There is something magic about Pat and John!!! You can just feel the electricity!!! I respect the commentators today but football will never be like it was in those days when those guys did the games!!!
90% of the commentator on CBS, NBC,CNN,FOX, NFL Network and NFL Players today are a bunch of clowns. commentators know nothing about football and Most of the Players are a bunch of cry babies trying to be men. Michael Vic & Tom Brady are great examples.
Love how Pepper’s lid pops off and he just keeps flying to the ball carrier.. My goodness those teams were incredible. Just a completely different level of football.
Of course he keeps going. Are you kidding me? Just because you dont have a helmet doesnt mean you cant knock the sh*t out of someone. Top level rugby is absurdly physical and tough men like Peppers live for the violence of collisions.
The late 80s Giants (which spilled over into 1990), are the best goal line defense in NFL history. I don't know of any other team that had so many stands in that period of time.
The genius of Belichick and Parcells with the defense in these playoffs. A 4 man line against the Bears. A 3 man line against the 49ers, and a 2 man line against the Bills. They adapted the defense to each team and allowed 35 points in the 3 games winning SB 2 of 4 in NY history.
@@DD-fm7xb but it was Wade Phillips who improved the 4 2 5 by giving that look then changing to a blitz defense at the last minute. They didn't just slow the Bills down they stopped them. Then Washington a Dallas both did it to the Bills in the next 3 super bowls they were in
@@mm-gl7sz I don't know anyone who says that. Giant fans love Belichick and know what a great coach that he is and how smart that he is. Jet fans probably have sour grapes because he saw how dysfunctional ownership was with the Jets and he bolted for New England. I seem to remember it was Belichick that drafted Brady and it was Belichick who saw the potential in Brady and replaced a first overall pick in Bledsoe when he was ready to return and kept playing Brady. Belichick drafted Brady in the 6th round and he threw 3 passes as a rookie and then replaced an injured Bledsoe and with the coaching of Belichick and his staff they went from 5 wins to 11 wins and a SB.
@@mm-gl7sz Even when BB was with the Browns he was smart to stick with the 4-3, as the Browns' DL was scary good then (MDP, Pleasant, Burnett, Jones), despite being a 3-4 guy with the NYG.
Ditka, Parells, cold weather playoff game in Giant Stadium back in the glory years of both teams w/Madden & Summerall on the broadcast......NOW THAT'S SMASH MOUTH, BUST YO ASS FOOTBALL PEOPLE. For my part, it never gets any better than that.
Best commentating duo to ever do it. Boy I miss those days. And oh yeah, that's when football was football. And on the 4th down stop, you didn't see the over the top crazy celebration after the play.
That 1990 Giants defense was amazing and are sadly underrated. All you ever hear about is Norwood's missed kick in the field goal against them. This was the last hurrah of a great defense. Wish they got more respect.
I think they also had a great defense when they upset the undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl too. Shutting down that offense was even more impressive than slowing down Buffalo in 1990
@@mm-gl7sz , no. I disagree. The Bills had THE most talented roster in the NFL. Even former Giant DE George Martin admitted this. Please remember that only seven days before beating the Bills in the Super Bowl the Giants defeated the 49ers in the NFC CG in Candlestick Park. Please find two more intense successive games played by a team in the playoffs.
The "86" defense gave up 3 points against the Niners and Skins combined over the two playoff games. They were more dominent. The 2007 team was great but not as much in the revised season.
2:30 "you can play in the middle of the field, you know that's for show, this is for dough down here." Great line by Madden I'm surprised he didn't use that more, that would have stuck for decades like NFL means not for long..
I have this game on VHS. "This could be the whole game here Pat. If the Bears dont score it'll be a long day. If they do, we got a heck of a ball game" John Madden was the best!!
Daniel Kelegian "This is Championship Football right here! You could play in the middle of the field all day - that's for show, this is for the DOUGH down here" What a fuckin quote by Madden!
I was at this game. Sitting in the 300 section at the other end of the field. This was not the most talented team ever to win a Super Bowl, but I doubt you'll ever come across a better coached, better prepared and more disciplined team.
Hey if anyone can find the game, my favorite Giants/LT goal line stand was in the 1993 Bears game (season opener) when LT was returning from the torn achilles that ended his '92 season. Taylor had two awesome tackles on the Bears' Craig Heyward (R.I.P.) including one where he came careening down the line with back-end pursuit like it was 1982. He also had 1.5 sacks, and sealed the game with a forced fumble. It was a great return from injury, of course it was LT's final year, and was probably the best game he played all season.
