The MVP of the Super Bowl would always receive a car well when Harvey Martin and Randy White were named Co-MVPs of Super Bowl 12 there was the question of who was going to get the car and the next day someone on Dallas radio said that they were both going to grab a hold of the car and rip it in half lol. The car company wound up giving each of them a car.
The Broncos fate laid in the hands of a defense called Doomsday. And Doomsday measured them for defeat. 8 turnovers Morton and then Weese could do nothing to stop the slaughter.
Oakland vs Dallas would have been a truly classic Super Bowl 💎 ( coming from Minnesota Vikes fan ) ...I’m almost 58 and remember these wonderful times indeed 🏈✌️
Crazy Ray RIP. The man was a legend. He dressed different when he went to Ranger games. He had a tall stove pipe hat with a faucet coming out the front. When someone was the least suspecting, he would cause water to shoot out of it! I loved the man!
A poem read by John Facenda at 18:32 ..."As the fourth period began, Denver's determined offense still needed more restoration work from Norris Weese... what it got instead was a demolition job from the Doomsday Defense".
Doomsday in the super dome sounds like a monster movie back in the 60s & 70s There was so much drama & suspense that they have not been able to replicate .I am so glad I was born in the 60s and lived thru these events .
+Giovanni San José Exactly! well said. The Vikings D Line was one of the best. Alan Page, along with Randy White and "Mean" Joe Greene was probably the best defensive tackles in Football in that era. I just couldn't understand why in the super bowls the Vikings played in, the Dline wasn't at their best. It just baffles me. Seemed like in those super bowls ,they were just dominated. I am aware that they played against great,great offensive lines but you would think they would have played better than they did.
Actually kind of remarkable that the Broncos turned the ball over 6 TIMES in the FIRST HALF and only trailed 13-0. Orange Crush kept it from being a blowout.
complete agreement, might be the best two minutes ever in a facenda narration, and it was everything you said. music, etc. I loved, "A streetcar named desire once ran here in New Orleans, and it suddenly seemed as if the Broncos offense had found it"
I love the fact you didn’t ironically use heck. The broncos really need to bring these uniforms back, just like how the patriots should have the minuteman jerseys (I’m a pats fan in NY)
But weren't those uniforms kina unlucky in the Super Bowl? They got their ass kicked every time the wore em. Not that I'm superstitious. But I am a little stitious.
you don't want to start that at 17:50? "A streetcar named desire once ran here in New Orleans. And it suddenly seemed as if the Broncos offense had found it."
Interesting that it was the first super bowl for a lot of people. It was like Super Bowl '101'...:) I remember it had a 'feel good' quality, and seemed like it was totally the Cowboys day. Hard to believe that the superbowl between the Cowboys and Steelers was only a year away. It seemed like an eternity between the two super bowls. This was fun and up-beat; the Steelers-Cowboys again the following year was epic and bigger then life.
Me 2. Drew Pearson and Harvey Martin belong in the H.O.F. Martin had more sacks in this season than Strahan's record. He was the ultimate sack master. They just didn't count that as a stat back then. A real shame.
I’m not a Cowboys fan, but I saw a lot of their games on tv that season. You can easily make a case that they were one of 5 greatest teams of all time. Their dominance on offense and defense was staggering. Look at all the mistakes they made in the Super Bowl and still blew the Broncos out.
You don't think the 90s Cowboys were Badass? I think they were better than the 70s Cowboys. The 90s Cowboys were a straight up power team with a great defense. Had to be in a division with the Giants and the Eagles
The first Super Bowl to be played Indoors. Super Bowl IX would have been the first to have been played indoors, but the Louisiana Superdome didn't open until the beginning of the 1975 season
IX was actually scheduled to have been played at the Superdome had it been completed on time, but, because it was incomplete, the NFL had no choice but to move IX to Tulane Stadium and IX was played in some of the worst conditions ever seen for a Super Bowl with a game time temperature of 46 degrees and because the Superdome was incomplete, it was for that reason alone that the NFL implemented the rule that does not allow a stadium to host the Super Bowl in said stadiums first year of operation and the crazy part of this is that Joe Robbie, who was the owner of the Miami Dolphins at the time, he lobbied the NFL to move IX to the Orange Bowl in Miami and give New Orleans Super Bowl X, but, the NFL declined to do so.
This was probably the first Super Bowl I had to mostly miss. My sister was moving out of town for a job and we drove along to help her get moved. I got back home to see about the last 10 minutes. It was better played than the previous 50.
I mean, they weren't exactly offensive juggernauts. The Bears averaged 18.2 ppg, which was mediocre even before the 1978 passing rule changes. The Vikings averaged just 16.5 ppg. Amazing how these were playoff teams with such shoddy offensive play. Denver went 12-2 averaging just 19.5 ppg. So compared to Baltimore in 2000, which shut down a Raiders team that scored 479 points (30 ppg), a Broncos team that scored 485 points (30.3 ppg), and the Titans that scored a respectable 346 points (21.6 ppg), it's not even comparable.
It was fiercefully fought, but frightfully flawed. Also: Just as if the Broncos would drown, the sea parted. And through it ran 85, Rick Upchurch. So awesome John Facienda was man.
