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10-6 Giants vs 18-0 Patriots in the Super Bowl? Not the outcome anyone expected
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00:00We really believed we were going to win.
00:02We didn't feel at all like we were a 13-point underdog.
00:06This year, the AFL had another underdog represented.
00:09A team that couldn't win its own division during regular season.
00:13But Coach Hank Stram and his Kansas City Wild West Variety Show
00:16came to town with talent and pride.
00:19The fourth Super Bowl was the tenth and final year of the AFL.
00:25Going into its final game, this rival league wasn't given any respect.
00:30The Chiefs were viewed as one-time losers.
00:33They'd been blown out of Super Bowl I.
00:42Hey, let's go, man!
00:45We took on the Minnesota Vikings.
00:47The Vikings had been dominant in the NFL that year.
00:50Here, the feeling going into the game was that the Vikings were an unbeatable team.
00:55Top offense and defense in the NFL.
00:59The Vikings scored the most points, permitted the fewest,
01:02and dished out such punishment along the way
01:05that they came to be known as the Purple Game.
01:08We're talking about the Purple People Eaters of Minnesota, and they were tough.
01:16Upset unfolded, it was obvious that the AFL team had been greatly underestimated.
01:21He's going to go!
01:23The Chiefs matched up with the Vikings in almost lethal ways.
01:29Get the Chiefs!
01:30Our defense is the area that really dominated that football game.
01:34They took away their running game.
01:36They took away their passing game.
01:38Andrew Joe Capright there.
01:40They're beating the fans at the NFL.
01:57The Chiefs were in motion shift almost every play.
02:00We're catching them moving a little bit.
02:02They're not ready for that quick count.
02:04Look at them running around.
02:05They didn't even know where to go on the lineup.
02:07They had to sell it, he was running around there like it was a Chinese fire drill.
02:10Hankstrom put together one hell of a game plan.
02:12Just keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys.
02:15We're at 65 toss power trap.
02:1765 toss power trap.
02:20That might pop wide open, Rats.
02:21And there was a gaping hole there for Mike Garrett.
02:24Touchdown.
02:25Garrett, sir.
02:26I tell you that, baby, I'm there.
02:28Yes, sir, boys.
02:32So when we won that Super Bowl,
02:35it was a vindication for 10 years of a lot of blood, sweat, and tears.
02:42That went into the AFL.
02:44It really is a satisfying conclusion to the 10 years of the American Football League.
02:50It can't be an upset, though.
02:52Why?
02:53Super Bowl III, the Jets, who were nowhere near as good as the Chiefs of 69,
03:01beat the Colts in 68, who were better than the Vikings of 69.
03:08So if the Jets already beat the Colts, how can the Chiefs not beat the Vikings?
03:14Huge upsets are nothing new in pro football.
03:18In the 1940 NFL championship game,
03:20the Chicago Bears embarrassed the heavily favored Washington Redskins
03:24in the most lopsided game in NFL history.
03:27There's not very much you can say when you lose a game 73 to nothing.
03:31I told them it was one over par.
03:32In Miami's Orange Bowl, the experts predicted a Seahawks defeat
03:37at the hands of the defending AFC champion, Dolphins.
03:41In 1983, the Cinderella Seahawks beat Miami.
03:49Touchdown, Seahawks!
03:50One great battling job, I tell you what.
03:55And who can forget in 1998, when the Cardinals won their first playoff game in 50 years.
04:01Drows it down the middle, it's caught by Sanders, to the 10, to the 5, he scores!
04:06No one gave him a chance to win this football game.
04:12The number 9 upset of all time, the Vikings shot the 49ers.
04:17Very few postseason games I've ever seen that surprised me more than that one.
04:21The Vikings advance to the NSA championship game.
04:24A game the Niners weren't supposed to lose.
04:26Joe Montana at the height of his powers.
04:28Jerry Rice coming into his own.
04:29How do you like it, man?
04:31Yeah!
04:34Our number 9 upset took place during the strike-shortened 1987 season
04:39and involved one of football's most powerful dynasties.
04:42The 49ers were 13-2.
04:45Their offense was ranked first in the league.
04:47Their defense was ranked first in the league.
04:49And they looked like they were as good as the teams that had won the previous Super Bowls.
04:51And there was every reason I think they were going to go on to win this Super Bowl.
04:54Montana looking, throwing for right.
04:56Touchdown!
04:57Do you have any idea how demoralizing that is for a defense?
05:02Brooks, Rose, and Joan.
05:04Intercepted!
05:05The Vikings were 8-7 that year.
05:07Mediocre on both sides of the ball.
