The god-awful drive that changed NFL history | Dorktown 

“Todd Haley Loses Grip On Coaching Entirely, Accidentally Saves Kansas City Football”

At this point im beginning to believe that football is cursed and shenanigans begin to occur when the score is 28-3

“Dangerously close to finally playing at a league average level” that has to be the most Jets sentence ever

So you’re telling me the Jets inadvertently caused the rise of the Brady Belichick dynasty AND the soon to be Mahomes and Reid dynasty? Man, we are the worst.

this drive sure does provide itself as a primo example of "the jets do not play football, football just sort of happens to them"

“you’re about to enter New York Jets territory this is your final warning” Nothing has ever struck fear in me like that.

"unfortunately for them, they were abandoned by God" is such an iconic Jon Bois quote

Going into this game, the Chiefs were 5-8 and the Jets were 8-5. After the 2020 regular season, the Chiefs were 14-2 and the Jets were 2-14. This absolutely means something, I just don’t know what.

"You are about to enter New York Jets territory. This is your final warning" Pretty much the Jets in a nutshell

Jon Bois:”Do you remember that video we made?” Everyone: *Yes*

I was at this game as a Jets fan. I distinctly remember looking at Todd Haley on the sideline, and thinking of how bad I felt for him and the Chiefs franchise/fans overall. That day, the universe taught me that empathy is a weakness.

5:35 “28-3, middle of the 3rd quarter” Every Falcons fan: *nam flashbacks insue

"dangerously close to finally playing at a league average level" sent me into another dimension my wife had to ask if I was okay

" Young QB was dangerously close to playing at league average level" Pure Gold.

"This sucks so bad. It is a masterpiece." The most jon bois thing I've ever heard

Update from 2023! 14:34 "Under the Reid administration, the Chiefs have won more games than anyone in the NFL except the Patriots." This line is no longer true... Because the Chiefs surpassed them. Since 2013, the Chiefs are THE winningest team in the NFL, whether or not you count playoff wins.

I distinctly remember watching this game and drive with my now-passed grandfather. After Sanchez scored, he spike the ball and acted fired up. My grandfather, a Jets fan, mocked him and called him a bum. Good times.

"This sucks SO bad... It's a masterpiece." That's hilarious.

Speaking as a Chiefs fan, you could do an entire video on the anomalies of this franchise: NFL record for fewest sacks in a season, no TD passes to a WR in an entire season, a habit of making terrible to average players look like HOFers for one game, lose a playoff game in which you don't punt, and so forth. Secret Base: It's your move. Note: It's been great having Reid and Mahomes, makes that stuff a little more easy to digest.

"It's as if these teams found a way to play football on such a chaotic level that it sent blast waves throughout the annals of history." Legitimately one of the funniest lines about sports I've ever heard.

The Jets very next game was a 45-19 obliteration at the hands of who? That’s right. Andy Reid’s Eagles.

"Abandoned by God" is exactly the way I would describe being a Chargers fan

14:50 - After 3 Super Bowls in 5 years including back to back - yeah, that was a good call

Wow, 2011. Patrick Mahomes was still waiting to hatch from a football.

“You are about to enter New York Jets territory.” Aka the Butt Fumble Dimension.

The men, the myths, the legends. They're back!

Who's here after another Chiefs Superbowl with a TD pass to a former Jet of all teams lol

“Daddy, why is my sisters name rose?” “Because your mother loves roses” “Thanks dad, I love u” “I love u too, chart party hosted by Jon bois”

'Certain coaches have that "it" factor that makes them eminently fireable' I've followed Jon for some years now and he's never said anything more true

To recap: The Chiefs made a good move firing a bad coach because it lead to them thinking a bad coach was a good coach who got fired for being a bad coach which led to them getting a really really good coach.

"Their young quarterback was dangerously close to playing at a league average level." That shade could freeze Hawaii.

The drive that continues to change history. Reed and Mahomes just won their third SB.

I'm always like, "Do I really want to listen to these two talk about some obscure sports anomaly for an unnecessary amount of time?" My answer is always yes and I am never disappointed.

Wow. Love the tie-ins to the other episodes. Feels like we are going to get a 2 hour special in 2025 talking about how sports is just a massive conspiracy

14:44 "... and more seemed likely". Truer words were not spoken.

You guys turn the the NFL into 'The X Files meets The Twilight Zone' and I love it. Thank you. As a Kansas-born life-long Chiefs fan, your videos provide a layer a appreciation for the things that have happened to my team that I wish I could share with my grandfathers.

