I have no sympathy for the Cowboys in this case, Texas Stadium was one of the first stadiums to be publicly funded, as far as I am concerned if the public paid for any part of the stadium, every game should be televised, and the Cowboys should not have had their TV rights until the team had paid back the public money.
I absolutely agree. Even though I'm a diehard Cowboys fan, every game should be televised. I disagree with Tex Schramm that the team would lose money. Just having the exposure makes more people want to go to the games. Thankfully, living south of Fort Worth, we could turn our TV antenna toward Waco and watch the game, anyway.
@@jaywmeinen I agree as well. Having your product on more makes so many people more money. I don't have any sympathy for the Cowboys, either, especially Tex Schramm.
It was estimated that the city of Irving, TX, had an average economic impact of 15-25 million dollars EVERY time the Cowboys played. Given all the regular season and playoff games played at Texas Stadium, Irving recouped their investment many times over. The Cowboys owed them nothing.
It's interesting how rich people claim that America is great because of free market enterprise. Then when that free market happens - to their financial detriment- they complain.
I know, right?! Even adjusting for inflation, it's like $80.00 today, and that's most like a nose bleed section ticket, but it's still a hell of a bargain!!
That blackout rule was one of the dumbest things in history. Not just sports history. History. I've said this for decades. A league makes 10 times more money when games are on TV, and if they aren't. The short sighted nature of NFL owners back then, was astounding.
Yes the cowboys lose some money on the in stadium parking and food but the store paid the cowboys for the tickets at full price . How are the cowboys hurt by the store reselling the tickets at a discount. People would get arrested for selling tickets at higher than face value. Plus in other cases they would be no shows. The cowboys look super cheap and petty
Yeah, their arguments seemed so petty. They had no foresight on what kind of revenue TV contracts would bring in. A bunch of old school guys stuck in their ways
A 19.8 passer rating which is worse than if Staubach did nothing but spike the ball on every play… MUCH worse than if he did nothing but spike the ball on every play. I’m talking about an almost 20 differential.
All these teams/execs arguments seem so petty now. Tex Schramm's argument of "if we show the game on TV here, no one will show up".... well, Tex, it has to be sold out in order to be shown in the host city, so I seriously doubt that 60,000 people are gonna buy tickets and then no show just so they could watch it at home. Even back then, die hard fans always found a way around the black out rules. A lot of hotels/motels just outside the black out radius would offer specials to residents of the "home" team to spend a "half day" at their place, just so they could watch the game either in their room or the hotel bar if they had a TV there. Some people who lived maybe 30 or 40 miles away from Dallas would buy the biggest, most powerful antennas they could in order to get a signal from a city outside the 75 mile radius. And now you got local stores buying up the remaining tickets!! These people running the organizations had no idea back then what kind of revenue the TV contracts would generate and I know all of them are glad now there is basically no black out rule at all
I'm now wondering how many Buccaneers fans went to Cape Coral or Fort Myers to watch home games in the '80s. If you had enough fuel money and enough money for a motel/hotel room or knew someone in a nearby market that wasn't a secondary market, getting around blackouts was possible.
The last 2 JG9 videos made me lose respect for Tex Schram. He didn’t even own the damn team. So why should he worry how many people are attend the game he’s getting paid the same salary weather it’s 60 or 65,000 people at the stadium.
I sympathize with all you guys, but if you saw the actual game, you might shed a tear or two. The Cowboys truly sucked. To be fair, though, they were without Bob Lilly and Calvin Hill. That spells defeat right there.
I was at that game at ten years old. I was broken hearted that the Cowboys got beat so bad. I remember that the only thing to cheer about was Golden Richards punt return for a touchdown. Speaking of him, I'd love to see a video about the fall of Golden Richards. I really hope he's pulled it together.
it would be interesting to see how many playoff games didn't sell out [excluding weather as a reason ] and see if the home team still has a winning record
As a Viking fan, I remember this game well, as it may have been the most dominating post-season performance by a Bud Grant coached Viking team, especially on the defensive front.
That's a genius idea the discount store had, wow! You wouldn't see that happening at $10 again anytime soon though. I hope the discount store made a TON of $$$, whew! Great video, and let me know where I can get NFL tickets for only $10 up here in New England, LOL! Subscribed and Thumbs Up! - Todd C (Creek Sider1)
The only thing I remembered about these Championship Games in 1973 was that both games ended in 27-10 Final Scores. NFC Championship Game: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10 AFC Championship Game: Miami Dolphins 27, Oakland Raiders 10
He was referring to the way the NFL determined home field advantage back then. It was on a rotation basis, and not an overall record basis, which was very stupid
@@leogetz3570 to me, it seemed at first that it would have been teams that had previously been to the championship games and lost? (Can’t confirm who the Dolphins beat to get to Super Bowl VII, but seeing that the Redskins beat Cowboys to get to the Super Bowl the year before, it makes sense to me.
