KSK Commenter Draft: Your Favorite NFL Game of All-Time
It’s hard to believe we haven’t done this one yet, but your draft this week requires you to pick your favorite NFL game ever, postseason, regular season, whatever. And it can be for any goddamn arbitrary reason you want. It need not be the best game. Shit, it can be a game where a player you hate got hurt. I’m sure the Theismann game will go early.
For most people. I imagine, t choice is bound to be tinged by homerism. For me, it’s no different. A sloppy game your team wins is exactly 18 times better than the most tightly contested games between two teams you couldn’t give a shit about. Sure, I loved the shit out of the most recent Super Bowl. It was probably the best one yet. But to me it’s not going to touch the three to five biggest victories by the Steelers over the last 15 years. If you’re able to distance yourself from your favorite team enough to pick an epically contested game, more power to you. With that kind of ability for emotional disconnection, you should probably be a surgeon or something.
My opening pick: The 1995 AFC Championship Game
Odd as it is, the two most memorable games the Steelers have played in my lifetime have been playoff contests against the Colts. Absolutely, Super Bowl XL resulted in one of the most deliriously happy moments of my life (that life, by the way: very shallow), but objectively I can admit that the game itself sucked. Really, for me, it’s a toss-up between ‘95 AFC Title Game and the 2005 Divisional Round victory in Indianapolis. Both games were instant classics that came down to the wire. Sure, you could make the argument that the 2005 game should be more satisfying, as the Steelers’ chances of winning were nigh on inconceivable, whereas in ‘95 they were heavy favorites.
But that discounts their agonizing loss to the Chargers in the conference title game following the 1994 season. The mantra for the entire 1995 season was “Three More Yards,” which symbolized just how close they got to being blown out by the 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX. The ‘95 AFC Title Game went much like the previous year’s, with the Steelers squandering a lead late in the second half, via a long TD pass from Jim Harbaugh to Floyd Turner that more than smacked of the Stan-Humphries-to-Tony-Martin dagger from the year before. That put Pittsburgh in the same position they were in in ‘94: needing a final scoring drive to send them to the Super Bowl. This time, however, they did it. Then, of course, they had to weather a nearly completed Hail Mary pass to Aaron Bailey that, if I weren’t 13 at the time, would’ve given me a Tim Russert-sized heart attack on the spot.
Some of it has to do with age. At 23, however still young and irreponsible you may be, you can’t have the unalloyed obsession with sports you could at 13. By then, you’re (at least nominally) an adult, you mostly likely have started a career, probably are in a relationship, have gained at least some semblance of perspective. When you’re 13, you really don’t have shit else to think about. These big games are beyond life and death. They get amplified to an importance that’s nearly biblical. There is no tomorrow if your team loses. It’s supremely subjective but if you know any other way people experience life, Mr. Fucking Dispassionate Robot Person, I’d like to hear it.
Tags: ksk commenter drafts, xmas ape
June 27th, 2008 at 9:06 am
@Ape
I remember watching that game as a 15 year old McDonalds employee. We had a TV set up in the back. I was resposible for the drive-thru and let’s just say there was much “driving through” going on in that 4th quarter.
My pick: 2006 AFC Championship (Colts vs Patriots). This was the Super Bowl because the Bears were nowhere as good a team as either of those two. Whether you’re a Colts fan wanting an epic comeback or a Pats hater looking for an epic choke, this game had it.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:08 am
1992 – Bills v. Oilers play-off game. Greatest comeback ever.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:08 am
*I should say the 1995 game. In 2005 I still acted like a 15 year old and still worked at McDonalds; but hey, who’s counting?
June 27th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Ooooh, the choices are endless. I’ll take the Body Bag Game. Brian Mitchell ended the game at QB for Washington after nine Redskins got knocked the fuck out.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:12 am
The 2002 NFC Championship Game, Tampa Bay beats Philadelphia 27-10, and I get a free ticket and plane ride to the Super Bowl (my sister worked for the Bucs at the time). When Ronde Barber picked off Donovan McNabb in the fourth quarter and returned it for a TD… holy shit, that was awesome.
Oh, and I got laid after the game. Good times all around.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:12 am
DIAF, Grimey.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Cowboys v. Vikings, December 28, 1975 (I was 11) – The Hail Mary Game – I remember it so very well (yeah I know it’s been a topic this week, but it’s my pick). It was a clean play, great pass and the game killed Fran Tarkenton’s father (who’s first name was Dallas).
/Dallas Cowboys, killing people since 1975
// Hated by so many, since 1975
June 27th, 2008 at 9:16 am
I’ll take the 2005 Steelers game over the Colts. Vanderjackoff’s missed kick? Coming in Indianapolis? Beautiful.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Nov 26, 2006
Ravens stomp Stillers 27-0
Rongrastname gets con-fucking-cussed….Ravens sack him nine times….Ray Ray stabs him twice for good measure…..
/small victory for my crime ridden city
June 27th, 2008 at 9:20 am
The 2005-2006 NFC Championship between Seattle and Carolina.
Like those in Cleveland, we Seattleites rarely win. The Mariners, even when they won 116 games, have never made it past the ALCS. As awesome as the Sonics were in the 90s, the Chicago Bulls (and Dikembe Mutombo) put an end to their championship dreams. And even though we lost Super Bowl XL, at the time that we were putting the beatdown on the Panthers, it felt like anything was possible. That’s a rare feeling around here.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:20 am
1986 divisionsl playoff. jets @ browns.
kosar threw for like 500 yards, 2 overtimes… amazing.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:22 am
I’ll take the Bills Giants SB. Fuck you, Norwood.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Has to be SuperBowl XXXVI. Pats over Rams, when they were Jason, as opposed to Goliath.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:25 am
One more stands out for me:
2007 NFC Championship (Giants vs Packers)- I don’t know if it was the hallucinogens or the extreme cold, but Lambeau’s turf/atmosphere was so gray in contrast to the players uniforms it looked like they were playing in black and white. That shit just looked fucking cool. It’s too bad Joe Buck and Troy Aikman didn’t morph into a couple of douchecicles that night.
Also, dramatic interceptions, 90-yard touchdown passes, missed FGs for the win, made FGs for the win (in sudden-death overtime no less)… this game was stuffed with everything that could be awesome about an NFL game.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:27 am
@Flozell – David, not Jason. Crap.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Good call, Noel Ape. I remember how much the Chargers game sucked, and then remember almost jumping out of the window in the living room because I thought that dude caught the Hail Mary pass. 11 years old, in hindsight, would have been a little early to take my own life, but Bill Cowher’s teams will do that in the playoffs. PLAYOFFS?!?!
June 27th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Has to be this year’s Giants vs. Cowboys playoff matchup. As a life-long lover of the Giants and absolute fuckng loather of the Cowboys, this made my season complete. Sure, the Super Bowl was fantastic, but having to listen to every commentator take Romo’s cock out of their mouths in order to explain how a 13 and 2 (I think) team lost to a team who really shouldn’t have been there in the first place had me doing a happy dance for the days and weeks to come. Fuck Romo. Fuck TO. Fuck the Double J. Maybe next year, ya bunch of felchers.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Fall 2005:
Santana Moss and a decrepit Mark Brunell Gang Rape Roy Williams on Monday Night football to complete an improbable 2 touchdown comback in the 4th quarter.
1) I’m a shade too young to have enjoyed the heyday of the 1st Gibbs run.
2) I fucking hate Roy Williams.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:28 am
September 25, 2006. Louisiana Superdome. Monday Night Football. Saints 23 – Falcons 3.
The first game back after K. I’ll remember that game till I die.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:30 am
December 1995. Dallas at Philadelphia. 4-and-1. Barry Switzer calls “Load Left” not once but TWICE. On the road. In a tie game. With two minutes to play. FROM HIS OWN 29 YARDLINE. The Eagles stuff it both times. It still makes me giggle like a school girl.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:30 am
October 24, 1993 Browns vs. Steelers
Eric Metcalf returns two punts for touchdowns. Kosar wears our jersey for the last time. Fuckin’ Modell.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:30 am
1981 NFC Championship (played in January 1982): SF 28 Dallas 27
We may have become smug douchebags during the 80s and 90s, but 49ers fans had suffered for a long time, particularly at the hands of Satan’s Team. Although everyone’s touchstone for the game is “The Catch,” the entire game was great. It was a well-played strategic match up, and the outcome was in doubt until Pillers’ fumble-causing sack of Danny White in the last 30 seconds. In fact, had Eric Wright not reached out and grabbed Drew Pearson at the last minute on that long pass, no one would ever remember The Catch.
That game was the start of an amazing 15 year period. Yankees fans are probably the only other fans in the past 20 years who have enjoyed anything similar.
I also had the very good fortune off watching that game with a group of obnoxious Dallas fans (”America’s team is back. You can’t beat us!”). When Jim Stuckey came up with White’s fumble, I had that sweet combination of orgasmic elation in watching my team prevail over its nemesis in a big game and the Schadenfreude of watching the life drain out of those cocksuckers. One of them even cried. My only regret now is that I did not lick his face. I bet those tears would have tasted sweet.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:32 am
1986 AFC Championship, Pats at Dolphins. The end of the Dolphin mystique.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:34 am
@ claude balls. That, sir, is some high-quality hate. Kudos to you, and kudos again.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am
super bowl XX – bears/patriots. i lived in new orleans then, going to school. in the days before the game, the bears fans seized the high ground of every bar balcony in the quarter, getting shitfaced and throwing anything they could get their hands on at passing patriots fans. this was before the game.
then the game happened. i’ve played and watched a lot of football. i’ve never again seen a football team at any level as physically and spiritually annihilated as the patriots. watching them trudge into the locker room at half time, you knew they’d have sold their souls if it meant avoiding a return to the field and resumption of the globally-broadcast sodomy the bears were inflicting on them. loved every minute of it.
after the game, the bears fans went back to the quarter and did the same stuff, just a lot more of it and even more shitfaced than before.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:35 am
any game during which I was getting blown while watching.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:36 am
1996 AFC Divisional Playoff: Jaguars 30, Broncos 27
Wasn’t the world a better place when John Elway was all about some epic fail?
