Resumen del Juego de Playoffs Divisional entre los Cowboys y los 49ers en San Francisco, en diciembre de 1972, el primer gran regreso (30-28) del Capitán Comeback Roger Staubach.
That's true. Bay are Blues, December 23rd, 1972. For Browns fans, our day of disappointment, December 24th, 1972 in Miami. Upset in the making, with Browns ahead of Dolphins, 14-13 in 4th quarter. Dolphins beat us, 20-14,thanks to 5 picks by QB Mike Phipps. Paul Warfield came back to haunt Browns with either key catches or DPI trying to cover him.
One of the darkest days in Bay Area sports history. I read somewhere, some writer thought it was funny to write this. " the line to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge was over a mile long"
One of the worst collapses in NFL playoff history. There is literally no way San Francisco should have lost this game. This game killed the franchise for the remainder of the 1970's.
During the incredible career of Roger Staubach and MANY 4th quarter comeback victories, THIS particular unlikely comeback was his greatest. The 49ers were a very strong team. Too bad there had to be a loser on this day. Much respect to them.🏈
I disagree that it was his greatest. The 1979 Redskins game was greater because the Cowboys came back TWICE! That game was a regular season game but it was for a division championship. Also, the 49ers weren't really that good. They were 8-5-1 for the year, scored most of their points in the game on a short field due to turnovers, and were outgained by Dallas almost 2:1. This was the last year of the 70s the 49ers were any good at all.
@@scott1564, They were actually mediocre through the mid-70's and were actually 8-6 in '76 (Delvin Williams' big year with them), though they cratered after a fast start. It wasn't until '78 that they fell off a cliff.
This game should live more in football lore than the game earlier the same day, which was the Steelers' 13-7 win over the Raiders on a crazy fourth-down play in the closing seconds. In this game, the 49ers were kicking the sluggish Cowboys all over the field, and since there was no two-point conversion at the time, the Cowboys were down three scores with time running out. And they pulled it out! They got off the deck and scored 17 points on the road to win 30-28. The next week the Cowboys went back to their sluggish ways and were crushed by Washington, 26-3, in the NFC Championship Game.
@@chrishall6419 LOL, Washington was 11-3 and won the NFC East. Dallas was 10-4 and was a wildcard. Meanwhile San Francisco was 8-5-1 and barely won a lousy division that featured the Atlanta Falcons at 7-7, Los Angeles Rams at 6-7-1, and the New Orleans Saints at 2-11-1.
@@chrishall6419 As Biden says...... Come on, Man! I agree that the 49ers were very talented and strong, but not stronger than Dallas nor Washington Redskins in '72.
@@bobma6342 They couldn't handle the Rams, got swept by them. Just matchup weirdness. But they were the equal of every other team in the NFC. They beat Dallas 31-10 in Dallas on Thanksgiving with Spurrier at QB!
I went to this game, had seats in the NW corner end zone . We were neutral observers , Didn’t care for the outcome , damn Cowboys, lol .. We had just moved to San Mateo from Miami . Redemption was coming very soon for us Dolphin fans 👍🏻
2:25 Cliff Harris getting closelined LOL Right there on the Cowboys' sideline and they were OK with it. Had that happened today it would have been an outright brawl between teams and fines issued.
The 28-13 lead for SF was deceiving, certainly not a reflection of a great day for the Niners offense. Along with the opening kickoff return by Washington, all three of Larry Schreiber's one yard TD's were the result of Dallas turnovers. If I recall correctly, Dallas outgained SF big time for the day. This loss demoralized the Niners into a nine year playoff drought.
The San Francisco 49ers decisively defeated the Dallas Cowboys 31-10 on Thanksgiving Day, 11-23-1972 at Texas Stadium without their starting quarterback, John Brodie who was injured. The 49er QB that day was some guy named Steve Spurrier. And he and his 49er teammates thoroughly outplayed the Cowboys that day.
A couple of photos of Sellers showed him with an ear-to-ear grin before he actually caught it! Interestingly, Sellers was traded to Miami for Otto Stowe soon after and was out of the league by 1974. Stowe looked great the first few games of ‘73, but got hurt and was eventually replaced by another #88 named Drew Pearson. Stowe never played for Dallas again after that, but Pearson thanked him for his tutelage in his Hall of Fame induction speech.
