Bobby Bryant scored a TD in this game and also a TD in the 1976 NFC Championship game against the rams. I don't know how many Defensive players have scored 2 TD in Championship games.
Plus two interceptions in each of those two games, making it 4 picks and 2 TD's in two games. Third time wasn't near as stellar, for the Cowboys used his aggressive against him for the game's first points in the 1977 championship game.
@13:00 the Vikings regain control of the game. That bomb from Tarkenton to Gilliam was unstoppable. I remember watching it in awe, as a 7 year old. What a play.
I was 10. And had become a Viking fan the year before because of Tarkenton.. I remember this game like it happened a couple of days ago. Miss the old Vikings.
I was 10 and discovered football in '72 and became a Washington fan as our over the hill gang beat Dallas and played the undefeated Dolphins in SB7. I remember the Vikings beat Washington the week before this game. I was crushed we weren't going back to the S.B. Th3se were the good ol days for sure. As a Washington fan our golden decade would be the 80's.
The year before this, it was the Redskins that took the Cowboys out in the NFC Championship game. For a long time in the NFC, there were some epic battles between the Vikings, Cowboys, Redskins and Rams.
Might be the Vikings best win ever. I remember Gillian’s catch as a kid, but didn’t realize both Calvin Hill and Bob Lilly were out. Hill got a crazy injury the week before in the Ram playoff game after a fumble; his elbow bent like a pretzel.
Very clutch kick by Fred Cox. It was a roller coaster set of downs. 3rd and 2 at the 7, TD called back by holding. 3rd and 16 from the 23, and a 14 yard sack back to the 37. Then Cox nails the long 44 yard FG. From a Vikings TD to the Cowboys escaping unscathed, to the Vikings still getting points, made it a very big FG.
Sad that the Vikings have still not yet won a SB, but it has been delicious not having to watch Jerry and the Cowboys win one for the last 30 years. Aaaaahhhhh...
Chuck Foreman is my favorite all-time Viking, but he was a fumble waiting to happen every time he broke past the line of scrimmage, with all those spin moves and such.
He did carry the ball “like a loaf of bread” quite a bit, but then again, Dave Osborn did not do that, bit I can remember he fumbled from time to time too
@@6400azLook up Viking running back stats. By far Robert Smith was best running back all-time in yards per attempt relative to fumbles per attempt. He was less than half the fumble rate of next best top 10 and 2nd only to Peterson in yardsnper attempt.. The only thing Smith lacked was scoring but that had more to due with Viking strategy at goal line then his ability.
We had them outplayed most of that game. Came down to that hail mary catch by Drew Pearson. Never should have let them back in the game, but that is Vikings football, just like last season!
I had to look at it 5x, but the pass at 13:38 Fran threw started at his own 39 and would have landed on the Dallas 5. That's 56 yards in the air. Awfully impressive for Fran and for 51 years ago!
@@luisvaldes1568 Great point , thats so true , miami did play in pittsburgh , in the 72 championship , i had forgotten that , because those years , i was a NFC fan . hahhahhahha
Miami eked out a 14-7 regular season win against Dallas in 1973. If Cowboys had a healthy Lilly and Hill for a Miami Super Bowl...probably would have still lost. Dallas was a team in transition in 1973, with an ageing Bob Lilly and Cornell Green, Chuck Howley just retired, very young receivers, etc.
Not to put down the Minnesota Vikings, but this one was lost by Dallas. There are several games where Landry just couldn't get his players motivated to play at their best in big games.
Very poor comment. At the NFL level, you need someone to get you up for the NFC Championship game.??....I would say the Vikings themselves had more to do with it.
@helpisontheway9405You are delusional. Vikings finished regular season 12-2 vs. Dallas 10-4. The game stats were not even close. Vikings had 2X the net yards and dominated on the ground wirg over 200 yards vs. 90 for Dallas.
Announcer mispronounces Tarkenton "Tark ING ton" every time-- maybe this is why Pat Summerall was the voice of "Game Of The Week" thereafter this production.
Was the SB loss to the Chiefs really an upset, or just a slap upside the head to the NFL's overconfidence? The same overconfidence that had the Colts 19 point favorites against the Jets. I am not at all confident that Calvin Hill and Bob Lilly would have changed the outcome here.
According to Bud Grant, neither the Colts nor the Vikings had any business being favored by so many. Instead, the NFL wanted to project their league as far greater than the AFL .
