The drama the packers have given us the last few decades- this drive, record breaking ints in playoffs, 4th and 26, will he leave and he stays again, Fail Mary, the meltdown of 2015 ( that I’m clearly have recovered from since I’m able to think it and type it) - all of this, and the triumphs never linger as long or strong. I think if the 2010 SB run and it’s hardly provokes any feeling, but I think of 4th and 26 and I can’t fall asleep.
@Audrey You need a little perspective then... I hand out thousands every year for tickets and I remember the SB Wins more than I do 4th and 26 or Bostic.
I had never seen this and it is just crazy. Rice just gets up and walks back like the consummate vet he was and doesn't give any indication he screwed up.
WHAT are you talking about? How does that ONE call somehow result in FOUR...4 MORE Super Bowls? They're going to the NFCCG vs ATL and then if they win, playing the same Broncos team that beat them with a big chunk of their DL gone.
@@scourge8097 I'm talking about if the Packers moved on and POSSIBLY won the SB, Holmgren would have stayed another year, Ron Wolf retires (as he did the following year), Holmgren would then become GM and HC for years to come. Do you remember the Ray Rhodes disaster? Mike Sherman's pussy calls in the playoffs? Don't you think the Packers, and especially Favre, would have succeeded more with Holmgren? This loss solidified his going to Seattle.
@Randy Pagel You're making about 9 illogical jumps there. 1-No, don't remember Sherman's "pussy calls," in the playoffs. That's incredible revisionist History. Favre threw the ball away. I remember the Philly game. I remember rushing for ~240 yards...I remember 1st and 10 Favre throwing the ball about 15 yards away from ANY WRer in a Packers uniform and Brian Dawkins picking it off in OT and bringing it back to near FG range. Favre throwing 6 picks, 3 for TDs and one inside the 5 when our defense was playing great vs the "Greatest show on turf." The Giants game in OT...just as Favre did with the Vikings. I'm also not sure how you make these jumps to Holmgren suddenly staying or why you think we're beating Minnesota that year when they beat us soundly twice with Favre throwing for 0 INTs and 3 Picks week 12(and that's if they get past ATL in the Divisional Rd). The "pussy call," was...what? Punting on 4th and 1 vs Philly? They also went for it twice on 4th and 1 vs Philly early in the game and didn't convert. And THEN they had them in 4th and 26. What do you think Holmgren does to prevent that? Either way, this is beyond silly. FOUR more SBs if they call the Rice fumble is...silly. You have like 15 different things happening that just didn't come close to the real world. And in this scenario...assuming Holmgren, who's already decided to leave by then, if he stays, they drafting Rodgers? The problem wasn't Sherman as a coach, it was Sherman as a GM, and Holmgren was no great GM himself. So all of it is just WAAAY too far out there...
This also saved Steve Young from becoming the first QB in NFL history to lose 4 times in the playoffs to a single opponent. If the right call had been made, Aaron Rodgers would be the 2nd QB to do that.
I remember having to work a shift at a record store that day. I taped the game doing everything I could to avoid spoilers to no avail. I remember the 49ers seemed so snake bitten against Favre. When I finally saw the game and the Rice fumble, I thought, "I knew there had to be something to it for them to finally beat the Packers". Would the Packers have beaten the Dirty Birds? Maybe. I think they would've had a tough time against the 15-1 Vikings who swept them. However, I had thought all season that the Broncos were destined to repeat. TD and them seemed unstoppable that year.
In the refs defense, he had a bad angle to see the play. Clear fumble but from where he was coming from in calling that Rice was down, it's obvious he couldn't see.
Let us not forget that in their previous meetings, the Packers got away with MULTIPLE bad calls by the officials. Here are three of them to help refresh your memory. In the NFC Championship Game the previous year between the Packers and 49ers, the dummy Eugene Robinson pushed Brent Jones before he made his interception and returned it 58 yards. Later on before halftime the officials cost the 49ers a TD catch by J.J. Stokes when they ruled he was out of bounds. If you take another look, you see he had one foot already in bounds before being PUSHED out by the Packer defender. In the NFL this is a TOUCHDOWN!!!! Later on in that same game, Gary Plummer #50 recovered a fumble by William Henderson. Clearly Henderson had full possession of the ball and Plummer had a clear path to the end zone, yet the stupid referees ruled it was an incomplete pass. Everyone makes a big deal out of the Jerry Rice fumble. Study the facts, folks!!! Glad the Niners WON THAT GAME ON January 3, 1999 and hopefully Packer fans will get it through their heads that their team are full of CHEATER-HEADS, not CHEESEHEADS!!!! Go Niners!!!!
