St Louis Cardinals vs Dallas Cowboys 1985 Week 13

It's that time of the season when the good teams play their best football. Which team will hit their stride in this game?

[@cbanks1980]

Madden + Summerall + Thanksgiving = FOOTBALL.

[@garylobo348]

Football American Style! You got that right!! How I miss them both.

[@thomascollins6815]

None of the #1 tandems selected by the networks since then have been worthy replacements. Jim Nantz + Tony Romo, Al Michaels + Chris Collingsworth have been pretty good. Joe Buck + Troy Aikman are O.K. But nobody has been able to replace Madden and Summerall.

[@dcaraway3809]

Cards had some good looking uniforms remember watching this at my grandmother's i was 8yrs old 80s were the best ever

[@michael.prescott4016]

a lot better than the ones now.

[@danielboom72]

Agreed. 79 thru 89 was probably the best 10 year stretch for NFL football.

[@DNSKansas]

Gene Stallings was a Cowboys assistant from 1972-85. Two months after this game, he was in St. Louis. Last Cardinals game on Thanksgiving until 2008 when they lost the night game in Philadelphia.

[@frankdenardo8684]

The 1985 Thanksgiving classic. R.I.P. John Madden, Pat Summerall.

[@chrisuncleahmad]

Neil Lomax and Danny White- two guys that could really wing it

[@mycolortv1]

Danny white,,,you must be kidding lol

[@comfortat]

@@mycolortv1 YOU must be kidding. Danny White was a great passer. He took the Cowboys to 3 straight NFC Championship games, including a remarkable comeback against the Falcons in 1980 to get there. In the 1981 title game, he staked Dallas to a 27-21 lead before Montana's amazing pass to Dwight Clark. After that, he made several passes to get them across midfield before he was smashed in the pocket and fumbled. He then led them to 3 more playoff runs. Dallas had a winning record in his first 7 seasons as their starter. White also filled in for Staubach in the 1978 playoff game against the Falcons, after Roger was knocked out with a concussion. Danny led a great comeback win to catapult Dallas to the NFC Championship game. You apparently have never watched White very much. His only issue was having to follow in Staubach's footsteps. The Cowboys went 59-24 in his first 83 starts, a 71% winning %. That's one of the best records of any QB in history. He also had a QBR in those 7 seasons of 84.1 which was very good for that era. He threw 139 TDs in 82 games from 1980-1986, with only 106 INTs. In none of those seasons did he ever throw more INTs than TDs. He was a very good QB, a good runner, AND a terrific punter. Only Montana and Ken Anderson had better stats in that span. Fouts had more yards, but he threw way more INTs, and his QBR only slightly better than Danny's. Fouts also did not lead his team to the playoffs after 1982. The Chargers were 48-40 over the same time period with Dan at the helm, and he threw 23 more TDs and 20 more INTs than White in 5 more games and 800 more passes. His QBR was 86.0. He took them to the AFC Title game only once. Fouts threw more than 20 INTs in a season FIVE times, Danny, only twice. Fouts was a year older than White, so they are direct contemporaries. You really should educate yourself before making snarky comments. Peace

[@JamalMcCoy-tx2vz]

I guess you put him in his spot because he was never heard from again 😔 ​@@comfortat

[@ed2kou1]

Please post more 80’s Chiefs and Cowboys games.. Love Tom Landry! Class act and a man of character

[@hoopsheavenpa]

The best tv duo ever!

[@ellisonlowrimore7751]

Bill “Psycho”Bates was the reason the Pro Bowl had to make a special teams position. One of my favorite Cowboys of all time!

[@danielnowak6469]

Too bad Neil Lomax had to retire early in the late 80's due to a hip injury because he was certainly having a hall of fame type of career.

[@joerules829]

daniel nowak it was. Most casual fans today don’t know who he was and how good he was. This Cowboys fan remembers.

[@rustykuntz94]

Jets fan here but I remember Lomax and man he could throw it and led many great comebacks or almost comebacks like Week 2 1987 when he brought the Cardinal back from 28-0 at halftime to 28-24 final and if Earl Ferrell didn’t drop a Easy TD pass late in the game they would have won it 31-28

[@williamdiemert9866]

Pat Summerall R.I.P

[@matsugo24]

Danny white was a good QB. Very nice passes

[@brettshepherd5240]

The cards need to be in st louis

[@jaylucien669]

No pro football team needs to be in St. Louis.

[@cjdickey1650]

Oklahoma , Nebraska and Alabama need pro teams.

[@blackbird5605]

@@jaylucien669 They need to be out of Phoenix.

[@retroguy1976]

@@jaylucien669 ask the rams lol

[@garylobo348]

STL had two miserable men for owners. Bill Bidwill and Stan Kroenke. Both more concerned about $ than the city that supported losing football for decades.

[@muffs55mercury61]

Wow, great !! I never saw this game when it was played as I missed it when it was aired back home. The Cards played good for a team that was 4-8 in the first half but fell apart in the second half. Thanks for posting. This came two weeks after the Cowboys suffered their worst defeat at home ever by the Bears 44-0.

[@juliansmith4352]

Back in the day I remember watching this game visiting my late grandparents on Thanksgiving in Columbus Georgia on their CBS affiliate WRBL channel 3

[@davidlopez-rl4sh]

I was watching in San Antonio TX but I feel like I was in Minneapolis on vacation with my parents

[@Gen-X-Memories]

1985 was supposed to the year for the Cardinals. It ended up being an absolute nightmare. Lomax from the first game on never looked like the QB that lit it up the year before. In fact if you look at the whole season the first half of this game was probably the best he played the entire season.

