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the 49ers Cowboys rivalry through the years has just had some great iconic moments and great games moments in time where you can remember where you learn but you can look back five 10 20 30 years ago and still watch that play and disbelief for it all there was something about being in that area during the late 80s in the early 90s that was otherworldly I'm thinking football were tire football betting on a horse all sorts of things computers laptops and software different parts of the country I think they said if we're gonna stay current we better look what's happening in the San Francisco Bay Area you have Dallas taxes this sort of a major metropolitan city it's supposed to be this progressive City we're just coming off of Dallas being this huge TV show wealth and fame and success and internally you kind of have this crumbling infrastructure when I bought the Cowboys in 1989 it looked like an economic nuclear bomb had gone off buildings were half-finished the buildings that were finished were half occupied banks 90% of them went broke during that particular time the Dallas Cowboys were losing 1 million dollars cash a month when I was buying the Cowboys I had Jimmy come over and I said I want to paint a little picture what if we went down there what if we could turn it around what if we could get in here and have success and what if at the same time we were doing that about that time the city and the economy started raising from its knee and straightening it and we could say we were a part of bringing it back the one at 15 season absolutely took things over the top when I got the Dallas in 90 there was a rift between the Dallas Cowboys and his fans they've embarrassed us we are proud people we're proud of our football team and proud of all this and the way they've done it has just torn that all down you going up against gays Jordan you know Jordans gonna give you his best that's how we work with the 49ers you have the gold standard like the 49ers have when you're using them as a measuring stick and you go out there and you get hammered twenty four to six Charles Haley always in relentless pursuit winds up recovering the front to only amounted to six points we're looking at ourselves and saying if we want to be like that we have a lot of work to do this 49er team has everything and I don't know that it isn't the best team that's ever been [Applause] unless something changed I don't know how the 49ers can be beaten two things did change Joe Montana got hurt and in Dallas Jimmie Johnson traded away the Cowboys best player Herschel Walker for a wagonload of draft picks one agent said it's biggest trade he has ever seen one owner said is a Great Train Robbery whatever it is we're happy with it two years later in 1991 all of those draft picks started paying off the gray clouds were lifting and the lining beneath him was a silver helmet with a new gleam 1991 America's team won a playoff game while San Francisco didn't even make it to the playoffs we were down a little you're up a bit and soon the 49er blunder would put both of us on equal footing setting the stage for a battle of the Titans with four Lombardi trophies on the shelf our Niners started getting the rock star treatment and soon real rock stars were showing up at our games what is that Peter Frampton jurnee frontman Steve Perry and Jersey guy Bon Jovi no way and don't forget the Hollywood crowd from Danny Glover to Oliver Stone Niners games became a who's who of beautiful people they wanted to sing the national anthem they wanted to come in after the game and say hi to everybody everybody from the movie stars to the rapper's to the racecar drivers end up showing up on the sidelines that was a new thing to me but it became a normal thing [Applause] the real Field of Dreams was anywhere the 49ers were but by 1992 there was one person San Francisco no longer wandered around it was easy to see remarkable football ability as pass rushing defense event the other thing you saw is he he got a fight almost every day [Music] off the field Charles in the locker room especially he was he was predatory if you had some physical mark or something that could be made fun of you just stayed away Steve you got to give me your best Charles oh my can I give you I can't give you I know there's many that I can I the best ones I cannot tell you leave come on didn't your innate on we tried to get Charles into a little bit of a treatment situation which of course he said now and that really made it perfectly clear that Charles wasn't willing to accept treatment that at least we would provide and he had to go he said yeah he said Jimmy said would you be interested in Charles says yeah I'd be interested in Charles so yes it but let me get back to you and what I did is I had my assistant coach is called the assistant coaches with 49ers to find out what the problem was then I had my players call the players they said he was a hard worker and he was a smart guy well when I found that out regardless of the problems that he had with the coaching staff I knew I could deal with him it only took a second and third-round pick for Jimmie Johnson to the last year the guy the 49ers didn't want I was very depressed I was very depressed and then Jerry Jones picked me up at the airport he wanted to look in my eyes and and let me know that he took a chance on me and what am I gonna do I doubt the game changer for me because I've never had anybody like that do something like that there was a loss like losing a football game you don't forget it you know Nelson one of the worst mistakes that we made I say it now and I you know I've said it before it was probably the biggest mistake I made this an owner we went from seventeenth in total defense in 1991 to 1st in 1992 the moves that took place transform the whole team and everything came