I remember those great early years of MNF. As a kid it was magical to stay up and watch MNF and then talk about it on the playground or in class the next day
Bob Tucker was an excellent tight end. The Vikings (who emphasized the Tight End in the passing game more than most teams back then) acquired Tucker in the late 70’s to reunite him with Tarkenton. In the span of a few years the Vikings had excellent players such as Stu Voight, Bob Tucker, Joe Senser and Steve Jordan as their Tight Ends.
Lots of ex-Falcons on the Giants: Ralph Heck (55) LB, Jerry Shay (75) DT, and Junior Coffey (34) RB. Also, guard, Dick Enderle (62) and later QB, Randy Johnson.
At age 11 I was at this game with my dad. What a great memory to see again. Last Cowboy game at the Cotton Bowl as they moved mid season to the new TEXAS Stadium.
If you remember that tense moment in 'Monday Night Madness" when Meredith says, "At least we have respective teams," this is that game. Howard makes his little joke, and at 14:40 Meredith hits him with the comeback. It's not quite as tense as it was in the movie, but Howard's silence is palpable, and then he makes the "It's about time" remark to Gifford.
…...brings back a lot of memories...one of the best was allowed to stay up until halftime to watch the clips from all Sundays games..(with Cosell narrating)
It almost beggars belief why a player like Thomas would be run out on the bomb squad, but that was simply the unquestioned thinking back in the day, until some years after this game.
Ive never seen an NFL decade that appears to have gone through so many changes, both on the field and in the booth, as throughout the 1970’s. Even the uniforms looked different in ‘71 from the ones in ‘79.
@@richardhamblen5526 Dee Dee McCall! She left the last season and they tried two bases and neither was Dee Dee. She changed the spelling of her name to Stepfanie Kramer from Stephanie her birth name!
Cowboys in dark grey pants, black shoes, royal blue numbers and striped blue socks. This is the best Dallas uniform ever. Giants defense plays them tough early on down at the New York goal line.
@@robertsprouse9282 Cowboys' uniform changes almost unseen by anyone except maybe a Cowboy fan. Subtle tweaks and changes over the years, and not an obvious wholesale change, as one saw with Giants themselves ( classic 60's style to stripes in 1975 ) or Bengals ( tiger stripes in 1981 ).
" What's this 'we stuff?!'" Meredith to Gifford..hysterical and tense. Don was something else and so was Frank. Don had northeast Texas(called EAST TEXAS)bluntness. He was from about 15 miles from my late Dad's hometown, Pittsburg, Tx.(no "h" on the end) with Don hailing from Mt. Vernon. My Dad and Don's older brother used to run around together and chase teen age girls when they were teens. Billy Jack M. was, I believe, Don's brother's name. Jeff and Hazel Meredith were the parents. Eva and William were my Dad's folks.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 , yep, JONES played at the segregated black school= FREDERICK DOUGLAS HIGH in the late ‘50’s- very early ‘60’s..then TEX. Southern U. in Houston before injuries got him cut from the AFL HOU. Oilers.. The NY GIANTS picked him up, let him heal, and the rest is history for the first PRO to spike the ball after his TD.. Kenneth Reaves with TEX. A&M, PHILLY briefly in the NFL, on the o-line in the early ‘80’s, played at integrated PITTSBURG HIGH on their old 3A STATE TITLE TEAM from ‘80 that gave up only eight points all season in 15 games, six by the defense that REAVES played on as an IRONMAN PIRATE..
Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of this Monday Night Football game played in Dallas (and one of the oldest to still exist on YT)! The Giants and Cowboys meet today in Arlington at 1:00--let's go Cowboys!
The game would change a lot in the next few years. Kickoffs would move back to the the 35, goal posts would to the rear of the end zone and the hash marks would be brought in.
I believe the goalposts were moved back on two fronts: 1. They would occasionally interfere with a play near the end zone as the passing game became more prevalent. 2. I believe during the 1973 season,, a kicker missed an 8-yard field goal that hit the crossbar on the way up and there were several extra points from the 10 that also hit the crossbar going up and were no good.
