Minnesota Vikings vs Dallas Cowboys • 1969 Playoff Bowl
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- Here is an (almost) seven-minute video from the NFL Films DVD: "Big Game America • Legends Of Autumn Volume IV" featuring the 1969 Playoff Bowl between the Minnesota Vikings and Dallas Cowboys. It was also "Dandy" Don Meredith's last game before he retired.
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When the NFL was really great the 60s 70s and 80s was the best time to watch football. Today I cant stand to watch it I haven't watched a NFL game in over 2 years.
I’m in Canada and I started following the NFL full time in 1979. I was amazed to realize that Jim Marshall had started his career with the Vikings in 1961 a few months before I was born. I definitely concur with the comment below stating that Marshall deserves to be in the Hall of Fame in Canton.
Jim Marshall...Class Act his entire career
Wrong way Jim marshall ❤️ Jim Marshall shot put guy from ohio.state
Jim Marshall used to jump out of airplanes too (with a parachute of course), a true man of adventure and a great defensive end. Here's to the Purple people eaters, one of the greatest front fours in NFL history!
This was back when the NFL was great. The hard hitting, the intensity. The mud and dirt. This is when I first started watching the NFL. This is the NFL that I miss.
Now you have fake grass and Boring looking stadiums named after banks.
so true.
great comment!
word!
It's been corporatized.
Dandy Don , you were rembered as a great person and gr8 announcer. We all loved " turn out the lights".
Marshall, eller and page weren't your typical jocks..they were thoughtful men, very intelligent..athletes in any sport can learn from them..
Purple Sword 3 Of course they weren't racist assholes looking for a reason they were proud of America for what it is not what some newspaper man said it was. I admired them. Those men black and white don't exist today and boy it hurts.
Credit goes to Mary Garber, the Winston Salem writer. She found great quality men who sent high school players from that area. One of them was Carl Eller.
Marshal had one flaw, and that was being a little too daring. Remember that little report they did on him when the camera followed him along as he did some skydiving. The Vikings front office probably fined him Big Time when they saw that film.
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@@FrankiesMarket So True!
@N I think that was Hilgenberg.
Amazing how quick and powerful Jim Marshall of the Vikings was back then.
Nice to hear players who actually sound like intelligent, literate, educated men who can speak in complete sentences. I remember what that used to be like.
Dan,
You are so correct. Well said.
It's a different world today and, like our parents thought what was expressed in the 60's and 70's was absurd by our generation the cycle continues, the current generation, like your previous commenter will know what we are talking about when they reach senior citizen status and they see and hear things that will make them wonder why as well. They will appreciate what is happening for them now better than what they will be seeing and hearing some 20 or 30 years from now. It gets worse, that is obvious. The world's a changing.
Jim Stark why don’t u shut the fuck up and go back to school and learn a few things Stark. Of course that might be a tall order for you!
I agree . Now it's a bunch of gangstas
Nowadays players let the Money Do their talking So it doesn't matter if they can't talk or not !!
And we didn't even hear from the probably the smartest and well-spoken player on the field - Alan Page. Page got his law degree during his playing career and served as Minnesota Supreme Court Justice for many years.
What a great, frozen, final image to this video: Two true warriors, Meredith and Marshall, shaking hands at the middle of the field after Dallas' win. The NFL when it was a truly great game -- as others have posted, intelligent players battling in the muck and mud and drizzle. Who'd have predicted this kind of weather for Miami and the old Playoff Bowl?
I remember watching this game. RIP Don Meredith.
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Don Meredith, my very first sports hero.
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That game brought back wonderful memories. I casually walked down at the bottom and casually walked to the Minnesota Vikings sidelines after half-time. Nobody said anything to me, and I just hung around till the end of the game. It was freaking amazing.. That was the game that I met my childhood hero, Bullet Bob Hayes, outside of the stadium. He was the last one to come out of the stadium. We were talking to each other for about a minute, and I will never forget that day. And living next to the Orange Bowl in the late 60s, I was able to sneak into a lot of games during that time.
Dandy Don, RIP. Was never a big Dallas Cowboy's fan, but was a big fan of their QB known as Dandy Don Meridth. Loved him on Monday Night Football too. He was just a class act.
Those were the golden years of mnf.i can still hear merideth towards the end of the games singing,the party's over.cosell chompin on a big cigar.
Definitely better than what people give him credit for. The defense had not quite matured when Meredith was quarterback.
