This here is one of my many favorite all time classic Cowboys football games. I remember this very well because I started the day out watching the Denver@ Buffalo game which was really good & topped it all off with this super classic. It was a great week of pro football for me.
I remember I watched on TV the Denver@Buffalo and when Joe Ferguson take a time out to stop the clock at 0:04, then Nick Mike-Mayer kick the winning FG Buffalo was playing great football that season!
@@CallAnExorcist_1 They sure were playing some great ball that year, just like the Cowboys were. Remember the Monday Night game between the Bills & Cowboys, too? I thought it was another classic game.
Great Game!!!!!!! A Classic Cowboy Victory!!!!!!! I've been a Cowboy fan since 1974....I've learned that no matter how bleak a situation may be in Life to Never give Up!!!!!!Go-Go-GO😀
NFL 1981 had a ton of great games all season. This one was one of the best. David Woodley, on his birthday, passing for 408 yards and 3 touchdown passes against Doomsday. Are you kidding me??? Woodley??? But, but, but ……..he also threw a whopping 5 interceptions, which kinda spoiled things for him and Miami. Both teams combined for 995 yards of total offense. Miami 529 total yards Dallas 466 total yards In his first two seasons as a starter, Danny White was pulling out comebacks just like Roger Staubach before him -----this game for example, and the 1980 playoff win in Atlanta 30-27 after trailing the Falcons 24-10 well into the third quarter. There were several others as well.
@Calvin Montague Dolphin defense on the field entire 2nd half and slowly getting worn down, yet still nearly won Super Bowl 17 all on their own. Bokamper literally had the Super Bowl in his hands until Theismann disrupted everything (barely) with a fingertip. UGHH !!! It was right there !!! If Bokamper scores, Dolphins go up 24-13. Ironically, the Redskins themselves made it into Super Bowl 17 by making the play Bokamper could not. In the 1982 NFC Championship 4th quarter Redskins lead Cowboys just 24-17 with Dallas beginning what could be a game tying drive, deep in their own territory. Hogeboom gets his pass tipped by Dexter Manley. Darryl Grant succeeds where Bokamper would fail and catches the deflection and rumbles into the end zone. Suddenly it's Washington 31 Dallas 17. Game over, just like that. Also, ironically, in the next Super Bowl, the Raiders defense would succeed against the Redskins everywhere the Dolphins failed. The Raiders would stuff Riggins on a key 4th and 1, unlike Miami. The Raiders would intercept Theismann deep in Redskin territory for an easy gift touchdown, unlike Miami/Bokamper the year before. Riggins 26 carries but for only 64 yards. Less than 2.5 yards a carry.
In Super Bowl XVII, I believe if Shula had benched Woodley after their first 2 drives of the 3rd quarter and put in Strock, the Dolphins could have won…maybe. Woodley was a gifted athlete, but had poor mechanics. He always waited a 1/2 second too long to release the ball.In the SB he just missed on 4 or 5 open receivers in the 3rd quarter. Shula also didn’t run Woodley enough, didn’t get him outside of the pocket. He didn’t get. Nathan involved enough. No screens, no draw plays out of the shotgun.
Mel Renfro went into the ROH this day, Danny White showed he is great and a GREAT Cowboys win, Walls had two picks. The next week they beat the eagles at the Vet (YAY, I was there) and we claimed first place and never let it go.
Very cool. I remember watching this Great game on TV in addition to the game vs the Eagles the following week. Both Exciting games. The missed PAT cost the Dolphins a chance to send the game into OT Go Cowboys!
Everson Walls 24 was a INTERCEPTION machine,Lots of loose COVERAGE on 24 part too that Micheal Downs 26 had too make lots of tackles in the SECONDARY. Dallas secondary was very good.
Watching these old games is special. Landry's play selection and defense was as good or better than any other coach. But, I guess the game passed him by shortly thereafter. Lack of talent and bad drafting luck couldn't have caused his demise.
AT&T is beautiful event palace in Arlington Texas, but Texas Stadium in Irving will always be home TRUE home Dallas Cowboys, Coach Tom Landry and a Rebirth with Coach Jimmy Johnson and New owner Jerry Jones 1989 rebuilding a team from the ashes together that would be the TEAM of the 1990's
I remember this game like it was yesterday. David Woodley torched the Cowboys for over 400 yards and the Dolphins had the game well in hand until the Cowboys engineered one of their patented 4th quarter comebacks. As a Dolphins fan, this was one of the most disappointing losses I ever watched, only topped by the later one that same year in the playoffs to the Chargers, which is in the shortlist of the greatest NFL games ever played.
