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.

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!

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 .

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!

Love the old NFL highlight videos. The music, camera angles, past NFL greats, and narration make for a nostalgic trip down memory lane.

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.

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...

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.

The fact that the Viking offense was completely shut out in Super Bowl 9 shows just how exceptional the Steel Curtain defense was.

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.

after seemingly endless 4-9-1 seasons, this broke my heart

Always loved that music they played

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.

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 🤔

Air coryell got its start in St Louis

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.

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.

I was huge Cardinals fan Jim Hart was my favorite

That 3rd quarter bomb from Fran to John Gilliam sealed the deal.

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! :(

Love how drunk and corny the fight between 2 fans at the start of this video

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.

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

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

My decades of football the seventies and eighties.

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.

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

This video is nice and clear but oddly sped up and herky jerky. Computer transfer issues?

Cox missed a 37 yard fg and and extra point. Could have been the difference.

Very similar to the Hail Mary Play the following year 6:55

Jim Hart got better with age.

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 !!!

Obviously Jim Marshall was injured, but when did he go down in 1974?

Had Jim Hart won a playoff game he might be in the HOF.

I wonder if 🤔Carl Eller went up against Dan Dierdorff, this day?

The "Met" is now the Mall of America.

When did the snow flurries start coming during this game?

wonder where the Championship game would have been played had St Louis played Los Angeles?

play outdoors!

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 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.

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