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They were pissed up man that be fun sitting in the booth with them couple of Bourbons 🍺
Doggone! That was one heck of an old school mud and thud football game! 🏈 Jim Marshall was a real man who loved skydiving and being out in the arctic conditions when the Vikings played at the old Metropolitan Stadium.
The piece was shot for the 1969 NFL Films program “Big Game America” and narrated by Burt Lancaster
Watching Wally Hillgenberg #58 getting dragged off the field by two of his team mates was unbelievable to see. He'd go on to play 10 more seasons retiring after the 1979 season.
Love the sound the hiting this was football fun lovin the game
"What we didn't know was that this was Don's last game and he wanted to go out a winner." Lance Rentzal
We were there in the Orange Bowl Stadium on January 5, 1969.
That was REAL football where men played with passion for the game
It's the strength and longevity of that defensive line that was the key to the long, consistent run of great teams that Minnesota had for the decade following this game - the "Purple People Eaters".
Tom Landry explains how to beat them 0:20
1969
The final ever Playoff Bowl, the final game ever for Don Perkins, AND the final game ever for that 'ol east Texas country-boy........
Don Meredith.
R. I. P.
🇨🇱#17Don Meredith 🇨🇱
Don Perkins
God bless our pro football heroes from a bygone era 🏈
There was one more playoff bowl game. The last one wasn't too pleasant for Dallas. They lost to Rams 31-0 in January of 1970.
Let get Jim Marshall in the HOF before he leaves the earth please!!!!
Why Marshall is not in Canton remains an unexplained mystery.
If he gets elected it should be with Matt Blair #59.
brianbachmeier34 No arguments here!
I always wondered which game was in Big Game America. I didn't see it on the schedule. It was a completely meaningless game that Lombardi described as the "shit bowl!" And yet Marshall is going all out.
Yeah, put him in.
and otis taylor. no. 89
It was called “The Playoff Bowl”, the “third place game” of the time...they were downgraded to exhibition games and don’t count now...they did give NFL Films opportunities for special features like this in their formative years
@@FrankiesMarket that's coz they played for the game back then. You imagine the intensity of a third place playoff these days? It'd be as soft as the pro bowl.
Tom Strauss...thank you VERY MUCH for the information! I was pulling my hair out because I couldn’t find any boxscore on the Pro Football Reference website for this game. I was especially puzzled when I went to Bobby Bryant’s career statistics and found ZERO touchdowns in his career kickoff return stats!
@@carspiv I think that they should be reinstated as actual games. Ain’t gonna happen though. The feature was part of “Big Game America, a 1969 NFL Films feature produced and directed by Steve Sabol (narrated by Burt Lancaster)
Not certain, but I think this was the last season they played the "Playoff Bowl". Vince Lombardi coached in this game one year, and hated it.
@ Be More - yes you are correct. Unfortunately this WAS the last year of the “Playoff Bowl”. Too bad - they were a lot of fun and as you can see - very competitive.
That hit at the 5 min mark was brutal in 2 ways. First the cowboy was already down then a 2nd Viking comes in and creams him in the back. Then number 58 of the Vikings is laying there on the ground with what looks like could be a spinal injury and his teammates grab him by the arms and drag him off the field.
That number 58 -- linebacker Wally Hilgenberg -- died at age 66 of CTE.
Pete Gent was the receiver. It was his last game as well. He put a metal brace which probably was illegal.
@@brent4723 Reading that really hurt.
And remember this was a game between 2 teams that were knocked out of the playoffs the week before. In today’s parlance, they had nothing to play for. But this film shows the coaches and players took it seriously (maybe too seriously), playing hard, hitting hard.
@@martinrain312the only way to play football is hard and all out or you are going to get hurt
awesome!!, thanks. thanks NFL films.
Best era of the NFL! Players played for the true love of the game. They had to work in the offseason because they didn't have million dollar contracts. The uniforms were wonderful. Games were super cheap to attend. Thanks for posting this! p.s. Jim Marshall not being in the Hall Of Fame is a huge travesty!
xoxo The Clarences
The average salary for a teacher in 1968- 70 was between 8 and 9000 dollars, an NFL rookie made the minimum $9000, veterans made $10000, for a 3 to 4 month season. So how was that being underpaid? Greed!
