The GREATEST Comeback in Atlanta Falcons HISTORY | Falcons @ Packers (1981)

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In a 1981 game between the Green Bay Packers and Atlanta Falcons, the Falcons trailed 17-0 after three quarters, with all hope looking lost, and both of their quarterbacks injured. Somehow, the Falcons scored 31 unanswered in the 4th quarter, shattering every record in the book, and won the game in improbable fashion. This is the story of the greatest comeback in the history of the Falcons
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Players on the 1981 Falcons:
Steve Bartkowski
Mike Moroski
June Jones
William Andrews
Lynn Cain
Mickey Fitzgerald
Bo Robinson
Ray Strong
Wallace Francis
Alfred Jackson
Alfred Jenkins
Reggie Smith
Junior Miller
Russ Mikeska
Warren Bryant
Pat Howell
Mike Kenn
Eric Sanders
Dave Scott
John Scully
RC Thielemann
Jeff Van Note
Wilson Faumuina
Jeff Merrow
Don Smith
Jeff Yeates
Mike Zele
Buddy Curry
Paul Davis
Tony Daykin
Fulton Kuykendall
Jim Laughlin
Neal Musser
Al Richardson
Matthew Teague
Lyman White
Joel Williams
Bobby Butler
Blane Gaison
Bob Glazebrook
Kenny Johnson
Tom Moriarty
Tom Pridemore
Scott Woerner
John James
Mick Luckhurst
Floyd Hodge
Harry Stanback
Leeman Bennett (head coach)
Players on the 1981 Packers:
Rich Campbell
Lynn Dickey
David Whitehurst
Gerry Ellis
Harlan Huckleby
Jim Jensen
Terdell Middleton
Eric Torkelson
Delvin Williams
Ron Cassidy
John Jefferson
James Lofton
Fred Nixon
Paul Coffman
Gary Lewis
Charlie Ane
Derrel Gofourth
Leotis Harris
Tim Huffman
Syd Kitson
Greg Koch
Mark Koncar
Larry McCarren
Karl Swanke
Byron Braggs
Mike Butler
Ezra Johnson
Terry Jones
Casey Merrill
Richard Turner
Kurt Allerman
John Anderson
George Cumby
Mike Douglass
Cliff Lewis
Guy Prather
Randy Scott
Rich Wingo
Johnnie Gray
Maurice Harvey
Estus Hood
Mark Lee
Mark Murphy
Mike McCoy
David Petway
Bill Whitaker
Ray Stachowicz
Jan Stenerud
Bart Starr (head coach)

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Комментарии : 54

@brettdabeastify 3 года назад

Falcons fans needed this 😭😭😭 Steve B needs more respect from the Falcons fanbase.

@1wdarrick Год назад

Absolutely,,, he our first QB All Pro

@jayblake682 3 года назад

One of my absolute fondest Falcons memories. It’s not a train, it’s not a wall. It’s Fulton Kuykendall!!!

@astrostar49 3 года назад

This channel helps keep the legacy of the NFL alive.

@glenwest1911 3 года назад

Yes indeed.

@DolFan316 2 года назад

The REAL legacy, not the woke SJW garbage the NFL is now.

@terencehill2320 2 года назад

Every single video has a reference of "if you spike the ball on every single play...."

@denisceballos9745 3 года назад

WR Alfred Jenkins (84) had a monster year in ‘81. He led the league in receiving yards 70 catches for 1358 yards with 13 TDs - 1st team All- Pro. Too bad Atlanta missed out on the playoffs that year, but they beat the Niners at home.

@KnightBoat 2 года назад

The bizzare thing for me as a Packers fan is that a Bart Starr offense only scored 17 points, then gave away the game. Usually when the Packers lost, it was because the offense "only" scored 30 while the defense gave up 40.

@ultrametric9317 Год назад

What a disappointing year after going 12-4 in 1980 and having the Cowboys on the ropes at home in the playoffs. In 1981 they lost 6 games by a field goal or less - it was the difference between 7-9 and 13-3. And then the strike in 1982 - life as a Falcons fan is not for the faint of heart.

@DolFan316 2 года назад

This makes me feel a little better about my team harking up 30 4th quarter points to the Jets in 2000. Just a little.

@DolFan316 2 года назад

The really sad part is, if the Packers win this game they make the playoffs over the 9-7 Giants who they had swept that season. (The NFL scheduling formula back then was a bit weird.)

@DolFan316 2 года назад

6:03 Reggie Smith played just two years for the Falcons, and one more season when he made a comeback during the '87 strike. This was the longest return of his career, more than doubling his second longest punt return. In fact he only had one other game in his career with more punt return yards than this single one.

@anonymoususer450 3 года назад

Imagine blowing a big lead to the kings of blowing big leads

@DolFan316 2 года назад

Except the Falcons wouldn't be that until decades later.

@anonymoususer450 2 года назад

@@DolFan316 They had already blown a 14 point 4th quarter lead in the divisional round prior, so yeah their extensive history had started at that point

@Rountree1985 3 года назад

I don’t understand how you don’t have more subscribers and views.

@brad8749 3 года назад

lack of exposure unfortunately...

@stevep8445 2 года назад

The popup boxes and banners do not help. The narration too...... ugh

@eugenedenbrook322 2 года назад

Agreed

@DolFan316 2 года назад

RU-vid hates actual good content and tries to bury it in every possible way.

@Rountree1985 2 года назад

@@DolFan316 no they don’t, not everything is a corporate conspiracy.

@nasetvideos 3 года назад

I remember that game well. It really was stunning and unheard of for a team to do anything like that--And most certainly never saw a 4th quarter like that; 31 points in a 4th quarter was definitely special and got notice by the end of the day by all football fans back in '81. Thanks for the memories on this one.

