Thanks for posting. This is basically the same teams from the 16-6 loss a couple years before. This reinforces why the Vikings were a great team. So they didn't get a ring. They were a great team for years. When a team can put losses on the great Steelers and Cowboys teams of that era, as they did, you know they are good. Foreman, Page, Hilgenberg, Krause, Tarkenton, Yary, Eller, etc. GREAT TEAM.
@@thefrase7884 In 1975 if wasn't for the push off "Hail Mary game" against the Cowboys it would have been Minnesota instead of Dallas in Super Bowl 10. In 1976 Pittsburgh lost Oakland in the AFC championship game.
Matt Blair was an impact player on all 4 downs for the Minnesota Vikings. In 1976 he lead the team in a 3 categories; tackles (112) fumble recoveries (5) and special teams tackles (18). Blair made tackles, sacked quarterbacks, intercepted passes, forced fumbles, recovered fumbles and blocked kicks. He did everything you could ask of a linebacker during the course of a four-down offensive series.
Matt Blair needs to be in the HOF based on his special teams prowess alone. As a kid playing neighborhood football I prided myself on trying to block kicks. Yea, when we played a diff neighborhood, on 4th and long teams punted. Hell, at home I would try to construct plays to block kicks.....ask me how that translated in highschool..... 10th grade 96 lbs......senior yr 120......lol,....4 years in the band, then 27 yrs in Army and Army Reserves!! I never blocked a kick, but I can damn sure march!!! Way 2 go vikes special teams!! Hail to the Commanders!!!
I was at this game. At the end of this clip at the 21:45 mark where Bradshaw is down after that interception, I remember having my eyes right on him as he came downfield after the throw. I don't know which Viking player took him out, but Bradshaw ab-so-lutely got DESTROYED!!! It was one of those blindside hits in the open field. Too bad the camera was somewhat zoomed in on the runback or you'd be able to see it. I watched the whole clip just for that. Didn't remember that it was in the closing minutes. The fact that he was even breathing is a testament to how tough he was. As someone commented about stats, he was 10/22 passing, w/90yds. The Viking "D" was great that nite.
Damn, the Vikings could block kicks back then. Yary and OL played heck of a game and Bob Lee is truly awful. Amazing job by Bud Carson this yr. After losing to Browns the next week when Terry got KOed, Pitt had allowed 110pts in 5 games and 5 rushing TD's. In next 9 games, they gave up 2 TD's( 0 rushing), and 5 FG. Bud fixed their problems quickly.
Watching the Steelers those last nine games was poetry in motion. They really stepped it up with their backs against the wall. They had five shutouts during that span. Unreal.
The absolute most intimidating moment of the entire game was not featured here in this highlight video. At the 17:20 mark, Bradshaw completes that pass to Harris on 3rd down that gets the Steelers to the 28 yard line but it's inches short of the first down. It's the 4th quarter, less than 10 minutes to play, Steelers are down 7-6 and they seriously considered going for the first down. They broke out of the huddle, Bradshaw approached the line, and the Vikings defense just stood there just challenging them. No taunting, no yelling, nothing, they just stared him down as if to say "you feeling lucky tonight?". Bradshaw didn't have the stomach for that and opted to call a time out and it was decided that it would probably be better to punt the ball away. The punt is blocked, Nate Allen makes yet another great play, and a few plays later Foreman scores another touchdown and the Vikings go ahead 14-6, and Pittsburgh is finished for the night. 😎
What baffles me about this game is that Chuck Foreman gained 130 *more* rushing yards than he did in Super Bowl 9 (12 carries for 18 yards), and did so despite the fact that the Steeler defense was actually *better* that season than in '74. The '76 defense shut out five opponents, and held three others to six points or less.
Amazing how these games were back then when you look at the game stats. The combined total of passing yards in this game was only 131. Bradshaw had more rushing yards than Franco Harris. Chuck Foreman had 148 yards rushing against one of the greatest defenses ever assembled. The Steeler defense held the Vikings to only 41 yards passing!
@@randalltaft2506 Yeah it didn't seem to matter. Another interesting one was the game in 1977 when Walter Payton had 275 yards rushing against the Vikings. The Bears won 10-7. You would think it would be at least 21-7. That day the Bears QB had only 23 net yards passing.
@@killalltogepis9916 Right. Chuck, as great as he was doesn't have the career stats to support HOF membership. On the other hand, it's a crime that Jim Marshall wasn't inducted decades ago.
Don't feel too bad. Your purple gang beat my Rams many times. BTW, the Rams beat the Steelers in the coliseum on MNF only to lose to them in the SB. Those Bud Grant teams ran into great Raiders & Dolphins teams as well at a time when the AFC was tougher.