Years later, Tom Jackson remarked on that game and said their defense against Dallas was actually pretty remarkable. With Denver’s offense giving up 8 turnovers, 27 points is pretty decent.... especially when you consider Butch Johnson’s ‘catch’ on 3rd and ten... If the refs call that an incompleted pass, the game changes quite a bit...
The play was correctly ruled a TD at time because he caught it, broke plane of end zone and ground caused the ball to pop out after the score. Rules were changed throughout the 80s and 90s but it was a TD following rules in 78'.
Yes. I wish they'd go back to the old rules. Today's "process of the catch" rule is only there because it CAN BE. Not because it makes the game better. It's only written because of today's super digital replay. Such a rule couldn't have been enforced under the old conventional slo- mo replay. I.E. slightly blurry but still good enough for most catches, tackles or spots.
The Greatest NFL film of all time. You can feel the emotion, the theatre, the action and Tom Landry's smile. I watched this game live and it was just as gutwrenching as John Facenda's immortal voice made it sound like. Perhaps the greatest Superbowl ever played. Landry was both offensive and defensive coordinator. His ability to adjust is unparalleled to this day. Roger's performance, Harvey Martin, maybe the least talented secondary ever in a S.B. I give alot of credit to Larry Cole, should be in the R.O.H. He was the stalwart of this team. The lunchpail guy understood the flex and really when he retired the flex died.
Denver's defense played very well in that SB, considering. IMO the best pass Staubach threw was a pump-action completion to Dupree (which became a fumble) at the Bronco 12 yard line. That pass was a dart.
The Fullback pass to close the scoring was one of the most legendary kill shots in NFL history. On a side note on an episode of All in The Family, when Archie Bunker had bought the bar had a Super Bowl party for this particular Super Bowl. When the game was over the bar got held up in an absolutely hilarious episode. Just had to throw that nugget out there😂
All I remember from this game was that I was only 8 and not really into football yet, but the song Winners by Sinatra played at the closing credits. My first 'true' Super Bowl was the next one against Pitt, and little did I know that I would wait 14 years before Boys made it back to Super Sunday.
+George Vreeland Hill best nicknames all time for NFL defenses 1.) "Doomsday" (dallas) 2.) "Steel Curtain" (Steelers) 3.) "Purple People Eaters" (Vikings) 4.) "The No Names" (Dolphins) 5.) "Boltergeist" (Chargers)
+Mc Bragg Nope, not from sand diego. and yes the mid-90's chargers when they had Seau and Harrison were nicknamed boltergeist. Forgot about NY Sack exchange though. Klecko and Gastineau, that was a good one also!
The best season of my youth with my favorite player at QB. I remember thinking during the game that Butch didn’t make that catch but when the Ref ruled it a TD, I wasn’t arguing! And my favorite WR caught a TD in that game, Golden Richards. Very underrated WR. #DC4L
I watched part of this game in a restaurant while having dinner. I remember it for two reasons. One, that it was blowout, and two, when I returned home my apartment had been burglarized.
The Cowboys have the 3 most turnover filled games in Super Bowl history. -Super Bowl V they turned The Colts over 7 times. -Super Bowl XII turned The Broncos over 8 times -Super Bowl XXVII turned The Bills over 9 times
plus they are the first team to have a defensive player named MVP the first LOSING team to have the game MVP the only team so far to hold an opponent without a touchdown in the SB the only team to have 2 players named co-MVP and if it wasn't for Lett's idiocy and Beebe's hustle, they'd have the scoring record too
22steve5150 It really is two teams that have lost the Super Bowl and have had one of their players voted MVP. Chuck Howley for the Cowboys in SB V and 20 years later Buffalo's Thurman Thomas was the true MVP of SB XXV. Otis Anderson was just the Giants MVP.
I agree. There will never be another John Facenda. His voice was perfect for NFL football narration but I wonder whether someone else actually wrote the words.
The 3-4 wasn't a widley used D at the time. I think only Shulas Dolphins were the only other team to use it, but Shula didn't use it as a blitz package the way the Broncos did.
@@petergarcia589 Denver went to it the year before because so many of their defensive lineman were hurt, most notably Lyle Alzado, and they stuck with it because they had such talented linebackers.
The guy in the sport coat at 22:54 who hoists Landry on his shoulder while a Cowboy player hoists him on his shoulder was a fan who sneaked onto the field. He was a professional gatecrasher named Dion Rich.
This has to be one of the most viewed videos of football. I have to say, this Cowboy time of this era, was one of the most impressive football teams ever. I love the part of when the fourth period begins at 18:34, it just makes my day.
John Facenda is the best narrator ever. He did the narration for all the highlights up through 18: if you listen to that one, his voice is different because he's dying of cancer. But he still had a great line or two.
Even in his last one, he sounded great to me. They turned out the lights. Marcus Allen running with the night. Might as well die with your boots on are a few great lines😂
Like Super Bowl V, this was one of those games where you wonder how two top teams could be so sloppy early on with fumbles, INTs, etc. Dallas eventually righted its ship, Denver wasn't able to. Of note: Morton didn't practice at all in the week before the AFC Championship game; he made it through the game with Oakland, but was probably not near 100% for the SB.
Sometimes I wonder if in games like that, the problem is that the coaches, knowing that the other team has a full season of game tape on their tendencies and best plays, tries to get a little too cute with their game plan, coming in with a lot of plays that the team hasn't practiced all that much in hopes of catching the opponent off guard and it leads to more mistakes than normal. Or maybe it's just nerves.
