1974 Dallas Cowboys Team Season Highlights "Champion In Waiting"

[@Zman1963]

My first year as a COWBOYS FAN! 11yr old boy and now a 60 yr old man. GO COWBOYS!!!

[@charlesmagby451]

Man that music gives you goosebumps

[@keithrissolo7437]

By that time Cowboys fans just expected us to get to the Super Bowl every single year...But 74' was a bit of a set back and a let down, I think we went 8-6, after a lot of tough games, tough losses, and tight wins that year...We were good, good team that wasn't quite there yet, a bit of a rebuilding season, a season of transition for us....But there was much promise for the future, you could see it was coming together...We went to the Super Bowl the next year!!!

[@markwoods845]

Great game on for the ages!

[@frankdenardo8684]

The Thanksgiving Day classic was the best

[@oscarl.ramirez7355]

Thank you for the Upload of a Team up North. For a fan of the Houston Oilers "it caused me many male problems" that would never be resolved in the Go Texans Go.😁

[@frankdenardo8684]

The Thanksgiving day classic was the best game ever.

[@sportshistorybuff319]

A month later after the Thanksgiving game, Duane Thomas would rush for over 100 yards in a season-ending 42-0 blowout of the Bears on a Saturday, the game that officially eliminated the Cowboys from the playoffs before their Saturday night encounter with the Raiders. And that was the last NFL game Thomas ever played. It doesn't seem the Skins took him to LA for their divisional playoff game. In 1975, he was rather delusional asking the Redskins for a pay bump from $60,000 to $165,000 and George Allen released him. True to his rebellious form, Thomas kept showing up for practise with the team for a few days before the message sunk in. He then flamed out in the WFL, then failed to land with the Cowboys again in 1976, and got cut by both the CFL's BC Lions and the Green Bay Packers.

[@oneofspades]

Fans took Tom for granted. He led the Cowboys to 10 Championship in 14 year span

[@workaccount4956]

and 20 straight winning seasons

[@chrisorr4902]

1974 was only season that the Dallas Cowboys did not make it to the playoffs in the 1970s.

[@chrisorr4902]

Great facts

[@michaelleroy9281]

But still another winning season ( from 1966-1985) 20 straight

[@tracyyoung224]

The 1974 season made the great 1975 draft possible.

[@Martin-pt5on]

Oh Baby!!! I love this!!! Look at all the great player's!! Harvey Martin beating Dan Dierdorff (HOF) for a sack...Lilly,Calvin Hill, Garrison,Too Tall Jones....Harold McClinton, Pat Fisher, Larry Brown on the Redskins...The greatest rivalries were in the 70's!!! Same as Raiders/Steelers!!! With Faccenda's voice, this is must see TV!!

[@johndor7890]

I was at the game as a kid that day and was passing gas and the guy next to me was pissed

[@StellarFella]

Wow! Didn't realize Duane Thomas played against and scored against Dallas.

[@oneofspades]

He was traded for drug use. Or it was implied he was trade for drug use.

[@howardcosell2022]

There lies the problem between the two Cowboy championships in the seventies. The team didn't have a premiere running back after winning in 71 with Thomas and would not win again until Dorsett arrived in 77

[@StellarFella]

@@howardcosell2022 - Landry did say that losing Thomas kept them from winning at least two more Super Bowls in the 70's.

[@misterresister8271]

@@howardcosell2022 Calvin Hill rushed for 1000+ yards in 1972 and 73 and would have again in 1974 if he didn't miss 4 games

[@howardcosell2022]

@@misterresister8271 Hill played very well in Landry's system but he was not the game breaker like Duane Thomas or Tony Dorsett. Robert Newhouse nearly gained 1000 yards in 1975

[@haroldmccoy6748]

Champion In Waiting 🏆 . Clairvoyant !

[@michaelleroy9281]

They were already Champions 🏆 1971 and Super Bowl VI

[@Jiltedin2007]

The year the Dallas Cowboys missed the NFL Playoffs. Bob Lilly retired that year.

[@michaelleroy9281]

So did Cornell Green and Walt Garrison

[@sportshistorybuff319]

What sucked about this season was that Dallas looked so strong on both sides of the ball in the opening day shutout of Atlanta, 24-0. Absolutely nothing in that game hinted at the four game losing streak to come, particularly those stinkaroo offensive efforts against the Eagles and Giants. Both NY and Philly looked like teams going somewhere in those early wins, but IIRC, both fell off a cliff the rest of the season. A rare highlight for Dallas was reversing all four losses to their division opponents in the rematches in 1974, including wins over playoff-bound St. Louis and Washington.

