Possibly the best Nickel LB in NFL History. Spent most of career as a non starter but I would not say he was a back up, he had a role and was the best in the league at that role especially during the Gibbs years. Had a few seasons as a starter including the 1987 Super Bowl Season. Had one season where he was a pass rushing demon in 1984, he also was a shut down cover LB shutting won RB's coming out of the backfield. One of my favorite all time Redskins.
@@johnvisconti9848 If I knew I forgot it. Sometimes I wonder if Gibbs made him a Nickel LB to keep him fresh because when he was a starting LB he stopped the run as good as any other LB, and better than some of the starters. I felt he was as good as Wilbur Marshall and better than Andre Collins back in 1991. I felt he was better than Milot and as good as Kaufman in 1982.
@@johnliberty3647 The idea about Gibbs wanting to keep him fresh is interesting. After all, he was asked to cover lots of ground when he played Nickel in obvious passing situations. In the mid-to-late 80's, lots of teams liked to get multiple WR's on the field and then get a fleet-footed RB to the second or third-level against a LB. The Giants did it with Dave Meggett and the Skins themselves did it with Kelvin Bryant. It required solid pass protection from your five OL's, because they received no help from TE's or RB's, but if you could get the 2.1-- 2.3 seconds, you could make big plays. In the modern game, those match-ups happen less frequently, as LB's are typically replaced by extra defensive-backs. But Gibbs listened to Petitbon, and if the DC wanted to save Monte Coleman for particular scenarios, he would get it. I agree with all of your assessments/comparisons, except the one about Wilbur Marshall. I mean, it depends what you want to do with your LB's. But Marshall was special. You could deploy him as a pass-rusher, he had tremendous range as a run-defender, and he had the power and strength to stack up TE's and FB's at the point of attack. Few LB's could make plays in both space and traffic like a healthy Wilbur Marshall. He did have lots of nagging injury problems after leaving Chicago, however. Monte Coleman's Redskin teammates called him 'Superman,' or 'Supes,' because of his physique. The nickname was not well known to the public.
@UCDLCornL9wfl0beSyVLnzbA Just to tell you how long Monte Coleman played, I was in Kindergarten his rookie season, maybe a year after his rookie season. I learned about his retirement when I was ending my enlistment in the US Navy.
Indeed it was. I remember that sideline towel antic and that Landry had had enough of him after that game. He did turn his life around after football, and got over himself and the substance abuse.
This was an incredible game, back when these two teams used to just beat the absolute hell out of each other just about every time they played. The Redskins' defense was just UNREAL in this game. Just brutal. Especially Coy Bacon. That guy never got enough credit. Some say he should be the NFL's all-time sack leader, as he was playing for years before they started counting sacks. He had three alone in this game, as well as a recovered fumble. I remember how awesome the team seemed to be this year. Unfortunately, under Pardee, they always seemed to get JUST to the point of taking the brass ring, and then they'd fall apart. The year before, they started 6-0, then missed the playoffs at 8-8. Not easy to do. They were a much better team in '79, but same problem came back to bite them in Dallas at the end of this year, one of the most soul-crushing defeats in team history. Up 17-0, then blew that lead, then retook the lead late and were up by 13 with just a few minutes left. Pardee went ultra-conservative and the team couldn't even get a first down. Meanwhile, Captain Comeback leads Dallas to a near-miraculous 35-34 victory, knocking the Skins out of the playoffs. That was devastating. What's interesting here is at the end, when Moseley is about to come in to kick that last field goal, you can see Riggins waving him off. You could tell he didn't want the team to do this. Yes, they were trying for playoff points, but I know Dallas used this as motivation in the last game, saying the Redskins had run up the score on them. Riggins was probably right. Anyway, all that said, Dallas probably did the team a favor by beating them in the final game and knocking them out of the postseason, because that led to Pardee getting fired the next year and Gibbs coming in, which led to 3 championships in 4 Super Bowl appearances and a dynasty. This rivalry was so intense in those days, though. There was nothing like it.
I remember a Coy Bacon football card I had as a kid. On the back side of the card, it said he had 26 sacks one year. Like you said, sacks were not officially counted back then.
Losing that game, while it was a bitter loss at the time, was the best thing long-term for them. They likely don't end up with Gibbs as their HC, and could be another Cleveland or Detroit with no SB appearances other than the 'over the hill gang.'
Fantastic summary! I remember watching that 35-34 finale at the time. Indeed it was soul-crushing. The '79 'skins really should have been playoff-bound.