Very true, Dick! However, compared to what they make nowadays, it's a completely different world! The players nowadays do not have to work in the off season. Thank you for your comment! Hope all is well. xoxo The Clarences
As far back as the 1970s some players even had to work part time during the regular season to make ends meet.
@@BigRich1968 That wasn't greed. And teachers also have the summer off. The average salary for a teacher, this year, is a little over $60k. I'm guessing you know how much professional athletes are paid today. THAT'S greed.
@@Seemsayin Wow! And you think 60k is a lot of money? Please!
Great stuff. Thanks for posting.
Jim Marshall needs to be in the HOF and while I am a Dolphins and Titans Fan I love Bud Grant who in his early 90s is still trying to get Marshall in the HOF.I give the groundskeepers at Super Bowl 3 credit because three games were played in the Orange Bowl in 12 days.The Orange Bowl Game between Kansas and Penn State was played four days before this Play Off Bowl and a week later the Jets and Colts would play Super Bowl 3 and it seemed in that game the field was in good shape so great job to the groundskeepers at the Orange Bowl 50 years ago who were much better than the group in Mexico who lost the Rams-Chiefs game recently.
As a 14 year old huge fan of the MN Vikings I remember watching this game
Thanks for posting,
Oh man, that was great ! I've gotta watch it again !
Have never seen this before. Thank you!
Meredith returned to Dallas and flew with the team to Miami, resuming his role as a leader. “We need to win to get in the right frame of mind for next season,” he said. The Cowboys beat the Vikings, 17-13. Meredith played solidly. No one, not even Meredith himself, knew it was the last game of his life.
Eisenberg, John. Chronicles of a Dallas Cowboys Fan: Growing Up With America's Team in the 1960s . Diversion Books. Kindle Edition.
Vikings practice was at the old Miami Stadium. Baseball spring training and minor league Miami Marlins.
Where was that ? Do you mean Bobby Maduro stadium ?
Baltimore Orioles' spring training home from 1959 to 1990.
God I miss the Met when real football
Was played.
Still surprising to me how intensely these teams played - in what was basically an exhibition game that was for “third place”. If you lived in South Florida, you never saw the Playoff Bowls because they were blacked out - as was Super Bowl 2 played in Miami.
When football was LEGIT
Remember watching this very game...
"I will never be remembered as a great passer, a great runner or a great signal-caller. I hope to be remembered as a nice person." - Don Meredith
How many of the self-absorbed idiots who play the game today care one iota about whether they're viewed as a nice person? Someone who is admired for the content of their character? That would be a very small group of guys. And those guys would probably be laughed at by the clowns who only care about money and their own egos.
Jim Stark u mean YOUR household!
When the NFL legislates itself out-of-existence with more and more rules pertaining to player safety (and opening up the passing game) we can always rerun this little nugget and recall when hitting was hitting. It was a different time. Complete with woeful player salaries and second-rate playing surfaces.
Man, I just LOVE seeing players with spinal cord injuries being dragged off the field.
The GOOD OLD DAYS!!!!
Sludge That player with the “spinal cord injury” had his career cut short...by RETIREMENT after playing only 144 more regular season games and 11 more seasons.
And if/when it legislates itself out of existence, someone will have to let me know. My Sundays haven't been wasted on the NFL for a long time.
NO WAY - UNREAL!!!
Cool to see old Dallas cowboy football game thank you u tube programers
I counted at least a dozen plays where flags would be thrown today. Football today is a pansy game, this is real football wit all the grunting and yelling. The way Marshall was bouncing around makes it more amazing that he never missed a lot of games.
On point
Cookie cut rinse n repeat
Don Meredith: “Now listen, and listen real good. I’m going to throw the ball as far as I can and one of you is gonna catch it and score a touchdown to win the game.” I know that’s not exactly what he said but it reminds me of being a kid playing backyard football. That was pretty much our play calling.
The reckless way Kapp played, its amazing he didn't get killed out there.
Gary cuozzo another Minnesota viking 1960s quarterback
Why does Carl Eller remind me of Samuel Jackson 5:09 Mark?....😊
This was the tru NFL. Not the crap today.
The NFL's "bronze medal" game from 1960-69.
They still played hard for a game that meant NOTHING!Just for a few dollars.
They should bring back the Playoff Bowl
@@targettoad691 Absolutely would be perfect
I was 9 years old and had just moved to north dallas from roseville minnesota at tge time of these playoffs.... you had to play football to be accepted and watching the cowboys was also required in order to be relevant to other 10 yr olds.... Roger Staubach lived down the street from me in canyon creek/richardson a year or so later and my dad a widower a few years later then that dated one of don merediths exes. I was such a crappy football player.
