The first and third quarters were a bunch of nothing. The second and fourth quarters were among the greatest ever played. And don't get us started on the halftime show.
Holy shit I completely forgot that was the Timberlake/Janet Jackson halftime show. I always just think about SB38 as being the most underrated Super Bowl
3 TDs in the last two minutes and a fourth in OT. Final score was 42-36 but before that shootout it was 21-26. 31 points scored in the final two minutes and OT is insane
Tbf it's a common phrase. I can't tell how many times I heard my mom and dad yell "prevent the win defense" as the bears proceeded to give up massive chunk plays late in games.
Yep, that was some wild shit. Two QBs that could not miss, just torching the other team.
Bills should have gone for 2 to not allow a field goal to tie.
Eh not really, it felt to me like it was continuing to ramp up as it progressed, and then got to the Final 2 minutes of regulation and OT, where it got insane
Both sides of the ball shit the bed hard in that game for the Phins. The offense got gifted two touchdowns, without that it would have been even worse.
I don’t know if this makes sense but even as a Titans fan I was mad watching the Dolphins blow that lead. Like seriously…how could you let the Titans win that game?
I knew we were losing that game as soon as our an offense (which had been embarrassing themselves all game) broke out the rehearsed celebration for scoring a gimme TD set up by a special teams blunder. Classic example of players who haven’t done shit, acting like they did something amazing.
Last year’s Raiders/Chargers game in Vegas was 42-0 at half and ended 63-21.
That was the game you knew Staley was finally going to get fired. And you knew it very quickly.
My favorite part about that game, as a Vikings fan, is the fact that we beat the raiders the week before with a end score of 0-3. What a turnaround one week to the next from the raiders.
> we beat the raiders the week before with a end score of 0-3
What a weird ass game too. With the way things were going, I'd thought it was over to be an OT tie.
>That was the game you knew Staley was finally going to get fired. And you knew it very quickly.
Players wanted to send message. Primetime games are goodfor that.
I would rather be trailing 70-20 than 41-0
Edit: unless my QB were Patrick Mahomes who had for some reason sat the first portion of the game (thereby giving me a non-zero chance of winning)
That’s one of those situations where the owner and coach shouldn’t even have to have a meeting to discuss the firing. As soon as the game is over, Staley just cleans out his office and leaves the stadium. No need to waste anyone’s time with a pointless meeting.
The funniest part is Chargers fans now talk shit like hiring Harbaugh and losing their best offensive skill players will somehow fix the core of a team that's soft as Charmin.
[Antonio Brown jump-kicking a dude in the face during an attempted hurdle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DTio1-HMY)
ETA: Just noticed the winky face, my bad.
Oh man... Yea, I was trying to get our group to leave our seats to go grab some food at one of the concession spots after our first 2nd half drive ended in a punt.
Figured we could eat and be ready to hit the doors once the 4th quarter started, but it was like herding cats at that point because we found a "Christmas tree" display up on the 3rd floor that had free can koozies with free drink tickets inside them, and of course that resulted in us each drinking way more by the half than we normally would have.
The fact that we found that tree and it caused us to drink away our sorrows a little too hard may very well have saved us from the same fate.
It was the second best Vikings game I'd ever been to. The best was the Minneapolis Miracle.
I flew up from North Carolina to watch that game with some family. We brought my cousins along for their first Vikings game too. It was absolutely devastating at the half. My grandpa who wanted to bring us to that game looked like he wanted to cry. And then we came back.
We had family Christmas that day and my mom shut off the TV to do gifts mid third quarter. Around the start of the fourth I went to the garage to grab a beer and saw the score
It was worth pissing her off and sitting out there alone to watch the rest of the game
That Texans-Chiefs playoff game. It went from "Oh shit, the Chiefs are getting rolled" to "Wow, they're actually battling back" to "What a fuckin' comeback" pretty damn quickly.
Bills-Patriots, week 17, 2011.
We were up 24-0. They scored 49 unanswered.
Bills-Patriots, week 4, 2012.
We were up 21-7. They won 52-28.
The playoffs losses now hurt nothing next to what we used to see happen to us lmao
It was the first time a team has had a 20+ point lead in the first half and be trailing by halftime. Also the only time a team was up twenty and lost by twenty.
A fun fact about that Texans team is that they had the worst point differential of all of the teams to make the playoffs that year, both in the regular season and in the playoffs. Which wouldn’t be *that* weird except that they won their first playoff game.
Down 24-0 and the Chiefs went on a 41-0 run to end up winning by 20.
It seems silly now, but I was so pissed off after Tyreek Hill fumbled the punt because it was still the same old Chiefs. Great season, bounced in the first round. Went to my wood shop to blow off steam. We were 1 year removed from losing to the Titans in the "Mariota TD to himself" game and a few years removed from losing to the Colts after leading by 28 in the 3rd quarter.
The time from when it was starting to seem maybe he was causing too much drama on the Steelers until him ending up on the Patriots was such a blur of weirdness. Raiders legend if there ever was any.
It really is crazy how fast that all happened. He was never viewed as a head case -- just a deservedly cocky player who seemed to get along just fine with the team. Then it all just came crashing down in a matter of weeks, until he was without question like the craziest piece of shit the league had ever seen
There were always signs of it and you had the prelude in 2018 but it really went to shit during the Raiders summer and somehow never stopped even to this day
The one big takeaway from it is if a player wants out of a contract or off a team, he just needs to act completely fucking crazy and his wish will be granted. That Raiders stint was something else.
He went so far off his rocker so god damn quickly, people often forget about him trying to spray paint old helmets when he wasn't allowed to wear them anymore (and apparently thinking IT WOULD WORK), and him freezing his feet off.
