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00:00What is it about? Was it about all the money you spent?
00:03Was it about all the wine, women, and song?
00:06No, it's about your teammates, and did you get a Super Bowl ring?
00:11And that's the problem. A lot of guys didn't get a Super Bowl ring.
00:19There is no second place. Either your first or your last.
00:25Not to blaspheme one of the NFL's patrons, Saints.
00:28But what about those souls who didn't finish first, or last, or even second for that matter?
00:35The men who never sung to the shallowest of NFL depths,
00:39and never experienced the joy that comes from gracing the game's sacred grounds.
00:45It was as though everybody else was going to the ball, but I was the ugly duckling.
00:50I think that's probably every football player's fear, to not get a chance to win that big one.
00:55You know, not to get a chance to play for it.
00:57It's time to finally praise the best of those left just short of the NFL's altar, the Super Bowl.
01:03We all would have liked to have won a Super Bowl. There's no question about that. That's why we played.
01:08The members of our list are some of the most talented men to have taken the field.
01:13But through either their own doing...
01:15He fumbles the football.
01:16...or forces outside of their control...
01:21These players have been cast into football purgatory.
01:26Why didn't he make the Super Bowl?
01:28Because it's hard to get there.
01:31Ten players who never played in a Super Bowl.
01:34Sterling Sharp.
01:36Really? Sterling Sharp?
01:38Hello? Hi there.
01:40More cut.
01:41See if we can get you guys excited together.
01:43I could probably come up with a few minutes.
01:45Touchdown, Sterling Sharp!
01:47Sterling Sharp!
01:48What a catch!
01:49Touchdown.
01:50Guess who?
01:50Sterling Sharp.
01:52Very good wide receiver.
01:54One of the best of his era.
01:55But really a top ten player never to play in the Super Bowl.
02:01Sterling Sharp was the man.
02:04Sterling Sharp!
02:06My goodness!
02:07He was a transcendent player.
02:09Obscured by Jerry Rice, who's the greatest of all time.
02:12But right there with Michael Urban and Andre Risen as the next guy.
02:15The thing that set him apart from other receivers of that time was he was just so physical.
02:24Damn up, Sterling!
02:25Get him, baby!
02:26Look at him!
02:27He's got fear in his eyes!
02:28Get him, Sterling!
02:30By the early 80s, the Polish had come off Titletown's Sterling reputation.
02:35Then Sharp arrived in 1988.
02:38You can easily make the argument that Sterling Sharp was absolutely critical in the Packers
02:43turning it around because he was there before Favre.
02:46He was there in the one great year that Don, the magic man, Mikowski had.
02:50But Sharp was the constant throughout that.
02:53Back-to-back 100-catch seasons in NFL First accompanied Favre's arrival.
02:59You know, you had a fearless quarterback throwing the ball to a fearless receiver,
03:04which is what Sharp was.
03:05I mean, he would go anywhere in the field to get the ball.
03:06That's a pretty potent combination.
03:09That is big time!
03:10Let's go, baby.
03:11That's just big time!
03:15One of their first big moments together was a playoff game in Detroit.
03:20Touchdown!
03:21Sterling Sharp!
03:22They got the ball late, and Favre hit Sharp down the sideline.
03:28He's going to throw it to the end zone.
03:29He's open!
03:30Wide open!
03:31Touchdown!
03:32That won the game.
03:33Out the level.
03:35Sterling to the ball.
03:39Sterling Sharp.
03:40It's tough he's on this list.
03:42He didn't really have that many seasons in the NFL, so that hurt him.
03:48Sharp just cracks our list at number 10, because after seven seasons, his career came to an untimely end.
03:57He and Favre were going to make beautiful music together, but he just got hurt.
04:01He had the narrowing of the spinal column in the neck, and he was one hit away from being paralyzed.
04:12It's a shame, because Sterling Sharp was 31 years old when Green Bay won the Super Bowl in the 96th
04:17season.
04:18I mean, he would have been in his prime at that point.
04:21But unlike the rest of the list, our number 10 player did come away with some Super Bowl bling.
04:30Proprietarily, Sterling Sharp does have a Super Bowl ring, because I believe his brother Shannon gave him one of his.
04:36Does that even count?
04:39Although kicker Gary Anderson retired with a player who never played in a Super Bowl, Randall Cunningham.
04:45How is he on this list? He's not even a home of things.
04:4811 years before a missed kick met game over, quarterback Randall Cunningham was at the controls in Philadelphia.
04:55Randall was a video game.
04:58I don't know how he did it, but somehow, miraculously, I think we're looking at Plastic Man.
05:04He's turning. He's leaping. He's diving. He's in.
05:08Buddy Ryan told him, and listen, if there's no play out there, just run.
05:12He's going to run. He jumps. He's in. Touchdown!
05:20Our number 9 player had the flash for the big stage.
05:24But in 11 seasons with the Eagles, he won only one playoff game.
05:31Randall needs to take a huge piece of responsibility.
05:38And that 92 win in 92 was against the Saints, who had never won a playoff game in their history.
05:46So, his first three postseason games, he threw no touchdowns, five interceptions.
05:56Super Bowl, because it's not like he can lean back on, well, he didn't have a defense.
06:00Well, you had the best defense in the NFL.
06:04He's hit. He fumbles the football. The Eagles have it.
06:07Randall Cunningham just wasn't a Super Bowl quarterback.
06:10It's simple as that. He was a good athlete. He could run around and do some things.
06:14Touchdown! Cunningham!
06:15He wasn't a consistent passer, and that was shown when the Eagles got into the playoffs.
06:21Teams could defend him because he just wasn't accurate enough and consistent enough as a passer.
06:31Cunningham had one stellar playoff performance in 1988, but he couldn't see it through.
06:37The Eagles and the Bears are playing football, but I can't see, nor can anyone else.
