Video for Throwback Thursday: Florida State’s Unexpected Upset
Kim Hammond, FSU quarterback
Kenny Stabler, Bama quarterback
I don’t remember this game but back in 1967 (I was only four at the time), the Florida State Seminoles played the Alabama Crimson Tide, who were riding a 21-game winning streak, in Birmingham and battled to a 37-37 tie against the Tide. The 37 points posted by FSU in the game were more than the Tide had allowed the entire season the year before.
Legendary coaches Bear Bryant and Bill Peterson were on opposite sidelines. Bryant had the most wins of any head coach in Division 1 college history (Eddie Robinson of Grambling had the most of any coach in college) until he was topped by Penn State Coach Joe Paterno and another guy who was on the FSU sidelines that night — Coach Bobby Bowden.
Kenny Stabler was the left-handed gunslinging quarterback for Bama and Kim Hammond was the quarterback for FSU.
Stabler would have a successful NFL career, which included winning the Super Bowl as he quarterback the Oakland Raiders, being named to four pro bowls, leading the league in touchdowns two separate times and being named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1974. Despite his success, he is still not enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Hammond’s pro football career only lasted three seasons; his first with the Miami D0lphins and the last two with the Boston Patriots. He completed only 15 of 32 passes. He had two interceptions and no touchdowns in his brief career. He had a much more successful career after pro football, as he graduated from law school and went into private practice before becoming a judge in Flagler County in 1979.
The game was listed in Alabama’s centennial football guide as one of the greatest games that the Tide had ever played and it will go down in the annals of FSU as one of the greatest ever played. Almost, 50 years later, the teams are on top of the college football world sitting number one and number two in many pre-season polls. 
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