05:09They're playing the Vikings.
05:10A team that, on paper, was not their equal.
05:14It's loose!
05:15It's a left!
05:16I thought the 49ers were going to run the Vikings right out the front door
05:20and right into the bay.
05:24The Niners, 11-point favorites today.
05:26And the pick of most of the experts to win it all again.
05:29Then as soon as the 49er-Viking game begins,
05:32it's as if you've entered a parallel universe.
05:35Joe Montana looking slower and slower
05:37as the age and the Viking pass rush begin to catch up with him.
05:39Joe Montana.
05:42Age?
05:43He was 31.
05:45One of the only times ever in a big game
05:47wasn't himself, wasn't on.
05:50The one sideline pass that he threw
05:51that got intercepted and returned for a touchdown
05:53might be as bad a pass as Joe's ever thrown in his career.
05:56Yeah, the near sideline to the 20!
05:57The 15!
06:06As shocking as shocking is that during that game,
06:08Montana was pulled from the game
06:10and he was replaced by Steve Young.
06:13But not even the help of another future Hall of Famer
06:16could prevent our number nine upset from happening.
06:19The Vikings have won it!
06:21Playoff loss to the Vikings in 87
06:22was probably the most traumatic experience I've had in sports.
06:26Bill Walsh stripped of his presidency
06:28right after the game by irate owner Eddie DiBartolo
06:31who proclaimed,
06:33he's not the president anymore, I am.
06:35That's when you know your boss is mad.
06:37It's a disappointing loss for the 49ers.
06:40The 87 team really should have been a Super Bowl team.
06:42Even the people from Minnesota,
06:44I don't think really thought
06:45that they were going to go into San Francisco
06:46and win that game.
06:47Only a bit early.
06:49The number eight upset of all time.
06:51Big Blues, big win in Super Bowl XXV.
06:55If Norwood doesn't miss the field goal,
06:58then we're talking a different game here.
06:59Here comes number 11, Scott Norwood,
07:01and he will have a chance to win the Super Bowl for the Bills.
07:05Stack, spot, in the air,
07:07it's got the distance in,
07:09no goal!
07:11Giants win!
07:12Giants win!
07:14Norwood going wide of the goal posts
07:16was essentially a stamp of approval
07:19for Haas Dettler's mustache,
07:20and we can't have that.
07:21Yeah, that was terrible.
07:23Yeah, that was terrible.
07:27Nineteen.
07:43season of upsets for the New York football Giants.
07:45First, they had to win without their starting quarterback.
07:48And Simpsons, they love that play.
07:51Giant fans expected great defenses.
07:55And they were hoping that Haas Dettler wouldn't screw it up too badly.
07:59Nobody on the bandwagon.
08:00Everybody was a pessimist.
08:02Everybody was,
08:03hey, look what you've got a quarterback.
08:05Here's your weak link.
08:06He's never going to be able to do it.
08:07Even without scoring a touchdown in the NFC Championship,
08:11Haas Dettler staged a victory for the team.
08:14Kick has always got the distance.
08:16It is good!
08:18Good!
08:18And the Saints are going to Tampa Bay!
08:21They beat a great 49er team in San Francisco,
08:24but they went on a last-second field goal.
08:26The Bills absolutely obliterate the Oakland Raiders.
08:29He rested for the score!
08:31A versatile back.
08:32He will score!
08:33A quarterback who made quick, snap decisions.
08:36What a throw by Kelly!
08:38And it is done for the touchdown by Andre Reid!
08:42Andre Reid, obviously a veteran guy like James Lofton.
08:46Touchdown!
08:47James Lofton, touchdown!
08:49They've had a great offensive year,
08:51and they're coming off their best offensive performance.
08:53And there are a lot of people that are comparing it
08:54to the great offenses of all time.
08:56And he is good for the touchdown!
08:58Almost everybody I know thought that the Bills were going to win
09:01and maybe win huge.
09:02Oh, my God, they're going to kill him!
09:06Very early on, we took out the Iraqi Air Force.
09:09We did what could best be described as the Hail Mary play in football.
09:16While the U.S. was winning the first Gulf War by going deep,
09:20the Giants launched a ground attack
09:22against the seven-point favorite Bills
09:23that would have made General Schwarzkopf proud.
09:27Let's run the ball.
09:28Let's take time off the clock.
09:29Let's limit their possessions.
09:30Let's limit their snaps.
09:31Because the one thing the Giants couldn't afford to do
09:33was turn it into a high-snap kind of game.
09:35Because the more the Bills had the ball,
09:37it was going to play to the Bills' advantage.
