![]() Larry Csonka did set the Super Bowl rushing record with 145 yards and scored two touchdowns. This wasn’t Mac Jones Night in windy Buffalo. It did have Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese attempting seven passes the entire game. There was a case of the game’s circumstance – the Dolphins’ perfect season – overtaking a pretty lousy 14-7 game in Super Bowl 7. And, of course, this wasn’t close to the best Dolphins Super Bowl team the 1972 Dolphins the year before had gone undefeated. This was the Dolphins’ second Super Bowl win in a row, but that had already been done by the Green Bay Packers. But this one stands out because, unlike other bad games, there was nothing in the storyline that could elevate it to a level of relevancy that might mitigate the sheer terrible-ness of the game itself. ![]() Pretty much any Super Bowl that had the Minnesota Vikings in it was a terrible game. Super Bowl 8: Miami Dolphins 24, Minnesota Vikings 7ĥ Most Undeserving Super Bowl MVPs of All Time, Guaranteed But on that night in 1990, it was torture for the Broncos and the world. Elway and the Broncos had been humiliated in three Super Bowls in a span of four years, yet they did not shrink from the moment in San Diego and pulled one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history. Which makes what the Broncos were able to do against the heavily-favored Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl 32 all the more remarkable. If it had been a prize fight, they’d have stopped it. The 49ers led 27-3 at the half and 41-3 with nine minutes to go in the third quarter. ![]() Sure, there were records set, but nothing that stood out as all-time historic, except for the margin of victory, which remains the biggest blowout in Super Bowl history. This game against Joe Montana’s 49ers in 1990 had no such history. The only one not to make our list was the 42-10 wipe-out by Washington in Super Bowl 23, and that’s only because of the record-setting performance by Washington quarterback Doug Williams, who threw four touchdown passes in the second quarter alone. Three of the five biggest blowouts in Super Bowl history feature the Broncos on the losing end. Give the Denver Broncos credit: When they lose a Super Bowl, they really lose a Super Bowl. Relive Super Bowl XXIV /SPSZYAQakq- San Francisco 49ers January 28, 2018 Super Bowl 40: Pittsburgh Steelers 21, Seattle Seahawks 10 Linebacker Chuck Howley remains the only player in Super Bowl history to win the MVP and lose the game.Įven one of the touchdowns was a fiasco of a play, with Johnny Unitas throwing a pass over the middle that was first deflected by a Colts player, then tipped again by Dallas cornerback Mel Renfro, then caught by legendary tight end John Mackey, who turned it into a 75-yard touchdown. How bad was this game? A defensive player won the game’s MVP award, and he played on the losing team. Amazingly, the Colts committed seven of them and still managed to win. Both teams combined for 11 turnovers, including five in the fourth quarter. The first Super Bowl ever played on Poly-Turf at Miami’s Orange Bowl, the game was a slippery, bumbling disaster. This game was so badly played that not even a game-winning field goal with five seconds left in regulation could spare it from making the list. They called it the “Blunder Bowl,” and that’s a pretty good advertisement to make our little list. ![]() The longest offensive play from scrimmage in the first 14 Super Bowls (tied in SB13) /S2wz6ozYGM- Kevin Gallagher January 17, 2022 Johnny Unitas's 75-yard tip-drill TD aerial to John Mackey, the #Baltimore #Colts' first score of Super Bowl V, 51 years ago today. Super Bowl 43: Seattle Seahawks 43, Denver Broncos 8 There was really nothing redeemable about the five we chose. Yes, a terrible game, but also a game with a memorable play – the “Refrigerator” Perry touchdown – and one of the greatest one-season teams in NFL history with iconic players and coaching staff. We have been tasked with ranking the most-foul five, and you will probably be surprised by a couple that did not make the unkindest cut of all.įor instance, we spared the 46-10 Bears rout of the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 20. Even the Jets-Colts Super Bowl 3, for all its histrionics with Joe Namath’s guarantee and the mighty AFL upset over the heavily-favored NFL Colts was a really lousy football game. You could make a convincing case that any five of the first nine Super Bowls ever played are worthy. When you have 55 to choose from, there are going to be a lot of good candidates. So, we’re afraid, is the ugliness of the five worst Super Bowls ever played.
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