Randall Cunningham Seizes the Means of Production | Pretty Good, Episode 13
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- In 1987, Philadelphia Eagles coach Buddy Ryan and quarterback Randall Cunningham ran the most unsportsmanlike play in NFL history. The Dallas Cowboys totally deserved it.
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There's something about this show's aesthetic that's just pure magic. The shitty Google maps 3d models, the weird rotations and pans in 3d, the music... God, it's actually perfect.
YES. Was thinking the same thing.
It's pretty good
I think it’s pretty good
bro.... same
The music at 9:15 is just...
Eagles never won a Super Bowl until Jon Bois made a video about them
Can he uhhh make a video about the chiefs lol
Do one on the bills
@@taymorrison Jon Bois is a Chiefs fan, he talks about the Chiefs quite a bit in certain videos. lol
and the bengals
I don't wanna talk about it
“It borders on being an ethical question”
*Said the man who thought Japanese internment was not an ethical question*
Two wrongs don't make a right.
@@veritasinvicta8128 perfect response
@@veritasinvicta8128 Assuming that running up the score is wrong in the first place. And if it is, Tex Schramm is a hypocrite for the prior week's blowout. There's a few problems with calling that play an ethical question, there's a LOT of problems with the recipient calling it an ethical question.
@@veritasinvicta8128 the wrong of locking up innocent people and the wrong of throwing a ball in an unsportsmanlike manner are not exactly the same thing
@@gonb5434 yeah but without Japanese internment, George Takei might have taken a different path, and we might not have gotten Star Trek. Therefore, who is to say it was wrong? Locking up children is a land of contrasts.
The sad part of the 41-22 game, Tex Schramm's anti union nonsense aside, is that it was Scorigami.
This is an older video, but sitting here watching this for like the eighth time I just realized why Jon's videos are so compelling. He takes something as seemingly simple as sports and not only finds a way to tell the story in a natural way (many sportswriters are very good at that). He finds a human truth in all the stories he covers. In this video, he frames the Eagles as revolutionaries and tells of just one moment of defiance against the machine. One of humanity's classic stories, man vs an oppressive society.
This is obvious of course to those who watch it. But it's so cool to finally have the words to express it.
I find myself returning to all of the videos from "Pretty Good" at least a couple times a year, Jon's storytelling is just a work of art
Yes! I don't like sports, but I love a good John Bois video. This is one of my favorites so far. They all have a universal appeal
It's the over-exaggeration that turns what is essentially a children's game into some kind of devastatingly deep philosophical discussion. That's what so funny and entertaining.
@@logicaldude3611 I understand what you mean (that when boiled down, football is just a game), but I prefer to think that everyone's lives have some manner of philosophical importance, big or small, that could be discussed.
‘There are no dull stories. People are full of wonder. If you study our history, you will always, always find it.’
Jon, this was one of my dad's favorite moments as an Eagles fan. He passed away this year, and he would have loved this. Thanks. You nailed it completely.
Ray Cornwall Hope your dad's up there somewhere watching the Eagles this Sunday. Go Birds!
Hope your dad celebrated
I'm not supposed to be tearing up at comments on sports vids. What'd you do?!
That's beautiful man. My dad died in October 2017. We are UT Vols fans and I'm a UT alum. Our men's basketball team just spent 4 weeks at #1 -the longest in school history. I feel the same way, he would have loved to see this bball team...
He died too early 😰
"He missed a couple of short field goals, and that was it for his whole career."
Poor Nick Folk.
Nah he's good, he's out there kicking touchdowns.
J-E-T-S! JETS JETS JETS!
Blair walsh
Daniel Carlson
Josh Scobee?
"After all, the Cowboys have won 3 Super Bowls and the Eagles are still waiting for their first."
Your video has jinxed the Cowboys and elevated the Eagles.
Gedalyah Reback
Cowboys been jinxed since the 90s.
and I am glad for it.
I come from the future...Eagles win!
Same
Eagles are actually pretty good now.
