It's certainly in that conversation. The 1970's became the bridge from the old-game to the modern. So much of what we see in the game today either got started, or was brought to the forefront on the 70's. MNF, the shotgun(became an offensive staple), Cheerleaders, TD celebration(thank you Billy White Shoes), The featured RB(thanks to OJ and Walter Payton), Players Union standing up to the League, America's Team(How bout them Cowboys) and so much more. The game was growing by the start of the decade. By the end The NFL became the greatest. And the best is yet to come.
@@jstube36 Gotta agree with the OP (Steven) here: The 70s were the greatest decade for NFL football. Maybe it's BECAUSE it was the bridge, idk, but every subsequent decade got worse imo, esp with the strike in '82 and into the rest of the 80s, which were still better than the 90s and beyond. At least Walter Payton got a ring before he retired.
@@primateproductions126 NFL football and the music of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, KISS, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, and AC/DC. Who did I leave out??
@@6400az no it wasn't. Kalas wasn't some schlub from the street. He was already a legend when it came to broadcasting baseball not to mention he was Notre Dame's play by play guy and Facenda was still doing NFL Films until his death in 1984. Not to mention that both were in the same TV market(Facenda was an anchor for Channel 10 news in Philly, a CBS affiliate). Harry Kalas has a voice just as distinct as Facenda, he just wasn't as poetic.
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!THE MUSIC GREAT.WHEN I WAS KID (PLAYING POP WARNER)I USE TO WATCH THIS IS THE NFL EVERYWEEK!AND THEN NFL GAME OF THE WERE EVERY SATURDAY ON WPIX CHANNEL 11 IN NEW YORK. THIS BRINGS BACK AWESOME MEMORIES!!!! MORE PLEASE
@@mars188, you're pissed about all those illegal aliens not paying income tax, too, right? Or.. your grammar tutor cheating your family out of their hard earned cash; "amma" right?
I am so glad I tripped over this!! That Rams / Saints game was the first NFL game I ever went to on my life! Yes, 14-7 was the final score. ALSO, @ the beginning of this you see a frisbee catching dog. The dog is a whippet named “Ashley,” & I remember him chasing frisbees before the game & @ halftime. What they did not show was when the Saints came out of the coliseum tunnel for the 3rd. Quarter, Ashley pee’d on the goal post & we all cheered!!!
I agree... I am from St. Louis but relocated to Tennessee (AFC Titan Fan now).. The only NFC team I have ever cared for was my St. Louis Football Cardinals... The Cardiac Kids...Hated they left.. and the name should have stayed in St. Louis...
@@bryandoyle3092 -right on! I loved the 70's Cards and was hoping they could have made a better run. Trust me if I had the finances I would lobby the NFL hard for a St.Louis franchise and switch out names with Arizona and bring back the St.Louis Cardinals. Think about it -from a marketing standpoint it's genius. Nostalgia with St .Louis and total fan interaction with Arizona fans to name their franchise and have control of it instead of it (the name) being forced on them. Hey,at least my Blues won it all! Never thought I would live to see that! FINALLY !!!
Houston Oilers-Bum Phillip's 3rd season as HC and the year before Earl Campbell and Luv Ya Blue. Miss those days. I'm not into end zone celebrations these days but White Shoes was an exception. He was the original and no one had seen it before. He was entertaining for us Houston fans.
And, it was a celebratory athletic presentation, not a bunch of players doing a fake group picture taking pose. People outside of sports might actually do what Johnson did to celebrate when they celebrate something great in their lives. No one celebrates by pretending to change a football's/object's "smelly diaper", or a fake pose. That is just changing the subject to 'you'. Billy even spiked the ball. It was a football celebration, not showboat crap.
@@robertsprouse9282 It helped that 'White Shoes' was really the only one doing it, too. If every team had a player doing a dance after every touchdown, it might have been looked upon differently.
@@arthurbishop3173, everyone did do similar things in the 1980's and 90's and no one complained because it was a true celebration..not "me" grabbing crap, and it did not taunt!
That was the biggest win in Broncos history to that point . Beating the world champs on the road and stopping their 17 game winning streak . Orange Crush Baby !!
Kenny the snake decline started in 77 but was really evident in 78 and 79. By the time he got to Houston in 1980 he as shot...hair was gray at 33. The snake lived hard.
