The NFL Films crew is incredible in its preservation and in its ability to modernize footage. It’s incredible, and allows modern audiences to really get to experience the game much more like the people in that stadium did.
Both teams were deep. Sam Huff was the original middle linebacker, who happened to be one of the greatest defensive players ever until Butkus. Unitas Berry Moore made the Colts one of the most diverse offenses in the post Browns Lions dynasties. There was more than just sudden death that made it great.
Scott C i always like teams throwback jerseys too because they look so clean. Now you have teams like Tampa Bay and Cleveland who just have ugly looking jerseys. It’s good that teams like Green Bay, Chicago, New York, and Dallas etc haven’t changed their jerseys
The colored and speed corrected and footage from 58 sent chills down my spine I had a discussion with some friends about how old footage doesn't do justice to the athletes of yesteryear as the lower frame rate makes them appear slower. Getting to see Johnny U lay the groundwork for the next 50+ years of football in real time was totally awe inspiring. Here's to 100 years of the most amazing sport on the planet, and may it last another 100!
I’ll never forget as a giants fan watching Super Bowl 42. It was a massively emotional game as I was being deployed to Iraq shortly after the game. I had been on leave during the week 17 game and had said I hope they play again. That game being what it was at that time in my life has never left me. 17-14 fellas…one touch down we are world champions!!
I'll always remember the Tyree catch for when the announcer says "downfield to wide open Tyree." Did he just miss the three defenders right next to him?
@Matthew Littlejohn yes he is. The Giants won both SB42 and 46 on freakish lucky catches by David Tyree and Mario Manningham that they would've missed 99 out of 100 times. The Giants are the luckiest franchise in the NFL. They also won SB25 on a missed FG by Bills K Scott Norwood. However they beat the Broncos pretty convincingly in SB21
@@jeremythompson9122 The Tyree catch was a little bit of luck, but the Manningham catch was a planned play. Eli used it often, not always as successfully though.
The Manningham catch wasn't lucky at all. It was a great throw by Eli and a great catch by Manningham. The luckiest part about that SB was probably the Welker drop.
That catch at 17:03 looked like it hurt big time nowadays diving catches recievers tuck or turn their body and slide they know how to dive for a catch and still protect themselves that guy came to to a dead stop right on his face 🤕🤕🤕
@@bm373 Football used to be a pretty rough game. Think they had to protect the players if they felt they were injured. There was no mercy back in the 50's man.
Ice Bowl should of been #1 today the game would be canceled.Incredible that these men played a game in these conditions -13°and Dallas a southern team came within the last play of winning.by the 3rd qtr the field was ice. Ice Bowl #1
Although there are both heaters and gloves available, late season games here in Kansas City are brutal and sometimes below 0° pretty often. It's more so the wind chill that makes those games so frigid!
What’s funny about number 4 is that the chargers had to play in really hot weather in Miami and the next week they had to go to cincy and play in -40°.
Im 36 years old, so the greatest game, I ever seen was the Rams vs Titans in the 1999 Superbowl ( I was 15 years old then) or the 1993 AFC divisional round Oiler vs Bills game ( I was 10 years old then).
IDC how many Super Bowls my pats win, the 2007-08 Super Bowl will always hurt so badly deep down. Always will give respect to the giants for that W they pulled off, but man did that ruin my childhood, I cried multiple times, and I seriously went into a couple month depression because of it! I was the youngest super fan for the patriots! I’m now 26 years old and I’m still hurt over this loss! 😢😭
26 yr old pats fan here too and that and the 2011 sb killed me. Honestly thought we'd never see another pats sb win after they lost in 2011. Seemed like they were cursed at the time.
Young Liam and then how the end of the 2014 Seahawks game was starting to look 😭 I was starting to think of places that I could commit suicide! Hahah jk, but I thank malcom butler for saving my life 🤣
These are all great choices.... But, the 1990 NFC championship between the Giants and 49ers is the best football game I’ve ever seen... 49ers were a great team going for a three peat, at home, but that Giants defense knew how to play them... What a nasty rivalry they had back them! It was a war! Never seen a more hard hitting game! Can’t believe it’s not in the top five... Makes that Chargers/ Dolphins playoff look silly....
No, you really don't. They showed the only things worth watching. It wasn't close because of good defense. It was close because both teams played sloppy and turned the ball over constantly. It's an ugly, boring game. Important, but boring.
Amazing game it's a must watch for any football fan to see Johnny Unitas at the height of his powers making the first-ever two-minute drill it's truly breathtaking
My top 9 greatest(most important and best) games of all time: 1958 NFL championship Super Bowl LI Ice Bowl Super Bowl XLII Super Bowl XLIX Super Bowl XLIII 1981 NFC championship Super Bowl XXV Super Bowl XIII
Time to add Bills-Chiefs Divisional Round from 2022. 3 lead changes in the final two minutes, including a Bills go-ahead touchdown with 13 seconds left. They still lost 36-42.
Superbowl 49 was definitely my favorite game of all time. From a Browns fan thank you Patriots and Seahawks for that game! Seahawks should've gave the ball to Marshawn, its amazing how Brady destroyed dynasties and potential dynasties. Brady is the GOAT, im going to miss him when he retires.
Benny Boy I think this list has a bit of influence involved as well and that game didn’t really influence anything but memes, plus comebacks usually don’t do too well when talking about great games since statistically a team is getting blown out at one part in the game rather than it being close throughout the whole game.
Wait a second, when was all that footage from the original TV broadcast of the Ice Bowl found? That’s one of the Holy Grails of missing sports broadcasts.
@Harry Engel Watch more closely, the introduction by Ray Scott and Jack Buck, Chuck Mercein’s reception and run for first and goal, and the first two goal line run plays are all from the original TV broadcast. No one has seen these since 1967 and NFL Films threw them in there like it’s no big deal. Show us the original footage, NFL Films!
