The Greatest Show On Turf's Electric Playoff Debut! (Vikings vs. Rams 1999 NFC DIV) | Vault 

All down the field number one and number twos was straight gas.

Both teams really

stokely,wayne,and harrison were also good

@@monsta21cb that's a fact but nothing compared to these guys

I'm assuming you're referring to the starters for both teams, in this case being Isaac Bruce, Tory Holt, Randy Moss and Cris Carter, in which case I'd have to disagree with the "easily" the greatest collection distinction. While you might be correct that cumulatively that four are the best, it certainly isn't a foregone conclusion either. Off the top of my head, the quartet of Swann, Stallworth, Branch, and Biletnikoff is pretty hard to top, and I think one can make a case for the best quartet of starting WR's on the same field being Jerry Rice, John Taylor, Art Monk, and Gary Clark. I'm sure we could come up with a least a dozen other really strong contenders through the years. Also, what is the measurement? Is it for the same season they all had in the year of the game they played, or is it retrospectively of their entire careers?

I think he was bagging actual ram meat at the time as well.

I agree, I miss this era of football, Brett Favre just a sandlot gunslinger, Kurt Warner a grocery bagger, and John Madden blathering about his Thanksgiving turducken. Such a great time for the NFL...

Kurt Warner #1 and thanks to Brian Cox hit on Bledsoe,Brady #2...

He was actually the best Arena League QB when the Rams called him. It was the Iowa Barnstormers of the Arena League who called Kurt when he was stocking groceries. He was a few years removed from a temporary job at the grocery store before he played in the NFL.

David Eagin oh man all this time I been saying this to anyone who would listen lol thanks for clearing that up man

cocaine does that

Also, being an upright walking talking compost heap of a human does that.

And what team you played for???😂😂😂

He still does

He was 35 here. Lol. Not like he was a kid. Alot of 35 year olds look 40.

I hope they put the rams bucs nfc championship game eventually but love these old games

Been a Vikings fan since 92', we have never won 2 playoff games in the same year since😏 Warner just happens to be one of my all-time favs and feel hes incredibly under rated That kick return to start the second half and turnovers killed the Vikings that year

Rams fan since 67. Saw them djiithemselves n d foot several times vs. vikes. 69..74...76...77.attended d mud bowl....finally 78

The sad part of that comment is the truth 😔 HURTS! Cause that's my team.

@@gordonreed2736 👍🏾

The voice for both for me Madden and summerall.

Totally agree' the best broadcasters ever hands down, I also like al Michael's, And if your from California you know chick Hearn Lakers broadcaster.

It's not even close Pat was so smooth with is delivery and John just know football damn I miss them

😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Fuuuuuuuuuuuck

I love Domino's.

I remember that.

😂😂

thats cool

If Warner didn't break his hand in 2000, we would have saw Rams/Ravens. I still think the Ravens would have won because the Rams were horrible at defense that year.

@@jyu467 Ravens' defense stiffed every offense that year. They would've had the same Super Bowl score if the Rams were in it.

@@jyu467 If only we didn't have the 31st ranked defense as well

That would have been an amazing game. The Mike Martz/Ray Lewis chess match would have been legendary, the Rams had the speed other AFC offenses didn’t have. It would have been played on grass so the Ravens wouldn’t have had to worry about Trent Dilfer in a shootout. The more I think about it, the more I feel robbed about Az Hakim dropping that punt.

I feel like even if they both met in the Superbowl the Ravens would've still most likely won. That defense was legendary and look how the Rams barely escaped Tampa Bays defense the week after this game.

I pulled my dick at a whorehouse once, I kept it to myself too out of fear of being pulled out early or limited. Yet I lasted the whole night & showed no sign of grimacing except at climax. An amazing feat too.

Bruce tested positive for ligma though

@@omegamanGXE💀

This was when in 98 99 and 2000 they had 3 diff qbs play at a mvp level

What makes the NFL awesome is players that come from humble beginnings and can end up being NFL stars. Warner, Bress, and Brady are just a few. Guys can walk on to a college team, and some stars were undrafted.

MN's offense was actually better. That's the shame of it. MN took too long(6 games) to bench Cunningham, going 2-4. Had they started George earlier, who was obviously better, this game would've been in Minneapolis.

Not so much cuz its rigged and scripted,dk how scripted it was then when I used to watch it,but the majority of the past 20 DEFINATELY!!

Vikings just had too many turnovers 100% could have won this game

In the first 6 games of 2000, they were even better, averaging 44 points per game. If they had kept that pace, they would have indeed ended up with 700 points.

What happened after week 6 that year? Did someone get injured?

That was a fun team to watch

@@12from121 Yea Kurt Warner did

@@arodgers12fan3 it seems Warner was always injured. It's a shame he didn't get that many quality seasons

That and Denny Green taking a knee once more before the end of the 1st half. Up 17-14, the Rams were reeling a little bit. Denny of course did the same thing vs Atlanta the prior year.

