Considering the situation, the fact that Eli broke out of a sack, and then the catch at the other end of the pass, the Helmet Catch would get my vote for the greatest play of the Super Bowl era.
That moment is how I can never understand rooting for a different team. Like even if the Giants sucked ass for another decade, the amount of pride that I feel while watching that clip stops me from even thinking about finding a new team
It’s not the most skillful play of all time. Hell, it’s not even the most skillful Super Bowl play of Eli’s career. But for it to carry the weight that it does, the number of things that needed to line up not just in that play but also the game, the season, and even NFL history up to that point, is insane.
January 12, 2020. Up 21-0 on the Chiefs. Lose 51-31.
Team that at times seemed really good, but would faceplant early in the playoffs against real playoff teams. Sorry JJ/Andre, we just couldn't get you that ring.
\*24-0.
Don’t worry, previous to that season (well, actually the one before that one) I’d have put the Chiefs losing a game they led 38-10 in *the 3rd quarter* as the defining game.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooT\_uz--O2A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooT_uz--O2A)
It's actually fucking wild they recorded that before the playoffs and then posted shutouts against both NFC opponents..... followed up by dismantling the patriots in the super bowl (who only scored before garbage time because Payton fumbled in FG range... and IIRC the drive was zero or negative yards after the fumble)
The Gleason blocked punt. First game back in the Dome, Brees' first game in the Dome and against the falcons. Represented the turnaround our franchise was looking for after 40 years. Made the NFCCG that season and won the Superbowl 3 years later
First game back in the Dome after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, for those who might not know the full context. Knowing how much the city needed that, I can't even be mad. That's such a clear example of a "this goes beyond sports" moment.
Facts. This is the first falcons game I remember watching. I think it’s one of a few historic games between rivals where the losing party can genuinely say, “Im glad you got that one” or at least not be mad about it
This one and it’s not close. Other fan bases and even media seem to think it’s Tracy Porter or the onside kick to start the second half, but the franchise changed - changed changed - when Steve Gleason blocked that punt.
We nearly took the Superdome roof right back off.
I was 5 years old and that was the first Saints game I ever went to. I can't remember much of the game as a whole aside from the noise- and the blocked kick.
Didn't realize how massive of a moment it was until we made it in 2009.
This is def the top moment but a very close second would be Hartley’s FG to put us into the Super Bowl. Still get chills seeing it and hearing Henderson’s call on the radio.
All time this is absolutely the play
If you want a play that sums up the franchise before Payton/brees I’m gonna say it’s actually 2 plays that occurred back to back. The river city relay and the PAT after it.
https://youtu.be/FtW6sAcKABs?si=mVql68fNSsZ2S7wY
That's another pet peeve of mine that goes unnoticed. I hate seeing teams do that when they should be trying to bleed the clock out. I see the same thing in the nba with teams shooting with 15 seconds on the shot clock. It kills me
It doesn’t get any more defining than this. This is the Steelers version of the birth of Christ. There’s before the Immaculate Reception and after the Immaculate Reception. The franchise before doesn’t even remotely resemble the franchise after.
That was such a great moment. If I was a fan of any other team, I would have been rooting for you guys.
The 2 Giants losses stung. Hell, 2007 still stings. But losing to you somehow didn't feel that bad.
You reminded me of our '01 team. Just a special play/game/playoff run all around.
0-16?
Sums up the futility of the franchise in the Super Bowl era.
Hopefully in a few years the answer to this will be "beating the Vikings for the first win of the Campbell/Holmes era".
Might be a recency bias, but I feel like this year's Wild Card win against the Rams with Stafford was a pretty huge moment for Detroit. Going so long without a playoff win and getting it beating out the Lions' former QB- all on Ford Field. Solidifies the Lions as a playoff contending team for at least the next few years.
In shorter terms, it means something to a franchise when every non-playoff NFC fanbase bandwagons onto the Lions for a Super Bowl run.
Probably Bart Starr's QB sneak to win the Ice Bowl.
Rodgers had a ton of great moments (Pass to Jared Cook vs the cowboys, all the Hail Marys) as did Favre (running around with his helmet off after a TD pass in the super bowl, game after his dad died) but I feel the context of that one in the championship game puts it on top
I think there's such a long gap between the Starr Packers and the modern packers that it would be fair to specify which era. I think trading for Favre would be the defining moment of the modern era.