09:41OJs, what's up?
09:43The Giants have taken the lead!
09:45The Giants' strategy gave them a one-point lead
09:48late in the fourth quarter,
09:49where the Bills set the stage
09:50for one of football's most memorable moments.
09:53Here we go!
09:55Spot!
09:56In the air!
09:57It's got the distance!
09:58It is!
09:59Oh, good!
10:01All right, Dennis!
10:04That's an upset!
10:05That's an upset!
10:07Boom, Norwood!
10:09In the NFL, the whole...
10:24Every conceivable, intangible face them.
10:27They can't play in cold weather.
10:29And this Bucs team doesn't look the least but cold.
10:32It's the same team that's knocked them out of the playoffs
10:34the previous two years,
10:36where they hadn't even scored a touchdown.
10:37It's intercepted!
10:38And the 10 to the 20!
10:40He's gone!
10:40Going coast-to-coast!
10:41Rodney Barber!
10:42Intangibles don't wear shoulder pads.
10:44The 79 Oilers shouldered the divisional playoffs
10:47without an injured Dan Pastorini or Earl Campbell.
10:51The men who took their places weren't much healthier.
10:54Rob Coffender, who arrived at the game on crutches
10:57and then threw them away to lead the Oilers in rushing.
11:01Houston still stole the Bolt's thunder.
11:05But these backups couldn't knock another group of replacements off our list.
11:09The number seven upset of all time,
11:11the Redskins' Scabs beat the Cowboys.
11:15They've been called Scabs, Scrubs, and Subs.
11:18But they'll be representing Washington as a pro football team.
11:21We are the Washington Redskins!
11:24Actually, the Washington Redskins were on strike in 1987,
11:27as was the rest of the NFL Players Union.
11:30They are not willing to address any of the players' concerns.
11:33Teams of replacement players were assembled with often nightmarish results.
11:38It was the biggest bastardization in the history of pro football.
11:42Redskins football!
11:44Redskins football!
11:45The Redskins were the only team that never broke ranks during the strike.
11:49We had no individuals that ever crossed the picket line,
11:53were never even close to crossing the picket line.
11:55I think it's a team effort, and that's the most important thing.
12:01Hello again, everyone, and welcome to Texas Stadium
12:03for this, the final replacement game of the NFL season.
12:07Ironically, the last replacement game was our Washington Redskins replacements
12:12against the Dallas Cowboys squad
12:14that had probably had eight to ten guys cross the picket line.
12:17You had Tony Dorsett.
12:19Tony Dorsett, touchdown!
12:20Yeah.
12:21Yeah.
12:32What this new replacement skin squad is, is making a serious error.
12:40What skin squad is, is making a serious error.
12:44To take down America's team,
12:46Bethan was willing to take talent from anywhere.
12:49The guy I remember is Tony Robinson, the quarterback.
12:52They got him out of jail or something.
12:54The Redskins had their quarterback get hurt during the game,
12:58and halfway through the game, they're putting in Tony Robinson,
13:01who had just been released from prison on a cocaine charge.
13:04Bobby Becker, the Redskins general manager,
13:06somehow negotiated with prison officials to get him out.
13:10And he's out there on Monday night football
13:12against the Dallas Cowboys, throwing passes.
13:14Robinson back, gets the blitz, gets rid of the football.
13:18And Robinson, very cool under tremendous pressure.
13:21He played a hell of a game.
13:23I mean, he was the hero.
13:25Vitale takes the fake.
13:26Then it's Robinson, who just drops it backwards to Wilson.
13:31And Dallas caught completely by surprise.
13:33They win the game.
13:34The strike ends.
13:36He goes to prison in Tennessee.
13:37He was in jail.
13:41Maybe the Cowboys' problem was that several names crossed the line.
13:45The chemistry just wasn't the same,
13:47and there was a lot more chemistry on that Washington sideline.
13:51I guess there's a lot to be said for Team Unity.
13:54That upset remains one of the greatest in team history.
13:58They made a movie about it, obviously.
14:00So is the upset that inspired Keanu Reeves as a scab QB,
14:04and the replacements ranked too low at number seven?
14:07Oh, in the history of the National Football League,
14:09I think I would move it up to, like, fifth?
14:11Maybe fourth?
14:13It was a replacement game.
14:17The number six upset of all time,
14:20the Jags beat Denver in the 96 playoffs.
14:26Jaguars have done the improbable.
14:28The Jaguars are going to the championship game,
14:32and they have stunned John Elway.
14:37In 1996, the divisional playoffs saw the AFC's top-seeded Denver Broncos
14:42host a Jacksonville team that was one Morton Anderson kick
14:46from watching the playoffs at home.
