Adam’s Two Cents

Super Bowl 43 was great, but where does it rank all-time according to Adam? Here’s the list from worse to best of all-time.

43) Super Bowl 24- The 49ers pasted the Broncos 55-10. The Niners put up the most points in a Super Bowl, and not only that it was over at halftime when the Niners led 27-3.

42) Super Bowl 29- This one was over at halftime with the Niners leading 28-10, then blowing it open to a 49-26 lead.

41) Super Bowl 22- An historic day as Doug Williams became the first black quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl wasn’t much for the way of excitement. The Bronocs did start off by building a 10-0 first quarter lead, but then Williams came back in the second quarter after an injury and lit up the Broncos for 35 second quarter points as the Skins cruised 42-10.

40) Super Bowl 27- Cowboys led the Bills 28-10 at the half then poured it on 52-17.

39) Super Bowl 35- The Ravens won on defense, defense, and more defense. Baltimore allowed only 152 total yards of offense for the Giants in a 34-7 win, and didn’t allow the Giants to score an offensive touchdown. If not for Ron Dixon’s 97 yard kickoff return, the Ravens might have had the only Super Bowl shutout.

38) Super Bowl 6- Embarrasing might be the understatement for the losing team in this one. The Dolphins set a couple of records that no one wants to hold. First, quarterback Bob Griese was sacked for a loss of 29 yards which still stands as the most yards lost on one play in a Super Bowl. Then they were only able to score 3 points, which also stands as the fewest points scored in a Super Bowl as the Cowboys rolled 24-3.

37) Super Bowl 18- Alot happened for the Raiders at the expense of the Redskins. First, the Raiders blocked a punt for a touchdown. Then Marcus Allen set a Super Bowl record with a 74-yard touchdown run in the third quarter as the Raiders dominated 38-9.

36) Super Bowl 20- The Bears dominated in this game both on offense and defense. After New England took a 3-0 lead in the first quarter the Bears took over, allowing just 7 rushing yards, and 123 total yards of offense for the Pats. The Bears defense also scored twice, once on an interception return and once on a safety. The offense scored on four rushing TD’s as the Bears rolled 46-10.

35) Super Bowl 37- Tampa Bay trailed early to Oakland 3-0, then blew it open scoring 34 unanswered points by the middle of the third quarter. The Bucs defense returned three interceptions for touchdowns, including two by Dwight Smith as the Bucs won 48-21.

34) Super Bowl 4- The Vikings 5 turnovers helped the Chiefs as KC built a 16-0 halftime lead, and cruised the rest of the way to a boring 23-7 win.

33) Super Bowl 9- By the way of excitement, this didn’t produce. The Vikings and Steelers ended 16-6 Steelers, but worse was the fact that it was 2-0 at half, and the Vikes only gained 119 total yards of offense.

32) Super Bowl 2- A decent first half gave way to a Packers explosin in the second half, as the Pack built a 33-7 lead in the fourth quarter that ended in a 33-14 win for Green Bay.

31) Super Bowl 31- New England stayed with the Packers in the first quarter, but Green Bay threw out any chance of a New England win with a 17-point second quarter en route to a 35-21 win that had zero points in the fourth quarter.

30) Super Bowl 19- The 49ers took over this one in the second quarter building a 28-16 halftime lead, and shutting out Miami in the second half on the way to a 38-16 win.

29) Super Bowl 11- This one was over mid-way through the third quarter, as the Raiders built a 23-0 lead over the Vikings and won 32-14.

28) Super Bowl 15- This one might have been good if not for Ron Jaworski’s 3 interceptions. Those mistakes helped a mistake free Raider team to move up and down the field with ease for a 27-10 win.

27) Super Bowl 8- The Dolphins pounded the Vikings. At one point Miami led 24-0 before Minnesota scored a late touchdown after the game had been decided.

26) Super Bowl 7- The Dolphins undefeated season ended with a win in a mistake rittled game. The Redskins turned the ball over three times, and Garo Yepremian’s pass went down as a Super Bowl follie. Fins won 14-7.

25) Super Bowl 28- A game that was close at halftime was over by the end of the third quarter. The Bills had not turned the ball over in the first half did so twice in the third quarter as the Cowboys led 20-13 at the end of three, and went onto win 30-13.

24) Super Bowl 3- More remembered for Broadway Joe’s garuantee. The Jets defense forced 5 Colt turnovers and led 16-0 until late in the fourth when the Colts finally got on the board.

