To this day one of the top 10 retired QBs of all time. For today's fans, think Russell Wilson before Russell Wilson. Great in every phase, especially clutch and ran fearlessly when necessary during an era when it was legal to cleanly hit quarterbacks. Might even go further and say Montana before Montana. Fabulous QB!
This was an interesting year for Dallas. I remember being sick after they dropped to 6-4 after back to back losses but they put it all together winning their last 6. This win against the Rams in L.A. was huge for them. Poor L.A. just couldn't beat Minnesota or Dallas in the conference championship during this decade.
Fortunately, after this game, and until the present, the Rams have beaten the Cowboys 4 out of 5 times in the playoffs. More to the point, Dallas has 1 total playoff victory in the last 30 years. But you are correct, the Rams had trouble in the NFC Championship games until 79'. A lot of really good teams, but not any great ones.
Jones will never do anything associated with the Landry era. The 2 exceptions are the Thanksgiving uniforms, and the occasional visit in the owners box by Staubach.
I have totally forgotten about ' Hollywood Henderson ' until the announcer mentioned his moniker...then I went, ' THAT'S RIGHT, I remember him now ' lol
@@jaylucien669 I remember those games..several teams would wear their white jerseys for home games because it was said Dallas won like 60% of games in the blue as opposed to 80 %+ in the whites..and the Rams actually beat Dallas in this regular season at home 27 to 10 as they applied said jinx..obviously it didn"t matter in the nfc title game..I actually love these old blues and wish they would wear them again
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Those blue Cowboys unis were some of the most beautiful in the history of the sport. Just perfect coordination of the color scheme.
I think they were terrible. The Cowboys would normally never wear them unless the home team forced them to which proved the Cowboys themselves hated them. The chose to wear them in Super Bowl V to break their jinx but it didn't work. I guess in hindsight they were decent but the Cowboys always look SO much better in white it's not even a discussion. Rams only wore white in both 1978 playoff games because they were trying to break their jinx wearing their blue uniforms in the playoffs (which is ridiculous - they beat the Redskins in 1974, beat the Cardinals in 1975 and beat the Cowboys in 1976 wearing blue in each of those games). Tip: the uniforms don't matter - the players do! Had they played Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XIII they would have had the choice of uniform as the "home" team. They probably would have worn white again. They had no quarterback for most of the 70's. I suppose their best QB was John Hadl in 1973 but even he couldn't beat Dallas in 1973. Their great defense and running back committee wasn't enough vs Dallas and their firepower.
@@Ram44 the playoffs against Dallas and Minnesota aren't the only times the Rams wore white jerseys at home in '78. Except for the 49ers, Steelers and Bengals, LAR wore their road jerseys at the Coliseum throughout that season. They were likely bringing back their practice in the mid-late '60s of wearing the roads at home. LAR continued this trend through '79 and into '80, their first year in Anaheim. True, players count more than uniforms, but ask a former Cowboy from the '70s-early '80s about the famous (or infamous) change.
@@Ram44 Dallas wore their blue jerseys in SB V because they were in the rotation as the designated "home" team. The "jinx" didn't have much power until Baltimore's Jim O'Brien kicked the winning FG as time expired in that game. Before then, the Cowboys' jinx was the Packers.
Yep the Rams would beat them the next year with a last minute long touchdown to Billy waddy .the Rams defense was too good and with 1 minute left the Cowboys could not comeback .
On May 02, 1978, the Houston Oilers drafted Earl Campbell as the #1 draft pick. At that same 1978 NFL draft, Warren Moon remained UNDRAFTED!!! Staubach played out the 1979 season and announced his retirement on March 31, 1980. If they had signed Warren Moon in 1978, he would have had two seasons to learn the system. And the Cowboys would have probably won three Super Bowls in the 80's.
@@StellarFella and they passed on Joe Montana in the 1979 draft taking Doug Cosbie instead. A good tight end but obviously a big mistake. Landry loved Danny White
@@breakmylegs7294No,that overrated renfro ,no TD catch call moment occurred in the proceeding 1979 conference championship game. The 1978 oilers vs Steelers conference championship game was the inclement weather, freezing lite rain ,ice , contest that Pittsburgh won 34 -5 . The renfro controversial call is overrated because it occurred in the third qtr ,the oilers had the entire 4 qtr to put up more points ,and if the renfro debatable end zone catch would have been permitted ,it only Tues the contest up . The Steelers hadn't allowed the oilers a single offensive TD in either conference championship game, the oilers a only TD in the controversial renfro conference championship game came from a defensive int return for a TD ,the oilers didn't score another point the remainder of the game ,zero , nothing ,while the Steelers scored 10 additional points , meaning the Steelers still would have won, and by a double digits margin . There is also a above camera shot of renfro actually juggling the ball as he cascaded out of bounds ,thus under the circumstances,not in inconceivable for the refs to not grant the oilers a TD . This same Steelers team who overcame a SB deficit vs the rams in this seasons SB 14 ,as well as it's previous two SB victories,a team who's roster harbored 5 hofers ,a top 10 all time head coach ,and people irrationally think the Steelers were going to become unraveled in a home conference championship game vs a adversary they defeated in this same game ,the previous year . The renfro non TD catch call is the most overrated post season controversy in NFL history. Even the oilers headcoach bum Philips and QB Dan Pastorini admitted ,the call didn't impact the games outcome .
These NFL Films pieces are awesome...keep them coming, and where/how did you get all these.? This was the first season I remember as a kid. Fond memories.
@2:35....that's a catch! Hall of Famer Drew Pearson got that second foot down. But officials weren't used to seeing anyone do that back then. It's weird. Officials used to give receivers the benefit of the doubt when they were running out of bounds to catch the ball, only to get one foot down. But then they'd miss great catches like these, where the WR drags his toe.
Not sure he got both feet down but it looks like the line judge made up his mind really fast which is what they were taught to do back then. These days, they would have thought about it for a second or two. Preston Pearson caught a TD pass in the 76 Championship game that was ruled a catch but the ball clearly hit the ground and they ruled it a catch instantly. Same with the Butch Johnson TD catch in SB 12. That wasn’t a catch. Not even close. Even the commentators wouldn’t question the refs. Lol. Different times for sure.
Soooo Glad for Drew making the HOF he is one of the best considering the defenses he was catching the ball against he is a true pro legend and should have been in the HOF a long time ago !!
Only NFC team to win a Super Bowl in the 1970s here's the rundown 7 conference championship games 5 Super Bowls 2 wins .hope you learned a little bit more.
Dang I remember my 4th grade friends and I were all in for the Steelers this season. Cowboys were cool too. Awesome year. Kick ass superbowl. The drop lol
Haden, Hadl, Harris, underwhelming quarterback play all decade wasted a wonderful nucleus of players. A quarterback and maybe a coach away every year till 79
@@kennethcollins6494 Very true. Never had a QB as good as their defense. That's why they couldn't beat Minnesota or Dallas in the playoffs except for 1979.
Charlie Waters was torched early in his career in the playoffs as a cornerback. After he moved to strong safety, he had some huge games in the playoffs. Deserves to be in the HOF with his teammate Cliff Harris.
Agreed! Damn shame he's not in the Cowboy's ring of honor. He along with Reeves, Too Tall and Harvey Martin should all be in that ring. I don't expect that idiot owner to do anything that honorable though.
Waters should be in the HOF. While he did not have a long career as a S, he made up for it with consistency and more so, with huge plays in the playoffs. He retired with more playoff INTs than anyone. Harris, on the other hand, was a joke. A player who hid behind his front seven, got burned and run over repeatedly, was a cheap shot artist and should never have been put on any All-Decade Team and has no business being in the HOF.
The Dallas Cowboys blew the Rams out, 28-0 in this one, just like three years earlier when as a wild card playoff team, they crushed the Rams in LA by a 37-7 score to advance and play the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl. Deja Vu.
