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00:00Number 10 goal line, San of all time.
00:02San Fran stuffed Philly six times.
00:07Late season game, the Eagles were going for the division clincher.
00:11After we win this game, the next game gets bigger.
00:14They were a very prolific offense, and McNabb obviously put up great numbers.
00:18Get this thing rolling, man. We ain't worried about them.
00:21But they were not a great red zone offense.
00:24Sometimes it was up to McNabb to just try and make a play on his own.
00:27McNabb.
00:29Throws on the way down.
00:31You're never expecting a goal line stand.
00:34When they get to the one, they're always going to score.
00:37Put it in there, baby!
00:38And so you have first down. Oh, he didn't get it.
00:41Second down, well, it's okay. I'll get it on third down.
00:43Staley tries to sweep. He can't lock.
00:45Put it in there, baby! Come on, man!
00:47He doesn't get it on third down.
00:49James Thrash didn't get across the goal line.
00:52And then you go from they're at the one, they're obviously going to score,
00:55to the ultimate chess match in the ultimate chess match sport.
00:59So now the Eagles have a tough call here.
01:02What would Brian Wartano do in this situation?
01:04It's driven now.
01:06It's only in.
01:21After the fourth down stop, there's a flag.
01:31Flag on the play.
01:33The whole line stands if the Eagles can't get it in with this many opportunities.
01:41And now it's third down, and they still haven't scored.
01:47McNabb throws.
01:50Intercepted in the end zone.
01:52It does feel like the Andy Reid era encapsulated.
01:58This is a team that's on the verge of greatness.
02:02They just can't quite get over the hump.
02:05The 49ers!
02:12That one is that you just don't know if it was a goal line stand
02:15or if Donovan McNabb got winded.
02:20It was always a question.
02:21it's always a question.
02:22But that goal line?
02:32The number nine goal line stand of all time.
02:382010 AFC Championship.
02:43Oh, yeah, we believe in miracles.
02:46Yes, we do.
02:47How can it be only nine if it's sent a team to the Super Bowl?
02:50Go, baby.
02:51Jets were in the playoffs in 2010.
02:53That's okay.
02:54That should be high up on the list just for that.
02:57Third and 17.
02:58Jets are one for four on third down.
03:00Who was the quarterback at the time?
03:02Not Sanchez.
03:03It was Sanchez.
03:04Really?
03:04Yeah, that's number one.
03:06Not a good start.
03:07Come on, guys.
03:09Ever since the butt fumble, it is really hard to take Mark Sanchez's play seriously.
03:14I think Sanchez is just running into butts all day long.
03:17He can't even walk down the street without just running directly into butts.
03:24You gotta fight with me, whatever it was.
03:26I want more.
03:27I want more.
03:28What the hell?
03:28Let's go.
03:29Mark Sanchez, back then, you know, he was two straight AFC title games.
03:33Mark Sanchez made a statement.
03:35You know, at the time, we love Mark Sanchez.
03:37Mark Sanchez was a rising star.
03:39You look back and you're like, wow, that Jets team went to five and won in the playoffs.
03:46In 2010, the Jets defeated Tom Brady and the Patriots to get to the AFC Championship.
03:52But our number nine goal line stand would keep them out of the Super Bowl.
03:56This is like the epitome of what it's like to be a Jets fan.
04:00Sanchez on the first and goal.
04:02It's green inside the one.
04:04You get down to the goal line and then they just can't put it in.
04:07Sanchez, look at the sideline.
04:09Let's go.
04:09Give me the play.
04:10The offensive play calling on that drive was awful.
04:13It was a ponderous.
04:15It was all of a sudden like he lost the play sheet.
04:24It was in the hands of Dustin Keller.
04:28Catchable ball.
04:29Your personality is ground and bound.
04:32On the one-yard line, you decide to throw a slap.
04:34If I was the Jets, two run in place.
04:39Sanchez going up top.
04:40He's almost intercepted.
04:42Throw the ball.
