1965 NFL season discussion

[Sonny9]

I'm not bad. Not bad at all. But not at all the perfect football historian and this, here, an example. I either forgot about nor never knew of the missed FG called "good". And never thought of Unitas being out late in the season. Maybe the Pack wins that second game anyway. But likely that would have been Baltimore's only other loss thus Colts finishing at 11-2-1 instead of 10-3-1 thus they winning the conference again thus no tie-breaker game to begin with. As for that tie-breaker...I just saw the highlights. That kick did not look good. But maybe from the official's view, the ball may have possibly crossed some of the top of the post which, I believe, could still be allowed to be considered as good. I'm surprised I don't hear enough of that controversy. Simply reading a news article the day after the game, its simply mentioned as a made game-tying FG and nothing else (I see that Starr still was the holder).

Plus Starr got hurt and went out for the game in the first series of the playoff game.

[Ten Minute Ticker]

It wouldn’t have been named the Don Shula Trophy back then … unless he died. The Lombardi Trophy was named
posthumously.

[74_75_78_79_]

It wouldn’t have been named the Don Shula Trophy back then … unless he died. The Lombardi Trophy was named
posthumously.

I didn't know exactly when it became named after him. Thanks for the heads-up! I now see it was right after his death, beginning of the '70 season thus well on-time for SBV. Given the hypothetical I offer with Shula winning-it-all in '65, '67 & '68 and Vince 'only' winning it in '61, '62 & '66 (SBI), do they still name it after him when they did?

I know we're getting even further into "what-if" territory here, but maybe (just maybe, maybe not) '69 could be another World Championship in Baltimore given no Namath/AFL-induced hangover. What then by that following September (and Shula four-peating that January)?