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00:05Don't kid yourself, unless you're a turkey, there's no better holiday than Thanksgiving.
00:14Happy Thanksgiving! You will be my turkey all day today!
00:18There's no doubt it's the best holiday.
00:20It's tops because of the food.
00:23I want you to eat your hard nuts, baby!
00:26And nothing goes with turkey and gizzard gravy.
00:30Like pigskin.
00:31Yeah, there you go.
00:33And football is Thanksgiving.
00:35To me, it's second only to turkey.
00:37Alright, we're smoking the turkey right now, baby!
00:39Got turkey, and then you got the National Football League.
00:43The two days that people are all football fans are, of course, Super Bowl Sunday and Thanksgiving Day.
00:48It's Americana you can't do without Thanksgiving Day football.
00:51What else you want to be doing on Thanksgiving?
00:52Rather eat turkey and hit somebody in the mouth.
00:56The buffer that you need when you're at Thanksgiving is that NFL game.
01:00Because you've got a bunch of relatives you haven't seen in a while.
01:02And you get tired.
01:03And you really just want to zone out.
01:05And that game gives you the opportunity to zone out.
01:08Thanksgiving's so good because you're giving men the three things they want most in life.
01:11They can eat, they can drink, and they can watch television.
01:14On the fourth Thursday in November, a lot of fans tune in to NFL football.
01:21A typical afternoon national broadcast draws around 18 million viewers now.
01:26In 2010, 31 million viewers tuned in on Thanksgiving to see the Cowboys play the Saints.
01:33Over the last 85 years, Thanksgiving Day has hosted over 150 NFL games.
01:40We've boiled them down to bring you our top ten Thanksgiving moments of all time.
01:46Wow, so this must be a heck of a list.
01:48Hit me with some.
01:49Yes, sir.
01:50The number ten Thanksgiving moment of all time.
01:53The Bounty Bowl.
01:54Really?
01:55Oh, jeez.
01:55The Bounty Bowl.
01:56Love it.
01:57Jimmy Johnson, Buddy Ryan.
02:00That's a very memorable day around here.
02:01There's no doubt about it.
02:03When Jimmy Johnson's Cowboys and Buddy Ryan's Eagles faced off on Thanksgiving 1989, their
02:09rivalry grew to a whole new level.
02:13Louis Zendejas had been Buddy's kicker before, and then Buddy cut him, and he got picked up
02:19by the Cowboys.
02:20Zendejas gave up a Buddy secret.
02:23He told the Cowboys, hey, Buddy Ryan used to put a bounty on kickers and punters.
02:27So when you heard that, it was the perfect storm.
02:30Word begins to spread that, you know, if one of you guys want to kick off, want to lay
02:35out the little kicker there, might be a little something in the paycheck for you next week.
02:42At the start of the second half, Philly unleashed its new game plan.
02:46Get their kicker.
02:47Get their kicker.
02:49Jesse Small went off on this search and destroy mission, and, uh, flat.
02:55Zendejas.
02:56Zendejas is down.
02:57I think he got knocked out.
02:59Wait a minute.
03:00You're going to go after somebody, and it's our Hispanic place kicker?
03:06Jimmy Johnson out on the field now, talking with one of the officials.
03:09The Eagles sent someone after Zendejas.
03:12For them to go after the kicker, they picked on the run.
03:15Some fights, you have a fight in the schoolyard, and the biggest guy, you go and you knock
03:18him in the mouth, and that's how you get respect.
03:20Boy, Merriman was knocked down by the 5'7 where he's thrown through.
03:24They went the other way.
03:25They picked a little run with the tape between his glasses and the pocket protector, and
03:30they smacked him to the ground.
03:33These guys decided to sit for the turkey.
03:35They're going to go out and get their flesh right now.
03:37I want you to go get to the back.
03:39They're both hands.
03:40They're pumping up.
03:41That was a free-for-all.
03:45Eagles shut down the Cowboys.
03:48When the game ends, Jimmy Johnson, who's livid about losing the game and being embarrassed
03:52on national television, comes out on the field to look for Buddy to tell him what he thinks,
03:57and Buddy took off.
03:59Oh, I would have said something to Buddy, but he wouldn't stand on the field long enough.
04:02He'd fat rear him into the dressing room.
04:04The one glove that Jimmy Johnson thinks that he's going to land on Buddy Ryan is making fun
04:09of him, and then Buddy Ryan made a better jerk.
04:11I resent that.
04:12I've been on a diet.
04:13I lost a couple pounds, and I thought I was looking good.
04:17He won every single round on the judges' scorecard, including the making fun of Buddy
04:22Ryan round.
04:24Come to see the Cowgirls game against the Eagles.
04:26Here's Dallas' bounty right here.
04:28Then the Cowboys had to come to Philadelphia two weeks later.
04:32Unfortunately for them, immediately after a big snow, the Eagles fans were drunk with snow.
04:38Now you've got to party.
04:39The classic shots of Jimmy Johnson trying to protect his head.
04:43We thought his hair might protect his head, but evidently it wasn't snowball-proof.
04:48Yeah, it wasn't.
04:51I still remember that day.
04:53What says Thanksgiving more than hurling?
04:57The number nine Thanksgiving moment of all time.
05:00Randy Moss cooks the Cowboys.
