Do you have any hobbies outside of being a football fan? Reading,Tennis, Golf, and mathematics all help me from becoming depressed when my favorite team loses ignominiously like when Drew Pearson's catch beat the Vikings. Did they ever arrest the individual that injured the referee with the bottle?

Favre was barely conscious from all the dirty hits.

@@lisasmith767 Brett Favre was 6 years old in 1975. I don’t think he would have survived ONE dirty hit! 😅😂😊

I was hoping that Bridgewater would have been the QB to take the Viikings to a SB win. It felt like the pieces were coming together.

I’m a lifetime NY Giants fan. I appreciate your fandom. Stick with your team. I hope your day comes soon with the Vikes!

UNC is that u d.

😄😄😄😄😄😄

So right!

They didn't even play the 4th one yet. It would have been the 1st time the same teams met back to back in the superbowl

The over the hill gang.

Mark Symbala YES indeed..... and " Game plan for sudden death" !! 😂👍👍

YES! Ah the fun times we had in the backyard running and tackling in slow motion while humming that song out loud.

The brings back the greatest backyard memories ever

Go, Bengals!

I remember that corner house of his in Richardson. Don't remember the name of the street. Later he moved to a cul-de-sac street called Edelweiss just north of LBJ I believe off Hillcrest.

Two legends in the Pro Football Hall of Fame

The ultimate contest...a stare down between Bud Grand and Tom Laundry.

OK. But here are a few facts: During his 29 consecutive years with the Dallas Cowboys, Landry won two Super Bowl titles, 13 Divisional titles, and played in 12 Championship games. Perhaps most impressive is Landry's 20 consecutive winning seasons -- a record that stands to this day. Bud Grant led his Minnesota Vikings to four (4) Super Bowls... and lost all four.

Two legends that always cut short Los Angeles Rams Coach Chuck Knox’s Seasons.

Both very classy men great coaches

Pretty awesome story

WOW

Didn't know that about Frans Dad.

My favorite Minnesota viking team 1975

I thought 1975 minnosota viking were unbeatable

Didn’t they go to the super bowl the next season?

@@ronsmac dalllas vs denver

@@lloydkline1518 that was the 77 season. Minnesota played oakland

I turned nine years old that day. I learned about offensive pass interference from Drew Pearson.

Same here just turned nine and my first year watching a whole NFL season. This game brings back memories. BTW I was annoyed the Giants let Tarkington go. We suffered during the 70’s because of that.

And now he is 👍

Staubach QB rating was 97.8 to Tarkenton's 46 in this game and they played in the same conditions. Tarkenton was not as good as QB as Staubach overall, particularly in the playoffs when it mattered the most.

If it wasn't for a badly underthrown pass (by Staubach), he might have had another.... uhh.... Super Bowl loss! Sorry, just the old Viking fan in me! Sports is 99% disappointing if you really get invested in it!

Jeff Louis Are you basing the FINAL RESULT on one game. Well according to you then Terry Bradshaw should be called the GREATEST cause he kicked the shit out of Staubach, Not once, BUT TWICE, and that game mattered to the WORLD, being it was in the MOST IMPORTANT GAME of the YEAR, THE SUPER BOWL. He didn’t shine nearly compared to what Bradshaw did. Hell Bradshaw threw a TD pass in every fourth quarter of all four of his Super Bowls, to give them the lead and the win, which he not only won twice, but four in all, with NOT a single loss. Plus, he’s the ONLY QB to call his own plays, and he still beat the Cowboys with all their computers and advanced graphics. So whose the better one there???? Look, when it comes to Roger, who I respect greatly, played in Dallas. Tarkenton played in the coldest place in America, Minnesota, in November, December, and January . And yet that man set EVERY RECORD possible being a quarterback, and he held those records for 26 years. Marino broke them, and he played in warm weather, and played where you threw the ball more then you ran it era. If you played QB, then you would know that anything below 10 degrees, the ball becomes a rock and weighs a ton to throw. I tip my hat to the most underrated quarterback to ever play in the NFL. I respect Roger, but to compare him to Fran over one game, is ridiculous. Semper Fi brother...