Few things. #1, nothing is better than the dulcet tones of the late great Harry Kalas. #2, the Bucs 30-23 loss to Seattle was the most points they would score all year until their first ever win in week 13 when they beat the Saints 33-14. In fact, until their first win and this game, their combined points for the season was 30 points. Adding this game their 12 weeks scoring output was 53 points and their total for the season was 103. They were also shutout 6 times including back to back shutouts twice in 5 weeks. 2 seasons later they would come within 10 points of the Super Bowl. As for my beloved Cards, the win over the Eagles was the beginning of a 6 game winning streak that was snapped by the Dolphins in the Thanksgiving Day massacre. After that they wouldn't win another game until week 9 of the 1978 season. And finally, the 49ers. This was Plunkett's last season in SF and the last player to wear #16 before a certain QB from Notre Dame came along in 1979.
Yes I do, It was because of what Archie Manning of the Saints supposedly said " It would be a disgrace to lose to Tampa Bay" that's what did it 33-14 win
Yeah, I'm enjoying them. Didn't really become a football fan until 1978 when Earl Campbell joined my Oilers. Was more a baseball fan as a kid. But I sure like watching these 1970s videos.
No wonder the Saints were awful in the late 70’d and early 80’s. Paper bag hats and lousy takeling!!! Thank God Drew Breeze came along and Archie’s boys won SB’s...
"Keep running, and don't look back, they ARE GAINING ON THAT DAMN WHITE BRONCO SUV.." or.. " KEEP RUNNING TO THE 18th. hole where you are hunting for Nicole's killers."
I remember seeing the score as a kid when it happened. I just figured the Raiders took the day off, like they usually did once a year during the regular season. When they beat the Broncos in Denver two weeks later, I was convinced that was the case. Then Denver proved me wrong in the playoffs.
@@jackkitchen737 It was amazing, the first game in Oakland Denver stopped the run...the game two weeks later in Denver they couldn't, strange how that worked out!
@Ray Sikes Yes they lost 27-10 because they had 8 turnovers and Dallas knew QB Craig Morton like the back of their hand because he had played for them and was banged up (hip) from the Raiders game the week before. But Denver had several chances that just bounced the other way early in that game, several Dallas fumbles (one at their 1 yard line) and others that all season long went Denver's way but not on that day. Had they recovered some of them, well, who knows what might've been....
Loved Harry Kalas' narration--after this the late Jeff Kaye(former radio announcer at WBEN-930 radio in Buffalo, NY) would be hired by NFL films (to replace the great late John Facenda)--Kalas and Mr. Kaye became great friends as well
Ken Stabler? 7 interceptions? He must've had a hangover that day. But that's never hindered him before. That was back when players could party the night before and still perform the next day.
@@houstonrebel4449, no, he played an inferior football team in the early AFL CHIEFS, PRE-COMMON DRAFT. The difference is one STABLER was a qback, and one was a wideout. Namath also partied during the season, until they made him captain to get him to become more responsible.. It worked for awhile. He stopped throwing picks, and stopped coming to practice hungover. Qb=it makes a big difference. Bobby Layne was a partier, but that was the 1950's where the qbs were by far the best athletes on the field. Yes, it makes a difference.
Washington QB, Theismann, with a wire, "cage," facemask (as they were called back then) -and not the usual one-bar mask. Even though a Giant linebacker knocked out a tooth, Theismann never variated from the single face bar, and this is the only time I've seen him use this type. Falcons, using a, "46,"- styled defense, set an NFL record of allowing only 129 points in a 14-game season. It was a ferocious unit, led by DE, Claude Humphrey.
@@3243_ I remember he had a two-bar for a while, but amazing that after that Giant linebacker knocked out Theismann's tooth, he continued to wear that little bar facemask. I would've gotten a linebacker's cage after that collision. Lol.
Morton choked..Our defense outside of two plays, shut Dallas down. Our offense stunk. The o-line was damned awful that day. Morton never settled the offense down. Six turnovers in the first half? Are u kidding, Denver "O"?
Grogan did not have enough speed to outrun today's linemen like he did with the ones in his era. Height might be a factor, too for some of the others. With today's rules on line protection and pass defending, most of these guys would have done well, if height would not be a factor.
4:30 Wow, not even that good of a fake, but there he is--wide open. Must be element of surprise. Probably no one ever thought that Jim Turner was capable of running 20 yards.
I have never heard of teams playing back to back in the regular season post-1960's. My Broncs played Oakland back to back in '77? Really? Did I hear that right?
Allen ran a tight offfense and wasted the skills of Sonny Jurgenson by having not play and go with dink and dunk Billy Kilmer. Allen had a good D but with some innovations on offense, he could’ve been better.