06:43That was Randall Cunningham's career in a nutshell.
06:46He goes out there when nobody can even see anything, and he throws for over 400 yards.
06:51Shouldn't even be able to walk 400 yards in the fall.
06:54And then he lost. That's Randall Cunningham.
07:01Randall Cunningham had one thing working against him in terms of never getting to a Super Bowl.
07:07And that was that he played for Buddy Ryan.
07:09Wouldn't you used to be a quarterback here today?
07:11No, I'd have a linebacker and fullbacker.
07:12So buddy, don't you?
07:14Buddy Ryan paid absolutely no attention to the offensive side of the football.
07:20Randall Cunningham, like, in Philadelphia was, what could he become?
07:23And then he goes to Minnesota, and they have this high-flying offense,
07:25and they're one of the best teams in the NFL,
07:27and you think, this is finally going to be the time when Randall Cunningham goes and realizes that potential.
07:32Cunningham, he looks out there, and he's laughing.
07:36And he's felled by a kicker.
07:38It's easy to blame the kicker, but Gary Anderson wasn't the only Viking with a fourth-quarter collapse.
07:46Cunningham started strong in the NFC title game against Atlanta and was dreadful down the stretch.
07:53He got rushed badly.
07:54I did not think he handled the pressure very well,
07:56and Randy Moss was rendered non-existent after halftime.
08:04It was almost as if the way the NFC title game finished was the end for Randall Cunningham.
08:11Yeah, you could absolutely argue that Randall shouldn't be on this list because he didn't do enough.
08:15I'd still like to go back and get a Super Bowl,
08:18but these extra 10 pounds probably wouldn't allow me to do it.
08:25Super Bowl, John Randall.
08:27Hey.
08:30John Randall?
08:31Guys,
08:33just slaves to the soundbite you guys are.
08:37Regulator!
08:37He had 137 and a half of that.
08:40Hey, go!
08:41Red Rover, Red Rover!
08:43Let them f**ks come on over!
08:45Can you imagine NFL films miking him up in a Super Bowl?
08:50Oh, let's go, baby!
08:52Let's go!
08:53That would be legend.
08:54That would be the greatest thing that anyone could ever watch.
08:57One of the best parts about watching a Super Bowl is that
09:00you're usually in a room with a bunch of non-football fans
09:03who are seeing a lot of these players for the first time.
09:06And imagine if they'd seen John Randall run out for pre-game introduction.
09:10Hey, hey, hey!
09:13Hey, hey!
09:14The guy would have his tongue hanging out.
09:16He'd be screaming, eyes bulging.
09:20Two-thirds of his face painted black.
09:23Half of America would have stopped and said,
09:24He looks like one of the rogue warriors.
09:27Who in the world is that?
09:31John Randall is one of, if not the best interior linemen
09:35that have played the game.
09:37With 137 and a half,
09:39Randall's number one defensive tackle
09:40with the non-field playoffs.
09:42The hour list.
09:44I think...
09:49He was maybe 240 pounds coming out of college,
09:54undrafted,
09:55and completely dominated the game.
10:12Woo!
10:12You know, barbecue chicken five seconds later.
10:18John Randall, I think, you know,
10:20he should have played in the Super Bowl with the 98 Vikings.
10:2339-yard attempt.
10:25The spot, the kick by Anderson.
10:27That's it on the way!
10:28That's no good!
10:29Shame.
10:30That's probably the heartbreak for Randall.
10:32They must look back and say,
10:34Gary freaking...
10:35It was the first kick he missed
10:37since the Peloponnesian Wars, for God's sakes.
10:39I'm over here dressed up
10:41like I'm an insane clown posse,
10:43and I'm like,
10:44I gotta go home in this crap now.
10:46One player who just missed making our list
10:49is legendary Seahawks.
10:51How did he miss the list?
10:53Largent!
10:54Largent!
10:55Largent!
10:55When he retired,
10:57he was the NFL all-time leader
10:59in receptions, receiving yards,
11:00and touchdown catches.
11:01There it is!
11:01Touchdown Seahawks!
11:03Number 100!
11:04But it's not his fault
11:05that he had Dave Craig and Jim Zorn
11:07as his quarterbacks.
11:09I mean, those...
11:14In his quest to play in a Super Bowl,
11:16Largent was stopped short
11:18in the AFC Championship,
11:19just like the next player on our list.
11:22So no extra...
11:23But our seventh player
11:24who never played in a Super Bowl,
11:26LaDainian Tomlinson.
11:29Shane.
11:30Tomlinson is fantastic.
11:32I guess you feel okay
11:33about where he is right now
11:34because you still think
11:35that he might get there.
11:36I think this guy
11:36definitely has got to be in the top five.
11:38Most touchdowns in one season.
11:41Broke the record.
11:42Charger fans are witnesses to history!
11:45MVP of the National Football League.
11:47What you would expect
11:48from the champion of a player.
11:50One of the top five running backs
11:53in the history of the National Football League.
11:55Never possibly get in the ring.
11:56Tough.
11:58He's not the only one.
11:59Tomlinson rushed for more than a thousand yards
12:02in eight straight seasons.
12:03But his productivity
12:05never translated into
12:06playoff success for San Diego.
12:09The Chargers had these great regular seasons
12:11and then these epic playoff collapses.
12:14This is one that's going to haunt this franchise,
12:17this team, these players forever.
12:192006, he had the record-breaking season.
12:21They went 14-2.
12:23Marty Schottenheimer was taking that team
12:25to the Super Bowl, guaranteed.
12:27Let's go kick some ass!
12:29And off to the Patriots,
12:31divisional round.
12:32But he had a huge game that game.
12:34That game wasn't his fault.
12:35Tomlinson jukes to the 40,
12:36steps out to the 45, still going.
12:38A huge gain!
12:39What a play!
