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Washington now had a seemingly safe 13-point lead over sputtering Dallas.

On the Cowboys next series came the turning point of the game.

Roger Stobach was having one of his poorest passing days in the NFL and he couldn't find an open receiver and ran.

Starbock gained the first down, but was not woozy, and this proved to be the turning point of the day,

for into the fray came an untried and unknown rookie quarterback

named Clint Longley.

And the rest we know was miserable history.

NFL films describing the turning point in the most memorable NFL Thanksgiving Day

game of all time.

50 years ago today, Thanksgiving, 1974, the Clint Longley game.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.

I know many of you listening will never forget where you were and what you were doing

when Clint Longley ruined Thanksgiving for all of us.

And if you're too young to remember, this was the first painful loss to the Cowboys.

And it was really one of the first truly, I'll never forget where I was when it happened moments in franchise history.

The backdrop for the game was the rivalry that had developed in the three

previous seasons with George Allen arriving in DC in 1971, and they had played some high-profile

games already, but this was the first Thanksgiving Day matchup between George Allen's

skins and Tom Landry's

Cowboys. There were only two games back then on Thanksgiving. The Lions played early,

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