@@ravivaithinathan1222 I think the rotation was a pre determined formula, not subject to the previous season participants. The Dolphins beat the Steelers (in Pittsburgh) to get to SB 7, the week after the "immaculate reception". Even with Miami being undefeated, they had to travel to Pittsburgh because of the rotation formula
@@leogetz3570 Yes. It was rotation formula starting in 1970 merger season. Each year they rotated which of 3 division winners in each conference got home field advantage. NFL also rotated the one division winner who had to open playoffs on the road, which in 1973 was NFC West (Rams) and AFC Central (Bengals). I thought about writing more, but I'm starting to confuse myself.
Nice spotlight. Stories I'd be curious about (but are side stories) would be the flying lawnmower incident at Shea Stadium, the snowman on fire at the Minnesota-Dallas playoff game, and the snowplow game. You do good work.
I was at the flying lawnmower game. They hyped the thing through the entire first half with PA announcements. "Coming up at halftime, the blah blah model airplane club, featuring the flying lawnmower" and everyone would cheer. Then halftime came and the damn thing wouldn't start. Another PA announcement "ladies and gentlemen, the flying lawnmower will not be seen today" followed by a chorus of boos. The guy running it gave it another shot, and lo and behold he got it going. It took off and started circling around over the field. Unfortunately the circles kept getting wider and wider, until it was flying not just over the field, but over the stands. At which point it stalled, and some poor guy had a push mower with a bunch of extra weight (wings, etc) drop straight down on his head from a considerable height. I was sitting in one of those middle levels (loge, mezzanine or whatever) and the thing looked like it was about eye level to me when it stopped and dropped like a stone into the lower deck seats. This being the 1970s, no one who was not in the immediate vicinity had any way of knowing exactly how bad it was. I found out days later that someone had been killed.
I’m sure this was before the cheerleader calendars, which might’ve made up the difference in the loss of ticket sales, parking and concessions. But if things like this inspired such creativity out of Tex et al, then good: everybody wins. 🎉
Duane Thomas a great running back for the cowboys said tha E Tex Schramm was sick demented and dishonest. Tex reply " Well that's not bad he got 2 out of 3" Classic!!!!
Hey Vikings! I've followed you since 1976 and know heartbreak (no offense Lions and Browns). Winning one S.B. before I die would be nice but I feel like you owe me ten...maybe more. Thanks for the vid.
For me, the only thing that would erase the sting of those 4 Super Bowls is if they managed to be the first team to win three in a row. Not holding my breath. That being said, I was really glad when the Broncos ensured that the Vikings would never be the first team to lose 5.
@@chuckyufarley2999 At least your 's is reasonable I've told my kid that I personally am owed 7. I better stop or I'll never get to bed....Vikings thoughts gives me insomnia.
@@silyrabittrxr4kids5 Yeah, I've done this two nights in a row now. What the hell's wrong with me? I told my buddy the real definition of insanity is staying up past midnight on a work night, writing long arguments in defense of the Vikings for games they lost 50 years ago, in the comments of an 8 year old RUclips clip.
As a Vikings fan kid living smack dab between Milwaukee and Chicago in the 70s, the blackout rule worked great for me, as the Vikings were on tv just about every week.
You said exactly what I said about PR for the game being on TV. I hate the blackout rule now. I have the MLB and NBA package. I can't get the Home teams game on the MLB or NBA outlet until say 2 hours after game.
All my loyal fan (OK, I do have more than one) know that yesterday I speculated as to whether Tex Schramm would turn down a request from CBS to buy tickets to a Cowboys game the way he turned down NBC in 1976. This video shows that Schramm was not in position to deny such a request from CBS, but he clearly didn’t want to do them any favors.
Good for the Discount Store! Even if the Discount Store sold the tickets for $10, The Cowboys still got $12.50 per ticket. And the Cowboys DID sell their tickets at full price. It was the store who Re-sold them at a discount rate. The Result: Now the Championship tickets cost $500 instead of $12.50. Explain the cheapening of that!
I remember this game as a 16 year old . It was a good game, not great. Not nearly as exciting as the Divisional playoff game a week earlier between the Vikings and Redskins. And there was no "Big" controversy about this game that I remember hearing about. At most a minor issue. The big controversy came 2 years later when Staubach threw the Hail Mary pass to Drew Pearson. A game I was at as a Vikings fan (paid $12 for the ticket.)
You mean the one where Drew Pearson clearly pushed off and a little later that official got hit in the head by a fan with a whiskey bottle? I still remember that and I was like 8 and I'm not even a Vikings fan.