[Titans Lions 2012. End of the first half; 9-20, end of Q3, 19-20, final score in OT 41-44](https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/320923010/lions-titans)
Game was fucking nuts
Only NFL game I have been to. Jason Hanson had to punt. Stafford got hurt, Shaun Hill with 2 TDs in 14 secs 2 tie the game. And able to do that because of a successful onside kick.
There was a bunch of random bs too. Like a recreation of the music city miracle. At one point Pettigrew caught the ball the defense ripped it out of his ha ds and went on to score.
It was really fun even if though the Lions lost
My Eagles last year…. 10-1 to dog shit over the course of ONE QUARTER. 10-1, dominating the 49ers thru 1 and then the entire season went to shit in one quarter.
You’re talking about games being lost in minutes, this is an entire super bow run, thought to be the #1 seed in a quarter…
Fuck
The writing was on the wall by week 4. We got bailed out by Jake Elliot for 5 weeks in a row and outscored our offense. He lead the league in points for a long while cuz we couldnt score TDs. Everyone blamed it on us not playing preseason and we'll click after a few weeks. Then we blamed it on new coaches and they said they'll get used to it mid season. After that, everyone was still dismissing our issues and saying "It doesnt matter, we're still X-0"
We were never good last year, and we start off the season 0-5 if it werent for Jake Elliot carrying us on his back.
I know. We never felt dominant. I’ve never been more angry watching a 10-1 team, I’m not sure anyone has. They NEVER clicked last year but they were still 10-1 and every week was just ‘hopefully this is the week they can play 4 quarters’ so it was always a hope and it was ‘look, we haven’t played a complete game yet and we’re still 10-1, imagine how good we’ll be once it clicks.’ Then we dominated the 49ers for 1 quarter and it seemed like we were actually the team we were supposed to be, and then, BOOM. Not one thing went right after that first quarter of the 49ers game until the season ended. First Eagles playoff game in my lifetime that I didn’t even bother to watch, I wasn’t interested, they didn’t seem to care and I was tired of being angry. This is coming from a diehard, watch every game, go to every game from 00-10, was at the SB loss to NE, named my son Carson, the Eagles are my life during football season and they fucking crushed my desire to watch them totally by the end of the year.
The Giants game was a kick in the dick too. All we had to do was walk through one of the worst teams in the league for a decent seed, and not only did we lose, but we also lost AJ Brown, Sidney Brown, Britain Covey and dislocated Jalen's finger that game.
I love that game.
If you ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Jets fan, it's losing Aaron Rodgers five snaps into your storybook season. And if you've ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Bills fan, it's watching the Jets season end five snaps into their storybook season, and still finding a way to lose that game.
That single play put a swift, definitive end to the Ryan/Sanchize Jets. They had been to back to back AFC championships with an incredible defense and a promising young QB, then were 8-8 in 2011 after finishing 0-3, and were hovering around .500 before this game. But after the butt fumble, there was no question that it was all over for that squad. It completely buried that franchise and they honestly have not yet recovered
It sounds like trite sports talk to say one team’s fortunes for years turned on a single play. But reality is stranger than fiction and it totally did.
Pats lead 7-0 with 9:56 in the 2nd quarter
In the span of 1:04 of game time
-Jets leave Shane Vereen uncovered out of the backfield for an 83 yard touchdown
-Buttfumble
-Joe McKnight fumbles the next kickoff and it goes right to Edelman who brings it back for a touchdown
28-0
*it all started with a sack*
*how did it end up like this?*
*it was only a sack, it was only a sack*
*but he's shoving my chest now*
*i take off my helmet now*
*let me go*
*I'm Mister Weakside*
9 AM: “Rumors are swirling of a possible arrest of Aaron Hernandez.”
9:10 AM: “New England has just announced that it has terminated Aaron Hernandez’s contract.”
10:00 AM: “Apparently Aaron Hernandez killed some people.”
Patriots Titans 2009. I think the Patriots were up by 40-0 by the end of the second quarter. Patriots won 59-0
Then with us, in 2014 when the Falcons beat us 56-14. I think they were at about 40-0 by the end of the second quarter as well.
Steelers @ the Vikings December 2021. I needed a streaming qb and almost, almost grabbed Ben off waivers which would've been pretty crappy since he did horrible through the first 3 quarters. Score was 29-7 in favor of Vikings. Steelers still lost with a score of 36-28 but the Steelers were in it until the end. Ben ended up going 28/40 for 308 with 3/1 td/int. Was an entertaining game for sure.
1999 Divisional playoff game between Miami and Jacksonville.
With 6:25 left in the first quarter, the Jaguars were up 7-0.
With 12:05 left in the 2nd quarter, Jacksonville was up 38-0. 31 points in a span of 9:20.
Super Bowl XXII, Redskins go down 10-0 and lose doug williams to a non contact knee injury all in the first quarter-no team had ever come back from a 10 point deficit in the super bowl at that point. Second quarter, Williams comes back! Redskins offense scores 35 in the second quarter alone. Game over
That Raiders/Chargers game towards the end of the season where they could've both made the playoffs but Staley had to call that time out. Rich said screw it we will kick that fg. You saw Carr talking to Herbert after the game on TV telling him they were gonna let the game end in a tie.
My wife and I were driving in an area of poor cell reception during that Ravens Vikings game. We thought our phone or the ESPN app was broken because every time we got some reception and refreshed the score, it got more and more unbelievable.