Pat and John made up the Premier team of football announcing. Pat, a man of few but extremely relevant words. No blather, just facts, and John - the live wire of color commentary, laced with knowledge... You will probably never see a duo like that again, and we are poorer for it. Thank You, gentlemen. Rest in Peace...
The greatest era in football! So much substance to enjoy, now you’ve got these “sport dork”media personalities that pays more attention to drama than the product itself!
@@ephraimfink9010, forget ‘Pro Bowl’ year. In 1990 Pepper Johnson was voted unanimous First Team All-Pro as the best interior linebacker in the entire NFL. Parcells said Pepper was the Giants’ best defender in 1990.
The man who made the play, John Washington was brought in from the bench along with Mike Fox for that fourth down by Parcells (or Belicheck). Look at that defensive front by the Giants...they had SIX interior lineman types for that fourth down. You simply don't see packages like that anymore in today's NFL. No ends or speed types, besides Banks and LT, but they were linebackers. Looked like: Marshall Dorsey Howard Fox Washington
This was my first Giants game I was in attendance, the hit John Washington laid I could hear from the 50 yard line, I think the whole stadium heard it.
+Ivan Izell The 85 Bears would have hammered the 86 Giants. The Bears owned the Giants in the 1980s. They also dominated the Giants in the 1987 season opener. The 1990 bears were a watered down version without many of the 1985 team.
+JStu Player both teams dominated on defense but, the giants 86 off. was better than the 85 bears off...........Giants would have won....... n not by a blowout.
Joe montana beat the crap outta bears at thier homefield 86 87 playoff, then 49ers got killed by the giants 43-3 the following week, what makes u think if the 86 bears wouLd have faced 86 giants 86 giants would kill them bears still
+Chris Bano Lawrence Taylor didn't need the 46 defense to be a beast on the Football field. He did that naturally. Plus the Bears were always awful on offense. Why you think the defense was so good for the Bears?? McMahon throwing for only 15 touchdowns a year.
As a Bears fan it was bittersweet because it was Dan Hampton's last game, but it was the Giants' turn to win and they got their revenge for the 21-0 whopping they got from Chicago in 1985. However, I was glad it was the Giants and not the 49ers that defeated the Bears.
In this clip I've seen Parcells Billechick Ditka and Ryan. All were really good defense minds in the 80s and 90s. NTM the legendary Madden and Summeral. Classic stuff here.
Shoe Play Queen you didn't see Ryan in this clip. He was head coach of the Eagles in 1990. Vince Tobin was defensive coordinator for the Bears in 1990.
That second down throw that missed a wide open Brad Muster by ten yards is a perfect representation of what bears fans have been going through at the quarterback position for over 50 years. It is insane. And now the era of trading two third round picks and a fourth round pick to move up one slot to draft the worst available quarterback, Mitch Trubisky. The pain never stops.
The year before the Giants shit the bed at home in the divisional round vs the Rams. I don’t think Madden and Summerall mentioned it once during this game. Now it would probably be mentioned at least 5 times during a playoff game
1 of my favorite plays of all time--the 4th down stop-- still get massive goosebumps, still remember as watched it live with Peppers helmet flying off, Pat and John getting excited, crowd going crazy,and a group of us watching went crazy... Was so glad Ditka did the right thing and went for it!( Unlike Madden's opinion) I also wanted Bears to go for it so that Giants wud have the chance for a shutout -- revenge for getting shut out in 1985 by the bears in the playoffs...but Bears did get a FG soon after this after Giants went 3 and out from the goal line
These are/were my Giants!! These are the men on defence that made me love football forever!! Banks, Taylor, Carsons, Reasons, Marshall. and others too numerous to mention!!!! "Lunchpail " offensive line too!!!
Joseph Gibbons without a doubt. Back then third and up to I’d say FOUR was considered a “running down”. Now third and TWO or even ONE is a passing down! I really dont like the way the game is played now with all the spread offenses and two point stance linemen. The fullback basically no longer exists. Iso’s, leads, sweeps, counter tre’s and dives have been replaced by the stupid bubble. Hate it, but as someone who coaches I have to do my best to keep up and evolve if I want to keep my job. I guess thats just the way it goes 🤷♂️
"I tell ya, this is football, this is CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL...you can play in the middle of the field...you know that's for show, this is for DOUGH down here. This is what it's all about." "Pepper Johnson hit him so hard he knocked his helmet right off his head...and then he kept playin'. Did you see that? You see Pepper there?" JOHN MADDEN WAS THE BEST COMMENTATOR EVER!! I MISS LISTENING TO HIS MADDEN-ISMS ON THE AIR" There will NEVER be another JOHN MADDEN!