Agree. Incredible chemistry...like two football buddies sitting in a bar. BUT I must admit the Summerall-Madden tandem was also good, and eventually became great. Different from Summerall-Brookshier, but also great.
Henderson's dismissal from the Cowboys was also about his behavior on the flight back to Dallas after this game. Harvey Martin later said he thought Hollywood had gone insane, behavior which almost certainly was the result of his addiction.
Believe it or not, there was a horse named "Hollywood Hendersn" that used to race at the New York Racing Association tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga) in the early-to-mid 1980's.
I was at that game, my first Redskins/Cowboys game, I was a kid and admit was star struck seeing Dallas players for the first time that I've seen on television, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Harvey Martin, etc., we had lower level seats at the visiting team's tunnel, we gave the Cowboys hell calling the players names, the players ignored us except Hollywood Henderson, he was talking smack back to us.
I was 5 years old at the time and no ones family could have afforded it. We were eating out of the garden in those days. The great Jimmy Carter economy.
Funny you should say that. I was 10 that year and I remember telling my dad you should be about to just pick the game you want to watch on a particular channel.
@@jredwine12 No Question! But that 79 Skins team will always be my favorite for some reason. They would have beaten the Rams in the first round and Tampa Bay in the NFC Championship then they would have landed to earth vs the Steelers in the Bowl.
Washington also blew a 27-13 4th quarter lead at home against Houston in their season opener! Houston scored the last 16 points in the 4th to win 29-27! That was a costly loss there as well!
@@vincentfusco2719 ...I was 13 when they lost that season finale at Dallas. I'm 55 now and still wonder "what if." What if Washington had won the division at Dallas? I too believe they would had defeated the Rams. Tampa's defense would of posed a difficult challenge. Then, of course, possibly facing and losing to the mighty Steelers in the Super Bow. That 1979 season also holds a special place in my heart.
Thomas Henderson mugging for the camera at 1:32:11 apparently got him cut from the team. That, and his on-field performance in this game. I wish he could’ve been clean and stayed with the team through the early 80s, when they kept losing those NFC Championships.
Hollywood wrote a great autobiography about 30 years ago. One of the best sports books I've ever read. He gives a lot of inside stuff on the Cowboys of that time. Not a strictly smear job type book, but a good look at the inside of the Cowboys franchise of the day.
I recall this game only because Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson was cut the next day due to his antics on the sidelines while the Cowboys were being beat. Henderson had the talent and ability to be the original no. 56 before Lawrence "LT" Taylor made that no. famous for linebackers. In addition to run support, coverage, and blitzing, Henderson was an excellent return man. How many linebackers could return kicks? They both also had similar personality traits. The difference was that Taylor could, at least while he was playing, control "LT" while Henderson couldn't control "Hollywood." Henderson is a totally different man today and has acknowledged his mistakes. He's also had the last laugh by winning $28 million in the Texas lottery about 20 years ago.
Olkewicz not Coleman. Coleman did not start in this game and without looking it up I do not believe he started in Super Bowl 17. He did start in Super Bowl 22 because Milot was phasing out due to age. Coleman was more than capable of starting and playing all linebacker positions. And might have been better than all the starters. Stopping the run takes a toll on Linebackers and Coleman playing a nickel role most of his career might be why he got a decent paycheck for about a decade and a half. I honestly believe Coleman would have been a regular at the pro bowl if not for being a nickel LB his entire career but he played 4 super bowls which is much better.
@@johnliberty3647 Right. The Redskins kept the lineup of Milot Olkewicz and Kaufman for a few years. They were so solid at LB they were able to have a guy like Coleman at Nickel and special teams.
Life long skins fan I was 14 the most crushing defeat other than the Thanksgiving Clint longley bomb was week,14 when they blew two double digits leads and lost in Dallas I still have not got over that game but good things were coming pardee got fired and 3 super bowls ,in 11years followed by the way Dallas has never beaten the skins in the playoffs
@@lutherjennings6565 Yes, but he wasn't the one needlessly spearing people and giving up valuable yardage to the Redskins via penalty. Simply smiling at the camera and saying your team is "number one" is hardly just grounds for getting rid of one of your most talented players. Landry had probably told him multiple times before this game to stop making himself the center of attention, and so this was merely the figurative straw that finally broke the camel's back.