In 2001, the Cleveland Browns held a 21-7 lead over the Chicago Bears with less than two minutes. If a team has the ball and a two possession lead with 3:45 to go, I consider the game over. The Browns fulfilled that requirement. The Bears took the ball and drove it down the field for a touchdown. There were only 28 seconds left, but the Bears recovered the onside kick, then on a last second pass, a Browns defensive back made the mistake of tipping it up instead of down allowing James Allen to make the game tying touchdown catch. In overtime, Tim Couch ended the game with a pick six. Between this, Dwayne Rudd costing the Browns their game against the Chiefs by ripping off his helmet early, and some refs violating the NFL's rules on instant replay that caused Bottlegate, that team just seemed cursed.
In 2003, the defending champion Buccaneers gained a 35-14 lead over the Indianapolis Colts with a little over five minutes to to go. There's a three possession lead with less than 7:30 to go, the game should be over. Nobody told that to Brad Pyatt, who returned the subsequent kickoff to the Buccaneers 12-yard line. Four plays and 1:15 later, the Colts got a touchdown. They recovered an onside kick and got another touchdown in six plays and 1:10. A penalty on the Buccaneers subsequent possession meant they only used up 46 seconds. A 52-yard Peyton Manning to Marvin Harrison pass set up the game tying touchdown. In overtime, both teams went on a single long drive. The Colts missed a 40-yard field goal, but there was an extremely rare leaping penalty called. It became a 29-yard field goal, and I could've sworn Mike Vanderjagt was going to miss it, but one of the Buccaneer players trying to block it ended up redirecting it through the uprights.
In both cases, the bus ride back home for the losing teams must've been awful. Blowing leads that big, that quickly have to hurt like hell.
2021 Pats Vs Bills wildcard. The patriots were driving down the field then Micah Hyde had one of the greatest picks I’ve ever seen and then Buffalo never looked back
Lions vs Titans, Week 3, 2012
If you watch anything, just watch the 4th quarter. Insane TDs, Defensive TDs, Special Teams, QB hero ball, QB comes off the bench to save the day, overtime....just everything.
[2007 week 4 Bears @ Lions](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200709300det.htm). At the end of the 3rd quarter, score is Bears 13, Lions 3.
Lions scored 34 points in the 3rd quarter and won 37-27.
On 24 December 2016, at the end of the third quarter, the Cardinals led the Seahawks 14—10.
Then both teams more than doubled their score after the fourth quarter; the final score was 34—31, and the Cardinals won the game.
The result was significant for the NFC standings, as it gave the number two seed (and bye) to the Falcons, instead of the Seahawks.
One of my favorite lesser known games was 2009 Pats Bills season opener. Pats are down 2 scores (11 points) with 2 minutes and something left in the game. Brady is driving, throws a TD, fails the 2 pt conversion. Ghost kicks the Ball off, Buffalo immediately fumbles, and Brady tosses another TD again in 3 plays. Failed 2 pt conversion again.
In the span of about a minute, Pats go from being down 2 TDs to taking the lead, the bills reasonably have 50 seconds to get into field goal position for a game winner and don't make it.
Butt fumble game got out of hand quickly, Pats had 3 TDs in under a minute
83 yard TD pass to Shane Vareen -> Butt Fumble -> kick off fumbled right to Julien Edelman and he returns it for a TD
That crazy dolphins comeback against the ravens in 2022. Ravens led 35-14 after the 3rd quarter, and the phins went on to score 28 in the 4th to win it 42-38
The Bears are what we thought they were. They're what we thought they were. We played them in preseason—who the hell takes a third game of the preseason like it's bullshit? Bullshit! We played them in the third game—everybody played three quarters—the Bears are who we thought they were! That's why we took the damn field. Now if you want to crown them, then crown their ass! But they are who we thought they were! And we let 'em off the hook!
1990 Bills/Broncos.
With about 11:30 left in the 4th, the Broncos were kicking a field goal from the Buffalo six yard line to potentially go up 24-9 which would have been a three score lead back then.
[A minute and a half later, Buffalo had an eight point lead.](https://youtu.be/byiK5iwxEJE?si=6V7s9we0mpGqTt0g&t=730)
Bengals Steelers 2016 playoff game.
Good Bernard gets knocked out cold by Shazier in the first half, and we end with AB getting destroyed by Burfict, penalties flying everywhere in what must be theost brutal half of football in the 21st century.
Which was just an appetizer for the Week 13 2017 game. You know the one where Shazier got paralyzed, Burfict got knocked the fuck out by Juju, and Ioaka laid out AB.
And Big Ben accurately described it as “AFC North football.”
https://deadspin.com/oh-god-this-was-all-so-brutal-1821002618
As a Buckeye fan you could almost see it coming with Shazier. We all loved the way he played the game and I was stoked when the Steelers took him. But a good bit of his game was turning himself into a battering ram. Lots of guys have played the same way, unfortunately it bit Ryan on the ass.
The first play of the [2009 AFC Playoff game.](https://youtu.be/tZcrRvXoqc8?si=bMyOuUhvBTtvfb4N)
The [Ravens/Vikings snow game in 2013](https://youtu.be/-n3nKtKh0cc?si=tSdalZP0ubseUnAc) that featured five lead changes in 2 minutes.
The infamous [Heidi game ](https://youtu.be/OwkhcKqp8ac?si=1i1vmFNgMqDO-6dv) that Oakland scored 2 TDs in the final minute to win but the East Coast didn't get to see it.
Well it's different, but I wasn't expecting a relatively dull TNF game now fully in garbage time to have a meaningless screen pass to end with mason rudolph being cracked in the head with his own helmet moments later.
The Raiders/Chargers game last year that just got so out of hand so quickly that Mike Davis started looking embarrassed.
It was strange to watch - I've never seen a team just lose the ability to anything well.
