Resumen del Campeonato de la NFC jugado entre Cowboys vs Vikings en el Texas Stadium en enero de 1978, esta victoria (23-6) llevó a los Cowboys al Super Bowl XII.
This Cowboy team was a truly GREAT one to watch. I've been privileged to meet some of the players from that team, and every ONE of them has been warm and cordial. Tony Dorsett, Aaron Kyle, Doug Dennison, Randy White, Drew Pearson: Great players and real gentlemen into the bargain.
Hopefully, one week from today, Chuck Howley will be elected to membership in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Chuck is the only player ever to win the MVP Award as a member of a losing team in Super Bowl history. This was Super Bowl V which Dallas lost, 16-13, to the Baltimore Colts in January of 1971 in Miami.
Ist Super Bowl l watched was Super Bowl, VIII bet. Dolphins/Vikings in January, 1974. CBS-TV Network aired that game with late Ray Scott/late George ("Pat") Summerall on call, while late Andy Musser called that game for CBS' sister radio network
A Sophomore in High School back then, Fran Tarkenton was injured in the middle of the season in a home game against the Bengals. With or without Tarkenton, this Dallas Team was just too good on both sided of the football especially with the acquisition of Tony Dorsett in the 1997 NFL Draft.
I was only 8 and I remember the guy catching on fire in the stands. Kind of sticks with a kid that age. On a side note, never understood why the Cowboys traded Golden Richards. Some of the best hands in football.
Well I can answer your question about Golden. The Cowboys received word that Golden was hanging out with some people known to be into drugs and recent performances in practices and some behaviors led he rumors about Golden and drugs to be true. Also factor in Golden was going to lose his starting job to Tony Hill and also be dropped to fourth string behind Butch. Landry had an unwritten rule that if a longtime starter lost their job and not just falling one spot on the depth chart, but take a big fall on the depth chart that the player should be moved out . What I did not like as a Cowboys fan was that the demotion happened early 78 season and Golden was not traded until the of off season. Tony had to be moved to second string after his second touchdown catch vs Denver @ Mile High Stadium. People forget just how differently preseason games were played. I have that game on DVD and it is one of the greatest Cowboys games and so hard hitting. Tony was amazing that game. I really wish they let Golden try to adjust to 4th string. However we also had the best 3rd down back in Preston. Pearson, Tony caught out of the backfield...then tight ends Billie Joe and the vastly underrated Jay Saldi. Still a 4 wr set would have been deadly and would have destroyed the Steelers in SB 13, but as every Cowboys fan knows....the Rooney refs would have protected the yellow n b look black Stealers. Btw.... Golden came back with the Beard is early 79 and caught a 50 yd plus bomb from Vince Evans for a TD. (Game is on RUclips here as NFL Films Game of the Week and The full complete game. I have both on DVD, I have over 769: Cowboys games on DVD...not including my Cowboys NFL films collection. Also Topps did make a 1980 Bears Golden Richards card. My first 2 of 4 Cowboys books come out fall next year. Finally in the Dallas Cowboys Weekly early 1978 Tex Schramm covers the Golden situation but vaguely but wishing him. All the best
@@ms.felonystrutter2472, they wouldn't have beaten the Steelers in that Super Bowl. It was a case of whatever the Cowboys could do the Steelers could do better. But it would have been much closer. This Cowboys team had the unfortunate fate, just like the Raiders had, of having their best teams coming in the middle of the dynasty of one of the greatest teams assembled. But at least they did win Super Bowls during this period. The Steelers, Cowboys and Raiders all had great teams in the 70s.
You know, looking back on this game and actually this game and the Super Bowl .... honestly our Cowboys offense was in a RUT. The Cowboys opened the season in Minny and won in OT on a Roger scramble 16-10. We were so damn talented and that is before we ever started using Tony Hill offensively and of course we didn't use Saldi enough. Herrera missed the first PAT and missed 3 or 4: FG 's in the Super Bowl. They played so sloppy and still won both games in blow out fashion but they were not clicking...I am sure we would have beaten Tark up but ...he could have scared us but DOOMSDAY...was just that in 1977
Yeah I forgot about that until I read your comment. Oakland losing to Denver was kind of an upset. And Oakland vs Dallas is a great SB matchup for that era.
This was so sweet. Going back to super bowl again this time to go and win it which they did vs Denver Tarkenton was an amazing quarterback guided the Vikings to 4 Super Bowls. The purple people eaters a very good team
This will be hard to believe… but until 1991, Texas Stadium was alcohol-free. The city of Irving didn’t allow liquor stores and it only allowed alcohol to be served in restaurants. The suites were the only exception because having one made you a member of a private club.
