NFL Playoffs or Super Bowls — Greatest Events You Watched Live In Person or on TV
The Music City Miracle — the 1999 season AFC Wildcard round, the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills in Nashville TN at the end of the game: the Bills, having just scored on a 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game to take a 16-15 lead, kicked off to the Titans’ Lorenzo Neal. Lorenzo Neal pitched the ball to Frank Wycheck who lateraled the ball to Kevin Dyson who ran 75 yards for the winning touchdown. Titans win 22-16!
NFC Wild Card game- Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons, Jan. 3 2009. The only playoff game I’ve been to. My brother was living in Phoenix at the time so I drove down and we went to the game. Hall-of-Famer Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to future Hall-of-Famer Larry Fitzgerald. The Cardinals won 30-24 and made it to the Super Bowl that year, but lost to the Steelers.
Super Bowl 51, the only overtime Super Bowl. It was 3-28 in the 3rd, New England losing to Atlanta. Final score was 34-28, New England wins in overtime.
The comeback game - January 3, 1993. The Houston Oilers were ahead by 32 points but the Buffalo Bills came back and won the game in overtime. I was there in the stadium.
Super Bowl XLI - Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game, ugh…
NFL Playoffs or Super Bowls — Greatest Events You Watched Live In Person or on TV
The Music City Miracle — the 1999 season AFC Wildcard round, the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills in Nashville TN at the end of the game: the Bills, having just scored on a 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game to take a 16-15 lead, kicked off to the Titans’ Lorenzo Neal. Lorenzo Neal pitched the ball to Frank Wycheck who lateraled the ball to Kevin Dyson who ran 75 yards for the winning touchdown. Titans win 22-16!
NFC Wild Card game- Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons, Jan. 3 2009. The only playoff game I’ve been to. My brother was living in Phoenix at the time so I drove down and we went to the game. Hall-of-Famer Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to future Hall-of-Famer Larry Fitzgerald. The Cardinals won 30-24 and made it to the Super Bowl that year, but lost to the Steelers.
Super Bowl 51, the only overtime Super Bowl. It was 3-28 in the 3rd, New England losing to Atlanta. Final score was 34-28, New England wins in overtime.
The comeback game - January 3, 1993. The Houston Oilers were ahead by 32 points but the Buffalo Bills came back and won the game in overtime. I was there in the stadium.
Super Bowl XLI - Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game, ugh…
55-10! Fifty Five to Ten! Yes! Go Niners!
Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000. Rams vs Titans. Last play of game, Titans down 23-16, Tennessee’s Kevin Dyson was tackled at the Rams’ 1-yard line, preventing a possible tie and what would have been the first overtime Super Bowl. The Houston Oilers drought continues.
NFL Playoffs or Super Bowls — Greatest Events You Watched Live In Person or on TV
The Music City Miracle — the 1999 season AFC Wildcard round, the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills in Nashville TN at the end of the game: the Bills, having just scored on a 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game to take a 16-15 lead, kicked off to the Titans’ Lorenzo Neal. Lorenzo Neal pitched the ball to Frank Wycheck who lateraled the ball to Kevin Dyson who ran 75 yards for the winning touchdown. Titans win 22-16!
NFC Wild Card game- Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons, Jan. 3 2009. The only playoff game I’ve been to. My brother was living in Phoenix at the time so I drove down and we went to the game. Hall-of-Famer Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to future Hall-of-Famer Larry Fitzgerald. The Cardinals won 30-24 and made it to the Super Bowl that year, but lost to the Steelers.
Super Bowl 51, the only overtime Super Bowl. It was 3-28 in the 3rd, New England losing to Atlanta. Final score was 34-28, New England wins in overtime.
The comeback game - January 3, 1993. The Houston Oilers were ahead by 32 points but the Buffalo Bills came back and won the game in overtime. I was there in the stadium.
Super Bowl XLI - Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game, ugh…
55-10! Fifty Five to Ten! Yes! Go Niners!
Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000. Rams vs Titans. Last play of game, Titans down 23-16, Tennessee’s Kevin Dyson was tackled at the Rams’ 1-yard line, preventing a possible tie and what would have been the first overtime Super Bowl. The Houston Oilers drought continues.
