1977 NFC Championship - Vikings at Cowboys - Enhanced CBS Broadcast - 1080p/60fps

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2023
  • I've enhanced the 1977 NFC Championship broadcast. The source recording for this game was in very nice shape to begin with, but after running it through Topaz (upscale, double framerate, denoise, sharpen) and Resolve (contrast and color grading) it now looks fantastic. See before/after screenshots here -- imgbox.com/g/2iK6ckxBJy -- my thanks to romelovesdan for providing the 4 DVD source discs for this project

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  • @davevolskysbackdoor5673
    @davevolskysbackdoor5673  10 месяцев назад +74

    I've enhanced the 1977 NFC Championship broadcast. The source recording for this game was in very nice shape to begin with, but after running it through Topaz (upscale, double framerate, denoise, sharpen) and Resolve (contrast and color grading) it now looks fantastic. See before/after screenshots here -- imgbox.com/g/2iK6ckxBJy -- my thanks to romelovesdan for providing the 4 DVD source discs for this project

    • @easilyscan
      @easilyscan 10 месяцев назад +9

      Thanks for all the work. Much appreciated. Love that you leave the commercials in. Now if the Vikings could just win a Super Bowl :(

    • @jimnfl7134
      @jimnfl7134 10 месяцев назад

      *Find NFL related videos in my Channel*

    • @quincee3376
      @quincee3376 9 месяцев назад +2

      Thanks!!!!

    • @jonfranks6902
      @jonfranks6902 9 месяцев назад +5

      Dave thanks for the upload!!! I’m a Steelers fan but love these old games!!!

    • @rog9601
      @rog9601 9 месяцев назад +6

      Awesome looking forward to others with Dallas from 1977.

  • @williamcoolidge9884
    @williamcoolidge9884 9 месяцев назад +74

    I love when the commercials are left in these broadcasts. It's like a walk down memory lane both for the game and the ads.

    • @wrigley611
      @wrigley611 8 месяцев назад +6

      Yes. Susan Anton in the Muriel commercial, Jan Smithers in the Vitalis commercial.

    • @theskeptic2010
      @theskeptic2010 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yes, a sort of time capsule, I enjoy watching the old commercials too.

    • @gregstreuber
      @gregstreuber 6 месяцев назад

      Ditto. Thank you!!

    • @mesomemore97
      @mesomemore97 3 месяца назад

      Ford Futura with a 4 banger and a manual transmission.......... 33 mpg.

    • @carlostorres8342
      @carlostorres8342 2 месяца назад

      @@wrigley611 🔥🔥❤‍🔥

  • @user-on5mf7fk3b
    @user-on5mf7fk3b 10 месяцев назад +76

    Miss those days of The NFL Today opening with Brent exclaiming, "You are looking LIVE at..."

    • @GeorgeDamon
      @GeorgeDamon 10 месяцев назад +5

      Brent is the only one from that show that still IS looking live...

    • @joeomalley2835
      @joeomalley2835 10 месяцев назад +7

      So true. I miss those days.

    • @Christopher-jk9bj
      @Christopher-jk9bj 10 месяцев назад +7

      that was great ..showing the stadiums the teams were going to play at. Brent Musberger was one of the best. And he's still with us ..thanks Brent you put smiles on a lot of peoples faces

    • @kingers36
      @kingers36 9 месяцев назад +5

      I even love the commecials

    • @paranormalskeptic3893
      @paranormalskeptic3893 5 месяцев назад +2

      Great days, I miss them as well. Things were so simple back then.

  • @mab7491
    @mab7491 10 месяцев назад +63

    Can we please go back to these days..
    When football was football
    Two great teams
    I’ve been a Dallas fan since 1977 but the Vikes never got the love and respect they deserved

    • @markiefufu
      @markiefufu 7 месяцев назад +6

      I've been a Dallas fan since 1974. Had pajamas when I was 5 in 1971, but my dad was stationed in Germany and we didn't get NFL games to my knowledge. Anyway, I moved to Minnesota in 1994 and they are diehard fans of their team, even through rough times. Like Dallas fans, they think their team will make the Super Bowl every year.

    • @morthedgebuckle227
      @morthedgebuckle227 6 месяцев назад +4

      Let's go back to these days in every way.❤

    • @BruceWayne-ri4wr
      @BruceWayne-ri4wr 6 месяцев назад +1

      Yes Minnesota one of the greatest teams ever to ever have won a Super Bowl back then truly great defensive football team have they just pulled one out they would be remembered as one of the greatest teams ever

    • @BruceWayne-ri4wr
      @BruceWayne-ri4wr 6 месяцев назад

      This was back when America was America men were men boys were boys there were no transvestites there were no homosexual perversion being forced into our and there was no anti-American this oozing out of the announcers in the football players refusing to stand for the national anthem2

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 4 месяца назад +1

      Living in the Past? like Jethro Tull ?

  • @Sunday_Morning570
    @Sunday_Morning570 6 месяцев назад +6

    I remember my brothers and I couldn't wait to get home from Sunday mass to watch the NFL Today.

  • @philb.1502
    @philb.1502 3 месяца назад +2

    Vin Scully sounds so weird doing football. Scully is the most iconic baseball voice ever. R.I.P.

