The Dirtiest Game in NFL History? | The Bounty Bowl - Eagles vs Cowboys (1989)

[@jeremylamovsky9868]

Man how things changed between the bounty bowls and body bag game to bounty gate. Late 80s it was practically advertised as the NFLs version of a reality TV show before hard knocks, then when actually bounty gate happened and it went from intriguing drama to sell at game to giving the NFL a black eye

[@paullockyer7905]

You should have shown Buddy’s comment on Zendejas. It was something like - “If she puts on the Cowboys’ uniform and stands between the white lines she is subject to being hit.”

[@superturtle61177]

Or his response to Jimmy Johnson and his fat ass comment. Something to the effect of I resent that comment. I've been dieting and dropped a few pounds.

[@IsaacFNghost]

It’s nice nowadays to see Eagles players and cowboys players helping each other up and patting each other on the backs in todays NFL. It’s cool to see AJ and CD laughing and hanging out after games

[@michaeldailey7103]

Finally this situation gets covered , I remember it even as a fan of the Boltz !!!

[@BillyBob-wq9fl]

The Real San Diego Chargers.. I like Herbert and all but I quit as a bolt fan after they left SD. Cant support a spanos team. 2006 was magical but firing Marty and shipping off players was too much for me.

[@TheBandicootNerd131]

Fantastic video Robbie!

[@michaelpowers9037]

surprised this guy has 5k subscribers, such great content!

[@rjakobi]

This is top notch. It's good to see some folks covering some of these specific events in sports history, however niche they may be.

[@jjgillmen]

I attended the original Bounty Bowl, Thanksgiving '89. The game was blacked out in DFW, so my uncle Rick had scooped up some tickets. While it was very hard to be a Cowboys fan at the time, even as a seven-year-old kid realized that this team was gonna get better as the 80s ended and the 90s began. As good of a defensive mind as he was, there was no doubt that Buddy Ryan was a real jerk and not a very good head coach. Jimmy Johnson ended up getting the last laugh, winning two Super Bowls while Buddy Ryan never won a single playoff game with Philly as a head coach.

[@rottenapple6109]

If I'm Aikman, I don't't know what would tick me off more -- an illegal hit, or a bounty on me for a measley 500 bucks.

[@7thheaven496]

Well I dont blame they for hurting Aikman, Cowboys can be a corrupt organization and dirty themselves.

[@PoppaFlagrant]

@@7thheaven496There we go . . . another case of cranial rectalitis!!! It’s becoming an epidemic!!!

[@giffysstiffy8874giffytuck]

In '89 500 bucks was worth alot more

[@paulsbunions8441]

​@@7thheaven496"hey this dude got drafted by a corrupt organization let's try and hurt him" filthadelphian logic lmao

[@GOATQE3]

@@7thheaven496corrupt 😂

[@sparky8506]

As a lifelong Eagles fan, all I have to say is, Buddy Ryan was a scumbag.

[@michaeltischuk7972]

This is when the Eagles were men, and they didn't have a coach who cried on national network TV at the Superbowl

[@studogable]

Buddy Ryan changed how the NFL played defense as much as anyone in the game's history, but that man was a son of a bitch. I'm very glad he is not in the Hall of Fame.

[@tmcl1837]

The animosity from Philadelphia began when Cowboy Lee Roy Jordan gave a cheap shot to Eagles' Tim Brown, breaking his jaw. Brown had returned a punt and a kickoff for TD's in a previous game. Dallas didnt consider the Eagles a big rival until the Eagles had a good team under Dick Vermeil.

[@LIE11Bldg7]

John Madden knew it instantly

[@IsaacFNghost]

I was born in 91 and became a fan at around 9 years old. This was all before my time with the Eagles 😅 interested to see what this one’s about

[@jbx.7995]

He tried to do it to LT and Simms to

[@67marlins]

An intentionally dirty game, and buddy Ryan associated with it? Imagine that. In the end, it did help expose how talentless and envious the eagles were, and it perfectly showed the complete lack of character and what a cowardly loser Ryan was.

[@denniseverett1904]

What goes around...the only thing better than beating them in the Div round 3 yrs later( and again a couple of yrs following that) would've been having Buddy still watching his team's asses getting beat from the Texas Stadium sideline. Nothing against Rich Kotite but that's all that was missing.

