The STRANGEST CONTROVERSY of the 1979 NFL Playoffs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2023
- Imagine the NFL telling a team in the playoff hunt that they likely have no shot at making the playoffs. Well, in 1979, that's exactly what happened with the New Orleans Saints, as despite the fact that the Saints were literally leading the division, they were barred from doing something that every other playoff contender was allowed and mandated to do
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6:04 Dang, that interception was Favre-like!😄
You understated the futility of Saints' history to that point. No playoffs. No winning seasons. Not even a .500 season. Not a single win ever on Monday Night Football. That Raiders game was deflating for more reasons than you'd think. This team finished 8-8, but this included 4 games we'd choked away, so 12-4 was in no way unrealistic. This was the team Hank Stram had built, but he was fired by the worst owner in NFL history before he had a chance to see things through.
You mean 12-4.
And, while I respect dearly Coach Stram, losing to the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers sealed his fate.
Although, Archie being hurt didn't help Stram.
@@vernonrobinson1685 yes, 12-4 - thanks!
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the Saints first playoff win against the Rams in 2000.
Just watched that earlier today lol
@@vp_wrld What do you think would've happened had Az Hakim not muffed that punt?
@@bbigjohnson069 The Saints would've obviously completed the biggest playoff choke job ever at that time.
@@DolFan316You're probably correct. Houston led Buffalo 35-3 but that was in the 3rdQ. Saints were up 31-7 part way into the 4thQ. The Bills mountain was bigger but it wasn't getting dark yet. The sun was going down on the Rams. I was a big Rams fan until they moved to St. Louis. I had season tix for 9 years. Then came Kurt Warner. And how could you not like Kurt Warner? Dude's making $5.50/hr working graveyard at HyVee Market. We can all relate to that. That team racked up yards and points like a pinball machine. Yeah the Saints up 31-7 were now reeling 31-28. If the Rams can just hold them and get the ball back with 1-2 mins. they can tie it or win it. They can't be stopped. The defense holds. This is going to be great finish. All right get a good punt re t t t t wwwwhat he ffffumm NOOOOAAAHH! That's not how that game was supposed to end. The Ram offense was supposed to get the ball and they either tie it and it's OT, win it or they don't. But for God's sake everyone on the planet outside of NO wanted to see what would've happened.
@@bbigjohnson069 I actually couldn't stand the '99-01 Rams, but even I considered that Saints win to be tainted and knew they got lucky. Yes I admit it, I was that guy who didn't like Kurt Warner. His backstory seemed cheesy and contrived even by Hollywood move standards, not to mention the statement it made about a college graduate who couldn't get a better job than grocery stocker. And something about his wife got on my nerves too. But yeah, that offense for 3 years was something else. I thought the Dan Fouts Chargers were as good as it got in the early '80s but the '99-01 Rams were better IMO.
Love that backdrop you've got, man! Great channel!
And one year later, this same Saints team was on their way to 0-16 before somehow finding a way to beat the Jets in a game at Shea Stadium that even though it was a sellout, WCBS-TV (Channel 2) in New York refused to televise (instead airing a Cardinals-Eagles game) that led to that game only airing in New Orleans. Such a situation I believe was never allowed again.
I'd love to see JG do a video on this situation that happened December 14, 1980, the Sunday after John Lennon was killed.
Even if the Saints made the playoffs in 1979, their record may not have been good enough to host a playoff game. Same thing if they won the NFC West. Back then, division winners were not guaranteed to host a playoff game. They wouldn’t get this distinction until 1990.
Yep. In 79 the Rams won the division but had to play on the road at Dallas and Tampa Bay.
The way the playoff structure worked in the 5 teams per conference era (78-89) was the 3 division winners got a bye and the winner of the wild card game would face the #1 seed in the divisional round while the #2 and #3 division winners faced off.
The exception to this rule would be in the Wild Card game winner and the #1 seed were in the same division; then the WC winner would face the #2 seed.
With only 3 divisions, the lowest division winner played at the second division winner on the road by that point. Seeding started in 1975.
I am a Dolphins Fan and in 1979 the Dolphins won the AFC East title but because Pittsburgh and San Diego the other division champions had better records Miami had to wait for the Denver- Houston wildcard game to see whether they would go to San Diego or Pittsburgh in the playoff game the next week. Houston defeated Denver 13-7 which set the Dolphins up for a painful cold 34-14 loss at Pittsburgh in the playoffs the following week so @americanidol30 you are spot on about division champions then not automatically hosting playoff games.
Damn, how many times was Joe Theismann sacked in that game? Every other clip seemed to be him getting sacked.
It was 7 in fact.
The 1979 Saints, on the cusp of the playoffs, reverted back to the Aints the following season going 1-15 and were 1 point away from going 0-16.
