1997 Cowboys @ 49ers 

I noticed that too, good catch. Madden was the best. Not only did he have the enthusiasm and the one liners, but he had such an incredible insight about the game and really was ahead of his time in his thinking.

I was just about to post this, I was like damn Madden was on point with that.

It's true, but the other thing I've noticed from watching these older videos is Madden talks a lot about REALLY obvious stuff. Like, on the last drive, he's talking about the value of spiking the football on 1st down of a moving clock with less than a minute and no TOs left. I don't know if it's just the audience being less educated during that time period but it's almost painful to listen to some of the obvious stuff he says.

Andrew Sears so you're over here on the internet and then Boom! you got this guy over here talkin about that, then someone else agrees with him and then Boom! you're only 20 people away from having a team of village idiots 🙃

to me, the idea of brain damage resulting from head trauma is equally obvious. I can't imagine that the NFL didn't know.

Same for me.. I definitely wasn’t used to that, growing up back then

And Ken Norton was a 49er

And rod Woodson

Since your comment here, the Niners have made it in 2019. They have no championships since 94, but they have gotten closer to winning one than Dallas has.

1990: SF 1992 CG: DAL 1993: DAL 1993 CG: DAL 1994: SF 1994 CG: SF 1995: SF 1996: DAL 1997: SF SF: 5 - DAL: 4

Yet it's even more important which games you win. 49ers won 1 more total than Cowboys in head-to-head match-ups, but Cowboys won 3 Super Bowls in that time span to 49ers' 1.

Arson Hakobyan but clearly shows that even though Cowboys were the team of the 90’s they were never better than the 49ers during the 90’s 5>4

In 93' they were, but the 49ers should've beaten them in 92', and probably in 95' had they not fallen apart in the 2nd half in Atlanta at end of season, and gotten the home-field advantage throughout, which would've also meant avoiding their kryptonite, the Packers. Of course, had they paid to keep reigning DPO Deion Sanders & their lone true tailback Ricky Watters, it never would've come down to that game in Atlanta, plus they would've blown the Falcons out.

Arson Hakobyan Keeping Ricky Watters alone could have won the 49ers a Super Bowl in 1995.

though I think Michaels, Gifford, and Dierdorf may have been insulted by never getting to call a 49ers-Cowboys game together

Yep,tall,fast,big,strong also

But not very bright and probably totally broke.

UNTIL NOW

LOL Tony Casillas should've blocked him.

Yeah, would've been nice if Steve young could've had a line like that

They weren't that good that year. Look how many times Aikman was getting hit!

@@dannymoe9028 no more Kevin gogan

I miss those days...I watched Aikman come out of UCLA and ball out through the 1-15 yrs, 3 super bowl years and then watch him finish his career. Football was football back then. Not this Arena style, handicap the defense style

this Cowboy team was already on the decline big time in 97

Troy was horrid in 96 and 97. Decent in 98 and 99. Unplayable in 2000.

So

I was at Parris Island during this time as well..

So true! It used to be all about SF and Dallas and the NFC, and then it was Denver during this time and pretty soon the other AFC teams like New England, Indy, and Pittsburgh. Nowadays Dallas can barely hold on to a Wildcard spot and SF is even worse...

98 was when the 49ers lost to the Altanta Falcons right in the playoffs, the Falcons went on to the Superbowl to lose to the Denver Broncos the Broncos won two in a row year before they beat the Green Bay Packers !

But the Niners came back and went to three NFC Championship Games in a row I believe in 2010, 2011, 2012 went to a Superbowl and lost by four points to the Balitmore Ravens to go 5 and 1 in SuperBowls so the Niners, Patriots, Cowboys have five SuperBowl Championship and the Pittsburgh Steelers have the most with Six SuperBowl Championship!

The 49ers pretty much conducted a soft rebuild from 2000-2001 and became a treadmill team (never getting past the divisional round) until 2003...after that it’s been nearly 15 years of ineptitude aside from three great years (2011-2013). Hopefully the 49ers can reverse that trend permanently this year!

It will NEVER be the same. NEVER. It was the particular players, coaches and personalities more than anything. Those losses for either team hurt more than any other loss during a season...especially in the title game. The teams and their fans absolutely loathed one another during that decade. It could never be that again, principally because the 49ers were the standard of excellence for the entire NFL from the late eighties until 1992. There was just a mystique surrounding Walsh and Montana...and to beat them in a title game was incomprehensible to most if not all teams of the time.

Yeah, it would be nice to restablish that rivalry. Here's the deal though. It happened because as the two best NFC teams and probable one the winner of the next Superbowl, TV pitted them against each other for viewers and commercial income. To get that rivalry going again they both need to be the two best again.