04:43If you line up LT in the backfield three times, he can score.
04:47You've got LaDainian Tomlinson in the backfield.
04:50He can jump over the defenders.
04:55Go, go for it.
04:58Go for it.
04:58Let's go.
04:58Go for it.
04:59Let's go.
05:00A young ram right there in shine green.
05:03That all he had to do was fall forward.
05:05And you decide to get cute.
05:07Here we go.
05:08Fourth down.
05:08A must right now.
05:10They give you enough hope and then they yank it away from you.
05:15Straight ahead.
05:17Second chance.
05:18Push back.
05:19And no.
05:20A goal line stand by the Steelers.
05:24They tried to play power football on fourth and goal at the one.
05:28The Jets come away empty.
05:30And their hopes might have just died.
05:32About a f***ing day of a goal line.
05:34It sounds like just every Jet game I've ever seen in my life.
05:38How is that game different from all other games?
05:40It's not.
05:41The Jets get stopped on the goal line.
05:42All the time.
05:44If it was 2006, they would be in the Super Bowl.
05:48Because LT would have done it.
05:49The number eight goal line stand of all time.
05:52The Hit.
05:54Gary Reasons.
05:56The Gary Reasons hit was pretty incredible for a couple of reasons.
06:00It's nighttime.
06:01It's snowing.
06:02It was almost like watching a football movie.
06:05That feels like quintessential football.
06:08Light dusting on an actual grass field.
06:11And Madden and Summerall calling it.
06:13Mile High Stadium has really been given a dusting today.
06:16Our number eight goal line stand took place.
06:19Reminder.
06:20The quarterback of the offense.
06:22The quarterback of these offenses.
06:24So far, it's been McNabb, who was good.
06:28Sanchez, who was decent at that time.
06:32This is against Elway.
06:36The guy behind the drive.
06:42When John Elway's Broncos and Bill Parcell's Giants were at the height of their powers.
06:48It's a harsh reminder that Belichick was once a Giant when you cut to him on the sideline.
06:53There's Bill Belichick, who's the defensive coordinator of the Giants.
06:59We're talking late 80s Giants defense is like all-name players.
07:04The guy who's making the big stop here is Gary Reasons.
07:07Gary Reasons is a real solid player.
07:10If LT makes that hit, if Carl Banks makes that hit, if Pepper Johnson makes that hit,
07:16it's probably higher on this list.
07:18That iconic image of Gary Reasons smashing into Bobby Humphrey.
07:23Snow falls down a mile high.
07:26He's the singular iconic snapshot of a goal line stand of all time.
07:32And you guys have this listed at number eight.
07:35Fourth down at the goal line.
07:37About a foot to go.
07:47He flew in the sky to stop him.
07:50That was like when Randy Johnson was throwing the pitch and the bird comes in.
07:53And he hits the bird and it explodes.
07:57This plays like the big unit exploding.
08:01Pigeons of goal line stands.
08:11When they run into each other, it looks like two dudes fighting in the Matrix.
08:16It basically looks like Iron Man fighting Superman in the air.
08:21He takes off for the jump before Humphrey takes off for his jump.
08:26As a comic book connoisseur, that's almost blasphemy to say that Iron Man and Superman would get in a fight.
08:36Because Iron Man is just a human in a robot suit.
08:42Superman is a Kryptonian.
08:43So it's kind of no contest.
08:54I feel like this is what the old Madden games tackling button was based off.
09:00Because in the old Madden games, you would hit a button to tackle and they would just dive straight.
09:07The hit is as good a goal line stand as you can get.
09:11What is a regular season game?
09:13The reason's play is nice, but you give me something in a Super Bowl or a postseason game, that's your
09:18winner.
09:19The number seven goal line stand of all time.
09:22The 1958 NFL Championship.
09:25And we're ready for the greatest football game ever.
09:29For those who base their rankings on stakes, they don't get any higher than the greatest game ever played.