Unfortunately, this was the first football game I ever attended. I was a Chiefs fan in NJ and was introduced to football via Tyler Palko and Mark Sanchez. Surprised that I still followed football after seeing this game live.

As a Jets fan, I'm offended at the way you casually give the audience a chance to bail just because this video is about the Jets. I understand and agree, but I'm still hurt.

Never wanted to say thank you to Coach Todd for anything. But now, I am grateful for his meltdown. Thanks for this video.

One of the things that makes dorktown videos so special to me is that you can always see what episodes have happened before, & what spaces are left for new & interesting videos.

Y’all should start a new series titled “Long Time Coming” for players that won titles later in their careers after coming short (eg. Dwight Howard, Dirk Nowitzki, John Elway, etc.)

I love how SB treats football. It like its own universe, with its own rules where we just observe it. The laws of reality doesn't affect it. Random thing happens because it happens. SB just take them apart and analyse them. Add some sweet tunes and you have a youtube channel I can watch over and over.

As a history teacher, this is an excellent example of Cause & Consequence

I was there for that game in December. A few of us thought that the officials had just ejected the Chiefs' coach for his unsportsmanlike penalty, since hearing a penalty called on a coach is so rare.

“Their young qb was dangerously close to playing at a league average level” 😂

For once, this involves Mark Sanchez and isn’t about the butt fumble.

i love how we got to see snippets of the other dorktown sagas- i'd love a huge poster of all the charts from the different episodes neatly laid out together.

Great video, Jon! Also, I believe that 2-14 season with the Chiefs under Romeo Crennel deserves its own Dorktown episode, because that is *also* a truly *bizarre* season (and Jon, I know you're a Kansas City fan like myself, so you'd be perfect to do this video). Specifically, that 2-14 team had *six* Pro Bowlers! For comparison, the Ravens, *that year's* Super Bowl winners, sent *6* Pro Bowlers as well! For even more comparison, the Chiefs team that *won Super Bowl LIV* 7 years later *also* had exactly *six* Pro Bowlers! In fact, I actually added up and averaged *every* Super Bowl winning team *since* that 2012-2013 season, and they averaged *4.33* Pro Bowlers! In fact, *no* Super Bowl winning team *since* that season has *ever* had more than *6* Pro Bowlers! That's right, a team that arguably had as many game-changing players as any *Super Bowl-winning* team since their existence not only did not even make it to the Super Bowl, or their conference championship game, or even win a playoff game, or even *make* the playoffs, or even *have a winning record...* Or even win as many games as they had Pro Bowlers (6). Or even win *5* games! Or 4! Or 3! No, the Chiefs won *2* out of their 16 games; statistically their *worst ever* finish in *any* season in their *entire* history, and in the final NFL standings that year, they were *the worst* team in the league (ending up with the #1 draft pick)! Truly a bizarre and mind-blowing realization when I found out! Jon, if you're reading this, *please* do an episode on this! I *have* to know how in the world this happened!

Imagine playing so badly that you are mentioned in the same sentence as Seneca Wallace.

"You're about to enter New York Jets territory." How is that not the same place as the Fumble Dimension?

I love you guys so much! The sarcasm, the sound of defeat in Jons voice, the stats...THE STATS!!! No one does it better.

This is my first time visiting this channel. Very nice to see such quality production in a video about the NFL. No cheap tricks, just a quality video. Cheers

This video is legendary. Such respect for the amount of research that had to go into this Bravo. Yall make ESPN look like a clown show.

Shoutout to the "Randall Cunningham Seizes the Means of Production" thumbnail hanging out at the beginning

"This sucks so bad. It's a masterpiece."

I love how the jets green and chiefs red start out as what we normally associate with those colors, good and bad respectively, but then it completely flips and it goes against how we normally perceive those colors

Was thinking this would be about OJ in his Bronco for a second there

It's funny, even when the Jets win they still lose.

"This sucks, *so bad.* " "I've starred at this for 5 hours now."

And it just continues

I wonder how heavy the dork town AfterEffect file is. They keep adding to it

That drive must have resulted in a lot of broken televisions in KC

The style and visuals of this video are so cool, great analysis to the side! Definitely going to be checking more of this channel's stuff out!

Wow...what a wild friggin ride. It's interesting to me that I watched literally all of these events happen live but never connected any of them together. Really awesome story guys!

we need a browns dorktown just like the mariners

Jon Bois casually surpassing John Madden for best sports voice guy.

We've come a long way in Kansas City from the Todd Haley years. From getting destroyed by teams like the Mark Sanchez Jets to going to back-to-back Super Bowls and winning one.