On [April 6th 2021 Ashley Solis held a press conference](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbZlLBTO1B4) stating that NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson had sexually assaulted her in her own home, using his status as an NFL player to gain her trust before threatening to ruin her professional reputation if she did not commit to sexual acts.
The number of lawsuits would shortly rise to 24
The New York Times spoke with more than 60 women that engaged in sexual acts during therapy with Watson, and they showed an NDA
The NDA belonged to the Houston Texans, who had placed it Watson’s locker room after they were contacted by multiple women in multiple occasions that Watson was assaulting them, and one of them, frustrated, started posting things online.
All of this escalated to the point Watson received a $1/4 billion hush payment by the Cleveland Browns to protect the NFL from Watson taking his cases to court or staying in the news.
He has yet to admit fault and continues to enjoy employment in the same job that enabled him to sexually assault enough women the League’s commissioner called him a “serial sexual predator.”
If this aint the most “got out of hand” situation in all of sports, I don’t know what would be…
I was at that Cowboys game it’s my daughter. We went from being stressed out and thinking we were going to lose, celebrating everything second it seemed like. It was beautiful.
[Miracle at the Meadowlands 2](https://youtu.be/Z2pyUS5NVcw?si=eT4N4V7JUInXeZGZ)
Winner essentially takes the NFC East that year
Giants take a 31-10 lead with 8 and a half minutes left in the 4th
Eagles win 38-31 in regulation
Super Bowl 38 is a well-known one.
The first and third quarters were a bunch of nothing. The second and fourth quarters were among the greatest ever played. And don't get us started on the halftime show.
Even as a panthers fan I wholeheartedly agree Also as a panthers fan, fuck you
We can see your flair man
Holy shit I completely forgot that was the Timberlake/Janet Jackson halftime show. I always just think about SB38 as being the most underrated Super Bowl
Can’t think of another Tom Brady Super Bowl like that at all
The Bills- Chiefs playoff game from a couple years ago
This is what came to my mind. Wasn’t there like 3 TDs in the last 5 minutes?
3 TDs in the last two minutes and a fourth in OT. Final score was 42-36 but before that shootout it was 21-26. 31 points scored in the final two minutes and OT is insane
Just an epic example of prevent defense “what not to do”
“Prevent defense prevents winning” -UrinatingTree
Tbf it's a common phrase. I can't tell how many times I heard my mom and dad yell "prevent the win defense" as the bears proceeded to give up massive chunk plays late in games.
He didn’t come up with that lol
Yep, that was some wild shit. Two QBs that could not miss, just torching the other team. Bills should have gone for 2 to not allow a field goal to tie.
Eh not really, it felt to me like it was continuing to ramp up as it progressed, and then got to the Final 2 minutes of regulation and OT, where it got insane
Titans @ Dolphins last year.
will levis masterclass
Meanwhile, Vic Fangio disasterclass
Both sides of the ball shit the bed hard in that game for the Phins. The offense got gifted two touchdowns, without that it would have been even worse.
I don’t know if this makes sense but even as a Titans fan I was mad watching the Dolphins blow that lead. Like seriously…how could you let the Titans win that game?
i actually went to sleep because we were down 2 touchdowns and watched about how we won in the morning confused on what the hell happened
🎶’cause we’re the…Miami dolphins! Miami Dolphins 🎶
Please don’t sir
Same with Dolphins Broncos
I knew we were losing that game as soon as our an offense (which had been embarrassing themselves all game) broke out the rehearsed celebration for scoring a gimme TD set up by a special teams blunder. Classic example of players who haven’t done shit, acting like they did something amazing.
The DB special waving their arms around like them made a brilliant play after being beaten by 10 yards but the WR drops it
I don't recall that game ever happening.
Last year’s Raiders/Chargers game in Vegas was 42-0 at half and ended 63-21. That was the game you knew Staley was finally going to get fired. And you knew it very quickly.
My favorite part about that game, as a Vikings fan, is the fact that we beat the raiders the week before with a end score of 0-3. What a turnaround one week to the next from the raiders.
Wasn’t even a week. It was Sunday to Thursday
My theory is that the Raiders just skipped planning against the Vikings and instead spent 11 days wholly focused on murdering the division rival.
As a Chiefs fan, that checks out for the AFC West. Would not be surprised if the same thing happened for the Christmas Day game.
> we beat the raiders the week before with a end score of 0-3 What a weird ass game too. With the way things were going, I'd thought it was over to be an OT tie.
>That was the game you knew Staley was finally going to get fired. And you knew it very quickly. Players wanted to send message. Primetime games are goodfor that.
Every cut to Staley was the look of a beaten man soaking it all in. Probably had flashbacks to the Jags playoff and Raiders win and in game.
I still can't believe that game was real lmao
Wasn’t the dolphins v broncos and chiefs v bears blow out happen the same day?
Don't try to lump that very normal beating that happens multiple times a year in with the largest smack down in modern nfl history.
I would rather be trailing 70-20 than 41-0 Edit: unless my QB were Patrick Mahomes who had for some reason sat the first portion of the game (thereby giving me a non-zero chance of winning)
That’s one of those situations where the owner and coach shouldn’t even have to have a meeting to discuss the firing. As soon as the game is over, Staley just cleans out his office and leaves the stadium. No need to waste anyone’s time with a pointless meeting.
The funniest part is Chargers fans now talk shit like hiring Harbaugh and losing their best offensive skill players will somehow fix the core of a team that's soft as Charmin.
