The Tuck Rule Begins 20 Years of Dominance! (Raiders vs. Patriots 2001, AFC Divisional Round) 

Arguably the clutchest field goal in NFL history is Vinatieri's 48 yarder to tie...amazing kick that didn't get 15 feet off the ground seemingly.

Fun fact about this game: Tom Brady was the first and only quarterback to throw for 300 yards against the 2001 Raiders' defense. Wouldn't have expected that given the horrendous weather conditions.

Patriots vs. Ravens divisional round matchup in 2014 needs to be on this channel as well. That was a top 10 playoff game of all time

The NFL decided it was a terrible rule, so they changed it. The current rule reads: Passer Tucks Ball. If the player loses possession of the ball during an attempt to bring it back toward his body, or if the player loses possession after he has tucked the ball into his body, it is a fumble.

17:00 Who could have known that perhaps the most pivotal football play of the 21st century would involve two Michigan players?

17:02 is what you're here for

It was a fumble

‪1x Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady retires after a short but stellar 2 year career. The 1x Pro Bowler and lifelong Buccaneer amassed a 5-1 record in the playoffs with 13 TDs, 4 interceptions and 1 game winning drive. (Source: Tom Brady) ‬

Lol I literally did my homework on this a few hours ago because I never watched the NFL back then and boom! Thank you NFL Throwback😎🍻🍺

Tom Brady may have retired, but the NFL in some ways will stay the same. For example, Greg Gumbel and Phil Simms still work on the NFL on CBS.

Damn an end of an era. It hurts harder than anticipated

Stop Crying Raider Fans - You got away with one against them in 70's

I don’t get why they say this game is the sole reason for the dynasty. Like seriously, WHAT would this change?? If the Tuck Rule doesn’t happen and the Patriots lose this game, does that stop them from appearing in the other 7 and winning 5?? Brady was obviously gonna be the guy moving forward since Belichick went BACK to him even after Bledsoe won the title game against Pittsburgh.

Still remember watching it live, my dad called it a fumble. He laughed when it was called incomplete.

The end kick gives me chills

I was at this game like all the others and I still have my ticket stub.

I hate to admit it but coming from a Patriots fan I believe but that actually was a fumble. And also I believe the Tuck Rule isn't even a rule anymore

The Tuck Rule Game changed the fates of the Patriots, Raiders, Buccaneers, and (indirectly) the Jets. DYK: The Pats were on the receiving end of the Tuck Rule in the first game against the Jets (the one where Bledsoe got hurt). The Tuck Rule would be abolished by a 29-1 league vote in 2013, with the Steelers voting against and the Pats (for obvious reasons) and then-Redskins abstaining. Also, Charles Woodson was on the receiving end of two of the most controversial calls in NFL history: the Tuck Rule Game and the Fail Mary.

I remember being a teenager watching this game live on Television📺 in Detroit Michigan, this game is a certified timeless classic NFL Game and one of the greatest NFL Games of all time.🏆🏈

I have to say it's kinda weird seeing both Jerry Rice & Tim Brown playing against a team whose quarterback(Brady) only just retired from what would become (and yet was unfathomable to nearly everybody back in 2001...) an incredible NFL career a few days ago...

Payback for the 1976 playoff game and that controversy play that favored the raiders.....

This was actually the first game between these two teams since 1994.

Yeah, it was a fumble, but as a Raiders fan...not converting a damn 3rd and 1 to end the game still bugs me more. We could've taken all the human element of those refs out by ending it on that play.

Brady played against one of his childhood favorites, Jerry Rice 🙌🏼

Once i found out Tom Brady retired this the game i thought about that took him too legendary status😩. Sad my Raiders got the short end of the stick

and the journey to becoming the greatest quarterback of all time had begun

I remember this game vividly. During halftime the snow was getting bad so I went outside to close the garage door. And my dumb self shut my finger in the door. That hurt just a bit.

amazing that in the second half the only recievers names you seem to hear on the Patriots are David Patton and Germaine Wiggins !! best performance in their career by both of them. gets overshadowed by Brady, the play, and the weather.

NFL throwback your videos are always so good, how do you have all of these games?

the greatest ever. when i first got into football, i hated brady because everyone else did. when i grew up, i started to realize how lucky i am to watch this man play. enjoy retirement goat 🐐 ❤️

What a way to send out old Foxboro Stadium with a playoffs win and and still one of the most memorable wins in Patriots history

4:45 this would make isaac punts have nightmares

Not even a Patriots or Buccaneers fan but I felt a bit empty when I heard the news. I’m ready for an NFL without Tom Brady.