[@jennyanydots2389]

You sound like one of them Soy Infused Leftist Boys

[@royhobbs2425]

Since Jeffrey Lurie bought the team in 1999 his success versus Jerry Jones is a beat down. In that time Dallas has 4 playoff wins and no NFC championship appearances. Eagles have 14 playoff wins 3 SB appearances 1 SB win.

[@mikepalmer1971]

How is that relevant to this? Lol.

[@michaelreich4827]

And the Cowboys still get 8-9 national game a year while no one cares about the Eagles outside of Pennsylvania.

[@mikepalmer1971]

@@michaelreich4827 lol spot on.

[@daved1535]

Lurie bought the Eagles in 1994

[@hamhockbeans]

​@@mikepalmer1971Ummm...its called choking.

[@chad3452]

80s bears: hahahaha they dont have any idea we made more off bounties than the McCaskeys paid us

[@dcoopthemann]

As a Cowboys fan who grew up in Philly, I remember all this like it was yesterday! I also remember how Eagles fans HYPED UP Buddy Ryan - and how brought up the fact he NEVER WON ANYTHING with them! I never got a LEGIT RESPONSE from ANY OF THEM over it!

[@qmcsing]

He was a loser, just like the eagles…..

[@cprealone]

Right Buddy never won ish always talking ish and never got nothing done in the playoffs

[@ethn9046]

he still encompassed the cowboys hate better than any other coach

[@kellyjohnson9394]

The fact you and this guy are still talking about it means you STILL have not gotten over this pounding. 🦅🦅

[@relldavis2232]

As cowboys fan who grew up in philly you don’t deserve a response #birdgang

[@PCCphoenix]

Buddy Ryan denied everything, of course...

[@CasperX22]

I mean Buddy did have a point: Why would he waste his time putting a bounty on a kicker that can't kick? One of the truest things Buddy has ever said.

[@petersmith1591]

So are you calling Seth Joyner a liar

[@stephaniegormley9982]

2:18 That happened a lot with Buddy Ryan and other coaches. Didn't happen much with Tom Landry.

[@SwordHMX]

Buddy was a man-child with a great football mind. He would have a been failure in life had he any other profession.

[@akbarlebowitz8151]

Kevin Gilbride and Mike Ditka would agree with you.@@SwordHMX

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

Like him or hate him Landry was a class act so you know if he didn't acknowledge you you must have really pissed him off or fucked up bigly.

[@mikepalmer1971]

@@SwordHMXoverrated football mind.

[@rbustamantes07]

Buddy Ryan was pure trash and not on Jimmy's level.

[@s.benedetto2147]

Well done video. Hilarious in parts. What would Eagles fan think if Dallas had placed a bounty on Cunningham?

[@teofilstevenson]

Even as a Bear fan, I thought Buddy was a problem child. And to hear Jimmy, after his years of non sportsmanlike antics at Miami, talk of integrity of the game is laughable.

[@lxf9914]

what did he do in miami?

[@TL2354]

Name Jimmy's antics in Miami. Thanks

[@Rockhound6165]

I was at this game. Our seats were in the endzone and we were dodging snowballs all day. This one moron in front me made a snowball and threw it. One of the guys, who is a rather large individual, tapped him on the shoulder and told him if he did that again he would follow the snowball over the railing.

[@vatbone]

I was there too. Cold and freezing when the wind gusted (we were near the very top of the Vet). A bunch of classless individuals there.

[@NewBluesBros]

Sure. At Vet Stadium... lol You ain't never been in the Vet if that's your story

[@tommygarcia7406]

Buddy Ryan was a bully, he even fought his own staff.

[@alienlife7754]

Landry started it. Fly Eagles fly.

[@bobbressi5414]

Im an Eagles fan who gets in arguments with fellow Eagles fans all the time about Buddy Ryan. He is the most overrated coach in team history. Exciting regular season play is nice. Winning in the playoffs and getting to the big show is what matters. Ryan never even sniffed a Bowl appearance during his whole time in Philly.

[@noelhernandez363]

Why am I not surprised, no evidence found!!

[@paleo704]

Bet Aikman’s boyfriend had a hard time watching Troy run for his life scared to death that day

[@geoffreyblankenmeyer9888]

The Charles Maretin hit list towel.