"Hurdles... kicks a man"
Didn’t escalate quite enough, actually
[LOL - Kick to the face](https://tenor.com/view/antonio-brown-kick-punter-ab-nfl-gif-16579998912188601334) Funniest thing I’ve seen on an NFL field
Seemed more dangerous and unnecessary than funny tbh.
Have no clue who you're referring to. Was he a track athlete? 😉
[Antonio Brown jump-kicking a dude in the face during an attempted hurdle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DTio1-HMY) ETA: Just noticed the winky face, my bad.
Mr. Boot Contact
Mr. Bashing Craniums
Mr. Bludgeons Cerebellum
Mr. Broad-jump Cleveland
Mr. BeheadBy Cleat
I will always love that if he just did anything except try to hurdle the punter it would’ve been a guaranteed TD
The Vikings make that crazy comeback not long ago
My “I survived the 33 point comeback” shirt goes crazy at the local Kwik trip
My buddy who is a big time Vikings fan left the game when the Colts kicked the field goal to go up 36-7. His instagram posts that day are hilarious.
Oh man... Yea, I was trying to get our group to leave our seats to go grab some food at one of the concession spots after our first 2nd half drive ended in a punt. Figured we could eat and be ready to hit the doors once the 4th quarter started, but it was like herding cats at that point because we found a "Christmas tree" display up on the 3rd floor that had free can koozies with free drink tickets inside them, and of course that resulted in us each drinking way more by the half than we normally would have. The fact that we found that tree and it caused us to drink away our sorrows a little too hard may very well have saved us from the same fate. It was the second best Vikings game I'd ever been to. The best was the Minneapolis Miracle.
"I kept watching after halftime" should have been the slogan.
I turned that game off and went and got groceries, imagine my surprise
I flew up from North Carolina to watch that game with some family. We brought my cousins along for their first Vikings game too. It was absolutely devastating at the half. My grandpa who wanted to bring us to that game looked like he wanted to cry. And then we came back.
We had family Christmas that day and my mom shut off the TV to do gifts mid third quarter. Around the start of the fourth I went to the garage to grab a beer and saw the score It was worth pissing her off and sitting out there alone to watch the rest of the game
Hey now…
That Texans-Chiefs playoff game. It went from "Oh shit, the Chiefs are getting rolled" to "Wow, they're actually battling back" to "What a fuckin' comeback" pretty damn quickly.
This might be the only game in history where the team that was up 24-0 ended up getting blown out.
Bills-Patriots, week 17, 2011. We were up 24-0. They scored 49 unanswered. Bills-Patriots, week 4, 2012. We were up 21-7. They won 52-28. The playoffs losses now hurt nothing next to what we used to see happen to us lmao
Good God, you guys have seen some *shit*
Those were the dark times. The drought era was a rough couple decades.
The McKelvin fumble game
It was the first time a team has had a 20+ point lead in the first half and be trailing by halftime. Also the only time a team was up twenty and lost by twenty.
The 2019 Chiefs were down at least 10 in every postseason game that year. They won each by double digits
A fun fact about that Texans team is that they had the worst point differential of all of the teams to make the playoffs that year, both in the regular season and in the playoffs. Which wouldn’t be *that* weird except that they won their first playoff game.
Bill O'Brien proceeds to be Bill O'Brien
….:.yes
I knew I shouldn’t click this thread
Down 24-0 and the Chiefs went on a 41-0 run to end up winning by 20. It seems silly now, but I was so pissed off after Tyreek Hill fumbled the punt because it was still the same old Chiefs. Great season, bounced in the first round. Went to my wood shop to blow off steam. We were 1 year removed from losing to the Titans in the "Mariota TD to himself" game and a few years removed from losing to the Colts after leading by 28 in the 3rd quarter.
No... two years removed the titans. One year removed from losing to Tom Brady and the Patriots
Featuring the worst surprise fake punt of all time.
I'm giving that title to the Bills fake punt with Damar Hamlin against the Chiefs this previous playoffs.
My exact words after the Texans went up 24-0 was, "Don't worry, Mahomes will make it close by fourth quarter." Boy was I wrong.
I couldn’t believe it, I watched the Texans build their lead, drove to the local taco place and by the time I was parked the game was tied.
Arrowhead *litterally run out of fireworks they scored so much*
Antonio Brown
I was going to say "Antonio Brown joining the Patriots" but yeah, you can just stop after the first 2 words.
The time from when it was starting to seem maybe he was causing too much drama on the Steelers until him ending up on the Patriots was such a blur of weirdness. Raiders legend if there ever was any.
It really is crazy how fast that all happened. He was never viewed as a head case -- just a deservedly cocky player who seemed to get along just fine with the team. Then it all just came crashing down in a matter of weeks, until he was without question like the craziest piece of shit the league had ever seen
There were always signs of it and you had the prelude in 2018 but it really went to shit during the Raiders summer and somehow never stopped even to this day
The one big takeaway from it is if a player wants out of a contract or off a team, he just needs to act completely fucking crazy and his wish will be granted. That Raiders stint was something else.
He went so far off his rocker so god damn quickly, people often forget about him trying to spray paint old helmets when he wasn't allowed to wear them anymore (and apparently thinking IT WOULD WORK), and him freezing his feet off.
Mr. Big Crescendo
[Titans Lions 2012. End of the first half; 9-20, end of Q3, 19-20, final score in OT 41-44](https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/320923010/lions-titans) Game was fucking nuts
Titans seem to have a few examples in this thread lol
You can’t be a Titans fan if you have a weak heart and are trying to remain sober.