@@darklimeking372 i dont think its working. Eli is professional enough to step aside and let the future come in. Eli has never been rattled in his career. Not by Tiki Barber, Not 2 close Superbowls, not being sacked on every down because he had no O-line.
@@darklimeking372 ha ha ha im laughing at your attempts to cover this up as a joke. Something tells me that your a salty Patriots fan that hates to be reminded that the most perfect team was defeated by the most imperfect QB.
Eli and the Giants do get credit, and they should be in the Top 10 but certainly not ahead of the pats/falcons or pats seahawks. The meaning behind the win is what made it so memorable. Take away the pats perfect season and does that game it’s self make the top 20?
9 brady games in this whole series, all 9 in the top 40 actually, went 6-3 in those 9. we will never see a man who made any game more exciting than that man
*Super* happy that the “Heat Bowl” made it as high as number four. I remember being ill and home from school, and ESPN Classic put on this Dolphins vs Chargers game. The network’s presentation was fantastic in that they didn’t spoil the result, and even though it was 25 years after the fact and I didn’t have any context, I was still blown away at how incredible that game was. I grew up as a kid with the ‘00s NFL, and I’m usually biased to favor games from that era, but that 1981 divisional playoff game is my favorite of all time. I’ve never seen players left as thoroughly exhausted at the game’s end as those Chargers and Dolphins. To anyone who has only ever seen highlights, I **highly** recommend finding a way to watch it in its entirety.
Just because a game is older doesn’t mean it’s automatically better besides. An interception on the goal line and a 25 point comeback can’t be topped. The New York giants upset was pretty good and the Dwight Clark catch kicked off something special but you can’t write off how back and forth the Seahawks game was and how everything went right for Patriots to comeback 25 points. No I’m not 12 and that’s also a bad argument but whatever
Constantine Billis comebacks are really just statistical blowouts rather than back and forth games,c which I don’t think makes a game great, great games come from influence that goes off towards the league and the finish to games rather than Matt Ryan not doing anything in the 2nd half. Sb 49 is definitely a great game but is no where near the same greatness as these top 5 games.
I feel like there should be a separate list for games based purely on entertainment value. Remove all context. You'd have a lot more regular season games on the list, and Chargers vs Dolphins could easily be argued for #1 in that case.
goldenraven20 I agree, this list has a lot of influence involved which I think there should be, but based off entertainment purposes, I believe rams and chiefs would be up there in the rankings, that game was fun to watch
@@thegoat164 Lol, real unbiased with that name. C'mon man. All time play and a very good game but I'm not even sure it should be in the top 10. These are the Danny White Cowboys, yeah this was a great start to your dynasty, but as a back-and-forth contest, ignoring games before and after it, I would even rank 2011 49ers-Saints above it. Or from an NFL history significance standpoint, one of the early 90s Cowboys-49ers playoff games. If you're not the best game a franchise has played, you're not the 2nd best game in NFL history.
Look, i get that in 1958, it was the greatest game ever, but if you think that there hasn't been a greater game since (61 yrs later), including a lot of the games on this list, then you never will. This was a list of the GREATEST games (not most influential).
Explain how it’s not the greatest game please? It had everything you could want out of a game and the and the fact that it was an important game as in a championship game only made it better, and you’re right it is the most influential but you can’t say the game isn’t great in anyway. Eras change and the fact that this game comes up so often as years go by only shows its greatness, just like the ice bowl
I remember watching superbowl 43 at a giant ass church hosted party. They weren't preaching nothing. They just let us used their jumbo projector screen and I was with my gf at the time. It was one of the best games that I have ever watched. I remember the looks on people's faces when tyree came down with the ball, and I remember screaming my lungs out when the giants won.
How about the 100 Greatest Jersey Numbers? There’s no #100, but you can start with double zero, #00 Jim Otto of the Raiders and go to #99 Dan Hampton of the Bears. What do you all think?
@@jameslisle7775 I think the idea would be brady would be the #1 guy to where 12. Love the yankee picture. Bandwagon jumper. Yankee and Patriots. Real original. Keep sports thoughts to yourself
Exactly everyone only talks about these kinds plays when it’s against the patriots, if the teams were flipped everyone would be talking about how the patriots cheated and got away with no calls
@@adrianpena800 yeah sometimes the calls went for the pats, sometimes it went against the pats. People just only point out the times the pats benefitted from them because they hate the pats
Gonna be fair, SB 43, 52, 49 were great games (51 was only cool seeing a team collapse so hard), but this top 5 all makes sense. Iconic to football history. They may not be the most entertaining to watch or stats wise, but they all built the mythos of football and help brand the NFL
Man Li Gi some of these old school games absolutely belong there but certainly not the Giants at 5. Pats/falcons should have been 2/3 and pats/seahawks at 4/5. While historic games need to be remembered and recognized for their contribution to NFL. Today’s NFL is on such a higher level that it should factor into the discussion. Talk all you want about rule changes, but i’m willing to bet if you took the modern team machines with the play study/breakdown, fitness, skill development, ect. And brought it back to one of these old school games with their rules, im willing to bet even the lowest ranking teams would be giving them a run for their money. While old school NFL might have been alot tougher physically, today’s NFL the competition, athleticism & intelligence is just on a whole other level. Thus i feel like the NFL of the last 20 years needs to be given more respect when compared to the legends the league grew up on
For those saying Super Bowl XLII is overrated and that it's not the greatest game in maybe, history.. First of all, it's Boston vs New York. The tension among both in sports, in general. The 2007 Patriots were the most feared team. Averaging 30+ points throughout their ENTIRE season. Leaving a team in lowly single-digit score, beating teams by more than a three possession games, many times. 23 TD's from their new star, joining a soon-to-be certain dynasty. Extending it, mind you. Brady was undefeated in the Super Bowl, prior. You have a 18-0, young, deadly Tom Brady, the King piece in the opposing Chess team. Randy Moss, traded from Oakland for a 4th-round pick, the previous April of 2007. It was overkill from New England. "It's too easy for them now." They were Mount Everest. Their own Evil Empire. Won in 2002, went back-to-back in 2004,2005 wins. Tom Brady, at that time, was the next big thing. Breaking season records that year, that still to this day, haven't been met. Historically, here comes Eli and offensive, the Giants defense and do the unexpected.. beat the Giant, Tom Brady. The Patriots. The defeaters. The conquerors. The Tyree catch should be the archetypal play for underdogs. Compensating at the last minute. Final drive. Against a team that out-prepared every other team, all season. The desperation of throwing in the middle of field to a receiver, plagued with defenders was everything of what football is about. You never know and we all love it for that. The David Tyree catch made it clear to not underestimate anyone/team in sports. Don't question their drive for the game. Your opponents got there for a reason. Their love and drive for the game. Their emotions from losses that season. And on the biggest stage in the NFL, for a group of dark horses, wanderers, underachievers in regular season, banding together, defeat the Champions, and stun the world? It could be a film. It's the original, riveting football tale.
