1979 Week 4 NFL MNF Dallas at Cleveland 9 24 1979

Alzado was a hell of a football player. I know he took steroids, but he didn't deny it like so many others did. RIP, Lyle!

Greg and Mike were a hell of a combo!

Electric on this evening for sure. I couldn’t wait until school was over! The excitement and anticipation of this game was simply rocking! Amazing effort by the beloved Brownies!

Yes, it was the style at the time, but a middle-aged Don Meredith looks silly with bangs.
Almost as goofy as coach Tom Landry's 1960s Frank Sinatra hat.

RAN AWAY FROM HOME (DETROIT) ON FRIDAY THE 20TH OF SEPTEMBER AND WOUND UP CLEANING UP THE STADIUM, TUESDAY WORKING FOR 'MINUTE MAN'. FOUND OVER $12O, PLUS I PICKED UP HUNDREDS OF TICKET STUBS YOU COULD REDEEM AT WENDY'S. THE CITY ROCKED ALL THAT WEEK. GREAT MEMORIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH, BY THE WAY, I TURNED 20 YRS OLD THIS NIGHT; THE BROWNS GAVE ME A NICE BIRTHDAY PRESENT; I NEVER LIKED THE COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The first two minutes and 30 seconds of this brings me back to my childhood. Just like that dude in Ratatouille. The Cosell intro, the opening music was just great. MNF is STILL my all time favorite tv show.

Less Laidlaw More Dorsett!

I was at this game damn I'm old 😂😂

From back when the Cuyahoga burned regularly! 🤣

Pearson puking a green stream of vomit on national tv was pretty cool

Now that's an intro!!!

I remember this game. Grew up 25 miles from Cleveland....wecwere and are all Pittsburgh fans.
Never liked the orange pants..too pumpkin like. The white pants they went back to in 1984 were better.

Cleveland put a pasting on Dallas that night. I won some money. At the same time, Pittsburgh and Montreal were battling for first place in the NL East. 3WE in Cleveland carried the Pirates' broadcast from KDKA radio that night. The Bucs and Montreal split a doubleheader but the Pirates won the next three games to take first place in the NL East, then the National League pennant and then the World Series.

Cleveland had a good team in 1979. Their problem was being in the AFC Central with Pittsburgh and Houston. The Browns would have won the NFC Championship had they been there instead.

Finally, due to the 80K capacity, the Browns did not sell out every game. This game made it to local TV. Usually only the Steeler game sold out in advance.

Cleveland Stadium was a dump. The lower deck seats were obstructed view and far from the field. The seats were narrow and wooden. Cold air came in off the lake. Before Modell made the move the stadium was crumbling. Browns fans did not deserve to lose their team but Cleveland and Cuyahoga County dragged their feet in replacing the stadium and Maryland had financing, land and a fan base waiting and ready for a team. Al Lerner, the Browns minority owner, was a banker in Maryland and had a lot of connections in Baltimore. He helped convince Modell to move.
The rest is history. The Browns had a good 2023. Flacco has been amazing and the Browns have a shot at the Super Bowl.

Ah, the first game of the end of Greg Pruitt's career. So funny that no one knew this was it and that Mike Pruitt was going to be the man for the next half decade.

I forgot danny white punt Rodger Staubach best /👍🤙👌🏈/ ole cleveland 🏟 love it 😊

Players are bigger....faster...more health conscious,& the NFL is an economy all it's own. That said.....the passion, fervor,& excitement back in the 70's & early 80's were unmatched. What an era!!

Brain Sipe was a pretty good qb for the browns.....they played some exciting games back then.

Man do I miss those days. That intro takes me back. Howard halftime highlights was the best part of my week as a kid.

There will never be another cosell

Thank you for leaving the commercials in this video!

Best nfl, totally diff and woke now.

I was at this game! We sat in the lower deck behind home plate pretty far back. What a game! I was so pissed my parents made me go to school the next day.

They need to reshow those Miller Lite commercials during games. They were the best!

You could tell who Howard was pulling for

Yea well dallas made the playoffs and cleveland didnt

This is the Drew Pearson vomit game.

Always loved that the Cowpunks lost in those jinx jerseys.

Greg Pruitt and Mike pruitt were not related…weird.

Oh Wow I Was 9 Days Old😂💯N I Bet My Dad Watch This Game🏈Cowboys Nation💪🏽💯

Great upload. Thanks! Monday Night Football just seemed so much more...bigger than life back then.

Rucker really became a quality receiver late in his career.

I went to that game with my big brothers Ronny and Raymond we had to sit on Dallas’s side , also saw Pres. Ford too ,, the crowd noise was nothing like I ever heard before WoW 😅

I believe it was this year or the year after Sipe got the league MVP award. Sipe was one of the top 5 QB in the history of the franchise. Kosar, Graham and possibly Frank Ryan would be before him, but I would put Sipe at 3 myself. Otto Graham, Bernie Kosar, Brian Sipe then Frank Ryan.

I liked the ads more than the game…. And I am a lifelong Browns fan

The Dallas cowboys look so weird in them blue jerseys playing in foreign territory 😊😅😊

Being a long time Steelers fan I have to admit the Cleveland browns uniform combinations of brown white and orange 🧡🍊🧡 is so classic even the Dallas cowboys... I don't understand why they wouldn't go back to them in 2024,2025 regular season!!!

It's hard to Believe this was 45 Years ago.

Those Commercials bring back a lot of Memories. "SKOL BROTHER".

i love those old Cleveland fans , go Dawg Pound

Those blue jerseys were phenomenal.

These guys are my favorite all time Broadcasting crew. The banter back and forth between Cosell and Merideth is awesome.

It's before the NFL started marketing to women and gays and ruined it.

People forget how great a player Jerry Sherk was at DT.
Sacks weren't an official stat yet, but he finished with 70.
Also DPOY in 1976.
Knee. issues derailed a potential HOF career.

cosell , dandy don, the huff……it doesn’t get any better

This was the first time I remember feeling sad about a football game…the Cowboys had lost before..but I felt this one.

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Dick Ambose just retired as a Cuyahoga County judge - he presided over one of the most notorious and horrific murder cases in Cleveland history - the murders of the 12 missing women whose remains were found buried on the murderer’s property.

I remember watching this game...I was 12 years old...Typical of a 12 year old, I remember there was a long pass attempt to Drew Pearson near the end zone which was incomplete...As Pearson walked back to the huddle he puked big time...Not sure why after all of these years I still remember that but I do...I need to find it...

I watched this game with my father on TV in Cleveland.👍

The impotent Dallas Cowboys did nothing but fart footballs out there buttends in this game,Landry was 1-4 in this stadium from 1968-1988