Jim Marshall great textbook move @3:52 now illegal. Great stuff. Bring some 49er vs Vikings and more like dat!
Don Meredith didn't retire until right before training camp in 1969. He didn't announce his retirement before or right after this game.
this game was the Bert bell benefit bowl . a charity game played by teams that finished second in there divisions and later by teams that lost in the divisional round of the playoffs. Vince Lombardi called it a game for losers.
This must be January 1969 after the 1968 season.
Jan 5 1969, one week later on the same field was Super Bowl III.
A game neither team wanted to play Vince Lombardi said things about this game you can't say on TV
Really cool!
The game was way tougher on offenses then, and had far less rules, but the players still had respect for each other and didn't taunt and showboat after every score..
Actually it's the playoff bowl from 1968 season. The playoff bowl from the 1969 season and the last, was between the los ángeles rams and dallas cowboys on 01/02/70
This was after the 1968 season Dallas lost to the Browns and Minnesota to the Colts in the playoffs.This was derisively called the losers bowl and was stopped as it became an embarrassment,the players did get an extra playoff check though.
NFL was truly a great product during this time,NFL films and Ed sabol and son Steve deserve a lot of credit for the growth and popularity of the NFL.
As kid John Facenda's voice over and Sam Spence's music were truly inspiring.They took sometimes boring and mundane games and made them epic!
They also wanted to get as much airtime away from the AFL as they could. The diehard NFL fans wouldn't watch the AFL.
Turn off the lights the paaarty’s over!!! Love you Dandy Don Meredith #17
Great broadcaster Monday night football
Does anyone know the music at the end and is it available?
Player's today would shit there pants if they had to face these MEN !!
The “playoff bowl” like the consolation game in the NCAA tournament. A game between the playoff game first round losers. Wow things were different then.
The Vikings in 1968 were not quite the power they would become in 1969. Their offense had not been developed to its fullest extent just yet, and they won the Central Division with a pedestrian 8-6 mark. Dallas was an established NFL power by now, but had been upset by Cleveland in the 1st round.
this looked like a brutal game. brutal.
And thanks to the NFL's ridiculous rules calling for rotational home-field advantage in the post-season, the 12-2 Cowboys had to play at the 10-4 Browns. This approach wasn't fully replaced until the 1975 season when the NFL finally went with seeding based on W/L percentage.
Dallas played in 3 of the last 5 of these games; this one against Minnesota was the only one that they won. In the other 2, they were thrashed by Baltimore, 35-3 following '65, and Baltimore even had to use a RB (Tom Matte) as their QB. Following'69, the LA Rams romped over them, 31-0. The one against the Colts was the very first post-season games Dallas ever played. But the last one (also the last Playoff Bowl), was when they were into their "psychological problem" according to Tom Landry. When Dallas emerged as a top NFL team in 1966, they were the best except for one-- the established champion GB Packers. They lost the Championship Game to them, though it came down to a goal line stand by GB. Then the next year was the Ice Bowl, where GB pulled it out at the end. Landry said this created doubts in their minds about themselves, and Cleveland was the team where this showed up. After losing to them in '68, they also lost in the '69 season, 42-10, then 38-14 in the Eastern Conference playoff. Interestingly, the next game after each of these times Cleveland thumped Dallas, the Browns were thumped themselves-- by Baltimore 34-0 in the NFL CG, and then twice b Minnesota, 51-3, then 27-7. All this is a good example of how emotional factors, and their resulting preparation and intensity, can be underrated.
@@dantheman5745 And now should be adjusted so seeding is just like the NBA: Winning your division ONLY guarantees you a playoff spot, the rest you have to earn by your record (as of this writing, Houston, leading the Southwest division in the Western conference would be a SEVENTH seed while Charlotte and Miami, co-leaders of the Southeast division in the Eastern Conference would be seeded SIXTH and SEVENTH respectively). In this format for 2018, the AFC West loser would be seeded third and HOST a first-round game, then if they win that would be re-seeded to second for the divisional round and host that round as well.
@@cynic2all When was this game? I don't find any record of it anywhere. The records have Meredith listed as the starter for the 1968-69 season, but not 1969-70, meaning 1968 was his last year and they list Minnesota beating Dallas in week 6 of of 1968 season 20-7 , whereas this game Dallas is shown winning. Was this a preseason game or postseason consolation game? Both Minnesota and Dallas lost in the divisional round in 1968-69 season.