09:36The 1958 championship that is widely credited with popularizing pro football.
09:43Johnny Unitas was the quarterback sensation of the league.
09:47Sam Huff is a standout on the Giants' great defensive platoon.
09:52I kind of got a beef with this being called the greatest game ever played.
09:56Because the first half of this game is turnover after turnover.
10:00Johnny Unitas is throwing interception.
10:02And New York is back in business.
10:04This should be higher because I don't think this is the greatest game ever played if this goal line stand
10:08doesn't happen.
10:09The Colts were on the verge of blowing the Giants out.
10:11They were up 14-3.
10:13He throws down on the end zone and it's a touchdown.
10:16They got down to the goal line and if they had scored there at 21-3, the game would have
10:20been pretty much over.
10:23I don't know if it should be on the list.
10:26Why is the only Baltimore inclusion on the list them getting stopped in a game they still won?
10:34Nobody cares about a goal line stand if you still lost the game.
10:39Going four downs to do it.
10:41Alan Amici got stopped once.
10:42Alan Amici still a yard short.
10:44Second and one.
10:45All they did was make sure they lost by less points than they actually did.
10:51It keeps them crashing into the crowd like a rough hour commuter.
10:54But the Giants land the door.
10:55Alan Amici got stopped twice.
10:56It's a little less than a yard to go for the ball of Mark Pulse.
11:06And then they decided Amici was going to run like on a half-back option.
11:11The Baltimore Colts with fourth and one.
11:13The Giants aroused digging in along the goal line.
11:16Let's see what happens now.
11:19The United flips wide out to Amici.
11:21Oh my God.
11:23Watch out.
11:24Where was the football in line?
11:26That may have been the big play in a football game.
11:30The Giants got the ball and then they drove to the field and scored.
11:33And all of a sudden now it's a game again.
11:35The 58 Giants are the only losing team on our list.
11:39As they couldn't make another goal line stand in overtime.
11:43United's dead to Amici.
11:45The first goal captain.
11:47But the G-Men are winners with back-to-back spots on our countdown.
11:51Something that should make even their former defensive coordinator crack a smile.
11:59The number six goal line stand-up of all time.
12:02The new AFC Championship.
12:06So the Steelers are playing the AFC Championship game against the Chargers.
12:09Ten-point favorites.
12:10I'm not even going to watch this game, alright?
12:12Stan Humphries is the quarterback.
12:14The goal where there's never been before the Super Bowl.
12:17What stands out to me about that game is how confident the Steelers were in the whole build-up.
12:22Guaranteed victory.
12:24I guarantee it's going to be a knockout, baby.
12:26We don't lose.
12:27Let's go.
12:28People tend to forget because Bill Cowher ends up winning a Super Bowl.
12:32But this was when the Steelers couldn't win an AFC Championship game.
12:35If you win this game, I'll do the next weekend.
12:37Yeah.
12:38Alright?
12:38The Chargers and Steelers, I hate this one.
12:41I hate this being on the list.
12:42Goal line stands are not impressive when Neil O'Donnell is the person that you're stopping.
12:46Neil O'Donnell isn't going to score on a junior Seau defenseman.
12:51Come on, baby. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
12:53Junior Seau versus Neil O'Donnell.
12:57I mean, Junior Seau.
13:00Incredible.
13:02Neil O'Donnell was playing an incredible game at that point.
13:06Neil O'Donnell set AFC Championship records.
13:10More completions 30, more passes 50 than anyone who's ever played this game.
13:15And then he just gets down to the goal line.
13:17They had four cracks to get it in at home and go to their next Super Bowl, which as a
13:23Steelers fan, you expect to be routine.
13:26This is the Chargers. This is the team that can't play in cold weather.
13:30There's no way the Chargers are going to hold off the Steelers.
13:33And it's third and goal from the 10.
13:35One minute, three, two.
13:37On the left side.
13:40Here is Neil O'Donnell.
13:41Goes on a slant.
13:42The tackle is made immediately.
