Who in the heck would down vote classic NFL playoff football? Thank You Comrade Dobler for all the classic NFL football memories you have shared on your channel.
Did you see how ridiculous the Rams uniforms looked in Green Bay on Saturday? I agree with you 100%. But further back. Bring back the deacon Jones dark blue
I love football from this era. There's no way any of this could survive the officiating/rules of today's NFL. I see so many hands to the face, leading with the helmet etc etc. But man that era was just awesome. I miss 70-90s football. Today's NFL is terrible.
The greatest decade in NFL history with four indisputably great franchises. Dallas, Oakland, Miami and Pittsburgh. Cowboys: 5 Super Bowl appearances, 2 titles...their three losses were by a combined total of 11 points and they could have won them all with a few breaks here and there. Raiders: only 1 Super Bowl title in the decade but two more would follow soon enough...odds were that in the AFC if you wanted to get to the Super Bowl you first had to get by the Raiders. Dolphins: first team ever to go to three straight Super Bowls...perfection in 1972 and the 1973 team was even better. 4. Steelers: perfect in their own way with 4 Super Bowl Championships in four tries including the two wins over Dallas in Super Bowls X and XIII...went to back-to-back Super Bowls TWICE. The team of the Seventies.
The “next level down” teams were not bad either. The Rams were a great team, but had trouble with either Dallas or Minnesota in the playoffs. They probably would have been more formidable if they had a stable quarterback situation. Minnesota would handle the Rams and go toe to toe with Dallas, but couldn’t win the big one. Washington & St Louis would battle for the #4 spot in the NFC, then get burned in the playoffs. In the AFC, Baltimore with Bert Jones at QB, put together some good seasons, but just couldn’t get by Pittsburgh or Oakland. Houston & Denver put together some solid teams in the late ‘70’s.
They might not have had the nutrition and weight training sciences perfected back then, but they were mentally tougher. A lot of these guys worked second jobs in the offseason. Shoot looking around in the stands, even the fans were tougher.
That “circus” catch by Sammy White (85) and roll- in for the TD was the beginning of the end for Washington. Made the score 14-3 and curtains for the Redskins. Sammy White is the guy who took that vicious hit to the head by Jack Tatum in the Super Bowl.
I know the Steelers were the Steelers but the Colts of 1976 were quite talented with their own Super Bowl aspirations. That loss at Baltimore's old Memorial Stadium was a total humiliation of 40-14.
@@Biggdoom344 Hard to disagree. Had they not lost Harris and Blier due to injuries in that Colts game, they would've had a much better chance at beating who else Oakland again in another AFC title game. Maybe?
@@areguapiri The stealers led everyone in steroids and the whole league knows it. They are still doing it but realized the dangers so they aren't as extreme and some other teams have caught up. I don't like the stealers, but I feel sorry for those players that gave their lives for a super bowl. It's sad and even sadder you are denying it.
@@jim6070 I agree, and I love it! And they weren’t breaking any NFL rules too. Men who were using performance enhancing substances to become stronger and faster. So many guys from so many teams were all using but the Steelers had all the great athletes in the first place because who they drafted, athletes, first and foremost, a team with the most talent in history! All within the rules - loved it! Unlike the teams who cheated like the pussies they are, hiding in the shadows and we all know their names, the Steelers were tough guys who could back it up. Unstoppable. Wish this current set of Steelers would learn from their glory years and from the greatest team ever assembled.
Hey man...I appreciate you gettin' us fired up for pro football & taking us through this memory lane journey...I was 12 & don't remember seeing all of these & haven't seen this one probably since then. Happy New Year! Thanks.
Damn it's good to see this. I was 14 that year and remember these games, the coaches, the stadiums...true nostalgia. Old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore with the dirt field, Metropolitan Stadium where the teams shared the same sideline. As a Raider fan, we were very lucky that day. That pass interference call....
The song Electro Combat leads off the film - that song seemed to be really popular for a few years during the mid-1970's with the NFL films productions.
After watching Oakland get gifted into the AFCC game and watching the Steelers demolition of a good colts team you couldn’t tell me the Steelers would lose the next week. Pittsburgh’s best team of the dynasty didn’t win the SB. This colts game was one of the few times the entire team started the game healthy.
@@jonburrows8602 You know you're comparing 2 different Steeler teams. The early 76 Steelers stumble for several games ( including the Raiders game ).... towards seasons end, theuy where by far the best team in the league. Although a nice squad , the 76 Raiders were simply, not all that.
@@jonburrows8602 fluke loss. It was the only game in the Steelers dynasty that they blew a fourth qtr lead. Three turnovers in six minutes doomed them.
@Matt Joseph I remember all of that - and those playoff games that weekend happened BEFORE Christmas Day in 1976. The AFC and NFC Championship games took place on December 26, 1976 and the Super Bowl was played on January 9, 1977. How about that?
All these great teams built their machines through the draft. Toiled in league obscurity for years before producing the historic seasons that made dynasties. We will never see anything like it again. Except in one's and twos. IE'; Pats, 49ers and 90's Cowboys.
