I knew who played Super Bowl I so even though I didn't remember this game specifically I knew how it had to end despite that I was heart in my throat at the end, if you listen to modern football execs and media the game was so boring before they meddled with the rules to hinder defenses but the real truth is that left to their own offense and defense adjusted to each other, great talent rose to the top and determination was often the deciding factor, thanks for the hard work on this, Meredith and Starr really put on a show
Pete Gent of the Cowboys was the author of "North Dallas Forty", the novel based on the Cowboys of that era, which was turned into one of the best sports movies ever.
This is an awesome upload! and I appreciate you crediting Gumper Van Lier....his channel is amazing! If you're an old AWA fan and want to see practically every awesome promo that the late great Nick Bockwinkel ever did. Gumper Van Lier is your ticket! he's got them all! Also, shoutouts to your content too! I grew up as a kid in the mid 1980's, listening to sports on the radio.....old Detroit Tiger games with Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey, old Pistons games with George Blaha, and Michigan State Football and Detroit Lions games too. I sometimes miss those simple days of trying to get a Chicago or Milwaukee station from across Lake Michigan to hear some out of market games. The furthest station I ever got clearly was Cleveland's channel for sports radio. I used to listen to pre-Lebron Cavs games with guys like Andre Miller, Dajuan Wagner, and Ricky Davis with the late great Joe Tait calling the games. Almost anybody on the east coast can pick up St. Louis Blues games on KMOX as its' such a powerful station with a huge transmitter, almost as powerful as the Border Blasters from Tijuana and other Mexican locales not governed by the FCC.
I always try to give credit to where it's due, but I use so many sources sometimes, in the future things could get overlooked, so if you, or anyone else see something that needs credit, let me know and I'll add their name to the description, as well as a link to their channel. In regard to my next upload, I will do a follow-up to my documentary on Tom Landry and the Cowboys, but my video after that will be for Lions fans. I'm going to be doing the 1957 NFL Championship game.
It was Dave Robinson who pressured Meredith on the interception in the end zone, not Adderley who was in the end zone with Don threw his desperation pass.
Thank you. As a FYI, I'm about to finish the 1956 NFL Championship Game between the Giants and Bears and next up on the list after that is the 1962 Championship between the Packers and the Giants.
It's interesting to see how things evolved in TV and radio. For example, I remember reading that when the DuMont Television Network went under (which used to cover NFL games in the 50s), a lot of their infrastructure was converted to be used by competitors.
Glad you liked it. I'm going to be posting a similar video at the tail end of next week for the 1959 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. The thing about that game is we only have the first half radio broadcast, however, I was able to locate a nearly complete play-by-play transcript of the 2nd half, so combined with the video footage from that game we should have an even more complete version than for this 1966 match.
1:00:06 ad for Super Sunday on WHDH-TV 5 Boston (now ABC WCVB), with the Harlem Globetrotters as the lead-in to the half-hour pregame show. Not shown: the lead-out show, "Lassie," or over on NBC (which also carried the game), "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color."
Meredith was underrated as a quarterback. If Landry had supported him and he hadn’t retired he would have been the QB in the Cowboys’ first Super Bowl win.
The executive in charge of ABC Monday Night Football are glad things worked out the way they did, but I would have loved to see what Meredith's career could have been if he stayed with it
Landry was iron fisted in that manner. He called all the plays. He nearly wrecked the 1971 season by the alternating QB's. Finally when he ditched that they won the rest of their games and won the Super Bowl.
@@muffs55mercury61 Landry alternated Staubach and Morton on every play for one game, which the Cowboys lost. After that game, he decided to stick with Staubach.
@@8avexp Roger's first game was in 1969 but it took two years from him to become starter. When Roger told him to "play me or trade me" that put Landry's back against the wall and he had no choice. Roger handled that well.
