1977-10-30 NFL Today Halftime Report
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00:00Earlier this week, Bob Tucker was signed by the Minnesota Vikings. He left the New York Giants in a huff.
00:09Well, he has Minnesota right now ahead of Atlanta. He caught the touchdown pass, thrown by Fran Tarkenden, 14-7, the Vikings lead Atlanta.
00:17It has been a tough, tough game. Washington, Philadelphia, Joe Theismann, quarterback in the Redskins today.
00:23He has thrown two touchdown passes to tight end Gene Fugate, 23-10 in the third quarter.
00:28Cincinnati comes in with Kenny Anderson in the second half. They lead Houston and John Hadle right now, 10-3 in the fourth quarter.
00:35Cleveland getting even for losing to Kansas City on the last Sunday of last year, 30-0 in the third quarter.
00:42The New York Jets and New England. Grogan with a couple of touchdown passes, one to their top draft choice.
00:47Stanley Morgan of 52 yards, Morgan of Berner, he's got 4-4 speed. In the fourth, it's 24-13, the Patriots.
00:55San Diego now trailing Miami, 13-7. That game is in the fourth quarter. Clarence Duran intercepted three for San Diego in the first quarter.
01:02And, of course, 16-0 at the half, Chicago leading Green Bay.
01:06Detroit and Dallas right now. Cowboys on the move, three seconds left in the half, 20-0 in the second quarter.
01:13And the game you're watching, Los Angeles leading New Orleans by a score of 20-17. That's at the half.
01:20And the NFL today will continue on CBS after these messages from your local station.
01:26This has been a big afternoon for the defensive backs, so in honor of that, we turned to her across to start our highlights.
01:32Okay, in the fourth quarter down in Atlanta, the Atlanta Falcons in a real tough defensive battle has been indicated lead, 14-7 in the fourth quarter.
01:40And early in the game, fan targeting going into the air has the pass kicked off by Rollin Lawrence.
01:45And he brings the ball from around the 49-yard line, setting up a scoring opportunity for his Falcon teammates.
01:50And Scott Hunter takes advantage of it right away, going to the air, hitting Greg McCreary.
01:55Tight end is backing up Jim Mitchell, who's out with an injury today. And he draws first blood for the Falcons. They lead 7-0.
02:01Targeting comes back, however, in the second quarter with a touchdown pass of his own as he goes to the air to Sammy White,
02:06who hauls it in for a 55-yard strike, 7-7 in the second quarter.
02:11In the third quarter, the biggest run of the day, Chuck Foreman rambling 51 yards down to the Atlanta 1-yard line, but don't go away, folks. It's not over yet.
02:19It takes Minnesota three plays, and finally from the sixth, fan targeting rolls out his brand new tight end, Bob Tucker.
02:26Touchdown, and Atlanta leads 14-7 in the fourth quarter.
02:29So Minnesota is ahead right now by the 7-point serve, and fan targeting, you know, has been intercepted 11 times already this season,
02:36and only eight all of last year. New quarterback of Washington, Joe Theismann, Philadelphia against the Washington Redskins.
02:42Now when you play the Redskins, they say get to the outside with some speed.
02:47Well, the only trouble here on this play is that the Eagles cough it up,
02:51and Joe Theismann has got a chance to show George Allen and the Redskins brass what he can do, and he did it quickly.
02:58Gene Fugit is tied in for one touchdown. It became 7-0.
03:02Shortly after that, Theismann and the Redskin offense went to work again,
03:05and the former Notre Dame star backed out this time and looked for Danny Buggs.
03:09Buggs down at the 15-yard line. Theismann's second touchdown pass of the game to Fugit again, and it was 14-0.
03:17Eagles didn't quit. They haven't all year under Vermeer. They just haven't got the talent that the top teams have.
03:22Here's Bederson, ran it in, but the Redskins are very much in command,
03:26and I've just been handed word that Barkowski now warming up on the sideline for Atlanta.
03:31Atlanta, of course, Minnesota does lead that game 14-7 in the fourth quarter,
03:34but in the game you're watching, the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, of course, are doing battle as they always do,
03:39and the Bears have a halftime lead of 16-0, and Walter Payton is the man, of course, who sets the pace.
03:44Payton here goes down to the 5-yard line early in the game, setting up a Johnny Musso touchdown run,
03:49and Chicago took a 6-0 lead, missed the extra point.
03:52Walter Payton once again, this time goes all the way from the 6-yard line, touchdown,
03:56and the score right now at halftime, of course, is the Chicago 16, Green Bay nothing.
04:00And over the fourth quarter, New England leading the New York Jets by a score of 24-13.
04:15Okay, the reason for that pause is that one of the networks went back to the ballpark.
04:19Let's us now resume with some highlights.
04:21We have got Detroit against the Dallas Cowboys.
04:24Let's take a look at some of this action.
04:26The Cowboys' only unbeaten team, Herrera, kicks a field goal 45 yards, and the Cowboys up by 6.
04:32Mark Washington intercepts this pass by Landry, and here comes the return.
04:37Irv, these defensive backs are going wild on this Sunday afternoon.
04:41Billy Joe Dupree caught this 15-yard touchdown pass from Soback, and it became 13-0.
04:49Detroit made only two first downs in the first half.
04:57The Cowboys get it again on that interception by Hegman.
05:02And Scott Laidlaw will be on the other end of the Soback pass, 23-0.
05:10At the half, the Dallas Cowboys, the only unbeaten team in the NFC, are rolling right along, Irv.
05:17I tell you, I wish I could give you a highlight from that question.
05:19One or two seconds.
05:20That package.
05:21L.A. and New Orleans right now, of course, going battle down the Superdome.
05:25Let's take it right now.
05:27Pat Hayden, starting a quarterback, scrambles around here and picks up Harold Jackson in the end zone.
05:3218-yard touchdown, Rams lead 7-3.
05:35Strong makes a nice play here for the New Orleans Saints on the key fourth down run,
05:40takes the ball down to the L.A. 3-yard line, setting up a scoring opportunity for the Saints.
05:45Javrez does the rest, goes over, and New Orleans led at this point in the game 10-7.
05:49For the third down and 9 on the New Orleans 14-yard line,
05:52you can see a blitz here from the strong safety Chuck Criss, which sets up another series of plays.
06:00Let's see this Blanchard touchdown to Bill Laddy, who fumbles the ball when he's hit here.
06:05He's going to be hit by a swarm of New Orleans Saints,
06:07and Pat Hughes picks up the ball for the Saints and sets up a field goal opportunity for the Saints.
06:12And they fake a field goal.
06:15You notice Droom catches the touchdown pass.
06:18They take a 17-10 lead.
06:19Pat Hayden doesn't give up, however.
06:22Harold Jackson, he makes the catch, 17-17 at that point.
06:25And, uh, where are we now in that game, Jim?
06:28I'm not sure.
06:30I think they're watching us. I think they're still okay.
06:33Barkowski now is in the game for the Atlanta Falcons.
06:36They're trying to come back against Minnesota.
06:51Bring it up.