The majesty of Steve Bono's 76-yard touchdown run might never be seen in the NFL again | Dorktown 

poor guy

He was a perfectly competent QB, just not a mobile one.

And it's some of the funniest stuff I've ever heard.

😂

You must not be from KC. 😂

You know those dudes run a full 1 second quicker 40 time than normal fit people right? They had a really cool thing on SBNation about how ridiculously athletic NFL lineman actually are.

@@tjsanchez9984 I recall Refrigerator Perry being extremely fast for a dude that weighed 335 lbs and ran a 4.8 in the forty.

@@tjsanchez9984 Larry Allen my god, that man could move.

I think this is more about the sheer lack of athleticism from quarterbacks in general, than OLineman usually being in peak shape for their size.

cool tangent about Joe Valerio: through his career he had a catch rate of 100%, with all 4 career receptions going for touchdowns

@Chi Sun (Full Game) Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

destiny

i rly was bout to comment this to

Lol elvis grbac, bono, Montana, Alex smith? I know there are a few more in there

"Barely play each other" Play in the superbowl that very year. MIND BLOWN

well done reditor

That makes more sense anyway, because whereas Allen would have been somewhere in the middle of the limb entanglement, Walker would have been lined up to the right side and able to escape more easily.

Samuel Stensgaard " Hey Alex I've got an idea. What if we did chart party but worse and not as good" First episode of dorktown

@@AshleyJubilee and that's why its just as good.

@@hirshja pretty good

st0812 It's pretty okay. Breaking Madden?

We want solo John bois. Also bring back pretty good (this is pretty much that). John bois doesn’t lose him mind doing it with Alex like he used to all the time.

Steph Curry 2016 season easily the best one

Straight porn

@@leothompson2758 Idkkkk the one that revealed the record setting long jump in the Bob episode got me pretty good

I've never felt a yt comment so much before

The Lonnie Smith WAR one...

And the first five minutes of the video weren't even about the touchdown!

So all of you who did not see the entire play...on RU-vid: 1995 Kansas City (3-1) vs Arizona Cardinals (1-3) Right at the beginning of the 2nd qtr roughly 33:01 in that video

mark schnabel and a replay at 35:37 showing defenders eventually on screen

That's 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back BORING BULLSHIT

@@normancasey4217 Yep!

he parked his golf cart on a hill and he just noticed it starting to roll

Why is this so funny

891 likes in one day w 600k views ?!

Thank you that was perfect

I wonder what the lineman was thinking when he looked back and realized that Bono wasnt running faster than him.

They got me when they called it a "nature hike"

@Juan (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

@@SirLyonhart I liked "It's no longer football. It's two friends going for a jog."

Francis M.H. White Are u trying to rickroll us?

That is hilarious, although Bono was a better runner than passer. 1995 was a heartbreaking season. They just couldn't see their way to putting Rich Gannon back in. Gannon got his revenge as a Raider and I can't say I wasn't rooting for him a little bit. Bono hurt his hand that season, as I recall, and they brought him back for the postseason. He was terribad.

Was it Marcus Allen on the ground? I can't quite tell cuz of the glare

I was at this game also. Crazy sight. My only comfort was I had Bono on my fantasy team.

It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence.