It was a hard fought game between two great teams. But I'm not entirely sure Miami performs any better or is more competitive than San Diego was in that extremely cold AFCCG in Cincinnati. Dolphins "Killer Bees" defense might've made it a closer contest but Ken Anderson, at his best, could easily match or exceed Fouts Chargers aerial offensive circus plus he was deadly accurate. Sort of a proto-Joe Montana, of sorts. And he could be a tricky QB for even good defenses to figure out.
@@georgefernandez202 I also remember that game like it was yesterday. I'd say that was even a tougher loss (another late collapse) than the one to the Cowboys, just because it was to the Jets. Biggest remembrance of this game was the huge sign in the stands stating "Todd is God.'
Shula's Dolphins show respect and genuine concern for Dorsett when he goes out of bounds awkwardly. Now, you see someone standing over their opponent hoping that they are injured. Come on man !
Great memory. I was 11 years old and told my family that missed extra point would determine the game because they were rarely missed then. What do you know, that turned out to be correct.
Cowboys down 27-14, I had thought they had lost only to find out later that they won 28-27. I had to be gone for personal business and did not see the end.
The mainstream Cowboys haters always refer to that Thanksgiving Day game (the Leon Lett play) but they NEVER mention this game between Dallas and Miami! I['ll never forget this game my father was a Dolphins fan and he was rubbing it in when the Fish went up by 13 with 5 mins left and Danny White came up with BIG passing plays and the Dallas D made the plays to win the came and my father had to listen to me LAUGHING & RUBBING IT IN HIS FACE ABOUT THE CHOKE JOB HIS DOLPHINS DID! GO COWBOYS! DALLAS 'TIL I DIE!!!!
Thank you for upload this game, Classic Sports. Do you have any of these? 1981 Week 15 Packers vs Saints (Lynn Dickey 5 TDs) 1984 Week 7 Packers vs Broncos (Monday Night Football at Mile High in the snow) 1984 Week 11 Bears vs Rams (Walter Payton vs Eric Dickerson) 1986 Week 1 Dolphins vs Chargers (Marino vs Fouts) 1988 Week 8 Jets vs Dolphins (Marino 500 yards) Both Jets/Dolphins games from 1989 season 1990 Week 12 Colts vs Bengals (Jeff George vs Boomer Esiason) 1994 Week 4 Dolphins vs Vikings (Marino vs Moon)
You say the craziest things. This game might of been Woodley's best games statistically. Danny White was an outstanding QB. Three straight NFC Championship games is not good in your opinion? Danny's only crime was not having one of those games played in Dallas.
@@nymike06 Cowboys also had the bad luck of facing the Eagles in the 80 NFC Championship that took out 20 years of frustration on Dallas, then going back to back years on the road facing the emerging San Francisco and (Yes I think they were one too) Washington, dynasties. Danny White went toe to toe in NFC title games with one team (The Eagles) who were fanatically obsessed with beating Dallas, and two out of three teams (I would include the Giants as the third) who would form the apex of NFC and NFL power for the next decade until the Cowboys return to the top in 92.
This here is one of my many favorite all time classic Cowboys football games. I remember this very well because I started the day out watching the Denver@ Buffalo game which was really good & topped it all off with this super classic. It was a great week of pro football for me.
I remember I watched on TV the Denver@Buffalo and when Joe Ferguson take a time out to stop the clock at 0:04, then Nick Mike-Mayer kick the winning FG
Buffalo was playing great football that season!
@@CallAnExorcist_1 They sure were playing some great ball that year, just like the Cowboys were. Remember the Monday Night game between the Bills & Cowboys, too? I thought it was another classic game.
Tony Nathan's yards per carry average that season was stellar.
He was such a great player !!
Great Game!!!!!!!
A Classic Cowboy Victory!!!!!!!
I've been a Cowboy fan since 1974....I've learned that no matter how bleak a situation may be in Life to Never give Up!!!!!!Go-Go-GO😀
With Landry at the helm, yes.
That 81 Cowboys offense was awesome!
I agree.
I was 9 and I loved this team !! 1 play away from a super bowl ?? Broke my heart :(
NFL 1981 had a ton of great games all season. This one was one of the best. David Woodley, on his birthday, passing for 408 yards and 3 touchdown passes against Doomsday. Are you kidding me??? Woodley??? But, but, but ……..he also threw a whopping 5 interceptions, which kinda spoiled things for him and Miami. Both teams combined for 995 yards of total offense. Miami 529 total yards Dallas 466 total yards In his first two seasons as a starter, Danny White was pulling out comebacks just like Roger Staubach before him -----this game for example, and the 1980 playoff win in Atlanta 30-27 after trailing the Falcons 24-10 well into the third quarter. There were several others as well.
