Archie Manning was great! He had Chuck Muncie and Tony Galbreth as RBs, Wes Chandler at WR and Henry Childs at TE! But the rest of that squad was straight-up Ain'ts!
@@edscottable Just not plenty enough, especially when you had the Cowboys, Vikings and Rams, particularly their defenses as well as offenses, smashing up the NFC, when the Saints had no defense.
It's been a long time since I've thought of Ike Harris, Clarence Chapman, Mo Spencer, Tinker Owens, Mike Strahan and Hollywood Henderson. The announcers were different, too. More descriptive, like for radio.
Maybe the reason the call of the game was "descriptive" as you say, was maybe because it was Frank Gleiber, the long-time Cowboys radio announcer on KRLD 1080 radio in Dallas. He began calling for CBS in 1975. When he left for CBS, Verne Lundquist, who was Gleibers radio color guy, and lead sports anchor at WFAA TV in Dallas, took over lead on the radio, and his radio color guy was Brad Sham, who is currently the Cowboys lead announcer, with color guy Babe Laufenberg, the one time Cowboys/Chargers QB. Gleiber had been associated with the Cowboys since the very early 60s.
Why does everyone who watch greatness doubt greatness? #24 was fast, but sorry he had an angle on TD. No angle TOUCHDOWN. Tony Dorsett. "Look out he has great speed." Greatest quote in football.
Part of an amazing draft for QBs (1971). Jim Plunkett, Manning, and Dan Pastorini went in the first three picks, and Lynn Dickey, Ken Anderson & Joe Theismann were chosen in later rounds.
@@edscottable I agree that he does kind of get a pass. That being said, those Saints teams he played on in the 70's were dreadful, a college team may have been able to beat them at one time. He did run for his life a lot
To their credit, Saints played them tough. They were physical. Cowboys, deep in talent and executing well, were just a better team. They were a great team.
People arent going to like this but I actually thought Archie Manning had more ability than Drew Brees. It's impossible to compare because of the drastic rule changes that hsve chssnged the game. Now you can't breathe on a receiver without getting a penalty. Plus Manning used to get hit, Brees can't get touched. Manning had phenomenal talent.
Archie had 7 different coaches while he played for the Saints. Never once did he complain. The biggest problem they had back in those days, was an owner who refused to hire a football GM that could draft players to surround Manning. They once had an astronaut as a GM
Tony Dorsett is the only RB in NFL history to have touchdown runs of 90 yards, 80 yards, 70 yards, 60 yards, and 50 yards. This doesn't even include multiple non-touchdown runs of more than 50 yards and several touchdown catches of 50 or more yards. There has NEVER been a RB who was a bigger home run threat than Dorsett.
@@jamessanders808 Yup, heard of him, but Barry did not have touchdown runs of 90 yards, 80 yards, 70 yards, and 60 yards, and 50 yards. Tony is the only RB in NFL history to do so, and that doesn't even include several touchdown catches of 50 or more yards. Sanders was more elusive than Dorsett, but Tony may have the been the fastest running back in NFL history. The eye test also demonstrates that no running back in NFL history could accelerate from point A to point B like TD.
@@yourroyalhighness7662 Dickerson did not have touchdown runs of 90 yards, 80 yards, 70 yards, and 60 yards, and 50 yards. Tony is the only RB in NFL history to do so, and that doesn't even include several touchdown catches of 50 or more yards. Tony was also more elusive than Dickerson and no running back in NFL history could accelerate from point A to point B like TD. During their respective primes, Dickerson was a more productive runner, but no RB was more explosive than Anthony Dorsett.
Dorsett had great vision, we can all praise his speed but without that eagle eye skill he had that speed would have hit a brick wall in a big hurry. I agree he was probably the biggest home run threat I have ever seen.
The Saints had a great offense even back in the 70's,but their problem was they had a terrible defense.Not until they developed a defense to go along with their explosive offense that they finally started to be a winning franchise.It wasn't until the mid 90's.
Mora's offense sucked and we weren't good at all in the mid 90's. Mora got fired in 96 and had a string of bad years that led to his dismissal. But yes, we did have a great D in the late 80's and early 90's.
I saw this game. The Saints did nothing after the 1st quarter. A player I met as a kid played for the Saints Tom Myers (stayed at his parents home down the street from me). The same year (1978) he had a 97-yard interception return for a TD against the Vikings.
