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00:00A belief.
00:01The Cowboys need a miracle.
00:02If you have enough people believing and everybody gets on that bandwagon.
00:06Pearson makes the catch at the third touchdown.
00:09It will happen more often than not.
00:11Watch your believing.
00:18Who doesn't love watching a great comeback?
00:25People whose teams are in the lead.
00:27A comeback, that's as good as watching football gets.
00:31Are we meant to win this game?
00:33Yes.
00:33You can usually tell when it's going to be a festival, even before it's finished up.
00:38Anytime there's a comeback, it's coinciding with a come apart.
00:42We are in the midst of a meltdown of classic proportions.
00:47When you blow a lead like that, it affects the way you think of yourselves as a team.
00:51We've got to be the dumbest team in America.
00:53You're capable of being that bad.
00:55That's what you think when you're walking off the field after a loss like that.
00:58And we let him off the hook.
00:59Ha!
01:00There comes a time when a team that has the lead is more vulnerable than the team that is trailing.
01:06That pony was ready for the glue factory of the fourth quarter.
01:09Part of the lore of the great games.
01:12And that so many of the great games are legendary because they take a weird twist.
01:16Just another bounce.
01:17Oh no.
01:18Something happens that shouldn't happen.
01:19It's fun, girl!
01:21The call goes a different way.
01:22You got a flag, girl.
01:24And it creates a memorable experience that would not have been there if things had gone maybe
01:29according to what you might call form.
01:31That was the second greatest comeback in NFL history.
01:34When you talk about the great comebacks, I don't know how you say the best.
01:40Leave that to us.
01:41The most wild, significant, and memorable comebacks in NFL history.
01:46We're counting down the top ten right now.
01:52The number ten comeback of all time.
01:54Ten.
01:55Montana's finest hour.
01:57I think that was Montana's finest hour.
01:59It's one of the great performances of just pure strength.
02:02This guy is a god amongst men.
02:05Good afternoon, everybody.
02:06This is Joe Starkey at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
02:08Is this the team of the 80s?
02:11Yes.
02:12Against the team of the 90s today?
02:14No.
02:14It wasn't the 85 Bears, but it was the 89 Eagles.
02:17It was Buddy Ryan.
02:17I know.
02:18They were like the town itself.
02:19They were rough, tough.
02:21They were going to beat you up.
02:24And here came the Niners.
02:25They're golden boy.
02:26The Niners were defending Super Bowl champs.
02:28Our number ten comeback from 1989 featured a matchup of two very different head coaches.
02:35George Seifer was a cool Californian fit.
02:39Tan.
02:40You know, the swept back hair.
02:41Buddy Ryan looked like kind of a roly-poly guy you'd meet in a bar.
02:44Trying to whip up his defense and send him all these crazy glitzes.
02:50Buddy Ryan, oh man, here's loose cannon.
02:54Who knows what he's going to do?
02:55He might punch somebody out on the sidelines, which we saw, actually.
02:58He's a heck of a coach.
02:59He just acts like a jerk sometimes.
03:02Kevin Gilbert.
03:03The Eagles soared for much of the game.
03:06Closer for the end zone.
03:08Hots go!
03:09Jimmy Cole!
03:11And kept putting Joe Montana on the ground.
03:14Reggie White in that game was terrible.
03:17Reggie White, the minister of defense.
03:19Not only were there eight sacks on Montana, but they were hitting him possibly after he
03:23threw the ball.
03:25The big thing was is they were...
03:26Reggie White, Clyde Simmons, Jerome Brown, and one other guy.
03:32That's a defense.
03:34That's a defense.
03:36Shut that running game down.
03:38They're not even pretending to go with the running game.
03:41So it's tough when they know they're going to throw the ball every time.
03:43They've got their ears pinned back and they're coming rushing the passer.
03:46It got so bad that those of us that were in the press box were saying,
03:49Seifert's got to get Montana out of it.
03:52I always go back to the great Bob McKittrick, our offensive line coach,
03:55who felt so bad that Montana was getting beat up.
03:58Flag is down, so is Montana.
04:00That he said he did something he'd never done before.
04:02He went up to Montana at halftime and apologized in person.
04:07And that's not a big safety.
04:08And Joe simply said, it's okay, we're going to win.
04:12Ram the road.
04:14He threw a touchdown pass when the Niners were way back in that game in the second half.
04:18And as he did, he got hit.
04:20And he bruised his ribs.
04:22And breaking loose, it doesn't go all the way.
04:24Tyler will go.
04:25It's a touchdown for the 49ers.
04:28He's clearly hurting.
04:29They wrap him up.
04:30Goes back on the field.
04:31And the fourth 40 throws four touchdown passes.
04:34What?
04:34Three in the last six minutes.
04:35Though San Fran never trailed by more than 11,
04:39Montana's ability to bounce back from a Philly-style beating has this comeback at number 10.
04:45He's got Joe's.
04:47Touchdown 49ers.
04:49Yeah.
04:50To me, that game is just quintessential Joe Montana.
04:55Rice has got it.
04:56Touchdown 49ers.
04:59I've seen Montana play a ton of games going all the way back to Notre Dame.
05:03I saw all of his games at the Niners.
05:05Super Bowls.
05:06Everything.
05:07His third Super Bowl MVP award.
05:09But I don't think I ever saw Montana play better than I saw him play in the fourth quarter of
05:14that game against Philadelphia.
05:15Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway had a flair for fantastic finishes.
05:2010-98!
05:21His most memorable coming in the 1986 AFC Championship.
05:26The snap to Elway.
05:28The throw.
05:29Touchdown!
05:29The Mark Jackson.
05:31They were preparing the post-game celebration in the Browns locker room,
05:36and then all of a sudden they had to take it to the Denver locker room.
05:39And it'll be looking for the Super Bowl, baby!
05:42Yeah!
05:43But it takes more than a dramatic drive or a historic moment to make this countdown.
05:49You have to be down by multiple scores going late into the game.
05:56These are not best two-minute drives.
06:10The Immaculate Reception failed to make our list.