Dallas would have given Miami a much better game. I fell asleep halfway through the 3rd quarter in Super Bowl VIII. But I guess looking back that was to be expected since the Minnesota Vikings were participating, the Super Bowl's version of the Washington Generals.😊
Tex was so wrong he was right haha. The difference now is the discount stores are selling the tickets for quadruple or more the value instead of at a discount hahaha.
"Gas went up 45%" sounds much worse than when you consider it was still .70 a gallon, lol. I clearly remember my mother saying to the gas attendant $5 of Ethyl and it would almost full it up from empty. Me and my bro always laughed "who is Ethyl?"
I'm a pure capitalist. If you own something, you should be able to offer it for sale at any price you like, be it high or low. Because you OWN that thing. As a side note, yes Staubach and the Cowboys played terrible that day, but Roger and Tom never lost another playoff game to the Vikes after that.
Do: 1. Decide what you want to show and say. 2. Do that. Don't: 1: Ramble around, start, change course, backup up, ramble some more and make me stop watching and write this comment. And I was and still am a Dolphan.
Among the things you might buy to watch a big game while in department store, I was going to say ... a TV! But I was thinking big-screen, and then I remembered it was 1973 lol.
@ Jay Temple why buy anything just be a freeloader and stay at the store and watch on one of their display televisions. Grab a beer and chips sit on a sofa and kick up your feet I'm sure they wouldn't mind. Just tell them you are testing out the TV and you might buy it after the game 😂
They could get a 25" TV, which was huge back then! Maybe even upgrade to a color set. Being 56 years old I doubt a lot of people don't even know that if you were poor all you could afford was a black and white set. Getting a color TV really was like being in Oz when Dorothy leaves the house!!!
The way I look at it, selling those tickets to the store was best for the future and growth of the Sport. First off, you sold the tickets. Secondly, the fans could watch the Game live on TV . If you think about it, they are promoting their game by having it watched on TV. I remember that time of long gas lines. I remember dad turned the car off and waited to move up a spot. I didn't know about economics at the time but I knew long gas lines was not good. Folks had to save money. I was told that I would get 1 gift for Christmas. I got more. A Bobby Hull Hockey Game, Racing Car set, an Electric Night Football game, many other gifts. It was hard times. Obtw, the Vikings I started following in 1972. My first playoff game watching on TV was against Washington in 1973. I actually saw this game live. I had a very good childhood watching football on Tv
Based on these delightful highlights, the great Bobby Bryant was the MVP of this game, two interception, caused Jeff Semen's interception, and many passes defended. Bryant was an all-world pitcher in college, better than team mate and future great major leaguer Geoff Zahn, drafted by the Yankees but they were cheap and he went to the NFL.
I totally understand where the Cowboys are coming from with this and the possible loss of revenue with the people not being there at the game, but you cannot get mad at the discount store at all. They used a loophole in the law, that every business exploits when they see loopholes, for their advantage as well as putting your game on tv which gave you publicity. This in itself may of not gave the Cowboys the money they wanted at the time, but probably more money down the road.
Your dollar beer night example doesn’t quite work. I know it’s minutiae, but a bar wouldn’t typically have a dollar beer night on a night when most people go to the bar, ie. Thursday - Saturday night, it would be on a Monday or Tuesday, so it’s not quite the same situation.
The CFL lost a generation of fans by blacking out games in the 70s and 80s. Attendance across the league plummeted due to lack of exposure. Only recently has owning a CFL team become a solid investment again. Toronto still struggles with crowds of 10,000 or less.
9 year old me was at the game and remembered the controversy. As for stealing from Dallas and the NFL? Sorry, the economics of this makes zero sense. The team sold those tickets at full price. Anybody who bought them at $10 isn't getting a discount on parking or concessions, so the net loss to the team is zero. There's no guarantee that those 1400 seats, sold to the general public, would have all showed up either. Basically, as would be seen numerous times during his involvement with the team, Tex Schramm was a bit of an ass.
If Hank Hill bought the Dallas Cowboys from Jerry Jones he would not like this practice. But it's hard to tell if Jerry would approve of this practice.
Cowboys lost because Calvin Hill and Bob Lilly was hurt. That could have caused ticket problem. Viking fan here never felt good about that gave Dallas excuse.
Sorry but I have no idea why Dallas would be upset. They got their tickets sold. The local fans got to watch the game either at home or live. I group of kids got a great experience, except for the Cowboys getting beat part. Fans who bought the cheaper tickets STILL spent money on parking, drinks, hot dogs, etc. Maybe even more if it was a larger group since they didn't spend as much on the actual tickets. I honestly see NOTHING for the Cowboys to be mad about. If the NFL back then was so worried about something this small, on a overall level, they had much bigger problems than this. Now, can you imagine someone today buying tickets and selling them at LESS THAN FACE VALUE????? It has became almost impossible to go to a game these days without a bank loan. I looked at a Chiefs- Chargers game this year and the tickets were about $600 each. That's before parking and anything you might need during a 3 hour game. It's unreal how much they charge. Especially since most team revenue comes from TV deals and name rights. This is why most MLB games are over half empty. The NFL is popular enough today that filling the stadium usually isn't an issue. That said, imagine if that family could still go and NOT need the bank.
