@@moss8448 I still remember the Christmas day playoff classic between The Kansas city Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins of 1971!, A game that went through two overtimes!!!!.
@@Schwackem99 yea lol but did they win anything? Nah and pretty soon that team will have to start paying those players and then they fall apart same old browns
@@RainmakerXBooty yea & dats what makes it devastatin but it goes to show u there have been teams to lose 3 times to a team in one season. 99 Jaguars, 09 eagles 😢😞, 2022 Giants 😁 it does happen
Yep. I agree. That should be among the most devastating losses. I'm a Packer fan and that might be the best Viking team they ever had (despite no rings, the Vikings have had a lot of really good teams over the years).
People always forget that the Patriots interception wasn't the end of the game. Instead of just going down in the endzone he tried to run it out and got tackled on the one yard line. So the Seahawks still had a chance to get a safety and then get the ball back. But Michael Bennett jumped offsides, And the penalty brought the ball out to the 5-yard line, THAT was when the game truly ended.
@@moss8448 The true villains of that game was the vaunted "Legion of Boom" defense giving up two long TD drives in the 4th quarter. It's funny that nobody ever talks about that
@@davidr5961 Agreed. With regard to level of importance.....not even close but how many teams in the history of football lost a game when all they had to do is take a knee once.
That is one of the greatest upsets ever. Nobody today even talks about the 2007 Patriots. If the Patriots had won that game they’d be far and way considered the greatest team of all time without question and that team would be talked about to this day. Instead, you don’t hear a word about the 2007 Patriots.
Sometimes being a Florida State fan sucks because every year they bring up multiple missed FGs that cost FSU championships. Then a freaking terrible 3-9 GT team beat FSU off a blocked FG on the last play of the game and that's on a lot of highlight reels, too.
That was our year too. Phillips never should have started Johnson - Flutie would have led us to the Super Bowl that year and won it too. I will believe that until the day I die.
@@travismcnamara8919 Phillips wasn't to blame. Ralph Wilson forced him to play Johnson because (a) he didn't want to admit he'd made a horrible mistake in Johnson and (b) he had an irrational dislike of Flutie because "he ran too much." Wilson was basically an old fool and paid for his mistake dearly given he never saw the Bills in the playoffs again before he passed away.
#6 was a space-time continuum moment. If the Oilers had been able to hold that lead, they roll through the playoffs and get to the Super Bowl against the Cowboys. Win or lose, Bud Adams has political capital to get a new stadium in Houston and the Oilers stay. Instead, that loss was so devastating it put the fan's passion for the team on life support. Next year's loss to KC just created apathy and Houston was in no mood to give Bud Adams a stadium. Rest is history.
I would've appreciated an Oilers Rams Super Bowl in 2000. That loss to the Rams though might have been more painful than their loss to the Bills in 93!
@@UncleMikeNJ In 78-79 yes, but those Pittsburgh teams had like 8 Hall of Famers and a better roster. By 1992 Bradshaw, Franco, Swann, and Lambert had all retired and the Oilers had a better roster than Pittsburgh. The Steelers swept the Oilers that year because Moon was injured in one of those games. But the Oilers were too talented to get beaten by the same team 3 times and a healthy Moon would have beaten them on a 3rd try.
For real. My dad has always wanted to see the vikings win a super bowl his whole life. It won't happen unfortunately. I honestly root for them more than anybody just to see my dad happy.
As devastating as "The Choke" was for the Oilers, maybe the '93 loss to the Chiefs was more devastating. That team had won 11 straight, had earned a bye into the DR, playing a KC team they shut out early in the season (without Montana, tbf), while going through all sorts of turmoil (Buddy Ryan, Baby-gate, the stadium conundrum, Jeff Alm's suicide et.c.). And then, in front of a record crowd, they lose in gut punching fashion to KC & it was the moment football died in Houston. Bud Adams blew up the team, they went 2-14 the next year & left for Tennessee 2 years after that.
