With 16 seconds left in the game, the Tennessee Titans pull off what is known to be "The Music City Miracle" stunning the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Wild Card game from January 8, 2000. All rights to NFL/NFL Films/NFL Network
here's my description of that day . I'm 47 years old now. On that day in 1999. I threw myself face down on my bed with my hands on the side of my head after the Bills kicked the field goal and the game was defiantly "over". My wife came in the room and saw me and said" I'm sorry your team lost." When the Titans scored...that play made jump around like a teenager. i was a 30 year old and a former Houston Oiler fan and still loved the team even though they had moved to Tennesee. Still remembered the severe pain if losing to the Bills in 1992 playoff. It didn't feel like revenge. Just a great memory. Pure euphoria. Great memory.
man!, I was, just like you, a former Oilers fan but I stuck with the team when they moved (still a titans fan!!). I was watching that game and, when the bills kicked The FG, I remember me saying "damn! The bills eliminated us AGAIN AT THE END OF THE GAME!!!!" because that '92 comeback was still a little fresh in my memory but.. just like you, when the titans scored I started screaming and jumping all over the place like a rubber ball LOL! great memories as you said!
same thing. i was on the phone with a buddy of mine as he was working that day. talking him through it and he was teasing me about it. then it happened......the kick was high and short. filed by neal........ i dropped the phone and was yelling and screaming. what a feeling it was!!
I’m also a long time Oilers/Titans fan since I first watched Warren Moon play a game which made me fall in love with football. The loss to the Bills in 92 will forever live in infamy. I didn’t watch THIS game because it was played on a Saturday but I remember checking the score later that evening and being told that it took a “miracle” for this victory. This turned out to be one of the greatest plays of all time. And to this day, I don’t get tired of watching it.
The cool thing about this is that the broadcasters basically articulate exactly what everyone watching was thinking. 1. That was a forward pass 2. Look at the replay: forward pass 3. That’s closer than I thought 4. Holy crap that really was a lateral
A small detail about this play that (to my knowledge) people rarely discuss. Around 4:18, you can see the sideline official immediately come in and put his left arm out, signaling that the pass was a lateral. Dude undoubtedly had the best look at the play and didn’t skip a beat calling it a lateral.
It’s where the ball is to where the ball goes. Not the player position. Watch 3:40-3:50 and it is so obvious. It is close, yes, but definitely not a forward pass
@@CharlesB44 No. It was not. A laterally thrown ball is either backward or directly thrown across. Anyone with eyes can see the ball goes either back a little (which is did) or goes straight across. I’m sorry about Josh Allen. Kid is a beast.
Lol are u ppl dumbdiddydumb this is litterly one of the most talked about plays ever its litterly called the music city miracle ppl love throwing out overrated like its nothing
It's still a forward pass. The ball started in front of the line, and was caught on the other side of the line. Even if using the other players foot, it's in front of where the ball started.
I did not know Frank has passed. Wow. I'm sorry. I re-visit the Music City Miracle once a year, around play off times. Because I was an Oiler fan and missed the team when they left. So I cheered for the Titans. That Music City Miracle and their trip to Superbowl was fantastic.
Coming from a chargers fan. This was the greatest play of my life. It was so incredible. My family is a football fam and they all were like damn bills won and I stayed glued to the TV believing there was time left and anything could happen. I was 9 and super optimistic and sure enough they freaking did it and my family wasn’t even watching…I went crazy and they saw the replays. I never gave up on any game I ever competed in and have been a part of great comebacks
A bunch of my friends who are Bills fans were high giving and dancing around the room after the Bills kicked that FG. I was rooting for Tennessee. When this happened they stood in stunned silence for a few seconds. When I could hold it no longer, I burst into laughter at their utter misery! Thankfully they didn’t kill me!
I am and was at this game. Had upper deck seats on about the 45 , home field side. I'll never forget when the refs confirmed the call the pandemonium the ensued which seemed like forever out into Broadway. Still have the ticket stub.
