The BIZARRE CONTROVERSY Between NBC and the Dallas Cowboys | Colts @ Cowboys (1976)
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- Prior to week 3 of the 1976 NFL season, the Dallas Cowboys were set to host the Baltimore Colts in a sold-out game at Texas Stadium, meaning that there would be no blackout, and that NBC would be allowed to televise the game in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. However, when the Cowboys made a slight miscalculation, everything went south quickly
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Members of the 1976 Cowboys:
Efren Herrera
Danny White
Roger Staubach
Mel Renfro
Doug Dennison
Aaron Kyle
Preston Pearson
Charley Young
Benny Barnes
Scott Laidlaw
Jim Jensen
Charlie Waters
Randy Hughes
Cliff Harris
Robert Newhouse
Mark Washington
DD Lewis
Jim Eidson
Bob Breunig
Randy White
Lee Roy Jordan
Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson
Mike Hegman
Blaine Nye
John Fitzgerald
Larry Cole
Tom Rafferty
Burton Lawless
Pat Donovan
Herbert Scott
Rayfield Wright
Ed “Too Tall” Jones
Ralph Neely
Jethro Pugh
Bill Gregory
Greg Schaum
Harvey Martin
Beasley Reece
Golden Saldi
DreRichards
Butch Johnson
Jay Saldi
Drew Pearson
Billy Joe DuPree
Tom Landry (head coach)
Members of the 1976 Colts:
Toni Linhart
Bert Jones
Bill Troup
Jackie Wallace
Don McCauley
Ray Oldham
Lydell Mitchell
Howard Stevens
Nelson Munsey
Randy Hall
Ron Lee
Glenn Doughty
Bruce Laird
Lloyd Mumphord
Spencer Thomas
Bryant Salter
Tim Baylor
Roosevelt Leaks
David Lee
Forrest Blue
Stan White
Sanders Shiver
Dan Dickel
Ed Simonini
Ken Mendenhall
Derrel Luce
Jim Cheyunski
Robert Pratt
Ken Huff
Mike Barnes
Dave Taylor
Elmer Collett
Bob Van Duyne
Fred Cook
Ron Fernandes
Ken Novak
George Kunz
Joe Ehrmann
John Dutton
Roger Carr
Jimmie Kennedy
Freddie Scott
Raymond Chester
Ricky Thompson
Ted Marchibroda (head coach) 
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Schramm is in the HOF and was lauded as a great exec. but in the 1971 Cowboys version of *America's Game* Duane Thomas talked about how treacherous he was. And I believe him.
He worked for the owner, and team, to make money.
Staubach also said he wished he hired an agent.
Most all players were underpaid at that time.
He got in for his lead in negotiations with the NFL (Lamar Hunt lived in Texas)
@JerseyDevilGMan Fortunately for Staubach, he ended up extremely wealthy after he retired from the NFL.
Yeah all you need do is to read "North Dallas Forty" to see the true Tex Schramm aka Clinton Foote.
If I'm not mistaken, the actual quote was that Schramm was "sick, demented, and totally dishonest." To which Schramm made a tongue-in-cheek reply, something to the effect of, "well, that's not bad; he got two out of three." It is interesting to note that Thomas recanted his criticism of Landry later when he tried a comeback with the Cowboys in the mid-70s and then when Landry retired. I'm not sure if he made similar amends with Schramm as well. But Thomas was pretty messed up. Most of the Cowboys players, according to one source I've come across, had the most dislike for Gil Brandt, not Schramm.
I remember when I was a kid in '72, the first ever Steelers playoff appearance, which just so happened to be the Immaculate Reception game, was blacked out where I lived 40 miles north of Pittsburgh. We had to go 20 miles north to my aunt and uncle's house just so we could see the game. I am so glad that the absurd blackout rule is dead and buried in the past.
Ahh, back in the day when you can buy tickets at department stores. In Detroit, for example, radio and TV ads for events had a tagline saying, "Get your tickets at (venue), Hudson's, Sears, Crowley's and Bank of the Commonwealth".
Same, watched the Cowboys on CBS late game in Detroit often. Cowboys fan for life.
Yes, but now you can do it online!
Drew Pearson, the Dallas wide receiver who threw the touchdown pass, was a quarterback in high school. His backup was Joe Thiesmann.