According to the rule at the time, it was the right call. Very stupid rule but correct call. Funnily enough, the Patriots were victims of the same circumstance earlier in the year.
The Oilers choke against the Bills should be number 1. It changed NFL history. As a fan, I can tell you it along with next year's loss to KC destroyed our fanbase. Apathy set in and the city of Houston pretty much told Bud Adams to hit the road when it rejected a referendum to build a new stadium. Had the lead held up, the Houston Oilers would still exist.
Houston shouldn’t have a franchise they can’t even support Oilers now Texans bring that franchise to San Antonio we deserve a team tired of cheering Oilers Texans and Cowboys fuck New York has3 teams and only Giants have won lately
This is probably the best made episode of top 10 NFL films has done. From the clips, to the interview bits, to the music, along with the fact that the list overall was pretty accurate. I always come back to this episode every now and again.
Harry Engel I agree with you 100%. Johnson rode the pine behind Mark Brunell in Jacksonville but played maybe one good game w/great drives his last year leading impressive drives & setting a completion percentage for a first time starting QB despite it being his 3rd year. Bills signed him to a big contract for 1998. Flutie’s Football Life episode on it was really good. Of course Flutie became starter when Johnson got hurt & Flutie mania kicked off. The next year Flutie beat Johnson for the start & got the Bills to the playoffs but in 1999 the Bills were still used to playoffs. Johnson started the last meaningless game while starters rested & played lights out. Suddenly Wade Phillips is told by the owner that he needed to start Johnson over Flutie. Johnson struggled against Titans defense when Jeff Fisher was still in his Buddy (Ryan) Ball prime but the Bills were still winning. They just needed to kick off the ball & cover the kick off. The day that play happened I yelled at the TV. “That’s what you get for benching Fkutie!” I always liked Flutie. In September 2005 I went to a Carolina Panthers game to see the visiting Patriots. I had a decent camera for the time & during Patriots warm ups I took a great photo from of Tom Brady & Doug Flutie & the unknown third stringer. 3 years later I went back to look at the photo & sure enough the then unknown 3rd stringer in the photo was Matt Cassel in his rookie year. I was pleased. 😀 Anyway, after that loss tje Bills didn’t make the playoffs again for another 17 seasons! Now I wouldn’t wish that on Bills fans & Ralph Wilson was a great human being but the football gods didn’t care about that & he never saw the playoffs again who’re his death in 2014. I wish that the Bills had danced with the one who brought them. 😀
Harry Engel Once again. I agree 100%. You know the game & the players. Wilson has become an incredible QB. Tough loss to the Cards who just kept hanging around. But I think the Seahawks & Packers will be in the NFC Championship Game this year. 😃 I’m afraid my Steelers are just getting lucky at this point. Do you see anyone other than Packers & Seahawks in the NFC title game? I think Bucs won’t bet there. NFL wants Super Bowls to be at neutral sights that bring in fans from both teams. Look at what’s happened to teams trying to make Super Bowl run that would end in their home stadium. Lol
B Bryant Agree. I think I’ve seen all of them so far & yes I have to admit that I wasn’t a fan of Rodney & Junior when they beat my Steelers in the 1994 AFC title game but I learned to appreciate both. Rodney’s football life was excellent. Great player.