SB XLII is a payback of the Red Sox stealing the 2004 ALCS from the Yankees. Then the Giants pulled this stunt of spoiling the Patriots' 19-0 season. Doesn't karma suck?
People give a lot of s**t to Cowboys fans (not totally undeserved), but we’ve experienced our share of gut-punch moments through the years: Bart Starr’s sneak, Jackie Smith’s drop, Dwight Clark’s Catch, Dez Bryant’s fumble.
All the other pats fans think SB 51 is better but at the end of the day what I thought would occur occurred no discredit to Brady but I think the problem is Brady was so great that I wasn’t even surprised when the pats won, I never thought the falcons were gonna win, while I never would have thought what happened in SB 42 would happen
My uncle who has been a Miami’s dolphin fan since he was a kid is the offensive coordinator for my Varsity football team He puts the hook and ladder in the playbook and the head coach doesn’t want to run it. We run it and score a touchdown and it’s look almost identical to how the dolphins rain it.
I think the old timers get way too much sway in these lists. Super Bowl XLII was already a dozen seasons ago and it’s the most recent game listed by over a quarter century. Super Bowl XLII is more recent, sure, but when it was played George W. Bush was still president. The list in years looks like: 5.) Super Bowl XLII: 2007 season. 4.) Chargers vs. Dolphins playoff game: 1981. 3.) Ice Bowl: 1967. 2.) Cowboys vs. 49ers NFC Tile game: 1981. 1.) Colts vs. Giants NFL Title game: 1958. Recency bias should always be acknowledged and tempered, but believing in the total superiority of the ‘good old days,’ is no less flawed. Both the top 5-10 plays and games of the NFL 100 lists skewed way too far in favor of the past.
H L that’s because of influence has well you know right? And acknowledging that greatness behind a game and where our sport would be without that game helps list the games. I personally wouldn’t have comeback games in my list since I don’t find teams blowing each other out entertaining to watch, such as the oilers game or Sb 51, back and forth games bring in newer audiences and help grow the sport as a whole. I honestly don’t know where the nfl would be without the 58 championship game, and I don’t think there’s an accurate answer.
The fact that the Giants beating the Patriots is over Sea vs NE and ATL vs NE is crazy to me. Two of the greatest Superbowls of all time Patriots fan or not
Pats get the shaft, SB 49 & 51 were both two of the greatest games ever. You better believe that if a NY team won a superbowl in a 25pt comeback that it would rank #1 of all time
Speaking as someone who is as petty as it gets, can't you enjoy the Super Bowls your team (I'm just assuming you're a Pats fan) won? You have the greatest dynasty in sports that began as a fluke (Mo Lewis hit), continued because of a fluke (Invention of the Tuck Rule), and culminated in two fluke wins (Carroll and Quinn both made god awful decisions that, if I were the owner, I'd have fired them after the game for making). Your team has six rings from a sixth round pick who was never meant to play in six games that were all decided by one possession or less. Lottery winners don't have that kind of luck. Just appreciate what you have and appreciate this list for what it is: Escapism and a fun time reminiscing through videos.
The Fuzzy Pickle and that’s why it’s not up there, 0 defense was played at all. Football isn’t just about offense, it’s a whole team sport and the 1958 championship game showed that and made football a lot more popular than it originally was.
Andy Bianchi nah those were tainted by massive choking from terrible coaching and poor execution. In 42 the Giants just rose to the occasion practically playing flawlessly as the biggest underdog of all time. They beat the greatest team of all time (18-0) as a (10-6) team without Tiki or Jeremy Shockey who had recently departed/hurt!!!
Why does it not? Comeback games have a team statistically blowing out the other team throughout the whole game, 42 was a constantly close game as well as had a huge underdog, comeback games are so overrated it’s hilarious.
Ice Bowl should have been #2 - Lombardi's Packers most iconic moment. Biased Packers fan here =) However i completely agree with the #1 choice in terms of what it meant for professional football and the effects that it had.
Also...can someone please help me figure out how that clock works at Yankee stadium cir. 1958? Why is there 14 numbers on it? How is the big hand on 2 and the little hand on 14 add up to 15 seconds? Can anyone make sense of this? 17:35
I remember seeing about 15-20 years before that a defender had one hand grabbing the QB’s ankle. The QB shook out of it and gained some yards, but the referee called “in the grasp” and stopped the play.
I’m still very salty about that play because in any other regular season game that would have been called a sack as he was held in place for like 4 whole seconds, and the giants were clearly holding. If the refs weren’t blind then the pats would have been 19-0.
I think the Giants Vs. Patriots should be higher than just #5. Also, search for the Ice Bowl with Bart Starr's commentary, it makes the game that much more amazing.