@@SingleTax There was another game they played in Pittsburgh in week 9. It was the 14 to 3 loss to the Steelers and after the game. Thomas Henderson had on a T shirt under his jersey that said WE WERE WHIP IN PITTSBURGH! He showed it off in front of NFL films camera men! I saw it during a NFL week in review show when he displayed it! He conceded defeat before the game! He was not a team player in his last 2 years as a Cowboy!
@@delvindelvintumbling8452 Not true. He played for three other teams (albeit briefly) after leaving Dallas. It was actually a neck injury he suffered in a 1981 preseason game that ended his career.
Brookshier really talks like a Cowboys fan on several broadcasts, lots of those in Philly. I miss this old NFC East though, its not competitive anymore and without the Redskins its just not the same
that might of had a domino effect; septien would be relegated to punting duties at least for the rest of the day. Carano would of finished the game at qb. white would be out for the season and quite possibly not ready at the start of the 1980 season with Staubach retiring in march. and the gary hogeboom era would had been ushered in 4 years ahead of the time it actually begun. AND...dallas certainly would not had appeared in 3 consecutive nfc championships.
The clip at 1:32:09 is the last straw that supposedly ended Henderson’s career as a Cowboys. His poor performance in this game didn’t help, either. He supposedly had no tackles, yet was smiling for the camera, despite his team getting their butts handed to them
Harmon lost the last game when he lost the ball!!skins needed one first down to ice the division! Still pisses me off!! Oh yeah feragamo to waddy!! By By Dallas!!
Blame Jack Pardee for that. Riggins fumbled the play before, Redskins recovered and I guess Pardee felt more comfortable giving the ball to someone else besides Riggins.
The Redskins had a chance to hang a TD on Green Bay at the end of the week 14 game. They were good sports and didn't want to rub it in as they were up 38-21. By the way that game is now available on you tube.
Cowboys showed a real lack of class and sportsmanship in this loss. Roughing penalties, knocking Theismann down after the TD pass. It was very unlike most Landry coached teams. Cowboy fans take note. It's fine when you're winning......you got your ass kicked.
Too much was made of Henderson's gesture. The cameraman focused on the "#1" towel & Henderson acknowledged him. Dallas was losing but not badly at the time. They'd already lost "Too Tall" to boxing. Dropping Henderson weakened an already weakened defense.
Washington caught flak for that late field goal. In retrospect, they should’ve gone for a touchdown. They lost the playoff tiebreaker to the Bears by 3 points.
It really should not have come down to that. They blew 2 double digit leads to the cowboys in that last game 17-0 and 34-21. The year they blew quite a few leads. If it wasn't for the Cardinals going on vacation a week early losing to the Bears 42-6 We would have gotten in regardless. Going into that weekend the Bears needed 34point winning margin to make the playoffs. smh lol
Brookshire mentions how Riggins is healthy this year. People forget that Riggins had multiple injuries his first few years with the Skins. There was a lot of hype when the Skins picked him up, yet he was kind of a bust until he became the feature back in 78'. It's a shame he wasted all those years with the hapless Jets.
KINDA, the Skins fired Pardee a year later and ended up with Joe Gibbs, the only coach they ever had to win a Super Bowl or 3. It's not like the Cowboys won the Super Bowl or like the Redskins were going to. For the Cowboys of the 70s? Winning a division? Is that really a big deal? Roger was amazing and pulled one right out of his you know what in week 16, and we're all better off for that. But, Devi's Advocate, as a football fan, if Washington had won, it would have been Dallas at Philly in the WC game, the winner would have gone to Tampa Bay with the Rams playing at the Redskins. Do you really think the Cowboys would have lost to Philly or Tampa? I don't. And the Rams weren't gonna win in a cold weather game in Washington. So then you get Washington hosting Dallas in the NFC Championship game. If Washington wins, Pittsburgh kills them and they don't fire Pardee the next year. If Dallas wins, the Steelers kill them and the Redskins probably still don't fire Pardee. So what did you really win in that game, Cowboys?
@@jredwine12 it's very easy to look back in hindsight and describe something like that. So the Patriots won every game of the season in 2007 except the one that meant the most. What did they get out of that season?
Lets see if anybody have the two playoff games in the 1972 season for the redskins. I mean the full game the season they went to the super bowl if so lets see it.
Was too young to remember them, but I would love to see them. I remember hearing somewhere that getting a hold of entire games from pre-1974 is extremely hard for some reason.
How the Redskins could play this well against the Cowboys (who were one of the best teams in the league that season) and then get their asses kicked the very next week by the Giants -- who were mediocre at best -- is beyond me.