I was at that game and it was the 2nd year (of 39) as a sideline photographer for PFW back then. Hard to believe that season ended with the last time the vikes won their last NFC championship to go to the SB.
I was 10. I had a dentist appointment that afternoon. I was so fired up to see my Vikings beat the Steelers. They did not disappoint. I think I fell asleep at the end of the 3rd quarter, though lol
The Vikings had the whole "west coast offense" thing down pat years before San Francisco. I always believe that the 70s Vikings were ahead of their time and the rule changes in 1978 would have made them a scoring machine if the team was still in its prime. They would have been like the 49ers had the Vikings been able to field a team like this in the 80s.
Vikings were tough at home back then. They beat great teams at the met. Teams they couldn't beat in the SB like the Steelers this night and Chiefs in 70.
Had the Super Bowl been hosted by the team with the best record or switched by conference every other year, the Vikings would have won one or two of them.
Sorry football fans, bit I cannot go along with the if........., then........ Yes, a terrible travesty 4 vikes of 70s to not win the bowl. But if we, if things, then it is no fun. What if Washington played anyother afc team in sb xviii? What if Washington jad recovered that onside kick against dolophins in sb vii? What if Washington hosted the giants in nfc title in Jan. 1987? See where I am going with this? Let us not what if things then some really f...ked up minds will start saying much crazy shlt like, what if washington had lost the nfc title in 82 to that team in texas? Now we cannot have such blaspemous statements on here, right? Cause it could have happened 2 your team.
@@thefrase7884 I wonder if you got my point. I was saying that what if should not apply. Not what you mean about the Bucs' first season but ok. Perhaps you were being humorous.
Awhuch Superbowl do you mean 16-6 defeat to steelers was close. Krause picked up blk punt in endzone. Vikings were down 3 at that point. I believe Superbowl ix was vikes best chance to win if looking only at score. The temp was in 30s, natural grass, pitt was in superbowl for the first time. Those vikings were, imo, built for cold weather sluggo type games and played their best superbowl in a sluggo type style........But it was Pittsburg and we know that turned. Dang, I really would have loved if those 70s vikes hadda won 1! Notice I did not say I wish they hadda won...... Funny thing,, I was watching the 1975 Grey Cup the other day in a 9-8 game ole Marv was coaching in a loosing effort. We know his record in superbowls.....but he did win some Grey Cups...... But dang, Page, foreman, tarkenton, matt blair, marshall,, krause and that purple gang.....
@@rodolfohilliard1656 All very good points you made, I just wish they would’ve brought their A game to any Super Bowl, and I really think if they had scored first in that Super Bowl against the Chiefs it would’ve been a different story afterwards. I can’t remember the receivers name but he dropped a third and long that would’ve been a first down in Chiefs territory on their opening drive. So who knows my man but the purple people eaters are always going to be legendary.
@@johnrusso3576 dude, you r gonna make me look up sb highlights to see who it was. I jave found good reading info on superbowls past, also. Glad to meet a sports like u. HAIL the commanders!!
@@johnrusso3576 oh yea, no team scoreless at halftime won a superbowl......vikes trailed by least, 2 -0. But to think, never scored before the half in either.....that franchise must be cursed or jynxed. Morton the kicker. That drop in Jan.1988 title against my beloved Washington at the time Redskins. And also, the 41-0 nfc title route against nyg.
Pissburg must have been low on steroids. I remember this game and as a Vikes fan enjoyed the beating the D blessed Bradshaw with. I hate to say it now but I recall the joy of seeing Bradshaw flat on his back. Now all I can say thank the LORD he wasn't really injured. Walter had one awesome game, #44.
I remember this game like it was yesterday. All I could do @ school was to think about the Monday Night game! This game was in week 3, & we had just LOST the FUCKEN Super Bowl to Pittsburg, Hence my all day Attitude! B4 this game started, I warned my 2 sisters NOT to bother me! We won, & Life made sense again. In the year 2020, while in quarantine, I'm reliving my Life, back when all things made sense, & U didn't feel or see all the fucken Hate we see today... After 49 years as a Viking, & after the pathetic display of Football in the '19 Divisional Playoff, & how we just quit out on the Football Field to San Francisco, I've filed for Divorce from the Minnesota Viking, followed up by scathing letters to the Owner, Coach, & GM. Not one answered me back... SO done with the NFL. Now, I don't even attend our UofA Games.Y? B4 September is over with we're 1-3. Most of our games are in late August, & it's 120 degrees inside the Stadium. U can't take in your own water, but the University will sell you water @ $6.00/Bottle! B4 Half Time, we're already losing big, & most Ppl just walk out. I've become addicted to College SEC Football. That reminds me of the old AFL days, when real Football was played. In this game, I also noticed that players never back talked the Refs, & they all respected the Calls. No players showed ridiculous antics after any play or TD. Minnesota LOST it's identity once they went inside. Minnesota win NEVER win a SB. Once the I saw the new architectural design of the New Stadium, w/a glass roof, I knew then they'd be cursed.