@@itzakehrenberg3449 ⁰new giant former coach Bill Parcells had been known to sleep in his ny giant office. fran tarkenton said that bud Grant did not do that stuff. Jimmy Johnson was a workaholic. I hear
@@itzakehrenberg3449 fran tarkenton said that, ,bud Grant something simular too, sport athletes &coaches today make enough money 💰 with fancy cable 💰 money deals,,it was a different era in sports,,, simular stores with Jimmy Johnson was very strict with Dallas cowboys football players & Barry switzer was the opposite with Dallas cowboys football players,,,
@@JayDogTitan-he6wo The Rams' defense was as good as anybody's. As the Sports Illustrated so aptly put it, 'The Rams Made Goats of Themselves.' The Vikings blocked punts, they blocked FG's (one returned for a touchdown), and although the Rams' huge offensive line battered the smaller Vikings, they got behind 17-0, and due to their horrible kicking game, they were left at home for the Super Bowl. The Raiders battered Jim Marshall and Alan Page the same way the Dolphins did in the 1974 Super Bowl. This coming from a life-long Vikes fan. They just were not good enough. However, having to play the Dolphins' dynasty, the Steelers, and a 15-1 Raiders team had a lot to do with that.
I honestly thought that it was the warm weather! The road went through cold Minnesota all through the 70's. Worked perfectly until they had to play the SB in a warm climate...Tulane stadium excepted. Look at all the HOF players on that Vikes team!
@@jimdahlin7333 I was going to bring up the Rams defense among the best but it took a Viking fan who knew better to point it out. The Rams defense wasn't the problem this year. Their special teams did them in especially both kickers. Dempsey and Rusty were gone after this season and never did much elsewhere. Interesting that this was also Cox's last year with the Vikings (retired) and Fritsch's last ( to Houston) with the Cowboys.
Minnesota had a pretty talented group, from Amaad Rashad, Sammy White, Chuck Foreman and their Defensive Line......it was kind of a shame they never won a Superbowl. This must have been a fairly mild winter day in Minnesota, it doesn't look freakishly cold. And at 5:12, Jack Tatum was nasty (as usual).
@@jimmyfranklin3862 BS...like it or not that was the correct call based on that rule the pats had a fumble recovery taken away from them in week 17 under that exact same rule and furthermore C.Woodson got away with hitting Brady illegally in the face before knocking the ball loose on that tuck play so Raiders fans are absolute hypocrites for complaining...their team got bailed out on a roughing the QB call during the 70s on a failed 4th and 18 with less than a minute left while trailing against the only team that had beaten them that season...if its ok for raiders to win on a questionable call then raiders & their fans have no business for complaining 19yrs later that the Pats finally benefitted and did the same against your them...what goes around comes around, even if it takes 26 yrs.
dp - the play you reference, it was 3rd down and 18 on the roughing the passer call. The next play would have been 4th down. Penalty provided first down of course. And it was a penalty friend.
76 Steelers … opening 1-4 and closing 9-0, with some amazing defense never to be seen again based on rules changes. 😢 At RB there was Harris, Bleier, Harrison and Fuqua. How often can you actually name 4 deep in runners for any NFL team anymore?!
I loved Pro Ball during this period. My cousin was a Hardcore Packer fan and I loved the Baltimore Colts. Yeah, the move to Indy. is still a sore spot. I have a few comments. That man at 0:11 would be thrown in jail today. I hate the new logo. George Allen and the Over the Hill gang. Fran "the Scrambler" Tarkington. Kenny "the Snake" Stabler. The mighty Steelers. No choreographed end zone dances even if your team is losing. Look at me, look at me! Bull s**t.
Actually players did endulge in celebratory TD dances ,funky chicken ,multitude of fancy airborne football spikes, sometimes agressive spikes directed at the beaten defenders feet , teammates occasionally gathered together for a routine antic " Harold Carmichael eagles teammates rolling dice antic " a football was sometimes tossed in the crowd " famous Drew Pearson hail Mary". The 70's was the decade in which self expression was a open common trend amongst the youth counter culture in all social genres .
The weird thing about this narrator is sometimes he seems to be talking in verse and then he just comes out of it in some weird way. Then around 12:46 he calls Franco Harris "Paris".
@@marksantucci4230 You must be a throwback with us then. My goodness I can't believe part of my life is reliving the 1976 football season. Now, about that 1978 Red Sox- Yankees one game playoff. Ahhh, forget it. '78 is still two years away.
@@searchforthestrangler5034 Yes I still use a walkman to listen to music cd's are great phones are stupid I still go to stores Go Raiders I found an Oakland Raiders Freezer mug back in October or so I like taking pictures with a throw away camera prefer it over the stupid phone I like the hard tickets you can write down the score of the game any sport you go and see and you now have a record of what you attended. I pay my credit card through the Mail , I go to a bank with my pay check at grocery stores, Fast food restaurants, movie theatres , hair salons I still use cash If I go shopping , go to a spa, get my car worked on if I go to a sit down restaurant I then use a credit card Yes the Boston Red Sox had much nicer uniforms than what they had when Hurst and Boggs played there I like there 1978 uniforms better than today.!