June 27th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Super Bowl XXIII: 1/22/89, 49ers – Bengals.
Joe Montana is the pimp daddy of QBs.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:41 am
@claude balls
Mmmm, let me taste your tears, Cowboys fan! Mmm, your tears are so yummy ans sweet! Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness, mmm, yummy!
June 27th, 2008 at 9:42 am
The Steelers’ 2005 Wild-Card playoff vs. Cincy was fun because the Bengals couldn’t resist running their mouths about how good they were, and seemed poised to prove it, until Carson had a little Kimo-therapy performed on his knee. Ahh, to watch the hopes and dreams of a city go limp on one play.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:42 am
“even,” not “ever”
Can someone explain why I am not allowed to edit my comments?
June 27th, 2008 at 9:44 am
2008 Super Bowl. 18-1 bitches. How the hell has no one taken this???
June 27th, 2008 at 9:46 am
@Shinons…Super Bowl 2008 was up there for me, but I’ve hated Dallas long before hating the Patriots.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:46 am
06-07 NFC Championship Game – Bears over Saints.
Yes I know I am a terrible person because the Saints all came back from Katrina and stuff… but dammit I’m a Bears fan. And they hadn’t been to the Superbowl since I was 2.
Plus, to me, the “we made it to the Superbowl” was so much more intense because I knew we were going to get owned by whoever won the Pats-Colts game that immediately followed our own… which I proceeded to pass out from alcohol-related celebration during. Apparently that was a great game too (well played Naptown). I wouldn’t know.
@jujrok – don’t forget SuperBowl XX also brought us the superbowl shuffle. Awesome.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:47 am
As a Bills fan, the miracle comeback in the AFC wild card over the Oilers led by our back-up QB Franck Reich.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Bears vs. Browns 2001 – 27-21 OT victory. The luckiest fucking win in history. Down 21-7 with 14 seconds left, Shane Matthews hits Booker for a TD, the Bears recover the onside kick, and then Matthews hits James Allen, who makes an insane catch off of a deflection, on a 50 yard hail mary to force OT. Then, on the first play from scrimmage in OT, Mike Brown picks off a deflected pass and takes in for a TD for the second week in a row. Ri-goddamn-diculous!
June 27th, 2008 at 9:50 am
@ Mack10zie
that was the 2nd pick…
June 27th, 2008 at 9:50 am
@ Jackass, Shinons…
I have to agree. Hating the Cowboys is like hating Hitler. Hating the Patriots is like hating Ryan Seacrest. One just feels a little more valid and long-lasting.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Note to self: Buy a round for Tracer Bullet and Jackass.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:51 am
@ Pimp – I’ll remember that game forfreakingever too. Also, the home playoff beating of the Eagles that year that put us in the NFC Championship.
But, my absolute fave? Saints v. Rams 2000 Playoffs – our first playoff win ever.
The Rams were the Greatest Show on Turf and were beating the crap out of everyone. The Saints came out and put the beatdown on them for about 3 quarters. And, then, like the Saints always do…they let the Rams come back and come back and come back. Score was 31-28 when the Saints had to punt to the Rams with a few minutes left (just enough left for the Rams to score and put us out of our misery).
The rest is history: “Hakim drops the ball! Hakim drops the ball! Brian Milne may have fallen on it. It IS the New Orleans Saints football! There is a God!!”
Plus, I was younger, no kids, no responsibilities and I watched the game from a bar in Aruba where I was living. Life could NOT have been better on that day.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I’ll go with my favorite game I’ve ever been to.
The Browns-Bills Snow Game from this year. I left my house and it was 40 degrees and sunny, and by the time I started tailgating, it was a full blizzard and dropped about 20 degrees. The sweatshirt and jersey I had on froze to my skin.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:53 am
The first douchebag who says something about the “Music City Forward Lateral Bullshit Miracle” is going right to the top of my list of people to beat to death with a blunt object.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I’m sure people will assume I’m baiting Drew, but the 2000-01 NFC Championship Game, Giants 41 – Vikings 0. When a game is never in doubt, it makes it a lot easier on my heart. I enjoyed this game immensely. Plus I was there, which may have something to do with it.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I can tell you my LEAST favorite NFL game of all time bar none was the 1990 AFC Divisional Championship game, Raiders/Bengals, when Bo Jackson jammed his hip.
Ugh.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Along the same lines, I’m taking the NFC Divisional Playoff 06-07 – Bears over Seahawks.
1) much more exciting game than either the NFC Championship or Superbowl
2) I was visiting my Dad in Atlanta, and we went to this shitty sports bar where the bartender gave us free Jaeger shots every time the Bears scored. Plus a free beer at overtime and Car Bombs when they won the game. Awesome.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am
@Upstate Underdog:
Best game ever. And I didn’t even get to see it live (blacked out in the Buffalo market). I still have the VHS of the game my dad’s friend in Rochester gave us. Watching old Wegman’s commercials makes reliving the game that much better.
/Doin’ the Reich thing
June 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Super Bowl XXXII, Broncos-Packers. No question.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:57 am
91 SB – Skins score 35 points in the 2nd fucking quarter. Greatest. Quarter. Ever.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Jan. 11, 2004. NFC Divisional Playoffs, aka 4th-and-26. Green Bay was dominating this game, up 14-0 in the first quarter. A goal line stand (four plays from the one yard line with Mark Simoneau(!) and Jerome McDougle(!!!) stuffing Ahman Green on fourth down) just before halftime gave the Eagles some momentum. A later decision by Mike McCarthy to go out like a bitch and order a 21-yard field goal instead of going for it on fourth and goal made the game 17-14 late in the fourth quarter.
Then, after two incompletions, a five yard penalty and an 11-yard sack, with hope nearly snuffed out, McNabb finds Freddie Mitchell streaking open in the middle of the field. Nick Barnett is too short, Darren Sharper is too deep and Bhawoh Jue is too late. McNabb fires a rocket a little high and and a little behind Mitchell, who snaps it out of the air and dives to the ground before Jue can splatter him all over the turf. And a city fucking rejoiced!
Akers kicks the eventual game-winner, but the game is still doubt until the sainted Brett Farve launches a high, wobbly pass that Dawk fields like a punt. I’ve since seen a breakdown saying the interception wasn’t entirely Farve’s fault because the receiver broke off his route because the coverage and Farve didn’t see him because of the rush. I prefer to think Farve just cracked under pressure. Hee!
June 27th, 2008 at 10:00 am
The Giants-Packers NFC Championship game from this past year. Watching Favre go out (hopefully) with a dumbass forced INT made this Bears fan smile from ear to ear.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:00 am
92 NFC championship cowboys 49ers. ALVIN FREAKING HARPER
June 27th, 2008 at 10:01 am
how bout browns-ravens from this fall?
i’m talking about the kick off the “dawson bar”. a.k.a. the immaculate deflection. greatest fucking ending ever.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Super Bowl XXII – It was one of the greatest games I’ve ever seen the Redskins play
June 27th, 2008 at 10:04 am
@Tracer Bullet. I’m going to actually have to list that as my least favorite game. As a Giants fan living in Philadelphia, that game caused the most irritating two weeks of my life in the lead up to the Super Bowl, which included an oversized poster that covered almost one entire side of City Hall, as well as actual television commercials (in case you hadn’t heard that there was a Super Bowl, and that the Eagles had in fact gotten in) featuring ranting Eagles fans blabbering about their love of the team in an accent I can only describe as “South Philly Ignorant.” And then they lost. Losers.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:05 am
1958 NFL Championship Game
Sudden Death, Baltimore Colts beat the Giants.
First overtime game in NFL history.
Featured Vince Lombardi as Offensive Coordinator.
Known as the “Greatest Game Ever Played.”
I win.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Damn you, Tracer Bullet.
I’ll go with a dark horse — the Jan. 5, 2003 49ers-Giants playoff game. Until the past Super Bowl, I hated the Giants with a passion, so watching them go down after a huge 3rd quarter lead was very satisfying.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:06 am
@Jackass. I revel in your suffering, but we’ll always have the Cowboys.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Back when Ricky Williams took off damn near everyone in Florida was absolutely killing him for it. I, being a major pot head but lacking the world class athleticism that propelled Ricky, empathized with Williams dilemma. So when he came back and I went to a Titans game and watched the sticky Ricky bulldoze those sober athletes for 152 yards I knew in my heart the weed was to thank. Best. Game. Ever.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:07 am
@ST, one of those games you’ll never forget watching.
1990 AFC Champ game Bills 51, Raiders 3 was great just because most Raider fans I know are d-bags.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Since Naptown Drew (unsurprisingly) and porky1 stole both of my top picks – the John Candy drive in Super Bowl XXIII solidified my worship of Joe Montana along with my love of the NFL when I was 7 years old – I guess I’ll just go with Super Bowl XLI, because we finally won the fucking Super Bowl. Ugly as the game was, that was a pretty good time.
