The GREATEST Playoff Upset! (Vikings vs. 49ers 1987 NFC Divisional) 

Far and away...

Hands down...they just had no answer for Anthony that day...he was a one man show

@@NeoNitty Also Vikings secondary was dominant. Couldn't move the ball in the air that day.

This just shows how manipulable history is. Anthony Carter was a 3-time college All-American, Big-10 player of the year, and NFL All-Pro, but because the 49ers were the team of the 80s all the stars on the not-quite-great teams get forgotten. This is like Paul George outplaying KD or LeBron- it’s an upset, but it’s not that much of an upset.

@@keenannorris3309 yes. AC was such a stud. As a Viking fan when people talk about the greatest WR in Viking history, it's always Moss and Cris Carter (tough to argue against those two) and some of the old timers say Ahmad Rashad. But to me, it's AC!

Nah, the picks helped the Cowboys more than they hurt the Vikings. You still have to get the players with the picks, and I don’t have the same faith in Mike Lynn picking them as Jimmy Johnson. The Vikings had a lot of talent, but the 49ers had Montana and Rice.....and a lot of other talent too. That’s the difference.

But the Vikings are dumb organization lol

A. Cruz the Vikings could’ve won super bowl 33

Nope! At the time Viking GM Mike Lynn would have found a way to completely screw that up. To this day he remains the most clueless NFL General Manager I've ever seen.

U just brought a tear to my eye.

I actually thought that was Chris Carter for the first three mins of the video

Anthony Carter was a better long ball threat than Cris. It was obvious in this game.

Cc was an eagle before he spend his bulk of his career in minny

Lz V cris was more of a slot receiver

KamarTB they played together for a while

@50k subs with trash vids? I agree with that... there's too many penalties in the NFL nowadays

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@@kingniggaz7760 ???

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@50k subs with trash vids? Cowboys came close with 52 in 92 against Buffalo

He had a loss with the pats as well

Conrad Friedman not as a starter. He was injured after a 2-0 start in 2016 and then Jacoby Brissett went 1-1 afterwards before Brady was able to return.

@Mike Cap DUMMY...HE WAS 2-0 IN NE 5-0 IN HIS 1ST 5 STARTS IN SF

Yep

Glad we avenged that last weekend.

As is tradition

Omgoodness!!! Ahhh! Hahaha Classic

At least the Saints have the sweetest of all the victories though! Right? Just because they were the only team to win one of the 4 postseason matchups who went on to win a title. Right? As much as people have talked about the recent disheartening losses for the Saints, I have to say the first year I ever followed the whole NFL closely a as a child, I watched this playoff game between this team who had 2 elite WRs, an elite RB, an elite QB, and an all time great kicker, VS this upstart team with an 1800 yard running back, a some other solid players. The game appears to be over in favor of the stacked team, but their all time great kicker, who according to the announcer hadn’t missed all year, comes on and misses a game clinching kick from like 29 yards!! Then that upstart team goes on to win the game and face the Broncos in the super bowl! Man I’ll never forget that. I remember how great Minny had been all year. I just loved this Jamaal Anderson cat, and I was excited to root for the underdog. I can’t imagine a more disheartening loss for a fan base...and then on top of that to have other close playoff losses and all topped off by Brets pathetic, but predictable, throw across his body? UGh!! I feel for Vikings fans!! I was so happy for them when Williams made that blunder and Diggs scored. Man it’s crazy that was Case Keenum right?? Didn’t he finish with a top 4 QBR that year too!? And now he’s right back to being a joke to everyone. Are you a Vikings fan? How many rings y’all have? The purple people eaters won a title right?? I know that name but don’t know about them or who they had as stars

Yes that was the first time the saints had been good in a long time, and they were very good that year in fact. The run that the Minnesota Vikings had that year was pretty historical

On his 60th birthday

The Vikings were pretty stacked too, but they took care of that issue by trading half the team away for Herschel.

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@@loneraven4955 lmao yep

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Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby...

The Vikings will not win the entire world knows that

It still stings terribly.

Why did their D suck so bad that day?

Those Vikings were pretty good though, they were only a wild card team because their replacement players went 0-3 and the Bears went 2-1. Otherwise they may have won their division.

shut up you've won 5 super bowls we've won 0

Jackson Pope exactly! I have been waiting a long time to just see them get to the Super Bowl again! 49rs have won it many times.

Bro that's exactly what happened to New Orleans last week

Was a Michigan Panther also. The first year when they won the title.

Carter was a USFL guy huh? 🤔I never knew that...thanks for the insight!

@@NeoNitty The Miami Dolphins held his rights, but in '85 they needed help at LB and OL, so they worked a trade with the Vikings to send Carter to MN. And Miami was already loaded at WR with Mark Duper, Mark Clayton, and Tony Nathan.

Wersching was terrible in this game and missed so many field goal attempts. The Niners could not stop Anthony Carter on that day. They would go onto beat the Vikings the next two years in the playoffs.

Noticed that too. Great sportsmanship from Carter. I understand the need to maintain player safety but it's sad that the purity of the game has been sacrificed in some ways.

@@Ginga Fire Roger Goodell.

The only time the Vikings have worn all white with their current jersey set was preseason 2013; coincidentally enough in Candlestick Park against the 49ers!

NFL-No Fun League

Thrust Johnson It also makes it easier for the referees to have more influence on the game’s outcome. There are so many penalties they can call to stop a team from scoring, or help a team score.