@Calvin Montague Dolphin defense on the field entire 2nd half and slowly getting worn down, yet still nearly won Super Bowl 17 all on their own. Bokamper literally had the Super Bowl in his hands until Theismann disrupted everything (barely) with a fingertip. UGHH !!!
It was right there !!! If Bokamper scores, Dolphins go up 24-13. Ironically, the Redskins themselves made it into Super Bowl 17 by making the play Bokamper could not. In the 1982 NFC Championship 4th quarter Redskins lead Cowboys just 24-17 with Dallas beginning what could be a game tying drive, deep in their own territory. Hogeboom gets his pass tipped by Dexter Manley. Darryl Grant succeeds where Bokamper would fail and catches the deflection and rumbles into the end zone. Suddenly it's Washington 31 Dallas 17. Game over, just like that.
Also, ironically, in the next Super Bowl, the Raiders defense would succeed against the Redskins everywhere the Dolphins failed. The Raiders would stuff Riggins on a key 4th and 1, unlike Miami. The Raiders would intercept Theismann deep in Redskin territory for an easy gift touchdown, unlike Miami/Bokamper the year before. Riggins 26 carries but for only 64 yards. Less than 2.5 yards a carry.
In Super Bowl XVII, I believe if Shula had benched Woodley after their first 2 drives of the 3rd quarter and put in Strock, the Dolphins could have won…maybe. Woodley was a gifted athlete, but had poor mechanics. He always waited a 1/2 second too long to release the ball.In the SB he just missed on 4 or 5 open receivers in the 3rd quarter. Shula also didn’t run Woodley enough, didn’t get him outside of the pocket. He didn’t get. Nathan involved enough. No screens, no draw plays out of the shotgun.
Mel Renfro went into the ROH this day, Danny White showed he is great and a GREAT Cowboys win, Walls had two picks. The next week they beat the eagles at the Vet (YAY, I was there) and we claimed first place and never let it go.
Very cool. I remember watching this Great game on TV in addition to the game vs the Eagles the following week.
Both Exciting games. The missed PAT cost the Dolphins a chance to send the game into OT Go Cowboys!
Until that gut wrenching loss to 49 era in NFC Championship
I was at this game. Thank you for uploading!
Everson Walls 24 was a INTERCEPTION machine,Lots of loose COVERAGE on 24 part too that Micheal Downs 26 had too make lots of tackles in the SECONDARY. Dallas secondary was very good.
Great game. Cefalo had blazing speed and quickness.
Watching these old games is special. Landry's play selection and defense was as good or better than any other coach. But, I guess the game passed him by shortly thereafter. Lack of talent and bad drafting luck couldn't have caused his demise.
Dick Enberg & Merlin Olsen, both RIP with the call 4 NBC!
White's touchdown pass to Ron Springs was into quadruple coverage!!
AT&T is beautiful event palace in Arlington Texas, but Texas Stadium in Irving will always be home TRUE home Dallas Cowboys, Coach Tom Landry and a Rebirth with Coach Jimmy Johnson and New owner Jerry Jones 1989 rebuilding a team from the ashes together that would be the TEAM of the 1990's
I remember this game like it was yesterday. David Woodley torched the Cowboys for over 400 yards and the Dolphins had the game well in hand until the Cowboys engineered one of their patented 4th quarter comebacks. As a Dolphins fan, this was one of the most disappointing losses I ever watched, only topped by the later one that same year in the playoffs to the Chargers, which is in the shortlist of the greatest NFL games ever played.
I'm with you, as a Dolphins fan having watched both games, feel exactly the same way. Two great games though.
The Jets game at Shea that year was also heartbreaking, with Todd broken ribs and all throwing a TD to Jerome Barkome for a 16-15 ending.
You all still have the 72’ undefeated Dolphins...
It was a hard fought game between two great teams. But I'm not entirely sure Miami performs any better or is more competitive than San Diego was in that extremely cold AFCCG in Cincinnati. Dolphins "Killer Bees" defense might've made it a closer contest but Ken Anderson, at his best, could easily match or exceed Fouts Chargers aerial offensive circus plus he was deadly accurate. Sort of a proto-Joe Montana, of sorts. And he could be a tricky QB for even good defenses to figure out.
@@georgefernandez202 I also remember that game like it was yesterday. I'd say that was even a tougher loss (another late collapse) than the one to the Cowboys, just because it was to the Jets. Biggest remembrance of this game was the huge sign in the stands stating "Todd is God.'