[@tiddiesattic]

Gregg Williams is a Buddy Ryan disciple

[@frankdux2057]

The Cowboys got the ultimate revenge when they whipped the Eagles in the playoffs in 93 and went on to win the Superbowl!

[@beccahaaby1007]

If Buddy Ryan was coaching there were bounty's.

[@MrLuvgarden]

Thank you Buddy Hackett for being the Eagles Coach , you never really won any playoff games and the Cowboys went on to win 3 Super Bowls during that era ! 🤪🤪

[@effend446]

Buddy would be gone after '90. Couldn't win when it truly counted. Jimmy and his Cowboys would ultimately get the last laugh......winning back-to-back Super Bowls.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

Buddy may not have won, but _damn_ was he entertaining!

[@bobma6342]

@@ZhangtheGreat wasn't he the one who called the Run and Shoot offense the cluck and duck?

[@tonycrabtree3416]

@@bobma6342He also punched the Oilers’ OC when he was the DC. 😂

[@bobma6342]

@@tonycrabtree3416 Kevin Gilbride?

[@tonycrabtree3416]

@@bobma6342 gilbride did deserve it in that situation.

[@lxf9914]

Crazy to think that even Eagles players were saying Buddy placed a bounty.

[@georgejohnson8674]

that 1989 game lit a spark on the Cowboys, as they proceeded to kick the shit out of the eagLes for a decade.

[@tcollier5460]

Then the Eagles kicked the shit out of Dallas 2000 to 2012! They beat Dallas in the 90s as well, I remember Bobby Taylor used to shut Irvin down! He couldn't push off Taylor and Vincent! Irvin used to cry like a baby, his career was also ended in the Vet! Good Times

[@kellyjohnson9394]

@@tcollier5460 cowgirls fans like to forget 2000 -2012 as if it was a delusional dream.

[@tcollier5460]

@@kellyjohnson9394 I think so too, the Quincy Carter years!

[@overtyme1]

@@tcollier5460Hold on eagle turd! That 2000 to 2004! And the last win was costly as TO was hurt and cost you eagle turds the SB! After that it was all Cowboys!

[@stephenstone8480]

Now the Eagles and Jalen Hurts will be kicking the living shit out of the cowboys for a decade...or more... FLY EAGLES FLY!!!

[@kibitznec700]

That buddy ryan character must be rotting in hells.

[@tomfoley6718]

Buddy Ryan always denied that he put bounties on Dallas players but he never said that his assistant coaches didn’t who knows maybe it happened that way cause Buddy took it to his grave that he never put bounties on players

[@lars1701again]

Lol people were trying to mess up jimmy Johnson’s hair. Had season tickets from 91 to 2015 and watching cowgirl fans get abused like when they locked a fan in a porta potty and tipped it over

[@cvn6555]

That shit is still going on. At the Birds-Giants playoff game, dudes were going off in the bathrooms shouting that they wanted the Cowboys to win their game so they could eff up Dallas fans in the men's rooms. Crazy and unnecessary. The thuggery is awful, period. On the other hand, we did manage to mess up Jimmy's plastic hair on a MNF game with a few dozen snowballs.

[@jonfranks6902]

Bountygate was BS. Payton gets draft picks taken away and suspended for a year. A f’n YEAR. Belichick gets what, a 5th rounder taken away for SPYING on competition

[@staffsaber534]

All that bullshit and Buddy Ryan NEVER won a single playoff game. Almost as if none of it was necessary...

[@jasongoldsworthy6149]

I remember Mark Bavaro of the NY Giants saying he wanted to kill Buddy Ryan cos he put a bounty on Lawrence Taylor....Bavaro..not one to be messed with.

[@pinehawk9600]

Good times.....good times..

[@stevengoodman7167]

Timmy brown was in mash show when it first came on

[@elifino200]

Buddy Ryan's Eagles team was always known for cheap shots, no matter who they were playing. I always feared when my team would play them because we always seemed to wind up with at least a couple of cheap-shot injuries by game end.

[@matthewmitcham5218]

😂😂😂

[@treeherder2201]

Thugs and bums.....just like their city.

[@TonyRomeNewMoney]

I love this video. F**k the Cowboys. Buddy may not have playoff wins but he put the mojo in the Eagles franchise. The Cowboys ain’t been sh*t since these days.

