@@indy_go_blue6048 No one was going to have their average game against that '85 Bears defense, especially when your QB is Dieter Brock and therefore there's no threat of the pass
Los Angeles Rams I agree plus I think the gold and navy blue should belong with St. Louis. I’m glad they’ve began to change them but they’d look better back with there yellow and blue
@@valantheflame0193 They're new uni's today suck too!! However, at least they stuck with the basic colors I guess, but the 1970's thru 1990's uni's were the best of ALL TIME!!! Never forgive Georgia PERIOD!!! Thank God Stan brought them back home where they belong!!! The new stadium is CRAZY!!!
@@timparker3272 Agree New ones are better than the dark blue and gold, but all the had to do was go back to the 80s/90s ones. Hell even the original white and blue are fantastic, unfortunate.
There are a couple interesting things about this game. First, you have 2 of the all time great running backs going at it in Dickerson and Dorsett. At the time dorsett was already a legend, but many great backs came after him so you don’t hear his name as much. But when he retired, Jim brown and Payton were probably the only backs in front of him on the all time list. Randy white was another beast of a player. You hear more about recent players these days, but the guy was a force to be reckoned with. This was also the historic season for the 85 bear defense. The bears destroyed Dallas in the regular season and shut down Dickerson and the rams in the playoffs to go on to win the super bowl vs the patriots.
This is when the Cowboys were declining as the team was getting old and Landry was too inflexible about switching out of the "flex" defense that had become obsolete by then. Landry probably would have been forced to retire after the 1987 season except the strike gave him three extra wins he likely doesn't get without his main team going up against replacement players (Cowboys were 4-8 in non-strike games that year), keeping him there for 1988 and at that point, if Jerry Jones had not bought the Cowboys until later, '89 and some felt Rozelle should have stepped in and made clear the NFL would not approve the sale to Jones unless he agreed to let Landry coach in '89 so the NFL could do a "farewell tour" with Landry while Jimmy Johnson prepared to take over in 1990.
It's not talked about much, but Buck and Stram use to do the MNF radio broadcasts and I always thought these two were better than Cosselle and Gifford. (As good as they were)
There was a mandate for some botched snap or fumble if team during national audience or playoff was up by two scores, in this game it may have been "don't make it too obvious Chicago is next".
Watching this reminds me that I have never seen someone run that fast effortlessly since. Even the current Rams RB Todd Gurley and Adrian Peterson are not able to do this. Yes they are plenty fast,but you can see it takes a huge effort from them to be fast.Many strides needed to run the distance. Eric was fast without appearing to even be trying. Count how few strides he needed to cover 40 yards , just amazing.
I did thoroughly enjoy this broadcast. Jack Buck had a great voice, and was entertaining. Stram and Vermeil offered intelligent commentary. I thought the camera work was excellent, too, even by today's standards.
Come on. Any HD broadcast from 20 years ago will look as it was. This was oversaturated in color, but the original broadcast source tape should look better. Videotape even from the 50's had about 480 lines and UK pal had 625. Direct source tapes would look even better. The difference between old NTSC and hd is analog, color, brightness and resolution vs digital - which keeps it as was, precise color, brighter picture and of course - more detail. Yes, analog is worse now, buy wuen viewed on a high quality tube tv, it looked good. So 36 years ago vs 20 years ago is still old, bit the tech makes the difference, not age. Final example. Film recorded material from the 1930's, can look way better than this or even 4k due to the raw nature and great light of film. Digital has its limitations while film is only limited in frame rate.
As a younger man when I lived in Los Angeles when the Rams no longer played in the Coliseum, but they still broadcasted their games, the buzz was that there was two things to look forward to, 1., the new coach formally from the USC Trojans, John Robinson, known for his running offense, and 2., the drafting of Eric Dickerson. I had no idea who either was until I watched Dickerson run, and then later understood how they set up the run offense. Outstanding !
I was at a Rams pre-Hall-of-Fame banquet standing next to Eric Dickerson. I said he would have a ring if Carol Rosenbloom hadn't been murdered and he laughed and gave me the side-eye.
The LA Rams trading Dickerson to the Colts was one of the stupidest decisions ever. I do though understand a bit why the trade happened. I remembered Dickerson wanted to be paid an insane amount of money.