@@VolumedMusicMan, Yep, I agree. Allen let his beliefs about drinking= practically a tea-totaler, cloud his judgment on Sonny. I guess he did not realize that Kilmer was a drinker, too. I don't know how he missed that, lol..
In my life, I’ve never been more stunned by an NFL result than I was watching the Broncos absolutely crush the Raiders that day. The domination the Broncs demonstrated was simply unthinkable. The Raiders looked like a youth football team made up entirely of the third string that day. It’s all over fat man!!!
Madden had bigger goalposts to doink= in his future. This was the beginning of the Winning Broncos era, almost a half century of it with occasional bumps..and in 2020 it shall be winning time, again. Don't believe it? Hide and watch.
Myer was a great prospect out of, I believe, New Mexico, but his career was cut short, he suffered too many injuries. Zorn was the guy outta nowhere. Previously, he was put on the injury list to hide him on the roster of Dallas, just as DeBerg was with San Francisco. Krieg was a fumblin machine.. Zorn was difficult to defend with that left handed pass on the run. The problem was outside of deep balls, he was erratic in his accuracy. He and Largent could make plays, though. Zorn just could not make enough of them. Largent sure did.
@@robertsprouse9282 Zorn was Landry's last cut in 1975. Young, left-handed version of Roger. May have turned out different for Jim if he had remained with Dallas
The Cowboys and Eagles did this in 2009. They played each other the last game of the year. And in the Wild Card the next week. Both games in Texas. Both won by Dallas. How Bout Them Cowboys
They played 2 weeks later not back to back but that still was not a lot of time in between. And that game the Raiders beat them, they figured out what they did wrong 2 weeks earlier and shut Denver down at home, it was strange....
That was a mistake. They met two weeks later. Denver meanwhile, after beating Oakland, beat Cincy 24-13 on the road, but two weeks later lost 24-14 to Oakland in Denver. Cowboys beat my Broncs twice that season, vs. Oakland 2-1-0 , and vs. the rest= we went 12-0-0, sweeping the Steel Curtain at 2-0-0. Seventeenth and last 14-game regular season in NFL history, and 18th in Bronco history= 12-2-0 for Denver, at the time, by far our best year ever, 14-3..
He still had 2 more years with Oakland after this season. I don't know how well he did those last 2 years but he did pretty good in Houston. Except for that Wildcard loss against Oakland in 1980.
@@houstonrebel4449, one decent year with New Orleans, stunk the last one with N.O. under Bum P. In Houston did ok, threw for a lot of TDs&yards, and a lot of picks..Hung out in the bars. When I started in radio in Texas, we had a married, but horny woman music announcer who used to dream about "sleeping" with Stabler, lol. She would actually go to Houston looking for him. I don't think she ever found him, ROFL.. Oh, Delaina, lol..
Kenny the snake’s final 4 seasons were so bad that he went from a sure fire first ballot HOF inductee to never getting into the Hall. He was still pretty good in 77 - despite the horrific game against Denver - but he faded badly in 78/79 and was an oiler by 80...saint by 82.
Interesting s fact - Kenny the Snake was a 25 yr old rookie. Not sure what he was doing or studying at Alabama all of those years - but I bet he was not doing post- grad studies. He was not a raider starter until he was 28 - won his super bowl at 32 yrs old....
David Steinle Oh!? What was their record?? I know they made the playoffs but thought New England won the division.? .. maybe it was the following year when they won the first 5 games and then went average the rest of the season. The offense became too predictable, running the first two downs and throwing the third.
This is the year the Colts were benefactors of a blown fumble call against New England thereby completing the comeback win. Don Shula and the Dolphins were miffed and the following season they added a second wild card. The Ghost to the Post game against Oakland was their undoing.
It's a cycle. Every team goes through it. Look at New England before Tom Brady came to town. Or the Saints before Drew Brees. And when both leave those teams might go back to the pack. While other teams rise. Some teams that have been a shell of what they were. That's just the nature of things.
And the Bills beat the Falcons 3-0. Poor Falcons. That "Grits Blitz" defense was one of the best defenses ever that year. Too bad the offense was one of the worst offenses ever...
Coryell once let down his typical intense guard, and elated he began cutting loose with a.... scowl. In his household everyday was- "Does anyone smell what I smell?" day. Finally, even though he never said a negative word, Coryell's wife learned to never ask if she was looking fat.