He really got me with the pro- vs anti-union bothsides bait-and-swith
Yeah, that "swith" was killer.
OP: “Unions rül!”
Reality: *Stupid teamsters violence, mild chaos, and massive transportation issues ensue*
OP: “You’re an a-hole if you don’t like unions!”
@@soarabove337 Looks like we got ourselves a real reason and logic one.
@@soarabove337 keep licking them boots fuckboi
@@writingwolfe hell yeah go off Alex
"For now, it's ceremonial. It will soon hold tactical importance."
**eats popcorn while wide-eyed.**
“As with the strike, the line collapses around him, as with the strike, he holds firm.” Love that line.
If unions didn't work, bosses wouldn't spend so much time and money trying to convince you that they don't
Preach, brother! Solidarity forever!
The union keeps us strong.
Goddamn right!!!
Together we bargain, divided we beg
Yeah, they work until the union members become just as much of a shitbag as the people they were trying to fight against
8:00 "A replacement player orders a pizza."
Gotta love these important events.
8:34 Imagine the Girl Scouts having to compete with those players for sales.
@@jakesimon5497 the girls scouts were more mature than the NFL players
This video gave me newfound respect for Randall Cunningham, for Buddy Ryan and for the Eagles as a team.
“We’re certain for another lockout in the 2021 season”
I mean, probably not for the reasons you thought, but yeah, sure
Gabe Wulfman didn’t age well, did it
Yikes
Yes obviously he didn’t know about the virus when this video was made, but also, I don’t think anyone could have predicted the players union would agree on a deal where they add a 17th game to the schedule, only get .5% increased revenue and virtually all the major players in the NFL were against it.
Chris D'Avanzo It’s because they gave such a significant amount to the majority of players in the NFL (eg not the superstars)
@@skillswiper They gave them an amount but considering the change of language on some post retirement benefits I wouldn't call it significant
I was 18 years old and had just come home from a miserable attempt at college (I made it a month). I remember the strike, I remember the Dallas game where the line-crossers played. I remember every blue-collar worker in Philadelphia cried foul. And I remember these two plays at the end of the game they had already won. It was a big F-U to Schramm, to the Cowboys, and to the league. Buddy Ryan was not the best Eagles coach but he once said that he didn't care if the team went 2-14, as long as those 2 were Dallas.
I'm utterly shocked that the owner of a Texas-based football team in the 80's was a massive racist
😂 who would’ve ever thought right
Japanese internment? No problem. Unsportsmanlike football play? SERIOUS ETHICAL QUESTIONS RAISED.
efae feaef Japanese internment? Pretty not good. Unsportsmanlike football play? PRETTY GOOD.
the Japanese did run much worse internment caps so theres that
Troy Henway yeah, but we put Americans in internment camps, doofus
Yep. That's 1980s Republican logic for you.
FDR put the Japanese in camps and FDR was a democrat.
That's that 2018 libtard logic for you......
Jon Bois un-cursed the Eagles. It's a fact.
More like UrinatingTree jinxed the Patriots. But two Gods helped regardless
Andy Gygi he also made a video about the Browns and they still stink lol
@@Airmaster167 But at least they don't stink as much. They even beat the Ravens. Jon Bois is the opposite of Madden cover confirmed.
@@Airmaster167 Browns are 10-5 now
@@bradyrhodess might still miss out on the playoffs
Never have I been more proud to be a Philadelphian.
Some people may be impressed by the amount of history put into this video, but we can't forget that Jon's last episode of Pretty Good was before the strike. He was probably working on this as the strike was happening.
🤣
I remember when Ufford crossed the picket line and fell off the edge of flat earth
...wait no I don't, lol
"Remember Randall? This is a video about Randall"
The most unexpected Alice's Restaurant reference of all time
I've never encountered someone else who knows that song besides my friend who showed it to me
@@MrAtlfan21 We are legion. There's multitudes of us.
Stopping by five years later to say I really miss the "Pretty Good " series. There's a magical, almost poetic something-or-other about telling a sensational story about a "pretty good" person, event, or team.
