Product Details

• Actors: Roger Staubach, Martin Sheen, Duane Thomas, Bob Lilly
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: December 19, 2006
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001CR7828
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,558 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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No one thought the Dallas Cowboys would become world champions halfway through the 1971 season. That's what makes it a great story. Watch and listen to members of the championship squad and relive every magical moment with America's Game: 1971 Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl® VI DVD from NFL® Films. Included are exclusive interviews from Roger Staubach, Bob Lilly and Duane Thomas.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First Championship for the Cowboys!, June 2, 2009

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This review is from: NFL: America's Game: 1971 Dallas Cowboys (DVD)

I enjoyed this video immensely! There are three threads that wind their way through this video: 1)The Cowboys had never won a championship and unfairly wore a crown of "can't win the big one". 2)The indecision of Coach Tom Landry in picking a quarterback to lead the team and its effects. 3)The "silent season" of Duane Thomas.

One can feel for long-time players like Bob Lilly who suffered through so many disappointments for so many years to finally have their day of freedom from the naysayers.

The viewer gets a sense of why Roger Staubach was called "Captain America". He was not only a great athlete who quarterbacked "America's Team" but also a fine American who (unlike later Annapolis athletes) proudly served his country and paid the price by losing the peak years of his athletic life in order to do so.

The viewer gets a sense of the athletic potential of Duane Thomas. At the same time, one must admit Thomas is also a man with a "bad attitude" that destroyed his chance of a long career in the NFL by his own arrogance.

This is more than just a video for Cowboys fans. This video did a masterful job of transmitting the hopes, struggles, determination, and hubris of men in a competitive endeavor. This is a good video, not just a "sports video", for that reason and I highly recommend it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes, it's a good DVD, but . . ., December 13, 2009

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I have purchased (3) others in the America's Game set, and for my money, this is the one I would rank far, far behind. Yes, it is worth the money. Yes, it is very well produced. And yes, there are some insights revealed in this DVD that are enjoyable to watch. Roger Staubach and Bob Lilly come off as articulate and down to earth, but the biggest negative this DVD has is Duane Thomas himself. He has always come off in the past as "misunderstood" and a "mystery", and I have to admit that perhaps I gave him the benefit of the doubt as being portrayed by the media as a jerk because he didnt want to be interviewed by them. But throughout the video, Thomas cannot help but coming off as a racist jerk time and time again; and the whole time I kept saying "no wonder the rest of the team couldn't stand this guy." Maybe there is something in his past that makes him harbor such pent up emotions, but in my opinion, any bit of compassion that I might have had for this guy in the past went straight out the door with some of the totally stupid remarks that he makes in this DVD. It really makes you wish that Walt Garrison had been interviewed for this rather than Thomas, given Garrison's past interviews with NFL Films and how totally funny and greagarious he is. But then again, maybe it was good that Thomas was interviewed for this DVD and had his feelings made known for the rest of the world to critique . .because this way, if there was any doubt whatsoever as to whether or not this guy was a jerk or not, all doubts were firmly erased 45 minutes later.

(One item of note about a year after purchasing this DVD. I bought the book "Landry's Boys" written by Peter Golenbock, and in one section of it, it goes into great detail about Duane Thomas' time spent with the Cowboys and all of the upheaval that took place during his tenure there. In Thomas' defense, I can fully understand the bitterness and anger that he harbors to this day with regards to his playing days in Dallas, and I suggest that if anyone is a Cowboys fan (or football fan in general who is interested in this particular point in NFL history), that they purchase the book "Landry's Boys" as a supplement to this DVD. A number of items within the DVD become much more crystal clear after I read this book, and made me much more sympathetic to Duane Thomas' plight. Nevertheless, he still comes off like a jerky-jerk in the DVD, and that is an assessment that I will not retract from in my overall assessment of the DVD).

5.0 out of 5 stars Bob Lilly And Roger Staubach Are Cowboy Legends, April 26, 2010

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This review is from: NFL: America's Game: 1971 Dallas Cowboys (DVD)

This is a great story of Dallas Cowboys first Superbowl victory. Bob Lilly and Roger Staubach's memories and recollections of that season is great and rewarding since they are Cowboy legends. The NFL Network's series format with the stars recapping the season is a good idea, not just a Superbowl highlight film. In fact, very little highlights of Superbowl are shown. Highlights of whole season or pivotal moments are shown, all the newsworthy and interesting tidbits are retold by Staubach, Lilly, and Duane Thomas. It's a good DVD not just for Cowboy fans, but all football fans since the Cowboys are a legendary franchise and its history is worth knowing.