I love the Snowstorm in the Stadium, I want to play Football in the Snow when I'm starting trying out for Major League Football.

The wrong game to celebrate the goat🐐

Whooooaa. .this is taking me back...

ah beautiful times for the NFL on CBS😇

It still hurts 😔😔😔😔

22:51 last play ever in Foxboro Stadium

17:06 If Woodson had waited a split second longer to hit Brady, it would have been a fumble.

The best way to look at bad calls such as the Tuck Rule costing you a game isn't to look at the one call but the entire body of the game. A game is more than 1 bad call or play but the entirety of the game. 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈❄️❄️❄️ Say we reversed the Tuck Rule but in exchange the Pats get another bad call reversed also! Then what? Chances are it's still a coin flip game. And by the way, the Raiders lost the coin flip in Overtime. And remember it was Sudden Death then, so the first team to score wins. Say the coin flipped in the Raiders favor and they go three and out, then what? Championship Teams find a way to win! 🏈🏈🌨️🌨️❄️🌨️🥶🥶🥶🥶🏈🏈 Nobody thought Brady and the Pats would beat the Greatest Show on Turf, the St. Louis Rams. Nobody thought Brady was even a good quarterback pick at 199 in the 6th round. Say he never got selected, or say Drew Bledsoe never got injured and Brady remained as a Backup Quarterback! Then what? (Aaron Rodgers won a Ring after being backup QB for Brett Farve, and Steve Young after being backup QB forJoe Montana.) The Pats were big underdogs. Adam Vinateiri made some out of this world game sealing kicks in a blizzard like weather out 45 yards with the wind in his face and then in the Super Bowl. Say he missed a kick, then is Brady still the starting quarterback over Drew Bledsoe? 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈 The Bucs a few years earlier lost to the same Rams on a Bert Emmanuel so called by refs "no catch" in the NFC Championship. The Rams couldn't score that day like they were used too and the Bucs would have either gone to the Super Bowl against Tennessee giving Dungy a chance to win a ring for Tampa, or the Bucs would have continued to struggle to score a TD in the RedZone like they did all that day? Or say the Bucs won the Super Bowl with Dungy, what would happen to Peyton Manning and Indianapolis Colts? Imagine the Bucs vs Oakland a year early, or oh, that still did happen in which the Bucs won the year after the Tuck Rule game in the Super Bowl! This settles it hopefully for Raiders Fans. We, the Bucs gave you 4 draft picks, and your owner rushed John Gruden to Tampa Bay. Or say you kept Gruden, and that trade hypothetically never happened then maybe the Super Bowl would have been a closer game, or a runaway Bucs victory. 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 Nick Anderson missed 6 consecutive free throws costing the Orlando Magic a 1-0 lead and control of the series. Hypotheticals never give answers but more questions. Bring MJ back 1993-1995 doesn't mean the Bulls would win out 8 titles. More injuries and more setbacks. The Lakers with Shaq and Kobe lost in 5 to Detroit Pistons after 3-peating. Say they started Derek Fisher and put Gary Payton on the bench? Maybe a different outcome? Maybe? 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ For sake of argument, Oakland had they won against New England doesn't mean the St. Louis Rams would roll over and play dead. What if the Rams won, then what? It's hard to go back to back to the Super Bowl after a loss (and a win too). 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🥶🏈🏈🏈🏈 Championship Teams always find a way to win! If you depend upon refs to win rings, you're wasting your time.

The fact they played In the Air Tonight in the background while reviewing the Tuck Rule play is spooky as hell. BTW I'm surprised that ball bounced off the ground as high as it did at 16:10.

Little did raiders fans know, gruden would beat them in the super bowl next year and the new raiders coach would not change their scheme so gruden knew the types of plays they were running

That tying FG is still the greatest kick in NFL history.

Josh McDaniels yesterday, "that was a fumble"....major sucking up

Crazy how they only needed to kick a field goal for ot 🥴

22 years later and #12 is just now retiring.wow what a legacy 🇺🇸🏈💯🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Y admire Brady really… that man is a monster and one of the greatest NFL players ever and also from the Sports too… from a Steeler fan thanks for all you give to the NFL brady!!!

Thank you for posting the greatest bailout of all time on his retirement day - we love this - never change Throwback

Wow, he's been up against Jerry Rice

The moment that started it all.