Pete C The NFL was terrified of losing their bottom line, but in reality they are just kicking the can down the road...they should not be surprised if the chickens come home to roost when pro football’s popularity falls off.

Without that trade and San Francisco gifting them Charles Haley, the Dallas Cowboys are stuck on two 1970s Super Bowl championships. And Jimmy Johnson was vastly overrated. When Jimmy went to the Miami Dolphins he won zero division titles and his last three playoff outings ended in 17-3, 38-3 and 62-7 losses.

Thats easy to say with someone elses wallet.

Yeah unfortunately Jones was notorious for not paying big money to LBs back then. Ken Norton Jr and Deion Sanders were the key reasons why SF beat Dallas in the 1994-95 NFC Championship game.

Jay Lucien Yea back then Jerry Jones and the front office thought it was better to just draft new Lbs then pay them

Oh hell yeah. Ken Norton jr. And Jimmy Johnson.

For sure! Very dumb decision by Jerry. Along with Haley, Norton was the leader of that ‘92-93 Cowboys Defense. Jerry could’ve replaced Norton with Derrick Brooks in the ‘95 draft, but he pissed that away too...

Yep. Although San Francisco has been to three Super Bowls though and was ripped off in all three. San Francisco has fallen victim in two Super Bowls to the NFL propaganda machine of Patricia Mahomes. Dallas hasn’t even made a NFC Championship game in almost thirty years.

I’d love to see the Kansas City QB take some of these types of hits. That kid would get humbled quite fast.

@Razh 80 .....and what about Kevin Greene getting 10.5 sacks and he barely played !

Yeah, their defense was the most stacked it had been since the 94' Super Bowl season.

Peezster , niners should have had 1 more ring in that 94-97 window , perhaps in 97. They would have faced Denver in bowl and would have physically dominated that team just as they did during that regular season. Matchup nightmare for broncos But SF couldn’t get past GB in post season 3 years in a row , thanks to T Owens later this season (end zone TD drops). Rice or no Rice, this SF team was very well balanced and hard to beat

@@publikenemi49 Garrison Hearst getting hurt towards the end of the regular season was an even greater killer than losing Rice that yr. 49ers still featured other talented receivers, but Hearst gave them that 1 power back w/ game-breaking speed, you could hand the ball off to 20+times a game to keep the defense honest. He rushed for over a thousand yards in just 12 1/2 games that yr. The weakness of that Packers offense was at stopping the run. See how Emmitt Smith & Terrell Davis just ran wild on them. Hearst's 1st game back was the Championship game vs. Green Bay, and he was clearly not fully healed. He carried the ball 8x for 12yds. They still should've handed him the ball more, but the collarbone was clearly still hurting him, plus he was rusty. This effected the 49ers play-calling more than even not having the great Jerry Rice in the game, although Rice's presence alone would've opened up the rushing lanes more for Hearst, and single-coverage for everybody else, and just a couple more 1st downs can totally change a game like that, so not having Rice was also a huge loss to the 49ers. 49ers defense actually had the personnel up front to confront Terrell Davis & make the Broncos 1-dimensional, so Denver's chances against the 49ers would've been much less than against the Packers.

Arson Hakobyan I thought I had a decent memory of this niner era but you have an amazing memory. I recall Hearst wrecking his ankle at ATL in div round following year , but do not recall collar bone in 97. He was awesome though and suited that niner team perfectly. After Watters and before Hearst , they were a team in search an elite RB. Seems like they were always lacking something 95, 96 - but even with loss of Rice , I really felt 97 was the year. Nope. They gave me a lot of good years though. (disappointments too, 1990)

I always felt that was the beginning of the end due to their inability to get touchdowns when they were in the redzone and it somewhat was a problem up until Parcells took over.

It continued in 98 and 99 Aikman couldn't get it done in the red zone. It was borderline pathetic. Got used to Emmitt and the line just dominating in the early 90's.

The 1997 season was such a difficult season to watch if you were a fan of the 90’s Dynasty. What started off with a dominant victory over Pittsburgh turned into a 6-10 season with images of tears flowing out of Michael Irvin in the season finale because of how bad the team fell in only two seasons. Sad part is, it never should’ve came to this. The Offense had grown stale and predictable. Other than Larry Allen, Tuinei, Newton, and Williams were all getting older with Clay Shiver at Center. Eric Bjornson and a rookie David LaFleur were the Tight Ends which tells you all you need to know why they had red zone problems that season. Of course, Emmitt was never the same after his short paralysis injury in the season opener against the Bears in 1996. He was banged up, constant nagging injuries and seemed like he was playing more tentative. Switzer lost the team because of his lackadaisical style. It’s no wonder they had a slight resurgence in 1998 with a new innovative coach in Chan Gailey but even that was not enough to beat the Cardinals at Texas Stadium in the playoffs. Coaching can only get you so far, eventually talent has to do the rest and by 1997, talent was few and far between. Sad when I see these videos because of what could have been.