I really enjoy all the high definition shots of the vintage crowds for some reason.
i agree, it is always fun to take a look into the past. Everything seems so alien. Some day our kids will enjoy the same vintage footage. Well i hope.
The NFL Films crew is incredible in its preservation and in its ability to modernize footage. It’s incredible, and allows modern audiences to really get to experience the game much more like the people in that stadium did.
#1 Dolphins Vs Redskins 2019
Edit: Dolphins vs Bengals 2019
Oh hey it’s dev now that’s funny lol
laughed audibly
Mathematically its not impossible. That's the hilarious part.
@Harry Engel 😂😂😂 No one caught the " NBA ON NBC * theme lmao quite possibly one of the greatest themes of all time
The best tank bowl of all time
That 58 Giants team had Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry as coordinators
But we had Johnny U
Both teams were deep. Sam Huff was the original middle linebacker, who happened to be one of the greatest defensive players ever until Butkus. Unitas Berry Moore made the Colts one of the most diverse offenses in the post Browns Lions dynasties. There was more than just sudden death that made it great.
I would say the only better coaching staff was the 1990 New York Giants
@@blacker5826 Nah
Landry the defense and Lombardi the offense. Not the way most people would guess.
Thank God Jerry Kramer is still alive to talk about this game. Finally in Canton, Ohio where he belongs and he still looks remarkable at 83 years old.
Agreed (lions fan here)
@SolidPain6624 Lions guy here. Jerry Kramer also finally got in the hall of fame in 2018.
Unfortunately Bartt Star has passed away and I’d love to see his narration and telling us what the Icebowl was like.
Jim Bo go pack😪
Jim Bo I believe he talked about it quite a bit before NFL 100, you should be able to find it somewhere
I think he talked about it in the top 100 plays
ruclips.net/video/FhNn7ENixBY/видео.html
The Colts vs Giants game looks so pretty with the blue and white jerseys running on the brown field.
I agree, back when NFL jerseys were simple, yet elegant...and Nike wasn't around to turn them into trash
Scott C i always like teams throwback jerseys too because they look so clean. Now you have teams like Tampa Bay and Cleveland who just have ugly looking jerseys. It’s good that teams like Green Bay, Chicago, New York, and Dallas etc haven’t changed their jerseys
The colts have always had such a clean looking uniform.
The colored and speed corrected and footage from 58 sent chills down my spine
I had a discussion with some friends about how old footage doesn't do justice to the athletes of yesteryear as the lower frame rate makes them appear slower.
Getting to see Johnny U lay the groundwork for the next 50+ years of football in real time was totally awe inspiring.
Here's to 100 years of the most amazing sport on the planet, and may it last another 100!
15:16 people getting dangerously close to the back of that horse
eek
Thomas Buck some horses don’t care if there behind them or hit them from behind
Is this Erick Berry's burner??
@@armandoshine3404
Some people who train a horse for many years still get a hoof to the chest. They can be quite unpredictable when they're spooked.
Theyve always had dumb ppl it isnt new
I’ll never forget as a giants fan watching Super Bowl 42. It was a massively emotional game as I was being deployed to Iraq shortly after the game. I had been on leave during the week 17 game and had said I hope they play again. That game being what it was at that time in my life has never left me.
17-14 fellas…one touch down we are world champions!!
18:52 - Johnny U. signals we're #1. Lol
TheAlfrulz LOL! I beg to differ. LOL!
Thank you NFL for 100 years of memories and hopefully hundreds of more!
I'll always remember the Tyree catch for when the announcer says "downfield to wide open Tyree." Did he just miss the three defenders right next to him?
Yeah Tyree was not even close to wide open
@Matthew Littlejohn yes he is. The Giants won both SB42 and 46 on freakish lucky catches by David Tyree and Mario Manningham that they would've missed 99 out of 100 times. The Giants are the luckiest franchise in the NFL. They also won SB25 on a missed FG by Bills K Scott Norwood. However they beat the Broncos pretty convincingly in SB21
@@jeremythompson9122 The kick by Scott Norwood was out of his range. The announcers stressed that before the kick. So it wasn't luck.
@@jeremythompson9122 The Tyree catch was a little bit of luck, but the Manningham catch was a planned play. Eli used it often, not always as successfully though.
The Manningham catch wasn't lucky at all. It was a great throw by Eli and a great catch by Manningham. The luckiest part about that SB was probably the Welker drop.
That catch at 17:03 looked like it hurt big time nowadays diving catches recievers tuck or turn their body and slide they know how to dive for a catch and still protect themselves that guy came to to a dead stop right on his face 🤕🤕🤕
And the ref just jumps on top of him right after as if he's staking his claim
@@SynsityGW yea what's up with that lol, protection maybe?
@@bm373 Football used to be a pretty rough game. Think they had to protect the players if they felt they were injured. There was no mercy back in the 50's man.
Just put some dirt on it...... oh.
I dont even think he saw the defender, you're acting like he purposely did that.
The defender is what caused that to happen.
Ice Bowl should of been #1 today the game would be canceled.Incredible that these men played a game in these conditions -13°and Dallas a southern team came within the last play of winning.by the 3rd qtr the field was ice.
Ice Bowl #1
RedBaron Reborn yup! Without gloves and heaters on the sidelines. They probably shared a ladel from the water bucket too.
Although there are both heaters and gloves available, late season games here in Kansas City are brutal and sometimes below 0° pretty often. It's more so the wind chill that makes those games so frigid!
@@jont6389 We have been to several Chiefs games and had all four seasons. Absolutely love Kansas City!
I've seen a couple of games where they played in terrible cold weather still they never cancel a game unless something really tragic happens
This was a bad ass series. Loved it watched every one
If game number 5 were to be replayed today in 2019, Giants would've gotten 15 roughing the passer calls.