The blackout and broadcast rules back in the day were nonsensical
yeah, all local games were blacked out, even if they were sold out, prior to 1973
I'm amazed that blackouts continued into the early 2010s given that getting around them wasn't hard by that point like it was around the turn of the century. I missed tons of Buccaneers games, including games on TNT and ESPN, for most of my childhood due to the blackout rule.
Surprised Pete Rozelle didn’t step in to help NBC, one of the NFL’s biggest cash partners.
I'm not. Commissioners didn't usually step into this type of situation.
Today they would. Money above all.
I would push back on that sentiment. The past 2 commisioners never go against the owners on anything substantial. Check out how much cash Goodell makes.
The NFLPA is weak.
The commissioner works for the owners, not the networks.
I remember watching this game live. It looked like a potential Super Bowl preview. NBC must’ve been particularly peeved because it hadn’t aired a Cowboys game since December 1974 (vs. Cleveland in a Saturday national telecast) and wouldn’t air another until December 1977 (vs. Denver in an actual Super Bowl preview, but which wasn’t seen by many due to a critical Patriots-Colts showdown for the AFC East title). Two interesting tidbits about that 1972 Cowboys-Colts game; it ended up being Johnny Unitas’s final start for the Colts and final one in Baltimore (mercifully, he never played there as a Charger), and it was supposed to be the primary 4 pm doubleheader game on CBS, but was downgraded because the Colts were unexpectedly awful (1-4 after the loss), causing CBS to elevate Giants-49ers instead.
Aaahh yes... The prehistory of Ticketron and Ticketmaster!!!
Outstanding video about something of which I had absolutely no knowledge prior to watching this. As a ten-year-old Baltimore Colts fan living in Chicago back then, watched the game on WMAQ-TV 5. What I remember the most was being sooooooooo furious with the loss to those guys.
Lots of NFL owners back in the 1970's were not fan friendly, nor player friendly. Lots of bad press for a numbre of those owners...
The bickering Mara's, the terrible Art Modell, Robert Irsay of these Colts, and Bill Bidwill of the Cardinals. And numbskull Carroll Rosenbloom. Not to mention cheapskate Tex Schramm, although he wasn't the real owner.
This is very similar to what happened in 1994 with a nationally televised NHL game on ESPN between the SJ Sharks & the LA Kings. For some context heading into this game, the Sharks were only 2 points away from clinching their first ever playoff berth while the Kings (with Wayne Gretzky) needed to win to keep any hope of making the playoffs alive. Most of the country was able to see the game on ESPN without any issue. However thanks to the RSN in LA Prime Ticket (now Bally Sports West), Kings fans were screwed out of watching their team play on ESPN. This was because at the time Prime Ticket reserved the right to air any Kings game that was nationally televised which meant that the game was blacked out on ESPN in LA. The reason why nationally televised games in the NHL (though it also applied in the NBA for a time as well) were blacked out in one or both markets of the teams playing at the time was because the RSN's feared losing ad revenue from not broadcasting the game. There was also a push given the Kings playoff situation to try to get as many fans inside the Forum as possible as another reason behind the blackout. This blackout policy also applied with the Sharks RSN (the very awful SportsChannel America) as well for much of the same reasoning. Remarkably, this blackout policy existed in the NHL all the way up until the most recent national TV deal the league signed. As for the game, the Sharks won 2-0 not only clinching their first ever playoff berth but also eliminating the Kings from playoff contention, marking the first time in the legendary career of Wayne Gretzky that he had missed the playoffs.
Bill Wirtz, owner of the Blackhawks, basically said "Home games on TV? Over my dead body." Rocky Wirtz had a call in to Comcast Sports Net before his father's funeral.
Over in New York City, WNBC-TV (channel 4) at the time, did not aired the Cowboys/Colts game, so instead, they ran the Jets/Dolphins games. I don’t remember back then since I could not find anything on TV Guide.
In New York, WNBC had to air the Jets/Miami game as it involved a local team.
@@altfactor Back then, you usually ONLY got the Jets and Giants games. Beginning with 1979 and continuing until several years ago, one of the Jets or Giants had to be in each window with for example the Jets at 1:00 PM and the Giants at 4:00 PM. This was after one case in 1978 where both the Jets and Giants played at 1:00 PM and there was NO GAME in New York at all at 4:00 because of that (both teams were home that day and neither game was expected to sell out).