@@Deepscope22 I respect Denny Green but he was conservative to a fault, he just didn't have that killer instinct in the playoffs. Taking a knee when you have Moss, Carter, and underrated Jake Reed along with qb's Cunningham and George who can stretch the field? It boggles the mind.

@Razh 80 Indeed

Wasn't about the Vikings. No doubt they were a powerhouse. But the Rams of the era were almost unfairly assembled and as a Rams fan, it was incredible. That era reminds me of those periods when you had these torrid relationships that would last a few months and then evaporate. Of course it was unsustainable, but so fun while it lasted.

The Moe Williams fumble on the kickoff too. I loved that dude later in his career as the workhorse goal line/3rd down/do-it-all back but that fumble was brutal. I have no doubt they could have easily scored on that drive and I feel like the pressure would have been on the Rams to score if they were up 28-24. The Vikes defense was playing well at the end of the first half, they just got super tired when they were on the field for what felt like the whole third quarter. I remember watching this as a die-hard 11 year old Vikings fan and still thinking they had a chance when they were down by 4 touchdowns.

i was looking for this comment lol

That Bucs defense gave the GSOT all they could handle.

Fun Fact: Whenever the Rams and Bucs face each other in the playoffs, it's always a baseball score

Yeah that's back when the broadcasts were both entertaining and enlightened by real football people's

@@evonnamann2251 people* . People= plural

Absolutely. Los Angeles has so much going on they don’t give a shit about the team. Teams like Cleveland Detroit KC St. Louis etc live for it

Mahomes overrated

I love the way he throws the football I see why was the number 1 pick

lmao

why if i might ask?

@@inosurrender8327 they said that it was "inappropriate" and "insulting" to opponents. That's why they killed it.

@@cyrillesu The Competition Committee included members from the queens, bucs and titans, the three teams the RAMS had defeated in the post season. They held a grudge for getting whipped and that was their petty way of getting some revenge. Jeff Fischer was the titans rep on the committee, BTW.

@@OBESPRING1982 99 Rams and the Bob ‘N Weave? It was banned at those March owners meetings in 2000, along with all other choreographed celebrations on the field of play involving two or more players. The vote was 30-0-1.

@@dustinssimpson At the recommendation of the aforementioned competition committee. And if you think it wasn't those petty bastards, including 7-9 fish bait, that specifically targeted the Rams, then why do we see choreographed celebrations today that are much more elaborate than the bob and weave and we've been seeing such for YEARS.

You should try to find Warner and Moss bombing together in the Pro Bowl....Warner still had his touch and he was throwing UNDEFENDABLE RAINBOWS to Moss !!!!! It was incredible!

Jake reed was underrated

Yea then they had culpepper waiting in the wings

A week later we got to see how good the Bucs defense was.

@@rygap7363 i don't disagree with that. They were awesome.

Light Yagami Uh not true. How could you forget Adam Vinatieri? Dude has been kicking since 1996

@@geminiman7791 yeah i misremembered him retiring at the end of last year good catch. I seen his stats for 2018 on pro football reference

Liam Mitchell Didn't know if it was you or not at first but I really like your videos. Even thought I'm a Green Bay fan I like to see any vintage NFL really and agree with how feel about the modern game and how sissified it is.

It was preseason week 3, and it was a real heartbreaker. The Rams had been drafting very well for a few years, but had been comically bad at QB and RB so it didn't matter. The Marshall Faulk trade and the Trent Green signing meant that the Rams could finally be a real threat, only for Green to go down in the preseason on a late, dirty hit by Rodney Harrison. Mike Martz (OC) persuaded Dick Vermeil to stick with backup Warner, and the rest as they say is history. I do remember Paul Zimmerman from Sports Illustrated with a brief end-of-preseason note that Kurt Warner was looking fine taking all the first-team reps, but other than that he was not on anyone's radar going into the year. Most people had "well, hope he can be better than Tony Banks" as his ceiling.

@@silverwheel The 99 Rams are the greatest Damn Yankees story in football history. No franchise has ever emerged from such abject failure; (the 90-98 Rams were the worst team of the 90's, and had one of the worst 9 year spans in league history.) to reach such dazzling heights. The 99 Rams had one of the 10 best seasons in history that year. They remain the ONLY team to score more than 500 points and allow less than 250. Their average margin of victory in games they won was 22.7. An absurd point differential. That is the highest in league history. The odds of an awful team turning around this much have to border on the fantaatical. No team came from as far, and as fast from oblivion as the Greatest Show Turf. In my opinion they are the greatest NFL story ever told.

I remember my sister picked up Kurt Warner in fantasy on a whim right when that season started. I always called that the flukiest pick up of all time.