I always feel like I walked away with more than I bargained for when I'm set up for something "pretty good", and then the story leaves me awestruck and misty-eyed.
Rejoice, friend, Pretty Good is making a comeback!
the scab buster is the single most motivational vehicle i have ever seen
I've watched this video at least a dozen time. Each time I get goosebumps. Each time my eyes start to water. This is an incredibly compelling and moving work of art.
Me too. I love my Eagles and my city so much. The birds represent the heart of the people
John, You should make a video about June 4 1979. ten cent beer night at Cleveland municipal stadium. Basically an Indians game turns into a drunken riot. It would be an amazing video. Please make it.
Ryan Melnick I think you mean 1974?
Good episode of the Dollop on this. Jon should go on that pod
obvious is obvious. this was brilliant.
what about 10 yrs later in china
Qxir
Legit, I forgot how much I love Randall Cunningham. Thanks, Jon.
I'm a proud New Yorker who hates everything Philadelphia that isn't a cheesesteak, but mad respect to the Eagles for all of this. I wasn't born yet when all of this happened so it's not something I experienced at the time, but I knew about the strike's existence. I didn't, however, know about how far the Eagles went with it. Props to them for fighting a losing battle to the very end, even though it must have hurt them knowing that they were right.
My hockey coach won 3 Stanley cups, a Canadian jr championship, a championship in Europe, and countless championships as a coach. He drives a broken down 97’ Honda coupe and lives in a broken down house in a bad part of Oklahoma.
Brandon Mills The only reason he is like this is because he has to pay his ex wife’s alimony
who is he?
That's very sad. Unrelated question: What is a good part of Oklahoma?
tjbtech Anywhere that’s not a small town or Moore tbh
Brendan Clark or turley!
“Dirtiest play ever”
Bruh this is just how I play madden against the cpu
A fake kneeldown isn't in any madden game I'm aware of.
Banana Narwhals you have a point ig
@@banananarwhals2016 I think there's a fake spike in some of them, which would be weird in and of itself. "We're gonna spike the ball to stop the clock and run up more points on you. HA! Nope! We just gonna throw it instead!" Might cause the AI to spontaneously combust right there on the field.
@@banananarwhals2016 Just make a pass in the victory formation. That's basically it.
@@aok2075 you can do that?
every time i watch this, i tear up a little more.
solidarity forever, or solidarity never.
I was wondering why they were allowed to hired replacements for a strike and then I remembered that the US has practically no labor laws.
If you're ever wondering if a law exists here, ask yourself "Could this ever help somebody who is poor/female/disenfranchised/a minority?" If the answer is yes, it probably doesn't exist.
@@jordanfry5138 You're making it too much about identity politics. It's class. What the actual question is, is: "Can this help someone who isn't rich?".
@@TheTaterTotP80 That's fair, but the two aren't necessarily separate. Modern discrimination is class discrimination at its core.
@@hockeycrafter6086 shhhh don't destroy the illusion
@@hockeycrafter6086 Right, and then globalist business owners decided to import cheaper cars in the 80s and undercut Detroit's main industry. So was it the unions which failed Detroit, or amoral elitists who decided their profits were more important than the well-being of American workers?
I always watch Jon Bois' videos, because they are quality eye opening pieces. But, this one gets me pretty bad. My union is talking about striking and things are really tense right now. Even learning about this failed strike is actually really inspiring. Thanks Jon :)
Amanda Woody Good luck! I hope it all works out well.
Solidarity
Just be careful that your union doesn't rip the guts out of the industry you're in during the process.
Solidarity and good luck, from an IWW member.
@ThisIsMyRealName Packard, Packard-Studebaker, Bobbi-Kar, Keller Motor Corporation. Never heard of these? That's because the union throttled them to death post-war. In fact, there's a large former Packard plant that is still in Detroit. When Packard went under, did another company, such as one of the big three, take it over? No, it was left abandoned and thousands lost their jobs because of the "protection" that the Union tried to force Packard to provide. Something it could ill-afford as a smaller company. Up until 2017 it just sat there, completely abandoned, and only now has a renovation project begun in the area.
