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Coming up on Super Bowl 60, a look at the greatest performances in the biggest game in the US
List made in 2009, may be outdated
List made in 2009, may be outdated
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00:00It's the Super Bowl.
00:02A lot of things tighten up, you know what I'm talking about?
00:06And he's down.
00:07I can't see.
00:08Okay.
00:08You can't even get a blade of grass up there.
00:11Some people.
00:17This is your dream, to go to the Super Bowl.
00:20The biggest football game in the history of Western civilization.
00:24That's big, man.
00:25The Super Bowl.
00:27Maybe you've heard of it.
00:27The game has had its share of great moments and performances.
00:31But we ask, what's the difference between the two?
00:34A performance is something that happens from quarter one to quarter last.
00:38We only have 60 minutes to get it done.
00:41If you say top 10 Super Bowl moments and David Tyree's catch makes it.
00:44How in the world did he do that?
00:46Top 10 Super Bowl performances, David Tyree's not on this program.
00:49No.
00:50What?
00:51Great Super Bowl performances, you never forget when it happened or where it happened.
00:56He's gone.
00:56He's gone.
00:57Those things are just cemented.
00:59Defining performance is easy.
01:01Cracking our list of the greatest Super Bowl performances is not.
01:05Who's deserving?
01:06Our rankings might surprise you.
01:08Wow.
01:09That's the beauty of it.
01:09There's no way of predicting it.
01:11We shocked the world, but we didn't shock ourselves.
01:13The number 10 Super Bowl performance of all time.
01:16Jerry Rice in Super Bowl XXIII.
01:19Yes.
01:20Longs on the list.
01:22Jerry Rice deserves everything that he gets at any ranking in the top 10 of anything.
01:27Certainly when...
01:28He might even have to be higher than 215 yards.
01:31Here comes the Super Bowl.
01:32Our countdown kicks off with a star born to shine on the NFL's biggest stage.
01:38Throws for Rice.
01:40He's got it at the top 10.
01:42Montana throwing it on for Rice and he makes the catch.
01:47Rice just went up and took it away.
01:49In his first Super Bowl appearance, our number 10 performer caught 11 passes for a Super Bowl
01:54record 215 yards.
01:57Touchdown 49ers.
01:58If Jerry Rice doesn't do half the things he did in that Super Bowl...
02:02Guess who's going to be an MVP?
02:05Then the 49ers are not set up at the end of that game for one of the most dramatic comebacks
02:09in the history of postseason football.
02:12Right.
02:13With 3-10 remaining, the 49ers will have to go from their 8-yard line.
02:19Super Bowl XXIII, the final drive.
02:21I'll never forget it.
02:22I just knew inside that we would win that football game.
02:26In that last drive, he had three catches.
02:28Jerry Rice will have another chance.
02:31Sam Weish is practically calling the plays.
02:33Get some movement if you're worried about the scrambling run thing.
02:38It's to Rice now.
02:40Everybody knows that they're looking for Jerry Rice.
02:42And yet he got open and caught the ball.
02:44Throws over the middle.
02:45A fight against by Rice.
02:46Rice is in the middle.
02:47He's down to the 19.
02:49Another traded catch by Jerry Rice.
02:52How can I leave Jerry on something like that?
02:54I don't know.
02:55We had a coverage that was really designed to take care of Jerry.
02:59And on that particular play, we had him covered so well that our guys ran into each other.
03:07That was a 27-yard gainer.
03:09A little second down and 20.
03:12Let's work on Jerry here.
03:13Let's make somebody else beat us.
03:15And then he still beats you?
03:16I mean, that's not fair.
03:18Jerry Rice, I've heard there's a new TV series coming out based on your Super Bowl performance.
03:27Miami Rice.
03:29So why isn't the greatest wide receiver of all time higher on our list?
03:33Because John Taylor caught the game-winning touchdown.
03:36Back to throw, Montana.
03:38Steps up, throws.
03:39If Jerry Rice scores on the pass, then he becomes the great hero, completing a great, great day
03:48and a great, great season.
03:49But he didn't.
03:49John Taylor got the touchdown.
03:51This is a tough moment in a way because was this the final game on the sideline for a great
03:57coach, Bill Walsh?
03:58After the game, Bill Walsh announced that he was leaving as the 49ers head coach.
04:04And that almost sunk the game itself.
04:05Super Bowl XXIII was one of the best performances ever for Jerry Rice, but he was just getting
04:13warmed up.
04:14The performance he had in the Super Bowl next year against Denver was no less remarkable.
04:18Montana launches it for the end.
04:20Oh, Jerry Rice!
04:22Oh, what a catch by Rice!
04:24He comes back five years later and he has 148 yards and three touchdowns in the Super Bowl.
04:28Jerry Rice continues to set records in the Super Bowl.
04:32It's one of the problems with players as great as Jerry.
04:35As good as they were and as great as they were, they didn't have every single moment.
04:41And at the Super Bowl, so they couldn't all make our list of top 10 Super Bowl performances.
04:48Kurt Warner shredded the steel curtain with 377 yards passing in Super Bowl XLIII.
