Drew Pearson: Cowboys at Vikings Playoff Heroics? 'It Can Be Done. I Did It!'

So I have to go with the playmaker as the best cowboy receiver. He was the heart and soul of the three super bowl teams. I would always get fired up when he made a play.

That play taught me not to give up on the Cowboys. I’ll never forget being in my kitchen as a kid watching the game and just got up to turn it off when that happened.

and now thinks Romo is among the eilte qbs in the league.

I wanted to talk ‘Hail Mary.’ Roger Staubach wanted to talk ‘12-4.’

Towards the end of our conversation in which he was terrific recalling the play, Staubach mentioned he picked the Cowboys to go 12-4 this season and is smiling now that a lot of folks are jumping on the bandwagon.

“I had a feeling about this team,” Staubach said.

OK, but the team only went 11-5.

So I asked Staubach about Tony Romo.

“From Day One I said you could tell he had it,” Staubach said. “He has good instincts, a great arm and his is a competitor. Now, he has taken over the team. He has evolved into a great, great leader of the team. It just took him awhile to figure it out. Now that he has, he is the total package.”

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A family story that I’ve never lived down!

Those were the days when you couldn’t just rewind it and watch, kids! No VCR even!

I was in my early teens in that era and amazing comebacks were……..well………just expected. No, they weren’t really routine, but it sure seemed that way. I’m not sure if the Hail Mary game is my favorite or the Clint Longly comeback against the skins. That was a great time to be a Cowboy fan.

Don’t expect us to forget that any time soon.. like around another 50 years at least :D

Drew Pearson.. Man I wish I could hit him with my car that cheating B#$#$#@%

Of course with play review that call would have never stood and that poor ref would have never been beaned by a whiskey bottle.

The ball was underthrown, he initiates his right as the receiver to go for it.

Also, of course, those days they didn’t call PI every time 2 guys bumped, either-especially offensive PI.

The real questions for Drew-When’s JJ going to put you in the Ring?
When will they finally put you in the Hall? Are you going to have to wait for a Senior’s Committee bid?

How could the play be overturned without evidence. Wright fell down on his own, period. That Minnisota brain freeze affliction is true I guess. Did the Vikes sign that guy that threw the wiskey bottle?

any player who has a particular play named after him, really should be in the hall of fame. Over 30 years later and everyone associated with football knows that play and the two players involved, how can they both not be in the ROH and HOF?

Now that Wade can win in the playoffs, no telling where he can go. Winningest coach to never win a playoff game? Not any more.

Wade will be here next year.

Dwight Clark pushed off of Everson Walls when he made “The Catch.” Nobody mentions that.

I graduated in ‘76 and am so proud to have watched the first Cowboy SB. My dad kept saying that there was a wrongly called play in that game on the big interception by the Colts. I still can’t figure out what he was saying about that.

I think the play you’re referring to was a TD catch by John Mackey, the BAL TE. It deflected off a WR, he took it and scored

The controversy was whether Mel Renfro had touched the ball between offensive players. The ball was thrown, deflected off a WR, sailed over Renfro’s head and outstretched hands, into John Mackey’s. I saw some zoomed up photos but it was never definitive whether Renfro touched it. If he did, it was a legal catch. If he didn’t, it wasn’t. There was no replay back then.