Resumen del Campeonato de la NFC jugado entre Cowboys vs Vikings en el Texas Stadium en enero de 1978, esta victoria (23-6) llevó a los Cowboys al Super Bowl XII.
This Cowboy team was a truly GREAT one to watch. I've been privileged to meet some of the players from that team, and every ONE of them has been warm and cordial. Tony Dorsett, Aaron Kyle, Doug Dennison, Randy White, Drew Pearson: Great players and real gentlemen into the bargain.
Hopefully, one week from today, Chuck Howley will be elected to membership in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Chuck is the only player ever to win the MVP Award as a member of a losing team in Super Bowl history. This was Super Bowl V which Dallas lost, 16-13, to the Baltimore Colts in January of 1971 in Miami.
You know, looking back on this game and actually this game and the Super Bowl .... honestly our Cowboys offense was in a RUT. The Cowboys opened the season in Minny and won in OT on a Roger scramble 16-10. We were so damn talented and that is before we ever started using Tony Hill offensively and of course we didn't use Saldi enough. Herrera missed the first PAT and missed 3 or 4: FG 's in the Super Bowl. They played so sloppy and still won both games in blow out fashion but they were not clicking...I am sure we would have beaten Tark up but ...he could have scared us but DOOMSDAY...was just that in 1977
A Sophomore in High School back then, Fran Tarkenton was injured in the middle of the season in a home game against the Bengals. With or without Tarkenton, this Dallas Team was just too good on both sided of the football especially with the acquisition of Tony Dorsett in the 1997 NFL Draft.
Ist Super Bowl l watched was Super Bowl, VIII bet. Dolphins/Vikings in January, 1974. CBS-TV Network aired that game with late Ray Scott/late George ("Pat") Summerall on call, while late Andy Musser called that game for CBS' sister radio network
Yeah I forgot about that until I read your comment. Oakland losing to Denver was kind of an upset. And Oakland vs Dallas is a great SB matchup for that era.
I was only 8 and I remember the guy catching on fire in the stands. Kind of sticks with a kid that age. On a side note, never understood why the Cowboys traded Golden Richards. Some of the best hands in football.
Well I can answer your question about Golden. The Cowboys received word that Golden was hanging out with some people known to be into drugs and recent performances in practices and some behaviors led he rumors about Golden and drugs to be true. Also factor in Golden was going to lose his starting job to Tony Hill and also be dropped to fourth string behind Butch. Landry had an unwritten rule that if a longtime starter lost their job and not just falling one spot on the depth chart, but take a big fall on the depth chart that the player should be moved out . What I did not like as a Cowboys fan was that the demotion happened early 78 season and Golden was not traded until the of off season. Tony had to be moved to second string after his second touchdown catch vs Denver @ Mile High Stadium. People forget just how differently preseason games were played. I have that game on DVD and it is one of the greatest Cowboys games and so hard hitting. Tony was amazing that game. I really wish they let Golden try to adjust to 4th string. However we also had the best 3rd down back in Preston. Pearson, Tony caught out of the backfield...then tight ends Billie Joe and the vastly underrated Jay Saldi. Still a 4 wr set would have been deadly and would have destroyed the Steelers in SB 13, but as every Cowboys fan knows....the Rooney refs would have protected the yellow n b look black Stealers. Btw.... Golden came back with the Beard is early 79 and caught a 50 yd plus bomb from Vince Evans for a TD. (Game is on RU-vid here as NFL Films Game of the Week and The full complete game. I have both on DVD, I have over 769: Cowboys games on DVD...not including my Cowboys NFL films collection. Also Topps did make a 1980 Bears Golden Richards card. My first 2 of 4 Cowboys books come out fall next year. Finally in the Dallas Cowboys Weekly early 1978 Tex Schramm covers the Golden situation but vaguely but wishing him. All the best
@@ms.felonystrutter2472, they wouldn't have beaten the Steelers in that Super Bowl. It was a case of whatever the Cowboys could do the Steelers could do better. But it would have been much closer. This Cowboys team had the unfortunate fate, just like the Raiders had, of having their best teams coming in the middle of the dynasty of one of the greatest teams assembled. But at least they did win Super Bowls during this period. The Steelers, Cowboys and Raiders all had great teams in the 70s.