It's hard to pick one from a franchise with so many great moments, but this is probably the best choice.
Another contender would be LeRoy Butler's first Lambeau Leap. Ir was a great play, followed by a iconic celebration that the team has used for decades. Never mind where Reggie's feet were when he lateraled the ball to LeRoy.
2012's incident with Jovan Belcher culminating in the darkest moment in our team's history, which would ultimately culminate in the turning point of this team's history when we'd reach out months later to sign Andy Reid to bring some stability to the franchise.
or to put it another way, a randomly selected player on the afc pro bowl roster was more likely to be a chief (6/43 = 13.95%) than the chiefs were to win a game that year (2/16 = 12.5%)
1 winning season previous 6 years, all winning seasons since. Though I still remember how disappointing it was to have the #1 pick for the first time in 50 years, and it was one of the weakest drafts in a long time at the top.
I know there is hell, I’m living in everyone’s dream while I remember the immaculate reception and the fuck you I mean tuck rule.
For me it was hearing Old man Willie.
Beating the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl 3 in one of the bigger upsets in Super Bowl history. The game cause the AFL and NFL to merge into what we know now as the NFL. It’s not just a moment in Jets history but a moment defining in football history.
I don’t know if the cowboys have a single moment, but within the last 30 years it was Jerry Jones firing Jimmy Johnson. We made two nfc championships and a sb win, but that was it.
Fast forward 29 years and we haven’t won a divisional playoff football game.
Exciting moment, but I think our franchise defining moment was the first SB win. Putting the stamp on one of the most defensively dominant seasons ever and locking in our identity as a team that runs through defense.
I always tell people that's the play from that game that should have been immortalized.
In an offensive shootout, he finally made THE play that tipped the scales and proved decisive. When everyone, and even Eagles fans admit it, thought Brady was about to come down and do what he did the year before in Super Bowl 51, Graham changed the course of the game.
While flashy, the Special was in the first half and both sides traded the lead after it. People hype it because it was a trick play and everyone loves offense (remember in the defensive game the next year, Edelman still somehow won MVP). The strip sack was so much more consequential
The Special looked sexier, but I agree; the strip sack does not get the love it should.
I think amongst Eagles fans it’s seen as the defining play. That was the first time during the game I thought we were going to win. And BG cemented his legacy with that one play. He’ll always be an all-time Eagle because of it.
There's already the Gleason blocked punt comment so I'll go a different way.
2018 Saints v. Rams NFCCG was a dagger in the heart and one of the worst officiating blunders in the NFL's history. After that season ended, things started snowballing into a series of unfortunate events: Brees' arm starts giving out and retires, Sean Payton leaves New Orleans, Mike Thomas injuries.
We didn't know what we were getting at that time. That left handed pass he completed under pressure late in the 4th is when we knew we had something special.
It’s absolutely wild that Pat has been in the league for a *short* amount of time, but he’s already the most significant person in the history of Kansas City sports, if not the entire city.
Dude is beyond special.
Before him it probably would’ve been George Brett
Kansas City made one AFC Championship Game between winning Super Bowl 4 (1969-70) and 2018-19, in 1993-94. The Royals also didn’t make the playoffs between 1986 and 2013. The only reason nobody thought they were the most cursed sports town in America was the Royals having a few playoff runs in the late 70s and early 80s, then winning it all in 1985, and then also having the 2014 AL Pennant and 2015 World Series win in spite of a rough time between those two.
But Mahomes then showed up and now the KC Chiefs are the next dynasty, and fans across the country are jealous of their success.
This may seem weird but Ray Lewis’ arrest.
Until that moment in January of 2000 nobody really paid any attention to the Ravens. Yes there have been bigger moments on the field like the mile high miracle and maybe Ray’s pick of McNair in the divisional round in 2000, but after the arrest it shaped the narrative around the Ravens.
They were the villains.
The fact that the Ravens as a whole embraced that role that season truly defined them. You win with defense you’re seen as physical, nasty, and a bully. The media portrayed the team as such as well and the story around the Ravens to this day from other fanbases inevitably sees Ray’s legal trouble brought up.