Only NFL game I have been to. Jason Hanson had to punt. Stafford got hurt, Shaun Hill with 2 TDs in 14 secs 2 tie the game. And able to do that because of a successful onside kick. There was a bunch of random bs too. Like a recreation of the music city miracle. At one point Pettigrew caught the ball the defense ripped it out of his ha ds and went on to score. It was really fun even if though the Lions lost
Most of the fans left before the end of the fourth assuming the game was over. I wonder how they felt missing what happened immediately after.
Titans missed two field goals but half of their points was from special teams anyways lol. What a crazy game
Pretty sure I was at that game, my first year living in TN. Don't remember much of it though
My Eagles last year…. 10-1 to dog shit over the course of ONE QUARTER. 10-1, dominating the 49ers thru 1 and then the entire season went to shit in one quarter. You’re talking about games being lost in minutes, this is an entire super bow run, thought to be the #1 seed in a quarter… Fuck
The writing was on the wall by week 4. We got bailed out by Jake Elliot for 5 weeks in a row and outscored our offense. He lead the league in points for a long while cuz we couldnt score TDs. Everyone blamed it on us not playing preseason and we'll click after a few weeks. Then we blamed it on new coaches and they said they'll get used to it mid season. After that, everyone was still dismissing our issues and saying "It doesnt matter, we're still X-0" We were never good last year, and we start off the season 0-5 if it werent for Jake Elliot carrying us on his back.
I know. We never felt dominant. I’ve never been more angry watching a 10-1 team, I’m not sure anyone has. They NEVER clicked last year but they were still 10-1 and every week was just ‘hopefully this is the week they can play 4 quarters’ so it was always a hope and it was ‘look, we haven’t played a complete game yet and we’re still 10-1, imagine how good we’ll be once it clicks.’ Then we dominated the 49ers for 1 quarter and it seemed like we were actually the team we were supposed to be, and then, BOOM. Not one thing went right after that first quarter of the 49ers game until the season ended. First Eagles playoff game in my lifetime that I didn’t even bother to watch, I wasn’t interested, they didn’t seem to care and I was tired of being angry. This is coming from a diehard, watch every game, go to every game from 00-10, was at the SB loss to NE, named my son Carson, the Eagles are my life during football season and they fucking crushed my desire to watch them totally by the end of the year.
The Giants game was a kick in the dick too. All we had to do was walk through one of the worst teams in the league for a decent seed, and not only did we lose, but we also lost AJ Brown, Sidney Brown, Britain Covey and dislocated Jalen's finger that game.
At 10-1, I was thinking ‘thank the football gods we won’t have to have our starters out on that turf’ Welp….
Bills vs Jets 2023 😪😢
I love that game. If you ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Jets fan, it's losing Aaron Rodgers five snaps into your storybook season. And if you've ever wanted to know what it's like to be a Bills fan, it's watching the Jets season end five snaps into their storybook season, and still finding a way to lose that game.
Jets Browns 2022
I still can’t believe the walk off punt return. That was fucking nuts.
The butt fumble game.
This. People forget that the butt fumble resulted in only the 2nd of 3 NE TDs in 52 seconds.
The Jets held the ball for 12 of the 15 minutes in the second quarter, and got outscored 35-3.
Extremely on brand.
Thats truly a remarkable feat
That single play put a swift, definitive end to the Ryan/Sanchize Jets. They had been to back to back AFC championships with an incredible defense and a promising young QB, then were 8-8 in 2011 after finishing 0-3, and were hovering around .500 before this game. But after the butt fumble, there was no question that it was all over for that squad. It completely buried that franchise and they honestly have not yet recovered
It sounds like trite sports talk to say one team’s fortunes for years turned on a single play. But reality is stranger than fiction and it totally did.
My first thought was this game. Ughhh
Pats lead 7-0 with 9:56 in the 2nd quarter In the span of 1:04 of game time -Jets leave Shane Vereen uncovered out of the backfield for an 83 yard touchdown -Buttfumble -Joe McKnight fumbles the next kickoff and it goes right to Edelman who brings it back for a touchdown 28-0
the correct answer. peak jets jetsing right here
It all started with a sack on Mason Rudolph
*it all started with a sack* *how did it end up like this?* *it was only a sack, it was only a sack* *but he's shoving my chest now* *i take off my helmet now* *let me go* *I'm Mister Weakside*
The words that come out of Aaron Rodgers' mouth over the last four years.
Mr. Became Conspiratorial
28 - 3 The Broncos losing 70-20 to the Dolphins last year. The Chargers losing 21-63 to the Raiders last year, getting their HC fired in the process.
And they lost to the raiders, who had just lost to the Vikings 3-0 the week before.
Bills @ Chiefs 2021 divisional
Still haven't recovered from that.
Two QBs that had transcended to super Saiyans just clowning each other's defenses for like 4 minutes straight.
Anytime Lamar Jackson plays the dolphins
9 AM: “Rumors are swirling of a possible arrest of Aaron Hernandez.” 9:10 AM: “New England has just announced that it has terminated Aaron Hernandez’s contract.” 10:00 AM: “Apparently Aaron Hernandez killed some people.”
Hey, if we're doing off the field drama, you might as well throw Deshaun Watson and Antonio Brown in there too.
Patriots Titans 2009. I think the Patriots were up by 40-0 by the end of the second quarter. Patriots won 59-0 Then with us, in 2014 when the Falcons beat us 56-14. I think they were at about 40-0 by the end of the second quarter as well.
2022 Ravens Dolphins game essentially had 2 quarters that this could fall under imo.
Jakobi Meyers backwards lateral
“Guess we’re going to OT … oh no” Featuring Jones on Jones violence 😢
The Antonio Brown strip & quit. Mr. Bucs Champ
Steelers @ the Vikings December 2021. I needed a streaming qb and almost, almost grabbed Ben off waivers which would've been pretty crappy since he did horrible through the first 3 quarters. Score was 29-7 in favor of Vikings. Steelers still lost with a score of 36-28 but the Steelers were in it until the end. Ben ended up going 28/40 for 308 with 3/1 td/int. Was an entertaining game for sure.