Well, let's see. Was there anything else important going on in early October 1995? Oh yeah, O.J. Simpson's trial, of course. It was even mentioned in the Mariners doc. Simpson was born in San Francisco in 1947 and drafted by the Buffalo Bills with the first overall pick in 1969. The Seattle Pilots played their only ever season that year, following which Bono's Chiefs would beat the Vikings for their first ever Super Bowl title (their last appearance until 50 years later) and the Pilots would move to Milwaukee and become the Brewers-who, of course, have yet to win a World Series. Remember also that the Kansas City Royals, amid Stuart Symington's, uh, _polite request,_ became the other team to make their debut in the American League in 1969, rooming with the Chiefs, who'd been there since '63, when Lamar Hunt had moved them from Dallas after a championship season. Simpson played his last season for the Bills in 1977, which overlapped with the Seattle Mariners' first season, as well as Dave Stieb's Blue Jays' (though Stieb wouldn't appear in Toronto until '79). He moved on to the 49ers, Bono's old team, where his retirement would precede that franchise's first Super Bowl victory by only two years. His subsequent induction into the Hall of Fame in 1985 came just after the Niners' second title run, both featuring Joe Montana, Bono's teammate with multiple NFL teams. Also in 1985, O.J. Simpson married Nicole Brown in February, and the 9-2-7-2 double play featuring Buck Martinez' broken leg happened in July. In June of 1994, Brown, having divorced Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman were murdered, and Simpson arrested as the primary suspect. In the ensuing months, a player strike would cut the 1994 and 1995 MLB seasons short, ending Ken Griffey's quest to beat Roger Maris, and the 49ers would contend for and win their 4th Super Bowl, this time with Steve Young at the helm; Montana went to the Chiefs in 1994, and Bono in 1995. The Falcons enter the picture here as well, because 1994 happened to be the season Deion Sanders went to the 49ers, becoming teammates with Bono briefly before moving to Dallas for a few seasons. Then the trial and acquittal happened. One of Simpson's lawyers, famously, was Robert Kardashian, at whose wedding to Kris Houghton in 1978 Simpson was the best man, and at whose house Simpson stayed to avoid talking to media members following the murders. Kris divorced Kardashian in 1991, retaining primary custody of their four children, and went on to have a couple more children with Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner; you may be familiar with the rest of that story. Kardashian broke off his relationship with Simpson in the late 1990s, when Bono was with the Chiefs and the Mariners were at their peak, and died in 2003. Bono bounced from the defending Super Bowl champion Packers to the Rams a season before they won it before finally landing with the Panthers and retiring in 1999. The 49ers, Chiefs, and Mariners all went through some lean years after that, with the Mariners' historic playoff drought kicking off following the 2001 season, the Chiefs' run of futility reaching 40 years before the famous game against the Jets helped Andy Reid and ex-49er Alex Smith land in Kansas City to flip the script, and the 49ers' streak of Lombardi-less seasons extending indefinitely into the great beyond. O.J. Simpson kept busy during this time as well, getting arrested twice in 2007 and 2008, the second of which resulted in a 33-year sentence that ended with Simpson being granted parole in 2017, mere months after the Chiefs drafted Patrick Mahomes-who, in week 17, finally ended the Chiefs' 30-year stretch without a win by a quarterback they drafted. Simpson's Bills also ended their own historic streak, making it to the playoffs following the 2017 season for the first time since 1999; you may remember them featuring in the punting video, having made one of the most cowardly decisions of all time in that season. 2020 proved to be a turning point for all three organizations, with the Chiefs and 49ers meeting for the Super Bowl in Miami in February, and the Chiefs emerging victorious for the first time in 50 years. Then COVID-19 struck, forcing MLB to shorten its season for the first time since 1995 and expand its playoff format to allow 8 teams in each league to compete; but in a cruel twist of fate, the Mariners missed the last American league wild card berth by 2 games, extending their drought another year while the Chiefs breezed by their competition en route to a second consecutive AFC title. In 2021, things mostly returned to normal, with the Mariners again missing the postseason by 2 games, Simpson's parole ending officially in December, and into 2022, the Chiefs and 49ers both bowing out in their respective conference championship games. And then, in 2022, for the first time in 21 years, the Mariners made the playoffs, bequeathing to the Sacramento Kings the longest active playoff drought in the Big Four leagues before they ended _theirs_ and gave the title to the aforementioned Jets. For each of those latter time blocks I could of course have interspersed various Kardashian/Jenner exploits in there, but I try to avoid discussing stuff like that too much.

@@dominicpancella3012 This is, bar none, my favorite comment I've ever read on an SB Nation video. Major kudos to you

@@dominicpancella3012 October 1995 was also the month that the team now known as the Cleveland Guardians lost to the Braves in the World series (as an Atlanta fan, I refuse to acknowledge the Braves won that series, only that Cleveland lost it). As we now know, that was due to the curse that has kept Cleveland without a World Series win since 1948. I'm still looking for the connection to O J and the Kardashians...

It's almost a crime against humanity to have this vid and not just run the damn play in full speed from beginning to end at least once or twice!

@@AJHart-eg1ys my thoughts exactly!

@@AJHart-eg1ys Yeah they get a little too cute sometimes. Just show the play at game speed, at least one time.

@@the.seagull.35 And does it really take more than 2 minutes to examine this play?

@@AJHart-eg1ys clearly you've never before seen a SB Nation video. Yes. It takes quite a few minutes to gather context for why a 20 second play is so breathtaking. It's the whole point of their Rewind series, and quite a few Jon Bois episodes (Pretty Good, Chart Party, Dorktown, etc) take several minutes to paint the picture of the importance of one single play that takes under a minute. And I love SB Nation for it.