12:40That is your MVP!
12:41That game was on Marlon McCree.
12:43And that's why.
12:45Hard to blame LaDainia Tomlinson
12:46when Marlon McCree,
12:48all he had to do
12:49was just get down with the interception.
12:51Down to six minutes and 50 seconds
12:53and the Patriots are down by eight points.
12:55Intercepted at the 30-yard line
12:57and a fumble on the interception.
13:00The Patriots have it!
13:01All McCree has to do is just get down.
13:06The Patriots went on to win,
13:08turning the lights out
13:09on Tomlinson's Super Bowl hopes.
13:11You had guys out there doing
13:13I don't even know why
13:14that means lights out
13:15thing on the field.
13:17And LaDainia just popped a cork.
13:19LTs have emerged
13:20with some of the Patriots.
13:21I've never seen that.
13:22I've never seen LT upset.
13:24Yeah, protecting the lightning bolt
13:25and the great transgression
13:27of imitating Sean Merriman's dance.
13:29That was not a shining moment
13:31for LaDainia Tomlinson.
13:32They showed no class at all.
13:34Absolutely no class.
13:36And maybe it comes from a head coach.
13:37From that point on,
13:39LaDainia Tomlinson was in a downward spiral
13:41in San Diego.
13:42Never recovered.
13:46Look, there were...
13:54Let's see...
13:5717 players in the history of the NFL
14:00with 12,000 yards per scrimmage
14:02and 110 touchdowns.
14:04LaDainia Tomlinson did that in six years.
14:09He would still be on the list
14:10if you only played six years
14:12and this is a career list.
14:18You know what's got to kill LT too?
14:20It's the fact that the closest
14:22he really got...
14:27...2007 and he had the MCL
14:28and he had to sit there in the park
14:29with the visor on the sideline
14:31in the cold at Gillette Stadium
14:33and have everybody rip on him.
14:34Nobody wears a very large shell jacket
14:37and sulks on the sidelines
14:39as well as LaDainia Tomlinson does.
14:4114-12 game going into the fourth
14:42and he can't contribute.
14:44By the end of the year,
14:45he was so battered and so beaten up
14:47that he wasn't the same guy
14:48that he had been during the season.
14:50And I would have never thought
14:51there would be LT
14:52that came out of this game early.
14:53Ten career playoff games
14:55averages under 50 yards rushing
14:57and yards per carry
14:58is cut down by about a whole yard.
15:00Bottom line is that the numbers
15:02suggest Tomlinson was just not
15:04as effective in the postseason.
15:07In 2010, he goes to a new team,
15:09goes to the Jets,
15:10they make it back
15:11to the AFC Championship game
15:12and they just, once again,
15:13they can't make it all the way
15:14to the Super Bowl.
15:15Gips for Tomlinson.
15:18Well, the career's not over yet
15:22for LaDainia, right?
15:23So, I mean, he's still, uh...
15:24Well, if he could have only
15:26been in his prime,
15:27then he would have jumped.
15:29Still has his Super Bowl chance.
15:31In the meantime,
15:32Tomlinson remains
15:33the number seven player
15:34never to play in a Super Bowl.
15:37Yeah, he belongs on the list.
15:38Or, if he's not on the list,
15:40he should be sort of
15:41riding an exercise bike
15:42very gently to the side of the list.
15:46The number six player
15:46who never played in a Super Bowl.
15:49Dan Dierdorf.
15:50Really?
15:52Everything you do is
15:53top running backs of the 80s,
15:55top quarterbacks of the 90s,
15:57more linemen content.
16:03Dan Dierdorf,
16:04I think he was a very, very,
16:06very good player.
16:07But there are people out there
16:08who don't think
16:09he should be in the Hall of Fame.
16:10Dan Dierdorf isn't on television
16:12for the last 25 years.
16:14He's a footnote in history.
16:15Who remembers
16:16offensive linemen
16:17from the Cardinals?
16:19That's ridiculous.
16:20One of the most.
16:20He made three
16:21All-Pro,
16:23first-team All-Pros
16:24in six total.
16:26Underrated players
16:27of the NFL.
16:31Let's go, Dan.
16:31Get him fired up.
16:34You know,
16:34Sheepdog and the Coyote.
16:36Check in,
16:36I'm gonna kill you.
16:37Check out,
16:38time for lunch.
16:38You know,
16:39that's Dierdorf.
16:41You know what I liked
16:42about Dan Dierdorf?
16:43He was mean.
16:45I mean,
16:46he was a physical,
16:47physical blocker,
16:48but he told an obscurity
16:50for the St. Louis Cardinals.
16:52The St. Louis Cardinals,
16:54for the majority
16:55of Dierdorf's career,
16:57they were a mediocre
16:58to bottom feeder team.
17:00I mean,
17:01he was stuck on a team
17:02that didn't even come close
17:03to the playoffs
17:03year after year
17:04after year.
17:08Did Dan Dierdorf
17:09ever even make
17:09the playoffs?
17:10Yes, he did.
17:11Easily forgotten
17:12from the disco-induced
17:14haze of the mid-70s,
17:15the Cardinals briefly
17:17went from laughing stock
17:18to Super Bowl contenders.
17:20Well, I mean,
17:21the Cardinals,
17:22you talk about
17:22great offensive line,
17:24really,
17:25really good quarterback,
17:26good receivers,
17:27Terry Metcalf,
17:30offense anchored
17:31by our number six player
17:32and six-time Pro Bowler.
17:35From tackle to tackle,
17:36they could really,
17:37really protect,
17:38and Dierdorf
17:39was the best of them
17:40because he could do everything.
17:41He was a great run blocker
17:42and just a tremendous
17:44pass protector.
17:45Dan Dierdorf,
17:47in 1976 and 77,
17:48he didn't allow
17:49one sack in those years,
17:51and to put that
17:52in perspective,
17:53his team as a whole
17:54gave up 32.