This game has always seemed to me like the arrival of the modern era of the NFL. It looks very much like today's game, it was even played in a venue that still hosts Super Bowls to this day. Compare it to the game 10 years earlier, SBII looks pretty ancient in comparison. Packers and Raiders, champions of two separate leagues with things like the goal posts still located on the goal line. Go back even another 10 years and you see the "Greatest game ever played" between the Colts and Giants in 1958, featuring the old NFL with just 12 teams...totally ancient history. Super Bowl XII was almost 40 years ago, but it seems like a time where the changes really started to slow down and the NFL game settled into its modern form.
I hated the Cowboys in the 70's and 80's. I know I was probably the biggest Cowboys hater in the world lol. But with years gone by. There was no team I respected more than the Cowboys. Tom Landry was a genius. Best coach in NFL history in my opinion and thats coming from a Big Dallas Cowboys hater lol.
+MICOLE WHYTE Yes the Rams did dominate the NFC West Division in the 70's but not the 80's. Man it was just how a lot of people I knew loved the Cowboys and talked liked they were the best thing since sliced bread lol. Along with how the media just called them "America's Team". But like I said , I respect the Cowboys of the 70's. They were one of the best, hands down. I can't believe that Drew Pearson is not in the hall of fame!
RedElephantStampede But whether Butch Johnson actually had possession of the ball throughout the process of the catch is a controversy that exists to this day. That's probably what Turner and some of the other Bronco players were complaining about. He was in the air when he grabbed it, but almost as soon as he hit the ground, it popped loose. My guess is that the officials believed he "rolled the ball", like you would a pair of dice, and thought he had it long enough, though doubts persist to whether that was actually the case. But it was par for the course on that particular day for the single greatest moment of that game to be shrouded in controversy, because nothing else that happened on that day was particularly good at all, including 10 fumbles (6 of them lost), 10 turnovers, and 20 assessed penalties.
I see that play every year in the lead up to every Super Bowl, and even slowed down, I can't even tell if he had it long enough (throughout the entire process of the catch). The only ones that counted, the officials who called the play, said he had it long enough, and that's al that really matters. But if that play happens today, it's called back. It's that close. But for that game's greatest moment to be controversial just falls in line with how that entire game went, because the rest of it was UGLY.
***** . Butch Johnson had possession of the ball in mid air as he crossed the goal line. When he landed he let the football lay but that means squat because it was a TD as soon as he crossed the plane.
I saw it firsthand. Dad was stationed at Lowry AFB in Denver from 1975 to 1977. We moved overseas before this season started. The Broncos fans were and still are that fanatical.
There's footage showing John Facenda trying to decide with Steve Sabol what the right line was for "it was fiercely fought, but frightfully flawed". If you find a bio of Facenda it will have this clip.
If U ever get the chance to post the version of _Men of Harlech_ that NFL Films used in this, I'd be grateful. Your videos are wonderful btw. I remember watching these in the early-mid '90s and they got me hooked on Football through Steve Sabol, John Facenda, and the music (Sam Spence & others) they used to evoke the human drama.
I read a story some years ago that that last touchdown pass by Robert Newhouse almost didn't happen. He thought he was going to be running out the clock by running the ball, and so he spread copious amounts of Stick-um on his hands so as not to fumble the ball. When he got word of the halfback pass that was to be called, he reportedly panicked on the sideline and began trying to lick the stuff off his hands. Bad result for my favorite team, good for the Cowboys.
The 1977 Cowboys never trailed in the post season. There a very few teams that can say that. Even the 85 Bears trailed 3-0 to New England in the Super Bowl.
I wish the 77 Cowboys would have played the Steelers in the Superbowl I think they would have beat them! Cowboys were fantastic that year! I only saw the old filmes by the way I was a baby in 77 lol
I'm not a fan of either of these teams ever but that part that starts at 16:20 where "The sea parted and through it came number 80 Rick Upchurch" will just send a shiver up your spine. It's magical.
Just had a thought. Was the two completions from Norris Weese to Jack Dolbin the only WFL player to WFL player pass/catch combination in the Super Bowl?
elwin38 Yeah, there's that of coarse but, I thought it was interesting to find out that there's another person out there who was born the same year as myself, and became a die hard fan of a NFL franchise at the same age 38 years ago. And, those two different franchises would play each other in the Super Bowl later that same year. It's like we are living parallel lives, or something. Where one person becomes a Denver Broncos fan, and the other becomes a Dallas Cowboys fan. Freaky man.
Its amazing how rule changes affect the game. Two of those first half bronco turnovers would be ruled incomplete today. And the Butch Johnson td would be incomplete as well. He didnt finish the catch.
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"Denver's offense was handing out gifts like a department store Santa Claus."
I miss John Facenda. Best narrator ever.
Denton Young I know, he has soooo many quotes, plus he has that voice👍🏾
Lol great voice too
Best voice ever. I don't even like to watch NFL films not narrated by him
@@encyclopediaamericana7234 IKR. Whoever that new guy is sucks.
All NFL fans do
"What they got, was a demolition job by the DOOMSDAY defense." Still gives me chills down my back, when I hear that. Even after all these years.