Unless I missed something, I don't see how Sugar Bear Hamilton's hit on Stabler was Roughing the Passer? You can see he hit Stabler's arm just as he released the ball. Crummy call, all the way around Steelers rolled over Baltimore, but Colt defense played them rough - lots of injuries for Pittsburgh. Vikings really hitting their stride. Tough for them, being that good, to lose ANOTHER Super Bowl.
...and the last for the Vikings, to date. 0-4 are they in the big game and only the Jets ('68-69) have gone longer without a SB appearance (1-0). Cleveland and Detroit have yet to even get there.
Tommy Thomason; I agree - the Raiders should have thanked the refs for a big assist on that call. The Patriots could not get a call in their favor all day.
@@steven2212 Stingley was fully extended on that play as he reached out for an overthrown pass by Steve Grogan. I've seen that hit only twice since the day it happened back in August '78. Man.
Ah, before free agency when great teams could be assembled. Pittsburgh did put together one of the best teams ever by good drafting on high picks on years of loosing.
Agree Gary. That’s why I believe the 70’s Steelers were truly the greatest of all the dynasties. Because they played great teams when it was harder to play and they beat them all, not like this pussy free agent watered down league today. All you need is a great QB.
Back when real men played real football. The forearms to the head should have been illegal, but the rest is good, hard-nosed, manly football. And, yes, even the fans and kids were tougher back then.
Did I see that score correctly 40-14 in a playoff game? lately it happens when team 3 plays 6 but when there were less teams more competive that shouldn't have happened? back in 1976?
The Steelers completely dominated, outgaining the Colts 526-170 in a runaway from the 3rd play of the game when Bradshaw hit Frank Lewis on a 76 yard TD pass.
Steelers were in a zone that day. Bert jones didn’t do the colts any favors running his mouth about how great their offense was and that the colts had outplayed the Steelers for three quarters in a playoff game the year before. Both were true, but sometimes it’s better just to be quiet. What’s scary is the Steelers also fumbled at the colts 2. It could have been 47-14...
1970-77: 4 teams in each conference made the playoffs, 3 division winners and 1 wild card 1-4*, 2-3 *If the 1-seed & Wild Card Team were from the same division, they did not face each other in the first round. What MLB had in place when they introduced the Wild Card starting in the 1994 season Seeding was not introduced until the 1975 season. The 1972 Dolphins went to Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship.
@@skullthumper8646 I'll take the Raiders consistent excellence from 1967 through 1985 and 3 SB wins over the Steelers relative short 4 SB run during the 1970s. Raiders played in more Conference/League Championship games over that span that the Steelers had playoff appearances.
@@jonburrows8602 Then the Steelers won two more super bowls after that, then of course if you're happy with winning regular season games and some playoff appearances that okay too.
As a long time Vikings fan,I disagree with his comment that the Vikings undoubtedly had their best team... They were still very good, but won several games on guile, special team play, and goal line defense! They were getting a bit long in the tooth, and the Rams to a extent,and especially Oakland exposed their weaknesses.,..I do think that possibly the Super Bowl might have been a bit more competitive if they could have converted Ray Guy's blocked punt into a touchdown...but ...
RIP 🙏🏿 Franco Harris. Definitely broke my heart in this game. Thankfully the game was over when the plane crashed in the upper deck of old Memorial Stadium 🏟.
Too young for these games but I'm betting Redskin fans were pretty dissapointed after this loss - If I could go back in time I would tell them not to worry too much, brighter days are ahead. We would win three Superbowls and Minnesota has never one a single one.
Definitely frustrating being a Rams fan in the 70's, to come up short of the Super Bowl until the '79 season. Seems that special teams and turnovers were a big issue with the Rams when it counted the most.
Fans to go on about the Patriots and the Tuck rule ruining the raiders chances of the super bowl forget the past. The ridiculous roughing the passer penalty against New England gave the raiders the game I'm broke potential New England dynasty. From 76 to 1980 the Patriots were often preseason favorites along with Pittsburgh and Oakland for the super bowl In the end both the top rule and the bad roughing the passer call had little to do really with whether or not dynasties were born or died. Makes for good Lore though. But if you're going to look at history make sure you look at the entirety of it before you start making goofy claims
That roughing the passer play in the Pats Raiders game was obviously the refs making sure the Raiders won and yet the narrative we've been given is that Pete Roselle and Al Davis had a feud. I mean come on, the refs helped the Raiders win that game. When Al Davis was fighting the NFL to move the Raiders to Los Angeles in 1980, Pete Roselle and the refs didn't slow the team down on the road to winning their 2nd Super Bowl thus bringing a Super Bowl team to LA that would attract fans there. Al Davis and Pete Roselle was a fake feud.
Baltimore had a good offense and an overrated defense. The head coach was not very bright. It didnt matter because the Steelers where roided to the max on the lines.
Who in the heck would down vote classic NFL playoff football? Thank You Comrade Dobler for all the classic NFL football memories you have shared on your channel.