@KG-xt4oq 2 года назад

OMG...I remember this game soooo well. I was 10 at the time and had given in to family pressure to switch my allegiance from the Steelers to the Packers the season before ('80). My older brother (by 3 years) decided before the season started to make a scrapbook of the Packers' season using newspaper clippings from our local paper. We we living in Concord, NC (Born in Charlotte), at the time so the only way we could see the Packers on TV was when they were on MNF, which was very rare back then, or Thanksgiving day game. My father had a friend/business acquaintance that lived just inside of the Greenville-Spartanburg, SC, television broadcast area, which aired all of the Atlanta Falcons' away games. We drove to this person's house to watch this game and we all went from being the happiest group of people on the planet to the angriest in a span of 15 minutes...lol. On the drive back home the silence was deafening...

@DolFan316 2 года назад

The next time the Packers blew a 17-0 lead and lost was in 2000 against my team 😎

@dangeiger9796 2 года назад

Any video about the Packers losing is a good video

@collinghood6828 3 года назад

Green Bay Collapsers

@FredSchneider1977USA 2 года назад

During the late 1970s and early 80s, when the Falcons played defense, they could beat anyone and they were never out of it. They had QB Steve Bartkowski and all of that firepower on offense. You could also say the same thing about the Packers in the 1980s, at least when they had Len Dickey at QB.

@webstercat Год назад

Grits Blitz … moved to Atl in 80. Excited about the team, then not so much..

@rrp034 2 года назад

Just from hearing others who followed the Falcons back then, Leeman Bennett seemed to be a good coach and they didn't understand stand why he was let go. Anyone here have an opinion on what happened?

@Raddlesby 2 года назад

Lifelong Atlantan here. I saw this game in '81. The reason Leeman was let go, according to then owner Rankin Smith, Sr., was that, and I quote, "the team had reached a plateau." A very infamous quote among Falcon fans. That plateau was making the playoffs every other year and losing. I don't think Leeman deserved to be fired when he was--at the end of a playoff year in '82, the strike-shortened season. The defense had deteriorated quite a bit and was a mere shell of its Grits Blitz glory days, but getting fired after a 9 game season where you make the playoffs made no sense. The next two coaches, Dan Henning and Marion Campbell, were disasters. The team wouldn't recover and make the playoffs again till Jerry Glanville became coach, who, oddly enough, was the Defensive Coordinator during Leeman Bennett's entire stay as coach in ATL.

@DolFan316 2 года назад

@@Raddlesby Rankin Smith was right. Every time Bennett made the playoffs he'd follow it up with a losing season. The Falcons never had back to back winning seasons until they drafted Matt Ryan in '08.

@Raddlesby 2 года назад

@@DolFan316 Matt Ryan has absolutely nothing to do with Leeman Bennett being fired in 1982, which is the topic of the conversation. Try to follow along. It's hard to justify firing anyone after a 9 game, strike-shortened season. Add to that you made the playoffs in that strike-shortened year, and it makes getting fired idiotic. Now, add to that that you replaced Leeman Bennett with Dan Henning, one of the worst coaches in team history, that makes Bennett's firing even more asinine. Henning and then Marion Campbell after him, set the franchise backward a full decade. So NO, Rankin Smith, Sr. was not right firing Bennett. Try to learn, Dolphin Fan, a little bit about Falcon history when you wish to speak about the Falcons.

@chuckpoore 2 года назад

@@Raddlesby You are correct that Bennett's firing at this point was short-sighted, but I'm sure Smith was just frustrated with the inconsistency of the team. I'm sure he expected a Super Bowl after the 1980 12-4 season. However, I think the reason he went after Henning, was remember that he was the offensive coordinator of the Redskins, and at that time, their offense was just about the best in the NFC, and I think he was following a trend, and wanted that H-Back offense that Washington was killing everyone with. The problem is they did not have the personnel for that offense, and Henning just wasn't a good HC, he was much better just running an offense. But going after a guy who has burned you seemed to be a pattern for Smith. Remember, the whole reason he went after Leeman Bennett to begin with, was that he was the OC of the Rams, who beat them up twice a year, so I guess he figured he get that guy. I think that was his same thinking on dumping Bennett and getting Henning. He was the "new thing" at the time.

@Raddlesby 2 года назад

@@chuckpoore I agree with everything you wrote here, Chuck Poore. Assistants on losing teams don't become head coaches so Dan Henning was an ideal candidate coming from a Super Bowl winner. There's just no way to know how these coaches will do, and Henning was terrible. One correction on what you wrote. Leeman Bennett was the Wide Receivers coach for the Rams prior to being hired by the Falcons (not the OC).

@ShowstopperHerbB 2 года назад

I bet Falcons fans wish that they could’ve scored 31 in the super bowl

@mhlaw229 Год назад

'81 was a very difficult season for the Falcons. They had a serious hangover from losing the '80 divisional playoff game to the Cowboys. They lost several close games in '81. Also, tight end Junior Miller who had a terrific rookie year in '80 pretty much disappeared in '81 and hardly contributed at all

@webstercat Год назад

They stopped using what was working.

@gamebomber1tv270 3 года назад

Oh how the tables turn

@DolFan316 2 года назад

6:57 This is the single most mind blowing fact I have ever heard in any OBJ9 video 🤯🤯🤯

@scottconner7930 3 года назад

40 Years Ago

@DolFan316 2 года назад

When life was so much better that a person didn't have to worry about "dishonoring" posts like this by pointing it out.

@ppj0241 2 года назад

I wish more Packer fans would watch this stuff. They only seem to know the Favre and Rodgers years. The Packers were garbage in the seventies, eighties, and the start of the nineties.