Right!? There was that one play where one of the lineman had smacked Brady’s helmet. I thought to myself “Well, there’s 15 yards.”
and maybe the Giants would have been called for holding, which they were doing that entire final drive.
Lol salty pats fans
'If' can be said about a lot of things. Giants still won Pats still lost and 4 years later they got them again.
@@jakelinwood2961 yeah. Giant fans can't even deny it considering O'Hara admitted it lol.
Love the rare parts of the CBS TV broadcast of the Ice Bowl 8:18, 10:11, 10:34.
Called by Ray Scott and Jack Buck (Joe’s Dad)
rjpsuh06 yeah seriously those are some very great clips. Glad they included them.
i was gonna say. there must be a huge portion of that game saved. the holy grail of NFL game broadcast!
Ah so that's why he still has a broadcasting job lol
@rjpsuh06 I am surprised it still exists, and that it hasn't been shown for decades; where has it been? The video quality is amazing.
I wish that whole game should be shown as it was on CBS that day
It's crazy knowing that 4 year old Tom Brady was also at the Cowboys vs 49ers NFC championship game. NFL should have added Brady as a commentator
That’ll be funny Bc he won’t rm nothing😂
At 4 years old the kid didn't have a clue what was going on! All he knew is he needed his diaper changed.
Because of Eli Manning I don’t bet on the Super Bowl anymore
I’m so traumatized by that game and that was the first SB I watched at 6 years old 😂
What’s funny about number 4 is that the chargers had to play in really hot weather in Miami and the next week they had to go to cincy and play in -40°.
As a Cowboy fan the Giant 07 game will always be #1 in my eyes…
Am I the only one who doesn’t know anything about #1?
Yeah
Yeah
Not really. If your a football expert yes. But overall this game was the first when it comes to Final drives, clutch plays and OT
1958 championship greatest game ever played giants vs colts
Emperor Palpatine if it’s a Patriots game that will suck
1981 Playoffs with two of the top four games of All-time. What a time to be alive
And the freezer bowl
1:25 that's 15 yards in 2019. Goes to show the great games you get when you don't throw a flag on every play.
You can at least see why that’s roughing the passer right? It’s dangerous
@@adrianpena800 I’m mad at Asante for the drop pick
Im 36 years old, so the greatest game, I ever seen was the Rams vs Titans in the 1999 Superbowl ( I was 15 years old then) or the 1993 AFC divisional round Oiler vs Bills game ( I was 10 years old then).
The rams and titans game had such a horrible first half.
Love these!
IDC how many Super Bowls my pats win, the 2007-08 Super Bowl will always hurt so badly deep down. Always will give respect to the giants for that W they pulled off, but man did that ruin my childhood, I cried multiple times, and I seriously went into a couple month depression because of it! I was the youngest super fan for the patriots! I’m now 26 years old and I’m still hurt over this loss! 😢😭
26 yr old pats fan here too and that and the 2011 sb killed me. Honestly thought we'd never see another pats sb win after they lost in 2011. Seemed like they were cursed at the time.
Young Liam and then how the end of the 2014 Seahawks game was starting to look 😭 I was starting to think of places that I could commit suicide! Hahah jk, but I thank malcom butler for saving my life 🤣
Gotta love those vintage highlights
18:32 I didn’t know they said clutch back then
These are all great choices....
But, the 1990 NFC championship between the Giants and 49ers is the best football game I’ve ever seen... 49ers were a great team going for a three peat, at home, but that Giants defense knew how to play them... What a nasty rivalry they had back them! It was a war! Never seen a more hard hitting game! Can’t believe it’s not in the top five... Makes that Chargers/ Dolphins playoff look silly....
I'm not gonna lie, that #1 looked kind of bad ass. Like to see the whole thing.
SteelersGoingFor 7 I’m pretty sure NFL Films has it on their RUclips channel.
No, you really don't. They showed the only things worth watching. It wasn't close because of good defense. It was close because both teams played sloppy and turned the ball over constantly. It's an ugly, boring game. Important, but boring.
Amazing game it's a must watch for any football fan to see Johnny Unitas at the height of his powers making the first-ever two-minute drill it's truly breathtaking
I remember throughout the 80s and the 90s when the 49ers vs Cowboys was the de facto NFL Championship.....Favorite is still Super Bowl 42 in 2008....
My top 9 greatest(most important and best) games of all time:
1958 NFL championship
Super Bowl LI
Ice Bowl
Super Bowl XLII
Super Bowl XLIX
Super Bowl XLIII
1981 NFC championship
Super Bowl XXV
Super Bowl XIII
Well that guy summed up the modern state of journalism.
Jerry Kramer and Joe Namath have to be brothers. They sound and kind of look alike.
I think SB 49 should be in the top 5. That game was competitive, included legendary moments, had fantastic plays and went tight down to the wire.
Time to add Bills-Chiefs Divisional Round from 2022. 3 lead changes in the final two minutes, including a Bills go-ahead touchdown with 13 seconds left. They still lost 36-42.
I've never seen the 1958 NFL Championship in color before... well done!
Superbowl 49 was definitely my favorite game of all time. From a Browns fan thank you Patriots and Seahawks for that game! Seahawks should've gave the ball to Marshawn, its amazing how Brady destroyed dynasties and potential dynasties. Brady is the GOAT, im going to miss him when he retires.
17:49 those old school kickers would "toe-bash" their field goals. He was only a couple feet from the holder.
28-3 in the greatest superbowl comeback ever, how is the Falcons Pats superbowl not top 5
Because it was more falcons choking than pats being really good
Nicholas Neil are you kidding? The Patriots dominated the entire second half of that game lol
Ben Johnston You sound like a triggered pats hater, where did Tom Brady GOAT hurt you?