@@gordonreed2736 Pittsburgh took care of the Rams in SB 14 ,same results.a double digits victory would have taken place if the Steelers had played the Rams inthe SB in 75 and 78 . The 1975 Steelers regular season loses and was the last game of season when the Steelers had already.locked up too seed inthe conference ,they entered the game with only 1 loss , both loses were in LA and both were razor think loses .In 78 the Steelers were going through a 5 game slump when they played the Rams despite only having one loss during that period they were underperforming ,literally barely winning ,having to salvage a victory at the final moments of those games before turning up the juice psychologically inthe seasons final 5 games .The Rams lethargic offenses playing in LA in 75,78,79 ,never scored 20 points on Pittsburgh , the mediocre Rams QB's and the coaching staffs ultra conservative offensive scheme wasn't going to dent the Steeler curtain defense ,while the Steelers big game,big play offense as typical would have produced 20 plus points .With revenge motivation from.the regular season losses to spur them on , historically the Steelers crush post season teams they harbored angst for who defeated them in regular season or a previous post season during the 70's ,the Dolphins ,Raiders, and Broncos felt the crushing weight of the Steelers because of this . The Steelers off/def schematically and SB experience wise were a bad SB matchup for the 75,78 Rams ,who barely scored against the cowboys in 75 and got shutout in78 . Again remember the Steelers did win SB 14 by 11 in LA ,that Steelers SB team was unfortunately for us Steelers fans in it's final leg as a championship team in that SB ,they were running on fumes ,obsorbed the Rams best shots ,and still walked them down ,the 75 and 78 Steelers would obliterate the Rams in a SB ,extra motivation to prove the reg season loss was a aberration meaning a double digits win would have been a must psychologically for them , something they achieved several times before .
@@haroldmccoy6748 nice history reminders Harold. But the Steelers were a one loss team in 78 game at that time. The 79 Super Bowl hinged on a Nolan Cromwell dropped pic 6. I believe it was 19-13 at the time too.
@@gordonreed2736 19-17. However, Ferragammo's INT late was killer, especially since, as the famous quote by the Rams assistant coach said, "Waddy was wide open, Ray. Waddy was wide open Ray, on the post." A TD there puts the Rams up 26-24 with 5 minutes to go. Who knows if Bradshaw throws another pick and we have an upset of Namath proportions.
People overlook the Cowboys, Colts superbowl that Craig Morton cost the Cowboys with two 4th qtr interceptions (Volk, which tied and Curtis, which lost), when probably every Dallas fan knew Staubach should have already been full-time starter, forcing stubborn Landry to finally, though too late understanding that. Morton did atone when his quarterback play was instrumental in greatly helping the Cowboys to their victory over Denver a few years later. Thankfully, he was playing for the Broncos at the time.
@@beercanman5535 Of course, something like that can be blamed as well as an interception, and not one single play is solely the cost, but fumbles happen as do interceptions all the time. My point is twofold. First, the ball is in QBs hand. There are excusable ints. & inexcusable ones. Two poor high (one real hugh) even if deflected throws at such key moments were typical of Morton, when., if ur old enuf to recall Cowboy fans were calling for Staubach from the beginning and Landry, with his alternating, and refusal to submit to Staubachs style and stubbornness was plain bad coaching. (George Allen would stubbornly cost his team a title, insisting on playing Billy Killmer instead of all time great Sonny Jorgensen in the Miami unbeaten season). Landry by didn't have confidence in Staubach and paid for it. Morton, in the Denver, Cowboy SB was even worse, but 2 horrible 4th qtr SB clutch passes was more a reason than any fumble, which simply happened at at a bad time. That's what's great about sports tho. It's being debated five decades later.
79 is famous because of the Mike Renfro play. So, that would lead to many people having an interest in that game. 78 was a brutal one-sided beating. Wet, freezing cold, just awful game to look at, unless you were waving that Terrible Towel
The Rams beat the Cowboys in L.A. earlier in the year and I believe they were favored coming into this one. Both Pat Haden (11) and John Cappelletti (22) were knocked out of the game by Randy White (54) who had a whale of a game. 71,000 in the Coliseum that day.
Tom Mack HOF had a tough time. His last game. Next year Kent Hill took care of business. Also d line that got Dickerson 2k and 248 in Anaheim right up the masters butt.
@@gordonreed2736 true. Tough way for a great player like Mack to end his career. Yes, Eric Dickerson really stuck it to Dallas in what became Tom Landry's last playoff game.
Lots of great players n coaches ended their careers at the hands of their great rivals. Tarkenton lost d week before n L.A. A guest for d Rams beating d vikes finally.
When I re-watched the broadcast of this game a few years ago, I couldn't believe how well the Rams played, dominating most of the game in so many facets and yet still lost 28-0....it's one of the most deceiving final scores I've ever seen.
I wouldn't say dominated, Doomsday played just as good or better. The Rams put up 34 on a great Vikings D the prior week. Cowboys had some miscues too, note the Laidlaw td fumble early
At least the Rams got some payback when they went into Dallas in the '76 and '79 playoffs and beat Dallas both times as an underdog on the road. In fact, the Cowboys and the Rams met in the playoffs 5 times between 1973 and 1979, Dallas winning 3 times and the Rams winning twice. Of the 5 playoff games between the two, the only time the Rams were favored was in 1975, where they got completely demolished by Dallas in LA, when Dallas jumped all over them with a 21-0 lead in the second quarter and cruised to a 37-7 win. Dallas had 441 yards of offense while the Rams only managed 118 yards and just 9 first downs the entire game. Ironically, the Rams, who went an impressive 66-19-1 between 1973 and 1978, didn't win the NFC until 1979, with a 9-7 team that wasn't expected to do much, and ended up giving the powerhouse Steelers a heck of a battle in SuperBowl 14 that year before coming up a little short.
Remember that year Dallas blew us out Sunday night. Was at a youth meeting. The Rams got all their dudes back from injury n put it together. They lack a big play n these losses. Dallas n Minn. Got them instead
It really did used to be a 50/50 battle between Defense & Offense. I’m still ok with some of the progression that gave the offense a little bit of a boost ( 80s football maybe even into mid 90s ) but what they have had for a good while now in the NFL , with the Offense having all of the advantages ... it’s irreparably damaged the game. The 4000 yard passing season is now something that “middle of the road” QBs regularly surpass. In 2020 Twelve QBs passed for 4000+ yards and Two more were at 3950 plus. Top 5 QBs TD - INT differential 33-7 38-6 40-12 26-11 37-10 6th ( a rookie Herbert ) 31-10 7th 48-5 The differential doesn’t go downhill from there either. Imo stats are important to NFL history .... so now all of these guys (Bradshaw, Staubach, Griese etc) are all “scrubs” stat wise & this even includes guys like Elway, Kelly, & even Marino ... lots of contemporary QBs are “Crushing” Marino’s career numbers. Brees has 20k more passing yards than Marino & 150 more TDS. For comparison Bob Griese has 25k passing yards and 190 TDs - TOTAL- So the gap between Brees & Marino is basically all of Bob Griese’s HOF & 8x pro bowl career. KURT WARNERS “Greatest Show on Turf” season 4300 yds 41 TD 13 int Derek Carr 2020 - 4100 yds 27-9 td to int Russell Wilson 2020 - 4200 yds 40-13 td to int In 2020 Drew Lock & Carson Wentz led the league with 15 INTS In 1978 only 5 QBs surpassed 3000 yds passing ( compared to 14 being 3950+ in 2020 ). Fran Tarkington led league with 3468 yards. In 1978 15 ints was the 24th most in the league Brian Sipe & Joe Ferguson had 15 each. Fran Tarkenton led league with 32 & Ken Stabler had 30. 8 more QBs had more than 20. It’s very stupid now. One thing will be interesting to see play out .... the question of “Did Jerry Rice make his numbers uncatchable” it seems he knew exactly how far he was going to have to push them to have a chance & did his best. 1549 Rec 22895 yards 197 TDs
I agree. The inflation of stats has ruined the history of the game. It's like the arena football league now. When there is no history, the game will fade.
I agree 100% . Add in the potential additional extra regular season game and the continous liberals proliferation of rule changes meant to attract millennial novices who don't care about the authentic fundamental tradition of the game but rather high volume video game offensive stats all to bring in more endorsement revenue and a yearning by the league office to delpoy more NFL games into other countries , implemented by the optic of PlayStation offensive numbers to attract the nfl history lacking millennials and other countries to this brand of bad, biased exclusively on the behalf of the offense football which eliminates the narrative of equal application of fair play in terms of rules and regulations for the defense is literally helpless . Holding a opponent to 20 points today is considered great defense , a team can actually achieve getting a TD if they have to travel 80 yds with less then a minute in a game and no timeouts because defenses are now severly limited in how they can execute they're game plan, you can't hit a defenseless receiver , even if the receiver ducks his head to cushion the hit impact of a defenders blow which naturally a tackler is going to make some head contact because of this dynamic ,he's penalized for a helmet to helmet collision , a defender is comically penalized for falling on a QB on a sack ,defenders have actually injured themselves attempted to not fall on the QB by anding awkwardly .Wr's can push off with little penalty infractions which is the only all reason teams are enamored with huge Wr's moreso then any other time in NFL history ,but the mere second a already limited by the liberalism NFL rules the defensive back makes contact to protect his position on the area of the field ( to the millennial fans , by nfl rules a defender is suppose to have the same amount of right to a field space as the offensive player ) he's whistled for pass interference ,it's gotten so bad that after a great defensive play the defense the captive audience holds there collective breaths anticipating a defensive penalty negating the play ,or spoiled wr's throwing they're hands in the air in protest whenever a defensive back makes a good coverage play ,it's literally bad football to watch if your a fundamentalist ,ole school ,enjoy the intrinsical fundamentals ,coaching accumen ,chess match of wits, intestinal fortitude ,and observing elite talent supercede schemes and yes physical abuse meant to derail them ie 1973 OJ SIMPSON .It can also be applied to defensive players 1971 AlanPaige ,this new format dosent constitute a elite level of performance in terms of offense because all of the rules mandate at minimum low calory stats to still register as a pro bowlesque level . It's not generational bias towards this brand for various new rules introduced have certainly improved the quality of the NFL brand , but the over saturation of meh give the offense all of the advantages have objectively speaking completely destroyed the complete dynamic of coaching , physicality , intestinal fortitude, on all sides of the field . The Hof conversation inthe next 10 years will be for obsurd number guys in a tainted fraudulent offensive rules beneficial league ,the all time leading wr and passer eventually be by dudes who were never great but had longevity .