The Cowboys are worth $8 billion. That's "billion" with a "B". I'm pretty sure they're perfectly happy with any and all opinions anybody has about them.
@NJ CardFan That's why the Dolphins EARNED that undefeated season. Just like 1988 with the Dodgers had the 104 wins Mets hosted Game 1 of NLCS easily they couldve won the series
Actually this was bc in baseball they used to play the ds w the first 2 games being played at the lower seed while the final 3 would all be played at the higher seed. They figured 1 travel day was better than 2 back then.
@Richàrd Therichard Thats true and that how it was with LCS before they went from 5 to 7 in 1985. Also 1995 was the first season with the 8 teams format and didnt mind the 2-3 format for LDS
@@RetroJR3379 I never understood why MLB did that instead of a 2-2-1 format especially considering how important game 1 is. Of course the 1984 Cubs showed us that winning games 1 & 2 means nothing.
Then the Vikings got gobsmacked by the Dolphins as good a coach as Grant was he just could not come up with a decent game plan or motivate his players to even show up in four SB games .
The Vikings had some pretty terrible luck in who their Super Bowl opponents were. The Steel Curtain Era Steelers were probably the greatest team of all time, the 72-73 Dolphins not far behind. The Raiders were also consistently excellent during that time, and would probably have won more Super Bowls if Madden hadn't retired so young. Their best shot was probably their first one against the Chiefs, but c'mon Joe Kapp? If they hadn't stupidly sent Tarkenton to their AAA affiliate (NY Giants) for a few years, maybe they would have gotten that one.
Doesn't the cowboys still get their money with the store buying all the remaining tickets at face value and fans who rebought the tickets at discount (only hurting the store, not the cowboys) still attending the game, pay concessions and parking... the only losing risk is the discount store losing money on the tickets. The Cowboys still got their money... what's the problem? but then again, the cowboys always plays the victim in everything.
Yeah so what. That is not the fans problem if that is a concern to the nfl. Screw the nfl if the game us shown on tv for the fans. The fans are most important.
Wow, so a game that they didn't even have the right to play at home was shown on TV because of a company buying tickets which were never going to be sold anyway, caused the Cowboys to lose. This is the worse excuse for a controversy I have ever seen. Downvote
I have no sympathy for the Cowboys in this case, Texas Stadium was one of the first stadiums to be publicly funded, as far as I am concerned if the public paid for any part of the stadium, every game should be televised, and the Cowboys should not have had their TV rights until the team had paid back the public money.
I absolutely agree. Even though I'm a diehard Cowboys fan, every game should be televised. I disagree with Tex Schramm that the team would lose money. Just having the exposure makes more people want to go to the games. Thankfully, living south of Fort Worth, we could turn our TV antenna toward Waco and watch the game, anyway.
@@jaywmeinen I agree as well. Having your product on more makes so many people more money. I don't have any sympathy for the Cowboys, either, especially Tex Schramm.
It was estimated that the city of Irving, TX, had an average economic impact of 15-25 million dollars EVERY time the Cowboys played. Given all the regular season and playoff games played at Texas Stadium, Irving recouped their investment many times over. The Cowboys owed them nothing.
@@aktxag Not in 1972 they did not.
@@lazyidiotofthemonth I will give you that
It's interesting how rich people claim that America is great because of free market enterprise. Then when that free market happens - to their financial detriment- they complain.
$12.00 for an NFC Championship game ticket? Now, it's more like $12,000
I know, right?! Even adjusting for inflation, it's like $80.00 today, and that's most like a nose bleed section ticket, but it's still a hell of a bargain!!
That blackout rule was one of the dumbest things in history. Not just sports history. History. I've said this for decades. A league makes 10 times more money when games are on TV, and if they aren't. The short sighted nature of NFL owners back then, was astounding.
You have remember the BIGGEST part of teams making money was at the stadium TV packages were not worth hardly anything in comparision
The Premiere League in the UK blacks out their 3 PM games across the entire country.
When I’m 6 minutes in and haven’t gotten to the controversy, it’s time to step away. Perhaps getting to the point sooner would be a benefit
Yes the cowboys lose some money on the in stadium parking and food but the store paid the cowboys for the tickets at full price . How are the cowboys hurt by the store reselling the tickets at a discount. People would get arrested for selling tickets at higher than face value. Plus in other cases they would be no shows. The cowboys look super cheap and petty
Yeah, their arguments seemed so petty. They had no foresight on what kind of revenue TV contracts would bring in. A bunch of old school guys stuck in their ways
The price the teams get now from TV they don't care now
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A 19.8 passer rating which is worse than if Staubach did nothing but spike the ball on every play…
MUCH worse than if he did nothing but spike the ball on every play. I’m talking about an almost 20 differential.