Superbowl 43 was such a heart breaking story to me. I saw it live back when I was a kid. Me and my cousin were huge Steelers fans back in the day (my cousin still is one to this day). When we found out that the Cardinals were going to the Superbowl, we both got on madden, picked the steelers and intentionally tried to sack Warner as many times as we could to the point where he got injured. We celebrated it. I always thought Kurt Warner was a d-bag back then. So when we watched the Superbowl that year, we were glued to our seats. When James Harrison converted that interception to a TD, we were jumping with joy. Then Warner tossed it to Fitzgerald and scored, we were panicking because we thought it was over by then. It wasn't until the last drive where Santioni Holmes made that clutch TD and gave Steelers that win. That win made our entire week. Later down the line, I was watching some NFL documentaries, and I came across the story of Kurt Warner and his journey of taking the Rams to the Superbowl. That story touched me because of what Warner had to go through in order to make it to the top. The guy went from bagging groceries to earning rings. Not only did he lead the offense with the Greatest Show on Turf, but he carried a franchise that was tanking. He was the literal comeback kid. So when I realized that he helped the Cardinals of all teams make it to the SuperBowl, I regret not cheering for him sooner. He should have won that game. He should have cemented himself as one of the GOATS for helping 2 franchises go from rags to riches. But unfortunately, he didn't win. Not a lot of people do talk about him at all, which is very unfortunate. But after watching that performance of him and Fitzgerald smashing through the Steelers defense, I was impressed. I'm honestly glad they made a film about him though, he deserves one.
I agree. That was our best chance in our whole team history to win a SB. Now in 2024 we have new coaches, a promising QB and a young team so who knows? Maybe one day. 😊
The 1979 NFC East Divisional Championship game should be on this list. That loss was so devastating that John Riggins walked away from football for a year.
How does this beat out The Ice Bowl? Green Bay Packers vs. Dallas Cowboys for the right to play in Super Bowl II? How does this beat our Super Bowl XVIII: Raiders 38 Redskins 9?
1940 Championship game, Bears beat Washington 73-0 "Early in the game, Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh hurled a long pass to Charlie Malone, who was open behind the Bears' defense. Malone dropped the ball. 'Would the outcome have been different if Malone caught that pass?' Baugh was asked. 'Yeah,' Baugh replied. 'The score would have been 73-7.' "
Minneapolis miracle & the refs screwing the Saints by not throwing the flag on the flying helmet to helmet headbutt in the NFC championship would both be top 10. But the last OT loss was just a wildcard game
So let me get this straight, number 8 isn’t a game it’s just Brett Favre’s history of playoff interceptions? That’s stupid, pick a game. Who’s upset about both? Favre & his family? Come on!
@@peteanderson6121 NO WAY...THE MINNESOTA ONE WAS WORST. Vikings never won a superbowl. Its tied....all he has to do is run it up the middle for a few yards. And kick a field goal. He threw it right to Porter... Even the announcer was SO PISSED. LOL
9:40 I was at that game and it’s indescribable how cold it was. We had to leave the stands to go inside to the restroom like every 10 minutes to warm up. I saw a grown ass man in his 40’s sitting on the floor in the bathroom crying and rubbing his feet with his shoes off. I remember leaving the game and being completely numb on the walk to the car. There is no way I would do that again I don’t care how big the game is lol
What people forget about the number 1 on this list is that Tom Brady almost completed a 50 yard pass with 30 seconds left in that game after the Giants scored. I remember cheering thinking the Giants won outright but Brady fired off a deep shot to a receiver that got behind the defense. He dropped it but still was a crazy ending.
@@moss8448 Yeah it was it was Randy Moss who almost caught it. Webster broke it up. Brady threw the ball 75 yards on that 3rd down play. Dude had a cannon.
@@fitfogey That ball was dead-on accurate as well. If it wasn't for Webster's amazing coverage the ball would've landed right into Moss's hands and he would've had a sure-fire touchdown (I still believe Moss should've jumped for it, he likely would've caught it). That play proves 2 things, Brady DOES NOT have a weak arm, and Webster was the real hero for the Giants that game, not Tyree or Manning.
The Music City Miracle was a lateral. ABC happened to have a camera pointed right at Wycheck from the sideline. The ball went backwards by about a foot. It's hard to tell, but it did.
If you were alive & a Cowboy fan 81 NFC championship. To this day I still remember where we sitting & screaming when Montana hit Clark. Heartbreaking. Super Bowl 13 is my runner up.