06:13The Immaculate Reception.
06:15Who gave it that name?
06:17Immaculate Deception.
06:19That's what it is.
06:19But just minutes after Franco Harris' catch,
06:22the other Bay Area team faced a familiar foe in a game that did crack our top ten.
06:29Wait a minute.
06:301972.
06:31All the time.
06:32Dallas beat San Francisco in the 72 playoffs.
06:35One of the most breathtaking comebacks they've ever had.
06:3949er coaches had already come out of the press box because they thought the game was over.
06:43It was our ball game until this guy named Roger Staubach comes into the game.
06:47Captain Comeback.
06:50For the 49ers.
06:52Of course Captain Comeback's on the list.
06:54The Cowboys have become a bitter playoff rival.
06:58After having lost to Dallas two years in a row in the NFC Championship game,
07:03we really thought that we were on a path to go past the Cowboys.
07:08The 49ers had a fast start in our number nine comeback.
07:12This San Francisco team is higher than a guy's mouth.
07:16While Cowboys miscues revived a quarterback controversy.
07:21Craig Moore was maybe, people talk about guys playing today,
07:26Craig Moore was maybe the worst big game quarterback of all time.
07:37Roger was slated to be the starting quarterback.
07:40He'd taken the team to the Super Bowl the year before.
07:48I separated my shoulder earlier in the year,
07:50so I didn't get a chance to play very much,
07:52but I did get back towards the end of the year.
07:53A lot of people thought Morton was much more the classic NFL quarterback,
07:57great pocket passer, beautiful form.
07:59Tom, I believe, felt more comfortable with Craig as his quarterback.
08:03But at a certain point, you realized you need something to make something happen now.
08:08Craig Moore has stayed in the game.
08:09We win.
08:13Down 15 late in the third quarter,
08:16Coach Tom Landry changed history when he changed quarterbacks.
08:20The 49ers started blitzing us, and Rodgers started picking up, making some plays.
08:24Rodgers throwback very kindly, coolly on the move.
08:28Shoot, I have nothing to lose.
08:29I was trying to make up for my whole season in that one game.
08:31The clock showing a minute 35.
08:34Dallas must get it in in a hurry.
08:37Saba, looks and throws, touchdown, into the end zone.
08:41After Tony Fritch's reverse onside kick, Dallas kept rolling.
08:46As soon as we got the ball, the momentum was on our side.
08:49Those guys were reeling on defense.
08:51They had a new quarterback, and then a completely different approach to the game.
08:55A quarterback could scramble, but Craig couldn't.
08:57We just didn't finish the game.
08:59And I still think it might have been a little psychological.
09:02You know, it's the Cowboys, and we just didn't quite know how to put the Cowboys.
09:10I think their bench is an indication about how they felt about the game.
09:15I don't think they felt they deserved to beat us, but they found a way to do it.
09:19I still to this day say we were a better football team.
09:24When Roger Stalbeck came off the bench in that game,
09:27it really defined Captain Comeback.
09:29And a beautiful pinpoint pass by Roger Stalbeck.
09:33Stalbeck had it, and it made for a legend.
09:38Touchdowns and touchdowns!
09:40The Dallas Cowboys are the champions of the National Football League.
09:43Oh, the 49ers say they were a better team.
09:48They were 8-5-1 that season, and the Cowboys were 10-4.
09:52How would they be the better team?
09:55The number 8 comeback of all time.
09:58The 49ers' comeback from 28 points to beat the Saints.
10:031980.
10:04In 1980, there was little reason to check out a Week 14 matchup
10:08between the winless Saints and the 5-8 49ers.
10:11Go back and look at the attendance of that game.
10:13I bet Kansas City was half full.
10:14Nobody went to Niner games in those days.
10:15Nobody.
10:16Even though we weren't very good, we kind of went into that game thinking
10:19we should be victorious here, and we just overlooked them a little bit.
10:27The Overlook Saints overachieved in our number 8 comeback of all time,
10:31taking the 35-7 halftime lead.
10:34The 49ers made a total of 21 yards in the first half.
10:39The New Orleans Saints on the verge, perhaps,
10:42unless a very dramatic comeback by the 49ers of their first win of the season.
10:48At halftime, the last thing the defensive coaches told us is to remember no long plays.
10:54Wouldn't you know at the first play in the second half,
10:56Montana hit club for about 40 yards in.
10:59You can almost feel a bubble burst on that one play.
11:02But Joe Montana gets the offense going.
11:05And we just started scoring points in that second half.
11:08Joe Montana's legend began as he led San Fran to our number 8 comeback.
11:13Well, I said at the start of the second half,
11:16this was either going to be one of the greatest stories in 49er history
11:20or a very terrible football game.
11:22It is approaching being one of the great stories.
11:24Elliott trying to find some room.
11:26He does.
11:27He goes in for the touchdown.
11:31Montana to place the ball down.
11:34It is high, place down.
11:35It is kick.
11:36It is long enough.
11:37Ray Wershing.
11:37It is good.
11:39Ray Wershing.
11:40What's the greatest comeback the 49ers have made?
11:44Why would they have Joe Montana holding a field goal?
11:47You can't have to start a holding a field goal.
11:49Ask Tony Romo about that.
11:54It was the biggest comeback in NFL history.
11:56But it was more significant for what it led to.
11:59Because that was the beginning of the coming of age of that 49er team
12:02as we came to know it in that decade.
12:04That's a good one.
12:05It was a great new team.
12:06I'll tell you.
12:07It was a great new franchise.
12:08And from that point on,
12:10they became a Super Bowl team and then a legendary team.
12:13Plenty of great comebacks just missed making our cut.
12:16The Cowboys not dead yet.
12:19In 2007, the Cowboys scored nine points in the last 20 seconds
12:23for a shocking win in Buffalo.
12:25The kick is good.
12:2753 yards.
12:28In 2014, the Cleveland Browns found themselves trailing the Tennessee Titans 28-3.
12:34But the Browns responded with 26 unanswered points.
12:38The quarter's got nowhere to go.