04:54The Steelers' Terry Bradshaw completed four touchdown passes in Super Bowl XIII.
05:05A perfect strike by Terry Bradshaw!
05:08Black 59, laser!
05:12In Super Bowl XXIV, Joe Montana threw five.
05:16Just complete control of the offense.
05:18It's a clinic.
05:19But while these quarterbacks would be on anyone's list of top 10 Super Bowl careers,
05:24it's hard to single out one of their games like our next performer.
05:31The number nine Super Bowl performance of all time.
05:35Joe Namath in Super Bowl III.
05:37He should be nowhere near the list.
05:38In the kingdom on the coast, there was a little print.
05:41He belongs nowhere near the list.
05:43He didn't throw a touchdown pass.
05:44Who made a mighty bold boy named Broadway Joe.
05:49I hope you don't have Joe Namath on there.
05:52Namath didn't do anything that great.
05:55Man, we should have had three points.
05:59That time at least.
06:00I mean, he did not have a great statistical quote-unquote game.
06:04Hell, I'm sorry.
06:05We should have had some points on the board that time.
06:07When you think of Super Bowl III, you think of Joe Namath.
06:10But he only had two of those passes.
06:12It's longer than 20 yards.
06:13And it's complaining to George Sauer.
06:16He did not throw a pass in the fourth quarter.
06:18They checked it off.
06:20In fact, it was a very boring game.
06:22Well, you can't please everybody.
06:27Unlike most Super Bowl quarterbacks,
06:30Joe Namath's performance in the big game began off the field.
06:33Namath gets to nine because Namath said what he said.
06:37We're going to win the game, I guarantee it.
06:39We're going to win the game, I guarantee it.
06:41We're going to win the game, I guarantee it.
06:44I mean, he said we're going to win.
06:45Is a player ever going to say he's going to lose?
06:47He has said that the Jets are going to win.
06:49He doesn't even predict it.
06:50He said, I guarantee a Jet victory.
06:53I love when we show old games on this network and it's jarring to see the lack of graphics
07:01on the screen.
07:02We'll be throwing up these statistics during the game.
07:05The reason why I bring this up is I watched the game.
07:09And Namath managed the game more than anything else to use the phrase manage the game.
07:14This was a guy who was all about throwing the football.
07:16I feel like I can throw as well or better than anybody.
07:20But yet, you know, on a day when he's controlling everything, he's calling all the plays,
07:25he took his ego out of the equation entirely and played the game the way he felt the Jets
07:31had to play it to win.
07:32The Jets upset of the Colts made our number nine performer an NFL legend and a hit on Madison
07:56Avenue.
07:56Now, I don't wear pantyhose, but a beauty mask can make my legs look good.
08:00Imagine what they'll do for yours.
08:03When you look at the history of sports, that moment brings either 1A, 1B, or 1C as the
08:09most overrated event that you can possibly think of.
08:12Joe Namath put on a heck of a performance before Super Bowl III, but in reality, Matt Snell
08:17was probably the MVP of that game.
08:18Matt Snell has been the outstanding runner so far.
08:21AFL wins their first.
08:23The guarantee, the brashness of a New York quarterback.
08:26That's why Namath gets in your top ten.
08:28Joe Namath, being on this list, I know a lot of people would have a problem with it.
08:33Basically, he just went there, didn't really blow it, and that's one of the greatest Super
08:38Bowl performances ever.
08:40I totally disagree with that argument.
08:41If you just focus on 17 for 28 for 206 yards and no touchdowns, you lose all perspective of
08:48what he meant in the grand scheme of things.
08:51The number eight Super Bowl performers of all time, Phil Simms in Super Bowl XXI.
08:58The great Phil Simms.
09:01I'm going to go to Disney World.
09:03You have to preface it with the great Phil Simms.
09:05Remember how accurate he was that day?
09:07Simms is seven of seven.
09:10He was just on target.
09:11The most underrated quarterback in the NFL.
09:1422 and 25, that's almost pitching a perfect game.
09:17Yankee bad boy Don Larson made history in the first perfect game in World Series history.
09:22When you got a guy who's nearly perfect in the Super Bowl, you can't rank that too high.
09:27I'm going to go to Disneyland.
09:30All these people thinking, what the f*** is he doing?
09:36While Phil Simms' Super Bowl performance was a total success, his welcome to New York was
09:41a total disaster.
09:43New York Giants' first round selection.
09:47Quarterback Phil Simms, Moorhead State.
09:51Left is Moorhead State.
09:53For years, Simms struggled to satisfy the Big Apple fans.
09:56I've never seen anybody have to play in tougher conditions than to say of Simms in New York.
10:03And then Simms is hearing something.
10:05Once in a while, you know, he'll make some judgments that I've kind of wondered why he made them.
10:10You know, he's always screaming at practice, do it better, that stinks, you stink.
10:14Hey Phil, I'll run the game!
10:15What was good for everybody else was also good for Simms in the terms of the verbal communication.
10:22I tell you, I wish that Simms had just come out there and get hot.
10:25Our number 8 performer set a Super Bowl record by completing 88% of his passes for 268 yards
10:35and 3 scores.
