I am from Baltimore and a True Baltimore Colts fan But HOLLYWOOD was my Man I remember all these highlights like it was yesterday Thanks Hollywood Peace ✌🏾!!!
When I watch these films of the players I rooted for as a kid, I’m amazed that we only won 2 Super Bowls, until I remember The Steel Curtain. The front four of the Pittsburgh Steelers were so dominant, that mixed in with their great LB Corps and outstanding Secondary, it’s really amazing the games vs them were so close. But Pittsburgh was an extremely dominant team, both Offensively and Defensively. It speaks to how talented the Cowboys were that they went to 5 Super Bowls of that era. #DC4L
Thomas, if you're out there reading these comments, I want to thank you for letting us see your amazing talent on the field. From a physical standpoint, you were the most gifted LB of your era and one of the best of any era. We all have "what if's" in our lives, but as for yours, if you had been able to beat back the demons in your life, you would be in Canton today. If Coach Landry had set you loose to blitz from the weak side, you would have led the Cowboys in sacks. Most of all, I thank God you turned your life around. You are one of my all-time Cowboys' favorites. And you brought tears to my eyes seeing you recently on Roger Staubach's A Football Life. May God bless you Thomas.
Hollywood is in my top four all time of linebackers; the other three are LT, Ted Hendrix and Ray Lewis. I am happy hollywood has gotten his life together
Yep, if it weren't for drug addiction, my bet is that if he'd stayed healthy he might have ended up in the ROH & HOF. He REALLY was THAT good. Watching those clips took me back to being 16 years old and watching my Cowboys play every Sunday in Florida.
If Henderson had slowed down and let Hughes block Gerela he would have scored. But Roy was messed up the rest of the game because he cracked his ribs on that tackle. That dunk over the goal post was straight gangster since he said the rams didn’t have enough class to play in the SB.
Hollywood even though I usually rooted against y'all's team in this period (superbowl 12 being excepted my being a lifelong Oakland Raiders fan) I was always amazed at how your great speed linebacker wise. I am so glad that you have overcome your problems and I hope that you are well!!!!
I saw you take the ball from Bradshaw run it back for touchdowns .I believe if you guys ran it down the steelers throats a little more 1st game was yours they couldn't stop Dorsett. And Genelia luckiest man alive to stop you from running back opening kickoff .much love Hollywood. Cowboys fan since 1969 🎉
Hi Thomas. Massive Cowboys fan from Oklahoma. Glad to hear you got your life under control. You were a brilliant player. Once a Cowboy always a Cowboy!! It was revolutionary and still unheard of for a linebacker to take a reverse on a kickoff.
Not a cowboys fan, however you gotta love a man who went so down has become a model of consistency of sobriety, honesty and integrity. I think the best moment I've seen of Hollywood was his interview with Terry Bradshaw right before SUPER BOWL XXXIII (also played in Miami) , it was a genuine and candid interview.
i'm from england we only got nfl in 84, so he's before my time over here a player (in rugby) runs, kicks AND tackles and this guy runs like the wind and tackles like a tornado (when he eventually got on the field as an LB) had to pinch myself when i saw an LB take it to the house! true athlete
Loved him as a player, Never new why the cowboys got rid of him back then,,Never won again without him...untill 90s. This guy was PHENOMENAL as a MLB. If only things were different. There would be NO catch !!!!!
Hollywood was the best linebacker Dallas ever had. Landry let him go which is too bad, but it was probably the right thing to do at the time because Henderson was having trouble with his addictions. Nice to see though that he's cleaned up his life and is doing well. Still had a lot of great memories with the Cowboys.
i was hoping to see that hit he put on earl campbell...henderson was the only guy i ever saw not only stop earl campbell in his tracks but knocked back some while doing it...that was a great hit and a great play...glad to see you are doing well now...keep the faith...
Checkout Jack Tatum (Oakland) and Donnie Shell (Pittsburgh). The Henderson hit was hard, but not like the Tatum and Shell. Donnie Shell put Earl Cambell out of the game.
The very first LB who was a playmaker on all three levels of the defense on both pass and run. No telling what Hollywood would have achieved. I grew up in DC so I was watching the sequence that ending his career in Dallas.