They were the only NFC east team not to beat the Giants in Giants stadium in 79! That was one of 2 games that the Redskins wasted an opportunity to beat teams that they were supposed to beat! The other was a week 9 loss to New Orleans!
Perhaps it's psychological: after finally dominating their most bitter rival, after years of being dominated by them, they probably felt like they had just won the Super Bowl, and so were emotionally flat the following week.
Monte Coleman #51 of the Washington Redskins played from 1979-1994. He was a solid player and leader his entire career.
Respect
Possibly the best Nickel LB in NFL History. Spent most of career as a non starter but I would not say he was a back up, he had a role and was the best in the league at that role especially during the Gibbs years. Had a few seasons as a starter including the 1987 Super Bowl Season. Had one season where he was a pass rushing demon in 1984, he also was a shut down cover LB shutting won RB's coming out of the backfield. One of my favorite all time Redskins.
@@johnliberty3647 He was a great Nickel LB. Do you remember his nickname among his Redskins teammates?
@@johnvisconti9848 If I knew I forgot it. Sometimes I wonder if Gibbs made him a Nickel LB to keep him fresh because when he was a starting LB he stopped the run as good as any other LB, and better than some of the starters. I felt he was as good as Wilbur Marshall and better than Andre Collins back in 1991. I felt he was better than Milot and as good as Kaufman in 1982.
@@johnliberty3647 The idea about Gibbs wanting to keep him fresh is interesting. After all, he was asked to cover lots of ground when he played Nickel in obvious passing situations. In the mid-to-late 80's, lots of teams liked to get multiple WR's on the field and then get a fleet-footed RB to the second or third-level against a LB. The Giants did it with Dave Meggett and the Skins themselves did it with Kelvin Bryant. It required solid pass protection from your five OL's, because they received no help from TE's or RB's, but if you could get the 2.1-- 2.3 seconds, you could make big plays. In the modern game, those match-ups happen less frequently, as LB's are typically replaced by extra defensive-backs. But Gibbs listened to Petitbon, and if the DC wanted to save Monte Coleman for particular scenarios, he would get it. I agree with all of your assessments/comparisons, except the one about Wilbur Marshall. I mean, it depends what you want to do with your LB's. But Marshall was special. You could deploy him as a pass-rusher, he had tremendous range as a run-defender, and he had the power and strength to stack up TE's and FB's at the point of attack. Few LB's could make plays in both space and traffic like a healthy Wilbur Marshall. He did have lots of nagging injury problems after leaving Chicago, however. Monte Coleman's Redskin teammates called him 'Superman,' or 'Supes,' because of his physique. The nickname was not well known to the public.
@UCDLCornL9wfl0beSyVLnzbA Just to tell you how long Monte Coleman played, I was in Kindergarten his rookie season, maybe a year after his rookie season. I learned about his retirement when I was ending my enlistment in the US Navy.
Henderson’s last game for Dallas. I read both of Hollywood Henderson’s books. I highly recommend them. He became an incredible human being!
I enjoy watching this again.
I was 11 when this game was played. I remember this being the last game for Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson as a Cowboy.
Yes, it was his last game in a Cowboy uniform
Indeed it was. I remember that sideline towel antic and that Landry had had enough of him after that game. He did turn his life around after football, and got over himself and the substance abuse.
@@roysorgo I think, about ten years ago, he hit the Powerball lottery . How lucky is that?
@@tesla-v2681 it was longer ago than that
This was an incredible game, back when these two teams used to just beat the absolute hell out of each other just about every time they played. The Redskins' defense was just UNREAL in this game. Just brutal. Especially Coy Bacon. That guy never got enough credit. Some say he should be the NFL's all-time sack leader, as he was playing for years before they started counting sacks. He had three alone in this game, as well as a recovered fumble. I remember how awesome the team seemed to be this year. Unfortunately, under Pardee, they always seemed to get JUST to the point of taking the brass ring, and then they'd fall apart. The year before, they started 6-0, then missed the playoffs at 8-8. Not easy to do. They were a much better team in '79, but same problem came back to bite them in Dallas at the end of this year, one of the most soul-crushing defeats in team history. Up 17-0, then blew that lead, then retook the lead late and were up by 13 with just a few minutes left. Pardee went ultra-conservative and the team couldn't even get a first down. Meanwhile, Captain Comeback leads Dallas to a near-miraculous 35-34 victory, knocking the Skins out of the playoffs. That was devastating. What's interesting here is at the end, when Moseley is about to come in to kick that last field goal, you can see Riggins waving him off. You could tell he didn't want the team to do this. Yes, they were trying for playoff points, but I know Dallas used this as motivation in the last game, saying the Redskins had run up the score on them. Riggins was probably right.