Are you sure? Jets-Dolphins was at 1 pm and Colts-Cowboys was at 4 pm. Both were listed as on WNBC-TV in New York. NBC was allowed to show a doubleheader in NY because neither local NFL team was at home (the Giants were at LA at 4 pm on WCBS-TV).
@@johnmanier7968 Thanks for the info. I couldn’t figure it out on the NFL games on local TV stations in New York City. The Colts/Cowboys came at 4PM with no blackouts at all. It was after the Jets/Dolphins games.
@@johnmanier7968 NYC only got an out-of-town game when both the Jets and Giants were on the road OR one of them was playing on Monday night (or what then was a limited number of Thursday night games or on Thanksgiving). The only time I can remember NYC getting three out-of-town games back then was Week 16 in 1983 when the Jets played Friday night in the Orange Bowl against the Dolphins on ABC and the Giants were at home on Saturday.
Fun fact: The NBC affiliate in DFW, KXAS, was known as WBAP prior to 1974. WBAP first went on the air on September 28, 1948, and was the first television station in the state of Texas to go on the air.
A radio station still exists with that call sign, WBAP-AM on 820 out of Fort Worth. It was founded in 1922, making it one of the oldest radio stations in the country, and one of a small handful that predates the protocol by which stations west of the Mississippi River receive Kxxx call signs instead of Wxxx.
(Interestingly enough, WBAP isn't Texas' only Wxxx call sign: WOAI-AM (1200) from San Antonio shares that distinction. WHO-AM (1040) in Des Moines, Iowa is another one.)
@@Larry_Harvilla For Texas, the radio stations includes WACO-FM in Waco, WBAP in Fort Worth, WOAI in San Antonio, WRR in Dallas (I listen to it for the classical music), WTAW in College Station, WTAW in Buffalo, and WXEP (Low Power) in San Antonio.
Up until May, 1974, the TV station, AM station, FM station, and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram were all owned by Carter Publications, and were grandfathered in by a FCC rule which disallowed new radio and/or television combinations with newspapers while grandfathering existing instances. After the sale of those assets, WBAP-TV became KXAS on May 16th, 1974 while WBAP-FM became KSCS as part of a format change (K-Silver Country Stereo) on January 15, 1973. Both KBAP-AM and KSCS-FM are key EAS stations.
@@MarkAHoltz Wow, I wasn't aware Texas had that many Wxxx calls. It must be that most of them have fairly small signal footprints and I haven't ever really been able to pick them up.
In Oklahoma, one state to the north, WKY was the NBC affiliate in OKC, changing to KTVY at about the same time and in 1990 to KFOR. There is also a popular sports radio station WWLS which defy the rules about the K or W starting letter for TV and radio stations.
@@aaronholcomb237 And the Philly and Pittsburgh CBS O&Os are like that (KYW 3 and KDKA 2).
I wonder if Schramm ever turned down CBS if they tried to buy up the remaining tickets.
I was wondering the exact same thing
Funny thing is for the last many years, NBC has owned the affiliate in Dallas (KXAS Ch.5)
Minor detail. Games had to be sold out 72 hours prior to kickoff. Within 72 hours of kickoff is a bit confusing to simpletons like me.
You mentioned the Vikings/Burger King ticket incident and didn't have a whopper whopper whopper cut-in? Missed opportunity.
I grew up in NE TX. In the 70’s our 3 stations were out of Shreveport, La. You would think that a Shreveport station would broadcast Saints games but this is the height of America’s Team & the Saints we’re better known as the ‘Aints at the time. So we didn’t have to worry about blackouts. Later on we had two stations for each of the Big 3 networks, in some cases 3. The aforementioned Shreveport stations as well as Dallas & Longview/Tyler. During the mid-80’s however, I do remember having some blackout games because in the mid to late 80’s, as the Cowboys declined the Saints grew into a good team. Better than at any point before. Finally, the Shreveport stations were broadcasting Saints and so just before Troy, Emmitt & Michael became the “Team of the 90’s” there were games that were blacked out locally & if the Saints were playing at the same time we were screwed as Cowboys fans.
Of course, it was rare (if not unheard of) after the early 90’s, that Dallas DIDN’T sell out.
You kids will never understand having only 3 channels!