All these teams/execs arguments seem so petty now. Tex Schramm's argument of "if we show the game on TV here, no one will show up".... well, Tex, it has to be sold out in order to be shown in the host city, so I seriously doubt that 60,000 people are gonna buy tickets and then no show just so they could watch it at home. Even back then, die hard fans always found a way around the black out rules. A lot of hotels/motels just outside the black out radius would offer specials to residents of the "home" team to spend a "half day" at their place, just so they could watch the game either in their room or the hotel bar if they had a TV there. Some people who lived maybe 30 or 40 miles away from Dallas would buy the biggest, most powerful antennas they could in order to get a signal from a city outside the 75 mile radius. And now you got local stores buying up the remaining tickets!! These people running the organizations had no idea back then what kind of revenue the TV contracts would generate and I know all of them are glad now there is basically no black out rule at all
'Don't bail me out. i think i'll stay in jail. i can really get some thinking done in here'. leo getz things done.
I'm now wondering how many Buccaneers fans went to Cape Coral or Fort Myers to watch home games in the '80s. If you had enough fuel money and enough money for a motel/hotel room or knew someone in a nearby market that wasn't a secondary market, getting around blackouts was possible.
I don't feel sorry for Dallas...
I’m a Cowboy fan, too and I don’t feel sorry for them either.
The Cowboys organization has always been a hot mess for decades
The last 2 JG9 videos made me lose respect for Tex Schram. He didn’t even own the damn team. So why should he worry how many people are attend the game he’s getting paid the same salary weather it’s 60 or 65,000 people at the stadium.
I can never feel sorry for the Cowboys. Or the Patriots.
I sympathize with all you guys, but if you saw the actual game, you might shed a tear or two. The Cowboys truly sucked. To be fair, though, they were without Bob Lilly and Calvin Hill. That spells defeat right there.
I was at that game at ten years old. I was broken hearted that the Cowboys got beat so bad. I remember that the only thing to cheer about was Golden Richards punt return for a touchdown. Speaking of him, I'd love to see a video about the fall of Golden Richards. I really hope he's pulled it together.
In fairness to the Cowboys, their star running back, Calvin Hill, was out with an injury.
it would be interesting to see how many playoff games didn't sell out [excluding weather as a reason ] and see if the home team still has a winning record
As a Viking fan, I remember this game well, as it may have been the most dominating post-season performance by a Bud Grant coached Viking team, especially on the defensive front.
Tex Schramm was a notorious cheapskate.
I recall Kirl jawing him at Arlington Stadium
He didn’t own the team. He was the President/GM.
The owner was Clint Murchison he let Schramm run the show
That's a genius idea the discount store had, wow! You wouldn't see that happening at $10 again anytime soon though. I hope the discount store made a TON of $$$, whew! Great video, and let me know where I can get NFL tickets for only $10 up here in New England, LOL! Subscribed and Thumbs Up! - Todd C (Creek Sider1)
You can hardly go to a high school game in New England for $10
Weirdly, I think it was a group of discount stores per a 1973 New York Times article. Would love to know the name of at least the main ones.
The only thing I remembered about these Championship Games in 1973 was that both games ended in 27-10 Final Scores.
NFC Championship Game: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10
AFC Championship Game: Miami Dolphins 27, Oakland Raiders 10
I know it wasn’t the main point of the video but if it was stupid to have a predetermined championship game site then, it is stupid now.
He was referring to the way the NFL determined home field advantage back then. It was on a rotation basis, and not an overall record basis, which was very stupid
@@leogetz3570 to me, it seemed at first that it would have been teams that had previously been to the championship games and lost? (Can’t confirm who the Dolphins beat to get to Super Bowl VII, but seeing that the Redskins beat Cowboys to get to the Super Bowl the year before, it makes sense to me.
@@ravivaithinathan1222 I think the rotation was a pre determined formula, not subject to the previous season participants. The Dolphins beat the Steelers (in Pittsburgh) to get to SB 7, the week after the "immaculate reception". Even with Miami being undefeated, they had to travel to Pittsburgh because of the rotation formula
@@leogetz3570 I'd have to look up the old sites, but I think MLB continued doing it even longer than the NFL.
@@leogetz3570 Yes. It was rotation formula starting in 1970 merger season. Each year they rotated which of 3 division winners in each conference got home field advantage. NFL also rotated the one division winner who had to open playoffs on the road, which in 1973 was NFC West (Rams) and AFC Central (Bengals). I thought about writing more, but I'm starting to confuse myself.