@17:18😳 .....the answer is because Fred Cox was an AWFUL kicker ! but he was Bud Grant’s fishing buddy all those years 😞 I loved The Vikes since I was a 6 year old in 69’ ( the beginning of my 40 years of heartbreak ! ) Fred Cox was a C- kicker at best ! Also never on kickoffs did he kick it passed the 10 yard line 🏈.
Doomsday was at it's best in 1977. SB 12 was all about defense and hard hits. made me a Fan of the Cowboys. They were so exciting to watch. Then I joined America's Team for good late the next season. What a time that was. Now time to kick 2021 off. And I am in their corner no matter what. Cowboys Forever.
Don McCauley...most unathletic athlete ever....lol. Looks like he's ready to choke down a carton of Raleighs, sell you you a '73 pinto, and not even get out of the backfield on a sweep.
Beautiful. The greatest decade of the NFL.
It's certainly in that conversation. The 1970's became the bridge from the old-game to the modern. So much of what we see in the game today either got started, or was brought to the forefront on the 70's. MNF, the shotgun(became an offensive staple), Cheerleaders, TD celebration(thank you Billy White Shoes), The featured RB(thanks to OJ and Walter Payton), Players Union standing up to the League, America's Team(How bout them Cowboys) and so much more. The game was growing by the start of the decade. By the end The NFL became the greatest. And the best is yet to come.
@@jstube36 Gotta agree with the OP (Steven) here: The 70s were the greatest decade for NFL football. Maybe it's BECAUSE it was the bridge, idk, but every subsequent decade got worse imo, esp with the strike in '82 and into the rest of the 80s, which were still better than the 90s and beyond. At least Walter Payton got a ring before he retired.
❤️ 1970s NFL football 🏈
These shows were so.good. And the Giants were so bad then.
The 1960s and the '70s were pro football's two best decades. As good as it got.
1970s NFL was fantastic
No better decade for football or music 6)
Arthur Bishop you can say that again
@@primateproductions126 NFL football and the music of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, KISS, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, and AC/DC. Who did I leave out??
Not only was Harry Kalas narration classic, I really like the music of NFL Films.
F'in LOVE Harry Kalas' narration!!
Nah, I disagree wichoo. Kala's was just too obvious an attemp to duplicate Facenda, just can't be done.
@@6400az no it wasn't. Kalas wasn't some schlub from the street. He was already a legend when it came to broadcasting baseball not to mention he was Notre Dame's play by play guy and Facenda was still doing NFL Films until his death in 1984. Not to mention that both were in the same TV market(Facenda was an anchor for Channel 10 news in Philly, a CBS affiliate). Harry Kalas has a voice just as distinct as Facenda, he just wasn't as poetic.
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!THE MUSIC GREAT.WHEN I WAS KID (PLAYING POP WARNER)I USE TO WATCH THIS IS THE NFL EVERYWEEK!AND THEN NFL GAME OF THE WERE EVERY SATURDAY ON WPIX CHANNEL 11 IN NEW YORK. THIS BRINGS BACK AWESOME MEMORIES!!!! MORE PLEASE
Now you are old with a NFL That cheats US with 22 trillion debt Congress a messs enjoy
As a Jersey kid, I also watched on WPIX! Great time to grow up. Remember Review and Preview?
@@mars188, you're pissed about all those illegal aliens not paying income tax, too, right? Or.. your grammar tutor cheating your family out of their hard earned cash; "amma" right?
@@robertsprouse9282 busy right now get back with you soon
@@mars188, but not very soon..
I am so glad I tripped over this!! That Rams / Saints game was the first NFL game I ever went to on my life! Yes, 14-7 was the final score. ALSO, @ the beginning of this you see a frisbee catching dog. The dog is a whippet named “Ashley,” & I remember him chasing frisbees before the game & @ halftime. What they did not show was when the Saints came out of the coliseum tunnel for the 3rd. Quarter, Ashley pee’d on the goal post & we all cheered!!!
Love that St. Louis Cardinal all white ensemble. Nice old school look.
I agree... I am from St. Louis but relocated to Tennessee (AFC Titan Fan now).. The only NFC team I have ever cared for was my St. Louis Football Cardinals... The Cardiac Kids...Hated they left.. and the name should have stayed in St. Louis...
@@bryandoyle3092, Phoenix, then, Arizona Firebirds, would have been better.
@@robertsprouse9282 -agreed,way better than Az.Cardinals
@@bryandoyle3092 -right on!
I loved the 70's Cards and was hoping they could have made a better run.