Great video once again
Growing up with 3 channels.... 4, if the weather was right and it was late at night. And god forbid the President was giving a state of the union address.... "He's on every channel!!"
@@leogetz3570 If I recall, the Patriots/Packers Monday Night game in 1979 (which JG9 recently made a video about) was delayed by a televised speech by President Jimmy Carter.
@@Bruce12867 yeah, that's very possible. I want to say that the Giants season opener in 2012 after they won the SB the previous year was moved to Wednesday because Obama was speaking at the DNC on that Thursday night
i wish someone could post the entire game on you tube. it was great game
Those poor cowboys fans who didn' t go to the stadium had to end up listening to the game on the radio
Yeah but in those days the radio play by play team featured the great Verne Lundquist prior to his CBS fame.
Since then it's been led by Brad Sham and almost unlistenable.
Seems like a JR move to me.
And we're not talking about puppies, Lawler
I didn’t even knew NBC had that logo, it looks unrecognizable compared to the Peacock we all know in love.
I remember it as a kids in the 70's
NBC used the Trapezoid N from 1975 (though first used on-air on New Year's Day 1976) to 1979. They were actually sued by Nebraska ETV because the new logo bore a resemblance to the logo they were using (only Nebraska ETV's logo was completely red), which led to an out-of-court settlement where NBC was allowed to keep using the logo in exchange for donating a color mobile unit and other equipment as well as paying the costs for designing a new logo for the public television station.
Also Joey during the 1960's and early '70's, NBC also had a "Snake" style NBC font for their logo as well. Look at old NFL/MLB games they covered especially the historic Super Bowl 3 game.
@@Tubewings The colors of the N in this logo go back to the days of the 2 NBC radio networks, The NBC red radio network is today's NBC TV, etc., The blue was for the old NBC blue radio which they divested of by rule of the DOJ in 1943, Which is now ABC TV, etc.
They only used that hideous N exclusively during the late 1970s as they slipped to being the least watched network. When Mary Tyler Moore's husband ( forget his name right now) took over, they added the peacock back in front of the N in the early 1980s, then a few years later dropped the N out of the logo.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how two Dallas-Fort Worth area stores prevented the Cowboys playoff game against the Rams in 1983 from being blacked out.
That story is well known. The Cowboys had two weeks earlier been in contention to get home field throughout the playoffs but the Redskins spoiled that in one of the biggest regular season games ever. Cowboys never recovered, were blown out by the 49ers in the regular season finale in San Francisco and then lost that game to the Rams in what really was the beginning of the end of the Tom Landry era in Dallas, especially with his outdated Flex defense that was not designed for what then was the modern NFL.
Also, that playoff game, which was the day after Christmas in 1983, was during a massive cold snap throughout much of the US where it was 27 degrees at kickoff with high winds, something many Cowboys fans were not used to, even in December. That was why the game almost failed to sell out.
Looking at these highlights, I'm thinking that Super Bowl V would have looked a lot better if these teams wore those uniforms. Who knows, maybe they wouldn't have played as badly as they did that day.
You are a true football historian these stories are awesome. Great job
In those days, if you lived north of Dallas, you could sometimes point your antenna towards Sherman/Denison/Ardmore CBS affiliate and watch the games anyway. But I think sometimes that affiliate showed a different game. This was mostly the case in the waning Landry era when they started having attendance problems.
Dallas- fort Worth was airing the Game
Blackouts used to be common. We used to have to go to a private club in Dallas and watch home games on satellite TV, all throughout the 80s.
You missed the fact that not only were the Steelers the defending AFC champions in the 1976 season, they were also the defending 2x Super Bowl champions, having defeated the Minnesota Vikings in SB IX and the Dallas Cowboys in SB X.
He didn't MISS it. It's just only relevant to YOU. You must be a Stillers fan. This isn't pokes vs stillers. They're playing the Colts.
These videos would get way too long if he added every single bit of tangential information-many of which, like yours, are more suitable for comments.
3:47 Is it just me, or did Staubach just drop back to pass out of the Pistol Formation? 🤔
Great video, by the way.
You mean the shotgun formation that they brought back in 1975, and we're somewhat ridiculed for... but help them make it to the Super Bowl X that year? Cowboys used it long before it became a norm in the NFL.