@@TheRedDevil_NC I can agree with you. I always imagined if Dickerson was on that 1989 Rams squad that perhaps they would have had a better chance to compete with the 49ers. I enjoyed a lot of those LA Rams players of: Jackie Slater, Henry Ellard, "Flipper" Anderson, Jim Everett, and head coach John Robinson. The 1989 LA Rams were a fun team to watch. Eric Dickerson looked like a shell of himself after joining the Indianapolis Colts.
Attended Rams games with my dad from '78 to '92. In the '80s, even during losing seasons, the crowds still attended just to watch Dickerson's epic runs. He was the show.
@@averyj8924 nothing, even Jerry Rice would not have saved those late 80's Cowboys teams. For those who don't know why I say Jerry, look at the draft and who took him.
Nolan Cromwell #21 of the Los Angeles Rams played from 1977-1987 Career Accomplishments and Awards 4× Pro Bowl (1980-1983) 3× First-team All-Pro (1980-1982) Second-team All-Pro (1983) UPI NFC Defensive Player of the Year (1980) 4× Football Digest NFL Defensive Back of the Year (1980-1983)
16:31 M. Lansford 33-yard FG 23:10 D. White sacked by G. Jeter 32:38 Dickerson 26-yard run 37:38 E. Walls intercepts D. Brock 47:00 Dickerson trucks M. Downs 52:41 G. Green intercepts D. White 1:03:44 L. Irvin intercepts D. White 1:05:12 Dallas kicker R. Septien injuries himself on kickoff 1:07:02 Dickerson 55-yard TD run 1:08:47 V. Newsome recovers fumble on kickoff 1:12:09 M. Lansford 34-yard FG 1:32:22 Rams force turnover on downs 1:36:47 V. Newsome forces fumble on punt, T. Hunter recovers 1:39:48 Dickerson 40-yard TD run 1:45:40 G. Jeter strips D. White, D. Reed recovers fumble 1:48:49 B. Redden fumbles, D. Thurman recovers 1:56:48 J. Gray intercepts D. White
+Teejay Appiah There is a new helmet called the Vicis Zero1 that NFL players will soon wear that will limit concussions and the University of Washington has already tried them. So there will be barely anymore CTE
Classic L.A. Rams playoff game, and vintage Dickerson. 1:48:20, HOFer badass DE Jack Youngblood, fresh into retirement this pre-season. Also, 1:30:25 - Kevin Greene, future HOFer - rookie season.
Dickerson played at SMU in Dallas, where I was one of many medical soft goods suppliers to the team. He was huge when I saw him there. Wonder what he's up to now, him & Dorsett?
CFL trivia: QB Dieter Brock was a CFL HOFer and played in Winnipeg most of his career but in his final season he was traded to Hamilton for former Notre Dame QB Tom Clements who is also a CFL HOFer..... Big trade by CFL standards, and that season they met in the Grey Cup with each playing their former team. Tom Clements and Winnipeg beating Brock and Hamilton. Edit: Clements started career in Ottawa then played along time in Hamilton and final season in Winnipeg winning his 3rd Grey Cup with 3rd team. Brock never won a Grey Cup losing in 2 with 2 different teams.
And then he came to the Rams. ESPN was heavily televising the CFL back then so I saw Brock a lot with Winnipeg, but never saw him with the Ti-Cats at the end.
Dickerson played with six (6) different starting QB's during his four (4) full seasons with Los Angeles...Vince Ferragamo ('83), Jeff Kemp ('84), Dieter Brock ('85), Steve Bartkowski ('86), Steve Dils ('86), and Jim Everett ('86).
I was there and it was a rather cold day for So Cal, but it awesome to witness greatness, I attended a lot of home games when the Rams were in Anaheim. It was sad when they left but Georgia and John Shaw ran the team into the ground for the purpose of moving them😖
I'm glad they returned and that they won a SB since they've been back. I am native Angeleno but I was a Forty Niner Faithful from childhood until a few years ago when the players, the uniforms & helmets and the game itself became ostentatious and unsportsmanlike (1970 - 2007) Thank the Lord for these vintage games on YT!
My vote for the greatest that I witnessed would either be Anthony Davis vs Norte Dame, or Marshall Falk vs BYU (AKA: oh no he's back again game) If you make me pick a pro game; Roger Craig in SB19
Loved watching Eric Dickerson in the 80s. A combination of speed, power, grace and smoothness. It's too bad the Rams ownership at the time was so screwed up that they let him go instead of locking him up. He could have been one of the best of all time.
