Rozelle reveal his Plan B"&f=false
' . . . Only after the ABC rejection did Rozelle reveal his Plan B: if ABC was indeed going to pass on the package, the NFL had a deal in the works with the Sports Network, an independent production company recently purchased by Howard Hughes . . . '
Again, maybe no Monday Night Football.
Without the NFL already flying at a pretty high trajectory, maybe Rozelle doesn't think the above gambit–bluff is at all worth it.
If ABC turned it down, and Rozelle decided to abandon the MNF project, that would have been a good idea. I don't see MNF being the same on another network without Cosell, Dandy Don, and Roone Arledge. They made it what it was.
Yes, the talented producer Roone Arledge, and let’s not forget play-by-play guy Keith Jackson.. . . I don't see MNF being the same on another network without Cosell, Dandy Don, and Roone Arledge. . .
And I remember one game in Miami when Dandy Don sang a few bars of “Moon Over Miami”!Sing this in your best Don Meredith voice: "Turn out the lights, the party's over....."
At the time of the merger in 1970, the AFL had 10 teams, the original eight plus the Cincinnati Bengals and the Miami Dolphins,. . . Another possible outcome would have been instead of realigning in to AFC and NFC conferences, the realignment would have been on geographically based . . .
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/dbwi-jets-win-super-bowl-iii.426632/
I explored this a while ago - long story short, the POD is Shula gets sick of Morrall’s shit early on and puts in Unitas in the second quarter. Unitas plays lights-out and the Colts win.
In any case, the Jets were a dumpster fire in the 60s - they did get their shit together eventually, but maybe there’s a chance they go out of business by 1970. Interesting POD - if the NFL replaces them in 1970 (we went with the Seahawks joining early,) that team gets Terry Bradshaw - it doesn’t torpedo the Steelers but it makes their dynasty weaker, plus it adds an instant competitor in the AFC.
Werblin has enough money to keep the Jets going, if not in New York, why not send them to Seattle? Seattle thinks of itself as a green city, (Don't have to change the team colors) and they have the aerospace industry out there. Seattle Jets?