It was called the shotgun. Landry brought it back on 3rd and long situations the previous season. This is what got them into the playoffs and Super Bowl X. Bum Phillips' Houston Oilers would adopt the formation in 1977, improving their team from the nightmare that was the early 1970s for them (two consecutive 1-13 seasons). It would take until the late 1980s and early 1990s to see this formation take off to the level it is now.
Landry also invented the middle linebacker position when he was defensive coach for the New York Giants in the 1950s. Before then, it was 5 defensive linemen against the 5 on the offensive line, with only two linebackers. So Landry was key in making the NFL what it is today.
@@topJimmyP1984 if the running backs are behind the QB, it's the pistol. If the QB is deeper than the running backs, it's the shotgun
I love the fact that I just finished watching the video on the 1981 World Series game where a disaster was averted (well, kept from becoming a REAL disaster) because the game didn'0t run long, and now I'm watching one that has a somewhat happy ending because it did!
I live in Dallas and I hear people used to drive down to Waco and get a hotel room just to watch cowboy games because of the blackout rules
Why that is the stupidest rule in the 70s
NFL games didn't sell out in the prehistoric days like they do now. 😊
Well, before 1973, all home games were blacked out, even if they were sold out. The only way you could watch your home team on TV was a road game. But the policy change in 1973 lasted for over 40 years, and league votes on suspending the black out rule on a year to year basis
3:50 - That's God level luck when you fumble and it bounces perfectly right to your teammate.
Why I held no sympathy for Tex Schram when Jerry Jones kicked him to the curb.
Given what we learned here, I don't blame you one bit.
Don't forget another infamous Schramm move....when Tom Dempsey kicked a then-record 63 yd FG for New Orleans, Schramm said publicly that the record shouldn't count because Dempsey (who was born with only half his kicking foot) had a blocked shape shoe which gave him an unfair advantage.
Speaking of blackouts. The Colts were almost always blacked out in Baltimore in the 70s and 80s. I believe only two home games were shown locally during that time.
"11" home games were televised between 75-83.
We were at the game so we did not know about the blackout at that time.
More 70s Cowboys please!
I remember being so frustrated when a blackout would be announced and then the game would sell out. Fortunately, I lived about 40 miles south of Fort Worth and my family had a large external TV antenna that we could manually turn toward Waco and receive the game.
We did the same up in Grayson County north of Dallas on the Red River. There's was a local CBS affiliate out of Durant, Oklahoma that we would tune in to.
So it was Tex Schramm, not NBC who screwed over the people that help pay his salary. I always thought it was odd that prior to 1973 the local games were always blacked out, sell out or not. The 72 hour rule was always suspect at best, because a team could always have a "last second" fire sale and get the game sold out 24 hours prior. Speaking of black outs, we have the 500 coming up here in Indianapolis, which they anally observe the black out rule, even with over 275,000 people in attendance
Anal observation is important 🤪
'what he just said is bull shit. thank you'. leo getz things done.
@@stevenbauer4799 Hey, all the great ones leave their mark, that's why I left the sink running. We're the wet bandits, and I don't care whay anybody says, that family left town!!
@@leogetz3570 LEO, DON'T EAT THE TUNA!
@@donaldpaluga is that the Tuna I got from the drive thru?
Wow, the NFL Blackout rule used to be wild. Baltimore sold out it's game but did not want to have it televised is a sure reason the sport was behind baseball at the time
In the 80’s KXAS used to buy the remaining seats to games so they could show them over the air. In 1987 the only Cowboys home game broadcast locally was the Dolphins game on ESPN and broadcast locally on KXAS.
Beer was not sold at Texas Stadium at the time. One could bring in their own cooler of beer at the time.
Is this why Dallas wasn't on Thanksgiving in 1975 and 1977 because of the feud? Because those were the years Dallas would have been on NBC.
recorded on VCR...oh wait, that was 1977 they came out
Lots of teams back then were very protective over their ticket sales. That was because they made more at the gate than their share of TV money.
The Packers almost had the playoff game against the 49ers in the 2013 season as a) the Packers finished 8-7-1 with Rodgers out for most of the season and b) they added a lot of new seats in the south end zone
I'm surprised NBC didn't pull the plug on this one when it ran past 7:00. That was their policy.
By then they were not allowed to. NFL rules overrode that.