17:55What?
17:56That's amazing,
17:57especially in the NFL,
17:58where the pass rushers
17:59are unbelievable.
18:00To go 10 games
18:01in this league now
18:02and not give up a sack,
18:03I think,
18:03is an unbelievable feat,
18:04but to go two whole seasons,
18:06you can't even comprehend that.
18:10They didn't have much defense,
18:11and that reared its ugly head,
18:13certainly,
18:13in the playoffs.
18:15Dierdorf would win
18:16less in three playoffs.
18:18Personal efforts
18:19won him our number six spot.
18:21I remember.
18:22He went against
18:23Merlin Olsen twice a year
18:26in Jack Youngblood.
18:28twice a year.
18:29A playoff game
18:31in Minnesota
18:32when the matchup
18:33was Dierdorf
18:34against Carl Eller.
18:35When the Minnesota defense
18:38was at its peak
18:39and Eller was
18:40their best player,
18:41and Dierdorf
18:42took them one-on-one
18:44and totally shut them out.
18:56The fact that the Cardinals
18:57did not win a championship
18:58is not Dierdorf's fault.
18:59He did
19:01the best at it.
19:03What offensive lineman
19:05in NFL history
19:06has ever turned
19:07his team around?
19:08I don't know
19:09who that would be.
19:11But shouldn't a guy
19:12who grew up in Canton
19:14and is in the
19:15Pro Football Hall of Fame,
19:17shouldn't he have been able
19:18to get to the Super Bowl
19:19one of those years?
19:20He's made it to the Super Bowl
19:21a few times
19:23as a broadcaster.
19:24The Bills enjoyed
19:25fabulous pass protection
19:26in their two playoff wins.
19:27I'm sure he would tell you
19:29that's not nearly as satisfying
19:30as making it as a player.
19:32Slave to the soundbite.
19:33If he's not on TV,
19:35he's on this list,
19:35of course not.
19:36You guys are nuts.
19:38Great mustache, though.
19:40Yeah.
19:41And now,
19:42the number five player
19:43who never played
19:44in the Super Bowl,
19:45Chris Carter.
19:46Number five.
19:48Chris Carter.
19:49Another guy
19:50who knows everything
19:51about winning,
19:52but never did it.
19:53A guy who goes on TV
19:55and says,
19:55hey,
19:56you should do this
19:56to become better.
19:57You should do that
19:58to become better.
19:59Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
20:01But he never won.
20:02Arrogance
20:03in football
20:04can be entertaining,
20:04but not from a guy
20:06who never won.
20:07I loathe Chris Carter.
20:09Shut up!
20:10Whatever you is!
20:11Sure,
20:12you can count
20:13Mr. Congeniality
20:14among the titles
20:15Carter never won.
20:16You gotta start
20:17making some plays!
20:18Let me out like that!
20:18Start to make some plays!
20:19Let me out like that!
20:20Make some plays!
20:22But all he did
20:23was catch touchdowns.
20:25That's what?
20:27Oh,
20:28oh,
20:28touchdown!
20:29Diving round
20:30by Chris Carter!
20:32Ego?
20:32Yeah,
20:33big time.
20:33Like a lot of receivers,
20:34he had them,
20:35but the best hands
20:36literally I have ever
20:38seen.
20:39I tell you what,
20:39if Chris Carter
20:40never thinks about
20:41being in football,
20:42he's got a job
20:42with a great
20:43Olympics.
20:43If there was one guy
20:45that I had played with
20:46that I was glad
20:47was on my team
20:48on third down,
20:49it was Chris Carter.
20:50He did things
20:50along the sideline
20:51that almost defy
20:53what the human body
20:54should be able to do.
20:55The way he could
20:56tour it and twist
20:56his body
20:57to make a catch.
20:58That's number
20:591,000!
21:00If he didn't make
21:01the play on third down,
21:02it wasn't his fault.
21:03It was the quarterback
21:03that didn't get him
21:04the ball.
21:06Remarkably,
21:07of the eight
21:07playoff teams
21:08Carter was on,
21:09there were seven
21:10different quarterbacks
21:11leading the Vikings.
21:12It's definitely
21:12not a formula
21:13to get to the Super Bowl.
21:15Back goes Johnson.
21:16Here goes Moore.
21:17George cutting in.
21:18Cole Peck.
21:18To the corner
21:19of the end zone.
21:20Carter made the catch!
21:21It makes you wonder
21:22if he had
21:23a steady diet
21:24of a Tom Brady
21:24or a Peyton Manning,
21:25if he would have been
21:26maybe the best receiver ever.
21:29He didn't have
21:30gaudy playoff numbers
21:32in his career.
21:32Please!
21:33Y'all have this
21:34stop this yet!
21:35But he was pretty steady.
21:36Eight touchdowns
21:37in 14 games.
21:38Carter, touchdown!
21:40He's played
21:40almost an entire
21:41NFL season
21:43in the playoffs.
21:44When we play
21:44the big dogs,
21:46are we gonna have
21:46everything tight?
21:48If he had a
21:48franchise quarterback
21:49that could have been
21:50there from the beginning
21:51to the end,
21:51he probably would have
21:52had a chance to really
21:53play.
21:55Yep.
21:56We have a lot of guys
21:57that won in battle.
21:57Chris Carter's a
21:58Hall of Fame player.
21:59He doesn't have a
21:59Super Bowl ring.
22:00You know what I mean?
22:00That's what our guys
22:01really want,
22:02and it's gonna be
22:02hard to do.
22:03You look at that
22:0498 Vikings team,
22:06I mean,
22:06he was a big,
22:07big part of what,
22:08you know,
22:08at the time was
22:09the most prolific
22:10offense in NFL history.
22:11All we need is like
22:1220 points next week
22:14to break the
22:14record.