  • @cj20080
    @cj20080 7 месяцев назад +14

    1:15:53 - Man on fire. Nearly 46 years ago and I remember this game like it was yesterday. I was living on Wheeler Place in Dallas, working at Mercantile Bank downtown. In fact, I remember this more clearly than I remember what I had for breakfast today.

    • @jcd3869
      @jcd3869 3 месяца назад

      Thx for the timestamp. That is crazy! How did it happen? Cigarette?

  • @GeorgeDamon
    @GeorgeDamon 10 месяцев назад +47

    The Vikings' uniforms really pop in this enhancement, and it's nice because this was their best-ever look. Their uniforms these days don't look anywhere near as nice, because they've gone more toward blue and away from purple.
    The Cowboys might have won this game no matter what, but they got a huge gift by not having to face Fran Tarkenton, who had been injured several weeks earlier. There was a huge drop-off from Tarkenton to Bob Lee--who had also been the starting QB 6 years earlier in the Vikings' 20-12 loss in the '71 NFCDP.

    • @nathanielduncan4692
      @nathanielduncan4692 10 месяцев назад +7

      I don't think Tarkenton would have made a difference in the game,i mean the vikings were starting to age out during that time period with some of there key players on the roaster.

    • @theodoreboosalis
      @theodoreboosalis 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@nathanielduncan4692 You are probably correct - but what I didn't understand is why Bud didn't start Kramer - because you needed a gunslinger at QB for this game - not Bob Lee. Bob Lee is a backup QB - so when you lose your starter in a game - I guess you go to Bob Lee. When you start a new game - you don't start Bob Lee.

    • @davevolskysbackdoor5673
      @davevolskysbackdoor5673  10 месяцев назад +3

      Kramer had only started one game in 1977 - his rookie season. I don't think you just throw a guy with practically no experience into a Championship game, on the road, against Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys. Kramer didn't start any games the following year either. In 1979 he finally was the guy, starting all 16 games.

    • @Christopher-jk9bj
      @Christopher-jk9bj 10 месяцев назад +2

      It didn't matter who started for the Vikings ,,The Cowboys were on a mission ..No 1 ranked offense and no 1 ranked defense, The Team was firing on all 8 cylinders

    • @theodoreboosalis
      @theodoreboosalis 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@Christopher-jk9bjIt did matter because Bob Lee couldn't throw his way out of a wet paper bag. Seriously.

  • @camoanddonuts7894
    @camoanddonuts7894 10 месяцев назад +29

    This just hits hard in the nostaglia gut, I was born in '77 so this was my first SB year, seemed like real men times, working hard, drink your beer, women being cute and feminine, holding their own, and the Vikings team and fans idea of bringing the snow.
    😢RIP the old NFL

    • @shanetrimble9265
      @shanetrimble9265 10 месяцев назад +7

      I agree with all that

    • @rider65
      @rider65 6 месяцев назад

      I'm 58 and for me the best of the NFL was the 70s through the 80s. I'm also a huge F1 and MotoGP- Superbike fan it's not just the NFL or the MLB every single high-level sport has been infiltrated by politics and massive corruption. Not to mention most of the competitors are a bunch of primadonna soy boys🙄🤢🤮 every modern sports sucks

    • @theskeptic2010
      @theskeptic2010 6 месяцев назад +2

      IMO the NFL was at its best in the 1970s, including the uniforms and the announcing.

    • @forrest1402
      @forrest1402 3 месяца назад

      Born in 77?Wow! You were a baby watching football, 🤔

    • @TheBklynraider55
      @TheBklynraider55 3 месяца назад

      Well said!!!

  • @patrickbrowder6857
    @patrickbrowder6857 10 месяцев назад +23

    I was 11. Dad was still in the house watching big games on the couch with us and life was good! For a San Diego kid to become a lifelong Vikings fan speaks volumes to the quality of these 70's broadcasts. That Cowboys team had some players!

    • @davidjackson2690
      @davidjackson2690 10 месяцев назад +1

      I was 11 and a BEARS fan. I hated both these teams(lol) but had to root for the Vikings.

    • @patrickbrowder6857
      @patrickbrowder6857 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@davidjackson2690 Respect.

    • @JaxonSmithers
      @JaxonSmithers 9 месяцев назад +5

      @@davidjackson2690I was surprised the Bears were in the playoffs that season. They didn’t get really good until 1982 or 83. I’m guessing Walter Payton had a lot to do that the 1977 success.

    • @markiefufu
      @markiefufu 7 месяцев назад +3

      We watched this championship game and the Super Bowl at church. Someone brought in their big projection TV. The Cowboys were definitely on par with Jesus. Lol.

  • @timburr4453
    @timburr4453 10 месяцев назад +14

    This is one of the best that Dave has spruced up. The richness of the vikes uniforms, you can see the shine on their helmets (no longer even possible since they went all matte)

  • @MichaelSmith-ip8jg
    @MichaelSmith-ip8jg 10 месяцев назад +16

    You’re spoiling us classic football fans. Great job 👏

  • @eXtremeFX2010
    @eXtremeFX2010 10 месяцев назад +12

    Dallas Cowboys before NFL Salary Cap Parody. This was a great time capsule plus commercials. Thanks for sharing.