@@jaredchampagne2752 cheating prevails once again
Benny Boy I think this list has a bit of influence involved as well and that game didn’t really influence anything but memes, plus comebacks usually don’t do too well when talking about great games since statistically a team is getting blown out at one part in the game rather than it being close throughout the whole game.
Wait a second, when was all that footage from the original TV broadcast of the Ice Bowl found? That’s one of the Holy Grails of missing sports broadcasts.
OMG!! That explain sooooo many things
@Harry Engel Watch more closely, the introduction by Ray Scott and Jack Buck, Chuck Mercein’s reception and run for first and goal, and the first two goal line run plays are all from the original TV broadcast. No one has seen these since 1967 and NFL Films threw them in there like it’s no big deal. Show us the original footage, NFL Films!
@Harry Engel hear hear
it's in amazing quality, too.
NYG VS NEP for sure one of the greatest games ever....I love listening to Michael Strahan talking about that game and his teammates
Ok thx I’ve been waiting
Super Bowl 42 was a classic. But, their week 17 game was a high scoring battle.
18:53 Give him the bird
Im glad that Eli found something to do with all his newfound free time
Lol you sound salty lol
@@Badguy10472 nah im just taking the piss out of him getting benched
@@darklimeking372 i dont think its working. Eli is professional enough to step aside and let the future come in. Eli has never been rattled in his career. Not by Tiki Barber, Not 2 close Superbowls, not being sacked on every down because he had no O-line.
@@Badguy10472 taking the piss. AKA making a joke. Learn
@@darklimeking372 ha ha ha im laughing at your attempts to cover this up as a joke. Something tells me that your a salty Patriots fan that hates to be reminded that the most perfect team was defeated by the most imperfect QB.
Hate Eli all you want but he got it done in one of the biggest games ever
Two of the biggest games, don't forget his other superbowl win against the patties
Why is Eli just kryptonite for the Pats?
Eli and the Giants do get credit, and they should be in the Top 10 but certainly not ahead of the pats/falcons or pats seahawks.
The meaning behind the win is what made it so memorable. Take away the pats perfect season and does that game it’s self make the top 20?
@@jessestanley2083 Eli also beat the *zebras* twice (not just the brady bunch)!
Twice
16:37 literally thought avenger infinity war music started playing
Sammy Comstock LMFAO
Same
Hahahaha!
5:50 how come nobody runs a hook and lateral anymore? Its such a cool, smart play!!!
Boise state trademark at this point. Only thing that was even close was with randy moss but it wasn’t designed
9 brady games in this whole series, all 9 in the top 40 actually, went 6-3 in those 9. we will never see a man who made any game more exciting than that man
Game #5 is 80% of the reason Eli Manning will be in the Hall of Fame.
It’s 100% of the reason.
*Super* happy that the “Heat Bowl” made it as high as number four.
I remember being ill and home from school, and ESPN Classic put on this Dolphins vs Chargers game. The network’s presentation was fantastic in that they didn’t spoil the result, and even though it was 25 years after the fact and I didn’t have any context, I was still blown away at how incredible that game was.
I grew up as a kid with the ‘00s NFL, and I’m usually biased to favor games from that era, but that 1981 divisional playoff game is my favorite of all time. I’ve never seen players left as thoroughly exhausted at the game’s end as those Chargers and Dolphins. To anyone who has only ever seen highlights, I **highly** recommend finding a way to watch it in its entirety.
Tbh 2. Pats vs Seahawks 1. Patriots vs Falcons.
are you like 12
Jbrox yea he probably is
Just because a game is older doesn’t mean it’s automatically better besides. An interception on the goal line and a 25 point comeback can’t be topped. The New York giants upset was pretty good and the Dwight Clark catch kicked off something special but you can’t write off how back and forth the Seahawks game was and how everything went right for Patriots to comeback 25 points. No I’m not 12 and that’s also a bad argument but whatever
Constantine Billis comebacks are really just statistical blowouts rather than back and forth games,c which I don’t think makes a game great, great games come from influence that goes off towards the league and the finish to games rather than Matt Ryan not doing anything in the 2nd half. Sb 49 is definitely a great game but is no where near the same greatness as these top 5 games.
Ryan Randone historic and greatest go hand and hand, so I don’t get your point
I was a young kid in the early eighties there were so many great games... to me it was like the Golden age of the NFL
Superbowl XLII and LI should have definitely be above the Chargers vs Dolphins game
51 is overrated af, comeback wins are really just blowout wins with even scores, back and forth games are way better than comeback games
I feel like there should be a separate list for games based purely on entertainment value. Remove all context. You'd have a lot more regular season games on the list, and Chargers vs Dolphins could easily be argued for #1 in that case.
goldenraven20 I agree, this list has a lot of influence involved which I think there should be, but based off entertainment purposes, I believe rams and chiefs would be up there in the rankings, that game was fun to watch
That Drew Pearson horsecollar tackle though. The Cowboys probably would've won today.
@Harry Engel he’s one of few QBs who kinda lived up to a legend
Superb digitalisation of the number one game fantastic footage
That giants patriots game I will always remember
goddamn right. Baltimore Colts vs NY Giants on TV put the NFL on the map
and in the words of Chuck Thompson "Ain't the beer cold"
#2 is really remembered for The Catch than the actual game. I think it’s ranked a little too high
great play not game
I’d agree, wasn’t too influential either, the ice bowl is better
Kids 🙄
@@thegoat164 Boomer 🙄
@@thegoat164 Lol, real unbiased with that name. C'mon man. All time play and a very good game but I'm not even sure it should be in the top 10. These are the Danny White Cowboys, yeah this was a great start to your dynasty, but as a back-and-forth contest, ignoring games before and after it, I would even rank 2011 49ers-Saints above it. Or from an NFL history significance standpoint, one of the early 90s Cowboys-49ers playoff games. If you're not the best game a franchise has played, you're not the 2nd best game in NFL history.