Also: Ape, you are a bastard. Fuck the Steelers. I hope Kordell “go out of bounds and illegally come back in to catch a TD” Stewart gets a flesh-eating virus.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Since SB XXXII is off the board, Either the ‘86 or ‘87 AFC Championship game. The Drive or The Fumble. Sure, I may have been about 7, and remember the crushing SB defeats more than those games themselves, but whatever.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Agreed with Tracer Bullet. For Eagles fans of my generation, 4th and 26 is fucking well IT. What a night, what a game.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am
since i can’t choose the Bills v Oilers comeback which is hands down the best game of football ever played, I will take my second favorite game that had absolutely zero percent of the drama.
1990 AFC Championship game. Bills 51 Raiders 3.
It was like watching adults lining up versus children. The K-gun was doing everything it wanted to do, floating these gorgeous bombs in the snow to lofton and reed. We have a VHS tape of the Bills highlights that year and I can still remember the NFL Films music for that game. awesome.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Also, remember the Monday Night game on Christmas: Brady vs A.J. Feely? And Feely won it with a miraculous fourth quarter drive? Brady throwing an interception from his ass? I WAS THERE. I’ve savored that Dolphin memory for years, it is the only one that doesn’t include me apologizing for Ricky.
Fuck Nick Saban!
June 27th, 2008 at 10:11 am
@ Tracer Bullet. Yes, sir, we will. Speaking of which, I don’t think I’ve ever been prouder of Philly fans than that glorious day when Michael Irvin suffered a career-ending injury in Philadelphia and they literally laughed him off the field. Best day of my life.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am
2001 superbowl.
Sorry.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Jan. 6, 2007. Cowboys at Seahawks. Romo botches the snap, then weeps on the field like a small child who’s been roughed up by the neighborhood bullies. I enjoyed watching that at least as much I enjoyed getting my first blowjob.
Ah, hating the Cowboys is like hitting a grand slam, throwing a touchdown, fucking two supermodels, driving a race car, water skiing while wearing a tuxedo and swilling a gin and tonic and shooting a terrorist in the face ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Oh my God I almost forgot about that. Didn’t Romo cry? I couldnt tell because I myself was crying from laughing so hard.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Next pick: 2004-05 NFC Championship Game.
Eagles 27, Falcons 10.
It’s 17 degrees outside, the Falcons get shut out in the second half, the Eagles finally reach a Super Bowl after choking 3 straight years, and Michael Vick goes home and kills a puppy.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Another cowboys great vitory:
The 94 Season Finale against the Giants when Emmitts shoulder was seperated but he continued to play and we won in OT 16-13
June 27th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Cowboys Haters can eat a fat dick.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:15 am
@phony gwynn
fuck you. why don’t you just stab me in the neck while you’re at it?
June 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Tracer Bullet/Jackass: yeah the Romo game was fantastic. The Cowboys now haven’t won a playoff game in 12 years…
June 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Also, given that 4th and 26 is off the table, my pick is the Eagles beating the Lions 58-37 in the 1995 wild card game. For some reason, I can’t remember why, I was in my car all day and listened to the whole game on the radio and Merrill Reese was going BERSERK. I’d never really paid a ton of attention to the team before but Merrill’s enthusiasm that day was what really made me a lifelong Eagles fan.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
September 23, 2001–Bye Bye Drew. Sorry about the spleen, but the world got: TOMMY FAWKIN BRADY.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am
1982 AFC Divisional Playoff Game –
Miami loses to the Chargers, after rallying back to go into overtime down 24-0. Kellen Winslow being awesome.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Ben, I prefer to say they haven’t won a playoff game this millennium.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am
@BigTravATX. Eating big fat dick would still be less uncomfortable than botching a snap to lose the biggest game of your career on national TV. And then crying.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Bills-Cowboys Monday Night game last year (2007). I don’t go to many Bills games; I really could care less. But I got a free ticket through work and my best friend’s brother is a huge Dallas fan and came up from Virginia. We tailgated for about 12 hours then watched a great game (yes, even if the Bills’ coaching staff is inept and they blew a game they should have won) in one of the best sporting atmospheres I’ve ever been in (2nd only behind Game 6 of the 2006 NHL ECF).
June 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am
all my favortie games are pickecd. Bills vs Oilers, Bills 51-3 (my first live game in attendance as a child) and BIG SKINNY im with ya ill help you beat the daylights outta anyone mentioning the music city debacle!
my pick- the monday night game a few years back after Brett Farve’s father died. Ive never been more moved by a personal performance in the eyes of personal conflict before. One of the many things i will miss with #4 retired. What a night though…
June 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am
look at all the bills fans.. wow were coming deep today
June 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Superbowls XXV-XXVIII. Possibly the only reason(s) why anyone outside of Western New York/Southern Ontario has ever heard of Buffalo. Hey, and publicity is good publicity, right?
June 27th, 2008 at 10:22 am
1998-99 NFC Championship Falcons vs. Vikings, at Minn
Falcons had never been to a Super Bowl, and although they stunk up the joint in Miami due to Eugene Robinson trying to get a blow job from an undercover cop the night before the Game, the NFC Championship game was great.
The Falcons were serious underdogs, with Chris Chandler and his bruised vag at QB. Gary Anderson (who had been perfect for 20 years or something) misses a chip shot. Falcons take it to overtime and win on a Morten Andersen FG.
Andersen>Anderson
June 27th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Nov. 27, 2002. Eagles crush the Cardinals 38-14 as McNabb throws four TDs while playing on a BROKEN FUCKING ANKLE. I’ve broken an ankle. Walking was impossible. Putting weight on it was impossible. #5 DOESN’T MISS A SINGLE PLAY, going 20-25 for 255 and no INTs on the day. Certainly the toughest performance I’ve ever witnessed.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Jackass I didnt know you were such an expert on eating dick. figures…
June 27th, 2008 at 10:23 am
@tracer bullet: and they won’t again this year, either. ugly you can change; stupid’s forever. this is a problem for the cowboys because their ownership, front office, and on-field leadership is bulging with imbecilic fuckups. may double j know nothing but shame & disappointment, that insipid cumstain of a man.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:23 am
The Bears-Cardinals “Crown Their Ass” game of 2006. I still don’t know how the fuck the Bears won the game.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:24 am
1990 AFC Championship – Bills 51, Raiders 3. No explanation necessary, but if I must: Raider fans are the worst. If the Giants didn’t send coke-covered hookers to the Bills’ hotel rooms, things may have turned out very different.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:24 am
DHSC: good one
June 27th, 2008 at 10:24 am
91 NFC Championship game, Giants 15 Niners 14. The second time in a playoff game against the Giants that Joe Montana had to be peeled off the field.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:25 am
The Colts comeback over the Bucs in 2003. The Colts scoring 28 fourth quarter points, with 21 unanswered in the last 4 minutes to tie the game. Sure, the Colts were helped out by a bogus penalty on a punt. Additionally, Keyshawn was mic’d up and called out MarHar, who then proceeded to go catch 11 passes for 176 yards and 2 TDs.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:26 am
-sorry, the bogus penalty was on a missed FG, not a punt
June 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Colts-Pats, week 9, 2005. First time since the two teams were the perennial AFC East losers that we beat the Pats in Foxboro. And we didn’t just beat them, we fucking dominated. It was extremely satisfying.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am
maybe the hatred for the mannings was outweighed by the hatred of the pats when peyton led the comeback in the AFC champ. game? that was awesome.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Titans VS Texans In Houston 2006 Vince Young burns down the house in OT
June 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am
The Tuck Game…only because I was watching it in a strip club. Nothing like a whole club full of guys ignoring naked chicks to watch a football game. Even the strippers were watching the end of that one though.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:28 am
The ‘84 Super Bowl, Dolphins/49ers when Ray “Laces Up” Finkle missed the winning FG.
Wait, that’s how it really happened, right?
June 27th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I mean. Obviously my top 5 — fuck it, top 10 — would all come from 2001 and involve both snow and Adam Vinatieri.
I’ll eschew the obvious, and draft the NFC Wildcard game win over the Cowboys in 1999. Randy Moss had like 150 yards in that game or something… I’d been obsessing over him for 2 years (I actually owned a Moss Vikings shirt), and that game was just an unreal performance. That game was the first thing I thought of when I found out we were signing him this year. Shit was just awesome.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Game 1 of 2003. Bills 31, Patriots 0. I think that’s the last time the Bills beat NE.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Love seeing all the great Eagles games, but one of my absolute favorites was just two years ago. T.O.’s first game back with Dallas, just a couple weeks after the overdose. McNabb and Co. put up big plays all over the field, including a flea flicker to Reggie Brown, I think. But with their backs against the wall, Lito picks off Bledsoe in the end zone and runs it ALLLLLLLLLLL the way back while the stadium goes bonkers. I was in Pittsburgh watching the game and I took off running out the door of the bar and down the street screaming before Lito even scored. Kinda makes me wanna play some Boz Scaggs.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Is every single Bills fan in the world on KSK today?
June 27th, 2008 at 10:31 am
/I can only think of Bills games right now for some reason.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:31 am
January 4th, 2003. AFC Wildcard Playoff Round
Jets vs Colts
Final score:
Jets: 41 Colts: 00
Comming off of a thrilling win to clinch the AFC East (the last time a team without a douchbag named brady won that division) the Jets absolutly dominiated Peyton’s team. It was the last time they’ve been shutout in the regular season or playoffs.
The jets would go on to get thier asses handed to them in the next round but for that night we were gods on the field.
