1974 NFC Playoff: St. Louis Cardinals at Minnesota Vikings Highlights
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- 12/21/74: The Minnesota Vikings beat the St. Louis Cardinals 30-14 at Metropolitan Stadium. It was the first postseason game since 1948 for the Big Red.
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I remember watching this game at my Grandmother's house when I was 10, After visiting I went home and watched the "Sea of Hands game" between Oakland and Miami on NBC. Great day of NFL playoff football.
I was 8 and remember watching both games with my family at home. The weather in Akron, Ohio, was much like it was in Minnesota. Gray, cold, but not too cold. I was rooting for both the Vikings and Raiders. What a great day.
❤️ 1970s minnesoda viking NFL football it like an love drug
I had just turned 56 when I watched this game
I remember those games too. I was 14 years old and in the 9th grade. Great times. A far cry from today's over-commercialized NFL and season that's too long.
I had the pleasure of being at the Sea Of Hands Game as a 9 year old with my Dad...It was electric in the Coliseum that day...
As someone who grew up a Vikings fan I still wish the Cards were in St. Louis.
It has never felt right. Thanks for the upload!
Yeah I miss the Cardinals being in St. Louis as well. Those Cardinals teams of the 70s were some of the best to never win the Super Bowl.
@@JayDogTitan-he6wo
And never won an NFC Champ. And never won even one playoff game.....
The St. Louis Rams were no more the Cardinals than the Phoenix Cardinals are the Cardinals. Conrad Dobler should be allowed to kick the "NFL" in the balls for having let the St. Louis Cardinals disappear.
Cardinals should still be in St Louis and Vikings should of never became a dome team.
@@nathan_the_barbarian7974 No argument here!
Love the old NFL highlight videos. The music, camera angles, past NFL greats, and narration make for a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
The first half of the 70s were when the NFL realized what a great product they had and how to market it. As a kid this is when I started watching it and films like this bring back great memories .
I grew up at the right time, when shows like This Week in NFL/Pro Football, NFL Game of the Week were only way to see hilites of all games every week, all NFL Films productions. Facenda, Ray Scott, Jack Whitaker, Summerall/Brookshier etc, the iconic music, the Sabols storytelling. Much better than 24/7 ESPN crap. Now NFL Films doesn't do any of those kinds of shows and they've buried their film vault.
Well stated. NFL Films got me hooked.
Remember, the Vikings and Cardinals played in the middle of the season in a much ballyhooed Monday Night matchup at Busch. Back and forth game, but the Vikes won that one too 28-24.
I had forgotten I saw the Vikings play just the week before that Monday night matchup vs Cards in the 74 season, against the Bears in Soldier Field in Chicago. We had moved from Minneapolis area to burbs of Chicago by then, and this was my 1st Vikes game I ever saw away from the old Met. My 8th grade teacher actually took me and one of my friends from school to the game because she knew I was such an outspoken Vikes fan. It was the coldest, rainiest day I ever experienced. I was used to frigid cold and snow in Minny, but this was incessant cold rain blowing off of Lake Michigan throughout the game. My Vikes won 17-0. Thank you Ms Jenkins!
That's awesome. So you grew up hearing during fran tarkenton era so jealous. Nice story too must of been a really nice lady to take u guys to a game . When you moved to Chicago in 8th grade I'm sure you didnt catch Vikings games anymore unless they would do a doubleheader in Chicago area and you would occasionally see the Vikings play the late game broadcasts on cbs across the country right ?
@@bigbopper8747
I grew up in Minn all through the 60s until 1972. My Dad was an original Vikings season ticket holder. So actually during the Tarkenton playoff years 73-74 I was in Chicago, then ironically we moved to St Louis in 75. And yes, my 8th grade teacher was something else, on top of that I had a major crush on her, and I still have an amazing long personal handwritten letter she gave me at my 8th grade graduation.
I also met and shook hands with Bud Grant after a Cardinals-Vikings preseason game at Busch in the 80s after Grant had retired and was doing radio broadcasts for the Vikings. Me and a few buddies made our way up to seats near the booth and waited for him to exit. We all were diehard Vikings fans, and Grant got a kick out of us coming up to shake his hand.
Then I guess you're going to ignore the 27-7 thumping the Cards gave the Vikings in Minnesota in 1977?
@Rockhound6165
Uhh, what's that got to do with the 1974 Div Playoff game? Did you expect me to analyze the entire history of the Vikings vs Cardinals? 🤔 I guarantee that would not be pretty for Cardinals fans. 🤣 🤣
Btw, the Vikings went to the NFC Championship that year. How did the Cardinals do in the playoffs in 77?