Exactly!!! Every now and then, I watch just that section for motivation! 🔥
I like the music when the annocouncer said that
When they put their hands down it was on
The MVP of the Super Bowl would always receive a car well when Harvey Martin and Randy White were named Co-MVPs of Super Bowl 12 there was the question of who was going to get the car and the next day someone on Dallas radio said that they were both going to grab a hold of the car and rip it in half lol. The car company wound up giving each of them a car.
The Broncos fate laid in the hands of a defense called Doomsday. And Doomsday measured them for defeat. 8 turnovers Morton and then Weese could do nothing to stop the slaughter.
Oakland vs Dallas would have been a truly classic Super Bowl 💎 ( coming from Minnesota Vikes fan ) ...I’m almost 58 and remember these wonderful times indeed 🏈✌️
How did Denver get past Oakland raiders & Pittsburgh steelers
The soundtrack is beyond awesome.
Beeeeeyond!!
I know, its so good!
Steelers cowboys super bowl 13
Sam spence whom the nfl fd over btw
Hear! Hear!
The Cowboys of the 70s Roger Staubach the Great leader and champion for all Time
Just think what Roger's Naval career would've been had he chosen that instead.
I like how Crazy Ray was wiping the sweat off his brow with a Bronco banner lol
Crazy Ray is a Legend in Dallas. Jerry Bought his ticket to the '92 Superbowl. Maybe the greatest class the man ever showed.
Crazy Ray RIP. The man was a legend. He dressed different when he went to Ranger games. He had a tall stove pipe hat with a faucet coming out the front. When someone was the least suspecting, he would cause water to shoot out of it! I loved the man!
One of the best defenses in NFL History and also the best Nickname, i mean it doesn't get better than "Doomsday defense".
Doomsday??? Doomsday??? Are you joking??? Go ask the Mighty Pittsburgh Steelers Offense if the dallas cowboys had a doomsday defense. HAHAHA HAHAHA I
@@tryingtolearn2876i agree , they had terry Bradshaw, rocky blier , lynn swann and fred swearingen .
@haunt6dfilmd • Except against the STEEL CURTAIN
A poem read by John Facenda at 18:32 ..."As the fourth period began, Denver's determined offense still needed more restoration work from Norris Weese... what it got instead was a demolition job from the Doomsday Defense".
Doomsday in the super dome sounds like a monster movie back in the 60s & 70s There was so much drama & suspense that they have not been able to replicate .I am so glad I was born in the 60s and lived thru these events .
Robert Newhouse, the short stocky fullback became a quarterback and launched a perfect spiral of a pass and sealed the victory. RIP # 44 😊 🏈
Robert Newhouse, a team player all the way. RIP.
Randy White was a beast! Best defensive tackle in history and the star of this game .
+Chad Clement 2nd best defensive line in the 70's. 1st, the Steelers
+Stallion67 what about the Vikings d line tho?
+Giovanni San José Exactly! well said. The Vikings D Line was one of the best. Alan Page, along with Randy White and "Mean" Joe Greene was probably the best defensive tackles in Football in that era. I just couldn't understand why in the super bowls the Vikings played in, the Dline wasn't at their best. It just baffles me. Seemed like in those super bowls ,they were just dominated. I am aware that they played against great,great offensive lines but you would think they would have played better than they did.
The offense lines of the opponents being bigger was a significant factor.
Randy White was great but not better than the likes of Merlin Olsen or Bob Lilly.
Actually kind of remarkable that the Broncos turned the ball over 6 TIMES in the FIRST HALF and only trailed 13-0. Orange Crush kept it from being a blowout.
Yes this SB was for the Brocos what IX was for the Vikings. Both offenses were terrible but both losing team's defenses played well.
The Broncos easily had one of the three best defenses in the league that year. They just plain sucked on offense.
The 16:00-18:15 minute mark is NFL Films at its finest. Facenda, his phraseology, music, slow motion etc. A home run on every level.
complete agreement, might be the best two minutes ever in a facenda narration, and it was everything you said. music, etc. I loved, "A streetcar named desire once ran here in New Orleans, and it suddenly seemed as if the Broncos offense had found it"
This was PK Jim Turner's second super bowl appearance. He was in super bowl III with the NY Jets upset of the heavy favorite Baltimore colts.
Tom Landry's Dallas Cowboys "Doomsday Defense" vs Red Miller's Denver Broncos "Orange Crush Defense"!
Cody Minor and the next year Dallas would face the Steele Curtain!
I read about this Superbowl in a book, but nothing truly compares to actually watching it, I wasn't even thought about when this Superbowl happen.
Broncos need to go back to these uniforms in their entirety. They were sharp looking as heck
I love the fact you didn’t ironically use heck. The broncos really need to bring these uniforms back, just like how the patriots should have the minuteman jerseys (I’m a pats fan in NY)
I'm a Cowboys and I agree with you. The Orange Crush was legendary.
But weren't those uniforms kina unlucky in the Super Bowl? They got their ass kicked every time the wore em. Not that I'm superstitious. But I am a little stitious.
Ha ha 😃🤙🏈🍺 Exactly..But I agree that both teams former unis.. were better..😁👍👍👍🤙🏈🍺@@stephaniegormley9982
The first super bowl I watched, music is good.
Yep I was born in 1970 fell asleep in the 4th lol Cowboys for life
John Facenda at his absolute BEST!! 18:20 to 20:30
+Orlando Tragic John Facenda has the best voice in the world.
