The CRAZY Finish to the 1979 NFL Season | WE NEED MORE POINTS
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- Remember the famous "we need more points" moment from NFL Primetime to close out the 1999 NFL season? Well, that happened in 1979, and actually determined who would get the final spot in the playoffs in the NFC. This is the story behind the absolutely crazy finish to the 1979 NFL season, which came down to point differential
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A 70's choke story about a team not named the Vikings. Keep 'em coming.
Worth mentioning the sequel in 1980: Dallas needed to beat Philadelphia by 25 points to win the division title, they went ahead 35-10, Eagles came back to lose 35-27. Dallas did make the playoffs, but only as a wild card, and lost to Philly in the NFC Championship game.
I talk a lot about the Cowboys and Eagles in 1980 in a video I made a few months ago: ua-cam.com/video/TxSCIvDcioU/v-deo.html
@@OfficialJaguarGator9 Excellent! Thanks.
The Eagles lost and won that day ( meaning the division title)
Good Memory
In that game, the Eagles were doing things like kicking fieldgoals to keep the score closer..even if not going for the TD hurt their chances of winning the game.
I was 11 and living in Chicago when this went down. I remember being at a church function that night with my parents and every guy in the place was crowding around a few who had brought transistor radios. The place was buzzing when the Cowboys came back. I loved seeing that! Thanks for the video!!. I did not remember Mugs Halas dying that day, so that adds to my understanding of the emotions of the day.
I was the same age(11) when the Cowboys-Redskins were playing. I hated the Cowboys back then and when Washington took a 13pt lead on that Riggins run, i was jumping up and down. Then Roger Staubach made one of his last comebacks. When he threw that pass to Tony Hill to win the game, i shed a tear.
Those NFL seasons when you’re that age, something very nostalgic about that. In my opinion anyway, the best time to be a sports fan in your entire life is the period of time when the players are your age group. That ended for me in 2019 when Eli retired. We’re the same age. He was pretty much the last one in the sports world born in 1981 that wasn’t retired yet. It’s just not the same AT ALL when the guys coming into the league are a generation removed from you. Like, you’re old enough to be their dad generational gap. Don’t get me wrong I will always love the NFL, NBA, MLB. But I finally understood why the older dudes at work could care less about whatever is happening in sports. I remember one guy saying “I haven’t watched baseball since they broke up The Big Red Machine.” At the time I just didn’t get it. Now I do. What I’m trying to say is enjoy these years in your fan hood. Because once you hit a certain age, and it’ll come out of nowhere it seems, you just don’t care nearly as much. I’m less than ten years older than you guys, so it’s around the corner for y’all too.
@@jpmnky I'll always be grateful to Eli for stopping the Patriots from getting that perfect season (keeping the '85 Bears as the best team ever of course). Your math might be a bit off on our ages though young fella.
I was 10 years old in 1979, and I was with my family visiting my grandparents in the Chicago area that weekend. Our plan was to drive home to Michigan that day, and we left before the game started. As the video shows, there was snow on the Soldier Field turf. There was also snow and ice on Interstates 90 and 94. There were numerous accidents that day throughout Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. By the time we got to mid Michigan, we had seen 11 accidents. We stopped counting when we became number 12.
Wow!!
I do understand that point differential can cause problems but I am also a believer that sometimes point differential is a better indicator of how good a team truly is
At worst, I feel point differential is worth looking at (okay, there were the 1989 Bengals, who had a triple-figure point differential, but only finished 8-8, since they could blowout a team 61-7 but also lose 13-7).
Very interesting that not one, but TWO members of this 1979 Bears team ended up being federal judges after retirement from football: Bob Thomas and Alan Page.
The NFL saw one of the most exciting sequence of events in league history and made sure it would never happen again.
In 89 I toured Texas Stadium and I relived that Tony Hill touchdown. They used to let fans come in on the Saturday before the game and I caught the TD pass.
It was awesome.
Cool story! Great moment/game in team history!