Trust me if I had the finances I would lobby the NFL hard for a St.Louis franchise and switch out names with Arizona and bring back the St.Louis Cardinals.
Think about it -from a marketing standpoint it's genius.
Nostalgia with St .Louis and total fan interaction with Arizona fans to name their franchise and have control of it instead of it (the name) being forced on them.
Hey,at least my Blues won it all!
Never thought I would live to see that!
FINALLY !!!
Agreed-Sharp as hell !!!!
This was football how I remembered. Love watching these shows and figured out which teams were not on and figuring it was the Monday Night Game
Same here!!
Houston Oilers-Bum Phillip's 3rd season as HC and the year before Earl Campbell and Luv Ya Blue. Miss those days.
I'm not into end zone celebrations these days but White Shoes was an exception. He was the original and no one had seen it before. He was entertaining for us Houston fans.
And, it was a celebratory athletic presentation, not a bunch of players doing a fake group picture taking pose. People outside of sports might actually do what Johnson did to celebrate when they celebrate something great in their lives.
No one celebrates by pretending to change a football's/object's "smelly diaper", or a fake pose.
That is just changing the subject to 'you'. Billy even spiked the ball. It was a football celebration, not showboat crap.
@@robertsprouse9282 It helped that 'White Shoes' was really the only one doing it, too. If every team had a player doing a dance after every touchdown, it might have been looked upon differently.
@@arthurbishop3173, everyone did do similar things in the 1980's and 90's and no one complained because it was a true celebration..not "me" grabbing crap, and it did not taunt!
That was the biggest win in Broncos history to that point .
Beating the world champs on the road and stopping their 17 game winning streak .
Orange Crush Baby !!
Picked off Stabler 7 times, SEVEN!!!! HUGE win as you said, I'll never forget it or this season!
Stoney Neff ....Stabler threw 7 INTS 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳These we’re classic times indeed ! ( I was 14 in 1977 )
Yes. It also gave the Broncos the division title and home field in the AFC Championship Game against the Raiders.
Kenny the snake decline started in 77 but was really evident in 78 and 79. By the time he got to Houston in 1980 he as shot...hair was gray at 33. The snake lived hard.
It does seem that "studying the playbook by the light of the jukebox" caught up with him.
Few things. #1, nothing is better than the dulcet tones of the late great Harry Kalas. #2, the Bucs 30-23 loss to Seattle was the most points they would score all year until their first ever win in week 13 when they beat the Saints 33-14. In fact, until their first win and this game, their combined points for the season was 30 points. Adding this game their 12 weeks scoring output was 53 points and their total for the season was 103. They were also shutout 6 times including back to back shutouts twice in 5 weeks. 2 seasons later they would come within 10 points of the Super Bowl. As for my beloved Cards, the win over the Eagles was the beginning of a 6 game winning streak that was snapped by the Dolphins in the Thanksgiving Day massacre. After that they wouldn't win another game until week 9 of the 1978 season. And finally, the 49ers. This was Plunkett's last season in SF and the last player to wear #16 before a certain QB from Notre Dame came along in 1979.
Ahh Bert Jones. I was 18 yo this year of the 1977 season. Who remembers Tampa Bays 1st win?
Fred Thompson ⭐️ I was 14 in 77’ and a lifetime Vikes fan ! These were wonderful times indeed 🌈
Yes I do, It was because of what Archie Manning of the Saints supposedly said " It would be a disgrace to lose to Tampa Bay" that's what did it 33-14 win
I remember their 2nd win better. It was the last game coached by Don Coryell.
These are awesome. Thanks for uploading.
Yeah, I'm enjoying them. Didn't really become a football fan until 1978 when Earl Campbell joined my Oilers. Was more a baseball fan as a kid. But I sure like watching these 1970s videos.
No wonder the Saints were awful in the late 70’d and early 80’s. Paper bag hats and lousy takeling!!! Thank God Drew Breeze came along and Archie’s boys won SB’s...
@@VolumedMusicMan, I just hope Drew Breeze doesn't mind Drew Brees trying to blow him out of town. Breeze looks winded.
Weird to see Joe Theismann in something other than a single-bar facemask.
@L GARCIA today's hockey players wear visors. And, football kickers with a blocked kick coming back at them, might get hit in the face.
Earlier in his career with Washington, Theismann had worn a double-bar face mask.
20:26. It’s incredible how many games Don Cockroft won for the Browns with a last second kick during his 13 year career in Cleveland.