The folks around him took off their coats and smothered the flames, but the dude was severely burned. Hard to believe the vendor with the can of lit sterno was allowed in the seating area. Several lawsuits later, the Vendor Company, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Costume Company that rented the flammable suit the victim wore all paid a ton of cash for what was a monumental mistake.
Tarkenton was out. They had no chance with Lee at QB. Vikes would have had great shot to win with Tark playing. They had never lost at Texas Stadium before this and beat the Cowboys at Texas Stadium with Tarkenton the year after.
I didn't remember Danny White as a punter. Special teams weren't so special back then. But I think by '77 they were pretty much getting there. Early 70s, late 60s many teams had punters (Donny Anderson) and Kickers (George Blanda) that were genuine football players. And the the star running backs/receivers (Kelly, Gilliam) would run back kicks. And star DBs (Barney) would run back punts. And the coverage wasn't so great either 'cuz a lot of these guys would turn in some lengthty returns quite often.
Danny White didn't become a Quarterback until after Roger Staubach's Retirement after the 1979 season. I remember him vividly as a Punter as far back as 1976 in his Rookie Season at Dallas.
When Fran was out. Kramer should have started. Was young. And would run. Would have been a closer game. Bob Lee, I liked. He had some good games when Fran went down. If not. Kramer came in to spark the team. After 1977. The team was getting older. And others retiring. Or being traded. Page went to the Bears. Eller to Seattle. Fran retired 2 years later. The Cowboys where the better team. Won Super Bowl 12. That Cowboys team was 2-3 with Stauback. 24-3. over Miami. Colts 16-13 loss 21-17 loss to the Steelers 27-10 win in 12. 35-31loss. Jackie Smith dropped a game winning touchdown pass. I do believe Craig Morton was QB IN The blooper bowl with the Colts Had some good teams. Aikman. Emmit Smith. Won 3 more Super Bowls.
Jackie Smith's dropped pass wasn't "game winning". Although that's what the legend/myth says. Truth is, it's the most over-dramatized dropped pass in NFL history. It happened like friggin' half way through the game. The Cowboys had plenty of time to recover.
I'm a big fan of Vikings history, specifically the 1961-1981 time frame, my favorite of all team-eras, in the history of pro football. This is a major defeat for the franchise during that era. One must wonder, though, if Tarkenton hadn't been injured: out for the season, starting in game 9, due to a leg injury, if the Vikings would have likely won this game. I think they would have, and my understanding is Tarkenton has said as much. After all, week one in Minnesota was a victory for the Cowboys only in overtime, when it seemed like the Vikings were tired out & making a bunch of mistakes in the overtime period, after dominating most of that game. All of this being said, and now I believe, from seeing this video, that Bob Lee's performance was yeoman: it does beg the question if Bud Grant should have replaced Lee with rookie (and later proven to be a great quarterback) Tommy Kramer. Kramer kept the team's playoff chances alive with the multi-touchdown 4th quarter comeback against the 49ers, if I understand correctly, and yet he was raw and inexperienced, as, again unless I'm mistaken, his performance demonstrated, it being full of mistakes, during a 1977 regular season game against the Raiders.
Tarkenton would have been more aggressive in attacking the Cowboys' defense. However, the way the Dallas front line dominated this game, especially Too Tall Jones, I don't know if it would have made a difference.
In fairness, when Tarkenton was playing earlier in the year, the offense was struggling and erratic. He had a degenerating shoulder, and a bad knee that greatly limited his mobility. Bob Lee had turned into a conservative, barely mobile shadow of what he was in 1973. Tommy Kramer was exciting, but raw. Tough to have a winning hand with those cards.
Merlin Olsen...when asked about Tarkenton.... replied.. That little wimp! I heard him say it.... I remember screaming at the top of my lungs.... TACKLE HIM!
@@drwayne88 Yes, but let's face it. He Would have been a lot better than Lee. Also, the following year the Vikings did beat Dallas at home but this time Tarkenton was playing.
Wow. I don't remember that. I must have missed this game. I know it's not funny but...... it does look like a scene from Pink Panther/Inspector Clouseau.
HARVEY MARTIN, TOO TALL JONES AND CHARLIE WATERS SHOULD BE IN THE COWBOYS RING OF HONOR AND PFHOF..... IT'S A DISGRACE. I IMPLORE ALL FELLOW COWBOYS FANS TO WRITE JERRY AND STEPHEN TO EDUCATE THEM
That music is everything
The greatness of Sam Spence ruclips.net/p/PL8E527FF79B30059E
12 years old at this time. What great memories. Have met Roger and Drew. So glad Drew finally made it into the HOF!
