Bubba Smith dropped Namath for a nine-yard loss and the Jets settled for a 32-yard field goal by Turner. It opened a 10-0 lead at 4:52 of the quarter.

On the next series, the Colts were quickly forced to punt and Namath and his Jet Set moved for another field goal. Starting at their 32, the Jets wheeled to the Baltimore 23 on four strikes by Namath. A bomb to flanker Don Manyard narrowly missed producing a Jet touchdown when the catch was made two yards beyond the end zone.

Before Turner toed his 30-yarder, the Jets had their most serious scare of the game. Namath was embraced by Colt tackle Fred Miller as he unloaded the bomb and the wraparound injured the quarterback's right thumb.

Gain 13-0 cushion

Babe Parilli, Namath's 38-year-old fill-in, came in for one play, a dipping incompletion. Then Turner kicked his second field goal as the Jets went ahead, 13-0, with about four minutes remaining in the third period.

Namath returned and shot a 10-yard blitz-eating shot to split end George Bauer, a tall drink of water from Texas who had eight receptions for 133 yards. Sauer ran a deep post pattern against Lenny Lyles on the next play and Namath hit him for a 39-yard gain to the Baltimore 10.

Four plays later, Turner added another field goal from the nine, widening the Jets' lead to 16-0 with 13:26 left in the game.

Unitas guided the Colts as far as the Jet 26 after the kickoff. But Beverly slid in front of Orr and took the ball away from the Colt receiver as the pair raced into the end zone.

Fourth-down pass

After Turner was wide with a 43-yard field goal try, the Colts finally broke through. Unitas triggered the 80-yard drive by hitting Orr with a 17-yard pass on fourth down. Two personal fouls against the Jets for after-the-whistle contact helped the Colts reach the two.

Hill rammed into the end zone from the one to score and Michaels added the conversion at 11:41, ending almost 57 minutes of shutout defense by the Jets.

Tom Mitchell's recovery of an onside kick for the Colts with 3:14 left unsettled the Jets, but only momentarily. Unitas' passes began to scatter away from his receivers and the Jets eventually gained the ball back at their own 19 and ran out all but 15 seconds on the clock.

Unitas ended up with 11 completions in 24 attempts for 110 yards. Morrall was just as ineffective with only six completions in 17 tries for 71 yards.

Michaels didn't help, either, by missing field goals of 27 and 45 yards.

Bounces off Mitchell

Morrall's most damaging interception came early in the second period after the Colts had recovered a fumble by Sauer at the Jet 12. He whistled a pass for Mitchell in the end zone but the ball caromed off the receiver's pads high into the air. Beverly, spinning back towards the ball, caught it just before it reached the ground.

The Jets then went 80 yards in 12 plays as Namath blended Snell's tough runs with four pass completions, two to Sauer. Snell outsprinted safety Rick Volk and linebacker Dennis Gaubatz around left end from the four to score.

Later in the period, Matte located an alley and dashed 58 yards to the Jet 16 where Baird caught him from behind. But sample plucked a Morrall pass intended for Richardson at the two to kill that threat.

The upset was sweetest of all, perhaps, for Weeb Ewbank, the Jets' 61-year-old, roly-poly coach who produced two NFL titles for the Colts in 1958 and 1959.