The GREATEST Player Revenge Game in Los Angeles Rams HISTORY | Vikings @ Rams (1979)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2021
- Prior to the start of the 1979 NFL season, longtime Minnesota Vikings quarterback Bob Lee was cut by the team on bad terms. Four months later, after signing with the Los Angeles Rams, Lee is asked to come off of the bench against his old team and guide them to a spot in the postseason. What happens next is one of the greatest moments of Lee's career, and one of the best pieces of revenge in NFL history
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Members of the 1979 Rams:
Frank Corral
Jeff Rutledge
Pat Haden
Ken Clark
Vince Ferragamo
Bob Lee
Jackie Wallace
Nolan Cromwell
Ricky Odom
Eddie Hill
Eddie Brown
Wendell Tyler
Pat Thomas
Ken Ellis
Lawrence McCutcheon
Sid Justin
Cullen Bryant
Dwayne O'Steen
Elvis Peacock
Ivory Sully
Dave Elmendorf
Jim Jodat
Jeff Severson
Rod Perry
Kevin McLain
Joe Harris
George Andrews
Jim Youngblood
Dan Ryczek
Doug Smith
Greg Westbrooks
Rob Brudzinski
Dennis Harrah
Rich Saul
Bill Bain
Jack Reynolds
Bill Dunstan
Jerry Wilkinson
Reggie Doss
Kent Hill
Gordon Gravelle
John Williams
Doug France
Jackie Slater
Mike Fanning
Billy Waddy
Ron Jessie
Willie Miller
Terry Nelson
Ron Smith
Jack Youngblood
Charle Young
Drew Hill
Preston Dennard
Fred Dryer
Larry Brooks
Ray Malavasi (head coach) 
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You forgot to mention that a couple of weeks earlier Lee came off the bench again had one throw and beat the 49ers with a bomb as the game was winding down. It is still one of the best long balls I've ever seen. You should do an episode on that because without Bob Lee in 1979, the Rams don't go to Super Bowl 14. Hell without Bob Lee the Rams don't make it to the playoffs and dont with their 7th straight division title. This man deserves much respect.
As a Vikings fan I absolutely hated Bob Lee, he was just so gruesome to watch. Every movement he made just looked so awkward and strange, Icobod Crane. Just was not aesthetically pleasing, all arms and legs and windup.
Ah - 1979 - the Rams in the Colosseum...I can recall it like yesterday....
Bob Lee’s wife was my sixth grade teacher…he played catch with us one day in the park across the street. I still have the signed picture he gave me.
Of note is that the week before, Lee also came off the bench after Ferragamo got hurt and fired the game winning TD pass to Ron Smith to beat the 49ers in another must win situation. The Saints had the Rams on the ropes all season, and with injuries badly crippling them, the Rams probably do not even make the playoffs without Lee and instead, the Saints win the division and make their first ever playoff appearance, 8 years early.
Remember this game so well. And considering all the heartache we suffered because of the Purple during the 70s, the way we won this on a fake FG run by Nolan Cromwell in OT was incredibly sweet.
The Vikings had the best special teams of the era and blocked many kicks. The fake was a risk management call!
that was great! thanks, my Rams in 79 i remember all to well, we had the steelers on the ropes, we shuda won that super bowl. Iam still wearing my Ferragamo jersey, to Ram games.
Love these stories from the late 70's & early 80's.
I'd much rather watch NFL videos from this time than the NFL today.
The Rams looked like they would finally go all the way in 1979, culminating a great run as a powerhouse team during the 1970s. The Nolan Cromwell TD was what made the headlines in this game. I didn’t even realize Bob Lee (19) was in this game. Good story.
Actually they didn't look like they'd do squat when they limped into the playoffs at 9-7. The Cowboys upset changed everything.
Cinderella stories always came short at the finals
Didn't they make it to the Super Bowl that season and get beat by Pittsburgh? Just Asking!!
myron bedner; Correct. The Steelers won their 4th Super Bowl in the 70s by beating L.A. 31-19 in what was practically a home game for the Rams (in Pasadena).
Your editing and attention to detail is stupendous and greatly appreciated. Love seeing Generation X NFL (1970's-80's). You highlight the characters, sub-plots, story lines and games in a way that depicts the drama of that era of football. Good Stuff man. As bad as he could be Ferregamo did get the Rams to the SB the next year.Great revenge game
The best time in NFL history IMO. The '90s were still good, but pretty much everything about the 21st century NFL is bad and getting worse.
it was actually only a little over a month after this game
@@UserName-ts3sp Now you're going to confuse Sky Marriott with facts!