I remember this. The discount store was called Gibson's. My step father was a manager of one in Dallas and I remember his store selling the tickets.
Nice spotlight.
Stories I'd be curious about (but are side stories) would be the flying lawnmower incident at Shea Stadium, the snowman on fire at the Minnesota-Dallas playoff game, and the snowplow game. You do good work.
I was at the flying lawnmower game. They hyped the thing through the entire first half with PA announcements. "Coming up at halftime, the blah blah model airplane club, featuring the flying lawnmower" and everyone would cheer. Then halftime came and the damn thing wouldn't start. Another PA announcement "ladies and gentlemen, the flying lawnmower will not be seen today" followed by a chorus of boos. The guy running it gave it another shot, and lo and behold he got it going. It took off and started circling around over the field. Unfortunately the circles kept getting wider and wider, until it was flying not just over the field, but over the stands. At which point it stalled, and some poor guy had a push mower with a bunch of extra weight (wings, etc) drop straight down on his head from a considerable height. I was sitting in one of those middle levels (loge, mezzanine or whatever) and the thing looked like it was about eye level to me when it stopped and dropped like a stone into the lower deck seats. This being the 1970s, no one who was not in the immediate vicinity had any way of knowing exactly how bad it was. I found out days later that someone had been killed.
Tex Schramm was Darth Vader...typical move by the shyster
I’m sure this was before the cheerleader calendars, which might’ve made up the difference in the loss of ticket sales, parking and concessions. But if things like this inspired such creativity out of Tex et al, then good: everybody wins. 🎉
Duane Thomas a great running back for the cowboys said tha E Tex Schramm was sick demented and dishonest. Tex reply " Well that's not bad he got 2 out of 3" Classic!!!!
Hey Vikings! I've followed you since 1976 and know heartbreak (no offense Lions and Browns). Winning one S.B. before I die would be nice but I feel like you owe me ten...maybe more.
Thanks for the vid.
Same here.
For me, the only thing that would erase the sting of those 4 Super Bowls is if they managed to be the first team to win three in a row. Not holding my breath. That being said, I was really glad when the Broncos ensured that the Vikings would never be the first team to lose 5.
@@chuckyufarley2999 At least your 's is reasonable I've told my kid that I personally am owed 7. I better stop or I'll never get to bed....Vikings thoughts gives me insomnia.
@@silyrabittrxr4kids5 Yeah, I've done this two nights in a row now. What the hell's wrong with me? I told my buddy the real definition of insanity is staying up past midnight on a work night, writing long arguments in defense of the Vikings for games they lost 50 years ago, in the comments of an 8 year old RUclips clip.
The ridiculous TV contracts that essentially keep the NFL flush with endless streams of revenue. have made all of this null and void now.
As a Vikings fan kid living smack dab between Milwaukee and Chicago in the 70s, the blackout rule worked great for me, as the Vikings were on tv just about every week.
You said exactly what I said about PR for the game being on TV. I hate the blackout rule now. I have the MLB and NBA package. I can't get the Home teams game on the MLB or NBA outlet until say 2 hours after game.
The blackout rule was so stupid.
All my loyal fan (OK, I do have more than one) know that yesterday I speculated as to whether Tex Schramm would turn down a request from CBS to buy tickets to a Cowboys game the way he turned down NBC in 1976. This video shows that Schramm was not in position to deny such a request from CBS, but he clearly didn’t want to do them any favors.
Wow imagine a Cowboy owner being petty and greedy🤠
Good for the Discount Store! Even if the Discount Store sold the tickets for $10, The Cowboys still got $12.50 per ticket.
And the Cowboys DID sell their tickets at full price. It was the store who Re-sold them at a discount rate.
The Result: Now the Championship tickets cost $500 instead of $12.50.
Explain the cheapening of that!
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I remember this game as a 16 year old . It was a good game, not great. Not nearly as exciting as the Divisional playoff game a week earlier between the Vikings and Redskins. And there was no "Big" controversy about this game that I remember hearing about. At most a minor issue.
The big controversy came 2 years later when Staubach threw the Hail Mary pass to Drew Pearson. A game I was at as a Vikings fan (paid $12 for the ticket.)
You mean the one where Drew Pearson clearly pushed off and a little later that official got hit in the head by a fan with a whiskey bottle? I still remember that and I was like 8 and I'm not even a Vikings fan.
Incredibly, NFL quarterbacks can underinflate game balls without consequences.
So... No one thought a discount store would sell items at a discount?
Ah, a simpler time...
Dallas would have given Miami a much better game.
I fell asleep halfway through the 3rd quarter in Super Bowl VIII.