12:39He's in trouble.
12:40Up in the pocket.
12:41Now he fires down the middle.
12:42Benjamin.
12:43Top down.
12:44He was vital.
12:45And then a half left to go.
12:4628-22 Titans.
12:48Here's Hoyer with the ball.
12:49He's looking.
12:50He fires.
12:50Benjamin.
12:51Caught it!
12:52What a jump by Benjamin to get his tuxies down!
12:55The 25-point comeback on the road is the largest in NFL history.
12:59But not enough to make our list.
13:02The number seven comeback of all time.
13:05Arizona blows the lead.
13:07Ness Green blows his top.
13:09I had limited schooling.
13:11I'm not a real bright guy.
13:12But I do remember comebacks like that.
13:14That was the defining moment of the 2006 Super Bowl Bears.
13:18It was a big showcase for Arizona, the brand new, shiny stadium.
13:21It's our house, man.
13:22Let's go!
13:23They hadn't been on Monday Night Football in a long time, so they were really building this
13:27thing up.
13:28Are you ready for some football?
13:29Goal!
13:30Good luck!
13:32Goal!
13:32In just his second NFL start, rookie Matt Leinert hit nine of his first ten passes, including
13:38a pair of touchdowns.
13:40It's easy, man.
13:41I just sit there.
13:42They were blown a lot of fun.
13:45It was Matt Leinert's night that night.
13:47It wasn't Rex's.
13:48Oh, no!
13:49Seven-step straight drop.
13:51Guns it far side for Muhammad.
13:53It's underthrown.
13:54Picked off!
13:55The Bears were horrible.
13:56Rex Grossman, six turnovers.
13:57And that was the beginning of good Rex, bad Rex, I guess.
14:0020 to nothing lead at halftime.
14:02Terrible.
14:02Did not feel right.
14:03All of us were surprised.
14:05I mean, all of America was surprised.
14:07Not everyone was surprised.
14:09The 2006 Chicago Bear team is exactly who we thought they were, which is a one-dimensional
14:14team.
14:15With Chicago's offense mustering just three points the entire game, it was up to the Bears'
14:21D to make our number seven comeback a reality.
14:24There's some defensive players on that team that took...
14:26Their defense and special teams made them a two-dimensional team.
14:32And that's for Dennis Green's comments.
14:36If the Bears were a one-dimensional team and your offense and special teams gave them
14:40the game, you're a no-dimensional team.
14:45Took sort of a sick satisfaction in the fact that they have a quarterback so bad and we're
14:49going to beat you anyway.
14:51Let's go!
14:51And they did.
14:54Ball is bouncing around.
14:55Picked up by one.
14:56Touchdown, Chicago.
14:58Ball's out.
14:58And it's picked up by the Bears.
15:00Running it.
15:00Are you kidding me?
15:01Touchdown.
15:02Peanut.
15:02Defensive touchdown.
15:03Number two.
15:08Don't kick to Devin Hester.
15:10Do not.
15:12What happens?
15:12They kick to him.
15:13Bingo.
15:14He's got room 30.
15:1535-40.
15:1645 to the outside midfield.
15:1845-40.
15:19And the putter to beat.
15:21Touchdown.
15:22Your Bears have taken the lead.
15:2424-23.
15:26Genius idea.
15:26What were they thinking?
15:27Do you know what they were thinking about?
15:29What's up, man?
15:31What's up, man?
15:31What's up, man?
15:32What's up, man?
15:32What's up, man?
15:33What's up, man?
15:34What's up, man?
15:35Yeah, Kurt Weir is too humble to say it.
15:38He thought Matt Leinert should be working at a McDonald's or something, and he should have been in the game.
15:48And I thought, once Hester scored, do the Cardinals have enough time on the clock to come down and try
15:53to kick a field goal?
15:54Leinert took him down the field and put him in position to win with a 41-yard field goal attempt.
15:59And Neil Rackers is going to kick this field goal in 2005.
16:02He might have had the best year a kicker's ever had.
16:04Rackers hit a record-tying 40 field goal in 2005, but this was 2006.
16:11Rackers' kick is up.
16:12It has the line.
16:13Rackers' kick is no good!
16:26It was an instant classic that no one expected, but what made it even better was the classic post-game
16:33rant by Dennis Green.
16:35That was one of the most amazing meltdowns I can recall.
16:40The Bears are who we thought they were.
16:42Came unglued, didn't he?
16:44That's why we took the damn field.
16:46Frothing at the mouth.
16:47Now, if you want to crown them, then crown them.
16:50Even though I did not understand at the time what he meant, I could understand the frustration in the room.
16:57Totally understandable.
16:58But they are who we thought they were.
17:00I thought the same way he did.
17:02And we let him off the hook.
17:03He let us off the hook.
17:05He made the Bears season.
17:07Thanks, Coach.
17:09My doctor was very happy.
17:10The next day he called me and said, you know what?
17:12After that kind of game, me blowing up like that was a very good stress reliever.
17:16And my wife agreed.
17:20The number six comeback of all time.
17:22The Monday Night Miracle.
17:24And that was the first year post-Marino.
17:26And you had a journeyman quarterback like Jay Fiedler leading the team.
17:30In 2000, there were many new faces in Miami.
17:33But the Dolphins still had future dancing star Jason Taylor.
17:36Hey, Jason!
17:37You're not but a pretty boy.
17:39This dude has been talking as we got out here.
17:43It was Miami who quickly turned our number six comeback into a laugher.
17:48Opening up a 23-7 first half lead.
17:51He's on the 40 and going down the sideline.
17:54Touchdown, Miami!
17:56I'm going to talk to you right now.
17:59That Miami team was no joke.
18:01They beat the eventual Super Bowl champions, 2000 Ravens.
18:07And they beat Payne Manning's Colts in the playoffs that year.
18:13There were nothing to laugh at.
18:18I'm having fun, man.
18:19Especially when it's like this.
18:22Oh, I love this game.
18:23To blow that game in the second half really was unfathomable.