This aged well, the movie The American Underdog illustrated what you have said with the magazine cover and Trent got hurt and all. The movie was an awesome biography!

@A A they beat em tho

3rd

They would have won 3 -4 in a row if Dick V haven’t left.. he said he regrets leaving.. they were/could have been the cowboys of the 90’s in the 2,000’s Martz was too loose with the term and they lost focus and didn’t adjust against the pats..

@@STW-News-Headlines It's too bad they couldn't have gotten at least another championship with Warner...

@@mikesteelheart I know. Mark Martz didn’t care for Kirt.. and I think that was a contributing factor in 02...

At first Faulk was very upset because he knew peyton was gunna be special. Edgerrin was cold but he wasnt Faulk

lol that wouldnt have changed anything. Edgerrin James had 1500 yards and 13 TDs in 99 and 1700 yards and 13 TDs in 2000. Manning always had a stacked offense. There’s a reason he’s known as a choker

Honestly, Faulk was great, but I’m not upset with it at all. The only sad part is that they didn’t get more in that trade for him. James was a terrific replacement for Faulk, if they could’ve gotten at least a first round pick that could’ve turned into a big time player. Either way, I think the colts were better off with James. I think he was a better fit on the colts and Faulk was a better fit on the rams. Plus James’ prime outlasted Faulk’s by a good bit so, I think it turned out the best way it could’ve for both running backs.

Even

Fualk and Manning are both HOF and with how good Faulk made the Rams and Kurt Warner, yeah one can imagine how much Manning would have benefited from having him You could argue the same about the Rams and Jerome Bettis

Orlando might be the best left tackle of all time

@@erocs9747 Agreed.Orlando was also dominant playing in college for Ohio St.It was one of the best draft picks St.Louis aquired.

Actually watch the entire video. 2nd half there was a lot of pressure and Warner had great pocket presence to step up and avoid sacks.

@@BBOZ83 I saw 5he game when it happened. Warner had a great run if 2 or 3 years very little pressure and a quick release.

Then redskins paid him!

That’s called the Randy Moss effect.

@@rightorracist8203 Yeah but you still gotta get the ball to Moss. Not all QB's can throw 45yds in the air on a dime without setting their feet. Watch George on a lot of these throw...he has one of the biggest cannons in NFL history.

He had several good seasons. Had a great one in atlanta and a great one in Oakland and of course this season. He could just never put several good seasons together. Very accurate and a cannon of an arm. Always struggled avoiding the rush though.

@@sethtate2079 not saying he was trash - but Moss made guys like George, Culpepper and even Cassel look way better than they actually were

Against a good OL, too.

I got Barry Sanders #1 And Marshall Faulk #2

He did have a brilliant arm.

For real legendary

Jeff George was a head case, but dude could spin it with the best of them’

except for jeff George

@@ddiesel1836 his canon arm was perfect for Randy Moss… had a record of 8-2 as a starter that year

We all do and wayyyy better than joe buck even though jack buck is a st louis legend

Like the days with the falcons

The shaun king year

98 Vikings put those kids to shame.

Ya even the next year when giants beat them 41-0

All 3 Jags losses that year came from the Titans.

And only lost to the titans lmao

jags had the #1 offense AND defense. Nobody remembers how AMAZING those 90s jags really were until Coughlin fucked em all up money wise.

@@RobReynard5884rams had the #1 offense

Can't forget Orlando Pace keeping all the pressure off of Warner to give time for those amazing plays

@@trevorlahey2112 yeah pace was great as well forgot about him

@@trevorlahey2112 I clicked this comment to mention what you already Had 💯

@@jaybrick8973 That's the sign of a Great O Lineman when you forget about him... before him it Was Jackie Slater . They were very similar players both H.O.Fer's

@@Peakfreud People always under appreciate the absolute units that make up a great O-Line

I don't like how the Rams let up early and let the Vikes get those onsides

Jim Beaux 2002 they sucked 2003 they were good but Warner got benched half way through

Thank you!

Same here!

The best rams uniform

More than that! Vikings - Cris Carter, Randy Moss, Randall McDaniel, John Randle, Chris Doleman. Rams - Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Orlando Pace Hard to believe none of the Rams receivers at that time are in Canton.

@@jayNicks10 pretty sure Bruce got in? And Holt will get in soon anyways.

@@jayNicks10 Bruce is in and I'm certain Holt will be in as well in time. Receivers rarely get first ballot HOF.

Go pack go

Dennis Green's teams were good at scoring cosmetic touchdowns

Vikings have 6 consecutive conference championship losses dating back to 1977

Sean Bosworth shut up

definitely..

Aside from the one where the guy lead with his helmet on George, they looked pretty benign to me. At least in this particular clip. * shrug *