I can’t believe Bobby Bryant is not in the Vikings Ring of Honor as he was a huge big play player.
Bryant should be in the Canton HOF
Man football was king back then
it really was. Great players and superb rivalries.
Bobby Bryant scored a TD in this game and also a TD in the 1976 NFC Championship game against the rams. I don't know how many Defensive players have scored 2 TD in Championship games.
Plus two interceptions in each of those two games, making it 4 picks and 2 TD's in two games. Third time wasn't near as stellar, for the Cowboys used his aggressive against him for the game's first points in the 1977 championship game.
@@daleschmieg9050 thank you for that information.
It wasn't 9 consecutive series with a turnover...Fred Cox kicked a field goal
@13:00 the Vikings regain control of the game. That bomb from Tarkenton to Gilliam was unstoppable. I remember watching it in awe, as a 7 year old. What a play.
I was 10. And had become a Viking fan the year before because of Tarkenton.. I remember this game like it happened a couple of days ago. Miss the old Vikings.
I was 10 and discovered football in '72 and became a Washington fan as our over the hill gang beat Dallas and played the undefeated Dolphins in SB7. I remember the Vikings beat Washington the week before this game. I was crushed we weren't going back to the S.B. Th3se were the good ol days for sure. As a Washington fan our golden decade would be the 80's.
The year before this, it was the Redskins that took the Cowboys out in the NFC Championship game.
For a long time in the NFC, there were some epic battles between the Vikings, Cowboys, Redskins and Rams.
Yeah great stuff. The AFC had Pittsburgh Oakland Miami Baltimore
@@piggyroo100Not really Baltimore.
Might be the Vikings best win ever. I remember Gillian’s catch as a kid, but didn’t realize both Calvin Hill and Bob Lilly were out.
Hill got a crazy injury the week before in the Ram playoff game after a fumble; his elbow bent like a pretzel.
Very clutch kick by Fred Cox. It was a roller coaster set of downs. 3rd and 2 at the 7, TD called back by holding. 3rd and 16 from the 23, and a 14 yard sack back to the 37. Then Cox nails the long 44 yard FG. From a Vikings TD to the Cowboys escaping unscathed, to the Vikings still getting points, made it a very big FG.
The Vikings were really good they just ran into some of the greatest teams ever in the super bowl pitt Miami and oakland
Well, I guess they weren't "really good" then, were they?
And Kansas City.
Your right kc too
Vikes won the NFC so they were good team. Kansas City truly an upset. But Miami, Pitt and Oakland , were bigger and more physical.
Vikings and Dallas were the dominant teams of the NFC in 70s.
Sad that the Vikings have still not yet won a SB, but it has been delicious not having to watch Jerry and the Cowboys win one for the last 30 years. Aaaaahhhhh...
Bigley tremendously ugeely true i can't stand dem cryboys
John Facenda did this game for NFL films - I had the 16 mm as a kid but tossed it. Also did the AFV champ from 73 too…. Love to find it
Golden Richards' punt return, John Gilliam's TD reception, and Bobby Bryant's INT return were all 63 yards.
Gilliam’s TD catch went for 54 yards, as Al Meltzer said.
And Golden Richards wore no 63
Golden showers measured 63 yards as well all total
@@michaelleroy9281 That's number 83.
Chuck Foreman is my favorite all-time Viking, but he was a fumble waiting to happen every time he broke past the line of scrimmage, with all those spin moves and such.
No , not really. The story goes he did fumble in college, but in the pros no more than anyone else.
He did carry the ball “like a loaf of bread” quite a bit, but then again, Dave Osborn did not do that, bit I can remember he fumbled from time to time too
@@6400azLook up Viking running back stats. By far Robert Smith was best running back all-time in yards per attempt relative to fumbles per attempt. He was less than half the fumble rate of next best top 10 and 2nd only to Peterson in yardsnper attempt.. The only thing Smith lacked was scoring but that had more to due with Viking strategy at goal line then his ability.
Them callboys always got the calls
Hard to believe we blow them out in this game in Dallas and can't beat em in 75 at the Met with a better team.
We had them outplayed most of that game. Came down to that hail mary catch by Drew Pearson. Never should have let them back in the game, but that is Vikings football, just like last season!
They were starting to get old; too many players over 30 or right at it.