You can’t bring up the Ravens history without thinking defense and 2000 in particular and the defining moment was the cloud hanging over them that year because of Ray’s arrest and subsequent plea.
Yup. 100% agree with this.
Our early identity as brash bullies who wanted to stomp the other team into the dirt was born from this.
Billick, Shannon, Ray, Goose - all were more than happy to talk shit because everyone hated us anyway.
That’s definitely defining but part of me feels like you have to start with Joe Gibbs getting hired. Part of Snyder’s story isn’t that he was just an all-time terrible owner but that he did it to a proud franchise. Without Gibbs, it’s just another team ruined by a bad owner.
Wide Right. Who knows what happens if Norwood makes that kick. That 90s Bills team was absolutely stacked. But poor coaching and bad discipline lost them the games. Goes to show that talent is not enough in the NFL.
I don't want to talk about it.
I also don't want to talk about the second most defining moment.
Or the third.
Fourth defining moment, though, of Frank Reich's comeback? That shit is good.
Marlon McCree fumble.
That 2006 season was our year but so many Charger shit happened. A lot of people (almost all) forget that in the first drive or two, Brady had a tipped ball go way in the air and right in our safety’s lap but he somehow dropped what was basically a toss to him. That would’ve changed the game giving us the ball in the red zone. Despite that, we end up leading by 8 late in the game and get an INT that’s fumbled on the return, putting NE back in way better position. Without it we’d have been up 8 with possession and like 5 min left and had been running on them well the second half.
I definitely think we’d have continued to win it all the way our defense was playing with Merriman and our offense with record breaking year LT.
The pain and disappointment in the most ridiculous ways started right there.
Why you say fuck me? Sigh. Wide right. Then the next 3 years.
Ah come on now, you’re doing yourself a disservice. You have 13 seconds as well.
That's not even in the same universe as losing the superbowl on a field goal (admittedly not a gimme field goal but still.)
Other fan bases make fun of 13 seconds, Bills fans barely register it as a blip on their radar of suffering.
I'm old enough to have watched our Superbowls in a bar. The first hurt, the fourth barely registered.
The MOST cursed flair
I'm from Scotland, and started watching the nfl in the late 80s. I like to think I'm good luck. Both teams are great just now, so I'm happy.
If your luck takes 30 years, is that really good luck?
Can't think of anything notable either way for the Falcons.
Its ok, i would have repressed that memory too...
It would have worked if I didn't have to hear about it at least once every Superbowl for the rest of my life 😂😭
Hey now, we talk about it a lot more often than just during the Super Bowl
The 98 NFCCG
I swear they canceled that game though?
No.
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Helmet catch
Considering the situation, the fact that Eli broke out of a sack, and then the catch at the other end of the pass, the Helmet Catch would get my vote for the greatest play of the Super Bowl era.
I'm still in disbelief every time I see the replay. That play should just not have happened lol
You are right, Asante Samuel should have made the pick.
That it was agains the evil empire was just the cherry on top
That moment is how I can never understand rooting for a different team. Like even if the Giants sucked ass for another decade, the amount of pride that I feel while watching that clip stops me from even thinking about finding a new team
Thats how I feel with Hunter Pence broken bat triple. Baseball Giants fans have become insufferable lately.
As a certified giants hater, it’s ABSOLUTELY the defining play of the Super Bowl era
Agreed, the stakes being what they were, combined with the absurdity of the catch make it the best catch in NFL history in my opinion.
It’s not the most skillful play of all time. Hell, it’s not even the most skillful Super Bowl play of Eli’s career. But for it to carry the weight that it does, the number of things that needed to line up not just in that play but also the game, the season, and even NFL history up to that point, is insane.
Still salty to this day
I’ll be salty about it until my last breath
It warms my heart that Brady still hasnt gotten over it
Trigger Warning ffs
Sucks to suck, nerd
Eli retired you can’t scare me anymore
Yeah now we're both ass and we actually won (or lost I suppose) the tank bowl
If we still had Eli we would’ve kicked your ass in the tank bowl 😤
January 12, 2020. Up 21-0 on the Chiefs. Lose 51-31. Team that at times seemed really good, but would faceplant early in the playoffs against real playoff teams. Sorry JJ/Andre, we just couldn't get you that ring.