  • @joeysmith7555
    @joeysmith7555 10 месяцев назад +17

    Added viewing pleasure is the commercials, gotta love it. Great job Dave! I was 15 years old and a huge Cowboys fan in 77.

  • @williamcoolidge9884
    @williamcoolidge9884 9 месяцев назад +10

    The clarity is stunning for a 1970's game. I can finally watch a 70's game on full screen! Thank you, sir!

  • @arthurbaker8703
    @arthurbaker8703 10 месяцев назад +9

    The picture on these games are amazing.

  • @bonanzatime
    @bonanzatime 10 месяцев назад +6

    Funny watching these commercials, I haven't seen them in well over 40 years, but seeing them now it feels like just last week I was watching them.😂

  • @christopherscott6708
    @christopherscott6708 10 месяцев назад +11

    Awesome job! The original had kind of a muddy appearance, at least my copy does. This is so much better. Thanks Dave!

  • @davidjackson2690
    @davidjackson2690 10 месяцев назад +8

    Man, what Preston Pearson said!
    I sure hope that guy succeeded after football.

  • @joeomalley2835
    @joeomalley2835 10 месяцев назад +8

    I'm not a fan of neither team, but still, It's awesome to watch these epic classics. The Vikings and Cowboys were going for the gold in 1977 and had awesome teams. Thanks for the post!

  • @JeffreyGlover65
    @JeffreyGlover65 7 месяцев назад +5

    Watched this game live. Just turned 12yrs old. Good times

    • @OlDirty5150
      @OlDirty5150 3 месяца назад +1

      Did you see the snowman that caught fire?

  • @redandbluebulldog1508
    @redandbluebulldog1508 8 месяцев назад +7

    What an amazing broadcast. Thanks for keeping the commercials. This is when football was pure enjoyment and escapism. I miss those days.

  • @patricklong-yf3mz
    @patricklong-yf3mz 8 дней назад +1

    I think most would agree.Those were wonderful years as a football fan.And great people announcing the game in the both and side line.Just a fantastic time.So lucky to have experienced it.

  • @henrymcallen5703
    @henrymcallen5703 10 месяцев назад +13

    You never disappoint Dave. These Vikings uniforms (the best version they had) look amazing, even if the team didn't that day. Thanks again!!! There are some great running backs from the 70's that time has forgotten (Larry Brown, Marv Hubbard, Lydell Mitchell and the GREAT Chuck Foreman to name a few) thanks for keeping their heroics alive.

    • @theskeptic2010
      @theskeptic2010 6 месяцев назад +1

      Foreman had a unique way of spinning to where he never seemed to take a good solid shot from anyone

  • @chrisrose6014
    @chrisrose6014 10 месяцев назад +13

    Jack Whittaker was a great wordsmith!!

  • @christianstough6337
    @christianstough6337 7 месяцев назад +7

    The announcers are just amazing. For all they know a man was just burned alive in the stands. They give two f***s and keep their focus on the game. Over 5 minutes later, as the man is removed from the stadium on a stretcher, Vin gives a token "thoughts and prayers"... and its back to the game!

  • @shanetrimble9265
    @shanetrimble9265 10 месяцев назад +6

    Wow that was enjoyable especially with the pregame.

  • @brianmorgan2597
    @brianmorgan2597 7 месяцев назад +5

    Hands down the best cowboys era of all time. Great players that act like professionals, not this celebrating after every play crap. Cool looking uniforms, a great time to be an NFL fan.

  • @oscarfairley6600
    @oscarfairley6600 10 месяцев назад +3

    Seeing and hearing highlights, without the loud music background is very refreshing.

  • @DzNutz-kf9ob
    @DzNutz-kf9ob 10 месяцев назад +5

    I remember this game as a kid. I remember when that dude in the Santa Clause suit caught fire during the game.

  • @user-bl6gx9hr2n
    @user-bl6gx9hr2n 10 месяцев назад +12

    A man on fire in the stands

    • @JazzYachtrocker
      @JazzYachtrocker 8 месяцев назад

      Story goes it was a fan in a snowman suit who walked by a vendor selling hot chocolate and a Sterno ignited the man’s costume.

    • @orbyfan
      @orbyfan 7 месяцев назад +2

      Daniel Yoder, 24, was the fan who caught fire. A Vietnam vet named Clarence Walters threw his fur coat over Mr. Yoder, who survived with second-degree burns. The lesson, as always, is: Never bump into someone carrying an open can of Sterno while you're wearing a snowman suit. I saw this telecast at the time, but the media generally ignored the incident, and I didn't find out until many years later that the victim survived.

    • @orbyfan
      @orbyfan 7 месяцев назад

      It starts at about 1:15:53.

    • @patgalvez4563
      @patgalvez4563 5 месяцев назад +1

      I bet that hurt

    • @carlostorres8342
      @carlostorres8342 2 месяца назад

      Back in the day, when people actually helped their neighbor. The fans put out his fire and saved his life. Today everybody would be on their phone recording.

  • @joncampisi8311
    @joncampisi8311 10 месяцев назад +10

    Harvey Martin should be in the HOF!