There no doubt that Eric Dickerson was one of the very best runners in his era and in the history of the league. It was always neck and neck between him and Walter Payton. NOBODY was as good as sweetness but Dickerson was a consummate and legit threat.
I'll never forget how pissed off I was when Jerry Jones fired Tom Landry ! I used to love the Cowboy's, but after that dirty trick I nver liked the Cowboy's again !
I have much respect for coach Landry but his time was done. He should have retired 2 years before. Jimmy Johnson was the perfect coach for the 90's Cowboys. Jones was an idiot for not bending over backwards to keep him.
@@gordonreed2736 The '85 Bears were arguably the single greatest single-season team in NFL history, even greater than the '72 Dolphins (yes, the Dolphins handed the Bears their only loss that season, but that was in Miami and Shula had probably treated that game as his personal "Super Bowl" because he had members of the '72 Dolphins on the sideline and so forth).
@@WaltGekko So true Walt. Those bears were crushing everything. Even I wish they could have carried that magic a bit further. N give Peyton a SB touchdown. Come on Mike. Jim shoulda called an audible. Yep dat team was Special
Dr Nugget strangely enough Dickerson grew up a Cowboy fan and Tex Schramm told him they would not draft him because they felt he was TOO SOFT and they did not believe he was that fast inspite of running BACK to BACK 40s in 4.31 in private workouts!!!
I was just going to write this until i scrolled down and seen your comment, damn lol. Stram has a very unique voice and dialect aswell as vocabulary lol. Seriously, why doesn't this have more likes? Legendary in-game quote.
@@conni70 Won a division with the Giants and Washington back when they were two of the most well-run franchises in the league. Landry lost it bad after this and probably should have been fired or kicked upstairs in '87, but this seems like a genuinely good coaching job.
@@conni70 They won that division mainly because of ONE freak play where Phil Simms was intercepted and the ball was returned for a TD by the Cowboys. Otherwise, Giants win that game in Dallas and the NFC East.
@@pronkb000 He probably would have been forced to retire in '87 except he got three wins with his regular squad against replacement players during the strike when most of his regulars crossed picket lines. Cowboys were 4-8 in non-strike games that games. Otherwise he likely is out then.
@@WaltGekko Dude you don't win the division because of one freak play. The team won 10 games that year and beat the Giants twice and the Redskins twice. Given how old the team had gotten by that point I'd say it was probably one Coach Landry's best seasons and it was pretty much his last great moment.
Rams O line was pretty good; RT Jackie Slater (HOF), LT Irv Pankey, LG Kent Hill (5X Pro-Bowler), C Tony Slaton, and RG Dennis Harrah (6X Pro-Bowler). Not too shabby, and ED was charged up that day in ‘85.
They will in 2 years it's a rule the nfl has, relocation team has to keep the current uniform for 2 years then it can be changed and I agree old school meets new school
Ryan it's not a rule or anything but a lot of teams wear their throwback stuff each year at least once.. I don't think they'll permanently change it though if they did it'd still just be modernized
jack buck is like 1000 times better than Joe buck. joe should have gone on to sell insurance. hank stram was great. today's announcers suck. Jim nance and phill sims? ugg. I miss pat summeral and john madden, the great curt gowdy, etc etc etc
On a Self-Quarentined, Saturday evening, in New York City, Thanks CBS, for the Memories of the Hall of Famers, and I miss the NFL!!! Earth, Get Well Real Soon!!!
THANK YOU! GREAT UPLOAD. I watched this game in South Korea while stationed with the 2nd Inf Division, and had the flu. Had to drag myself out of bed to see my team win.
In this game, sure. However, Danny White was a mostly excellent QB who, before his wrist was broken, could sling it with anyone. He gets overlooked because he came between Roger and Troy, but he did QB the Cowboys into several NFC Championship games and he was a tough (had to be with a decaying O-Line), accurate, passer. He sucked in this game, but he was far from a crappy quarterback. Dieter Brock is, as so many others note, a CFL Hall of Famer with a legendary cannon for an arm. He was also relatively short for a QB and was running the most archaic offense in the NFL -- so many commentators from the 1984-1986 era mocked the Stone Age approach of the Rams. Brock was never given much to do and he managed to win (in 1985) by handing off the Dickerson and showing good accuracy with short, safe, passes. Not much different from every other Rams QB of the "Eric Era" --- a pity, too, as he won the job because he could launch it. And then they seldom had him launch it.