The craziest thing about the James Harrison 100 yard pick 6 in SB 43 is that at the very end both Larry Fitzgerald and Steve Breaston catch up with him at the same time on about the 3 yard line and both hit him simultaneously which keeps Harrison on his feet(who was completely gassed by that point) long enough for him to score. Had one or the other caught up to him a half second earlier Fitz either pulls Harrison out of bounds or Breaston knocks him out of bounds and the Cards only trail by 3. That's what they mean by a game of inches.
1:53 The 2002 NFC Championship. 5:44 The Tuck Rule! 8:46 The Brett Favre Playoff Pick Parade! 13:36 The Music City Miracle! 16:40 The Choke! 21:08 Super Bowl XLIX. 24:42 Super Bowl XLIII. 29:15 Super Bowl XXV. 33:52 The Drive/The Fumble. 40:02 Super Bowl XLII.
To me, the Ghost to the Post game was very devastating. Because that resulted in the late Bob Irsay to move the Indianapolis Colts out of Baltimore in 1984.
Favre didn’t exactly “torment” the Vikings…for being by far the best QB in the division at the time, he’s only 17-14 against them, compared to 26-9 against the Lions and 23-13 against the Bears. He also lost 31-17 the only time he played the Vikings in the playoffs (the infamous “Miss Moon.)
Still hate joe buck in large part bc of that call. Everytime he fucks something up I still say “what a class less call by joe buck, and I’m sorry that we had to hear that”
Great background on the BillS-Titans game. I wanted the Bills to win for Flutie until they benched him for Rob Johnson. Watched it live and it was unbelievable.
I'm a Giants fan, but I have a hard time saying that SB42 is the number one devastating loss when the team already had a dynasty, to say nothing for all the success that the Patriots and Tom have had since this episode aired.
Since NFL Top 10 has apparently been cancelled its unlikely we'll have an update. But yeah putting this list right on the eve of the second Patriots Dynasty made it age like milk more than some of the other 2010s lists.
I think if that had been the only Super Bowl that New England had been in then it gets more votes. The other thing is that New York had almost beaten the Patriots in the regular season, falling 38-35. I'll admit it was an upset, but it's not as if the Giants should have been 21 points underdogs.
As a pats fan, that loss still hurts. A lot. That team was so nasty, but now they're just the great team that couldn't get it done. Fuckin Eli, the patriots kryptonite
1962 Lions were running out the clock on a win at Lambeau when their receiver slipped in the mud, leading to an interception that led to a game winning FG by Paul Hornung. This quite possibly cost the Lions a division title, basically ruined their star QB and caused the owners of the team to throw up their hands and sell the team to William Clay Ford.
The more devastating loss was trading Bobby Layne to the Steelers in 1958. He said after the trade that the Lions would never win another title, and damn if he wasn’t right...
That 1962 Packers team was arguably the greatest football team of all time. They led the league in scoring and in fewest points given up. They crushed nearly every team they played. They lost one game to the Lions on Thanksgiving. The Lions lost 3 games. The Lions lost 3-0 to the Bears. The Packers crushed the Bears 49-0 and 38-7. I often tout the 62 Lions as the greatest team to not win the Super Bowl, but they weren't as good as the 62 Packers. Wrong year for them.
Everything started going wrong for the chargers when they fired ole Marty. The franchise has not been the same since. It would end up costing san Diego the chargers. F#!$ dean spanos
I think the top 5 worst losses in NFL history are: 5. Chargers in the 2006 divisional round. 4. Packers in the 2014 NFC Championship. 3. Seahawks in Super Bowl 49. 2. Vikings in the 1998 NFC Championship. 1. Falcons in Super Bowl 51 HM: Saints in 2018 NFC Championship, Oilers in 1992 WC, and the Browns in 1986-87.
The 2018 NFC Championship Game was singlehandedly the most heartbreaking loss for a team, the Saints had the win taken away from them due to the refs and their incompetence
Yeah as a Pats fan that Giant loss was pretty tough. Given that they did it twice is even more misery. Tom Cough-nobi & Eli SkyManning really slayed the Emperor & Vader twice.
