1973 Dallas Cowboys Team Season Highlights "Something Old.....Something New"

[@DaveLynchJazzGuitar]

Staubach was so GREAT !! You're never out of it with him around !! Great scrambler too!!

[@cordellsenior9935]

I think 22 of his 26 NFL comeback wins were in the last 2 minutes. I think I may have seen all of them! "Captain Comeback" was one of his many nicknames.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Dolphins Cowboys on Thanksgiving was a much anticipated game when schedule came out

[@frankdenardo8684]

Final score Miami 14, Dallas 7. Game aired on NBC

[@Mark-xl1ze]

@@frankdenardo8684 Took place on the 10th anniversary of the JFK assassination in Dallas.

[@michaelleroy9281]

It was their first meeting since Super Bowl VI

[@calvinbealer7264]

Mr. Lee Roy Jordan was a BEAST

[@michaelleroy9281]

This film is directed by Bob Ryan who 5 years later named a Cowboys highlight film ""America's Team "

[@simonreynoso7611]

I like to thank the Martinez family for opening my eyes in 74.....and steering me in the the right way when it came to football n becoming a cowboy fan since then.

[@mikevanriel7573]

The first Dallas Cowboys highlight film narrated by John Facenda.

[@howardcosell2022]

'Dirty Dozen' draft of 75 plus the nine rookies and five second-year players from 1973 built the Cowboy success heading into the 1980's

[@cordellsenior9935]

Wow. Otto Stowe. What a memory. What a team. Love hearing all those names and seeing them put to life here (even Mike Montgomery). As a 12-year-old, discovering NFL Films was to me, pure, clean, fun and honest entertainment of the highest order. It was exciting every time I caught an episode (seems like it was irregular programming. I always stumbled across "This Week in the NFL". or other shows. The team's year recap of the previous year was a real treat.). I could not get enough. Seeing the players and the action move in slow motion was a revelation of the ballet contained in these battles. You can see them beautifully execute those hours of practice. You see synchronicity at work. I enjoyed the films more than the actual games. The music tracks provided exposure to brands of classical and jazz music I might never have explored on my own. The narrators perfectly described the action and dramas we were witnessing so I could follow along clearly. Better than movies to me. The late, great, John Facenda's voice (he was Shakespear), routinely coined phrases I can always hear clearly: "The frozen tundra of Lambeau Field." or "The grim specter of Bob Lilly." I would even read the credits. Thank you to the late, great, Ed Sabol and crews. And equal thanks to his late, great, son Steve, who took it to the next level. And thank you, Sports Odessey or posting!

[@michaelleroy9281]

Bob Lilly and Calvin Hill were out in NFC Championship vs Vikings that hurt big time

[@howardcosell2022]

Otto Stowe was on his way to being a Dallas Cowboy legend if not for the injury he suffered mid-way through the season. He was replaced by Drew Pearson and Stowe never played for Dallas again

[@michaelleroy9281]

@@howardcosell2022 He was with the Dolphins , he didn't get much playing time because of Paul Warfield and Howard Twilley

[@howardcosell2022]

​@@michaelleroy9281 Marlin Briscoe too

[@tommythomason6187]

The Dallas franchise had sharp people, who knew what they were doing, at every level. That's why they just kept on chugging, no matter what, or no matter who retired. If Lilly retired, Randy White took over, etc, etc...they traded wisely to get great players, and they scouted and drafted well, had great coaches, shrewd game plans, and the on-field product rarely faltered, until they ran out of gas in the late 1980s.

[@cordellsenior9935]

RIP, the late, great Gil Brandt.

[@cordellsenior9935]

Dear Sports Odessey: it would be a fantastic reel to hear / see a compilation of Howard Cosell's (largely improvised) NFL halftime highlights he "performed" on Monday Night Football. It was always electric. I will now like an subscribe!

[@michaelleroy9281]

The game in Washington ,on Monday Night Football , both teams wanted to tear each other' s heads off

[@michaelleroy9281]

John Facenda was really good on this highlight film

[@ciesaro]

Facenda rarely gave a bum performance while narrating a piece for NFL Films

[@genewilliams2942]

That's football folks complete with lights out hitting you'd never see today. I sure miss rral football.

[@chrisorr4902]

The Cowboys in the 1970s played against the Rams and Vikings more in the playoffs.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Those Eagles helmets are great

[@jerrywade6179]

Can you imagine ANY of those RBs, Newhouse, Garrison, or Hill, running behind the line of 2014-present!? Wow.