05:03I'm surprised this isn't higher, because we're talking about the coming out party for one
05:07of the great players of all time.
05:10He caught it.
05:11He's the best in the game.
05:12What a great chance for Randy Moss.
05:14The thing about Moss that year as a rookie in 98 was, it was like something new.
05:20They call me the freak, man.
05:22I'm a freak of nature.
05:24We'd all been watching football forever.
05:26We'd seen all these great receivers.
05:27I think Jerry Rice was still somewhat in his prime.
05:29And then here comes this guy who's like eight feet tall, and he can jump like ten feet.
05:35I mean, it's like Superman.
05:36Deep in the end zone, caught.
05:38Super freak.
05:39Touchdown.
05:39And he's literally impossible to defend.
05:42I told you, and I told you.
05:44Touchdown.
05:47On Thanksgiving Day 1998, Moss headed to Dallas to feast on the Cowboys.
05:53I remember very few catches and very big yards, and every time he did catch the ball, something
06:00really, really big happened.
06:02Cleet, but they're calling him.
06:04Fires deep.
06:05Got Moss.
06:06Touchdown, Vikings.
06:07It was an amazing one-man show.
06:10Randall Cunningham just chucks it deep to Randy Moss.
06:14I tell you what, you watch the run.
06:18I don't know how you stop him.
06:20I don't either.
06:21Three catches, 163 yards, three touchdowns.
06:24Video game numbers.
06:26What we playing today, you ain't got to worry about us.
06:28And each touchdown was spectacular.
06:30The most breathtaking touchdown of the three.
06:33I would say five Cowboys had an opportunity to track him down.
06:36There were about eight guys who had an angle on him, and he just went, pew, and he was gone.
06:41Moss makes a tag of 50, 40, 5, 40, 35, 30.
06:48Power to that, 20.
06:49Oh, nice.
06:50Touchdown, Vikings.
06:51That was pure.
06:52He was faster than Randy Moss in any other season.
06:55And Randy Moss in any other season is faster than the rest of the NFL to begin with.
07:01Hi, Mom.
07:02Happy Thanksgiving.
07:02I remember doing the post-game show, and it was all about Randy Moss, and how did we not take
07:08Randy Moss?
07:09Well, you might remember, I mean, he never really forgave Jerry Jones for passing on him in the 1998 draft.
07:14He wanted to be a Cowboy, and it was his dream to wear the star.
07:17When he slipped all the way down to the Vikings.
07:20The Vikings have selected wide receiver Randy Moss.
07:24He kind of made a promise to himself that he was going to make Jerry Jones pay.
07:27Yeah.
07:27You think Randy Moss wanted to get drafted by the Cowboys?
07:30Look at the end of the year, Moss!
07:33Bye!
07:34Yes, the Cowboys passed on Randy Moss at 8.
07:37Somebody passed on him at 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 16,
07:4115.
07:42Loads of people passed on Randy Moss because they thought he was a numbskull.
07:50Yeah, Randy.
07:51Who is this?
07:51Mr. Madden.
07:52Yeah, this is John Madden.
07:53How are you doing?
07:53Do you know anything about this turkey leg award you just wanted?
07:56Moss earned his turkey leg, but does he really deserve our number nine spot?
08:02He was so dominant, I think he would have to put that in the top ten.
08:05That's about right.
08:06It was only three catches.
08:07I mean, really, it wasn't that prolific of the day, right?
08:09It wasn't like 30 catches for 30 touchdowns.
08:12As far as I'll never forget that day at that stadium, the Randy Moss Thanksgiving performance
08:19is off the charts.
08:20I don't know, what have you got ahead of that?
08:23The number eight Thanksgiving moment of all time, game day in Dallas and Detroit.
08:29Give me Lions, give me Cowboys.
08:31I like it.
08:31It means Thanksgiving's here.
08:33What we recognize today is this tradition.
08:36It really started in Detroit in 1934 when the Lions' new owner, George Richards, he was
08:41looking for a way to capture some of that high school and college spirit, particularly on
08:45Thanksgiving Day, which was already a tradition of those levels.
08:48The Green Bay Packers invade Brake Stadium for their annual Thanksgiving Day battle with
08:52the Lions.
08:54For over 30 years, Detroit had the only Turkey Day game in town.
08:58But in 1966, the NFL doubled the fund.
09:03Commissioner Rizzo wanted another game, a late game.
09:06Nobody wanted to play.
09:07Nobody wanted to play on a holiday.
09:09That was just unheard of.
09:10Who would watch a game on Thanksgiving Day?
09:12Who would go to a game on Thanksgiving Day?
09:14And then again, it was Tex Ram.
09:16Yeah, we'll take it.
09:17And not only will we take it, but we'll take it every Thanksgiving in perpetuity.
09:21The Cowboys stepped up to the plate when nobody else wanted the game.
09:29This is a big pet peeve of mine.
09:30I say it all the time.
09:32Get some new teams in there.
09:33I think it's cool.
09:34I think Lions-Cowboys is the right way to go.
09:36It's tradition.
09:37No, what's the tradition?
09:38The tradition is we get Jerry Jones forcing America's team down our throat.
09:42As a Dallas hater, I love the fact that they're on Thanksgiving every day because I
09:46root against them.
09:47And that pumps me up for Thanksgiving.
09:48Now, for Detroit, goodness gracious, I mean, you know you're going to be on national TV
09:53at least once.