This was so sweet. Going back to super bowl again this time to go and win it which they did vs Denver Tarkenton was an amazing quarterback guided the Vikings to 4 Super Bowls. The purple people eaters a very good team
I didn't remember Danny White as a punter. Special teams weren't so special back then. But I think by '77 they were pretty much getting there. Early 70s, late 60s many teams had punters (Donny Anderson) and Kickers (George Blanda) that were genuine football players. And the the star running backs/receivers (Kelly, Gilliam) would run back kicks. And star DBs (Barney) would run back punts. And the coverage wasn't so great either 'cuz a lot of these guys would turn in some lengthty returns quite often.
Danny White didn't become a Quarterback until after Roger Staubach's Retirement after the 1979 season. I remember him vividly as a Punter as far back as 1976 in his Rookie Season at Dallas.
When Fran was out. Kramer should have started. Was young. And would run. Would have been a closer game. Bob Lee, I liked. He had some good games when Fran went down. If not. Kramer came in to spark the team. After 1977. The team was getting older. And others retiring. Or being traded. Page went to the Bears. Eller to Seattle. Fran retired 2 years later. The Cowboys where the better team. Won Super Bowl 12. That Cowboys team was 2-3 with Stauback. 24-3. over Miami. Colts 16-13 loss 21-17 loss to the Steelers 27-10 win in 12. 35-31loss. Jackie Smith dropped a game winning touchdown pass. I do believe Craig Morton was QB IN The blooper bowl with the Colts Had some good teams. Aikman. Emmit Smith. Won 3 more Super Bowls.
Jackie Smith's dropped pass wasn't "game winning". Although that's what the legend/myth says. Truth is, it's the most over-dramatized dropped pass in NFL history. It happened like friggin' half way through the game. The Cowboys had plenty of time to recover.
Tarkenton was out. They had no chance with Lee at QB. Vikes would have had great shot to win with Tark playing. They had never lost at Texas Stadium before this and beat the Cowboys at Texas Stadium with Tarkenton the year after.
This will be hard to believe… but until 1991, Texas Stadium was alcohol-free. The city of Irving didn’t allow liquor stores and it only allowed alcohol to be served in restaurants. The suites were the only exception because having one made you a member of a private club.
I'm a big fan of Vikings history, specifically the 1961-1981 time frame, my favorite of all team-eras, in the history of pro football. This is a major defeat for the franchise during that era. One must wonder, though, if Tarkenton hadn't been injured: out for the season, starting in game 9, due to a leg injury, if the Vikings would have likely won this game. I think they would have, and my understanding is Tarkenton has said as much. After all, week one in Minnesota was a victory for the Cowboys only in overtime, when it seemed like the Vikings were tired out & making a bunch of mistakes in the overtime period, after dominating most of that game. All of this being said, and now I believe, from seeing this video, that Bob Lee's performance was yeoman: it does beg the question if Bud Grant should have replaced Lee with rookie (and later proven to be a great quarterback) Tommy Kramer. Kramer kept the team's playoff chances alive with the multi-touchdown 4th quarter comeback against the 49ers, if I understand correctly, and yet he was raw and inexperienced, as, again unless I'm mistaken, his performance demonstrated, it being full of mistakes, during a 1977 regular season game against the Raiders.
Tarkenton would have been more aggressive in attacking the Cowboys' defense. However, the way the Dallas front line dominated this game, especially Too Tall Jones, I don't know if it would have made a difference.
Wow. I don't remember that. I must have missed this game. I know it's not funny but...... it does look like a scene from Pink Panther/Inspector Clouseau.
In fairness, when Tarkenton was playing earlier in the year, the offense was struggling and erratic. He had a degenerating shoulder, and a bad knee that greatly limited his mobility. Bob Lee had turned into a conservative, barely mobile shadow of what he was in 1973. Tommy Kramer was exciting, but raw. Tough to have a winning hand with those cards.
Merlin Olsen...when asked about Tarkenton.... replied.. That little wimp! I heard him say it.... I remember screaming at the top of my lungs.... TACKLE HIM!
@@drwayne88 Yes, but let's face it. He Would have been a lot better than Lee. Also, the following year the Vikings did beat Dallas at home but this time Tarkenton was playing.
HARVEY MARTIN, TOO TALL JONES AND CHARLIE WATERS SHOULD BE IN THE COWBOYS RING OF HONOR AND PFHOF..... IT'S A DISGRACE. I IMPLORE ALL FELLOW COWBOYS FANS TO WRITE JERRY AND STEPHEN TO EDUCATE THEM