Don't forget the Don Beebee play on MNF. The ball SKIPPED OFF THE GROUND into Beebee, then Marquez Pope got a hand on him, making him down. Beebee gets up and runs into the end zone for a TD. The refs missed the incomplete pass and him being touched down. No 49ers fan who saw it has forgotten it. Packers fans can cry me a river.
@@christopherhughes9787EXACTLY. 49ers win that game in 1996….they win the division over Carolina….Steve Young doesn’t injure his ribs in a wild card game they should not have played and they have home field throughout. Go to hell Packer fans!
Awful call!! the Packers had a good team this year and had they won this game which we all know they should have. I think the Packers would’ve won the Super Bowl in this year!
No Packer fan has forgotten this.
I agree
Very well explained and laid out!
This one and the 2012 MNF called TD (INT) against Seattle will live with me as long as I live. Just inexplicable.
The drama the packers have given us the last few decades- this drive, record breaking ints in playoffs, 4th and 26, will he leave and he stays again, Fail Mary, the meltdown of 2015 ( that I’m clearly have recovered from since I’m able to think it and type it) - all of this, and the triumphs never linger as long or strong. I think if the 2010 SB run and it’s hardly provokes any feeling, but I think of 4th and 26 and I can’t fall asleep.
@Audrey You need a little perspective then...
I hand out thousands every year for tickets and I remember the SB Wins more than I do 4th and 26 or Bostic.
I had never seen this and it is just crazy. Rice just gets up and walks back like the consummate vet he was and doesn't give any indication he screwed up.
His face is so guilty though when he's just standing there after the timeout
@@serpent2776 True. He definitely knew. Out of everyone there he knew the best.
I rember this more than the catch, Jerrys confident strut made nobody question it 😂😂😂
That’s the 4-1 Brett vs niners that 1 with an asterisk next to it lol.
Jerry Rice fumbled the ball...Packers recover, game over.
Niner lost against the falcons anyways. Packers would've probably done better and maybe got the ring that year
Hahaha way to make up an entire alternate history.
WHAT are you talking about? How does that ONE call somehow result in FOUR...4 MORE Super Bowls?
They're going to the NFCCG vs ATL and then if they win, playing the same Broncos team that beat them with a big chunk of their DL gone.
@@scourge8097 I'm talking about if the Packers moved on and POSSIBLY won the SB, Holmgren would have stayed another year, Ron Wolf retires (as he did the following year), Holmgren would then become GM and HC for years to come. Do you remember the Ray Rhodes disaster? Mike Sherman's pussy calls in the playoffs? Don't you think the Packers, and especially Favre, would have succeeded more with Holmgren? This loss solidified his going to Seattle.
@Randy Pagel You're making about 9 illogical jumps there.
1-No, don't remember Sherman's "pussy calls," in the playoffs. That's incredible revisionist History. Favre threw the ball away.
I remember the Philly game. I remember rushing for ~240 yards...I remember 1st and 10 Favre throwing the ball about 15 yards away from ANY WRer in a Packers uniform and Brian Dawkins picking it off in OT and bringing it back to near FG range.
Favre throwing 6 picks, 3 for TDs and one inside the 5 when our defense was playing great vs the "Greatest show on turf."
The Giants game in OT...just as Favre did with the Vikings.
I'm also not sure how you make these jumps to Holmgren suddenly staying or why you think we're beating Minnesota that year when they beat us soundly twice with Favre throwing for 0 INTs and 3 Picks week 12(and that's if they get past ATL in the Divisional Rd).
The "pussy call," was...what? Punting on 4th and 1 vs Philly? They also went for it twice on 4th and 1 vs Philly early in the game and didn't convert.
And THEN they had them in 4th and 26. What do you think Holmgren does to prevent that?
Either way, this is beyond silly. FOUR more SBs if they call the Rice fumble is...silly.