18:27They ain't coming back on us.
18:28No, come on, man.
18:30While most folks chalked it up as a blowout,
18:32at least one fan says a comeback.
18:35I'll tell you one thing.
18:37Wayne Grobeck is going to pull it off.
18:39I think as usual, the Jets are going to come from behind.
18:42You will see.
18:43I think the Dolphins have to be germinated.
18:45All hope looked terminated
18:47when Miami extended their lead to 3-7 entering the fourth quarter.
18:51And with a whole quarter to go,
18:54this game is over.
18:55And we saw people leaving the stadium.
18:57Uh-oh, they came for the exits, huh?
18:59The Jets can't come back from this kind of deficit.
19:05There's a number of plays in a game like that,
19:07and you think, man, if that one play had gone the other way,
19:10we're not even talking about a great comeback
19:12because the Dolphins hold on and win.
19:14Sam Madison really had a pick.
19:15Unfortunately, the ball bounced around a little bit,
19:17and I think the various Colts came up with it for a touchdown.
19:19Lobbing it into the end zone, and it's intercepted.
19:22Are you serious?
19:23No, it's a touchdown.
19:24He was taken away by Colts.
19:26He took it out of the same manager's branch.
19:29Now, all of a sudden, Vinny Testaverde just got hot.
19:33And for those Jets fans who left this stadium about an hour ago,
19:36have we got news for you.
19:38I would have liked to have seen what was happening
19:40in all the cars in the Jersey Turnpike,
19:42people sitting in traffic that had left that game
19:44as they're listening to this comeback.
19:47Then as the game started getting closer,
19:49and here come the Jets,
19:50people started repopulating the building.
19:55This is unbelievable.
19:58Yeah.
19:59You let it have the table.
20:01With 120 remaining,
20:04an unlikely hero gobbled up the deficit.
20:07Time to score.
20:08Touchdown to Jumbo Elliott.
20:15It sort of adds to the ignominy and the shame
20:19when you're beaten by pass receiver Jumbo Elliott.
20:22Jumbo!
20:23Jumbo!
20:35Jumbo!
20:36For 30 yards.
20:38It's up.
20:38It's on its way.
20:39Long and high and up.
20:40It's good.
20:41And the Jets win in overtime.
20:46An improbable comeback
20:48after trailing
20:5030-7 going to the fourth quarter
20:52when yours truly said this game was over.
20:55I've got to be honest with you.
20:57I went to sleep on that game.
20:58It was over at 1.30 in the morning.
20:59I missed that comeback
21:00because I thought the game was over.
21:02What are you going to do?
21:02Sometimes you get burned.
21:03And now that I've come back to ball time,
21:07the wildest ever wildcard finish.
21:10Oh, my gosh.
21:11I feel like maybe it should be a lot lower down the list
21:16because the 49ers benefited from a bad call.
21:20That was one of the great football games I've ever seen.
21:22Clearly it was a wacky game.
21:24It was a game for the ages.
21:26No strangers to the playoffs.
21:27The 49ers hosted the Giants in a 2002 wildcard bout.
21:32Woo!
21:32Hey, I love it, baby.
21:34I love it.
21:34But these weren't your grandma's Niners.
21:37It was a different time.
21:38It was a different era.
21:38Steve Young was gone.
21:39Montana was gone.
21:40This was a Jeff Garcia team.
21:42Krispy Kremes.
21:44Let's get a box.
21:46But it was the Giants' QB,
21:48Kerry Collins,
21:49who had the sweet start.
21:50Collins over center.
21:52Short and set.
21:53Lobs it left.
21:53Looking for Toomer.
21:54He's got it for a touchdown.
21:55We're not stopping the shot.
21:57Kerry Collins' Amante Toomer
21:59was like they were playing flag football.
22:01Touchdown!
22:02Wow.
22:03I mean, can't lose.
22:04Giants might score 60.
22:06Off to Tampa.
22:07Let's take on the Bucs.
22:08You can't lose a game like that.
22:09Their crowd was about ready to go shopping.
22:15Fans put their credit cards away
22:17late in the third quarter
22:19after the Giants failed to bury the 49ers.
22:22Rolling right.
22:23Puffs looks back at the end zone.
22:24Shock, he drops it!
22:25They didn't put that pass.
22:27We've been all over.
22:28I think from right there on,
22:30they had three points.
22:31And from there on,
22:32it's like the whole momentum just switched.
22:33It was just that glimmer of hope
22:34that it gave Candace their part.
22:36And Jeff Garcia just got hot.
22:39Garcia led San Francisco
22:41to 25 unanswered points
22:43to take the lead.
22:44They've really got some momentum developing now.
22:46Straight back drop.
22:47Pass time.
22:48Throws for the end zone.
22:49Go!
22:50Go!
22:50Go!
22:52Touchdown 49ers!
22:53Tie strikes!
22:53The Giants have squandered
22:56a 38-14 lead.
23:02And it looks like they finally got the game.
23:04You're still worried about the fact
23:05the Giants still have enough time
23:07to save this.
23:08The snapper for the Giants
23:09was a guy named Trey Junkin,
23:11who had just signed that week.
23:13He'd come out of retirement to do it.
23:151,400 and almost 60 snaps now.
23:18I've had two that have landed
23:20at the toes of the punter.
23:21So Trey Junkin's been sitting on the couch
23:23watching the NFL all year long.
23:26Ready for the snap by Junkin.
23:28Here comes a bad snap!
23:29And now they're going to have to
23:31try to throw for him!
23:32I don't know, I can't get it down!
23:33He's trying to throw it!
23:34He just heaves it there!
23:36There he is!
23:36There's a giant there!
23:37It's incomplete!
23:39What's going on?
23:40What just happened?
23:41The whole play was a wacky play.
23:42I don't think anybody really understood
23:44what was happening in that play.
23:45It became so chaotic.
23:46What you had was a muffed snap
23:49so the guys go downfield
23:51and desperation pass is thrown
23:54and there's clearly contact.
23:57Pass interference!
23:58They're going to get
23:59pass interference on that play!