The same kind of people who pushed to drop the Redskins name.
@@TommyC503 Agreed
Well said Paul Webb
@@jjmill5209 I was only 8 in '77, but the mid 70s-'81 is the only NFL I'll even make the effort to watch.
Agree totally… the 1970’s & early 1980’s NFL taped games and highlights are pure gold.
Those Rams uniforms of that era were their best ever!!!
Did you see how ridiculous the Rams uniforms looked in Green Bay on Saturday? I agree with you 100%. But further back. Bring back the deacon Jones dark blue
@@Playsinvain Too many teams wear metallic helmets
All uniforms were better back then and the way the game was played also
You could see sleeve stripes on the jerseys back then, now they look like they're packed away
I love football from this era. There's no way any of this could survive the officiating/rules of today's NFL. I see so many hands to the face, leading with the helmet etc etc. But man that era was just awesome. I miss 70-90s football. Today's NFL is terrible.
Metropolitan Stadium is a huge favorite of mine. Fran Tarkenton and the Vikings will always be a favorite team to watch
The greatest decade in NFL history with four indisputably great franchises. Dallas, Oakland, Miami and Pittsburgh.
Cowboys: 5 Super Bowl appearances, 2 titles...their three losses were by a combined total of 11 points and they could have won them all with a few breaks here and there.
Raiders: only 1 Super Bowl title in the decade but two more would follow soon enough...odds were that in the AFC if you wanted to get to the Super Bowl you first had to get by the Raiders.
Dolphins: first team ever to go to three straight Super Bowls...perfection in 1972 and the 1973 team was even better.
4. Steelers: perfect in their own way with 4 Super Bowl Championships in four tries including the two wins over Dallas in Super Bowls X and XIII...went to back-to-back Super Bowls TWICE. The team of the Seventies.
The “next level down” teams were not bad either. The Rams were a great team, but had trouble with either Dallas or Minnesota in the playoffs. They probably would have been more formidable if they had a stable quarterback situation. Minnesota would handle the Rams and go toe to toe with Dallas, but couldn’t win the big one. Washington & St Louis would battle for the #4 spot in the NFC, then get burned in the playoffs. In the AFC, Baltimore with Bert Jones at QB, put together some good seasons, but just couldn’t get by Pittsburgh or Oakland. Houston & Denver put together some solid teams in the late ‘70’s.
Charlie Waters 41 had a couple monster games in the playoffs vs the Rams!
Our Dad's generation had more grit.
Yes, they did. I really believe that.
@Matt Joseph They're going to HAVE to toughen up at some point. Us older people cannot man the fort for them forever. We cannot live forever.
@Matt Joseph I hear ya. It is getting very bad.
They might not have had the nutrition and weight training sciences perfected back then, but they were mentally tougher. A lot of these guys worked second jobs in the offseason. Shoot looking around in the stands, even the fans were tougher.
The greatest and no question it's gone for good
9:45-The lovable legend, Art Rooney, chatting it up with the young wonder of NFL films, Steve Sabol. Really cool.
As soon as I saw that thumbnail I had to watch, two late, great legends in a long gone historic old stadium.
@@brotzmannsax Agreed. Timeless moment...wish I had a poster of it!!
That “circus” catch by Sammy White (85) and roll- in for the TD was the beginning of the end for Washington. Made the score 14-3 and curtains for the Redskins. Sammy White is the guy who took that vicious hit to the head by Jack Tatum in the Super Bowl.
From 1970 to 1975 The Vikings lost 3 playoff games at home in 70,71 & 75
I remember watching that Patriots game and they were robbed, that team was primed for a Superbowl appearance.
Great upload. NFL films really did a good job of editing and telling a story of each game. Once Ed Sabol left, things were never the same
Well said!
I know the Steelers were the Steelers but the Colts of 1976 were quite talented with their own Super Bowl aspirations. That loss at Baltimore's old Memorial Stadium was a total humiliation of 40-14.
That was the best game the 70s Steelers ever played. They would have smoked any team in the league that day.
@@Biggdoom344 Hard to disagree. Had they not lost Harris and Blier due to injuries in that Colts game, they would've had a much better chance at beating who else Oakland again in another AFC title game. Maybe?
Thanks Dobler for uploading the whole season..
You're welcome!
The Pittsburgh Steelers of the 70’s could do it all, truly amazing team, greatest football team ever assembled IMO.
Fuck the Steelers
Steroids will do that.
@@jim6070 ... What about all the other teams? Why didn't they win? The steroid talk is so over-exaggerated and affected no one.
@@areguapiri The stealers led everyone in steroids and the whole league knows it. They are still doing it but realized the dangers so they aren't as extreme and some other teams have caught up. I don't like the stealers, but I feel sorry for those players that gave their lives for a super bowl. It's sad and even sadder you are denying it.
@@jim6070 I agree, and I love it! And they weren’t breaking any NFL rules too. Men who were using performance enhancing substances to become stronger and faster. So many guys from so many teams were all using but the Steelers had all the great athletes in the first place because who they drafted, athletes, first and foremost, a team with the most talent in history! All within the rules - loved it!