So typical. You decide to mention a game where the Vikings beat the Cards but I mention a Cards beating them a couple of season later and now you change the rules. You're a moron.
The Cardinals were the surprise team of the NFC in 1974. They won the NFC East and qualified for the playoffs for the first time in quite a few years. The Vikings were a veteran team coached by Bud Grant at that time. That season they played in their third of the four Super Bowls they would play in during the 1970s. The result was what often happens in that situation, the veteran team was too much for the upstart team. The Vikings asserted themselves in the third quarter and then didn't permit the Cardinals to get back into the game.
The Cards that season started 7-0 then limped down the stretch going 3-4 but their 4 losses were by a combined 25 points with the worst being a 14-0 loss to the Saints. At least until this game.
@@Rockhound6165 And then the Cardinals went back into hibernation despite raised expectations.
@@ZZSmithReal Injuries had a lot to do with that as well as piss poor management. They put together some good teams that just couldn't get over the hump. Division winners in 1975, 10-4 no playoffs in '76, started 7-3 in 1977 only to lose the last 4 games, 5-4 and a playoff thumping in 1982, 8-7-1 promising season in 1983, blew another chance in 1984 finishing 9-7 then didn't see another winning season until 1998 and in another city.
The Cardinals and Bengals very similar to each other at that time. Both solid clubs, very good but just not in the upper tier of other teams.
I was 8 years old when this game was played and living within 35 miles of a perennial powerhouse AFC team, so we got mostly AFC games on TV ( NBC ) and Cowboys games on CBS, this was one of the first times I got to see the Cardinals play other than their rare appearances on Monday Night Football when I had to go to bed at halftime. We almost never got Chargers, Saints or Oilers games either. I was hoping for a Cards W in this game, but...
Always loved that music they played
The fact that the Viking offense was completely shut out in Super Bowl 9 shows just how exceptional the Steel Curtain defense was.
Both defenses were great. Steelers only points in 1st Half was a 2 pt safety due to a Tarkenton botched handoff. Game only 2-0 at halftime. Steelers scored their 1st TD in 3rd Q only after the Vikings fumbled kick off. Game was still a close defensive battle going into 4th Q, 9-6. Steelers fumbled clearly on their last TD drive, and Vikes recovered which would have given them the ball still 9-6. Instead refs ridiculously said they blew the play dead while he was fumbling, and that was the turning point of the game.
Minnesoda viking offense disappear in superbowls,, 1❤️ bud grant, i think bud grant was more of a college football coach
@K Brewski best defensive Super Bowl
Looking back, it was the only Super Bowl Minnesota had ANY chance of winning...
This game and the Bills-Steelers contest that same weekend were so similar. The underdog Cinderella team, with plenty of emotion and no playoff experience scored the first TD's, but the superior, playoff-seasoned team, getting into gear more slowly, reared up like an ocean wave, played at a higher level and ground their opponent down over time, scoring 30-32 straight points before giving up cosmetic TD's to make the scores more respectable.
Air coryell got its start in St Louis
My buddy John and I went to that game. Sat up in the end zone 2nd deck. First time I've seen a video of the game since that day. Thanks for posting it.
I was huge Cardinals fan Jim Hart was my favorite
As a Cardinals fan of the 1960s - 1970s, I always knew they had little chance of making the playoffs and no chance of winning a playoff game: 1974 14-30 Vikings and 1975 23-35 Rams.
after seemingly endless 4-9-1 seasons, this broke my heart
Oh, not to worry. We put together more sub par seasons over the years and if you think 4-7-1 was bad, wait until this season. I'll be surprised if we win a game.
I am a fan of Vikings history. But I do admire the Cardinals as a team, and their history. It would be great to see the complete game rebroadcast of this fine game, featuring pretty good performances from many players on both sides.
However, I beg to point out, what I think is the one outstanding, special feature of this game, and the most exciting aspect of the whole game, which these highlights show (if you watch carefully; Eller only being named once or twice in the narration, and Dierdorf not at all). WHAT A MATCHUP, THIS GAME, BETWEEN CARL ELLER AND DAN DIERDORF!!(both in the Hall of Fame). I couldn't believe the spectacular rushes even this video shows Eller putting on Dierdorf, and yet, other than the two times in this video Eller's name is mentioned, Dierdorf never lets the spectacular rush result in either a quarterback sack or perhaps even a quarterback pressure.
