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Jackie Smith
Garo Yepremian
And before people get their boxers stuck in their ass, this is just a funny thread.
Owner, Daniel Snyder
President and GM, Matt Millen
Asst. to the GM, Charlie Casserly
Head Coach, Marty Schottenheimer
QB, Neil O'Donnell
RB, Ernest Byner
TE, Jackie Smith
DT, Leon Lett
FS, Eugene Robinson
PK, Scott Norwood
Holder, Tony Romo
Last edited by Johnny_Blaze_47; 01-14-2007 at 09:29 PM.
Jackie Smith
Garo Yepremian
Leon Lett, except they won the game anyway.
How can you not have Craig Morton at QB?
Scott Norwood
Leon Lett
Those four Viking teams that got to the Super Bowl and got spanked each time.
Marty's teams have never blown a 32 point 2nd half lead to a team playing its backup QB.
I'm just saying.
Forgot I had added Lett in the other thread...and if more people think Morton should replace O'Donnell's Super Bowl giftwrap, he gets replaced.
True, but Marty's teams never had that opportunity to pull that off.
That long snapper from the Giants.
Eugene Robinson (my favorite)
Oh, I almost forgot Danielson and his 5 INTs in '82. The Lions lost 24-23 in Candlestick. Thanks Gary.
Didn't Eddie Murray miss a makable Fg that would have won that game?
Yep, a 43 yarder. The 49ers wouldn't have even been in that game if it wasn't for Gary's INTs.
Scott Norwood missed a 47 yard field goal and he's on the list? I remember Lin Elliott missing three kicks from closer than that in a game his team lost 10-7.
And the Buffalo Bills that lost 4 Super Bowls in a row
And add the referee crew fron Super Bowl XL
Well since we are talking kickers how about Mike Vanderjagt against the steelers last year, and the dramatic words "he missed it" coming of of Mannings lips.
gotta be the oilers blowing the biggest half time post-season lead. i don't think i'll ever get over that loss....i was hoping for the oilers to go to the super bowl and slap the cowboys...(sigh).
The season before that they got smoked by a John Elway led 4th Quarter comeback. Remember that one?
The difference is that Norwood's kick wins the Super Bowl. It's not like he was kicking it in some cold climate- It was Tampa Florida.
...i don't think you can fault a kicker for missing a 47 yarder.
How about Gary Anderson missing his first field goal of the season in the Minnesota vs. Atlanta NFC Championship game in 1998.
Vikings were 14-2 that year (Moss rookie year I believe) and were going to challenge the Broncos in the Super Bowl "for sure". Anderson misses the "nail in the coffin" 38 yarder and the Falcons march down the field and score the game tying touchdown. Goes into overtime and the Falcons win.
They then get their asses handed to them in John Elway's last football game..........of which he wins SuperBowl MVP.
Actually, I think the Vikes were 15-1 that year now that I'm thinking about it.
I prefer to block that one from my memory
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I prefer to block that one from my memory
That would have been such an entertaining super bowl too. Don't get me wrong though, being a Broncos fan, I was much happier playing a mediocre Atlanta team that had no business being in that game.
Speaking of that game, add Eugene Robinson as the starting CB on the all time blunder team. I'll let Wikipedia do the explaining as they can do it better then I:
On the morning before the Super Bowl, he was awarded the Bart Starr Award for his "high moral character". However, that very night he was arrested for offering a female undercover police officer posing as a pros ute $40 for oral sex. The next day in Super Bowl XXXIII, Robinson blew his coverage on Broncos receiver Rod Smith, allowing Smith to get behind him, catch a pass from Elway, and take it 80 yards to the end zone for a touchdown, giving the Broncos a 17-3 lead over the Falcons. Later, in the fourth quarter, he missed a tackle on Denver running back Terrell Davis that enabled Davis to break off a long run inside the Atlanta 10 yard line. Atlanta ended up losing the game 34-19, and Robinson was widely denounced by the press and fans for the previous night's incident.
Priceless.
I agree that Norwood gets too much grief for that miss. I'm not sure that Norwood made a kick from that distance on grass in his career, so expecting him to make that field goal wasn't realistic. That may suggest that Norwood shouldn't have been a kicker in the NFL, but he was what he was -- saying he should have done something that he had never done before and that he's a goat for not having done that is pretty harsh.
I also don't think there's much to support a comparison of the Bills and the Vikings. The Vikings got absolutely crushed in their Super Bowl appearances. You can count their total Super Bowl offensive touchdowns on one hand. The Bills weren't compe ive in their 2nd and 3rd appearances, but they were painfully close to winning XXV and were in the game in XXVIII into the 4th Quarter, which the Vikings never really were in any of their games.
As for a blunder, you could argue that Cliff Harris made a monsterous blunder in Super Bowl X by mocking Roy Gerela, patting him on the head. Jack Lambert decided right then and there that the Steelers weren't losing and that moment seemed to galvanize that team that day.
Broncos would have won the Super Bowl anyway. They had the more balanced offensive attack. The Vikings were mainly a big play offense, and Atlanta took that away from them in that NFC Championship game.
Dennis Green and Randall Cunningham were notorious postseason failures, and they certainly didn't disappoint their critics
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