together much quicker than most people anticipate in code and between the San Francisco 49ers in the Dallas Cowboys it's been a long climb back for the Cowboys since the famous game of the playoffs in 1982 in January when Dwight Clark made the catch that started the 49ers in their road to four Super Bowls and ended the Cowboys vision of America's team for another decade it was a big motivation for me because I was very angry that I got traded it brought a lot of hate and anger I still think that a lot of people at that time didn't think we could be done they were still a team that that everybody would pencil in to be in the Super Bowl champion and to be on the console against a great team on their field and then breakthrough was unbelievable I still to this day think that that was the best game that that group played the game you could see coming all year you knew that these were the two best teams in football and people to argue that it was the 49ers of the Cowboys today here in Candlestick the Cowboys proved that they were the best - it's my most bitter loss in my career it's the one that I said sticks with me do not play great and not get everything done though you want to that was a painful painful day this is my the Knicks can we play just be a regular game for me because this game means more to me anything else just playing my ex teammates and I think that that trade is what allowed us to compete with the 49ers I ain't got to believe that Carman policy was thinking you know of all the teams this was probably a mistake Amy coming back to haunt us hurt knowing it was Montana's last game that if we've had our uniform hurt even more but what's things the most to this day is anytime we hear Jimmy Johnson's words from the post game locker room just a couple of years ago we're 1 in 15 and we got guys calling our plays and there's absolutely no respect from any opponent that we played against and here we are we're in the locker room at Kendall's bacon that just comes out [Applause] I think when he said it you know it was like you heard the cheer you know in the background from the entire lager one more time [Music] [Applause] how about we move on after beating the 49ers in the 1992 NFC Championship our Cowboys crush Buffalo in Super Bowl 27th Cowboys are back on top of the mountain now they were there in the seventies the eighties [Music] we were kings of the football world for the first time since 1977 after losing the 92 NFC Championship we spent the next eight and a half months fuming waiting for our shot at revenge and the chance to prove that the 49ers were still the team to beat we just stared at each other I mean we just watched each other every week win or whatever we were doing and watched the standings and just we knew what was coming we met again in week 7 of 1993 [Applause] despite that win some were still doubting us when the Niners came back to Dallas for the NFC Championship and Jimmy took umbrage I heard Dan Reeves on the radio saying yeah I don't know who's gonna win it's gonna be a tight ball game the 49ers a real good et cetera et cetera and I said well I'll solve this I just called in and I said yeah Jimmy had had too many Heinekens that night I think but having said that he was not afraid to tell a team to tell a player hey you're really good and we're gonna beat these guys I'm not saw it I remember sitting on a bus riding to the stadium rocks we're gonna win it three is both letters I looked over at coach that's it mmm let's don't worry I got you back Jimmy's proclamations seem to rattle the 49ers they drew a 15-yard penalty before the ball was even kicked off Jerry right and that's the guy you at least expect I think to start something like that I think the Cowboys being America's Team well he admittedly says that he's been thinking about this rematch just because you're Jerry Rice just because you're you guys are the team of the past you know our guys not backing down the Cowboys big be manhandled Shan friend the worst part was that once again there was former 49er Charles Haley who did the most damage [Applause] our office made it look easier than pecan pie they were machine if we had played them 16 more quarters it would have only gotten uglier the cowboy didn't wait for the torch to be passed they grabbed it then used it to beat down and manage and route to the Super Bowl for the second straight season we had had champion games that we'd lost before but the Cowboys made it harder it's already brutal but the fact this Cowboys then you do it again the Cowboys are now holding us back from the Super Bowl yeah we don't have anger issues we just have anger now I've been doing a lot of talking but if you don't talk to talk don't get the walking hurt [Music] and watering this week I'm not gonna say a word you know how I feel but I'm not gonna say a word but I will say one thing right now here we are again the Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl back-to-back Super Bowl wins would mean a lot but you can't blame Jimmy for looking ahead to an impending free agency war with our real nemesis [Music] of course our early negotiations with Dion got bum-rushed don't count me out [Applause] the only thing worse than seemed beyond courted by the anyone was watching Dallas lift the trophy yet again [Applause] sickening still is it just a dance I literally started working out won't that we can end it all the guys were out doing what they had to do with back-to-back Super Bowl wins in 92 and 93 our Cowboys were changing the status quo and more than the NFL success has a way of spilling over into other areas and the success of the football team was like a shot of b12 to the city of Dallas the sounds of machinery are really the sounds of cowboy mania Matlin here knows this for sure Fort Worth's Lone Star sportswear has been printing one thousand t-shirts an hour there's a group of guys