Wish the NFL Today interview with prime Jayne Kennedy was on this clip. When he says, "I'd like to make a movie with Jayne," you know he's perfectly sober. NO WAY you want your mind clouded with HER. She was ecstasy herself.
I have 90% of all the Cowboys games you played in on dvd. I love watching you play. My two fave plays are your TD vs the Rams 1978 playoffs and a HUGE hit you made on Montgomery in 1978 at the Vet. I feel your best game was against the Patriots and Russ Francis in 1978. Always your big fan...keep well.
Hollywood Henderson is not in Lawrence Taylor's class. No way. No how. Taylor was DPOTY his first two seasons in the NFL.....that's NEVER been done before or since. Henderson made a few plays....but that's it. Lawrence Taylor was FORCE.
Just so ya know: I have my Henderson 56 Throwback! Cowboys did not lose Super Bowl XIII to the Steelers as Benny Barnes did not commit pass interference with Lynn Swann. Steelers had help from the refs as usual.
Steelers were 4-1 v Dallas that decade. Blame the refs if you want but Dallas let the Steelers convert a 3rd and 8. Hold them to a FG, then don’t fumble the next kickoff..and catch that TD pass..it goes from 35-31 Steelers to 35-24 cowboys. The two teams were pretty even except the X factor…Swann or Stallworth. Dallas could not stop em.
I remember reading in his autobiography that he wanted to dunk it over the crossbar in that Rams game but between the torn up turf and him still getting over an illness he decided to finger roll. Worth the read by the way.
I remember when Hollywood had Bradshaw in a full nelson in the Pittsburgh backfield and while wrapped up, a Dallas lineman smoked Bradshaw. It was awesome.
The other backer was Mike Hegman who smashed Bradshaw and if I'm not mistaken, he fumbled. That was in Super Bowl 13, their 2nd match up in Super Bowl.
Hollywood I hated you back then when you said the Rams didn't have class and then picked that one for a TD. Completely ruined my season so badly that I almost quit the Rams after that embarassing game but stuck it out for the next several years. Anyway looking back you were very good and so were those Cowboy teams. I even recreated you all on Madden's classic teams and that brings back mostly good memories of those great 70's years whenever I play those teams.
Theres NO WAY he was as fast as Herschel Walker. C'mon man. Maybe after a few lines on the sidelines, but even then I doubt it. Glad he's straight today......
I would like to see footage of Henderson's first pre-season game against the Rams. He went up against Bob Klein (tight end) and Klein had him for breakfast. Needless to say, the veterans teased him about it. He learned that you don't engage someone with his talent...you get away from him. That was August 1975.
Mannnn!... Mannnn!.... I just really, really Love this guy: He.... Well he reminds me of my football legacy.... He really does! That was me.... That was my football game... 4 Life! Not to be brag/ or B boastful, that was me all the way!.... PZ! To us. Yheee!....
@5lowrollD 'Wood wasn't fired. After an argument with Landry, he announced that he was retiring from football. Landry was going to cut him, but he was not going to give him the satisfaction.
You must be high. Lawrence Taylor did things that Hollywood Henderson could NOT dream about doing. 1. LT Pass Rush: ruclips.net/video/Z_AbNLwQXn8/видео.html 2. LT Pass Defense: ruclips.net/video/2RsKNUCYMOw/видео.html 3. LT Run Defense: ruclips.net/video/jnNP7mWAP5k/видео.html 4. LT Goal Line Defense: ruclips.net/video/fQrQh-dueKM/видео.html 5. LT Forced Fumbles: ruclips.net/video/V_kEkivKQ2I/видео.html 6. LT vs the Lions TGD 1982: ruclips.net/video/ba3akiNi1sA/видео.html 7. LT 'Pain Game' vs Saints 1989: ruclips.net/video/IME24FDeTeQ/видео.html
He almost went all the way with that kickoff return. I bet if he had made a touchdown, it would've changed the whole tempo of the game and the Cowboys might have won.
Anyway I came here to look for your first goalpost dunk vs tthe Cardinals on the TD KO return. It used to be on youtube in a 1975 highlight clip. I may have dowloaded it and saved it on my other computer but I don't see it on youtube anymore.
if he didnt do drugs, 56 bust would now be in the HoF for sure. and like someone wrote, there would be no 'catch' in 82. HH said that DD Lewis couldnt get to montana in time ,but that HH would of run right through montana.