10:37You know, the second half performance of the entire Giant football team I thought was outstanding.
10:41Tim's up, he looks, he fires, it's a touchdown!
10:44Certainly Phil threw the ball extremely well.
10:47That's about as perfect as a quarterback can get in the big game.
10:50Now they go to the cocky, and he's inside the tent, and the Giants are ready to put the knockout punch on.
10:56You know, I'd like to tell you, make a lie up and tell you this great thing.
10:58Yeah, I was in the zone, I could feel it.
11:00You know what it was?
11:01We called plays that, man, we knew we were on their headsets.
11:06That drive is a Super Bowl drive.
11:09That ought to dispel any myth about Phil Simms.
11:12The 86th game gets a little lost for Phil, because the Giants had a great defense.
11:17And they get it.
11:18But they put up 39...
11:19He gets overlooked a little bit.
11:21From his...
11:2239 points.
11:23The offense did that.
11:26That was all the offense.
11:27Greatness.
11:28Phil Simms for a sunshot here.
11:30The Giants took over this game.
11:32Phil Simms at the time, that came out of nowhere.
11:34So that certainly deserves to be where it's at right now.
11:37To be number 8, not giving enough credit where the credit is due.
11:44The Super Bowl has seen plenty of unknowns make names for themselves.
11:49Larry Brown's two interceptions in Super Bowl 30 earned him the MVP.
11:53Larry Brown with a big interception.
11:55And a prime time endorsement.
11:57You get one more, you're going to run for Mayo.
11:59And that'll...
11:59Just right up.
12:00A single tackle in Super Bowl 34 made Rams linebacker Mike Jones a household name.
12:06He dives for the end zone.
12:08Didn't make it.
12:09He came up one yard short.
12:12Thank you, buddy.
12:13In Super Bowl XLII, the Giants' David Tyree stole the show.
12:17Who's David Tyree?
12:18Number 85 made the play that propelled New York to a monumental upset.
12:24And it is caught.
12:26Caught.
12:27How in the world did he do that?
12:29This is terrible stuff.
12:30But of all our Cinderella stories, no one fits the glass slipper better than a Redskins rookie.
12:36And number 7 Super Bowl performance of all time.
12:41Super Bowl XXII.
12:45Good afternoon from Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, California.
12:49The road to Super Bowl XXII stops right here.
12:54For Timmy Smith, the road to a top 10 Super Bowl performance was a surprising and unlikely journey.
13:00The first thing that comes to mind is they didn't tell him he was going to start.
13:03Smith starting the game.
13:04The rookie.
13:05I didn't have any clue that Timmy Smith was going to start until he showed up in the huddle the first series.
13:09Reason?
13:10Because they were afraid he'd throw up.
13:12That he wouldn't be able to handle it.
13:14And when it came time for the offense to go on the field, they said, Smith, get in there.
13:17So he didn't have time to get nervous.
13:19He'll hand off to Smith.
13:27That he's back.
13:27Good hole.
13:28Midfield.
13:29Horse race to the 40.
13:30Far side 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5.
13:35Touchdown, Washington Redskins.
13:37Timmy Smith.
13:38They throw him into the game and there's no time for him to think about it or anything else.
13:42He just goes in there and runs.
13:43Snap.
13:44Here comes Timmy Smith.
13:45Up the middle.
13:46Touchdown.
13:46He just kept going and going and going.
13:49This is the end of the making.
13:51Holy cow, say the Broncos.
13:53Who is that kid?
13:55He goes from a running back that not many of us knew anything about to a guy that rushes for 200 and something yards.
14:02He's got to go over 200 yards.
14:04Will be the single game.
14:05Only people who study NFL trivia probably remember Timmy Smith having over 200 yards rushing in that game.
14:23You talk about flukes.
14:25This is one of the greatest flukes ever in sports.
14:28Tim Smith is a simple one for me.
14:30It's called the Hawks.
14:31And just watch what the Redskins offensive line does to the Bronco defense.
14:37They destroyed Denver up front.
14:38Domination at the line of scrimmage.
14:40They ran that counter tray over and over and over.
14:43The back takes a counter step.
14:45The two off linemen come around and through the hole.
14:48And they have just been pouring it to Denver on that playoff.
14:52Doesn't get touched until he's 10 yards downfield.
14:55Three 10 yards.
14:56The first guy you take on is either a linebacker or a defensive back.
15:00He's waving at guys like Tony Lilly.
15:02Timmy Smith just outran Tony Lilly.
15:05Tony Lilly, hey baby, you've had a long day already.
15:08It was only just short of halftime.
15:10He just ran through some gigantic holes.
15:13Ran to daylight.
15:14You could have driven trucks through them.
15:15The blocking he's getting up front is absolutely incredible.
15:19Oh yeah, Tony Lilly was cut right after that game.
15:24Well, I don't know if he was cut.
15:26But he left.
15:28That was his last game.
15:30Cut trucks.
15:31You could have driven a truck full of Timmy Smiths in it.
15:34Certainly the hogs gave him a great deal of holes.
15:36But he did finish those runs.
15:38And he ran people over.
15:41He got yards after contact.
15:43He'll have other things that day.