Another blown chance for a Cowboys vs Raiders SuperBowl
I was 8 years old. I watched this game at home of my relatives in LA. I've been viking fan since 1975 but cowboys had a great team. Won the SB
This Cowboy team was a truly GREAT one to watch. I've been privileged to meet some of the players from that team, and every ONE of them has been warm and cordial. Tony Dorsett, Aaron Kyle, Doug Dennison, Randy White, Drew Pearson: Great players and real gentlemen into the bargain.
Hopefully, one week from today, Chuck Howley will be elected to membership in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Chuck is the only player ever to win the MVP Award as a member of a losing team in Super Bowl history.
This was Super Bowl V which Dallas lost, 16-13, to the Baltimore Colts in January of 1971 in Miami.
In the 70's. NFC seemed to always be Rams, Vikings, Cowboys, Redskins.
and sometimes cardinals
@@BrockBooneAlso 49'ers in the earlier part of the decade.
the cowboys vikings and rams ruled the 70s
Wow , Santa Clause in the audience , was on major fire , he looked like the human torch !!
Super Bowl XII on Jan. 15th 1978 was the first one I ever watched. I've been a Cowboys fan ever since.
Ist Super Bowl l watched was Super Bowl, VIII bet. Dolphins/Vikings in January, 1974. CBS-TV Network aired that game with late Ray Scott/late George ("Pat") Summerall on call, while late Andy Musser called that game for CBS' sister radio network
thank you for the great memories, mr Garcia!!
A Sophomore in High School back then, Fran Tarkenton was injured in the middle of the season in a home game against the Bengals. With or without Tarkenton, this Dallas Team was just too good on both sided of the football especially with the acquisition of Tony Dorsett in the 1997 NFL Draft.
I was only 8 and I remember the guy catching on fire in the stands. Kind of sticks with a kid that age. On a side note, never understood why the Cowboys traded Golden Richards. Some of the best hands in football.
He was addicted to prescription pain killers (Percodan)
tony hill was the reason and butch johnson thats why mark
Well I can answer your question about Golden. The Cowboys received word that Golden was hanging out with some people known to be into drugs and recent performances in practices and some behaviors led he rumors about Golden and drugs to be true. Also factor in Golden was going to lose his starting job to Tony Hill and also be dropped to fourth string behind Butch. Landry had an unwritten rule that if a longtime starter lost their job and not just falling one spot on the depth chart, but take a big fall on the depth chart that the player should be moved out . What I did not like as a Cowboys fan was that the demotion happened early 78 season and Golden was not traded until the of off season. Tony had to be moved to second string after his second touchdown catch vs Denver @ Mile High Stadium. People forget just how differently preseason games were played. I have that game on DVD and it is one of the greatest Cowboys games and so hard hitting. Tony was amazing that game. I really wish they let Golden try to adjust to 4th string. However we also had the best 3rd down back in Preston. Pearson, Tony caught out of the backfield...then tight ends Billie Joe and the vastly underrated Jay Saldi. Still a 4 wr set would have been deadly and would have destroyed the Steelers in SB 13, but as every Cowboys fan knows....the Rooney refs would have protected the yellow n b look black Stealers. Btw.... Golden came back with the Beard is early 79 and caught a 50 yd plus bomb from Vince Evans for a TD. (Game is on RUclips here as NFL Films Game of the Week and The full complete game. I have both on DVD, I have over 769: Cowboys games on DVD...not including my Cowboys NFL films collection. Also Topps did make a 1980 Bears Golden Richards card. My first 2 of 4 Cowboys books come out fall next year. Finally in the Dallas Cowboys Weekly early 1978 Tex Schramm covers the Golden situation but vaguely but wishing him. All the best
My DVD if the live game DOES haver ..show the dude on fire.
@@ms.felonystrutter2472, they wouldn't have beaten the Steelers in that Super Bowl. It was a case of whatever the Cowboys could do the Steelers could do better. But it would have been much closer. This Cowboys team had the unfortunate fate, just like the Raiders had, of having their best teams coming in the middle of the dynasty of one of the greatest teams assembled. But at least they did win Super Bowls during this period. The Steelers, Cowboys and Raiders all had great teams in the 70s.