@@havingfun1968 Good post. Staubach was better in that one game, but the rating would've been lower if he hadn't lucked out on the last TWO passes, and anyway, lots of QBs with higher ratings LOSE games. I think the entire course of a career tells you much more. And Tarkenton didn't have as good of a surrounding cast either!

@@bryanmachin2152 Thanks and I couldn't agree more. Foreman was "GOOD" at BEST, and not much of a receiving corps there as well. Like I said, throwing in that cold weather, and doing it without undershirts, Bud Grants rules, was HARD CORPS. Talk about TOUGH as nails. God bless you Fran, and mind you, I'm NOT a Vikings fan, but how can you NOT love Fran Tarkenton for all he accomplished!

daniel shook absolutely spock

great comment!

they need to go back to these rules, to make football good again

Same age also. The hail mary still hurts.

Vikings were certainly ripped off. That call was the worst and NFL Films covered for Park Avenue on that one, insisting that the officials made the correct call when they clearly did not.

stardaddyo9 I agree. Were they not like 10 or 11 and 0 at one point that season. Their first loss was to Washington and I remember watching that game on CBS. But Bud Grant and Chuck Knox were putty in Tom Landry’s hands. Landry always added wrinkles teams were not ready for, while grant made no changes and became very predictable in the playoffs.

1976 was a better Vikings team

@@michaelleroy9281 No, not at all. This time age had really caught up with them. Remember in an NNF game in 76', both 49ner RBs gained over 150 yards . The Viking got back into the SB in 76' beacause of their kick blocking squad.

It was the same team as ‘76, wasn’t it? Vikings would have lost to the Steelers anyway just like Dallas did in SBX.

Steelers or Raiders would have beaten them again. Marv Levy, Bud Grant, Dan Reeves 0-12 in Superbowls.

Me too. Especially when Staubach was playing

Roger that, Single Tax. Spared the Vikings from going 0 and 5 in the Super Bowl.

U mean the rip-off as hol

Broke my ❤️ heart

Yes, and knocked out by a poorly thrown pass! The irony!

I think 1969 team Minnesota viking had the best chance of winning a super bowl 🏈 Kansas city chief: they beat Kansas city chief during regular season; ❤️ Minnesota viking 1975 my favorite Minnesota viking team

I also was 11 at the time remember game pretty good

Facenda - yes! Kalas - no

Harry koalas was the greatest broadcast of NFL football 🏈 game:: legendary hail Mary pass of Roger starback

Pat Summerall?

Robert Griskauskas he was ok- but no John Facenda....

I agree, the Hail Mary was icing on the cake for the Dallas Cowboys.

The most miraculous thing about it was how the official could get that call wrong. Pearson was already out of bounds when he was contacted. Then of course the worst non pass interference call in history until the Saints/Rams a couple years ago. I think the NFL was tired of seeing the Vikings in the Super Bowl. I can't think of any other logical explanation for those two calls. Perhaps the best Viking team ever had their chance stolen.

@@juan833blue Icing on the cake? Without the Hail Mary there would be no cake. You say that if they were already winning.

hahahahahahahahahaha

lose much?

❤️ 1975 hail Mary pass Minnesota vs Dallas

sacks?

@@bcmac4641 that enough for Matt Blair NFL football 🏈 hall of fame make his second 🏡 home

@@bcmac4641 there were zero sacks by any players in the NFL then . It wasn’t a statistic.

cornell

I was just trying to remember his name when i saw his number..

Out of bounds and not even a close call. I think the NFL decided that America's Team was not going to lose no matter what.

I originally thought so too. But if you watch the follow up sequence closely 15:30 - 15:50. you’ll notice that this security guard is *actually gesturing with his foot to the police chief closer to the play to help him get the fan (who fell on top of drew Pearson) off drew Pearson* . Later you see the police chief push the fan and the fan push the police chief back.