Bob Lee is the anti-Don Horn, mentioned in another OJG9 video. Also, a feud between men named Lee and Grant? Had that happened before? 😆
excellent!
this time, lee won. unlike that other one.
funny enough i just watched this game on youtube two days ago.
Great story--Absolutely one of the best "revenge" games I've ever heard of in the NFL. As always, fantastic job laying this out
But first, let's get a little context...
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One thing that you left out; Lee quarterbacked the "Vikes" to a win over the Rams two years before in the "mud bowl". That result led to the Rams firing their coach Chuck Knox and hiring Ray Malavasi.
Alan actually after Lee's upset win over the Rams that cost Chuck Knox his job the Rams then hired George Allen who had left the Redskins but Allen was dumped in the preseason because the Rams players revolted over Allen's long practices and Ray Malavasi who was on the coaching staff became Allen's replacement. The drama of the 1978 Rams preseason would be a good topic on this program.
@@mayduck1That is true I neglected that pre season detail.
Mike Lynn was a fantastic GM at Minnesota. His trade for Herschel Walker created one of the greatest dynasties in NFL history - the Dallas Cowboys.
What a way to go, Bob Lee! After being cut by the Vikings in 1979 he found himself in a Super Bowl Team being the Los Angeles Rams.
Paul Krause also had an interception against Bob Lee in the final quarter. It was Paul Krause's 81st career interception and his last.
I’ve seen this game on RUclips, but I never knew the back story. Thanks for the context.
1. Somehow the Rams even made the super bowl that year, and the one of their players decided to criticize his fans. Official Jaguar Gator 9 made a video about it.
2. Then, someone added drama to the other team, someone stole Bradshaw’s tickets. Official Jaguar Gator 9 also made a video about this.
Viking fan here since 1969. While I have no animosity towards Bob Lee at all, he was given every opportunity to win the job as a starter, and he failed every time. Grant gave him the start in 1971 vs the Cowboys in the playoffs, and he was atrocious. Cuozzo had to come in to move the team, and that tells you how bad Lee was. After Tarkenton got hurt in 1977, Lee was the starter, but was stinking it up against the 49r's. Kramer came in and led the Vikings to a win in a miraculous comeback 28-27 after being down 24-0. Lee was a steady backup, but could never claim the starter role.
The background music is so majestic. I love it. Great video!
I remember watching that game! It aired just before my favorite tv show - Star-Sky and Hutch
without quarterback bob lee's contribution coming off the bench against the 49'ers and vikings despite the fact that bob lee HARDLY KNEW THE PLAYBOOK,, the LA RAMS do not make the playoffs let alone making it to the super bowl against the steelers!!!!!!! bob lee also gave vince ferragamo a pep talk and settled vinny down emotionally before playing the atlanta falcons!!!!!!! from that point on vince ferragamo became a much better quarterback !!!!!!!!!!!! BOB LEE IS THE EPITOME OF A TEAM PLAYER !!!!!!!!!!!!! he probably may be the best backup quarterback of all time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very good. This was actually Lee's second revenge game sgainst the Vikings.
After playing out his option he was traded in 1973 to the Falcons for Bob Berry.
In week 10 , it was Lee who led the Falcons over the Vikings, snapping their 9 game winning streak.
The General . Bobby Lee . That takes me back . Gary Quazzo is another from that era just hard to say on the field when you back up Fran the Man
Next time someone shoots the moon on a one-game passer rating, we need you to say something like "..a passer rating of 149.7, which is slightly better than spiking the ball into the ground on every single play"
Bob Lee, Tom Flores, Hue Jackson and Eddie LeBaron, all Quarterbacks from the University of the Pacific, which has not lost a football game since 1995.
6:44 and 7:28 was the kind of thing that always happened to the Rams when they faced the Vikings prior to this game.
Also in that game Rams punter Ken Clark completed a 30 yard pass. He would only play that one season.
Ken Clark only played that one season because he wasn't a very good punter, he punted 93 times that one season for an average of 40.1 yards. In Week 9, a 20-14 home loss against the Giants he completed his first NFL pass, it went for 2 yards. His career passing stat line was 2 Completions in 2 Attempts for 32 Yards, a 100% Completion Percentage, 0 TD's and 0 Int.'s for a QB Rating of 118.7, unfortunately he attempted 1498 less passes to qualify as a career leader.
Go RAMS thank you for this good video
In a pre-season game with the Rams in 1981, Bob Lee was really hurt and the Rams made Him play the entire way and then got cut after the game.
A quite interesting look into a great story that many fans might not know about (especially outside of Minnesota and LA)...