I'm not sure those rules changes were a good thing after rewatching as many games from the 70s and late 60s as I could I like the old rules ever since they almost annually found some new way to disadvantage the defense and influence the style of play until a guy like me watches a replay of SB V instead of the live game 2 days ago
1:10:39 The Merrill Lynch "bullish on America" commercial is interesting. It would take another 11 years until the next big upturn in the stock market. An 11 year buying opportunity.
At that time, there actually had been a big upturn following the 1969-'70 recession that to that point had been the worst since the Great Depression (Dow actually set a record at the beginning of 1973). Another recession from 1973-'75 mirrored that one when the Down went back down and that period is considered the twin recessions.
Duane Thomas thought the move to Texas Stadium, coming 2 weeks later, changed the atmosphere of Cowboys games, commenting on people putting on airs, the cheering turning more polite.
Except for the numbers on the sleeves instead of the shoulders and the Cowboy pants from gray to a more bluish gray, the uniforms from both teams are basically the same today.
Bob Hayes: "The fastest man on the Planet" at that time on one side, Lance Alworth: "The perhaps second fastest man at that time on the Planet" on the other. Speed Kills!
Back when football was great: Tom Landry in a suit and hat, no head phones no lip reading and an assistant coach smoking a cigarette!!! And of course, Howard, Frank and Don MNF!!!!👍👌😁
..LOL, hard to believe this was 51 years ago..'great' meant something back then, now, it's used after every successful play, like it's the friggin' SB..they have NO clue what 'great' really is..
Is it just me or did ABC back then could only afford 1 Microphone as it seems that they are passing it around in the Commentators Booth at the beginning of the telecast
JIM GARRETT, NY GIANTS offensive coordinator and dad of Jason and Judd. Jason you know, Judd= a former London Monarch WLAF receiver/back. John Garrett was another one in football but I don't think he was related. Jim was a former '50's NFL'er and the only head coach of the WFL HOUSTON TEXANS..
I remember watching this whole game I don't remember any one of the 3 mentioning this was the last game at the Cotton Bowl and Texas Stadium would be opening 2 weeks later
@@muffs55mercury61 He was just ok was fumbler and he was always injured. Text Schramm blew it by not giving Duane Thomas a raise, b4 next season he was dumped on SD were his career quickly flamed out SD got rid of him to Washington and after 1 season 1974 it was over. HoF talent total malcontent off the field.Dallas spent the next 5 seasons looking for a RB and Tony Dorsett arrives via a trade from Seattle in 1977 and bam SB champs 27-10 over Denver.
28yrs as Cowboys HC and Landry as brilliant as he was,only won 2 SB both with Staubach at QB and had he not started Morton,with Roger pacing the sidelines,he wins a 3rd,SB5 as Dallas would of beaten the Colts easily.
@@mikehammerle928 And were it not for the strike, probably would have been forced to retire after the 1987 season. There were a lot of people who felt Rozelle should have stepped in and only approved the sale of the Cowboys to Jerry Jones on the condition Landry coach the 1989 season so the NFL could do a "farewell tour" for Landry while Jimmy Johnson would take over in 1990.
You are speaking with the benefits of hindsight of course, Staubach should be on any list of top 10 of all time but then he was an unproven young QB exiting and with potential but Morton was a proven vet who had taken Dallas farther than they had ever been . Would a green Staubach had been better against Baltimore than Morton with a bum elbow? (Healthy Morton threw very well) probably but this game is evidence that the offense performed better as a unit with Morton at the helm, they were crisper out of the huddle, decisive of the ball and more patient with the game plan. Reeves turned the ball over twice and Thomas once or you are looking at a probable 30 point blowout.
@@johntabler349, You're exactly right about Super Bowl V. Even with Morton's injured elbow, the Cowboys were demonstrably the better team IMO, and would have eased their way to a victory if not for getting jobbed on the egregious call on Thomas' fumble at the Colts' goal line.