Dandy Don He was terrific .He and Cosell made MNF .They were awesome As a player Don never fully recoverd from those 2' epic games vs GB . The players on the field that day is legendary. IT was good old fashioned hard hitting , no " Hollywood " drama smash mouthed football Thanks for the production of this often overlooked great games
Yes ,If you were a spectator in the stands ! ! Was much warmer and comfortable Cant imagine those fans in the stands at the Ice Bowl .AND how the Packers came back after a dismal 2nd half performance I believe they had minus yardage up until the final 68 yard drive ,featuring Chuck Mercein to win the game
Mostly excellent play by play by JACK DREES who did the ST. LOUIS FTBALL CARDS on TV during that time..ST. LOUIS BASEBALL CARDS co-pbp(WITH HARRY CARAY) guy JACK BUCK had gone to work for CBS, but after that and his ABC AFL tenure as the sideline announcer, and a short term in RADIO with the AFL DALLAS' TEXANS AND COWBOYS and CHICAGO'S BEARS, before going to the CBS network to do DALLAS games until FRANK GLIEBER came back to DALLAS from CLEVELAND TV AND RADIO to do DALLAS CBS NETWORK games, only to have the latter guy move to RADIO in the mid-70's, BUCK became the CARDS ON CBS pbp guy after sharing number one pbp on CBS as a whole with the PACKERS RAY SCOTT. NHL STL. BLUES pbp guy DAN KELLY did the FTBALL CARDS ON CBS, until JACK BUCK replaced him. Anyway, my only gripes of DREES' call involved:..1. getting the score wrong..he did correct it right away from 34-21 to 34-27..2. not remembering the TWO MINUTE WARNING, which was introduced in 1942. Perhaps, he had done a recent college game back then..I don't know..that still is no excuse... and, 3..not playing up the timeouts situation for DALLAS more. There was also the choke job, and that is putting it mildly, by DALLAS at the end..the dropped pass in the endzone, despite the penalty, was a red alert, followed by: 1. DANNY REEVES dropping an easy screen pass inside the ten..2. BOEKE THE O-LINEMAN false starting, and 3. BOB HAYES running his pattern short in the endzone. To be fair, the latter Hayes play would be hard to pick up in a radio booth in real-time, OBVIOUSLY. There was also the possibly/probably(?) deflected punt that setup DAL. short field last drive; although, it was the color analyst who did not catch that and should have if it had been hit, and therefore, not presenting that in any after the fact conversation with DREES, with the latter possibly having a tough time picking up that probable deflection as he was doing pbp thanks to the fact that it was at best..a fingernails deflection. As a 25 year broadcaster and multi-year pbp guy, those things stood out to me. Otherwise, it was for the most part, an excellent call. The PACKERS pbp radio guy back then, escapes me, but, DALLAS' radio pbp back then was handled by the still alive and kicking as far as I know= the legendary DFW voice, BILL MERCER. Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation..GREAT JOB.. KEEP IT UP..
Lombardi's decision to start and use Elijah Pitts almost exclusively in the second half of the season proved successful. Paul Hornung suffered a neck injury in Chicago driving into the end zone. He was not himself after that. Pitts speed was superior.
The Max McGee touchdown catch was huge, as the Packers' kicking game had been off, so if he dropped that fourth quarter pass, there's no guarantee they make the field goal and instead of being up 34-20, it could have still been 28-20 and the Cowboys with the momentum. Maybe they still lose, maybe they win, but regardless, it's very interesting to think about how nothing in sports is set in stone and just a few changes can alter things drastically. EDIT: To not be misleading, I edited this comment to reflect that the ball actually would be placed on the 20 on a missed kick, per the rules back then as noted by Patrick Morgan below.
FYI, back then a missed FG went to the 20 yard line regardless of where the line of scrimmage was for the kick. So the Cowboys would not have gotten good field position. And it would only have been a 35 yd FG attempt (goal post was on the goal line) so there's a good chance that they would have made it.
@@patrickmorgan4006 You're right. And they probably would have made it, however there was a missed extra point and a missed field goal, but yes, the position would have been at the 20 and the frustrating thing is I actually knew that, but it slipped my mind when I made the comment. Good catch.
This is great because of their more famous meeting one year later this game doesn't get much recognition
I knew who played Super Bowl I so even though I didn't remember this game specifically I knew how it had to end despite that I was heart in my throat at the end, if you listen to modern football execs and media the game was so boring before they meddled with the rules to hinder defenses but the real truth is that left to their own offense and defense adjusted to each other, great talent rose to the top and determination was often the deciding factor, thanks for the hard work on this, Meredith and Starr really put on a show
I'm only a couple minutes in and I am already blown away by the presentation of this video. Thank you so much for preserving a piece of NFL history.