24:01My first reaction was,
24:03that's pass interference!
24:04It's pass interference!
24:07Here's the flag.
24:08I mean, it was obvious
24:09the guy had pulled our receiver down.
24:11But the flag was for
24:13an ineligible receiver downfield.
24:15The question for me became,
24:18was he an eligible receiver?
24:20I went to the replay booth.
24:22At that point, obviously,
24:23I saw that the receiver
24:24who was downfield was eligible.
24:26So it should have been
24:27pass interference.
24:30The next day,
24:31the league comes out
24:32and says,
24:33yes, the official blew the call.
24:35And Steve Mariucci
24:36comes down from his office
24:37to meet reporters
24:38and somebody says to Mariucci,
24:39the league says they blew the call,
24:41coach, what do you say?
24:42We've paused for a long time.
24:44He says,
24:46bummer.
24:46Bummer.
24:47Bummer.
24:49But yeah,
24:49Niners went on,
24:50Giants went home.
24:51Bummer.
24:53But number four
24:55comes out of all time.
24:56The Colts lead
24:57past the Bucs
24:58on Monday night.
24:59In my opinion,
25:00it's the biggest comeback
25:01ever in the history
25:02of the National Football League.
25:03My list is number one.
25:05Going into the game,
25:05the storylines were enormous.
25:07The Bucs were
25:08the defending Super Bowl champions.
25:10Best defense in the league.
25:11The Colts arguably
25:12had one of the top
25:13offenses in the league.
25:14Tony Dungy's
25:15returned to camp
25:16for the team
25:17that made him out of town
25:18and then they win
25:19the Super Bowl without him.
25:21I hate the sport
25:21of Dungy's homecoming.
25:23Round 56.
25:26Dungy's 2003 homecoming
25:28included 21 unanswered points
25:30by the Bucs
25:31in the first half.
25:3221 net.
25:33That was the lead.
25:35There before our eyes,
25:36all the interest in the game,
25:38all the hype,
25:39it just unraveled.
25:40It was a runaway.
25:41Brad's got a good team, man.
25:43Really, y'all do.
25:44No, no, no.
25:45See, I'm not a good team.
25:47You do.
25:53Keyshawn Johnson
25:53is in his mouth.
25:56Hey, hey,
25:57Brad Johnson
25:58looked like Peyton Manning.
26:01The league is replete
26:03with any number
26:03of comebacks like this,
26:05but I don't think
26:06many of them
26:06were against the Tampa
26:07defense.
26:07No, not in their house.
26:09If a 21-point lead
26:10with five minutes to go
26:12against the Tampa Bay
26:13Bucs defense
26:13isn't a safe bet,
26:15what is?
26:15That was the all-time
26:17safe bet.
26:17This is a no-brainer.
26:18We're going to win
26:19this football.
26:20Bucs are going to beat
26:21the Colts with 5-0-9 to go.
26:23Tony Dungy turned
26:24to his offensive coordinator
26:26and said,
26:27let's get Peyton
26:27and the starters
26:28out of there.
26:28He didn't want to
26:29take a chance
26:30of Peyton getting hurt.
26:31He was told,
26:31no, let's do another series.
26:33And on the ensuing kickoff,
26:35Brad Pyatt,
26:36nobody ever heard
26:37of him before or since,
26:38returned the kickoff
26:3990 yards.
26:41Obviously,
26:41everything had changed.
26:43Whatever happened
26:44after that
26:44is something
26:45out of a
26:45Rod Sterling script.
26:48With the aid
26:49of an onside kick,
26:51Manning and the Colts
26:52closed the gap
26:53in less than
26:54five minutes.
26:56It's second down
26:57and goal.
26:57One running back,
26:58Whitney Williams,
26:59has the ball up.
27:00Touchdown, Colts.
27:02We're tied.
27:0335-35
27:04with 35 seconds to go.
27:06That pony was ready
27:07for the glue factory
27:08into the fourth quarter.
27:09I'm riding away.
27:10I feel pretty good
27:11about my story.
27:12Next thing I know,
27:13the game is tied.
27:13I'm staring at my story,
27:15which is due
27:15in two minutes,
27:16and nothing on my screen
27:18is relevant.
27:19I just felt this
27:19bead of sweat
27:20coming down
27:21the side of my forehead.
27:24When the game
27:25went into overtime,
27:27the Colts
27:27had an opportunity
27:28to win it
27:29with Mike Vayner-Jack's
27:30field goal.
27:30The league's best,
27:31the most accurate kicker
27:33in the National Football League.
27:34This guy was
27:35Mr. Automatic.
27:36And it comes down
27:37to a 40-yard
27:37field goal attempt.
27:39Here's the kick.
27:40It's a floater.
27:41It's a floater.
27:42It's a floater.
27:42It's a floater.
27:44We're gonna fly, bro.
27:46Now, what is this?
27:47I'm like,
27:47there it is,
27:48and you hear the word
27:49leaping.
27:50Leaping.
27:51Leaping.
27:52Leaping.
27:53Leaping.
27:53A lot of people,
27:54I'm sure,
27:55hadn't never heard
27:55of leaping.
27:56You know,
27:57leaping.
27:58This penalty...
27:59Van Der Schenck
28:00got bailed out.
28:02He hasn't been called
28:03since 1938.
28:05Well,
28:05the leaping rule
28:07states you're more
28:08than a yard
28:08off the line of scrimmage.
28:10You cannot run forward,
28:12leap,
28:13and land on players.
28:14Was it the right call?
28:16Technically,
28:16it's right.
28:17You know,
28:17because he did graze
28:18the player on the way down,
28:19but if you graze
28:20a player on the way down
28:21and land on your feet,
28:22that's not one
28:23that we won't call.
28:2829-yard field goal
28:29for the most accurate
28:29kicker ever, Lee.
28:31No way he could be
28:32missed two and a row
28:33out of that man
28:33house on the first one.
28:34And then on the second one,
28:35I was like,
28:35hey, you know,
28:36am I gonna be homeless
28:36for Africa?