MrDownWiththeSouth, you're talking about a linebacker who picks a ball off a takes it the distance. Who knows if Henderson was out there all series and the receiver had just come in the game. The receiver would naturally be fresher and could walk him down. But Hollywood was the truth. His only problem? He played in Dallas, Texas in the 70's. What if Landry had used him like Parcells would use LT years later? Thomas had to play in Landey's "Flex" and it stiffled his true athleticism.
Parcells and Belichek tried to stiffle LT by having him play in space, but LT would deviate from the plan and just destroy plays ran by the offense. In the same sense, this is why Randy White was moved from LB to the defensive front so he can cause immediate havoc at the snap of the ball
Demarcus Ware is known for his blistering pace. Hollywood could run a 40 in 4.3!! in 1977! OK I admit DWare is 50 lb's heavier but 4.3!!! thats elite WR speed now nearly 40 years later, never mind LB. Wish he could have kept it real for longer though instead of going down the other path but I rekon looking back it what made this guy what he is today.
How can this dude be the greatest and theres no highlights of him stuffing the run, forcing fumbles or getting to the quarter back? You can be a great linebacker, dropping back in coverage like this, but you can't be the GOAT if you ain't getting after it up the middle.
Who ever thought HH couldn't stuff the run is dead wrong.. Not only can he stop the run he'd go heads up against anyone as the link I leave proves it 150%. God bless you Mr. Henderson. ruclips.net/video/8Jyc7YaAT84/видео.html
I am from Baltimore and a True Baltimore Colts fan But HOLLYWOOD was my Man I remember all these highlights like it was yesterday Thanks Hollywood Peace ✌🏾!!!
I always enjoyed watching you play ball. I appreciate your 'after football' life as well. Kudos to you.
When I watch these films of the players I rooted for as a kid, I’m amazed that we only won 2 Super Bowls, until I remember The Steel Curtain. The front four of the Pittsburgh Steelers were so dominant, that mixed in with their great LB Corps and outstanding Secondary, it’s really amazing the games vs them were so close. But Pittsburgh was an extremely dominant team, both Offensively and Defensively. It speaks to how talented the Cowboys were that they went to 5 Super Bowls of that era.
#DC4L
Thomas, if you're out there reading these comments, I want to thank you for letting us see your amazing talent on the field. From a physical standpoint, you were the most gifted LB of your era and one of the best of any era. We all have "what if's" in our lives, but as for yours, if you had been able to beat back the demons in your life, you would be in Canton today. If Coach Landry had set you loose to blitz from the weak side, you would have led the Cowboys in sacks. Most of all, I thank God you turned your life around. You are one of my all-time Cowboys' favorites. And you brought tears to my eyes seeing you recently on Roger Staubach's A Football Life. May God bless you Thomas.
Hollywood is in my top four all time of linebackers; the other three are LT, Ted Hendrix and Ray Lewis. I am happy hollywood has gotten his life together
so very well said ASAHEL! Totally agree!
The Stars Shine Brighter in Dallas!
Man I remember watching him as a kid he was fast
...the linebacker that started it all ..the great Hollywood Henderson...
Yep, if it weren't for drug addiction, my bet is that if he'd stayed healthy he might have ended up in the ROH & HOF. He REALLY was THAT good. Watching those clips took me back to being 16 years old and watching my Cowboys play every Sunday in Florida.
If Henderson had slowed down and let Hughes block Gerela he would have scored. But Roy was messed up the rest of the game because he cracked his ribs on that tackle. That dunk over the goal post was straight gangster since he said the rams didn’t have enough class to play in the SB.
Thank you!!! DC4L
No linebacker ever returns punts. Only Hollywood Henderson. Special athletic ability.
JOEY DIAZ!!!!!!!
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Joe Rogan
You were one helluva linebacker
Mr. Henderson, you were the best. LT before there was LT.
I lived in DC and #56 Hollywood Henderson was one of my favorite Dallas Cowboys.