The league has definitely turned into flag football. Maybe they should take away the mel blount rule to help defenses. Since they can’t tackle anyone wihout getting penalized
There was a belief that when Dallas wear their away blue jerseys they lose. Because Dallas's dark jerseys were their away jerseys, and almost all nfl teams home jerseys were also their dark jerseys the Cowboys early had to wear the dark jerseys. n the 1980 NFC championship game in philadelphia the Eagles wore their away jerseys so the Cowboys would have to wear their blue away jerseys. And it works Eagles rolled the cowboys. I believe the Redskins did the same thing to Dallas in a home playoff game in the early 1980's. This just reenforced the belief
@@JRodInc3 I've never bought into that. The Eagles beat the Cowboys because they beat them up. The Redskins beat the Cowboys two years later because the Hogs, John Riggins and Dexter Manley kicked their ass. BTW, sandwiched in between, the 49ers let Dallas wear their white jerseys and STILL beat them. The better team always wins.
This was my most favorite Dallas Cowboy victory of all time because they won and won big against the Los Angeles Rams in the 1978-79 NFC Championship game on the road in the LA Coliseum and avenged an early regular season 27-13 road loss to the Rams in the very same LA Coliseum. And they did it wearing their alleged and so called jinxed and cursed blue road jerseys. I bet if the Cowboys had worn their blue jerseys against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl 13 that they would have won that football game. I have no logical or scientific basis for that statement other than wistful longing, wishful thinking along with coulda-shoulda-woulda and if only. If only the Cowboy defense had managed to tackle John Stallworth instead of him scoring a touchdown or if Jackie Smith had been able to catch that pass from Roger Staubach to score a touchdown and keep up with the Steelers in Suoer Bowl 13. I absolutely loved those road blue jerseys which Dallas wore from 1964 through 1980. I have always liked them better than the road blue jerseys the Cowboys began wearing in 1981.
My goodness. I can believe its been it's been like 40 years ago. I was at that game. My friend worked for the NFL and got me in on the forty yard line. Miss those times.
This game disproves the silly blue uniform jinx, no? Well, anyway, Dallas will be wearing their other jerseys in the Super Bowl, so they won't have to worry about jinxed occurrences such as dropping a wide open TD pass in the end zone. 👍
@@andrewpestotnik5495 The last time Dallas wore blue in a playoff game was in the 82 nfc hampionship game. Cowboys haven't been to the playoffs much in this century, so they haven't had much opportunity to have some other team were their road unis, and force the Cowboys into their blue.
@@backtothefiveanddime8629 That's because Washington was doing the same thing as Dallas wearing white at home which was a Joe Gibbs thing when he got there the year before
Playoffs are different. Peaking is prime. As Rams with Haden blew the boys out earlier. Now the boys came back in our back yard. Got them back next year n a virtual role reversal. Same n 80 and 83. Crazy fun series.
@@gordonreed2736 In fact, from 1973-'85, these two teams would meet eight times in the post-season, and believe it or not, the visiting team won more than it lost, regardless of where the games were played. The Rams won three of the five played in Dallas while the Cowboys took two of the three played in Los Angeles, with both victories coming in NFC Championship Game match-ups.
@@cjs83172 so true good man. A crazy series. U remember coach Landry getting a threat at a Monday night game n Anaheim. Apologies. U guys won. Always won d 1st game.
Not necessarily. Jeff Hostetler was pretty weak and NYG stopped the 49ers three-peat in 1990. Speaking of weak NYG QBs, Eli went through Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers to beat Tom Brady '07 & '11. Right?
Wonder what was with the exposure or the film speed on all the shots after the sun went down. I know the lights in that stadium used to be really bad but the Coliseum looks about as dark as my closet.
It reflected the year of doomsday two plus captain comeback Roger Staubach and also the man that wore the funny hat Tom Landry. It was a big game, the Rams never had a chance.
It was scoreless at the half, so it definitely was up for grabs for a long while. But for me, it was Tony's 53 yard breakaway gain after that huge turnover. He didn't score, but it really deflated the Rams. This was definitely their greatest win ever in those dreaded blue jerseys.
Never knew why. OK they lost SB-5 wearing them but they lost the '66 and '67 NFL championship games in the whites, they lost the '72 and '73 NFC championships in white, and they lost SB-10 in them as well. 1978 was the first year the designated "home" team for the SB could pick their jersey colors, and Dallas had the choice and they went with the white. I would have kept the blue just coming off a 28-0 beatdown on the Rams on the road to get to the SB with the blue. I thought the blue and silver was an awesome uniform color combo.
@@glennhubbard5008 The only time Dallas will wear blue is if they are on the road and the home team opts to wear their white jerseys. The only time Dallas wore blue at home in the last 40-50 years is if it was a throwback version like their original 1960 uniforms with the blue jersey and the white helmet with the blue star.
If Tom Landry beats the Steelers in the Super Bowl this year and a few other things go the Cowboys way I think Landry retires before he got fired in 88. I mean from 77 to 82 they lost a Super Bowl and 3 NFC championship games he wins the Super Bowl all those years greatest coach ever, but unfortunately he was clouded by his love for Danny White because he didn’t improvise like Staubach
I can't believe the Cowboys won wearing the blue uniforms! But they couldn't stop the Steelers in the SB. Then it would be the Rams and Steelers the next year.
The rap they gets a little unfair.The 70's Rams had a championship caliber defense, great WR's and a solid offensive line. Their weaknesses were always QB and RB. John Cappelletti, while great in college, was far from it in the NFL. Had Pat Haden been at leas 6'2 he might've very well ended his NFL career as the GOAT. But he was 5'11 and that proved to be a huge handicap for the Rams. Also letting Jawaorski go was a huge mistake. In many ways the 70's Rams actually over-performed by always getting to the brink of a title. Being weak at both QB & RB back then usually guaranteed a team an under .500 record, no matter how good the rest of the roster was.
Bethea was said to have been using drugs heavily. He was accused of arson, battery towards his wife, and stealing his mothers life savings. He was a suspect in two armed robberies before he took his own life
Between this and 1975 I still don’t what was A Bigger Nightmare for the Rams! Considering that both the 1975 and 1978 NFC Championship Games were both played in Los Angeles, Rams Fans were definitely nauseated after this game after being shut out 28-0.
I would have to imagine the '75 NFC Championship Game had to have been worse, even though the Cowboys had easily beaten the Rams when the two teams met to open the season. After all, the Rams were supposed to be in that title game, almost from the moment that season started, while the Cowboys weren't even supposed to be a factor in '75, much less get to the NFC Championship Game, and when they got there, they were basically playing with house money. On the other hand, the match-up in the '78 NFC Championship Game was almost pre-ordained before the season even started, they were that much better than everyone else in the NFC. The result, especially given that the road team won these match-ups more often than not in the post-season from 1973-'85 (DAL 3-2 in LA, LA 2-1 in DAL), was not surprising, though like in the '75 NFC Championship Game, the dimensions of the Cowboy victory could not have been foreseen.
@@cjs83172 The Cowboys seriously lucked out against the Vikings at Bloomington The Sunday before the ‘75 NFC Championship Game. The Rams should have played those Vikings in Bloomington like they did the year before. Considering that the Cowboys did hold Training Camp in Thousand Oaks during that time,, Los Angeles was definitely “A Home away from Home” for the Dallas Cowboys considering that Thousand Oaks is just outside the Los Angeles County Line. So no, playing at the Coliseum in Los Angeles never factored into anything with the Dallas Cowboys.
