It was the greatest rivalry in all of professional sports back then. Not only was the hate, to this day, unparalleled, nearly every game meant something, usually a lot of something. We'll never see the likes of it again. The only other one that was close was Steelers/Raiders.
@@NosferatusCoffin I'll absolutely agree with that. Steelers/Raiders was brutal in it's own right, especially in the 70s. Mean Joe Green said himself that his greatest, most intimidating opponent was Bob Brown. Look it up on this platform. You're right that nearly every Redskin/Cowboy game had a lot riding on it. I will sorely miss those days.
As a Washingtonian and long time Redskin fan, our family remember every second of that marvelous run. It still brings tears to your eyes to see the faces of victory. Perhaps one day we can reach the mountain top again one day soon. Thanks for the sweet memories. Hail to the W!
I grew up in DC the Cowboys were always the team we had to beat.You guys were great for a long time.Beating you in this playoff game was the best Redskin moment! Props to the Cowboys as well!
They need to construct a new adjustable, bouncing Stadium. Giant hydraulics that move the bleachers with the crowd noise. It can be done. ENTER at your own risk
The redskins playing IN DC just hit different. There was no greater home field advantage than Joe Gibbs Redskins playing at RFK. The hood area around the stadium full of rabid fans ready to tip your bus over and take its wheels had opponents shitting themselves. The fans relationship with them was closer than any city could have with their team. You just saw a multi lombardi winning hall of famer tell you that a home playoff game was so far above his rings. Let that sink in for a second. Taking the skins out of DC took the soul out of the city.
My mom's house was around the corner from RFK on 25th & Benning Rd. And game day used to be lit. The crowd noise, you could literally be watching the game in the living room, and the crowd would still be heard over the tv. I grew up a Packers fan, but I'm not gonna even lie, but that was a great era for football in my hometown.
I wasn’t alive and boy did I miss out. Man I wish my skins had that attitude today. To hear him say “Randy it’s comin at you” sent chills down my spine. HTTR!! Baby. bring the glory days back.
I’m a NY jets fan born in 1976. The 82 Skins with the hogs and Riggins are basically the first playoff games I can remember watching. Being raised on football it was quite an impression. Legendary offensive line. This video brought tears to my eyes.
Imagine exactly that and you were born just outside DC, that's me. My Dad's brother lived in Texas and was a Cowboys fan and he called him up right at the end of the game to talk shit. Also my first lesson in sports shit talking.
@@PickpocketJones must have been epic. My dad loved Riggins. I heard the story several times about the Skins fans that snuck a diesel truck horn into RFK. They were blowing the horn after Riggins ran over the Cowboys defense. Watching Russ Grimm take the game over on that last drive was absolutely incredible. “Randy it’s coming at you!” Old school football at its finest. I’ve lived and breathed football since I’m a little kid. I grew up a Jets fan but in the 80’s my other team was the Redskins.
I miss the old NFC East stadiums. Dallas had the old Texas Stadium with the hole in the roof and a huge crown in the middle of the field. The Redskins had old RFK, the Eagles had Veterans stadium and the Giants had the old Meadowlands. Every stadium was significant to each team, and it helped them win big.
And they so desperately needed that win. Plus continue the postseason tradition wining against them. It had been 10-11 years when they last met in a playoff game.
As a Cowboys fan in the early '80s this game (and the catch one year before) were painful to watch. As a person gets older, I get it now from the Washington point of view, "50 gut" over and over. We want Dallas, I remember that, I can imagine Washington fans get chills if they remember being there. And they made Dallas wear the dark blues. I can appreciate years later, those 2 years, 1982 & 1983, Redskin fans were on top of the world. AND THE MIDDLE AGED MEN WEARING DRESSES AND PIG SNOUTS😂😂😂 THOSE WERE THE DAYS
we were at that game, me and Dad the atmosphere really was awesome. then listening to Ken Bietrice on WMAL on drive home in time to watch George Micheals' Sports Machine game highlights
I was 7 and I remember this being THE game that made me a Redskins fan for life. My mom and dad were huge fans and I watched this game with them and remember my dad who was a DC native cheering and yelling with joy at the TV. Seeing his joy in this game taught me to love the Redskins forever.
Mom was a Redskins fan. Dad bought me a grey sweatshirt with a star on it. I think I only wore it once. It never returned from the dirty clothes hamper.