13:44And the season comes down to a final play for Pittsburgh.
13:47It'll be a fourth down.
13:48Bill Cowher takes a timeout.
13:57It was an incredible defense that the Chargers employed there.
14:01They just dared the Steelers to throw the football.
14:04And Neil O'Donnell did.
14:18That is one of the worst losses, if not the worst loss, in Bill Cowher's coaching history.
14:26You could say Neil could have looked off a little bit more, but that wasn't the case.
14:30That was a great goal line stop.
14:31And Neil O'Donnell.
14:33Is that his mother?
14:34Turned 71 yesterday.
14:36This would be her birthday present.
14:39Neil O'Donnell ruined her birthday.
14:42I've had years where I just forget that it's my mom's birthday.
14:44And that's less disrespectful than blowing the AFC championship game.
14:49Neil O'Donnell.
14:50Don't even bring it up.
14:52Every time I hear it, I get just...
14:55I'm going to have an aneurysm.
14:57I get stomach palpitations.
14:59The thought of Neil O'Donnell.
15:01Never live that town, that guy.
15:03Meanwhile, I'm friends with him.
15:04I go to weddings with him.
15:05One of my best friends is like his best friend, so I've known him forever.
15:08He's the nicest guy you ever met in your life.
15:10But man, did I hate him that day.
15:13And now, the number five goal line stand of all time, Super Bowl XXVII.
15:18Nice.
15:19Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to Super Bowl XXVII.
15:23101,000 fans ready to watch the Bills and the Cowboys get it on.
15:29Let's go!
15:30Let's go!
15:33There's so many bad memories that we dredge up for the Bills.
15:36Do we really have to remind them, oh yeah, and by the way, you got stuck to the goal line,
15:40down a billion points.
15:42The Bills have never won the big game.
15:44Stop it.
15:46Stop it.
15:47They had Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Erd.
15:50They were going to win that game regardless.
15:51I remember going into that game as a Bills fan.
15:54How are we going to beat the Dallas Cowboys?
15:58What a performance by this young Dallas Cowboys football team.
16:02A goal line stand only matters when it's close.
16:04This shouldn't be on the list.
16:07It's a very big disappointment, especially losing the way we did.
16:14It wasn't a blowout at the time.
16:17First and goal for the Bills.
16:19And they tied up.
16:20They were only up 14-7, and the Bills had a chance to tie the game and make it a
16:25game.
16:26At the time, that's Thurman Thomas out there.
16:28That's Jim Kelly out there.
16:29These guys on the field were guys who should have scored.
16:32It was still an opportunity where the Bills could have come back and changed their destiny.
16:36The fact that they didn't do it is so Bills.
16:39Second and goal.
16:40The Bills trying to tie it up here.
16:43And here is Thurman, and he goes diving down there.
16:46And he stopped short of the goal line.
16:50This got close.
16:52It could have been a completely different game.
17:00I remember just having that sinking feeling in your stomach when you just know the tidal wave is coming.
17:07Now Davis on third and goal.
17:11Davis.
17:23It's hard to single out a single play in a 52-17 victory, but I think Ken Norton made probably
17:30the play of the game.
17:32Look at that.
17:33That was Kenny Norton and Kenneth Davis locked up right there.
17:38Ball is about a foot from the goal line.
17:42And it is a pass.
17:46Interceptive.
17:46They don't even get the field goal.
17:50Jim Kelly just does this goal line interception.
17:52It obviously swung the momentum to a point where the Cowboys were ready to rout them the rest of the
17:58game.
17:59The Cowboys making those four stops on the goal line, turn that game around because Jim Kelly was knocked out
18:06in the next series, and it was over after that.
18:13If we're going butterfly effect, if we're thinking what might have happened, if the Bills get into the end zone
18:19there, they might have only lost the game by 28 points.
18:25The number four goal line stand of all time, Super Bowl 47.
18:31Nice.
18:32Raven Snyder's Super Bowl 47.