@@Jiltedin2007 Except for the one pass near midfield prior to the Hail Mary that the officials got wrong, I'm not sure how the Cowboys got lucky, because they were actually the better team on that day in Bloomington, MN. But when the '75 season started, they weren't even supposed to have been in the post-season to begin with, so they may have felt that, even in the game in Bloomington, they were playing with house money, because nobody even expected them to get that far, something they carried through not only that game and the NFC Championship, but also for much of the Super Bowl, and if not for the antics of Cliff Harris, both before and during that game, the Cowboys might have won the Super Bowl, because the only thing they couldn't stop was Bradshaw-to-Swann, which is what ultimately beat them.
And then I will celebrate by buying Snicker bar cutting a bunch of pieces my sister was set it up and soda and then my mom cigarettes and my mom's and my mama said give me the money I need to help sell you all of it okay
Quarterback at 58 it's not possible for him to win at five 8 because p blind guessing because you'll be in the blind song all time because you might have to fire from the line and the linebackers and lime in a real tall so you going to block his so it's like the site would have been side-to-side right-left close range and quarterback of 580 can't be that good because I honestly run out of the pocket in and get interview and then launch super fast cuz you know he's going to need that extra power because they're short receivers would have to be the type that or able to come back
@@jefflouis3113 You must be judging your statements from the Rams horrible performance in this particular championship game. The Rams during the seventies were strictly a running team as many were back in those days. Lawrence McCutcheon was the Rams Chuck Foreman and on par with him in every way. The other two you mentioned were in no way horrible. The Rams just had an uncanny knack of not showing up for the championship games much like the Vikings & Bills never showed up for the Super Bowls they were in.
@Richard Johns Bias did about 3 grams of coke that night, which is astounding amount to do, even for hard-core drugheads. Supposedly, that was the first, or one of the first times Bias indulged. How could anyone survive that snowstorm? Not even Tony Montana.
Staubach was my favorite QB of all time. He was an unbelievable competitor.
A great player and probably a little underrated.
I think that was the obvious check over the Rams, the quarterback, otherwise the teams were very close
Staunch best overall athlete slash person. Gold n everything he did. Navy NFL real estate. Wow. Preparation
Staubach is the greatest Cowboy qb ever
To this day one of the top 10 retired QBs of all time.
For today's fans, think Russell Wilson before Russell Wilson. Great in every phase, especially clutch and ran fearlessly when necessary during an era when it was legal to cleanly hit quarterbacks.
Might even go further and say Montana before Montana. Fabulous QB!
This was an interesting year for Dallas. I remember being sick after they dropped to 6-4 after back to back losses but they put it all together winning their last 6. This win against the Rams in L.A. was huge for them. Poor L.A. just couldn't beat Minnesota or Dallas in the conference championship during this decade.
The Cowboys did it in 75, got hot in the second half of the season and beat my Vikes, then the Rams only to fall short against the Steelers in the SB.
They finally did in 1979 with a 9-7 team and a 9-0 victory over the Buccaneers, who came out of nowhere.
Fortunately, after this game, and until the present, the Rams have beaten the Cowboys 4 out of 5 times in the playoffs. More to the point, Dallas has 1 total playoff victory in the last 30 years. But you are correct, the Rams had trouble in the NFC Championship games until 79'. A lot of really good teams, but not any great ones.
N@@marcomangano1898A lot of average quarterbacks and not many good ones in this time period.
Tom Landry's staff included Dan Reeves as offensive coordinator and Mike Ditka as special teams coach.
Imagine going through one of their practices. Holy cow, if you can survive that you can beat anybody!
And Ernie Stautner as their defensive coorinator
@@VolumedMusicMan ...Except the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Love those cowboy uniforms
I do too. I wish Jerry would use these as the throwbacks. But Jerry's dumb, so whatever.
@@jaylucien669 you are correct sir
Jones will never do anything associated with the Landry era. The 2 exceptions are the Thanksgiving uniforms, and the occasional visit in the owners box by Staubach.
Always liked those cowboy blue jerseys
Thomas Hollywood Henderson was one of the most athletically gifted linebackers ever.🤟✊💯
I have totally forgotten about ' Hollywood Henderson ' until the announcer mentioned his moniker...then I went, ' THAT'S RIGHT, I remember him now ' lol
Yes he was 💯%
and his book Out of Control is an awesome read too.
I was shocked that he couldn't dunk the football over the goalpost, so I take some points away
"Hollywood" Henderson went on to win $10,9 million in the Texas State Lottery in 2000
Amazing how many times the Rams were no shows in these 70's title games. Finally beat Bucs 9 0 in title game in 79.
And lose to the Steelers.
Their only chance was against Denver but they lost to the cowboys
@@clemmiebell1332 In 77 The Rams lost another awful divisional playoff game to the Vikings in the mud.
That was the worst championship game in NFL history I remember being bored with that one, no touchdowns
Roger the Dodger, Hollywood Henderson and Too Tall Jones, among others when the NFL was a man's sport.
you said it ,brother. Real men playing back then - not like now
Charlie Waters was such a great player. He tore his ACL in 1979 and was never quite the same.
He was a Good solid DB
Should be in the hall of fame 🏈🏆🥇🏅🎖️
Didn’t he tore his ACL in a pre season game?
@@mikevanriel7573 Yes
Yes, and surgical techniques back then weren't what they are today.
They should do reviews like this now days, with the music and slow motion. That's nice, And the narrator voice, is lit.
Iconic voice of Harry Kalas.
Can only be done right by the old NFL Films crew and narrators
My all time favorite, Billy Joe DuPree #89.
After Dallas lost to the Rams earlier in the 1978 season Roger Staubach said that Rams were choke artists and they will get revenge when it counted
Those Cowboy blue jerseys looked so cool. They should’ve worn them more often.
There was a superstition back then called "The Blue Jersey Jinx." Apparently they blew some big games when wearing those blues.
@@jaylucien669 Those blue cowboy jerseys’ designs were the same ones the Rams wore in the 60s.
@@jaylucien669 I remember those games..several teams would wear their white jerseys for home games because it was said Dallas won like 60% of games in the blue as opposed to 80 %+ in the whites..and the Rams actually beat Dallas in this regular season at home 27 to 10 as they applied said jinx..obviously it didn"t matter in the nfc title game..I actually love these old blues and wish they would wear them again
@@rshelley7496 27-14 in week 3
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Those blue Cowboys unis were some of the most beautiful in the history of the sport. Just perfect coordination of the color scheme.
The nameplates and serif numbers were a perfect match on the blue, too; all the way to their final showing at Philly in '80.
You know all too well we agree on that! The Cowboys' 1964-1980 Blue jerseys were fantastic!
I think they were terrible. The Cowboys would normally never wear them unless the home team forced them to which proved the Cowboys themselves hated them. The chose to wear them in Super Bowl V to break their jinx but it didn't work. I guess in hindsight they were decent but the Cowboys always look SO much better in white it's not even a discussion. Rams only wore white in both 1978 playoff games because they were trying to break their jinx wearing their blue uniforms in the playoffs (which is ridiculous - they beat the Redskins in 1974, beat the Cardinals in 1975 and beat the Cowboys in 1976 wearing blue in each of those games). Tip: the uniforms don't matter - the players do! Had they played Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XIII they would have had the choice of uniform as the "home" team. They probably would have worn white again. They had no quarterback for most of the 70's. I suppose their best QB was John Hadl in 1973 but even he couldn't beat Dallas in 1973. Their great defense and running back committee wasn't enough vs Dallas and their firepower.
@@Ram44 the playoffs against Dallas and Minnesota aren't the only times the Rams wore white jerseys at home in '78. Except for the 49ers, Steelers and Bengals, LAR wore their road jerseys at the Coliseum throughout that season. They were likely bringing back their practice in the mid-late '60s of wearing the roads at home. LAR continued this trend through '79 and into '80, their first year in Anaheim. True, players count more than uniforms, but ask a former Cowboy from the '70s-early '80s about the famous (or infamous) change.
@@Ram44 Dallas wore their blue jerseys in SB V because they were in the rotation as the designated "home" team. The "jinx" didn't have much power until Baltimore's Jim O'Brien kicked the winning FG as time expired in that game. Before then, the Cowboys' jinx was the Packers.
This would be the Cowboys' last NFC title win until 1992.
Yep the Rams would beat them the next year with a last minute long touchdown to Billy waddy .the Rams defense was too good and with 1 minute left the Cowboys could not comeback .
On May 02, 1978, the Houston Oilers drafted Earl Campbell as the #1 draft pick.