Man I miss this generation of football. This game has everything. Hall of famers, bad weather, controversy, and outstanding play. Good times.✌️🇺🇸

Now we have their OC and GM who contributed to Brady success. Who woulda 🤔

The Game that started 20 Years if Heartbreak for the AFC and NFC (aside from the NFC East). It's a fumble, but the NFL had the tuck rule. Bad rule, but it was there. There'll never be another Brady

Final Game Ever At Foxboro Stadium

Until this day , THIS SH!T HURTS MY SOUL ACHES MY LIFE !!!!

0:31 Tedy Bruschi lays out Jerry Rice. I remember they talked about this play together on NFL Live one day.

The big “what if” game

saw uconn win and this in the same day....

Will you be uploading highlights of Bradys career? I know you guys did one for Peyton Manning when he retired

Back when football was fun 🏈🏈🏈🏈

The one thing every forgets or refuses to realize is that it’s called the “ Tuck Rule” the key word there is Rule. Being upset or mad or think it’s unfair, is ridicules. The Jets got the tuck rule against the Pats that season and it was called a hand full of times that season, no one cared until the Pats won a game from it. Just like how no one cares about the OT rules until their team looses because of it. It’s a RULE so get over it, don’t act ass hurt also like your team never got away with a bad call…This was a rule that turned out to the 100% the correct call down to the letter

The pace of the nfl is so slow back then crazy how Brady played in a different paces and still dominated

Old school

That was a fumble lol

21 Years Ago

R. I. P Tom Bradys’s long NFL Career :(

That was 100% a fumble!

The game that started Tom Brady career and Patriots dynasty also it was a fumble 😤😤😤

That Gurden guy, wonder where he's at now 🤭

Most shocking part is Gruden keeping his cool. Like what?

Still even though his arm came down thats a live ball thats a fumble with out of doubt

The Raiders should have went for it on fourth down & one.

Jerry rice Oakland Raiders in 2002 😳😯😮🏃🙄🤔🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

A thus begins a dynasty

Dang I remember this game well..13 years old I was and got my friends to play ball in the snow also.

It was only the begining...

I been sayin this forever this game was the cursed put on the raiders. since this game they had maybe 2 winning seasons but never got any where past the wild card. Now that the curse is lifted(tom Brady retiring) I believe the raiders will now have success in the coming years

Lol even if the Patriots lost here they still would've won in the next few seasons lol, hell maybe be perfect in 2007

I am going to miss tom brady the 🐐 NFL Throwback.

The beginning of the NFL'S Brady fuckery...smh!

I try my best to be impartial as a sports fan, a football (American) fan, and this was clearly a fumble lol but oh well. Brady is the 🐐

How can you call an attempted pass when the quarterback didn't even pass the ball? What a terrible tuck rule that was on the record book. Thank god they got rid of that rule.

Delicious salt

This was the first experience with Brady’s greatness as a player, but this tuck rule has been with him over ever since

13:50 😂

This is where the Brady hatred started

If they converted that 3rd and 1 they would’ve won lmao

Is this the last year the Raiders won a playoff game?

On this day teams reversed each other the Patriots became the winningest team and then the Raiders become the Patriots sub par losing team .... they both had number 12 quarterbacks they both had a number 24 cornerback the Patriots stole the the way the Raiders played through the years.... the Patriots became the Raiders hands down after the game... even though the Raiders made it to the Super Bowl the next year and got revenge on the Patriots this game still hits

Won but also lost the opining drive challenge lol

It's completely valid to criticize this call *within the right context*. But Oakland still needed to beat the #1 seeds of both conferences to win the SB, and a veteran Patriots fan may bring up the Sugar Bear incident that killed their run in the 1976 Playoffs to justify karma. So just keep those in mind next time you get into a Tuck Rule debate.

Tom Brady contributed to 0 points on the offense the next week, which is even more stupid. The defense went for TD’s and then he got injured. This game was full of strange moments.

As a Patriots fan Raiders and their fans still having a argument about the TUCK RULE.

is it true foxboro didnt have bathrooms? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

It was admitted by Brady's own mouth fumble.

One of the greastes helps from refs to one team ...

dope

This was the game that helped launch the Patriots dynasty and sent the Raiders into a decade long purgatory. Yes the Raiders did go to a Super Bowl a year after this game but the aftermath of this game is what sealed the Raiders fate for the next decade. I mean Jon Gruden got traded to Tampa Bay because of this game and also because he would’ve wanted more money to stay in Oakland.

Woodson hit Brady in the helmet with his hand on tuck rule play. Clear 15 yd roughing the passer and First down even in those days so stop crying