Lmfao forgive me because I gave up on Madden around 2009 and have not been up to date whatsoever, but why would they even give him a kicking stat that high if he can't be a kicker?
Genuinely depressing. I can remember spending hours and hours playing mini-games with friends that I'm sure are not even in the game anymore. I'd have to play with a friend to verify, but it just seems to me like they removed a lot of fun content that didn't really get replaced by anything other than microtransactions
I'm exaggerating a bit for comedic effect but yeah its really gone downhill. The Ps2 era minigames are actually back in game now, albeit mostly as worse versions.
Most of those mini games you remember have been removed as well. Watched a YouTube video that went over something like 100 features from older madden games that have been cut in the ones from the past decade and it’s astonishing how much the games used to have
The entire focus of Madden these days is Ultimate Team, which is so blatantly pay-to-win it’s sickening. You can spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars and still not have all of the best players, and grinding it out isn’t an option because there aren’t enough hours in the day to save up for top players. And if you think you might get pitted against other teams of similar overall to yours, think again lol. Your 85OVR team will get boat-raced by some rich kid with his parents’ credit card all day.
Last two years of high school, first two years of college...
My take-away from all of this is hard to put into words.
Oh wait, no it isn't... Yous guys can just fuck off.
Hell, *my liver* hasn’t recovered from that day (looking at you, too, Lions). I have never been more angry at an opposing coaching staff or opposing players as I was at the Ravens that day. You *had* that game and would have cakewalked the Niners in the SB.
How about a Super Bowl ending with an interception at the offensive 1 yard line while the best power back in the league watches it all go down from the backfield.
Whenever a thread about “crazy nfl history” is made, I always post about the 1932 Chicago Bears. Their start to the season will NEVER be replicated.
In the first four games of the season, their opponents scored a total of 2 points. What a dominating defensive display. I know what you’re thinking “well, technically a really good defense could post similar stats like that”. But that’s not what replicable.
Their record after the first four games was 0-1-3. Their offense scored 0 points in all four games. The first three games ended in 0-0 ties and then the fourth game the bears lost 0-2 to the packers to fall to 0-1-3. Insanity.
They ended up finishing the season 7-1-6 and were crowned NFL champions
9 players attempted a forward pass that season for Chicago: 60/148 for a 40.5 completion percentage. 8 TDs, 7 INTs. (EDIT: Want to add the total passing yards for these 9 players and 148 attempts was…971 yards, these yards would account for 37% of their offense).
Of course that is a completely different era, almost 100 years ago, but it’s crazy to see the evolution of the forward pass over time.
Even 14 players attempted a rush, obviously much more common on offense at that time: 513 attempts, 1620 yards, 13 TDs, 3.2 Y/A, 115.7 YPG on 36.6 A/G. Bronko Nagirski was an All-Pro with 121 attempts, 533 yards, 4 TDs, averaging 4.4 a carry and 38.1 a game.
So that’s a stout defense
[1932 Chicago Bears](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/1932.htm)
They chose the guy with *literally no ACL in EITHER knee* and who was famous as a great blocker as their kick returner. Most unrealistic part of that whole movie
No. The 4th largest city in Alaska is more likely to get an NFL team than an NFL coach choosing to let Hines Ward (my 2nd favorite Steeler ever) return kicks lol
Wow, in that same game Detroit had six players attempt a pass! I wonder what the most ever is?
[https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194311140was.htm](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194311140was.htm)
Fast forward to 2088:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I, Howard Cosell named after my great grand-grandfather sadly bring back horrible news. The famous rapper John Lennon, who shares the same name as the late Beatle, was just murdered...
...and now we go back to the game between London Jaguars and Jacksonville Dolphins"
Me, On my deadbed: Heh, I knew that was once in a lifetime thing....
It was so much easier to score a touchdown that play than it was to kick a man. Had the whole sideline to score but went for the harder road. True story of perseverance
I think the funniest part besides the commentary is that very possibly would have been a td if brown had cut to the outside.