Unlike the teams who cheated like the pussies they are, hiding in the shadows and we all know their names, the Steelers were tough guys who could back it up. Unstoppable. Wish this current set of Steelers would learn from their glory years and from the greatest team ever assembled.
Hey man...I appreciate you gettin' us fired up for pro football & taking us through this memory lane journey...I was 12 & don't remember seeing all of these & haven't seen this one probably since then. Happy New Year! Thanks.
My pleasure!!
Damn it's good to see this. I was 14 that year and remember these games, the coaches, the stadiums...true nostalgia. Old Memorial Stadium in Baltimore with the dirt field, Metropolitan Stadium where the teams shared the same sideline. As a Raider fan, we were very lucky that day. That pass interference call....
The song Electro Combat leads off the film - that song seemed to be really popular for a few years during the mid-1970's with the NFL films productions.
After watching Oakland get gifted into the AFCC game and watching the Steelers demolition of a good colts team you couldn’t tell me the Steelers would lose the next week. Pittsburgh’s best team of the dynasty didn’t win the SB. This colts game was one of the few times the entire team started the game healthy.
Um Raiders already beat the Steelers, who were at full strength, during the regular season.
@@jonburrows8602 You know you're comparing 2 different Steeler teams. The early 76 Steelers stumble for several games ( including the Raiders game ).... towards seasons end, theuy where by far the best team in the league.
Although a nice squad , the 76 Raiders were simply, not all that.
The Raiders were too talented for the Steelers
@@jonburrows8602 fluke loss. It was the only game in the Steelers dynasty that they blew a fourth qtr lead. Three turnovers in six minutes doomed them.
WoW! thank you Comrade I always wanted to see the 1976 Playoffs I loved the 1976 season my favorite season even doe the Steelers didn't get a 3peat
Pittsburgh at Baltimore, the Colts crashed and so did a plane in the upper deck at Memorial Stadium
how big of a plane
@@blindtiger5919 Small Cessna type.
@Matt Joseph I remember all of that - and those playoff games that weekend happened BEFORE Christmas Day in 1976. The AFC and NFC Championship games took place on December 26, 1976 and the Super Bowl was played on January 9, 1977. How about that?
The Steelers saved lives that day by blowing the Colts out.
@@jimirwin5623 After the Raiders victory over Minnesota, the cover on Sports Illustrated read Oakland Bowls 'em Over!
The Vikes broke my heart from 1969-2009 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Know watcha mean. Vikes fan for 50 years and counting.
I love these vintage videos
All these great teams built their machines through the draft. Toiled in league obscurity for years before producing the historic seasons that made dynasties. We will never see anything like it again. Except in one's and twos. IE'; Pats, 49ers and 90's Cowboys.
The 6-5 260 lb Dennis Harrah puts the scare into Randy White: 16:53
Tarkenton deserved a ring 💍
❤ fran tarkenton, fran tarkenton said that bud Grant was not a spend the night at the viking coaches office coach
@@lloydkline6946 ?????
@@itzakehrenberg3449 ⁰new giant former coach Bill Parcells had been known to sleep in his ny giant office. fran tarkenton said that bud Grant did not do that stuff. Jimmy Johnson was a workaholic. I hear
@@lloydkline6946 I see, so you're saying Bud Grant was not so dedicated to the team or winning as some other coaches.
@@itzakehrenberg3449 fran tarkenton said that, ,bud Grant something simular too, sport athletes &coaches today make enough money 💰 with fancy cable 💰 money deals,,it was a different era in sports,,, simular stores with Jimmy Johnson was very strict with Dallas cowboys football players & Barry switzer was the opposite with Dallas cowboys football players,,,
It is truly a shame that Vikings were never able to muster the same dominance in at least one Superbowl that they did throughout the playoffs.
ElectricStrider1, I agree, But the Vikings didn't face the defenses in the playoffs that they faced in those four Super Bowls other than the Cowboys.
1:43-John "The Diesel" Riggins in his first playoff game.
@@JayDogTitan-he6wo The Rams' defense was as good as anybody's. As the Sports Illustrated so aptly put it, 'The Rams Made Goats of Themselves.' The Vikings blocked punts, they blocked FG's (one returned for a touchdown), and although the Rams' huge offensive line battered the smaller Vikings, they got behind 17-0, and due to their horrible kicking game, they were left at home for the Super Bowl. The Raiders battered Jim Marshall and Alan Page the same way the Dolphins did in the 1974 Super Bowl. This coming from a life-long Vikes fan. They just were not good enough. However, having to play the Dolphins' dynasty, the Steelers, and a 15-1 Raiders team had a lot to do with that.
I honestly thought that it was the warm weather! The road went through cold Minnesota all through the 70's. Worked perfectly until they had to play the SB in a warm climate...Tulane stadium excepted. Look at all the HOF players on that Vikes team!