You have like 15 different things happening that just didn't come close to the real world.
And in this scenario...assuming Holmgren, who's already decided to leave by then, if he stays, they drafting Rodgers?
The problem wasn't Sherman as a coach, it was Sherman as a GM, and Holmgren was no great GM himself.
So all of it is just WAAAY too far out there...
That’s crazy that they even called time out lol
Oh I haven’t forgotten it
Also recall GB CB Craig Newsome’s opportunity to snag what would have been SF QB Steve Young’s 3rd interception as pivotal on this drive.
Very clear fumble.
This also saved Steve Young from becoming the first QB in NFL history to lose 4 times in the playoffs to a single opponent. If the right call had been made, Aaron Rodgers would be the 2nd QB to do that.
Thankfully not, bc as it turns out, AR is a total dbag.
My all time favorite put that thing on the ground, but got off the ground with confidence as if he didn't.
I remember having to work a shift at a record store that day. I taped the game doing everything I could to avoid spoilers to no avail. I remember the 49ers seemed so snake bitten against Favre. When I finally saw the game and the Rice fumble, I thought, "I knew there had to be something to it for them to finally beat the Packers".
Would the Packers have beaten the Dirty Birds? Maybe. I think they would've had a tough time against the 15-1 Vikings who swept them. However, I had thought all season that the Broncos were destined to repeat. TD and them seemed unstoppable that year.
That play basically ended the Mike Holmgren era in Green Bay, as he left for Seattle.
In the refs defense, he had a bad angle to see the play. Clear fumble but from where he was coming from in calling that Rice was down, it's obvious he couldn't see.
Instant replay wasn't added it was reinstated
That Packers defense had to be stout to hold Steve and those receivers to 147 yards
Let us not forget that in their previous meetings, the Packers got away with MULTIPLE bad calls by the officials. Here are three of them to help refresh your memory. In the NFC Championship Game the previous year between the Packers and 49ers, the dummy Eugene Robinson pushed Brent Jones before he made his interception and returned it 58 yards. Later on before halftime the officials cost the 49ers a TD catch by J.J. Stokes when they ruled he was out of bounds. If you take another look, you see he had one foot already in bounds before being PUSHED out by the Packer defender. In the NFL this is a TOUCHDOWN!!!! Later on in that same game, Gary Plummer #50 recovered a fumble by William Henderson. Clearly Henderson had full possession of the ball and Plummer had a clear path to the end zone, yet the stupid referees ruled it was an incomplete pass. Everyone makes a big deal out of the Jerry Rice fumble. Study the facts, folks!!! Glad the Niners WON THAT GAME ON January 3, 1999 and hopefully Packer fans will get it through their heads that their team are full of CHEATER-HEADS, not CHEESEHEADS!!!! Go Niners!!!!
Don't forget the Don Beebee play on MNF. The ball SKIPPED OFF THE GROUND into Beebee, then Marquez Pope got a hand on him, making him down. Beebee gets up and runs into the end zone for a TD. The refs missed the incomplete pass and him being touched down. No 49ers fan who saw it has forgotten it. Packers fans can cry me a river.
@@christopherhughes9787 I agree, referees are DUMB AS HELL!
@@christopherhughes9787EXACTLY. 49ers win that game in 1996….they win the division over Carolina….Steve Young doesn’t injure his ribs in a wild card game they should not have played and they have home field throughout. Go to hell Packer fans!
Die hard 49er fan and I have to admit.. that was clearly a fumble. What’s not so clear to me is why the Packers made no claim for one
They didn't have instant replay that year. There was no coach challenge allowed.
there was a whistle before the ball was out
@@jlaudiofan1984 not possible
@@jlaudiofan1984no, there was not.
Here's a forgotten play for the Packers: Don Beebe, Monday Night Football. Cry me a river.
Packers fan can go to hell
Let’s see it. Link please
FTV
I’m still mad and now you have to pay to watch the nfl playoffs
Bret owned the tekashi69ers....
His knee hit the ground first clearly
This game made me so mad
Hahaha I'm just here for the mad Packers fans comments
Drunk Favre
Awful call!! the Packers had a good team this year and had they won this game which we all know they should have. I think the Packers would’ve won the Super Bowl in this year!