THE LAST GAME THE DALLAS COWBOYS PLAYED AT THE COTTON BOWL I REMEMBER THE WHOLE GAME ROGER STAUBACH STARTED BUT CRAIG MORTON STATED THE SECOND HALF WHAT WAS TOM LANDRY THINKING STAUBACH WAS NOT HURT KENNETH O
Unfortunately, the new stadium was not ready for a game, so it was at the old Cotton Bowl. They would play in Texas Stadium two weeks later against the renamed New England Patriots (after they were the Boston Patriots). Some people may have thought the first game against the Washington Redskins (now just Washington, for the moment) was going to be played in the nation's capital on October 3, 1971 but the stadium was recuperating from a mess three days earlier when the Washington Senators baseball team with rude fans destroying the playing field--and other objects, had to forfeit a game. The Senators had been informed they were moving to Dallas to become the Texas Rangers! The Cowboys and Redskins played in Dallas anyway, and Washington won it 20 to 16.
What a head case Duane Thomas rb #33 was ruined what could of been a HoF career by being such pain in the ass. Tex Schramm Dallas GM actually traded him to NE in training camp but, he was such an asshole their he got into a shouting match with their hc John Mazur,that NE petitioned commissioner Pete Rozelle to rescind the trade only 2 days after acquiring him and Rozelle nixed it sending him back to Dallas. Duane Thomas was forced back to Dallas and didn't speak to anybody on the team the whole year and Chevrolet the sponsor of the SB mvp award was so put off by his attitude that Roger Staubach was named mvp of SB VI instead. Schramm promptly traded him again prior to the start of the 1972 season this time to San Diego where he quickly wore out his welcome their and his NFL career ended after the 1974 season in Wsh an ignominious failure!
@kennethprice8710, I've never heard that MVP story, but I find it dubious Thomas would've gotten the award over Staubach, his attitude notwithstanding. If you're aware of any source verifying that account I'd be interested.
I'm so disgusted with the modern day NFL , I'm have to go back in time when it was great. I even use double edge and injector razors till this day, because there great ! Thank you.
Too bad Lance Alworth was close to retirement. If he were in his prime both he and Bob Hayes would've have been the fastest wideout tandem is NFL history up to that point.
Dismal season for the Giants as they would lose 4 straight, then win 2 and then lost their last 5 games to end up 4-10. It would be 10 long years before they make the playoffs. 1970 & 1972 would be the only winning seasons in the decade for the Giants. Not a good period in history for them.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 Yes for sure. Last championship was in 1956 and the next would be in 1986 (though 1958, '59 & 63 were close) Worst season was 1966 (1-12-1) which I wouldn't wish on anyone.
JSYK..Duane Thomas, from West Texas State, had every chance to be a great RB, before Tony Dorsett got there, but he had other, off-the-field issues, including 'reverse-racism', and drugs..the drugs got him traded, when Tom Landry found out..he was a big part of our SB VI win, still 'apart from', not 'of'..he had already been suspended once..
Why would they have won? Every player was smaller and slower. Im sure vegas wouldn't even touch it because the cowboys get destroyed. Those little tiny lineman couldnt protect Staubach and the cowboys wouldnt score. If the chiefs wanted to rush for 500 they would and the cowboys couldn't stop them . If they wanted to pass for 700 ,they would because the cowboys couldn't stop them.
@@michaeljordan6008 it wasnt a joke. Your comment was a joke . The average lineman today is 65 pounds heavier and faster. How could those little fellows going to protect Staubach? Hows those 250 pound slow defensive lineman going to stop the run game. How does those 180 poind defensive backs that run 4.7 fortys going to stop the passing game? What are they going to do, get physical? Only a dumbass would think they could play with todays players. Are you that dumbass?
Provide each of those teams the same nutrition and training and it’s a long day for KC. And are we playing old rules or the new rules where everything favors the offense and the QB?
I enjoy the period ads also. Surprisingly these Cowboys win SB6 convincingly. Doomsday played well. Staubach's play in the first half was far from brilliant. The color is good but the resolution is reprehensible. I didn't like Howard then. I find him even more tiresome now. He was just such a complete nerd. Some people claim there was "chemistry" with Don and Frank. A fart stinks bc of chemistry. Don and Frank were entertaining. Howard was not.
once, outside yankee stadium before practice Rocky won't sign autgraphs said he had a hurt hand. went thru practice no problem. went he came out after practice the brothers gave him a hard time about his "hurt hand" Rocky hightailed it out of practice parking lot.