    • @charleslee1644
      @charleslee1644 9 месяцев назад +3

      TOO TALL ALSO

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 4 месяца назад

      Chuck Howley got in in 2023, they all can't get in in one year

  • @ajfiducia2684
    @ajfiducia2684 5 месяцев назад +3

    Amazing stuff here. I noticed something strange however, with the half time show. That year, 1977, CBS was playing homage clips to different teams/athletes as the season went on during the half. This one always was in my memory as it was set to "Nobody does it better". Now, right before the clip, Brent M., says the winner will play the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl, but, during the clip, as they are showing Walter Payton, the Dorsett, the video shows Tom Landry and the Lombardi Trophy and displays Super Bowl XII Champions, The Dallas Cowboys? That game was two weeks away and the NFC Championship had not been played yet? Wondering if anyone else caught that?

    • @user-sr6pm7tq5y
      @user-sr6pm7tq5y 5 месяцев назад +1

      I did too!!!! Was looking to see if anyone else noticed...Makes no sense!

    • @ajfiducia2684
      @ajfiducia2684 5 месяцев назад

      I was so taken aback. I must have looked like a dog hearing a strange sound with my head tilting like……whaaaaaat.

    • @mdhill5420
      @mdhill5420 Месяц назад

      Just saw that and I was about to post a comment on it. Things that make you go "hmmm...?" And it won't do anything to counter the "NFL is rigged" conspiracy theorists out there.

  • @topJimmyP1984
    @topJimmyP1984 10 месяцев назад +6

    Nice work, looks great. Go Cowboys!!

  • @stevelyons5297
    @stevelyons5297 5 месяцев назад +2

    Oh I miss the 70s! Station wagons parked near the end zone, open whiskey bottles in the stands, everybody smoking cigarettes, and men on fire running through the stands. I mean whens the last time you saw somebody on fire at a recent football game?😅

  • @thomaspelton7740
    @thomaspelton7740 10 месяцев назад +3

    Love those old commercials

  • @blugold94
    @blugold94 10 месяцев назад +7

    Two things: When Brent said in the pregame during the OAK-DEN hightlights that the missed Lytle fumble would be "the controversy that would live on" he was right as it lives on more than 45 years later from that game. Also, was there a lower level top analyst of a conference title game than Alex Hawkins? Obviously CBS wanted to share the spoils of the big games with Vin Scully and give him the NFC Championship and the Summerall/Brookshier team the Super Bowl but that CBS thought Hawkins was of the level of a 1 or 2 broadcast team is inexplicable in retrospect. Fortunately George Allen was available the next year and Madden would join the year after that.

  • @romelovesdan
    @romelovesdan 10 месяцев назад +7

    Fantatstic buildup with the additional interviews with Roger Staubach and Chuck Foreman tacked on pre- NFL Today Pregame.
    "Snow" is the operative theme this day. Snowman Dan Yorder makes his infamous appearance during the game.....

    • @romelovesdan
      @romelovesdan 10 месяцев назад +4

      No hoopla, or distraction from the NFC Championship game, just solid reporting , and a injection of levity, and well meaning well wishes. End of story......Back to the game! How times change

    • @shanetrimble9265
      @shanetrimble9265 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@romelovesdanYes they sure have. Somehow they lost class. Over time everything just started seeming lame. Everything was more lighthearted in the 70s and 80s. The broadcasts were simple. Less was more.

    • @romelovesdan
      @romelovesdan 10 месяцев назад

      @@shanetrimble9265 Contrived drama and build up rather than true substance now. Here in the true "classic era" they let real gritty and Identifiable Football players play the game. We could even talk to the players and see them in the community back then. Cowboys buying us something at Taco Bell at Training camp!. Trick or Treating (way to old) but had to go to Tommy Kramers' house were collective experiences not out of the ordinary.

  • @Condorman12
    @Condorman12 10 месяцев назад +9

    Absolutely love this stuff ! Please keep it coming !!!!

  • @greenbeagle13
    @greenbeagle13 8 месяцев назад +3

    I used to love watching the Vikings play in their undomed stadium... This is where the Hail Mary was born - loved this game...!! This is when football was football. ❤❤

    • @darrinlindsey
      @darrinlindsey 7 месяцев назад

      Actually, the "Hail Mary" game was in '75, and played in Bloomington.

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 3 месяца назад

      Metropolitan Stadium would have fallen down by 2024 it couldn't stay up forever

  • @judyl.761
    @judyl.761 7 месяцев назад +4

    Wow! Look at how much the tacklers led with their helmets!

    • @patgalvez4563
      @patgalvez4563 5 месяцев назад

      Coaches actually taught that back then

  • @michaeljordan6008
    @michaeljordan6008 6 месяцев назад +1

    I’m almost in tears, this is so beautiful.
    You’re a true artist.
    When I was kid, the anticipation for these games was off the charts.

  • @Huffnutz17
    @Huffnutz17 10 месяцев назад +17

    This was Alex Hawkins's last game with the network. His "sissy" remark didn't go over very well with the brass at CBS. Why Vin Scully wasn't renewed in '82 to call more football games is beyond me, he's the gold standard. His last game with CBS was "The Catch" game in the '81 NFL Championship game.