By contrast the worst game ever for a jets fan would have to be two years later in Pittsburg. 2 fucking missed field goals at the end of regulation. If I ever meet Doug Brian, I’m punching him the face. The only time I actually shed tears as an adult.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:31 am
1998 NFC Championship Game – Falcons 30/Vikings 27
The one time my dogshit franchise actually stepped up and punched a heavy favorite in the mouth. Minny had a monster team that year. 23-27 point victories were the norm and Lupica predicted a 21 point victory for the Vikes on “The Sports Reporters” 3 hours before kickoff.
Bless Jamal Anderson, over 115 yards rushing in a gameplan designed to tick minutes off of the clock and exhaust the Vikings defense.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:32 am
2004 preseason. Ravens at Eagles. First play of the game, McNabb goes up top to Owens for an 81-yard TD. That’s how you do it; put muthafuckas on notice, then spend the year putting a boot to just about every ass you find.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:32 am
See BigTravATX, that just hurts my feelings. Oh hey TracerBullet let’s not forget about the 2007 Eagles/Cowboys game when Westbrook downed the ball on the 2 yard line instead of taking the ball in for a TD, just to make it impossible for the Cowboys to catch up. I know it was just good strategy, but it also made for a great “Fuck you.”
June 27th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Best game ever? No doubt it was that game between the windshield of some old lady’s cadillac and Ben Roethlisberger’s face. That windshield should have gone to the Pro Bowl that year.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:34 am
I’ll take Superbowl XVIII: Raiders 38 – Redskins 9. It was the game where my Raiders loyalty was birthed in a cauldron of seething Redskins hatred. Can’t wait until Al Davis dies and they stop sucking.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:34 am
The House of Pain game: Eagles 13, Oilers 6. That may have been one of the drunkest monday nights of my life. “They brought the house, we brought the pain.” That defense was the best we ever had, and that might have been the best game they ever played. Waters, Hopkins and Joyner were killing people all night.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Great pick, MDZ. That was definitely a highlight of my first year of law school.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Texans-Cowboys, September 8, 2002. The Texans first real game, and they shame the Cowboys 19-10.
Special because it’s their first game, but it also gave Texan fans hope that the team won’t suck too hard in its first season and that franchise QB David Carr will actually have a good career. Obviously, this game was a bit misleading. But that feeling I had when that game over is one I still remember today.
p.s. I fucking hate the Cowboys.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:37 am
@85 Great, great choice. The whole time I was thinking, “They aren’t really going to let Drew Fucking Bledsoe beat them on a last-minute comeback, are they?” There’s a YouTube video of that play shot by a guy in the stands. There’s a collective silence as Bledsoe throws, then the roar is absolutely deafening when Sheppard jumps the route. Absolutely fantastic.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:37 am
@ Blaytor: I was pretty young then, but that is one of my earliest football memories. I just remember my dad rocking back and forth laughing on the couch every time some poor sap got demolished. This is why, even though I don’t remember much of his time there, Buddy Ryan is an untouchable in my book.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Westbrook… that slick fuck….
2007 Cowboys, Eagles, IN PHILLY, Capt. Terrel has 10 catches for 174 yards beating the Iggles 38-17.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:37 am
@Zack:
The problem is, Al Davis has been dead for 5 years, but no one in the organization has the balls to walk up to him and tell him.
June 27th, 2008 at 10:38 am
@5823111
It was a Chrysler, and it didn’t do a good job of finishing the play, as Roethlisberger lived. Cadillac might have taken care of business.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Ok. I was all objective and shit in my last pick. Here we go with some homerism: Superbowl XXXIX, baby. Got nothing against the Iggles, but Deion Branch is a gat damn grade-A USDA-certified bad-ass motherfucker. Lamest half-time show ever, though.
Thank goodness the site is back, btw… I actually got WORK done in there while it was down. Scary!
June 27th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I would pick Super Bowl XIX, when Montana & company destroyed Dan Marino and the Dolphins, but I was only 3 years old and can’t actually remember seeing it. Instead, I’ll take Super Bowl XXIV, where Montana earned his third MVP and fourth SB victory in absolutely dominating fashion over the Broncos. It also inspired the single greatest birthday gift I have ever received – an authentic Montana 49ers jersey later that year when I turned 9.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:45 am
The Denver-Cleveland Fumble game is the best game I have ever watched, except for the ending.
That game had everything, the Browns getting blown out early, an amazing comeback, one bad defensive play in the fourth quarter that would haunt them, and an unbeliveable tragic ending.
Every time it is on ESPN classic I can’t turn away. It is a better game than the Drive Game from the year before, that I watched from the end zone as John Elway kept getting more distant as he led the drive to the dawg pound.
As a Browns fan it is fitting that my favorite game is a loss. Too few big wins to choose from.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:45 am
@make it snow:
Super Bowl XXXII, Broncos-Packers. No question.
Dang. I was going to take that. As a Broncos homer since the first Super Bowl blowout in ‘77, I guess I’ll have to take The Drive. Or The Fumble. Sure, they both led to yet more Super Bowl blowouts, but you take what you can get.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Phony Gwynn:
“Since SB XXXII is off the board, Either the ‘86 or ‘87 AFC Championship game. The Drive or The Fumble. Sure, I may have been about 7, and remember the crushing SB defeats more than those games themselves, but whatever.”
Dang again. Didn’t read down far enough.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Nov. 10, 2004. The Eagles thrash the Cowboys on MNF in Dallas. From the New York Times, “By the end of a cool Monday night at Texas Stadium, the Philadelphia Eagles exposed the Cowboys as a shell of a football team, throttling them in a 49-21 victory that only heightened speculation that Parcells’s tenure as the Dallas coach may be nearing an end.”
June 27th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Apologies to Drew and to Pats haters, but I have to take 1994 Pats/Vikings. Pats down 20-0 in the first half, come back to win 26-20 in OT. Bledsoe goes 45-70 for 426 and 3 TD’s, the completion and attempts record still standing today. Pats go on to win final 7 games of the season, only to get bounced by BB & the Browns in the first round of the playoffs.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:52 am
How about the 2000 season game where LaVar Arrington gave Troy Aikman his 3,465th concussion to send his ass into retirement.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Super Bowl XXXIV Titans vs Rams. Not a fan of either team, but got a free ticket and it was a freaking great game.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Seahawk 24, Giants 21 in OT on November 27th 2005.
Feely misses 3 FGs (all of which would have ended the game), Shockey acts like an asshole giving rise to a great KSK avatar, and the Seahawks’ loud ass crowd causes the most penalty minutes in Giants history in route to a weird victory that marched them towards the Super Bowl.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:56 am
The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional football, later to be known as Super Bowl I, played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Green Bay Packers (14-2) scored 3 second-half touchdowns en route to a 35–10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs (12-3-1). Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr earned the first Super Bowl MVP in NFL history by throwing 16 of 23 for 250 yards and two touchdowns, with 1 interception.
Ah, I remember it well… K, no I don’t, I Googled that shit. I don’t remember any football games. Just wanted to contribute.
Bart Starr is a pretty good name for a quarterback.
I can hate on the Cowboys, too, if you want.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
@dick_gozinia
Is that the game where Shockey was doing that pointing shit? I really hope the Giants wise up and give Kevin Boss more playing time.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
85 -
Those were great teams and the defense was just stupidly good. But part of me blames Buddy for not caring enough about the offense. That team should have one at least two superbowls. We get so bent today about not having receivers or whatever, but that team had enough on offense to win, Buddy just didn’t give a shit.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
November 12, 1990: “The Body Bag Game”
Eagles vs. Redskins
8 injured Redskins.
Brian Mitchell ending the game at QB.
3 defensive touchdowns in one of the most dominant physical performance by a defense ever.
28-14 Eagles win
The fight in the stands at the Vet between Wes Hopkins’ wife and his girlfriend was physically more competitive.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
2003 AFC Wild Card Game – Steelers-Browns
Lived in Pittsburgh my whole life but went to college in Cleveland at the time. I was at the game on the verge of vomiting in the stands with the thought of dealing with a loss for the whole year. Coming back from being down 17 points in the 4th quarter was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen. I’ve never enjoyed a victory(even the Super Bowl win in 2005) more than that one.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
@johndewar Beat ya’ to it, homeboy. That was the #3 pick.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Fuck it, I’ll take the game Ape alluded to, Super Bowl XL.
Sure the game itself sucked, but for pure joy nothing beats the feeling of watching Faneca pull and flatten a dude and then Willie Parker taking it to the house.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
2006 Season (America’s Team II coming out party):
MNF – Dallas v. Saints
People still questioning if the Saints were for real (turns out they were…until they went up north to Chicago for the NFC Championship and got burned by the Sex Cannon of all people) and the Saints kicked the shit out of Dallas 42-17. I think our fullback, Mike Karney, scored 3 TDs.
My second favorite game evAH.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Bears vs Cardilals 1979. Last game of the regular season. The Bears need to win by something like 30 points to clinch the wild card. I don’t remember the score, but they won by like 35. The defense was stiffling. OJ Anderson wound up with maybe 40 yards. Walter Payton went nuts for around 170 and locked up the rushing title. So we got playoffs and the rushing title in one game. I was in heaven.