But I guess looking back that was to be expected since the Minnesota Vikings were participating, the Super Bowl's version of the Washington Generals.😊
Washington generals do you mean the commanders
@@maplemiles3381 no. The Washington Generals would play the Harlem Globetrotters and get destroyed
@@maplemiles3381 Same difference
@@CTubeMan Actually, the Generals are much more honest. At least you know they're supposed to lose. 🤣
Tex was so wrong he was right haha. The difference now is the discount stores are selling the tickets for quadruple or more the value instead of at a discount hahaha.
"Gas went up 45%" sounds much worse than when you consider it was still .70 a gallon, lol. I clearly remember my mother saying to the gas attendant
$5 of Ethyl and it would almost full it up from empty. Me and my bro always laughed "who is Ethyl?"
I'm a pure capitalist. If you own something, you should be able to offer it for sale at any price you like, be it high or low. Because you OWN that thing. As a side note, yes Staubach and the Cowboys played terrible that day, but Roger and Tom never lost another playoff game to the Vikes after that.
So, what was the store's name? (And thank Mr. Mara for revenue sharing.)
Does it bother anyone that a multibillion dollar business can just call up congressmen and get what they want?
Do: 1. Decide what you want to show and say. 2. Do that.
Don't: 1: Ramble around, start, change course, backup up, ramble some more and make me stop watching and write this comment. And I was and still am a Dolphan.
Among the things you might buy to watch a big game while in department store, I was going to say ... a TV! But I was thinking big-screen, and then I remembered it was 1973 lol.
@ Jay Temple why buy anything just be a freeloader and stay at the store and watch on one of their display televisions. Grab a beer and chips sit on a sofa and kick up your feet I'm sure they wouldn't mind. Just tell them you are testing out the TV and you might buy it after the game 😂
They could get a 25" TV, which was huge back then! Maybe even upgrade to a color set. Being 56 years old I doubt a lot of people don't even know that if you were poor all you could afford was a black and white set.
Getting a color TV really was like being in Oz when Dorothy leaves the house!!!
A 25" color console television with a built in record player and stereo in the giant wooden cabinet........had one as a kid.....took up half a wall
The way I look at it, selling those tickets to the store was best for the future and growth of the Sport. First off, you sold the tickets. Secondly, the fans could watch the Game live on TV . If you think about it, they are promoting their game by having it watched on TV. I remember that time of long gas lines. I remember dad turned the car off and waited to move up a spot. I didn't know about economics at the time but I knew long gas lines was not good. Folks had to save money. I was told that I would get 1 gift for Christmas. I got more. A Bobby Hull Hockey Game, Racing Car set, an Electric Night Football game, many other gifts. It was hard times. Obtw, the Vikings I started following in 1972. My first playoff game watching on TV was against Washington in 1973. I actually saw this game live. I had a very good childhood watching football on Tv
Which discount stores bought the tickets?
The bottom line is that the store paid full price for the tickets so the NFL did not loose money on the tickets.
Based on these delightful highlights, the great Bobby Bryant was the MVP of this game, two interception, caused Jeff Semen's interception, and many passes defended.
Bryant was an all-world pitcher in college, better than team mate and future great major leaguer Geoff Zahn, drafted by the Yankees but they were cheap and he went to the NFL.
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I was only eight days old when this game was played.
I thought it was going to be about the "Hail Mary" by Staubach few years later.
Oh esteemed host, if you’re going to mention Burger King play the commercial!
The blackout rule was asinine
Great idea for the discount store. They have my congratulations. Tex Schramm was a scumball.
Suffering 😢Vikings fan for 52 years!
MIami defeated Oakland 27-10
Minnesota defeated Dallas 27-10
Miami defeated Minnesota 24-7
All three decided by 17 points
I totally understand where the Cowboys are coming from with this and the possible loss of revenue with the people not being there at the game, but you cannot get mad at the discount store at all. They used a loophole in the law, that every business exploits when they see loopholes, for their advantage as well as putting your game on tv which gave you publicity. This in itself may of not gave the Cowboys the money they wanted at the time, but probably more money down the road.
Your dollar beer night example doesn’t quite work. I know it’s minutiae, but a bar wouldn’t typically have a dollar beer night on a night when most people go to the bar, ie. Thursday - Saturday night, it would be on a Monday or Tuesday, so it’s not quite the same situation.
The CFL lost a generation of fans by blacking out games in the 70s and 80s. Attendance across the league plummeted due to lack of exposure. Only recently has owning a CFL team become a solid investment again. Toronto still struggles with crowds of 10,000 or less.
This dragged on so long I had to turn it to 1.5 speed.
9 year old me was at the game and remembered the controversy. As for stealing from Dallas and the NFL? Sorry, the economics of this makes zero sense. The team sold those tickets at full price. Anybody who bought them at $10 isn't getting a discount on parking or concessions, so the net loss to the team is zero. There's no guarantee that those 1400 seats, sold to the general public, would have all showed up either. Basically, as would be seen numerous times during his involvement with the team, Tex Schramm was a bit of an ass.
