1977 NFC Championship - Vikings at Cowboys - Enhanced CBS Broadcast - 1080p/60fps 

Thanks for all the work. Much appreciated. Love that you leave the commercials in. Now if the Vikings could just win a Super Bowl :(

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Thanks!!!!

Dave thanks for the upload!!! I’m a Steelers fan but love these old games!!!

Awesome looking forward to others with Dallas from 1977.

Yes. Susan Anton in the Muriel commercial, Jan Smithers in the Vitalis commercial.

Yes, a sort of time capsule, I enjoy watching the old commercials too.

Ditto. Thank you!!

Ford Futura with a 4 banger and a manual transmission.......... 33 mpg.

@@wrigley611 🔥🔥❤‍🔥

Brent is the only one from that show that still IS looking live...

So true. I miss those days.

that was great ..showing the stadiums the teams were going to play at. Brent Musberger was one of the best. And he's still with us ..thanks Brent you put smiles on a lot of peoples faces

I even love the commecials

Great days, I miss them as well. Things were so simple back then.

I've been a Dallas fan since 1974. Had pajamas when I was 5 in 1971, but my dad was stationed in Germany and we didn't get NFL games to my knowledge. Anyway, I moved to Minnesota in 1994 and they are diehard fans of their team, even through rough times. Like Dallas fans, they think their team will make the Super Bowl every year.

Let's go back to these days in every way.❤

Yes Minnesota one of the greatest teams ever to ever have won a Super Bowl back then truly great defensive football team have they just pulled one out they would be remembered as one of the greatest teams ever

This was back when America was America men were men boys were boys there were no transvestites there were no homosexual perversion being forced into our and there was no anti-American this oozing out of the announcers in the football players refusing to stand for the national anthem2

Living in the Past? like Jethro Tull ?

I don't think Tarkenton would have made a difference in the game,i mean the vikings were starting to age out during that time period with some of there key players on the roaster.

@@nathanielduncan4692 You are probably correct - but what I didn't understand is why Bud didn't start Kramer - because you needed a gunslinger at QB for this game - not Bob Lee. Bob Lee is a backup QB - so when you lose your starter in a game - I guess you go to Bob Lee. When you start a new game - you don't start Bob Lee.

Kramer had only started one game in 1977 - his rookie season. I don't think you just throw a guy with practically no experience into a Championship game, on the road, against Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys. Kramer didn't start any games the following year either. In 1979 he finally was the guy, starting all 16 games.

It didn't matter who started for the Vikings ,,The Cowboys were on a mission ..No 1 ranked offense and no 1 ranked defense, The Team was firing on all 8 cylinders

@@Christopher-jk9bjIt did matter because Bob Lee couldn't throw his way out of a wet paper bag. Seriously.

I agree with all that

I'm 58 and for me the best of the NFL was the 70s through the 80s. I'm also a huge F1 and MotoGP- Superbike fan it's not just the NFL or the MLB every single high-level sport has been infiltrated by politics and massive corruption. Not to mention most of the competitors are a bunch of primadonna soy boys🙄🤢🤮 every modern sports sucks

IMO the NFL was at its best in the 1970s, including the uniforms and the announcing.

Born in 77?Wow! You were a baby watching football, 🤔

Well said!!!

Thx for the timestamp. That is crazy! How did it happen? Cigarette?

according to a Viking fan internet site, the man was wearing a furry snowman suit. caught on fire after coming into contact with lit sterno can used by a stadium vendor. claims 2nd degree burns. claims it would have been worse but for a Vietnam veteran rushing to smother the flames with the vet’s fur coat.

I was 11 and a BEARS fan. I hated both these teams(lol) but had to root for the Vikings.

@@davidjackson2690 Respect.

@@davidjackson2690I was surprised the Bears were in the playoffs that season. They didn’t get really good until 1982 or 83. I’m guessing Walter Payton had a lot to do that the 1977 success.

We watched this championship game and the Super Bowl at church. Someone brought in their big projection TV. The Cowboys were definitely on par with Jesus. Lol.

He called NFC Championship games for CBS until 1982 his last one was SF vs Dallas where Dwight Clark made "the catch". In 1983 Pat Summerall and John Madden took over calling the NFC Championship for CBS and FOX until 2002.

Parity?

Foreman had a unique way of spinning to where he never seemed to take a good solid shot from anyone

Did you see the snowman that caught fire?

TOO TALL ALSO

Chuck Howley got in in 2023, they all can't get in in one year

well said !!!!

I did too!!!! Was looking to see if anyone else noticed...Makes no sense!

I was so taken aback. I must have looked like a dog hearing a strange sound with my head tilting like……whaaaaaat.

Just saw that and I was about to post a comment on it. Things that make you go "hmmm...?" And it won't do anything to counter the "NFL is rigged" conspiracy theorists out there.

Coaches actually taught that back then

Dallas actually went on to play the Orange Crush Denver team after this one. They did play the Steelers in '75 after the Hail Mary division round at the Met.