But sure, the Auto Unions causing undo stress to companies surely doesn't happen. I mean, what other industry has clauses where surplus workers that aren't ever working are still paid full salary wages?
there is a special relationship the eagles have with the city of philadelphia, if you tried to define it you would find yourself just putting examples like this up. for the players it's probably something like. you cannot betray unconditional love because it's so rare and and so very fragile.
Remember kids: Alone you beg, together you bargain!
This is pretty good!
IT'S BACK!!!
But it's not Chart Party
this comment put a smile on my face
Never seen this comment on every ‘Pretty Good’ episode ever made before. Wow!
@@flyingcabbage3551 Say he's wrong, though.
"This is how you use playcalling to flip the bird" Couldnt have said it any better myself Jon, I must say, this is pretty good.
I don't even care about sports--like 95% of the time I could absolutely care less--but I can watch this guy's series of videos again and again and again. Thank you, sir.
I had to pause the video from laughing so hard at the Pro-Union and Anti-Union comparison
K.
+SAM BRICKELL very informative reply
Y'know I'm not sure which is more amusing, the idea that jon bois who neurotically and statisitically studies in depth minutiae, even economic contexts for the videos he makes, has some misunderstanding about something that's clearly very close to him as a former wage slave worker and current writer, or the idea of their being a single Average Worker who cripples the industry he's in by being in a union. Like... there he is. The Average Worker.
I understand that jokes sometimes read wrong so for the sake of clarity:
I was being facetious by imagining someone taking the thoughts I illustrated seriously. Power to the people is power to the working people. Unions are needed as long as there's bosses to keep them scared. You right. Jon Bois was certainly correct.
Scabs sound off in this thread, pls make yourselves known to reception.
Everytime the Cowboys shits the bed in the playoffs I will go back to this video.
Jon bois is back. All hail jon. All hail jon.
Ancient Hawkk Glory to Jon in the highest! Amen!
The Bois are back in town
KP Watershed your a legend
So basically Jake Plummer was the worst sweepstakes prize ever
Kona Kai Plummer seems like a cool guy though
My gf is related to him, apparently he is a swell guy.
Lol
Jake the Snake, was a legit QB back in the day
Funny thing about that man's career is he still had a few years left when he retired and he retired when the bucs signed him lol..He did not want to play here at all, I think it was like 2006; in 05 he was a Bronco.
This is a fine story, but the aesthetic it's presented with is so good that I almost feel like it's a waste. I do mean this as a compliment. I came here looking for sports history to entertain myself whilst eating microwave chimichangas. I left with a new playlist to listen to (thanks for listing everything) and my imagination sparked.
As an eagles fan, cowboys deserve this play forever and ever for all eternity.
I never thought i would despise someone so deeply as I do Tex Schramm after simply watching this video
Anyone else here after the Saints game?
i thought the same 🤣
hi everyone from vikings dorktown series :)
When the Vikings seized the means of production
I can't believe this comment is just sitting here, almost on its own, with just 3 likes. After learning about Randall's magical 1998, I knew I needed to learn more!
wait wait wait... the guy that said the Japanese-American internment camps were ok wanted to raise an ethical question over having the score run up by a team that really should be doing just that?!? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA up yours dallas
Like the cowboys needed any more reasons to be the most hated team in the league Haha.
He also extorted Tony Dorsett into playing during the strike. So, in the world according to Tex Schramm, extortion is ethical, and concentration camps are ethical, but running trick plays is unethical.
Tex Schramm's definition of "ethical" was "beneficial to Tex Schramm."
It's professional football. The players aren't kids. The coaches aren't volunteers. Schramm spent millions of dollars building his team. If he didn't want his team to get scored on, he should have built one that could stop it.