18:35At least he had a good one on this list.
18:38Goal line stand, even though we have Ray Lewis and Ed Reed, Terrell Suggs, it wasn't a power goal line
18:45stand.
18:46I mean, that was an absolute incredible roller coaster for both fan bases.
18:51Super Bowl 47 was dominated by the Ravens as they rolled over to the Niners and took a 22-point
18:58lead.
19:04It's gone from bad to worse.
19:07And the lights go out.
19:08Why is the clock stopped?
19:10The whole thing was kind of surreal, right?
19:12I mean, the lights went out.
19:14Half the power in the Superdome here is out.
19:18This is going to go down in history.
19:20Yeah.
19:21Then we're going to come back after the lights.
19:25And then they're going to be talking about, did the lights have the guys come back?
19:28Let's get back to fighting mode here!
19:30The game was over early.
19:32Here come the 49ers.
19:34Right now, playfakes.
19:36DeGore looking.
19:36Drills one to the near side.
19:37Crabtree catches.
19:38Spin the wire in the top!
19:40So the 49ers come from way behind.
19:42It's like they switched jerseys and uniforms.
19:46Because the team that was blowing out the other one was getting blown out.
19:56And now they have a chance to win Super Bowl XLVII.
19:59Touchdown, Wissett!
20:01Touchdown, Wissett!
20:01They went 75 yards with four carries, two pass attempts.
20:06Inside hand up.
20:07Gore's got a hole.
20:07Look out.
20:0835.
20:08Far sideline.
20:0930.
20:09Oh, no.
20:10He's got room to run.
20:11Frank Gore rushed for the majority of that.
20:14In fact, he had just come off a beautiful 32-yard catch.
20:18It just made it seem like the Niners had their sixth Super Bowl ring.
20:22And the 49ers are knocking on the door with 2.39 left to play.
20:29Goal at the seven-yard line.
20:31You have all the momentum in the world.
20:33Give us the Michael James straight ahead.
20:35He'll get to the five.
20:36The Ravens' defense was obviously tired.
20:38They didn't have an answer for either Colin Kaepernick or Frank Gore.
20:42And Gore just sat in the backfield, just kind of like,
20:45hey, guys, am I important at all anymore?
20:48Kaepernick in the gun.
20:49Takes the snap.
20:49Rolls to his right.
20:52Fires to the end zone.
20:54Uncomplete.
20:55You have Frank Gore running rampant.
20:56You've got the blackout happening.
20:58Everyone's thinking that this is the Niners' moment.
21:0017 years.
21:01Defense has been the signature of the Ravens.
21:04Hey, go!
21:05They need the signature to come through here.
21:09Crabtree can't hang out the ball.
21:12And we have come to this.
21:14Four and goal for the five.
21:15One play.
21:17One more play.
21:22You're thinking not the fade.
21:27Not the fade.
21:30Four and goal.
21:32Tapping.
21:33Glob to the end zone.
21:35Incomplete.
21:36Yeah!
21:37I'm still just shocked that throwing the ball was the way they went.
21:42Because you have Colin Kaepernick, who is an exceptional runner, and they never had him run.
21:49Ray Lewis, and the defense delivered.
21:53That was an unbelievable goal-line stand.
21:56The Ravens are a defensive team at their heart.
21:58Ed Reed, Ray Lewis on the field.
22:00It should have ended that way.
22:01And the career of Ray Lewis ends with a defensive stand for the ages.
22:07The number three goal-line stand-up all time.
22:11The one-yard war.
22:12The Eagles stopped them on seven consecutive plays from the three-yard line in.
22:23It has to be number one all time.
22:26Bar none.
22:27It definitely deserves to be in your top ten, but not as high up as anything that happens
22:32in a playoff game.
22:33Did somebody stop someone more than seven times?
22:36That has to be the greatest goal-line stand of all time, doesn't it?
22:39Why isn't it number one?
22:40What a display by these Eagles.