Day after Christmas 1977, because of Fran Tarkenton was injured ( broken leg during the season) Bob Lee beat the Rams at the Coliseum 14-7 in what history calls the Mud Bowl.
Here's another revenge game idea. Dennis Dirt Winston got his revenge on Pittsburgh in a Monday Night game in 1984... they won 27-24 and Dennis scored a pick 6 in the game.
This was my first ever NFL game I went to and was in the stands as "Dirt" took it in.
I remember this game from the highlights on NFL Today. I was so used to the Vikings being a playoff team just about every year so for this loss really hurt. Yeah, I remember that fake field goal attempt like yesterday. I ended up not going to school that Monday
heard it on the radio like many Ram games in the day. Before lifting blackouts
Saw my first Ram game in LA circa 1959. Thru the years I've suffered like so many of my fellow Ram fans. The Rams had plenty of talent over the years, but the two things they seem to lack. They either had a good quarterback but lousy coaching and management or good coaching and a lousy quarterback. They could get to the playoffs but fold under pressure.
Great video, thanks as ever. You should do an excellent vid about Kapp of the Vikings and why Jim Finks turned against him after being his champion, and how it wrecked Kapp and the franchise, and how many times since that the Vikings have hung #11 on a QB to try and fix the unfixable karma. Had they given Kapp a new three-year deal in '70, they never need Fran, and probably win a Super Bowl or two. I think the NFL film More Than A Game (1970) and Sports Illustrated criticism of coach Grant in the Super Bowl (summer 1970) contributed to Finks' desire to excommunicate Kapp..
Are u kidding, the Vikings were never winning a SB with Kapp!
@@nala3038 really? Had they Kapp in 1970, for example, they could have defeated San Francisco and Dallas, and faced the Colts. They suffered in 70 and 71 from having no offense punch at all, yet the league-leading defense. They missed the playoffs entirely in 1972. All of these seasons with Kapp would have put them deep into playoffs and NFC Championship range, and a shot a numerous SBs prior tp the Tarkenton era, which existed because they had no QB after Kapp. Outside of "are u kidding" do you have anything else to offer at all?
Your right Gilbert. As a pro AFL 14 year old, I knew the Chiefs only defeated the Vikings because they were super inspired to avenge their one sided defeat in Super Bowl I and it was the AFL's last hurrah before the merger. 1970 was the Vikings Super Bowl season until Jim Finks went into some kind of bizzarro world. I thought the Vikings would wake up and sign Joe Kapp, until the news came out that he finally signed with the Boston Patriots. Boston had the Curse of the Bambino, now the Vikings have a Curse for screwing over Joe Kapp.
Bob Lee was always good enough to be a starter but got stuck behind better guys. Not surprising he played well.
Good for Bob Lee! He represents all the underdog UDFA players who "weren't supposed to make it!"
I knew he played well for the falcons from NFL films as a kid but this is great!
I didn't know really anything about Lee before this video. I do know about Reaves though being a lifelong Eagles fan. The first thing I thought when you said the Vikings traded for him after talking about Lee was that he's basically the anti-Lee. Ugh...yeah move on from Lee with Reaves. Yeah Bud boned him but Lee looked good in the classic Rams blue.. Great move. Great stuff as always. Love your NFL throwback videos.
Suggestion: Eric Hipples 1981 debut vs Bears.
42 Years Ago
For perspective, I was 5 lol
Whats the name of this instrumental in the background that you are playing buddy? I really like it.
Thanks! Custom track I made myself in GarageBand
I sometimes wonder if we beat Pittsburgh with Lee as the Qb
I remember this game
Lee beat theVikings in 73 as a member of Falcons. Think it was a Monday Night game
If you keep me, I may mess up your depth chart, but if you cut me, I'm going to mess up a lot more than that...
Here’s a revenge game someone brought to my attention on Facebook:
1988 Week 9: Pats 30 Bears 7
Doug Flutie torches his former team for 4 TDs, and the Pats knock Jim McMahon out for the rest of 88… mini-revenge for SB XX…
Sounds like the script the Rams used in 95 to get rid of Jerome Bettis, yet The Bus was pulled in the third quarter of his first game against the Rams by Coach Cowher because he had over 100 yards and two TD's in the third quarter as his emotions lead the Steelers to a 42-6 BLOWOUT against the Rams that said Jerome was NOT a game-changer and was basically washed up.
1. “Giving him the business” at 9:23?
2. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the Top 10 plays of Week 15 of the 1989 season, in which the Vikings also lost on a fake field goal in overtime.
Yes, that was Ben Dreith; a few years before the greatest call by an official in NFL history.
