I was at this game, Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick sat right in front of me. When I say right in front of me, I mean when they leaned back a little their backs would hit my knees. The Rose Bowl had wood bench seats and the rows were very close together. When I leaned back my back with hit Ted Williams knees. He was sitting right next to Stan Musial. One of my Wolfie Moments.
I wish by brother saw this game. He was a HUGE Giants fan who was killed in a car accident 21 months before this game was played. He liked lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson. Tears are running down my face as I am typing this.
@Rico Suave Good call on all accounts. NFL Films did a great job in the 80s of setting the table for the Super Bowl film. I also liked Super Bowl XXVII's introduction and Super Bowl XXXII as well.
If you look at the ticker at the bottom you can tell that this was aired right before the Giants won Super Bowl 42 over the previously unbeaten Patriots in 2007
@@bconni2 It was a quote from the original highlight tape. Maybe if you learned something and knew who said that then you wouldn't think it was stupid at all but then again.....
The Giants had bullied and beaten opponents all year. Now, nothing would stop them on Super Bowl Sunday. (Quoting the next part from memory - I may not have been 100%).
Yep. Simms may not have had the career that someone like Joe Montana or Bart Starr did, but for that one game, all the stars aligned perfectly for him.
Montana played in four Superbowls and out of 122 passing attempts threw 11 touchdowns zero interceptions. So let's not get carried away about Phil Simms and his one Superbowl.
Elway passed for 304 yards and a TD. Kubiak came in to mop up 48 yards. Elway ran for 27 yards and a TD. ALL of the running backs combined churned out 25 yards rushing. That ain't going to get it done.
Great clips of the team broadcasters (and the Spanish language one too), loved Jim Gordon the Giants radio play by play voice for a good 15 + years in the early 80s through the mid to late 90s when Bob Papa took over to this day still.
The Broncos had their chances to upset the Giants. Having that 10-7 lead and having the ball at the 1 and doing nothing with it. Then Rich Karlis missing that very short field goal and then missing another field goal allowed the Giants to stay in the game. Once the fake punt on 4th and inches worked and the Giants scored, the game was over. The Broncos had no running game and they were entirely zeroed in on Elway. Phil Simms couldn't miss in the second half and the Giants defense clamped down on Elway. It wasn't until 11 years later that Elway finally had a running game in Terrell Davis and a defense that stepped up in the Super Bowl that the Broncos FINALLY won their first Super Bowl.
Very well said! That's how I see it too. Who the hell was Sammy Winder? If the Broncos had a better running back they could've won this. But your qb can't be the leading rusher if you want to win Superbowls.
21:47 This represents a great summary of Giant fans of the 57-85 era. Years of wanting it so bad and finally getting to the top. Things were rough for a long time. These fans could finally rejoice.
Giants 1st, decades before they turned into the Patriots. 😄 The Great Parcells puts NE on the map & snowballs Kraft to investing in Foxborough, bringing in Belichick, the defensive coordinator here.
I remember just how good Simms was in this game. I remember the Giants when they first moved to the Meadowlands and they were a bad team. To see them improve and then win the 1986 Super Bowl was such a special moment.I will never forget this Super Bowl.
They weren't just bad. They were horrible. In 76, the Seahawks inaugural season, they came to the Meadowlands and beat the Giants. We got the tickets for free, because the season ticket owner who gave them to us was busy committing suicide.
What gets lost here is the brilliant play of Elway. Three passes, in particular the late TD to Johnson, were throws no other NFL QB can make. This was truly a one man show, and that won't beat the Giants. But with just a little bit of help he could have.
turtle Marino haha, that turtle is overrated, he averaged one interception per game in his career, 240 games played, 252 interceptions, he always did something stupid in every game
Spellman Pat Four losses as head coach. And, Craig Morton's last interception that set up the winning field goal in Super Bowl V bounced off Dan Reeves' fingers.
@@lindseysummers5351 Yeah, I like the Cowboys, but not Morton, who was also a Giant and a Bronco at one point, and Reeves, who certainly did a good job, but also had the "can't win the big one" odor about him.
1986 Giants defense was every bit as good as any team ever. They beat the great 49ers 49-3 then shut out the powerhouse Redskins 17-0 , then crushed Elways Broncos 39-20.
If you had watched the Giants all season, as I did, you would know that the first half score was meaningless. The Giants typically, wore out teams and took over in the second half. Add to that that they were bigger and stronger on both lines than the Broncos and you have a half-time score that indicated the Giants in a blow-out.