Maybe it was just me but the Giants D this year seemed super focused after the Flipper Anderson game the year before. Played the great 49ers twice in SF held them to 20 point total, 2 TD 2 FG. Everyone Walls might be the best free agent pickup in Giants history. Belichick had to convince the D to let Thurman Thomas run all over them in the Super Bowl but other than that it seemed like he didn't have to do much coaching that year, the players knew the task at hand
That Giants defense from the 1980s into the 1990s, was and is, a top three defense in NFL history. Defense wins games, and that is why the Giants have to this day, four Lombardi trophies.
Those were the days. The entire crowd into the game. Now you have idiots sitting in $1000 seats and they're looking at their damn phone the whole time.
This is Football - this is Championship Football right here. You can play in the middle of the field, thats for show, but down here this is for DOUGH right here! What a comment! With 80,0000 screaming New Yorkers in the background on a cold, windy day on hard turf. Just a totally different time back then.
I remember the Sports Illustrated story on this game, it had a picture of Pepper Johnson's helmet flying off and was titled, "Helmets a Poppin"; I think the Giants ended up winning something like 28-3; I always considered this game the end of the Bears dominant 80s run.😔
One of belichick's main areas of genius was the practice of the red zone D over and over and over. Some of his weaker Patriot defenses gave up chunks of yards but then when the Red zone was reached, they turned into the 85 Bears
It really does make you wonder what would have happened if they kicked the FG. Madden was right, the game was over after that stop. Game plan changes when only down one score.
John Madden and Pat Summerall said the Bears should have gone for the field goal. Today, they would say u should go for it. Analytics has changed the NFL.
These videos are great. I've subscribed to this channel months ago. Keep up the good work... Any chance U can do newer Giants games? ELI/Cruz/JPP era ??
3:03 a fan that looks like Cheers George Wendt from his SNL’ “Da Bears” character giving the FU arm gesture. I watched this game back then & was concerned if Ditka was going to put in Refrigerator Perry to lead block for Neal Anderson. Rather Ditka chose to do the unthinkable & lead block with Anderson & run it with fb Muster. Those are the calls that get a HC fired. Horrible play calling. Horrible HC. Ditka underestimated GMEN.
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I miss hearing Pat and Johns voice for games. Snow outside, fireplace going while watching football!
AMEN! The best duo ever 💯
The golden age of football for us giants fans
Tossing the rock in the backyard during halftime.
Life was better then. Yeah those guys epitomized a different era
Who's cutting onions in here?
These are the Giants I grew up with. Legendary defense.
There is something magic about Pat and John!!! You can just feel the electricity!!! I respect the commentators today but football will never be like it was in those days when those guys did the games!!!
***** AGREED!!!!
There was also something magic about the Giants defense back then too.
loved both. Summerall such gravitas, Madden had the gift.
90% of the commentator on CBS, NBC,CNN,FOX, NFL Network and NFL Players today are a bunch of clowns. commentators know nothing about football and Most of the Players are a bunch of cry babies trying to be men.
Michael Vic & Tom Brady are great examples.
I look at these old games today and still get goosebumps
Love how Pepper’s lid pops off and he just keeps flying to the ball carrier.. My goodness those teams were incredible. Just a completely different level of football.
Of course he keeps going. Are you kidding me? Just because you dont have a helmet doesnt mean you cant knock the sh*t out of someone. Top level rugby is absurdly physical and tough men like Peppers live for the violence of collisions.
The late 80s Giants (which spilled over into 1990), are the best goal line defense in NFL history. I don't know of any other team that had so many stands in that period of time.
Can't argue with that.
Agreed
Damn straight. As a Packers fan, the Giants with Summerall and Madden were fun to watch.
Say it again!!!! 💯💯
I’d say the best defense too. Obviously the bears are right there too
The genius of Belichick and Parcells with the defense in these playoffs. A 4 man line against the Bears. A 3 man line against the 49ers, and a 2 man line against the Bills.
They adapted the defense to each team and allowed 35 points in the 3 games winning SB 2 of 4 in NY history.