and we got to know and they had a little pizza shop and he would tell us if you guys win I'm certain pieces til midnight if you guys lose it stops when your game is over and you kept hearing that war more from people around town and when you're in the middle of a great season the impact it has on my business is unbelievable Dallas wasn't the city it had been just five years earlier let alone 25 years earlier hey let's go out in just a few short years Jerry and Jimmy's vision of the Cowboys rising alongside their city had come together yes but their relationship had come apart in order for them to go on from here we have mutually decided that I would no longer be the head football coach with the Dallas Cowboys I'll never forget when Jimmy and left the Cowboys Bill Walsh got on Nightline and he said this is a tragedy it'll never quite be the same for either one of them if either one of them think they're gonna get the same formula again and expect the same kind of success I think they're mistaken for the Dallas Cowboys it's a great football team is clearly the best team and all of the NFL it may be for some time there aren't any real chief rivals so I think they're here to stay the legendary 49ers and Dallas was the best we suddenly thought we had nothing to worry about I hope I can do as good a job as Jimmy Johnson that's what you're hoping and that's damn sure what's you're hoping we got a job to do and we gonna duck yep 1994 was clearly a year of change I'm a Internet service provider here in Dallas Texas hey what made you say that you you've got to tell us before we look at this video what is an Internet what do you know anyway Internet is uh Allison can you explain what internet is I mean the idea is that eventually everyone will use a computer is a very important tool whether it's learning or on their desk the coming information age would reboot Silicon Valley just like losing to Dallas in the 93 NFC championship game as far as rebooted 49ers after the final play of the game Danny and I got in the elevator just the two of us he looks over at me says we can't let this happen again and and he said I don't care what it costs I don't care about anything we're not gonna lose to Dallas in the NFC Championship this year you know the free agency you get a chance to test your value on the market San Francisco saw me as a guy that was a key component to their adversary their rival let's bring one of their main guys let's bring him on our team and I'll have you lead our defense let's get down let's get down where's Kenny this is why you're here to get us over the top the diners spent to the top of a salary cap acquiring big-name defensive talent to counter the Cowboys offense and to this day we can't figure out how you were still able to push the biggest prize of them all I'm gonna do what I was blessed to do you know I might not heist up 60 yards but it will be 50 yards I'm like every man in America I love a challenge I love a child see the challenge was to go to San Francisco and be Dallas this defense was revamped to play against Dallas basically went out and sang free agents that fit our style play and can get the job done so you know let's put up or shut up time for us defense for this is just pure hate at this point in time we don't we're not even talked about lofty ideas about America as team or you know the genius of Bill Walsh this is all about me being immunity it's the same thing with the Lakers and Celtics you know there's no natural rivalry of the late Lakers and some things except for the fact Lakers and Celtics hate each other we hate each other and that's what you love in sports when you have two teams and completely hate each other who are at the top in their inner pride and ego Adam freaking baby over here copy [Music] [Music] I mean you look out a pig both had great quarterbacks they both like great wide receivers they both had great secondaries they just hate each other [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] in sports the NFL's game of the year turned into a gold rush from the Super Bowl champion Cowboys were corralled by the 49ers that won to let him know that it wasn't the same old 49ers it was a new team with a lot of swag Dallas need to feel it than they felt it how well do the Cowboys and Niners know each other today's game marks the first time ever that two teams have faced each other three straight years in the NFC title game San Francisco in Dallas with the two best teams in the league in 1994 on a collision course for an NFC Championship rematch ever since the season began the Super Bowl wasn't for two more weeks but we all knew this was the main event this was football at its very best for this generation you got the NFL's all-time leading rusher the NFL's all-time leading receiver the Cowboys had maybe one of the greatest offensive lines ever sold the Niners had defensive playmakers galore these teams were dead even remember last year they had a fight whoa the 49ers are down there warming up here comes a batch of Cowboys and they just start warming up in their warm-ups look at this there's action down there before the action that passion that emotion is what makes these rivalries great cuz it's not just felt by the put by the players is felt by the fans the pregame scuffle had us fired up this time the Cowboys weren't going to push us around it always amuses me when California guys try to act Texas tough comparison to a heavyweight championship fight Ali Liston Ali Frazier Harleen Foreman is absolutely correct it was the most pressure that I ever felt in my 15 years there because we loaded that team to beat Dallas all those moves would have failed if we didn't win the pressure may have been on the Niners but it was the Cowboys who looked tight early and when that one hit we jumped on it game changer now it's like let's pile on before the Cowboys knew what hit