A Playoff Surprise! (Rams vs. Cowboys, 1979 NFC Divisional) 

We all remember the catch but this is the forgotten game

Vin Scully is the goat

With HOF coach George Allen as his partner no less! The 70s LA Rams owned the NFC West in the 70s, but this was their only Super Bowl team

He always did the Rams and remember Curt Gowdy? They had unique voices like Pat Summerall

@@mikeyoungblood1642 Yes they did and football isn’t the same these were the good ol days I don’t watch NFL no more just these old games

The "Cow Craps " (aka Dallas Cowboys) lower than the bull's...... wait, I mean to say, lower than the HEIFER'S dung dropped on the lowest internal soil!!!!! The "Dallas Cow Shits" are just that!!!

Saw it then saw it now great rivalry in the '70's. Cowboys beat LA twice in the Colisium in the playoffs and rams beat Cowboys twice in Dallas. Go LA rams!

Absolutely ..i remember this game we finally won a championship game that ball to Daddy was tipped ..a great catch !!!!

Waddy lol

Y'all just a bunch of fat old chumps/bitches. 40 years old.

I to remember that game was only 9 years old and barely getting to know football and asking my dad who to go for rams of course we where from L.A i think fans are different know going for other teams.. even if yo have a home team...i am sure clad the RAMS came back to home to L.A where they belong........

I despise Staubach so for me this is wonderful. I used to enjoy him losing to the Steelers. Though I must say that I don't despise Staubach nearly as much as I do Le Woke Claims.

Dont blame you for disliking the Steelers so much.Its very simple you couldnt beat us PERIOD!!!

Always a delight to watch the NFL's most arrogant team lose especially on a lucky deflection. I remember watching this live in Canada

I would kill to see this game life

jackie smith* but yes same playcall good eye

@Joseph I'm surprised neither announcer mentioned that the pass was tipped. 🤔

Ya like theisman

Everyone talks about Joe Gibbs.. but after Vince Lombardi brought a perpetually moribund franchise from the grave in only one season, George Allen WAS THE ONE who started the winning culture in DC as a regular thing (pardon the irony of this comment... Because after another bad season in the 2010s, his son Bruce Allen said "we have good culture" as a lame excuse or response. Us Redskins fans tore him apart immediately online!). Anyhow, thanks George Allen.. even though I'm not Rams fan, I could not help but to think of his natural enjoyment of them finally pulling it off a decade after he left the team

Agreed, that's the coach in George...plus, I always wondered what lingered with him to replace Knox only to see a team revolt and Malavasi in.

Half way through this video, I hit me that Too Tall had gone to boxing. Yes and Hollywood was gone also. Man, Dallas left a couple of Super Bowls on the table.

It really was... 9-0. 😆

LOL. As a Cowboys fan, that's why I'm still frustrated about this game 42 years later. That last TD to Waddy was a damn good pass though. Right over the 'backer, Hegman and into Waddy off the re-direct. I can't believe Septien did that crap on the kickoff right before half time. I thought Ferragamo was great after this in the playoffs, especially the Super Bowl. I so wanted the Rams to win.

@@noeltaylor3594 Ferragamo went on to be a spectacular bust in the CFL.

Yes he retired on March 31,1980

Obviously I'm a year late here. I have seen this entire game on RU-vid. You should be able to find it. Haden is god awful, Staubach looked like he was still feeling the effects of prev weeks concussion. Randy White destroys Tom Mack all game

Sadly, he had a concussion. The only fixing is for the Cowboys; note the flags on the Dallas DB PI picked up to give the game to the Cowboys. But the football gods get what they want, and the ball doesn’t lie. Except in 1975 when Pearson pushed off and got the bank shot off Wright’s ankle.

Is that you Diddy!!😂😂😂

Even if Scott didn't catch the pass, Staubach was going to be penalized for intentional grounding.

And miss those monday nights football gams back in those with Howard Cosell made evey monday football awesome!!!!!!!!!!]

Full game broadcast are out there... it's just a matter of getting lucky.

cord wilson

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Fox started the practice of having a constant score grpahic on the screen when they got the nfc package in 1994. NBC was the last holdout, didnt adopt the practice until the early 2000's, but before they got the nfl back with the sunday night game.

I wish they would wear them again.. so much better than what they now wear!!

Best uni's ever. I like the Rams look today, but nothing is better than this look.

if youngblood was healthy they would have stopped the steelers

@@ryanoneil459 I seriously doubt that. Steelers were just too good for the Rams.

The Rams beat the Steelers in 1978.

Started off 4-6 too

The 70's Rams beat the Steelers more often than not. Actually, the Rams have more victories overall against the Steelers over the course of several decades. The Cowboys only beat the 70's Steelers once in that decade.