At that same 1978 NFL draft, Warren Moon remained UNDRAFTED!!!
Staubach played out the 1979 season and announced his retirement on March 31, 1980.
If they had signed Warren Moon in 1978, he would have had two seasons to learn the system.
And the Cowboys would have probably won three Super Bowls in the 80's.
@@StellarFella and they passed on Joe Montana in the 1979 draft taking Doug Cosbie instead. A good tight end but obviously a big mistake. Landry loved Danny White
@@StellarFella at least 1 .
@@haroldmccoy6748 Not in Landry's system. Had they drafted Moon he most likely wouldn't have gotten his shot until '83 or '84.
If Hollywood Henderson kept away from COKE he would have made it to the Hall of Fame...
Facts:Dude could've been one of the best ever.
Easily
@@Coolgt_1 I would say he was
Thomas Henderson best linebacker in Cowboy history...running back in high school and ran track at Langston Univ
May he rest in peace. Biggest play man in big games but best lb no Lee Roy Jordan chuck howley would argue
@@richardgarrahy1238 Thomas Henderson is still living
Hey Rich Bob Brunig and D.D Lewis as well
No way that Henderson is the best linebacker in Cowboy history...
Wish we had the class that we had then
R.I.P. Larry Bethea...
R.I.P. Ray Malavasi...
DREW PEARSON IS GOING TO THE HALL OF FAME!
Cliff Branch remains MUCH MORE DESERVING than Drew Pearson!
He got there in January 2021 on Super Bowl weekend
@@michaelleroy9281 Is that so, Captain Obvious?
A rare win by Dallas in a big game with those blue uniforms
To this day their only one in the playoffs.
Great videos as usual, I'm waiting for 1978 Steelers/ Oilers AFC Championship Game.
Thanks for bringing us the best era of Football.
Sorry, but I don't have that GOTW highlight film.
No worries, thanks for responding and your great channel.🏈
Is that the one where the Oiler TD was taken away by the referee in a tight game
@@breakmylegs7294No,that overrated renfro ,no TD catch call moment occurred in the proceeding 1979 conference championship game. The 1978 oilers vs Steelers conference championship game was the inclement weather, freezing lite rain ,ice , contest that Pittsburgh won 34 -5 . The renfro controversial call is overrated because it occurred in the third qtr ,the oilers had the entire 4 qtr to put up more points ,and if the renfro debatable end zone catch would have been permitted ,it only Tues the contest up . The Steelers hadn't allowed the oilers a single offensive TD in either conference championship game, the oilers a only TD in the controversial renfro conference championship game came from a defensive int return for a TD ,the oilers didn't score another point the remainder of the game ,zero , nothing ,while the Steelers scored 10 additional points , meaning the Steelers still would have won, and by a double digits margin . There is also a above camera shot of renfro actually juggling the ball as he cascaded out of bounds ,thus under the circumstances,not in inconceivable for the refs to not grant the oilers a TD . This same Steelers team who overcame a SB deficit vs the rams in this seasons SB 14 ,as well as it's previous two SB victories,a team who's roster harbored 5 hofers ,a top 10 all time head coach ,and people irrationally think the Steelers were going to become unraveled in a home conference championship game vs a adversary they defeated in this same game ,the previous year . The renfro non TD catch call is the most overrated post season controversy in NFL history. Even the oilers headcoach bum Philips and QB Dan Pastorini admitted ,the call didn't impact the games outcome .
These NFL Films pieces are awesome...keep them coming, and where/how did you get all these.? This was the first season I remember as a kid. Fond memories.
@2:35....that's a catch! Hall of Famer Drew Pearson got that second foot down. But officials weren't used to seeing anyone do that back then. It's weird. Officials used to give receivers the benefit of the doubt when they were running out of bounds to catch the ball, only to get one foot down. But then they'd miss great catches like these, where the WR drags his toe.
Not sure he got both feet down but it looks like the line judge made up his mind really fast which is what they were taught to do back then. These days, they would have thought about it for a second or two. Preston Pearson caught a TD pass in the 76 Championship game that was ruled a catch but the ball clearly hit the ground and they ruled it a catch instantly. Same with the Butch Johnson TD catch in SB 12. That wasn’t a catch. Not even close. Even the commentators wouldn’t question the refs. Lol. Different times for sure.
Soooo Glad for Drew making the HOF he is one of the best considering the defenses he was catching the ball against he is a true pro legend and should have been in the HOF a long time ago !!
Man that team was great amazing
Harry Kalas on the narration - so damn classic
Cowboys were in the playoffs ever year except 1974, in the 70's. Powerhouse back then, I'm learning.
Very powerful
They only missed the playoffs twice from 1966-1985. 20 straight winning seasons, which is an NFL record that'll probably never be broken.
@@jaylucien669 even though those 2 years they missed were still winning seasons
Only NFC team to win a Super Bowl in the 1970s here's the rundown 7 conference championship games 5 Super Bowls 2 wins .hope you learned a little bit more.
@@jaylucien669 I think Tom Brady and the New England Patriots beat that record
The music. Man!
John Facenda and Sam Spence who composed this music in this era should be honarary HOF
John Facenda the voice of god
Harry Kallas the voice of the people
Yes
Dang I remember my 4th grade friends and I were all in for the Steelers this season. Cowboys were cool too. Awesome year. Kick ass superbowl. The drop lol
Love these uniforms rams and cowboys
The greatest coach quarterback duo ever
Ferragamo should have started the game. He gets his revenge in the next year's playoffs.
Yep, the 79 Rams vs. Cowboys NFC Divisional Playoffs clash was the one that ultimately got the Rams a berth in SB XIV.
In 1980 The Cowboys returned the favor again
@@jonathanstern5950 Yes I know. However, that comment would be more appropriate on the 1979 highlights.
Haden, Hadl, Harris, underwhelming quarterback play all decade wasted a wonderful nucleus of players. A quarterback and maybe a coach away every year till 79
@@kennethcollins6494 Very true. Never had a QB as good as their defense. That's why they couldn't beat Minnesota or Dallas in the playoffs except for 1979.
I remember watching several cowboys/rams playoff & reg season games in the 70’s. The road team won in their series then
Rams finally vanquished their playoff nemesis Vikings only to lay an egg against the Cowboys with a Super Bowl berth on the line.
the music is soooo good
The 2nd Waters INT at 12:34 would've been taken away in today's game because Randy White would've been called for roughing the passer.
in todays game they would throw a flag on randy white for just walking on the field
@@beercanman5535 lol
First NFL game ever watched...wow.
Charlie Waters was torched early in his career in the playoffs as a cornerback. After he moved to strong safety, he had some huge games in the playoffs. Deserves to be in the HOF with his teammate Cliff Harris.
Agreed! Damn shame he's not in the Cowboy's ring of honor. He along with Reeves, Too Tall and Harvey Martin should all be in that ring. I don't expect that idiot owner to do anything that honorable though.
He was willing to play to out of position for the sake of the team. That's why he was Tom Landry's favorite, if, indeed, he had any.
Waters should be in the HOF. While he did not have a long career as a S, he made up for it with consistency and more so, with huge plays in the playoffs. He retired with more playoff INTs than anyone.
Harris, on the other hand, was a joke. A player who hid behind his front seven, got burned and run over repeatedly, was a cheap shot artist and should never have been put on any All-Decade Team and has no business being in the HOF.
He was the FS
The Dallas Cowboys blew the Rams out, 28-0 in this one, just like three years earlier when as a wild card playoff team, they crushed the Rams in LA by a 37-7 score to advance and play the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl.
Deja Vu.
I believe both these years 75 n 78 the Rams took care of d Steelers but couldn't get over the hump. Followed dis team since 67.
@@gordonreed2736 Pittsburgh took care of the Rams in SB 14 ,same results.a double digits victory would have taken place if the Steelers had played the Rams inthe SB in 75 and 78 . The 1975 Steelers regular season loses and was the last game of season when the Steelers had already.locked up too seed inthe conference ,they entered the game with only 1 loss , both loses were in LA and both were razor think loses .In 78 the Steelers were going through a 5 game slump when they played the Rams despite only having one loss during that period they were underperforming ,literally barely winning ,having to salvage a victory at the final moments of those games before turning up the juice psychologically inthe seasons final 5 games .The Rams lethargic offenses playing in LA in 75,78,79 ,never scored 20 points on Pittsburgh , the mediocre Rams QB's and the coaching staffs ultra conservative offensive scheme wasn't going to dent the Steeler curtain defense ,while the Steelers big game,big play offense as typical would have produced 20 plus points .With revenge motivation from.the regular season losses to spur them on , historically the Steelers crush post season teams they harbored angst for who defeated them in regular season or a previous post season during the 70's ,the Dolphins ,Raiders, and Broncos felt the crushing weight of the Steelers because of this . The Steelers off/def schematically and SB experience wise were a bad SB matchup for the 75,78 Rams ,who barely scored against the cowboys in 75 and got shutout in78 . Again remember the Steelers did win SB 14 by 11 in LA ,that Steelers SB team was unfortunately for us Steelers fans in it's final leg as a championship team in that SB ,they were running on fumes ,obsorbed the Rams best shots ,and still walked them down ,the 75 and 78 Steelers would obliterate the Rams in a SB ,extra motivation to prove the reg season loss was a aberration meaning a double digits win would have been a must psychologically for them , something they achieved several times before .