Yeah, he certainly sounds like he's of a certain lineage and rearing from that part of the world. Not just Texas, either. Oklahoma gets some shade as well.
Curiously enough for a man with the first name 'Texas', he was born and grew up in California.
@andrew7taylor
Is it really a surprise?
I'm totally here for this energy, comrade
Wow, the Scab Buster? That must be the second most famous white Ford Bronco in NFL history
The music that gave you chills at 14:30? It's called "Bold Action". It comes from Christopher Willis.
The reason Jon gave us this story in 2017? It's called solidarity. It comes from seeing football players unite and put their careers on the line to do the right thing. Nice one, Jon.
(Okay, that second one is a guess.)
Thanks for naming the song!
Thanks, I thought it sounded like the soundtrack to Stranger Things.
6:51 happy 80s rap cuts to ominous, dark music
thank you so very much for this work of art
God The Real One I told my history teacher about this channel
God The Real One I guess
God The Real One and this became a story of love ❤️
This is no longer the last episode in the series, but it’s still a fantastic one
That reverse destruction of Citizens Bank Park into creation of the Vet is ridiculously cool. Man I love how much Philadelphia landscape is in this video. (also shout out Mt. Laurel NJ 7:34)
That hotel is 500 feet from my house. Saw it on the scan in and scan out. Was 2 and a few hundred feet away when this happened and I’m an Eagles fan who works for a construction union but never heard of this. Pretty cool.
This is the only reason I'm subbed to SB Nation.
I'm in the same boat.
Same!
Well shows like "The Worst", "1st", and anything with Ufford are pretty good
They're good but they're not pretty good.
@NYGAllDay 521: Effective 2/4/2018... Philadelphia Eagles are *SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS.*
Maybe I'm crazy, but I had a feeling watching this video that Tom Landry, being a former player himself, DID NOT disagree with Buddy Ryan over why it was done.
You know, I think you're right. It's crazy how you can watch these stories for years and years and not pick up little details like that.
Didn't seem to matter that Landry was a former player when he ran up the score in the first game.
Jon Bois needs to seize the means of SBNation production and churn out industrial levels of Pretty Good!!!!
Man it makes me so happy to know that my team stood by worker's rights like this. Even after the strike failed, that game against the Cowboys was their defiant middle finger in the face of anti-union shitheads like that Cowboys owner. It might not be as memorable as the Super Bowl win, but it's definitely a moment to be remembered and proud of.
OG Philly Special
That is an epic middle finger. I appreciate it.
I'm from the UK, but this video has made me a Philadelphia Eagles fan. Well done.
THIS IS THE FASTEST IVE EVER CLICKED ON A NOTIFICATION YES JON BOIS OUR SAVIOR
lucasbulldogs7 same omg
top comment on a jon bois video... I feel accomplished
Every time I watch a Jon Bois documentary for the first time, I wonder why I don’t spend my entire life just watching his work
oooh I'm with you brother
PRETTY GOOD IS COMING BACK LET’S GO!
"Meet Jake Plummer, and potentially take his starting job"
Basketball is my favorite sport. I like the way they dribble up and down the court.
Mark Jones yeah I like baseball too, my fave team won their first game after the other team tried a field goal for the win but our goalie saved it
The rêãł Dave Smith īš ñöt fäké shut up
I love hockey I like it when they slam each other through tables
I keep it so fresh on the microphone I like no interruptions when the game is on
Just like they do it in the NBA
That union joke... As an aspiring comedian that joke is absolutely beautiful, loved it!
I revisit this video to remind myself why the Cowboys suck.
Thanks Jon, I was needing a valid reason to hate the cowboys other than "their fans are insufferable"
“He was more than a hero, he was a Union man” - chief Miles O’Brien
Not just a union man... the only mf who could fix most of that whole damn station
Im a diehard cowboys fan and I never had any idea about Tex, thank you Jon Bois, I now have so mch more respect for Randal Cunningham and the Eagles of the old age. Makes me mad that I didn't watch this video sooner, I always thought it was an eagles video so that's why I didn't click on it. Never judge a book by its cover is the lesson of the thumbnail. Thank you again Jon for teaching me a povital moment in NFL history.