To this day, my mother believes that the Cardinals deliberately let the Bears beat them by that wide margin. That way, the Redskins would have to win against the Cowboys in order to make the playoffs. The motive: revenge against the Redskins.
Yep 👍🏾
A Cowboy fan
Yep revenge somehow they had no other way those weak Cardinals couldnt beat Washington unless it was a terrible call like the Mel Grass robbery we owned the Cardinals they headed West to keep from getting beat
I really enjoy your channel and NFL analysis...So thank you for posting such interesting content. As a lifelong Washington fan 1979 was a painful end to a surprisingly good season. In that epic final game against Dallas I believe the officials made a mistake by not allowing Washington a final FG attempt. As time expired Don Warren caught a Theismann pass at about the Dallas 40 yard line. As soon as he caught it Warren called for a timeout but the officials ruled that time had expired. Slow motion replay indicated that there was still one second left but the officials huddled and ruled that time had expired and game was over. Sadly in 1979 there was no challenge system. Would have loved to see if Moseley could have made a GW FG with :01 left. It would have been a herculean effort at 57 or 58 yards but he was in his prime and he was having a great year.
Another painful reality to this season was that if everything is the same (Wash and Chicago both 10-6) BUT it is 1978 or 1980 instead of 1979 then the tiebreaker would be decided by Common Opponents and in that scenario Washington wins with a 5-1 record compared to Chicago's 4-2 against their common opponents. So 1979 was gut wrenching and 1980 without Riggins and with Theismann getting hurt was a big step back. But there was some good news. Jan of 1981 Joe Gibbs became Head Coach :) and we had 12 amazing years of success. Biggest tragedy for the franchise was the day Dan Snyder bought the team in 1999. It's been 23 years of darkness. Ugh. HTTR
The great Doug Buffones last regular season game. Last of the Halas bears. Ran a fake punt for a 1st down & got a concussion for the effort bears pulled out all the stops
Doug Buffone was a solid LBer for the Bears. Spent 14 seasons with Chicago. Overshadowed by Butkus for the first half of his career.
Man that was a hell of a story, and I don't think I had heard of it before. I did know about the huge comeback regarding Dallas over Washington, but not the playoff ramifications regarding Chicago. This has to be a top 5 NFL miracle of all time. Thanks for sharing.
I remember this game vividly. You must be in your thirty’s 😀
@@garlandxx3400 Yes sir that I am :D
I was a 6th grader in DC and lived through this game. Cried like a baby that night. Then next day in school we all cried again like a bunch of 6th graders.....
It was a tumultuous day to say the least with the death of George 'Mugs' Halas Jr. which in itself is still a mystery. There were parts of the 85 Super Bowl team on this team with Payton, Fencik, and Dan Hampton. The Bears actually had a TD called back in the wild card against the Eagles that many thought cost them the game. It's not likely they advance to the Super Bowl and even beat the Steelers but the wheels are set in motion for their success for the next 12 or so years.
Yeah I think it was a Forward Motion penalty on Payton.
Brian bashnagel Bullshit call there’s a video somewhere on UA-cam about it.
16:28-I was 11 years old when I watched that Dallas/Washington game. As a Redskin fan that is the most angry I have ever been about a game. If Clarence Harmon doesn't fumble, it would have been 4th and inches with about 3:20 left in the game at the snap. Washington was better than Dallas that year and had killed them at RFK a month earlier. Was happy to see the Rams upset Dallas in the playoffs two weeks later, but had to wait until the 1982 NFC championship game to get full revenge for this one.
That was the game Thomas Henderson did his antics on the sidelines and was cut the day after the game
As a Long-Time Cowboys fan, the greatest regular season game in team history! Besides, Tony Dorsett didn't play this game. He was an outstanding member of the team that year.
I was 14 at the time and that is the saddest regular season game of my lofe. BUT they blew it. Just made a comment to someone else that it was a blessing in disguise.