    • @lemmiwinks09
      @lemmiwinks09 10 месяцев назад +8

      Scully left CBS because he was passed over as #1 PxP for Pat Summerall. I think Scully is the GOAT as a baseball announcer but CBS absolutely made the right decision pairing Summerall and Madden for an iconic partnership.

    • @stephenh5944
      @stephenh5944 10 месяцев назад +8

      Hawkins was truly terrible at color. Very little insight, and a Dallas homer for some reason. Also, it wasn't just the "sissy" remark, he got busted a few days after this game for drunk driving and marijuana possession. Vin Scully's retort was pure gold.

    • @shanetrimble9265
      @shanetrimble9265 10 месяцев назад +4

      Vin was great.

    • @tommyparkerparker
      @tommyparkerparker 9 месяцев назад +4

      @@stephenh5944How CBS promoted Alex Hawkins to the #2 analyst spot was beyond me when they had other more competent analysts at the time such as Nick Bounticonti , Sonny Jurgensen Tom Matte.

    • @scottweisel3640
      @scottweisel3640 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@lemmiwinks09I agree. I think of Baseball when I think of Scully, but you have to wonder how he got paired with this stiff. That was much more of an insult than being beat out by Pat Summerall.

  • @paullentz1972
    @paullentz1972 Месяц назад

    That was a really well done Carly Simon tribute to the various champions of different sports in 1977. A time capsule of sports history. Seems so long ago (I was 5 years old at the time). Great song....great champions!

  • @scottreed240
    @scottreed240 10 месяцев назад +4

    Amazing quality Dave!

  • @chriscanada175
    @chriscanada175 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for this. Watched every minute including the commercials. I have a renewed hankering for some Tuborg Gold 🍺

  • @MrFreedomismyname
    @MrFreedomismyname 7 месяцев назад +1

    I love watching the old commercials haha. Thank you for your channel

  • @samzach2057
    @samzach2057 5 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for the work you put into this. I love these old NFL broadcasts, especially when the old commercials are still in them!

  • @mattdon2164
    @mattdon2164 9 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for posting this, Dave! I remember watching this live on TV in real time. I recall the Vikings had a truck full of snow driving outside of Texas Stadium and they wanted to have it on the sideline to make them feel more ar home. They never did get inside the stadium, and the Cowboys went on to the epic Superbowl against Pittsburgh in Miami. Great memories!

    • @RSEwell9
      @RSEwell9 7 месяцев назад +1

      Dallas actually went on to play the Orange Crush Denver team after this one. They did play the Steelers in '75 after the Hail Mary division round at the Met.

    • @TheLAGopher
      @TheLAGopher 7 месяцев назад +1

      T he Cowboys would play that epic Super Bowl (Rematch) against Pittsburgh a year after this game. The Cowboys would be defending champs
      beating the Broncos in SB 12 after this game. Dallas would beat the LA Rams in the NFC Championship after the Rams finally overcame the Vikings
      in a playoff game.

    • @patgalvez4563
      @patgalvez4563 6 месяцев назад

      Another year that a Cowboy vs Raiders Super bowl matchup was spoiled.@@RSEwell9

  • @justinturley7071
    @justinturley7071 6 месяцев назад +1

    This was the 4th playoff meeting between the Vikings and Cowboys. Up to this point, the road team had won every meeting, with Dallas winning in Minnesota in 71 and 75, and Minnesota winning in Dallas in 73.

  • @joeysmith7555
    @joeysmith7555 10 месяцев назад +4

    I thought Alex Hawkins' voice sounded familiar so I looked him up and sure enough, I remembered him as a WFL announcer during the 1974 season for TVS (I'm from the Bham, AL area) and watched the games when they were broadcast. I agree with Vin Scully and wonder if he wore a helmet during his playing days because he rambled at times.

  • @vandrive5687
    @vandrive5687 7 месяцев назад +1

    Was age 13 when attended this game with my father and his business colleagues courtesy of their employer that had season tix throughout the ‘70’s & ‘80’s. Was freezing cold that day but we were dressed for it. We also lived in the same neighborhood as Roger Staubach in Richardson, TX at the time. “Roger” was the only adult in our neighborhood that we kids addressed by his first name. He use to hit towering fly balls (baseballs) to my childhood best friend and myself in the park across the street from his house.

  • @garys5175
    @garys5175 15 дней назад

    Bob Lee gave a great interview. Very poised and classy.

  • @Andyvg99
    @Andyvg99 7 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing to watch this in enhanced video quality. Trust me-it didn’t look this good on TV in 1977.

    • @darrinlindsey
      @darrinlindsey 7 месяцев назад

      I think I had to bang on the side of the tv, a few time during this game.

  • @kingers36
    @kingers36 9 месяцев назад

    Love this post great job 🔥🔥🔥

  • @soylentteal
    @soylentteal 10 месяцев назад +3

    I was at that game, in the non-scoreboard end zone. Had a great time, but the weather was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass cowboy.
    Probably best that I wasn’t one of those watching at home who heard Alex Hawkins say, “Roger runs like a sissy.”

  • @SopranoPizzaJMFNJ
    @SopranoPizzaJMFNJ 9 месяцев назад +1

    I can listen to Vin Scully read the phone book! TY For Sharing!