I remember screaming when I saw that 2 man line against Buffalo lol...Belichick is a defensive genius !!
@@DD-fm7xb but it was Wade Phillips who improved the 4 2 5 by giving that look then changing to a blitz defense at the last minute. They didn't just slow the Bills down they stopped them. Then Washington a Dallas both did it to the Bills in the next 3 super bowls they were in
Now New Yorkers don't call Belichick a genius they call him a cheater. He seems ordinary without Brady.
@@mm-gl7sz I don't know anyone who says that. Giant fans love Belichick and know what a great coach that he is and how smart that he is. Jet fans probably have sour grapes because he saw how dysfunctional ownership was with the Jets and he bolted for New England. I seem to remember it was Belichick that drafted Brady and it was Belichick who saw the potential in Brady and replaced a first overall pick in Bledsoe when he was ready to return and kept playing Brady.
Belichick drafted Brady in the 6th round and he threw 3 passes as a rookie and then replaced an injured Bledsoe and with the coaching of Belichick and his staff they went from 5 wins to 11 wins and a SB.
@@mm-gl7sz Even when BB was with the Browns he was smart to stick with the 4-3, as the Browns' DL was scary good then (MDP, Pleasant, Burnett, Jones), despite being a 3-4 guy with the NYG.
Ditka, Parells, cold weather playoff game in Giant Stadium back in the glory years of both teams w/Madden & Summerall on the broadcast......NOW THAT'S SMASH MOUTH, BUST YO ASS FOOTBALL PEOPLE. For my part, it never gets any better than that.
It would only be better with real grass.
@@billrogan9350 More brutal with the artificial turf.
Best commentating duo to ever do it. Boy I miss those days. And oh yeah, that's when football was football. And on the 4th down stop, you didn't see the over the top crazy celebration after the play.
That 1990 Giants defense was amazing and are sadly underrated. All you ever hear about is Norwood's missed kick in the field goal against them. This was the last hurrah of a great defense. Wish they got more respect.
Mike Murdock they were great indeed and I am a Cowboys fan. I do think they were even better in 86.
I think they also had a great defense when they upset the undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl too. Shutting down that offense was even more impressive than slowing down Buffalo in 1990
@@mm-gl7sz , no. I disagree. The Bills had THE most talented roster in the NFL. Even former Giant DE George Martin admitted this. Please remember that only seven days before beating the Bills in the Super Bowl the Giants defeated the 49ers in the NFC CG in Candlestick Park. Please find two more intense successive games played by a team in the playoffs.
Statistically the 1990 Giants were better than the 1986 squad. As well they should. The 1990 squad went 10-0 before losing their first game.
The "86" defense gave up 3 points against the Niners and Skins combined over the two playoff games. They were more dominent. The 2007 team was great but not as much in the revised season.
2:30 "you can play in the middle of the field, you know that's for show, this is for dough down here."
Great line by Madden I'm surprised he didn't use that more, that would have stuck for decades like NFL means not for long..
Yep...Ditka should taken the 3pts...might not have changed the end result but wouldve had a different game at that pt
Gary Reasons one of my all-time favorite Giants.
Frank08046 remember the hit in Denver December 4 1989
@@joeferaco9896 LOL. Denver didn't score because Reasons.
Gary Reasons on the fake punt in SF killer!
They all made each other better: Carson, Banks, P.Johnson and some guy from North Carolina, #56-something.
Had incredible timing when he picked off a pass, too.
I have this game on VHS.
"This could be the whole game here Pat. If the Bears dont score it'll be a long day. If they do, we got a heck of a ball game"
John Madden was the best!!
I hate to ask but is there any chance you could put that game on RUclips for us you ger Giant fans?
Daniel Kelegian and the Bears ended up getting blown out by about 30 in this game. #Truth!
Daniel Kelegian "This is Championship Football right here! You could play in the middle of the field all day - that's for show, this is for the DOUGH down here"
What a fuckin quote by Madden!
That quote still gives me goosebumps
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Bears / Giants: two of the toughest coaches, toughest teams, toughest defenses. Classic smash-mouth football.
AWESOME!!
80s and 90s the best eras of football. Today's game is junk compared to those times.
Agreed,todays game is a shell of it old self and the players are pussified watered down narcissistic egomaniacs
When the Giants had men on Defense
1990 SB champs baby.
I was at this game. Sitting in the 300 section at the other end of the field. This was not the most talented team ever to win a Super Bowl, but I doubt you'll ever come across a better coached, better prepared and more disciplined team.
