“The Jets whupped them,” Phil Simms said. “I’m really shocked . . . They beat ‘em up.”
This was at Simms’ New Jersey home on Wednesday, after he had time-traveled 50 years back to Jan. 12, 1969.
At Newsday’s request, the MVP of New York’s second Super Bowl victory watched New York’s first and tried to explain how the biggest upset in the game’s history happened.
What Simms, the Giants’ quarterback in Super Bowl XXI and now an analyst for CBS, saw on a scratchy DVD of Super Bowl III at first seemed to be a fluky game in which the Jets took advantage of early Colts mistakes, including Earl Morrall throwing three interceptions in Jets territory and two missed field goals in the first half alone.