22:15And then they fall short.
22:16That's no good!
22:20Even after Gary Anderson's
22:22miss,
22:22our number five player
22:23might have earned his
22:24way off this countdown
22:26if Dennis Green had the
22:27ball thrown his way.
22:29The team basically just
22:30shut down.
22:31Randall Cunningham took a
22:31knee and they played for
22:32overtime when they had
22:34time to try to move the
22:35ball downfield.
22:36All right,
22:37let's go.
22:37New game.
22:37First win to score wins.
22:39Let's score first.
22:40To this day,
22:41it's baffling.
22:42Why?
22:42Because they had
22:43Dennis Green as their
22:44coach and he's who I
22:45thought he was.
22:46But they are who we
22:47thought they were!
22:48And we let them off the
22:48hook!
22:49I don't think Chris
22:50Carter has ever gotten
22:51over the 1998 NFC
22:52title game.
22:53It's like getting
22:54punched in the gut.
22:55A couple players
22:56actually had to hold
22:57him up and help him
22:59get back to the
23:00locker room.
23:00That's how devastated
23:01indeed that he was.
23:03The number four
23:04player who never
23:05played in a Super Bowl,
23:07Eric Dickerson.
23:09Yes!
23:10Can you believe
23:11Eric Dickerson
23:12didn't go to a Super Bowl?
23:13I mean,
23:13the guy had more
23:14ability and speed
23:15than anybody I've
23:16ever seen in the NFL.
23:18Tough luck.
23:22Because he never won,
23:24people forget about
23:25what he did.
23:29One of the most
23:30underappreciated running
23:31backs in all of football.
23:32You can just close your
23:33eyes and you can see
23:34him with his goggles on,
23:35running high,
23:37getting through the line,
23:38boom, he's got it.
23:40Like the legendary heroes
23:41of the comic strips,
23:42Eric Dickerson burst out
23:44of a telephone booth
23:45to perform feats of
23:46daring do that simply
23:47could not be achieved
23:48by mortal men.
23:54200, Eric!
23:57With a record-shattering
23:58debut in 1983,
24:00Eric Dickerson carried
24:02the Rams into instant
24:03Super Bowl contention.
24:05You think about the Rams
24:06of the 80s,
24:07they were a strong
24:08contender but never could
24:09quite get over that
24:10hump either.
24:13Eric never had a great
24:15consistent quarterback
24:16play.
24:16He had a great
24:17offensive line and they
24:19were always going to
24:19give him the ball.
24:21To get to Super Bowl,
24:23you got at some point
24:24to have a kind of
24:24quarterback play.
24:26When Dickerson got
24:27contained in the playoffs,
24:30the quarterback didn't
24:30step up.
24:32When did he get
24:33contained?
24:35It's not like
24:35his numbers fell off.
24:38He got better
24:39in the playoffs.
24:40103 yards a game,
24:414.9 yards a carry
24:43compared to
24:4790 yards a game,
24:484.4 yards a carry
24:50in the regular season.
25:00In 1985,
25:01Dickerson's Rams
25:02vaulted the 49ers
25:04in the NFC West
25:05and our number
25:06four player made
25:07an historic
25:08opening playoff
25:09statement.
25:09They crushed us
25:10in the playoffs.
25:11I don't know if
25:12Dickerson might still
25:12be running in that
25:13game.
25:13I don't know,
25:14he ran for 248 yards.
25:15From running for the
25:16most yards in
25:17playoff history
25:18to running into
25:19a brick wall
25:20in the NFC
25:21championship.
25:22I mean,
25:22that was the Bears
25:23year and as good
25:24as the Rams were
25:25and as great
25:26as Dickerson was,
25:27you just knew
25:28that team going
25:29to Chicago
25:29in a championship
25:30game had no chance.
25:31The Rams are
25:32coming in here
25:32and they're saying
25:33that they're going
25:33to run Eric Dickerson
25:35at that Bear
25:36defense 40 times.
25:37They hoped for 40
25:38and instead got
25:40just 17 for 46 yards.
25:43They have kept
25:43the great Eric Dickerson
25:45under control.
25:46When you consider
25:47what other backs
25:48did against the Bears,
25:49that year,
25:4946 yards is pretty
25:51good.
25:53Exactly.
25:54Take out the game
25:55against or it would be
25:56the greatest defense
25:56of all time.
25:58You have just 113
25:59rushing yards a game
26:00in the playoffs.
26:03If Dickerson was
26:04a superhero,
26:05then Cash
26:06was his kryptonite.
26:08Eric would probably
26:09admit,
26:09he was a pretty
26:10selfish player.
26:11I mean,
26:12it was about him.
26:14I think if Eric Dickerson,
26:15if all he wanted
26:16was a Super Bowl,
26:17he probably stays
26:18with the Rams,
26:19but of course,
26:20he felt he was
26:21underpaid.
26:22What an awful
26:23career decision
26:24by Dickerson.
26:25I don't feel like
26:26playing this
26:28going to the
26:29NFC title game
26:29a couple years ago.
26:31Get me to Indy.
26:33Get in there.
26:34We're on a 20 draw.
26:35Hurry up.
26:36Hurry.
26:36It was more than ego
26:38that kept Dickerson
26:39out of the Super Bowl
26:40and from earning
26:41a spot higher
26:42than number four
26:43on our list.
26:45Superior talent
26:46made it so that
26:47he had to be
26:48the focus
26:49and that was
26:49not enough
26:50to win.
26:52It's very hard
26:53for other than
26:55say Jim Brown
26:56for a running back
26:58to make his team
26:59great.
27:01Eric Dickerson
27:02to me
27:03is not in
27:04Jim Brown's league
27:05so it doesn't
27:06surprise me
27:07all that much
27:07that he never
27:08played in the
27:08Super Bowl.