09:54I would rather be run over by a New York City cab twice than watch the Lions one more time
10:03on Thanksgiving.
10:08The rest of America is kind of sick of seeing the sad sack Lions shuffle out of Detroit.
10:15Losers again on Thanksgiving Day.
10:17You get turkey, you get cranberry, and you get a big fat heaping of Detroit failure.
10:23Everybody make sure they get a piece of this lion we have for Thanksgiving, baby.
10:27And I know a lot of people around the country don't quite get it.
10:29Well, why does Detroit have something?
10:31It's addition.
10:32Why change it?
10:33Tradition.
10:34Mission.
10:35It's awful.
10:35You end up feeling terrible about yourself.
10:37Oh, the poor Lions, they got smacked again.
10:40That's not an American holiday.
10:41You should feel good on Thanksgiving.
10:42You end up feeling bad for these poor sacks.
10:46Incredible.
10:50It's no secret that the Lions haven't had a lot to hang their hat on in a long time.
10:53The back game is important to fans in Detroit.
10:57The last time the Lions won was against the Christians in the Coliseum, if I'm not mistaken.
11:02Though the Lions have lost their last seven Thanksgiving matchups,
11:06they've served up some marquee players,
11:08like running back to Billy Sims and Barry Sanders.
11:12Barry Sanders going off with great runs.
11:20And love them or hate them, passion for the Dallas Cowboys runs deep.
11:25Happy Thanksgiving to you, Newman.
11:31I know it's tradition, Detroit and Dallas, but move it around a bit.
11:36I'd hate to see that.
11:37For the people in those cities,
11:39you see a place at those games.
11:41Happy Thanksgiving, America!
11:43I think that's something the NFL should be proud of
11:45and try to perpetuate rather than move it around.
11:49Coming up, what blowout was...
11:51Second Thanksgiving moment of all time.
11:54Jason Garrett needs a comeback over the facing goal.
11:58If I'm Jason Garrett like right now,
12:01and I'm coaching the Cowboys,
12:02I gotta pull that tape out.
12:04Just so guys know,
12:06when times get tough,
12:07here's how you do it.
12:09The table was set for our number seven moment
12:11when Troy Aikman was questionable
12:13to play against the Packers in 1994.
12:17I remember coming out for a pregame warm-up.
12:19Me and a couple of coaches were like,
12:22he's not playing, is he?
12:23I mean, Rodney Pete was supposed to play.
12:25I was out there watching pregame,
12:27and it didn't look like Rodney was going to play.
12:29There's Rodney Pete, number nine,
12:31who injured his thumb last week.
12:33They're going to have to play Jason Garrett.
12:35We got a chance in this one.
12:40Basically, what we knew about Jason Garrett
12:42when he came in was
12:44he was apparently alive when the game started.
12:47What we knew was that he went to Princeton,
12:49so therefore we all assumed he was smart.
12:51Nice guy to have as a third-string quarterback.
12:53He didn't really want him in
12:54for a big game against the Green Bay Packers.
12:57We just didn't know if he could play.
12:59It turns out he couldn't play.
13:01But Garrett's first drive was like a fart.
13:03At the dinner table.
13:07It was pretty ugly.
13:09It was pretty ugly.
13:10We didn't get into a great rhythm.
13:11One of my memories is Reggie White
13:13having a huge impact on the game.
13:15He kept being on top of me a lot
13:16and helping me up, saying,
13:18you're doing a good job.
13:19And I said, I think I'd be doing better
13:20if you weren't around.
13:21There was pressure there by Reggie White.
13:24And then it got better in the second half.
13:29Dallas trailed 17-6,
13:30entering the third quarter.
13:32Then Jason Garrett made it look easier
13:34than pumpkin pie.
13:36That's a pretty good throw by Jason Garrett.
13:38That's a great throw by Jason Garrett.
13:40He did not have a big arm.
13:42And I remember being really surprised,
13:44thinking, wow,
13:45who's getting the ball down the field?
13:47I think it was on the advice of his wife
13:49who said, just throw a pie to Alvin Harper.
13:51And he did.
13:52Jason Garrett getting half an inch
13:54as he goes along.
13:55He got a little energy going.
13:57Then we proceeded to score,
13:58I think, on the next five series.
14:01Our number seven Thanksgiving moment
14:04turned into a shootout
14:05as Garrett outgunned Brett Favre
14:08to complete the comeback.
14:10Deep to the middle.
14:11There's her.
14:15When you throw up for over 300 yards
14:17and only complete 15 passes,
14:19that's a heck of a football game.
14:21Jason Garrett led the Cowboys
14:23to 36 second-half points.
14:25That's the franchise record.
14:27Now think about that.
14:28Roger Staubach was captain comeback.
14:30He never did anything like that.
14:32Troy Aikman never did anything like that.
14:33What a day for Jason Garrett.
14:35This is a great game.
14:38We had some great Thanksgiving games
14:40in the backyard,
14:41which are somewhat legendary.
14:43But I think all in all,
14:44that was probably the best Thanksgiving.
14:45Happy Thanksgiving.
14:46Jason Garrett really lucked out on this one.
14:51Jason Garrett, his first
14:54six years on the Cowboys.
14:56Two starts, three rings.
14:59Two guys.
