NFL on CBS 1989 Intro : Dallas Cowboys vs. New Orleans Saints (Week 1)

[AsthmaField]

I was just starting 10th grade at the time, and I went to the game. I went to high school in Baton Rouge, which is only an hour or so from New Orleans. My father (now departed) was a Saints fan. It was a very painful game to watch in person.

Yeah, but we had the last laugh, man.

 

[AsthmaField]

The Cowboy-Saints game I'll always remember is the '84 Sunday Night game, started late because of some Regan speech or something. I was watching at a friends house, had to get up and go to work the next day so with about 5 minutes left and it looking like the Cowboys had lost I gave up and went home.

When I got home I turned on the TV to see what the final score was and there were the Cowboys celebrating in the end zone after recovering a fumble (Thank you Randy White and Kenny Stabler!) to tie the game. Went on to win in overtime. A crappy season that year (the Gary Hogeboom experiment) but that was a highlight.

They played on Sunday nights back then? For some reason I thought they didn't.

 

[scottsp]

Ha! I remember getting on a plane, leaving home for two-a-days and my freshman year of college the very night we lost that preseason game in Denver. When we took off, Dallas was in control, and after landing in Columbia, MO, my Dad let me know about the OT loss. All of eighteen, I was convinced we would be turning 3-13 (in 1988) around that season.

After all, we just pushed a legitimate Super Bowl contender at Mile High. Jimmy is a genius!

Two weeks later in the dorm lobby, about fifty of us get to enjoy that 28-0 loss to New Orleans. And yeah, it wasn't even that close. Mind you, there are maybe three Cowboy fans there. Very tough for me to stomach so much delight being taken with our demise, and it was all so close, around me. That room was typically pro-Chief/Cardinal/Dolphin (lots of Florida kids there).

This was all so new to me since I was raised in DFW with everyone I knew or loved being a diehard Cowboy fan. What a rough day.

 

[dupree89]

Great job posting this! Excellent stuff. I have occasionally searched for a particular pre-game show that stands out in my mind, but haven't found it yet.

I am almost positive it was the 1975 season. Cowboys playing the Cardinals that day. Can't remember if it was in Dallas or St Louis. But, during the pre-game show they sent it out to the stadium. Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire were calling the game. They had an electric football game on set. And they turned it on and tried a long pass. Which was incomplete. (But then again, werent all long passes in electric football incomplete? lol)

Anyway, after the incomplete deep pass, Brookshire says something like....."I think the key today might be exactly what we just tried with electric football. Can Mel Gray get deep on this Dallas secondary?". And in only a way Pat Summerall can say it, he says....If Mel Gray gets behind the Dallas secondary, you can be sure that Jim Hart will hit him in stride.

This stands out because I was huge into electric football at the time and was shocked to see them with the game, on TV. Electric football was our generation's Madden Football. ;-)

Its great to remember those years. Thanks for the original post!

 

[DandyDon1722]

Great job posting this! Excellent stuff. I have occasionally searched for a particular pre-game show that stands out in my mind, but haven't found it yet.

I am almost positive it was the 1975 season. Cowboys playing the Cardinals that day. Can't remember if it was in Dallas or St Louis. But, during the pre-game show they sent it out to the stadium. Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshire were calling the game. They had an electric football game on set. And they turned it on and tried a long pass. Which was incomplete. (But then again, werent all long passes in electric football incomplete? lol)

Anyway, after the incomplete deep pass, Brookshire says something like....."I think the key today might be exactly what we just tried with electric football. Can Mel Gray get deep on this Dallas secondary?". And in only a way Pat Summerall can say it, he says....If Mel Gray gets behind the Dallas secondary, you can be sure that Jim Hart will hit him in stride.

This stands out because I was huge into electric football at the time and was shocked to see them with the game, on TV. Electric football was our generation's Madden Football. ;-)

Its great to remember those years. Thanks for the original post!

I have to tell you this - I was in a sport bar in Orlando about ten years ago and a guy came in with a Billy Joe Dupree jersey and I was so blown away I had to say something because I had never seen one before -- it was his son. Great kid.

 

[dupree89]

I have to tell you this - I was in a sport bar in Orlando about ten years ago and a guy came in with a Billy Joe Dupree jersey and I was so blown away I had to say something because I had never seen one before -- it was his son. Great kid.

I'd say at least once every couple of games (or so it seemed) Dallas would call an end around to Billy Joe Dupree. And he'd ramble for 12-15 yards. Great times.

 

[Tawney88]

They played on Sunday nights back then? For some reason I thought they didn't.

I don't believe they did. He likely meant Monday.

 

[Tawney88]

I don't believe they did. He likely meant Monday.

Stand corrected it was a sunday night

 

[SibannacRex]

Neat little video might bring back memories for some. I was few months old during this game anyone remember watching it?

I do remember this game. I was around 14 years old. I recall thinking we were going to be bad ***** that season as we went 4-0 in the preseason. I think we lost 28-0 and went on to go 1-15 that year. Lol