Hollywood even though I usually rooted against y'all's team in this period (superbowl 12 being excepted my being a lifelong Oakland Raiders fan) I was always amazed at how your great speed linebacker wise. I am so glad that you have overcome your problems and I hope that you are well!!!!
still the best lb the Cowboys ever had.glad he's clean now and doing well.
I heard he won the lottery for 10 million or something.
Ken Ryder talent wise yes.
I saw you take the ball from Bradshaw run it back for touchdowns .I believe if you guys ran it down the steelers throats a little more 1st game was yours they couldn't stop Dorsett. And Genelia luckiest man alive to stop you from running back opening kickoff .much love Hollywood. Cowboys fan since 1969 🎉
I was 8 years old when Hollywood returned the pick 6 on the Rams. Still remember it and it’s one of my all time favorite plays.
The deviation of the septum is in the Hall of Fame
Such an amazing player!!!! You were the ORIGINAL #56 before Lawrence Taylor!!!!
Hi Thomas. Massive Cowboys fan from Oklahoma. Glad to hear you got your life under control. You were a brilliant player. Once a Cowboy always a Cowboy!! It was revolutionary and still unheard of for a linebacker to take a reverse on a kickoff.
I had to wear #56 from childhood because of Hollywood
I know Hollywood had his off field problems but he's one of my favorite Cowboys of all time. He was Primetime way before Deion Sanders came along.
Thomas, I still think you are the best #56 I ever seen, you were a great linebacker, and miss seeing you play, and love watching the old replays.
Awesome player ... Exciting to watch .. Great nickname ..
I remember him saying Bradshaw couldn't spell cat even if he was spotted the "c" and "a"!
Hollywood you were incredibly fun to grow up watching.
Not a cowboys fan, however you gotta love a man who went so down has become a model of consistency of sobriety, honesty and integrity. I think the best moment I've seen of Hollywood was his interview with Terry Bradshaw right before SUPER BOWL XXXIII (also played in Miami) , it was a genuine and candid interview.
Great player
THE best linebacker in Cowboy's history. MAYBE THE MOST GIFTED athlete in franchise history.
i'm from england
we only got nfl in 84, so he's before my time
over here a player (in rugby) runs, kicks AND tackles
and this guy runs like the wind and tackles like a tornado (when he eventually got on the field as an LB) had to pinch myself when i saw an LB take it to the house!
true athlete
Loved him as a player, Never new why the cowboys got rid of him back then,,Never won again without him...untill 90s. This guy was PHENOMENAL as a MLB. If only things were different. There would be NO catch !!!!!
The cowpies could sure use him now
Hollywood was the best linebacker Dallas ever had. Landry let him go which is too bad, but it was probably the right thing to do at the time because Henderson was having trouble with his addictions. Nice to see though that he's cleaned up his life and is doing well. Still had a lot of great memories with the Cowboys.
How many linebackers returned kickoffs?
Can I share this?
good player, a lot of fun to watch
Greatness!
1978 NFC championship. I remember it well.
28-0.
i was hoping to see that hit he put on earl campbell...henderson was the only guy i ever saw not only stop earl campbell in his tracks but knocked back some while doing it...that was a great hit and a great play...glad to see you are doing well now...keep the faith...
Checkout Jack Tatum (Oakland) and Donnie Shell (Pittsburgh). The Henderson hit was hard, but not like the Tatum and Shell. Donnie Shell put Earl Cambell out of the game.
Burr and coco brought me here
I just met Thomas Hollywood Henderson yesterday. I was working on his car awesome guy.
didn't know his playing weight,but speedwise and instincts,Hollywood would definitely play with todays LB's...
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The very first LB who was a playmaker on all three levels of the defense on both pass and run. No telling what Hollywood would have achieved. I grew up in DC so I was watching the sequence that ending his career in Dallas.
Was fun and had a winning attitude. Those are the kind of guys you win championships with.
I wonder how does it feel knowing you the fastest guy on the field.😂
Wish the NFL Today interview with prime Jayne Kennedy was on this clip. When he says, "I'd like to make a movie with Jayne," you know he's perfectly sober. NO WAY you want your mind clouded with HER. She was ecstasy herself.
That is amazing. I had no idea that he was returning kicks.