15:01Number six Thanksgiving moment of all time.
15:04The Thanksgiving Day Massacre.
15:08The 62 Packers,
15:09you've got to remember,
15:10coming into this game,
15:11they're coming off their 1961 championship.
15:14Coaching the Packers
15:15has been an unequivest thrill
15:16for Vince Lombardi,
15:17as it is to suppose
15:18that perhaps the greatest football team
15:19ever assembled.
15:21Easily the most dominant team
15:22of the Lombardi era.
15:23Probably the most dominant team
15:25since World War II.
15:26In 1962, they were undefeated
15:29and heading towards a perfect season.
15:31They were, at that point, invincible.
15:33I mean, that's what you thought.
15:37Packers and the Lions
15:38fought it out over a number of years.
15:40And the Lions were very good
15:41in the early 60s.
15:42And they just lost earlier in that year
15:44for the Packers,
15:459-7, which they felt, you know,
15:47should not have happened.
15:48In that previous meeting,
15:49Detroit blew a 7-6 lead
15:51with less than two minutes remaining.
15:54Well, our third field goal of the game
15:56is perfect,
15:57and it yields the victory
15:58on the Packers.
16:00Ever since that game in Green Bay
16:01that we lost 9-7,
16:03we were waiting for Thanksgiving Day.
16:09Of course, we'd forgotten the game
16:11five or six weeks before.
16:13They hadn't forgotten anything.
16:14It was like they'd come off the field
16:1520 minutes since the other game, right?
16:19Detroit's defense shut down
16:21Hall of Fame running backs
16:22Paul Horning and Jim Taylor,
16:24then focused on the Packers'
16:25passing attack.
16:27Roger Brown was all over the place.
16:29I think in that particular game,
16:30I had six sacks.
16:33For a national TV audience,
16:35the recurring image
16:36of our number six moment
16:37was Packers quarterback Bart Starr
16:40being pounded into creamed corn.
16:42with that defensive line they had
16:44just devastated
16:45the Packer offensive line.
16:47They were so fast off the line
16:49that the Packers
16:50just didn't know how to react.
16:51They sacked Bart Starr 11 times.
16:54Once for a humble
16:55to turn the touchdown
16:56and once for a safety.
16:59In less than two and a half minutes,
17:01Detroit racked up 16 points
17:03for a 23-0 halftime lead.
17:06Well, that's what did them in.
17:08Then they kind of said,
17:09oh, okay, what time is it?
17:15Green Bay managed
17:16a pair of late touchdowns,
17:18but the Lions coasted
17:19to a 26-14 win,
17:21handing the eventual
17:22world champions
17:23their only loss of the season.
17:26People that know Lombardi said
17:27it's the maddest he's ever been.
17:29What the hell's going on out here?
17:31It was hard to understand
17:32how we could get beaten that badly.
17:35Detroit dismantled the Packers
17:36in that game that year
17:37and they were so motivated.
17:39Pure emotion,
17:41determination,
17:42let's kick their tails
17:43on national TV.
17:44That's how it happens.
17:45You know, when people say,
17:46you know, how did the Detroit Lions
17:47beat the Green Bay Packers
17:48that big?
17:49Maybe the question should be,
17:51why didn't the Detroit Lions
17:52beat the Green Bay Packers
17:53more often?
17:55Because they were great?
17:56When were
17:57to return?
17:58How did it
17:59times?
18:01And now
18:01Oh my freaking...
18:03My Thanksgiving
18:04won of all time.
18:06OJ Simpson's record day
18:08number five.
18:15Wow.
18:16You know,
18:17what a game.
18:18The juice was loose.
18:21273 yards
18:22and it took almost 30 years
18:23to break that record.
18:24The thing I remember about
18:26the game was
18:27how unstoppable he was.
18:29Like literally every time
18:30they gave him the ball,
18:31you know,
18:32he was going for like
18:3225 yards.
18:34The numbers were amazing
18:35and you could see them
18:36pile up and pile up
18:37and really the game
18:38became about
18:39how many yards
18:40is OJ Simpson
18:41going to rush for?
18:53It wasn't really
18:54a great game
18:54and the Lions
18:55won it fairly easily.
18:56It was the difference
18:57between memorable
18:58and best.
18:59And one of the best games,
19:00no, not even close.
19:01But as far as memorable
19:02as an iconic player
19:03like that
19:03doing what he did
19:04all those yards,
19:05I mean,
19:06everybody remembers that game.
19:10273 yards
19:11for any running back
19:12is impressive.
19:12But the way that
19:13the juice did it
19:14was really remarkable.
19:15OJ's signature performance
19:17was even more impressive
19:18considering his team
19:20was as worthless
19:21as a turkey's bottle.
19:23As good as OJ was,
19:24that year,
19:25his coach,
19:26Lou Saban, quit.
19:27Jim Braxton,
19:28his fullback,
19:29was also off
19:30from the first week
19:30of the season.
19:31He lost his starting quarterback
19:32midway through the season.
19:34You have got to understand
19:35just how horrible
19:36the quarterback he was
19:38for the Buffalo Hill
19:39Pets.
19:39Gary Marenghi,
19:41he may be the worst
19:42quarterback to ever start
19:43more than two or three
19:44games in a season.
19:45With a sack of feathers
19:47at quarterback,
19:48the Bills relied solely
19:49on Simpson
19:50to gobble up
19:51much-needed yards.