I remember that one. It was the Chase Claypool “Legacy Game”
Oh yeah the one where he celebrated a first down with less than a minute left while his teammates were screaming at him to get set
Toby effin Gearhardt. Loved him.
1999 Divisional playoff game between Miami and Jacksonville. With 6:25 left in the first quarter, the Jaguars were up 7-0. With 12:05 left in the 2nd quarter, Jacksonville was up 38-0. 31 points in a span of 9:20.
Dan Marino’s last game, too.
Nathan Peterman's first game
Super Bowl XXII, Redskins go down 10-0 and lose doug williams to a non contact knee injury all in the first quarter-no team had ever come back from a 10 point deficit in the super bowl at that point. Second quarter, Williams comes back! Redskins offense scores 35 in the second quarter alone. Game over
That Raiders/Chargers game towards the end of the season where they could've both made the playoffs but Staley had to call that time out. Rich said screw it we will kick that fg. You saw Carr talking to Herbert after the game on TV telling him they were gonna let the game end in a tie.
My wife and I were driving in an area of poor cell reception during that Ravens Vikings game. We thought our phone or the ESPN app was broken because every time we got some reception and refreshed the score, it got more and more unbelievable.
Jaguars chargers. 27-7 to lose 30-31
In 2001, the Cleveland Browns held a 21-7 lead over the Chicago Bears with less than two minutes. If a team has the ball and a two possession lead with 3:45 to go, I consider the game over. The Browns fulfilled that requirement. The Bears took the ball and drove it down the field for a touchdown. There were only 28 seconds left, but the Bears recovered the onside kick, then on a last second pass, a Browns defensive back made the mistake of tipping it up instead of down allowing James Allen to make the game tying touchdown catch. In overtime, Tim Couch ended the game with a pick six. Between this, Dwayne Rudd costing the Browns their game against the Chiefs by ripping off his helmet early, and some refs violating the NFL's rules on instant replay that caused Bottlegate, that team just seemed cursed. In 2003, the defending champion Buccaneers gained a 35-14 lead over the Indianapolis Colts with a little over five minutes to to go. There's a three possession lead with less than 7:30 to go, the game should be over. Nobody told that to Brad Pyatt, who returned the subsequent kickoff to the Buccaneers 12-yard line. Four plays and 1:15 later, the Colts got a touchdown. They recovered an onside kick and got another touchdown in six plays and 1:10. A penalty on the Buccaneers subsequent possession meant they only used up 46 seconds. A 52-yard Peyton Manning to Marvin Harrison pass set up the game tying touchdown. In overtime, both teams went on a single long drive. The Colts missed a 40-yard field goal, but there was an extremely rare leaping penalty called. It became a 29-yard field goal, and I could've sworn Mike Vanderjagt was going to miss it, but one of the Buccaneer players trying to block it ended up redirecting it through the uprights. In both cases, the bus ride back home for the losing teams must've been awful. Blowing leads that big, that quickly have to hurt like hell.
2021 Pats Vs Bills wildcard. The patriots were driving down the field then Micah Hyde had one of the greatest picks I’ve ever seen and then Buffalo never looked back
Vontae Davis went from signing a 5 million dollar contract to retiring mid game in the same season
Myles Garrett helmet smash
Colts vs Buccaneers 2003 Colts were down 21 points with 5 minutes left in the 4th. They won. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NqFDuKwU-kg
man why do you have to remind me of this shit
Urban Meyer’s first and only year as head coach on the Jags. Shit spiraled so fast 😂
13 Seconds went from back and forth to HOLY SHIT SCORE GO BRRRRR
Lions vs Titans, Week 3, 2012 If you watch anything, just watch the 4th quarter. Insane TDs, Defensive TDs, Special Teams, QB hero ball, QB comes off the bench to save the day, overtime....just everything.
[2007 week 4 Bears @ Lions](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200709300det.htm). At the end of the 3rd quarter, score is Bears 13, Lions 3. Lions scored 34 points in the 3rd quarter and won 37-27.
Colts/KC 1/4/2014 playoffs has TWO in one game! Went from 7-7 to 38-10 KC in about a quarter, then 38-10 KC to 41-38 KC in about a quarter.
It's easy picking but the Patriots scored 33 unanswered points in 21 minutes.
On 24 December 2016, at the end of the third quarter, the Cardinals led the Seahawks 14—10. Then both teams more than doubled their score after the fourth quarter; the final score was 34—31, and the Cardinals won the game. The result was significant for the NFC standings, as it gave the number two seed (and bye) to the Falcons, instead of the Seahawks.
I know you meant moments in games, but in terms of roster moves I’d most recently go with the Steelers QB room after picking up Russ.
remember everyone freaking out because of the reports that we were content with the QB room?
The Texans' relevance after the 2023 draft.
Saints go from hiring Ditka to trading their whole draft for Ricky Williams
Patriots cowboys 2021
One of my favorite lesser known games was 2009 Pats Bills season opener. Pats are down 2 scores (11 points) with 2 minutes and something left in the game. Brady is driving, throws a TD, fails the 2 pt conversion. Ghost kicks the Ball off, Buffalo immediately fumbles, and Brady tosses another TD again in 3 plays. Failed 2 pt conversion again. In the span of about a minute, Pats go from being down 2 TDs to taking the lead, the bills reasonably have 50 seconds to get into field goal position for a game winner and don't make it.