  • @hottubrabbits4763
    @hottubrabbits4763 5 месяцев назад

    I didn't get to attend this game, because my dad had me and mom camped out in our car outside Moody Coliseum in line for Super Bowl tickets that would go on a sale a few days later. I was in 6th grade, so it was an adventure, but it was COLD. Once they let us inside Moody Coliseum we weren't freezing anymore, but for an 11 year old I was BORED TO MADNESS. We made it to New Orleans, though, for Super Bowl XII vs the Broncos. The Cowboys had their resurgence after I finished college, but.... not a damn thing since. Thanks, Jerry.

  • @lagodifuoco313
    @lagodifuoco313 9 месяцев назад +3

    The Vikings Superfan guy jumping out of the back of the semi trailer and stumbling was a telltale sign of things to come for the "Purple Poopie Eaters" as Doomsday awaited them in Irving, TX

    • @scottweisel3640
      @scottweisel3640 7 месяцев назад

      Minnesota had a fine defense but Dallas Defense showed complete domination in this game. Chuck foreman was a very good power runner and I don’t recall him ever getting rocked like he did in this game. He was usually the punisher, but he took the beating this game.

  • @JaxonSmithers
    @JaxonSmithers 9 месяцев назад +2

    Remember watching this on my 7th birthday. Not a good birthday present for a Minnesota kid.

  • @reesepacker7983
    @reesepacker7983 10 месяцев назад +2

    The music intro was my all time fav that CBS used (very NFL films style music) i put it #3 on my all time fav NFL intro themes after the MNF theme of the early 90's and the Fox theme of the early to mid 90s. i was very young in 77 (six going seven ) but my dad watched the games every Sunday and that music intro stayed with probably because it was such regular part of my late 70s childhood ...i think they stopped using that intro music in 81/ 82.

    • @shanetrimble9265
      @shanetrimble9265 10 месяцев назад

      I think they stopped using it in 79. The 80-81 to 84 us my favorite

  • @Dayhawk001
    @Dayhawk001 2 месяца назад +1

    Best games watched as a kid, before you realized you were actually one of those guys in a ‘Beer Ad’.

  • @MilePost106
    @MilePost106 7 месяцев назад +8

    This was class act football, real men playing the game not like the immature children today playing pro football and acting stupid after a touchdown. I miss those old days of class act pro sports.

    • @PleaseLikeMyComments
      @PleaseLikeMyComments 6 месяцев назад

      Acting stupid after a touchdown? How about after every play! I stopped watching a decade ago.

  • @danielphillips486
    @danielphillips486 10 месяцев назад +4

    Holy s@#$ a dude on fire! Had never heard of that one

    • @GeorgeDamon
      @GeorgeDamon 10 месяцев назад

      At the time that was more memorable than the game.

    • @stephenh5944
      @stephenh5944 10 месяцев назад +1

      I looked it up: "Apparently, the man who caught fire was wearing a furry snowman costume and it became engulfed after he came in contact with a lit container of sterno fuel that was being used by a stadium vendor selling hot chocolate."

    • @shanetrimble9265
      @shanetrimble9265 10 месяцев назад +1

      Horrifying

  • @b17bomber
    @b17bomber 10 месяцев назад +2

    OMG great upload (you know me). I had no idea about the Vikings shipping in the snow!

    • @davevolskysbackdoor5673
      @davevolskysbackdoor5673  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks man! Yeah that was crazy :)

    • @GeorgeDamon
      @GeorgeDamon 10 месяцев назад +1

      They wanted to bring it into the stadium to put along their sideline as motivation, but Tex Schramm told them absolutely not.

  • @HAL_9000__
    @HAL_9000__ 10 месяцев назад +4

    Amazing.
    First of all THANKS for posting this!
    Second: I DON’T REMEMBER THIS! 😳
    (Except for 3:24:10 ! I do remember I was so shocked and angry at this clown and his comment. I mean WTF!)
    I was 12 years old and I was a huge Cowboys fan. I certainly remember the Cowboys win over Denver in the Super Bowl, but I guess I’ve forgotten HOW they got there.

  • @survivor5044
    @survivor5044 10 месяцев назад +6

    1:15:53 More like a bazaar difference of opinion. I remember way back when this happened, but I didn't know what game it was in. That is the most horrifying thing I have ever seen at a football game. OMG!!!😮🙏🏈

    • @survivor5044
      @survivor5044 10 месяцев назад +5

      I did some research to find why this happened: Apparently, the man who caught fire was wearing a furry snowman costume and it became engulfed after he came in contact with a lit container of sterno fuel that was being used by a stadium vendor selling hot chocolate.

    • @shanetrimble9265
      @shanetrimble9265 10 месяцев назад +2

      Wow that was hard to watch.

    • @survivor5044
      @survivor5044 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@shanetrimble9265 Same here.😥

  • @brianbachmeier34
    @brianbachmeier34 10 месяцев назад

    Thanks!

  • @theskeptic2010
    @theskeptic2010 6 месяцев назад +2

    One improvement networks have made is that they now continously show the score, time left, the down, etc, at the bottom of the screen. These old games you have to sort of guess at whats happening if you just tuned in.