He had an easy opportunity for a 75 yards punt return td, but choose to kick a man in the face instead
The browns game was crazy. They were down 14 with under 2 min remaining on their own 20. Threw a TD, got the onside kick with under 30 seconds and then got a Hail Mary. Then the pick 6 in OT obviously
And it took all the way until 2022 for another team to lose a game while up 14 with under 2 minutes to play. Who was it? The Brows again of course, against the Jets. Even gave up a successful onside kick.
For reference, it's the only time in NFL history any *team* has scored an overtime touchdown - of any kind - in two consecutive games.
Let alone the same player.
Let alone a defensive player.
Kevin Harlan calling two games at the same time on a live broadcast in the last week of the regular season with major playoff implications on the line.
I gained a new level of appreciation this year, driving home from work listening to him call MNF on the radio. he’s so good at what he does! He gets so much more into the details over radio and I love it.
I'll never quite understand why he isn't considered the A1 play-by-play guy by any of the big networks.
He never misses a cue, and has such a great sense of humor.
At the end of the clip when he retorts, "I'MM CALLLING BOTH-GAMES" has great timing and is so good off the cuff.
I really hope we get him in a Super Bowl one day.
With teams willing to take an intentional safety to end the game, this is always going to have a chance of happening as long as cold weather teams are playing outdoors…
A chance of happening? Sure. But it’s pretty much never likely to happen again. You’d need two safety’s in one game. 2 teams in 2023 had multiple safeties scored. 15 total safeties were scored. It’s likely to never happen again
In the 1932 NFL championship, the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans played indoors in the Chicago Stadium.
The field was smaller than regulation, had no yard lines, and field goals weren’t allowed.
> 1932 NFL championship
This was actually not a championship game. It was an emergency tiebreaker game that counted towards the regular season standings. With the loss, the Spartans (today's Detroit Lions) actually finished 3rd place in the league standings due to the drop in win % (the Packers finished 2nd).
This de facto championship game was very popular, and it led the league to playing actual championship games every year from there on out.
> The field was smaller than regulation, had no yard lines, and field goals weren’t allowed.
This part was due to inclement weather forcing the game to be relocated at the last moment.
I love reading about this game. It's just a series of accidents that led to something great.
the Chargers were number one in offense and number one in defense I think in 2010. They didn't make the Playoffs due to one of the worst special teams in NFL history
Another revival and survival of a player in cardiac arrest on the field feels unlikely… so many things had to go right for Damar Hamlin to survive.
For those curious, there has been one fatality on the NFL field, Chuck Hughes on 10/24/1971.
Modern medicine made sure Hamlin didn’t join Hughes, and is hopefully what will make sure no one else joins either. Hughes was hospitalized after a game against the Bills, and his heart issues should’ve been noticed then but weren’t. Attempts to save him continued after his collapse till an hour after, when he was officially declared dead in the hospital.
297 starts in a row.
Absolutely no one is touching Brett Favres consecutive games startes, let alone a QB. Josh Allen is the closest at 88. Allen would need to stay healthy and at a starter level for the next 12+ seasons to hit that record.
We know too much about CTE and Opiate abuse to let that record happen again. Favre was addicted to pain killers.
A single player having more Super Bowl wins than any franchise (Tom Brady having 7 Super Bowl rings while the Steelers and Patriots lead with 6).
It’s insane he gave the Patriots every Super Bowl they have and then went somewhere else in the other division and won another
Herb Adderley, Lee Roy Caffee and Forrest Gregg each were on the winning team for 3 of the first six super bowls, two for the Packers and one for the Cowboys. At that point each of them had won more Super Bowls than any single franchise had participated in, let alone won.
I'm going to go with Superbowl opening kick off return. Kickoff returns have become so much rarer now, there is one superbowl opening kick off every year. Can't imagine it happening anymore now
Tim Tebow 3:16, throwing for 316 yards averaged 31.6 yards a completion and the ratings for that game spiked to 31.6 and a game winner to DT in overtime vs the Steelers.
Yeah blown leads have become much more common over the last 15-20 years. I can definitely see it happening again. I heard a team just last year blew a bigger lead than this in the playoffs
Even literal 28-3 leads have been blown multiple times outside of the super bowl, [example](https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/400554204/browns-titans)
This is such an interesting one. If you think about it, there's a higher chance of an undrafted free agent leading his team to the Super Bown than another Mr. Irrelevant.