I am NOT a Tennessee Titans fan by ANY means, but that was DEFINITELY a lateral. He threw it from the 25 yard line, Dyson catches it on the 25 yard line.....it was VERY VERY close, but it was a lateral. Truly the Music City Miracle
Well like honestly that play was fueled by pure hope and the fact that the bills got too cocky. They didn't expect the lateral and focused too much one person, letting someone else get open.
Turns out my beloved Titans had much more 😉 As an Oiler/Titan fan since 1989 I'll admit that when S. Christie made the FG my heart sank. I thought another year would end in Oiler/Titan heartbreak. I thought, 'Well, at least they fought their a$$es off in this game.' *sigh* Things sure changed in a hurry 😁
As a Bills fan, I did the same thing. I still can't decide which one is worse. Of the top 5 most painful playoff losses in NFL history, we've been on the losing end of about 3 of those.....
Jamie Linsday Yeah, you can tell Wycheck applied some spin to the ball, so it would go backwards. It was obviously a well rehearsed play, not something they pulled out of their butts.
Bills played perfectly right into their hands got all guys to go to one side then Wycheck throws a lateral,, and Dyson had to move back reach his hands to Titans end zone to catch the ball,, also no damn Way Wycheck's arm could be across his chest as the result of a forward pass and not a backward lateral pass. It's a royal embarrassment Wade Phillips still says the music city mistake no Wade the mistake is how the bills didn't stay in their lanes, not starting Flutie instead for no intelligent valid reason Johnson a guy that didn't get Bills to the playoffs so that goes against it's not broke don't fix it. The Bills undeniably have no 1 except themselves to blame for this embarrassment and glorious choke job with Titans using a perfect miracle play. Also Adam Schefter still says a mistake, and no doubt others likely mostly Bills fans that refuse to accept the irrefutable truth it's a damn lateral. Myth busters should confirm the obvious it's a lateral so persons will stop saying the delusional lie it's a forward pass. The Bills irrefutable lost fair and square, and obvious karma for that gut punch harrowing wildcard defeat when the Billss had the largest comeback for deficit in NFL history to defeat the Houston Oilers, same team that move to Tennessee and change to Titans.
Jason Case karma for putting together the greatest comeback of all time? Why do the Bills deserve unfavorable karma for having one of the best halves in playoff history. Plus, Houston reaped no benefits. They would’ve been better kicking it out of bounds. Don’t forget Rob Johnson took a safety that game. Johnson’s numbers were putrid. If Flutie starts this Bills team loses to the Rams in the Super Bowl. Stay in your lanes.
@@goatmc Because the Titans in a playoffs game got to soul crush the Bills in a Wildcard game. Karma is a bitch and Bills fans can't accept the irrefutable truth that the Titans used a legal lateral to defeat the infamous choking Bills, and Bills can only blame themselves for this chokejob
I kid you not, i was 20 years old, in the projects, watching with about 20 other people on the only decent tv in the hood. I literally said 'its not over yet" before this play happened. 20 years later. . . still my best sports moment as a Tennessee homer ever!!!
@A A Listen to Mike Patrick at 4:00. Perfectly said. "It's where the ball is to where the ball goes". The ball was released between the 25 and 26 yard line and was caught on the 25. The positioning of the player's bodies have no bearing on it.
Conclusively a forward pass. Ball on the line when thrown and caught ahead of the line. However, I must brag because I said the winner of this game goes to the Super Bowl before the game even started. They were the two best teams in the AFC.
Will never forget this day. Was watching this at my then girlfriends apartment. As the play was in progress, every room that was connected to hers, you could hear stomping and cheering, plain as day. Normally, it was quiet as a mouse. The cheering and hooting went on for about 2 minutes as they reviewed the play. When it was confirmed, it picked back up and lasted for at least 15 minutes. Outside cars started honking in celebration. It was insanity. Especially for a city who was just excited to even have an NFL team, period.