Epic!
you don't want to start that at 17:50? "A streetcar named desire once ran here in New Orleans. And it suddenly seemed as if the Broncos offense had found it."
#truth
The Broncos left out gifts like a department-store Santa Claus. And the Cowboys gratefully scooped up the goodies.
This was the first super bowl I ever watched. I was around 8 years old. When Dorsett scored that first touchdown I knew the Cowboys would win.
mikem987 Funny, this the first Super Bowl that I watched as well. I was 9 years old at the time.
+mikem987 -- Same here -- first Super Bowl I ever watched. We must be around the same age.
Interesting that it was the first super bowl for a lot of people. It was like Super Bowl '101'...:) I remember it had a 'feel good' quality, and seemed like it was totally the Cowboys day. Hard to believe that the superbowl between the Cowboys and Steelers was only a year away. It seemed like an eternity between the two super bowls. This was fun and up-beat; the Steelers-Cowboys again the following year was epic and bigger then life.
Mine too i was 9yrs. Old im 50 now.and Dorsett is my all time favorite player
Me 2. Drew Pearson and Harvey Martin belong in the H.O.F. Martin had more sacks in this season than Strahan's record. He was the ultimate sack master. They just didn't count that as a stat back then. A real shame.
I’m not a Cowboys fan, but I saw a lot of their games on tv that season. You can easily make a case that they were one of 5 greatest teams of all time. Their dominance on offense and defense was staggering. Look at all the mistakes they made in the Super Bowl and still blew the Broncos out.
that Cowboy/Steeler Superbowl the next year was still one of the best in my opinon-2 great teams littered with future Hall of Famers...
How can you not get pumped after watching Doomsday in action with that soundtrack? Films like this should be shown to the team before every game.
I watch this before I play Madden online. Can't believe coach Landry's playbook isn't in the game. Just makes me sick.
@@petergarcia589 Well, Nobody can teach Landry's offense.
I'm a Texan but this was when the Cowboys were badass
You don't think the 90s Cowboys were Badass? I think they were better than the 70s Cowboys. The 90s Cowboys were a straight up power team with a great defense. Had to be in a division with the Giants and the Eagles
"It was fiercely fought but frightfully flawed!"
I love his narration.
As a Broncos fan back then watching 18:23-18:40 always gives me a lift, how the fans loved that team no matter what!!
God bless you Verne Lundquist for all the great calls you gave us throughout the years. We miss you, I know I do.
Did he pass away last year? 😮
@@brandonmorris9889 No he just retired from calling the games
he called SEC college games for cbs for years after his days with the cowboys
The first Super Bowl to be played Indoors. Super Bowl IX would have been the first to have been played indoors, but the Louisiana Superdome didn't open until the beginning of the 1975 season
IX was actually scheduled to have been played at the Superdome had it been completed on time, but, because it was incomplete, the NFL had no choice but to move IX to Tulane Stadium and IX was played in some of the worst conditions ever seen for a Super Bowl with a game time temperature of 46 degrees and because the Superdome was incomplete, it was for that reason alone that the NFL implemented the rule that does not allow a stadium to host the Super Bowl in said stadiums first year of operation and the crazy part of this is that Joe Robbie, who was the owner of the Miami Dolphins at the time, he lobbied the NFL to move IX to the Orange Bowl in Miami and give New Orleans Super Bowl X, but, the NFL declined to do so.
Mel Renfro's last game.
elwin38 didn’t know that
Hall of Famer Mel Renfro
Too bad. The Cowboys could of used Mel in Super Bowl XIII
In 1977 he wasn't a starter anymore
This was probably the first Super Bowl I had to mostly miss. My sister was moving out of town for a job and we drove along to help her get moved. I got back home to see about the last 10 minutes. It was better played than the previous 50.
Shut up liar
I remember that season vividly. Denver was the promised child all year......until DOOMSDAY struck!!!!!!
Dave The Ammo Psycho same here, I was sick and tired of all the orange crush hype.
Midnight
22:09 That quote from Jim Turner has always stuck with me.
My man Staubach!
Cowboys were amazingly dominant, gave up 2 touchdowns in 3 playoff games. Doomsday to the MAX!💪
I mean, they weren't exactly offensive juggernauts. The Bears averaged 18.2 ppg, which was mediocre even before the 1978 passing rule changes. The Vikings averaged just 16.5 ppg. Amazing how these were playoff teams with such shoddy offensive play. Denver went 12-2 averaging just 19.5 ppg. So compared to Baltimore in 2000, which shut down a Raiders team that scored 479 points (30 ppg), a Broncos team that scored 485 points (30.3 ppg), and the Titans that scored a respectable 346 points (21.6 ppg), it's not even comparable.
What it got instead was a demolition job from the Doomsday Defense. Coolest thing ever.
I agree raiders cowboys would have been better with all those great teams in the 70 s it's hard to believe that super bowl never happened
It was fiercefully fought, but frightfully flawed.
Also: Just as if the Broncos would drown, the sea parted. And through it ran 85, Rick Upchurch. So awesome John Facienda was man.
If you can't block, your offense will struggle. Denver lost this game at the line of scrimmage.
If not for that missed fumble call by Lytle late in the AFC Championship Game, the Raiders would have made this Super Bowl..
The music made that scene.
Years later, Tom Jackson remarked on that game and said their defense against Dallas was actually pretty remarkable.