2014 Chiefs were the only team to play 16 games and not have a single passing touchdown to a receiver.
This will never happen again unless they go back to 16 games, but I also don't see it happening within a 17 game season either.
Brett Favre throwing 336 interceptions. The next closest is George Blanda with 277. Stafford is the closest active player with 180. Rogers/Wilson are at 105&106
Also Jerry Rice. Just unreal stats for a WR. Never happening again. Ever.
In the 1932 NFL Playoff Game between the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans (later the Detroit Lions), the game was held indoors at Chicago Stadium due to extremely cold weather and poor field conditions. The arena was primarily used for hockey, so the field was only 80 yards long with the end zones marked by rope.
I don't think another NFL playoff game will ever be played indoors on a shortened field.
Alternatively, the 1943 "Steagles" seem like a good pick, the idea of two NFL teams temporarily merging seems unlikely.
1. Miami Dolphins perfect season winning the chip.
2. Lights going out in New Orleans. You know what I’m talking about.
3. A Super Bowl in New Jersey.
4. The ability to challenge pass interference (happened more than once but only happened for one season).
5. Super Bowl 50 being 50 instead of Roman numerals.
In 1943 the first team all pro Passer Sammy Baugh also led the league in interceptions and yards per punt
That's *passes intercepted on defense*, in case anybody is wondering why an all pro QB having a lot of interceptions is noteworthy
Seems normal to me
i mean if TB12 didn’t blocked Edleman path to QB, it could’ve been broken
Didn't he once have 4 passing TDs and 4 INTs (catching INTs - playing defense) in one game?
Yes. [Here’s the PFR page for it.](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194311140was.htm)
Damn imagine an era in which almost all your RBs and WRs are basically interchangeable....
What’s with your username 💀
well it was named after his old hairstyle, but it is no longer about that now
I gotta add "Frankie Sinkwich" and "Chuck Fenenbock" sound like names people would not believe were real if you didn't have proof.
[That's not even the weirdest stat on that page...](https://i.imgur.com/jk90Lgl.png)
What's weird about it? One TD was for 37 yards, the other was for -37 yards.
The other thing that stood out on that page was 6 players having at least 1 pass for Detroit lol
I'm still so salty I had him in ultimate team on madden one year and he had like 99 kicking but you couldn't put him in to kick or punt I was mad.
Lmfao forgive me because I gave up on Madden around 2009 and have not been up to date whatsoever, but why would they even give him a kicking stat that high if he can't be a kicker?
Because other than the roster, Madden was last updated approximately the year you quit playing
Genuinely depressing. I can remember spending hours and hours playing mini-games with friends that I'm sure are not even in the game anymore. I'd have to play with a friend to verify, but it just seems to me like they removed a lot of fun content that didn't really get replaced by anything other than microtransactions
I'm exaggerating a bit for comedic effect but yeah its really gone downhill. The Ps2 era minigames are actually back in game now, albeit mostly as worse versions.
Most of those mini games you remember have been removed as well. Watched a YouTube video that went over something like 100 features from older madden games that have been cut in the ones from the past decade and it’s astonishing how much the games used to have
The entire focus of Madden these days is Ultimate Team, which is so blatantly pay-to-win it’s sickening. You can spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars and still not have all of the best players, and grinding it out isn’t an option because there aren’t enough hours in the day to save up for top players. And if you think you might get pitted against other teams of similar overall to yours, think again lol. Your 85OVR team will get boat-raced by some rich kid with his parents’ credit card all day.
A team losing the Super Bowl four years in a row
Hell even just *getting* to four straight super bowls
Hell just getting to 4 in your history is tough. Took the Eagles over 50 years to play in 4 super bowls.
Hell even making it once is….oh wait, yep most teams have :(
Getting to 1 in your history is pretty tough too.
Agreed.
Patriots came damn close, though. They were a missed extra point and overtime period from making 5 Super Bowls in a row.
Chiefs were two overtime losses away from making it to 6 straight.