You know, looking back on this game and actually this game and the Super Bowl .... honestly our Cowboys offense was in a RUT. The Cowboys opened the season in Minny and won in OT on a Roger scramble 16-10. We were so damn talented and that is before we ever started using Tony Hill offensively and of course we didn't use Saldi enough. Herrera missed the first PAT and missed 3 or 4: FG 's in the Super Bowl. They played so sloppy and still won both games in blow out fashion but they were not clicking...I am sure we would have beaten Tark up but ...he could have scared us but DOOMSDAY...was just that in 1977
XII would have been a better game if Oakland had been there, but Dallas wasn't going to be denied, especially with that pass rush.
Randy White and Harvey Martin would have faced the tag-team duo of Upshaw and Shell. Would have been better then any wrestlemania match
Yeah I forgot about that until I read your comment. Oakland losing to Denver was kind of an upset. And Oakland vs Dallas is a great SB matchup for that era.
Raiders would have beaten Dallas had they not gotten robbed in that AFC Championship
This was so sweet. Going back to super bowl again this time to go and win it which they did vs Denver
Tarkenton was an amazing quarterback guided the Vikings to 4 Super Bowls. The purple people eaters a very good team
Three Super Bowls, not 4. Joe Kapp was quarterback for their first one against K.C.
Boy they don't make flammable snowman costumes like they used to
Wouldn't have mattered if Tarkenton was playing. The Cowboys were on a mission.
Always good to get an alcoholic beverage poured on you when you are on fire 🤭. 6:42.
The seventies are severely missed
This will be hard to believe… but until 1991, Texas Stadium was alcohol-free. The city of Irving didn’t allow liquor stores and it only allowed alcohol to be served in restaurants. The suites were the only exception because having one made you a member of a private club.
Stop drop and roll man!
I know...naw I'm going to run around and take as many fans with me as I can
Where down the stairs ??
WOW. Whatever happened with the fan afterwards. And the fans deserve credit for saving his life.
The announcers during the game said he was in stable condition after treatment at the hospital... Lucky man.
The folks around him took off their coats and smothered the flames, but the dude was severely burned. Hard to believe the vendor with the can of lit sterno was allowed in the seating area. Several lawsuits later, the Vendor Company, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Costume Company that rented the flammable suit the victim wore all paid a ton of cash for what was a monumental mistake.
wow ! that guy on fire ! i hope that everyone was ok
That's how I describe the game to friends, the flaming man game. He ended up being fine.
@@jayfoulk2453 did he start burning man...must have!
This was the " Flex Defense".
Too bad we never got stabauch vs stabler in SB 12
You have to wonder what kind of career Thomas Henderson might have had were it not for substance abuse.
Tarkenton was out. They had no chance with Lee at QB. Vikes would have had great shot to win with Tark playing. They had never lost at Texas Stadium before this and beat the Cowboys at Texas Stadium with Tarkenton the year after.
QB Bobby ("General") Lee was in his llnd stint w/Vikes that 1977-1978 season. He played 12 seasons, Pro Football (1969-1970 thru 1980-1981)
Ironically the song being played while the guy in the snowman suit burned was called “Game Plan For Sudden Death.”
I didn't remember Danny White as a punter. Special teams weren't so special back then. But I think by '77 they were pretty much getting there. Early 70s, late 60s many teams had punters (Donny Anderson) and Kickers (George Blanda) that were genuine football players. And the the star running backs/receivers (Kelly, Gilliam) would run back kicks. And star DBs (Barney) would run back punts. And the coverage wasn't so great either 'cuz a lot of these guys would turn in some lengthty returns quite often.
Danny White didn't become a Quarterback until after Roger Staubach's Retirement after the 1979 season. I remember him vividly as a Punter as far back as 1976 in his Rookie Season at Dallas.
Obviously Tarkenton didn't play, I believe Dallas was the better team,but I think Fran would have given the Vikings a chance
Whatever happened to the Coffin Corner? Don't hear that phrase anymore
Doomsday Jr?
Waters Harris Cole Pugh Lewis Barnes still had old timers
I never recalled being doomsday jr's. Always Doomsday Defense
When Fran was out. Kramer should have started. Was young. And would run. Would have been a closer game. Bob Lee, I liked. He had some good games when Fran went down. If not. Kramer came in to spark the team. After 1977. The team was getting older. And others retiring. Or being traded. Page went to the Bears. Eller to Seattle. Fran retired 2 years later. The Cowboys where the better team. Won Super Bowl 12. That Cowboys team was 2-3 with Stauback. 24-3. over Miami. Colts 16-13 loss 21-17 loss to the Steelers 27-10 win in 12. 35-31loss. Jackie Smith dropped a game winning touchdown pass. I do believe Craig Morton was QB IN The blooper bowl with the Colts Had some good teams. Aikman. Emmit Smith. Won 3 more Super Bowls.