Pete Gent of the Cowboys was the author of "North Dallas Forty", the novel based on the Cowboys of that era, which was turned into one of the best sports movies ever.
This is an awesome upload! and I appreciate you crediting Gumper Van Lier....his channel is amazing!
If you're an old AWA fan and want to see practically every awesome promo that the late great Nick Bockwinkel ever did. Gumper Van Lier is your ticket! he's got them all!
Also, shoutouts to your content too! I grew up as a kid in the mid 1980's, listening to sports on the radio.....old Detroit Tiger games with Ernie Harwell and Paul Carey, old Pistons games with George Blaha, and Michigan State Football and Detroit Lions games too.
I sometimes miss those simple days of trying to get a Chicago or Milwaukee station from across Lake Michigan to hear some out of market games. The furthest station I ever got clearly was Cleveland's channel for sports radio. I used to listen to pre-Lebron Cavs games with guys like Andre Miller, Dajuan Wagner, and Ricky Davis with the late great Joe Tait calling the games. Almost anybody on the east coast can pick up St. Louis Blues games on KMOX as its' such a powerful station with a huge transmitter, almost as powerful as the Border Blasters from Tijuana and other Mexican locales not governed by the FCC.
I always try to give credit to where it's due, but I use so many sources sometimes, in the future things could get overlooked, so if you, or anyone else see something that needs credit, let me know and I'll add their name to the description, as well as a link to their channel. In regard to my next upload, I will do a follow-up to my documentary on Tom Landry and the Cowboys, but my video after that will be for Lions fans. I'm going to be doing the 1957 NFL Championship game.
What an exciting ending: GB 34 Dallas 27. My dad and I watched the telecast. So sad the entire game film wasn't saved.
It was Dave Robinson who pressured Meredith on the interception in the end zone, not Adderley who was in the end zone with Don threw his desperation pass.
Yes, and Tom Brown made the pick.
Thank you. ....This..... Is.... AMAZING!!!!
Thank you. As a FYI, I'm about to finish the 1956 NFL Championship Game between the Giants and Bears and next up on the list after that is the 1962 Championship between the Packers and the Giants.
WROW-AM 590 in Albany, NY, is still a CBS Radio affiliate, but now has an oldies format as Magic 590 AM and 100.5 FM.
It's interesting to see how things evolved in TV and radio. For example, I remember reading that when the DuMont Television Network went under (which used to cover NFL games in the 50s), a lot of their infrastructure was converted to be used by competitors.
this is great
Glad you liked it. I'm going to be posting a similar video at the tail end of next week for the 1959 NFL Championship Game between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. The thing about that game is we only have the first half radio broadcast, however, I was able to locate a nearly complete play-by-play transcript of the 2nd half, so combined with the video footage from that game we should have an even more complete version than for this 1966 match.
1:00:06 ad for Super Sunday on WHDH-TV 5 Boston (now ABC WCVB), with the Harlem Globetrotters as the lead-in to the half-hour pregame show. Not shown: the lead-out show, "Lassie," or over on NBC (which also carried the game), "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color."
Boeke was a fine tackle from what ive seen, after the offside penalty he was cut I believe
Tom Brown also played Major League Baseball
Washington Senators one season in 1963
Meredith was underrated as a quarterback. If Landry had supported him and he hadn’t retired he would have been the QB in the Cowboys’ first Super Bowl win.
The executive in charge of ABC Monday Night Football are glad things worked out the way they did, but I would have loved to see what Meredith's career could have been if he stayed with it
Landry was iron fisted in that manner. He called all the plays. He nearly wrecked the 1971 season by the alternating QB's. Finally when he ditched that they won the rest of their games and won the Super Bowl.
@@muffs55mercury61 Landry alternated Staubach and Morton on every play for one game, which the Cowboys lost. After that game, he decided to stick with Staubach.
@@8avexp Roger's first game was in 1969 but it took two years from him to become starter. When Roger told him to "play me or trade me" that put Landry's back against the wall and he had no choice. Roger handled that well.
Dandy Don He was terrific .He and Cosell made MNF .They were awesome
As a player Don never fully recoverd from those 2' epic games vs GB . The players on the field that day is legendary. IT was good old fashioned hard hitting , no " Hollywood " drama smash mouthed football Thanks for the production of this often overlooked great games
Yes ,If you were a spectator in the stands ! ! Was much warmer and comfortable Cant imagine those fans in the stands at the Ice Bowl .AND how the Packers came back after a dismal 2nd half performance I believe they had minus yardage up until the final 68 yard drive ,featuring Chuck Mercein to win the game
The blocked PAT by the Cowboys was crucial. If not for that the last drive would have been academic.