19:53He was the only thing
19:54that the Bills had,
19:55and the Lions knew that
19:57and still couldn't stop him.
19:58They know
19:59that they're going to
20:00keep giving the ball to him,
20:01so just, like,
20:01tackle him.
20:02It seemed like
20:03a very easy
20:03defensive adjustment,
20:05the tackle OJ adjustment.
20:06Marenghi to OJ,
20:08OJ running to the last
20:09turn to the corner
20:09at the 30th,
20:10OJ at the 25th,
20:11the 20th point
20:12ahead of the 15th.
20:13That does it.
20:14He broke the record.
20:15OJ Simpson,
20:16he just had a new
20:17national football league record.
20:19The Lions really
20:20wasn't that bad a team.
20:21The Detroit Lions fans,
20:22every one of them
20:23standing last
20:24and cheering
20:24a magnificent performance
20:26against the number one
20:28defensive unit
20:28in the national football
20:30country.
20:30The electric company
20:31just turned
20:33on the juice.
20:35The juice,
20:36the juice are hollering.
20:36They want to carry it again.
20:38That delayed OJ
20:39up the middle
20:39of the 10 to 5.
20:40Oh, no!
20:41That's what I'm talking about.
20:45The number four
20:46Thanksgiving moment
20:47of all time,
20:48Phil Luckett's
20:49Point Flip Club.
20:51In 1998,
20:53the Lions and Steelers
20:55were locked
20:55in a Thanksgiving throwdown
20:57when a late field goal
20:59forced overtime.
21:01Heads, tails, tails, heads.
21:04Call it please in the air.
21:06Heads in call.
21:08He said heads,
21:10it is a tails.
21:11Now we saw the coin flip.
21:12Rep gives the ball
21:13to the Lions
21:14and Jerome was kind of
21:15whoa, whoa,
21:16what's going on here?
21:17He said tails.
21:19He did.
21:20What could be the problem?
21:21It was a darn coin flip.
21:22Why is Jerome arguing?
21:24Look at Jerome Bettis.
21:25He said,
21:26what's going on?
21:27Was there anything better
21:28than Bettis' expression?
21:29Bettis is like looking,
21:31what happened here?
21:32It's like someone
21:33stole his dog.
21:34Bettis is out there
21:35yelling at him.
21:36I saw a cocktail.
21:37We've seen a lot
21:38of different things
21:38happen on the field.
21:40Nobody ever seen him
21:40screw up a coin toss.
21:42A coin toss?
21:43Now hold on a minute.
21:44How can the referee
21:47screw up a coin toss?
21:48It's a coin toss.
21:58It's a coin toss.
21:59Immediately I thought
22:00the Steelers got screwed.
22:02I thought Jerome made
22:03the right call.
22:04Lockett misheard him.
22:05Gave the ball to the Lions.
22:08It was tails.
22:10And then when you heard
22:12it played over
22:15and over
22:18Jerome called like
22:19head tails.
22:19Head tails.
22:20I kind of sworn
22:21I heard him stay.
22:23Head tails.
22:25Head tails.
22:25Head tails.
22:26Head tails.
22:28Come on.
22:28Head tails?
22:29What am I?
22:29You're going to fool me
22:31with that?
22:32Everyone in the stadium
22:33heard it.
22:33Everybody on TV
22:34heard it.
22:35How can you not hear it?
22:36Hear it.
22:37Hear it.
22:37It's not that important.
22:39It's just who gets
22:39possession in a sudden
22:40death overtime.
22:42No big deal.
22:45So what's the big deal
22:47with getting the first
22:48overtime possession?
22:49They still have to play,
22:50right?
22:51After they moved
22:52the kickoffs back
22:53to the 30-yard line,
22:54the team that won
22:54the cost started winning
22:56about 60% of games.
22:58And that's what happened
22:59to the Steelers
23:00in that game.
23:00Norm Johnson
23:01kicked a short kickoff.
23:02There at the 14.
23:04The Lions took it
23:05back to the 35-yard line.
23:0728-yard completion.
23:08Going to throw.
23:09Down the field for four.
23:10No, that's just
23:11the field goal range.
23:13Cancel for the game.
23:15The Lions win it
23:1719-16.
23:22Phil Luckett had officiated
23:23a lot of games before that.
23:25You didn't think of his name.
23:27You didn't think of his face.
23:29And then all you thought
23:30about after that
23:31was bewilderment.
23:32It became such a big deal
23:33after that.
23:34We all started listening
23:35in a very close head
23:36whether they called
23:37heads or tails.
23:43Lucky time on our list.
23:45Was it a good game
23:45or was it just memorable
23:46because he botched
23:47the coin toss?
23:48I'll be very honest,
23:49it's the only Thanksgiving Day game
23:50I can clearly remember.
23:53Hands in the co-op.
23:55I think the problem is
23:56there's that drug in the turkey
23:58that induces sleep.
23:59I don't think people remember
24:01anything about football
24:02on Thanksgiving
24:02unless we're reminded.
24:04So the coin toss
24:05is one thing that sticks out
24:06that you actually remember.
24:07I do think it deserves
24:08to be that high
24:09because we're still
24:10talking about it
24:11all these years later.
24:12A lot of times
24:12great games
24:13you really remember
24:14one moment.