I keep hearing about how great Archie Manning was. Not seeing it in this game or any game I have watched of him. He had a great arm but so did Jeff George. I have seen Jeff George look great on throws but not so often completing a drive. I see Archie the same way. Guy couldn't pull off a win. Doug Williams found a way to win with the same lack of talent the Saints had.
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Archie Manning was great! He had Chuck Muncie and Tony Galbreth as RBs, Wes Chandler at WR and Henry Childs at TE! But the rest of that squad was straight-up Ain'ts!
That sounds like plenty
@@edscottable Just not plenty enough, especially when you had the Cowboys, Vikings and Rams, particularly their defenses as well as offenses, smashing up the NFC, when the Saints had no defense.
That offense was nice
It's been a long time since I've thought of Ike Harris, Clarence Chapman, Mo Spencer, Tinker Owens, Mike Strahan and Hollywood Henderson.
The announcers were different, too. More descriptive, like for radio.
Maybe the reason the call of the game was "descriptive" as you say, was maybe because it was Frank Gleiber, the long-time Cowboys radio announcer on KRLD 1080 radio in Dallas. He began calling for CBS in 1975. When he left for CBS, Verne Lundquist, who was Gleibers radio color guy, and lead sports anchor at WFAA TV in Dallas, took over lead on the radio, and his radio color guy was Brad Sham, who is currently the Cowboys lead announcer, with color guy Babe Laufenberg, the one time Cowboys/Chargers QB. Gleiber had been associated with the Cowboys since the very early 60s.
@@jerrywade6179 I have always like Gleiber's radio style of football play-by-play on television. Truly a fine commentator.
Announcers were "different" indeed.....Different as in they had no desire to draw attention to themselves & self-promote.
Why does everyone who watch greatness doubt greatness? #24 was fast, but sorry he had an angle on TD. No angle TOUCHDOWN. Tony Dorsett. "Look out he has great speed." Greatest quote in football.
Manning terrific, Cowboys just too good.
Seems that the '78 Saints were excellent at tackling people, once they were out of bounds.
Man Randy Hughes was fast!!! To bad he got hurt.
Archie is such a class act, tolerated such poor teams. Imagine him on a team like Dallas during his heyday.
Was he ever a winner?
@@edscottable No, always on bad teams
Then why isn’t he also viewed as a loser. Why does he get a pass
Part of an amazing draft for QBs (1971). Jim Plunkett, Manning, and Dan Pastorini went in the first three picks, and Lynn Dickey, Ken Anderson & Joe Theismann were chosen in later rounds.
@@edscottable I agree that he does kind of get a pass. That being said, those Saints teams he played on in the 70's were dreadful, a college team may have been able to beat them at one time. He did run for his life a lot
I ACTUALLY REMEMBER WATCHING THIS GAME
Me to
We had to play Pittsburgh and Dallas that year and hung in there with em
You can say what you want football was just better back then in every aspect
To their credit, Saints played them tough. They were physical. Cowboys, deep in talent and executing well, were just a better team. They were a great team.
People arent going to like this but I actually thought Archie Manning had more ability than Drew Brees. It's impossible to compare because of the drastic rule changes that hsve chssnged the game. Now you can't breathe on a receiver without getting a penalty. Plus Manning used to get hit, Brees can't get touched. Manning had phenomenal talent.
Archie had 7 different coaches while he played for the Saints. Never once did he complain. The biggest problem they had back in those days, was an owner who refused to hire a football GM that could draft players to surround Manning. They once had an astronaut as a GM
Nick big Mann Valid statement..Archie was an amazing talent.
monti mcnulty as good a man as he was a player. If the 78-79 teams would have had a defense New Orleans would have made the playoffs.
I don't know about all that drew is a different level than Archie
@@enlightenedwarrior7119 amen. The game is so profoundly different and so is their skills. They are both superior quarterbacks.
Amazing that after 40 plus years can identify almost every Cowboy defender by looking at the number on his jersey. Can’t do that today! Lol!
TWO GREAT QUATERBACKS I LOVE IT
Tony Dorsett is the only RB in NFL history to have touchdown runs of 90 yards, 80 yards, 70 yards, 60 yards, and 50 yards. This doesn't even include multiple non-touchdown runs of more than 50 yards and several touchdown catches of 50 or more yards. There has NEVER been a RB who was a bigger home run threat than Dorsett.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A GUY NAME BARRY SANDERS?