It almost makes up for the pummeling we tok from the Eagles in the wild card game.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
1993 Vikings-packers in Milwaukee. Freezing out. I got so much shit from packer fans going into the game for having Viking stuff on. Sat right behind Cris Carter’s kids. He caught a touchdown in the stupid endzone that went into the stands and gave them the ball. Vikings won. Every Viking fan there found me on the way out. Went home and failed my final the next day. Good times.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Unless I totally fucked up the Ctrl+F on this one (always a distinct possibility), it looks like Super Bowl XLII hasn’t been taken yet, meaning I’m taking Super Bowl XLII when the Giants stomped out the Pats. The game means so much to me for so many reasons; because I’ve been a Giants fan my whole life, because I hate Boston to the point I want to see terrorists nuke the shit out of it, because of what the Pats were playing for, because my team was the one to keep the Pats from making history (and the fashion in which they did it), and because I was there to see it in person. The happiest moment of my life to this point has probably been singing Sinatra’s “New York, New York” with a bunch of complete strangers in University of Phoenix stadium after the game. I was totally amped watching the highlights afterwards, and all the emotions from seeing the game in person came back to me. I got the Giants ‘Road to Super Bowl XLII’ DVD with the complete uncut broadcasts of all their playoff games a few weeks back, but I haven’t had a chance to sit down and watch the Super Bowl over again – I’m sure when I do, I’ll straight up lose my shit reliving the euphoria of February 3…
June 27th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Rocco- do you remember the playoff game in cleveland when Ronnie Harmon dropped the ball in the endzone at the end of the game and Bill Polian told him in the locker room to clean out his locker when they got back to buffalo. Two yrs later norwood misses a kick and we celebrated him as if he made it.
buffalo is such a racist town… gotta love it.
next choice- opening game 1992 Bills vs Dolphins. Bills win in a last second touchdown dive by Jim Kelly… i think my entire neighborhood was in the streets yelling happily after that play.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
MUSIC CITY MIRACLE
June 27th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
The Bounty Bowl. Thanksgiving 1989. Iggles 27, Cowboys 0.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
@TracerBullet: Damn! How’d I miss that……
June 27th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
@TBTIWAWB: I have no recollection of that, senator. (I also don’t recall celebrating Norwood, but I’ll take your word for it.)
@KDIZZLE: You just had to, didn’t you?
June 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Oct. 19, 2003
Eagles 14 Giants 10
Brian Westbrook returns a punt 84 yards with just over a minute to play to bring the Eagles back from the dead and allows me and 2 buddies to drink for free for the rest of the day as a result of the bet we had with the 5 Giant fans we were with who ALL but were declaring victory.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Don’t remember the year or the score and I’m not a fan of the Jets.
However, I remember specifically Keyshawn Johnson talking boatloads of trash at the Jets the weak prior to his first game back in New York.
He singled out Wayne Chrebet the entire week. Called Chrebet a racist, taunted his talent and skills and said he was worthless.
The Jets pounded the Bucs that week. Chrebet scored two touchdowns, Keyshawn had none and after the game it’s rumored that Chrebet took a shit in a grocery bag and presented it to Keyshawn.
I hope its true.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
*week
June 27th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Tempted to make another homer pick here, but instead I’ll go with the River City Relay game — Saints-Jaguars in ‘03. One of the greatest last-second plays in NFL history… and then Carney blows it by missing the extra point. Sad, and yet hilarious at the same time.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Ravens over Giants in the Super Bowl…game itself was a rout, but two great things happened:
1) A team from NY or Boston lost
2) I cashed my preseason “Ravens win the Super Bowl” 35:1 ticket
June 27th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Dammit, Jefferson Short Bus! That was going to be my next pick.
I’ll take Bounty Bowl II. The first one was a more solid prime time thrashing, but the second one featured a snowball-throwing mayor, debris raining down on Jimmy Johnson (who later called the fans “thugs”), snowballs thrown at Terry Bradshaw and Uncle Verne in the broadcast booth, wanted posters and a 20-10 Eagles victory makes this the funnier of the two.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Music City Miracle GAME OVER
June 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I gotta go with the 2007 NFC Championship Game, when the Bears beat the Saints to go to the Super Bowl. I was watching at a sports bar with my girl-of-the-week, and we had a bet that if the Bears won, she had to go to the tittie bar with me. (If they lost, I had to take her to see Celine Dion in Vegas, so it was a big deal).
After Reggie Bush scored like a 90-yard TD, and taunted Urlacher going into the endzone, I knew it was over and started asking the waitress for singles.
Bears win, she gets all worked up at the nudie bar, and we end up having some fantastic sex the rest of the night.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Superbowl 3. FTW. Not a great game, but matters more than any professional game ever played.
yoink.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
If I had to rank my top 5…
1) 2006 AFC Championship Game – Nothing sweeter than the Pats coughing up 35 second half points and Brady throwing the back breaking interception with a minute left on the clock.
2) Super Bowl XLI. Manning and Co. win their first Super Bowl, in the rain, against the Bears. That shut up every idiot Chicagoan I knew, and it was awesome.
3) Super Bowl XLII. Brady and the Pats eat a dick in the Super Bowl against Manning’s little brother. The only way it could have been more awesome is if it were Peyton and the Colts instead of Eli and the Giants.
4) Colts@Pats, November 7th 2005 – Colts march into Foxboro and smack the Pats in the mouth. First time I won money on a football game.
5) Pats@Colts, November 5th 2006. Colts go back to Foxboro, smack Pats in the mouth again. This set the stage for the AFC Championship game. And it was awesome.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
November 28th, 2004 – Invesco Field – Raiders at Broncos
Denver was trailing San Diego and needed to beat the lowly Raiders to stay in the race for the playoffs. Denver, full of cock(iness), blows an 11 point lead in blizzard like conditions and lets that bag of shit Kerry Collins connect to that other bag of shit Porter for the go-ahead touchdown.
As I stood in the stands, watching Plummer lead the Donks down the field in the final minute to get into field goal range, I thought to myself “will I ever get to see a Raider victory at Invesco?”. My dreams were soon realized as Langston Walker blocks the last minute field goal and sends the crowd into a stunned silence… except for me and a hardy group of the Raider Nation.
I have many pictures of that day. If it wasn’t so cold I probably would have gotten my ass kicked in the concourse.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
@ jackass – Oh yeah, that’s the game where Shockey pointed to the camera and danced while Feely shanked a chip shot FG in OT for the win. Classic.
If I had a runner-up pick to that game, I’d pick The Fog Bowl.
New Years Eve 1988, Bears v. Eagles (not emo, yet) in the playoffs and I’m 11 yrs old watching this game with my whole family. You couldn’t see shit, Terry Bradshaw bitched the whole game, Randall (I still hate you) Cunningham throws for 400 yards but no TDs and the Bears squeak out the victory in one of the weirdest games in NFL history.
I also loved the Bills – Oilers playoff game where Frank (who?) Reich led the Bills in the biggest 2nd half comeback in history. But, Mack10zie already got that one.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
@SOS: I cashed my 60:1 Giants NFC Champions futures bet that year. God do I love to gamble.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
/No, I think it was 12-1. I don’t know. But I won!
June 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
For my second pick, I’m taking one of the most unwatchable games in NFL history – the Raiders vs. the Chargers on October 11, 1998. The Raiders’ Leo Araguz set a modern-era record for the most punts in a game (16), and the two teams combined for a staggering total of 27 punts – that’s one punt for ever 2:14 of game time. San Diego was winning 6-0 until the final 90 seconds, when James Jett caught a 66-yard touchdown pass and the Raiders stole the game.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
@Rocco: I also had the Vikings at 35:1 the year Gary Fucking Andersen missed against the Falcons. But I think this post is about “games we like” as opposed to “games that Satan had a hand in”. And yes, gambling = good.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
October 17th, 1994. Kansas City Chiefs versus the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football. Elliot kicks a field goal with 4 minutes left to give the Chiefs the lead. Broncos drive, but Simien forces Sharpe to fumble and the Chiefs recover with less than three minutes to play. On the very next play Ted Washington strips Marcus Allen and the Broncos get the ball back, allowing Elway to run in for the go ahead score with 90 seconds left on the clock. Montana then orchestrates the last great comeback of his career, driving 75 yards and hitting Willie Davis in the end zone with 8 seconds left.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
“The Santana Moss Game” – 2005(I think)
The Redskins got absolutely hammered by Dallas for 58 minutes. Then Santana Moss caught two hail mary passes within the two minute warning to come back and beat the Cowboys in the fourth quarter.
This game was especially sweet because a kid in my dorm was a huge Dallas fan/douchenozzle and he was literally clapping the entire game.
After the game he drowned his sorrows in a strawberry f’ing daquiri.
I still hate that guy and I loved the expression on his face when Brunell tossed those bombs.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
@ Son of Spam:
I think we should have another draft of “least favorite NFL games”.
I mostly just want to see if there would be a spike in the number of suicides in the greater Buffalo area…
June 27th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Cowboys mudhole stomping of the Bills (the first time) in the Super Bowl (Pasadena, CA). I just loved watching the hype – especially psycho Bills fan on YouTube, then seeing the Bills get their hearts ripped out. First Kelly, then Thurman, then their defense.
/ALL FUCKING COWBOY HATERS CAN FUCKING HANG
June 27th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Bronocs/Browns AFC Title Game, Part II (”The Fumble”)
There has never been a more dizzying roller coaster of emotions, no matter which side you were on. Seemingly insurmountable Bronco lead, at home no less. Almost entirely squandered, Browns on the verge of karmic vengeance for “The Drive.” Then, one of Denver’s infamous ineffective waiver-wire CBs (Bronco fans during the 80s remember these well), knowing that he can’t tackle Earnest Byner, pushes all in and goes for the strip. And GETS IT. I didn’t even know what happened live, I was 13 and swearing loudly at the TV, watching Byner seemingly ready to walk in for the winning TD. All of a sudden the Bronco defenders are going wild, and the crowd catches on…then the announcers. Broncos’ ball, game over. Wow.