His last name is spelled STAUBACH!
Jackie Smith's dropped pass wasn't "game winning". Although that's what the legend/myth says. Truth is, it's the most over-dramatized dropped pass in NFL history. It happened like friggin' half way through the game. The Cowboys had plenty of time to recover.
@@nala3038 Ahhh, close enough.
Tarkenton didn't play on defense.
I'm a big fan of Vikings history, specifically the 1961-1981 time frame, my favorite of all team-eras, in the history of pro football. This is a major defeat for the franchise during that era.
One must wonder, though, if Tarkenton hadn't been injured: out for the season, starting in game 9, due to a leg injury, if the Vikings would have likely won this game. I think they would have, and my understanding is Tarkenton has said as much. After all, week one in Minnesota was a victory for the Cowboys only in overtime, when it seemed like the Vikings were tired out & making a bunch of mistakes in the overtime period, after dominating most of that game.
All of this being said, and now I believe, from seeing this video, that Bob Lee's performance was yeoman: it does beg the question if Bud Grant should have replaced Lee with rookie (and later proven to be a great quarterback) Tommy Kramer. Kramer kept the team's playoff chances alive with the multi-touchdown 4th quarter comeback against the 49ers, if I understand correctly, and yet he was raw and inexperienced, as, again unless I'm mistaken, his performance demonstrated, it being full of mistakes, during a 1977 regular season game against the Raiders.
Paul Bloede cowboys still would’ve won
Tarkenton would have been more aggressive in attacking the Cowboys' defense. However, the way the Dallas front line dominated this game, especially Too Tall Jones, I don't know if it would have made a difference.
Why is Robert Miller getting the hand-off on the third play of the game? Resulted in a fumble + Dallas touchdown on the ensuing possession=GAME OVER
@@howardcosell2022 Not that it matters much, I see your point,but along with Tarkenton McClanahan was also out with an injury.
I was 4
Hold up ...Tony Hill our best natural athlete? Don't tell Roger that and I think Hollywood would have something to say about that ..
And Dorsett...
Hey wait a minute.the vikes might have had a chance against Denver 😮😮LOL!!
Destroyed the Vikings machine?? Did the voice notice Tarkenton was out??????
In fairness, when Tarkenton was playing earlier in the year, the offense was struggling and erratic. He had a degenerating shoulder, and a bad knee that greatly limited his mobility. Bob Lee had turned into a conservative, barely mobile shadow of what he was in 1973. Tommy Kramer was exciting, but raw. Tough to have a winning hand with those cards.
Merlin Olsen...when asked about Tarkenton.... replied..
That little wimp!
I heard him say it....
I remember screaming at the top of my lungs....
TACKLE HIM!
@@drwayne88 Yes, but let's face it. He Would have been a lot better than Lee. Also, the following year the Vikings did beat Dallas at home but this time Tarkenton was playing.
Doomsday Defense.
as the second quarter began 6:14
Wow. I don't remember that. I must have missed this game. I know it's not funny but...... it does look like a scene from Pink Panther/Inspector Clouseau.
8:05 the pass interference on Benny Barnes was much worse of a call then the one on him during Super Bowl XIII
And that's SAYING something. Lynn Swann cuts across the back of Barnes's legs, pushes him in the back, and the call is on Benny?! SMDH....
@@richardadams4928 Swann didn't push him Swann stumbled onto him but still it shouldn't have been a flag on either one.
HARVEY MARTIN, TOO TALL JONES AND CHARLIE WATERS SHOULD BE IN THE COWBOYS RING OF HONOR AND PFHOF..... IT'S A DISGRACE. I IMPLORE ALL FELLOW COWBOYS FANS TO WRITE JERRY AND STEPHEN TO EDUCATE THEM
Jimmy Johnson
@@smoothoperator7023 Of course, but I am way more concerned about the Landry era, the greatest era
@@ms.felonystrutter2472 They also say they dont retire jersey #'s & no one wears 12 or 74 but they let players wear 33. 🤔
@@smoothoperator7023 They have to....can only retire so many numbers. 8, 12, ,22 and 74 will never be worn again. However 74 will be used in preseason
Dont wear santa costumes. Unless you are Santa!
4:04-4:16--Michael Jordan's caddy!!!