I really miss the Dolphins old uniforms and helmets...sometimes newer isn't better...just my opinion.
Shula's Dolphins show respect and genuine concern for Dorsett when he goes out of bounds awkwardly. Now, you see someone standing over their opponent hoping that they are injured. Come on man !
Drew Pearson should be in the NFL hall of fame.
Well Drew Pearson finally got some justice. He will be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame now.
He is.
Miami Dolphins 🐬 never been the same since Don Shula and Qb. Dan Marino's retirements. Shula/ Landry both HOF coach's.
They haven't been the same since 72. Garbage franchise!
RIP Ron Springs
He's been dead almost 10 years now.
I remember this game..I was a cowboy fan back in the day..
Me too !! As a kid from Boston I loved the late 70's early 80's version of the cowboys
Great memory. I was 11 years old and told my family that missed extra point would determine the game because they were rarely missed then. What do you know, that turned out to be correct.
everson walls should be in the ROH
Love these games, no dancing or all the look at me crap in today’s game!!
I was 10 when watching this. Wacky fourth quarter. Two of the best in the NFL. Dallas made one more play than Miami.
The Cowboys last win over the Dolphins until 1996.
Cowboys down 27-14, I had thought they had lost only to find out later that they won 28-27. I had to be gone for personal business and did not see the end.
Why is the picture framing so odd?
I know, it's horrible to try and watch.
The Cowboys did everything they could to hand this game to Miami on a silver platter. David Woodley handed it back to them.
The mainstream Cowboys haters always refer to that Thanksgiving Day game (the Leon Lett play) but they NEVER mention this game between Dallas and Miami! I['ll never forget this game my father was a Dolphins fan and he was rubbing it in when the Fish went up by 13 with 5 mins left and Danny White came up with BIG passing plays and the Dallas D made the plays to win the came and my father had to listen to me LAUGHING & RUBBING IT IN HIS FACE ABOUT THE CHOKE JOB HIS DOLPHINS DID! GO COWBOYS! DALLAS 'TIL I DIE!!!!
So I'm guessing your Father laid it on pretty thick when the Dolphins ended the Cowboys season in 1984
This happened 40 years ago to the day today. 🤣
Yep, and I was 17 at the time...My, how time flies..
Thank you for upload this game, Classic Sports. Do you have any of these?
1981 Week 15 Packers vs Saints (Lynn Dickey 5 TDs)
1984 Week 7 Packers vs Broncos (Monday Night Football at Mile High in the snow)
1984 Week 11 Bears vs Rams (Walter Payton vs Eric Dickerson)
1986 Week 1 Dolphins vs Chargers (Marino vs Fouts)
1988 Week 8 Jets vs Dolphins (Marino 500 yards)
Both Jets/Dolphins games from 1989 season
1990 Week 12 Colts vs Bengals (Jeff George vs Boomer Esiason)
1994 Week 4 Dolphins vs Vikings (Marino vs Moon)
Woodly shit the bed in the last 6 minutes
Everything Woodley was throwing up in that 4th quarter was either complete to one of his guys or to the Dallas secondary.
Great game
Danny White was pretty damn good
when a team has more weapons than you.
Clasicc victory cowboys.
Why is Miami throwing the ball with 3 minutes left?
Strock should have been the starting quarterback. During 81 season. Poor Danny. Never went anywhere.
You say the craziest things. This game might of been Woodley's best games statistically. Danny White was an outstanding QB. Three straight NFC Championship games is not good in your opinion?
Danny's only crime was not having one of those games played in Dallas.
@@nymike06 Yeah, if Dallas could have played one of them at home. Odds are his career would have a different ending.
@@rawisdanHome field advantage back then was monumental.
@GIL Favor I said Danny White lead the Cowboys to three straight NFC Championship games. The Cowboys are in the NFC.
@@nymike06
Cowboys also had the bad luck of facing the Eagles in the 80 NFC Championship that took out 20 years of frustration on Dallas, then
going back to back years on the road facing the emerging San Francisco and (Yes I think they were one too) Washington, dynasties.
Danny White went toe to toe in NFC title games with one team (The Eagles) who were fanatically obsessed with beating Dallas, and two
out of three teams (I would include the Giants as the third) who would form the apex of NFC and NFL power for the next decade until the
Cowboys return to the top in 92.
Those int's were terrible for Miami.
17:30 Crap effort by Mike Hegman. He looks tired out there. He's moving like he's got cement blocks for feet.