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apparently since the quarterback doesn't matter in the NFL, I'd have to say no. The Giants beat the 49ers then beat the Bills in the Superbowl. Therefore, the Bills>9ers.
1990
Monday Night Football
(10-1) Giants: 3
(10-1) 49ers: 7
NFC le Game
(14-3) Giants: 15
(15-2) 49ers: 13
Two of the hardest hitting games of all time. A few questions
A) Does a healthy Joe Montana defeat the Bills in the Super Bowl?
B) If Craig doesn't cough up the football (changing his legacy with Niners forever) do the 49ers finish off the 3-peat behind Young vs the Bills?
apparently since the quarterback doesn't matter in the NFL, I'd have to say no. The Giants beat the 49ers then beat the Bills in the Superbowl. Therefore, the Bills>9ers.
The Giants beat the Niners backup QB after arguably the weakest fumble in NFL history
If Steve Young takes a knee.....the Niners win
What you fail to mention is that the Giants back-up QB (Jeff Hostetler) is the one who beat them--in San Francisco
Jesus Christ you've cornered the market on DUMB
Does a healthy Phil Simms beat the out of the 49ers?
That should possibly be Question #3
But Niners already defeated Simms. There is a reason Roger Craig NEVER carried the football for the Niners again. Think about that, until this season he was still the franchises all time leading rusher and they dropped him weeks after the game.
That's what a legacy changing fumble like that will do. Costing the team a 3-peat was too much
I'm going to say no to this. The Giants beat Buffalo in the SB because they dominated TOP- they had the ball something like two-thirds of the game. I don't think San Francisco had the kind of ball-control offense that could have kept the K-Gun off the field the way New York's did.
As for Roger Craig, he was 30 years old and averaged 3.1 yards per carry during the 1990 season. No doubt that fumble affected his legacy, but he was clearly on the downside of his career anyway.
The Bills team was awesome. JoeTait is right about TOP. That was a big factor.
I don't think the Niners beat the Bills with Steve Young. Hos was already in rhythm playing for weeks after the Simms injury. Young would have had too much pressure and probably choked like he did against the Cowboys in back to back seasons.
Not sure who would have won between the Bills or Niners with Montana, but the Bills were the best team that season. The Niners offense wasn't that great compared to Buffalo's that season. The Giants defense was awesome that year which is why they could slow down Buffalo's offense. I don't think the Niners defense would have had the same impact.
SB XXV is still the most painful sports memory for me. Norwood unjustly gets the blame for that, but a do-or-die 47 yd fg outdoors to win a SB is no easy task. I blame the defense, for giving up an insane amount of 3rd and longs throughout the game. Kelly (the U!)and the no-huddle offense was amazing, but OJ Anderson (the U!) and the Giants held the ball for 41 minutes. Bills had the ball for 19 minutes and scored 19 points.
After plays the Giant defense would kick the ball along the line of scrimmage, stay down after tackles, and just totally disrupt the flow of the Bills' Offense.
The mastermind behind all that? Bill Belichick.
I was going for the Bills that game. Man, who would have thought that Anderson would be the MVP of that game.
New York's defense didn't really stop Buffalo's offense. The Bills had the ball for 19 minutes and scored 19 points. New York's offense stopped Buffalo's offense by keeping it off the field.
The '90s Bills-as-Chokers meme is so accepted now that people forget how overwhelming Buffalo looked going into that first SB. They had absolutely killed the L.A. Raiders in the AFC le game and looked completely unstoppable.
Have to wonder how things might have been different had Buffalo won that first SB.
50-3 over Jay Schroeder and the Raiders. Damn that was fun
They had chances to win their their first and last SBs. The Redskins were a juggernaut in 1991 and the 92 Cowboys are easily one of the most talented teams ever (full of U products and coached). Those 2 SBs were over at halftime. In SB XXVIII Buffalo had the lead 13-6 at the half but Emmitt Smith took over in the 2nd half.
I've completely forgotten what it's like to see my team make the playoffs, much less SBs
Modell hired Belichick about five minutes after that game ended.
He gave them their last playoff win though--which if memory serves right was ironically against the Pats
They were in actually that 52-17 game for most of the first half. Dallas had them whipped up front but the Bills had enough playmakers to make it interesting had they not self-destructed.The Redskins were a juggernaut in 1991 and the 92 Cowboys are easily one of the most talented teams ever (full of U products and coached
They were an emotional basketcase by those Dallas SBs, tbh. They played like they had the weight of the world on their shoulders. When you commit nine turnovers in a game of that magnitude there is something very wrong w/your mental approach.
They scored 44 points against Miami and 50 points against the Raiders, two teams that were strong defensively that season. It was unreal.
A big reason they lost the 2nd Super Bowl to Dallas was the fumbles by Thurman in the 2nd half.
New Year's Day, 1995. They beat the out of Drew Bledsoe while. Testaverde "managed the game."He gave them their last playoff win though--which if memory serves right was ironically against the Pats
Damn, 17 years is along time, JT. At least ya'll made it in 2002
One of the more underrated playoff games too, especially since it was a Tommy Maddox-Kelly Holcomb matchup. Tough loss
For some reason, Belichek fell in love with Eric Zeier the next season even though he was a rookie.
The 1992 Redskins is one of the best teams in history. That team was dominating.
I remember that game. Holcomb threw for like 400 yards on the road. Then the next season he struggled awfully.Damn, 17 years is along time, JT. At least ya'll made it in 2002
One of the more underrated playoff games too, especially since it was a Tommy Maddox-Kelly Holcomb matchup. Tough loss
Yup, started out 11-0 before dropping a close one to Dallas. Their only other loss was the final game against Philly where they had nothing to play for.
I was only 9 at the time but I still remember those playoffs vividly for how weird they were. Detroit crushing Dallas and making it to the NFCCG (I think with Erik Kramer), and Buffalo beating Denver 10-7 in the AFCCG--our only TD was a Talley return iirc
and like clockwork, that's when the Bills decided to give him a try
1991 was the last hurrah for Gibbs and those '80s Redskins powerhouses. I distinctly remember them smacking Cleveland in the mouth at RFK. They got old in a HURRAY after that season.
That was also the year of Jerry Glanville's "2 Legit 2 Quit" Falcons w/MC Hammer and 3rd-stringer Brett Favre strolling the sidelines at Fulton County.
Revenge!
Yeah that playoffs sucked for me. The Saints won their first ever divisional le and had a rematch at home in the Wild Card game against the hated Falcons. I was at the game and the Saints blew an early double-digit lead and the Falcons scored late on a 80 yard TD catch by Michael Haynes. The Saints drove to the Falcons 30 yard line, but Bobby Hebert threw a late pick. That was a long drive home.
The Saints started 7-0 that season and 9-1 before Bobby Hebert missed the next 4 games with an injury. Steve Walsh started those games and the Saints lost 4 close games in a row. Hebert came back for the final two games which the Saints won easily to clinch the divisional le.
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