It’s these type rivalries that made the NFL fun, win or lose. I think that “parity” in the NFL has greatly diminished these sorts of rivalries as it makes it nearly impossible to remain competitive on a consistent level.
thanks that brought back a lot of memerors for me i was 13 at the time, when the day started and they went through what had to happen for the bears to get in on the NFL today show didn't think it would happen with the weather on the points but man when it started happening i thought they just might do this and they got the points covered , then the dallas game started the way it did my hopes went out the door that game was on TV, then they came back got happy again then wash got up 13 like you said 4 minutes with the ball my hopes went back out the door then it all started happening couldn't believe what i was watching , never in my life had my emotions went up and down so many times in a 6 hour span , then Chicago got screwed in the playoffs against philly worst refed game i have ever seen still to this day
The Bears are who they thought they were, and they let 'em off the hook.
@Dawson Matteo Definitely, I have been watching on flixzone} for years myself :D
@Dawson Matteo Yup, I've been using flixzone} for months myself :)
What was said in 2006 worked in 1979
"That's why we took the damn field"!!!!!!!!!!!! RIP Coach Green
I just thought of this that was said after Bears Cardinals game 2006 go back to 1979 Bears Cardinals game
14:32 His name is Robert Newhouse. You're thinking of Timmy Newsome, whom Dallas drafted in 1980.
Washington Dallas game was the best game to close out the 70s
Roger Staubach last comeback.
8:13 Plank
"My whole career would be illegal." Doug Plank after being asked if he could play under modern rules.
Plank was a
Hitter a white Jack Tatum
17:21 FOUR of his offensive lineman are on their backs when he throws it.
Everyone knows Staubach is a legend, but I still think he's underrated. I'm in my 30s and I feel like alot of my peers (who weren't alive when he played) think of him as a Terry Bradshaw.
What I mean by that is they see him as an above average player surrounded by great players who made him look better.
Staubach was the greatest quarterback of the 70's. This is coming from a Skins fan.
@@tesla-v2681Redskins fan signing in here who absolutely agrees with you here! And he came out Navy football of all places.
The plus side to that loss was that riggins retired only to come back and have a Hall of Fame end of his career and get a super bowl trophy in an NFC championship as well.
Is there a video about 1967 Baltimore Colts season? The team was 11-1-2 and didn't make the playoffs. The Colts' official winning percentage of .917 (based on the NFL's non-counting of ties for such purposes prior to 1972) is the best in North American professional sports history for a non-playoff-qualifying team. It is also remarkable that the Colts entered the final game undefeated and yet didn't make the playoffs.
Just found this channel. Love the obscure, weird moments in league history being dissected so well. And that vintage game footage is awesome. Keep up the good work
I remember this well. The redskins were beating Dallas earlier in the year, and then kicked what appeared to be a meaningless FG to rub it in. They did it for this reason. It couldve mattered.
Best Regular Season Game in Cowboys team History! Sweet Revenge on the earlier loss to Washington.
@@nymike06 That 35-34 game remains, to this day, my favorite game ever. Roger Staubach was, and still is, my all time favorite player, and that was a VERY GOOD Redskin team. The play Larry Cole made is one of the most overlooked in his career.
@@dtplusthepoints3409 Larry Cole made a living beating the Redskins. I rank that 79 game as the greatest Cowboys regular season game. The 1993 NYG game is the 2nd best, when Emmitt ran with a separated shoulder to help the Cowboys win the division and home field advantage.
But back to Larry Cole. All career TD's was against Washington and that tackle on Riggins was the most important play of his career. What an underrated player he was.
@@nymike06 I was gna mention that as well (all TDs were vs Redskins). Cant disagree w your choice for 2nd either, given its importance.
@@nymike06 Also of note in that game is that Dallas did without Dorsett, who was out, and, largely, without Drew Pearson, who was banged up as well. Role players like Springs and Preston Pearson came up HUGE. Glad they didnt get a chance at that 53 yd FG at the end too!