I think he was from the CFL. The Rams had one of the worst quarterbacks of the best, so they thought they'd try one of the best quarterbacks of the worst.
1 week later he was even worse vs 85 Bears...i'm Canadian but Dieter was out of his league jumping to the NFL ... Great CFL career but 85 Rans were good due to Dickerson, Ellard and defense....not Dieter Brock.
At 10:37 That was one of the worst call I’ve ever seen! How in the hell could the Refs call that a sack? That was such an incredibly fast call & obviously not the correct call! And to hear the announcers talking & going along with that call is insane! It was worse than Marshun Lynch’s tackle calling him down prematurely!
I remember watching this as a 9 year old....even at 9 yrs old, I knew my Cowboys letting dickerson run all over them for almost 250 yards and losing 20-0 was a complete embarrassment and just sucked....BUT I did get to spend the rest of that Sunday, working under the house with my Dad, which I will always cherish.
This game actually was really fun to watch...and I thought the commentating was great. But back in 1985, I dont know how either one of these teams thought they would have a chance in Chicago next week.
The Cowboys had faced Chicago earlier in this season and it resulted in Dallas' worst home loss ever, 44-0. Loved it! Yes, the Bears were doing the "Super Bowl Shuffle" all over the rest of the league!
Why would anybody outside of Miami think they had a chance against the Bears that year? They pretty well demolished everybody that season except the Fins.
Dieter Brock completed 6/22 for 50 yards passing. His QBRating was 20.6! He had no TD passes and 1INT thrown. Dickerson had 34 rushes for 248 yards. He scored 2 TDs. He had runs of 26, 40, and 55 yards. An amazing performance. The next week in the NFC Championship game against Chicago Dickerson had only 46 yards on 17 rushes. The 1985 Bears ended up 18-1!
Rams always been my team. As a kid I remember them in the 60s seeing them play at the coliseum parking on someone's lawn for a few $ to keep an eye on our ride. yeah the hot dogs and popcorn and a soda. That was the best for a kid so cool. Mom was a Rams fanatic. She one time got so caught up on a Rams TD she jubilantly swung her purse and smacked this big man's hat off his head when he turned around to confront the situation I said " When she gets excited lookout for her purse it happens to me Abunch" Thank God he was a Rams fan and mom apologied and bought him a bag of peanuts and a beer. She was a die hard fan Rams, Dodgers til she passed. Sure sold me on the Rams to this day and I'm 68 now. We even saw Kolfax pitch a perfect game. My wife was a Boston fan with the same temperament for Red Sox, Patriots and Bruins. She really rubbed it in about the Patriots dynasty. When the Rams lost to the Patriots in Superbowl she really twisted my leg. When the Rams won with Kurt the Superbowl she was really happy for me and our kids cuz they really loved the Rams. Sports is the best when your whole family gets into it. Togetherness for us was always swimming. she and her twin sister were in National Championship competition. They both joined the Navy exchanging what could be to serve and then getting married. Man I've been the luckiest man with our kids. Mom passed year and a half ago God Bless Her Heart and Soul. Sports were so big in our lives. We even had dinner in Vegas with Buster Douglas and his wife a month after he beat Tyson. That was one of our many thrills her favorite song was Bill Withers JUST THE 2 OF US. She said their are no losers in sports just quitters. You got to love both teams cuz it takes 2 to be 1
When I was a kid, I loved the Dallas Cowboys. I was 11 years old in 1985 and Danny White was my hero. But looking back now, I realize he wasn't very good. Quite inaccurate and seemed to throw as many to the other team as he did to his teammates. LOL. Memories.
Dude that's not the case at all. Danny had a bad day in this game but he was one of the few things holding the team together by 85. The next year Dallas was 6-2 going into the game against the Giants where Danny White was lost for the season and ended up 1-7 without him at starting QB. He wasn't Joe Montana or Roger Staubach but he was a quality starter that won a lot of games for the Cowboys and a player that kept them relevant as the team slowly degraded in the last years of Coach Landry.
Danny White was very good. This is just one game go look up his stats I believe he led the league in passing at least one year his main problems were starting at an older age and his career because he was backing up Staubach. He also was not a huge man and suffered injuries.