Vikes had Tark (didn't play this one), Eller, Page, Krause, Yary, Tinglehoff and Bud the coach. Jim Marshall should have been inducted decades ago. Steelers have too many guys from the 70s in the HOF. Donnie Shell??
I can’t believe that Minnesota won this game. And they are so much smaller, so much slower than Pittsburgh. Minnesota could not stop the run, they couldn’t block, yet they won.
Oh...I get mixed up sometimes because the SB is in the next year. Ok. 74 Steelers beat Minn. In 75. 75 Steelers beat Dallas in 76. That was the year the Raiders won the AFCC in Oakland and then beat the Vikes in the SB. 76 season SB played in 77.
I'm trying to remember why Bob Lee was QB this night for the Vikes. Fran probably had some minor injury. It wasn't until midway through the next season that Fran broke his leg against the visiting Bengals.
Yeah I don't remember Tark being hurt in 76, must have been just a game or 2. Vikes had 1 point tough wins against the Lions and Bears on either side of this game, and this was a few weeks after an epic tough 10-10 tie with the Rams at the Met, so this game was ironically a relative breeze in comparison.
Fran got blind sided against the Lions the week before and Lee had to finish the game. Sore ribs maybe? Fran was in uniform but couldn't make a go of it in this one, which was the first game of his 16 year career that he missed due to injury.
This is the way my Vikes should have played in the SBowl a few years earlier. Defense all over Bradshaw, aggressive, unrelenting. Foreman an absolute stud. Vikes were tough to beat at the old Met for over a decade, 1968-1978, even in nice weather. The one SB the Vikes really should have won was the one they lost to Pittsburgh. They only lost 16-6. Yeah, I know, the offense was putrid mostly because Tarkenton played like he was lost. But people forget the game was only 2-0 Steelers at halftime. It was only 9-6 into the 4th Q when a crucial blown call reversed a clear fumble recovery by the Vikes which allowed Pitt clinching drive to continue which made the game 16-6 instead of 9-6 and the Vikes with the ball and momentum. Yes, those SB have permanently chapped my azzzzz.
@@deadeye4520 Well, a lot of Vikings fans, including me, think the 1975 Vikings were the best Vikings team in that run from 69 through 77. They started off 10-0 before losing a 1 pt road loss to the Redskins on MNF. Tarkenton had probably his best year ever (MVP), and Foreman set a then NFL record for receptions by a RB (think Roger Craig) in what really was the precursor to the West Coast offenses that SD and the 49ers later ran in the 80s. That so called Hail Mary game, which was a clear offensive PI push off by Drew Pearson which could not be overturned back then due to no replay review, was a travesty, and had that been called right, I think there is no doubt the Vikes would have taken care of the Rams once again (the Cowboys beat the Rams 37-7), and I certainly would have taken my chances with a SB rematch with the Steelers.
@@kbrewski1 Too bad about that, it seems like the mid-70s Vikes should have won at least one SB. For a long time I've felt like the 87 Vikings were really the best team, but sadly fate smiled upon the Redskins. I'm a Dolphins fans, and our early to mid-80s was almost as heartbreaking. We had that classic playoff loss to S.D. in 81. A SB loss to the Skins in 82 (Theisman saved that game for Wash), a divisional round loss with home filed advantage throughout the playoffs in 83, and a SB loss to Niners in 84 with a record setting offense. The 82 team was all defense, and the 84 team was all offense. If we could have just put those two units on the field together, oh man.
@@deadeye4520 I'm not going to give any Dolphins fan sympathy for coming up short in the 80s after the run in the early 70s including running roughshod over my Vikes. I still have nightmares of seeing Csonka bulldozing over our terrible tackling secondary like Krause.I think Griese was just sitting on the sidelines doing his nails that whole game. Yep, the 87 Vikes were very talented, and they must have used up all their good karma in beating Montana and SF at SF, so we came up a yard short of the SB vs Wash. Another brutal almost for us.