At 3 hrs.8 min., OJ Simpson likes RC COLA despite the fact it does not give you that gassy feeling that feels like a slashing sharp pain. I guess the jury is still out on that claim. What the hellck do the jurors know, anyway. They get it wrong a lot, right, O.J., errrr R.C.?
I remember those great early years of MNF. As a kid it was magical to stay up and watch MNF and then talk about it on the playground or in class the next day
Those were the days huh?
Amazing piece of history on so many levels... the announcers, players, the cotton bowl and commercials. Thanks for posting.
The glory years of the NFL!
Bob Tucker was an excellent tight end. The Vikings (who emphasized the Tight End in the passing game more than most teams back then) acquired Tucker in the late 70’s to reunite him with Tarkenton. In the span of a few years the Vikings had excellent players such as Stu Voight, Bob Tucker, Joe Senser and Steve Jordan as their Tight Ends.
I think I'm going to ride down to my local Ford dealer and check out one of those new Pintos.
The pinto was a death trap
@@blackspider9561 The Pinto was the ultimate sports car: It could go from zero-to-sixty...in all directions at once.
@@davidlafleche1142 Ha! Ha!
Change out your gas tank!!..Boooom!
…………..be sure to bring an extra fire extinguisher
love seeing the old nfl,,,,,,brings back so many memories
I believe this was the last game for the Cowboys in Cotton Bowl before Texas Stadium opened.
You may be right. Texas Stadium did open in '71 and I was surprised to see that they were playing in the Cotton Bowl.
@@roysorgo Texas Stadium opened in October 1971. It was not ready yet when this game was played.
Yes it was.
My freshman year in high school when this game aired. Great MNF memories!
They had 2 complete top shelf starting backfields...incredible😳❤️👏🏻
I enjoyed this game immensely, my earliest memories are of the 72 season so these older games are so much fun, especially the regular season games
Lots of ex-Falcons on the Giants: Ralph Heck (55) LB, Jerry Shay (75) DT, and Junior Coffey (34) RB. Also, guard, Dick Enderle (62) and later QB, Randy Johnson.
Like seeing a football game with no showboating just straight up football!!!!
I'm old enough to remember when the Cowboys played in the Cotton Bowl
At age 11 I was at this game with my dad. What a great memory to see again. Last Cowboy game at the Cotton Bowl as they moved mid season to the new TEXAS Stadium.
If you remember that tense moment in 'Monday Night Madness" when Meredith says, "At least we have respective teams," this is that game. Howard makes his little joke, and at 14:40 Meredith hits him with the comeback. It's not quite as tense as it was in the movie, but Howard's silence is palpable, and then he makes the "It's about time" remark to Gifford.
…...brings back a lot of memories...one of the best was allowed to stay up until halftime to watch the clips from all Sundays games..(with Cosell narrating)
It almost beggars belief why a player like Thomas would be run out on the bomb squad, but that was simply the unquestioned thinking back in the day, until some years after this game.
Ive never seen an NFL decade that appears to have gone through so many changes, both on the field and in the booth, as throughout the 1970’s. Even the uniforms looked different in ‘71 from the ones in ‘79.
Uniforms, players, coaches, etc, lot of changes for sure. Alex Webster hung in there for 4 years even though he could only muster a 29-40-1 record.
Holding was brutal back then being 15 yards and ole Fred Dryer at right end for the Giants!
"Hunter" after he retired..I like watching those reruns, too, with the 'hot babe', lol..
@@richardhamblen5526 Dee Dee McCall! She left the last season and they tried two bases and neither was Dee Dee.
She changed the spelling of her name to Stepfanie Kramer from Stephanie her birth name!
babes!
Cowboys in dark grey pants, black shoes, royal blue numbers and striped blue socks. This is the best Dallas uniform ever. Giants defense plays them tough early on down at the New York goal line.
Nope, metallic silver blue pants..and they got more blue as the decades went by, as now they are more bluish than silverish gray..
@@robertsprouse9282 Cowboys' uniform changes almost unseen by anyone except maybe a Cowboy fan. Subtle tweaks and changes over the years, and not an obvious wholesale change, as one saw with Giants themselves ( classic 60's style to stripes in 1975 ) or Bengals ( tiger stripes in 1981 ).