Again, watch Eller (Vikings number 81) and Dierdorf (Cardinals number 72) throughout this video, where they're shown. What an amazing line of scrimmage battle throughout the game; perhaps the best reason to watch this game in its entirety, were such a video available, would be to try and focus on the Eller vs Dierdorf battle, although it's certainly a fine football game, all-around, and well worth watching, on that basis.
Both of those guys were of the best at those positions at the time
...very good point.
Great comment. I wonder if Jim Hart felt Moose closing in at 4:45.
❤️ minnosoda viking history of the late 1960s/ 1970s think bud grant was more a college football coachbud grant , didn,"t believe in sleeping in NFL / minnosoda viking offices
This came from This Week in the NFL. Narrated by Tom Brookshier. The final show of the season was always the divisional playoffs. This lasted from 1970 - 1975.
It was a good football show especially..the highlights.
@@jaycompany4886 NFL Films made the NFL.
John Gilliam, #42, Vikings WR came back to haunt his old team. Great receiver he was. Still can’t fathom how the Vikings never won a Super Bowl 🤔
They just faced up against great teams in their SBs - Miami, Pittsburgh, Oakland, even KC (who they were favored against) beat them decisively.
Vikings always had one smooth premier WR back then. First Gene Washington, my 1st "favorite player" as a kid. Then John Gilliam. Then Ahmad Rashad.
I still don't understand the SB failures and never will.
@@LordApathy1
They definitely should have beaten then upstart Pittsburgh in the 74 season SB, which was a close game the whole way, not a blowout. The game was 2-0 Pitt at halftime, and only 9-6 Pitt going into 4th Q. Tark played like crap but their defense gave them every chance to win. Key play was midway in 4th, Vikes recovered a clear fumble to halt a Pitt drive. Instead, the refs decided they "had already blown play dead", which is absurd if you look at replay. Instead of Vikes ball in a 9-6 game, Pitt continues drive and scores clinching TD. Vikes were a better team than that version of Steelers.
@@kbrewski1 Vikings run blocking was terrible. For the ref to reverse that Pitt fumble hard to believe. Fred Cox missed a 37 yard FG in that game and an extra point. Could have been the difference.
@@toscodav Pittsburgh ended their last possession inside the Minnesota 20. They turned the ball over on downs otherwise they would have scored
Matt Blair #59 of the Minnesota Vikings
Career Accomplishments
Minnesota Vikings 1974-85
1974 All Rookie Team selection
6x Pro Bowl selection
20.5 career blocked kicks is the 3rd most in NFL history. His blocked punt against the Steelers in Super Bowl 9 was recovered for a touchdown. They were the only points the Vikings scored in a 16-6 loss.
20 fumble recoveries
16 interceptions
1,452 tackles ranks second in team history. No other Vikings linebacker has intercepted more passes than him either.
Defensive Team Captain from 1979-85
1981 NFL Man of the Year
Matt Blair was the Vikings all-time leader in blocked kicks with 20, most were extra points, but Ted Hendricks blocked 10 punts ( second most in NFL history ) and he blocked 14 placekicks ( FG's and extra points ), when you add his 10 blocked punts to his 14 blocked FG's and extra points you get a total of 24 career blocked kicks, he had 7 blocked kicks in 1974 alone which is the single season record he set with the Green Bay Packers. Blair was a good ball hawking LB, Hendricks was a HOF LB.
This was before my Time, but fun to watch WHEN The Vikings could win games to reach the Super Bowl. Something from 1980's to Present cannot do! :(
Sure wish I could have lost their game I was too young back then Skoal Nation go Minnesota luv the way everyone is playing let's go Minnesota
My decades of football the seventies and eighties.
Anyone (original poster?) know what video this is from? Could it be from the weekly hilite show This Week in Pro Football? Brookshier is the narrator and him and Summeral hosted that show. I have the official NFL Films video of every Viking playoff game in the 70s, and I know there wasn't a full show Game of the Week (which would have been 23 min). So I'm thinking this was from the weekly TWIPF which probably covered all the Divisional playoffs.
I do have the 1974 Cardinals and Vikings season hilites, and they both contain some footage, but this is different than the season hilites. Bob Starr narrates the Cards one and it starts off with this game. Summeral narrates the 74 Viking hilites. Put both of those together and you get a pretty good overview of the game with different footage.
TWIPF Playoff Edition
@@StLouisFootballCardinals
Ahh, as I suspected. I loved that show as a kid.