14:48From 31 yards, and it's no good!
14:51It's no good!
14:52It's no good!
14:53And the Jaguars are going to the playoffs!
14:56The Denver Broncos...
14:58Morton Anderson.
15:01He'll never make a kick in a big game.
15:04Anyway.
15:09We're 13-3, the number one seed in the AFC.
15:12I call the president!
15:14The president, we need a national guard.
15:16We need as many men as you can fare,
15:18because we are killing the Patriots.
15:19And here comes this upstart team,
15:22the Jacksonville Jaguars,
15:23only around for a few years.
15:25We're for real!
15:26Time to prove it!
15:27It was no fear.
15:29And we really never thought Jacksonville was going to beat us.
15:33Yeah, we ready!
15:34I didn't care that we were $14.100.
15:37The second-year team found extra motivation
15:39in the Rocky Mountain News.
15:41We were called the Jaguars, I think, in the paper.
15:44All of that played into the story.
15:46It was just like a fairy tale, like a storybook.
15:49Is this great or not?
15:51We were going to...
16:07No, it won't.
16:10Early on, the Broncos looked like the better team.
16:17But Jacksonville took the lead in the second quarter
16:20and never relinquished it.
16:22The Broncos have really let them off the hook.
16:24The Broncos got in trouble,
16:25and they couldn't fight their way through it.
16:27Let's go now!
16:28Keep it on them now!
16:28Keep it on them!
16:29Keep it on them!
16:30The Jaguars came in with a good game plan.
16:33I mean, they ran the ball with consistency.
16:35Natron Means got carry after carry after carry.
16:38Keep moving!
16:39Keep moving!
16:42The Jaguars send out Mark Brunel.
16:46Brunel added another dimension.
16:48You cannot keep him in the pocket.
16:51Brunel!
16:51What a move!
16:54Still on his feet!
16:55Mark Brunel with a masterful run!
16:57He out-John Elway's John.
17:00He was a Steve Young light.
17:04Same number, same...
17:06Some of the same skills.
17:08Left-handed.
17:10One of my favorite quarterbacks.
17:13Oh, and he's number 61 on Bleacher Report's top 100 quarterbacks of all time.
17:20This has to be why.
17:23...on Elway, and they out-Bronco the Broncos.
17:26Looking for Jimmy in the end zone!
17:28Touchdown Jaguars!
17:30Touchdown Jaguars!
17:31Touchdown Jaguars!
17:33They were called Jaguads in the paper this morning, and yet they've got the crowd stunned.
17:38The Jacksonville Jaguars have upset Denver.
17:43It wasn't just a loss, I mean, that was a traumatic loss.
17:47It was gut-wrenching.
17:48Gut-wrenching because we'll let it slip through our fingers.
17:50So a lot of hopes in this season, going down the drain here for the Broncos.
17:55Even though I'd lost three Super Bowls before that, that Jacksonville game was the biggest loss of my life.
18:01And now, the number 5 upset of all time.
18:04John Elway wins Super Bowl XXXII.
18:09They put the biggest loss of Elway's life, and then they followed it up with the biggest win of his
18:15life.
18:18In one of the most stunning Super Bowls in NFL history, our number 5 upset features the wild card.
18:35Because it's really the only answer I had.
18:37But, the bottom line is, no, I would not have been satisfied if we were never able to say that
18:42I was a world champion and were a Super Bowl ring.
18:46You had the defending champion, Packers, coming back.
18:50Everyone had a say in it.
18:52Everyone got it done.
18:53You had Brett Favre coming back off another MVP season.
18:57An absolutely gorgeous throw by Brett Favre.
19:00I think at the start of the season, we felt like we were going to go back to the Super
19:03Bowl.
19:03We were really a good team.
19:05We were more confident than we were the year before.
19:10They beat better teams in 97 in the postseason and the regular season than they did in 96.
19:19There was no reason to think they shouldn't have blown the Broncos out.
19:25Division champions.
19:26Way to go, Nielsen!
19:29Broncos on three!
19:30One, two, three!
19:31Broncos!
19:32Denver was a 12-point underdog, and Super Bowl XXXII started off like groundhog day for Elway.
19:38Back there is Antonio Freeman.
19:40Touchdown, Packers!
19:41And the Packers score right away.
19:43A 76-yard touchdown drive on the very first series of the game.
19:49And the game started much like a lot of the Broncos' Super Bowls.
19:52They went right down the field.
19:54I can remember John and I looking at each other like, oh, no.
19:57We're going to win this one!
