Ranking the Best Super Bowls

[81usaf92]

I will agree with you about Super Bowl V (Cowboys - Colts). That was one UGLY football game. Turnover upon turnover and "weird plays" on top of that.

I was a huge Leroy Jordan fan. It was a kick in the gut as a kid to lose that game.

Wasn’t it a last second kick and the SB that the MVP was on the losing side.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

The first Bama/LSU game in 2011 was panned all over the country as being extremely boring because of the lack of offense by both teams.

Which only goes to show the nation is full of idiots.

Alabama's offense was averaging 39.4 ppg entering the contest and ended the year averaging 37.3 (excluding this one game.

LSU's offense was averaging the same (Alabama had scored 315 points, LSU 314) and ended the year averaging 40.9 (excluding the shutout in the Sugar Bowl).

There was no "lack of offense," it was two incredibly stout defenses shutting down offenses that were among the best in the nation among conferences that ACTUALLY PLAY FOOTBALL.

Neither team topped 300 yards of offense and there were no TDs scored. The game featured 8 punts.

Because the defenses were that good. Incidentally, one of those punts was the field flipping bomb that Maze apparently misplayed, which altered the game as well.

By contrast, SB 34 had 5 punts total. Halftime score was 3-3.

I'm gonna assume this is just slightly weird syntax and that you're saying the LSU-Alabama game was 3-3. Am I correct?

Bama/LSU featured 5 plays of 20+ yds, while SB 34 had 7.

Because of the defenses.....shutting down sensational offenses......

Bama/LSU had 2 three-and-outs the entire game, while SB34 featured 3. Plus, Bama lost -- so you can never feel that game was great nor exciting.

Well, I have to confess you got me there......

And to top it all off, SB34 featured the halftime show "Tapestry of Nations" from Disney that included Phil Collins and Christina Aguilera!!

Now, I'm done until you start a thread considering greatest SB halftime shows ever. LOL.

Best halftime shows? Not really in any order but the great ones....

U2 at Super Bowl 36 (the scroll with the names of the 9/11 victims was incredible)
Prince at Super Bowl 41 (I never listened to the guy, but that show was incredible)
Super Bowl XVII - the Up With People kaleidoscope at that time was one of the best I'd seen.

Worst? The Black Eyed Peas here in Dallas nine years ago today.

I haven't watched most of them, I take a bath. I didn't see the so-called porn the other night because I never do.

(Personally, I hate halftime shows of all kinds but I guess you have to do something for the folks in the stadium).

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Wasn’t it a last second kick and the SB that the MVP was on the losing side.

Correct on all counts.

Chuck Howley was the only loser who ever won.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

I will agree with you about Super Bowl V (Cowboys - Colts). That was one UGLY football game. Turnover upon turnover and "weird plays" on top of that.

I was a huge Leroy Jordan fan. It was a kick in the gut as a kid to lose that game.

Way back on the morning of Super Bowl 19, ESPN played nine hours of those Super Bowl highlights shows starting with SB 1 (2 per hour times 9 hours equals 18). Of course, the day of Super Bowl 19, the pregame show was only about 2 hours long - if that. At that time, they had not filmed all those Steve Sabol intros so NBC sportscaster Jim Simpson introduced each video. That particular morning was one of the better ones with my Dad as he got to see some of those highlight films for the first time since the game had been played.

Simpson set up Super Bowl V and then said something like, "Not one of the better Super Bowls despite the close score." And Dad, who was in Vietnam when he saw it, agreed. He said, "You see a 16-13 game that ends on a game-winning field goal and you think it's great, but it was an awful game," and the late Paul Zimmerman of SI said the same basic thing.

The game had:
-11 turnovers
- 5 of those in the fourth quarter
- the winning team had 7, still a record (how the hell do you win a ballgame with 7 turnovers???)
- the Colts lost their QB - Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas - before halftime
-- the Colts' first TD was a controversial play sorta like the Immaculate Reception (2 years later) where the ball was tipped and John Mackey went for a then record 75-yard TD pass
- after that incredible play, the guy who kicked the FG to win later had his PAT blocked
- Earl Morrall, who was the goat of SB 3 for missing Jimmy Orr, threw a pick in the end zone to Howley
- on a razzle dazzle play that only Gus Malzahn would ever try in a big game, the running back threw a bomb to the receiver, who on his way to the end zone had the ball knocked loose in a play similar to the Mark Ingram fumble in the 2010 Iron Bowl and with the same result
- Bubba Smith refused to wear the ring because the play was so bad
- Colts Coach Don McCafferty was asked what should be on the ring - like "Excellence" or "Attitude" or whatever, and he said, "Thank God"