44 was Robert Newhouse, not Newsome. I’m just being picky. Great video, as always. Keep them coming!
Timmie Hewhouse replaced Robert Newsmen (I know I am wrong here)
Don’t worry, Tom Landry kept call NewSome Newhouse as well. After Danny White he could not keep his Quarterback’s name straight either. Trivia: name the key Cowboys Quarterbacks between Danny White and Troy Aikmen.
@@garlandxx3400 Steve Pelluer (sp?) Kevin Sweeney.. some might consider Steve Walsh but Walsh and Aikman arrived at the same time.
@@garlandxx3400 Hoggleboom Quicy CarterI remember Theismann first year starting in 78 we were 6-0 and we beat Dallas on MNF 9-5 and Newhouse would leave his mouth piece hanging out on pass plays and Washington picked up on it..We started 6-0 and finished 8- 8...I think we were out of shape we died out quick and we played Dallas later in the Season they blasted us 37-10? Joe Theismann was new and improved once Riggins and once started getting the ball they should have thrown the ball more to Riggins out of the Back field
@@chrisslaughter5552 alas , the 9-5 Jimmy Carter in the rain 🌧 at RFK game! 😃
Back in the 90s, watching nfl prime time was more fun than watching the actual games. Chris Berman and Tom Jackson played a big part in the NFLs massive rise at the turn of the millennium. Thanks for the reminder.
Yeah!... I got so spoiled by that in elementary and high school that I couldn't withstand watching anything but ESPN News or 5 to 10 minute clips online nowadays. Without "Baack back back back back back back" Berman, I can't watch ESPN or Fox sports highlights if it's not condensed into a 30-minute show or less. (I know there's the odd Chris Berman hater out there, but there's lots of his fans and he's a legend, so deal with it!)
I was only 8 years old when this happened. .. I was already into football and I became a Pittsburgh steelers fan.. but I was still too young to remember any of this happining during the 1979 season the one game I do remember that year was the Tampa Bay buccaneers and the Kansas city chiefs where the final score was 3-0 but anyway this was a fabulous video keep up the good work. ...
One of the greatest games in Cowboys history
I feel it's the best All-Time regular season game in Team History.
And an interesting postscript is that the Bears came into that Sunday tied with a slumping Tampa Bay Buccaneers team (started 9-2 but lost 3 straight coming into Week 16), and had the Buccaneers lost the "Rain Bowl" against Kansas City (the Bucs won 3-0) and Chicago won their finale, the Bears could have been NFC Central champions (as it happened, while both teams finished 10-6 the Bucs won the division thanks to the better division record tiebreaker)
When Larry Cole made that tackle that was Doomsday for Washington
It was actually a good thing for them as it lead to jack pardee being fired and joe Gibbs hired
Best tackle in Cole's career!
@@jewsco although Pardee coached 1 more season 1980
@@michaelleroy9281 yes but if they won and went on a playoff run he probably isn’t fired and n 1980. Main reason riggins retired for 1980 because of what happened in 1979. Without riggins they were bad and pardee was fired.
Gibbs was hired talked riggins out of retirement and the rest is history
Point about the Panthers game in 99
Jake Delhomme was playing QB for the Saints that game and he was starting in Carolina 3 years later and went to the Super Bowl in 03
I remember this. And I watched that Redskins vs Cowboys game. The media didn't do a very good job of explaining the ramifications of the Bears blowout win.
As you noted, Neill Armstrong listened to the Washington-Dallas game on radio. Although it was shown to most of the nation, Chicago didn’t see it because the Bears had a home sellout, so their game was shown and no second doubleheader game was permitted under NFL rules.
1979 I was 8 years old and had just started to watch the Bears.
I remember Walter and OJ shaking hands at the end of the Bears vs 49ers earlier that season (And OJ was finished with bad knees)
ANyways here's my store on this lat game against the St louis Cardinals (The Football Team)
Mugs Halas dies that morning. Forever changing the Bears franchise to this day.
Bears need to win and Redskins needed to lose.