After washing a lot of these games as I did when I was younger.... if the Steelers would have had a less interception prone throwing QB....would they have won 8 Super bowls or maybe only 2.. Dan Fouts Brian Sipe Bert Jones Ken Anderson Joe Theisman Steve Bartkowski Danny White Jim Zorn Vince Evans Ron Jawarski Jim Plunkett Jim Hart Bill Kenney Bradshaw averaged just under two interceptions... Various times he would throw 3, 4, or 5... Bradshaw was my favorite player as a child...but dang!
Kevin Findley Fred Cox was Bud Grant’s fishing & hunting buddy ! These were my “ Vikes ! “ 💪 Cox lost many games over a decade! I’m 57 now and this was a classic time in the NFL 🌈
Steelers who were current world champions, started the season badly This loss took them to 1-3, and they'd lose the next week to the Bengals 18-16 to be 1-4 However, they would win the rest of their games including FIVE shutout victories. Three in a row. Also, holding two more opponents to just 3 points and one other to six. But injuries would ruin their championship game to the Raiders. The Vikings would lose to those same Raiders in the Super Bowl.
Vikes beat KC in the very first game of the new merged NFL in Week 1, 1970, 8 months after the Super Bad Bowl. And it was more decisive, 27-10, not a bunch of long FG. With Gary Cuozzo....
The Vikings BEat The Chiefs a couple of months after losing to them in the super bowl, then they beat the Dolphins the year after losing to them in the super bowl then they beat the steelers right after they lost to them in the super bowl Then they lost a very close game against the raiders after the raiders beat them in the Super bowl Where the fuck what the Vikings offence in any of them super bowls???
Them kickers back then wouldn't last a month in the modern era.Awful for most part.No wonder straight legged kickers went the way of dinosaur a long time ago.Almost every game I watch from 70's kicks are wide,short or blocked
@@76vike19 Yeah, Lee with Atl actually beat the Vikes on MNF to stop a long Vikings win streak in 1973. He did end up beating the Rams in the Mud Bowl in LA in the 77 Div playoffs, further extending the Vikes domination over the Rams.
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Tackling.....no celebrating after doing so. Scoring......no clownery after doing so......NFL football the way I cherished it!
Thanks for posting. This is basically the same teams from the 16-6 loss a couple years before. This reinforces why the Vikings were a great team. So they didn't get a ring. They were a great team for years. When a team can put losses on the great Steelers and Cowboys teams of that era, as they did, you know they are good. Foreman, Page, Hilgenberg, Krause, Tarkenton, Yary, Eller, etc. GREAT TEAM.
The Vikings and Steelers came within inches from playing in 3 consecutive superbowls.
@@boxcarent.3147 ……can you elaborate?
@@thefrase7884 In 1975 if wasn't for the push off "Hail Mary game" against the Cowboys it would have been Minnesota instead of Dallas in Super Bowl 10. In 1976 Pittsburgh lost Oakland in the AFC championship game.
Listening to those that called the game back then brings back so many great memories
yes. Monday Night Football on ABC with Howard Cosell.
Thank you for posting these old games. I enjoy them very much. 🏈
Love 1970s Minnesota viking
Matt Blair was an impact player on all 4 downs for the Minnesota Vikings.
In 1976 he lead the team in a 3 categories; tackles (112) fumble recoveries (5) and special teams tackles (18).
Blair made tackles, sacked quarterbacks, intercepted passes, forced fumbles, recovered fumbles and blocked kicks. He did everything you could ask of a linebacker during the course of a four-down offensive series.
Matt Blair is another old Viking who needs to be in the HOF.
Matt Blair needs to be in the HOF based on his special teams prowess alone. As a kid playing neighborhood football I prided myself on trying to block kicks. Yea, when we played a diff neighborhood, on 4th and long teams punted. Hell, at home I would try to construct plays to block kicks.....ask me how that translated in highschool..... 10th grade 96 lbs......senior yr 120......lol,....4 years in the band, then 27 yrs in Army and Army Reserves!! I never blocked a kick, but I can damn sure march!!!
Way 2 go vikes special teams!!
Hail to the Commanders!!!
Totally underrated.
I was at this game. At the end of this clip at the 21:45 mark where Bradshaw is down after that interception, I remember having my eyes right on him as he came downfield after the throw. I don't know which Viking player took him out, but Bradshaw ab-so-lutely got DESTROYED!!! It was one of those blindside hits in the open field. Too bad the camera was somewhat zoomed in on the runback or you'd be able to see it. I watched the whole clip just for that. Didn't remember that it was in the closing minutes. The fact that he was even breathing is a testament to how tough he was.
As someone commented about stats, he was 10/22 passing, w/90yds. The Viking "D" was great that nite.
The Vikings were a GREAT program, don't let the SB jinx fool you.