Damn. 4:58 Hilgenberg half dead- Concussed and dragged off the field like road kill.
Savage
Meredith's last game!
Great NFL broadcasting, he was funny
Same with Don Perkins
Pete Gent also
❤️ Meredith tv 📺 work
6:04 Yes, they spliced in little shot of the scoreboard at Lambeau Field.
I miss those day's.
Dragging the player off the field at 5:06.
I think the player dragged off may have been Vikings outside LB Wally Hilgenberg, number 58, due to an impact against his head. With all the lawsuits against head injuries/concussions back in the day, leading to modern-day problems, it still seems like, to me, the majority of 60s players may not have been much affected (for example, modern day videos of Tarkenton, Eller, Marshall, Kapp, Krause, and many other Vikings don't seem to show them messed up from head impacts).
Unfortunately, Hilgenberg is possibly the most obvious and non-disputable Vikings, and even overall-NFL player, not only with a compromised quality of life, after football due to head impacts, but even a premature death, as I understand it, likely entirely caused by head impacts received during his long playing career: 1964-1979 (started in 1968 with the Vikings, was earlier with the Lions).
Hilgenberg is actually a great linebacker, whose career with the Vikings it is great to carefully analyze, and appreciate, today. Tough, effective, no-nonsense linebacker play, including in some great defensive stands, characterized his career. Careful attention, though, indicates, at least until his widely-shared conversion to Christianity after the 1976 final of the Vikings Super Bowls season, that he was, I suppose, the enforcer on the defense, and may have played somewhat dirty, quite frankly, and drawn the most penalties for rough play among all the Vikings defenders.
Exactly, been saying this for a long time ! I remember reading in a Pro magazine back in the early 70's , Hilgenberg to being one of the meanest ( dirty ) players in the league. There are egregious examples of him doing just that. He was however , one tough player . Never getting much publicity he made countless huge plays in big games. By 1979 he had lost his starting position to Fredd McNeil, coming back form a broken jaw 37 year old Hilgenberg blocked a PAT versus the Bucs to preserve a Vikings victory.
Paul Bloede Wally did die from ALS, Lou Gerhrig disease. His wife donated his brain to research. He was in a special on HBO about 10 years ago. He was a great one.
Hilgenberg died from CTE related problems. He was original diagnosed with ALS, but research of his brain indicated it was CTE instead.
Who was the Cowboy that Hilgenberg hit? He completely seized up and then got nailed. This is the Cowboys team that North Dallas Forty is based on?
Imagine today trying to get guys to play hard (or at all) in a playoff game for 3rd place.
I'll bet they play if they get a paycheck.
This must have been after the 1968 season because it was between the Cowboys, who lost to Cleveland in the divisionals and Minnesota, who lost to the colts. This would have been Dandy Dons last game.
What’s the music starting at 1:25? I don’t recall hearing it before.
Rest in Peace Dandy Don.
❤️ Monday night tv 📺 work
North Dallas Forty movie was made about these people right here. I grew up watching the Cowboys as they became Americas Team. I don't know what they are today? 🏉
Man the Viking secondary looked weak/out of position often in this rain-swamp of a game. But that was to change come the next yr (somewhat) when Vikes went to 12-2 & the SB vs. K.C. (14-3 all)
The front four and LB's looked good here tho', (minus a few missed tackles n tipped balls) and that was some lick on that TE @4:59 by Hilgenberg OLB (who was concussed also) with a "finish" by Karl Kassulke. (embarrassing, nowadays to drag off Hilgy like that, but guess that was how it was done back then....)
Believe the Vikes went 8-6 in 1968 but lost 2 playoff games that yr....to the Colts, then the Cowboys. Colts cocky-confident & then upset by NY Jets in SB. Colts got "revenge" (lol) the next yr in exhibition, i think....just like the Vikes did to K.C. in exhibition, the following yr also.
Minnesota Vikings beat KC in the first game of the regular season in 1970 27 to 10.
Bobby Bryant starts the next season
Excellent filmmaking…
The only time the Cowboys won at the Orange Bowl.
That game was brutal. Win or lose? Most of those players were happy just to survive.
I remember these. Lombardi called them hinky dink and hated them . This is actually in the orange bowl in miami after the '68 season.