That collarbone tackle will be a penalty in today's NFL
Look, i get that in 1958, it was the greatest game ever, but if you think that there hasn't been a greater game since (61 yrs later), including a lot of the games on this list, then you never will. This was a list of the GREATEST games (not most influential).
Explain how it’s not the greatest game please? It had everything you could want out of a game and the and the fact that it was an important game as in a championship game only made it better, and you’re right it is the most influential but you can’t say the game isn’t great in anyway. Eras change and the fact that this game comes up so often as years go by only shows its greatness, just like the ice bowl
The giants fan said the game was closer than expected, they played each other week 17 and that was a 3pt game. The giants were not a trash team.
I think they uploaded 10-6 and 5-1 in reverse order.
i was thinking that myself.
Totally agree
Super Bowl XLII the only Super Bowl ranked in the Top 5 NFL's Greatest Games which means it is officially the greatest Super Bowl of all time
I remember watching superbowl 43 at a giant ass church hosted party. They weren't preaching nothing. They just let us used their jumbo projector screen and I was with my gf at the time. It was one of the best games that I have ever watched. I remember the looks on people's faces when tyree came down with the ball, and I remember screaming my lungs out when the giants won.
How about the 100 Greatest Jersey Numbers? There’s no #100, but you can start with double zero, #00 Jim Otto of the Raiders and go to #99 Dan Hampton of the Bears. What do you all think?
VEN VON JJ Watt for 99, hes already won DPOY 3 times and made 5 first team all pros
The only other 3 time DPOY winner is LT.
that would be great!
#69 BEN JOHNSTON
VEN VON #12 would be number 1.
@@jameslisle7775 I think the idea would be brady would be the #1 guy to where 12. Love the yankee picture. Bandwagon jumper. Yankee and Patriots. Real original. Keep sports thoughts to yourself
Tom Landry was on the loosing end on the top three games in NFL history. 😢
Number 5 I'm not a Giants fan but boy i was that day lol
that whole o line is holding in helmet catch play, yet nobody talks about it
Holding, everyone but the center.
Exactly everyone only talks about these kinds plays when it’s against the patriots, if the teams were flipped everyone would be talking about how the patriots cheated and got away with no calls
@@adrianpena800 yeah sometimes the calls went for the pats, sometimes it went against the pats. People just only point out the times the pats benefitted from them because they hate the pats
Gonna be fair, SB 43, 52, 49 were great games (51 was only cool seeing a team collapse so hard), but this top 5 all makes sense. Iconic to football history. They may not be the most entertaining to watch or stats wise, but they all built the mythos of football and help brand the NFL
Man Li Gi some of these old school games absolutely belong there but certainly not the Giants at 5. Pats/falcons should have been 2/3 and pats/seahawks at 4/5.
While historic games need to be remembered and recognized for their contribution to NFL. Today’s NFL is on such a higher level that it should factor into the discussion. Talk all you want about rule changes, but i’m willing to bet if you took the modern team machines with the play study/breakdown, fitness, skill development, ect. And brought it back to one of these old school games with their rules, im willing to bet even the lowest ranking teams would be giving them a run for their money.
While old school NFL might have been alot tougher physically, today’s NFL the competition, athleticism & intelligence is just on a whole other level. Thus i feel like the NFL of the last 20 years needs to be given more respect when compared to the legends the league grew up on
"And the green bay packers are going to he world champions once again!"
I can’t believe how many offensive holds the giants got away with on that helmet catch play
AWFUL!!! Vegas and the league HQ in New York willed the Giants that victory.
Or how they held the Patriots to 14 points
For those saying Super Bowl XLII is overrated and that it's not the greatest game in maybe, history..
First of all, it's Boston vs New York. The tension among both in sports, in general. The 2007 Patriots were the most feared team. Averaging 30+ points throughout their ENTIRE season. Leaving a team in lowly single-digit score, beating teams by more than a three possession games, many times. 23 TD's from their new star, joining a soon-to-be certain dynasty. Extending it, mind you. Brady was undefeated in the Super Bowl, prior. You have a 18-0, young, deadly Tom Brady, the King piece in the opposing Chess team. Randy Moss, traded from Oakland for a 4th-round pick, the previous April of 2007. It was overkill from New England. "It's too easy for them now." They were Mount Everest. Their own Evil Empire. Won in 2002, went back-to-back in 2004,2005 wins. Tom Brady, at that time, was the next big thing. Breaking season records that year, that still to this day, haven't been met. Historically, here comes Eli and offensive, the Giants defense and do the unexpected.. beat the Giant, Tom Brady. The Patriots. The defeaters. The conquerors. The Tyree catch should be the archetypal play for underdogs. Compensating at the last minute. Final drive. Against a team that out-prepared every other team, all season. The desperation of throwing in the middle of field to a receiver, plagued with defenders was everything of what football is about. You never know and we all love it for that. The David Tyree catch made it clear to not underestimate anyone/team in sports. Don't question their drive for the game. Your opponents got there for a reason. Their love and drive for the game. Their emotions from losses that season.
And on the biggest stage in the NFL, for a group of dark horses, wanderers, underachievers in regular season, banding together, defeat the Champions, and stun the world? It could be a film. It's the original, riveting football tale.
Giants got away with holding.
SB XLII is a payback of the Red Sox stealing the 2004 ALCS from the Yankees. Then the Giants pulled this stunt of spoiling the Patriots' 19-0 season.
Doesn't karma suck?
The Ice Bowl was insane. I wish I could have seen it in person.
People give a lot of s**t to Cowboys fans (not totally undeserved), but we’ve experienced our share of gut-punch moments through the years: Bart Starr’s sneak, Jackie Smith’s drop, Dwight Clark’s Catch, Dez Bryant’s fumble.