24:15So Phil Luckett
24:16gave us that one moment.
24:20The number three
24:21best gaming moment
24:22of all time.
24:23Bob Greasy
24:23throws six TDs.
24:26Six.
24:27Bob Greasy threw
24:28six touchdown passes
24:29in a game?
24:30Six touchdown passes
24:31in a season?
24:32Bob Greasy?
24:33Sure went Brian Greasy?
24:34Brian Greasy?
24:35No, we checked.
24:36It wasn't Bob's son,
24:37Brian.
24:38Shockingly,
24:39it was indeed
24:40dear old dad.
24:41I never knew that
24:42until I walked
24:43into this room.
24:44You're talking about
24:45a guy.
24:46Brian Greasy
24:46never threw
24:47more than three
24:47in a game.
24:48Brian Greasy?
24:50Who might not throw
24:51six passes in a game,
24:52much less six touchdown
24:53passes in a game.
24:54Bob Greasy
24:55came out firing.
24:57His pass
24:58were not exactly
24:59things of beauty.
25:00They didn't ask him
25:01to do much more
25:02than turn around
25:03and hand off
25:04to Zonka Kick
25:05and Mercury Morris.
25:06Yeah,
25:07you could have
25:07given me like
25:08ten guesses
25:08and I would have
25:09never said
25:10Bob Greasy.
25:15Despite modest
25:16passing stats,
25:17Bob Greasy
25:18was a two-time
25:19Super Bowl champion
25:20and part of
25:21the Dolphins'
25:21perfect
25:211972 season.
25:24The Miami Dolphins
25:26are the champions
25:27for the 12-foot tall world.
25:29But by the late 70s,
25:31Miami had become mortal.
25:33In Miami,
25:34where weather forecasts
25:36are highly optimistic,
25:38predictions for the Dolphins
25:39were clouded by doubt.
25:41You know,
25:42the Dolphins
25:42at that point,
25:441977,
25:44were not
25:45the great Dolphins.
25:46They were not near that.
25:47You know,
25:48we went up there,
25:48there were the big bad
25:49St. Louis Cardinals
25:50at the time.
25:51A reporter wrote
25:52an article
25:53saying that we were
25:54basically going to be
25:55Thanksgiving dinner
25:56because we only had
25:57Shula.
25:58On the top of the column
25:59was a picture of a turkey
26:00and his column was,
26:02I don't know why
26:02these turkeys are going
26:03to St. Louis.
26:04They're going to get beat
26:04by the Cardinals anyway.
26:08I was a Dolphins fan.
26:10I remember that game.
26:11The cool thing about that
26:11was it's against St. Louis,
26:13in St. Louis.
26:14And you forget
26:16that occasionally
26:16St. Louis
26:17did get a
26:18Thanksgiving Day game.
26:19And Greasy was wearing
26:20those big black
26:21horn-rimmed glasses
26:22under his helmet,
26:23I believe,
26:23that day.
26:25On Thanksgiving Day
26:26in St. Louis,
26:27Miami quarterback
26:28Bob Greasy
26:29did for eyeglasses
26:30what Clark Gable
26:31did for ears.
26:32He made them
26:33quite fashionable.
26:35It was very odd
26:36to see
26:37a football player
26:39on the field
26:39wearing glasses.
26:40Well,
26:41we used to call him
26:41Mr. Peabody,
26:42but Bob Greasy
26:44admitted at that point
26:45in time
26:45that he was legally
26:46blind in his right eye
26:47and began to wear glasses
26:48because he couldn't
26:49wear the contacts.
26:50He said,
26:50Coach,
26:51I've got to wear
26:51these glasses.
26:52That was a strange
26:53looking deal for me
26:54to see him out there
26:56with glasses
26:56on under his helmet.
27:02I asked Greasy
27:03about that game.
27:05I don't like anything
27:05that had to do
27:06with the glasses,
27:06but Greasy said to me,
27:08he said,
27:09everything was just
27:09happening in slow motion.
27:11It was almost easy.
27:15Greasy speared
27:16Matt Moore
27:17in the end zone
27:17for a Miami touchdown.
27:19The game was a blowout
27:20before I even knew it.
27:22Greasy showed
27:23what a strong arm
27:24and a great receiver
27:25can do.
27:26That six touchdown
27:27performance
27:28was just unbelievable.
27:29He was so accurate.
27:30Just making it happen.
27:32He was on fire.
27:34Greasy,
27:35pushback,
27:36going deep.
27:36He's in the open.
27:37He's got it.
27:38Touchdown.
27:39Goal.
27:44Bob Greasy.
27:45Bob Greasy's a Hall of Famer
27:47and a performance like that
27:49on a national stage
27:50did plenty
27:51to get him into the Hall.
27:53So if you're ever debating
27:54Bob Greasy's Hall of Fame credentials,
27:56just remember the following.
27:58Six touchdowns on Thanksgiving,
28:00two Super Bowl titles,
28:01and four eyes
28:03forever on display
28:05in Canton, Ohio.
28:06Nice performance, Bob.
28:08Bob Lousy Tasting Glasses.
28:12Well,
28:13Cardinals at that point
28:14were 7-3.
28:15They lost all of their
28:16remaining games that season.
28:19They were 38-14
28:21in their last 52 games
28:23before that one.
28:26They were...