@@jimdahlin7333 I was going to bring up the Rams defense among the best but it took a Viking fan who knew better to point it out. The Rams defense wasn't the problem this year. Their special teams did them in especially both kickers. Dempsey and Rusty were gone after this season and never did much elsewhere. Interesting that this was also Cox's last year with the Vikings (retired) and Fritsch's last ( to Houston) with the Cowboys.
❤ the l.a ram cheerleaders of the 1970s&1980s,, prettiest cheerleaders ever
I know right. Dallas cheerleading team got the hype but the rams cheerleaders were hotter.
That was the first AFC playoff game to be contested between founding members of the AFL.
Pittsburgh was unstoppable this year but losing Bleier and Harris in the divisional game was too much going up against the Raiders.
First road playoff win in Rams franchise history.
Minnesota had a pretty talented group, from Amaad Rashad, Sammy White, Chuck Foreman and their Defensive Line......it was kind of a shame they never won a Superbowl. This must have been a fairly mild winter day in Minnesota, it doesn't look freakishly cold. And at 5:12, Jack Tatum was nasty (as usual).
The temperature at Metropolitan Stadium was in the 40s.Extremely mild for Minnesota in December
That music !!
Vikings belong outdoors
Do you have anything in the 1977 or 78 season
I'm a niner fan but the rams uniforms were great back then
It's funny how history could have different sam Cunningham just inches short from maybe putting raiders away
What a devastating loss for the patriots. The refs really favored the Raiders ....once.
Hamilton's shot to Stabler's noggin was a WAY Better call then....
The TUCK Rule call
@@jimmyfranklin3862 BS...like it or not that was the correct call based on that rule the pats had a fumble recovery taken away from them in week 17 under that exact same rule and furthermore C.Woodson got away with hitting Brady illegally in the face before knocking the ball loose on that tuck play so Raiders fans are absolute hypocrites for complaining...their team got bailed out on a roughing the QB call during the 70s on a failed 4th and 18 with less than a minute left while trailing against the only team that had beaten them that season...if its ok for raiders to win on a questionable call then raiders & their fans have no business for complaining 19yrs later that the Pats finally benefitted and did the same against your them...what goes around comes around, even if it takes 26 yrs.
dp - the play you reference, it was 3rd down and 18 on the roughing the passer call. The next play would have been 4th down. Penalty provided first down of course. And it was a penalty friend.
The Cowboys blew a game at home in the playoffs against the Rams.
Here's a quiz question. Who knows why the Cowboys had red white and blue stripes on their helmets just for this season?
1776 anniversary I think
@@horaceclarke2064 Correct! The Bicentennial.
We got ROBBED THAT YEAR!! WE HAD THE RAIDERS.
76 Steelers … opening 1-4 and closing 9-0, with some amazing defense never to be seen again based on rules changes. 😢
At RB there was Harris, Bleier, Harrison and Fuqua. How often can you actually name 4 deep in runners for any NFL team anymore?!
Losing Bleier and Harris in the divisional game was too devastating
I loved Pro Ball during this period. My cousin was a Hardcore Packer fan and I loved the Baltimore Colts. Yeah, the move to Indy. is still a sore spot. I have a few comments. That man at 0:11 would be thrown in jail today. I hate the new logo. George Allen and the Over the Hill gang. Fran "the Scrambler" Tarkington. Kenny "the Snake" Stabler. The mighty Steelers. No choreographed end zone dances even if your team is losing. Look at me, look at me! Bull s**t.
Actually players did endulge in celebratory TD dances ,funky chicken ,multitude of fancy airborne football spikes, sometimes agressive spikes directed at the beaten defenders feet , teammates occasionally gathered together for a routine antic " Harold Carmichael eagles teammates rolling dice antic " a football was sometimes tossed in the crowd " famous Drew Pearson hail Mary". The 70's was the decade in which self expression was a open common trend amongst the youth counter culture in all social genres .
The weird thing about this narrator is sometimes he seems to be talking in verse and then he just comes out of it in some weird way. Then around 12:46 he calls Franco Harris "Paris".
The Sammy White TD at around 02:45 imagine how long the clowns would hold the game up in replay if that happened today.
Dang I really miss the 70's.
Vikings had some beautiful uniforms back then. Simple. Sometimes less is more.
Couldn't agree with you more. No overdone third uniform either.
@@searchforthestrangler5034 you guys are 1,000 percent?
@@marksantucci4230 You must be a throwback with us then. My goodness I can't believe part of my life is reliving the 1976 football season. Now, about that 1978 Red Sox- Yankees one game playoff. Ahhh, forget it. '78 is still two years away.
The new Vikings uniforms look good but they dont compare to the old uniforms
@@searchforthestrangler5034
Yes I still use a walkman to listen to music cd's are great phones are stupid
I still go to stores Go Raiders I found an Oakland Raiders Freezer mug back in October or so
I like taking pictures with a throw away camera prefer it over the stupid phone
I like the hard tickets you can write down the score of the game any sport you go and see and you now have a record of what you attended.