I think I read it was Doug Sutherland who nailed Bradshaw at the end
Damn, the Vikings could block kicks back then. Yary and OL played heck of a game and Bob Lee is truly awful. Amazing job by Bud Carson this yr. After losing to Browns the next week when Terry got KOed, Pitt had allowed 110pts in 5 games and 5 rushing TD's. In next 9 games, they gave up 2 TD's( 0 rushing), and 5 FG. Bud fixed their problems quickly.
Watching the Steelers those last nine games was poetry in motion. They really stepped it up with their backs against the wall. They had five shutouts during that span. Unreal.
Good game and thank you for your efforts.
I was one day old when this was played.
And?
The absolute most intimidating moment of the entire game was not featured here in this highlight video. At the 17:20 mark, Bradshaw completes that pass to Harris on 3rd down that gets the Steelers to the 28 yard line but it's inches short of the first down. It's the 4th quarter, less than 10 minutes to play, Steelers are down 7-6 and they seriously considered going for the first down. They broke out of the huddle, Bradshaw approached the line, and the Vikings defense just stood there just challenging them. No taunting, no yelling, nothing, they just stared him down as if to say "you feeling lucky tonight?". Bradshaw didn't have the stomach for that and opted to call a time out and it was decided that it would probably be better to punt the ball away. The punt is blocked, Nate Allen makes yet another great play, and a few plays later Foreman scores another touchdown and the Vikings go ahead 14-6, and Pittsburgh is finished for the night. 😎
When the NFL was the NFL.
How good was Chuck Foreman? 👍
What baffles me about this game is that Chuck Foreman gained 130 *more* rushing yards than he did in Super Bowl 9 (12 carries for 18 yards), and did so despite the fact that the Steeler defense was actually *better* that season than in '74. The '76 defense shut out five opponents, and held three others to six points or less.
Any given Sunday or monday
18:08 mark. How the hell is this run not on every Foreman highlight reel?
Master of the quick spin move
Quick As Lightning!
Agreed. This move/he was incredibly quick. Foreman was/is criminally underrated.
I agree. This was a great game for Foreman.
Bob Lee- last Viking to throw a touchdown in a SB.
Which is sadly pathetic in many ways.
Well yes, but there where only 2 thrown....
Fran tarkenton backup quarterback Bob lee;;I remember Steve dils: great come from behind backup quarterback
Figures...
Amazing how these games were back then when you look at the game stats. The combined total of passing yards in this game was only 131. Bradshaw had more rushing yards than Franco Harris. Chuck Foreman had 148 yards rushing against one of the greatest defenses ever assembled. The Steeler defense held the Vikings to only 41 yards passing!
right...back then we didn't even think it was strange.
@@randalltaft2506 Yeah it didn't seem to matter. Another interesting one was the game in 1977 when Walter Payton had 275 yards rushing against the Vikings. The Bears won 10-7. You would think it would be at least 21-7. That day the Bears QB had only 23 net yards passing.
Steelers woke up after game 5! Remember Vikes went to SB11 after this season! Great team.
Remember - Bob Lee was the Vikings Game Day QB - that's not saying a whole lot. Tarkenton would've done reasonably better.
Chuck Foreman and Jim Marshall need to be in the HOF ASAP.
Jim Marshall has a chance but no way in hell Chuck Foreman does.
@@killalltogepis9916 Right. Chuck, as great as he was doesn't have the career stats to support HOF membership. On the other hand, it's a crime that Jim Marshall wasn't inducted decades ago.
Somebody unloaded on him. Classic. Why couldn't they do this in their SB's. Long time Vikes fan of 49 years.
That was a bit of redemption for the Vikings! No jinx in that game, where Marshall and Page haunted Bradshaw!
Don't feel too bad. Your purple gang beat my Rams many times. BTW, the Rams beat the Steelers in the coliseum on MNF only to lose to them in the SB. Those Bud Grant teams ran into great Raiders & Dolphins teams as well at a time when the AFC was tougher.
Because they’re chokes 🤣
I was at that game and it was the 2nd year (of 39) as a sideline photographer for PFW back then. Hard to believe that season ended with the last time the vikes won their last NFC championship to go to the SB.
I was 10. I had a dentist appointment that afternoon. I was so fired up to see my Vikings beat the Steelers. They did not disappoint. I think I fell asleep at the end of the 3rd quarter, though lol
The Vikings had the whole "west coast offense" thing down pat years before San Francisco. I always believe that the 70s Vikings were ahead of their time
and the rule changes in 1978 would have made them a scoring machine if the team was still in its prime. They would have been like the 49ers had the Vikings
been able to field a team like this in the 80s.