@@haroldmccoy6748 nice history reminders Harold. But the Steelers were a one loss team in 78 game at that time. The 79 Super Bowl hinged on a Nolan Cromwell dropped pic 6. I believe it was 19-13 at the time too.
@@gordonreed2736 19-17. However, Ferragammo's INT late was killer, especially since, as the famous quote by the Rams assistant coach said, "Waddy was wide open, Ray. Waddy was wide open Ray, on the post." A TD there puts the Rams up 26-24 with 5 minutes to go. Who knows if Bradshaw throws another pick and we have an upset of Namath proportions.
People overlook the Cowboys, Colts superbowl that Craig Morton cost the Cowboys with two 4th qtr interceptions (Volk, which tied and Curtis, which lost), when probably every Dallas fan knew Staubach should have already been full-time starter, forcing stubborn Landry to finally, though too late understanding that. Morton did atone when his quarterback play was instrumental in greatly helping the Cowboys to their victory over Denver a few years later. Thankfully, he was playing for the Broncos at the time.
in the colts super bowl the cowboys fumble by thomas on the goal that WAS recovered by the cowboys but given to the colts cost the cowboys the game
@@beercanman5535 Of course, something like that can be blamed as well as an interception, and not one single play is solely the cost, but fumbles happen as do interceptions all the time. My point is twofold.
First, the ball is in QBs hand.
There are excusable ints. & inexcusable ones. Two poor
high (one real hugh) even if deflected throws at such key moments were typical of Morton, when., if ur old enuf to recall Cowboy fans were calling for Staubach from the beginning and Landry, with his alternating, and refusal to submit to Staubachs style and stubbornness was plain bad coaching. (George Allen would stubbornly cost his team a title, insisting on playing Billy Killmer instead of all time great Sonny Jorgensen in the Miami unbeaten season). Landry by didn't have confidence in Staubach and paid for it.
Morton, in the Denver, Cowboy SB was even worse, but 2 horrible 4th qtr SB clutch passes was more a reason than any fumble, which simply happened at at a bad time. That's what's great about sports tho. It's being debated five decades later.
Typo - JURGENSEN, not JOR
@@glpm7180 i knew exactly who you meant
@@glpm7180 Sonny Jurgenson tore his Achilles’ tendon. That’s why he didn’t play in Super Bowl VII
Great uniform game by both teams
Now if we can get a good long version of 78 AFC title game. Strange how that one is so much harder to find. The 79 game is everywhere
79 is famous because of the Mike Renfro play.
So, that would lead to many people having an interest in that game.
78 was a brutal one-sided beating.
Wet, freezing cold, just awful game to look at, unless you were waving that Terrible Towel
This music reminds me of Sunday Morning with Charles Karrault
The Rams beat the Cowboys in L.A. earlier in the year and I believe they were favored coming into this one. Both Pat Haden (11) and John Cappelletti (22) were knocked out of the game by Randy White (54) who had a whale of a game. 71,000 in the Coliseum that day.
The Cowboys were 4 point favorites, largely because they had more talent.
@@exchequerguy4037 including the Manster!
Tom Mack HOF had a tough time. His last game. Next year Kent Hill took care of business. Also d line that got Dickerson 2k and 248 in Anaheim right up the masters butt.
@@gordonreed2736 true. Tough way for a great player like Mack to end his career. Yes, Eric Dickerson really stuck it to Dallas in what became Tom Landry's last playoff game.
Lots of great players n coaches ended their careers at the hands of their great rivals. Tarkenton lost d week before n L.A. A guest for d Rams beating d vikes finally.
When I re-watched the broadcast of this game a few years ago, I couldn't believe how well the Rams played, dominating most of the game in so many facets and yet still lost 28-0....it's one of the most deceiving final scores I've ever seen.
Absolutely, quarterback was where the Cowboys had the check, otherwise the teams were very close
I wouldn't say dominated, Doomsday played just as good or better.
The Rams put up 34 on a great Vikings D the prior week.
Cowboys had some miscues too, note the Laidlaw td fumble early
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No doubt, without the score on the screen the whole time, you would think it was a really close game.
Twice in the 70s Dallas and the los Angeles Rams met in the NFC Championship at the memorial coliseum however Dallas won both times in 1975 & 1978
At least the Rams got some payback when they went into Dallas in the '76 and '79 playoffs and beat Dallas both times as an underdog on the road. In fact, the Cowboys and the Rams met in the playoffs 5 times between 1973 and 1979, Dallas winning 3 times and the Rams winning twice. Of the 5 playoff games between the two, the only time the Rams were favored was in 1975, where they got completely demolished by Dallas in LA, when Dallas jumped all over them with a 21-0 lead in the second quarter and cruised to a 37-7 win. Dallas had 441 yards of offense while the Rams only managed 118 yards and just 9 first downs the entire game. Ironically, the Rams, who went an impressive 66-19-1 between 1973 and 1978, didn't win the NFC until 1979, with a 9-7 team that wasn't expected to do much, and ended up giving the powerhouse Steelers a heck of a battle in SuperBowl 14 that year before coming up a little short.
Remember that year Dallas blew us out Sunday night. Was at a youth meeting. The Rams got all their dudes back from injury n put it together. They lack a big play n these losses. Dallas n Minn. Got them instead
@@jackprecip5389 If Dallas won that game in 1976 do the Vikings beat the Cowboys cause that hail Mary will linger in their minds
@@juliansmith4352 hey Dallas always played Minnesota well up there. Would have been tight though. Big play qbs
Don Meredith used to say a prevent defense prevents you from winning.
I can imagine that u have the 1978 AFC Championship Oilers at Steelers from Three Rivers Stadium NFL GOTW.
I still Love my Rams even though they lost. Turnovers hurt us a lot.
They always do!
THIS WAS THE YEAR I BECAME A LOS ANGELES RAMS FAN.
Its amazing how bad Haden was, feel bad for rest of team
It really did used to be a 50/50 battle between Defense & Offense.
I’m still ok with some of the progression that gave the offense a little bit of a boost ( 80s football maybe even into mid 90s ) but what they have had for a good while now in the NFL , with the Offense having all of the advantages ... it’s irreparably damaged the game.
The 4000 yard passing season is now something that “middle of the road” QBs regularly surpass.
In 2020 Twelve QBs passed for 4000+ yards and Two more were at 3950 plus.
Top 5 QBs TD - INT differential
33-7
38-6
40-12
26-11
37-10
6th ( a rookie Herbert ) 31-10
7th 48-5
The differential doesn’t go downhill from there either.
Imo stats are important to NFL history .... so now all of these guys (Bradshaw, Staubach, Griese etc) are all “scrubs” stat wise & this even includes guys like Elway, Kelly, & even Marino ... lots of contemporary QBs are “Crushing” Marino’s career numbers.
Brees has 20k more passing yards than Marino & 150 more TDS.
For comparison Bob Griese has 25k passing yards and 190 TDs - TOTAL-
So the gap between Brees & Marino is basically all of Bob Griese’s HOF & 8x pro bowl career.
KURT WARNERS “Greatest Show on Turf” season
4300 yds 41 TD 13 int
Derek Carr 2020 - 4100 yds 27-9 td to int
Russell Wilson 2020 - 4200 yds 40-13 td to int
In 2020 Drew Lock & Carson Wentz led the league with 15 INTS
In 1978 only 5 QBs surpassed 3000 yds passing ( compared to 14 being 3950+ in 2020 ).
Fran Tarkington led league with 3468 yards.
In 1978 15 ints was the 24th most in the league
Brian Sipe & Joe Ferguson had 15 each.
Fran Tarkenton led league with 32 & Ken Stabler had 30. 8 more QBs had more than 20.
It’s very stupid now.
One thing will be interesting to see play out .... the question of “Did Jerry Rice make his numbers uncatchable” it seems he knew exactly how far he was going to have to push them to have a chance & did his best.