Your intro is....exceptional. The overall production value is extremely high. This is really good content you're putting out.

“Hauntingly stupid” is a great phrase

Remember the Steve Bono video? I remember every second of Dorktown videos like the elder in Lawrence of Arabia whose one job is to follow the tribe through the desert and recite scripture on command

This episode is awesome, but I want to comment on something else entirely. The next video in my feed is "This is not an endorsement of arson: The history of the Seattle Mariners" and that may be the best title in the history of RU-vid. You guys are the best.

Love how you guys represent the data and as a lifetime Chiefs fan found this fascinating!

Jets fan here. Will someone please let me leave New York Jets territory now?

The butterfly effect is real. And this, this here, this is a perfect example of it.

Just came to say that your guy’s content is fxcking boss. Love the insight you guys provide on sports and the video editing is phenomenal

The amount of research that goes into these episodes is not lost on me. This is incredibly impressive and I love these videos!

Deep rewind: Anderson Silva's triangle comeback Collapse: The Eagles since winning the SuperBowl Untitled: Ted Williams

The first words out of my mouth when i saw how they got that touchdown: “that’s fucking gross” lol

I honestly could not care less about American football but every single Jon Bois video is a national treasure and immensely entertaining, I still manage to get invested and find myself having a great time.

This is one of the most amazing videos I've ever seen. The analysis and the presentation! **chef's kiss**

This is really stretching it. In 2017, the Jets passed on Mahomes in the draft because they had Christian Hackenberg on their team. I dare say that genius decision had more to do with both teams fortune than Todd Haley.

Recognizing that Jon is a Chiefs fan it's still odd how they've figured into every football Dorktown video to this point. It was the team the Chargers couldn't quite catch for the division lead in 2010 (which admittedly led to the creation of this video), it was the team Steve Bono played for when he took a jog into the end zone, and it was the team that was so undisciplined as to throw a wrench into the works of the NFL. Remarkable. And for those of you who haven't seen the Falcons doc, they play a minor role as the team that beat the Falcons with a pick-2. We really need some content on the Lions, Cardinals, Bengals, Browns, Saints, or Vikings though.

I’m barely an NFL fan but I love your content & execution. Thanks for another great vid.

"the chiefs are getting stomped, 28 to 3" oh no I know where this is going

"4:59 So it's 28-3 in the third quarter..." Now where have I heard this before?

*Sees the chart extend to 2020* “Okay.. I know where this is going” Thank you Todd Haley for botching this drive as a coach, leading to Reid’s hiring, and the Chiefs giving Mahomes a half a billion dollar contract for the next 10 years - Sincerely, 31 other teams in the NFL

I love this video so much. The best is the Playoff Drought chart, where Washington's place on the list says only "Football Team"

The big man really changed everything.

Lmfao man this was the first video I’ve seen by y’all and what a doozy I loved it

Glad to see Jon hasn’t forgotten about us loyal viewers.

I haven’t watched a single game of football in the last 2 years and never had any desire to watch any other sports-ball. For some reason tho, I keep watching these dorktown videos and I just can’t get enough. Perhaps I enjoy the soothing wit of Jon or the beautifully laid out charts. Maybe it’s the 80’s/90’s aesthetic every video has. Most likely, I think it’s the fact I can’t look away from a train wreck and I’m just here to see the carnage. Either way, good job on earning that watch time from me. I’ll be back for more, jus make sure you rewind those tapes when you’re done.

Why is this so damn compelling. I have absolutely no idea what the hell this aesthetic is, bit damned if it doesn't all just work. Makes no damn sense. Great work y'all.

As a Bills fan, I find it interesting how they tied in with both teams...with KC, the trade that got them Patrick Mahomes, and after Rex was fired by the Jets he got hired by the Bills, where his shortcomings became obvious and was let go after two seasons to give us Sean McDermott.

"Unfortunately, they were abandoned by god" -Jon Bois on the San Diego Chargers 2010 season

I can’t think of any other channel out there that dives deeper into the minutiae of NFL lore. Thank you, gentlemen.

You guys have the best background music in all of youtube. The videos are real good too, but I have been known to put on one or two of these videos and totally tune out the talking and just listen to the music

Id love a dorktown jigsaw puzzle, could even release different sents that could line up to match the map

I'm a woman of simple tastes. I see a Dorktown video; I click on it instantly.

The awesome audio-visual stuff alone makes this worth watching! The football content is on point too 😎

I’m in love with your presentation. Great work