Favorite Non-49ers Super Bowl?

LayTheWoodall · 2019-01-14T21:06:47-08:00

Not sure if there is a thread out there like this, but I thought it might be a fun topic considering all the great games over the years. Pretty simple: what are your favorite non-49ers Super Bowls? I'll list my top 5 1. Super Bowl 43: I hated that Pittsburgh won #6 and it still stings that we didn't tie them, but man this was probably the most exciting super bowl I've ever watched. The game changing plays and the crazy finish. 2. Super Bowl 34: the first super bowl of what I considered a new era from my vantage point as a fan. "Parity" was the rage in 1999. Great matchup between two teams who played in the regular season. Titans came back from 16-0, only to have Warner and Bruce strike back. And then 1 yard short. 3. Super Bowl 32: hard one to include as the packers beat us to get there. Furthermore seeing two of Bill's guys (Shanahan and Holmgren) leading teams into super Sunday hurt since we should've kept one of them. This game was thrilling from start to finish. Broncos pulled it off despite being huge underdogs to the defending champs. The helicopter play is iconic. 4. Super Bowl 25: another one that hurts because of the giants and too many old wounds to discuss further... but this game was played in what I consider to be a golden era of the NFL product. The giants great gameplan to keep the ball out of Jim Kelly's hands was genius. Despite that.. a better kick from Norwood, and NFL history is perhaps very different. 5. Super Bowl 36: before Brady and the patriots were something that many people are sick and tired of.. I recall the patriots being a feel good story who many, obviously Niner fans included, wanted to upset the rams. They obviously pulled it off despite being 14 point underdogs. But I particularly like this game because it had that feel that the patriots juuussst outlasted them. Had the game gone one for 15 more minutes, the rams likely win by 10.

Jan 15, 2019 at 3:14 AM

Milkman
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Super Bowl 49 has to be up there!

Jan 15, 2019 at 5:00 AM

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XXII.

Jan 15, 2019 at 9:55 AM

49er-from-Yavin-IV
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Spot on assessments which I mostly see the same way. The whole 1999 season and Super Bowl XXXIV was a total changing of the guard in the NFL as up to that point the Rams had been a doormat and all of a sudden they were the dominant team. The 49ers, Cowboys, and Packers of the 1990's were in decline, everything was thrown out of whack. The changes haven't stopped since then. That said I liked these games:

Super Bowl XXXII
Super Bowl XXXVI
Super Bowl XLIV
Super Bowl XLIX
Super Bowl XLI

Jan 15, 2019 at 10:01 AM

NJNiner
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Originally posted by Milkman:
Super Bowl 49 has to be up there!

This

Jan 15, 2019 at 10:20 AM

cciowa
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any super bowl with the cowboys and steelers. poor jackie smith. the only time you ever saw tom landry wham out

Jan 15, 2019 at 1:08 PM

Niners99
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SB49 without question. After that Kearse catch, I was slumped down in my chair having to watch Seattle win again. Then Butler picked it off and I literally leapt out of my seat and was yelling like the Niners had just done it. lol I hated Seattle so much, especially back then.

Jan 15, 2019 at 1:16 PM

Fanaticofnfl
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When Malcolm Butler exposed the Flukehawks.

Jan 15, 2019 at 1:57 PM

LayTheWoodall
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49 has to be up there. Back and forth game other than the cawks briefly looking like they might run away. And then of course the pick

Super bowl XXXVIII is also up there for me personally. I think it's an underrated classic game

Jan 15, 2019 at 2:04 PM

CatchMaster80
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The next one that we do get in.

Jan 15, 2019 at 3:00 PM

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captveg
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Super Bowl XXXVIII (aka Nipplegate) was a really fun viewing. Really good defense by both teams through the first 25 mins, then the offenses awoke right before half and then proceeded to have a shootout in the 2nd half. Would have preferred Delhomme and the Panthers to have pulled it off than see the Patriots win their 2nd, but I was thoroughly entertained.

Jan 15, 2019 at 6:13 PM

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Originally posted by NJNiner:
Originally posted by Milkman:
Super Bowl 49 has to be up there!

This

/thread

Easily this.

Jan 15, 2019 at 6:27 PM

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Bitplayer
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Of the recent Super Bowls I like 50 quite a bit. Broncos D was legit and I didn't think for a second anyone could stop Cam and the panthers that year.

The panthers were goofing around and acting like they were the 84 bears- or the undefeated dolphins- before hand but von miller had other ideas.

That was a really good game.

Jan 16, 2019 at 1:32 AM

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DRCHOWDER
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Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by NJNiner:

Originally posted by Milkman:
Super Bowl 49 has to be up there!

This

/thread

Easily this.

I was so into this, because the hawks losing is like winning a ship, but brady contending with Joe in greatest ever qb makes me feel ugh..

Jan 16, 2019 at 10:29 AM

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NJNiner
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Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

Originally posted by Young2Rice:

Originally posted by NJNiner:

Originally posted by Milkman:
Super Bowl 49 has to be up there!

This

/thread

Easily this.

I was so into this, because the hawks losing is like winning a ship, but brady contending with Joe in greatest ever qb makes me feel ugh..

This wouldn't be complete without this little gem!

[ Edited by NJNiner on Jan 16, 2019 at 10:30 AM ]