@@lorddalek Good point. After a Superbowl loss the Patriots came back to win more rings. Funny thing about Giants Superbowl wins, Bill Belichick was on the field for every one, two wins as the Giants Defensive Coordinator, and two losses as Patriots head coach. Did you know Belichick has 8 Superbowl rings, two as a DC and six as a HC?
The Eagles Tampa game...wow...for those who don't live in Philly cannot understand how devastating that loss was...everything was set up to be a stone cold lock that Eagles would win and go to the Super Bowl...not only had we easily beat Tampa the last 2 years in the playoffs, we also beat them easily that season...they couldn't win in cold weather and it was a send off for the VET and Eagles were up 7 nothing and that place was on fire...and then it all blew up in the last 3 quarters....we have been in 4 NFC championship games, 2 super bowls, and a super bowl champion since then....and that loss still hurts....worse loss in Philly sports history and thar includes Joe Carter
I was 22 and in the Army at the time, and three months before my first deployment, and I had to carry the pain of that 2002 NFC Championship loss over to Iraq. We won the Super Bowl years later, but that pain will never go away.
@@matthewdaley746 Not just great, the greatest that ever played football. Tom Brady already is the best Quarterback, of all time, this is accepted now unanimously, and by even the biggest of Brady's haters, and he certainly has a number of those. Stop denying it.
Losing to the Raiders in the 76 AFC championship game- no three-peat. I still think about it to this day. The Colts losing to Nammoths Jets in 69 has to be top.
@Lorraine Gray even more so the fact that the Raiders didn’t belong in that game. A phantom roughing the passer call gave them a second chance to win against the patriots. But maybe the injured players had more to do with the loss.
@@notoriouseagle1074 Im not saying it wasn’t devastating to the city but that loss didn’t demoralise the team. They bounced back and took control of their division and made it back. The Falcons on the other hand NEVER recovered
That Pats Seahawks game was such a swing of emotions because I was still in a state of shock from the Metcalf reception when they threw that pick on the goal line. I thought that the Patriots had been David Tyree'd/Mario Manningham'd all over again, and then something even more heartbreaking happened for the other team.
Some Browns fans were also queuing up for tickets, believing their long-suffering franchise was finally going to the Super Bowl (of course, that hasn't happened yet).
The one thing about the music city miracle that's most devastating... The bills on the sidelines were celebrating saying "champions gotta go win on the road" and 16 seconds later their heart is ripped out
Still though , a tie means they do still have to go and win the game. No games are played in terms of who should win. By that logic , no underdog should ever win a game.
#10 was my most satisfying win. I'll never forget Ronde Barber's pick 6. And I love that it's a awful memory for Eagles fans. Miss that rivalry. Loved to hate the Eagles. We were NOT supposed to win that game even though we may have been considered better. People forget we couldn't win in the cold weather.
Yeah, I'm an Eagles fan, and that loss was totally devastating. The morons who say it wasn't don't have a clue. That was the last game ever at the Vet...The Eagles were favored, and that was our second of what became three straight NFC title game losses in a row. We had knocked the Bucs out of the playoffs the last two years, and we all thought we would again. The Bucs had never won a game in freezing temperatures, and then you guys KILLED us. Just an absolute kill job. Brian Mitchell took the opening kickoff back for a touchdown, and then we only scored three points the rest of the game. Just total domination for Tampa
@@elliemyers6435 Seriously. I want to strangle whoever in this video said that Tampa Bay was obviously the best team in those playoffs. HOF defensive players everywhere, but Brad Johnson was their QB, and Philly had their number in the playoffs AND the Bucs hadn't won a game in cold weather in it's history. Eagles were red hot at the time and were excellent on both sides of the ball. They even managed to keep winning without Mcnabb for 6 weeks in the season with Koy Detmer and then AJ Feeley. Then Mcnabb returns just in time for the playoffs and you just know it's their time. Not to mention, the winner of that game was going to beat the geriatric Raiders for all of the marbles in the Super Bowl without a doubt. You just knew it. Look at how badly Tampa Bay whooped them. They blew them out worst than they did us. Ronde's pick 6 felt like he was running for eternity. You just had to sit there and helplessly watch him run across the Vet, the last game in the stadium's history, which come think of it is fitting because that place was a dump, but it was our dump, so it was just brutal. The people on this show who said no one cared are way out of touch. One of the most sports crazed cities were devastated by that game and at the time were currently mired in a 25 year championship drought for all 4 of it's major sports teams.