When I was young I asked #28 Bobby Duhon for an autograph. He made sure I said "please" and "thank you" for the autograph.....
50 years ago tonight.
I wonder if Frank, Don and Howard are getting along in the Great Broadcast Booth in the Sky
Thanks for the upload! Dam Howard ,Frank and Dandy Don are music to my ears !
Rocky Thompson, one of many disaster Giants picks in the 1970's.
What brings back real memories are the TV ads on these games(LOL).
" What's this 'we stuff?!'" Meredith to Gifford..hysterical and tense.
Don was something else and so was Frank.
Don had northeast Texas(called EAST TEXAS)bluntness. He was from about 15 miles from my late Dad's hometown, Pittsburg, Tx.(no "h" on the end) with Don hailing from Mt. Vernon. My Dad and Don's older brother used to run around together and chase teen age girls when they were teens. Billy Jack M. was, I believe, Don's brother's name. Jeff and Hazel Meredith were the parents. Eva and William were my Dad's folks.
Meredith really was good
@robertsprouse9282, I believe Homer Jones also came from Pittsburg.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 , yep, JONES played at the segregated black school= FREDERICK DOUGLAS HIGH in the late ‘50’s- very early ‘60’s..then TEX. Southern U. in Houston before injuries got him cut from the AFL HOU. Oilers..
The NY GIANTS picked him up, let him heal, and the rest is history for the first PRO to spike the ball after his TD..
Kenneth Reaves with TEX. A&M, PHILLY briefly in the NFL, on the o-line in the early ‘80’s, played at integrated PITTSBURG HIGH on their old 3A STATE TITLE TEAM from ‘80 that gave up only eight points all season in 15 games, six by the defense that REAVES played on as an IRONMAN PIRATE..
@@robertsprouse9282, Great information!!! Thanks!!! 👍 👍👍
Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of this Monday Night Football game played in Dallas (and one of the oldest to still exist on YT)! The Giants and Cowboys meet today in Arlington at 1:00--let's go Cowboys!
I Can never get used to seeing Tarkenton not wearing his purple Vikings uniform
The "Giant' uniform is close, at least, it was navy-blue(LOL).
Giants never should have given him up. The next comparable QB they had was Manning, IMO.
The game would change a lot in the next few years. Kickoffs would move back to the the 35, goal posts would to the rear of the end zone and the hash marks would be brought in.
I believe the goalposts were moved back on two fronts:
1. They would occasionally interfere with a play near the end zone as the passing game became more prevalent.
2. I believe during the 1973 season,, a kicker missed an 8-yard field goal that hit the crossbar on the way up and there were several extra points from the 10 that also hit the crossbar going up and were no good.
I'm not sure those rules changes were a good thing after rewatching as many games from the 70s and late 60s as I could I like the old rules ever since they almost annually found some new way to disadvantage the defense and influence the style of play until a guy like me watches a replay of SB V instead of the live game 2 days ago
1:10:39 The Merrill Lynch "bullish on America" commercial is interesting. It would take another 11 years until the next big upturn in the stock market. An 11 year buying opportunity.
At that time, there actually had been a big upturn following the 1969-'70 recession that to that point had been the worst since the Great Depression (Dow actually set a record at the beginning of 1973). Another recession from 1973-'75 mirrored that one when the Down went back down and that period is considered the twin recessions.
I was 9 and living in the NYC suburbs. On the East Coast the games went from 9:00pm to midnight, so I wasn’t allowed to stay up for the whole game.
My nostalgia meter just blew up.
Duane Thomas thought the move to Texas Stadium, coming 2 weeks later, changed the atmosphere of Cowboys games, commenting on people putting on airs, the cheering turning more polite.
@jimegan6783, "Bravo, bravo".
The final game the Dallas Cowboys would play at the Cotton Bowl. Texas Stadium would open several weeks later for a game against New England.
Except for the numbers on the sleeves instead of the shoulders and the Cowboy pants from gray to a more bluish gray, the uniforms from both teams are basically the same today.
The Cowboys had the numbers on the sleeves from 1970-73 on the blue jerseys through 1978
Groovy!!