This is true old style football with number one announcers Pat and John....miss those days.😎👍
...not to mention TECMO BOWL.😀
LOL.....Bo Jackson was unstoppable : )
Bavaro had the “force field” crossing pattern that was unstoppable.
People forget but Neal Anderson was unstoppable, too in that game.
Hey if anyone can find the game, my favorite Giants/LT goal line stand was in the 1993 Bears game (season opener) when LT was returning from the torn achilles that ended his '92 season. Taylor had two awesome tackles on the Bears' Craig Heyward (R.I.P.) including one where he came careening down the line with back-end pursuit like it was 1982. He also had 1.5 sacks, and sealed the game with a forced fumble. It was a great return from injury, of course it was LT's final year, and was probably the best game he played all season.
Madden and Summerall with the call on some all time classic Giants Football. Avenging 1985 with the Hoss at QB.
Pat and John made up the Premier team of football announcing.
Pat, a man of few but extremely relevant words. No blather, just facts, and John - the live wire of color commentary, laced with knowledge...
You will probably never see a duo like that again, and we are poorer for it.
Thank You, gentlemen. Rest in Peace...
I was at this one. This was a great game.
I WAS A 6TH GRADER BACK THEN. I REMEMBER THAT GOALINE STAND!!!!!! PURO PINCHE NEW YORK GIANTS!!!!!! 😥💖👑💯
Time travel thank you for taking me back home with my dad watching this with mom cooking and our woodstove honlin. RIP to my dad. Thank you.
The greatest era in football! So much substance to enjoy, now you’ve got these “sport dork”media personalities that pays more attention to drama than the product itself!
Mad respect for Pepper Johnson for taking on that vicious block and still getting in on the tackle
That's why Parcells and Belichick loved him
Not happy respect?
Great 1990 pro bowl year for him; thought there would be many more.....
@@ephraimfink9010, forget ‘Pro Bowl’ year. In 1990 Pepper Johnson was voted unanimous First Team All-Pro as the best interior linebacker in the entire NFL. Parcells said Pepper was the Giants’ best defender in 1990.
Love those old Giants uniforms
The man who made the play, John Washington was brought in from the bench along with Mike Fox for that fourth down by Parcells (or Belicheck).
Look at that defensive front by the Giants...they had SIX interior lineman types for that fourth down. You simply don't see packages like that anymore in today's NFL. No ends or speed types, besides Banks and LT, but they were linebackers. Looked like:
Marshall
Dorsey
Howard
Fox
Washington
Ok they actually had Banks as the weakside end in a 3 point stance. Marshall switched with him to the tight end/strong side.
Either way a lot of beef up front! Thanks for uploading John Smith! Subsribed!
This was my first Giants game I was in attendance, the hit John Washington laid I could hear from the 50 yard line, I think the whole stadium heard it.
Them voices of pat and John are legendary to me. Today is cool but they were cooler more exciting to me
I wish the 86 Giants could play the 85 Bears! And Pat and John do the announcing of course
+Ivan Izell The 85 Bears would have hammered the 86 Giants. The Bears owned the Giants in the 1980s. They also dominated the Giants in the 1987 season opener. The 1990 bears were a watered down version without many of the 1985 team.
+JStu Player both teams dominated on defense but, the giants 86 off. was better than the 85 bears off...........Giants would have won....... n not by a blowout.
+Ivan Izell The Giants and Bears played to open the 1987 on MNF. That is as close to 86 Giants facing the 1985 Bears you could get.
Joe montana beat the crap outta bears at thier homefield 86 87 playoff, then 49ers got killed by the giants 43-3 the following week, what makes u think if the 86 bears wouLd have faced 86 giants
86 giants would kill them bears still
+Chris Bano Lawrence Taylor didn't need the 46 defense to be a beast on the Football field. He did that naturally. Plus the Bears were always awful on offense. Why you think the defense was so good for the Bears?? McMahon throwing for only 15 touchdowns a year.
As a Bears fan it was bittersweet because it was Dan Hampton's last game, but it was the Giants' turn to win and they got their revenge for the 21-0 whopping they got from Chicago in 1985. However, I was glad it was the Giants and not the 49ers that defeated the Bears.
well if it wasnt for slob carpenters fumble,different game
This is when the Giants defensive line and linebackers were the real deal, their linebackers crew were the best in the NFL
Best...EVER
The Giants 1990 secondary is underrated. Collins, Williams, Jackson, Guyton and throw in Everson Walls for good measure too. LOL!!