28:3729-yard field goal,
28:38you're thinking,
28:39this is a gimmick.
28:40Snack hold,
28:41and he pushes it.
28:42You can see it's going right,
28:43and it gets just tipped
28:44at the line of scrimmage,
28:45probably enough
28:46to redirect it back
28:47into the upright.
28:49Are you serious?
28:5138-35!
28:53It just sort of was
28:54an appropriate ending
28:55to a wacky game.
28:56This is a fourth quarter
28:57comeback
28:58that is unlikely
28:59as any of you
28:59can understand
29:00in this league.
29:01No team had ever
29:03come from three touchdowns
29:05behind with four minutes
29:06to go in the game.
29:07That's an NFL first
29:08that has still
29:09never happened.
29:11The top ten comebacks
29:12featured Cleveland
29:13opening up a 24-7 lead
29:15in Pittsburgh.
29:16But the Browns
29:19didn't count on
29:20touchdown
29:21Tommy Maddox.
29:22It's time for the touchdown!
29:24The Pittsburgh Steelers
29:25get back
29:26from all odds!
29:28In the 2006
29:30AFC Championship,
29:31Peyton Manning
29:32erased a 21-3 lead
29:34against the Patriots
29:37before leading
29:38the Colts
29:39to a world title.
29:40The Colts
29:41are world champions!
29:42But that wasn't
29:43the Colts'
29:44most remarkable
29:44playoff comeback.
29:46The number three
29:47comeback of all time,
29:48the Colts
29:49used a little luck
29:50against the Chiefs
29:51in the 2013
29:52wildcard playoffs.
29:54Oh!
29:5520 years,
29:56two decades.
29:58It has been
29:58a long, long time
30:00since the Chiefs
30:00have won
30:01an NFL playoff game.
30:03It looked like
30:04their long, long
30:05playoff drought,
30:06which I think dates
30:07to 1993,
30:09was about to end.
30:10The Chiefs
30:11did almost all
30:12they could
30:12to end
30:13that infinite streak.
30:14And it's
30:15caught by ball!
30:16Touchdown!
30:17Alex Smith
30:18threw for almost
30:19400 yards
30:20and four touchdowns,
30:22capitalizing
30:23on the Colts'
30:24early mistakes.
30:25He's got
30:25Danny Avery
30:26down the fence!
30:27Goodbye, Colts!
30:28Here they are,
30:29blowing out the Colts
30:31on the road.
30:33There were more
30:34Chiefs fans in red
30:35making a whole lot
30:36more noise
30:36than any of the
30:37road crowd
30:37all year.
30:38This has been
30:39the worst performance
30:40of the Colts
30:41all year long,
30:41bar none.
30:42I was disappointed
30:43in myself,
30:44angry.
30:45Stopped on interceptions,
30:46having stupid mistakes.
30:47He throws to the sideline,
30:48picked off again.
30:49I really felt like
30:50I was letting the team down.
30:51Alex is going to
30:52try to run,
30:52the Colts forcing in,
30:53he throws a touchdown pass
30:54out of the backfield
30:55to Nile Davis.
31:01I believe on the
31:03Colts' radio,
31:04because I was
31:04getting a hot dog,
31:06I remember hearing
31:06the guys say
31:07the season's over.
31:08We don't have to
31:09watch the rest of the game.
31:10It's over.
31:10And then,
31:12Andrew Luck
31:13went to work.
31:14Trailing 38-10
31:15in the third quarter,
31:17Andrew Luck
31:18threw a 46-yard bomb
31:19that ignited
31:20our number three
31:21comeback of all time.
31:23I had no problem
31:24believing he was
31:25going to win this game.
31:25See, that's the kind
31:27of thing he instills
31:28in you.
31:28Buck on the inside,
31:29give to Donald Brown.
31:30Donald's at the five.
31:31Donald scores!
31:32Also, one thing,
31:33I mean,
31:33this team's never panicked
31:34since I've been
31:34a part of this club.
31:35That's the one thing
31:36about this Colts team
31:37is they have that belief
31:39that, hey,
31:40it doesn't matter
31:40how far we're down,
31:41we can come back
31:42and win the football.
31:43The Colts got it
31:44behind.
31:45That's madness!
31:46The amazing part of it
31:47was nobody left
31:49from what I saw.
31:49And I didn't hear stories
31:50about anybody leaving.
31:52So I think the fan base
31:53stayed there
31:53because they were
31:55anticipated.
31:55that Andrew Luck
31:56can bring him back.
31:57Andrew throws it out
31:58to Donald Brown.
31:59Touchdown!
32:00Andrew throws back
32:00to the end zone.
32:01Touchdown!
32:02And all of a sudden,
32:03it's 41-30.
32:05All of a sudden.
32:05Give it to Donald Brown.
32:07Donald fights his way.
32:08Now ball's loose.
32:08Luck picks it out.
32:09And Luck scores!
32:10Andrew kicked out
32:11the center.
32:12For that ball
32:13to bounce the way
32:14it did,
32:15bounce off somebody's helmet,
32:16and then he could go
32:17to score a touchdown.
32:19If the Chiefs get the ball
32:20there,
32:20they'd probably win
32:21the football game.
32:22You know,
32:22he can look so ugly
32:23at times,
32:24and yet kind of
32:25shake it off
32:26and forget it.
32:27Way down there to T.
32:28He's got it!
32:29He's going to score!
32:30He's going to score!
32:31He's going to score!
32:32The Cubs are going to win!
32:36It's the second biggest
32:38comeback in NFL history.
32:40What Luck has done now
32:41is almost built
32:42this expectation
32:43that anything is possible
32:45any time that guy
32:46steps to the field.
32:47They are who we thought
32:48they were!
32:49Well,
32:50this Chiefs team
32:52was just chokers
32:53from the very beginning.
32:55Started the season
32:569-0,
32:57went 2-5,
33:00swept by the Chargers
33:01and lost both games
33:02by a field goal margin.
33:06They won both
33:07of those games,
33:08they wouldn't even
33:09have been playing
33:10in the wild card.