him the Niners had three takeaways and a 21 nothing lead I call them all up I said you know what's great about being down 21 to nothing the first five minutes of a game they're all looking me straight about this I said we got fifty five minutes to get back in the son of a I knew it was only a matter of time before the Cowboys started playing the kind of football that had allowed us to dominate the Niners the last two years I'll give you credit every time I thought we had your Cowboys beat they fought back [Applause] we have the upper hand though mentally I think we start to create doubt we have the 21-nothing and here they are this rivalry was built on legacy plays and just like Starbucks come back in 72 and the catch back in 81 the 94 championship would be decided by a signature play that would add yet another chapter to this Tale of Two Cities 6:14 to go 38 to 28 second and 10 43 yard line tension building in the crowd and on the sidelines everything at stake a berth in the Super Bowl [Applause] take my drop back to throw launches it way down the left side and it looks to demon it's incomplete to michael irvin big defensive play might Sanders the cowboy team is on the field that was a great no call for years Michael Irvin dominated by pushing off so there's no way one of the most aggressive receivers of all time can complain about a little hand check that play was exactly why we signed primetime I don't care if Deion as a coverage god that's pass interference he put his entire arm across Urban's chest the playmaker couldn't even raise his hams it's BS if i don't think is any question there's any question that's not a flag at all well it should have been called and they called it pass interference or dr like they should have we would have bought what somebody is to the letter of the law can I say is it passed interference yes I can't please we had a ten-point lead and it wasn't even a scoring play and he probably wouldn't caught it anyway we held you to one touchdown and out gave you two to one in the second half you guys were on the cusp of another Candlestick collapse the only thing that fell apart was your dream of a three-peat [Applause] [Music] the cowboy to your brain is coming to an assault we had the better team broke my heart only one of two times I've ever teared up on a loss in the NFL it's one of those special games that years later we still talk about and when we do the argument continues over the play that [Music] you could say that the play decided who would win the Super Bowl here no argument there by 1995 the NFL was a two team lead Eddie DeBartolo spending spree had tipped the balance of power back in our favor you bought a championship fortunately like jr. Ewing Jerry Jones just wrote a texas-sized check we knew that it was us for the 49ers a lot of the moves that we made were not to compete with the Redskins and the Giants and the Eagles they were to beat the 49ers anything what I love about sharing they had beyond salmon's the most dominant cornerback at the time maybe most dominant ever and then we go get him and now he's got the star on his helmet we accomplish great things in San Francisco nation but we have to move on in life one key point that really enhanced my decision was a three-hour conversation with Mike Urban I can't say that I've ever had that type of conversation with a Steve Young go to Jerry Rice said man these people in Frisco they love football the fans are wonderful he said whatever the fans are they're 10 x 10 tax and that's what you got here and dance he was a mercenary I'd call it a hired gun I didn't like it there was no sense of loyalty in 1995 we had a parade on Market Street in San Francisco one of the heroes six months later he's feeling front for Dallas and he's getting boots [Music] I don't care what it takes you get media [Applause] [Music] life imitated art the Cowboys have become a soap opera [Applause] [Music] dynasty was a better shoe anyway we went and played Dallas in Dallas in 1995 under man without Steve Young the media from the Bay Area didn't travel with us to Dallas they thought we were going over there to get executed to throw Grbac those faxes growing a little from the man standpoint and a player standpoint it was one of the most important wins of my career it was a sweet moment in an otherwise bitter season at least by nine or standards because a few months later we didn't make it back to the NFC Championship and boy did we miss you in route to our third Super Bowl win in four years [Applause] that season 1995 marked the end of the hot war between the Niners and the Cowboys but after a quarter of a century the history our teams made for ourselves and for our cities was undeniable

Channel: NFL Films

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Id: dTieqVue3lE

Length: 33min 57sec (2037 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 15 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/MetropolisPt31]

Ugh, I miss those days. The rest of the league doesn't, but I miss that stretch where it felt like only those two teams existed.

[u/MavsFanForLife]

That was a flag on Deion!!!

For real though I really miss the Dallas San Francisco rivalry. You’d be hard pressed to find a rivalry that spans 3 decades like that with all those championship games

[u/jojoman7]

Wait the Cowboys get Sam freaking Elliott and the 49ers have to deal with renner? That does not seem like a fair deal.

[u/[deleted]]

Damn I didn’t see this anywhere on my Jeremy Renner app where I can talk about all things Jeremy Renner. Def going to check it out!

[u/ADGjr86]

“From 17th in defense to first.”

I let out an audible groan. I miss having a great defense.

Niners are still my most hated team. Followed closely now by the Packers/Eagles. That was a fun watch.

[u/[deleted]]

94 NFC Championship: when Aikman became the toughest SOB to every play QB.