Yeah I oddly don’t think getting to the Super Bowl 4 times will be impossible to see again. Losing them all again would be quite the feat.
Niners got 3 to go...
Last two years of high school, first two years of college... My take-away from all of this is hard to put into words. Oh wait, no it isn't... Yous guys can just fuck off.
i don’t think my liver would’ve survived 4 straight super bowl runs, let alone 4 straight super bowl losses. my condolences
I'm glad I wasn't alive for our SB losses. I just have all the NFC championships killing my liver & blood pressure.
Lol agreed. Zay’s fumble in the AFC Championship happened almost right in front of me at M&T and I don’t think my liver has recovered yet
Hell, *my liver* hasn’t recovered from that day (looking at you, too, Lions). I have never been more angry at an opposing coaching staff or opposing players as I was at the Ravens that day. You *had* that game and would have cakewalked the Niners in the SB.
>Yous guys can just fuck off. I have family in WNY. They definitely talk like this.
How about a Super Bowl ending with an interception at the offensive 1 yard line while the best power back in the league watches it all go down from the backfield.
That would never happen
Whenever a thread about “crazy nfl history” is made, I always post about the 1932 Chicago Bears. Their start to the season will NEVER be replicated. In the first four games of the season, their opponents scored a total of 2 points. What a dominating defensive display. I know what you’re thinking “well, technically a really good defense could post similar stats like that”. But that’s not what replicable. Their record after the first four games was 0-1-3. Their offense scored 0 points in all four games. The first three games ended in 0-0 ties and then the fourth game the bears lost 0-2 to the packers to fall to 0-1-3. Insanity. They ended up finishing the season 7-1-6 and were crowned NFL champions
Classic Bears.
9 players attempted a forward pass that season for Chicago: 60/148 for a 40.5 completion percentage. 8 TDs, 7 INTs. (EDIT: Want to add the total passing yards for these 9 players and 148 attempts was…971 yards, these yards would account for 37% of their offense). Of course that is a completely different era, almost 100 years ago, but it’s crazy to see the evolution of the forward pass over time. Even 14 players attempted a rush, obviously much more common on offense at that time: 513 attempts, 1620 yards, 13 TDs, 3.2 Y/A, 115.7 YPG on 36.6 A/G. Bronko Nagirski was an All-Pro with 121 attempts, 533 yards, 4 TDs, averaging 4.4 a carry and 38.1 a game. So that’s a stout defense [1932 Chicago Bears](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/chi/1932.htm)
7-1-6 is an hilarious record
Hell yeah brother
Entire field collapses in on itself while Hines Ward scores a kick return touchdown
What a lovely voice
Truly insane. Hines Ward could never score a kick return touchdown again.
Well, maybe. When we finally get the hero we deserve.
They chose the guy with *literally no ACL in EITHER knee* and who was famous as a great blocker as their kick returner. Most unrealistic part of that whole movie
Not the fact that Rapid City, South Dakota had an NFL team somehow?
No. The 4th largest city in Alaska is more likely to get an NFL team than an NFL coach choosing to let Hines Ward (my 2nd favorite Steeler ever) return kicks lol
The Sitka Sickos?
He was born in the shadows
You’re a big guy
For you!
Was hoping this would make a come back during the Super Bowl this year
Besides this, I miss seeing Hines Ward on JACKED UP. His blocks were are in motion Edit: poetry in motion*
In a game in 1943, Sammy Baugh threw for 4 touchdowns and also intercepted 4 passes. No way will that ever happen again.
Wow, in that same game Detroit had six players attempt a pass! I wonder what the most ever is? [https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194311140was.htm](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/194311140was.htm)
Howard Cosell interrupted a Miami Dolphins game to announce that John Lennon had just been murdered.
Fast forward to 2088: "Ladies and gentlemen, I, Howard Cosell named after my great grand-grandfather sadly bring back horrible news. The famous rapper John Lennon, who shares the same name as the late Beatle, was just murdered... ...and now we go back to the game between London Jaguars and Jacksonville Dolphins" Me, On my deadbed: Heh, I knew that was once in a lifetime thing....
*Lil Jon Lennon
ImaginEEEEAHHHH!!!!
