Remember that the draft pick the Giants traded to Dallas to get Craig Morton turned out to be Randy White, who ended up being a pretty good player for the Cowboys. Morton was another of those quarterbacks who seemed to have all the tools. Great big guy with a strong arm, but could never put it together. I mean, he wasn't as bad as Ryan Leaf, and he got to two Super Bowls, but that was because Dallas in 1970 was a very good team where the QB was actually seen as a weakness (til Landry got on the stick and decided to play Staubach) and Denver was carried by their defense. Watching Craig Morton play, you were always expecting something bad to happen, especially when he was on the Giants.
Yes real man's football 1st down run left, three yards 2nd down run right, three yards 3rd down incomplete pass 4th down punt Repeat process How exciting
People love the old football games and I have to agree. Defenses are completely helpless today and there needs to be some rule changes to restore some balance.
Took in a Yale game in 2001, walking into the place the arched openings looked like some abandoned site. Walking around the stadium, which was built in 1914, it didn't look that new. It was built into a natural bowl, and in some sections, there were weeds growing through cracks in the grandstand. Loved every minute of it.
I followed the Cardinals all their years in St. Louis from 1960-1987. A couple close second place finishes in the 1960s and the Don Coryell teams of the mid 1970s were their best. Never won a playoff game, but this Cardiac Cardinals team was exciting. Mel Gray, Jackie Smith, and later on Roy Green were their best all-time receivers. Safety Larry Wilson was special. It was so sad how St. Louis city and St. Louis County fought each other over the location of a new football stadium wanted by their owner resulting in no stadium. Owner Bill Bidwell expected Phoenix to right away build him a new stadium but it took 18 years for funding so they played at Arizona State all those years.
@@classicsports5057 jets game that season went to OT but game played in October with more daylight. Games didn’t run as long back then but in late November without lights you were definitely pushing your luck.
@@hamburg1306 So, you got me wondering - when did OT regular season games start in the NFL? The game you mentioned was the first one that determined a winner. 1974 was the first season for OT regular season games.
@@denisceballos9745 in the 1974 season. The jets giants game at Yale bowl was the first game with an ot winner. Pittsburgh and broncos first ot game but no scoring so ended up in a tie. Other rule changes that year but most noticeable was moving goal posts to back of the end zone.
1974 was the first year I followed the Giants. The team would finish with a record of 2 and 12, tied with the worst record in the league with Baltimore. The next season the Colts won ten games and their division. The Giants were known as the best worst team in the league because they played many of their opponents close until the final quarter. However this showed they were still lacking in talent and coaching. The team would have eight straight losing seasons until 1981. What may have hurt the team during 1973 and 1974 was playing in a temporary stadium far away from NYC. The had home games in four different stadiums in four seasons (1973 to 1976).
The Giants started 1973 1-0-1 at Yankee Stadium. Then they were 3-23 through the end of the 1974 season, including 1-11 at Yale Bowl, winning only against the Cardinals in 1973. They might not have done much better if they could have played home games in NY, but they couldn’t have done much worse.
Gray was not pointing out that guy because he beat him. He was pointing him out because the guy threw an elbow at him.at 7:35 did stanky really keep up? Gray has to come to a complete stop the ball was grossly under thrown hart said so in the paper. (sometimes I forget How fast mel is). Should have been A 94 yard touchdown I’m still pissed. Last time the Giants gave him single coverage outside of the 40 yard line the rest of his career.
MAN THOSE HARD IN YOUR FACE TOUCHDOWN SPIKES OF THE 70'S WPULD BE UNSPORTSMANLIKE PENALTIES IN TODAYS GAME TAUNTING AND PENALTY WILL BE WALKED OFF AFTER THE.KICKOFF....! LOL. AND NATURAL GRASS WITH MUD ...IS LIKE SOAP AND WATER ...LKVE THOSE MUDDY UNIFORMS...!! LIKE THESE OLD CLASSICS ...!
Enthusiastic Cardinals coach Don Coryell has turned a pass oriented club into one stressing the run made sense at the time because Terry Metcalf was so versatile, Jim Otis was a year away from a 1000 yard season and Jim Hart's passer rating was 79.5.
The Giants weren't the only team to go in the tank that year. The Falcons, 9-5 in 1973, plummeted to 4-10 and the whole thing fell apart there for years.
@@stevegosselin4069 Part of the reason Norm Van Brocklin got canned-the other was challenging a reporter to a fight after a 42-7 Orange Bowl crushing by the Dolphins.
Having watched dozens of old NFL games, there needs to be one change BACK to make it more balanced: get rid of the shotgun offense. All snaps must be from behind the center. I have more that need to return to the past.
What was with the Cardinals receivers? At 14:36, Cardinals #82 spikes the ball at Giants DB #20, after beating him for a TD. At 16:00, Cardinals #88 starts a fight with #43 of the Giants. Then, at 16:58 Cards #85 points and taunts #20 after beating him for a long TD, and then spikes the ball at him. I didn’t see the Giants retaliating at all the whole game.
I don’t know about the other receivers but number 85 got an elbow thrown at his head during the score that’s why he was doing what he did. Watch the play again.
