DMN: Blog: Cowboys-Rams Flashback: Roger's last ride

[Cbz40]

September 25, 2007


Cowboys-Rams Flashback: Roger's last ride


EDITOR'S NOTE: Let's be honest. The Cowboys are favored by 11, and I fully expect them to beat the spread against the injury-ravaged Rams. Seems like the only thing that can stop the Cowboys this Sunday is overconfidence. In an effort to ensure that doesn't happen, I'll feature only Rams wins in this week's Flashback series.

They called him Captain Comeback, and Roger Staubach is without a doubt on the short list of the QBs you'd want to rally a team from a fourth-quarter deficit.


Oh, the irony that Staubach's career ended when another QB pulled off a comeback.


The Rams' Vince Ferragamo hit Billy Waddy for a 50-yard touchdown pass with just over two minutes remaining, silencing the Texas Stadium crowd and handing the Cowboys a 21-19 loss in the 1979 NFC divisional playoff round.


"It will be worse tomorrow," said Staubach, who announced his retirement weeks later. "When you wake up and think about it the next day, that's when it really feels bad."




Posted by Tim MacMahon http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sharedcontent/dws/img/standing/icons/email.gif at 11:05 PM (E-mail this entry)

 

[Cowboy Bill Watts]

i was at this game. total bummer

and on top of all that, i believe roger completed the last pass of his career to guard Herb Scott for a penalty.

they should have beaten the rams by 14 that day.

 

[brucem78]

I remember that game well. One of the toughest losses for me to take. We were a much better team than the Rams and would have beaten the bucs the following week rather easily.

This would have given us another chance at becoming the team of the '80s because the Steelers were not nearly as good as the year before(Although I'm sure the officials would have seen to it that they got all the calls).

I'll never forget that sick feeling of seeing Billy Waddy running down the field for the winning touchdown on a tipped pass at Texas Stadium. It took me until after the Pro Bowl to get over that loss.

 

[THUMPER]

I remember that game well. One of the toughest losses for me to take. We were a much better team than the Rams and would have beaten the bucs the following week rather easily.

This would have given us another chance at becoming the team of the '80s because the Steelers were not nearly as good as the year before(Although I'm sure the officials would have seen to it that they got all the calls).

I'll never forget that sick feeling of seeing Billy Waddy running down the field for the winning touchdown on a tipped pass at Texas Stadium. It took me until after the Pro Bowl to get over that loss.

You are over that loss?

Some losses I will never get over and that was one of them.

 

[DallasEast]

You are over that loss?

Some losses I will never get over and that was one of them.

:signmast:

 

[Cbz40]

You are over that loss?

Some losses I will never get over and that was one of them.

Likewise.....that loss is one of several that still haunt me.

 

[DallasEast]

Likewise.....that loss is one of several that still haunt me.

Like this one?

Me too.

 

[poke]

Like this one?

Me too.

i could live the rest of my life without seeing this picture again....except it
is burnt into my brain.

 

[big dog cowboy]

You are over that loss?

Some losses I will never get over and that was one of them.

Losing that game sucked. I remember it very well. I didn't think there was any way we would lose.

 

[bbgun]

Right after the game.

http://img410.*************/img410/3061/1058822539538originalcccc8.jpg

 

[brucem78]

You are over that loss?

Some losses I will never get over and that was one of them.

I still get mad when I think about what we could have accomplished that year. But what I was talking about was that it took me until after the pro bowl to keep from punching anybody that would taunt me about the game.