Crazy game. The legend of Roger Staubach begins. For Dallas, WRs Billy Parks (21) and Ron Sellers (88) would be traded away in the offseason, bringing on Drew Pearson (88) in 1973.
I watched this game that terrible day. The 49ers let the Cowboys back int the game they should've won. Avenged this loss in the 49ers "catch" game about ten years later.
I wouldn't call it revenge though there were no players from either team except DD Lewis and Charlie Waters for the Cowboys who retired after that game
I was a teenager and was upset my Cowboys were losing 28-13 and didn't even have the ball with less than 4 minutes to go. I walked to the store and came during the Raiders & Steelers game, middle if the first quarter, I said to no one in particular in a room of about 15 people, the Cowboys will have to wait until next year, everyone in the room looked at me and said the Cowboys won....🎉🎉🎉🎉😂
I've. Watched. Half of this Video, and have Already seen. 3. No Calls, by the. Refs..All. Against the. Cowboys...SF was below the knee Blocking, Hitting out of. Bounds, and Face Masking!!!!
I honestly thought Dallas was going to win last weekend’s game. But the momentum seem to gradually slip over to the 49ers. Cowboy running back Michael Pollard getting injured and forced out of the game didn’t help the Cowboy cause and their inexplicable lack of ability to cover 49er passes over the middle, especially to that hippie looking tight end of their’s still bothers and puzzles me right now. The Cowboys of the past 16 or 17 years have flashed signs of brilliance. But like the Cowboy teams of the late 1960s and early 1980s, they just were not able to win the big one when in the post season. Dak Prescott, at least for now, is a good quarterback. But not a great one. Just like Don Meredith, Craig Morton, Danny White and Tony Romo were good quarterbacks. But they were NOT great quarterbacks. Not great quarterbacks like Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman were.
Hahahaha, the Cowboys beat the Redskins in more playoff games AND Super Bowls. Let's see...in regular season games too....hahaha. Dude, you tell funny jokes. Must be embarrassin to be a Redskins fan. Actually, it must suck.
@@minkymott I'm not a REDSKIN fan. I just hate Dallas. REDSKINS are 2-0 agianst the Cowgirls in the NFC Championship Game. 1972 & 82 when Wimp Danny White got knocked out 😂😂😂😂
@@kennyfutch8783 that's all you got? I got America's Team. Most valuable sports franchise. 3 Superbowls in 4 years. Besides that, I seriously doubt you're a Steelers fan. As soon as I put you and the Redskins in their place, now all of a sudden you're a Steelers' fan. So obvious. Can't take anything you say seriuosly.
Looking back at these classic Cowboys-49ers playoff battles, it's crazy to think of all the implications that came from this one. It established Staubach as the true starter for Dallas, and was the first of his legendary comebacks. On the other hand it basically ended Morton's career in Dallas and on the other side of the ball it was the beginning of the end for both John Brodie and coach Dick Nolan
There were a lot of clues that the wheels were coming off the 49ers machine in 1972, but I doubt many people saw theirs decline, combined with the rebirth of the Rams marking this game as the end of an era for the 49ers
It’s hard to believe that it has been over 50 years since the Cowboys-49ers playoff rivalry began during the 1970-71 season with the very first NFC Championship game after the official merger of the AFL and the NFL of 1970.
@@billmalone5050 It was interesting to me how much more they focused on the 90s matchups than these 70s game. I get it from a marketing standpoint, more people remember that more recent generation of players, a lot of them are on TV now. But I think these last two games are much more similar to the '70 and '71 games but with the teams flipped- you had the winning team winning with different QBs in each one (Morton in '70 Staubach in '71, with Jimmy G in '21 and Purdy in '22), and in both cases the winning team won with a great defensive performance. And if Dak and McCarthy can't make a super bowl run in the next few years I see them going the way of John Brodie and Dick Nolan (at least for McCarthy's tenure in Dallas, obviously winning a super bowl before Dallas elevates his legacy).