28:3417-35,
28:36the next 52.
28:38So Bob Greasy
28:39ruined the Connors franchise.
28:44The number two
28:46Thanksgiving moment of all time.
28:47Leon Lett.
28:48Yes!
28:49What was that anyway?
28:52Freaky.
28:54Just freaky.
28:55That was...
28:56That was...
28:56That was bad.
28:57That was bad.
28:59Watch what happens.
29:00It's Leon Lett!
29:02No!
29:03When people say Leon Lett,
29:05that's the first thing
29:05you think about.
29:06It may be the biggest gaffe
29:07in Cowboy history.
29:08It really may be.
29:09Long before Leon
29:10failed to let it go,
29:12Thanksgiving 1993
29:14was already
29:15a strange one in Dallas.
29:17It's probably
29:17the worst field conditions
29:19ever for a football game
29:21at Texas Stadium.
29:22Chill factor around zero.
29:23Temperature on the field
29:2526 degrees.
29:26You're used to that
29:27if you're a Packers fan
29:28or a Bills fan
29:29but not a Cowboys fan.
29:30The whole feel
29:32was surreal.
29:36We fought
29:37a very tough
29:39football game
29:40against Miami
29:40that day.
29:41I mean,
29:41that was
29:42a lot of sliding
29:43but it was
29:44a fun game
29:45to play.
29:46Intercepted
29:47by Bill Bates!
29:48Until
29:49the end of the game.
29:5115 seconds
29:52here's to get out of it.
29:54Miami's trying to
29:54kick a field goal
29:55and if they make it,
29:56game's over.
29:58If they miss it,
29:59we win.
29:59The number two moment
30:01on our list
30:01kicked the stuffing
30:02out of the Cowboys.
30:04And it's blocked!
30:06It's blocked
30:07and rolling around
30:08at the 10-yard line!
30:09The game's over.
30:10We win a game
30:11and I don't know
30:12the fall process.
30:13You're like,
30:14no, he's not gonna do.
30:16Oh, God.
30:16The clock continues
30:18to move
30:18as the ball
30:19rolls free
30:20and rolls free
30:21in the end zone.
30:22The Dolphins
30:23fall on top of it.
30:24Here came Leon Lett
30:25like he's on a toboggan
30:27after the football.
30:28Nobody would be
30:28stupid enough
30:29to go up
30:30and touch it there,
30:30would they?
30:31Yeah!
30:32Oh, Leon Lett!
30:34Leon Lett!
30:36What is he doing?
30:37What the heck
30:38is going on here?
30:39So he gets another shot.
30:41Here it is.
30:42Sets it down.
30:43Kick is up.
30:43It's good!
30:44And the Dolphins
30:45win the ball game.
30:46Yes, sir!
30:46The Dolphins win
30:4716-14.
30:48All right!
30:50Then they do
30:50the shot at the sideline
30:51and Jerry Jones
30:52is.
30:53The Cowboys win!
30:55I swear to God,
30:56his chin fell to his knees
30:57and it was like,
30:58oh, this is too good.
31:00Bring the turkey up.
31:01Let's have some more.
31:02It's time to celebrate again.
31:06That was a situation
31:07that he no doubt
31:08thought he would never,
31:09ever find himself in.
31:11Well, yes and no.
31:13He was in that situation
31:14made a turkey of himself
31:1510 months earlier
31:17in Super Bowl XXVII.
31:18Go!
31:19Oh!
31:20It's a bumbly
31:21and it knocked out
31:22of his hand!
31:23He's always going
31:24to be remembered
31:24for the play
31:25on Thanksgiving Day
31:26and the play
31:26in the Super Bowl.
31:27Don Beebe caught him
31:28from behind
31:29and knocked it
31:29out of his hand!
31:30Oh, Leon!
31:32Poor Leon.
31:33He always seemed
31:34to get in the wrong spot
31:35at the wrong time.
31:39See, these disasters
31:40in Cowboys history
31:41I don't think
31:41should be in the top five.
31:42The Leon Leck game
31:43that's on this list
31:45has to be
31:45the most memorable one
31:47because you have
31:47never seen
31:48anything like it.
31:49Ooh, that's a
31:50received an early
31:51holiday present!
31:53That was funny.
31:54I think
31:54more than anything
31:56that was funny.
31:57Thanksgiving Day
31:57is about
31:58the great Cowboy moments.
32:00That's a disaster.
32:01That should be
32:01back around
32:02eight or nine.
32:02Not Leon Leck!
32:04Oh, oh, oh my!
32:06Sometimes
32:06when I'm having
32:07a bad day
32:08and I need
32:09a little chuckle
32:10I'll just replay
32:11that in my hat
32:11and I'll think
32:12hmm, yep, Leon.
32:14It still brings joy.
32:16Now, the number one
32:18Thanksgiving moment
32:18of all time
32:19Clint Longley
32:21shocks the stands.
32:24If there's ever
32:25an incredible
32:26NFL example
32:28of 15 minutes
32:29of fame
32:30it's Clint Longley's.
32:32Every man
32:32has to have his day
32:33and Clint Longley
32:35had his on Thanksgiving.
32:36Entering Thanksgiving
32:371974
32:39Dallas was having
32:40a forgettable season
32:41but archrival
32:43Washington
32:43was fighting
32:44for home field
32:45advantage
32:45in the playoffs
32:46and the Cowboys
32:47Redskins rivalry
32:48was a boiling point.