The Sea of Hands game was GOW that week
@@Tommy-76
Yep, I now actually have that GOW show on an NFL Films dvd, it was such a great game.
It was indeed from TWIPF. CBS televised it with (get this) Brent Musburger and John Unitas on the call!
I think the Vikings sorta lost their identity once they went indoors.
Dobbler used to blow farts in the huddle.
It used to piss off dierdorf
The Cardinals lost to themselves that day. Still... one of their most impressive seasons as a franchise. Hart should've utilized Jackie Smith more though. Looks like Metcalf had a horrible day.
Lmao, the game wasn't even close. Vikings dominated 2nd H. 30-7 until a meaningless garbage time TD with a minute left. Vikings hard to beat in Dec-Jan on the frozen tundra of the Met.
They should have run more. That was how you beat ht Vikings.
Love how drunk and corny the fight between 2 fans at the start of this video
They were having fun at the ballpark! Trying to do their Verne Gagne impressions!
Those same 2 guys are still at it at the games using walkers...
I remember being big time disappointed by this loss.
Cards were a dann good team that got away fron a game plan that day.
They dominated the first half and choked big time 2 nd half..
AND WHY ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH WOULD YOU NOT PAY CORYELL AND LET HIM WALK TO SAN DIEGO?
CHEAP BASTARD !!!
Uhh, dominated? Lmao, hardly. Since the half ended 7-7, at best you can say they played them even. This was a pretty easy game for the Vikings. Nate Wrights fumble recovery broke it open. 30-7 until last minute garbage time. The Cardinals never really had a chance. Funny thing, I grew up in Minn, my dad was an original Viking season tix holder, went to quite a few games at the frozen tundra of the Met. Family moved in 72, and later ended up moving to StL in 75 a few months after this game. Never really became a Big Red football fan, but went to plenty of games at old Busch. Brutal to watch them in the 80s. But, went to a Viking Cards exh game in the 80s and walked up to the radio booth area after game and got to talk to and shake hands with Bud Grant! Very cool
@@kbrewski1 -Ok. For some reason I thought the game was a Lot closer in the first half?
Weren't the Cards winning at halftime ? (Tied 7-7)
Could be wrong...
Your right- Vikings came out and rammed it down our throats !!!
Good stuff dude !!!
@@joegausch5973
You said the Cards dominated 1st half. I pointed out that the game was even at halftime at 7-7. The Vikings then dominated 2nd half.
@@kbrewski1 no your right
Little bit of revisionist history on my part...
Not a big fan of the move to Arizona
They should ha've came up with a new name ,kept St.Louis Cardinals on the books until they got a new franchise.
On the other hand I would like to see your Vikes win a SB
It's a great town regardless of what the media reports !!!
@@joegausch5973
I sympathize with the old Big Red fans, Bidwell was a jacksss.
I was 8 years old in 1968 when the Vikes won their 1st Division title and got into the playoffs. Right at the time I became a diehard football fan and loved watching the NFL Films hilite shows. We lived about 5 miles from the old Met. The Vikings then made a decade long run of great success from 68 to 78 where they made the playoffs every year except 1972. So the upside was I was spoiled as a kid--- we won a lot of playoff games, and had home field advantage almost every year. 4 NFL/NFC Championships in 8 years. The downside was we lost 4 SB in 8 years, and they were all brutal. Those 4 SB losses scar me to this day. Will never get over them. Its a shame because if they win even 1 of the 4, its some validation. If they had won all 4, the Vikings---not the Dolphins or Steelers--are the team of the 70s. So life giveth and life taketh away.
Then we move to StL and I have to watch some brutal football. Went to the last ever Cards home game at Busch in 87 I think. Then the Rams move to StL and I become an original Rams PSL holder and see all the glory years from 99 to 01, Greatest Show on Turf. Hard to root for Rams, still kept my Viking loyalty, but I wanted to see pro football in person again.
This video is nice and clear but oddly sped up and herky jerky. Computer transfer issues?
Had Jim Hart won a playoff game he might be in the HOF.
Hmm, I don't think 1 playoff W would have put him in. He was a good but not great QB. I wouldn't put him in over Ken Anderson who played in a SB, was an NFL MVP, and has outstanding accuracy stats, or even guys like John Brodie, Phil Simms (who was a SB MVP). Don Meredith, Roman Gabriel, John Hadl, also not in HOF.