This might have been the last game played at the old Cotton Bowl.
'sure was ;)
Swedish American the JerryTron at Jerry World cost more to build than the cost of Texas Stadium. So said a tour guide at Jerry World in 2010.
@@bawbremyOn April 11, 2010 Texas Stadium was blown up
@@michaelleroy9281 Was to small for Jerry’s ego I guess.
Bob Hayes: "The fastest man on the Planet" at that time on one side, Lance Alworth: "The perhaps second fastest man at that time on the Planet" on the other. Speed Kills!
Last cowboys game at the cotton bowl
Frank, the man, in his last year in NY, before returning to Minnesota. He made #10 cool!, before Eli P.
*Fran*.
@@jeffreyt.steptoe5306 Yes. This phone drives me nuts. Thank You.
Calvin Hill. That's NBA HOFer Grant Hill's daddy.
Back when football was great: Tom Landry in a suit and hat, no head phones no lip reading and an assistant coach smoking a cigarette!!! And of course, Howard, Frank and Don MNF!!!!👍👌😁
38:16 Wow, the good old days when you could have a smoke and coach an NFL game all at once.
Great archival piece. 👍
The good ole days !
Texas/Arkansas had their game the following Saturday, 10-16-71..I was 12 years old then..
I believe Arkansas won that game 31-7
This game was played when I was in my teens my mid-teens
@@22doodster87 I think I should know how old I was thank you very much
I'd rather not say how old I was in 1971 that would give away my age in 2022
..LOL, hard to believe this was 51 years ago..'great' meant something back then, now, it's used after every successful play, like it's the friggin' SB..they have NO clue what 'great' really is..
Don Ohlmeyer would go on to be a television sports god at NBC.
Hayes and Alworth with Ditka or Truax at tight end gives Staubach some great passing targets.
i was in the 1st grade. long , long time ago
boston bevo
I was in 1st grade as well
Frank Gifford was plugging the Dick Cavett Show!
Jets fans would be surprised to see Dick (Rich) Kotite throw that block to spring Rocky Thompson
I was just about to post the same! Great catch.
Is it just me or did ABC back then could only afford 1 Microphone as it seems that they are passing it around in the Commentators Booth at the beginning of the telecast
Thanks.
Roger doesn't want you to hide behind a curtain of drugs ... @6:46
Good advice, think you will take it?
This game was played two days after Khrushchev died .
Notice how slim and fit the linesmen all are?
Average lineman was 65 pounds smaller then todays offensive linemen and not as mobile. The teams are so much bigger and faster today.
JIM GARRETT, NY GIANTS offensive coordinator and dad of Jason and Judd. Jason you know, Judd= a former London Monarch WLAF receiver/back. John Garrett was another one in football but I don't think he was related. Jim was a former '50's NFL'er and the only head coach of the WFL HOUSTON TEXANS..
Low budget,pass the mic,still great after all these years!
I remember watching this whole game I don't remember any one of the 3 mentioning this was the last game at the Cotton Bowl and Texas Stadium would be opening 2 weeks later
Frank Gifford explains that this was the last Cowboys game at the Cotton Bowl at the end of the broadcast
Love the 429 LTD CONVERTIBLE!!!
Hill's knee put him out. Duane Thomas came in...
and the rest, for that season, anyway, is history.
Calvin's years of glory were relatively short due to injuries. But he was great when he was healthy.
@@muffs55mercury61
He was just ok was fumbler and he was always injured.
Text Schramm blew it by not giving Duane Thomas a raise, b4 next season he was dumped on SD were his career quickly flamed out SD got rid of him to Washington and after 1 season 1974 it was over.
HoF talent total malcontent off the field.Dallas spent the next 5 seasons looking for a RB and Tony Dorsett arrives via a trade from Seattle in 1977 and bam SB champs 27-10 over Denver.
TheRedBaron Lives! L
28yrs as Cowboys HC and Landry as brilliant as he was,only won 2 SB both with Staubach at QB and had he not started Morton,with Roger pacing the sidelines,he wins a 3rd,SB5 as Dallas would of beaten the Colts easily.
29 years as head coach. 1960-1988.
