NFL Today 1979-09-23 NFL Today Halftime Highlights
NFL Today 1979-09-23 NFL Today Halftime Highlights
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00:00We'll be right back with more of the show.
00:02♪♪
00:07Back live in New York, I'm Brent Musburger.
00:09By far, the most exciting Sunday of the season so far.
00:13The highest and the lowest, let me show you.
00:15It was overtime, Minnesota and Green Bay.
00:18The Vikes had the ball, Tommy Kramer pulled out.
00:21This one was intended for Ahmad Rashad.
00:23He juggled it with one hand, brought it down,
00:26broke a tackle, dashed into the end zone,
00:29and it was time, Tim Mazzetti with a chance to win
00:31for Atlanta against Detroit, time running out.
00:33A 45-yard attempt, wide to the right.
00:36And last year's hero is this year's GOAT,
00:39as Atlanta loses and Mazzetti, for the second straight week,
00:43fails to connect on a big one.
00:44The best game of the day.
00:46It was the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills,
00:49and what a wild one.
00:50Here is Tommy Newton exploding for Walt Michaels and the Jets.
00:5452 yards on the run, 10-6, Jets in command.
00:58It's Richard Todd now, go to Mickey Shuler, 27 yards.
01:02This play will go down to the 25-yard line.
01:04Three plays later, the Jets scored again.
01:06It was 17-6, Jets, and it looked easy
01:08when Todd hit Wesley Walker with this score, 24-12.
01:13But back came Joe Ferguson, last play of the half,
01:15biggest play of the game.
01:17It's tipped in the air, and from out of nowhere,
01:19Jerry Butler for the score, 24-19.
01:22Ferguson and Butler were just warming up.
01:25Here it is again, down the near sideline.
01:28Butler, 73 yards on this score.
01:31It was 26-24, Buffalo, they weren't finished.
01:35On the day, Butler caught 10 passes for 255 yards.
01:39The record for one game is 303 yards.
01:41Three touchdown passes, Ferguson to Butler,
01:44then Richard Todd tried to rally the Jets.
01:46He's hit this time, fumbled, picked up by the defensive lineman,
01:50dashed into the end zone.
01:51It was 40-24, Buffalo and Chuck Knox in command.
01:54Ferguson on the day, five touchdown passes.
01:57This one to Joe Shipp.
01:59Final score was 46-31.
02:01And Jane, let's take everybody around the league right now
02:03and get them up to date with everything.
02:05There's the final score, Detroit, 24, Atlanta, 23,
02:09as Mazzetti missed the field goal.
02:11And Rashad in overtime, 27-21, Minnesota wins that one.
02:16Pittsburgh rallies against Baltimore, 17-13.
02:19Brent, despite numerous injuries,
02:23the Steelers still pulled it out on a 28-yard pass
02:26from Terry Bradshaw to Benny Cunningham
02:28with 541 left in the game.
02:32The Jets, that final score against Buffalo is 46-31.
02:37And in overtime, it was Houston, 30, Cincinnati, 27.
02:41Houston's Tony Fritch won the game
02:43with only 38 seconds left in overtime
02:46after the Oilers had been trailing 24-0 in the first half.
02:50And in a wild game, San Diego had a chance to win it
02:52and then they missed out.
02:54Patriots win 27-21.
02:56New England held off a late San Diego rally
02:59as linebacker Steve Nelson intercepted a pass
03:01in the end zone and the Patriots ran out the clock.
03:04Oakland in trouble, losing to Kansas City, 35-7.
03:08Kansas City dominated this game,
03:09paced by an 88-yard punt return by J.T. Smith
03:13and a 70-yard pass with an interception by Gary Barbero.
03:17Washington and Jack Pardee put it together, 17-7.
03:21That is the final of the Redskins there.
03:23Now at the half, of course, the game you're watching,
03:25Eagles lead the Giants 14-6.
03:27The Bears are ahead of Miami, 6-3.
03:29That game is in the third period.
03:30Also in the second period, in a driving rainstorm in Tampa,
03:33it's 21-6, Buccaneers over the Rams right now.
03:37New Orleans trailing San Francisco by a point.
03:39That game is at the half right now.
03:41And in a big one out west, Seattle, 20, Denver, 10.
