Anyone remember Joe Kapp?

[carolinatony]

I was talking with my older brother and his name came up. You under 30 fans probably never hear of him?

A contract dispute forced Kapp to be traded to the Boston Patriots in 1970 where he was the highest paid player in the league. Unfortunately, he played very poorly that season, leading the Patriots to the league's worst record, and one year later he retired from pro football.
He did take the Vikings to the SB where they lost 23-7 to the Chiefs

 

[Tunescribe]

I was talking with my older brother and his name came up. You under 30 fans probably never hear of him?

A contract dispute forced Kapp to be traded to the Boston Patriots in 1970 where he was the highest paid player in the league. Unfortunately, he played very poorly that season, leading the Patriots to the league's worst record, and one year later he retired from pro football.
He did take the Vikings to the SB where they lost 23-7 to the Chiefs

I believe he went on to coach the University of California for a while.

 

[Pats Fanatic]

Try not to, he was a bigger disappointment then Ken Sims.

 

[Jimke]

I remember watching Joe Kapp play in a game at Harvard Stadium.

Not only did I have to watch a lousy quarterback in action, I also

had to shovel out my seat with a piece of cardboard. The Pats

general manager had failed to check with Harvard to find out who

was responsible for snow shoveling. Joe Kapp was the only quarterback

that I ever watched who couldn't throw the ball and make it spiral.

He looked as though he was throwing a loaf of bread. Surprisingly,

I think that he was in a Super Bowl with Minnesota.
.

 

[patsgo]

I remember watching Joe Kapp play in a game at Harvard Stadium.

Not only did I have to watch a lousy quarterback in action, I also

had to shovel out my seat with a piece of cardboard. The Pats

general manager had failed to check with Harvard to find out who

was responsible for snow shoveling. Joe Kapp was the only quarterback

that I ever watched who couldn't throw the ball and make it spiral.

He looked as though he was throwing a loaf of bread. Surprisingly,

I think that he was in a Super Bowl with Minnesota.
.

i was there and i remember the snow, i also went to games at fenway, and bc and was at a game the stands caught fire, ah the good old patriot days

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

I unfortunately saw Kapp play for the Pats. Gawd was he awfull! As stated previously, the spiral was an alien object to him. A typical Pats move in the pre-Tuner era.

 

[363839]

Great posts guys.
Every time I think of that guy, I think of my buddies dad crackin' a gannsett while telling us that "Joe Kapp was coming into the game" and how the "Pats were gonna kick ass now". Haha!
I was a kid. 10

 

[iguide]

Yea I saw him on some games on the TV. Lived to far away to go to games. The worst quater back I have ever seen. Even my grand father would make comments that he could not trow a brick never mind a ball.

 

[Fanfrom1960]

Fortunately, I seem to have missed him as a Patriot, but I watched him and the Vikes against the Chiefs in the super bowl. He was shown up worse than any QB in any SB, before or since. Wasn't all his fault and he actually left the game injured, replaced by Gary Cuozzo.

 

[Fogbuster]

Ug-g-g, why'd you have to bring it up??


I remember being pumped to see him in a Pats uni, after he was on the Vikings SB team, but he totally disappeared ... or maybe his "weaknesses just got exposed", and everyone had figured him out by then.


Needless to say, big disappointment.

 

[LiveShot]

I saw him play at Harvard Stadium but don't remember much as I was too damn drunk. Seems Kapp was too as he threw the football much like a brick. He was fugly.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

I saw him play at Harvard Stadium but don't remember much as I was too damn drunk. Seems Kapp was too as he threw the football much like a brick. He was fugly.

He lived in Milton when he was with the Pats and we were going to trick or treat at his house but we figured he'd miss the bag when throwing the candy in......or so the joke went.

 

[NoCal Patriot]

Joe Kapp led the 1959 California Golden Bears to the Rose Bowl where He lost.
He then played in Canada for almost 10 years.He then came back to the States and Qb'ed the Minnesota Vikings to Super Bowl IV where He lost badly to The Kansas City Chiefs.He then held out and was traded to the Patriots on the week before the opening of the 1970 season.Within a few weeks he assumed the Starting Quarterback Job from Mike Taliferro(Pronounced Tolliver).Joe Kapp was and is the biggest FRAUD in the History of The Patriots.
The last Home Game of that 1970 season was against The Minnesota Vikings.It snowed the night before the game and no one shoveled out Harvard Stadium.The Pats were Gawd Awful.It didn't take long for The Patriots to fall behind and when they did A HUGE snowball fight broke out with all 20000 in attendance participating.The Vikings' Bench got pelted to the point that The PA Announcer attemted to stop the fight but all that did was increase the velocity.When the crowd got tired of pelting The Vikings,the very next target was Joe Kapp.He got hit with at least 500 snowballs!
Joe Kapp talked a great game but Mr.Macho couldn't play a lick.He was the worst player in my tenure as a Pats' Fan.He then want on to Coach The California Golden Bears unsuccessfully.He did have on memorable play as coach.He was coaching Cal in 1982 when They ran a kickoff back with 7 laterals and scored through The Stanford Band ruining John Elway's Senior season at Stanford.Ruining John Elways Senior Season? Maybe Joe Kapp did have one redeeming value !

 

[patsfan13]

The Pats were awful. Kapp never had a chance here. Kapp was a journeyman NFL qb who had success with a very good Viking team. IIRC he won a couple of Grey cups in rhe CFL.

 

[Patti37]

I remember watching Joe Kapp play in a game at Harvard Stadium.

Not only did I have to watch a lousy quarterback in action, I also

had to shovel out my seat with a piece of cardboard. The Pats

general manager had failed to check with Harvard to find out who

was responsible for snow shoveling. Joe Kapp was the only quarterback

that I ever watched who couldn't throw the ball and make it spiral.

He looked as though he was throwing a loaf of bread. Surprisingly,

I think that he was in a Super Bowl with Minnesota.
.

We were at the same game. I was very excited that Joe Kapp was a Patriot and I would be at his first game starting in a Patriots uniform. The game was horrible. The conditions were horrible. I spent the whole game worrying about how I was going to get down the aisle without killing myself. It was a snowy sheet of ice especially by the end of the game.

 

[Patti37]

i was there and i remember the snow, i also went to games at fenway, and bc and was at a game the stands caught fire, ah the good old patriot days

Very sad that all us old people remember seeing Joe Kapp play for the Pats.

 

[DarrylS]

Very sad that all us old people remember seeing Joe Kapp play for the Pats.

I agree, cannot visualize him, but those were very sad days.. they help me keep these days in perspective.

 

[Jimke]

The thing that has happened to me as an older fan is that I have a

hard time realizing how sweet it is. I keep waiting for things to fall apart like

the old days. In the past, a good team fell apart very quickly and was

followed by several bad teams.

 

[NoCal Patriot]

I view it in just an opposite fashion.I now fully realize how hard it is to get to "The Promised Land".I make sure to enjoy every minute of this present success while I look back and can only laugh at those "Old Days".There was one redeeming value to "those days" however.We all drank far more beer that We ever should or would!

 

[iguide]

Very sad that all us old people remember seeing Joe Kapp play for the Pats.

Double edge sword statement. It is sad that we remember Kapp playing for the Pats. However Old is a frame of mind. I am in my 50s but I am not old.