@@jamessanders808 Yup, heard of him, but Barry did not have touchdown runs of 90 yards, 80 yards, 70 yards, and 60 yards, and 50 yards. Tony is the only RB in NFL history to do so, and that doesn't even include several touchdown catches of 50 or more yards. Sanders was more elusive than Dorsett, but Tony may have the been the fastest running back in NFL history. The eye test also demonstrates that no running back in NFL history could accelerate from point A to point B like TD.
Eric Dickerson?
@@yourroyalhighness7662 Dickerson did not have touchdown runs of 90 yards, 80 yards, 70 yards, and 60 yards, and 50 yards. Tony is the only RB in NFL history to do so, and that doesn't even include several touchdown catches of 50 or more yards. Tony was also more elusive than Dickerson and no running back in NFL history could accelerate from point A to point B like TD. During their respective primes, Dickerson was a more productive runner, but no RB was more explosive than Anthony Dorsett.
Dorsett had great vision, we can all praise his speed but without that eagle eye skill he had that speed would have hit a brick wall in a big hurry. I agree he was probably the biggest home run threat I have ever seen.
2:30 back when the Cowboys were a feared team. Now teams will walk all over them on their home field with no consequences...
It's amazing what a competent coach and general manager can do.
Agree....I have resigned the fact that I will just keep living off the 70s and 90s teams lol....no faith in present day cowboys
Ouch at 2:20 Jackie Smith enters the game. Poor guy, he had a solid career as a dependable tight end but now is forever known for ONE play.
Randy Hughes real SuperBowl XII MVP
Think you mean XII. VII was Miami over Washington.
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The Saints had a great offense even back in the 70's,but their problem was they had a terrible defense.Not until they developed a defense to go along with their explosive offense that they finally started to be a winning franchise.It wasn't until the mid 90's.
Mora's offense sucked and we weren't good at all in the mid 90's. Mora got fired in 96 and had a string of bad years that led to his dismissal. But yes, we did have a great D in the late 80's and early 90's.
@@scjct1 Mora resigned. He wasn't fired.
I saw this game. The Saints did nothing after the 1st quarter. A player I met as a kid played for the Saints Tom Myers (stayed at his parents home down the street from me). The same year (1978) he had a 97-yard interception return for a TD against the Vikings.
Tommy Meyers was one of the few bright spots Saints had on defense.
@@nickiemartin1426 Tom Myers not Oscar Meyer (i.e., Mayer).
Manning and Staubach were always 1/2 back then in the NFC
Wrong
Redskins the anoucer said. They were such rival in the 70s even the play by play man screwed up.
I know it's the late Frank Glieber, who's with him on color?
Roman Gabriel
#24 for the Saints had some speed!
mrmojorisin2 yeah and some dirty hits as well.
Was Manning capable of throwing a pass to his left side?
Nice QB match-up, two of the greats from that era. My opinion, Tarkenton was the best of the 7os tho.
No way, Staubach was hands down the best of the 70's, two SUPERBOWL rings, leader in passing, touchdowns, completion percentage etc.
I always thought Billy Joe DuPree's TD spike was stupid looking. I much preferred Saldy or Cosbie at TE.
Gees bro.
@Deese Knutz BJD dropped more than his share of passes. He was an overrated TE.
ARCHIE MANNINGS ARM WAS STRONGER THAN BOTH OF HIS SONS.
#24 with the hustle to catch T.D.
Did you see that #24 run down Tony Dorset . Darrell green wasn’t the first to run down Dorsett .
@Randall Denison I don't care WHO ran WHO down. That was a fantastic run by Mr.Dorsett regardless.
Clarence Chapman was a tough cornerback for the stints
I keep hearing about how great Archie Manning was. Not seeing it in this game or any game I have watched of him. He had a great arm but so did Jeff George. I have seen Jeff George look great on throws but not so often completing a drive. I see Archie the same way. Guy couldn't pull off a win. Doug Williams found a way to win with the same lack of talent the Saints had.
8:09 No!! Say it ain't so Dorsett!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I can see that fight at 2:32 happening if the cowboys are playing the redskins but the saints????
6:17 Bullshit Dallas Refs that was a lateral.
Released around the 36, caught around the 36. Yeah, they probably should have let that play stand.
O when the saints go marching in👑🔑🚽🏈👻
3:36 redskins dressed as saints
Just being them cryboys