I pay my credit card through the Mail , I go to a bank with my pay check
at grocery stores, Fast food restaurants, movie theatres , hair salons I still use cash
If I go shopping , go to a spa, get my car worked on if I go to a sit down restaurant I then use a credit card
Yes the Boston Red Sox had much nicer uniforms than what they had when Hurst and Boggs played there
I like there 1978 uniforms better than today.!
Unless I missed something, I don't see how Sugar Bear Hamilton's hit on Stabler was Roughing the Passer? You can see he hit Stabler's arm just as he released the ball. Crummy call, all the way around
Steelers rolled over Baltimore, but Colt defense played them rough - lots of injuries for Pittsburgh.
Vikings really hitting their stride. Tough for them, being that good, to lose ANOTHER Super Bowl.
...and the last for the Vikings, to date. 0-4 are they in the big game and only the Jets ('68-69) have gone longer without a SB appearance (1-0). Cleveland and Detroit have yet to even get there.
That "bad" call was rectified in January 2002.
Steve Grogan was a very good qb.
Tommy Thomason; I agree - the Raiders should have thanked the refs for a big assist on that call. The Patriots could not get a call in their favor all day.
It enabled a Raiders Super Bowl that call against Hamilton. The Patriots were robbed that late Saturday in Oakland.
The Vikings-Patriots Super Bowl of January 1977 in Pasadena. Who would have won? Let the debate begin.
4:36 The Raiderettes!
Opening shot - Could you be any further from the field? I'd rather watch it in a pub!
@5:12 I played cornerback and that was how we were taught to clean up or finish the play off. That was a legal hit when I played.
Personal foul Tatum..shot to the head. 15 yards and a first down in today's game.
Agree...he would use that exact type of cheap hit to cripple D Stingly.
@@steven2212 You are so right Steven.
@@steven2212 Stingley was fully extended on that play as he reached out for an overthrown pass by Steve Grogan. I've seen that hit only twice since the day it happened back in August '78. Man.
In a pre season, meaningless game.
@@steven2212 right again, Steven.
Who was that Raider cheerleader?
Ah, before free agency when great teams could be assembled. Pittsburgh did put together one of the best teams ever by good drafting on high picks on years of loosing.
Agree Gary. That’s why I believe the 70’s Steelers were truly the greatest of all the dynasties. Because they played great teams when it was harder to play and they beat them all, not like this pussy free agent watered down league today. All you need is a great QB.
Very apropos to use the name Conrad dobler I can think of no other fitting name when you're sharing this film
Cowboys vs Rams at Texas stadium at 15:23
5:05 Old time football. No penalty. Tatum at his best.
Stu Voigt and Sammy White should be in the HOF.
Not until Jim Marshall gets there
Chuck Foreman and Bobby Bryant should be in there also
The next time Stingley played in Oakland it would be the last game of his career.
Back when real men played real football. The forearms to the head should have been illegal, but the rest is good, hard-nosed, manly football. And, yes, even the fans and kids were tougher back then.
Nowadays there are so many Prima Donna$$$$ !
Did I see that score correctly 40-14 in a playoff game? lately it happens when team 3 plays 6 but when there were less teams more competive that shouldn't have happened? back in 1976?
The Steelers completely dominated, outgaining the Colts 526-170 in a runaway from the 3rd play of the game when Bradshaw hit Frank Lewis on a 76 yard TD pass.
Steelers were in a zone that day. Bert jones didn’t do the colts any favors running his mouth about how great their offense was and that the colts had outplayed the Steelers for three quarters in a playoff game the year before. Both were true, but sometimes it’s better just to be quiet. What’s scary is the Steelers also fumbled at the colts 2. It could have been 47-14...
1970-77: 4 teams in each conference made the playoffs, 3 division winners and 1 wild card
1-4*, 2-3
*If the 1-seed & Wild Card Team were from the same division, they did not face each other in the first round. What MLB had in place when they introduced the Wild Card starting in the 1994 season
Seeding was not introduced until the 1975 season. The 1972 Dolphins went to Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship.
I can’t believe Dallas lost at home to the Rams that year.
13-1 RADAHS ruled 76' beat the Squeelers...twice
Should have been Steelers at NE. Patriots got robbed that day. The NFL clearly wanted a Steelers raiders championship game.
Who won 4 super bowl in 70s?
@@skullthumper8646 I'll take the Raiders consistent excellence from 1967 through 1985 and 3 SB wins over the Steelers relative short 4 SB run during the 1970s. Raiders played in more Conference/League Championship games over that span that the Steelers had playoff appearances.
@@jonburrows8602 Then the Steelers won two more super bowls after that, then of course if you're happy with winning regular season games and some playoff appearances that okay too.
Love listening to Ted Jackson.The Redskins did better in the 1973 playoff game this 1976 one.
Over the hill gang
Steve Sabol @ 9:46
At around 05:00 check that Jack Tatum hit. He tried to kill rookie Sammy White in the Super Bowl. Not even a flag.
Baltimore was a strong team in ‘76. Pittsburgh completely demolished em.
Fun fact bud grant is 3-0 vs George allen in the playoffs..
And it will stay that way
its so disheartening to turn one of these on and realize immediately that Facenda's voice isn't there. Such a let down.