32:50Well, I mean
32:51as a Redskins fan
32:51George Allen
32:52was warm
32:53nice
32:54Don't worry about that
32:55Mike!
32:55A little bit quirky
32:56and Landry was
32:58I don't know
32:58the devil
32:59basically.
33:00Ha!
33:05Darren Talbert
33:06actually came out
33:07and said they were
33:07going to knock Roger out
33:08and then they went
33:09ahead and did
33:10knock him out.
33:12Dallas fell behind
33:1316-3
33:14and in the third
33:15quarter
33:15Roger Staubach's
33:17goose was cooked.
33:18Back then
33:19when Roger Staubach
33:20went down
33:21something was
33:22drastically wrong
33:23in Dallas.
33:24Roger Staubach
33:25took every single play
33:26Roger Staubach
33:26was a tough play
33:27Roger Staubach
33:28never came off the field
33:29Without Roger
33:30I mean Roger
33:31was everything.
33:32But the only thing
33:34Dallas had left
33:35at quarterback
33:35was Clint Longley
33:36and when he came in
33:38it stunned
33:39everybody.
33:44And here he comes
33:45the mad bomber
33:46Clint Longley
33:48Yeah who the hell
33:49is Clint Longley?
33:49Clint Longley
33:50took over
33:51a rookie from
33:52Abilene Christian
33:53with no previous
33:54professional experience
33:55The Redskins
33:56probably never heard
33:57of the guy
33:57I still have no idea
33:58who Clint Longley is
33:59No one had heard
34:00of Clint Longley
34:01Against someone like
34:02the Redskins
34:02there's no chance
34:03they're going to
34:04win a game
34:04I didn't have time
34:08to pinch myself
34:09He's going in there
34:10and start throwing
34:12And this little known
34:13quarterback
34:13started throwing bombs
34:15And I think basically
34:16it was
34:17throw it deep
34:18and hope
34:19He knew he had
34:20to take his
34:21puncher's chance
34:21and Longley
34:22had a big strong arm
34:23and he was going
34:24to give him the chance
34:24to throw the ball
34:25downfield
34:26and that's exactly
34:27what he did
34:27I felt like
34:28the time I was
34:29a gunfighter
34:29with a football
34:30If there was
34:31somebody open
34:31I could hit him
34:32I think when he
34:34came in
34:35the opponent
34:36let down
34:37thinking
34:39Take walk now
34:40Oh yeah
34:41When Roger went out
34:43it's like yeah
34:44As Longley
34:45started the comeback
34:47and as you watched
34:48you think
34:49No
34:50No
34:51No
34:51No
34:52I could watch
34:53the tape
34:54of that game
34:56and I would bet
34:57against him
34:57on tape
34:58to do it
34:58With 28 seconds
35:00remaining
35:00Dallas trailed
35:01by 6
35:02Before you could
35:03say candy yams
35:05Longley hit Drew
35:06Pearson
35:06with a 50 yard
35:08bomb
35:08The touchdown
35:10completed the
35:11unthinkable
35:12comeback
35:12and landed
35:13Longley
35:14at the top
35:14of our list
35:15That last touchdown
35:17to Drew Pearson
35:18was something
35:19that just
35:20came out of
35:20nowhere
35:21It was incredible
35:23And you know
35:24Drew Pearson
35:24was always good
35:26to make the clutch
35:27cap
35:27But from Clint
35:28Longley
35:28Oh my goodness
35:30From who?
35:31As for Clint
35:32Longley
35:32Even if he never
35:33completes another pass
35:34they'll always
35:35remember the one
35:36he threw
35:36on Thanksgiving
35:37day 1974
35:39If that
35:40game made me
35:41immortal
35:42okay
35:42but I mean
35:43I didn't mean
35:44for it to be
35:45that way
35:48But Longley
35:49soon became
35:50as welcome
35:51in Dallas
35:51as sushi
35:52at Thanksgiving
35:53Longley
35:54decided to
35:55start picking
35:55fights with
35:56Roger Stalbeck
35:56We got a little
35:57skirmish
35:58after practice
35:58one day
35:59and a few
35:59days later
36:00he did
36:00something to me
36:01he hit me
36:01from behind
36:02and as a
36:03competitor
36:04I wanted to
36:05get it
36:05I wanted to
36:05go after it
36:06And he went
36:06looking to
36:07fight him
36:08Roger Stalbeck
36:09Roger Stalbeck
36:10How can you
36:11make Roger Stalbeck
36:11that mad
36:12How about
36:12him meeting
36:13this guy
36:13Bad career move
36:14Bad career move
36:15to hit Stalbeck
36:16He messed with
36:17the Redskins
36:17that day
36:18but he found
36:18out later
36:19that he probably
36:19shouldn't mess
36:20with Roger
36:20The next thing
36:21you know
36:22they trade him
36:23away to San Diego
36:23he's gone
36:24forever
36:25So that was
36:26his moment
36:26in the sun
36:27Well thanks
36:28for the great
36:28moment
36:28It was made
36:29for a great
36:29Thanksgiving
36:30I sure wish
36:31it had lasted
36:32a little longer
36:32and don't hit
36:33Roger Stalbeck
36:37So that'll do it
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