The best Christmas present the ESPN family of networks ever gave me was the 2-hour retrospective on this game, complete with loads of NBC footage and interviews with the key players on both sides (even Marty!). I left a party early sick with a stomach bug, and got to sit on my ass and relive that day. Fucking fantastic.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
well since i can’t pick the Bears-Saints NFC Championsip game, my personal super bowl because f the saints that year and their entire bandwagon, I will go with the game that brought the sexy back.(cue the music) On a frigid October night in Chicago where the wind chill was a bone chilling -13 and the (terrible) Falcons helmed by a (a terrible) Michael Vick were totally ineffective against a crushing Bears defense. Led by an equally pathetic Kyle Orton, the Chicago offense was stagnant and unable to put points on the board. Wanting a change, the Chicago fans knew what they’re only hope was . . . the Sex Cannon, the stadium was electric and I think I heard choruses of angels sing. The offense jumped to life when Sexy completed the first non-screen pass Bears fans had seen in a year and a half. Chicago had seen the light and and thus the journey to Super Bowl XLI started when a gloved Rex Grossman trotted out on to a frozen Soldier Field. (only to have the Bears defense crap the bed in the Super Bowl)
/reflects on how memories can be so romanticized
June 27th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
misspelled my name, and have a few grammatical errors. oh well thats what happens when you do this stuff at work
June 27th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
The then-Phoenix Cardinals against the San Francisco 49ers, Nov. 6, 1988. Cardinals won 24-23. Being born and raised in AZ and 11 years old, this was my first NFL game and the Cards first season in AZ. The 49ers had a 23-0 third-quarter lead. With 1:27 left, Neil Lomax took the Cards 66 yards in seven plays, tossing a nine-yard touchdown to Green with three seconds left. The game promised great things to come for the Cards. . .
Oh wait, they were the Cardinals. . . Lomax also suffered what turned out to be a season-ending hip injury, and the Cards’ playoff hopes died with it. And a lifetime of fan misery ensues. . .
June 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
2001, week 3, the 0-2 Pats coming off a 5-11 season, universally picked to finish last in their division, have lost Drew Bledsoe indefinitely and must start unknown 6th round pick Tom Brady against the 2-0 Colts who are looking like an offensive Juggernaut. I remember one pre-game commentator ask “Who can stop this offense?”
What do they do on the first play? Throw a 70 yard bomb to David Patton for a touchdown. The Colts didn’t score until late in the 3rd quarter when the Pats were up 23 points. Final 44-13, and I was officially a football fan.
See, I didn’t watch much football before this game. The Pats were in the same league as the Cardinals, Bengals, Lions and Browns as perennially losing teams with a tradition of failure. To watch them deliver a junk-shot to pretty boy Peyton Manning and demolish a highly touted team was beautiful. This game really sparked the team. They had to claw their way back to .500 on last minute comebacks and long field goals all season. Hate on them all you want after they won their 3rd Superbowl and became one of the most verbally fellated teams in sports, but the 2001 Pats were classic underdogs, coming back again and again against incredible odds. All football movies (and FNL) look trite after this season, because you couldn’t script a better Cinderella story for the NFL. They tried with the Giants last year, handing them the championship against the undefeated team, but they only got as close as having Eli in a dress getting bent over by Roger Goodell.
Oh, and they did it to the Colts again just a few weeks later. Classic.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Not necessarily a favorite, but one that’s well-remembered by Eagles fans:
The Fog Bowl.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
2003, Patriots @ Broncos. Belichek takes an intentional safety to put the Pats down 3, free kick, Broncos get crappy field position, then Brady leads NE to the winning TD.
A few weeks later, Coughlin tries the same thing against the Bucs but it doesn’t work; margin of Bucs victory goes from 4 to 6 and I had the Giants +5. Screw you then, and screw you now, Couglin!
June 27th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
This is too hard. But I probably loved the 49ers/Cowboys battles the most.
June 27th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
@kyle orton’s out of work mach3
/golf clap
And for some Cowboy hate. The 85 Bears pummelling the Cowpukes 44-0. Dallas was totally humiliated.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I’d like to remind my fellow Bills fans of the game that started it all:
1990 – Week 4: Bills 29, Broncos 28
Bills score 3 TDs (blocked FG return, INT return, rush TD after forcing a fumble) in 77 seconds. That’s when I realized something was going on here.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
See, I didn’t watch much football before this game.
Hey, lowguppy, how about you NOT go ahead and fulfill the lamest, most negative stereotypes of Patriots fans? No one who didn’t live and die with the Bledsoe Pats deserves the glory of 2001. In summary: get lost.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
@ kozemp -
Sorry brother, but the Fog Bowl went off the board a little while ago.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
rocco- i didnt celebrate him either, but you have to remember the rally in front of city hall where the fans were chanting his name the whole time… until he finally came out from behind the rest of the players and everyone started cheering him… i wanted to see a sniper pop out from the Cellino and Barnes offices and shoot his f***in head off his shoulders… but hey whatever…
i cant beleive you dont remember the Ronnie Harmon incident… Jim Kelly told him to not even get on the bus to get back to Buffalo.
anyhow…
June 27th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
@jackin4beats
Well from the looks of things there will be a shitload of people hanging.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
@Jackass: Right you are – eliminate ‘em from the gene pool is what I say.
How about that game when the Giants lost to the Eagles when Herm Edwards ran back a botched punt for a TD? That should bring back great memories for Giants fans. God, can’t believe Herm is so clueless now.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Well fortunately for us that Super Bowl win is a whole lot fresher in our minds so I think we’ll be OK.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
I’m surprised that no Vikings lovers / Eli Manning haters have taken last year’s game where he threw three pick-6’s.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
when the browns came back in 99, they lost their first 6 or 8 games, then went into the superdome, and won on a tim couch hail mary to kevin johnson. god damn did they suck.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
1992 AFC Divisional Playoffs Broncos-Oilers. Broncos down 24-23 with 1:58 to go and the ball on their own one and a half yard line. Elway converts not one but TWO fourth downs to lead the Broncos into field goal range and Treadwell barely puts it in.
June 27th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
The 1980-81 NFC Championship game. Cowboys suck. (So do the Raiders.)
June 27th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Since everything good that’s ever happened to the Saints has already been taken, I’ll go with the first Saints win I can remember: Sept. 23, 1990 – Saints 28, Phoenix Cards 7. It’s not significant in any way, but when you’re a Saints fan, you take what you can get.
@Kyle Orton’s out of work mach3: Screw the Bears. I always liked them growing up… until your classless fan base came out with the “finishing what Katrina started” shit. I laughed the entire time the Colts scored and every time Sexy Rexy screwed something (else) up. New Orleanian Peyton Manning stuck it to ya, babe. Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it?
June 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
@Deuce McAllister’s ACL:
What the fuck are you talking about? I don’t remember any Bears fans talking shit about Katrina, and it certainly wouldn’t be fair to say the whole fan base was saying shit like that.
I must admit though, it was incredibly satisfying to kick the shit out of everybody’s media darling in that game. The fellating of all things Saints had gotten incredibly tiresome, and after 90% of the talking heads on TV picked the Saints to win, that made it even fucking sweeter to demolish them. And Reggie Bush can eat a bag of dicks for his taunting and dancing in the endzone when he was still losing. Good one dipshit!
June 27th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I’d be pissed at missing the lion’s share of htis draft if it weren’t full of so much awesome and win from my fellow Eagles fans. SALUTE!
Since I can’t think of anymore Eagles games (@Tracer Bullet… the ‘95 Emmitt Smith game was going to be my pick), how about this for some Cowboys shame…
1/2/99 @ Texas Stadium: Cards 20, Cowgirls 7… Dallas loses to a team led by one of the statistically worst quarterbacks in history in their only playoff victory in the last 60 years
YEEHAAAAH HOW ‘BOUT THEM COWBOYS?
June 27th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
@deuce
as with any sports fan base you got the low budget meatballs, but i have to say it was more the cindarella story thing, and that they were the darlings of the nfl, hence the use of bandwagon and not fans. Really you could put any darling team in the same spot, it just happened to be the saints that year. add to that a dislike for reggie bush (seeing him get laid out in the eagles games was awesome) and that’s what happens. People liked seeing romo lose the seahawks game for the same reasons. And really how many people cared about the saints before that year, so for that game and season the bandwagon was full.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
@deuce
and if you didn’t notice that game has been mentioned about 3 times before all saying the same thing.
@Devin hester’s speech coach – i was typing mine and when i refreshed you beat me to it.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Any Skins fan old enough will remember Tom Landry yelling, “No Danny, No!”
Tom Landry’s hat, Roger Staubach… the beginnings of white hot hate
June 27th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
@FutureMrs.:
1. Way to bring the hate. I would amend it to “Anyone who didn’t live and die with the Grogan/Stanley/Cunningham/Hannah Pats” but professes to be a huge Pats fan now can die in a fire. But I’m old.
2. I picked that game with my second pick. And I feel bad for Drew. But he’s rich as shit and never has to talk to Bill Parcells or the media for the rest of time. Which must be nice.
Last pick: Superbowl 38. Tommy’s 2nd Superbowl winning drive, Adam V’s 2nd Superbowl winning kick. Nice work there John Kasay. How to gack.
June 27th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I’m getting 3 out of my actual 4 favorite games of all time.
Thanksgiving Day 1993, Dolphins v Cowboys
aka – The Leon Lett game
Cowboys up by 2 near the end of the game. The game is O.V.E.R. when Miami misses a 41 yd FG near the end of the 4th quarter…..unless some fat Cowboy moron slides down the filed and kicks the live ball. Enter, Leon Lett.