He pushed off

​@@andre1987eph There is a documentary on you tube about this security guard who admits he kicked Drew because he was mad at the call being a complete pass, he later met Drew Pearson and apologized for it and they laughed about it, and became friends

​@@andre1987eph kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ntpggMWY2ZfIm4U.html

I don’t think Drew is in the HOF

I will never admit it was a good call.

At that time if the push had caused Pearson to be out of bounds it would have been the right call. But since he was clearly out of bounds without the push it was a blown call by any NFL rules that have ever existed.

Saw that. Same play a "Chief" hat security guy goes after the guy that got caught up in the play. .?

“Chief” was going to kick some fan’s ass!😝

I agree with you 1,000%. This is when football was football. No players kneeling during the National Anthem or anything else like that. I like your comment very much.

Wow. I didn’t know that.

Yeah, I remember that. It was tough.

Rest in peace Harry kalas. You are greatly missed love your enthusiasm and your famous broadcasting calls. I cried when Harry kalas passed away. It was probably the worse phillies news that phillies fans received. When Harry kalas died and when Roy halladay died. When both of them passed away, a peace of me died along with them. I miss Doc halladay and Harry Kalas alot.😢

I TOTALLY agree with you, Jim. Not just because I was a Dallas fan, but I'm like you..... it just didn't look like a push-off. I think one reason the Vikings fans thought that there might have been some shoving was that someone in the stands threw an orange onto the field, and they thought they were seeing a flag. I was a Tom Landry-era Cowboys fan, but I definitely loved watching the tough Vikings..... especially at the Met. It's really a shame that there had to be a loser team from this game. Bill Brown was one of my very favorite players, and the Vikings starting linebackers, plus that front 4 during the 1960s were absolutely awesome. Yes, the Bud Grant Vikings were so great. Sad that they didn't win a Super Bowl. I was pulling for them in ALL their SB appearances. Take care, Jim. 👋😊🏈

I'd really love to see a better camera angle. That's interesting. Also i never knew Fran's dad died during this game. Damn .

@@t4texastomjohnnycat978 great point about the flag. I always thought it was a flag too.

Why does Wright, suddenly, go flying forward just before the ball comes down into Pearson's hands? It's no different than a loose ball foul between two opposing rebounders in basketball.

@@JAWrightonline I think Wright overran the pass, tried to correct, then lost his footing. I think from a team standpoint, the more important question is why did the Vikings have one-on-one coverage in that situation?

Not n the 70s, t was business.

Age 56 here & grew up in Staubach’s neighborhood. Cowboys’ snake bitten 32yrs ago when Jones bought them; then died a few years later when Jimmy Johnson left!

No push off, whatsoever.

@@rjhyden Ever!

Great momories !!

@@quincee3376 A lot of great memories from years ago. Sometimes it seems like yesterday and sometimes like years and years ago.

He hurt his knee. In those days, that was the kiss of death for a RB. He played a year or two for another team.

@@erikthorsen240 He ended up in New England.

1. Wright kept Pearson from catching the 4th down pass in bounds. Played it perfectly. Catch should never been allowed, it was caught OB. 2. Wright had perfect inside coverage on the Hail Martha that was severely underthrown. Had Staubach thrown the ball correctly and hit Pearson in stride over the top in the end zone, Wright would have had no shot. But since ball was underthrown, it was coming down right where Wright was around the 5 yard line, as Wright had inside position. If Pearson doesn't push him down (clearly shown by replays with BOTH arms outstretched), Wright is in perfect position to bat the pass down, or int it (either way, game over). Pearson knew this, and did the ONLY thing he could do---push Wright down, which also had the dual effect of slowing Pearson's momentum toward the end zone. With Wright now on the ground, Pearson then somehow caught the ball against his hip (his other arm was still being pulled in after the push). Worst non call in NFL playoff history.