I was 8 also and my school we were allowed to dress in skins gear. When they won the Super Bowl over the Dolphins. I was excused by my teacher to go to the Skins Parade (it was pouring rain but was worth it). That was a crazy week leading to the Super Bowl. All the local news media 4,5,7,9 dedicated most of the week to the skins. Even the local sportscasters (GlennBrenner, FrankHerzog & GeorgeMichael)
I wasnt born. Not for another 16 years after that. As a Redskins fan, I was born in the wrong time. I wish I could have witnessed that live. I just rely on these type of videos and stories from my dad.
@@80steen44 from the Time Lombardi came until Joe Gibbs left (with a heaping helping of George Allen in between) 20 out of 23 winning seasons 13 playoff appearances 5 superbowl appearances and 3 world titles not many teams have been that good for that long continuously
@@johntabler349 I'm not knocking Gibbs or the Redskins overall. But 82 is a weird season starting over that late. I will say that 83 as a regular season probably proved 82 was no fluke but I've always felt the 80s 49ers got their potential legacy robbed by misfortune in the 83 NFC Championship game with those 2 horrible PI calls and then Montana getting KOd in the 4th quarter of the 90 NFC Championship game with the lead. I'm a Steelers fan so not just being a Niners homer
@@80steen44 no guarantees that the niners would have won though they had momentum at the time I thought the one call was legit but not the other haven't rewatched in a long time
@@johntabler349 Well there's no guarantee they win either Super Bowls had they advanced vs the 83 Raiders and 90 Bills but Walsh was so good I see 83 winning and 90 was hard to stop except vs the Belichick Giants D who contained SF in the regular season of 90 and beat them in the 85 and 86 playoffs. Lately though TBH there's so much stuff coming out about players and refs getting paid I'm starting to wonder
I played rugby as a forward for 35 years or so. I know where Russ Grimm is coming from. Down in the trenches it's not about the score it's about winning.
Sweetest win in Redskins history. Obviously the Super Bowl wins were more important, but this was euphoric. Beating the arrogant Cowboys in the NFC championship game.
The Daryl Grant interception was the play of the game. I saw the game live and i thought Tom Landry, as great as he is/was, made the wrong call. In the 70's and early 80's, he used to run that screen play for Tony Dorsett. It wouldn't have mattered which side the Cowboys would've ran that play, the Redskins were ready. It was a hell of a play .
The Screen pass the Cowboys did last week vs Pittsburgh, where Elliot scored from 85 yards was vintage 1970s-1980s Landry screen pass that was almost impossible to stop. But as for 1983, that Daryl Grant INT changed the game.
It may have not been a bad call but he did not have his starting quarterback in there so it's possible that Gary just did not play it well. No matter way the Redskins wanted this one real bad and they got it.
Sometimes the greatness of a great team can be measured by how much they bring out the greatness in an otherwise not-so-great team. That was the story of the 1982 NFC championship game. Never underestimate how much intangibles like heart, desire and team spirit can determine the outcome of an important game.
Not so great!!! same team went 14-2 the next year, and went back to superbowl. yes they lost,because raiders taped redskins practice. f....ing cheaters
Why would they need to covertly tape their practices when they had already played them earlier that season? All they had to do was look at the game films and realize that, unlike their first meeting, they now had a healthy Marcus Allen and a recently acquired Mike Haynes -- both future Hall of Fame inductees. The Raiders were simply the better team that day. It's as simple as that. (And, no, I'm not a Raiders fan. I just call it like I see it.)
I've never heard about the Raiders taping the redskins practices. aside from that being a common practice that the Patriots abused where did you hear about that? I think John Otten a Raiders employee told Charlie Sumner about the screen pass to Joe Washington that Squirek intercepted
The Redskins playing with a Hangover against the Raiders is why they lost. Not the whole team but enough of them partied too hard because the season was to easy for them.
Back then Dallas was consistently the best and the skins knew to be the best you have to beat the best and they did at home and went on to win their first Super Bowl against the Dolphins. Go Skins!!
As a lifelong Eagles fan, and Cowboys hater, I enjoyed every minute of this. I despised the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990’s just as much as the Redskins fans hated the Cowboys of the 1970’s. It was great to see Riggins and the hogs beat these arrogant punks to a pulp. 50 gut, baby!! Woo!!
