- The 1958 National Football League championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants is known as "The Greatest Game Ever Played". It was the first (and only) professional football title game to ever result in an overtime, featured 17 men who were ultimately inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and included wild swings of momentum and the Colts execution of their two-minute drill to tie the game in the closing seconds of regulation time. To commemorate the 50th anniversary, ESPN films paired eleven of the games participants with current players from the Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants to compare the nature of the sport 50 years later, as well as sportscasters, reporters, photographers, spectators, cheerleaders, majorettes and marching band members who contributed their reminiscences.—David Bassler
- "To commemorate the 50th anniversary, ESPN films paired eleven of the games participants with current players from the Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants to compare the nature of the sport 50 years later." I know the result of the comparison. There can be no comparison. The players of today are quicker and stronger, enhancement drugs aside. The comparison stops there. However, in the 1950s & 1960s the NFL players' work ethic, good citizenship, desire to win with class, and ability to lose with class are without comparison. It was an era when most players were just damn good Americans, husbands, fathers, sons, and had a connection to the average guy on the street. What you saw on the field exemplified this fact.—Vern Messer, Concord, NC
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