Back in the 1970's, when there were only the three major networks, ABC had a sports competition pitting great athletes from various sports against one another in athletic feats. There were individual as well as team formats. The 1978 SuperTeams competition took place in February and came down to an epic tug of war between the Royals and the Cowboys. Here are a couple of links for us old-timers to reminisce and for the young'uns to see some history.
Webpage with results:
http://www.thesuperstars.org/comp/78team.html
Two videos (Parts 1 and 2) showing the broadcast of the tug or war segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdgV_vCLMxQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwwTADRwi0Y