Great vid! What a tremendous athletic showing by you!! ;)
I have 90% of all the Cowboys games you played in on dvd. I love watching you play. My two fave plays are your TD vs the Rams 1978 playoffs and a HUGE hit you made on Montgomery in 1978 at the Vet. I feel your best game was against the Patriots and Russ Francis in 1978. Always your big fan...keep well.
UPLOAD THE GAMES
AMAZING
LT before LT.
LT admitted he wore no 56 because of HH being his favorite player.
Hollywood Henderson is not in Lawrence Taylor's class. No way. No how. Taylor was DPOTY his first two seasons in the NFL.....that's NEVER been done before or since. Henderson made a few plays....but that's it.
Lawrence Taylor was FORCE.
Sure proud of that Ferragamo pick. He had completed 3 or 4 in that same route just before.......
Vernon Perry says you auuuuight.
Just so ya know: I have my Henderson 56 Throwback! Cowboys did not lose Super Bowl XIII to the Steelers as Benny Barnes did not commit pass interference with Lynn Swann. Steelers had help from the refs as usual.
Steelers were 4-1 v Dallas that decade. Blame the refs if you want but Dallas let the Steelers convert a 3rd and 8. Hold them to a FG, then don’t fumble the next kickoff..and catch that TD pass..it goes from 35-31 Steelers to 35-24 cowboys. The two teams were pretty even except the X factor…Swann or Stallworth. Dallas could not stop em.
@@Biggdoom344 I've had it with you, pal! Let's go, Xbox Live!
@@thedarkstranger963 Xbox…how about Atari 400 lol 😝
I remember reading in his autobiography that he wanted to dunk it over the crossbar in that Rams game but between the torn up turf and him still getting over an illness he decided to finger roll. Worth the read by the way.
I recall he stated in the book that his cocaine use was starting to age him as the reason.
Was this the guy who said Terry Bradshaw couldn't spell cat if you gave him the C & the A? Or was that someone else?
it was him.
One of my favorite players.. period!.. Hollywood had style .. and was really a good
linebacker ....
i was just looking for footage of you coked out of your mind. 🤣🤣
Hollywood and Duane Thomas came too early in time
No quiso ser EI mejor Lb de la historia de la NFL
I remember when Hollywood had Bradshaw in a full nelson in the Pittsburgh backfield and while wrapped up, a Dallas lineman smoked Bradshaw. It was awesome.
The other backer was Mike Hegman who smashed Bradshaw and if I'm not mistaken, he fumbled. That was in Super Bowl 13, their 2nd match up in Super Bowl.
Thanks Baltimorehop!
Any time my brother.
Hollywood I hated you back then when you said the Rams didn't have class and then picked that one for a TD. Completely ruined my season so badly that I almost quit the Rams after that embarassing game but stuck it out for the next several years. Anyway looking back you were very good and so were those Cowboy teams. I even recreated you all on Madden's classic teams and that brings back mostly good memories of those great 70's years whenever I play those teams.
Mannnn! What kinda linebackers does things like that; Ooh! Also LT (Lawrence Taylor)!....
Love ya Hollywood.....
6'2", 215. But, that's a linebacker who was almost as big as Hershel Walker and just as fast. That's sick.
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Theres NO WAY he was as fast as Herschel Walker. C'mon man. Maybe after a few lines on the sidelines, but even then I doubt it. Glad he's straight today......
Nice block by #65 Dave Stalls on that TD INT Return vs Rams. Hollywood looked like he was starting to run out of wind!
i always wondered how Thomas would have done as a half back with his speed and size
Probably close to brandon Jacob's who was 6'4 260 with 4.6 40
I would like to see footage of Henderson's first pre-season game against the Rams. He went up against Bob Klein (tight end) and Klein had him for breakfast. Needless to say, the veterans teased him about it. He learned that you don't engage someone with his talent...you get away from him. That was August 1975.
Hey Thomas, tell Preston to sell those towels from 1979 on eBay...I am dying to get one. God Bless you.
He took kickoffs too. Its not in his book.
8 inch vertical against the rams lol
Mannnn!... Mannnn!.... I just really, really Love this guy: He.... Well he reminds me of my football legacy.... He really does! That was me.... That was my football game... 4 Life! Not to be brag/ or B boastful, that was me all the way!.... PZ! To us. Yheee!....