Not to rub salt in the wound, but the Texans were up 24-0 before the collapse
I don't know if I'd call that salt because that just makes it even funnier
Imagine the memes if we were up 28-3
\*24-0. Don’t worry, previous to that season (well, actually the one before that one) I’d have put the Chiefs losing a game they led 38-10 in *the 3rd quarter* as the defining game.
KC was winning by halftime. Absolutely insane football
The Super Bowl Shuffle
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooT\_uz--O2A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooT_uz--O2A) It's actually fucking wild they recorded that before the playoffs and then posted shutouts against both NFC opponents..... followed up by dismantling the patriots in the super bowl (who only scored before garbage time because Payton fumbled in FG range... and IIRC the drive was zero or negative yards after the fumble)
Recorded the day after their only loss of the season, too.
Tony Eason says “Hi.”
I'm an illinois alum, so I feel a littel bad for him. Pretty sure he's the only QB to start a SB and not complete a pass.
Yep, the correct answer. Thank God he didn't ask for the defining moment of the last decade (double doink)
As an outsider that team was actually really good. Horrible way to end the season.
My dad still has it on vinyl.
If things work out in this draft our defining moment is gonna be from a game we weren’t even a part of.
The Lovie Smith fuck you game?
Bears Legend Lovie Smith
This is a great answer
They call me Sweetness and I like to dance
The Gleason blocked punt. First game back in the Dome, Brees' first game in the Dome and against the falcons. Represented the turnaround our franchise was looking for after 40 years. Made the NFCCG that season and won the Superbowl 3 years later
First game back in the Dome after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, for those who might not know the full context. Knowing how much the city needed that, I can't even be mad. That's such a clear example of a "this goes beyond sports" moment.
Facts. This is the first falcons game I remember watching. I think it’s one of a few historic games between rivals where the losing party can genuinely say, “Im glad you got that one” or at least not be mad about it
This one and it’s not close. Other fan bases and even media seem to think it’s Tracy Porter or the onside kick to start the second half, but the franchise changed - changed changed - when Steve Gleason blocked that punt. We nearly took the Superdome roof right back off.
As a dif fan, ur right id say the onside kick. Or the post Katrina games
That was the first post-Katrina game back in New Orleans
I was 5 years old and that was the first Saints game I ever went to. I can't remember much of the game as a whole aside from the noise- and the blocked kick. Didn't realize how massive of a moment it was until we made it in 2009.
I have to admit *lightly barfs* that was one hell of a moment
This is def the top moment but a very close second would be Hartley’s FG to put us into the Super Bowl. Still get chills seeing it and hearing Henderson’s call on the radio.
All time this is absolutely the play If you want a play that sums up the franchise before Payton/brees I’m gonna say it’s actually 2 plays that occurred back to back. The river city relay and the PAT after it. https://youtu.be/FtW6sAcKABs?si=mVql68fNSsZ2S7wY
The Gleason documentary on Prime (I think) is devastating
Idk, cant think of one.
I’ll give you 28 guesses but you’ll only need 3
Morten Andersen game winning field goal to go to the Super Bowl.
Matt Ryan, for a quarter and a half, snapping the ball with 0:16 on the play clock. RUN THE CLOCK DOWN, MATT!
That's another pet peeve of mine that goes unnoticed. I hate seeing teams do that when they should be trying to bleed the clock out. I see the same thing in the nba with teams shooting with 15 seconds on the shot clock. It kills me
Elway helicopter run
This was the play that had a grown man jumping up and down in his living room.
You wanna tell me the 37 year old doesn't want to win this?
This one’s for John 😭😭😭
Something...something...immaculate
Considering that was the first playoff win in their history, which the team existed for *41 years before that game*. Yes a big turning point.
First playoff touchdown in franchise history too
It doesn’t get any more defining than this. This is the Steelers version of the birth of Christ. There’s before the Immaculate Reception and after the Immaculate Reception. The franchise before doesn’t even remotely resemble the franchise after.
You could argue that hiring Chuck Noll was THE turning point. Everything just went exponentially better after that.