No way...as a pat fan...SB42 is number one ...no question
All the other pats fans think SB 51 is better but at the end of the day what I thought would occur occurred no discredit to Brady but I think the problem is Brady was so great that I wasn’t even surprised when the pats won, I never thought the falcons were gonna win, while I never would have thought what happened in SB 42 would happen
Wow, what a beautiful and classic throwing motion Johhny U. had, simply textbook.
My uncle who has been a Miami’s dolphin fan since he was a kid is the offensive coordinator for my Varsity football team
He puts the hook and ladder in the playbook and the head coach doesn’t want to run it.
We run it and score a touchdown and it’s look almost identical to how the dolphins rain it.
I think the old timers get way too much sway in these lists. Super Bowl XLII was already a dozen seasons ago and it’s the most recent game listed by over a quarter century. Super Bowl XLII is more recent, sure, but when it was played George W. Bush was still president.
The list in years looks like:
5.) Super Bowl XLII: 2007 season.
4.) Chargers vs. Dolphins playoff game: 1981.
3.) Ice Bowl: 1967.
2.) Cowboys vs. 49ers NFC Tile game: 1981.
1.) Colts vs. Giants NFL Title game: 1958.
Recency bias should always be acknowledged and tempered, but believing in the total superiority of the ‘good old days,’ is no less flawed. Both the top 5-10 plays and games of the NFL 100 lists skewed way too far in favor of the past.
H L that’s because of influence has well you know right? And acknowledging that greatness behind a game and where our sport would be without that game helps list the games. I personally wouldn’t have comeback games in my list since I don’t find teams blowing each other out entertaining to watch, such as the oilers game or Sb 51, back and forth games bring in newer audiences and help grow the sport as a whole.
I honestly don’t know where the nfl would be without the 58 championship game, and I don’t think there’s an accurate answer.
Not going to lie before I watch the full video I kind of thought the 1958 championship game will be number one and I was apparently right
Number 3 The Ice Bowl True Classic At The Frozen Tundra Of Lambeau Field
The Greatest NFL Game of All Time is the Ice Bowl -- Hands Down..............
We need an nfl films segment on how the 58 game was put in color
The ice bowl- they didn't ssay that Star came up to Lombardi and said to do the play and Lombardi said do it and let's get the hell out of here
George RR Martin was a Jets fan in the previous video and now he's a Giants fan?!?!? What the heck?
He claims to be both
@@VMan29397 Reason #58 to exclude non-sports celebrities from these videos, they come up with nonsense like that.
I loved Giants vs Pat's Game I remember watching that catch omgahh I flipped
this is awesome
The fact that the Giants beating the Patriots is over Sea vs NE and ATL vs NE is crazy to me. Two of the greatest Superbowls of all time Patriots fan or not
Its the fact that the giants were 9-7 going into the playoffs and they beat the 18-0 patriots.
As a Giants fan I am shocked that Sb XLII is above SbIII as SB III the colts were favored by more
Pats get the shaft, SB 49 & 51 were both two of the greatest games ever. You better believe that if a NY team won a superbowl in a 25pt comeback that it would rank #1 of all time
Speaking as someone who is as petty as it gets, can't you enjoy the Super Bowls your team (I'm just assuming you're a Pats fan) won? You have the greatest dynasty in sports that began as a fluke (Mo Lewis hit), continued because of a fluke (Invention of the Tuck Rule), and culminated in two fluke wins (Carroll and Quinn both made god awful decisions that, if I were the owner, I'd have fired them after the game for making).
Your team has six rings from a sixth round pick who was never meant to play in six games that were all decided by one possession or less. Lottery winners don't have that kind of luck. Just appreciate what you have and appreciate this list for what it is: Escapism and a fun time reminiscing through videos.
Nah 52 should have been up there, high scoring game, most yards in a SINGLE football game and most points scored by both teams combined
The Fuzzy Pickle and that’s why it’s not up there, 0 defense was played at all. Football isn’t just about offense, it’s a whole team sport and the 1958 championship game showed that and made football a lot more popular than it originally was.
Andy Bianchi nah those were tainted by massive choking from terrible coaching and poor execution. In 42 the Giants just rose to the occasion practically playing flawlessly as the biggest underdog of all time. They beat the greatest team of all time (18-0) as a (10-6) team without Tiki or Jeremy Shockey who had recently departed/hurt!!!
SB42 (which was a great game) has no business being above SB51.
League is pro-Patriots nerf
Why does it not? Comeback games have a team statistically blowing out the other team throughout the whole game, 42 was a constantly close game as well as had a huge underdog, comeback games are so overrated it’s hilarious.
0:33 that's the girl from the good place🤔
Ice Bowl should have been #2 - Lombardi's Packers most iconic moment. Biased Packers fan here =) However i completely agree with the #1 choice in terms of what it meant for professional football and the effects that it had.
Please, please NFL Network. Show the entire original broadcast of the ICE BOWL.
Also...can someone please help me figure out how that clock works at Yankee stadium cir. 1958? Why is there 14 numbers on it? How is the big hand on 2 and the little hand on 14 add up to 15 seconds? Can anyone make sense of this? 17:35
If we're these days, Eli Manning play would definitely be blown dead
....and had 6 or 7 flags thrown for holding.
Luckiest play in the NFL!
There also would have been 10 penalties for roughing the passer on brady
I remember seeing about 15-20 years before that a defender had one hand grabbing the QB’s ankle. The QB shook out of it and gained some yards, but the referee called “in the grasp” and stopped the play.
I’m still very salty about that play because in any other regular season game that would have been called a sack as he was held in place for like 4 whole seconds, and the giants were clearly holding. If the refs weren’t blind then the pats would have been 19-0.
I think the Giants Vs. Patriots should be higher than just #5. Also, search for the Ice Bowl with Bart Starr's commentary, it makes the game that much more amazing.
Up 24-0 in the playoff and still losing where have I seen that before?