19:59We're going to win this one!
20:03Maybe shaking up.
20:04This would be costly for the Broncos.
20:07Migraines are more of a condition, and it deals with not only headaches, but for me, visually, I can't see.
20:14What's that?
20:15Can't see.
20:16Okay, just do this.
20:17And his response was something like, well, it doesn't matter if you can see or not.
20:21You don't worry about seeing it in this place because we're going to fake it to you the 15th lead.
20:24We sort of need you in this game so that they think we're going to run the football.
20:29But if you're not in there, they won't believe we're going to run, okay?
20:32Play fake, Elway rolls right.
20:34He can run it in, John, and will clock into the end zone.
20:37Touchdown!
20:38After recovering from his migraine, Davis was a real headache for the Packers and was named Super Bowl MVP.
20:45But it was John Elway's heads-up play that defined our number five upset.
20:51He dies!
20:52I said the five-yard line!
20:53My goodness!
20:54You want to tell me that a 37-year-old man doesn't want to win this game?
20:57Yeah, no, man.
20:58That's sacrifice.
20:59That play right there gave our football team a mindset that, hey, we're fixing to get this done no matter
21:04what.
21:05I think the crowd here smells the upset.
21:07That's a guy that can create something when it's not there.
21:10I mean, for him to lay it on the line like that, that just shows you how important that game
21:13was to him.
21:14So when he's doing that, it's like, oh, you know, I can't give anything less than that.
21:18Davis!
21:23And look at this bum, Derek Loville, um, wasted multiple years of Steve Young's prime after they let Ricky Waters
21:34walk to let him start.
21:36And he wants to scream at a camera, go sit back down on the bench.
21:46This team is not better enough, they're not even good!
21:49I think we really underestimated Denver that year.
21:51The Perkos are world champions!
21:53We were huge favorites, and they outplayed us.
21:56Not to take anything from them, they outplayed us.
21:59They have shocked everybody!
22:01I still get shivers when I think about it.
22:02I still get shivers because I can remember exactly how it felt.
22:06This one's for John!
22:10The number four upset of all time, the Browns' 1950 opening day game.
22:171950, Browns vs. Eagles.
22:18Ironic as it may seem, Pro Football's World Series takes place the first week of the 1950 season
22:23as the Cleveland Browns, champions of the All-American Conference,
22:26take on the defending kingpins of the NFL, the Philadelphia Eagles.
22:30No one gave the Browns a chance to win.
22:35Cleveland joined the NFL after the All-American Football Conference dissolved in 1949.
22:40But at the time, the Browns were considered more of a rogue outfit than a legitimate organization.
22:46The owners, the executives of the NFL, looked down on the All-American Conference.
22:51Both the players weren't as good, both the coaches weren't as good.
22:54They thought it was a minor league product.
22:56They laughed at Paul Brown.
22:57They called him a high school coach.
23:02The NFL viewed the former AAFC team as nothing more than a carnival act,
23:07with its run-and-gun offense and unusual off-the-field activities.
23:12The players, during their free time, engage in some sports activity.
23:17Keeps them in shape, they say.
23:18Burt Bell, who personally made up the league schedule,
23:21scheduled the first game was going to be the Philadelphia Eagles.
23:24The Eagles were two-time defending champions and viewed as the real class act in pro football.
23:30We're going to open the season against the Cleveland Browns in Philadelphia.
23:34And that was no accident.
23:36I mean, Burt Bell wanted to put these guys in their place right away.
23:40Here's the kind of action that will thrill you fans.
23:42Brown was telling the players what they already knew.
23:44This league has no respect for you.
23:46This game is a setup.
23:47They're expecting you to go in there and get crushed.
23:49We were so ready.
23:51We were pulling at the mouth almost.
23:53We were ready to play that game.
23:54They had dominated the All-American Football Conference.
23:57They had won all four league championships.
23:59The Ottoman Calvacate of sports is both colorful and exciting.
24:06What was supposed to be a battle of league champions turned into a one-sided slaughter
24:11and our number four upset.
24:13The Browns just dominated.
24:15By halftime, that game was pretty much over.
24:17They were too smart for them.
24:19They were too quick for them.
24:20They weren't prepared to deal with the Browns' passing attack.
24:22They had no idea how good players like Otto Graham and Marion Motley,
24:26how good these guys were.
24:28After the game, Burt Bell came in and he said it was the best football team,
24:33the most intense football team we had ever seen.
24:36And they drew 71,000 people.
24:38It was the biggest regular season attendance ever for the Philadelphia Eagles
24:43and remains so to this day.