Great game..was happy for the Gmen..i am a Jets fan and wanted so bad to see a NY Subway Superbowl, but was glad Cleveland lost and Denver went..NYG took care of business..
A lot of people forget, but through 11 weeks that season the Giants weren’t the best team in New York at that point. The Jets were 10-1 and the Giants were 9-2. The final 5 weeks of regular season: Jets: 0-5 Giants: 5-0
@@re8746 He tried running the Ball when spreading them out was the best way to beat them. Look at the first TD that John Elway scored down at the goal line. A QB draw.
"Upset was in the air, and Denver's head coach Dan Reeves decided to put the Giants away by running right at their strength for a touchdown that was only 36 inches away." Love NFL Films. This Super Bowl Highlight video probably has the best music from start the finish.
If I'm a Giants fan in 1986, I'm relieved that the Browns lose the AFC championship game due to Elway's late-game heroics, because the Browns match up better against the Giants than the Broncos do.
SingleTax Really? Let me tell what the Giants were saying in the NY papers leading up to the Super Bowl. "No disrespect to Bernie Kissers but compared to Elway, he would have been a stationary target in the pocket and no way would have he survived the first half. I tend to agree and one more thing. As good as Cleveland's running game was, NOBODY ran on the Giants, nobody.
Denver, should have won that game. Had so many chances to take complete control, and failed to put the, Giants away. Two missed fgs. Elway, threw into coverage at the end of the half instead of a wide open receiver. Bad play calling in the red zone. And of course the second half qb sneak on 4th down that started a route by the, Giants. Elway, actually threw for more yards than, Simms. But, he wasn't as efficient. Man, a painful memory.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Denver should have been up 21-9, 16-9 at halftime at the bare minimum. If Reeves had better play calling and Denver had a line, that safety doesn't happen. Denver logically should have been up 21-7 at halftime. The Giants offense wasn't doing anything until the 3rd quarter. In Denver's first two SBs they were ahead after the first quarter. In fact they were up 10-0 on, Washington. In the first two SBs it took logically think two quarters to beat them. Third quarter in the first one, second quarter in the second one. Denver was a man show. Elway was by himself against 11 guys. Plus horrible play calling. Again, Denver should have won easily. Hell NY only beat them by 3 in the regular season that year.
First Super Bowl I really paid attention to, and my Broncos were in it. Watched the full replay a few years ago. So many missed opportunities in the first half for my guys. The goal line stand at the 1 really hurt, the safety just before the half was worse, but that flea flicker was the end. The Giants were too strong and physical for the Broncos to stand toe-to-toe. Up 10-7, if the Broncos could have punched it in to go up 17-7, I have to think this game might have turned out very differently. Maybe not a win, but not a blowout. Oh yeah, the birth of the Gatorade Bath and "I'm going to Disneyland."
You mean 16 to 7. The Broncos blew two field goals that should've given them 16 before the half. But I agree with you. I don't think it would've been such a blowout if they would've scored on those missed opportunities.
I can never figure out , why with such a awesome defense , and pretty good offense they couldn't get back again to the SP instead of Wash, Strike year.. joke.
The music at the end gets me so friggin hyper every time! Remember this game like it was yesterday. Superb team! Loved seeing Elway get destroyed in those Super Bowls.....eventually he'd win a couple though but early on he was a punk and needed to get some good baptism by fire "If I can't play for the Broncos, I won't play for the Colts wah wah wah..." Same goes for that punk Eli Manning, he too ended up with 2 Super Bowl rings though....(throwing my hands up in the air).
I don’t blame him for not wanting to play for the Colts. A great player can transform a team but the Colts had very serious problems that went beyond the playing field and the coaching staff. They were a trainwreck of dysfunction as an organization, and might well have wrecked Elway’s career had he played for them.
This was not one of my favorite Super Bowl highlight videos from NFL Films. Overly artsy-fartsy, with too much emphasis on eerie music and weird camera angles. I think they only bothered to name three Broncos players, and one of those was when they misidentified Gerald Willhite as Sammy Winder.
So Dan Reeves coached the Denver Broncos to 3 Super Bowl losses in the 80's (All of which were blowouts). Then 10 years later as Head Coach of the Atlanta Falcons his team goes to the Super Bowl & loses to the Denver Broncos of all teams in a blowout? Lol not sure if that's just irony or the football gods proving they in fact do exist & on top of that they have a sense of humor.