It was the porn/molestache. Had to be..lol
Look at The Juice go at 5:25. Run OJ, Run.....and keep running dude......(add whatever)
"Keep running, and don't look back, they ARE GAINING ON THAT DAMN WHITE BRONCO SUV.."
or..
" KEEP RUNNING TO THE 18th. hole where you are hunting for Nicole's killers."
People said Denver was a Cinderalla team and wouldn't beat the Raiders, they went into Oakland and pounded them 30-7 intercepting Stabler 7 times!!!
I remember seeing the score as a kid when it happened. I just figured the Raiders took the day off, like they usually did once a year during the regular season. When they beat the Broncos in Denver two weeks later, I was convinced that was the case. Then Denver proved me wrong in the playoffs.
@@jackkitchen737 It was amazing, the first game in Oakland Denver stopped the run...the game two weeks later in Denver they couldn't, strange how that worked out!
@Ray Sikes Yes they lost 27-10 because they had 8 turnovers and Dallas knew QB Craig Morton like the back of their hand because he had played for them and was banged up (hip) from the Raiders game the week before. But Denver had several chances that just bounced the other way early in that game, several Dallas fumbles (one at their 1 yard line) and others that all season long went Denver's way but not on that day. Had they recovered some of them, well, who knows what might've been....
Dallas beat them up in the SB
Probably kept Stabler out of the HOF until after death.
It’s weird people say that !! That music NFL films was really good !!! 👌
Loved Harry Kalas' narration--after this the late Jeff Kaye(former radio announcer at WBEN-930 radio in Buffalo, NY) would be hired by NFL films (to replace the great late John Facenda)--Kalas and Mr. Kaye became great friends as well
David, are you related to Scott Graham?
3:35 Thought he misspoke. Had to look it up to verify. 7 picks in a game! YIKES
Ken Stabler? 7 interceptions? He must've had a hangover that day. But that's never hindered him before. That was back when players could party the night before and still perform the next day.
@@houstonrebel4449, apparently not= party then next day play= Stabler 7 picks..better get that rest.
@@robertsprouse9282 Max McGee? SB One. I guess he was an exception.
@@houstonrebel4449, no, he played an inferior football team in the early AFL CHIEFS, PRE-COMMON DRAFT. The difference is one STABLER was a qback, and one was a wideout. Namath also partied during the season, until they made him captain to get him to become more responsible..
It worked for awhile.
He stopped throwing picks, and stopped coming to practice hungover.
Qb=it makes a big difference. Bobby Layne was a partier, but that was the 1950's where the qbs were by far the best athletes on the field.
Yes, it makes a difference.
@@robertsprouse9282 I was gonna mention Namath but you beat me to it. Lol. I see what you're saying.
Washington QB, Theismann, with a wire, "cage," facemask (as they were called back then) -and not the usual one-bar mask. Even though a Giant linebacker knocked out a tooth, Theismann never variated from the single face bar, and this is the only time I've seen him use this type.
Falcons, using a, "46,"- styled defense, set an NFL record of allowing only 129 points in a 14-game season. It was a ferocious unit, led by DE, Claude Humphrey.
Theismann had worn a double-bar face mask from 1974-76.
@@3243_ I remember he had a two-bar for a while, but amazing that after that Giant linebacker knocked out Theismann's tooth, he continued to wear that little bar facemask. I would've gotten a linebacker's cage after that collision. Lol.
The Atlanta Falcons should have been horse-whipped losing 3-0 to the Bills: 5:45
Yeah,I watched the Dallas/Denver SB at a place called Kens bowl,a mere 15 yrs of age.Orange Crush Denver did indeed get CRUSHED.
Morton choked..Our defense outside of two plays, shut Dallas down. Our offense stunk. The o-line was damned awful that day. Morton never settled the offense down.
Six turnovers in the first half? Are u kidding, Denver "O"?
If you took Steve Grogan,Burt jones,Jim hart and Kenny anderson from this era and plugged them into the NFL today they would clean up.
Grogan did not have enough speed to outrun today's linemen like he did with the ones in his era.
Height might be a factor, too for some of the others.
With today's rules on line protection and pass defending, most of these guys would have done well, if height would not be a factor.
my first ever vikings game in person
4:30 Wow, not even that good of a fake, but there he is--wide open. Must be element of surprise. Probably no one ever thought that Jim Turner was capable of running 20 yards.
I have never heard of teams playing back to back in the regular season post-1960's.
My Broncs played Oakland back to back in '77?
Really?
Did I hear that right?
Turner was a backup qb in college..
17:35...why the 70s kick(ed) so much a$$, baby...