27:10Several old
27:11school Hall of Famers
27:13couldn't crack
27:13our list.
27:15Let's go.
27:16Come on now.
27:18Dick Butkus
27:18was ferocious
27:19but his Bears
27:20were in
27:21Super Bowl
27:22hibernation.
27:23If you're a
27:24Hall of Fame
27:25linebacker
27:25you have to have
27:26the good fortune
27:26of having really
27:27good teammates
27:27around you.
27:28Give me 18 inches
27:29of daylight.
27:30That's all I need.
27:31Even with
27:32Gale Sayers
27:32lighting up
27:33opposing defenses
27:34Super Bowl
27:36hopes were dim
27:37in Chicago.
27:39Speaking of
27:39hopelessness
27:40one of the
27:40greatest players
27:41of all time
27:42had no shot
27:43at making
27:44our countdown
27:44because he
27:45played prior
27:46to the Super
27:47Bowl.
27:48The number
27:49three player
27:50who never
27:51played in a
27:52Super Bowl
27:53Tony Gonzalez.
27:55Tony Gonzalez
27:56is the best
27:58offensive player
27:59never having
28:00played in a
28:01Super Bowl
28:01because he
28:03revolutionized
28:04the position.
28:05It's almost
28:05like saying
28:06what would
28:06Lawrence Taylor's
28:07career be like
28:08if he didn't
28:09win a Super
28:09Bowl.
28:12If you talk
28:13about the
28:13greatest tight
28:14ends in
28:14history you
28:15have to talk
28:15Tony Gonzalez.
28:16Greatest
28:17pass catching
28:17tight end
28:18of all time
28:19I think it's
28:19Tony Gonzalez.
28:20Tony Gonzalez
28:21is the greatest
28:21tight end
28:22of all time.
28:23Tony Gonzalez
28:24scored 111
28:26touchdowns,
28:27racked up the
28:27fifth most
28:28receiving yards
28:29in history
28:29and his
28:30second all
28:31time in
28:32receptions.
28:37He ranks
28:38in my mind
28:39as one of
28:40the great
28:40receivers of
28:40all time
28:41regardless of
28:41position.
28:44You're the
28:45best and
28:46you will
28:46always be
28:47the best.
28:48Unfortunately
28:48there's no
28:49rule saying
28:50that because
28:51you revolutionized
28:52the game
28:53you were
28:53entitled to
28:54win anything.
28:58After 12
28:59seasons,
28:5910 straight
29:00Pro Bowls,
29:015 All-Pro
29:01selections,
29:02but no
29:03playoff wins
29:03in Kansas
29:04City,
29:05Gonzalez
29:05fled to
29:06the Falcons.
29:08Well he
29:08went to
29:09Atlanta because
29:09they thought
29:09that was
29:10going to be
29:10the best
29:10chance to
29:11win a
29:11Super Bowl.
29:11In his
29:12fourth season
29:13as a
29:13Falcon,
29:14Atlanta
29:14went 13
29:15and 3
29:16and fell
29:16just short
29:17of the
29:17Super Bowl
29:18losing in
29:19the NFC
29:19Championship
29:20to the
29:2049ers.
29:21The Falcons
29:22are turned
29:23away at
29:23the Georgia
29:24Dome by
29:25four points.
29:28He misses
29:29by a hair
29:29in 2012.
29:30He decides
29:31I want to
29:31get to a
29:32Super Bowl.
29:32I'm going to
29:33come back
29:3313 and 3
29:34the previous
29:35season.
29:36Surely it'll
29:36happen one
29:37last go
29:37round.
29:38Hey, hey,
29:38last chance
29:38to be great
29:39for all of
29:40us, not
29:40just me,
29:41all of us.
29:41Let's go
29:42out on top.
29:43Nah, it would
29:43have been
29:43better off,
29:44Tony, to
29:44just walk
29:45away.
29:45Despite
29:46entering
29:462013 as
29:47a Super
29:48Bowl
29:48favorite,
29:49Atlanta
29:49won just
29:50four games
29:51and Gonzalez
29:52retired after
29:5317 NFL
29:54seasons and
29:55zero Super
29:56Bowl appearances.
29:57Great career,
29:58young man.
29:58Very proud of you.
29:59Take care of yourself,
30:00okay?
30:01We all thought
30:01it was going to
30:02happen.
30:02That's the storybook
30:03ending.
30:04His final season,
30:05he was going to
30:05retire with a Super
30:06Bowl ring.
30:07And not only did he
30:08not retire with a
30:10Super Bowl ring,
30:11but he retired in
30:12such a bad season.
30:14So it breaks my heart
30:15when I think of Tony
30:15Gonzalez.
30:16And at the end,
30:17he won a playoff game.
30:18You know, it's as close
30:19as he got.
30:20Yep, one or five
30:21in the playoffs.
30:23It would make for a
30:24nice ending, but it's
30:26not the way that it
30:26turned out.
30:27This is the ultimate
30:28team game.
30:28No tight end in the
30:29history of the game
30:30could carry a team to
30:31the Super Bowl.
30:32That's just not the way
30:32the game works, and he
30:33understands that, like,
30:34more than anybody.
30:35I'm sure he would have
30:36loved to have been
30:37there and experienced
30:38the moment, but I
30:39don't think he's going
30:40to lose one bit of
30:41sleep about it.
30:42On to the next
30:43chapter.
30:43It's not sad.
30:44He'll be all right.
30:45He's getting CBS
30:46money now, so he'll be
30:47okay.
30:48If you ask me, as a
30:51kid who grew up
30:51idolizing this player
30:53in Washington, D.C.,
30:54the best player to
30:54never play in a
30:55Super Bowl was
30:56Sonny Jurgensen.
30:57Sonny Jurgensen
30:58gets into the act.
30:59Manages to get the
31:00ball away.