Number 2. The legendary Van Waiters of the Cleveland Browns.
I grew up in the Midwest in the sixties and seventies and the Vikings beat the Rams almost every time they played them! If you listen to Rams players you would think the opposite was true. Vikings 4sb, Rams 1
9:51 "finished the game with a passer rating of 85.7" . . . which is *better* than if you did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play.
Do you think you can send me the link to the custom made track you made? I want to see it. You can leave it in your description somewhere and I'll find it.
I remember this game very well. I was over my newly married friends house. For some reason it was shown on local TV in CT. Being a Vikings fan it just totally sucked! I NEVER expected a fake FG try. I find it odd that the narrator never mentions that in almost his entire time with the Vikings he was also their punter. Yep - that’s a fact.
I'm surprised also that in the two videos, I don't remember the punting aspect mentioned, although Lee was only the punter in 1969 and 1971.
Filling in for an injured Fran Tarkenton he upset the Rams in the famous Mud Bowl.
The Rams' OPPONENTS in this game would have been BETTER off SPIKING the BALL into the ground on EVERY single OFFENSIVE play!!!!
Yup i remember that game, payback!
he threw 2 tds in '79 and that was it. how could Grant have ever let that production go?
5:06 The more OBJ9 videos of the Vikings come out, the worse Bud Grant looks 😳
Bob Lee was a very good back up QB. He beat a pretty mediocre Viking team in 79. I guess you could call that revenge, but it is not a great accomplishment.
Not as great as Superbowl XVI, although it was between coach and owner. In 1982 Bill Walsh's 49ers beats Paul Brown's Bengals 26-21. In 1975 when owner Paul Brown retired as head coach and picked the Bengals' next head coach he picked OL coach Tiger Johnson instead of Bill Walsh, who had close relationship with Brown and thought he was most likely to be picked. Walsh left embittered but got his revenge later.
Bruce Lee's bro was a great QB
Jerome Bettis destroyed the Rams in 1996 in Pittsburgh months after he was traded there.
…as always with you as far as I know…..That’s the way it was
Dont know if its buried in your back log of videos I haven't gotten to yet, but how about greatest revenge play? Steve Largent's hit on Mike harden? Best hit by a WR ever
It was louis wright.
@@stevenbauer4799 what was Louis Wright?
Go Rams
This year 2021, could surpass this As Matthew Stafford finally gets a win against the Chicago Bears :-)
The big revenge game I'm waiting for is Brady coming back to play the Patriots.
I'll be rooting against both teams in that game and hoping it ends in a tie.
I hope Brady throws 50 touchdown passes.
Now we're waiting for Tom Brady's revenge game.
I'd say the best revenge game was the time Fran Tarkenton executed his former head coach Bud Grant on the 50 yard line as time expired with two hollow point bullets to his head. At least I think that's what happened. No wait, he led his Giants to a 24-23 victory over his former team...lol. That's what happened. Scratch that part about him executing his former coach...lol
I absolutely remember that game it was opening day 1969. The Game was on TV and the Vikings had a comfortable lead. We went out to a drive thru fast food restaurant and I listed in horror on the radio as my Vikings lost that game in the last minute. Actually Gary Cuozzo was the stating QB for the Vikings that day. The following week Joe Kapp returned as the starter and the Vikings ran off 12 consecutive wins. Unfortunately the season ended in a devastating loss to a 14 point underdog KC Chiefs team. Life SUCKS!!
Ferragamo was never a good quarterback, that super bowl year was because of Pat Haden.
The Lions would make anybody look great.
4th ...
general bob lee. qb'd vikes and falcons before becoming another of the plethora of qb's rams used in the '70's. That's why they never won a s b in the '70's. And general bob lee would probably get cancelled by the cancel culture idiots today.
Wisdom begins with the fear of the LORD. Seek God. Fear God. Repent. Put your faith and trust in Jesus the Christ
This dude talks to fast.
Lee was garbage. Vikings defense carried that franchise between Kapp and Tarkenton’s return back to the Vikings.
Best athlete you never played against
Carried them all the way to nothing.
I grew up in South Dakota and Lee just wasn't up to standard for a Vikings quarterback. Vikings were never big enough to beat the AFL teams. Always better than the Rams!
@@okd521 maybe I should of rephrased him as a player. He wasn’t garbage if he lasted in the nfl so long but he wasn’t good enough to be a starter.
Talk slower...
Let's hope Jared Goff can have a great revenge game this season when the Lions face Matthew Stafford and the Rams this October.
Not gonna happen, Goff is a goof.
@@LSBBD We'll see!