With Denver’s offense giving up 8 turnovers, 27 points is pretty decent.... especially when you consider Butch Johnson’s ‘catch’ on 3rd and ten... If the refs call that an incompleted pass, the game changes quite a bit...
That was an incomplete pass, watch Butch he knows it.
Is it incomplete now yes. Back then he had possession of the ball crossing the goal line and that is all you had to have. Touchdown.
That great catch by Butch Johnson probably would have been ruled incomplete in today's game.
Not probably. Definitely. But it was a sensational catch.
The play was correctly ruled a TD at time because he caught it, broke plane of end zone and ground caused the ball to pop out after the score. Rules were changed throughout the 80s and 90s but it was a TD following rules in 78'.
Yes. I wish they'd go back to the old rules. Today's "process of the catch" rule is only there because it CAN BE. Not because it makes the game better. It's only written because of today's super digital replay. Such a rule couldn't have been enforced under the old conventional slo- mo replay. I.E. slightly blurry but still good enough for most catches, tackles or spots.
The Greatest NFL film of all time. You can feel the emotion, the theatre, the action and Tom Landry's smile. I watched this game live and it was just as gutwrenching as John Facenda's immortal voice made it sound like. Perhaps the greatest Superbowl ever played. Landry was both offensive and defensive coordinator. His ability to adjust is unparalleled to this day. Roger's performance, Harvey Martin, maybe the least talented secondary ever in a S.B. I give alot of credit to Larry Cole, should be in the R.O.H. He was the stalwart of this team. The lunchpail guy understood the flex and really when he retired the flex died.
Denver's defense played very well in that SB, considering. IMO the best pass Staubach threw was a pump-action completion to Dupree (which became a fumble) at the Bronco 12 yard line. That pass was a dart.
The Fullback pass to close the scoring was one of the most legendary kill shots in NFL history. On a side note on an episode of All in The Family, when Archie Bunker had bought the bar had a Super Bowl party for this particular Super Bowl. When the game was over the bar got held up in an absolutely hilarious episode. Just had to throw that nugget out there😂
All I remember from this game was that I was only 8 and not really into football yet, but the song Winners by Sinatra played at the closing credits.
My first 'true' Super Bowl was the next one against Pitt, and little did I know that I would wait 14 years before Boys made it back to Super Sunday.
I love the music when the Doomsday in the Dome text comes on.
Matt Eshelman yup it’s awesome
Doomsday is the best name ever.
awesome nickname
+George Vreeland Hill
best nicknames all time for NFL defenses
1.) "Doomsday" (dallas)
2.) "Steel Curtain" (Steelers)
3.) "Purple People Eaters" (Vikings)
4.) "The No Names" (Dolphins)
5.) "Boltergeist" (Chargers)
6.)killer bees (Dolphins)
+Mc Bragg Nope, not from sand diego. and yes the mid-90's chargers when they had Seau and Harrison were nicknamed boltergeist. Forgot about NY Sack exchange though. Klecko and Gastineau, that was a good one also!
+Orlando Tragic Not a name for the entire defense, but the Fearsome Foursome was ahead of all of them.
Amazing music and sequence 22:51
Doomsday in the Dome...
At 8:35 What an absolutely horrifying look (from Morton's perspective) of Too Tall bearing down him.
+RedElephantStampede I would equate it to "Bruce" gobbling up Quint in Jaws.
+RedElephantStampede
it looked like too tall snapped mortons neck also when he falls on him..
Should be in the H.O.F.
Did anyone notice that Tom Jackson was all around the ball all day? BTW, Randy Hughes with two INTs and two fumble recoveries was the REAL MVP.
I feel bad for Tom Jackson. Loved his work on espn in the early days. When he talks about this game you can see the pain in his face.
The best season of my youth with my favorite player at QB. I remember thinking during the game that Butch didn’t make that catch but when the Ref ruled it a TD, I wasn’t arguing! And my favorite WR caught a TD in that game, Golden Richards. Very underrated WR.
#DC4L
Rip Norris Weese and Rob Lytle
Rob Lytle great Michigan football player
So glad they didn’t dump Gatorade on Tom Landry. That’s a nice suit.
18:28, NFL Films, the music, John Facenda, and just WOW!
Back When Football Was Baller
Love that game. Go Cowboys!!!
I watched part of this game in a restaurant while having dinner. I remember it for two reasons. One, that it was blowout, and two, when I returned home my apartment had been burglarized.
Sorry about that. But I'm a changed man now. Where can I ship you your blender and 8 tracks?
Perfect music for Rick Upchurch kickoff return at 16:23
The Cowboys have the 3 most turnover filled games in Super Bowl history.
-Super Bowl V they turned The Colts over 7 times.
-Super Bowl XII turned The Broncos over 8 times
-Super Bowl XXVII turned The Bills over 9 times
MrBaddog7676 and the giants still have fewer SB wins
plus they are the first team to have a defensive player named MVP
the first LOSING team to have the game MVP
the only team so far to hold an opponent without a touchdown in the SB
the only team to have 2 players named co-MVP
and if it wasn't for Lett's idiocy and Beebe's hustle, they'd have the scoring record too
22steve5150 It really is two teams that have lost the Super Bowl and have had one of their players voted MVP. Chuck Howley for the Cowboys in SB V and 20 years later Buffalo's Thurman Thomas was the true MVP of SB XXV. Otis Anderson was just the Giants MVP.