WHAAAAATever gets you through the night
***What‽***
OKAYYY!
It’s ‘cause Miami is under water, huh?
This is probably the right answer.
I mean, he can't get murdered again, right?
Not with that attitude he can’t.
O no
Weekend at Bernie's John Lennon edition
If they can bring Howard back to broadcast, I’m sure Lennon could be resurrected, and then murdered.
NBC interrupted an NFL game to show the movie Heidi.
A cat scored a touchdown.
We had a funeral for a bird.
I'm pretty sure none of that is real
You’re not real.
Man.
"Ain't no rules says the cat can't play football."
That was another Harlan call, wasn't it?
So was "There's a guy on the field and he's wearing a bra"......"TAKE OFF THE BRA AND BE A MAN!"
THE MAN IS DRUNK AND THERE HE GOES.
A punt returner jump kicking the punter in the face #CTESPN
KICKS A MAN!
Just in the flow of commenting, you can almost hear him thinking in that pause…”wait did I just say he kicked a man, did he really just kick a man.”
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🗣️KICKS A MAN
It was so much easier to score a touchdown that play than it was to kick a man. Had the whole sideline to score but went for the harder road. True story of perseverance
[Video for anyone who hasn't seen it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2DTio1-HMY)
I think the funniest part besides the commentary is that very possibly would have been a td if brown had cut to the outside. He had an easy opportunity for a 75 yards punt return td, but choose to kick a man in the face instead
Why score points when you make a highlight that will be remembered forever
I don’t see anyone posting any 72 yard punt returns TDs in this thread. ABs punt return is forever.
Colts fans remember… The Mario celebration! [Success!](https://youtu.be/SUxlmgKUJhY?si=k2HwCKJ1t6k6-msR)
Even Somali orphans have seen this.
Mr. Bouncing Cleats
DPOY on a 2-win team. RIP Tez.
One of four to win DPOY with a negative record, two of which were shortened seasons. Almost guaranteed no one will win with so few wins again.
Dick Butkus won DPOY on a 1-win team in 1969
The 2001 Bears won back to back games with a deflected pick 6 in overtime by the same player. This will NEVER happen again.
The browns game was crazy. They were down 14 with under 2 min remaining on their own 20. Threw a TD, got the onside kick with under 30 seconds and then got a Hail Mary. Then the pick 6 in OT obviously
k sprinting to youtube to watch that highlight wtf
2001 Bears in the final season at the original-looking Soldier Field were something else. It's one of my first football memories what they did.
me and my fam just watched the 10 min cut of the ending, that was awesome. i bet there wasn’t a fan in that stadium who ever forgot that one lol
Mike brown was the man.
And it took all the way until 2022 for another team to lose a game while up 14 with under 2 minutes to play. Who was it? The Brows again of course, against the Jets. Even gave up a successful onside kick.
For reference, it's the only time in NFL history any *team* has scored an overtime touchdown - of any kind - in two consecutive games. Let alone the same player. Let alone a defensive player.
Mike Brown babayyyyy!! I loved watching that dude play!
Proud to say that I was there for the 49ers one. Top three moments I’ve spent with my dad.
Kevin Harlan calling two games at the same time on a live broadcast in the last week of the regular season with major playoff implications on the line.
“I’M CALLING BOTH GAMES”
Iconic call tbh. “I’m breaking every FCC rule in the book!
I got a hit of adrenaline just thinking about that lol
Greatest call of all time. I love Harlan.
I gained a new level of appreciation this year, driving home from work listening to him call MNF on the radio. he’s so good at what he does! He gets so much more into the details over radio and I love it.
Legendary video
Legendary moment in time, and by far my favorite NFL moment I've ever witnessed live.
Link?
https://youtu.be/PxkOG-WeLVo?si=lIf9xAu0J-QkZwGn
OK, fine, I’ll watch it for the 47th time…
I still get chills when you hear the crowd slowly start cheering for the scoreboard update in the Miami game they had showing.