Bears need to win by over 33 Points. That day they win 42-6. The hadn't scored that many points in 5 years.
That evening, I am at a religious function and everyone is huddled around the radio. Cowboys are losing to the Redskins in the 4th quarter. But Staubach pulls out one of the most incredible combacks in Cowboy's history by throwing 2 tds with a few minutes left and beating the Redskins.
After that I was hooked on the Bears.
You left out the fact that Doug Buffone (14 year vet that had been the only common teammate between Sayers, Butkas, Ditka and Payton) had announced his pending retirement earlier in the week. That was Doug catching the pass for the first down on the fake punt from Bob Parsons.
Neil Armstrong was not listening on the radio. The Cowboys game was the CBS late afternoon game that day (as it usually was in the 1970's). I watched this game live in Wisconsin on TV so there's no doubt the game was broadcast on TV in Chicago.
Also, from what I remember reading since the Cardinals-Bears game started at 2:00 p.m. Eastern (which ended after 1983); the Redskins-Cowboys game would probably have been in the 2nd quarter by the time the Bears game ended.
I think PD is actually a good way to determine a tie breaker.
I saw someone post about this on your Reddit page about the range of possibilities open for Washington going into that week. I’ll initially tell viewers to go there for the mind-blowing details.
'79 Washington: the only team in NFL history to head into a final regular season weekend with a chance to earn the #1 playoff seed but ended up missing the playoffs entirely.
The only other times that had a chance of happening was with the entire 1980 AFC playoff field, 1985 Miami and 1987 Seattle
This also happened to Miami in 2002, JG9 did a video on it. They had a chance to earn the top seed with a win and some help, but lost and missed the playoffs entirely.
@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 except that's not really true. One of my hobbies is running through past scenarios. JG9 puts out great content but he made an error there. Heading into Week 17 MIA's best scenario was to be tied with TEN and OAK (plus possibly PIT if they tied BAL). A three way tie between MIA, TEN and OAK would have gone to strength of victory. By the end of Week 16 and before Week 17 it was no longer possible for MIA to catch OAK in SOV.
Was watching the highlights of the bears/eagles wildcard game. And they mention how the bears needed a miracle to get in the playoffs! And knew right away you would have something on it!
My man I just found out that this glorious channel exists. You have created one of the best sports channels on UA-cam. I also think that you might have given away your age; somewhat. That said, you are doing a great job finding stats, games, and very interesting and important topics from bygone decades. I was born in 68', so I'm loving the look back while also learning more about the teams and the league from my youth. Thank you very much. The Cowboys are my team and I can't wait to continue with the binge watching. Continue the greatness!!!!! Thank you!!!
It’s amazing how you are able to put together so thorough features of games that seemingly have been forgotten ( a season ending Bears-Cardinals game in 1979?) Great work!
WASHINGTONIAN is still pissed how we missed the playoffs in 1979.
It was a good thing for them as it lead to jack pardee being fired and joe Gibbs hired
Ha! Ha! As a Cowboys fan, I consider this the greatest regular game in team history!
In 1985. The New England Patriots beat the Denver Broncos on 4 & 2 to Broncos 3&3 versus common opponents. The 1979 Redskins had the Bears beat 5&1 to Bears 4&2!
One of your best! Thanks for the work!!!
I’m looking at old clips of the 1979 NFL season and came across this one. Glad I did - it really explains that crazy last Sunday of the regular season. Well done! BTW, I believe Coach Jack Pardee was awarded the NFL Coach of the year in 1979 (small consolation prize, though).
This has turned into one of my favorite episodes. I remember when this happened but i didnt know about point differential(s)(i was only 11 at this time). All i remember is the Redskins had to win to get in. I also remember that Tampa Bay had to beat the Chiefs to win the division, i never though about Chicago getting in. That Bucs-Chiefs game was horrible, it rained the entire game. The game winning kick for the Bucs was almost a disaster, the holder almost bobbled the snap. The Bucs kicker had just enough to kick it through. If the Chiefs would've won, the Redskins would be in anyway.