As a long time Vikings fan,I disagree with his comment that the Vikings undoubtedly had their best team... They were still very good, but won several games on guile, special team play, and goal line defense! They were getting a bit long in the tooth, and the Rams to a extent,and especially Oakland exposed their weaknesses.,..I do think that possibly the Super Bowl might have been a bit more competitive if they could have converted Ray Guy's blocked punt into a touchdown...but ...
Lakers vs Grizzlies
The best Steelers team could have been the one that didn't win the Super Bowl 1976 5 shutouts
Really, Dallas cowboy 1970s not beat the 1970s Pittsburgh steelers&Oakland Raiders vs Pittsburgh steelers another legendary matchch
Dan Rooney before he died said the 76 Steelers were the best Steelers team ever. They just couldn’t stay healthy, but when they were...curtains lol.
@@Biggdoom344 going into the AFC title game against the Raiders without Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier hurt big time
@@lloydkline6946 The Cowboys did beat the Steelers in Super Bowl XXX however ( 1995)
@@michaelleroy9281 it not the same as beating the 1970s Pittsburgh steelers, but happy finally beat Pittsburgh steelers in a super bowl
Hard to fathom, #44 J. RIGGINS (HOF) getting wrecked by the" Purple people eaters".
What made Riggins in his later career was the Hogs. Sometimes it's the O-line that makes a running back great.
RIP 🙏🏿 Franco Harris. Definitely broke my heart in this game. Thankfully the game was over when the plane crashed in the upper deck of old Memorial Stadium 🏟.
Anybody else see that catch at 2:37
Too young for these games but I'm betting Redskin fans were pretty dissapointed after this loss - If I could go back in time I would tell them not to worry too much, brighter days are ahead. We would win three Superbowls and Minnesota has never one a single one.
Your right Minnesota is 0-4
Does anyone know an email address for Comrade Dobler?
try dizzygit@verizon.net
Football was the best at this time, grass, cold, and men that played it
Damn, at 4:43. Hot 1976 babes. Wonder what they look like 45 years later. Maybe not.
I know the man in green windbreaker at 5:00 is not around anymore.
Late hit on Franco Harris by number 76 who just piled on after he was down , cost him the AFC Champ. Game next week.
Dallas Lee Roy Jordan number 55. Retired after the Ram loss.
Don't go there, you might not like what you see after marriages kids divorces and other things
Those babes wouldn't be hot at Metropolitan Stadium in December, they'd be 🥶 freezing 😆😆😆!
That was the Steelers best team…the team that lost to the raiders w/o Harris n bleier
I was 16. My Rams on to Minnesota. Oh No.
I was 12 and could also sense the "Bloomington Beatdown" the Vikings would give the Rams enroute to SB XI.
Definitely frustrating being a Rams fan in the 70's, to come up short of the Super Bowl until the '79 season. Seems that special teams and turnovers were a big issue with the Rams when it counted the most.
Gdobie1 West. Special teams was huge.
@@gdobie1west988 and then until 1999( in St Louis)
The people that took away the Redskins name and logo are evil people
If it wasn't for MPLS last May 25 this conversation wouldn't be happening
5:12.
Fans to go on about the Patriots and the Tuck rule ruining the raiders chances of the super bowl forget the past. The ridiculous roughing the passer penalty against New England gave the raiders the game I'm broke potential New England dynasty. From 76 to 1980 the Patriots were often preseason favorites along with Pittsburgh and Oakland for the super bowl
In the end both the top rule and the bad roughing the passer call had little to do really with whether or not dynasties were born or died.
Makes for good Lore though. But if you're going to look at history make sure you look at the entirety of it before you start making goofy claims
8:30 terrible call, cost the Pats...
Blow to the head, easy call then as it is now.
That roughing the passer play in the Pats Raiders game was obviously the refs making sure the Raiders won and yet the narrative we've been given is that Pete Roselle and Al Davis had a feud. I mean come on, the refs helped the Raiders win that game. When Al Davis was fighting the NFL to move the Raiders to Los Angeles in 1980, Pete Roselle and the refs didn't slow the team down on the road to winning their 2nd Super Bowl thus bringing a Super Bowl team to LA that would attract fans there. Al Davis and Pete Roselle was a fake feud.
The Raiders had revenge on their minds , The Patriots clobbered them 48-17 in week 4 their only loss for the season
Except for some 90, 000 crowds here and there the Raiders only half filled the Coliseum for games and then eventually back to Oakland 1995
That was the call that blew it for NE. Roughing the passer my ass. Just like today the refs controlled the outcomes of close games.
The Vikings...........no Super Bowl wins.
Another cheap shot by Tatum.
No flag so not a cheap shot....within the rules. You like today's rules better?
Raiders should have lost this game Raiders know they lost this game that the refs held there hand
Baltimore had a good offense and an overrated defense. The head coach was not very bright. It didnt matter because the Steelers where roided to the max on the lines.
Can't disagree on that point.
Yeah right ( about the Steelers), whatever
So was half the league. Dallas, Oakland, Denver were also heavy into the juice