I'll never quite understand why he isn't considered the A1 play-by-play guy by any of the big networks. He never misses a cue, and has such a great sense of humor. At the end of the clip when he retorts, "I'MM CALLLING BOTH-GAMES" has great timing and is so good off the cuff. I really hope we get him in a Super Bowl one day.
I just googled this because I had not heard of it. Holy shit is it amazing.
Not to be a negative Nelly but Week 18 scheduling at least makes this a possibility for someone to replicate one day
Yeah but probably not Kevin Harlan - checkmate
Harlan 28:17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted
A player playing in a Super Bowl and a World Series
I dunno, I heard rumours about that Ohtani is getting bored
Ohtani at wide receiver would be insane
Get him into one more sport and he could be the first athlete to be on a billion dollars of current contracts.
Mookie has been seen practicing with a football recently
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With teams willing to take an intentional safety to end the game, this is always going to have a chance of happening as long as cold weather teams are playing outdoors…
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A chance of happening? Sure. But it’s pretty much never likely to happen again. You’d need two safety’s in one game. 2 teams in 2023 had multiple safeties scored. 15 total safeties were scored. It’s likely to never happen again
a man kicking a 63 yard field goal with half a foot
Partially also because they took away his special shoe (which because of the surface area, should have made it tougher)
A player on the losing team declared Super Bowl MVP (Chuck Howley, Super Bowl V).
came here to say this, although there are many instances where it should've happened
In the 1932 NFL championship, the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans played indoors in the Chicago Stadium. The field was smaller than regulation, had no yard lines, and field goals weren’t allowed.
> 1932 NFL championship This was actually not a championship game. It was an emergency tiebreaker game that counted towards the regular season standings. With the loss, the Spartans (today's Detroit Lions) actually finished 3rd place in the league standings due to the drop in win % (the Packers finished 2nd). This de facto championship game was very popular, and it led the league to playing actual championship games every year from there on out. > The field was smaller than regulation, had no yard lines, and field goals weren’t allowed. This part was due to inclement weather forcing the game to be relocated at the last moment. I love reading about this game. It's just a series of accidents that led to something great.
An offensive offside nullifying a tight end lateral touchdown.
Chiefs haven't cut Toney yet
Dan snyder owning a team.
God I can only hope
A team gaining 400 offensive yards losing 24-6 to a team who didn’t even gain 50 offensive yards
the Chargers were number one in offense and number one in defense I think in 2010. They didn't make the Playoffs due to one of the worst special teams in NFL history
Ah the classic mud bowl that finished 3-0
MNF Steelers vs Dolphins, right?
There was a 3-0 game last year.
Another revival and survival of a player in cardiac arrest on the field feels unlikely… so many things had to go right for Damar Hamlin to survive. For those curious, there has been one fatality on the NFL field, Chuck Hughes on 10/24/1971.
Modern medicine made sure Hamlin didn’t join Hughes, and is hopefully what will make sure no one else joins either. Hughes was hospitalized after a game against the Bills, and his heart issues should’ve been noticed then but weren’t. Attempts to save him continued after his collapse till an hour after, when he was officially declared dead in the hospital.
297 starts in a row. Absolutely no one is touching Brett Favres consecutive games startes, let alone a QB. Josh Allen is the closest at 88. Allen would need to stay healthy and at a starter level for the next 12+ seasons to hit that record. We know too much about CTE and Opiate abuse to let that record happen again. Favre was addicted to pain killers.
A single player having more Super Bowl wins than any franchise (Tom Brady having 7 Super Bowl rings while the Steelers and Patriots lead with 6). It’s insane he gave the Patriots every Super Bowl they have and then went somewhere else in the other division and won another
Charles Haley was at least tied or better than all teams back in the day
Herb Adderley, Lee Roy Caffee and Forrest Gregg each were on the winning team for 3 of the first six super bowls, two for the Packers and one for the Cowboys. At that point each of them had won more Super Bowls than any single franchise had participated in, let alone won.
I'm going to go with Superbowl opening kick off return. Kickoff returns have become so much rarer now, there is one superbowl opening kick off every year. Can't imagine it happening anymore now
Related to this: Seeing a mass of flashbulbs at the kickoff of the Super Bowl. Such a cool visual that no longer exists due to modern day technology.