I was so lucky to be there. Best moment of my life. Also, this is why you never leave a game early. I know several people who did and only got to hear the roars of us in the stands.
Me, too. We just beat the Texans, and are now #1 Seed. Tears are flowing. Had to come back and watch this Music City Miracle. I remember it as if it were yesterday. Wow! May the Titans go all the way and WIN it! All 89 activated players worth! What a season!
At 3:55 look at official in background he immediately points arm backwards without hesitation indicating lateral.Jeff Fischer I still love you for coming up with that play.I still hate the Bills for going to 4 straight Super Bowls in early 90's preventing my favorite team,Miami from being a real threat
I remember this like it was yesterday. Me and my wife was home watching this. She was pregnant with our daughter (first child). I’m a Eagles fan but stay in Tennessee. So was pulling for the Titans. This was Sick!!!!
I was on my way home from duck hunting that day. I listen to the game on the radio. When the bills kick that field goal and left 16 seconds left on the clock I was so upset I switched the station and listen to music all the way home. I had stopped, got gas, ate at Denny's. Never switching back to the sports radio I was listening to 2 hours later when I got home my message machine was lit up like a Christmas tree! Nothing but" dude you guys are so lucky." Or "man you guys robbed the bills" I had no idea what they were talking about. There was no internet. I didn't have cable TV. I finally saw what happened on the 5 local news. The best day of my life as a football fan
Ball is released just before the 25 and caught just before the 25.....wow...Packers fan here and thought it was a forward lateral for 18 years Haha it turns out I just had to look at some good ol' replay. Refs made a great call.
I was in high school at the time I'll never forget this game I felt So bad for the Bills and there fans The only NFL team That not only went to the Super Bowl what 4 or 5 times but lost all there Super Bowls So Damn F*** sad 😞😱 !!!!!
I just moved here to Nashville one month before and this was my very first NFL game! My hubby (then fiancé) and I left after the Bills kicked the field goal and we were walking down the ramp towards the parking lot when we heard the crowd scream and cheer so we turned around and went back. We missed the actual play! It was still pretty great to be there though!!
This is one of those plays that you will always remember if you saw it......I was lucky enough to see it, same with Buffalo's 32 point comeback win over Houston. These games will be immortalized.
I was at work at a hospital in Houston Texas, and the game was playing on a television in the break room...I walked through the door as the kick-off happened and saw most of it...My reaction was loud enough that I was reported to my supervisor, and did get into some trouble, but in the end it was worth the trouble I got into to see the play...As a kid I grew up in Houston with the Oilers and can remember the mess of a blown call in the 1980 AFC Championship game between Houston and Pittsburg, so again the trouble was with it just to see it as it happened...
My parents were at that game I was 3 in 2000 and I’m 21 now. My dad said fans started leaving the game when bills scored the field goal and people started leaving and tried coming back in to see what had happened
Very true. I was a junior at ut. My dad and I went and bought scalped tickets for $50/each which put us up at the absolute top row. We stayed. It looked like ants being vacuumed, watching the early leaving no-faith fans run back into adelphia.
I remember watching this like it was yesterday. Funniest thing ever. But the lateral pass shown here was one of legend. No NFL lateral pass since has come this close. Imagine the emotional highs and lows of this great game?😆
+dani holo That was a lateral all day. Take a look at 3:41 and you can see the ball start to drift backwards before Dyson catches it. Look at the football in relation to the solid white yard line. Don't look at the players. You got to watch the football.
Possible ou'll never get over this because it's a harrowing frustrating awful defeat. If the Bills won a Super Bowl maybe you would get over this. Fierce Loyal Cubs fan I utterly hated how they didn't finish 2003 vs Marlins in the Playoffs, except I could finally let go when they advanced to the World Series and defeated the Indians in 7 games to end their World Series Drought winning 2016 in Cleveland.