    • @davevolskysbackdoor5673
      @davevolskysbackdoor5673  6 месяцев назад +2

      As well as on-screen ads, non-stop commercials, bombastic announcers...

    • @chuckyufarley2999
      @chuckyufarley2999 Месяц назад

      @@davevolskysbackdoor5673 Right? Little did we know, when FOX started adding all the modern bells and whistles to the broadcasts, what the game would turn into.

    • @davevolskysbackdoor5673
      @davevolskysbackdoor5673  Месяц назад +1

      @@chuckyufarley2999 Less is MORE

  • @dougmaclennan8654
    @dougmaclennan8654 8 месяцев назад +1

    Watershed game for Vikes. Ended era of 5 NFC Championship Game appearances in 8 seasons. They would appear in just 4 in the next 35 seasons.

  • @mesomemore97
    @mesomemore97 3 месяца назад

    My grandpa wore a fedora hat. I sat on the fireplace hearth and watched many a game with my Nanny & Pappy. I always thought coach Landry was as classy as my Grandpa. Those were the days.

  • @Bill.G
    @Bill.G 6 месяцев назад +2

    6:26 Alex Hawkins’ professionalism on full display early in the telecast.

    • @6400az
      @6400az 5 месяцев назад

      Very true. Also Don Meredith in the 1970 MNF....Cowboys vs Cardinals. Never seen anything like it truthfully, he was calling it from the point of view of a fam....( Dallas fan btw)

    • @user-sr6pm7tq5y
      @user-sr6pm7tq5y 5 месяцев назад

      Yes- was a breath of fresh air actually. Dan and Hawk said what they wanted...

  • @theodorerivera81
    @theodorerivera81 5 месяцев назад

    Excellent video

  • @scottweisel3640
    @scottweisel3640 7 месяцев назад +3

    Had Bob Lee ever thrown a football before this game? Those passes were brutal.

    • @tunafang
      @tunafang 7 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, he seemed nervous, while Staubach was cool under fire. Also, those multiple quick handoffs right into Ed Jones and Randy White were disastrous play calls.

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 4 месяца назад

      They had no choice, Tarkenton was injured in the Bengals game earlier in the season

  • @tadarolchristian2717
    @tadarolchristian2717 4 месяца назад

    Dandy Don Meridith commentating, I miss those voices too. Very enjoyable game. I didnt know Marv Levy and Mike Ditka were once part of Tom Landry's coaching staff. That Dallas defense was impressive.

  • @MrGMillet
    @MrGMillet 10 месяцев назад +3

    @2:08:29 Cowboys crowned Super Bowl Champions before NFC title game is half over? WOW can't believe CBS did that! Also no mention of the '77 Yankees and Reggie's 3 HRS?

    • @comis5
      @comis5 9 месяцев назад

      Yea , I did not see the game live in 1977 I was 11 and just started to watch football and a Dallas fan still am. But half time pregame 1977 shows Cowboys SB 12 champions. This had to be Spliced in correct? I love all your postings. Love the the whole games Especially commercials.

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 4 месяца назад

      Nobody was beating the Cowboys in 1977 it didn't matter who the hell they were playing

    • @MrGMillet
      @MrGMillet 4 месяца назад

      @@michaelleroy9281 I 'm not so sure. The RAIDERS (if they weren't screwed by the refs) would've given Dallas much better game and were definitely capable of beating them. Also, Pittsburgh whipped Cowboys asses in regular season, and always had their number back then.

  • @johnglenn30csardas
    @johnglenn30csardas 19 дней назад

    It’s funny to see Jimmy The Greek in these vintage games considering where the NFL is now with gambling (in bed). He had an aura of the forbidden about him even though to see him now, he looks like a typical goofball hot take guy.
    Thanks for the good-looking restoration!

  • @scottmyers63
    @scottmyers63 10 месяцев назад +1

    Tommy Loy.
    Priceless!

    • @michaelleroy9281
      @michaelleroy9281 4 месяца назад

      Jerry Jones fired him when he became the owner

  • @phfighter9465
    @phfighter9465 5 месяцев назад

    Late to the party...Tom Selleck was certainly a rugged looking fella and convincing cowboy...actually thought it was the Marlboro man at first...thanks again, sir👍🏾

  • @thatllputmarzipaninyourpie3117
    @thatllputmarzipaninyourpie3117 8 месяцев назад +1

    Dallas is only up 13 in the first half and the announcers said it will be nearly impossible for the Vikings to catch up. People were way too honest back then.

  • @davevolskysbackdoor5673
    @davevolskysbackdoor5673  10 месяцев назад +3

    40:20 - Jim Marshall a little too amped up :)

  • @chgibbons1
    @chgibbons1 4 месяца назад

    The opening NFL on CBS highlight sequence made me laugh. Nearly every play would be a personal foul today, or even then. One was even a facemask. Lol.

  • @jacktheripoff1888
    @jacktheripoff1888 Месяц назад

    Dallas went to 5 SB's in the 70's, winning 2 and losing 3. The 2 SB's they won they got there by winning the NFC title game at home and those SB's were in New Orleans. The 3 SB's they lost they got there by winning the NFC title game on the road and those SB's were in Miami. The 2 they won were against opponents playing in their first SB, and in the 3 they lost their opponents had been in one previously. I'm not knocking Dallas by any stretch. Their 20 season run from 1966-1985 with only 2 seasons not in the postseason and no losing seasons is one of the greatest runs in all of American professional sports.