33:11They would have been
33:12a top two seed.
33:16So,
33:17you should have
33:18kind of expected
33:19them to lose.
33:23Dennis Green
33:24wasn't always
33:25a hothead.
33:25In a 97
33:27wild card playoff,
33:28the Giants
33:29let his Vikings
33:30off the hook.
33:31Touchdown,
33:32Vikings!
33:32Oh,
33:33God!
33:34Oh,
33:35God!
33:36As Minnesota
33:37won with a 10-point
33:39rally in the last
33:3990 seconds.
33:41I'd say this goes down
33:42as one of the
33:43great comebacks.
33:44Two TDs
33:45in the final two minutes
33:46gave Danny White's
33:48Cowboys
33:48a wild win over
33:49Atlanta back in 1981.
33:52Danny back to throw,
33:53into the end zone,
33:54caught,
33:55touchdown!
33:56But postseason
33:57comebacks on the road
33:59are even more
34:00old school than that.
34:02The number two
34:03comeback of all time,
34:05Seattle sends
34:06Green Bay Packers
34:08to...
34:08This is a game
34:10you're going to talk
34:10about forever
34:11and people are going to
34:11say,
34:12I remember watching
34:13that game.
34:14Before the 2014 NFC
34:16championship game,
34:17playing at Seattle
34:18CenturyLink Field
34:19had been in
34:19a house of horrors
34:21for the Packers.
34:22Green Bay lost
34:23the season opener
34:23and still has
34:24nightmares from
34:25two years earlier.
34:27With eight seconds
34:27remaining,
34:28that's a final
34:29intro.
34:29Going to give
34:41the first touchdown
34:42of the game
34:42and forced two
34:43Seattle turnovers,
34:45but Green Bay
34:45settled for field goals
34:47and only a 16-point lead
34:49going into halftime.
34:50Mike McCarthy opted
34:51to go for pretty much
34:53back-to-back field goals.
34:54I knew that was
34:55a huge mistake.
34:56He felt that he was
34:57playing a team in Seattle
34:59that was not going
34:59to score a lot of points.
35:01At some point,
35:01somebody should have
35:02gone over to Mike McCarthy
35:03and told him about
35:04this thing called
35:05the end zone
35:05and trying to get in there.
35:06Three points
35:07instead of seven.
35:08We've got set the table
35:09for the comeback.
35:10Huh.
35:12Still being shut out
35:13in the third quarter,
35:15Seattle turned to special teams
35:16for an offensive spark.
35:18It's a fake job, Ryan.
35:19Green Bay's good
35:20right in the middle.
35:21He's got a man.
35:23He's got a man.
35:23It is a touchdown.
35:26Are you serious?
35:27Are you kidding me?
35:29The first touchdown
35:30that the Seahawks
35:31put on the board
35:32was a fake field goal.
35:33That's how terrible
35:34things were.
35:36It was a kicker
35:37to an offensive line.
35:38Russell Wilson's
35:39fourth interception
35:40looked to seal the win
35:41for Green Bay,
35:42but with two minutes
35:43remaining,
35:43Seattle cut the lead
35:45down to five.
35:46Enter Brandon Bostic
35:47and the Packers'
35:48hands team
35:49lining up
35:49for a Seahawks
35:50onside kick.
35:52There it is.
35:52Seattle has a chance.
35:54Oh!
35:55Seattle's good.
35:56People are going to
35:57remember that onside kick.
35:59So unfortunately,
35:59people are going to
36:00remember him dropping
36:02that onside kick,
36:02but I will say this.
36:03That's the one
36:04playing that football game.
36:06Marshawn Lynch
36:07made his impact
36:08on one play,
36:09rumbling for a 24-yard score
36:11to give Seattle the lead.
36:13They allow the touchdown
36:15to Marshawn Lynch.
36:16The two-point conversion,
36:17you talk about a Hail Mary
36:18from the two-and-a-half-yard line.
36:21It's going to be
36:22the single most
36:23underrated play
36:24in this comeback score.
36:26Russell's going to roll up.
36:27He looks,
36:28man in his face,
36:29still looking,
36:30going to throw it up
36:30at the back of the end zone.
36:31He's going to shut it.
36:33They move up
36:34and he makes it
36:35against
36:35the group like
36:36the conversion.
36:37Can you say comeback?
36:39This will be
36:40the largest
36:41second-hand comeback
36:42in Conor's
36:44championship history.
36:46Once they got that,
36:48I said,
36:48the Seahawks
36:48are winning this football.
36:49A Green Bay field goal
36:51sent the game to overtime,
36:52but Russell Wilson
36:53made sure the Packers'
36:55offense
36:55never saw the ball.
36:57Russell has a shot down.
36:59Russell takes the snap.
37:00Drops back.
37:01He's got it, man!
37:02Come on, come on!
37:03Game on!
37:04Game on!
37:04Game on!
37:05Game on!
37:07The Seahawks
37:08are moving back
37:09in the Super Bowl!
37:12Easily Seattle's
37:13number one win
37:14in the history
37:15of a franchise.
37:15It's a Super Bowl
37:16winning franchise.
37:17That is the worst loss
37:19in the history
37:20of the Super Bowl era.
37:22And now,
37:23the number one
37:24comeback of all time.
37:26The Bills
37:27stampede the Oilers.
37:29That's the picture
37:30that goes next
37:30to the word
37:31comeback in the NFL.
37:32That's easy.
37:32Now, the list
37:33would be this
37:34and then
37:3628-3
37:37in the top two.
37:39I thought we had a chance.
37:41It's about the same
37:41as winning
37:42the New York lottery.
37:43Everything that they got,
37:44we gave to them.
37:45The greatest comeback
37:46in playoff, Houston!
37:48Entering the 1992 season,
37:54the Buffalo Bills
37:55had lost
37:56back-to-back Super Bowls.
37:58going deep.
37:59He's got caught.
38:00Touchdown!
38:01Washington Redskins!