@@joetrapp9187 That's just it. They massively miscalculated on that. By 1971, they should have drafted Lynn Dickey (and either Villapiano or Dan Dierdorf) with their two second round picks and moved on from Spurrier.
Kinda like how the Niners had 6 turnovers in the 1981 NFC title game and still managed to win it, haha! I sometimes think about how if Dallas had managed to kick a game-winning FG in that one, the shire would’ve been identical to this one. Oh well!
This is one of those great "what if" games. In my case, I've always wondered what would have happened in the NFC title game had the 49ers won this game. There is no way the Redskins would have been as fired up for San Francisco as they were for Dallas. I think the 49ers would have had a good shot at beating Washington.
This game sent the 49ers in to hibernation for eight years. Interesting thought though considering the 49ers had beaten Washington (albeit at home), the year before in the playoffs.
I watching this during the Snoop and Dr. Dre halftime show and I can say with 300,000% certainty that this is way more entertaining! I don't care if it's 50 years ago and the outcome is already been determined!
@Roger Williams Yeah I am the parrot! Pay your $8 and go back to Twitter! Or even better! The View is struggling for viewers! You can scream about how crackers are roaches!
My husbands life is being made into a movie. He was Santa here. He has 2 father's who are on the WALL OF FAME. The one who raised him the famous Prescott Sullivan San Francisco Examiner Sports writer, and Ernie Nevers. Ernie holds the oldest NFL record, was the first Inductee in the NFL Hall of Fame, saved the NFL, pitched to Babe Ruth, and invented the hook shot in Basket Ball. Anyone know how to see that hall of fame for the 49ers online?
Although a Cowboys fan, the 49ers should never have lost this game. BTW: The Cowboys would take a beat-down 26-3 the next week at Washington in the NFC Championship.
Worst loss in.49er playoff history. Honorable mentions Super Bowls XLVII and.LIV, 87 Divisional playoffs, 90, 11, and 13 NFC Championship Games. Go 49ers!
Still don't know how they lost to Minnesota in 87. 49ers were going to play Washington then the 72 Dolphins had they advanced. In 1987, they would have won the super bowl and begin the first 3-peat in history
Of the 3 battles they had going back to 70', this game is often overlooked for the great comeback the Cowboys put together to win that game in SF...I remember when SPurrier came in for Bordie on Thanksgiving and he really burned the Cowboys, the 49ers kiled them 31-10, and it looked again as of the 49ers would blow them out...That game for the Cowboys was in doubt almost from the start, the 49ers were really giving it to them throughout, really outplaying Dallas...But the Cowboys just found a way to keep hanging on in that game....It was said that when the 49ers were up by 15, some of them were chiding the Cowboys players, asking them how they liked "getting their butts kicked for a change"...They had spoken too soon, LOL...I think the way this game was pulled out by Staubach, in a sense THAT was the real difference in quality between Morton and Staubach, Roger always seemed able to GET IT DONE...
This game was the start of Roger Staubach's 4th quarter comebacks. The Cowboys and 49ers have along and storied tradition of post season battles. 1970, 1971, 1972, 1981, 1992,1993, 1994 and 2021 are the ones that I remember.
@@walterwhite1 I take it that you are NOT a fan of the Dallas Cowboys. Are you a 49ers fan specifically or just among the billions of people who just love to hate, loathe, despise, detest and even dislike the Cowboys? LOL !!! Tomorrow, on Sunday, 1-22-2023 you will get another chance to hate on the Cowboys as they and the 49ers create another chapter in their post season rivalry.
I was thinking the same. Cowboys still had a chance if not for Whites fumble. Cowboys could’ve made a field goal and won by same score 30-28. Crazy how life seems to play out as Deja Vu. Great rivalry’s.
That is somewhat true, just like Terry Bradshaw wasn't the focal point of his team's 1st SB win. Landry was still vacillating between Morton and Staubach, until Roger pulled out this win in relief. Teams were still skeptical of scrambling QBs at this point and preferred stand tall in the pocket bombers like Lamonica and Morton. But, with Roger's performance here, and Stabler's TD run against the Steel Curtain on the same day, teams reevaluated during the 1972 offseason and in 1973 you had Stabler and Staubach firmly entrenched as starters not looking over their shoulder and Fran Tarkenton leading the Vikings to the SB and the scrambling QB was in vogue, though Stabler never really had to scramble behind that unbelievable Raiders line.