  • @rider65
    @rider65 6 месяцев назад +1

    Mud, snow, rain, freezing cold sweltering heat you name it these guys played in everything unlike these high maintenance High Strung prima donnas now 🙄

  • @hottubrabbits4763
    @hottubrabbits4763 5 месяцев назад

    I love the advertisement for the Ford Pinto. They neglected to mention, "Sadly the Pinto still explodes when hit from the rear."

  • @user619tlsdca5
    @user619tlsdca5 4 месяца назад

    I believe or assumed the computer company IBM was part of the introduction of the Dallas Cowboys for it was the software from IBM that evaluated how they drafted players of the 70s. First team to use computers as other teams followed suite. It was why Cowboys defensive line men were all drafted of a minimal height of being 6'6 and only had 1 player less than 5'10 in their FB. IBM was heavily related to Cowboys as part of being minority owners.

  • @joechase-tf1qn
    @joechase-tf1qn 2 месяца назад

    My first true professional athlete that I followed the blue and white uniforms best uniforms of all time

  • @yellowveedub
    @yellowveedub 6 месяцев назад

    Man what I wouldn't give to live through the 70s and 80s with my knowledge I have today

  • @curtislowe4577
    @curtislowe4577 Месяц назад

    A preview of Superbowl 12 two weeks later. The Dallas defense generally bottled up the Minnesota offense giving the Dallas offense a short field. But just as in two weeks the Dallas offense tended to waste the good field position and couldn't run up the score. With ten minutes left Dallas was only up by 10.

  • @untexan
    @untexan 6 месяцев назад

    OK so here was the story with the guy on fire. It was below freezing in Dallas and he was wearing this furry snowman suit. Of course it was flammable, everything in the 1970s was flammable. He bumped into a vendor selling hot chocolate who was keeping his tray warm with a can of Sterno because again, it was the 1970s and of course we’re gonna walk through the stands with an open flame.
    The man’s snowman suit caught on fire. I don’t know where he thought he was going running through the stands, but fortunately some fans threw their coats over him to put the fire out.

  • @billplaney2585
    @billplaney2585 7 месяцев назад

    I attended this game with my dad. It was very cold, and I remember some guy in the audience did something to set himself on fire.

  • @thomasharroun8068
    @thomasharroun8068 9 месяцев назад +1

    At the 1:22:09 mark. After further review the ball carrier Knee was down no touchdown. The ball marked at the 1/2 yard line

    • @Rev22-21
      @Rev22-21 9 месяцев назад

      He was over the goal line.

  • @scottweisel3640
    @scottweisel3640 7 месяцев назад +1

    Vikes played like they weren’t interested in going to another SB to just lose again.

  • @sammcmillan300
    @sammcmillan300 7 месяцев назад +1

    When the Hispanic kicker for the Cowboys made a field goal, Scully said “you can put taco sauce on that one”. He would be fined, cancelled and fired if he said that nowadays.

    • @davevolskysbackdoor5673
      @davevolskysbackdoor5673  6 месяцев назад

      And the entire internet and mainstream media would yell racism from the high heavens and call for him to be burned at the stake because of his 'white privilege'.

  • @simonreynoso7611
    @simonreynoso7611 10 месяцев назад +1

    I saw this game live ...

  • @HectorConCarne23
    @HectorConCarne23 4 месяца назад

    That black n mild commercial killed me

  • @Briguy75
    @Briguy75 9 месяцев назад +1

    Fred Cox invented the Nerf football in 1972

  • @gerardwalleyn6439
    @gerardwalleyn6439 21 день назад

    1 moment that struck me was the commercial for RC cola at 202:20 in which the guy in the boat was a 99% dead ringer for serial killer TED BUNDY who had just escaped from a Colorado jail through his cell roof light fixture 2 days earlier + might have watched this game from his location at that the time in Ann Arbor Michigan as he was a big sports fan + actually watched his former U of Wash. school the next day on NBC with Curt Gowdy win the Rose Bowl over Michigan in a Bar there. Some might have thought that Ted sure found a new job so soon after starting his new life.

  • @chuckyufarley2999
    @chuckyufarley2999 Месяц назад

    16:28 Just a year removed from their last SB appearance and Bob Lee talking about getting back. Meanwhile, a mere 46 years later...

  • @mdnght_crttr
    @mdnght_crttr 9 месяцев назад +1

    That's so much better than todays music and ad-shtshow. Not even the few ads have a lot of music in em. Makes me almost really want to buy some of the stuff. How exactly did we go from this to the clown circus today? Where did we corner down the wrong way? I din't get it.

    • @davevolskysbackdoor5673
      @davevolskysbackdoor5673  9 месяцев назад +1

      I hear ya. I stopped watching the NFL back in 2014 because of that and many other reasons. If I had to pinpoint one person NFL-wise that made things start to go bad it would be Terrell Owens and his showboating. I was a Niners fan when he came on board, but I quickly tired of his schtick real quick. That kind of thing caught on and the NFL and society in general has degraded heavily ever since.