22:42The number one defense in the league with that remarkable goal-line stand.
22:47Their defense was lit.
22:49I love this Eagles defense of the early 90s.
22:53This is the nastiest, filthiest defense that never won anything of note.
22:58This right here is why they have to be remembered.
23:04It was the most unbelievable, dominating stop I've ever seen.
23:09Seven times at the goal-line.
23:11Bailey got two yards down to the one.
23:14Stopping a team seven times in a row, that's pretty great.
23:18That's, you know, denying someone seven times.
23:21Sounds like me at prom.
23:27That is a major ouch.
23:29What a shot!
23:31Imagine getting blocked seven times, and you are a quarterback with a running back.
23:34You must be like, damn, do we really suck?
23:39Ha ha ha!
23:40Ha ha ha!
23:42The Eagles were offside, and you know what?
23:47They gotta be kicking themselves.
23:50Oh, they stopped a one-in-five Cardinals team.
23:55Who cares?
23:57Does it count as stopping the other team seven times if you jump offside three times?
24:03Yes.
24:04Yes.
24:05Bailey.
24:06There's a flag.
24:07There's a flag.
24:08You can get the penalties, so it's like, oh, we stopped.
24:11Oh, we gotta go do it again.
24:12Another flag is down.
24:14Chandler did not get there again.
24:16That was one of the most pathetic quarterback sneaks I have ever seen.
24:21Three offside calls.
24:23They've got nowhere to go on half the distance penalties now.
24:26The nose of the football is on the paint.
24:28It's unbelievable.
24:29This is the sloppiest goal line stand I've ever seen.
24:32And maybe one of the more exciting ones.
24:36They ran it all seven times?
24:38All seven times.
24:39They didn't throw any passes in there?
24:41What does it say about the Cardinals' play calling?
24:43Pass once.
24:45You're gonna try this seven times because you wanna keep getting penalties.
24:48Just try and pass once at least.
24:52Bailey.
24:53No, great defense.
24:55You can't draw this up any better.
24:56Look, everybody's under pads.
24:58Bailey trying to go over the top.
25:01Great defense.
25:02Anything besides turning around and handing off the football to your running back
25:06and just slamming into 7-11 Philadelphia Eagles defenders.
25:10This goal line defense has been something.
25:13Here we go.
25:14Fourth and goal.
25:15Motion left to right.
25:17Back to the eye.
25:18Hand of Johnny Bailey.
25:20Does he make it?
25:21No.
25:22No.
25:23The Eagles stop him.
25:25The goal line defense rises up and stops him at the line.
25:29A tremendous goal line stand by the Eagles defense.
25:33And the crowd loves it.
25:35Listen to them.
25:38This is the single greatest series defensively that didn't end up doing anything.
25:45Because the Eagles didn't go anywhere that year.
25:46The Cardinals didn't go anywhere that year.
25:48So largely forgotten by history.
25:50But we hung in there and...
25:56The number two goal line stand of all time.
25:59The 1966 NFL Championship.
26:02Get your lap right here.
26:04Sermon air programs.
26:05Get your lap right here.
26:06Now, first of all, it's not the ice bowl.
26:08We get our Packers-Cowboys games confused from the 1960s.
26:12So this is not the ice bowl.
26:13This is a high-flying offensive gem of a game.
26:20It was in Texas.
26:23The ice bowl was obviously in Wisconsin.
26:26That's a game that sadly is overlooked.
26:30I remember watching it and just being swept up in the drama of it.
26:34Auburn stand features two of the most iconic names in the NFL.
26:39Tom Landry and Vince LeBow were competing for a chance to advance to the first ever Super Bowl.
26:45Green Bay was not a scoring machine.
26:47They were a great offense, but they were built for defense.
26:50That's their dominance was.
26:56With time running out, Dallas launches a desperate drive for a tie.
27:01All of a sudden, you're saying, wow, the Cowboys might actually win this thing.
27:04This man cannot mask his displeasure.