Sure it's been said, but it's kinda amazing to see what used to be a catch and/or fumble
Fiercely fought, but frightfully flawed, he was the best👍🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾
I agree. There will never be another John Facenda. His voice was perfect for NFL football narration but I wonder whether someone else actually wrote the words.
The 3-4 wasn't a widley used D at the time. I think only Shulas Dolphins were the only other team to use it, but Shula didn't use it as a blitz package the way the Broncos did.
@@petergarcia589 Denver went to it the year before because so many of their defensive lineman were hurt, most notably Lyle Alzado, and they stuck with it because they had such talented linebackers.
The guy in the sport coat at 22:54 who hoists Landry on his shoulder while a Cowboy player hoists him on his shoulder was a fan who sneaked onto the field. He was a professional gatecrasher named Dion Rich.
vccstudents I went back and watched that after your post and it did look like Landry looked down at him in surprise wondering who that was!
This has to be one of the most viewed videos of football. I have to say, this Cowboy time of this era, was one of the most impressive football teams ever. I love the part of when the fourth period begins at 18:34, it just makes my day.
The Broncos should have been happy that they even made it to the Superbowl
I still can't believe they beat Da Raiders.
Oakland raiders seems invincible in 1976 superbowl
They sure played like they were happy to just be there..
The Commenters Voice is fantastic
John Facenda is the best narrator ever. He did the narration for all the highlights up through 18: if you listen to that one, his voice is different because he's dying of cancer. But he still had a great line or two.
Even in his last one, he sounded great to me. They turned out the lights. Marcus Allen running with the night. Might as well die with your boots on are a few great lines😂
The song at 17:07 is simply badass.
Like Super Bowl V, this was one of those games where you wonder how two top teams could be so sloppy early on with fumbles, INTs, etc. Dallas eventually righted its ship, Denver wasn't able to. Of note: Morton didn't practice at all in the week before the AFC Championship game; he made it through the game with Oakland, but was probably not near 100% for the SB.
Sometimes I wonder if in games like that, the problem is that the coaches, knowing that the other team has a full season of game tape on their tendencies and best plays, tries to get a little too cute with their game plan, coming in with a lot of plays that the team hasn't practiced all that much in hopes of catching the opponent off guard and it leads to more mistakes than normal. Or maybe it's just nerves.
"The Cowboy's fast action shotgun blasted open holes in Denver's defense then demolished it with one booming bullseye." SUPERB. John Facenda. Wow.
This game has always seemed to me like the arrival of the modern era of the NFL. It looks very much like today's game, it was even played in a venue that still hosts Super Bowls to this day. Compare it to the game 10 years earlier, SBII looks pretty ancient in comparison. Packers and Raiders, champions of two separate leagues with things like the goal posts still located on the goal line. Go back even another 10 years and you see the "Greatest game ever played" between the Colts and Giants in 1958, featuring the old NFL with just 12 teams...totally ancient history. Super Bowl XII was almost 40 years ago, but it seems like a time where the changes really started to slow down and the NFL game settled into its modern form.
I hated the Cowboys in the 70's and 80's. I know I was probably the biggest Cowboys hater in the world lol. But with years gone by. There was no team I respected more than the Cowboys. Tom Landry was a genius. Best coach in NFL history in my opinion and thats coming from a Big Dallas Cowboys hater lol.
why your a Falcon fan you should've hated the LA rams because they were winning the division every year.
+MICOLE WHYTE Yes the Rams did dominate the NFC West Division in the 70's but not the 80's. Man it was just how a lot of people I knew loved the Cowboys and talked liked they were the best thing since sliced bread lol. Along with how the media just called them "America's Team". But like I said , I respect the Cowboys of the 70's. They were one of the best, hands down. I can't believe that Drew Pearson is not in the hall of fame!
Walsh was only an offensive coach. Landry game planned both the offense and defense.
Jim Turner: "No Touchdown" (lol). Sorry Jim, once Butch crossed the goal line in the air (with possession) it was 6 points.
RedElephantStampede But whether Butch Johnson actually had possession of the ball throughout the process of the catch is a controversy that exists to this day. That's probably what Turner and some of the other Bronco players were complaining about. He was in the air when he grabbed it, but almost as soon as he hit the ground, it popped loose. My guess is that the officials believed he "rolled the ball", like you would a pair of dice, and thought he had it long enough, though doubts persist to whether that was actually the case. But it was par for the course on that particular day for the single greatest moment of that game to be shrouded in controversy, because nothing else that happened on that day was particularly good at all, including 10 fumbles (6 of them lost), 10 turnovers, and 20 assessed penalties.
I see that play every year in the lead up to every Super Bowl, and even slowed down, I can't even tell if he had it long enough (throughout the entire process of the catch). The only ones that counted, the officials who called the play, said he had it long enough, and that's al that really matters. But if that play happens today, it's called back. It's that close.
But for that game's greatest moment to be controversial just falls in line with how that entire game went, because the rest of it was UGLY.
RedElephantStampede Yeah, back then it was definitely a catch. Today it wouldn't be.
No, in today's game he would not have had possession long enough.
***** . Butch Johnson had possession of the ball in mid air as he crossed the goal line. When he landed he let the football lay but that means squat because it was a TD as soon as he crossed the plane.