Can you send me whatever you’re smoking? I’ll pay for shipping too
Vikings were tough at home back then. They beat great teams at the met. Teams they couldn't beat in the SB like the Steelers this night and Chiefs in 70.
Had the Super Bowl been hosted by the team with the best record or switched by conference every other year, the Vikings would have won one or
two of them.
@@TheLAGopher I agree. Like they did for the NFL championship before there was a super bowl. It was always hosted by one of the 2 teams.
Sorry football fans, bit I cannot go along with the if........., then........
Yes, a terrible travesty 4 vikes of 70s to not win the bowl. But if we, if things, then it is no fun. What if Washington played anyother afc team in sb xviii? What if Washington jad recovered that onside kick against dolophins in sb vii? What if Washington hosted the giants in nfc title in Jan. 1987? See where I am going with this? Let us not what if things then some really f...ked up minds will start saying much crazy shlt like, what if washington had lost the nfc title in 82 to that team in texas? Now we cannot have such blaspemous statements on here, right? Cause it could have happened 2 your team.
@@rodolfohilliard1656 ……what if Tampa Bay goes 14-0 instead of 0-14 in their inaugural season?
@@thefrase7884 I wonder if you got my point. I was saying that what if should not apply.
Not what you mean about the Bucs' first season but ok. Perhaps you were being humorous.
"Immediacy of trajectory".... gotta love Cosell.
Great sounds, a great look ,great football, I wish they could’ve played like that in the Super Bowl.
Awhuch Superbowl do you mean 16-6 defeat to steelers was close. Krause picked up blk punt in endzone. Vikings were down 3 at that point. I believe Superbowl ix was vikes best chance to win if looking only at score. The temp was in 30s, natural grass, pitt was in superbowl for the first time. Those vikings were, imo, built for cold weather sluggo type games and played their best superbowl in a sluggo type style........But it was Pittsburg and we know that turned.
Dang, I really would have loved if those 70s vikes hadda won 1! Notice I did not say I wish they hadda won......
Funny thing,, I was watching the 1975 Grey Cup the other day in a 9-8 game ole Marv was coaching in a loosing effort. We know his record in superbowls.....but he did win some Grey Cups......
But dang, Page, foreman, tarkenton, matt blair, marshall,, krause and that purple gang.....
@@rodolfohilliard1656 All very good points you made, I just wish they would’ve brought their A game to any Super Bowl, and I really think if they had scored first in that Super Bowl against the Chiefs it would’ve been a different story afterwards. I can’t remember the receivers name but he dropped a third and long that would’ve been a first down in Chiefs territory on their opening drive. So who knows my man but the purple people eaters are always going to be legendary.
@@johnrusso3576 dude, you r gonna make me look up sb highlights to see who it was. I jave found good reading info on superbowls past, also. Glad to meet a sports like u. HAIL the commanders!!
@@johnrusso3576 oh yea, no team scoreless at halftime won a superbowl......vikes trailed by least, 2 -0. But to think, never scored before the half in either.....that franchise must be cursed or jynxed. Morton the kicker. That drop in Jan.1988 title against my beloved Washington at the time Redskins. And also, the 41-0 nfc title route against nyg.
Great tackle attempt by Krause 1:12 -
Pissburg must have been low on steroids. I remember this game and as a Vikes fan enjoyed the beating the D blessed Bradshaw with. I hate to say it now but I recall the joy of seeing Bradshaw flat on his back. Now all I can say thank the LORD he wasn't really injured. Walter had one awesome game, #44.
Walter?
They did it for the love of the game
I remember this game like it was yesterday. All I could do @ school was to think about the Monday Night game! This game was in week 3, & we had just LOST the FUCKEN Super Bowl to Pittsburg, Hence my all day Attitude! B4 this game started, I warned my 2 sisters NOT to bother me! We won, & Life made sense again. In the year 2020, while in quarantine, I'm reliving my Life, back when all things made sense, & U didn't feel or see all the fucken Hate we see today... After 49 years as a Viking, & after the pathetic display of Football in the '19 Divisional Playoff, & how we just quit out on the Football Field to San Francisco, I've filed for Divorce from the Minnesota Viking, followed up by scathing letters to the Owner, Coach, & GM. Not one answered me back... SO done with the NFL. Now, I don't even attend our UofA Games.Y? B4 September is over with we're 1-3. Most of our games are in late August, & it's 120 degrees inside the Stadium. U can't take in your own water, but the University will sell you water @ $6.00/Bottle! B4 Half Time, we're already losing big, & most Ppl just walk out. I've become addicted to College SEC Football. That reminds me of the old AFL days, when real Football was played. In this game, I also noticed that players never back talked the Refs, & they all respected the Calls. No players showed ridiculous antics after any play or TD. Minnesota LOST it's identity once they went inside. Minnesota win NEVER win a SB. Once the I saw the new architectural design of the New Stadium, w/a glass roof, I knew then they'd be cursed.