Love the 1970's cheerleaders!
No Pittsburgh?
Off week lol
@@ArtoftheEast They no byes in that era.
Monday Night Football vs the Bengals that week.
George Allen and the Over The Hill Gang. The future is now!
The future was over 40 years ago
@@oneofspades, the future was one NFC title out of almost ten years, and zero Super Bowls. Over the hill- Boot Hill..
Allen ran a tight offfense and wasted the skills of Sonny Jurgenson by having not play and go with dink and dunk Billy Kilmer. Allen had a good D but with some innovations on offense, he could’ve been better.
@@VolumedMusicMan, Yep, I agree. Allen let his beliefs about drinking= practically a tea-totaler, cloud his judgment on Sonny. I guess he did not realize that Kilmer was a drinker, too. I don't know how he missed that, lol..
In my life, I’ve never been more stunned by an NFL result than I was watching the Broncos absolutely crush the Raiders that day.
The domination the Broncs demonstrated was simply unthinkable. The Raiders looked like a youth football team made up entirely of the third string that day.
It’s all over fat man!!!
Madden had bigger goalposts to doink= in his future. This was the beginning of the Winning Broncos era, almost a half century of it with occasional bumps..and in 2020 it shall be winning time, again.
Don't believe it?
Hide and watch.
@@robertsprouse9282 this didn't age well.
Raiders got revenge 2 weeks later.
Actually, the Broncos had beaten the Raiders in Oakland in 1972 and 1974 as well.
Empty seats in LA even then..some things never change
Hadl was lucky replay review didn't exist because he was obviously down at the one.
Lifelong Seahawk fan here......and wondering who the heck is #16 at QB? Where is Jim Zorn?
Myer was a great prospect out of, I believe, New Mexico, but his career was cut short, he suffered too many injuries. Zorn was the guy outta nowhere. Previously, he was put on the injury list to hide him on the roster of Dallas, just as DeBerg was with San Francisco.
Krieg was a fumblin machine..
Zorn was difficult to defend with that left handed pass on the run. The problem was outside of deep balls, he was erratic in his accuracy. He and Largent could make plays, though. Zorn just could not make enough of them. Largent sure did.
@@robertsprouse9282 Zorn was Landry's last cut in 1975. Young, left-handed version of Roger. May have turned out different for Jim if he had remained with Dallas
Zorn was injured at Cincinnati in Week 2 and missed a few games.
When the NFL was great. No thugs, no whiny loud mouth players, no instant replay, 100% effort from all.
"Better days then, Mr. St. Ives, better days" ...
Love falcon red
Harry Kalas mentioned that the Raiders & Broncos will meet again the following week. That’s odd that the same teams would play 2 weeks in a row.
The Cowboys and Eagles did this in 2009. They played each other the last game of the year. And in the Wild Card the next week. Both games in Texas. Both won by Dallas. How Bout Them Cowboys
He meant the teams would meet in week 7.
Harry won't be back: RIP
They played 2 weeks later not back to back but that still was not a lot of time in between. And that game the Raiders beat them, they figured out what they did wrong 2 weeks earlier and shut Denver down at home, it was strange....
That was a mistake. They met two weeks later. Denver meanwhile, after beating Oakland, beat Cincy 24-13 on the road, but two weeks later lost 24-14 to Oakland in Denver.
Cowboys beat my Broncs twice that season, vs. Oakland 2-1-0 , and vs. the rest= we went 12-0-0, sweeping the Steel Curtain at 2-0-0. Seventeenth and last 14-game regular season in NFL history, and 18th in Bronco history= 12-2-0 for Denver, at the time, by far our best year ever, 14-3..
the vikes faked that kick cause they felt fred cox would miss the chip shot winning field goal
Agreed Cox was in serious decline
Bert Jones had all the tools just the back luck of playing for the Colts. Andrew Luck will do the same thing for sure.
Don R. Mueller, Ph.D. Rip
@@spencerpearson3986, wow, really? What?
Yes. That's why John Elway didn't want to play there
Jim Hart had a good arm on a bad team.
They were good when Coryell was coach.
Aaaaaand that's why Ken Stabler became an Oiler!!!!!!!
Unbelievable 7 interceptions!!!?? When I heard that I thought I heard it wrong. He should have been pulled after the 4th interception
He still had 2 more years with Oakland after this season. I don't know how well he did those last 2 years but he did pretty good in Houston. Except for that Wildcard loss against Oakland in 1980.