Anyway, all that said, Dallas probably did the team a favor by beating them in the final game and knocking them out of the postseason, because that led to Pardee getting fired the next year and Gibbs coming in, which led to 3 championships in 4 Super Bowl appearances and a dynasty. This rivalry was so intense in those days, though. There was nothing like it.
Well said. You summed it up.
I remember a Coy Bacon football card I had as a kid. On the back side of the card, it said he had 26 sacks one year. Like you said, sacks were not officially counted back then.
Losing that game, while it was a bitter loss at the time, was the best thing long-term for them. They likely don't end up with Gibbs as their HC, and could be another Cleveland or Detroit with no SB appearances other than the 'over the hill gang.'
Fantastic summary! I remember watching that 35-34 finale at the time. Indeed it was soul-crushing. The '79 'skins really should have been playoff-bound.
Pat Summerall could do play by play of a riot and make everyone relaxed
And yet interested.
That's funny B W I think you're right!
Summerall and Brookshire: The best of the best.
he'd get lots of work what with rioting in democrat run shitholes now virtually legal and sanctioned by city council.
Agree. Incredible chemistry...like two football buddies sitting in a bar. BUT I must admit the Summerall-Madden tandem was also good, and eventually became great. Different from Summerall-Brookshier, but also great.
HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!! HAIL VICTORY! BRAVES ON THE WARPATH! FIGHT FOR 'OL DC!
Great quality video from so long ago thank you for posting
the music they played heading into commercial break back then was classic.
I remember watching this game. Superb video quality. Thanks for posting.
Henderson's dismissal from the Cowboys was also about his behavior on the flight back to Dallas after this game. Harvey Martin later said he thought Hollywood had gone insane, behavior which almost certainly was the result of his addiction.
sportshistorybuff yeah but he would later win the lottery
Believe it or not, there was a horse named "Hollywood Hendersn" that used to race at the New York Racing Association tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga) in the early-to-mid 1980's.
I was at that game, my first Redskins/Cowboys game, I was a kid and admit was star struck seeing Dallas players for the first time that I've seen on television, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Harvey Martin, etc., we had lower level seats at the visiting team's tunnel, we gave the Cowboys hell calling the players names, the players ignored us except Hollywood Henderson, he was talking smack back to us.
Figures.
That is one thing Thomas was very good at
At one time RFK was noted as possibly having the best grass in the land? Wow
You will never see two color analysts who could do play-by-play and “play off” each other by switching roles. R.I.P. Pat and Tom
Pat and John Madden were a great team but Pat and Tom were also great.
@@jpkillibrew1638 John never did promos or upcoming shows like Pat did.
oh man, they were sooo great. Even back then they had noisy loud guys in the booth....like every second nowdays.
Thanks for posting this video. I'm making a Dallas Cowboys scrapbook for my brother who the ultimate Dallas Cowboy fan.
Wish I had the NFL Sunday Ticket in those days. Then again, I was 9 years old and my parents would not have been able to afford it.
I was 5 years old at the time and no ones family could have afforded it. We were eating out of the garden in those days. The great Jimmy Carter economy.
I was 10 years old in L.A. and the Rams were playing on Monday night. Summerall/Brookshier announced the primary CBS game so maybe I saw this live?
NFL Sunday Ticket started in 1994
I think he meant to say that he wished the NFL Sunday Ticket existed in 79. I would have even said the RedZone channel. Yo Scott Hanson what up homie
Funny you should say that. I was 10 that year and I remember telling my dad you should be about to just pick the game you want to watch on a particular channel.
Will never forget my brother saying that "Dallas brings out the robot Septien."
Coy Bacon was an old man but his tank was full at the end of the game. Too bad he wasn't a Redskins when I started watching Football
It was great seeing Elvin Hayes in the Booth .... 😁
One of the few times a Bullet was brought into the booth. Washington was the two time defending Eastern Conference Champions at this point.
1:47:40 Staubach's no look pass on the money, too bad TD dropped it...
Strange looking throw.
The game that cost Wash a playoff spot in 79 was losing at home to the lowly Saints at home .
The 78-79 Redskins made losing late in the season an art form. But that got them Joe Gibbs. Worth it for them, I'd say.