1996 huge win over San Fran

someone else actually posted that game: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wvh8pyLGZfQ.html

They had home field throughout the playoffs in 07 an 16 and choked both times. Then Romo's fumbled snap on the fg in 06. 🤦‍♂️

@@billbright100 well said

I wonder how big an impact the Salary cap affected both these teams. By 96, the Cowboys were just not the same.

Yeah I dunno why he thought he couldnt outrun Steve at that point

He had respect for Young’s speed, even though I’m sure (even as a Niners fan) that he would’ve beat Young down the sideline. One thing to note is that he didn’t have a blocker in front of him. That also affected his decision...

Yep, it was Monday game 49ers vs giants

Niners giants from November 98. I haven’t been able to find it anywhere.

Adam Markman young had the angle on him

That was one of my beefs with Sanders when he came to my team in 1999. He was put back to return punts after Snyder had Mitchell Cut to make cap room for Sanders. Sanders would catch the ball do his dance and get tackled waiting for a hole to open up. He was striking out trying to hit a home run when a base hit would have put the team in Field Goal range or close to it. We could have had Brian Mitchell return punts in 1999 and gotten better field position. He made too many business decisions and not enough football being played

All right, I will watch those two when ever they are uploaded, those good old times. THX

No magic hat ‘ he just steals them from vk.com 😂

The NFL is gifting Kansas City everything now.

Have to toss the Giants in there. They stopped the Niners in their prime when you thought SF was unbeatable.

Idk cause he the man and knows good football

@@ericpackers1700 I guess..he's everywhere

He’s a huge football fan

@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly 😂✌🏽💯

@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly so are you, how come I don't get a shout out

the 49ers next host the Cowboys in 2023 perhaps the 49ers should wear white jerseys and buy into the Blue Jersey Jinx for that game

They also won the Dallas Star game in 2000

Yep that's a personal foul these days

I saw that but deion was looking n the backfield he got caught off balance

Lol, yep

The play didn't count lol

Yeah that was the biggest mistake they made in '95. Deion said only one player reached out to him to stay and that was S.Young. Smh

Biggest mistake they made was letting Ricky Waters walk.

1997 Packers were the reason. Favre was lucky to be on that team and is known by many to be the weakness of the 90s Packers.

I agree they had the good team. Most playoff matches .... 9ers saw Farve play the better hand than Steve Young.

The Packers did not win the SB that year.

as opposed to you, a weak ass troll.

The line was still 🔥

10-6 at best my ass they made it to the NFC championship game without rice

We could've went to the Superbowl in 1997, & 1998 damn it if only we had a Full Healthy Roster

Injuries and officiating kept sf out of the super bowl. They weren't dominant like the vintage 49er teams, but certainly better than 10-6.

I think if San Francisco really wanted to, they would’ve found a way to keep Deion. Just like the NFL accused Jerry Jones in 1995, Eddie DeBartolo and the 49er organization were accused of circumventing the salary cap to sign Deion and other players in 1994. Deion liked SF, arguably had his best season as a pro ever as a 49er. I think it ultimately came down to his quarrel with Jerry Rice and how he felt under appreciated. Some stated Deion was the missing link for the 49ers and that made Rice pissed because as he stated “wasn’t giving credit to the other 52 men in the locker room”. But when he won the Super Bowl in Dallas the next year, the first thing he said when he got to the podium and given the Lombardi trophy was “I didn’t even get to hold this last year.” Kinda messed up how you treat the 1994 Defensive Player of the Year and the one mainly responsible for making your good Defense, Great. Sure the money the Cowboys offered him was unprecedented at the time for a Defensive Player, but he later stated that Oakland actually offered a bigger contract. Ultimately SF got the last laugh as the 49ers beat the Cowboys and Deion at Texas Stadium in 1995 but yet Deion was hosting his 2nd Lombardi in back-to-back seasons in January with another team.

If Deion stays sf wins super bowl n 95,97 easy

this was post car crash Erik Williams......pre car crash Williams was the best OLineman in football

James Zenitram I would agree ... He handled Reggie and Strahan

Irvin made a career outta pushing off. And lm a lrvin fan.

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