31:01He always won
31:02in the World Championship.
31:03When the 1972
31:04Redskins played the
31:05Dolphins.
31:06Fourth down, here is
31:08Gilbert, back to
31:09throw.
31:09He is up.
31:11And he is
31:12up.
31:12Back to the 17th.
31:13There's another
31:14two players who
31:15never played in the
31:16Super Bowl.
31:17Dan Fouts.
31:18Number two.
31:19Dan Fouts.
31:20All right, here we
31:20go.
31:22Two.
31:24Dan Fouts.
31:26I feel bad for her.
31:28Dan Fouts deserve
31:29better.
31:30Fouts is an enigma
31:31wrapped in a
31:32riddle.
31:33Magic man.
31:34Go get him.
31:35Danny.
31:36So, no OJ on this
31:37list.
31:38No Steve Larger.
31:39There's no way that
31:40Dan Fouts should be
31:41number two on this
31:42list.
31:42He should be number
31:43one on this list.
31:44All right, that's
31:45nice.
31:48You shouldn't be
31:49alone.
31:4950 belly on blue,
31:51ready?
31:53What he was able to
31:54do inside that
31:55offense was eye
31:57popping.
31:59Don Correale refined
32:02that team's offense to
32:04just, it was so
32:05awesome to watch.
32:07Pops the quarterback,
32:08fires up downfield,
32:09it tries to down.
32:10Dan Fouts threw for
32:12more than 40,000
32:13yards, it's like a
32:15marathon.
32:16He threw for a
32:17marathon.
32:18Whew.
32:24A complete,
32:25absolute beast hung
32:26in until the last
32:27moment, and you could
32:29just see he was one of
32:30those guys who was
32:31going to throw the
32:31ball and let the chips
32:32fall where they may.
32:33Fouts gambling helped
32:35the Chargers to three
32:36AFC West titles, but
32:38it was his team's
32:39playoff buzz that
32:40earned him the number
32:41two spot on our
32:42list.
32:43Guys in the Hall of
32:44Fame because he could
32:44win regular season
32:46games.
32:46He was three and four
32:48in the playoffs.
32:52One group has taken
32:54most of the blame for
32:55San Diego's postseason
32:56woes.
32:57I think Dan Fouts was
32:58a victim of not
33:00having a good enough
33:01defense.
33:01With a little better
33:02defense than San
33:02Diego, he definitely
33:04would have been in a
33:04Super Bowl.
33:05Horton has thrown
33:06three touchdown passes
33:07and we're still in the
33:08first quarter.
33:09While the defense is
33:11culpable, statistics
33:12show that the
33:13quarterback should
33:14shoulder some of the
33:15blame.
33:16Dan Fouts, to me,
33:17of all these guys
33:18that you've ranked,
33:20he's the guy to me
33:21who probably had the
33:22most control over not
33:23getting into a Super
33:24Bowl.
33:24His passer rating in
33:25the playoffs was 10
33:26points lower than it
33:27was during the regular
33:28season for his career.
33:30Quit your
33:31b***ing!
33:34For those who
33:35believe in the choke
33:36theory, I guess that's
33:38the way they describe
33:39him.
33:39I personally don't
33:40believe in that.
33:41But in seven playoff
33:42appearances, fouls
33:43through 12 touchdowns
33:44and 16 interceptions.
33:46His first playoff
33:47game, arguably the
33:49most...
33:50He threw five
33:51interceptions his
33:52first playoff game
33:53and his last.
33:56Four touchdowns, 14
33:57interceptions, and his
33:58playoff losses.
34:00Those were his
34:01fault.
34:04Disappointing loss in
34:05Chargers.
34:06His...
34:06The loss to the Raiders
34:08in the AFC
34:10championship game was
34:11not his fault.
34:12They lose to the
34:13Houston Oilers, who
34:14don't have their
34:15starting quarterback,
34:16don't have Earl
34:17Campbell.
34:17This was going to be
34:18Dan Fouts and all his
34:20great talent around him.
34:22They were going to
34:22stomp the Oilers, but
34:24the Oilers picked up
34:25that when Dan turned
34:27his toe out, they were
34:28going to throw the ball.
34:30Dan Fouts throws five
34:31interceptions.
34:32The Oilers are rising
34:33to the occasion today.
34:35That is the game that if
34:37you're a Charger lover,
34:39a choreo lover, Fouts
34:40lover, which I am, is
34:42the game that can
34:42bother you.
34:43Another playoff run may
34:45have left Charger fans
34:46with a bigger stink in
34:47their nose.
34:48There are those who
34:49feel the San Diego
34:50Chargers will go on to
34:51win it all in 1981.
34:54Dan Fouts and the
34:551981 Chargers were
34:57robbed of their
34:58rightful Super Bowl.
35:00What?
35:01The Chargers have won
35:03the AFC West.
35:04Bring on the rest of
35:05the NFL.
35:06Fouts emerged from
35:07his playoff shell to
35:08throw for a then
35:09record 433 yards and
35:12three touchdowns in an
35:14overtime thriller against
35:15Miami.
35:16And the Chargers move
35:17on to the AFC
35:18championship game.
35:20Where the Bengals
35:21would have their
35:22number.
35:22The number was 59.
35:24And that was 59 in
35:28Cincinnati when they're
35:29playing the Bengals in
35:31the playoff game to try
35:32to get to the Super
35:33Bowl.
35:33Ah, jeez.
35:35Um, I did have
35:37trouble throwing a
35:37spiral that day because
35:38of the cold and the
35:39wind.
35:40He follows up the
35:41epic in Miami with
35:43a letdown.
35:44Our number two player
35:46froze in the face of a
35:47potential Super Bowl
35:48appearance, never to get
35:50that close again.
35:51But man, oh man, for
35:53him not to win a
35:54championship with that
35:56talent?