[@tinaanderson2933]

Buddy Ryan was a punk!

[@daviddechamplain5718]

Buddy Ryan was such a POS that I, as a Redskins fan, was on Dallas' side at the time.

[@mojoschmee9320]

Yes! As a Cowboys fan, this indeed, clarifies some things. I mean, Jimmy was an absolute a-hole, but Buddy Ryan? That man was diabolical.

[@muckerwood]

Agreed. Buddy Ryan is rotting in hell right now and I find it glorious. By the way, as a Cowboy fan, you guys will ALWAYS be the Redskins to those that matter. The lefty woke crap needs to stop.

[@ofenomeno1381]

That csu safety would be perfect for this !!

[@rescalante26]

What happened to the kicker? No replays back then?

[@martyswaney1098]

All the late 60's AFL games were way tougher than this.

[@frankbridges2171]

I remember that game crazy

[@randyrossi8712]

Nice job

[@joshuasimber8588]

Back then Every team had bounties out lol

[@TPTGopher]

Fun fact: the winter weather which blanketed Pennsylvania enough to create the snowballs Fanus Philici (the proper scientific name for the degenerate Human subspecies often colloquially referred to as "Eagles fans") rained onto the Vet extended all the way West throughout Ohio...and as such all-but-simultaneously produced the snowballs whose throwers Sam Wyche was calling out when he reminded Bengals fans that "You don't live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati!"

[@Dr._J]

It comes full circle 😂

[@danielburt7849]

I thought that I said it best, but yours is making me covet! Thank you!

[@mikepalmer1971]

That always makes me laugh when I see that video.

[@lars1701again]

No one likes us and we don’t care

[@NewBluesBros]

More fun facts. You get on your knees. But it's not to pray

[@plutoniumrocket]

You stay classy, Philadelphia.

[@garyguman8978]

I was at that game too they didn't shovel one flake of snow in that stadium we're sitting in snow feet and snow everybody was pissed off

[@sfitz0076]

Back when football was Awsome!

[@dougkenny6548]

Someone connected with the nfl talking about integrity. Laughable. The nfl issues injury reports so vegas can establish the odds for each weeks games.

[@burtknighten4438]

Reminds me of Saints vs Falcons

[@ChrisMorganComedy]

I'm a waiter at a restaurant and I wouldn't hurt somebody for that amount of money. Those are some crazy even for the time.

[@donkeylong7707]

I remember that game and those days.. Johnson and Ryan got Into it with trash talk and fights in that game.

[@guests5863]

#1: Steelers at Oakland 1976

[@sethhamby9405]

Ryan put a bounty on LT and it back fired as he torn Philly a new a$$ hole.

[@cvn6555]

LT tore everyone a new arsehole. Cocaine is a heckuva drug.

[@haroldbrooks4235]

I loved this game.😂😂😂

[@jimsuson2190]

Buddy Ryan In my opinion is the dirtiest coach to ever coach a game ball

[@steelenigma17]

A Ryan family member involved with something scummy happening I'm shocked.

[@kishdogg1594]

🦅

[@k.t.1641]

God Philly is always such a pos place. Crazy that things havent changed.

[@johndonny443]

Those eagles were a classless bunch. Joe Gibbs, Bill Parcells and Jimmy Johnson won 8 superbowls these clowns won absolutely nothing..zilch.

[@danholm4952]

vikings saints Karina bowl! Vikes got screwed.. bad what 8 late hits and 3 flags?

[@timolson9224]

The real bounty bowl was when Farve was a Viking, and got slaughtered in the NFC Championship game in 2009.

[@davidcole3489]

Stay classy Philly 🙄

[@andykennard9458]

No bounty, this was just Dallas whining

[@ItsAllBallBearings]

Go Birds!

[@warrenhammonds1093]

A few things you didn't mention. The NFL banned alcohol sales in Veteran Stadium for 10 years because of that game. Philthy fans peed in cups and dumped them on the Cowboys players and staff and put batteries inside the snowballs. They cheered when Irvin screwed up his neck. They are the worst fanbase in the NFL.