27:08Down by a touchdown with less than two minutes left, the Cowboys will help by a Packers pass interference that
27:14brought them to the two-yard line.
27:17There's a couple defining plays in this one.
27:19One of them is Dan Reeves.
27:21He scratches his eye.
27:23Dan Reeves winds up getting scratched in the eye.
27:27Dan Reeves stays on the field with blurred vision and drops a pass in the flat.
27:31But probably falls to a score.
27:34I would love to see Twitter respond to this.
27:37What's Reeves doing in this game?
27:38Get Reeves out of there.
27:39They've got guys on the bench.
27:41Why aren't they making substitutions?
27:43Oh, thank God social media wasn't around in the earlier years of pro football.
27:50Second down play, Jim Bokey is called for a false start and moves them from the one-yard line back
27:55to the six-yard line.
27:56There's that famous bit of footage that you've seen a million times of Landry's reaction on the sideline when Bokey
28:03false starts, when Landry just goes, ah.
28:05On third down, Meredith completed a pass to Pettis Norman just short of the goal line.
28:11They would have one more chance to tie the game.
28:15Woo!
28:15Right down to the last one, huh?
28:18The clock is running with 52 seconds remaining.
28:22If the Cowboys go in here and kick the extra point, we're going into overtime.
28:27They were on the two-yard line.
28:28The only thing we were doing was getting down and trying to cross there as hard as we could.
28:33You see that final play, and you see that's Bob Hayes lined up as a tight end.
28:37They put Bob Hayes into the goal line package, which they hardly ever use.
28:40Not only do they recognize it, they throw him aside like a red doll and run in to just swallow
28:46up Don Meredith.
28:46Don Meredith takes the ball, rolls out to the right.
28:50He's going to be nailed.
28:51He's going to be nailed.
28:53It's intercepted in the end zone by Don Brown.
28:55Dave Robinson, the linebacker, right away sees what's happened here.
29:01Dave Robinson nailed Don Meredith.
29:04Bob Hayes could not block me.
29:06Bob Hayes was only about 175 pounds.
29:09The fastest man in the world.
29:11A great guy.
29:11Not a good blocker.
29:13And the players have just taken the championship.
29:16Robinson was huge for that time.
29:18He was 245.
29:20So we're talking about a guy with 70 pounds on the guy that's supposed to be blocking him.
29:24Younger of you know, there are a handful of building block moments that lead to football becoming what it is
29:30today.
29:31This was one of the biggest of those moments.
29:32The number one goal line stand of all time.
29:35Super Bowl XI.
29:37Yes.
29:40Pete Johnson was held to just two yards.
29:43But it was enough for a first down.
29:46And set the stage for the greatest goal line stand in Super Bowl history.
29:52The best goal line stand ever is rightfully the 49ers Super Bowl XVI goal line stand.
29:58I mean, I don't know if it's number one.
30:00This is one of the very few I didn't even have another candidate for.
30:03This is number one.
30:05I kept going back and forth with this one as number one.
30:07Maybe the Packers one is number one.
30:08Number one?
30:09I don't know.
30:10All time feels a little high to me.
30:12Our number one goal line stand happened as Joe Montana and the 49ers.
30:20The Niners were chasing Super Bowl ring number one.
30:24People talk about the catch in the NFC Championship game, which certainly gets them there.
30:28But in the Super Bowl, it's the defense of the Niners that basically creates the dynasty.
30:34Charlie, this is the defense.
30:38You can't argue with this being number one because this flips a Super Bowl.
30:42The Bengals were getting their butts kicked in that Super Bowl.
30:45I mean, they got down early.
30:47It was 20-7.
30:48They had mounted a comeback.
30:49That's what the Bengals had to do.
30:51Bengals fans are going nuts.
30:53We think we're winning the Super Bowl.
30:54All of a sudden, they've got some momentum and they're very much back in the game.
30:57And they got it down to the one-yard line.
30:58The Bengals run a strange little counterplay on first down.