@@mikehammerle928 And were it not for the strike, probably would have been forced to retire after the 1987 season. There were a lot of people who felt Rozelle should have stepped in and only approved the sale of the Cowboys to Jerry Jones on the condition Landry coach the 1989 season so the NFL could do a "farewell tour" for Landry while Jimmy Johnson would take over in 1990.
You are speaking with the benefits of hindsight of course, Staubach should be on any list of top 10 of all time but then he was an unproven young QB exiting and with potential but Morton was a proven vet who had taken Dallas farther than they had ever been . Would a green Staubach had been better against Baltimore than Morton with a bum elbow? (Healthy Morton threw very well) probably but this game is evidence that the offense performed better as a unit with Morton at the helm, they were crisper out of the huddle, decisive of the ball and more patient with the game plan. Reeves turned the ball over twice and Thomas once or you are looking at a probable 30 point blowout.
@@johntabler349, You're exactly right about Super Bowl V. Even with Morton's injured elbow, the Cowboys were demonstrably the better team IMO, and would have eased their way to a victory if not for getting jobbed on the egregious call on Thomas' fumble at the Colts' goal line.
They had one mic, passing it to each other back then?? 😂😂
When mnf was good
THE LAST GAME THE DALLAS COWBOYS PLAYED AT THE COTTON BOWL I REMEMBER THE WHOLE GAME ROGER STAUBACH STARTED BUT CRAIG MORTON STATED THE SECOND HALF WHAT WAS TOM LANDRY THINKING STAUBACH WAS NOT HURT KENNETH O
Quit SHOUTING
Has the eventual Super Bowl champion ever been this bad at holding on to the ball?
Tucker may have been footballs best TE in the 70's.
This game was supposed to be at Texas Stadium
Unfortunately, the new stadium was not ready for a game, so it was at the old Cotton Bowl. They would play in Texas Stadium two weeks later against the renamed New England Patriots (after they were the Boston Patriots). Some people may have thought the first game against the Washington Redskins (now just Washington, for the moment) was going to be played in the nation's capital on October 3, 1971 but the stadium was recuperating from a mess three days earlier when the Washington Senators baseball team with rude fans destroying the playing field--and other objects, had to forfeit a game. The Senators had been informed they were moving to Dallas to become the Texas Rangers! The Cowboys and Redskins played in Dallas anyway, and Washington won it 20 to 16.
What a head case Duane Thomas rb #33 was ruined what could of been a HoF career by being such pain in the ass.
Tex Schramm Dallas GM actually traded him to NE in training camp but, he was such an asshole their he got into a shouting match with their hc John Mazur,that NE petitioned commissioner Pete Rozelle to rescind the trade only 2 days after acquiring him and Rozelle nixed it sending him back to Dallas.
Duane Thomas was forced back to Dallas and didn't speak to anybody on the team the whole year and Chevrolet the sponsor of the SB mvp award was so put off by his attitude that Roger Staubach was named mvp of SB VI instead.
Schramm promptly traded him again prior to the start of the 1972 season this time to San Diego where he quickly wore out his welcome their and his NFL career ended after the 1974 season in Wsh an ignominious failure!
@kennethprice8710, I've never heard that MVP story, but I find it dubious Thomas would've gotten the award over Staubach, his attitude notwithstanding. If you're aware of any source verifying that account I'd be interested.
Does anyone know what caused these problems with the audio at around 1:23:20?
Ralph mouth is in the schick commercial...48:04. LOL
Malph?
Next bed and tomorrow I talk to my buddies about the key plays i.e. "did you see when ...."
Cowboys didn't look very Super in first half. LOL all the fumbles were pissing off Cosell.
I'm so disgusted with the modern day NFL , I'm have to go back in time when it was great. I even use double edge and injector razors till this day, because there great ! Thank you.
Now people can't handle seeing any defense being played(LOL).
@@jeffreyt.steptoe5306 exactly. I have seen high school games that play and hit harder than the pro's.
Pregame talk: Are they really passing the mic between each other at 3:40?
It wasn't until the 1980s each announcer had his own mic
Too bad Lance Alworth was close to retirement. If he were in his prime both he and Bob Hayes would've have been the fastest wideout tandem is NFL history up to that point.
