Top Five Super Bowls of All Time

Its the best case of the infamous LACES OUT Ray Finkle style the NFL has ever seen especially coming in a Super Bowl contest. This was also the first Super Bowl in NFL history that pitted two teams representing the same state. Back then ol' Hoodie (New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick) was the defensive coordinator for the Giants along with now New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin was then the wide receivers coach for the team. Led by the Big Tuna himself it was a collection of top coaches all within a Super Bowl caliber team.

If you missed this game and still have no idea what I'm talking about this is the game that was entertaining, but yet a defensive struggle throughout. No one was picking the Giants to win this game after the Bills had scored 95 points in their two playoff games beating Miami 44-34 and a Bo Jackson-less Oakland Raiders team 51-3. However with only 2:16 left in the game Jim Kelly and Bills were asked to drive down the field to put kicker Scott Norwood in field goal range starting at their own 10 yard line. With :08 seconds left Kelly did just that and left Norwood with a 47 yard field goal attempt. Oddly enough the ball went WIDE RIGHT and the game went down as one of the best of all time.

Norwood just vanished after that. He is heard to be hanging with old Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Mitch Williams somewhere around Aruba.

#3 Super Bowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers 21, Dallas Cowboys 17

Yep, for some of you boys and girls this one will make you feel old when I tell you this is the only Super Bowl I do not remember watching in the flesh without only seeing highlights. I mean it is possible, I could have been ridin' up and down on daddy's leg watchin' the game, but probably not. I was one in 1976 when this Super Bowl took place and if there is a game with intensity all the way to the end it was this game. I really wanted to put this at #1 but I couldn't pull the trigger.

With 3:02 left in the game the Steelers had a 21-10 lead and it looked as though the Super Bowl was in hand. Dallas went down and scored to get within 21-17, but couldn't recover the onside kick. Pittsburgh ran the ball 3 times and on 4th down was trying to get a first down so they could run out the clock but failed. Giving Dallas the ball on their own 39 yard line. Quarterback Roger Staubach took the next 1:22 seconds to engineer a drive that would be halted at the Pittsburgh 38 yard line. With time winding down Staubach had to throw two hail mary passes into the endzone with the second one being intercepted as time expired.

#2 Super Bowl XXXVIII: New England Patriots 32, Carolina Panthers 29

How can you leave out a Super Bowl that shows some skin errrrrr I mean a "wardrobe malfunction" during the halftime show with Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. It may be the best game ever to be overshadowed by the halftime show, heck it may be the only one. Many forget how great of a game this turned out to be after a slow start and how it became one of the best ever to watch.

If you fell asleep for the first 3 quarters of this contest you didn't miss much. New England had gone out to a 21-10 lead just 2 plays in the 4th quarter which started the greatest accumulation of points in one quarter in Super Bowl history and made the kids that took the over in this game very happy. For the final 15 minutes the teams would combine for 37 points going back and forth down the field like a tennis match. Finally with 1:08 left to play Carolina tied up the game 29-29 but Tom Brady drove his Patriots down the field for a clutch Adam Vinatieri 41 yard field with :04 seconds left and another Super Bowl victory in three years for the Patriots.

#1 Super Bowl XXXIV: St. Louis Rams 23, Tennessee Titans 16

How can you not make the #1 Super Bowl in Super Bowl history the one that is better known as "The Tackle". It became the first time in Super Bowl history that a team with a dome stadium actually won a Super Bowl. What started out as a blow out ended up a classic.

This was the year that some farm boy grocery bagger from Iowa was called in to take over for Trent Green who had broken his leg in the pre-season. His name; Kurt Warner and he wound up not only the NFL MVP for the year but also the Super Bowl MVP as well. After the Rams had broke out to a 16-0 lead midway through the third quarter most were more interested in the commercials then the game, but a spark led to an Eddie George touchdown run and a 16-6 lead after the Titans missed the two point conversion attempt. They came right back down the next two times and scored on another touchdown and a Al Del Greco field goal that left the game tied at 16-16 with only 2:12 left to play.

Almost as if the Rams simply got bored their very next possession on the first play Kurt Warner bombed a 73 yard touchdown pass to Isaac Bruce which took about :07 seconds. The Titans got the ball back with 1:54 and drove down the field until a 3rd and 4 looked as though McNair would be sacked but instead completed a pass down to the 10 yard line taking up all but :06 seconds on the clock. With one last play and no timeouts McNair dropped back and threw a short pass over the middle to wide receiver Kevin Dyson who was just about to go in for the tying score when Rams linebacker Mike Jones came out of nowhere to tackle Dyson at the 1 yard line and just after he went down Dyson stretched the ball across the goal line. Explaining how this Super Bowl is remembered by "The Tackle".

 

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