I wanted to see the whole play and run. I didn't care that it would take 15 minutes, lol

It was implied that he makes it:)

@@jcbvortex22 Lol. I rekon so, there was no one there to stop him. I just would like to have seen the entire play from snap to td. Great video anyway.

rundoetx Me too.....me too

rundoetx I got you covered. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dsAQDkisqWI.html

it's always nice to hear moments that happened longer ago than i've been alive

Hmmm...what would one name such a town?

@@Trollificusv2 Pretty Goodville

@Scullys Tie (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

@Benjamin Alfveby (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

I fucking know right? How do they make a random ass football play so poetic?

@Matty Jay Ron Burgundy appreciates this.

And the song! What song is that! I loves me some synthwave and I must have it!

What are you talking about? They never show the entire play.

I was going to say please stop making videos......to each his own, I suppose.

As if we didn’t watch the infamous NOOOOOO!!!!!

Please, they are too busy talking to even show the whole play.

It reminds me of prezis

QBs go from the niners to the Chiefs, not the chiefs to the niners

Exactly

Pat gave KC A Super Bowl, a WhatABurger, and a Pat Mahomes Jr...he can have all the cap space

@@thetoptige8014 somehow we'll get Jimmy G as a backup

Steve Bono was a heck of a QB he learned from Bill Walsh, George Seifert, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Mike Holmgrem, Mooch & more. Some of the Chiefs best seasons with Bono at the helm. Granted they didn't win in the postseason however going 13-3 & 1st place in the AFC is far cry from a waste of money.

clearly you haven't mastered the art of youtube playback speed multiplier!

Waluigi The Master yo funny seeing you here, you made those “everything wrong with” videos

20 minutes and you never see the end of the play.

GoogleIsTheWorst I think encouraged suits his role better. Escorts implies some sort of defense of the thing your escorting

Video of highlights of the game showing both TDs ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hZBIDZAgPwE.html

+Steve Babiak Thank you, that would have driven me crazy…

@GooglelsTheWorst (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

@wouldn't you like to know (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

Jack Goldscher Yes

I hate I never clicked so fast comments but I never clicked so fast.

📠📠📠

I was literally going to watch a netflix episode but decided to watch this first LMAO

O J This was painfully boring.

It’s because you know you’ll watch more Netflix

Yeah. Won't be watching any sbnation videos for a long while.

@@harrymills2770 good thing they changed their name a while ago lol

So all of you who did not see the entire play...on RU-vid: 1995 Kansas City (3-1) vs Arizona Cardinals (1-3) Right at the beginning of the 2nd qtr roughly 33:01 in that video

@@paytonmacdonald1409 Yeah. I think they've got the best front end for asynchronous chat, but they went corporate - or rather, the channel(s) I frequented went corporate - and it stopped being as much fun. Less of a community. So I am out of touch. Might go back just to have the pleasure of z-ing through the new comments. You can have easy, efficient back-and-forths. I don't even know if they still let you post GIFs, which was a big part of the fun.

@@leczorn Thanks, man!

Surprise factor of that one play almost justifies Martyball.

I'm gonna feel dumb for this, but who's the first?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0xblJD_3tX4.html

@@Anita_sensei I believe it’s Daniel Jones

Kids these days are spitting out analogies the second they come out the womb-it's damn scary, I tell you.

Even a lot of classical writers (like Greek classic) posed that the only writing skill that was unteachable was metaphor. You can practice, but yeah, it's a gift.

it wasn't brilliant. It was actually a bad line. Creative Writing majors always have a fetish for unnecessarily complicated adjectives.

@@Hazztech ok sitzpinkler

Not Jon Bois really hit it out of the park on that one. Someday we may have to learn his name.

This and when they ran 7 plays at the 1 yard line against the Eagles in 1992 and couldn’t score once...

@@JWex-jy7sk bills so unoriginal

They are who we thought they were!

i just noticed that theyre all on the same space this episode

I think in the 4:3 you see a Cardinals helmet in the last frame which is great just because some one bothered to look like they cared after 10 seconds in the play.

@Smug Tomato (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

The reason it looks that way is because Bono ran on the wrong side of his blocker. Valerio properly, though unnecessarily, slowed down to get into the correct position to block for Bono. We can see the whole play in much better resolution in this video (which is only 33 seconds long): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dsAQDkisqWI.html Watch Valerio motion to Bono to run by while Valerio hangs back and moves left to block, if necessary.

Nah... “The introduction of Jon Bois into SB Nation deserves a deep rewind.”

Eric Silver you literally comment that on every video and never get an answer like dude stop they’re obviously not doing it

TimothyKK Jon bois is sb nation

its fr a cool story I think it started as a A's blog

Wouldn't be a very long video. In fact the rewinder would be 5 words: "Jon Bois and this series." That's probably the deepest they could go without getting off-topic.

