re: Will you watch any of the Super Bowl highlights marathon?

the Ravens 34-7 over the Giants was a real dud.

i mean the Ravens D was super impressive but that game was not interesting at all really.

When Dilfer hit Stokley early in that game for a TD that game was over.

The Redskins drubbing of the Bills at the Metro Dome was also pretty boring. The Bills finally put some points on the board but the Redskins had gotten out to such a good lead.

Dallas blasting Buffalo at the Rose Bowl was a wash. Jim Kelly goes down and its see you later Bills. Although even had that not happened Dallas would of have won but the game just got boring quick.

my favorites are:

1) Saints-Colts (obviously)
2) Bills-Giants (Norwood miss at end)
3) Denver-Green Bay (Elway finally wins one)
4) Giants-Pats (the 1st one)
5) Pats-Seahawks (Butler INT)

that game was the first time I got a lesson from Dad on how a game shouldn't be defined by one play. I remember him saying how there times where Buffalo had a chance to make some plays but didn't.

and that play was one of the ones he talked about. You might think i'm full of shite but he's been dead for years now yet it was times like those that stick with me. He also talked about how that safety that Bruce Smith got on Hostetler and how Smith nearly ripped the ball away from him and caused a fumble in the endzone. But Hostetler gripped the ball firmly at that moment and prevented a potential disaster.

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How did Tom Landry not win more Super Bowls? Part of me thinks he’s overrated

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Because the 1970s Steelers may have been the best team of all time compared to their peers. Teams from the 70s would get clobbered today because of the size of the lines of scrimmage, but in their era, the gap between them and everyone else may have been more than anyone in history.

That goalline stand by the Cowboys in the first Cowboys-Bills Super Bowl meant so much to that blowout Bc the Bills were about to tie that game and the complexion probably would’ve been so different

that play was remarkable.

the way they synced the Raiders radio call in with that music was brilliant also. When i would sit there and watch the marathon every morning of the Super Bowl, that game was one that i did not miss.

the America's Game clip is great too.

17 bob tray O

The desperate attempt of #52 to make the tackle just speaks volumes of that entire Super Bowl.

My favorite highlight of NFL SB films was Old Man Willie:

I thought, how did they get this close-up on a long shot?

NFL films under Ed Sabol were so skilled.

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the marathon is pretty cool for the older SB games but the modern day ones are just sort of meh.

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I feel the same way. A big part of it is that I enjoy watching highlights of the ones I was too young to see or remember. But, the ones I lived through, I just remember them too well to care too much.

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Bill King

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Definitely one of the GOATs.

Here's his legendary call of the "holy roller" fumble play against SD. LINK

The 49ers’ performance in that Denver Super Bowl against a prime John Elway offense and the NFL’s no. 1 defense qualifies not only as the greatest collective team performance in a Super Bowl, it arguably qualifies as the greatest team performance in a pro football game period, aside from a missed Mike Cofer PAT everything the Niners did turned to gold