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| REVIEW | Winning Doesn't Always Cure Everything...But It Could Have Here
This film highlights the 1970 Season and features Bill Curry, Bubba Smith, Ernie Accorsi and Mike Curtis sharing there memories.
The NFL Films footage is amazing and well worth the price. Ed Harris does a great job with this video. I can see why he was chosen.
According to many accounts, Super Bowl V was seen as an embarrassment. NFL Films' famed John Facenda dubbed it "The BlunderBowl". Even some of the former Colts players deemed it an "empty win". Bubba Smith to this day claims he never wore his Super Bowl ring. And to top it all off, the NFL made a ridiculous call awarding the MVP to a player on the losing team. (You'll not see that mistake made again)
The emotion that comes out of Bubba Smith, Mike Curtis and Bill Curry is intense. It puzzles me that these guys are not happy about a game they won? OK, they lost to the Jets in Super Bowl III. Colt fans everywhere were crushed as well. I will never get over the Colts having the ball 6 times in the Red Zone and getting no points, in a 16-7 loss.
Mike Curtis reveals after 40 years, that he never liked Johnny Unitas. Curtis speaks of the Jets game as a crushing defeat that will haunt him to the grave. When Unitas would reflect on the Jets game, he always spoke as if it were another football game. I guess that's what made Unitas, Unitas. He never got rattled.
I will take no shot's at Mike Curtis (one of my all-time favorite players) but his lack of respect for Unitas was disappointing at best. Sometimes locker room stuff should stay there. A 2006 poll of living Hall of Famers selected Unitas the NFL's #1 Quarterback of All-Time. Mike Curtis is also an all-time great player who belongs in the Hall of Fame. Why he took shots at Unitas is unclear. Maybe it's the natural LB/QB friction, but Curtis comes off as bitter.
I get the passion, but I don't get the disappontment...they won the Super Bowl! If these players thought it was an "empty" or "bittersweet" victory, think of the thousands of players and numerous Hall of Famers that never wore a Super Bowl ring. How about the Cowboys who lost the game? They all must shudder to hear the Colts complain about their Super Bowl Rings.
As a fan, Super Bowl V was a great win for the home team. All Baltimore Colt fans still love to see Jim O'Brien kick that 32 yarder.
I remember that Sunday afternoon watching with my dad, in our den, on an old Sylvania B&W TV. My mind's eye can still see Unitas throw the tipped ball to Mackey. I can still recall the relief and joy as Mike Curtis made that key interception that set up the winning kick, and then jumping up and down just like O'Brien when the kick went through. I can still hear the cars and trucks on the streets of Baltimore honking their horns. The radio stations played the Colts fight song and Jim Karvellas proclaimed, "The Baltimore Colts are World Champs!"
The Orioles were also World Champs beating the Reds in the World Series just 3 months earlier. Baltimore was in seventh heaven. We finally answered for the humiliation of the Mets and the Jets.
Until the Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV, Baltimore wasn't really allowed to enjoy it's last Championship. The Colts were gone, the league, NFL Films, some disgruntled players, and most sport writers had negative things to say about Super Bowl V. Baltimore fans had to wait 30 years for another shot at the Super Bowl and the Ravens delivered!
I still have yet to see or read anything about Super Bowl V that captures the elation we all felt in Baltimore to see our Colts crowned World Champs in 1971. |
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| REVIEW | Odd Film but Innovative for its Time
The Sin of Nora Moran is an odd film about a woman (Zita Johann) who is about to be put to death for killing a man. The story is told through Nora's dreams, as she lapses into unconsciousness while awaiting her fate. Additional parts of the story are told by the district attorney (Alan Dinehart) who was involved in hercase as he talks with the wife (Claire Du Brey) of Moran's lover (who is also the governor, played by Paul Cavanagh). The film uses the `narratage' technique first used the same year by Preston Sturges in `The Power and the Glory' which consists of voice-over narration and flashbacks and flashforwards. The film gets even more complex, with flashbacks within flashbacks, flashfowards within flashbacks, etc. Some of the visual techniques are quite impressive for 1933. An interesting story with an odd ending. The acting seems strangely unemotional considering the plot of the film or, perhaps, that was the point. Some of the conversations in the flashbacks indicate that the characters have been reliving the story again and again. Perhaps they are now devoid of most of their previous feelings. This film also includes several brief appearances from silent film legend Henry B. Walthall ("The Little Colonel" in Birth of a Nation) as Father Ryan. It runs a very fast-moving 65 minutes. An extra film is included with this DVD release. |
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