This is the same Bennie Malone who had scored a late TD to give the Dolphins a late lead in a 1974 playoff game against the Raiders before the "Sea of Hands" happened to end Miami hopes for a 3 peat.
Benny Malone had a nice career, but he really struggled in 79'. That catch he made may have been his only good play of the entire season.
That's funny that Jag Gator mentioned Chevy Chase, since I read one of my mom's football books (from 1972), and under the Mike Phipps profile (back when he played for the Brownies) Richard Nixon said that the Browns passing game was weak, but Phipps was good (I think he was okay). I thought, "Forget Nixon, my football president would be Gerald Ford". Right after Jag Gator mentions the cardboard cutout of Chevy Chase, and Chase played Ford in early SNL skits...and here we are, dealing with a Cardinals QB who played an abysmal game (Neil Lomax, please save us, we have a football chucker who plays like Bernie Lomax!).
I liked the video before even watching it cause in the little bit of time I’ve been watching your videos man....... you’ve got the Midas touch brother
I was a 10-year-old Cowboyx fan back then thus it was loads of fun. Even worse for WAS is that had they won they would have had the NFC's #1 seed. They are this day the only team to have a chance at the #1 seed heading into the final weekend but ended up missing the playoffs entirely.
It also happened to 1980 Patriots.
No NE could not at that point climb to the #1 seed
I love the 5/28 0 TDs 2 INTS and 9.8 passer rating that's just awesome stats if your on defense or rooting for the defense 😂
I remember that situation from 1999, also involving the Cowboys in some way. That was some wild stuff!
Really excellent channel, I look forward to the day when you hit 100K+ subscribers. You deserve it.
Why the complaining about the point differential tie-breaker? This is awesome. Strength of schedule is the absolute worst tie-breaker.
I have been watching these videos, this is the best one yet.
6:42 mark, I didn't know Deadpool played in the NFL LMAO
That's Spiderman mask.
One of their players always wore it.
I vote for point differential vs. the raiders being a tiebreaker.
18:32 That was Week 16, not 17. Week 17 wasn't added to the regular season until bye weeks were 11 years later. Of course, as of 2021, there's 18.
Remember it well, great Cowboys Skins game and Staubach's last reg season game and final comback!
The Best!
This is my favorite video on your channel
Point differential is literally the best tiebreaker. It's actually a better measure of a team's ability than win-loss record is.
I knew what happened and i was still rooting for washington good vid
This is the most painful season I ever experienced. Even the skins lost to the raiders in the super bowl didn’t hurt as bad as that Dallas game
I 100% agree. Those who weren't around for it don't understand. An absolutely brutal loss.
I was 7. I cried. My Dad got mad at me.
I was five years old when that occurred but vividly remembered the game because my mom and dad were screaming with joy once Riggins ran the ball 60 some. yards for a touchdown. I wasn't understanding what actually occurred since I was five but I remember the final sequences of the game, it was at a frantic pace and chaotic. Didn't understand the finish in that remember the timeout being called and there was one second left but Skins weren't allowed to set up field goal team. I saw Theismann arguing but the refs wasn't hearing it and walked off. I was asking my dad what happened but saw the disbelief on his face as to what was occurring. The next day I went into preschool and I took my plastic football with me to school. They told me to put football away skins season is over smh(Preschool teachers we're cowboy fans) lol
You put out quality content my guy
What’s interesting is that on that last drive, Washington actually needed a touchdown to make the playoffs. If they had kicked a field goal, they would have won by 2 points. After the Bears game, they had a +3 point differential on Washington. So even if Washington had gotten the timeout off and won the game on a field goal, they would have missed the playoffs
Washington had a better record going into that week, so if they had won by 2 they would have gotten in on record alone without taking into account the differential. I had to rewatch the beginning cause I was thinking the same you were
@@suezotiger oh right
This reminds me of how the old college BCS used to be. Like how if you were playing a lower end school, and you were a ranked team that was expected to be in a BCS bowl, you had to completely destroy that lower end school. It'd be like Alabama today having to play Louisiana tech, and having to win by 60 pts to impress the CPU and not drop in the rankings.