15:44Fantasy land for Timmy Smith.
15:46I think you have to celebrate Timmy Smith.
15:48I don't think anything should be taken away from him.
15:50The number six Super Bowl performance of all time.
15:54John Riggins in Super Bowl 17.
15:56When the Redskins went to their Super Bowls, it really was about Riggins.
16:06Big run, John Riggins.
16:08Big run.
16:09John Riggins ran roughshod over the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl 17.
16:15Rushing for a then-record 166 yards.
16:19He ran over people.
16:21Oh, John Riggins.
16:22The diesel guy.
16:23Ah!
16:23He ran around people.
16:25From the left side, big yards, first down.
16:27John started feeling.
16:28There's certain people that have the ability to be on a stage.
16:33This is for John Riggins who does a bow at the 43 hardline.
16:37But I'm the king.
16:41The John Riggins Super Bowl was overrated.
16:43This was a performance against one of the weaker Super Bowl teams that you're going to find.
16:48A killer bee!
16:49Let's get you.
16:50It had the magic name, but it had a lot of holes and deficits.
16:53And all Riggins needs is a little crack.
16:56You can't tackle Riggins high.
16:59That's way too high.
17:00I think he still had a great day.
17:02He couldn't tackle him.
17:03I mean, arm tackles that might have brought him down, those arms have been ripped apart for three quarters.
17:08He powers inside the 30, and he moved about six people with him.
17:12Guys just don't have that type of strength anymore.
17:18For Redskins fans.
17:19You can move it down the list, but it has to be on the list.
17:2370 chip in the Super Bowl against the Dolphins is the equivalent in a sports sense of where were you when JFK got shot.
17:32See what Joe Gibbs' choice will be on fourth and about a yard for the first down.
17:36We know what's coming.
17:38You know what's coming.
17:40It's going to be Riggins.
17:41Let's go.
17:42Goal line, goal line.
17:43Eye left, tight wing, 70 chip on white.
17:45Ready?
17:46Yellow 41!
17:47Yellow 41!
17:48There's the stamp hander.
17:53Good hold.
17:53He's got the first down to the point.
17:55He's gone.
17:56He's gone.
17:57Touchdown, Washington Redskins!
18:00I wish I had kept the royalties to it, because Steve Sables just milked it to death.
18:04He's gone.
18:05He's gone.
18:06Touchdown, Washington Redskins!
18:08Well, the John Riggins touchdown run had to be one of the great runs in Super Bowl history.
18:13The run was the culmination of, you know, 100 shots at the tree.
18:17The tree fell on that run.
18:20His performance that day was phenomenal.
18:23He's gone!
18:24He's gone!
18:25Touchdown, Washington Redskins!
18:27I got $32 for that call.
18:30It's worth a million.
18:34Man, John Riggins was like 33 in that game.
18:37And now, the number five Super Bowl performance of all time, Lynn Swann in Super Bowl 10.
18:43First, you have to get the right name to be graceful, okay?
18:46You have to be born a swan, okay?
18:49What a, what a test by Lynn Swann!
18:52It was like watching Baryshnikov in a gathering of slam dancers.
18:58Oh, he had to go up for that football!
19:00Those catches, to me, are the purest form of physical artistry in the history of the Super Bowl.
19:08Swann on a beautiful maneuver.
19:10No.
19:11You see, he made two great catches.
19:13That's terrific.
19:14Good, good job.
19:15Lynn Swann in Super Bowl 10 made a couple of amazing catches.
19:18Highlights that will live forever.
19:19Lynn Swann beat his man!
19:22Four receptions.
19:25I have three Jerry Rice games I would pick ahead of it.
19:28Touchdown 49ers!
19:29Well, it's easy to say you only touched it four times.
19:32I believe that was for 700 yards.
19:34Ha ha ha ha!
19:37Swann was just brilliant in the Super Bowl.
19:39Every catch was a huge catch.
19:41Uh, this is, uh, game ball.
19:43For, uh, the, um, for the Super Bowl.
19:45It's all mine.
19:46Swann deserved the game ball for just showing up.
19:53Two weeks earlier, he was carted off the field in the AFC Championship game.
19:59Came across the middle for a pass.
20:00I caught the pass.
20:01Uh, Atkinson, I said, I'm just a tackle.
20:04Collared me around the head, which was legal at that time.
20:06It was just a good, solid, strong, strong hit.
20:09And, you know, from that moment on, I was out of the ball game.
20:12And later on, in an ambulance, going to the hospital.
20:15Come on.
20:16His life was never in danger.
20:17The guy was soft.
20:19Soft.
20:20In Super Bowl X, our number five performer suited up and captivated America against America's team.
20:27I took the challenge.
20:28The most important catch I had in Super Bowl X was the very first pass thrown to me.
20:34I had to make that catch.
20:35And back goes Bradshaw to fire to the near side.
20:38I'm standing by.
20:40Look at that.
20:40And they roll a good dash at the Dallas 16-yard line.
20:44The one catch where our cameraman is right parallel to the sidelines.
20:49And you see Lin.
20:5150 years ago.
20:52If somebody did that today, it would be talked about for the next 50 years.
