NFL Today Halftime Dec 10, 1978 Highlights
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00:04Okay back live in New York, I'm Brent Musburger, let's get you up-to-date now on all the scores of course the game
00:09You're watching in half Dallas leads Philadelphia
00:1114-7 the New York Giants whom Jimmy the Greeks says will undergo a major shakeup at the end of the season which really can't surprise
00:17You but the Giants are playing very well for John McVeigh today shutting out the Cardinals at the half
00:23Washington Atlanta a fierce defensive game with two minutes and 40 seconds left in the first half
00:29Buffalo and New England the Bills scored first New England tied them then Chuck Knox's team kicked a field goal
00:35And you know Knox's Buffalo Bills have been playing quite well this year the New York Jets and Cleveland the Browns lead it by a touchdown
00:42Walt Michaels Jets have battled their way back in Matt Robinson and Harper for a touchdown pass in the cold in Chicago
00:49Green Bay battling for that playoff spot. They are tied right now in the first quarter
00:54And what would a Sunday be without a gadget player?
00:57We showed you a lot of flea flickers and Jane you said the gadget of today was down in Atlanta. Is that right?
01:02Yes effect, but the gadget is no good unless it works
01:05This one absolutely worked. He was all out in the open Washington and Atlanta the fake punt comes Mike Bradd passes it
01:13Washington has a 56-yard play hitting Terry Anderson
01:17He beats the tackle, but they don't go in from the five-yard line
01:20So they settle for a 21-yard field goal and the skins lead 10 to 7 George Allen would have never called the fake punt
01:27He's much more conservative than that. They couldn't find it on the old films
01:30All right, the game that you're watching has featured some very entertaining plays
01:34I've watched this one sequence over and over and I really think that Harold Carmichael thought the play was dead
01:40That's the way he reacted over on the sideline watch and see if you don't agree with me. Jaworski hits
01:45If he rolls, he thinks he's down right there. And indeed he might have been I'm not so sure now
01:49I have been looking at it again Cliff Harris
01:51Meanwhile said I'll take whatever I can get and he cut back to the five-yard line. Here's Scott Laidlaw
01:57Magnificent blocking by the left side of the Cowboy line and in they go now here
02:01They're gonna burn Jaworski bad on this one
02:03It's good defensive work by Vinnie Barnes
02:05Under through his man stepped up in comes back down inside that 10-yard line when you go on the attack with your defense
02:10You can really turn it loose against teams watch Tony Dorsett fake the block
02:15Slide left screen is set up just beautifully over there on that side for Tom Landry and it was 14 Oh
02:20But the Eagles have read a team a little true grit and demonstrating it is the big man Harold Carmichael
02:27in the hole in the zone busts about two tackles and gets down to the six-yard line and
02:33Mike Hogan was able to go in and then with the extra point, of course
02:36You've watched it all 14-7 and heard about the Giants today
02:39Bring up in the metal eyes the Giants lead the st
02:42Louis Cardinals by a score of 10 nothing at halftime
02:44Both teams of records of five wins and nine losses are simply playing for respectability
02:48It was the Giants who got the action started early first in the first quarter as rookie Dan
02:52Dornick blast up the middle for 16 yards set up a field goal in the Jets got it a few plays later
02:57Randy Dean rolling out here hits Gary shirt for a touchdown and the Giants took a 10-nothing lead
03:02The Cardinal offense has just been bogged down the first half hard here throwing the ball upfield gets gets hit Bob
03:08Young catches the ball
03:08He's an elbow receiver that play doesn't count and Johnny's lead at halftime by a score of 10 nothing
03:13Yeah one to run with it though, didn't he?
03:15That line, let me show you what went on before the gadget play that Jane just showed you down in Atlanta, Washington
03:22Atlanta Jack Pardee ripped into the Redskins this week and he needed his kickoff man
03:27Mark Mosley to push the return man out you watch now as Atlanta's coming back up with Dennis Pearson
03:32Swings to the outside looks like he's got an alley, but here comes Mosley and he uses that sideline
03:38So very well right there. There was interference first and goal Bartkowski to stand back 7-0 after the extra point
03:45Now here is Joe Theismann bringing the Redskins back getting good protection
03:50Hitting Danny Buggs Buggs to the one-yard line and then it was John Riggins
03:55smashing across for the touchdown and then of course the gadget play and
04:00The field goal so as we look at the scoreboard the Giants up on the Cardinals right now by a score of 10 to nothing
04:06I guess the key there is even though Bud Wilkinson really brought the Cardinals back this year
04:10He has been decimated by injuries
04:12It started before the season began and even now he's without some of his key weapons whenever the Cardinals play the Giants the one
04:19Man, they love to have on the field is Mel Gray
04:21He had an incredible string of touchdown passes going against the Giants
04:25But not playing today because of an injury and if there's time after the game
04:30We'll bring you up to date and show you highlights from around the league, but right now
04:32Let's send you back to Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia
04:39Halftime at Philadelphia
04:41Dallas 14
04:43The Philadelphia Eagles seven the Eagles still fighting for a playoff spot Dallas, of course the NFC Eastern Champions
04:51The
04:54Preceding announcement was brought to you as a public service by the National Football League
05:00Neither team has made it back to the field yet. Do you blame them for that? No
05:04I don't know what the chill factor is now
05:06What was it when we started plus six you said plus six and we figured it's zero by now
05:10And you and I have both put our coats on and I think it might be a big factor
05:14I think there'll be a lot of more turnovers
05:16Maybe in the second half than there have been in the first. I'm glad to see you put your coat on
05:20I thought you might be cracking
05:22I think a big factor too is the
05:25three sacks of Roger Staubach by the Eagles that Eagle team only came in with 23 sacks and they hadn't done any in the last
05:31Three games and the fact that they can put pressure pressure on Roger
05:35Could be a factor if the Cowboys have to continue to throw the ball
05:40Tech's frame of the Cowboys has asked us
05:42To make an announcement to the effect that if Dallas wins
05:48Today they would get that home field
05:52Location for the playoff game the last weekend of the year
05:55Tickets will be on sale
05:58until seven o'clock tonight at Moody Coliseum and
06:02at the Central Ticket Agency in Fort Worth
06:07That'll be the seventh tonight by the way the same situation with the also be in effect
06:13if Green Bay loses
06:15They're playing the Bears in Chicago
06:19Conceivably if Dallas lost both of their games both the remaining ones and Green Bay one of both
06:24Green Bay would be the host team for that playoff weekend. You're not going to go through the whole playoff
06:30Contingency, so I'm not even going to try
06:33I know what the ninth way is. That's the only one I've got straight the toss of the coin. I don't know who's going to
06:41They toss the coin to see who tosses the coin
06:47Dvorsky had the misfortune of the first pass play he completed to Harold Carmichael was fumbled and run down in close to set up the
06:56First Dallas touchdown
06:58actually, it's four four six fifty nine yards a
07:0242-yarder to Carmichael a little bit later in that second period and I had one intercepted by Vinnie Barnes
07:09Might point out one thing about the Eagles and their playoff possibilities
07:14If they lose today, they are still
07:17mathematically alive for a playoff spot
07:20Oh
07:21Depending on the focus on Atlanta does depending on Atlanta, Washington, of course are playing today
07:27They could all three wind up with a nine and seven record
07:30And then you get into those
07:32total points and all such as that
07:38Carmichael number 17
07:4195 games in a row. He has caught a passing which means that he's played in all of them, which I think is
07:47more remarkable than catching one in every game
07:49date for meal
07:53Lives at the stadium there might be
07:57Better coaches, but there are no they work any harder than he does