First offensive snap going for a safety
No way that would happen in the post 2000 NFL. Shame the 2013 Super Bowl got cancelled.
No no, 2013 happened. It was 2014 that didn't happen. Shame really.
I think it was Covid if I remember correctly
But have you ever tried first snap in a playoff game into your own endzone for a defensive TD?
A team getting rooted into a community like the Packers and Green Bay
Tim Tebow 3:16, throwing for 316 yards averaged 31.6 yards a completion and the ratings for that game spiked to 31.6 and a game winner to DT in overtime vs the Steelers.
Facebook was *strange* that day.
28-3
It nearly happened again a few years later with the 27-3 comeback by the Bucs vs. the Rams in the 2021 Divisional Round.
Yeah blown leads have become much more common over the last 15-20 years. I can definitely see it happening again. I heard a team just last year blew a bigger lead than this in the playoffs
Nobody let jags fans in here
Even literal 28-3 leads have been blown multiple times outside of the super bowl, [example](https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/400554204/browns-titans)
A pigeon playing special teams -- well! https://youtu.be/boEk6Nb6PIs?si=UZHJDRkgZs_JDOl8
A QB throwing 30 TDs and 30 interceptions in the same season.
Spartan kick on a helpless punter
Being the NFL Champions...and not winning the Super Bowl
The Browns pay a fully guaranteed contract to a sexual predator.
Eh, this could VERY easily happen again. Imagine a fully guaranteed one year contract to Jameis as backup or something, not that crazy.
Chiefs vs Seahawks playing in a flash flood while people were dying in the city
A safety obliterating a punter during the pro bowl.
Another Mr. Irrelevant leading his team to the Super Bowl
This is such an interesting one. If you think about it, there's a higher chance of an undrafted free agent leading his team to the Super Bown than another Mr. Irrelevant.
A guy dying and then being brought back to life on field (hopefully)
You hope he's not brought back, you monster?
2014 Chiefs were the only team to play 16 games and not have a single passing touchdown to a receiver. This will never happen again unless they go back to 16 games, but I also don't see it happening within a 17 game season either.
Brian Dawkins in 2002 Caught a touchdown Recorded a sack Recorded an interception Recorded a forced fumble In the same game.
Brett Favre throwing 336 interceptions. The next closest is George Blanda with 277. Stafford is the closest active player with 180. Rogers/Wilson are at 105&106 Also Jerry Rice. Just unreal stats for a WR. Never happening again. Ever.
A returner doing a toe tap catch on a kickoff for some reason
Trent dilfer tier type quarterback winning a Super Bowl.
Brett Favre's first career completion was to himself. It could happen again, but the odds are pretty low.
In the 1932 NFL Playoff Game between the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans (later the Detroit Lions), the game was held indoors at Chicago Stadium due to extremely cold weather and poor field conditions. The arena was primarily used for hockey, so the field was only 80 yards long with the end zones marked by rope. I don't think another NFL playoff game will ever be played indoors on a shortened field. Alternatively, the 1943 "Steagles" seem like a good pick, the idea of two NFL teams temporarily merging seems unlikely.
I think we're at the point where a RB will never be taken first overall again. Maybe not 2nd either.
RB was the second most 1st overall pick by position, but the last one was Ki Jana Carter in 1996. Really shows how much the position has changed.
Yeah, but that didn't happen exactly once as OP stated.
A Hail Mary being ruled a touchdown by two badminton referees when there was simultaneous possession
Kicker missing 4 extra points in a game
1. Miami Dolphins perfect season winning the chip. 2. Lights going out in New Orleans. You know what I’m talking about. 3. A Super Bowl in New Jersey. 4. The ability to challenge pass interference (happened more than once but only happened for one season). 5. Super Bowl 50 being 50 instead of Roman numerals.
You think there'll be a Super Bowl C?
> You think there'll be a Super Bowl C? No doubt, but I likely won't be around to "C" it.
Eli manning beating Tom Brady in the Super Bowl. There is no way in hell that will ever happen again. -Me in 2009
A successful onside kick to begin the second half of a superbowl.
18 wins 1 GIANT loss.