20:57Oh, wait.
20:58This is talked about for the next 50 years.
21:01Out of bounds.
21:02Somehow he keeps his feet in.
21:04Twisting his body back in-dance to make the catch.
21:07Oh, he gets the boat down.
21:09A beautiful reception.
21:10The ball well thrown.
21:15And action.
21:17Very often, wide receivers are compared to dancers because of the grace of their moves on the football field.
21:22Being a roommate of a guy named Lin who takes ballet, a little nervous at first.
21:28Yeah.
21:28The head cracker suite.
21:29And just a great ball player.
21:33As Swann made a nifty move, turning to take the ball.
21:37Lin Swann's pirouettes helped the Steel City win four Super Bowls.
21:41And he will always be remembered for his signature play, the levitating leap.
21:47So are you going to show the catch?
21:49You got to show the catch.
21:50He went up in the air and made a circus catch.
21:52It's not an NFL Films production unless you show the catch.
21:57That was pure ballet right there.
21:59If you see his eyes, his eyes never come off the ball.
22:02I still love seeing him when NFL Films shows him.
22:06He looked like a flying circus.
22:08It's too high.
22:09Everybody is going by one catch.
22:12And it doesn't deserve all that.
22:14Certainly not in the top ten.
22:16And certainly not in the top five.
22:19Terry knows he can depend on me.
22:21He knows I won't come back on the hill and say,
22:23Terry, I'm open, I'm open, throw the ball.
22:25He knows if I come in, it's because I set up the defense in back.
22:28If I tell him, we'll run it.
22:29That game helped make him a Hall of Famer.
22:41I mean, we see those highlights over and over and over again.
22:45We're going to do backflips because they've made nice highlights.
22:48In Super Bowl X against a really good Cowboys team,
22:51he made the plays that made the difference.
22:53Super Bowl X, that Sunday, that was my day.
22:58Forever.
23:00Super Bowl performance of all time.
23:03Adam Vinatieri in Super Bowls 36 and 38.
23:07Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
23:09He was one of three in Super Bowl 38.
23:12You got to put Adam Vinatieri up there simply because
23:16without those kicks, the Patriots aren't the Patriots.
23:19And now Adam Vinatieri can be the hero for the Patriots.
23:23You mean to tell me that you invited me all the way back to Philadelphia
23:28to ask me about a lousy kicker?
23:31Super Bowl performances by kickers are usually remembered more for being harrowing than heroic.
23:37And Martin Blumatica looking like Garo Yopremian from 30 years ago.
23:41Garo Yopremian lost his head and tried to throw a pass.
23:44And while Jim O'Brien booted Baltimore to its first Super Bowl championship,
23:49The kick is up, it is long enough, it is fast!
23:53The writers voted the Cowboys Chuck Howley the MVP.
24:02Kickers are people too.
24:03I am sick and tired of kickers getting kicked around.
24:06We agree.
24:08Adam Vinatieri makes our list because he made a once-in-a-lifetime Super Bowl game-winning
24:13kick.
24:14Twice.
24:15Twice.
24:16The Patriots are Super Bowl champion!
24:19When you were watching the games was when he came in to kick.
24:21You never thought about him missing.
24:23Ball is on the far hash mark.
24:25You never thought about how far it was.
24:27This one will be 47 yards.
24:29You never thought about what the conditions were.
24:32Adam Vinatieri kicks it through the snow!
24:34He comes on the field to make us kick in a big spot, and you just say, well, he's going
24:39to make it.
24:40He kicked the Patriots past the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.
24:44Snap, ball down, kick up, kick is on the way, and it is good!
24:48And the Patriots are Super Bowl champions!
24:52Hey, be me, what can I say?
24:54And he drilled the game-winner in Super Bowl XXXVIII against the Panthers.
24:58Snap, ball down, kick up, kick is on the way, kick is good!
25:02Hey, that game was only prevented from going to overtime because the other team's kicker
25:10kicked it out of bounds and spotted them 15 yards of field position, or 20.
25:16When he had to have it, he got it.
25:23Adam Vinatieri with the money on the table, bangs it through!
25:27Adam Vinatieri?
25:29Best Super Bowl performance ever?
25:30No.
25:31Sorry.
25:32Look at his 2003 Super Bowl.
25:34First quarter, 31-yard kick, wide right.
25:37No good.
25:38A 31-yard field goal.
25:39In our zone is missed.
25:42Blocked.
25:43Snap, play, kick is blocked!
25:45And the Panthers have stopped the Patriots again!
25:48We don't need the late-game heroics if you do your job in the first quarter.
25:51Come on, fellas, don't let them hang around.
25:53He had what he would probably grade a D-kicking day that day.
25:58How important is a kicker?
26:01Scott Norwood.
26:02He can fire the shot heard around the world now.
26:05They're never as important as people think they are until you need them.
26:09The Buffalo Bills had a tremendous opportunity to beat the Giants in a Super Bowl.
26:14No good!
26:16Giants win!
26:17Giants win!
26:18Wide right cost Bobby Bowden three national championships.
26:22Wide right!
26:24No good!