@@sgshumblecrumb6046 Absolutely....the pain I felt from that loss was so visceral...and you're right, we had their number in the playoffs, plus as you said, Brad freaking Johnson was their starting QB and they just laid the wood to us. Ronde's interception was like a stake through the heart....That's one of the lasting images of the vet, him just sprinting down the field for what seemed like forever. The vet was a real piece of shit, but it was our hole, and it was a GIANT home field advantage, and for it to be closed out like that was that horrible of a loss was so brutal. I remember that we kept winning even when McNabb went down, and when he came back for the playoffs, it was like "let's do this...." and then, yeah, complete misery for three hours.
The Broad Street line subway after that game: both as crowded and and quiet as I've ever experienced. Bonus experience: the numerous broken champagne bottles in the Vet parking lot.
An updated list would be very interesting, 28-3 couldn't be omitted. As it was, pretty good list. #1 is obvious, I would put Super Bowl 25 at #2 because of the reason said in the video, decided on an end of game kick.
Watching the NY giants beat the NE Patriots in that Super bowl was one of the best feelings I've had. That team has used "tuck rules, deflate gate, and spy gate and all the other stuff they haven't got caught with", so I'm glad a team could finally send a positive message. Unfortunately, the Pats fans will probably never see the value of this.
for Charger fans, i would have to say its easily the Marlon McCree game, but of course Nate Kaeding missing FG's against the Jets in the playoffs are another strong contender, the Holy Roller game against the Raiders, and losing to the backup QB-led Oilers. For Vikings fans, Gary Anderson's missed FG without question, and Buffalo Bills, Scott Norwood wide right. For the Falcons, thats an easy answer.
I think after 2016 we had a brand new number one. I don't know when this list was made, but if it was made after 2016 I would say that the exclusion of the falcons loss and the super bowl to the Patriots later on has the b number one. 28 to 3? you're up 25 points halfway through the third quarter and lose? what's more devastating than losing a super bowl like that?
@@matthewdaley746 For everybody but the Patriots the Giants defeated The Evil Empire in the most David v Goliath situation in NFL history but for the Patriots this was seeing the undeniable, unquestionable validation of the best football team to ever exist slip through their fingers. If the Patriots had won that game not just that individual team but the franchise as a whole would be historic, probably the greatest team in the entire history of American sports. It also would've gotten Don Shula to shut the fuck up, bitter old crank that he was whining whenever a team would go 8-0.
@@matthewdaley746 YES, it was a devastating loss. When the Yankees lost in the bottom of the 9th in 01, that was devastating, 04 was the same. Just because the hated team lost, doesn't mean it wasn't crippling you dumbass.
The real # 1 is what happened in Kansas City City,Mo on Christmas day 1971.All the games here mostly place from 2000 on.The 1981 NFC Championchip game,the game in Pittsburgh(if you liked defense this was the game for you) on December 23,1972 is another one.Ironcally that was not even the most mememorable played that day.The game in San Francisco that day has 2 comebacks by the Dallas Cowboys & has nearly 60 points in scoring.The December 28,1975 game when Roger Staubach hit Drew Pearson for the game winning.
No defense, the moment was too big for Danny White, they wouldn't have beaten the Dolphins, anyway, they weren't good enough, PI, was, just, somehow, missed.
@@MRMCDONALD13 yeah if only he had like a great QB in the late 00’s that won a National championship or something, he surely would’ve been dominant then.