I loved it when my Oklahoma State Cowboys upset Oklahoma in 2001 when OU needed to beat us by as many points as possible and one local sportscaster predicted a score of 45-3. There was just one problem. My team won instead.
In 2004, Cal lost a chance at a BCS bowl because they had to play a just alright Southern Mississippi team in a game rescheduled by a hurricane and couldn't win by enough points to maintain a lead over Texas even though a couple weeks earlier they nearly lost to a worse Kansas team. Cal ended up losing to the late Mike Leach and his Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Holiday Bowl.
@@aaronholcomb237 that Holiday Bowl was so satisfying. I'm a tech fan. We beat Aaron Rodgers and Marshawn Lynch.
I remember this Week 17 like it was yesterday. That was a wild day in the NFL and one that had tremendous controversy. I remember watching the NFL Today on CBS and they were going over all the possible scenarios and point differentials as possible options for the playoffs. Controversy for sure. Very well done video explaining this day.
In Australia, in all Australian Rules Football leagues of all levels, Points Percentage (Points Scored / Points Against) is the 1st tiebreaker for a team to make the playoffs/finals. This gives an incentive for teams to keep scoring throughout all games even when leading as those points could mean the difference between a playoff/finals game or the end of the season.
Not mentioned in the video is the fact that the Washington-Dallas game was head to head to decide the NFC East Division. The Cowboys were in the playoffs but wanted the division title. As a Cowboys fan, it was delicious clinching the division in a heart-stopping one-point win that also eliminated your archrivals from the playoffs. I do remember the moment when the St. Louis-Chicago final score was announced on the Dallas broadcast. That meant if the Cowboys won the game by just one, the double whammy of also eliminating the Redskins would kick in. And that's what the Cowboys did. In my estimation, it was one of two extremely satisfying regular season victories in the Tom Landry era. The other came on November 1, 1981, when the Cowboys rallied from a 14-3 deficit at the end of the third quarter for a 17-14 victory over the Eagles in Philadelphia in the first matchup since the Eagles' victory in the 1980 NFC Championship Game.
you found a nice little niche my friend...great stuff
Dallas had Roger Staubach, and he was dangerous whenever they were behind late in the 4th quarter--he was called Captain Comeback for a reason...
Great video. How did I not know about this?
And yet the next year point differential deciding a playoff spot almost happened again, ironically the Dallas Cowboys were a central character in that drama.
Yes, between the Cowboys and the Eagles
Another crazy thing that season was the playoff seeding. Dallas (#1 seed) played the the #3 seed Rams, instead of the #4 seed Eagles, because they were in the same division. I guess that wasn't allowed then.
No, not back then, in the "divisional" round, two teams from the same division were not allowed to play each other. Definitely weird, for sure
That scenario was actually pretty common. The old school NFC East regularly had 3 teams in the playoffs. Greatest division in NFL history.
Against: the Redskins had the ball and a 13 point lead with 4 minutes left. For: Staubach. The Cowboys got this.
Exactly cuz They could cover them defensively And their Skins Defensive line was weak and smaller and the bias Refs wouldn’t call holding against Dallas if they ever called anything at all.
Definitely. If you were down by 11 with four minutes to go in 1979, Staubach was the man you'd want under center. I'm sure Bears coach Neill Armstrong knew that too, which is why he stayed at Soldier Field listening to the end.
yeah that is a game you have to win. I strongly feel the way Washington lost that Cowboys game played a role in Riggins sitting out the 1980 season along with contract issue. That team was devastated and rightfully so that it carried onto the next year.
I remember this day. At the start of the day, the network announcers said the amount of points the Bears would have to score to make the playoffs was unlikely.