Lotta guts but critical mistakes and lack of talent at WR killed those Giants. Grim and Gillette don't cut it against Mel Gray, Bob Hayes, Drew Pearson, Harold Carmichael, Harold jackson, Gene Washington, John Gilliam, Charley Taylor, Cliff Branch, Paul Warfield, Isaac Curtis...
@@gslep11 Yes and it's been a Giants' sore that has carried on till this day. Toomer was consistent, Beckham and Cruz were flashes of greatness. But they still lacked a real All-Pro at that position
J.V. Cain the Tight End that was in the fight with the Giants defensive lineman at the end of the game, would die on the field. If I remember it correctly, it was during a practice. I think the year was either early 80's or the end of the 70's.
@@davidcobb2693 Actually he experienced heart failure during a light practice and it was later determined that he had a congenital heart condition that no examinations could reveal at that time except during an autopsy.
I always love listening to Ray Scott. He never over-talked the way some announcers do today.
When nfl was watchable!
I watched this game on CBS and still hear Lindsey Nelson's words "a Pier 6er at the Yale Bowl" during the brawl.
Remember that the draft pick the Giants traded to Dallas to get Craig Morton turned out to be Randy White, who ended up being a pretty good player for the Cowboys. Morton was another of those quarterbacks who seemed to have all the tools. Great big guy with a strong arm, but could never put it together. I mean, he wasn't as bad as Ryan Leaf, and he got to two Super Bowls, but that was because Dallas in 1970 was a very good team where the QB was actually seen as a weakness (til Landry got on the stick and decided to play Staubach) and Denver was carried by their defense. Watching Craig Morton play, you were always expecting something bad to happen, especially when he was on the Giants.
And I hate the Jets too!!!!
Great film! Gotta love Don Coryell’s Cardiac Cards!
Real man's football, the game was so much better back then than today.
Yes real man's football
1st down run left, three yards
2nd down run right, three yards
3rd down incomplete pass
4th down punt
Repeat process
How exciting
@@vicepresidentmikepence889not true.
People love the old football games and I have to agree. Defenses are completely helpless today and there needs to be some rule changes to restore some balance.
Love these old 🏈 films
Ray Scott was a favorite gameday announcemer, but was nowhere near the right fit for these programs...like Harry Kalas or Summerall/Brookshire.
Agreed. To me? Harry Kalas was GOTW.
@@junkfromthetrunk7121 There are others including Bill Delaney, Jack Stackhouse, Frank Gifford who did the highlight films
Maybe I'm crazy, but I love the Yale Bowl!
You're crazy.
@@TDL-xg5nn It's a dump and it's still around for Yale games.
Took in a Yale game in 2001, walking into the place the arched openings looked like some abandoned site. Walking around the stadium, which was built in 1914, it didn't look that new. It was built into a natural bowl, and in some sections, there were weeds growing through cracks in the grandstand. Loved every minute of it.
Two weeks later (Dec 8) at the Yale Bowl : ua-cam.com/video/Pn15AH6dkPs/v-deo.html
The ending of this game....now that's football!!!
When in doubt go to Mel Gray
Boy it was tough watching the Giants back in those days. They had some pretty good players but they had more bums that weren't good.
I followed the Cardinals all their years in St. Louis from 1960-1987. A couple close second place finishes in the 1960s and the Don Coryell teams of the mid 1970s were their best. Never won a playoff game, but this Cardiac Cardinals team was exciting. Mel Gray, Jackie Smith, and later on Roy Green were their best all-time receivers. Safety Larry Wilson was special. It was so sad how St. Louis city and St. Louis County fought each other over the location of a new football stadium wanted by their owner resulting in no stadium. Owner Bill Bidwell expected Phoenix to right away build him a new stadium but it took 18 years for funding so they played at Arizona State all those years.
As good as the Cardinals were at that time, the Giants would win a playoff game before the Cardinals would.
Except for 2 games in 1973 the Giants were a road team for 1973 and 1974
If that was a "home" game for the G-men then ¿why were people hurling things onto the field? 18:17
If this game had gone to OT, it would have been a bit dicey. It ended after 4:00 in a stadium with no lights, with VERY long shadows.
Regulation games couldn't go to OT.
@@classicsports5057 jets game that season went to OT but game played in October with more daylight. Games didn’t run as long back then but in late November without lights you were definitely pushing your luck.
@@hamburg1306 So, you got me wondering - when did OT regular season games start in the NFL? The game you mentioned was the first one that determined a winner. 1974 was the first season for OT regular season games.
@@denisceballos9745 in the 1974 season. The jets giants game at Yale bowl was the first game with an ot winner. Pittsburgh and broncos first ot game but no scoring so ended up in a tie. Other rule changes that year but most noticeable was moving goal posts to back of the end zone.
@@classicsports5057 This was the first year for OT in the regular season.
again Gogolaks missed fg cost them, that was his last year in the NFL
He came from Hungary. A soccer player.
@@frankdenardo8684 should have stayed there
@@walkergillette3918 He escaped the communist regime.
fifty years later, he is still the Giants all time points leader.
Offensive impresario and Defensive mastermind as Head football coaches in this game.
1974 was the first year I followed the Giants. The team would finish with a record of 2 and 12, tied with the worst record in the league with Baltimore. The next season the Colts won ten games and their division. The Giants were known as the best worst team in the league because they played many of their opponents close
until the final quarter.
However this showed they were still lacking in talent and coaching. The team would have eight straight losing seasons until 1981. What may have hurt the team during 1973 and 1974 was playing in a temporary stadium far away from NYC. The had home games in four different stadiums in four seasons (1973 to 1976).
The Giants started 1973 1-0-1 at Yankee Stadium. Then they were 3-23 through the end of the 1974 season, including 1-11 at Yale Bowl, winning only against the Cardinals in 1973. They might not have done much better if they could have played home games in NY, but they couldn’t have done much worse.
@@johnmanier7968 2 wins in Shea in 1975 against 2-12 San Diego and New Orleans. You are correct, they did much better
Gray was not pointing out that guy because he beat him. He was pointing him out because the guy threw an elbow at him.at 7:35 did stanky really keep up? Gray has to come to a complete stop the ball was grossly under thrown hart said so in the paper. (sometimes I forget How fast mel is). Should have been A 94 yard touchdown I’m still pissed. Last time the Giants gave him single coverage outside of the 40 yard line the rest of his career.
RIP J.V. Cain who died in training camp in 1979 of heart attack.
MAN THOSE HARD IN YOUR FACE TOUCHDOWN SPIKES OF THE 70'S WPULD BE UNSPORTSMANLIKE PENALTIES IN TODAYS GAME TAUNTING AND PENALTY WILL BE WALKED OFF AFTER THE.KICKOFF....! LOL. AND NATURAL GRASS WITH MUD ...IS LIKE SOAP AND WATER ...LKVE THOSE MUDDY UNIFORMS...!! LIKE THESE OLD CLASSICS ...!
Enthusiastic Cardinals coach Don Coryell has turned a pass oriented club into one stressing the run made sense at the time because Terry Metcalf was so versatile, Jim Otis was a year away from a 1000 yard season and Jim Hart's passer rating was 79.5.
Go Cardinals!
sqwib kick, good call Giants
The Giants weren't the only team to go in the tank that year. The Falcons, 9-5 in 1973, plummeted to 4-10 and the whole thing fell apart there for years.
The 1974 Falcons had a slight problem on offense ; they scored 111 points the entire season. Their QB's threw 4 TD passes and had 31 INT's.
@@stevegosselin4069 Part of the reason Norm Van Brocklin got canned-the other was challenging a reporter to a fight after a 42-7 Orange Bowl crushing by the Dolphins.
Cards won the NFC East 74 and 75, never had a home playoff game.
Having watched dozens of old NFL games, there needs to be one change BACK to make it more balanced: get rid of the shotgun offense. All snaps must be from behind the center. I have more that need to return to the past.
What was with the Cardinals receivers? At 14:36, Cardinals #82 spikes the ball at Giants DB #20, after beating him for a TD. At 16:00, Cardinals #88 starts a fight with #43 of the Giants. Then, at 16:58 Cards #85 points and taunts #20 after beating him for a long TD, and then spikes the ball at him. I didn’t see the Giants retaliating at all the whole game.
I don’t know about the other receivers but number 85 got an elbow thrown at his head during the score that’s why he was doing what he did. Watch the play again.
@@finnfinn7703 Yeah, the whole game was very chippy - a lot of elbows thrown, looks like trash talking throughout the game.
at around 20:45 a fight does break out as the Giants frustrations finally boiled over.
Lotta guts but critical mistakes and lack of talent at WR killed those Giants. Grim and Gillette don't cut it against Mel Gray, Bob Hayes, Drew Pearson, Harold Carmichael, Harold jackson, Gene Washington, John Gilliam, Charley Taylor, Cliff Branch, Paul Warfield, Isaac Curtis...
Homer Jones is still the greatest Giant receiver of all time
Howard Cosell true but he was long gone by ‘74
@@gslep11 Yes and it's been a Giants' sore that has carried on till this day. Toomer was consistent, Beckham and Cruz were flashes of greatness. But they still lacked a real All-Pro at that position
Howard Cosell yes they desperately needed a speed receiver. Bob Grim and Don Herman on the field together is a slo motion disaster.
@@gslep11 They had Ray Rhodes. Converted him to DB. Fast but couldn't catch
Craig Morton. Why.
J.V. Cain the Tight End that was in the fight with the Giants defensive lineman at the end of the game, would die on the field. If I remember it correctly, it was during a practice. I think the year was either early 80's or the end of the 70's.
Yeah, he had a heart attack in practice.
@@sashacougar He died on his 28th birthday, July 22, 1979 after an offseason practice session.
@@davidcobb2693 Actually he experienced heart failure during a light practice and it was later determined that he had a congenital heart condition that no examinations could reveal at that time except during an autopsy.
@@sashacougar Actually off season practice sessions are usually light and he was pronounced dead AFTER the practice session.
I remember. He died during training camp.
Hart 17=8=infinitive of a covenants 42 percent of kiss and she sunshine
I have always hated the Giants