Summerall was TREMENDOUS
Love the "salute" from the fan....thanks for posting.
God I miss those days!
I have been a giants fan for 45 of 51 yrs.
In this clip I've seen Parcells Billechick Ditka and Ryan. All were really good defense minds in the 80s and 90s. NTM the legendary Madden and Summeral. Classic stuff here.
Shoe Play Queen you didn't see Ryan in this clip. He was head coach of the Eagles in 1990. Vince Tobin was defensive coordinator for the Bears in 1990.
Ryan’s was long gone fired by the Eagles
When the Giants were GIANTS!
This was a true NY Giant football team.
This was when you could hear and feel the energy of the crowd! I miss the old Giant's stadium and those great defenses!!
Dave Meggett on the sidelines...bad lil dude
Bad literally. He doing time as we speak. Football numbers
The voices of pat and John they were the GOAT!
That second down throw that missed a wide open Brad Muster by ten yards is a perfect representation of what bears fans have been going through at the quarterback position for over 50 years. It is insane. And now the era of trading two third round picks and a fourth round pick to move up one slot to draft the worst available quarterback, Mitch Trubisky. The pain never stops.
The year before the Giants shit the bed at home in the divisional round vs the Rams. I don’t think Madden and Summerall mentioned it once during this game. Now it would probably be mentioned at least 5 times during a playoff game
@3:28 DE John Washington did a great job using his arms to keep the offensive lineman from getting to his legs.
That was awesome.
Loved that D in 1990
Damn... the whole league had sooo much character. Soooo much fun man...And that Giants defense was there EVER a better one??
Good job, Pepper!
Remember watching this game after that play it was all downhill for the bears final 31 -3 giants
1 of my favorite plays of all time--the 4th down stop-- still get massive goosebumps, still remember as watched it live with Peppers helmet flying off, Pat and John getting excited, crowd going crazy,and a group of us watching went crazy...
Was so glad Ditka did the right thing and went for it!( Unlike Madden's opinion)
I also wanted Bears to go for it so that Giants wud have the chance for a shutout -- revenge for getting shut out in 1985 by the bears in the playoffs...but Bears did get a FG soon after this after Giants went 3 and out from the goal line
These are/were my Giants!! These are the men on defence that made me love football forever!! Banks, Taylor, Carsons, Reasons, Marshall. and others too numerous to mention!!!! "Lunchpail " offensive line too!!!
The REAL NFL on CBS, the NFC version. I wish CBS can get the NFC package back ASAP.
I recall that game. The bears never had a chance that day. That may have been Ditka’s last real shot at a title.
The Big Blue Wrecking Crew!
Back when teams played Defense....now the rules favor the passing game. This was a better brand of football.
Joseph Gibbons without a doubt. Back then third and up to I’d say FOUR was considered a “running down”.
Now third and TWO or even ONE is a passing down!
I really dont like the way the game is played now with all the spread offenses and two point stance linemen. The fullback basically no longer exists. Iso’s, leads, sweeps, counter tre’s and dives have been replaced by the stupid bubble.
Hate it, but as someone who coaches I have to do my best to keep up and evolve if I want to keep my job. I guess thats just the way it goes 🤷♂️
"I tell ya, this is football, this is CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL...you can play in the middle of the field...you know that's for show, this is for DOUGH down here. This is what it's all about." "Pepper Johnson hit him so hard he knocked his helmet right off his head...and then he kept playin'. Did you see that? You see Pepper there?" JOHN MADDEN WAS THE BEST COMMENTATOR EVER!! I MISS LISTENING TO HIS MADDEN-ISMS ON THE AIR" There will NEVER be another JOHN MADDEN!
Do you recall his love of Mark Bavaro?? Gronk owes it to HIM. Ask Bilachick...
Bears struggling offensively. Some things never change!
Best broadcast team ever!
Thanks, put some more giants videos
love the fan reaction @3:03
Maybe it was just me but the Giants D this year seemed super focused after the Flipper Anderson game the year before. Played the great 49ers twice in SF held them to 20 point total, 2 TD 2 FG. Everyone Walls might be the best free agent pickup in Giants history. Belichick had to convince the D to let Thurman Thomas run all over them in the Super Bowl but other than that it seemed like he didn't have to do much coaching that year, the players knew the task at hand
One of the greatest single season teams and defenses in NFL history. Very underrated.