[@SSDirk1976]

If you think Bounty Bowl.....you NEVER think of the aints....REAL football people think of my Cowboys and bEagles and honestly, miss those days when organizations/teams/owners/gm's/coaches/ball boys/water boys, etc HATED each other. You ever think my Cowboys and bEagles of those times would meet mid field, after the game and exchange jerseys?? N-E-V-E-R. We NEED days of football like this again and how. e-a-g-l-e-s STILL SUCK

[@vicalamuso3427]

Creepy

[@dwreck120981]

Lol beagles! I thought I was the only one who called em that

[@cvn6555]

How can you write this today? 20 years ago? Sure. But today, after all the success the Birds have had balanced against all the success Dallas has lacked, you claim that the Eagles still suck? Defending NFC champs that absolutely destroyed the Giants and then the Niners? The Niners that sent the Cowboys home to play golf? The Eagles with the best O-line in football and one of the top D's? They suck? Ha. I expect nothing less from "football guys" that claim Dak is a great QB.

[@DollarBill01984]

Buddy ball was the best!

[@slayerreign1120]

Honestly words are cheap honestly he didn't take a shot honestly he's a liar.

[@thedukeofswellington1827]

Lol what playoff games? None in the last 20 years 😂

[@nealroberts5844]

Every team did it

[@cmorris9494]

I remembered after the game the vet (the eagles stadium)had to have snow removed before each game to prevent the snowballs from flying.

[@mojoschmee9320]

...the Vet. The only NFL stadium to house its own jail facility beneath the grounds... Philly...

[@stereolababy]

it's not called filthadelphia for no reason ha

[@markrouse2416]

Here in Dallas all thought of that game evaporated when the first SB game was won under J. Johnson.

[@jennyanydots2389]

Jim Johnson was my neighbor for a summer in Tijuana... the dude was always beetin his dawgs and gettin' all hammered up and yellin' at his wife about random shit... like the time Alvin Harper "accidentally" backed over his dawg after a heated argument. He was always talmbout how Emmit was a crazy scientoligizt and that he regreted lettin' him always bring his boy Thommy Cruze into the locker room for rap battle sesh's against Jay Novacheck. It really messed up the team's chemistry when Troy started to feel left out. That's when Big Barry Swisser was brought in to get that locker room back to a sense of normalcy. That dude was just another cracker though, looked like Skeletore and shit.

[@hamhockbeans]

Then Jerry fired Johnson for his ego and cursed the team.

[@crispinroy9839]

Philly fans are trash but I'll always have respect for Philly because in '93 Philly was the ONLY franchise that voted for Baltimore to get a team in the expansion draft.

[@daved1535]

Are you sure it wasn't the opposite. I think Philly would've been the only team to vote against Baltimore getting a team. Very close in proximity plus 1 vote isn't getting you a team

[@axer3515]

That was no where near the dirtiest game ever in the NFL, and when i started watching football in the 60s players openly talked about awards for knocking a player out of a game. In High school and college we were given stickers for your helmet for hard hits. NFL FILMS has a episode where players from the 50s,60s,and 70s talk about cheap shots and retaliation for hard hits. Bounty gate was a nothing burger to hide all the player's off field problems. Soon NFL players will play into their 60s and look good in their dresses. Why don't they fix the definition of a reception? Or the fumble out of the endzone rule. They are what is killing the game. Not the fact that it is a violent game. The players know it violent.

[@tilesetter929]

Look at filthy…. Nothing but A shooting gallery lol

[@ronaldpacheo6018]

Dallas always played dirty, they get what they deserve!

[@thomasprince7487]

dirty birds are 1-3 in SB'S Dallas 5-3 PERIOD THE END.

[@juicyfartsofjimcornette1154]

Remember, Dallas ended up in the NFL/NFC East because original GM, Tex Schramm was a MASTER POLITICIAN who wanted the rivalries with those notorious northeast teams, the Eagles and the Giants. ANYBODY can hate New Yorker's, anybody can hate Philadelphian's (less so with D.C. as that was more Jack Kent Cooke than the city). Just ask the Bay Area and Hollywood what they think of those two in ALL sports (sans college). In Dallas' case, they rose to prominence of becoming the MOST NOTORIOUS franchise in the NFC to the point that the northeast cities (that normally don't want a Texas team in their division) were willing to make an exception. Dallas is now the biggest rival for Washington, Philadelphia and even the Giants. But the other Dallas/Arlington teams don't have that notorious nature like their football counterparts. Thus you don't see the Yankees/Knickerbockers/Rangers etc. clamoring the Rangers/Mavericks/Stars to be in their division. Jerry Jones (who fired and replaced Schramm) is "meet the new boss, same as the old." And that's why the Cowboys are still an NFC East team to this day. Dallas is more likelier to move to, and become the Quebec Cowboys than leaving the NFC East!