03:45That game is at the half right now.
03:47Irv, you got some highlights, Atlanta, Detroit.
03:48I can't believe everything that's going on this afternoon.
03:50A lot of excitement this afternoon.
03:52But, you know, remember what Monty Clark said
03:53before this game started?
03:54If we don't beat the Atlanta Falcons,
03:56our season is over.
03:57Not over yet, right?
03:58Not over yet, because they hung on to win
03:59by one point, 24-23 in the Pontiac Superdome.
04:02But the game started out on a shaky foot for the Lions
04:04as Jeff Komlo fumbles the ball deep in his own territory.
04:07Atlanta recovers, and Steve Bartkowski
04:09goes on a quarterback sneak.
04:11This is in the third quarter.
04:12The score is 10-10, 10-10.
04:14Komlo comes back here again, this time a little more
04:16confident, hits number 89, Luther Blue upfield,
04:19sets up his next scoring opportunity for the Lions.
04:22Komlo going upfield again.
04:23Guess who? 89, Luther Blue.
04:25Touchdown, Detroit takes a 17-16 lead.
04:28Komlo did a pretty good job.
04:29Rookie out of Delaware hands the ball off here
04:30to Rick Kane, who goes off his left tackle,
04:32and he rambles 26 yards.
04:34Touchdown, 24-16 Detroit.
04:37But, you know, the Atlanta Falcons are a never-say-die team.
04:40Bartkowski handing the ball off to Haskell Stanbacker.
04:42He breaks off his right tackle, goes upfield 55 yards.
04:46Touchdown, too little, too late.
04:48Lions held on to win, 24-23.
04:51The St. Louis Cardinals and Washington Redskins,
04:53you know when they get together, there are always fireworks.
04:55The Redskins had won five out of six games
04:57prior to this weekend's game.
04:59Today, make it six out of seven.
05:00The second offensive play of the game,
05:02Hart to O.J. Anderson, pass, fumble,
05:06and the ball rolls around to the end zone.
05:08Nobody can come up with it, but Don Hover finds a handle
05:10for the Washington Redskins.
05:12The Redskins take a 7-0 lead in the first quarter.
05:15Joe Theismann had a pretty good day
05:17working as quarterback today.
05:18The Redskins have become an opportunistic team this year.
05:21You break a coverage, they'll find the open man.
05:23Broken coverage, Buddy Hardeman makes the catch,
05:2535-yard touchdown.
05:27Washington takes a 14-0 lead in the first quarter.
05:30Jim Hart trying to get his club back on the board,
05:32hands off to Theodos Brown.
05:33He goes over, touchdown, 14-7 Washington.
05:36Late in the game, Cardinals trying to come back.
05:38Hart going for a 2-yard pass, can't get it.
05:41Lamar Parrish intercepts, and the Washington Redskins
05:43hold on to win, 17-7.
05:45We're going to update the score right now.
05:46Miami has scored again.
05:48They're ahead of Chicago now, 10-6.
05:50And in baseball, 7-4,
05:51Montreal a winner over Philadelphia.
05:53Pittsburgh downs the Chicago Cubs 6-0.
05:56Herman Frank says he will not be back next year.
05:58Cincinnati beats Houston 7-1 as the final there.
06:01And here's Terry Bradshaw, the Steelers,
06:03under pressure, avoids the rush,
06:06gets it off, batted in the air.
06:07Nazby Glasgow of the Colts intercepts,
06:10and Baltimore went ahead on a field goal.
06:13Then it was Bradshaw.
06:14Watch his protection.
06:1647 yards.
06:18John Stallworth, it was 7-3 after the extra point.
06:22Landry of the Colts looking for Roger Carr.
06:26As the Colts regained the lead, 10-7 after the extra point.
06:29Bradshaw was injured, then returned.
06:32Call for the tight end screen.
06:34Faked to the right and sent it back to the left,
06:35and there was Benny Cunningham.
06:3817-13.
06:40Pittsburgh a winner against Baltimore.
06:43And the NFL today will continue on CBS
06:46after these messages from your local station.
06:48♪♪
06:55It's my half, and I'm dumping it.
06:57Archie's new partner is Jewish, and you know what that means.
06:59You ate my pot!
07:01Archie Bunker's Place premieres tonight.