23) Super Bowl 1- This didn’t build much excitement as just under 62,000 tickets were sold, but it looked like even less showed up to the game. An evenly played game was blown open by two Packer touchdowns in the third quarter on the way to a 35-10 Packer win.

22) Super Bowl 26- The Redskins put this game away by halftime with a 17-0 lead. The Skins even led 24-0 mid-way through the third quarter.

21) Super Bowl 12- The Broncos fell victim in a Super Bowl once again as Dallas put it away by the middle of the third by leading 24-3.

20) Super Bowl 33- In John Elway’s final game he unloaded on the Falcons as the Broncos dominated for a 34-19 win that wasn’t as close as the score indicated.

19) Super Bowl 21- The Broncos were at it again in this one. Playing a great first half then letting slip away in the third as the Giants scored 26 unanswered points and pulled away to a 39-20 win.

18) Super Bowl 30- An Emmitt Smith touchdown late sealed the deal for the Cowboys. A game that was good until Neil O’Donnell found Larry Brown twice, and Brown played for Dallas.

17) Super Bowl 17- This Super Bowl was decent. And wasn’t decided until early in the fourth quarter when John Riggins had his memorable fourth down touchdown run.

16) Super Bowl 14- A good game until two fourth quarter Steeler touchdowns put it out of reach as Pittsburgh beat the LA Rams 31-19.

15) Super Bowl 40- A game more remembered for bad officiating was pretty decent. And wasn’t decided until mid-way through the fourth quarter when Hines Ward caught a touchdown pass on a trick play.

14) Super Bowl 41- This game was alot closer than it was supposed to be. The Colts had close to 40 minutes time of posession, but still only led 22-17 with 4 minutes left to play.

13) Super Bowl 39- This game was close, 24-21 in favor of New England. But the Patriots defense relaxed a little after building a 24-14 lead with 8 minutes to go.

12) Super Bowl 10- The Steelers took over this game in the fourth quarter and survived a late Cowboy surge to win 21-17.

11) Super Bowl 32- This is where the ending of the Super Bowl got really exciting. This game was tied until Terrell Davis got into the endzone with 1:45 left to play and gave Denver a 31-24 lead.

10) Super Bowl 13- Dallas made this one more exciting than it needed to be. Pittsburgh led 35-17 late in the fourth, before Dallas scored tow late touchdowns and nearly recovered an onside kick with 20 seconds left.

9) Super Bowl 43- Two lead changes in the final 2 minutes, definite excitement.

#8 Super Bowl 16- The Bengals rebounded from a 20-0 halftime deficit only to fall short at 26-21. This game saw a great 49er defensive stand with 2:38 left as the Niners held the Bengals out of the endzone on four straight plays from the one.

7) Super Bowl 42- It was tough putting many ahead of this, but I did. What can you say about the Giants game winning drive other than pure amazing.

6) Super Bowl 36- More of an exciting fourth quarter than an overall game. Still the upstart Patriots didn’t want to go to overtime and used just over a minute to drive into field goal range, and had Adam Vinatieri boot through the last second field goal to win.

5) Super Bowl 23- One year before the offensive explosion against the Broncos, the 49ers needed an amazing drive to turn away the Bengals again. 90 yards in just over a minute with John Taylor catching the game winner with 34 seconds left left everyone speechless including Bengal coach Sam Wyche.

4) Super Bowl 5- After this Super Bowl it was a long time before we got another one that compared. The Colts rallied late in the fourth quarter scoring the game-tying touchdown with 8 minutes to go. Then kicker Jim O’Brien booted through a 32 yard field goal with five seconds left to give the Colts the thrilling win.

3) Super Bowl 38- An already great game got even better in the fourth quarter, as the Pats and Panthers combined for 37 points. 24 of which came in the last 7 minutes, including Adam Vinatieri’s second Super Bowl game winner with four seconds left.

2) Super Bowl 34- Tied with just under two minutes to go, Kurt Warner connected with Issac Bruce from 73 yards out. Then Mike Jones tackled Kevin Dyson at the one yard line as time expired to preserve the win.

1) Super Bowl 25- Two words that will be instilled in every Bills fan’s memory until they win a Super Bowl will be WIDE RIGHT. An amazing game that saw no turnovers and both teams top rushers go for over 100 yards. A hard fought game came down to the last play where Bills kicker Scott Norwood pushed the game winning field goal off to the….well you know.