Exactly my thoughts when I saw the lott hit at 1:30 😑

After NE beat Manning and the Colts in the '03 & '04 playoffs, they really changed the rules in the off-season emphasizing illegal contact and defensive holding. Now after every incomplete pass, I'm looking for a flag somewhere & shocked when there's none. The games are now offensive shootouts every week with token defensive play.

Back to you, Joe.

Richie G legend

Booger!!👍

Same thing with the Broncos after the Jaguars beat them in 1996.

@@bigblue9996 put the new uniforms gave them luck in Denver's two sb victories in the late 90s

Not tommorow take of business no history repeated

JerseyNYC83 Vikings had some ballers on D that don’t get enough recognition

They locked down Rice pretty good

The 49er offense was a 'scripted' offense that had to get into a rhythm early, that Viking 'D' was amazing in how they kept that offense out of sync to the point where Walsh was forced to bench Montana and send in Young. To me that was a sign of desperation.

And then they went 15-1 set scoring records until they choked against Atlanta.

@@jeremywade6986 the kicker choked lol

They made the playoffs 7 of the next 10 years before the 98 season! They just played like shit every year in the wildcard.

^Vikings were always a playoff team under Dennis Green. They just never made noise. The picks wouldn’t of amounted to anything under Minnesota’s watch anyway

As a life long Falcons s fan (unlike the current Seattle bandwagoners) I remember that game vividly lol Nobody gave us a snow balls chance in HELL of going to the Metrodome and beating the Vikings! Everyone said we didn't belong there, granted we had beating the mighty 49ers the week before in the divisional round...how ironic is that as it relates to this video lol Then we get to Super Bowl XXXIII and lay our first SB egg lol And don't even get me started on the second one we laid in Super Bowl LI lol. I always say we got beat by one Shanahan in Super Bowl XXXIII and lost bc of the other in Super Bowl LI lol

good point

Either way you look at it, the 49ers were on a higher tier statistically than the Vikings that season. Nice point though.

I think it was in 2009 against Brett Farve.

oh shit thats true

#govikes

Lawrence Ramirez that was also the Saints first playoff game ever, they started 3-3 but ended the season 12-3 that year.

"ThEy OnLy WoN bEcAuSe ThE rEfS!!!" -Saints fans 😂😂😂

@NO PATS JIM WhEn PeOpLe TyPe LiKe ThIs, It MeAnS tHeY aRe BeInG sArCaStIc 😂😂😂 it's also a dig because Saints fans constantly blame the refs for losing 😂

Not a fan of either team, but hoping Kirk Cousins pulls it off again.

@@davem1212 Actually the Chiefs have the most home playoff losses in NFL history

Both losses hurt. ‘90 hurt alot more to me tbh. We all had the feeling that it was over for Joe in SF after that

Maybe the 49ers could have 3peated. But they lost to the NYG in NFC champ game. Had they beaten the NYG, they might not have beaten the Bill's. Interesting how Vikings prevented 49ers from SB champ in 87-88. If not for Vikes in 87 & Giants in 90, 49ers possibly 4-peat!

@@claudeabraham2347 49ers beat the Vikings in the playoffs in 88 and 89 I think and both wins were blowouts.

Jill Conner EVERYTIME!! Lol

Backfired on Ronnie in this game, went for the killshot on FB Allen Rice, huge collision and Lott was knocked out cold for about 5 minutes.

@@deanladue3151 Did he return to the game?

@@Ginga he did, but sparingly. Found out later he had gotten a concussion on the hit.

@@deanladue3151 Good to jnow. He was a warrior.

Theismannisn’t in the hall of fame yet

Ruben Krishna He never will be

@@cbod14 he might

They called it great

Diego Juárez They don’t really do intros like that anymore...it’s too bad!

@@rfahy72 Nor do they make NFL films like they used to, especially the 70's and 80's Superbowl series with the great John Facenda.

He got Gannon a decade early 😂

Rich Gannon won MVP lol

Back then, the Vikings organization was run on the very cheap. With a clueless GM calling the shots.

He would have played with Marino if the Dophins didn't trade him to the Vikings.

@@ckobo84 kinda ironic that 12 years later Marino came within a whisker of signing with the Vikings after they they let Jeff George and Randall Cunningham walk.

Was Chris Carter on the team back then? I didn't see him.

If history were to repeat itself than the 49ers win 2 SB's back to back in the next couple of years but that is only if history repeats itself 100%

And in that game, they had a chance to tie which was foiled by what a HoF DB considers the play of his career.

Wow, we could’ve had a Vikings-Browns Super Bowl if not for the drop and the fumble. Wouldn’t that be crazy?

Young was an athlete. So quick and fast

Bob Schelker was OC, but Jerry Burns created that offense in the 70s when they had Tarkenton and Foreman.

I don't even think it was arguable that this was the greatest 49ers team ever. The 1984, 1989 and 1994 teams were much better.

Difference is no Redskins for this current playoffs

And for the first time ever, the Niners won't be in Candlestick hosting a playoff game. Time to write new chapters in The Field of Jeans.

Yeah unfortunately the tape we had was like that 😞

S.F. got the win in the playoffs the next year en-route to a SB victory

Young played outstanding outside of that one play. The one time he has a guy wide open and he floats it over his head to the other team. He makes that pass and it could have been a great finish.

I think you’re right, which is interesting because the 49ers 86 draft is as good as it gets.

Eddie DeBartolo very nearly fired Walsh right after the game! But instead chose to strip Walsh of his title and duties as team president.

Team president.

CK16 Striker yea that shits tight