[@kayodephillips5435]

My team let's go cowboys

[@davidhickey1830]

Definitely a "Champion in Waiting." After 1974's "mediocre" season they lost Calvin Hill, Bob Lilly, Walt Garrison, Cornell Green and Bob Hayes. But then they had one of their best draft classes ever with the Dirty Dozen and won the nfc in 1975, and went to 3 Super Bowls in 4 years.

[@ronsmac]

Were the season recaps shown nationally or just locally? I know the weekly shows were syndicated nationally but don’t remember the yearly recaps.

[@sportshistorybuff319]

What is the tune at 19:57?

[@jhodges3131]

Is Prescott gone yet?

[@workaccount4956]

Love the striped football and the voice of God.

[@drbonesshow1]

Until the arrival of Dorsett... wait till next year.

[@michaelleroy9281]

They made a great comeback in 1974 but a little to late

[@frankdenardo8684]

The 1974 Thanksgiving classic was the highlight.

[@jamiesonmathias7859]

In the final game vs Oakland.Did either team sit starters ?

[@frankdenardo8684]

Walt Garrison, and Bob Lilly retired after the 1974 campaign

[@howardcosell2022]

All the starters played for both teams. The only oddity was that Landry started two TE's in the game, Billy Joe DuPree and Jean Fugett

[@mikeydred11]

Raiders rested Stabler later in the game and Blanda came in and threw a TD pass on his first attempt....The game is on KZbin, Wasn't as close as the score.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Dallas was already out of the playoffs for that final game vs Raiders

[@stevenzimmerman4057]

​@@mikeydred11Blanda's last touchdown pass!

[@raynardabraham7831]

In 1974 if there had been a three way tie between the Cowboys, Cardinals, & Redskins, who would have been division champions & who would have been the wild card?

[@bobbyv7903]

St. Louis swept Washington, and tied 1-1 vs Dallas, but the Cardinals had a better division record, so St. Louis would've won the division

[@jamiesonmathias7859]

Ok I understand that Dallas was out of the playoffs. BUT I'm asking if Dallas wouldn't of lost to Washington what would they've had to do in this game vs Raiders ? Win to get into playoffs or could they have lost this game to Oakland & still get in ?

[@michaelleroy9281]

Not a good season for the Cowboys except for Clint Longley on Thanksgiving Day

[@exmaj5040]

@Matt Pizzano I believe that, along with Lilly and Hayes, Cornell Green and Walt Garrison also called it a career after this season

[@michaelleroy9281]

@@exmaj5040 Hayes was traded to the 49ers , played in '75 then retired

[@gdobie1west988]

One hit wonder. Longley.

[@Zman1963]

@@gdobie1west9882 hit wonder, the other was Roger’s head!😂

[@jamiesonmathias7859]

And if Dallas would of beat Washington both times ? Would Dallas of made the playoffs ? And would Dallas had to win the final game vs Oakland ? What im getting at is just how close was Dallas to of making the playoffs ?

[@stardaddyo9]

1974 was dogshit for the Cowboys. They even lost a game to the Giants.

[@michaelleroy9281]

14-6 at home

[@misterresister8271]

They didn't show Bob Hayes's final touchdown as a Cowboy, a meaningless score in the Giants loss

[@danduke7339]

It averted the shutout.

[@Football__Junkie]

They sucked that season and ironic thing is the Cowboys’ schedule was garbage. They didn’t play any great teams except for Minnesota and Oakland. I don’t think STL or WAS were that much better than average. Did Landry drop a lot of players between ‘74 and ‘75? Looks like they revamped the offense, at least at RB.

[@VolumedMusicMan]

Between 73, 74, and 75 the Cowboys brought in a lot of players such as Drew Pearson, Harvey Martin, Ed Jones and Randy White. They retired or lossed Bob Lilly, Bob Hayes, Walt Garrison and Calvin Hill to name a few.

[@massvt3821]

StL and Washington both made the playoffs in '74. A bit better than average..

[@haroldmccoy6748]

@@massvt3821 👍💯

[@michaelleroy9281]

They didn't rebuild for 1975 they reloaded that's the Cowboys way of doing things

[@michaelleroy9281]

Some players retired after 1974 Cornell Green Walt Garrison Bob Lilly