1549 Rec
22895 yards
197 TDs
I agree. The inflation of stats has ruined the history of the game. It's like the arena football league now.
When there is no history, the game will fade.
I agree 100% . Add in the potential additional extra regular season game and the continous liberals proliferation of rule changes meant to attract millennial novices who don't care about the authentic fundamental tradition of the game but rather high volume video game offensive stats all to bring in more endorsement revenue and a yearning by the league office to delpoy more NFL games into other countries , implemented by the optic of PlayStation offensive numbers to attract the nfl history lacking millennials and other countries to this brand of bad, biased exclusively on the behalf of the offense football which eliminates the narrative of equal application of fair play in terms of rules and regulations for the defense is literally helpless . Holding a opponent to 20 points today is considered great defense , a team can actually achieve getting a TD if they have to travel 80 yds with less then a minute in a game and no timeouts because defenses are now severly limited in how they can execute they're game plan, you can't hit a defenseless receiver , even if the receiver ducks his head to cushion the hit impact of a defenders blow which naturally a tackler is going to make some head contact because of this dynamic ,he's penalized for a helmet to helmet collision , a defender is comically penalized for falling on a QB on a sack ,defenders have actually injured themselves attempted to not fall on the QB by anding awkwardly .Wr's can push off with little penalty infractions which is the only all reason teams are enamored with huge Wr's moreso then any other time in NFL history ,but the mere second a already limited by the liberalism NFL rules the defensive back makes contact to protect his position on the area of the field ( to the millennial fans , by nfl rules a defender is suppose to have the same amount of right to a field space as the offensive player ) he's whistled for pass interference ,it's gotten so bad that after a great defensive play the defense the captive audience holds there collective breaths anticipating a defensive penalty negating the play ,or spoiled wr's throwing they're hands in the air in protest whenever a defensive back makes a good coverage play ,it's literally bad football to watch if your a fundamentalist ,ole school ,enjoy the intrinsical fundamentals ,coaching accumen ,chess match of wits, intestinal fortitude ,and observing elite talent supercede schemes and yes physical abuse meant to derail them ie 1973 OJ SIMPSON .It can also be applied to defensive players 1971 AlanPaige ,this new format dosent constitute a elite level of performance in terms of offense because all of the rules mandate at minimum low calory stats to still register as a pro bowlesque level . It's not generational bias towards this brand for various new rules introduced have certainly improved the quality of the NFL brand , but the over saturation of meh give the offense all of the advantages have objectively speaking completely destroyed the complete dynamic of coaching , physicality , intestinal fortitude, on all sides of the field . The Hof conversation inthe next 10 years will be for obsurd number guys in a tainted fraudulent offensive rules beneficial league ,the all time leading wr and passer eventually be by dudes who were never great but had longevity .
Unqualified agreement!!! And the primary beneficiary of this structural change - Tom Brady.
The league has definitely turned into flag football. Maybe they should take away the mel blount rule to help defenses. Since they can’t tackle anyone wihout getting penalized
Yet the better defense silenced the best offense in the NFL.
I remember Hayden's injury & didn't realize Faragamo would eventually be the QB
Another one in the 70s that just drove us Rams fans crazy. Atleast we got them back in 79
Cowboys won in Metallic blues which won't help them two years later in Philly.
There was a belief that when Dallas wear their away blue jerseys they lose. Because Dallas's dark jerseys were their away jerseys, and almost all nfl teams home jerseys were also their dark jerseys the Cowboys early had to wear the dark jerseys.
n the 1980 NFC championship game in philadelphia the Eagles wore their away jerseys so the Cowboys would have to wear their blue away jerseys.
And it works Eagles rolled the cowboys.
I believe the Redskins did the same thing to Dallas in a home playoff game in the early 1980's. This just reenforced the belief
@@JRodInc3 I've never bought into that. The Eagles beat the Cowboys because they beat them up. The Redskins beat the Cowboys two years later because the Hogs, John Riggins and Dexter Manley kicked their ass. BTW, sandwiched in between, the 49ers let Dallas wear their white jerseys and STILL beat them. The better team always wins.
@@JRodInc3 There is no such thing as a home or away jerseys in 1964, the NFL allowed teams to wear white at home if they want to
@@JRodInc3 I've heard Tom Landry say this it's no big deal they're work clothes
They're not metallic blue they are royal blue, metallic blue are the pants
This was my most favorite Dallas Cowboy victory of all time because they won and won big against the Los Angeles Rams in the 1978-79 NFC Championship game on the road in the LA Coliseum and avenged an early regular season 27-13 road loss to the Rams in the very same LA Coliseum. And they did it wearing their alleged and so called jinxed and cursed blue road jerseys. I bet if the Cowboys had worn their blue jerseys against the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl 13 that they would have won that football game. I have no logical or scientific basis for that statement other than wistful longing, wishful thinking along with coulda-shoulda-woulda and if only. If only the Cowboy defense had managed to tackle John Stallworth instead of him scoring a touchdown or if Jackie Smith had been able to catch that pass from Roger Staubach to score a touchdown and keep up with the Steelers in Suoer Bowl 13. I absolutely loved those road blue jerseys which Dallas wore from 1964 through 1980. I have always liked them better than the road blue jerseys the Cowboys began wearing in 1981.
In Superbowl 13 they ran out of time. Also they had the wrong game plan on both offense and defense. Also Staubach was really off in the first h alf
My goodness. I can believe its been it's been like 40 years ago. I was at that game. My friend worked for the NFL and got me in on the forty yard line. Miss those times.
Not to make you feel older brother but that was 44 yrs ago!
@@brucep9729 Now I feel even older. Ha, ha. Thank's bro.
This game disproves the silly blue uniform jinx, no?
Well, anyway, Dallas will be wearing their other jerseys in the Super Bowl, so they won't have to worry about jinxed occurrences such as dropping a wide open TD pass in the end zone. 👍
Not really, they haven't won a big game with those unis on since
@@andrewpestotnik5495 The last time Dallas wore blue in a playoff game was in the 82 nfc hampionship game.
Cowboys haven't been to the playoffs much in this century,
so they haven't had much opportunity to have some other team were their road unis, and force the Cowboys into their blue.
@@backtothefiveanddime8629 That's because Washington was doing the same thing as Dallas wearing white at home which was a Joe Gibbs thing when he got there the year before
@@andrewpestotnik5495 2022 season the Cowboys won a playoff game at Tampa Bay in the blue jerseys
@@michaelleroy9281 up, only the second time in their franchise history. Other time was the 1978 NFCCG
If you're weak at the quarterback position, not even an outstanding defense will enable you to defeat a powerhouse team like Dallas.
Playoffs are different. Peaking is prime. As Rams with Haden blew the boys out earlier. Now the boys came back in our back yard. Got them back next year n a virtual role reversal. Same n 80 and 83. Crazy fun series.
@@gordonreed2736 In fact, from 1973-'85, these two teams would meet eight times in the post-season, and believe it or not, the visiting team won more than it lost, regardless of where the games were played. The Rams won three of the five played in Dallas while the Cowboys took two of the three played in Los Angeles, with both victories coming in NFC Championship Game match-ups.
@@cjs83172 so true good man. A crazy series. U remember coach Landry getting a threat at a Monday night game n Anaheim. Apologies. U guys won. Always won d 1st game.
@@gordonreed2736 1980 playoffs was not a virtual role reversal. Ferragamo was a HUGE upgrade over Haden.
Not necessarily. Jeff Hostetler was pretty weak and NYG stopped the 49ers three-peat in 1990.
Speaking of weak NYG QBs, Eli went through Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers to beat Tom Brady '07 & '11. Right?
Wonder what was with the exposure or the film speed on all the shots after the sun went down. I know the lights in that stadium used to be really bad but the Coliseum looks about as dark as my closet.
It was also dark on the CBS broadcast. Blame the Coliseum, old even then
Very North Dallas Forty-like, for sure.
I was there kickoff at 130 p 3rd quarter became a nite game 1st week in January 1979 similar to the rose bowl game time of day
The blues weren't a jinx this game.
Who would have known a Rhodes Scholar would be so terrible. Ferragamo would have taken them to the Super Bowl; which he did the following season.
I was 13- Preston Pearson catch -amazing- would now a day would be overturned.
Think Fred Dryer (Hunter) was on this Ram team.
Was not expecting the Bonnie Blue Flag at the beginning…
It reflected the year of doomsday two plus captain comeback
Roger Staubach and also the man that wore the funny hat
Tom Landry. It was a big game, the Rams never had a chance.
It was scoreless at the half, so it definitely was up for grabs for a long while. But for me, it was Tony's 53 yard breakaway gain after that huge turnover. He didn't score, but it really deflated the Rams. This was definitely their greatest win ever in those dreaded blue jerseys.