I got to see the second half of this game recently on you tube talking about the 1982 NFC Title game. The Redskins are only up 4. Skins punt. Hogeboom zips Dallas downfield. He misses Timmy Newsome down the middle on a critical 3rd down. They miss a FG att, Redskins punt again. The first play after the punt Mel Kauffman intercepts Hogeboom sets up a FG 24-17 then two plays after the KO Dexter Manley tips a Hogeboom screen into the arms of Darryl Grant who runs in for a TD 31-17. Then Dallas turns the ball over on downs on its next possession with 5 minutes to play. The defense came up with huge plays that entire second half and played an almost lights out Super Bowl the following week. Ritchie Pettibon was the best defensive coordinator in the game for a dozen years and belongs in the HOF.
Actually, Newsome just flat out drops that pass. If he catches it, easy touchdown. They still moved the ball on that drive but did miss the FG and that seemed to take the air out.
I'm a die hard cowboys fan, I was in the 6th grade, the skins punked my boys that year. The superbowls aren't the same without one of these franchises representing the NFC.
Riggins is the type of RB you just don't see in the NFL anymore. Its sexier to 'air the ball' out in a passing frenzy, but a solid RB like Riggins and no team can go wrong. Right now the Redskins could use a back like him.
Funny thing is that the few years the skins showed promise since 93, they had a top 5 rush attack and a competent qb.. The redskins have been drafting o and d line better than everybody since the 90s but have been so awful at picking a qb that their prowess at the draft is overshadowed because you can’t win without a competent qb. 9 games of Alex smith with an old Peterson shows you that the joe Gibbs is timeless.
We may have a new team name and our owner is a class A - A-Hole. But we will always have these memories. This video embodies the good years. Remember the good times remember the family and friends you shared it with, remember RFK , and remember forever The Washington Redskins and the wonderful people that loved that team.
Remember it like it was yesterday. My brother and I sat for 25 years in Section 242 Row 12 Seats 3&4 at RFK. When they moved out to FedEx we never attended another game.
Still gives me goosebumps....as a fan I felt that hatred and passion Theismann speaks of. I have never watched a game with butterflies in my stomach on every play like I did watching that one. The Manley tip and Grant pick six is probably the single most exciting play in Redskins history for me. Live, the play seemed like it was in slow motion despite happening so fast.
Now that’s HOG football!!! Russ Grimm and the hogs just straight up told Randy White that him and his crew weren’t man enough. Again and again and again. Right down to the last whistle. Where’d the pride in the helmet go?... No one. NO ONE got the heart out of every player like joe Gibbs did man.
I know! Some of my happiest memories was being at my aunt's house when he came back to coach the Skins.. My God, even though the second Gibbs comeback wasn't exactly the same as the first run, but the memories man... Santana Moss a.k.a the Cowboy Killer, Darrell Green's last home game, and I think that this is true of most of our minds, THERE WILL NEVER be another Sean Taylor... and probably my best memory about that situation, was when the next time the Redskin played the Cowboys at the Ol Texas Stadium, players from BOTH teams went to midfield and said a prayer... The Washington Redskins will always hold a very special part of my heart... 18 years of memories that will NEVER leave me and hopefully all of us...
Not even a Redskins fan but I lived there when it happened. Most helpless feeling for a NFL defense. You know what you're gonna do, . . . they know what you're gonna do, . . . . and there ain't a damn thing they can do about it.
That my friend, is called imposing your will on your opponent. Moving a man against his will when he knows what's coming and still feeling helpless in stopping it, there's no better feeling in the world witnessing that.
The best football game in Redskins history . . . hands down. Also the best stadium banner in Redskins history (which you can see in the Darryl Grant interception): "Dallas may have Southfork, but Washington has JR!"
Still to this day my favorite singular moment as a Redskin fan (since 1980)! The Super Bowl against the Dolphins was only the cherry! Beating Dallas 2 reach Pasadena was the entire sundae! Beating them again to win the division in 2012 and taking it away from them almost as nice but not quite! Taking them down in the NFC championship game will always remain on top
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YEAH---WASHINGTON---WHO?????????????? DROPPED 56 ON THEIR NO NAME BUTTS ON DEC 26...AND ANOTHER 51 ON THE ...E GIRLS--LAST WEEK--NFC EAST ---TOTAL--DOMINATION-
Man I have forgotten so many things in my 70 years but I will never forget that day at RFK Stadium. Still brings a tear to my eye just seeing this video! HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!!!!