T he Cowboys would play that epic Super Bowl (Rematch) against Pittsburgh a year after this game. The Cowboys would be defending champs beating the Broncos in SB 12 after this game. Dallas would beat the LA Rams in the NFC Championship after the Rams finally overcame the Vikings in a playoff game.

Another year that a Cowboy vs Raiders Super bowl matchup was spoiled.@@RSEwell9

No hoopla, or distraction from the NFC Championship game, just solid reporting , and a injection of levity, and well meaning well wishes. End of story......Back to the game! How times change

​@@romelovesdanYes they sure have. Somehow they lost class. Over time everything just started seeming lame. Everything was more lighthearted in the 70s and 80s. The broadcasts were simple. Less was more.

@@shanetrimble9265 Contrived drama and build up rather than true substance now. Here in the true "classic era" they let real gritty and Identifiable Football players play the game. We could even talk to the players and see them in the community back then. Cowboys buying us something at Taco Bell at Training camp!. Trick or Treating (way to old) but had to go to Tommy Kramers' house were collective experiences not out of the ordinary.

Thanks man! Yeah that was crazy :)

They wanted to bring it into the stadium to put along their sideline as motivation, but Tex Schramm told them absolutely not.

Minnesota had a fine defense but Dallas Defense showed complete domination in this game. Chuck foreman was a very good power runner and I don’t recall him ever getting rocked like he did in this game. He was usually the punisher, but he took the beating this game.

As well as on-screen ads, non-stop commercials, bombastic announcers...

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Right? Little did we know, when FOX started adding all the modern bells and whistles to the broadcasts, what the game would turn into.

@@chuckyufarley2999 Less is MORE

Yeah, he seemed nervous, while Staubach was cool under fire. Also, those multiple quick handoffs right into Ed Jones and Randy White were disastrous play calls.

They had no choice, Tarkenton was injured in the Bengals game earlier in the season

At the time that was more memorable than the game.

I looked it up: "Apparently, the man who caught fire was wearing a furry snowman costume and it became engulfed after he came in contact with a lit container of sterno fuel that was being used by a stadium vendor selling hot chocolate."

Horrifying

Yea , I did not see the game live in 1977 I was 11 and just started to watch football and a Dallas fan still am. But half time pregame 1977 shows Cowboys SB 12 champions. This had to be Spliced in correct? I love all your postings. Love the the whole games Especially commercials.

Nobody was beating the Cowboys in 1977 it didn't matter who the hell they were playing

@@michaelleroy9281 I 'm not so sure. The RAIDERS (if they weren't screwed by the refs) would've given Dallas much better game and were definitely capable of beating them. Also, Pittsburgh whipped Cowboys asses in regular season, and always had their number back then.

I did some research to find why this happened: Apparently, the man who caught fire was wearing a furry snowman costume and it became engulfed after he came in contact with a lit container of sterno fuel that was being used by a stadium vendor selling hot chocolate.

Wow that was hard to watch.

@@shanetrimble9265 Same here.😥

Jerry Jones fired him when he became the owner

He was over the goal line.

Ditka was, but I don't believe Marv Levy was.

Are you saying that because I have 1977 in the title? It is the 1977 'season' NFC Championship - doesn't matter that it was played in 1978.

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 okay, my mistake. I thought it was the date the game was played.

According to the NFL calendar, this is the 1977 season

It would be, but I know for a fact that game would be blocked for viewing by copyright if I uploaded it, hence why no one has it posted on RU-vid.

@@davevolskysbackdoor5673 This makes no sense to me...why block some games and not others from the same era. I have seen games in which a half is blocked and not the other half. Seems so hit and miss....

Nearly every game that I upload gets flagged for some sort of copyright, be it a piece of music contained in one of the commercials during the game or an actual football clip. In most cases RU-vid will still let me post the video, the only caveat being that I can't monetize it - which I've never done. However, maybe about 5% of the time, whatever gets flagged for copyright by the RU-vid database is prohibited from being posted, and thus it will be blocked for viewing worldwide if I attempt to do so. Again, sometimes this can be a music piece or an NFL clip contained during the broadcast. I know that the NFL released the 1977 AFC Championship broadcast on DVD about 15 years or so ago, so it is probably in the database so no one else can post it. The same goes for anything already posted on the NFL RU-vid channel. For instance, if I try to post the Super Bowl III broadcast it would get blocked because it's already on the NFL channel.

​@@davevolskysbackdoor5673Interesting. Thanks for the info and all the hard work you do.

Raiders were robbed that day by the officials. Clear fumble by Litle overturned and Denver scored on the next play. That TD was the difference in the game.

lol

Pittsburgh Steelers had something to do with that history, well you went 1-2 , take it and drink your beer😂

​@@camoanddonuts78942-3 in super bowls in the 70s

The Vikings have had 3 chances to play the Broncos in the Super Bowl. 1978, 1988, and 1999.

It was very strange, because he praised Staubach throughout the whole game.

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