I was 13 when this happened, im now 38. I watched it live and I remember it being played non stop for weeks on replay lol. Good memories of a simpler time and the game of football. Im a texans fan.
I remember watching this when I was 14 at my dad's dealership on a small ass black and white portable battery powered TV. and I remember watching the entire game and then being blown away by the final miracle play , and then to top it off they lost the superbowl by like 4 feet......
The Titans had a nice streak there for a few years and if it wasn't for the Ravens and their incredible defense, they would have gone back to the SB at least once more.
What a remember from this game is that the Buffalo Bulls owner was a tactical genius for demanding that Doug Flutie be benched for the game. That saved the Bills fans a lot more heartache. Imagine if the Bills had won this game but lost yet another Super Bowl… Thank god the owner stepped in and saved them
This was my 13th birthday. I went from jumping with excitement to utter disbelief and heartbreak in seconds. I will never not believe that this would have happened had they started Flutie.
Bills fans are always gonna be upset, but you cannot deny it was a lateral when you look at this 3:41 shot. A lateral even counts if it ends up on the same yard, as long as it doesn't advance forward any. You can clearly see the ball goes back at least half a yard. Let is rest Bills fans, you guys played hard but got beaten by a miracle. Tennessee deserved that win
What a moment it was for the Titans....kind of bad how it all ended in Houston, and this game marked the fresh new breath of life in Tennessee. As much as I hate seeing them keep the Oilers history (Im a Texans fan now), I guess they deserve it. Remembered this game like it happened yesterday. Then the 1 yard short against the greatest show on Turf. What a year. Maybe the Texans can take some notes from the 99 Titans season. We've been in the league 20 years now!
Doug Flutie was a best! the bills could have won the game easily if he wasn't benched. the bills team had been cursed to lose games in the last minute.
This was the first time i saw a NFL playoff game and i cant believe this game ended like it did. This game, the Min/NO finish, the ARZ/GB finish in 15 are 3 of the most underrated walkoff moments in NFL playoff history
This never gets old. Then, Dyson is stopped a yard short from tying the Super Bowl. The announcer called it the ‘sequel’ to the movie “The Longest Yard”.
One of the major reasons why this play was so important was because this was the first year of Instant Replay. It was a controversial addition to the game, and what better play to put it to the test than this play? The refs definitely had a huge job here and they made the right call.
No, it was the first use of instant replay *after* it was reintroduced in the NFL. NFL had replays for officials before, and removed it several seasons later. After 1999 the league and teams voted if Instant replay should be reintroduced for officials to use, which was overwhelmingly voted yes. This is the first play it was used on since it was reimplemented, but not the first ever use of Instant replay
@@JackTheripper911 Yes but this was a different Instant Replay. This was the modern instant replay system. For example, refs now reviewed the footage on the field instead of in the skyboxes with a replay official. Also, refs were only given 90 seconds to make a call.
The thing that stuck out to me when watching this live was how quick Mike Patrick while announcing was saying it was definitely a forward pass. However if you look at the play, the line judge immediately signaled that it was a lateral… he was moving up field and was almost right even with it.
Sweet revenge from that game the oilers lost after. Wing in front 35-3. As an oilers_Titans fan It was one of the happiest days of my life. I even spit my milk out after I thought we’d Lost again to these Bills
I remembered this play that got me into the NFL more than anything else. I was little when this happened and ill never forget this for as long as I live
I don't think the jags could've beat the greatest show on turf if they made it to the superbowl..I mean anything's possible in football but I just think the odds would be slim
Probably was on the Bills mind and decided to give mahomes the 13 seconds. I can't blame them cuz this could happen. I think the probability of this killing you is lower than mahomes making two great throws in 13 seconds. We will never know tho
That was more on the defense. If the squib kick doesn’t work, KC gets the ball likely at their own 40. The problem is, the defense was playing like they were trying to only prevent a TD when a FG sends it to OT.