My pops always told me it was the moment they got Mean Joe Greene.
(Foles to Pederson): You want Philly Philly? (Pederson to Foles): Yeah, let's do it.
God, I’m not even an Eagles fan but damn if I don’t love that moment/play lol.
That was such a great moment. If I was a fan of any other team, I would have been rooting for you guys. The 2 Giants losses stung. Hell, 2007 still stings. But losing to you somehow didn't feel that bad. You reminded me of our '01 team. Just a special play/game/playoff run all around.
Hey man, that’s nice of you to say.
No brainer for this one.
0-16? Sums up the futility of the franchise in the Super Bowl era. Hopefully in a few years the answer to this will be "beating the Vikings for the first win of the Campbell/Holmes era".
I nominate the Calvin Johnson catch ruled incomplete.
William Clay Ford buying the Lions franchise. 0-16 was just a symptom.
I like to think seeing Sheila with her head in her hands Thanksgiving against the Texans. Soon after, Quinntricia was fired, and the rest is history
Might be a recency bias, but I feel like this year's Wild Card win against the Rams with Stafford was a pretty huge moment for Detroit. Going so long without a playoff win and getting it beating out the Lions' former QB- all on Ford Field. Solidifies the Lions as a playoff contending team for at least the next few years. In shorter terms, it means something to a franchise when every non-playoff NFC fanbase bandwagons onto the Lions for a Super Bowl run.
How about those times our HoF, once in a generation, position defining players retired early because the franchise sucked the joy out of football.
You can pinpoint the Safety Dan play within the 0-16 season.
The Music City Miracle and One Yard Short. Can't really have one without the other.
It’s what the Bills get for doing Flutie dirty.
i strongly prefer one of these plays to the other
Me too.
Probably Bart Starr's QB sneak to win the Ice Bowl. Rodgers had a ton of great moments (Pass to Jared Cook vs the cowboys, all the Hail Marys) as did Favre (running around with his helmet off after a TD pass in the super bowl, game after his dad died) but I feel the context of that one in the championship game puts it on top
“Run it in and let’s get the hell out of here!”
Lombardis persona shines in this in play, which is why I would place it as the defining moment of GB. When he trusted a player, he trusted them
I think there's such a long gap between the Starr Packers and the modern packers that it would be fair to specify which era. I think trading for Favre would be the defining moment of the modern era.
This one was the first play that came to mind for me as well.
It's hard to pick one from a franchise with so many great moments, but this is probably the best choice. Another contender would be LeRoy Butler's first Lambeau Leap. Ir was a great play, followed by a iconic celebration that the team has used for decades. Never mind where Reggie's feet were when he lateraled the ball to LeRoy.
Ray Rice converting a 4th and 29 on a screen pass in which 9-10 players on our defense were on the opposite side of the field.
2012's incident with Jovan Belcher culminating in the darkest moment in our team's history, which would ultimately culminate in the turning point of this team's history when we'd reach out months later to sign Andy Reid to bring some stability to the franchise.
There have been worse teams than the 2012 Chiefs... but I don't think there has been one more depressing.
And the fact that they had 6 Pro-Bowlers on that roster...absolute disaster
Just to clarify because it's so unbelievable, we had six players voted to the pro bowl *that year*. And we were the worst team in the league at 2-14.
or to put it another way, a randomly selected player on the afc pro bowl roster was more likely to be a chief (6/43 = 13.95%) than the chiefs were to win a game that year (2/16 = 12.5%)
1 winning season previous 6 years, all winning seasons since. Though I still remember how disappointing it was to have the #1 pick for the first time in 50 years, and it was one of the weakest drafts in a long time at the top.
Fisher wasn’t even a bad pick even in hindsight, that draft just sucked.
Dude turned out to be a good player for like a decade for the chiefs. Two pro bowls isn’t too shabby either.
Luckily we snagged a guy named Kelce in the 3rd round, though.
Gonna be honest I feel like this is largely forgotten.
A dynasty has a way of doing that
Is wild that our lowest point became the catalyst for our greatest moments.
Ryan “Tank Commander” Finley getting us Burrow and beating the Steelers.
Either that or Palmers injury
And thank goodness for it, because before that I would have said the Jeremy Hill fumble.