35:57My God, that's
35:58mind-boggling.
35:59But he really has no
36:00one to blame but
36:01himself.
36:03You're right, I
36:04totally take back
36:04everything I said good
36:05about Dan Fotz.
36:06He dug his own grave.
36:08Let him sleep in it.
36:09The number one player
36:11who never played in a
36:12Super Bowl, Barry
36:13Sanders.
36:14Who else?
36:15Oh, it's got to be
36:16me.
36:17I mean, it's got to be
36:18Barry.
36:18You have to think of
36:19number 20.
36:19You have to think of
36:20Barry Sanders.
36:20He's the console of
36:22football, and
36:23unfortunately he doesn't
36:23have the great painting.
36:25He never was able to
36:26create it.
36:27Barry Sanders!
36:28Barry Sanders!
36:29Barry Sanders!
36:30Oh my!
36:32He had more moves
36:33than the belly
36:33dancing.
36:34Barry Sanders was
36:35the most dynamic
36:38player at any
36:39position in the game.
36:40The play where he
36:40spun Harlan Barnett
36:41into the ground for
36:42the Patriots is still
36:43the single greatest
36:44play I've ever seen.
36:45He didn't know which
36:45way he was going, and
36:46I'm not even sure
36:46Barry knew which way
36:47he was going, and
36:48he drilled the guy
36:49into the ground and
36:50ran into the ends
36:50of him for a touchdown.
36:53Back of the National
36:54Football League.
37:01When our number one
37:02player retired in
37:031998 with over
37:0515,000 yards, he was
37:07second all-time behind
37:08Walter Payton's
37:09rushing title.
37:11Sanders did, however,
37:12leave the game as the
37:14all-time leader in
37:15negative yards.
37:17You give the ball to
37:18Sanders 20 times, he
37:19might run for two
37:20yards, get stopped for
37:21two yards, two-yard
37:22loss, run for three
37:23yards, run for a yard,
37:25get knocked off for
37:25two yards, and run for
37:26eight yards.
37:27I never thought his
37:28game, the way he
37:29played it, was really
37:31geared to the kind of
37:33team that's going to
37:34grind their way to a
37:34Super Bowl.
37:35He wasn't showboating,
37:36he was doing it out of
37:37necessity, he was making
37:38guys miss because the
37:38guys were right in front
37:39of him.
37:40What's he supposed to
37:40do, just take the
37:41tackle, get up, and
37:41start going again?
37:47Sanders didn't find
37:48much room to run in the
37:49postseason.
37:50In six career playoff
37:51games, he could only
37:52manage one 100-yard
37:54performance, scoring a
37:56single touchdown.
37:57The Detroit Lions and
37:58Green Bay Packers are
37:59locked up in a first-round
38:00playoff game.
38:01The one really damning
38:02statistic in Barry's
38:03career is minus one
38:04yard against Green Bay
38:05after the 1994 season.
38:07I can't defend that.
38:08You can blame the
38:09offensive line, you can
38:10blame the play calling,
38:11you can blame Wayne
38:11Fonz.
38:12Coach of the year!
38:14But ultimately, it's a
38:16guy not getting it done
38:17on the most important
38:17stage.
38:18He'll be minus 20 by the
38:20end of the day.
38:21Steve Craig had a bump
38:22shoulder, everybody.
38:27And I'm like, come on,
38:29if you give him any help
38:30at all, from the
38:31quarterback position,
38:32that wouldn't have been
38:33the case.
38:34All right, we've got
38:34him.
38:36Hey, Pete, tell him
38:37to knock it out!
38:39Check it out!
38:42Nobody can even think
38:43who the Lions quarterback
38:44was.
38:45Can you tell me who he
38:46is?
38:47Charlie Batch,
38:53I'm forgetting the other
38:54ones because they're all
38:55forgettable.
38:57If you took Troy Aikman
38:58off the Cowboys and put
39:00him on the Lions and took
39:01the Lions' nine quarterbacks
39:03and put them on the Cowboys,
39:05Emmitt Smith might be your
39:06number one guy on this
39:06list.
39:08Beating Smith's Cowboys in
39:09the 1991 Divisional round
39:11was the closest our top pick
39:13got to the Super Bowl.
39:30It's not Barry Sanders' fault
39:32that he didn't make it to a
39:33Super Bowl.
39:33I mean, who would think
39:34that?
39:35He should be number one on
39:36this list.
39:37If Barry Sanders was a kid
39:39of the NFL, child services
39:41would come to take him away
39:43from the Lions.
39:43That was abuse that they
39:45put him through.
39:46Well, he had a lot of runs
39:48for losses.
39:49You would, too, if Rodney,
39:51Pete, and Andre Ware
39:52were your quarterback.
39:54Andre Ware is picked off.
39:55Let me just once again
39:56reiterate, Wayne Fonsis
39:58is head coach.
40:00I'm going to comb,
40:00I'm going to look on TV.
40:02Sing.
40:05A lot of people believe
40:06that Detroit's playoff
40:07utility is what ultimately
40:09prompted Sanders to walk
40:10away from the game early.
40:12The big stage for him
40:14clearly would have been
40:15one that we all would have
40:16remembered good, bad, or
40:17indifferent, because that's
40:18what he did.
40:19He made memorable plays.
40:20See you later.
40:22Holy mackerel, he's done it
40:23again.
40:24The saddest thing is,
40:25if they ran into the great
40:2691 Redskins, they probably
40:30could have beaten the Bills
40:31that year.
40:33It's the biggest share in the
40:34world that he never got an
40:35opportunity to do that at a
40:36Super Bowl.
40:37This is the end of the debate.
40:39No question.
40:39Barry Sanders, bar none,
40:41end of conversation, shut down
40:43this set, it's over.
40:44Barry Sanders, greatest ever to
40:45play in the Super Bowl.
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