26:25If he makes the play, that results in you holding up the Lombardi trophy.
26:30The best team in the National Football League!
26:33He has a place in football history, along with all the great players at every other position.
26:37All you gotta do is look at Adam Vinatieri and figure out, if he couldn't get it done,
26:43how many rings the Patriots would have.
26:45This is the moment you've all been waiting for.
26:49Enjoy!
26:51I say zero.
26:54Why?
26:54I say zero rings.
26:55Some players wait an entire career for a shot at embracing the Lombardi trophy.
27:01Reggie White switched from green and silver to green and gold before he could hoist his
27:05hollered prize.
27:06The Vicks Lombardi trophy is coming home!
27:09Michael Strahan took his final bow at Super Bowl XLII.
27:13Back to throw.
27:14Sets in the pocket.
27:15He sacked by Michael Strahan!
27:16He culminated a 15-year-old career as a Curtain fan.
27:21We love the Super Bowl!
27:22Oh, sweet home, baby!
27:26Jerome Bettis picked up his trophy on the final stop of a distinguished career.
27:32I'm a champion, and I think the bus' last stop is here in Detroit.
27:36John Elway played 15 seasons before he was fitted with a pair of championship rings.
27:43My goodness!
27:44You want to tell me the 37-year-old man doesn't want to win this game?
27:47Man, oh, man.
27:47That sacrifice.
27:49I'll do that.
27:49I saw rings going to look on your finger.
27:51But no one needed to win a Super Bowl more than this 49er star.
27:56Steve Young, number three Super Bowl performance of all time.
28:00Steve Young in Super Bowl XXIX.
28:03He should be number one.
28:06You know, you wake up in the morning of the Super Bowl, and you say to yourself,
28:11tonight, tonight, my life will be different.
28:14One way or another, my life is going to be different.
28:17Steve Young arrived at Super Bowl XXIX carrying a heavy load.
28:22The weight of Joe Montana's shadow.
28:25Throughout his whole career as a football franchise quarterback,
28:28nothing he did was ever good enough.
28:30He had won the passing title.
28:31What a play by Steve Young!
28:33He had won the MVP award.
28:35And yet, every time he lost, people would say, well, Joe would have won that game.
28:39Gets back up, and it's landed out of the 16-yard line.
28:43Then he lost the ball.
28:44And for the second time, he's still the best.
28:48He always wins it.
28:49Radiance were always great.
28:50The numbers were always great.
28:51And no Super Bowl wins.
28:52When you're supplanting a quarterback, team, that's a great deal of pressure.
28:59Once our number three performer made it to the ball, no one was going to...
29:06And a play fake.
29:08Young goes deep middle.
29:09He's got Gary Wright.
29:10Touchdown 49ers.
29:11That's one.
29:12First touchdown of a game.
29:14Comes in for only a minute and 24 seconds.
29:17That was Steve Young's coming out party.
29:18You could see that coming a mile away, man.
29:20That was a freight train coming a mile down the road,
29:23and it was nothing you could do to stop it.
29:25Young with a play fake.
29:26Raps back to throw.
29:27Deep middle.
29:28Waters equates.
29:29Over the shoulder.
29:29That's two.
29:30He bounces away.
29:31He bounces away again.
29:33Oh, what a minute.
29:34Ricky Waters made that touchdown.
29:37Sorry, San Diego.
29:38You know, sorry.
29:40But he was going to unleash all of that pent-up frustration.
29:44Young goes back to throw.
29:46Quick pass to the goal line.
29:47Floyd falls in.
29:48Touchdown.
29:48That's three.
29:49Shut him down again.
29:51One more time.
29:51All right, baby.
29:52One more time.
29:53That really was his moment in time where he was going to put his stamp on the game.
29:59Quick pass.
30:00Left flat.
30:00Ricky Waters makes the catch.
30:02He's in.
30:02Touchdown.
30:03Young has got four touchdown passes.
30:05We're in the first half.
30:06Steve Young on his way to a rating of about 300.
30:10His opponent wasn't the Chargers.
30:12What he was playing that day was the ghost of Joe Montana.
30:15Montana puts it on the hip.
30:17Comes back.
30:17Throws for the end zone.
30:19Touchdown 49ers.
30:20Five touchdown passes.
30:22That's the record.
30:23He had to win the game.
30:24And because of the team he was playing against, he had to win it in historic fashion.
30:28Back to throw is Young.
30:30Throws it across the middle.
30:31Catch by Rice.
30:32Feeds the defender on the play.
30:34Touchdown 49ers.
30:35The fifth touchdown pass of the game by Steve Young tying him with Joe Montana for the most
30:41in Super Bowl history.
30:42Joe was Joe.
30:44Steve would never be Joe.
30:45But Steve would do something Joe never did.
30:47He threw six touchdowns.
30:48Young.
30:49Quick pass.
30:49To me, it was a mind-boggling performance.
30:59Yeah, Steve with his six touchdowns.
31:01A great performance.
31:02An almost perfect performance, really.
31:04I mean, he probably could have thrown more.
31:05I don't think I really want him to.
31:07Someone take the monkey off my back, please.
31:12Oh, thank you.