Dolphins recover the ball on the Cowboys’ 1 yard line and make a gimme FG to win 16-14.
The play clearly proved that Leon really was an idiot and didn’t suffer a temporary lapse in judgment, since Lett made a stupider play in the previous Super Bowl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Lett
June 27th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
First Cowboys – Redskins game in ‘05. They smothered us all game and with about 5 minutes left in the fourth quarter the Redskins are losing 13-0.
Then Gibbs got a lightbulb in his head and decided to attack Roy Williams because he’s the shittiest cover safety in the league. Two Redskins drives and two touchdowns later, we have the lead 14-13 (Thanks Santana Moss, 1 39 yard bomb and one 70 yard bomb) and there’s like 3 minutes left in the game.
And then on fourth down, the Cowboys last chance, Bledsoe throws underneath to Crayton I think it was, and Sean Taylor pops him for one of the hardest hits I’ve ever seen and forces the incomplete pass that seals the game for us.
There’s not a lot greater feelings than winning a game your hated rival had locked up for 55 minutes, only to fall apart at the end.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Seeing as how most of my memorable ones have been taken, I’ll go with the 30 Pats-Colts game, where New England had a 4 point lead and Indy had a first and goal on the 1 with under a minute left. That must have been the day they signed the deal with the devil, because to see them hold that offense out of the endzone four times in a row was just mind-numbing.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Fuck, I meant ‘03, not 30
June 27th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I have to second the Crown Their Asses game, its just to bad the Sex Cannon couldn’t have played the tiniest role.
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn58/drrockso27/TDrex.jpg
June 27th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
I’m going with the first playoff game I ever saw the Bears win. 1984 Bears at Deadskins. The Foreskins were the reigning NFC champ, I think, and were heavily favored. First drive and Theisman is going through the Bears D fairly easily. Until…Todd Bell absolutely annihilated some Smurph Deadskin receiver. The best hit I’ve ever seen. Completely changed the course of the game. I could happily watch that hit every day for the rest of my life.
June 27th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
@SOS: I do remember the Ronny Harmon incident. I’m just not quite as witty with my sarcasm as the regular commenters here.
And not to get into too much (4:53 on a Friday? Not the right time or place) but the only fans worse than Raider fans are Cowboy fans. That Monday night game here in Buffalo last season was unbearable. Never have I seen a more pathetic, obnoxious, rude collection of “fans” in my life.
/looking for rope now from memories of 1990-1993.
//and the MCM
///and the No Goal
June 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Miami Dolfans are a hungry, hungry lot, especially those of us under 80 years of age.
1985. Miami 38, Chicago 24. Bears enter 11-0, which doesn’t even fully describe their dominance. ‘72 Dolphins standing on the home sideline.
Third-year QB Dan Marino shreds the shit out of the 46 defense and close it out by halftime. Unreal.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
@ rocco – That moron Brett Hull actually tried to deny he was in the crease while he was covering the Cup finals on NBC last year. God, I hate that prick.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
2003 Playoffs. First Round. Titans v. Ravens.
Raven’s D came to play as usual. McNair struggled. Eddie George left before the first half ended with a seperated shoulder and was basically called a pussy by the Baltimore fans as he went to the locker room. He then proceeded grind out some of the toughest yards I have ever seen. Two to three yards, sometimes five. But he was punishing the Ravens D. He manhandled Ray Ray at the sideline and got in his face after the play. The capper was getting one last yard before Mortensen won it with a kick that was a hair away from hitting the crossbar. This after getting beat by those punks year in and year out. Extremely satisfiying.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
1994 AFC Championship
June 27th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
As a lifelong 49ers who was born in the late 80’s (fuck me a thousand times in the ass for coming of age right after our fucking dynasty ended) my first pick would have to be the Giants – 49ers 2003 playoff game that I had to wake up at 4:30 am on a Monday morning before school started to watch and fought off the temptations to go back to sleep even after we got railed in the first half.
However, since that game was picked already I’m gonna go with Young to TO in the 1998 playoffs. It felt like the packers whooped us every single year in the playoffs leading up to that game, so when we were finally able to beat them on such a crazy ass play I was so overwhelmed with joy I couldn’t even jump up and start screaming…all I could do was sit on the couch and let the tears roll down my face.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Nobody’s picked Super Bowl XXXI yet?
Yoink!
June 27th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
2005 AFC Divisional Playoff: The Pats dynasty ends not with a bang but with a Jake Plummer whimper
June 27th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Maybe I’m just an ancient fucker, but I’m stunned no one’s picked the actual greatest game of all time (okay, I’m sort of biased, but still…) – the Chargers-Dolphins 1981 AFC Divisional Playoff. I was a Chargers fan only because they had the raddest uniforms and merchandise available in the JC Penney Christmas Catalog, but this game cemented me as a football fan and a Chargers fan. I sat mortified as an 10 year old as the Dolphins wiped out that 24-0 first quarter lead. Hook and ladders, missed field goals, KELLEN FUCKIN WINSLOW! The game had it all. Best game ever.
June 27th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
1997 AFC Championship – Steelers and Broncos. As a diehard Broncos fan growing up in Pittsburgh in a Steeler house I got to see all the crushed faces at home and school the next morning while pouring salt on the wounds the next week after the SB win. Best feeling of my life. I still have all the papers and videos from that game.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Dolphins at Jets, November 1994 – the fake spike game. That play capped a 17 point 4th qtr comeback. More significantly for Dolphins fans, it sent the Jets into a two-year downward spiral (AKA the Kotite era).
June 27th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I am loving the fact that, although they won a Super Bowl and have been to the playoffs a shitload of times, the most meaningful victory to the average Bears fan was beating the Saints post-Katrina. An actual success like the 85 Super Bowl results in shrugged shoulders and lukewarm appreciation, beating the most miraculous turnaround in NFL history still results in a flurry of lowercase joy years later.
And yes, seeing Peyton knock the Bears back into irrelevancy for another twenty years made the whole thing end nicely.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
1980 season finale, Vikings vs Browns. Vikings trailed 23-21 time running out. They do the old hook and ladder play to get the ball near mid field. Then Tommy Freaking Kramer drops back with a sqaudron right alignment, throws it as far as he ever had – about 50 yards – and Ahmad Rashad leaps over everyone, pulls the ball in and backs into the endzone sending the Vikings to the playoffs. I shat myself, pissed myself and tore my vocal cards out of sheer excitement.
Vikings went on to get beaten by the Eagles in the playoffs. Rashad went on to become the most pussy-whipped husband and interviewer alive and my experience as a Viking fan had a rare moment in the sunshine. Goddam, I’m jacked just reliving it.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Super Bowl XXVII for only one reason: Seeing Don Beebe knock the ball out of Leon Lett’s hands as he was showboating already up 52 to 17.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Ashamed of the Jets fans here:
The Monday Night Miracle, Dolphins at Jets, 10/23/2000.
Dolphins up 30-7 in the 4th quarter, and the Jets put up 30 points and twenty first downs in the final frame to send it to OT, finally winning on a 40-yard FG by John Hall.
I’d love to say the tackle-eligible play to Jumbo Elliott was the enduring image of that game, but it’s not. The image for me will always be the same: Jason Taylor declaring to the cameras “they’re not coming back from this one!” at the end of the 3rd.
You’d never know it from the way the media chokes down his dick on a weekly basis, but Taylor is one of the softest, whiniest, most classless players the NFL has ever seen. Every time the Dolfags lose to the Jets (which, if memory serves, has been 17 out of the 24 times they’ve played under his Miami tenure), he bitches to the media that “the Jets aren’t that good” and “the better team lost today.”
So I can’t describe how much it meant to me when the cameras found him after Hall’s FG, with the screams of Jets faithful echoing from the swamps of Jersey to the skyscrapers of Manhattan…and the fucking guy is crying.
Those tears could heal wounds. I wish they’d bottled them.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:45 am
2005 Wild Card Game: Jets @ San Diego
Was it because I got my first real taste of watching Marty Schottenheimer choking in a big game?
Or because Doug Brien fooled me for a week into thinking he was a clutch kicker?
Nah, it’s probably because it was the last time I’ll see the Jets win a playoff game.
I’m 22 by the way.
June 28th, 2008 at 2:10 am
without a doubt…the Browns vs. Jets wild card game in the mid-80’s. My first game ever at old Cleveland Stadium and as a little kid I snuck cold cans of beer under my coat for my dad and his friends. hey, at least the Browns actually won and Kosar set the playoff passing yards record….
June 28th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Week 17 of 2003 – Nate Poole (!) catches last second touchdown from Josh McCown (!), sending the Packers to the playoffs and the Vikings out on their asses. I didn’t watch this game, I saw only that play in replays, and have no idea what the final score was. I will forever remember the radio replay of the Vikings play-by-play announcer screaming “NO! NO! NO!!!” as Poole caught the TD and the way Lambeau erupted as the news broke that the Vikings had lost. The coolest part is that the next week the Packers gave Poole a free ticket to their playoff game so he could watch Matt Hasselbeck proclaim “We want the ball, and we’re going to score.” Awesome.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:19 am
@ ice cream…
Us mid to late 20-somethings were a little too young to fully appreciate the Bears winning the Superbowl at the time it happened. Looking back as a kid I remember a lot of the players from the 85 team that stuck around for a few years, but I sure as hell don’t remember the actual Superbowl being played (I was 5 at the time), much less the build up of the full 85 season. The late 80s playoff runs are kinda foggy too. Watching highlights of it on ESPN/DVD etc… simply isn’t equivalent to being in front of the TV every Sunday.