24:59They were talented enough and well-coached enough
25:02that they would not just be able to compete,
25:04but be able to thrive in the NFL.
25:06It's hard to ball time.
25:08The Patriots win Super Bowl 36.
25:11I don't think anybody thought the Patriots would beat the Rams.
25:14They didn't have a chance.
25:16For Super Bowl 36, the kick is on the way and it is good.
25:22The Rams were 14-point favorites to win this football game.
25:28In 2001, the Patriots were hardly considered Super Bowl contenders
25:33after losing their first two games and their starting quarterback.
25:37Tom Brady has been put in a quarterback and Bledsoe taken out.
25:41And when you do get your opportunity, you better be ready to take advantage,
25:43especially how competitive this league is.
25:47Brady, a sixth-round draft pick, showed some promise,
25:52but wasn't considered a Super Bowl-calibre quarterback.
25:55To the near side, left for Brady on second and ten.
25:58He fumbles the snap.
25:58We have played him already.
26:00We played him up in New England.
26:01It was cold and wet.
26:02And we beat him.
26:05Warner steps up, fires for the end zone.
26:07Clark, touchdown, Rams!
26:08And so I didn't see any possible way the Patriots were going to win.
26:12I didn't see any possible way the Patriots would even be in the Super Bowl.
26:15While the Patriots' Super Bowl appearance was a surprise,
26:18the Rams' greatest show on turf was used to the spotlight.
26:23Playing against a Rams team that had been to a Super Bowl
26:26with this group of players, with quarterback Kurt Warner, and had won.
26:31St. Louis, the gateway to the West, is now the gateway to the best.
26:36Let's keep being happy.
26:40Kurt Warner was the MVP that year.
26:42The Rams are just going right up and down the football field.
26:46Marshall Falk was the outstanding offensive player of the year.
26:49How do you not make that team the favorite?
26:52Forget the big red S.
26:53Superman wears a 2-8 on his chest.
26:56On the right sideline, Marshall's there.
26:58That's why he's MVP, who caught it.
27:02And that's why he's MVP, who threw it.
27:06MVP of the NFL from 99 to 2001,
27:11Kurt Warner, Marshall Falk, Kurt Warner again.
27:13So it was just Rams.
27:16Like flashy, we got it done.
27:19We scored a lot of points.
27:22However, it was the Patriots' offense that shined in the first half of Super Bowl 36,
27:27making even U2's frontman, Bono, take notice.
27:32Brady blocked back to throw.
27:33Touchdown, David Pappé!
27:35Tom Brady, overrated.
27:38We came out cold, came out flat.
27:40Well, the Rams' offense has never really gotten in rhythm.
27:44He jumped on us early.
27:46And Warner goes back to throw, and here's the pledge by Mike Grable.
27:49The back of the ball!
27:50Good, he's 15-time pass, touchdown!
27:53Back to throw is Warner on first and 10.
27:55Fires over the middle, it is caught.
27:57And Ricky Prolin dropped, and the Patriots recover it.
28:00I think for the game, we had well over 400 yards of offense.
28:02But, you know, the turnovers created a lopsided score.
28:05So, it wasn't as if they'd stopped this, we couldn't stop ourselves.
28:09Turnovers, turnovers, the name of the game.
28:12Let's not get too excited here.
28:13You know, the Rams got a powerful offense.
28:15They could come back at any time.
28:17Quarterback sneaks, walks into the end zone.
28:19Touchdown, Rams!
28:21Good drive!
28:23Now we go get another one.
28:24Get into the fourth quarter, the Rams tie the game.
28:26Warner stands in, fires, Ricky Prolin, wide open, wide, inside the tank.
28:31Breaks the tank, nice, touchdown, Ricky Prolin!
28:33When the Patriots got the ball back, they had, I think, a minute and 17 seconds left.
28:39They screwed up.
28:40They gave us too much time.
28:42Together, Tom Brady and Adam Vinatieri forged the beginning of a new dynasty
28:46and gave us our number three upset of all time.
28:50And Adam Vinatieri will try to win it with a 47-yard field goal attempt.
28:55The night before that game, I must have tossed and turned all night.
28:58I must have kicked that a thousand times in my sleep.
29:01Snap, ball down, kick up, kick is on the way.
29:04And it is...
29:06It's good!
29:07It's good!
29:08Here you go, a kicker.
29:10Wins the game for him.
29:11Ho, ho!
29:12What a finish!
29:14What a finish!
29:15And it was the most exciting broadcast moment of my life.
29:20And the Patriots, a Super Bowl champion!
29:25What happened was the Rams forgot where they came from.