Those Hog lines had that dog mentality and feared no defensive line anywhere in the NFL. The current WFT has not developed that mindset and until they do they will forever make our running backs struggle on 3rd & 1's and 4th & 1s
Still have no recollection of Doc Walker at TE. However, i distinctly remember Clint Didier (86) & Don Warren (85) in DOUBLE TIGHTS SMASH formation for the Skins during the 80's. Ask LT about Joe Jacoby. He NEVER recorded a sack or TFL against that left tackle HOSS, but yet #66 is still NOT in the HOF! #Disgraceful
Greatest game ev-er. And the greatest finish as well:: Riggins, Riggins, Riggins, Riggins, Riggins, Riggins, Riggins, Riggins, Riggins. America's Team my arse. #Epic #HailToTheRedskins
As a Cowboys fan I remember this game very well. If I remember correctly the very first commercial that was shown after the loss was Landry's American Express commercial with the Redskins.
This was the 3rd straight, and last NFC Championship the Cowboys would be in for 10yrs. It might have been a small(or large) disadvantage that Dallas had to be on the road for 3 straight years. The best chance they had to make it to the Superbowl was the game against the 49'ers but thanks to Joe Montana, it didn't happen and Philly crushed Dallas in the Vet the year before.
philly...crushed --dallas??? score was 17-7---wat you say about the 56 points we scored against Washington ...then 51 last week---we musta ...BURIED DEM---50 FEET DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@vaughnkhan4210 He was talking about the NFC Championship Games Dallas was playing in. In the 1980 season. Dallas played Philadelphia and got shutout. The 1981 season Dallas lost to San Francisco by one point. The 1982 season you know about that one. So for about a decade, Dallas didn't see the NFC Championship until the 1992 season against San Francisco. After the 49ers narrowly held off Washington for a possible 3rd Washington vs Dallas NFC Championship Game matchup.
There is a video floating around about 50 gut. I saw it on RU-vid years ago and someone took it down. It was awesome. The fans snuck a diesel truck horn into the stadium. They ran the same play down the stretch a bunch of times. I know they talk about it here but the other video was so awesome. The Hogs took over and pound Dallas. Legendary NFL performance.
I remember in Philadelphia, an eagles fan said "we want Dallas" for the 1980 title game. A year later, it was the San Francisco 49ers for the 1981 title game. The 1980's was the downfall of America's team. This is most interesting rivalry, Cowboys v Redskins, Packers v Bears, 49ers v Rams, Raiders v Broncos, Jets v Dolphins.
I was in 8th grade an a die hard Reskins fan. I acutally had to miss most of this game as I had to play in a basketball game. I guess this game was on a Saturday.
This was the Washington Redskins finest moment, no doubt. One thing is to watch this game on video (or DVD highlights) another thing is to watch it live on TV in January 1983...you can actually feel the scalping and the hate that the Cowboys were going to receive...a good old fashioned butt whipping of the greatest magnitude of years in the making. The only loss the Redskins had in 1982 was to Dallas in the regular season...this was payback in the making, big time. The loss was also marked with some trash talking by the Cowboys (as usual Landry couldn't control his team) ...the Redskins used that as a motivating factor and deep down (according to many Redskins testimonies like Theismann, Grimm, Riggins and a few others after their playing days were over in books and interviews) they knew that they were going to meet up in the playoffs. The only thing Dallas needed was to make sure that they had good medical coverage when anyone enters the hospital in the Washington area (am I right, Danny White??)...yeah, this was a beatdown.. for the record, I'm not a Redskins fan but a NFL fan who witnessed a great game the Redskins played. This put them over the hump and got them to the Super Bowl where they won over the Miami Dolphins. The franchise 1st championship is always unique and especially if beating an Archrival is part of the success. Ya had to have seen this live to fully understand that the Redskins were on a mission.
To be fair and accurate, it was never Russ Grimm vs Randy White. White was double teamed on every play lol. But having said that....Hail to the Redskins.
It was so great coming up in d.c.when the redskins were great! Rfk was the smallest but loudest crowd. Always wanted dallas. Too bad we suck since they moved out of d.c.