Saying we’ve been the playoffs a shitload of times is ridiculous. Most of our Playoff runs post ‘the-only-Superbowl-that-really-counted’ have been pretty weak, ending in sorrow.
91- booted after the wild card
95- booted after the wild card
Luckiest-team-in-football year Philly destroys us first game
2006- Carolina and Steve Smith ruin our shit.
So yeah after that run of ‘playoffs’ sending N.O. fans back home was great and moving on the first SuperBowl in 21 years was pretty sweet. It is definitely the the best fucking post-season Bears games us pre-30s Chicago fans had the pleasure of watching live as a true sports fans. It’s pretty hard to appreciate a game from an era before your were born or during a time where you still pissed the bed maybe once or twice a year.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I can’t believe this one has lasted…
2003 divisional playoffs- panthers-rams
double overtime, two recovered onside kicks, two missed game-winning field goals, and smitty up the middle to win it on a clown route. classic even if i wern’t a panthers fan.
June 28th, 2008 at 11:42 am
My favorite football game? The last one I saw, only to be replaced by the next game I’ll see. (Cue the violins.)
Seriously, I had to go with this. Somebody already took my namesake for their favorite game, as well as the return to the Superdome game.
June 28th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
the 1983 Broncos-Colts game in Denver. With the Broncos down 19-0 enter the 4th qtr
Elway leads the Broncos to a win 21-19 in his first 4th qtr comeback
To all those lame Browns fans who think that if Byner scores the TD on the fumble game that they would have won. Newsflash: Denver was up 38-31 when he fumbled and then after 3 Elway kneel downs the Broncos took an intentional safety. You clowns are so delusional you dont even remember what happened. Fucking cock gobblers
June 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Already taken: Chargers-Dolphins 1981 AFC Divisional Playoff – I was a kid watching it on this little b & w set I had in my room. Picture was off. Signal was coming from a station we normally did not get. It froze so many images into my head. As stated before; the hook and ladder play, misssed fg’s, Kellen Winslow being dragged off and dragging himself back on. Nothing could top this one.
Not taken: As a Cowboy fan … and one not posted yet … The 1989 season where they were 1-15 was pretty good. We got the win in excruciating fashion versus the Redskins. It already looked like we night go 0-16. It was a week 9 game. The team was really bad. :lol: Last 5 minutes took about an hour to play.
Already taken: Super Bowl XXVII – played @ the Rose Bowl. To win a SB in such a locale. After the changes and the losing. Was used to growing up and watching us get worse and worse. :lol: A beautiful place to win a beautiful game. The team @ its best.
Not taken: 1995 regular season Game #1 vs Giants on MNF – Following the truly horrific loss in the NFC Championship versus the 49ers (a story in its own right)
the Cowboys came into the season with idiot coach Barry Switzer @ the helm still. Emmittt went for 4 TD’s and broke a 60 yard run for a TD early that I SCREAMED LOUDER AND LOUDER as he ran. It was for the loss the previous year, the firing of Johnson, the dismantling of my team, the long horrid offseason, etc. I remember that moment so well. And they shut out the Giants 35-0.
June 28th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Super Bowl IV, dominated the vikes. First off its one of the few bright spots in Chiefs history, and Ive always hated the vikings. Why do people from Minnesota sound more retarded then fuckheads from New Jersey.
June 28th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
I’m going to pick the 49ers victory over the Lions on December 28, 1992 as my favorite game. It was my first ever NFL game (I was 10 at the time), and we had end zone seats for the game. The people sitting next to us had a bottle of Wild Turkey they were passing around, which I’m pretty sure was also my first exposure to the glories of hard alcohol. The weather for the day had been miserable, which made parking in Candlestick’s dirt parking lots quite a joy – I think we had to dig our car out of the mud after the game. It also meant that the seats were surprisingly empty, and those damn fools that decided to watch the game from home missed a damn good show. Joe Montana made his grand return to the 49ers from two years on the IR and threw two TD passes, and Barry Sanders rushed for over 100 yards and generally made 49er defenders look silly. The writing was pretty much on the wall by this point that Montana wouldn’t be back with the Niners the following season, which made the game that much more special.
An absolutely unbelievable game.
June 28th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
One of the most boring games ever, but it’s an interesting prelude to a much more famous game. December 12, 1982, Miami and New England are in a scoreless tie in a heavy snowstorm in Foxboro. Late in the 4th quarter, Patriots coach Ron Meyer calls timeout before a field goal attempt and brings out a tractor to clear a spot on the field for kicker John Smith (yeah, like that was REALLY his name…). The kick is good and the Patriots win 3-0. Shula damn near has a heart attack on the sideline from screaming at the ref, but he got his revenge a couple weeks later in the playoffs. Apparently the same tractor is still being used at Foxboro, and was actually used on the sidelines during the other infamous snow game there.
Proved well before Belicheat how slimy the fackin’ Patriots are (hey, I’m a Raider fan, but at least we admit we’re dirty), especially in the snow!
June 28th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
as a pats fan (cue the hate) i loved the playoff game in the snow against indianapolis in 2003. all the hype building up to the game was how indys offense was unstoppable. ty law picked manning 3 times, equaling the number of catches marhar had. reggie wayne got knocked the fuck out by eugene wilson (after mannings overthrown passed bounced off his helmet). it was especially satisfying seeing polian throwing a temper tantrum during the fourth quarter. what an asshole.
June 29th, 2008 at 10:24 am
1977 AFC Championship Game – Broncos beat the defending champ Raiders in Denver and go to the Super Bowl for the first time.
Honorable mention: 1997 divisional game at Arrowhead. Thanks for starting Grbac over Gannon, Marty.
Other favorites:
-Broncos beat Vikes in 1996 on a crazy TD reception from McCaffrey with under a minute to go.
-Broncos over Bills week 1 2007. Toro toro!
June 29th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
The Holy Roller! It was so good that Chargers fans are STILL pissed off 30 years later. Man I miss Stabler.
June 30th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Since the Bears playoff wins from ‘06 are gone, I hereby nominate two of my all-time favourites from a year for the ages….
-The Bears come back to beat Arizona after the Cards and Rackers misses the kick at the end. Dennis Green promptly loses his fukcing mind.
-The Bears beat San Francisco 41-10 after going up 41-0 at halftime off the missed field goal return by Nathan Vasher. Bears go up 41-0 at halftime and promptly let fans play the second half. The Niners still only score 10 points in the second. That was great because when I was in high school in the nineties, all the idiot fair-weather fans at school were in love with the Niners. To them, I hold up this game and say a huge FUCK. YOU.
Then, the win over the Giants where Hester fakes taking a knee on the missed field goal and Urlacher and co. just MURDER Shaun O’Hara up the sideline. O’Hara didn’t deserve it, because he was one of the only guys who bothered to chase the play, but screw him anyway ’cause he plays for the Giants. Bears win 38-20 on national TV after Michaels et al. spent all week pumping up the Giants as a true contender.Too bad.
June 30th, 2008 at 11:37 am
2006 NFC Divisional Game where the Saints beat the Eagles and I lost my voice for a solid week. After that home opener against the Falcons it was easily the most memorable game of my life.
Oh yeah and fuck the Bears, I hope you guys thoroughly enjoy both of your wins this season assbags.
June 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
ahh, the Bears-Saints rivalry continue, but i have yet to see anything from a saints fan that resembled anything better then a ‘peyton whooped you, and a you guys suck enjoy the 2 wins’ and we are the class-less ones, how many actual katrina related digs were put up by the obvious bears fans that post here, doing a quick search. . . well zero exactly. Most were how hyped the saints were and how they were the feel good story of the NFL and the rampant multiplying of passengers on the saints bandwagon, and that everyone said the Bears didn’t have a chance. At least the Bears fans can make a bit of an argument as to why they enjoyed it and goes past the playground ‘you suck’ commments.
One more reason I did, cold and snowy it made for fantastic atmosphere, the way football should be played.
oh and p.s. – like the saints would have had a chance in the super bowl anyway.
@greg olsen is making me sexist –
good point and being in a similar age group I agree
June 30th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
@Jackin4beats: It was actually a botched Giants HANDOFF (not punt) with 31 seconds left (Pisarcik to Czonka) when the Eagles had no timeouts left that led to Herm’s touchdown. Giants fans call it THE FUMBLE. From then on, all teams into perpetuity would take a knee. It led to the firing of the Coach (McVay) and the entire coaching staff, and then the hiring of George Young who went on to draft LT and Simms…
My favorite, most satisfying game not yet mentioned was the 17-0 Giants victory over the Skins in Jan 1987 leading to Giants first Super Bowl appearance (First championship appearance in 25 years)… Tickertape parade IN the stadium due to the wind, going nuts, hugging and crying with perfect strangers in the stands for hours after the final gun. I was 17 Yrs old and had been attending games since i was 4 (back to the days of Shea) and nothing had ever come close to that.
Of course this year’s Giants playoff run is unmatched forever, but all games are taken already….
June 30th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Ice Bowl, December 31, 1967
June 30th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Christmas Day 1971 – Chiefs – Dolphins in KC. Ed Podolak was out of his mind. Greatest single game performance in the playoffs I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, Stenerud misses a gimme and the converted necktie maker Yepremian kicks one for the fish to win it.
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Gino, BDD… where y’all at???
Seriously, no one has picked the one and only Vikes-Pack playoff game ever?
The Randy Moss Lambeau Moon…
I feel like I’m on fucking crazy pills!!! Randy t-iz-orching Al Harris twice and the warrior #4 threw 4 picks… I just got some chills.