3:03 ... fan wearing technicolor '90s jacket.
Guess you found out just who was wearing the jacket that day.
@@dangoldstein3480 I had that exact same jacket at that time!! LOL!!
That Giants defense from the 1980s into the 1990s, was and is, a top three defense in NFL history. Defense wins games, and that is why the Giants have to this day, four Lombardi trophies.
3:04 Lenard Marshall's haircut. The best. Need to bring that back. Lol
Madden was right. It got VERY ugly for the Bears after that. Lost 31-3 lol.
V6G4 beginning the end for Mike Ditka. Most say it was the loss to the 49ers in the 88 NFC Championship but it was this one.
Davan Mani I was thinking the same thing.0/2 on 4th down. This play sealed his fate in the 1991 season.
@@davanmani556 I was thinking the Strike of 1987.
@@davanmani556 Jim McMahon getting body slammed in 1986
Gosh I miss these Giant uniforms. :-(
MONSTER DEFENSE! Pepper lost his helmet baby!!
It’s sad that in 2022 all we have as Giants fans are games from 10,20 or 30 years ago to enjoy.
That third down draw was a good call that almost worked. Almost holds no weight in championship games however
Those were the days. The entire crowd into the game. Now you have idiots sitting in $1000 seats and they're looking at their damn phone the whole time.
Football was so much of a better game back in the 80's & 90's.
Omg this was great
In fairness, Tomczak blew the TD on 2nd down. Still, great goaline "D". Reminds me of the Reasons hit in Denver!
I was at this game. For January in NJ it was 63 degrees.
When announcers let the game's drama speak for itself.
I remember watching this game. The Bears knew they made a big mistake going 4 it on 4th down. The Giants defensive squad was great
This is Football - this is Championship Football right here.
You can play in the middle of the field, thats for show, but down here this is for DOUGH right here!
What a comment! With 80,0000 screaming New Yorkers in the background on a cold, windy day on hard turf. Just a totally different time back then.
Great play call on 2nd down. He has Muster all alone and the pressure forces a bad throw.
Pepper was 🌶 spicy !
thanks Mr. Summerall, Mr. Madden.
Giants thoroughly dominated this game signaling the end of the Ditka Bears
I remember the Sports Illustrated story on this game, it had a picture of Pepper Johnson's helmet flying off and was titled, "Helmets a Poppin"; I think the Giants ended up winning something like 28-3; I always considered this game the end of the Bears dominant 80s run.😔
One of belichick's main areas of genius was the practice of the red zone D over and over and over. Some of his weaker Patriot defenses gave up chunks of yards but then when the Red zone was reached, they turned into the 85 Bears
It really does make you wonder what would have happened if they kicked the FG. Madden was right, the game was over after that stop. Game plan changes when only down one score.
Great defenses in the NFC East back then....the East dominated the NFL for a good stretch there in the 80s and early 90s.
John Madden and Pat Summerall said the Bears should have gone for the field goal. Today, they would say u should go for it. Analytics has changed the NFL.
Why u say "ruined?"
@M W how?
Amazed that the great Lawrence Taylor name was not spoken at all.
Pepper!
Torgo1969 yes!! The lead fullback actually cleaned his clock with a great lead block and knocked his helmet off! Pepper took the shot and kept coming!
These videos are great. I've subscribed to this channel months ago. Keep up the good work... Any chance U can do newer Giants games? ELI/Cruz/JPP era ??
3:03 a fan that looks like Cheers George Wendt from his SNL’ “Da Bears” character giving the FU arm gesture.
I watched this game back then & was concerned if Ditka was going to put in Refrigerator Perry to lead block for Neal Anderson. Rather Ditka chose to do the unthinkable & lead block with Anderson & run it with fb Muster. Those are the calls that get a HC fired. Horrible play calling. Horrible HC. Ditka underestimated GMEN.
The Chicago Bears held the 2nd best rushing attack in the nfl,
The Giants were not impressed
TREMEEEEEEENDOUS !!;
Ditka made the right call...Field Goals lose playoff games, touchdowns win them
Yup. TD play to win. Field goal play not to lose.
I understand that part, but on fourth down at the one, you have to come up with a better play than a vanilla run up the middle.
Great those years were .
Damn Dicka where can I find one of those bears leather joints?
Nobody could play better goalline defense then Parcells’ Giants.
NY GIANTS BABY
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