I saw it firsthand. Dad was stationed at Lowry AFB in Denver from 1975 to 1977. We moved overseas before this season started. The Broncos fans were and still are that fanatical.
I was 9yrs. Old rhe 1st Supetbowl i ever watched my team the Cowboys. It came on @ 6pm. Right after the Dirty Dozen i remember. Im 50yrs old now
A young Mike Ditka. He once played for Coach Landry before he became a part of his coaching staff.
Butch Johnson's TD "catch" was a supreme incompletion lol. Ref was a Cowgirls fan.
There's footage showing John Facenda trying to decide with Steve Sabol what the right line was for "it was fiercely fought, but frightfully flawed". If you find a bio of Facenda it will have this clip.
Tom Landry looks sharp in that suit and hat!
He looked like an FBI Special Agent In Charge.
This was my first Super Bowl. I was probably about a little over a month old. 😊
Roger staubach is great player Superbowl 6 MVP 27-10
The score in Superbowl XI was 24-3 against the Dolphins
Thought I heard somewhere that the Cowboys traded Craig Morton for a draft pick that they used to draft Randy White..........ironic. Lol
Been a cowboy fan since 1972 and in my opinion the only coach to even come close to Tom Landry is Don Shula. Even then it's arguably a toss up
Been a Cowboy fan ever since my Colts left Baltimore but I think Jimmy Johnson was the best ever.
If U ever get the chance to post the version of _Men of Harlech_ that NFL Films used in this, I'd be grateful.
Your videos are wonderful btw. I remember watching these in the early-mid '90s and they got me hooked on Football through Steve Sabol, John Facenda, and the music (Sam Spence & others) they used to evoke the human drama.
This was the only Super Bowl game in which there were co_ MVPS. Randy White and Harvey Martin from the Cowboys.
Excellent
The Dallas Cowboys are once again and will always be America's Team.
John Facenda could tell a great narrative about two teams who want to make it suspenseful.
Butch's Johnson's TD would be ruled incomplete by today's rules/interpretations. Helluva catch regardless.
The fact that Denver turned the ball over 8 times and only gave up 27 points tells you how good Denver’s defense was!
Lol Dallas just ran ball more with Dorsett and Newhouse , games back then were ball control
@@gsmscooter22 They only ran 38 times for 143 yards this game, Dorsett had 66 yards Newhouse 55 which wasn't much against that great defense.
This is when football was authentic....
Doomsday!
I read a story some years ago that that last touchdown pass by Robert Newhouse almost didn't happen. He thought he was going to be running out the clock by running the ball, and so he spread copious amounts of Stick-um on his hands so as not to fumble the ball. When he got word of the halfback pass that was to be called, he reportedly panicked on the sideline and began trying to lick the stuff off his hands. Bad result for my favorite team, good for the Cowboys.
The 1977 Cowboys never trailed in the post season. There a very few teams that can say that. Even the 85 Bears trailed 3-0 to New England in the Super Bowl.
There are.....
I don't think the 1977 Cowboys trailed that much in all of their games that year
I wish the 77 Cowboys would have played the Steelers in the Superbowl I think they would have beat them! Cowboys were fantastic that year! I only saw the old filmes by the way I was a baby in 77 lol
I was born 19 years later
Norris Weese is one of few people who could say he played QB in a Super Bowl. Weese died of cancer in 1995. He was only 43 years old.
I'm not a fan of either of these teams ever but that part that starts at 16:20 where "The sea parted and through it came number 80 Rick Upchurch" will just send a shiver up your spine. It's magical.
Yeah the music in this one is awesome.
10:07 the round up song
hcaelB xorolC thank you lol
What is the beginning theme called, I always liked it but never knew what it was called.
I would of loved to see Dallas vs Raiders in a Super Bowl back then. That would been one alot of "experts" argue as the best one
In what universe was Butch Johnson's "catch" a catch?? That's not even close
Different rules then
Just had a thought. Was the two completions from Norris Weese to Jack Dolbin the only WFL player to WFL player pass/catch combination in the Super Bowl?
This is when I became a Bronco fan! Was 9yrs old. Still a Bronco fan after 38yrs! DENVER BRONCOS #1
elwin38 Coincidentally, this is when I first became a Cowboys fan when I was 9 year old in '77. Still a Cowboys fan after 38 years! DALLAS COWBOYS #1
Vienna Waits4U At least being the same age is what we have in common.
elwin38 Yeah, there's that of coarse but, I thought it was interesting to find out that there's another person out there who was born the same year as myself, and became a die hard fan of a NFL franchise at the same age 38 years ago. And, those two different franchises would play each other in the Super Bowl later that same year.
It's like we are living parallel lives, or something. Where one person becomes a Denver Broncos fan, and the other becomes a Dallas Cowboys fan. Freaky man.
Vienna Waits4U I get swept up in the Broncomania and Orange crush at that time plus Orange was (and still is) my favorite color.
elwin38
Cool, how did you feel about Dan Reeves (ex-Cowboys RB and offensive coordinator) being hired as the head coach of the Bronco's in '81?
Its amazing how rule changes affect the game. Two of those first half bronco turnovers would be ruled incomplete today. And the Butch Johnson td would be incomplete as well. He didnt finish the catch.
I like the Patriots old helmets.