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The Saints entered 1974 with a nine-game losing streak to their archrival, including a humiliating 62-7 rout at home in the previous season's opener. New Orleans did not sweep Atlanta again until 1983. In a rare fluke the 1974 New Orleans Saints wore white jerseys in every game of the 1974 season. They donned white uniforms at home, and when on ...
The 1974 NFL season was the 55th regular season of the National Football League. The season ended with Super Bowl IX when the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings . Players held a strike from July 1 until August 10, [ 1 ] prior to the regular season beginning; [ 2 ] only one preseason game (that year's College All-Star Game ) was ...
The New Orleans Saints have played their home games at the Caesars Superdome since 1975. The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The NFL awarded the city of New Orleans the sixteenth franchise in the league on ...
By the time Metcalf rushed for an 11-yard fourth-quarter touchdown, the game was already out of reach for the Cardinals. This was the first postseason meeting between the Cardinals and Vikings. [2] This was the final NFL on CBS game as a play-by-play announcer for Brent Musburger, and the last for Irv Cross as an analyst until 1990.
The November 6 game between the Saints and the 49ers was originally scheduled for New Orleans but was switched with their October 8 game when the San Francisco Giants played in the NLCS. The December 11 game between the 49ers and the Rams had John Taylor become the first player in NFL history to score two touchdowns of over 90 yards in a single ...
Note: Prior to the 1975 season, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly rotation.Had the 1973 playoffs been seeded, the AFC divisional matchups would have been #3 Oakland at #2 Cincinnati and #4 wild card Pittsburgh at #1 Miami; the NFC matchups would not have changed, although #3 Dallas would have had to travel to #2 Los Angeles, and #1 Minnesota would have had home ...
The following is a list of games that have been canceled and rescheduled by the National Football League (NFL) since 1933. While canceling games was extremely common prior to this date, since that year, the NFL has only canceled regular season games four times, two of them for labor disputes between the league and the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA).
During the October 13, 1974, New Orleans Saints–Denver Broncos game, the broadcasting duo of play-by-play announcer Don Criqui and color commentator Irv Cross was supplemented by the contributions of the first woman ever on an NFL telecast, Jane Chastain, a sports reporter for WTVJ, Miami's CBS affiliate. While providing limited commentary ...