The way the game was played back then, i think Bradshaw might be the GOAT of NFL quarterbacks.
Why couldn't the Vikings play this way in all their Super Bowls?
Real Football.
Real honest player's.
No Media hype.
Tough tackling , hard nose running.
Hey NFL ! Are Yunz watching this ?
How many HOF players are on this field between these two teams?
Vikes had Tark (didn't play this one), Eller, Page, Krause, Yary, Tinglehoff and Bud the coach. Jim Marshall should have been inducted decades ago. Steelers have too many guys from the 70s in the HOF. Donnie Shell??
I can’t believe that Minnesota won this game. And they are so much smaller, so much slower than Pittsburgh. Minnesota could not stop the run, they couldn’t block, yet they won.
Foreman was real tough
I never knew they went from 1-3 to repeat as champions. It wasn't looking too good at this point for the Steel Curtain.
Steelers won Super Bowls in 74 and 75, in 76 they lost to Oakland in the AFC title game, too many injuries on O
Oh...I get mixed up sometimes because the SB is in the next year. Ok. 74 Steelers beat Minn. In 75. 75 Steelers beat Dallas in 76. That was the year the Raiders won the AFCC in Oakland and then beat the Vikes in the SB. 76 season SB played in 77.
That's what coaches call an "ugly" game or just great defense.
Was Francine Tarkenton hurt?
I'm trying to remember why Bob Lee was QB this night for the Vikes. Fran probably had some minor injury. It wasn't until midway through the next season that Fran broke his leg against the visiting Bengals.
Gary Burley!
Yeah I don't remember Tark being hurt in 76, must have been just a game or 2. Vikes had 1 point tough wins against the Lions and Bears on either side of this game, and this was a few weeks after an epic tough 10-10 tie with the Rams at the Met, so this game was ironically a relative breeze in comparison.
@@kbrewski1 Yeaha, I remember the "Vikes Squeak By Again" cover with Chuck Foreman against the Bears.
Fran got blind sided against the Lions the week before and Lee had to finish the game. Sore ribs maybe? Fran was in uniform but couldn't make a go of it in this one, which was the first game of his 16 year career that he missed due to injury.
This is the way my Vikes should have played in the SBowl a few years earlier. Defense all over Bradshaw, aggressive, unrelenting. Foreman an absolute stud. Vikes were tough to beat at the old Met for over a decade, 1968-1978, even in nice weather.
The one SB the Vikes really should have won was the one they lost to Pittsburgh. They only lost 16-6. Yeah, I know, the offense was putrid mostly because Tarkenton played like he was lost. But people forget the game was only 2-0 Steelers at halftime. It was only 9-6 into the 4th Q when a crucial blown call reversed a clear fumble recovery by the Vikes which allowed Pitt clinching drive to continue which made the game 16-6 instead of 9-6 and the Vikes with the ball and momentum.
Yes, those SB have permanently chapped my azzzzz.
I heard that the Steelers changed shoes at halftime. Don’t know if that’s true.
Very interesting post K Bear, I did not know that. Could the Vikes have won it all if the Cowboys had not converted on the "Hail Mary"?
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Well, a lot of Vikings fans, including me, think the 1975 Vikings were the best Vikings team in that run from 69 through 77. They started off 10-0 before losing a 1 pt road loss to the Redskins on MNF. Tarkenton had probably his best year ever (MVP), and Foreman set a then NFL record for receptions by a RB (think Roger Craig) in what really was the precursor to the West Coast offenses that SD and the 49ers later ran in the 80s. That so called Hail Mary game, which was a clear offensive PI push off by Drew Pearson which could not be overturned back then due to no replay review, was a travesty, and had that been called right, I think there is no doubt the Vikes would have taken care of the Rams once again (the Cowboys beat the Rams 37-7), and I certainly would have taken my chances with a SB rematch with the Steelers.
@@kbrewski1 Too bad about that, it seems like the mid-70s Vikes should have won at least one SB. For a long time I've felt like the 87 Vikings were really the best team, but sadly fate smiled upon the Redskins.
I'm a Dolphins fans, and our early to mid-80s was almost as heartbreaking. We had that classic playoff loss to S.D. in 81. A SB loss to the Skins in 82 (Theisman saved that game for Wash), a divisional round loss with home filed advantage throughout the playoffs in 83, and a SB loss to Niners in 84 with a record setting offense. The 82 team was all defense, and the 84 team was all offense. If we could have just put those two units on the field together, oh man.