And then the Aints and the paper bags came only one year later...
Pete Rozelle: I'm not about to fork out money for these choking sacks of crap!
Aints were still 8 years from their first playoff in '79. hope aints fans had the paper bags ready for the finish to that season.
You need to do a dumb decisions video on Tom Flores not kicking a chip shot FG in 1986 at the 16 yard line in overtime which led to Marcus Allen’s fumble
Great job!
And one year later… the became A’ints
Rozelle knew Saints would choke . 12 years of history
NFL disrespecting the Saints?? Surely this is the only occurrence😀
This was a heartbreaking year for the Saints. I remember that Raider game. It was a Monday night game. When the Saints went up 28-7, i stopped watching and was getting my clothes ready for school the next day(6th grade) When the game was tied, i went in my mom's room and watched the rest of that game(Raiders won 35-28)🤦🏾♂🤦🏾♂ . The Saints also had a heartbreaking loss to Atlanta in OT at home.
I very unfondly remember that Redskin game. In the end, that was the killer game that kept them from winning the NFC East that year. Well that, and the ref denying the Skins a last second FG attempt with 0:01 second left in the finale against Dallas.
In any case, the real reason for the Saints turnaround then was that they actually started playing some defense. The offense was already there, but they had historically bad Ds. It seemed that when they went to the Flex, things improved. Just not enough on that Monday Night game.
Did Lee Corso give you his permission (and pencil) to say what you said at 2:40?
He left off the "my friends" part.
Eli wasn't even born yet
Peyton was only 3!!😆😁
The Saints and their fans are the most underrated whiners in the history of the NFL.
Saints played halfway decent for most of year and then choked when it counted. I'm a Saints fan this was best year , but next was a utter collapse in 1980
This is very similar to what happened a decade later with Wimbledon and their remarkable run to the FA Cup Final. Prior to this run, Wimbledon was largely known as a club that quickly rose through the Football League ranks from 1978-1986 when they reached the 1st Division that year, then barely avoided relegation the following two seasons. The 1987-88 season in the league was unremarkable for Wimbledon. However in the FA Cup, Wimbledon went on a tear knocking out the likes of Newcastle & Watford en route to a semifinal vs Luton Town. Because of this run, Wimbledon's ticket office was already preparing for a possible appearance in the FA Cup final. Then like in this situation, the FA told Wimbledon to hold off on selling tickets largely because officials believed that Luton would thrash them mainly because Luton were the better team on paper & had a better league position. However Wimbledon pulled off a shock 2-1 win over Luton & what makes this even more crazy is that the FA told Luton to start selling tickets for the FA Cup Final to their supporters so those tickets became totally worthless. Wimbledon in the FA Cup Final then pulled off one of the biggest upsets in English soccer history by beating a historically good Liverpool club 1-0 thanks to a penalty save from Dave Beasant & goal from Lawrie Sanchez.
You weren't too bad in league, either. I think you ended up 7th or 8th, which for where you had come from, was admirable. The FA were talking out of their arse, of course you had a good (maybe not great, but certainly good) chance to beat Luton (who won the League Cup that year), and it should have been a level playing field. You're quite right to be a little salty about it even now.
Nobody cares about soccer.
I'm not gonna give the NFL a pass here. Hindsight doesn't absolve the NFL. The league should've applied the same protocol to the Saints that it applied to anyone else in their situation. The NFL didn't have that energy for my Buccaneers, who had to beat the Chiefs at home in a monsoon here in Tampa in Week 16 just to win the NFC Central and clinch their 1st playoff berth.
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Saints will always get robbed in a playoffs.
They got lucky in 2009
@@edwardkelly3280 Yes, because Brett Favre didn't see Bernard Berrian on the right side of the field. Otherwise, it will be a touchdown or a field goal.
@@edwardkelly3280Very Lucky. Spoiler Alert: They would go on to Win SB XLIV.
their penalty for being dirty cheap shot artists in '09.
At least the Saints have a super bowl trophy a trophy that teams like the Vikings wish they had.
Let's say the Vikings beat the Rams in week 13 (the game went into overtime). The Saints beat the Rams in the last game of the season. Both teams are now 8-8 and split the season series. Who goes to the playoffs?
The Rams held the tiebreaker at 5-1 in the division with the Saints at 4-2. Had the Saints beat the Falcons in week 1 both would have been 9-7 overall and 5-1 in the division and the Saints would have held the tiebreaker with a 9-3 conference record to the Rams 7-5.
@@brianevans6328 Thanks!
The NFL's directive to the Saints, while weird or even harsh, turned out to be correct. The Saints ended the year 8-8 and were eliminated from playoff contention in Week 15.