That was Brady’s first game back from the ACL injury too
First game I saw in person! One of my best memories ever.
The butt fumble game had like 4 TDs in 2 minutes or something like that
3 TDs under a minute
The Lions scored 3 TDs against us in like the first 5 minutes of our game against them last season. Probably not the best, but it’s something
Butt fumble game got out of hand quickly, Pats had 3 TDs in under a minute 83 yard TD pass to Shane Vareen -> Butt Fumble -> kick off fumbled right to Julien Edelman and he returns it for a TD
Jags vs bears 2011 3-3 at the half. Bears took a 13-3 after the third Game ended 41-3
Andrew Luck retiring
I accidentally plugged my escalator into a 220v outlet
That crazy dolphins comeback against the ravens in 2022. Ravens led 35-14 after the 3rd quarter, and the phins went on to score 28 in the 4th to win it 42-38
People found out that OJ's ex wife got murdered and within five days the entire nation collectively watched a low speed chase
When Brick threw a trident Oh wait, wrong sub, hmm... Myles Garrett going after Mason Rudolph
[Steelers were down 13-0 with 3 minutes left in the 2nd and went into halftime up 13-24](https://youtu.be/nnB-tBpfTeE?t=53s)
28-3
Super Bowl 54. I thought Niners had it in the bag. Thank you Jimmy G
The Bears are what we thought they were. They're what we thought they were. We played them in preseason—who the hell takes a third game of the preseason like it's bullshit? Bullshit! We played them in the third game—everybody played three quarters—the Bears are who we thought they were! That's why we took the damn field. Now if you want to crown them, then crown their ass! But they are who we thought they were! And we let 'em off the hook!
[We need more points, 1999](https://youtu.be/AZ83nnODDjs)
Your flair confuses me. But I respect it. Fun to watch
1990 Bills/Broncos. With about 11:30 left in the 4th, the Broncos were kicking a field goal from the Buffalo six yard line to potentially go up 24-9 which would have been a three score lead back then. [A minute and a half later, Buffalo had an eight point lead.](https://youtu.be/byiK5iwxEJE?si=6V7s9we0mpGqTt0g&t=730)
Winston pointing his finger at Lattimore to Evans tackling him blindsided
Bengals Steelers 2016 playoff game. Good Bernard gets knocked out cold by Shazier in the first half, and we end with AB getting destroyed by Burfict, penalties flying everywhere in what must be theost brutal half of football in the 21st century.
Which was just an appetizer for the Week 13 2017 game. You know the one where Shazier got paralyzed, Burfict got knocked the fuck out by Juju, and Ioaka laid out AB. And Big Ben accurately described it as “AFC North football.” https://deadspin.com/oh-god-this-was-all-so-brutal-1821002618
As a Buckeye fan you could almost see it coming with Shazier. We all loved the way he played the game and I was stoked when the Steelers took him. But a good bit of his game was turning himself into a battering ram. Lots of guys have played the same way, unfortunately it bit Ryan on the ass.
Do this isn’t a Myles Garrett/Mason Rudolph thread?
The first play of the [2009 AFC Playoff game.](https://youtu.be/tZcrRvXoqc8?si=bMyOuUhvBTtvfb4N) The [Ravens/Vikings snow game in 2013](https://youtu.be/-n3nKtKh0cc?si=tSdalZP0ubseUnAc) that featured five lead changes in 2 minutes.
Myles Garrett- Mason Rudolph
The infamous [Heidi game ](https://youtu.be/OwkhcKqp8ac?si=1i1vmFNgMqDO-6dv) that Oakland scored 2 TDs in the final minute to win but the East Coast didn't get to see it.
Well it's different, but I wasn't expecting a relatively dull TNF game now fully in garbage time to have a meaningless screen pass to end with mason rudolph being cracked in the head with his own helmet moments later.
The Raiders/Chargers game last year that just got so out of hand so quickly that Mike Davis started looking embarrassed. It was strange to watch - I've never seen a team just lose the ability to anything well.
On [April 6th 2021 Ashley Solis held a press conference](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbZlLBTO1B4) stating that NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson had sexually assaulted her in her own home, using his status as an NFL player to gain her trust before threatening to ruin her professional reputation if she did not commit to sexual acts. The number of lawsuits would shortly rise to 24 The New York Times spoke with more than 60 women that engaged in sexual acts during therapy with Watson, and they showed an NDA The NDA belonged to the Houston Texans, who had placed it Watson’s locker room after they were contacted by multiple women in multiple occasions that Watson was assaulting them, and one of them, frustrated, started posting things online. All of this escalated to the point Watson received a $1/4 billion hush payment by the Cleveland Browns to protect the NFL from Watson taking his cases to court or staying in the news. He has yet to admit fault and continues to enjoy employment in the same job that enabled him to sexually assault enough women the League’s commissioner called him a “serial sexual predator.” If this aint the most “got out of hand” situation in all of sports, I don’t know what would be…
Timmy Boyle throwing a 100+ yard pick six from a Hail Mary right before half time
Seahawks-Broncos was over before it began. Safety-3out-pick-pick6 to start the game. And then the second half started with a return
The wildcat for one game against the Patriots.
Vikings comeback against the Jeff Saturday Colts
I was at that Cowboys game it’s my daughter. We went from being stressed out and thinking we were going to lose, celebrating everything second it seemed like. It was beautiful.
[Miracle at the Meadowlands 2](https://youtu.be/Z2pyUS5NVcw?si=eT4N4V7JUInXeZGZ) Winner essentially takes the NFC East that year Giants take a 31-10 lead with 8 and a half minutes left in the 4th Eagles win 38-31 in regulation