@@jredwine12 No Question! But that 79 Skins team will always be my favorite for some reason. They would have beaten the Rams in the first round and Tampa Bay in the NFC Championship then they would have landed to earth vs the Steelers in the Bowl.
Washington also blew a 27-13 4th quarter lead at home against Houston in their season opener! Houston scored the last 16 points in the 4th to win 29-27! That was a costly loss there as well!
@@vincentfusco2719 ...I was 13 when they lost that season finale at Dallas. I'm 55 now and still wonder "what if." What if Washington had won the division at Dallas? I too believe they would had defeated the Rams. Tampa's defense would of posed a difficult challenge. Then, of course, possibly facing and losing to the mighty Steelers in the Super Bow. That 1979 season also holds a special place in my heart.
I agree! But their loss the next week at New York was costly to! They were the only NFC east team to lose to the Giants in 79!!!
very very nice man, thanks
Thomas Henderson mugging for the camera at 1:32:11 apparently got him cut from the team. That, and his on-field performance in this game. I wish he could’ve been clean and stayed with the team through the early 80s, when they kept losing those NFC Championships.
You are right. Hollywood would have helped them in the early 80’s get to more Superbowls.
Hollywood wrote a great autobiography about 30 years ago. One of the best sports books I've ever read. He gives a lot of inside stuff on the Cowboys of that time. Not a strictly smear job type book, but a good look at the inside of the Cowboys franchise of the day.
I recall this game only because Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson was cut the next day due to his antics on the sidelines while the Cowboys were being beat. Henderson had the talent and ability to be the original no. 56 before Lawrence "LT" Taylor made that no. famous for linebackers. In addition to run support, coverage, and blitzing, Henderson was an excellent return man. How many linebackers could return kicks? They both also had similar personality traits. The difference was that Taylor could, at least while he was playing, control "LT" while Henderson couldn't control "Hollywood." Henderson is a totally different man today and has acknowledged his mistakes. He's also had the last laugh by winning $28 million in the Texas lottery about 20 years ago.
end of the Staubach era in Dallas,Billy Jo Dupree is a big dude .
loved this game back in the day!!! Hate those Cow pies!!
Only 7 of 22 starters in this game who started in the Super Bowl 3 years later for the Washington Redskins
Let me guess without looking it up....Theismann, Riggins, Warren, Peters,Murphy, Starke, Coleman?
Olkewicz not Coleman. Coleman did not start in this game and without looking it up I do not believe he started in Super Bowl 17. He did start in Super Bowl 22 because Milot was phasing out due to age. Coleman was more than capable of starting and playing all linebacker positions. And might have been better than all the starters. Stopping the run takes a toll on Linebackers and Coleman playing a nickel role most of his career might be why he got a decent paycheck for about a decade and a half. I honestly believe Coleman would have been a regular at the pro bowl if not for being a nickel LB his entire career but he played 4 super bowls which is much better.
@@johnliberty3647 Right. The Redskins kept the lineup of Milot Olkewicz and Kaufman for a few years. They were so solid at LB they were able to have a guy like Coleman at Nickel and special teams.
Life long skins fan I was 14 the most crushing defeat other than the Thanksgiving Clint longley bomb was week,14 when they blew two double digits leads and lost in Dallas I still have not got over that game but good things were coming pardee got fired and 3 super bowls ,in 11years followed by the way Dallas has never beaten the skins in the playoffs
The first matchup between the two of the 79 season in assuming right? And Ofcourse I know about the second matchup in Dallas. Yikes for Wash. 🤦🏻♂️
who else noticed assistant coach Mike Ditka on the dallas sidelines?
Ditka was an assistant under coach Landry in the 70s.
Anybody who's familiar with Mike Ditka and especially the Cowboys will know that one
I believe this was Hollywood Henderson’s last game with Dallas
You are right! He was on camera having fun when they were losing!
@@lutherjennings6565 Yes, but he wasn't the one needlessly spearing people and giving up valuable yardage to the Redskins via penalty. Simply smiling at the camera and saying your team is "number one" is hardly just grounds for getting rid of one of your most talented players. Landry had probably told him multiple times before this game to stop making himself the center of attention, and so this was merely the figurative straw that finally broke the camel's back.