@@houstonrebel4449, one decent year with New Orleans, stunk the last one with N.O. under Bum P. In Houston did ok, threw for a lot of TDs&yards, and a lot of picks..Hung out in the bars. When I started in radio in Texas, we had a married, but horny woman music announcer who used to dream about "sleeping" with Stabler, lol. She would actually go to Houston looking for him. I don't think she ever found him, ROFL..
Oh, Delaina, lol..
Kenny the snake’s final 4 seasons were so bad that he went from a sure fire first ballot HOF inductee to never getting into the Hall.
He was still pretty good in 77 - despite the horrific game against Denver - but he faded badly in 78/79 and was an oiler by 80...saint by 82.
Interesting s fact - Kenny the Snake was a 25 yr old rookie. Not sure what he was doing or studying at Alabama all of those years - but I bet he was not doing post- grad studies. He was not a raider starter until he was 28 - won his super bowl at 32 yrs old....
❤️ oldie l.a ram uniforms & cheerleader
Is this the year The Colts won their first 5 games dominantly, and then fell apart?😣
No the Colts won the AFC East
David Steinle Oh!? What was their record?? I know they made the playoffs but thought New England won the division.? .. maybe it was the following year when they won the first 5 games and then went average the rest of the season. The offense became too predictable, running the first two downs and throwing the third.
This is the year the Colts were benefactors of a blown fumble call against New England thereby completing the comeback win. Don Shula and the Dolphins were miffed and the following season they added a second wild card. The Ghost to the Post game against Oakland was their undoing.
Expansion Bowl 2.0 Seattle wins again
knucle dragging neanderthal moment at 17:34
Man just imagine the giants and 49ers dominated the 80s and 77pfffffffttttttttt
It's a cycle. Every team goes through it. Look at New England before Tom Brady came to town. Or the Saints before Drew Brees. And when both leave those teams might go back to the pack. While other teams rise. Some teams that have been a shell of what they were. That's just the nature of things.
@@jstube36, Pats are about to find out.
Dallas was the team to beat despite Oakland being the favorite and nearly beat Denver.
That season..Yep..The last one for LANDRY.
R.I.P., I guess, that is what a guy posted earlier, Doc.
Are you really deceased?
Wow
I think that says it all
Wow is Mom upside down..
Tampa Bay vs. Seattle 😂 The Loser Bowl (back then)
The newbie bowl.
OJ knifed through the Falcons defense.
The Juice was a great SLASHING runner.
The is 😠 mad....he can't play golf ⛳.....because of the virus....ohhhh what a shame.... neither can Ron Goldman...
Charlie Whipitt
And the Bills beat the Falcons 3-0. Poor Falcons. That "Grits Blitz" defense was one of the best defenses ever that year. Too bad the offense was one of the worst offenses ever...
Love Don Coryell- Mister INTENSITY😡
Coryell once let down his typical intense guard, and elated he began cutting loose with a....
scowl.
In his household everyday was- "Does anyone smell what I smell?" day.
Finally, even though he never said a negative word, Coryell's wife learned to never ask if she was looking fat.
@17:18😳 .....the answer is because Fred Cox was an AWFUL kicker ! but he was Bud Grant’s fishing buddy all those years 😞 I loved The Vikes since I was a 6 year old in 69’ ( the beginning of my 40 years of heartbreak ! ) Fred Cox was a C- kicker at best ! Also never on kickoffs did he kick it passed the 10 yard line 🏈.
Billy “ White Shoes “ Johnson ⭐️
it was always 50/50 with ol Fred. Then again most of the other straight-on kickers faired just a little better.
fred cox was awful , by this point in his career , thats why the vikings faked the field goal
You can tell this guy is not much of an athlete with this body: 4:30
At least he has a...nevermind.
Hadl didn't score. Bad call !!!
Did it really matter what other teams did in 1977 this was Dallas's year HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!
Doomsday was at it's best in 1977. SB 12 was all about defense and hard hits. made me a Fan of the Cowboys. They were so exciting to watch. Then I joined America's Team for good late the next season. What a time that was. Now time to kick 2021 off. And I am in their corner no matter what. Cowboys Forever.
Yes the juice is 😠 mad.... because of the virus he cannot go out and play golf..... what a shame neither can ron goldman
The NFL Not For Long ! Lmao Bum Phillips
Nope, Jerry Glanville..
Don McCauley...most unathletic athlete ever....lol. Looks like he's ready to choke down a carton of Raleighs, sell you you a '73 pinto, and not even get out of the backfield on a sweep.