[@cordellsenior9935]

Those WERE better lines. Those guys played together for years and seemed to never get significantly injured like today's guys. Rayfield Wright is HOF. Fitgerald, Nye, Nyland could be. They were rock solid warriors all.

[@anthonytrahan1017]

Remember this game well

[@kpg-uo1tm]

T some point mid season they painted the end zones blue at Texas Stadium. The field was plane early in the video.

[@gdobie1west988]

It figures they don't show any highlights of the Rams regular season game. Hadl and Jackson lit them up with 4 touchdowns in the first half. But Cowboys got revenge in the playoffs---they were always tough in the post season.

[@ciesaro]

Harold Jackson OWNED Charlie Waters that day

[@michaelleroy9281]

They did show a Mel Renfro interception for a pick 6 from that game

[@BabySinister]

‘Cause it’s a Dallas highlight film, not 🐏 🐏

[@gdobie1west988]

@@BabySinister So they only show the wins but not the loses?? Lame.

[@BabySinister]

@@gdobie1west988 Of course…they mentioned the losses but they’re not going to highlight them on a teams highlight film

[@michaelleroy9281]

It's been said that Ken Houston's tackle on Walt Garrison got him into HOF

[@frankdenardo8684]

Michael Leroy Ken Houston retired after the 1980 season and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1986. His first year of elegibiliy

[@frankdenardo8684]

@Harry Engel well deserved. The Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 1986 included Paul Hourning, Willie Lanier, Fran Tarkenton, and Doak Walker. He had good company.

[@ciesaro]

Ken Houston amassed a mess of interceptions

[@davidalexoff1658]

I'm 62, born in Ohio. To this day, my favorite NFL team is any team that beats the Cowboys.

[@drbonesshow1]

It was unusual that Dallas played two MNF games in 3 weeks. Did that ever happen again for any team?

[@michaelleroy9281]

What's more unusual is that 4 teams played on 🎄 Christmas Day 2024, that played the previous Sunday

[@jeffs3752]

The best thing the early 70s Cowboys did was get rid of Craig Morton. If only they'd done it sooner, but Landry had a strange fascination with him for too long.

[@cordellsenior9935]

There were numerous dynamics involved. It was because Craig was actually very good. He could sling it. He could read defenses and was in control. Had a great arm and an enviable/ great pro career. (He got traded to the AFC and took Denver to its first Super Bowl.) Landry took so long because it was hard and rare to play rookies and young QBs in the NFL (until the 90s or so). It was hard to pull the trigger and demote a starter, short of injury in those days. It was hard to move off of him, but Roger had all that and more, and had a massive X factor. Moton did not go quietly. But ultimately, Craig was a pure pocket passer, and was exposed as such when the 'Boys smashed him Sb 12. He could not get out of the way. It was like Tom Brady against the Giants. Fair to say they "knew his weaknesses". So, he didn't suck, by any real NFL metric; it's that Roger was a next level Hall of Famer who had to wait his turn until it was painfully obvious (to Tom) who he needed to start.

[@jhodges3131]

Is Prescott gone yet?

[@michaelleroy9281]

Who was # 33 for the Cowboys in training camp it wasn't Duane Thomas he was with the Redskins that year

[@SportsOdyssey2019]

Calvin hill

[@cortchiewelch9492]

had no idea landry went back to rotating staubach and morton. why?

[@michaelleroy9281]

It wasn't as bad as 1971 though

[@drbonesshow1]

The 1973 season was the year of the Miami Dolphins at 12-2 they were a better team than 14-0 in 1972. Dallas would lose the NFC title 27-10 to the Vikings who had no chance against the Dolphins 24-7 in the Super Bowl.

[@Jiltedin2007]

For only One Sunday Afternoon, how I would relish the current Dallas Cowboys to be wearing these old style uniforms.

[@oscarl.ramirez7355]

As a fan of the Houston Oilers, bottom line Bud Adams could never get that Team over the Hump. I recall watching the 1978 game in November when Houston beat Dallas. If Houston were to play Dallas in the Super Bowl it would be epic. maybe next year.

[@michaelleroy9281]

Houston played at Dallas on Thanksgiving Day 1979 they didn't play each other in 1978 the Oilers were in the same division as the Steelers at the worst possible time that's why they never got over the hump

[@Rerererd]

I'm