That took more guts than anything of him! But, his team did make the Super bowl unexpectedly so the sacrifice worked out for his team and for himself. Absolute legend! (Essentially reduces John Wayne at his peak to nothing in seconds basically on that)

Glorious , how bout them cowpokes

good

Javier Orihuela yes

Then he went on to found a successful coffee company and coffeehouse chain.

Daniel R. 👍🏿

charles dunn: Such a sad way to go out. Over the next three seasons, the Cowboys made it to the NFCCG with Danny White under center. Unfortunately, they lost each time. I wonder if things would have been different had Staubach still been the QB.

Soul & Fire SeNK'sET It’s been 40 years bro...

Yeah, Youngblood wins the awards for the toughest and most stubborn player of all time. He had his fibula snapped in half, yet came back out to finish this game, played in the conference championship game and Super Bowl XIV, AND played in the Pro Bowl.

Awe , that’s so sad 😭❤️ I love and respect him so much for toughness. He is one of my favorite players. I cried when I saw 3:15

I was 18 bro and watched it with my older brother, may he rest in peace. I actually made a dummy with some old baseball pants and a t-shirt that said cowboys on it. Beat the crap out of that thing after the game. Good times.

@@Daniel-w6l4k Nice! And RIP to your brother.

It was Staubach's last game.

@@ThankGodImBlack370 I didn't know that. Good knowledge.

I think Starbach suffered a concussion but played through it. Did Yougblood break his leg in this game and played 16:29 on it? NFL circa 1980 was brutal compared to now

And the Chargers will beat the Patriots tomorrow like the Rams upset the Cowboys here

@@eddieanderson9399 Yeap!!👌🏾💯

@@DavidCanada-hz9dq didn't go well lmao

true.

The Pittsburgh Steelers were the team of the '70s. They won 4 super Bowls. They could never beat the Steelers.

Yes he was football didn’t give him the time to expound on the finer points of the game but always great

RIP…VIN

Houston Oil Spills. There. I fixed it for you.

this is so awesome

Check it out on “a football life”. It’s excellent.

Titans are better

Wow!! Oilers! Great teams with Warren Moon! Miss that franchise!

The Rams had a good team and were hungry. The Cowboys had a good team as well but didnt play well. Staubach didnt play well. Rams won. Good win for them.

Ferragamo really outplayed Staubach and that was the difference in the game.

The Septien kicks before half led to the Smith TD right before the half. The last TD to Texan Billy Waddy was a great pass, but was tipped by Cowboy lineback Mike Hegman. You're right, it felt like it was destined for the Rams. As a Cowboys fan, I'll never forget Jack Youngblood playing on what they didn't know at the time was a broken leg. He wanted it. As disappointed as I was in this loss, I was more hurt when the Rams lost to Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl.

Long awaited joy? You completely forgot the Rams did the exact same thing in 1976 - beating favored Dallas in Dallas 14-12 to advance to the NFC Championship. And the Rams beat the Vikings in 1978 34-10 to advance to the NFC Championship though that was an easy win. Prior to that you guys were the Vikings bitch - you lost in 1968, 1974, 1976, and 1977. By the 1978 NFC title game, the Rams were so spooked that even though they had home field advantage they wore white jerseys at home to break their jinx. That jersey BS doesn't work and they lost 28-0. The Cowboys did the same thing in Super Bowl V by wearing their blue jerseys to break their supposed jinx as if the jersey had something to do with it. They still lost. The Broncos wore white in Super Bowl 50 to break their orange jersey jinx and they did win but give me a break. It means nothing. As to this game, amazing that the Hail Mary at the end of the half was the difference. Of all the Rams teams to get to a Super Bowl it was the 9-7 one. But the Steelers were not going to lose to a 9-7 team with Ferragammo. No siree Bob.

As an Eagles fan I know how you feel. The Eagles beat the cowboys next year in Philadelphia to go to their first superbowl only to lose by the mighty Raiders.

I was happy they at least made it, look how long we had to wait for them to finally get one 😉

Fan since 68 as well. You said well, It was the greatest victory to beat the Cowboys finally after the agony of losing every year.

A foolish penalty to say the least.

Staubach suffered a concussion in this game. He hit his head on the turf on the go ahead TD throw to Saldi in the 2nd half. It didn’t knock him out, but it did affect him. Here’s a quote from him about the 1979 playoff loss from 12/11/2015 article in the NY Daily News. “It wasn’t like my normal bad concussion, but if definitely screwed me up. I wasn’t myself. So afterwards I was really thinking about retiring.” I’m sure that made throwing the football a little more difficult on that last drive 😔

@Joe I believe they won the '76 game by two points also. 😊

@@oldiesgeek454 Yes 14-12

@@michaelleroy9281 Even after two blocked punts, they managed to win.. It's a miracle. 😊