@@williamparker9817 The Cowboys beat the Rams 28 to 0, Hollywood
Henderson had big game with an
touchdown off an interception.
When football WAS FOOTBALL. 😊
How did Pat Haden stick around so long?
The fact that the Rams coaches refused to give their QB a moving pocket was a crime.
Dallas go to the SB that season but lost against Pitt
I remember back then people used to say the blue jerseys were unlucky for Dallas.
Never knew why. OK they lost SB-5 wearing them but they lost the '66 and '67 NFL championship games in the whites, they lost the '72 and '73 NFC championships in white, and they lost SB-10 in them as well. 1978 was the first year the designated "home" team for the SB could pick their jersey colors, and Dallas had the choice and they went with the white. I would have kept the blue just coming off a 28-0 beatdown on the Rams on the road to get to the SB with the blue. I thought the blue and silver was an awesome uniform color combo.
@@jacktheripoff1888 I agree on the color. I think they only wear white now. I didn't know that track record with the blue jerseys. Very interesting.
@@glennhubbard5008 The only time Dallas will wear blue is if they are on the road and the home team opts to wear their white jerseys. The only time Dallas wore blue at home in the last 40-50 years is if it was a throwback version like their original 1960 uniforms with the blue jersey and the white helmet with the blue star.
@@jacktheripoff1888 I've always felt the rule should be hard and fast that the home team must wear the solid color jerseys.
How bout them Cowboys
I was at that game. The rams were just out played.
Cowboys won a big game with those jinxed royal blue unis?
If Tom Landry beats the Steelers in the Super Bowl this year and a few other things go the Cowboys way I think Landry retires before he got fired in 88. I mean from 77 to 82 they lost a Super Bowl and 3 NFC championship games he wins the Super Bowl all those years greatest coach ever, but unfortunately he was clouded by his love for Danny White because he didn’t improvise like Staubach
Haden was 5 foot 9
Hayden was a good quarterback, but he was in at the height of the nfl and back then u could maul the QB
Haden soooooooo short small hands sad Cowboys too good .
The Cowboys won a big game in the.blue.jerseys so much.for.the.jinx
Congrats, 1 time. Almost every other time they lost.
I can't believe the Cowboys won wearing the blue uniforms! But they couldn't stop the Steelers in the SB. Then it would be the Rams and Steelers the next year.
Only playoff win in blue.
Staubach was way off his game and the Cowboys still won by four touchdowns.
It takes more than a week to fully recover from a concussion.
This was Staubach last playoff win. Lose to the Steelers in the Super Bowl then lose to the Rams the following season his was his last
HARRY KALAS =)
Because he could have said I want the defensive and the put it right on the
Both the Cowboys and Steelers won their conference championships by about the same margin. The difference was the Steelers led by 28 by halftime.
You are wrong Pittsburgh won by 29. Final score Steelers 34 Oilers 5
The 1970s Rams were chokers, and they hated their own fans for saying so.
The rap they gets a little unfair.The 70's Rams had a championship caliber defense, great WR's and a solid offensive line. Their weaknesses were always QB and RB. John Cappelletti, while great in college, was far from it in the NFL. Had Pat Haden been at leas 6'2 he might've very well ended his NFL career as the GOAT. But he was 5'11 and that proved to be a huge handicap for the Rams. Also letting Jawaorski go was a huge mistake. In many ways the 70's Rams actually over-performed by always getting to the brink of a title. Being weak at both QB & RB back then usually guaranteed a team an under .500 record, no matter how good the rest of the roster was.
I want you to slide sideways hit the receivers
That Cowboy player at the very end of this video was Larry Bethea he committed suicide I still haven't found out why he would do such a thing.
Bethea was said to have been using drugs heavily. He was accused of arson, battery towards his wife, and stealing his mothers life savings. He was a suspect in two armed robberies before he took his own life
The cops were chasing him after some bank robberies , he retired after 1983 he went through tough times after that
Shame Malavasi didnt' have enough sense to start Ferragamo
Between this and 1975 I still don’t what was A Bigger Nightmare for the Rams!
Considering that both the 1975 and 1978 NFC Championship Games were both played in Los Angeles, Rams Fans were definitely nauseated after this game after being shut out 28-0.
The Cowboys outscored the Rams, 65-7, in both games. Wow.
Don't forget the 69 playoff bowl if that counts. Rams 31 boys 0. Roman Gabriel
I would have to imagine the '75 NFC Championship Game had to have been worse, even though the Cowboys had easily beaten the Rams when the two teams met to open the season. After all, the Rams were supposed to be in that title game, almost from the moment that season started, while the Cowboys weren't even supposed to be a factor in '75, much less get to the NFC Championship Game, and when they got there, they were basically playing with house money.
On the other hand, the match-up in the '78 NFC Championship Game was almost pre-ordained before the season even started, they were that much better than everyone else in the NFC. The result, especially given that the road team won these match-ups more often than not in the post-season from 1973-'85 (DAL 3-2 in LA, LA 2-1 in DAL), was not surprising, though like in the '75 NFC Championship Game, the dimensions of the Cowboy victory could not have been foreseen.
@@cjs83172
The Cowboys seriously lucked out against the Vikings at Bloomington The Sunday before the ‘75 NFC Championship Game. The Rams should have played those Vikings in Bloomington like they did the year before. Considering that the Cowboys did hold Training Camp in Thousand Oaks during that time,, Los Angeles was definitely “A Home away from Home” for the Dallas Cowboys considering that Thousand Oaks is just outside the Los Angeles County Line. So no, playing at the Coliseum in Los Angeles never factored into anything with the Dallas Cowboys.
@@Jiltedin2007 Except for the one pass near midfield prior to the Hail Mary that the officials got wrong, I'm not sure how the Cowboys got lucky, because they were actually the better team on that day in Bloomington, MN. But when the '75 season started, they weren't even supposed to have been in the post-season to begin with, so they may have felt that, even in the game in Bloomington, they were playing with house money, because nobody even expected them to get that far, something they carried through not only that game and the NFC Championship, but also for much of the Super Bowl, and if not for the antics of Cliff Harris, both before and during that game, the Cowboys might have won the Super Bowl, because the only thing they couldn't stop was Bradshaw-to-Swann, which is what ultimately beat them.
Drew had two feet down at 2:38
And then I will celebrate by buying Snicker bar cutting a bunch of pieces my sister was set it up and soda and then my mom cigarettes and my mom's and my mama said give me the money I need to help sell you all of it okay
Quarterback at 58 it's not possible for him to win at five 8 because p blind guessing because you'll be in the blind song all time because you might have to fire from the line and the linebackers and lime in a real tall so you going to block his so it's like the site would have been side-to-side right-left close range and quarterback of 580 can't be that good because I honestly run out of the pocket in and get interview and then launch super fast cuz you know he's going to need that extra power because they're short receivers would have to be the type that or able to come back
The Rams running backs were really weak in these years, at least before Tyler
@Matt Joseph I forgot about him but Bryant and Cappelletti were horrible
@@jefflouis3113 You must be judging your statements from the Rams horrible performance in this particular championship game. The Rams during the seventies were strictly a running team as many were back in those days. Lawrence McCutcheon was the Rams Chuck Foreman and on par with him in every way. The other two you mentioned were in no way horrible. The Rams just had an uncanny knack of not showing up for the championship games much like the Vikings & Bills never showed up for the Super Bowls they were in.
@@catonthemoon2084 yeah I was confused by Jeffs post. The Rams were always near the top of the league in rushing during those years
I mean Dallas got Dallas very lucky that he has to take out the quarterback
My Rams choked away many, many, many chances.
Broke through in '79 beat the Cowboys and Bucs on the road to make their first Super Bowl.
@Ricky Cole When they didn't have their best team they had alot of injuries and were only 9 -7 on the season
I felt like we should have beat Pittsburgh that super bowl let got got away two many turnovers
Back in the day when there was more than one white running back in the league
"Hollywood" was such an ass...reminds me of Richard Sherman & Jalen Ramsey...
Roger fixed him up later in the real world. Helped him out.
@@gordonreed2736 I admit that Henderson DID change & has helped others using his own past experiences.
Hollywood was such a waste of talent. Had he stayed away from coke and not run his mouth, he could have had a hall of fame career.
@Richard Johns didn't he win the lottery twice?
@Richard Johns Bias did about 3 grams of coke that night, which is astounding amount to do, even for hard-core drugheads.
Supposedly, that was the first, or one of the first times Bias indulged.
How could anyone survive that snowstorm?
Not even Tony Montana.