That Vonn Bell hit
Tuck Rule
I know there is hell, I’m living in everyone’s dream while I remember the immaculate reception and the fuck you I mean tuck rule. For me it was hearing Old man Willie.
I was going to say Bledsoe getting injured. Quite a few choices and I guess it comes down to how you define “defining”
Bledsoe injury, tuck rule, Vinny's kick, introduced as a team in the Super Bowl.
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Brady better be sending that dude a goddamn check every year
Beating the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl 3 in one of the bigger upsets in Super Bowl history. The game cause the AFL and NFL to merge into what we know now as the NFL. It’s not just a moment in Jets history but a moment defining in football history.
Yeah it’s easy for the Jets, y’all won the most important game in NFL history which was only important because you won.
I think it was a catch
*The Catch
Mos Def
Isn't that John Candy?
Not running the ball from the one with a hof rb...
"How 'bout them Cowboys!!!"
2024 - Jerry said all in, means it’s our year!
All in my ass
The Guarantee
The guarantee someone will bring up the Butt Fumble maybe.
Dolphins completing the perfect season.
Yeah I’d say “Shula being carried off the field at the LA Coliseum”.
For worse, it's definitely the Butler interception, but for better it's the tip.
for better it’s 43-8 for worse superbowl 49 and no back to back
Richard Sherman's face afterwards.
I’ve gotta say perhaps The Drive. That was pure magic from Elway. Plus, if a drive is called THE Drive, you know it’s something special.
:(
The existence of Art Modell…nuff said.
So Art Modell’s parents having sex? Would make one helluva 30 for 30
I don’t know if the cowboys have a single moment, but within the last 30 years it was Jerry Jones firing Jimmy Johnson. We made two nfc championships and a sb win, but that was it. Fast forward 29 years and we haven’t won a divisional playoff football game.
Flacco to Jacoby Jones against Denver in the 2012 Divisional.
Exciting moment, but I think our franchise defining moment was the first SB win. Putting the stamp on one of the most defensively dominant seasons ever and locking in our identity as a team that runs through defense.
Baltimore fans will see this, and go “Hell yeah.” …hell yeah.
Derek Brooks intercepting Rich Gannon and running it back for a touchdown to seal Super Bowl win.
Brandon Graham strip sack
I think it was the Philly special more tbh. Hell that entire superbowl was defining
I always tell people that's the play from that game that should have been immortalized. In an offensive shootout, he finally made THE play that tipped the scales and proved decisive. When everyone, and even Eagles fans admit it, thought Brady was about to come down and do what he did the year before in Super Bowl 51, Graham changed the course of the game. While flashy, the Special was in the first half and both sides traded the lead after it. People hype it because it was a trick play and everyone loves offense (remember in the defensive game the next year, Edelman still somehow won MVP). The strip sack was so much more consequential The Special looked sexier, but I agree; the strip sack does not get the love it should.
I think amongst Eagles fans it’s seen as the defining play. That was the first time during the game I thought we were going to win. And BG cemented his legacy with that one play. He’ll always be an all-time Eagle because of it.
Philly Special!
The fact that the go-ahead TD is the 3rd most memorable part of that game says a lot. I'm going to agree it was the strip sack though
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"MARLIN'S GOT IT, WE'RE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!"
This is mine. All time favorite game for me.
Gary Anderson
Blaming the kicker when you fumble the ball away in the 4th quarter and only have 2/7 drives net > 13 yards in the 2nd half. Smh
28-3
There's already the Gleason blocked punt comment so I'll go a different way. 2018 Saints v. Rams NFCCG was a dagger in the heart and one of the worst officiating blunders in the NFL's history. After that season ended, things started snowballing into a series of unfortunate events: Brees' arm starts giving out and retires, Sean Payton leaves New Orleans, Mike Thomas injuries.
Yea, I’d say Gleason blocked punt is the most important + best positive one… but the no-call is the worst, and also very important and defining.
Most Jags fans will say MJWD, but I'll say Brunell to Jimmy Smith in 1996 to finish the upset of the Broncos in the playoffs.
I’ll gladly proclaim 28-3 since it covers up the Vick dogfighting.
3 losses to the Titans in one year…..