31:12Oh, thank you.
31:15That's gone forever.
31:16Somebody take the monkey off my back.
31:18I mean, I perfectly understand what he was saying there.
31:21That was his opportunity to finally stand on equal footing with Joe Montana.
31:26Yeah!
31:27Yeah!
31:27Yeah!
31:28Yeah!
31:28Yeah!
31:29I can't remember ever being around someone hugging the trophy with more feeling than you
31:34are right now, Steve.
31:35He's earned his own spot in the empire, so to speak.
31:39Everyone in this room made a commitment.
31:41And we're there.
31:42And no one can ever, ever, take it away from us, ever!
31:46Running backs can not only carry a team to victory, they can carry their team to a Super
31:51Bowl championship.
31:53Larry Zonka helped the Dolphins repeat with 145 yards and two touchdowns in Super Bowl VIII.
31:59Larry Zonka carries it in.
32:01So far, it's been all Miami.
32:04Oh, Larry Zonka.
32:05That's right.
32:07In Super Bowl XXXII, members Terrell Davis leg John Elway and the Broncos to their first
32:12world title with 157 yards and three touchdowns.
32:17Third rushing touchdown.
32:19That's a Super Bowl record for TD.
32:22This is it, baby.
32:23Shut up, man.
32:24And in Super Bowl XXVIII, Emmitt Smith capped an MVP season by winning MVP of the season
32:31for 132 yards.
32:33A draw to Smith.
32:36Half of the breaks away.
32:37It's hit.
32:38Two-five.
32:39Touchdown, Emmitt Smith.
32:40But none of these workhorses produced a signature run like the thoroughbred that made our list.
32:46Is it Marcus Allen?
32:49Two.
32:50Two.
32:52The number two Super Bowl performance of all time.
32:55Marcus Allen in Super Bowl XVIII.
32:58How important is Marcus Allen to this team?
33:01How important is our treasury to this country?
33:05Three, two, run.
33:06Touchdown, Raiders!
33:07I was seeing something that I had really, quite frankly, never seen before.
33:12You don't teach that kind of running.
33:15This is reaction.
33:16This is a great running back.
33:17Then I remember Ronald Reagan's postgame call to the locker room.
33:22I have already had a call from Moscow.
33:25They think that Marcus Allen is a new secret weapon, and they insist that we dismantle it.
33:30We could use someone like you.
33:33It just, it was, it was cringe-inducing.
33:36Our number two performer was the challenger to John Riggins' defending champion, Washington Redskins,
33:45who eyed a title repeat after a record-setting 1983 season.
33:50The Redskins were a great team.
33:52I mean, they were the defending world champions.
33:54The Washington Redskins have an NFL championship.
33:57They were 14-2 a year, the league's MVP, the league's all-time leading rushing touchdowns,
34:03touchdowns, all-time leading rushing touchdowns in a season, all-time leading, still the all-time
34:09leader in turnover differential.
34:11They had set the record for points in a season.
34:14Touchdown, John Riggins!
34:15And their defense wasn't bad either.
34:18The Redskins were so confident.
34:21You could see it even when we went out to the field for warm-ups.
34:23They were so confident.
34:25They were going to beat us.
34:28On game day, Allen came, Allen saw, and then he conquered, stunning the Redskins with a then-record
34:38191 yards rushing and two scores.
34:41Everything turned into slow motion.
34:43Give it Allen, second back.
34:44He's nice, throw it, guys, to the goal line.
34:47Touchdown, Raiders!
34:49I mean, I was just in a completely free, you know, environment and doing whatever I wanted to do.
34:54It made everything look so easy.
34:55Anybody that can cut back like that, dart, change holes, jump over people like he did.
35:00You just run by him and around him in every way you can.
35:03He was a fantastic talent.
35:05On the last play of the third quarter, the most famous broken run in Super Bowl history
35:13clinched our number two performance.
35:15The play was called 17 Bob Trurio.
35:17Even now, whenever I see that highlight, I get tingles when I remember John Facenda saying,
35:23here comes Marcus Allen running with the night.
35:26On came Marcus Allen running with the night.
35:31I mean, it was like a thoroughbred at the Kentucky Derby.
35:44Touchdown, Raiders!
35:46It was just unforgettable.
35:48He may have run a total of close to 100 yards on that play.
35:51You would think they would have put his hands on his knees.
35:54He would have been sucking for air.
35:56He wasn't.
35:56He wasn't.
35:57He didn't even phase him.
35:58Marcus Allen has just framed full title of All World for 1983.
36:07Super Bowls are all about moments.
36:10You've got all these Washington Redskins just laying on the ground as he's running through them.
36:14I have never seen anyone run against the Redskins like this.
36:17That is definitely one of the top two performances in the history of any Super Bowl.
36:22See, when I look back on it, I look at the whole thing.
36:24And I look at the way he controlled that game.
36:27He was the MVP of that game before he ever took that handoff.
36:31Then he becomes an all-time player when he gets to the end zone.
36:35Silver and black football is king of the hill.
36:38Just win, David.
36:41And now, the number one Super Bowl performance of all time.
