Video: How Cowboys fans got pumped for the playoffs in 1971

Mr. Pepperiment.

A lot different than Michael Irvin and his getting ready.

The America’s Team label didn’t come until 1978.

Diehardblues said:

The America’s Team label didn’t come until 1978.

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True. They were actually known as "Next Year's Team" until their 1st Super Bowl win because they kept coming up short.

jazzcat22 said:

A lot different than Michael Irvin and his getting ready.

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Don't laugh at Tony Montana

remdak said:

True. They were actually known as "Next Year's Team" until their 1st Super Bowl win because they kept coming up short.

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Actually it was next years champion.

Diehardblues said:

Actually it was next years champion.

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Oh yeah, thanks for that. My memory was faulty on that one.

Diehardblues said:

The America’s Team label didn’t come until 1978.

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Hmm video must be off on the date?

Zordon said:

Hmm video must be off on the date?

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It's a current story, using vintage video.

Now we just drink vodka and Red Bull.

Runwildboys said:

It's a current story, using vintage video.

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Correct

The narration just incorrectly identified the Cowboys in 1971 as America’s Team which it hadn’t become yet.

A simple detail is all. I suppose they were narrating about America’s Team history even though at the time that label hadn’t surfaced which the old video clips obviously didn’t mention.

DoctorChicken said:

Now we just drink vodka and Red Bull.

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Truth

Falco78 said:

Don't laugh at Tony Montana

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Or his lil’ frund ......

Diehardblues said:

Correct

The narration just incorrectly identified the Cowboys in 1971 as America’s Team which it hadn’t become yet.

A simple detail is all. I suppose they were narrating about America’s Team history even though at the time that label hadn’t surfaced which the old video clips obviously didn’t mention.

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Right, he wasn't saying they were called America's Team back then.

DoctorChicken said:

Now we just drink vodka and Red Bull.

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Red Bull? Why?

I was three years old.

Maxmadden said:

Red Bull? Why?

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So you get drunk but stay awake.

DoctorChicken said:

So you get drunk but stay awake.

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I need to temper my adrenaline.

I was 15.

The Cowboys started out 4-3 as Landry rotated Staubach and Morton.

They lost to a Saints team that were bottom dwellers all decade. However that game featured a starting QB for the Saints, a rookie 1st round pick by the name of Archie Manning.

They lost to a poor Bears team whose best weapon was a QB that completed less than 50% his entire career but almost had a thousand yard rushing season.

The worst loss was the first Cowboy-Commander game in George Allen's career. I couldn't stand the taunting afterwords.

The Cowboys were 4-3 and the Commanders were 6-1 during a 14 game season.

And then Staubach became permanent starter. They didn't lose another game that season.

It wasn't just Roger, he was the catalyst, and a wierd one at that.

What I mean is that it seemed like absolutely everything began to go right.

The defense locked in. Only 1 team in the last 10, including playoffs, scored more than 14 points.

All the RB's got healthy, Calvin Hill, Duane Thomas and Walt Garrison. The truth is, thus was a true running team. The Cowboys had the #1 offense in the league.

They scored 125 combined points in the last three regular season games.

However, these were the Dallas Cowboys, the same who broke my heart the previous season and their first playoff game was against the #1 defense, the Purple People Eaters of the Minnesota Vikings led by two future Hall of Famers on the defensive line.

I prepared for the playoffs as if nothing else in life mattered. I was 15.

Diehardblues said:

Correct

The narration just incorrectly identified the Cowboys in 1971 as America’s Team which it hadn’t become yet.

A simple detail is all. I suppose they were narrating about America’s Team history even though at the time that label hadn’t surfaced which the old video clips obviously didn’t mention.

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he also said "drink the blue kool aid" The expression drink the Kool aid to represent "going along with" didnt happen until after the Jonestown massacre