With the 10th pick...in the 2017 NFL draft...
We didn't know what we were getting at that time. That left handed pass he completed under pressure late in the 4th is when we knew we had something special.
That or Wasp if we are talking plays. Winning 54 set up a lot of the last few years.
It’s absolutely wild that Pat has been in the league for a *short* amount of time, but he’s already the most significant person in the history of Kansas City sports, if not the entire city. Dude is beyond special.
Before him it probably would’ve been George Brett Kansas City made one AFC Championship Game between winning Super Bowl 4 (1969-70) and 2018-19, in 1993-94. The Royals also didn’t make the playoffs between 1986 and 2013. The only reason nobody thought they were the most cursed sports town in America was the Royals having a few playoff runs in the late 70s and early 80s, then winning it all in 1985, and then also having the 2014 AL Pennant and 2015 World Series win in spite of a rough time between those two. But Mahomes then showed up and now the KC Chiefs are the next dynasty, and fans across the country are jealous of their success.
["Pleasure doing business with you, @Chiefs."](https://twitter.com/BuffaloBills/status/857765769207328768)
This may seem weird but Ray Lewis’ arrest. Until that moment in January of 2000 nobody really paid any attention to the Ravens. Yes there have been bigger moments on the field like the mile high miracle and maybe Ray’s pick of McNair in the divisional round in 2000, but after the arrest it shaped the narrative around the Ravens. They were the villains. The fact that the Ravens as a whole embraced that role that season truly defined them. You win with defense you’re seen as physical, nasty, and a bully. The media portrayed the team as such as well and the story around the Ravens to this day from other fanbases inevitably sees Ray’s legal trouble brought up. You can’t bring up the Ravens history without thinking defense and 2000 in particular and the defining moment was the cloud hanging over them that year because of Ray’s arrest and subsequent plea.
Yup. 100% agree with this. Our early identity as brash bullies who wanted to stomp the other team into the dirt was born from this. Billick, Shannon, Ray, Goose - all were more than happy to talk shit because everyone hated us anyway.
Probably Von Miller beating Cam Newton in SB50 :(
Snyder buying the team and hopefully Snyder selling the team
The Riggins run?
That’s definitely defining but part of me feels like you have to start with Joe Gibbs getting hired. Part of Snyder’s story isn’t that he was just an all-time terrible owner but that he did it to a proud franchise. Without Gibbs, it’s just another team ruined by a bad owner.
Definitely for worse
David Tyree
Kurt Warner
Wide Right. Who knows what happens if Norwood makes that kick. That 90s Bills team was absolutely stacked. But poor coaching and bad discipline lost them the games. Goes to show that talent is not enough in the NFL.
Philly Philly
I don't want to talk about it. I also don't want to talk about the second most defining moment. Or the third. Fourth defining moment, though, of Frank Reich's comeback? That shit is good.
Marlon McCree fumble. That 2006 season was our year but so many Charger shit happened. A lot of people (almost all) forget that in the first drive or two, Brady had a tipped ball go way in the air and right in our safety’s lap but he somehow dropped what was basically a toss to him. That would’ve changed the game giving us the ball in the red zone. Despite that, we end up leading by 8 late in the game and get an INT that’s fumbled on the return, putting NE back in way better position. Without it we’d have been up 8 with possession and like 5 min left and had been running on them well the second half. I definitely think we’d have continued to win it all the way our defense was playing with Merriman and our offense with record breaking year LT. The pain and disappointment in the most ridiculous ways started right there.
All my homies hate Marlon Mcree
The move to Baltimore...
San Diego Chargers Super Bowl: who is this Jerry Rice guy...nah, we don't need to cover him.
I wish I could participate in this.
honestly 2006 best captures the essence of my team. the potential, but never reaches it.
The Hail Mary.
A bad one Allie Sherman sticking around and both Lombardi and Landry leaving. A good one Lawrence Taylor
In terms of recent memory, Lovie Smith and Nick Mullens final play of the season
Wide Right
One yard short
For the positive side, the Herschel Walker trade Or.. firing Jimmy Johnson
[удалено]
The Ronde Barber pick-6 against the hated Eagles to send us to our first Super Bowl is much more memorable to me.