If anything, networks wanted to go later with the NFL but 7:00-8:00 PM/6:00-7:00 PM CT was considered on Sundays to be "prime time access" by the FCC requiring networks to air news or childrens programming. Many religious groups, especially then frowned on professional sports as they associated such with gambling to a degree some parents would not let their kids watch pro sports, only the "pure" version of college and other amateur sports. The handful of times playoff games started at 5:00 PM ET or later infuriated many of these types as I remember with many complaining to the FCC, eventually by 1983 forcing the NFL to have playoff games start no later than 4:00 PM on Sundays, which extended to Saturday playoff games as well because back then networks and local stations actually programmed Saturday prime time. That would stay that way until 1998, when the FCC relaxed those rules allowing the late games to start at 4:15 rather than 4:00 and later 4:25 PM as the Churches had far less influence on this. That is why now networks don't care as much.
Here's another example of how many of the NFL's people weren't smart about TV back then. Tex Schramm was dead wrong for pulling that stunt. He could've let KXAS-TV get the few tickets that were left. He looks even worse considering that the game sold out after the deadline. As for the part about the Metroplex getting to see the ending, I remember something similar happening in '89 when the Buccaneers hosted the 49ers. We got to see the very end of that game on WTVT, Tampa Bay's CBS affiliate at the time, after the game we got in the late window ended.
Can anyone explain why Baltimore couldn't broadcast this game? This was a game in Dallas, right?
Although Baltimore was the visiting team, didn't the Baltimore NBC station also pass up this game in favor of the Jets and Miami?
It shouldn't have been an issue for Baltimore, I don't recall him saying anything about it in the video. Road teams were always broadcast in their home citites
NFL broadcast regulations dictated this game be broadcast in Baltimore, so this shouldn't have been an issue. Otherwise, JG9 would have to make another video on this game.
@@Bruce12867 yeah, that what i was thinking as well
Baltimore could broadcast the game. In 1972, they couldn’t, since blackout rules said that the home team can’t broadcast no matter what, but it wasn’t an issue in 1976
Wonder what KXAS-TV showed instead of the Cowboys/Colts game
Please don't tell me it was a 3 hour version of "Manger Babies".
("King of the Hill" viewers will get it)
1 think the rule was n0 blackout if the game sold out.
If it's sold out 72 hours before kickoff, yeah. Sometimes, extensions were granted.
There was at least one sold out game in 1973 that *was* blacked out--Colts at Jets in Week 12. Both teams had long been eliminated from playoff contention, WCBS was airing Giants-Washington in the same 1 pm slot, and WNBC preferred to air a then-important Browns-Chiefs at 4 pm (no doubleheader allowed with the Jets at home).
A cowboy video let's go
Totally improper title for this. Needless video. I lived through this sort of thing all the time in South Florida. The rules were what they were. The problem or FEUD if there is one is Tex Schramm vs the general public. Excuse me if I don't believe that "everyone won" just because at 7pm the local affiliate goes to the national broadcast. Great! You get to see a last second field goal at home but miss THREE HOURS worth of the game. I don't think everyone is happy. And NBC really wasn't feuding with the Cowboys over this. Did Tex get an opportunity to get his stadium filled because some department stores didn't sell their ticket allotment? YEP! Because now you'd have to buy tickets wherever possible in order to go to watch the game. NBC wasn't happy about it but you make it sound like the Cowboys and the network had a long standing feud going on or something and that just isn't the case. Outside of Dallas, the nation got the game. It got a great number on the viewership even if the local affiliate had to run something else. So again, NOT NBC vs the Cowboys really at all. Fans vs Tex Schramm is more like it.
Again, I saw this almost every game when the Dolphins didn't sell out in time at home during the 70s. It was actually a treat to get a Miami home game over the air as they didn't happen too often. The local ABC affiliate often bought up the tix when the fish were slated for Monday Night Football because if they didn't, you wouldn't get Miami vs New England. You'd get a Serpico movie rerun or something like that. So it benefits the affiliate to try to scarf up the remaining tickets so it can be televised. Tex just had other ideas. :) For the most part, this isn't something worth singling out as it happened in markets everywhere back in the day - importance of the game be damned. The locals might have hated it but it passed in a week's time.
The day after the 1972 Cowboys-Colts game, Don McCafferty was fired because he refused GM Joe Thomas' order to bench Johnny Unitas for Marty Domres