29:31Two years earlier, when they won the Super Bowl, nobody was expecting them to win the Super Bowl.
29:40Nobody was expecting them to do anything in 99.
29:44They won the Super Bowl, and all of a sudden, they come in with this confidence.
29:48Then they fell to the Patriots.
29:52Then the Patriots almost made the same mistake.
29:55Two years later.
29:58They almost fell to the Panthers in the Super Bowl.
30:04That is more disheartening than one that blemishes a near-perfect season.
30:092004, Patriots at the orange-jerseyed Dolphins.
30:13Mar is over the top! Touchdown!
30:15It's the only time in NFL history in which a team that is 10 or more games over 500
30:20lost to a team that was 10 or more games below 500.
30:22They have shot the New England Patriots!
30:25That was a seminal upset.
30:27The Fish played spoiler before.
30:30The 85 Bears had an undefeated season dangling within reach
30:33until the Dolphins made the catch of the day.
30:36Ball is deflected in the air.
30:39Touchdown, man!
30:40They're lucky to do it!
30:42The number two upset of all the ball.
30:44And upset in two.
30:46I'm telling you, one of the great...
30:54They were going for 19-0.
30:56You know, the perfect season.
30:58Perfection personified by the Patriots.
31:00Throughout the season, New England dominated every opponent in its path to perfection.
31:05Nobody has come close to stopping them.
31:08They didn't just win.
31:10They made it look ridiculously easy.
31:13And they just make it look easy.
31:16More touchdowns than any offense in history.
31:19More points than any offense in history.
31:23New England's pretty darn good, man.
31:24And I'll tell you what, best I've ever seen.
31:27Well, the Patriots were the most dominant team in football.
31:30You know, the Giants were one of the most disappointing.
31:32They went through stretches and they went through periods of that season
31:34where they looked absolutely awful.
31:36I thought the Patriots would win by two or three touchdowns.
31:38I looked at it as the Giants would get run out of the stadium.
31:42No doubt about it.
31:46Upsets to me was how that Giant defensive line just totally dominated one of the best offensive lines in football.
31:54Sacked by Michael Steyhan!
31:55You know, it's not like a hot knife through butter like we saw in the middle of the season
31:58where it's zip, zip, zip, Brady's not.
32:00Giants are getting pressure.
32:02They're tackling well.
32:03They're making plays.
32:04And I said, you know what?
32:06Game on here.
32:07Hey, Bobby Moss!
32:08Beat me!
32:09They're relentless!
32:11They still had the champion's heart, New England, to take it down the field and seemingly win the game.
32:18Touchdown!
32:18Randy Moss!
32:20Yeah!
32:23Except that a young quarterback came of age in the last two and a half minutes.
32:28And Eli Manning and the Giants end perfection.
32:32Down by four, Manning looked nearly perfect as he drove the Giants toward our number two upstep.
32:38And I was shocked.
32:39I thought the Patriots, with their experienced defense, would come up with a big play.
32:45Third and five for the Giants.
32:471-16 to go.
32:48When Manning first went back to pass, he's in trouble.
32:51Gonna be sacked!
32:54No!
32:54He got out of it!
32:55Manning finally gets free and keys it.
32:57Fires downfield!
32:58A ball catch by Tyree!
33:00We still see David Tyree going up, taking the ball away from Rodney Harrison.
33:06I think it's one of the greatest moments in Super Bowl history.
33:09What do you have to do?
33:1017-14, fellas!
33:12One touchdown!
33:13We are world champions!
33:15Manning got his team the winning score and was named the game's most valuable player.
33:20The Giants won with Eli Manning.
33:22I mean, are you kidding me?
33:23Here's a quarterback with more interceptions...
33:25That's intercepted!
33:25...than any other quarterback in the playoffs that year.
33:27Threw it right to the safety.
33:29Eli, to his critics, how you like me now?
33:32If that's not considered an upset...
33:34It's like ugly beating hot.
33:41If you were a Patriots hater, it was the greatest way to see them lose.
33:47The Patriots will not be perfect!
33:49You could not nullify their season anymore.
33:52The Patriots, seeing their undefeated season, go up in smoke.
33:5518-1!
34:00I think this last Super Bowl is the biggest upset.
34:04I love that upset.
34:05I was there cheering the Giants on.
34:0717-0 says it all!
34:10The world championship!
34:1218-1 is number one.
34:14And now, the number one upset of all time.
34:18Broadway Joe guarantees Super Bowl III.
34:22Super Bowl III is the biggest upset.
34:24I don't think there's any doubt about that.