[@cbanks1980]

Almost every player in white spats just RAW! MISS THIS KIND OF FOOTBALL

[@samson9535]

Ahhhh, the real NFL!

[@michael.prescott4016]

love the cardnials jerseys

[@timkumpost6036]

Great game! Loved the pass from Hill to Cosbie on the reverse!

[@SammieDavidDeLuce]

Tom Landry's last winning season, last Division title. The next 3 seasons for the Cowboys would be unLandry like

[@muffs55mercury61]

Sfter 1985 they would not have another winning season as well as make the playoffs until 1991 which such a drought was unheard of in post-1965 Dallas until the early 2000s.

[@Stay___Strong]

Doug Cosbie was and still is way under-rated.

[@cbanks1980]

He was novacek before novacek

[@michael.prescott4016]

cowboys played on that astroturf field for 15 seasons.

[@astrostar49]

Cardinals had the talent at this time, but they just never took that next step. Hard to do when you had the Giants, Redskins, and Cowboys in the NFC East feasting. Even when the Cowboys fell off a little after the early to mid 80's, the Eagles soared right back.

[@gogeta7455]

I was actually watching this game,i was 9 yrs old

[@sjames9005]

Thanks Richard! More of those sorry mid to late 80's Cowboys please.

[@denniseverett1904]

Cowboys actually won the Division this year(1985) Landry's last.

[@dougjennings1517]

football cardinals started this season out 3-1 coming off missing the playoffs on a fg the year before and were everyones sleeper pick to have a great year... as the baseball cardinals were ahead of the royals in the world series about the same time....... really thought it was gonna be one of the best years in stlouis sports history and bam, ouch,,, went bad fast for both teams lol........ delicious find, tyvm again Rich

[@DNSKansas]

It all turned sour when the Cards lost 23-0 on MNF in Washington. The most infamous moment came in week 14 when players wore solid red socks vs. the Saints. The NFL fined the Cardinals for that.

[@cleomoore6836]

Cardsnals was a good team

[@Gen-X-Memories]

Looking back I think that 3-1 start was really smoke and mirrors. They absolutely stole the opening game at Cleveland which they should have lost. They did look good when they beat the Bengals. After reading the box score on Monday after the week 3 loss at the Giants I knew something was wrong. The win against Green Bay was helped because Lynn Dickey didn't start. I guarantee you if he started the Cards probably would have lost to the Packers. Then they were totally exposed and got there asses whipped at Washington on MNF. The Cardinals had beaten the Skins in St. Louis the year before and almost beat them again in week 16 at RFK. You could even argue that the Cards outplayed them in the second game. I think the Skins came out that Monday pissed off with a head of steam because the Cardinals had at times made them look bad the year before. There were many factors that led to the awful season but from week 1 it was obvious that the magic they had the year before was gone.

[@nymike06]

Thanks for the upload, Richard.

[@abrahamjackson6019]

Eugene "Hitting Machine " Lockhart was a punishing tackler..

[@scottbrown7497]

Too bad the Cards aren't still in St Louis but I get St Louis is a baseball city a one team city .

[@LosAngeles-yz1yn]

hey bud,do you have 1979 patriots vs broncos?its a snow game,and I was wondering if you could post on google plus, 1978 browns vs jets or 1978 afc champ steelers 34-5 oilers?

[@krierp8]

Can you upload the 1st Cowboys-Cardinals game? I believe that was the only MNF game between these two in St. Louis.

[@survivor5044]

I would have to get this game on the next shipment.

[@DNSKansas]

The Cardinals and Cowboys also played on MNF in '86 at Busch. Cowboys won that one 31-7.

[@dcaraway3809]

Al Michaels frank gillford and dan dirdorfe were best mnf ever

[@cbanks1980]

Oh hell yeah.

[@charleswilliamsjr2095]

Aired on KNOE tv-8 in Monroe Louisiana!!

[@homerbrockner9406]

Yep. I'm a lifelong Cardinal fan from Columbia, LA. Before the Saints, Cardinals were on every Sunday.

[@comfortat]

1:55:43 Best plan B free agent pickup ever, at least by the Cowboys. How/why did the Cards let Novacek walk?

[@donaldpennington7646]

I was at this game with my sister and her husband

[@blackbird5605]

No you weren't.

[@donaldpennington7646]

@@blackbird5605 who are you to know?!

[@blackbird5605]

@@donaldpennington7646 I didn't see you there.

[@donaldpennington7646]

@@blackbird5605 thats strange! Thier was only 50,000 people there

[@blackbird5605]

@@donaldpennington7646 More like close to 60,000 since it was Thanksgiving. I remember everyone there, even the employees and ticket scalpers outside.

[@matthewjohnson3086]

That's right Mr. Kreager!🙂

[@tedjonston777]

Lomax overthrows again

[@williamdiemert9866]

John Madden R.I.P

[@geeskin5750]

Love summerall's nothing doing n almost broke it

[@stardaddyo9]

18 point lead with just over a minute to play. Why is Dorsett carring the football? That was stupid.

[@geeskin5750]

Loved summeralls nothing doing n almost broke it

[@speedyeagle2.25]

1:07:37 1:38:00

[@stardaddyo9]

Ron Fellows couldn't start for any other team and the Cowboys kept him for years.

[@retroguy1976]

thanksgiving 1985 earlier that day the jets lost to detroit over on nbc

[@PerpetualArt]

The best QBs of all time are white and wing it all over the field.

[@chesterwatson4087]

If there was only a way to set the tv to automatically go mute whenever madden started his overly loud ranting, any game he is "color commenting" would be much more pleasant to watch and hear.

[@SECRETARIATguy224]

Incredible