31:01That gets stopped.
31:02Pete Johnson, the fullback, punching forward.
31:04They just stand to Pete.
31:06Straight ahead.
31:07Pete Johnson, who wouldn't even be playing in the NFL now because he's too big.
31:11He's a 250-pound fullback stuffed by Hacksaw Reynolds.
31:14Second down and goal.
31:16Johnson again.
31:17This time he is hit by Jack Reynolds.
31:20I actually asked George Clooney about this game.
31:23He was a Bengals fan growing up, grew up in Kentucky.
31:26And he said, Pete Johnson.
31:28And he gritted his teeth as if it was like one of the worst moments of his life.
31:31When you have a fullback like Pete Johnson who weighs over 250 pounds,
31:35you're playing in the Super Bowl, you have to be able to make a yard.
31:39Third down, the Bengals do something teams didn't do much at the time.
31:42They're going to pass the ball from about the one-inch line.
31:49It is third down at the one-yard line for the Bengals.
31:53The ball is just inches away.
31:56Here's Anderson with the ball.
31:57He's looking for a pass.
31:59He didn't get in.
32:01Bonds got him.
32:02This was a great tackle by Dan Bunz.
32:04He's a backup linebacker.
32:06Dan Bunz, I mean, people couldn't remember three or four other things he did in his career.
32:10I also remember that Dan, what was his name?
32:13Dan Bunz.
32:14I mean, he was a no-name linebacker, remember?
32:16I'll never forget, it was the greatest play of the game.
32:18The guy stood him up at the goal line.
32:20This should have been a touchdown here.
32:22Alexander turns.
32:26Right there.
32:27He makes the perfect play, perfect timing.
32:32Any earlier, he might have interfered, pass interference.
32:37Any later, Alexander has time to see him, and he just puts a move on him and walks into the
32:43end zone.
32:48Now, I'm not going to let my eyes get me in trouble by watching something else.
32:53I'm going to watch my defender.
32:54Well, that was my job.
32:56Discovering number 40.
32:57And not having that experience because he was a backup linebacker?
33:01Dan Bunz did it.
33:07It's not like you got knocked down by a kicker.
33:09You got knocked down by Dan Bunz.
33:11And then the next play was Hacksaw Reynolds.
33:14Reckles are going to go for it.
33:16Fourth down.
33:18He has it off.
33:19He's hit at the goal line.
33:20I don't believe he got in.
33:21The 49ers have helped.
33:23Hacksaw stopped the penetration.
33:25If you're going to get stopped by somebody, you're going to say,
33:27I got stopped by Hacksaw and Bunz.
33:30Hacksaw and Bunz.
33:30It's a cop show that I would watch.
33:34Basically, game over.
33:36Bengals never recover from that.
33:37It's their own fault.
33:39They let Bill Walsh go.
33:40They had him under their nose and they let him go.
33:42It could have been their dynasty in the 80s.
33:44Bengals had a furbound at the three-yard line and did not make it.
33:48Just a tremendous goal line stand.
33:51The reason that's the best goal line stand is it launched a dynasty.
33:55The 49ers had never won a championship.
33:58And the city of San Francisco had never a championship.
34:00If you're going to talk about goal line stands and how they're important to a franchise,
34:04this is the one that you have to talk about.
34:05It gave credence to what Bill Walsh was trying to accomplish.
34:0949ers have won it.
34:10Bill Walsh and a team that compounded pro football observers throughout the year.
34:15I love this.
34:16This is an easy number one for me.
34:18Clarify, I don't even know what to play.
34:19I have no idea.
34:20I'm just excited that there's a guy named Dan Bunz with a Z at the end of his name.
34:25And I'm excited that he made something out of his life.
34:27If your name is Dan Bunz with a Z at the end, you have two choices.
34:31You can be the best male porn star or the worst rapper.
34:36Those are the only options you have in life.
34:38And yet this Dan Bunz was like, nah, I'm going to play football.
34:41Good for him.
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