34:26Super Bowl III is going to remain pro football's greatest upset
34:31because of the circumstances and the time.
34:34The circumstances were these.
34:36The NFL's Colts were 19-point favorites over Joe Namath's Jets,
34:41members of the upstart American Football League.
34:43The conventional wisdom held that the American Football League
34:47was probably still a decade away from being competitive
34:50with the best teams in the NFL.
34:55The Colts weren't just the champions of the National Football League.
34:59They were being talked about as maybe one of the great teams of all time.
35:02The Baltimore Colts are heavier favorites to win this Super Bowl game.
35:06And Green...
35:0713-1, their only loss was by a few possessions.
35:10What? No, a few points to the Browns.
35:14They destroyed the Browns 34-0 in the NFL championship.
35:19So they beat all of their opponents.
35:25Green Bay was in 1967 and 1968.
35:28The Packers have won the first two Super Bowls, obviously representing the NFL.
35:34So they've won the first two in pretty convincing fashion.
35:37I don't think people thought the Jets were as good as the Chiefs or the Raiders
35:40that lost Super Bowls 1 and 2.
35:42I mean, there were a lot of AFL people that went into Super Bowl III
35:45sort of with one hand over their face thinking,
35:47Oh, God, this is going to be worse than the last two games.
35:54Far, far away in a kingdom on the coast,
35:57there was a little prince who made a mighty boast.
36:01I'll throw that bean, he said, and straight I'll make it go.
36:05There's no doubt about it, said the boy named Broadway Joe.
36:11The Colts won their average game by 20 points.
36:17There was a lot of fuss made about my guaranteeing the victory.
36:20Thursday night before the game,
36:22Joe Namath not only predicts victory, he guarantees it.
36:25We're going to win the game, I guarantee it.
36:27And this is post-
36:28Sonny, and they added maybe a two touchdown edge to the Colts.
36:32We'll see how it all comes out.
36:33They should have been very upset that Joe Garrett the game.
36:36If they were
36:40No penalties, let's get a touchdown up there.
36:43And then on Sunday,
36:45the biggest star in the game,
36:47the biggest city in the game,
36:49goes out and on the sport's biggest stage,
36:52Orcas.
36:53The biggest what in the game?
36:54The biggest star in the game was like
36:56Johnny Unitas or like Dale Sayers or something.
37:00Straight's the biggest upset in pro football history.
37:02I mean, that makes it a transcendent kind of story.
37:06You may be sitting in one of sports' greatest upsets in history.
37:24You know, they dominated that game.
37:29They dominated the game.
37:30They intercepted it.
37:32I mean, everything that could go wrong went wrong that day.
37:34They had Jimmy Orr all alone, and they didn't see.
37:37We just got outplayed.
37:38Oh, it's just getting outplayed.
37:51It was shocking that the Colts lost the game.
37:55You've got to have confidence in your team.
37:56You've got to have confidence in yourself.
37:58And if you don't have that confidence,
37:59you can't play football.
38:01The significance of that game, it was really more than just the Jets winning against the Colts.
38:08We won for the league.
38:10I believe the AFL won over many football fans because that underdog Jets team came through.
38:16World Championship football team.
38:18Our number one upset's greatest legacy was what it did for the game and the AFL-NFL merger.
38:26The feeling was the real championship game is the NFL title game.
38:30This Super Bowl thing is just an anti-climax.
38:33The Friday before Super Bowl III, Pete Rozelle allowed that the league was looking at rejiggering
38:39the playoff structure, so two NFL teams might play in a Super Bowl one day.
38:44That's a win for our school to go.
38:46I don't know about that.
38:47I know it's a hell of a loss for those folks who pick it the other way.
38:51Historically, I think it was the greatest upset.
38:53If the Jets had been blown out in that game,
38:55the distinction between the American Football Conference
38:58and the National Football Conference would be much less pronounced than it is today.
39:03It was really the game that made pro football, I believe, today.
39:08Unfortunately, we've reached the end of our list.
39:11Come away! Come away!
39:14And if you're upset by our list of upsets, you're not alone.
39:18Jacksonville Jaguars over the Denver Broncos in the 96 playoff set should be top three.
39:22I don't rate that as a major upset.
39:24I would probably put the Giants beating the Bills in Super Bowl XXV ahead of the Rams Patriots.
39:31Yeah!
39:32Yeah!
39:33A Super Bowl win got to be rated at least higher than a replacement game.
39:38We are the Washington Redskins.
39:40This one's for John.
39:42The L.O.A. quarterbacking a team, how much of an upset is it?
39:45Man, I thought this was just a picture.
39:48That's the...
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