"Like a tranquilized turtle wearing ankle-weights" was my favorite

Paul Needham I just like the part where they started stacking the frames in the run

Deals And soon it will become DORKNATION

@@TornaitSuperBird dorkblogsnation

underrated comment

It'll be DORKPLANET soon enough

In the anime, it'll just be MEGADORK. Or NEW Megadork.

Pretty Good

@@duffin3503 yup

More like 76/10!

@sansvoir (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

OFC, any longtime die-hard Cardinals fan (emphasis on die) would understand this. -signed another Cardinals fan But hey, now we've got Murray, Hopkins & Drake + after Bono's TD occurred the team did make the playoffs eventually & multiple times.

We got a couple super bowl memories now

@@runpullfourskinz6796 And probably some more coming as long as Andy Reid doesn't get a heart attack.

@@SWHalo2 delete this right now for the love of god youll jinx it

And you may get one more in a couple of weeks. Stop hogging all the superbowls.

Only 90%?

Gregory Siegel Gotta account for the oldies and fatties.

@@gregsiegel7072 I'm accounting for infants, people over the age of 75, and people with impaired mobility, but TBH, even then I may be underselling.

VenomVGZ that’s former America’s sexiest athlete Elvis grbac to you

Grbac was no Steve DeBerg but not as bad as Brodie Croyle.

@VenomVGZ (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

ScatterVolt didnt expect u here

True story?

Scott Martin Yes 100%. I send ttm’s (through the mail autograph requests) to former Chiefs all the time. I believe he lives in California now. You can view his address on www.sportscardforum.com/scfttmm/ttmm/welcome/ if you want to send something for him to sign. All around good guy!

@@petrofor3430 (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

Francis M.H. White stop spamming, please

Going to the fridge for a beer halfway through the run and getting back before Bono scored.

I remember watching this play on ESPN in 1995 when I was 9 years old. Until just now I thought it was the Giants QB Dave Brown who ran this play. And I'm a Chiefs fan! Thanks for the refresher guys.

@Kenisama (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

@@mrbismarck (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

I didn't exist when it happened

Probably wont be a video since they got a written article on their website about it. Its Pretty Good, you should look it up!

It won't be as much fun (it's sad to see how Sanders got wasted), but it will be incredible.

It's the most important meal of the day.

He ate his wheaties

The Barry Bonds method.

@LuigiKing46 (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

I would agree with that, but they trash all the great material in the video by not showing the play that they talk so much about.

To be fair, you'd be way more likely to go all in on a defense from the half yard line than their 24

That was an epic play

Literally was thinking about the play the whole time

Was Manning really faster than Bono? Plus, I think Manning might have handed the ball to Valerio and just said "You do it."

@Lanz Sibelius (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

*near the goal line*

Still one of my favorite plays to this day.

Good thing he didn’t. That season might still be ongoing

Would’ve been at least a 5,000 yard gain, more if he developed his northern pith quickly enough

Marcus Aurelius Those Redblacks are everywhere though. They're like Cowboys fans.

The Tim Tebow Chronicles is my favorite piece of sports writing ever. Having spent high school in Ottawa and casually watching the CFL made it hysterical to me

LMAO

@David Beamer (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

always new the San Fran connection with KC QB's but I didn't realize how one sided it was. Funny that I think I look at Gannon in the best light until Trent Greene came around.

@Zoyx (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

Well this vid tells me the play caller seemed to know what he was doing so best record isnt too surprising :)

mattcain18 I don’t remember hearing about that. If it’s true that would’ve been a huge mistake for the 49ers.

Robert Sosa It was probably an awful tough decision for the Niners. You have a hot younger QB who had one spectacular season. His trade value would be enormous and plenty of new guys have a hot first season and then flame out. You also have the veteran who lead you to four Super Bowl titles and is arguably the greatest quarterback of all time. But he is coming off a serious injury and you don’t know if he will be back to his old self. Their decision turned out well in the end, but it wasn’t an obvious choice in the ‘91/92 offseason.

Seriously... That level of writing is needed in so many more things.

@Dustin Dent (Full Game)1995 Chiefs @ Cardinals ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GS5kkfIEbeA.html

That's Jon Bois in a nutshell

Yes, they got so weirdly existential, they forgot to do the most important thing of all, which is show the play, which was already available in two separate posts here on RU-vid.

@@leczorn Why should they? It wouldn't really add anythings and the rest is much more interesting to talk about.