@Crunkboy415, Indeed, Alworth's productivity had been declining pretty precipitously since the '69 season with the Chargers.
Power football.
Dismal season for the Giants as they would lose 4 straight, then win 2 and then lost their last 5 games to end up 4-10. It would be 10 long years before they make the playoffs. 1970 & 1972 would be the only winning seasons in the decade for the Giants. Not a good period in history for them.
@muffs55mercury61, In fact, they had been a team increasingly threadbare in talent and consequently, frequently dreadful going back to '64.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 Yes for sure. Last championship was in 1956 and the next would be in 1986 (though 1958, '59 & 63 were close) Worst season was 1966 (1-12-1) which I wouldn't wish on anyone.
@@muffs55mercury61, I really don't follow the game, but I have to wonder if any team has given up more points per game than the '66 Giants' 501.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 Yep 1-12-1 that year for them.
JSYK..Duane Thomas, from West Texas State, had every chance to be a great RB, before Tony Dorsett got there, but he had other, off-the-field issues, including 'reverse-racism', and drugs..the drugs got him traded, when Tom Landry found out..he was a big part of our SB VI win, still 'apart from', not 'of'..he had already been suspended once..
Duane had a serious attitude problem. Landry didn't put up with that crap.
Duane Thomas wanted a new contract he claims in his rookie year of 1970 he was broke
Duane Thomas and Mercury Morris were teammates at West Texas State
Big g and big 🐮
They called SB 5 the BLUNDER BOWL I think with all the turnovers in this game what would you all call it
@timrobinson7373, Landry characterized it as a game between two desperate teams, resulting in the hardest hitting contest he had ever witnessed.
"Roger, the 'dodger'.in his 3rd year"..any questions, lol?..
This is a much better nfl. This cowboys team would have beaten the Chiefs by 21 using the rule book from the 70s.
Why would they have won? Every player was smaller and slower. Im sure vegas wouldn't even touch it because the cowboys get destroyed. Those little tiny lineman couldnt protect Staubach and the cowboys wouldnt score. If the chiefs wanted to rush for 500 they would and the cowboys couldn't stop them . If they wanted to pass for 700 ,they would because the cowboys couldn't stop them.
LOL, you’re funny.
@@michaeljordan6008 it wasnt a joke. Your comment was a joke . The average lineman today is 65 pounds heavier and faster. How could those little fellows going to protect Staubach? Hows those 250 pound slow defensive lineman going to stop the run game. How does those 180 poind defensive backs that run 4.7 fortys going to stop the passing game? What are they going to do, get physical? Only a dumbass would think they could play with todays players. Are you that dumbass?
@@michaeljordan6008 you have to know that any expert on the planet is laughing at you , right?
Provide each of those teams the same nutrition and training and it’s a long day for KC. And are we playing old rules or the new rules where everything favors the offense and the QB?
Hunter @2:50:47
Virgil Moody: 👍👍👍👍🍹.
I enjoy the period ads also. Surprisingly these Cowboys win SB6 convincingly. Doomsday played well. Staubach's play in the first half was far from brilliant.
The color is good but the resolution is reprehensible. I didn't like Howard then. I find him even more tiresome now. He was just such a complete nerd. Some people claim there was "chemistry" with Don and Frank. A fart stinks bc of chemistry. Don and Frank were entertaining. Howard was not.
Little Mean Joe Green #33
1:40:27 Who is that?
Looks like Paul Brown
Cosell didn't even like football
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Rocky Thompson aka Ralph Symonds had great speed and horrible hands. He also had a drug problem.
once, outside yankee stadium before practice Rocky won't sign autgraphs said he had a hurt hand. went thru practice no problem. went he came out after practice the brothers gave him a hard time about his "hurt hand" Rocky hightailed it out of practice parking lot.
At 3 hrs.8 min., OJ Simpson likes RC COLA despite the fact it does not give you that gassy feeling that feels like a slashing sharp pain.
I guess the jury is still out on that claim.
What the hellck do the jurors know, anyway. They get it wrong a lot, right, O.J., errrr R.C.?
Sloppy game