36:45Doug Williams in Super Bowl XXII.
36:47Number one.
36:48Switch.
36:50Doug Williams' performance in Super Bowl XXII is what dreams are made of.
36:55Play action fake.
36:57Williams going up top.
36:58Got Sanders on the fly.
36:59Good field.
36:59He's gone.
37:00The 30, the 20, the 15, the 10.
37:03Touchdown, Washington Redskins.
37:06It was a performance that you could make a movie about.
37:07Nobody would believe it.
37:10Clark at the goal line.
37:12He's got it.
37:13This was just a backup guy.
37:16And then he comes in and he does that.
37:18That was remarkable.
37:21Yeah, yeah.
37:22Very cool.
37:22Even more remarkable is how much our number one Super Bowl performer had to overcome to put the Redskins in position to win.
37:30That game was a soap opera.
37:32It looked for a moment that once again, things were going to go very badly for the Redskins.
37:38Can you believe that?
37:39In one play, the Broncos are up.
37:42Well, the Redskins are stunned.
37:44The Redskins are stunned.
37:46The Redskins are stunned.
37:47Trailing 10-0, Washington got its biggest scare from its own quarterback.
37:52Did you see him twist his leg when he went down?
37:54Doug Williams.
37:55Oh, my goodness.
37:55He's got to have a sore leg.
37:56Oh, no.
37:58When Doug goes down, you're thinking, oh, it's over.
38:01He's not coming back.
38:02And we all thought, uh-oh, it's going to be Schrader.
38:05So, here comes Schrader.
38:07You do not want Jay Schrader in your game.
38:11Shut out against the Giants the previous NFC Championship game.
38:15You do not want Jay Schrader on the field.
38:18That day that Jay Schrader was going to play.
38:23Washington's offense is back on the football field, and so is number 17, Doug Williams.
38:27He came back into the game, and boom.
38:30Well, Doug Williams and company light it up, and they're back in his game.
38:35He's hard to realize that Denver was on top 10-0.
38:38What a turnaround.
38:39We are seeing a virtuoso performance.
38:42I was just absolutely amazed at the precision with which he ran that offense.
38:47He's got Sanders in the clear at the 10.
38:50Touchdown.
38:53Second quarter was delightful.
38:54A monster quarter for Washington.
38:56His second quarter was absolutely perfection at the quarterback position.
39:00That's a new Super Bowl record.
39:02Four touchdowns in one quarter.
39:04It was like calling a fireworks display.
39:09You know, they just kept scoring and scoring and scoring.
39:12I'm flabbergasted at what was he just doing to Denver this morning.
39:15It became a slaughter.
39:16300 is 22 yards and a quarter.
39:19That's one of those no-moss games.
39:21This was a fight.
39:21They might stop it.
39:22Second half was like covering a funeral.
39:25If you're a Denver fan, that ain't a pretty sight.
39:26Our number one performer finished with 340 yards passing to go along with his Super Bowl record four touchdown passes in one quarter.
39:36One of the greatest feats, not only in the history of Super Bowls, but in the history of sports.
39:41Doug Williams, he is having a dream day for our quarterback.
39:44Doug Williams, Super Bowl XXIII, clearly the greatest performance in the history of Super Bowls.
39:55Not even close.
39:57He was a black quarterback breaking down the racial bearer for winning the Super Bowl.
40:02The first black quarterback to start a Super Bowl, the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl.
40:07Playing for all the people that have gone before him, the Marlon Briscoe, the James Harris, the Joe Gillian.
40:13He had to fulfill all those expectations, and he came up with one of the great Super Bowl performances.
40:19I think that's a big part of why he's number one.
40:21You can justify Doug Williams' place on this list any number of ways.
40:26I think you take the numbers, I think you take the circumstance, you take the fact the team was down at the time.
40:32I think it has no peer.
40:35And the statement he made by the way he played, I think is, it's one that's unique, and it's one that I think should be cherished.
40:43Our masterpiece is finally finished, so do we have a work of art or a work in progress?
40:49Great job!
40:50Picture perfect, not one mistake.
40:53Are you out of your mind?
40:54And while our countdown may be complete, the debate rages on.
40:59Timmy Smith is way too high.
41:01I disagree with that.
41:02Adam Vinatieri ends up number four.
41:04You want to rank that ahead of Lin Swan?
41:06How about the performance, you know, of Eli in that offense just this last year?
41:11Eli, to his critics, how you like me now?
41:14I think I might rank Elway's performance ahead of that.
41:18That is exactly right.
41:20He might be an honorable mention, but no.
41:24Look, I think it was BS to have Doug Williams at number one over Steve Young.
41:29I don't care what about the context is.
41:33Steve Young threw six touchdowns.
41:37He threw three of them to running backs and fullbacks.
41:39Anybody could throw a touchdown to a receiver.
41:41He had half of his touchdowns to running backs and fullbacks.
41:47He was the game's leading rusher with Ricky Waters and Natron Means on the field.
41:55So he was a dual threat quarterback and the greatest dual threat in the Super Bowl.
42:00And we're talking about context and breaking barriers.
42:08Six is more than four.
42:09Six is more than four.
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