@@jaylucien669 I watched those games as a kid....telling my age lol ..I loved those 9ers teams back then and I was a Falcon fan... Hacksaw was my favorite...
People remember "The Catch", but this game is never mentioned in the rivalry with the 49ers...It was a great comeback, and clutch play by Staubach when it mattered most...But I suspect the sheer hatred for the Cowboys is why this game is often overlooked as a great one...
It’s “The Catch” Staubach to Ron Sellers for the win. The first of two playoffs games between San Francisco and Dallas decided by “The Catch.” Agreed, it is a shame this game is rarely mentioned in the great playoff rivalry between the two teams.
@@elicarthel4945you have to remember NFL films is owned by Ed and Steve Sabol. They have mentioned in interviews their hatred for the Dallas Cowboys and the city of Dallas and how they hated to even go to Dallas for NFL films. They came up with “America’s Team” as a jealous insult in their film that made the moniker famous (that kinda backfired). The Dwight Clark catch was and still is rammed down the throats of football fans continually for years when it really was not nearly as dramatic as the catch Ron Sellers made. There was still a lot of time left after Clark’s catch and the Cowboys almost pulled off a comeback in that game if it wasn’t for Drew Person’s shirt tail.
I love hearing the old names and sometimes can still call their names by the number. Yeah, I’m old but remember the games.Back then there were few ways to relive games w/o a way to record them.Most good players spent their whole career playing for a single team and you could count on that.
In playoff meetings, this was the only time until 2021 that the Cowboys and 49ers met *before* the NFC championship game, which has had 6 meetings between them. They will meet in the wild card round for the first time ever on Sunday.
50 Years ago today. I have this segment on DVD. However, I have the game on a 4 cd set....49ers radio....as a lifer Cowboys fan here in Philthy PA...it is nice to hear the 49ers radio die like their team GO COWBOYS.. The CD set is 1 quarter on 1'cd so a 4 cd set.
When football was really football! And when the Cowboys uniform looked a great deal better with the gray pants, not the mint green looking pants of today. And helmets with full face masks for linemen and linebackers...just all around better product back then! Never plowed snow off field to give team the advantage! Never heard of "The Starr Rule"! Never heard of Butkis leaving game due to turf toe! Never flagged Deacon Jones for horse collaring! And football was played in weather elements on mostly grass and not domed stadiums! And when good teams with good defenses had catchy nicknames! Announcers were better than today's! Ahh, how I miss those days!
49ers were rulers of a piss poor division for 3 years, a Rams team on a temporary decline , Saints and Falcons teams that were just crummy at best . In playoffs 49ers were exposed as frauds
Actually, the NFC West rated fourth in winning pct. during the three years San Francisco ruled the division, and only three teams-Miami, Dallas and Minnesota-won more games than the 49ers in 70-72. ‘Exposed as frauds’ is wide right. Their three playoff losses were by a combined 20 points.
It baffles me there are 7 games from the 1970’s that the original broadcasts have just disappeared……. Many of the rest since 1970 I own : but there are 7 that need to be found
I was pretty young back then but I watched a lot of Dallas games and although I know he must have been pretty decent, I can't ever remember watching Craig Morton have a great game.
I remember in a game against the Cardinals, Staubach took off and Howard Cosell said "Roger runs like a sissy". Howard had to get back on national TV and apologize. Roger, of course, was not fazed at all by the comment. He liked Howard.
11:06 The ref doesn't even watch the receiver to see it he "completes the catch by the holding on to the ball after he hits the ground". Love the old rules.
Morton wasn't playing that well, but Bob Hayes really doomed Morton's career with Dallas by dropping that touchdown pass. I never realized that Staubach didn't really play that well in this game until that first touchdown with under 2 minutes left. Staubach was terrible in the next game against the Redskins, but he never lost another big game to them after they ripped him in the press.