@@SingleTax There was another game they played in Pittsburgh in week 9. It was the 14 to 3 loss to the Steelers and after the game. Thomas Henderson had on a T shirt under his jersey that said WE WERE WHIP IN PITTSBURGH! He showed it off in front of NFL films camera men! I saw it during a NFL week in review show when he displayed it! He conceded defeat before the game! He was not a team player in his last 2 years as a Cowboy!
Yes he was kicked out of the league
@@delvindelvintumbling8452 Not true. He played for three other teams (albeit briefly) after leaving Dallas. It was actually a neck injury he suffered in a 1981 preseason game that ended his career.
1:34:42 Aww...he seemed so inoffensive and adorable when I wuz a kid in the 70's! 1:42:08 Yeah that wuz fun.
Rookie season for Monte Coleman. He ran like a deer then.
I think I saw Mike Ditka on the Dallas sidelines back at 3:53
He was Receivers and Special Teams coach for Dallas. Better shot of him at 2:01:21
Its always nice to see washington kick Dallas ass!!!
It might be nice on your side but it's awesome on our side when Washington gets their butt kicked, which by the way is most of the time. :)
1979… when you have 10 TDs and 10 INTs and no one calls for your job as a starting Quarterback.
Love my 'Skins!
Before Sunday night football games they used to play in the twilight games
From Sun. 11/18/1979, they would meet again in 4 weeks in Dallas for the Division Title.
Wasn’t Mark Mosley the last straight-legged kicker in the NFL?
Pretty much.
Steve cox
Back in the day cowboys and Redskins we're playing in the twilight games at 1 pm West coast time 4 pm Washington time
yeah no they still have 4PM games even today haha.
As a kid those twilight games between these 2 teams was so cool, especially with Summeralls calming, grandfatherly voice!
@@ErnestTeeBass heaven
Brookshier really talks like a Cowboys fan on several broadcasts, lots of those in Philly. I miss this old NFC East though, its not competitive anymore and without the Redskins its just not the same
Pat Summerall's retort to Henderson's #1 towel.....lol
Love it
The Redskins had some fine Cheerleaders 6:19
2:37:05 Don't miss this moment! HUMAN BOWLING BALL!
2:33:14 If you examine this sack it's really similar to the Theismann leg injury. White was lucky that didn't happen to him on this play.
Danny took a lot of vicious shots. LT really came hard at him.
White gave up a little sooner than than Theismann did in 1985, probably saved his leg
that might of had a domino effect;
septien would be relegated to punting duties at least for the rest of the day.
Carano would of finished the game at qb. white would be out for the season and quite possibly not ready at the start of the 1980 season with Staubach retiring in march.
and the gary hogeboom era would had been ushered in 4 years ahead of the time it actually begun.
AND...dallas certainly would not had appeared in 3 consecutive nfc championships.
The clip at 1:32:09 is the last straw that supposedly ended Henderson’s career as a Cowboys. His poor performance in this game didn’t help, either. He supposedly had no tackles, yet was smiling for the camera, despite his team getting their butts handed to them
Ty!!
This was Thomas " Hollywood" Henderson's last game with the Cowboys
Harmon lost the last game when he lost the ball!!skins needed one first down to ice the division! Still pisses me off!! Oh yeah feragamo to waddy!! By By Dallas!!
Which game are you referring to? Dallas or New Orleans?
Blame Jack Pardee for that. Riggins fumbled the play before, Redskins recovered and I guess Pardee felt more comfortable giving the ball to someone else besides Riggins.
The Redskins had a chance to hang a TD on Green Bay at the end of the week 14 game. They were good sports and didn't want to rub it in as they were up 38-21. By the way that game is now available on you tube.
Cowboys showed a real lack of class and sportsmanship in this loss. Roughing penalties, knocking Theismann down after the TD pass. It was very unlike most Landry coached teams.
Cowboy fans take note. It's fine when you're winning......you got your ass kicked.
Look who won the revenge game in one of the best games ever about a month later
Crazy thing is that Skins still loss by point differential smh lol
That's some heated games thanks to coach Allen rip
Jack Pardee was the Redskins head coach in 1979
the end of Hollywoods career at 1:32
if they change their name I'll find a new NFL team
Red Knights
Me and u both....
@@davidlucasmachado2831 Football Team has never been defeated in their entire history. How can you change perfection?
@@johnellizz they will this weekend....taste defeat
@@davidlucasmachado2831 Football Team has never...WILL NEVER.
Too much was made of Henderson's gesture. The cameraman focused on the "#1" towel & Henderson acknowledged him. Dallas was losing but not badly at the time. They'd already lost "Too Tall" to boxing. Dropping Henderson weakened an already weakened defense.