It’s wild to me there are people who are against striking and/or unions.
Like my pops always says, “nothing worse than a scab”. Damn it, he’s right.
You know shits about to get real when Jon says something called the *Scab Buster* will soon have tactical importance
The prodigal son has returned
the prodigal jon has returned
This makes me happy that the eagles finally won a superbowl
I've watched this a dozen or so times. Tear jerker every one of 'em. Just awesome.
I’m not great at writing UA-cam comments, but you are genuinely the best writer I’ve seen. I’ve watched this probably 15 times over and I can’t get enough of it. Your writing is amazing man, I love it
Randall Cunningham should be in the HOF
Change my mind
Really cool storytelling.
18:46 Holy wow. I love the musical exclamation at the end of that last bit, that plays on through the credits. Thank you , Jon Bois, and thank you, Dieter Rieth.
"... for the union makes us strong."
I looked this presentation up because as an Englishman and big fan of your game, I want to understand more than the rule-book on field. It was a "You might also like to watch", titled THE most unsportsmanlike play in NFL history. Instead I watched a defiant, justified man ( more importantly a man with team ethics greater than his self) throw a completed pass to the club owners. I flew to the USA several times arriving at night, and from my plane window was in awe at the number of playing fields, most lit up, that your youth have at their feet. If Cunningham's don't throw those passes and Buddy Ryan's don't smile proudly and shake their hand, why would any kid want to be part the sport. A priceless and selfless act from a man part of something important. A union. Balls like watermelons. Hope life treated him well.
Gotta love Jon Bois coming in hot with that proletarian solidarity
Best day ever.
You said this 2 months before we won the Super Bowl. So, is it now the 2nd best day ever?
This is why the eagles are the best team. Not by stats but by what the eagles identity is and I hope it never changes. The fact that they were even allegedly interested in Watson makes me upset past the obvious reasons but bc of the morality of it and how that would just destroy the loyalty between the team and the fans and what their values are
Go birds and never change
They fr need to make a movie abt this
Related to the story of the ex nfl kicker, I once met this guy working at a grocery store who legit won a super bowl ring as a player on the Steelers. Imagine that. Going from a SUPER BOWL to working in a grocery store.
I've actually done the exact same thing. We were at Costco, and we just started making conversation with some random guy, and he eventually told us that he had a super bowl ring. He got it in 78 if I remember correctly. He was huge, like 6'6 and easily 240. He was actually an awesome dude.
I was helping paint a homeless shelter. In the common area was a TV showing the Penn State game, and this big guy was in there alone watching it. When I had a chance to strike up a conversation with him, I asked, "So did you play?" And he said, "Yeah, I was with the Cleveland browns for 3 years before I blew my knee out."
@@celebrim1 I’ve always found it crazy and kinda sad that we practically worship these guys while they r playing but once they can’t play anymore they just fade into obscurity and end up in situations like that.
Sending this to every antifascist homie to explain why being an Eagles fan is so rad
God i love the teamsters
UNIONS SAVE LIVES. Solidarity forever.
30 years after the infamous play, the Eagles finally win a super bowl
This is the greatest Sports UA-cam Video of all times, anything from Jon is just gold and I never hesitate to click on his videos.
Pretty good football things that make me happy:
1) The Eagles winning the Super Bowl
2) The Miracle at the New Meadowlands
3) This
You know what I find interesting AND amazing? It’s this: Jon Bois can always uncannily find humor in any situation - no matter how serious it is - and give you the giggle guts with effortless perfection.
P.S. Thank God the Eagles won Super Bowl LII, making the dreams of Philly sports fans come true after all those years.
Incredible documentary, dude! You are killing it.
I enjoy this series more than anything on Netflix
I remember that game. we still talk about it in Philly.
THANK YOU! MY LOVE OF SPORTS, MUSIC, AND HISTORY!!