@@kbrewski1 It couldn't hurt. Roman Gabriel's appearance on Gilligan's Island didn't help, but I think his 1969 MVP didn't help much either or Brodie's MVP a year later. All of the QBs you list were better than Phil Simms. You forgot to add Jim Plunkett.
@@drbonesshow1
Drat, I missed that episode! I don't think all those guys deserve HOF, throwing out some contemporaries of Hart (Meredith, Gabriel, Hadl, Brodie) that arguably have a better case than Hart and DID win playoff games and some even MVPS. Simms and Plunkett are tough borderline cases. Plunkett did win 2 SB, but doesn't have the career stats. Plus I never viewed him as a HOFer. Simms has a SB win, a decent consistent career but smacks of "game manager" tag. The Giants D was the star over the QB.
Ken Anderson is the best QB not voted in yet. I think he will be soon, he's overdue.
I don't ever see Hart getting in unless Brodie, Plunkett and Simms all go in first.
But I do agree, its one thing to have no SB, no NFC Champ, but 0 playoff Ws in entire career stands out like a sore thumb.
As for players who are criminally long overdue for HOF, I'm forever mystified as to how the Vikings Jim Marshall wasn't voted in years ago. A travesty.
@@kbrewski1 Joe Namath with far more INTs than TDs is the most over-rated HOF QB of all-time. Had the Colts come to play against the Jets in the SB the Namath aura would be dim.
@@drbonesshow1
I absolutely agree. Have felt that way since I watched SB3 at 9 years old. Namath 0 TD passes, 1 TD drive, 0 completions in 4thQ. Morrall's inexplicably horrible play (6-17, 3 INTS) lost it, Namath did nothing spectacular to win it. The Jets conservative running and short pass game plan minimized the potential INTS he was known for. Snell should have probably been named MVP. That overblown guarantee line unduly magnified that upset and his entire career. 50.1% completion rate, winning QB in less than half his games.
Didn't the Cardinals draft Namath? I can't imagine that Bidwell would have ever spent the $$ to sign him, so why draft him. So in a bizarre way, Bidwell is responsible for the NFL-AFL merger....
Jim Hart got better with age.
Very similar to the Hail Mary Play the following year 6:55
Cox missed a 37 yard fg and and extra point. Could have been the difference.
Huh? The Vikings won by 16 points. That makes no sense.
The "Met" is now the Mall of America.
Obviously Jim Marshall was injured, but when did he go down in 1974?
Marshall played in every game from 1961 to his retirement in 1979
I wonder if 🤔Carl Eller went up against Dan Dierdorff, this day?
Eller didn't register any sacks
wonder where the Championship game would have been played had St Louis played Los Angeles?
St Louis
I'm sure the Rams were rooting for the Cards no matter what. The Rams simply could not beat the Vikings at the Met in the late 60s and the 70s. Especially in cold weather. Vikes knocked them off in the playoffs in 69, 74 and 76, and even beat them in LA in 77 in the playoffs in a driving rainstorm quagmire. I dont think the Rams have ever won a cold weather playoff game in a northern city in Dec or Jan. They lost in 67 to the Packers in Milwaukee and they also lost badly to the 85 Bears at Soldier Field. So the Central (North) Division knocked the Rams out in 67, 69, 74, 76, 77 and 85. Lmao.
@@kbrewski1 In '89 they won at Philly and at the NY Giants. That's all I got for cold weather wins for the Rams.
@@LordApathy1
My definition of a "cold weather game" is below freezing at least. This came up in another thread. Those games were mid to high 30s. That's balmy compared to Dec/Jan games in Minnesota where I grew up.
@@kbrewski1 Your definition of a " cold weather game " is well below what most sources, including the NFL, defines a " CWG ". 40 degrees or less is the widely used definition of a " cold weather game " by people who actually know what they're talking about.
When did the snow flurries start coming during this game?
play outdoors!
Cardinals got to get back to these basic classic uniforms. Same with the Vikings. They gotta ditch that frosty lollipop purple helmet.
Wear black shoes.
Stop trying to impress women and fruitcakes.
They get more and more effeminate every year don't they?
Agreed 100%! Nothing tops the dark purple of the Vikes helmets back then. And the all white helmet with big Cardinal logo is a classy underrated look.
John Gilliam catches a bomb for a TD and...casually jogs to the sideline Like he had been there before... Todays football is intolerable look at me! Look at me! Unwatchable garbage
Cardinals were dogshit in the playoffs
YEP
i was at this game. you could literally enter with a wine sack filled with booze - and we did.
jumped the barriers and ran on the field after the game