4:28 Damn! Look at Joe Theismann's crappy stats before 'the Hogs' protected him.
Washington caught flak for that late field goal. In retrospect, they should’ve gone for a touchdown. They lost the playoff tiebreaker to the Bears by 3 points.
It really should not have come down to that. They blew 2 double digit leads to the cowboys in that last game 17-0 and 34-21. The year they blew quite a few leads. If it wasn't for the Cardinals going on vacation a week early losing to the Bears 42-6 We would have gotten in regardless. Going into that weekend the Bears needed 34point winning margin to make the playoffs. smh lol
Brookshire mentions how Riggins is healthy this year. People forget that Riggins had multiple injuries his first few years with the Skins. There was a lot of hype when the Skins picked him up, yet he was kind of a bust until he became the feature back in 78'. It's a shame he wasted all those years with the hapless Jets.
nothin was more perfect. He was just pacing himself😄 He finished his career like a fine aged wine
...or beer 😄
@@eggsmann594so true eggsman
I love George Allen but he really missed an opportunity to have a great offense with Riggins. Big mistake that I'm sure he realized later.
MIKE DITKA ! 1:16:36
..assist coach😁
Dallas got the last laugh a month later
Y que huevas amante de los cowshits
KINDA, the Skins fired Pardee a year later and ended up with Joe Gibbs, the only coach they ever had to win a Super Bowl or 3. It's not like the Cowboys won the Super Bowl or like the Redskins were going to. For the Cowboys of the 70s? Winning a division? Is that really a big deal? Roger was amazing and pulled one right out of his you know what in week 16, and we're all better off for that. But, Devi's Advocate, as a football fan, if Washington had won, it would have been Dallas at Philly in the WC game, the winner would have gone to Tampa Bay with the Rams playing at the Redskins. Do you really think the Cowboys would have lost to Philly or Tampa? I don't. And the Rams weren't gonna win in a cold weather game in Washington. So then you get Washington hosting Dallas in the NFC Championship game. If Washington wins, Pittsburgh kills them and they don't fire Pardee the next year. If Dallas wins, the Steelers kill them and the Redskins probably still don't fire Pardee. So what did you really win in that game, Cowboys?
@@jredwine12 so true. Well said
@@kibitznec700 you need help
@@jredwine12 it's very easy to look back in hindsight and describe something like that. So the Patriots won every game of the season in 2007 except the one that meant the most. What did they get out of that season?
Lead ref wear the black hat but into today's game lead ref wear white
It looks like Bozo at 1:13:13 is extremely unhappy about being on television or he's letting you know his team is #1 :)
I don't think "Hollywood" is a good football nickname.
Dallas was SO LAME with how their offensive linemen would rise up before the ball was snapped.
That was classic
Lets see if anybody have the two playoff games in the 1972 season for the redskins. I mean the full game the season they went to the super bowl if so lets see it.
Was too young to remember them, but I would love to see them. I remember hearing somewhere that getting a hold of entire games from pre-1974 is extremely hard for some reason.
@@tesla-v2681near impossible
skins were better than cowboys in 79
They were better in this game and most of the last game, but Staubach did his thing...
Redskin 12 year dynasty started 33 months later.
That is really hard to prove Sandy
Not in week 16 remember 35-34?
who won the division?
2:09:01 interference on Houston aiding in INT
How the Redskins could play this well against the Cowboys (who were one of the best teams in the league that season) and then get their asses kicked the very next week by the Giants -- who were mediocre at best -- is beyond me.
They were the only NFC east team not to beat the Giants in Giants stadium in 79! That was one of 2 games that the Redskins wasted an opportunity to beat teams that they were supposed to beat! The other was a week 9 loss to New Orleans!
Perhaps it's psychological: after finally dominating their most bitter rival, after years of being dominated by them, they probably felt like they had just won the Super Bowl, and so were emotionally flat the following week.
Well they were up and coming and didn't have a great coach. The last game of the year had me in tears.
2:13:57 haha no way that wasn't intentional.
Lol. You know it
Jo
Roger sucked in this game
Brookshier was no Madden.
I love Madden but in many ways Brooky was better. Had a laid back lets have a beer and watch the game vibe.
This loss was absolute bullshit.
Pretty decent clean game no controversy a win's a win a loss is a loss. Clean up your profanity here on UA-cam as well thank you
The Redskins were the better team on this day even the Cowboys as talented as they were can't win every week