Why did the Boys change the gorgeous color of their pants (silvery blue) to the horrid greenish tone? Anyone knows?
M Betan
I'm with you. AND in '82 changed their beautiful blue uniform (with those silvery blue pants) to a pathetically blue on white uni. Totally different blue from the home white uni.
might be your tv
Man, I'm almost 65 and have been watching the Cowboys since '65 and remember those uniforms so vividly - The pants were metallic blue, satiny-looking on the fronts and the blue in their uniforms waxx a royal blue. They had the coolest looking uniforms in the NFL then. With all the uniforms changes in the past 70 some years, Dallas is one team that has changed the least, but I would love to see them go back to those vintage uniforms!
@@tonyginnetti5828 i totally agree with the Cowboys reverting to the royal blue jerseys with the serif numerals and slightly wide-block nameplates. The Raiders' uniforms are basically the same dating back to 1963.
These games were considered playoffs until 1980s changed it
the narrator sounds like it's Burt Lancaster.
It was; from a show produced by NFL Films called “Big Game America” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the NFL
Meredith retired in 1968. His last game was a playoff loss to the Cleveland Browns. Something doesn't compute here.
This was the '3rd Place game' at the end of the 1968 season, Dallas had lost to Cleveland and Minnesota lost to Baltimore in the 1st round
This was Meredith's last game in the NFL. The game was treated like a pro-bowl game
I remember these games - basically a game for 3rd place before the top 2 teams played for the championship. They were fun. Can you imagine a game like that NOW?? Do you really think today’s spoiled millionaires would risk playing this game - even if the winners were given $100K. I mean they have turned the Pro-Bowl ( which way back in the day was exciting) into a game of touch football - so this would have to also be a game of touch. With the exception of medical advances - life was SOO much better 50-60 years ago.
Players in this game were paid $1200 to the winners and $500 for the losers.
Don Meredith retired too early had he stayed Dallas wins SB5 as craig morton sucked.
Roger Staubach finally put Dallas in as champions when in wk8 Coach Landry made him the permanent starter and Dallas won every game from then on.
You're not the only one who thinks that but if I read correctly Don & Tom had the quintessential "love hate relationship". I do wish Don would have stayed a couple of more years. They would have killed the Colts in V.
I'm surprised Goodell hasn't resurrected this game so he could play it in Saudi Arabia and sell it for 9 figures to a streaming service with exclusive rights.
Merediths last game - playoff bowl - an exhibition that ended in 1970
The 1969 Playoff Bowl was for the 1968 season. So Don played his last game in 1969
When football was played for the Game, not for the show and social media presence. This Playoff Bowl wasn't any more relevant than today's pass and tab Pro Bowl. What is different is the mindset and integrity of the players decades ago. They respected the game and the history of the game.
Nowadays, you "retire" so you can "unretire". Why? So you can draw attention to yourself from a clueless fan base & media.
Damn, it was safer to be a boxer than a player in the NFL. All these guys must have had CTE if they were in the league a while...
Gary cuozzo & Joe Kapp same Minnesota viking 1960s football team
Vicious hit at the 5 min mark...both players out...dragging the LB off the the field....NFL has definitely changed
That hit at 5:00 knocked out Vikings player and really hurt the Cowboys player.
Lots of CTE?
Glory days! God's of the NFL
For a glorified exhibition game, they really played hard. Don't see that anymore
Back then, it was a real playoff game (before the NFL downgraded it to an exhibition game).
6:37 Not the Orange Bowl but, instead, the Metropolitan Stadium clock that reads 00.
Meredith was a good dude that took a ton of crap. He was hero for this youngster in the sixties.
Meredith returned to Dallas and flew with the team to Miami, resuming his role as a leader. “We need to win to get in the right frame of mind for next season,” he said. The Cowboys beat the Vikings, 17-13. Meredith played solidly. No one, not even Meredith himself, knew it was the last game of his life.
Eisenberg, John. Chronicles of a Dallas Cowboys Fan: Growing Up With America's Team in the 1960s . Diversion Books. Kindle Edition.
The mud games seemed to follow the Vikings. They lost to the Colts in the rain and mud in Baltimore in the divisional round
6:32 That is the Tulane Stadium clock.
Just curious, what's a playoff bowl? No need to respond. I'm just joking around. LOL!
That stadium looked about 40% capacity,
It was a meaningless consolation game that was discontinued thst year.