38:03And in the regular season finale,
38:05Buffalo's AFC reign
38:06appeared to be over.
38:08Down, down in the middle.
38:09Touchdown!
38:10Not only did we lose,
38:11but we lost Jim Kelly.
38:12And so here we are
38:13on a quest
38:14for our third
38:15AFC championship.
38:16We just got beat
38:17real bad
38:18in Houston.
38:19And so here we go,
38:20having to play
38:20a wild card game.
38:26In a rematch
38:28the following week,
38:29Warren Moon
38:30and the Oilers
38:30run and shoot off
38:31offense came into
38:32Buffalo with guns blazing.
38:35There was no game
38:36in the first half.
38:37The Oilers own that game
38:38in every possible respect.
38:40They looked like
38:41an offense that
38:42wasn't going to be stopped.
38:43That can't stop.
38:44You know that.
38:45You don't play
38:47a better first half
38:48of offensive football
38:49than the Oilers
38:51have just played.
38:52It just seemed like
38:53there was no chance
38:54for the Bills to come back.
38:56Especially with
38:57the backup quarterback
38:58in Frank Wright.
38:59Wright throwing it
39:00to the right
39:00through the hands of McHiller.
39:01It's picked off McDowell.
39:03Down the far sideline
39:04and he'll score
39:04for a touchdown.
39:05You know,
39:05the lights are on here
39:06in Rich Stadium.
39:07They've been on since
39:08this morning.
39:08You can pretty much
39:09turn them out
39:09on the Bills right now.
39:15You had a lot of people
39:16who had paid to get in
39:18who were miserable
39:19and they left.
39:20You can overcome, baby.
39:22You can overcome this.
39:23In trying to encourage
39:24him a little bit,
39:25I said, Frank,
39:26you're going to lead
39:26the greatest comeback
39:27in the history
39:28of the national football league.
39:29Hey, remember Frank Wright
39:30is a senior in Maryland
39:32and engineered
39:32the greatest comeback
39:33in the history
39:34of college football
39:35trailing by 31
39:36to Miami.
39:37He and the Terps
39:37ended up beating
39:38the Hurricanes 42-40.
39:40Maybe he could do
39:40a 32-point comeback, huh?
39:42Davis running left,
39:43trying to get to the corner
39:44and he is in
39:45for the touchdown.
39:46And now they're in their cars
39:47listening to them
39:48play-by-play
39:48and they're realizing
39:49something amazing
39:50is going on
39:51so they're turning around.
39:53When he made
39:54that particular one,
39:55you can kind of see
39:56the momentum shifting
39:57a little bit.
39:58You're like,
39:58oh my God,
39:59here it goes.
39:59at the 5 in for the touchdown.
40:01Suddenly it went
40:02from 35 to 3
40:04to 35 to 17.
40:06Remember,
40:07they've left.
40:08They're not letting them
40:08back in the stadium.
40:09Some people now
40:10are climbing fences
40:11to get back in.
40:12Now there is Green
40:13at the 5 in for the touchdown.
40:15As this game swung
40:18like a tidal wave
40:19here at Ridge Stadium.
40:21You can't stop it,
40:22you can't stop it.
40:23And you heard
40:23all these stories
40:24of people trying
40:25to get back in that stadium
40:26to witness
40:27this historic event.
40:29Rose,
40:29re-touchdown!
40:31The Bills are
40:32back in it now!
40:33Good job,
40:34good job.
40:34Hey,
40:34it's the guy,
40:35one more.
40:35It's the guy,
40:36get one more.
40:37Back to throw,
40:38he looks,
40:38he throws,
40:39touchdown!
40:40The Bills have scored
40:41to take the lead
40:42with 3-08
40:43to play in the game.
40:45They don't want it,
40:45baby!
40:45They don't want it!
40:47While the Bills
40:47have raised
40:48a 32-point deficit,
40:50the Oilers
40:51imploded.
40:52And the only thing
40:53a player can honestly
40:54come to a conclusion of
40:55is that my head
40:56is not in the game.
40:58I choked,
40:59in other words.
41:01And their fate
41:02was sealed
41:03in overtime.
41:05Bills can win it here.
41:06Wright puts it down.
41:07The kick is on the way
41:09and it is good!
41:10And the Bills have won it!
41:11The Bills have won it!
41:13They win 41-14!
41:16Incredible!
41:17What a comeback
41:18by the Bills!
41:23There was shock.
41:24There was still
41:25that sense
41:26that I really
41:27see this happen.
41:28At any point in time
41:30can somebody
41:30please just wake me up?
41:31There's no way
41:32that these guys
41:33could have come back
41:34and beat us.
41:36We went in the
41:36Oilers dressing room
41:38and it's almost like
41:39they'd all had
41:39frontal lobotomies
41:41and they were
41:41sitting there
41:42like big stars.
41:43Everyone in Houston
41:44after that comeback
41:45victory by the Bills
41:46said,
41:47we're going to put
41:48a lot of smog
41:48in our air
41:49and we're going to
41:49become the fattest
41:50city of the year.
41:54That's what the
41:55game is all about
41:56those moments
41:57like that.
42:00Our list
42:01has poetry
42:02in motion
42:02Rice has got it!
42:04Touchdown
42:0549ers!
42:06And passionate
42:07pros
42:07We can win!
42:09We can win!
42:10But this
42:11countdown of the
42:12top ten
42:12greatest comebacks
42:13hasn't satisfied
42:15everyone.
42:16Disbelief.
42:17Total disbelief.
42:19Cracker's kick
42:19is so good!
42:25There can be
42:26disagreement on
42:27what did and
42:28didn't make our
42:29list.
42:30What's going on?
42:31What just happened?
42:32Leaping!
42:33Yeah, I'm
42:34complete.
42:35But everyone
42:36agrees on two
42:37things.
42:37The Bills belong
42:38at number one.
42:39It is
42:41pandemonium
42:41here at
42:42Rich Stadium.
42:43And in the
42:44National Football
42:44League, no lead
42:45is safe.
42:46Period.
42:47Bar not.
42:48You read.
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