Fran Tarkenton was the Prime Russell Wilson of the era.
I had to look at it 5x, but the pass at 13:38 Fran threw started at his own 39 and would have landed on the Dallas 5. That's 56 yards in the air. Awfully impressive for Fran and for 51 years ago!
Why was the game played in texas stadium? vikings were 12-2 , and cowboys were 10-4.
The old rule was to rotate the seeds rather than base them on the regular season records.
That rule was soon changed. Also 1972 AFC champ game in Pittsburgh. Miami on the road with a 14-0 record.
@@luisvaldes1568 Great point , thats so true , miami did play in pittsburgh , in the 72 championship , i had forgotten that , because those years , i was a NFC fan . hahhahhahha
1975 better records meant home field advantage starting this season
Alderman stretching with that mean grey helmet! Grady usually was stout vs those NFC d tackles.
I wonder what a Miami-Dallas Super Bowl would have looked like in 1973.
Probably Miami 24 and Dallas 7... Miami had an unstoppable running game...
Miami beat em in reg season game this year - I think..
Miami eked out a 14-7 regular season win against Dallas in 1973. If Cowboys had a healthy Lilly and Hill for a Miami Super Bowl...probably would have still lost. Dallas was a team in transition in 1973, with an ageing Bob Lilly and Cornell Green, Chuck Howley just retired, very young receivers, etc.
It wasn't 9 possessions in a row with a turnover. It was, incredibly, 7, then a FG and punt, before 2 more turnovers.
Good observation....
Good catch. NFL Films where notorious for exaggerating.
Not to put down the Minnesota Vikings, but this one was lost by Dallas. There are several games where Landry just couldn't get his players motivated to play at their best in big games.
Very poor comment. At the NFL level, you need someone to get you up for the NFC Championship game.??....I would say the Vikings themselves had more to do with it.
@helpisontheway9405You are delusional. Vikings finished regular season 12-2 vs. Dallas 10-4. The game stats were not even close. Vikings had 2X the net yards and dominated on the ground wirg over 200 yards vs. 90 for Dallas.
Announcer mispronounces Tarkenton "Tark ING ton" every time-- maybe this is why Pat Summerall was the voice of "Game Of The Week" thereafter this production.
On a gimmick play you always stick with your primary target ( flea fli ker SB III) but here Forman runs by the LB and is open for a td 5:22
Tark was only 5-10" approx 160 lbs. He must have had some huge hands?
I thought he was 6 ft tall and around 180lbs
Minnesota killed Dallas with their misdirection!
no gold on vikings jersey i think they only wore these a handful of times
And now they look like highschool gayboys the minnechoka violet queens
@@dickdeeb6018 That goes for MOST of today's NFL's jerseys..! 😡
It just wasn’t the Cowboys day.
7:20. Ouch
The Vikes really looked sharp this game. But Dallas was just plain old flat this game.
The irony of ironies. Dallas had Duane Thomas a year earlier. Chuck Foreman was a rookie for the Vikings and he ran just like Duane Thomas.
Noel Taylor, Thomas was traded to the Chargers before the '72 season.
No need for the hold, Reed had already gone through 5:59
This game should have been played in Minnesota, which had the better record.
10:28 I'm not sure this guy wanted to split that much.
And then the Vikings got clobbered in the Super bowl.
Great Viking win...but sloppy as all get out from both teams.
I believe the cowboys had the worse record of nfc playoff teams that year. But because of the goofy seeding got to play at home both games
funny seeing the officials wearing stirrups. i had forgotten about that.
wish MLB teams would do away with the goofy stockings that players now wear.
So Dallas ran up 27 points on the league best D (Rams) but could scrounge up a lone FG against the Vikes?!?!?
foreman seemed to fumble alot in playoff games
@Luke E I’m not sure where your getting your data but watch highlights of this game, he fumbled 2x. In 13 playoff games, foreman fumbled 9 times.
That’s a lot
Was the SB loss to the Chiefs really an upset, or just a slap upside the head to the NFL's overconfidence? The same overconfidence that had the Colts 19 point favorites against the Jets. I am not at all confident that Calvin Hill and Bob Lilly would have changed the outcome here.
According to Bud Grant, neither the Colts nor the Vikings had any business being favored by so many. Instead, the NFL wanted to project their league as far greater than the AFL .
11:00
Golden showers Richards
Anyone but the cryboys