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I'm not going to give any Dolphins fan sympathy for coming up short in the 80s after the run in the early 70s including running roughshod over my Vikes. I still have nightmares of seeing Csonka bulldozing over our terrible tackling secondary like Krause.I think Griese was just sitting on the sidelines doing his nails that whole game.
Yep, the 87 Vikes were very talented, and they must have used up all their good karma in beating Montana and SF at SF, so we came up a yard short of the SB vs Wash. Another brutal almost for us.
Franco Harris my favorite player of all time
Terry had a bad game. Oh , well the Vikings won this game but the Steelers already had the IX Super Bowl win.
After washing a lot of these games as I did when I was younger....
if the Steelers would have had a less interception prone throwing QB....would they have won 8 Super bowls or maybe only 2..
Dan Fouts
Brian Sipe
Bert Jones
Ken Anderson
Joe Theisman
Steve Bartkowski
Danny White
Jim Zorn
Vince Evans
Ron Jawarski
Jim Plunkett
Jim Hart
Bill Kenney
Bradshaw averaged just under two interceptions...
Various times he would throw 3, 4, or 5...
Bradshaw was my favorite player as a child...but dang!
Never could figure out why they kept that kicker he missed more than he made
Kevin Findley Fred Cox was Bud Grant’s fishing & hunting buddy ! These were my “ Vikes ! “ 💪 Cox lost many games over a decade! I’m 57 now and this was a classic time in the NFL 🌈
He's talking about soy boy roy.
Steelers who were current world champions, started the season badly
This loss took them to 1-3, and they'd lose the next week to the Bengals 18-16 to be 1-4
However, they would win the rest of their games including FIVE shutout victories.
Three in a row.
Also, holding two more opponents to just 3 points and one other to six.
But injuries would ruin their championship game to the Raiders.
The Vikings would lose to those same Raiders in the Super Bowl.
Roy Gerela was a hideous kicker.
You ever see Uwe von Schamann?
I wonder who won the Super Bowl that year
Oakland over the Vikings .
Roy Gerela must have had a picture of Noll with another woman. He was bad.
Roy Gerela and Bobby Walden were the worst Kickers ever !!! Every game they are missing FG'S or Dropping punt snaps!
I know he came a few years after Gerela and Walden but did you ever see Uwe von Schamann kick?
Of course vikings win this rematch.. Lol..
Vikes beat KC in the very first game of the new merged NFL in Week 1, 1970, 8 months after the Super Bad Bowl. And it was more decisive, 27-10, not a bunch of long FG. With Gary Cuozzo....
same sideline
Theres a special teams player for ya...Matt Allen 8:40
Wow the place kicks would have to improve a lott to qualify as bad
The special teams were the goat for the Steelers
Bob Lee beat the Steel Curtain
terry bradshaw could run! and throw, and take a hit, and call his own plays
The Vikings BEat The Chiefs a couple of months after losing to them in the super bowl, then they beat the Dolphins the year after losing to them in the super bowl then they beat the steelers right after they lost to them in the super bowl Then they lost a very close game against the raiders after the raiders beat them in the Super bowl Where the fuck what the Vikings offence in any of them super bowls???
The Raiders beat them 35-13 the year after beating them in the Super Bowl. That’s not a close game
That was there only weakness the kicker had no leg gerela
Gerela quite possibly the worst kicker ever
You ever see Uwe von Schamann kick?
This was maybe the worst performance by an NFL team’s kicking game that I’ve ever seen.
Them kickers back then wouldn't last a month in the modern era.Awful for most part.No wonder straight legged kickers went the way of dinosaur a long time ago.Almost every game I watch from 70's kicks are wide,short or blocked
This was rematch from Super Bowl IX Vikings won 17 6
Uh,no the Steelers won SB IX by that score
@@ceepersandenderdragonssvlo4812 OH NO, Steelers won the game 16-6
Steelers Won Super Bowl against Minnesota 16-7
@@bobishere5278 16-6???????????????????
I mean the Vikings won THIS game 17-6
Steelcurtain vs purple people eaters
Bob Lee ended up going to Atlanta, and became the "second coming" of Robert Lee. He is also the father of Jenna Lee, of FOX news.
Lee had already been in ATL, this was his return to the Vikes
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Yeah, Lee with Atl actually beat the Vikes on MNF to stop a long Vikings win streak in 1973.
He did end up beating the Rams in the Mud Bowl in LA in the 77 Div playoffs, further extending the Vikes domination over the Rams.
Roy gerela = terrible just terrible