If Hank Hill bought the Dallas Cowboys from Jerry Jones he would not like this practice. But it's hard to tell if Jerry would approve of this practice.
I see absolutely nothing wrong with what the discount store did.
Cowboys lost because Calvin Hill and Bob Lilly was hurt. That could have caused ticket problem. Viking fan here never felt good about that gave Dallas excuse.
Sorry but I have no idea why Dallas would be upset. They got their tickets sold. The local fans got to watch the game either at home or live. I group of kids got a great experience, except for the Cowboys getting beat part. Fans who bought the cheaper tickets STILL spent money on parking, drinks, hot dogs, etc. Maybe even more if it was a larger group since they didn't spend as much on the actual tickets. I honestly see NOTHING for the Cowboys to be mad about.
If the NFL back then was so worried about something this small, on a overall level, they had much bigger problems than this.
Now, can you imagine someone today buying tickets and selling them at LESS THAN FACE VALUE????? It has became almost impossible to go to a game these days without a bank loan. I looked at a Chiefs- Chargers game this year and the tickets were about $600 each. That's before parking and anything you might need during a 3 hour game. It's unreal how much they charge. Especially since most team revenue comes from TV deals and name rights. This is why most MLB games are over half empty. The NFL is popular enough today that filling the stadium usually isn't an issue. That said, imagine if that family could still go and NOT need the bank.
Woe are the effing Cowboys. 😂
Hope they never win another NFC Championship.
The Cowboys are worth $8 billion. That's "billion" with a "B". I'm pretty sure they're perfectly happy with any and all opinions anybody has about them.
4 years later a Cowboys fan dressed as a snowman and this is no joke caught on fire
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A white cornerback? Thats a rarity ! 😂
Why didn't the Vikings have stripes on the sleeves of their jerseys?
From 1970-73 the Vikings had 2 sets of purple 💜 jerseys one with stripes on without ( which were worn for warmer weather games)
That was the VIkings i loved as a kid they looked badass then they became the violet queens they even ruined the helmet
The Vikings put a good ass kicking on the Cowboys that day
Similar to 1995 MLB the Indians had the best record and yet they played Game 1 of ALCS on the road vs the Mariners
Nothing worse than the undefeated Dolphins playing the AFC title game on the road in Pittsburgh in the winter.
@NJ CardFan That's why the Dolphins EARNED that undefeated season. Just like 1988 with the Dodgers had the 104 wins Mets hosted Game 1 of NLCS easily they couldve won the series
Actually this was bc in baseball they used to play the ds w the first 2 games being played at the lower seed while the final 3 would all be played at the higher seed. They figured 1 travel day was better than 2 back then.
@Richàrd Therichard Thats true and that how it was with LCS before they went from 5 to 7 in 1985. Also 1995 was the first season with the 8 teams format and didnt mind the 2-3 format for LDS
@@RetroJR3379 I never understood why MLB did that instead of a 2-2-1 format especially considering how important game 1 is. Of course the 1984 Cubs showed us that winning games 1 & 2 means nothing.
Then the Vikings got gobsmacked by the Dolphins as good a coach as Grant was he just could not come up with a decent game plan or motivate his players to even show up in four SB games .
They weren't anywhere near that surprised. Smacked, but not astonished by it.
The Vikings had some pretty terrible luck in who their Super Bowl opponents were. The Steel Curtain Era Steelers were probably the greatest team of all time, the 72-73 Dolphins not far behind. The Raiders were also consistently excellent during that time, and would probably have won more Super Bowls if Madden hadn't retired so young. Their best shot was probably their first one against the Chiefs, but c'mon Joe Kapp? If they hadn't stupidly sent Tarkenton to their AAA affiliate (NY Giants) for a few years, maybe they would have gotten that one.
Doesn't the cowboys still get their money with the store buying all the remaining tickets at face value and fans who rebought the tickets at discount (only hurting the store, not the cowboys) still attending the game, pay concessions and parking... the only losing risk is the discount store losing money on the tickets. The Cowboys still got their money... what's the problem?
but then again, the cowboys always plays the victim in everything.
LAND THE PLANE ALREADY!
Yeah so what. That is not the fans problem if that is a concern to the nfl. Screw the nfl if the game us shown on tv for the fans. The fans are most important.
Wow, so a game that they didn't even have the right to play at home was shown on TV because of a company buying tickets which were never going to be sold anyway, caused the Cowboys to lose.
This is the worse excuse for a controversy I have ever seen.
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Good Lord! You’ve made your videos even longer by dragging things out even farther by speaking slower!
Then don't watch.
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Here is the link to the Secret Base video that is mentioned earlier.
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