[@richardphillips4367]

The thing is I'm eagles fan for 65yrs and remember all those games but our hatred isn't the cowboy players it's the fraud fake bandwagon jumpers from every state and they ate the most hated team the coaches and owners were whiners and akway crying to the commission because they really thought America's team in reality the are America clown organization

[@mojoschmee9320]

That's not really accurate. It was the rivalry with the team in D.C. that inspired the Cowboys placement in the far off NFC East. This was due to the fact that the owner of the Redskins was the only owner that had been preventing the approval of an expansion team in Dallas, as most people who didn't have a local team, cheered for the team in the national capitol. So, Clint Murchison, Jr, the original owner of the Dallas Cowboys, went and purchased the rights to the song, "Hail to the Redskins", since no one had ever thought to do it. Then, Murchison basically extorted the Redskins, said they couldn't play their own fight song unless expansion was approved. And thus, a rivalry was born. The rivalries with Philly and NYG are just the results of countless crazy games like the one featured in this video.

[@kibitznec700]

That was the original Bounty.

[@w.allencaddell6421]

The Eagles has been a classless organization from the start. Who throws snowballs at Santa 🎅 Claus?. Philadelphia should be replaced by the Baltimore Ravens. At least they play fair hard nose football. And they've won more Super Bowls than the Eagles. Do you know why Philadelphia hates Dallas? Because deep down they wish they could be like Dallas. People WANT to play for the Dallas Cowboys. Philadelphia has to either draft or pay people to play for the Eagles. Even our Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are better. They get invited around the world. Does Philadelphia even have cheerleaders? Yea, lizzo.

[@juicyfartsofjimcornette1154]

Now we need a soccer team to go "after" the Miami Spice Girls. Maybe the Philadelphia Union can channel their inner "Buddy Ryan" and do it.

[@daBEAGLE1017]

Charles Martin for Green Bay wore a hitlist on his towel for players he was going to get in the 1986 season against Chicago, week 12. He slammed Jim McMahon onto his shoulder 2 seconds after he threw the pass ending his season. This shouldve been Bounty Bowl 1.

[@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040]

And Jim McMahon was never the same afterwards

[@daBEAGLE1017]

@@arizonawrestlinginterviews1040 yep. Jim was pummeled.

[@doctorbashir3497]

you left out buddy ryans hilarious response to being called fat

[@davidsams2190]

Seems to me that everyone forgets the animosity between the Cowboys and Eagles since Dallas came into the NFL in 1960. Almost every game was played extremely hard by one team or another or both. The Eagles fans will never forget what Dallas did to Harold Carmichael during 1 game in particular.

[@kellyjohnson9394]

I watched Carmichael get destroyed well out of bounds and the coward referee made no call. As a young Eagles fan, that was the beginning of my disdain for the cowgirls. Buddy Ryan built a defensive but neglected the offense even though they had Randle Cunningham and some very good wide receivers, they hated each other although they were on the same team. The Eagles defense was the reason I loved Ryan’s teams even though they were I’ll-prepared for their playoff games with the exception of the fog bowl playoff game in Chicago where two touchdown passes were dropped in the end zone.

[@donnelfarrow5837]

EXACTLY!

[@paulsbunions8441]

And we recall Eagles fans cheering Michael Irvin's career ending injury. Let's not act like filthadelphia is innocent lol

[@kellyjohnson9394]

@@paulsbunions8441 The hit on Irvin WAS NOT a cheap shot. It was a LEGAL hit. As the TYPICAL cowgirls fan, you deflect when FACTS come up about your team and fans that you don’t like. PLEASE stop insinuating that cowgirls fans are great sportsmen. 💯

[@bobma6342]

@@kellyjohnson9394 There are fans who say that's when football was at its best because that's REAL football. Hitting a player who was well out of bounds was never REAL football.

[@ericyoung2292]

Eagles for life....!!