Lilly only real contribution to the game, fuzzy and curry double teamed him all game
Mostly excellent play by play by JACK DREES who did the ST. LOUIS FTBALL CARDS on TV during that time..ST. LOUIS BASEBALL CARDS co-pbp(WITH HARRY CARAY) guy JACK BUCK had gone to work for CBS, but after that and his ABC AFL tenure as the sideline announcer, and a short term in RADIO with the AFL DALLAS' TEXANS AND COWBOYS and CHICAGO'S BEARS, before going to the CBS network to do DALLAS games until FRANK GLIEBER came back to DALLAS from CLEVELAND TV AND RADIO to do DALLAS CBS NETWORK games, only to have the latter guy move to RADIO in the mid-70's, BUCK became the CARDS ON CBS pbp guy after sharing number one pbp on CBS as a whole with the PACKERS RAY SCOTT.
NHL STL. BLUES pbp guy DAN KELLY did the FTBALL CARDS ON CBS, until JACK BUCK replaced him.
Anyway, my only gripes of DREES' call involved:..1. getting the score wrong..he did correct it right away from 34-21 to 34-27..2. not remembering the TWO MINUTE WARNING, which was introduced in 1942. Perhaps, he had done a recent college game back then..I don't know..that still is no excuse... and, 3..not playing up the timeouts situation for DALLAS more.
There was also the choke job, and that is putting it mildly, by DALLAS at the end..the dropped pass in the endzone, despite the penalty, was a red alert, followed by: 1. DANNY REEVES dropping an easy screen pass inside the ten..2. BOEKE THE O-LINEMAN false starting, and 3. BOB HAYES running his pattern short in the endzone. To be fair, the latter Hayes play would be hard to pick up in a radio booth in real-time, OBVIOUSLY.
There was also the possibly/probably(?) deflected punt that setup DAL. short field last drive; although, it was the color analyst who did not catch that and should have if it had been hit, and therefore, not presenting that in any after the fact conversation with DREES, with the latter possibly having a tough time picking up that probable deflection as he was doing pbp thanks to the fact that it was at best..a fingernails deflection.
As a 25 year broadcaster and multi-year pbp guy, those things stood out to me.
Otherwise, it was for the most part, an excellent call.
The PACKERS pbp radio guy back then, escapes me,
but, DALLAS' radio pbp back then was handled by the still alive and kicking as far as I know= the legendary DFW voice,
BILL MERCER.
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation..GREAT JOB..
KEEP IT UP..
When i say this was a better game then the ice bowl what is the reaction
This one, although both games went down to the final play
Lombardi's decision to start and use Elijah Pitts almost exclusively in the second half of the season proved successful. Paul Hornung suffered a neck injury in Chicago driving into the end zone. He was not himself after that. Pitts speed was superior.
If two plays over two years go differently,we're talking the Tom Landry Trophy.
The Max McGee touchdown catch was huge, as the Packers' kicking game had been off, so if he dropped that fourth quarter pass, there's no guarantee they make the field goal and instead of being up 34-20, it could have still been 28-20 and the Cowboys with the momentum. Maybe they still lose, maybe they win, but regardless, it's very interesting to think about how nothing in sports is set in stone and just a few changes can alter things drastically. EDIT: To not be misleading, I edited this comment to reflect that the ball actually would be placed on the 20 on a missed kick, per the rules back then as noted by Patrick Morgan below.
FYI, back then a missed FG went to the 20 yard line regardless of where the line of scrimmage was for the kick. So the Cowboys would not have gotten good field position. And it would only have been a 35 yd FG attempt (goal post was on the goal line) so there's a good chance that they would have made it.
@@patrickmorgan4006 You're right. And they probably would have made it, however there was a missed extra point and a missed field goal, but yes, the position would have been at the 20 and the frustrating thing is I actually knew that, but it slipped my mind when I made the comment. Good catch.
If, if, if..
@@robertsprouse9282 the 3 words that inspire limitlessness debate but ultimately change nothing, but the debate is fun though