And to add to it.. Payton beat OJ for the rushing title by 5 yards.. 1610 to 1605!!! Sweetness!!
NFC rushing title, to be more specific. And O.J., in this case, referring to Ottis Anderson (in case anyone was thinking Simpson). Earl Campbell won the NFL rushing title that year, his second of three straight.
Favorite ESPN Primetime Buffalo Houston 1/3/93 Bills comeback 32 pt deficit
Fun fact: Jake Delhomme, Saints QB when they got stomped by the Panthers in 1999, went on to lead the Panthers to the Super Bowl just a few years later.
I remember that and it was on the Highlghts of the Cowboys game
Never a Bears fan but certainly was of Walter Payton.
Good video!
your videos are amazing, and your knowledge is crazy impressive, at 14:32 it's Robert Newhouse, not Robert Newsome w/ the TD
This sounds like the ultimate bad beat story for Washington bettors in 1979.🤣
Went to Wilmington, Delaware as a kid…interesting place…it was a crossroads…all the older people were Eagles fans…but you would see a few younger ones with Ray Lewis jerseys…legit witnessed a family beef over which game to watch!
Boy, seeing Anderson and Hart on field in extreme pain over 40 years ago makes me hurt also.
Your channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
Point differential in common games makes more sense than most tie breakers
You need to do one on the Cardinals improbable Super Bowl run of 2008.
Also, *Week 16 (of 1979).
Yes!
THAT WAS CRAZY OMG!!!!!
I think this is a better Tiebreaker than Strength of Schedule or Record against common opponents.
It is something that you can easily understand as a fan and tells more about the strength of a Team than some other tiebreakers.
Is a Team better because because they beat every team in the NFC East and loses almost every other game than a team that beat a variety of teams?
I think this tiebreaker should be bumped up to third or fourth.
Plank & Fencik busting wigs 🤣😂
Bears related videos are always good. Obviously I don’t remember this since I wasn’t born yet
In 1980, the NFC East was decided by point differential between Philly and Dallas.
79 is the first year I collected football cards and watching football. The NFC wasn't very strong then while Pittsburgh, Oakland, New England, Houston, San Diego, and maybe even Cleveland were Super Bowl contenders. While Vince Ferragamo took the Rams to the Super Bowl
The Bears lost a head to head point differential to the Vikings in 1977. Though both teams made the playoffs, the Vikings got the division because of a weird tie breaker. Both teams were 9-5, 1-1 against each other, 6-1 in the division and 8-4 in the conference. Next in line was head to head point differential. The Vikings won by 6 in week 5 on a fake FG in OT while the Bears won by 3 in week 10. The Bears went all out. Payton set the rushing record with 275 yards, but the Vikings were able to do damage control. Goal line stands early in the first quarter and late in the fourth quarter, along with thwarting a Bears fake FG, kept the damage to just a 3 point loss.
Captain Comeback does it one last time. Way to close out a career!
Chicago went 7-1 for the best second half record in the whole NFL. Washington had a 2 touchdown lead late in the 4th quarter over a Dallas team that didn’t even have Tony Dorsett and Still blew it. This whole scenario would’ve been avoided if Washington hadn’t lost to the lowly Giants in week 13. They deserved to miss the playoffs that year. The Bears earned their spot
No the fkin cubs sucked
@@kibitznec700 Cubs? You don’t even have the right sport dude. Lol
At that game at Soldier Field. COLD!!
Point differential is a very important statistic.
I check it regularly.
If your team has a gaudy win loss record, but is just scraping by, it probably means they’re imposters come Play-off time.
Not really.
Beating up on shit teams and padding stats doesn't make you're team good. Meanwhile, resilient teams who know how to finish are what make contenders.
Teams that rain points also are the teams which fold under pressure and tight games when things don't go their way.
Look at the Broncos vs Seahawks, or Mannings many Colts teams that were one and done in the playoffs of the 07 Patriots or KC for two of the last three seasons and more.
Point differential is better than a coin flip!