You ain’t shit, shut up.
@5lowrollD 'Wood wasn't fired. After an argument with Landry, he announced that he was retiring from football. Landry was going to cut him, but he was not going to give him the satisfaction.
qb's were lucky the cowboys didn't blitz much. LT could never cover like that!
You must be high. Lawrence Taylor did things that Hollywood Henderson could NOT dream about doing.
1. LT Pass Rush: ruclips.net/video/Z_AbNLwQXn8/видео.html
2. LT Pass Defense: ruclips.net/video/2RsKNUCYMOw/видео.html
3. LT Run Defense: ruclips.net/video/jnNP7mWAP5k/видео.html
4. LT Goal Line Defense: ruclips.net/video/fQrQh-dueKM/видео.html
5. LT Forced Fumbles: ruclips.net/video/V_kEkivKQ2I/видео.html
6. LT vs the Lions TGD 1982: ruclips.net/video/ba3akiNi1sA/видео.html
7. LT 'Pain Game' vs Saints 1989: ruclips.net/video/IME24FDeTeQ/видео.html
He almost went all the way with that kickoff return. I bet if he had made a touchdown, it would've changed the whole tempo of the game and the Cowboys might have won.
Anyway I came here to look for your first goalpost dunk vs tthe Cardinals on the TD KO return. It used to be on youtube in a 1975 highlight clip. I may have dowloaded it and saved it on my other computer but I don't see it on youtube anymore.
He was a wonderful entertainer. I hate he lost his focus. I urge everyone to read his book you want be disappointed.
The original number 56 play for the Dallas Cowboys Thomas Hollywood Henderson
Illegal block 2:32
if he didnt do drugs, 56 bust would now be in the HoF for sure. and like someone wrote, there would be no 'catch' in 82. HH said that DD Lewis couldnt get to montana in time ,but that HH would of run right through montana.
I bought you book ! the minute it came out !
they even boogied at the watergate, it's a boogie thang do-do-do-do
MrDownWiththeSouth, you're talking about a linebacker who picks a ball off a takes it the distance. Who knows if Henderson was out there all series and the receiver had just come in the game. The receiver would naturally be fresher and could walk him down. But Hollywood was the truth. His only problem? He played in Dallas, Texas in the 70's. What if Landry had used him like Parcells would use LT years later? Thomas had to play in Landey's "Flex" and it stiffled his true athleticism.
Parcells and Belichek tried to stiffle LT by having him play in space, but LT would deviate from the plan and just destroy plays ran by the offense. In the same sense, this is why Randy White was moved from LB to the defensive front so he can cause immediate havoc at the snap of the ball
He messed up that Pittsburgh kicker on that return.
Demarcus Ware is known for his blistering pace. Hollywood could run a 40 in 4.3!! in 1977!
OK I admit DWare is 50 lb's heavier but 4.3!!! thats elite WR speed now nearly 40 years later, never mind LB.
Wish he could have kept it real for longer though instead of going down the other path but I rekon looking back it what made this guy what he is today.
He didn’t run 4.3.
2:35 dunk fail!
Nah he did it on purpose
still for a backer to run like is great
How can this dude be the greatest and theres no highlights of him stuffing the run, forcing fumbles or getting to the quarter back? You can be a great linebacker, dropping back in coverage like this, but you can't be the GOAT if you ain't getting after it up the middle.
Check out the highlight films of Super Bowl XII and XIII.
Wolfman right, Wolfman left ...
If he ran a 4.3 that bucs player must run a 4 flat.
Hogan has nothing on the original Hollywood!
Who ever thought HH couldn't stuff the run is dead wrong.. Not only can he stop the run he'd go heads up against anyone as the link I leave proves it 150%. God bless you Mr. Henderson. ruclips.net/video/8Jyc7YaAT84/видео.html
0:31 That was me back in 92. Only instead of playing for Dallas, I was a sophomore playing for U.S.C. in Hawaii.
Noah's dad was the kicker and my ex-wife was the football.
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at the time he was a wild and cat football player. I,am a cowboys fan.
Cool story bro
If I’m watching this video, it’s time to turn off my phone and go to sleep 😴