K Bear nobody is debating the OPI. But in that situation Wright violated rules 1 and 2. Never let the WR get behind you and never lose track of the ball. If 43 does those two things Pearson is in no position to push off. Another gaffe is the S was late getting over. If wright was told to play underneath then he is expecting over the top help from the S who was way late. Dallas got lucky but it was also a terrible play by the secondary.

@@Biggdoom344 Well, as a former HS DB myself, I disagree. Wright was in position to knock the ball down and the ONLY thing that stopped him was the illegal push off by Pearson which knocked him to the ground.

K Bear we can agree that was probably one of the worst non calls in recent history until the rams saints game.

Wright's defense was outstanding on both plays. If the ball had been thrown so it could have been caught in bounds(which it wasn't) Wright would have knocked it down. And he had blanket coverage of the Hail Mary. The ONLY way Pearson gets a sniff of the ball is OPI on an underthrown ball. I can't fault Nate Wright one bit. Two blown calls.

and his dad was named Dallas Tarkenton.

....As was Jerry Jones’ acquisition of the Cowboys here! Team died when Jimmy Johnson left 27yrs ago.

Viking Fan 4Life Why did Nate Wright fling himself seemingly SIDEWAYS at that underthrown pass. It was so askward looking that on first look it just HAD to be a push by Pearson. Great no call by the ref. Pearson never touched Wright. Thats about as weird a play as you can see. (The Holy Roller notwithstanding.)

I was also 10 years old when I saw this game! I was so looking forward to seeing the Vikings go to another Super Bowl, with probably their best team ever. The Hail Mary really took the wind out of my sails. I couldn't believe it. To this day, I remember exactly where I was standing-at a friend's house, in his basement, the little black-and-white TV sitting on a low table on a linoleum floor. Ecch, that catch and then that little squirt forward into the end zone. Seeing this video now with the perspective of today, I still can't believe the Hail Mary, it still hurts, but hey, it was one of the great games of all time, and Dallas really had done a great job shutting down the Vikings' offense. They earned it.

Do you need some cheese to go with that whine?

10 grand says no

The ball actually went over the scoreboard into the parking lot. Some lucky, disgusted fan picked it up on their way to their car,

Yes, every assumes its just sour grapes, but if they had a more definitive angle, then maybe it would show that. But two other things: first, Pearson wasn't in bounds on the fourth play, and its debatable whether the defender caused it; the other thing is that the Hail Mary was way underthrown--so that catch was incredibly lucky. If its a good throw, Nate Wright is right there and no catch!

You need to talk to a Packers fan, if you wanna talk about Nov. and Dec. home field advantage.

jimmy hoffa got it

Just one of MANY come-from-behind victories for Staubach. Back in the day when the Cowboys really were, "America's Team." (before Jerry Jones)

Ken Ryder Minnesota needs to play outside..that's the black and blue division

dome or not , they did a lot of choking

As a Bears fan I agree. As for the Vikings and their debacle of a stadium the Metrodome, the Bears had another debacle of a stadium with the rebuilt Soldier Field. The city of Chicago never should have touched that historic stadium. Same with Minnesota. They should never have let the Vikings move to a dome.

+TERRY DAVIS It was clear Pearson pushed Wright-to the ground

it shouldnt of came down to that play minn sota didnt put the young pokes away i say he slip nate wright if thats the way you see it so be it

+david graham There was NO interference David. Few where more crazy about the Vikings than I was back then. Possibly some contact, but in no film is there any evidence of the " obvious" interference.

to me it is clear pearson pushed the defender down.

I was 12, alone at my grannys house jumping up and down screaming, lol. Never forget it, just an awesome moment.

Harris didn't give a clear signal, AND the other player still shouldn't have touched it.

wud have too..

More, it would not be a catch today. The player needs to come down in bounds no matter what.

Tony Dorsett coming in 1977 gave them the real threat and speed in the backfield.

Tory dorsett 🏃‍♀️ running back came to Dallas cowboys in 1977: