I remember watching this game and then years later seeing it replayed on NFL's Greatest Games. Atlanta controlled most of the game, but in the fourth quarter even their players acknowledged feeling the game slipping away, despite leading 27-17 at one point.
Danny white took over in 1980 cause roger retired and only reason Falcons lost was we stop playin offense and lemon bennett saw Rankin smith Sr lookin and said cowboys have it so they can go to candlestick n lose 28-27 on the catch for 49ers in superbowl..
I loved Vin Scully calling NFL football games. He was fantastic! I remember watching this game as a 12 year old praying for a miracle in my parents room.
Great game for sure. One that TRUE Cowboys fans will never forget. I remember the ending with the missed extra point. I really liked Steve Bartkowski as well.
This was the real cowboys in their final winning years, along with anyone else who played before this...it wasn't until tom landry was rudely fired as the awful jerry jones takeover too place that they become something only called Cowboys, but never would be again...true cowboys were anytime prior to jerry jones era...
Danny White had some magic inside of him just as staubach did. This would have been a big embarrassment to lose to the falcons. Because the cowboys had all the experience and all the talent needed to win big games.
I was actually at this game sitting in the upper decks on that bitterly cold January night at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium as a 14 year old fan of the Falcons. I though Atlanta would win that game especially after knocking Staubach out of the game. The Falcons had a great team that year but they couldn't finish off the Cowboys that game. I couldn't understand why the Falcons kept rushing three players throughout the fourth quarter because Danny White just kept picking the Atlanta defense apart.
@thegorn68 A little confusion here. There was actually another Atlanta/Dallas playoff game two years prior, the year that Dallas went to Super Bowl XIII and lost to the Steelers. Staubach did play in that one and the Atlanta defense throttled him, taking the lead and knocking him out of the game by the third quarter, only to have Danny White come in and win it. That Falcons team wasn't nearly as good as this one was. But once again, they couldn't stop Danny White in the end.
Hey we saw Part 2 at atlanta Ga dome where Green bay beat the turds um birds sorry....and are so called fans left before 3rd quarter started nice showin Fans empty seats n all Packers fans there but differents is if Packers were bein beat bad the folks would stay no matter how ends....
How is Drew Pearson not in the Hall of Fame? He has had clutch catch after clutch check not only in the regular season but particularly in the playoffs. A huge oversight by the HOF committee.
Why wasn't Ed "Too Tall" Jones offside? Were the refs paid off? Well this was the time that SMU were playing players to come to the school to play football.
@EricandDish agreed. Vin Scully is still going strong these days still covering Dodgers home games, and transforming their recent losing efforts into noble battles. A classic voice & so knowledgable. He's one of a kind.
Although they made the playoffs in '82, the Falcons never really recovered from this loss. Being a Rams fan, that was fine with me. Atlanta and New Orleans, though, were more tolerable than the Niners.
This game was a heartbreaker for the Falcons. I was there with my dad and brother. It was cold cold that day. I was 12 and this game and the Laettner shot for Duke against Kentucky were the 2 worst days of my sports life. I have hated the Cowboys ever since. But it is a great year this year. The Cowboys suck and Atlanta will come here to Dallas(Arlington) and win the super bowl! Hopefully. But that still won't make up for this crudy day.
This may have been the best Atlanta team, maybe outside of the 98 team and their current, they blew this game, and the franchise fell into a tailspin for quite a few years after this game.
I was 9 and a half at the time. Remember listening to the 12 Days of Falcons on the radio on my school bus. Everywhere you went everyone was talking about the Falcons. Every city with a sports team has tasted defeat at one point or another, but this defeat was particularly unique. Felt like a person who had died too young. We all assumed that 'tomorrow was another day', but it never came. We accepted that loss cause we thought better days were to come. And they never did. Until now???
i was 7 at the time..someone had given me a falcons tshirt so i became a falcons fan...i cried and cried the moment they lost... i hated danny white after that...i was pretty happy when the eagles beat dallas the next week..as maury said..it was the first time i had my heart ripped out as a sports fan.
yeah lots of older falcon fans talk about this game.. Good thing i was not born, I would have been very pissed......2010 is looking good for us Falcons. Hope we are not disappointed...
No there was no 2-point PAT back then. But the rules allow for the offensive team to score the PAT even if they do so by way of advancing the ball over the goal line, similar to a touchdown. Nolan Cromwell did it in a regular season game for the L.A. Rams circa 1980. It was a botched PAT like this game, and he saw the chance and ran the ball into the end zone. The officials correctly allowed the point.
Nothing fancy about this drive, just disciplined players being where they were supposed to be, doing what they were supposed to do. The result was the Cowboys were able to move the ball almost effortlessly in just a few plays all the way to Atlanta's end of the field. Even if Drew Pearson had not caught that last TD pass, the Cowboys would have found another way to the end zone. The real key to this game was the Falcons offense not being able to run out the clock on the previous series.
This Atlanta teamt had the youngest team in the league with home field advantage, the following year a whole lot of folks picked atlanta to won the super bowl but they didnt even make the playoffs, what a waste of young talent, they ran the 3-4 defense and 3 of the 4 lbs were rookies...joel williams, al richardson and buddy curry with fulton kuykendall the veteran, ill never ever forget the 1980s atlanta facons my fav 2 players of all time is steve bartkowski and alfred jenkinns,....
It just amazes me that there are vhs tapes floating around that are 30 years old. I know if I had these tapes, I would have worn them out a long time ago. Great stuff. Thanks for posting it.
Falcon coach Leman Bennett had very unclassy things to say about the Cowboys in gay writer Burt Sugars book about the Cowboys. This loss along with the 78 loss to Dallas in the playoffs got Bennett fired! Bennett is pushing carts at Frogers market. Back to boxing writer Burt Sugar, he dressed in drag for the big black heavyweights and got fired.
If White didn't have a defense with players getting older he might've went to the Super Bowl. But White had a tendency to throw huge interceptions like in 83 vs the Rams in the playoffs..
@dallas5sb. That is due to the fact, he kept holding on to the ball too long in tight situations. He had Drew Pearson open when Duane Board forced him to fumble in that 81 playoff game.
Typical Jerry Glanville defense, collapsing in the clutch. The same thing happened to his defenses in Houston. Dallas had over 200 yards total offense in the last 18 minutes or so of this game. I don't even think the 'Boys had a 3rd down on their last two drives. Red Right 88 was the 1:00 game, this was the 4:00 game. Tough day for Browns and Falcons fans.
@5lowrollD. He wasn't the same after his 1979 knee injury. But at that time, teams only threw on 3rd downs and on 1st when it was desperation time or they were trying to kill you early. Joe Montana exposed his slow feet and killed him and lot of other safties like him. Doug Plank comes to mind. He retired promptly.
i was a bigtime falcons fan in the 80s, and after this it was one of my worst moments ever, i think i remember tellin my mother i was sick and didnt go to school for 2 days after this weekend lol
This game pretty much put Danny White on the map as a good NFL QB & gave some Cowboys fans confidence that their club was in good hands after Roger Staubach.
Danny White threw that ball off balance, that's what makes this play extra special. White was a great QB who is very underrated due to the fact he never won a Super Bowl but to true fans he is truly appreciated
The Falcons really needed Claude Humphrey in 1980 & especially in this game. After retiring after the first 4 weeks in to the 1978 season, Humphrey was traded to Philadelphia in 1979. In 1980, Humphrey's 14.5 sacks helped the Eagles make the Super Bowl. They got 2 4th round picks out of it, that did not last. Lynn Cain was a slashing, off-tackle runner who eventually tried to get too fancy & spent more time running sideways than straight ahead & his blocking would quickly tail off as well.
@plntntvzn. Lynn had a hell of a year in 1980. Claude only wanted to rush the QB and not play the run. However, Falcons never really had a good pash rusher after Claude for a long time. The Falcons tried to disrupt the run with their blitzes of linebackers and defensive backs. But if throw on first down like Montana did the next year and years afterwards, Falcons was an average team. Only in the 4th quarter, did the Cowboys do that.
I was 7 years old and a huge Falcons fan. I really believed they were going to the Super Bowl. I remember believing to the very last second that somehow the Falcons would find a way to win, and when they didn't I started crying my eyes out. First time I had my heart broken as a sports fan.
I remember this as well. I was praying for the Falcons to win. Georgia had won the National Championship in college and they were going to call Atlanta the City Of Champions if the Falcons won. Damn, makes you wonder what this win couldve done for the Falcons throughout the following years. It was a great year but a very sad ending.
Danny White always threw the most harmless looking passes I've ever seen. He'd often float it up there falling backwards and it'd come down back end of the ball first, almost like if you lobbed a nerf ball. He gets all the credit for making a quick decision but that winning pass was actually so bad it kind of caught everyone looking at it instead of breaking on it. White actually didn't have a foot on the ground when he let it fly....unreal.
@ytownteddy. If there was one weakness was that the DB's were a bit undersized and slow. That ball should be batted down but these guys weren't athletic types but hitter types. They played the run mostly. On pass, they played the man to hit. The next year, Joe Montana killed those DB's to death with big Dwight Clark.
Ed "Too Tall" Jones was so badly offsides on the Falcons previous drive to this one. Had it been called like it should have been, ATL would have been able to run out the clock. Still boggles my mind to this day how Jones was not flagged, he was standing next to the Falcons center Jeff Van Note when he snapped the ball.
@NocturalRyte destiny of what? rotten cowcunt cheaters - as always? i'm so fucking glad the cowcunts suck these days. i pray it goes on for another 600 years, asshole. why don't you suck a little more landry dick, prick? fucking loser jerkoffs - the only decent thing that ever came out of dallas was debbie, who blew everyone's little texas cock, you fucking clown. learn it and return to the trees one day so you can teach the other hairy slobs how to fondle too tall's dick, fuckstick...
@harrison58 WAAAAAH!......WAAAAAAH!......WAAAAAAAH! Poor little baby....does cryin' help? Good thing you never did go to the Super Bowl then, you'd have drowned!
By the way, did your mom raise you to talk like that?....do you beat her? Maybe you are a prison inmate with access to a computer? If so, glad your off the streets finally!
@harrison58 I bet you are 5'3" and a voice like Michael Jackson when you speak. You probably think talking shit makes you appear bad ass on here. Listen Junior - watch your rectum smelling mouth before I stick my fat and long johnson in it! Then for shits and giggles I might just fuck you in order to put you in your place. . . . little son of a bitch. Have a nice day:)
The official interpretation seemed to be that Jones managed to tightrope his way down the line so that he wasn't infringing on the neutral zone. A freakish situation, but not necessarily the wrong call. Earlier in the game, the Cowboys had a seeming TD pass erased ,ostensibly because the ref thought the WR had the ball slapped out of his hands before he came down with it. Controversial, but the Cowboys recovered from what they thought was a bad call.
@McCall72 the Cowboys were a much better team then the Falcons. After that season what did the Falcons do? They were for the birds and nerds. You were lucky to be so close to winning.
I remember watching this game and then years later seeing it replayed on NFL's Greatest Games. Atlanta controlled most of the game, but in the fourth quarter even their players acknowledged feeling the game slipping away, despite leading 27-17 at one point.
gfpirate 1 month ago
Danny white took over in 1980 cause roger retired and only reason Falcons lost was we stop playin offense and lemon bennett saw Rankin smith Sr lookin and said cowboys have it so they can go to candlestick n lose 28-27 on the catch for 49ers in superbowl..
MrLehnerd 1 month ago
White was a great qb. He had some sour luck. He could have won a title and been remembered as one of the greats if a few things went his way
thelakersforlife 2 months ago
THE GRITS BLITZ!!!
WatchVenusSpa 2 months ago
I loved Vin Scully calling NFL football games. He was fantastic! I remember watching this game as a 12 year old praying for a miracle in my parents room.
Great game for sure. One that TRUE Cowboys fans will never forget. I remember the ending with the missed extra point. I really liked Steve Bartkowski as well.
soonerxx 2 months ago
This was the real cowboys in their final winning years, along with anyone else who played before this...it wasn't until tom landry was rudely fired as the awful jerry jones takeover too place that they become something only called Cowboys, but never would be again...true cowboys were anytime prior to jerry jones era...
Poetryman690 2 months ago
I remember this like it was yesterday. I literally cannot watch it again :(
dirac33 3 months ago
Danny White had some magic inside of him just as staubach did. This would have been a big embarrassment to lose to the falcons. Because the cowboys had all the experience and all the talent needed to win big games.
DAS603 3 months ago
I was actually at this game sitting in the upper decks on that bitterly cold January night at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium as a 14 year old fan of the Falcons. I though Atlanta would win that game especially after knocking Staubach out of the game. The Falcons had a great team that year but they couldn't finish off the Cowboys that game. I couldn't understand why the Falcons kept rushing three players throughout the fourth quarter because Danny White just kept picking the Atlanta defense apart.
airassault11 4 months ago
@airassault11 Um....Roger Staubach wasn't in this game. He retired a year earlier.
GeorgiaKev 4 months ago
@airassault11 Dude, Roger had already retired the previous year. you misremembered
tknippe 2 months ago
Danny has always been a winner. Message me to find out what he is currently doing & how you can be apart of his winning team & Danny's new venture
DiamanteBodHD 5 months ago in playlist sports
A classic. Teams weren't as conservative in those days, playing only for the tie and overtime. The Cowboys went for the kill and got it.
kevman1ification 5 months ago
why is every football game described as "a wild one"
32jview 5 months ago
My dads favorite quaterback when he was a teenager 11 danny white
XGLTermonatorX 6 months ago
Why Drew Pearson is not in the HOF is beyond me. He has had some of the greatest clutch catches in NFL history.
mrmojorisin2 6 months ago
Seems to me that Drew Pearson caught two touchdowns prior to that game winning one...
PointofBlu 6 months ago
@PointofBlu Ok that was the second one of the fourth quarter...
He caught two touchdowns in the fourth..Coach Landry later said Drew's catches were miracles...
PointofBlu 6 months ago
I cried like a baby being I was a Falcon Fan. We had taken Roger Doger out of the game and in comes Danny White to win.
jammer476 7 months ago
@jammer476 Roger had already retired before the 1980 season. What are you talking about?
thegorn68 7 months ago
@thegorn68 A little confusion here. There was actually another Atlanta/Dallas playoff game two years prior, the year that Dallas went to Super Bowl XIII and lost to the Steelers. Staubach did play in that one and the Atlanta defense throttled him, taking the lead and knocking him out of the game by the third quarter, only to have Danny White come in and win it. That Falcons team wasn't nearly as good as this one was. But once again, they couldn't stop Danny White in the end.
gootchie 4 months ago
I love how it says the Jeffersons are coming on CBS
SuperCowboy4life 7 months ago
What a classic line up of Sunday evening Programming on CBS!!!
sosdkny 7 months ago
I miss these old days when defenses could tackle, wide receivers weren't egocentic divos, and the turf in Philly was slightly softer than concrete.
TheDucciano 7 months ago
why is Tommy Nobis not in Hall of fame too i ask
MrLehnerd 7 months ago
Hey we saw Part 2 at atlanta Ga dome where Green bay beat the turds um birds sorry....and are so called fans left before 3rd quarter started nice showin Fans empty seats n all Packers fans there but differents is if Packers were bein beat bad the folks would stay no matter how ends....
MrLehnerd 7 months ago
How is Drew Pearson not in the Hall of Fame? He has had clutch catch after clutch check not only in the regular season but particularly in the playoffs. A huge oversight by the HOF committee.
mrmojorisin2 8 months ago
too bad he had to follow staubach by the way whats romo doin
kanes4evr 8 months ago
Why wasn't Ed "Too Tall" Jones offside? Were the refs paid off? Well this was the time that SMU were playing players to come to the school to play football.
clipobserver 8 months ago
thanks for posting this epic classic!
selloutasaurus 9 months ago
Vin Scully: What a class act. No matter what sport he did (baseball, football, golf) he did it with with dignity and made it more intriguing.
EricandDish 9 months ago
@EricandDish agreed. Vin Scully is still going strong these days still covering Dodgers home games, and transforming their recent losing efforts into noble battles. A classic voice & so knowledgable. He's one of a kind.
selloutasaurus 9 months ago
Too Tall couldn't separate to run down that Charlie Waters pass. LOL! Thanks for posting. This is my all time favorite Cowboys game.
arcoarena1 10 months ago
Although they made the playoffs in '82, the Falcons never really recovered from this loss. Being a Rams fan, that was fine with me. Atlanta and New Orleans, though, were more tolerable than the Niners.
7747jc 10 months ago
i remember this game falcons should have had home game vs eagles the next week
jasmcc1 1 year ago
Danny had alot of comeback qualities as a player!
jammerstud99 1 year ago
classic 'tonight on cbs" lineup to follow the game...those were the days--no pun...
angryniggah 1 year ago
i forgot atlanta had home field that year they might have beat eagles if they won this 1
jasmcc1 1 year ago
This game was a heartbreaker for the Falcons. I was there with my dad and brother. It was cold cold that day. I was 12 and this game and the Laettner shot for Duke against Kentucky were the 2 worst days of my sports life. I have hated the Cowboys ever since. But it is a great year this year. The Cowboys suck and Atlanta will come here to Dallas(Arlington) and win the super bowl! Hopefully. But that still won't make up for this crudy day.
uknate1968 1 year ago
@uknate1968 todays football is a farce....can't believe old-schoolers such as yourself still watch it
possumtail 1 year ago
This may have been the best Atlanta team, maybe outside of the 98 team and their current, they blew this game, and the franchise fell into a tailspin for quite a few years after this game.
crcracker1 1 year ago
I was 9 and a half at the time. Remember listening to the 12 Days of Falcons on the radio on my school bus. Everywhere you went everyone was talking about the Falcons. Every city with a sports team has tasted defeat at one point or another, but this defeat was particularly unique. Felt like a person who had died too young. We all assumed that 'tomorrow was another day', but it never came. We accepted that loss cause we thought better days were to come. And they never did. Until now???
MattRyanForever 1 year ago
i was 7 at the time..someone had given me a falcons tshirt so i became a falcons fan...i cried and cried the moment they lost... i hated danny white after that...i was pretty happy when the eagles beat dallas the next week..as maury said..it was the first time i had my heart ripped out as a sports fan.
philleotardo 1 year ago
yeah lots of older falcon fans talk about this game.. Good thing i was not born, I would have been very pissed......2010 is looking good for us Falcons. Hope we are not disappointed...
gava06 1 year ago
why is every game described by the sportscasters as a "wild one"?
32jview 1 year ago
final score by Drew Pearson,my all-time favorite Cowboy.
tomloft2000 1 year ago
My Cowboys have always been heroes
79goldmaster1 1 year ago
I was 9 years old and still remember this! Atl would've gone to super bowl imho and maybe have won it!
teeemack 1 year ago
Vin Scully WOW, what a treat....
agt462 1 year ago
jerry glanville cost the falcons the game by blitzing on these drive
SuperJM1980 1 year ago
Man Tony Dorsett was fast on that screen pass.
biziswinning 1 year ago
how is 3:23 not a false start ??
indyfan22k 1 year ago
wow. i remember this game!!
MoltenGoodness 1 year ago
For some reason, Dallas has always OWNED Atlanta in any game that matters. For example Playoffs & MNF.
5lowrollD 1 year ago
Those f#@%ing Falcons swatted the ball when we had it in the end zone, and tried to steal the game, but we won it anyway.
viking1960 1 year ago
Feel bad for the Falcons, this was their year.
TheTruthfulAsshole 1 year ago
HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS!!
hoosierlooker 1 year ago
No there was no 2-point PAT back then. But the rules allow for the offensive team to score the PAT even if they do so by way of advancing the ball over the goal line, similar to a touchdown. Nolan Cromwell did it in a regular season game for the L.A. Rams circa 1980. It was a botched PAT like this game, and he saw the chance and ran the ball into the end zone. The officials correctly allowed the point.
33Zorg 1 year ago
Nothing fancy about this drive, just disciplined players being where they were supposed to be, doing what they were supposed to do. The result was the Cowboys were able to move the ball almost effortlessly in just a few plays all the way to Atlanta's end of the field. Even if Drew Pearson had not caught that last TD pass, the Cowboys would have found another way to the end zone. The real key to this game was the Falcons offense not being able to run out the clock on the previous series.
gootchie 1 year ago
This Atlanta teamt had the youngest team in the league with home field advantage, the following year a whole lot of folks picked atlanta to won the super bowl but they didnt even make the playoffs, what a waste of young talent, they ran the 3-4 defense and 3 of the 4 lbs were rookies...joel williams, al richardson and buddy curry with fulton kuykendall the veteran, ill never ever forget the 1980s atlanta facons my fav 2 players of all time is steve bartkowski and alfred jenkinns,....
Stallion67 1 year ago
@Stallion67
agreed. even now this is style my favorite team.
OrigLanceR 1 year ago
I noticed the comedy lineup on CBS! Man that's back in the day!
dua72 1 year ago
The great Vin Scully with the call.
franksinclair1 1 year ago
man check out those tv shows...lol...all classic...!!!
thetruthis9 1 year ago
It just amazes me that there are vhs tapes floating around that are 30 years old. I know if I had these tapes, I would have worn them out a long time ago. Great stuff. Thanks for posting it.
MrJulius72 1 year ago
Great game, yes it was but 1:32 ..now thats a REAL TV lineup right there! Fuck these "reality" shows!
Simus1974 1 year ago
In my opinion, one of my all time favorite games, I remember watching it live.
wjsnell1964 1 year ago
Falcon coach Leman Bennett had very unclassy things to say about the Cowboys in gay writer Burt Sugars book about the Cowboys. This loss along with the 78 loss to Dallas in the playoffs got Bennett fired! Bennett is pushing carts at Frogers market. Back to boxing writer Burt Sugar, he dressed in drag for the big black heavyweights and got fired.
dallas5sb 1 year ago
If White didn't have a defense with players getting older he might've went to the Super Bowl. But White had a tendency to throw huge interceptions like in 83 vs the Rams in the playoffs..
dallas5sb 1 year ago
@dallas5sb. That is due to the fact, he kept holding on to the ball too long in tight situations. He had Drew Pearson open when Duane Board forced him to fumble in that 81 playoff game.
Ariamaluum 1 year ago
Typical Jerry Glanville defense, collapsing in the clutch. The same thing happened to his defenses in Houston. Dallas had over 200 yards total offense in the last 18 minutes or so of this game. I don't even think the 'Boys had a 3rd down on their last two drives. Red Right 88 was the 1:00 game, this was the 4:00 game. Tough day for Browns and Falcons fans.
HermFontenot 1 year ago
why were they trying to throw the ball after the failed PAT , They didn't have the 2-point rule back then.
Disneydanny 1 year ago
@Disneydanny Back then you could throw the ball if you fumbled the snap for the PAT and the score would count as 1 point.
NocturalRyte 1 year ago 2
@NocturalRyte neat. ya learn something new every day.
Disneydanny 1 year ago
@NocturalRyte
Exactly. I remember the Rams' Nolan Cromwell running in a PAT against the Bills this season.
7747jc 10 months ago
@Disneydanny Dude, you think Charlie Waters doesn't know how to play?
5lowrollD 1 year ago
@5lowrollD. He wasn't the same after his 1979 knee injury. But at that time, teams only threw on 3rd downs and on 1st when it was desperation time or they were trying to kill you early. Joe Montana exposed his slow feet and killed him and lot of other safties like him. Doug Plank comes to mind. He retired promptly.
Ariamaluum 1 year ago
@Disneydanny The 2-point rule in the NFL wasn't instituted until 1994.
robertmastroianni 5 months ago
The night the lights went out in Georgia...
bixbyglaser 1 year ago
i was a bigtime falcons fan in the 80s, and after this it was one of my worst moments ever, i think i remember tellin my mother i was sick and didnt go to school for 2 days after this weekend lol
Stallion67 1 year ago
This game pretty much put Danny White on the map as a good NFL QB & gave some Cowboys fans confidence that their club was in good hands after Roger Staubach.
FrsBigeasy 1 year ago
the falcons were in love with the blitz.. it cost them in this game. the boys burned the blitz 7 or 8 times for big gains in this game.
stardaddyo9 1 year ago
Great job by Preston Pearson of picking up the blitz before they could get to Danny
chaspjones 1 year ago
Awesome comeback from my Cowboys baby!!
Danny White threw that ball off balance, that's what makes this play extra special. White was a great QB who is very underrated due to the fact he never won a Super Bowl but to true fans he is truly appreciated
cowboys4life956 1 year ago
The tv lineup shown at 1:32 is pretty classic. LOL
5lowrollD 2 years ago
The Falcons really needed Claude Humphrey in 1980 & especially in this game. After retiring after the first 4 weeks in to the 1978 season, Humphrey was traded to Philadelphia in 1979. In 1980, Humphrey's 14.5 sacks helped the Eagles make the Super Bowl. They got 2 4th round picks out of it, that did not last. Lynn Cain was a slashing, off-tackle runner who eventually tried to get too fancy & spent more time running sideways than straight ahead & his blocking would quickly tail off as well.
plntntvzn 2 years ago
@plntntvzn. Lynn had a hell of a year in 1980. Claude only wanted to rush the QB and not play the run. However, Falcons never really had a good pash rusher after Claude for a long time. The Falcons tried to disrupt the run with their blitzes of linebackers and defensive backs. But if throw on first down like Montana did the next year and years afterwards, Falcons was an average team. Only in the 4th quarter, did the Cowboys do that.
Ariamaluum 1 year ago
@Ariamaluum Agreed
plntntvzn 1 year ago
Vince Scully and is the other voice George Allen?
xxchinookxx 2 years ago
Was Atlanta's best chance to get to a Super Bowl, but blew this game.
crcracker1 2 years ago
How, this was a Division Playoffs Game and the Falcons beat Vikings in 98.
gfscarface13 2 years ago
Saddest day of my childhood. 13 years old and in section 329 of Atlanta-Fulton Country Stadium. I could barely get up to go to school the next day.
eslgurucalif 2 years ago
I was 7 years old and a huge Falcons fan. I really believed they were going to the Super Bowl. I remember believing to the very last second that somehow the Falcons would find a way to win, and when they didn't I started crying my eyes out. First time I had my heart broken as a sports fan.
MauryDann73 2 years ago 6
I remember this as well. I was praying for the Falcons to win. Georgia had won the National Championship in college and they were going to call Atlanta the City Of Champions if the Falcons won. Damn, makes you wonder what this win couldve done for the Falcons throughout the following years. It was a great year but a very sad ending.
roydk06 2 years ago
@MauryDann73
Probably the first of many as a falcons fan lol jk haha
igotsachubby 1 year ago
@MauryDann73. It broke a lot of Falcons and the South.
Ariamaluum 1 year ago
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@MauryDann73. It broke a lot of Falcons and the South.
Ariamaluum 1 year ago
Danny White always threw the most harmless looking passes I've ever seen. He'd often float it up there falling backwards and it'd come down back end of the ball first, almost like if you lobbed a nerf ball. He gets all the credit for making a quick decision but that winning pass was actually so bad it kind of caught everyone looking at it instead of breaking on it. White actually didn't have a foot on the ground when he let it fly....unreal.
ytownteddy 2 years ago
@ytownteddy. If there was one weakness was that the DB's were a bit undersized and slow. That ball should be batted down but these guys weren't athletic types but hitter types. They played the run mostly. On pass, they played the man to hit. The next year, Joe Montana killed those DB's to death with big Dwight Clark.
Ariamaluum 2 years ago
Ed "Too Tall" Jones was so badly offsides on the Falcons previous drive to this one. Had it been called like it should have been, ATL would have been able to run out the clock. Still boggles my mind to this day how Jones was not flagged, he was standing next to the Falcons center Jeff Van Note when he snapped the ball.
McCall72 2 years ago
I'll review the game again but I doubt it would have impacted the outcome. This win was destiny.
NocturalRyte 2 years ago 7
@NocturalRyte destiny of what? rotten cowcunt cheaters - as always? i'm so fucking glad the cowcunts suck these days. i pray it goes on for another 600 years, asshole. why don't you suck a little more landry dick, prick? fucking loser jerkoffs - the only decent thing that ever came out of dallas was debbie, who blew everyone's little texas cock, you fucking clown. learn it and return to the trees one day so you can teach the other hairy slobs how to fondle too tall's dick, fuckstick...
harrison58 1 year ago
@harrison58 So, you're saying you aren't too fond of the Cowboys?
thegorn68 1 year ago
@harrison58 WAAAAAH!......WAAAAAAH!......WAAAAAAAH! Poor little baby....does cryin' help? Good thing you never did go to the Super Bowl then, you'd have drowned!
By the way, did your mom raise you to talk like that?....do you beat her? Maybe you are a prison inmate with access to a computer? If so, glad your off the streets finally!
possumtail 1 year ago
@harrison58 I bet you are 5'3" and a voice like Michael Jackson when you speak. You probably think talking shit makes you appear bad ass on here. Listen Junior - watch your rectum smelling mouth before I stick my fat and long johnson in it! Then for shits and giggles I might just fuck you in order to put you in your place. . . . little son of a bitch. Have a nice day:)
dewaynecullen 1 year ago
@harrison58
Grow up you little turd
superman93994 1 year ago
The official interpretation seemed to be that Jones managed to tightrope his way down the line so that he wasn't infringing on the neutral zone. A freakish situation, but not necessarily the wrong call. Earlier in the game, the Cowboys had a seeming TD pass erased ,ostensibly because the ref thought the WR had the ball slapped out of his hands before he came down with it. Controversial, but the Cowboys recovered from what they thought was a bad call.
sportshistorybuff 2 years ago
@McCall72 the Cowboys were a much better team then the Falcons. After that season what did the Falcons do? They were for the birds and nerds. You were lucky to be so close to winning.
dallas5sb 1 year ago
@McCall72 I've seen the entire game. Jones never crossed the line of scrimmage prior the snap, so he wasn't offsides...
battleax86 1 year ago
@McCall72 odd for a defensive end to line up next to the center :)
peety1969 8 months ago
@McCall72 Actually he made no contact and got back before the snap....that is NOT offsides!
randytincup 6 months ago
Still hate the Cowboys for this one.
MrOldSlacker 2 years ago
Thank you for taking me for a trip down memory lane...
rohandavey1 2 years ago 2