Roger Craig’s fumble in the 1990 season’s NFC Conference Championship game at Candlestick Park. Niners lose, 15-13, and they lose the chance to Three-Peat. DAMN!
NFL Playoffs or Super Bowls — Greatest Events You Watched Live In Person or on TV
The Music City Miracle — the 1999 season AFC Wildcard round, the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills in Nashville TN at the end of the game: the Bills, having just scored on a 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game to take a 16-15 lead, kicked off to the Titans’ Lorenzo Neal. Lorenzo Neal pitched the ball to Frank Wycheck who lateraled the ball to Kevin Dyson who ran 75 yards for the winning touchdown. Titans win 22-16!
NFC Wild Card game- Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons, Jan. 3 2009. The only playoff game I’ve been to. My brother was living in Phoenix at the time so I drove down and we went to the game. Hall-of-Famer Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to future Hall-of-Famer Larry Fitzgerald. The Cardinals won 30-24 and made it to the Super Bowl that year, but lost to the Steelers.
Super Bowl 51, the only overtime Super Bowl. It was 3-28 in the 3rd, New England losing to Atlanta. Final score was 34-28, New England wins in overtime.
The comeback game - January 3, 1993. The Houston Oilers were ahead by 32 points but the Buffalo Bills came back and won the game in overtime. I was there in the stadium.
Super Bowl XLI - Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game, ugh…
55-10! Fifty Five to Ten! Yes! Go Niners!
Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000. Rams vs Titans. Last play of game, Titans down 23-16, Tennessee’s Kevin Dyson was tackled at the Rams’ 1-yard line, preventing a possible tie and what would have been the first overtime Super Bowl. The Houston Oilers drought continues.
Roger Craig’s fumble in the 1990 season’s NFC Conference Championship game at Candlestick Park. Niners lose, 15-13, and they lose the chance to Three-Peat. DAMN!
Super Bowl XLIX, 2015, halftime show with Katy Perry and Left Shark. The most watched halftime show ever.
NFL Playoffs or Super Bowls — Greatest Events You Watched Live In Person or on TV
The Music City Miracle — the 1999 season AFC Wildcard round, the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills in Nashville TN at the end of the game: the Bills, having just scored on a 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game to take a 16-15 lead, kicked off to the Titans’ Lorenzo Neal. Lorenzo Neal pitched the ball to Frank Wycheck who lateraled the ball to Kevin Dyson who ran 75 yards for the winning touchdown. Titans win 22-16!
NFC Wild Card game- Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons, Jan. 3 2009. The only playoff game I’ve been to. My brother was living in Phoenix at the time so I drove down and we went to the game. Hall-of-Famer Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to future Hall-of-Famer Larry Fitzgerald. The Cardinals won 30-24 and made it to the Super Bowl that year, but lost to the Steelers.
Super Bowl 51, the only overtime Super Bowl. It was 3-28 in the 3rd, New England losing to Atlanta. Final score was 34-28, New England wins in overtime.
The comeback game - January 3, 1993. The Houston Oilers were ahead by 32 points but the Buffalo Bills came back and won the game in overtime. I was there in the stadium.
Super Bowl XLI - Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game, ugh…
55-10! Fifty Five to Ten! Yes! Go Niners!
Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000. Rams vs Titans. Last play of game, Titans down 23-16, Tennessee’s Kevin Dyson was tackled at the Rams’ 1-yard line, preventing a possible tie and what would have been the first overtime Super Bowl. The Houston Oilers drought continues.
Roger Craig’s fumble in the 1990 season’s NFC Conference Championship game at Candlestick Park. Niners lose, 15-13, and they lose the chance to Three-Peat. DAMN!
Super Bowl XLIX, 2015, halftime show with Katy Perry and Left Shark. The most watched halftime show ever.
Super Bowl XXXVIII, 2003 season: Patriots 32 - Panthers 29; another win by Adam Vinatieri’s foot, a 41-yard FG with 4 seconds left on the clock. Also it’s “Nipplegate” - Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction. But I was outside like I usually am during halftime, throwing a football around until the 3rd quarter starts.
NFL Playoffs or Super Bowls — Greatest Events You Watched Live In Person or on TV
The Music City Miracle — the 1999 season AFC Wildcard round, the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills in Nashville TN at the end of the game: the Bills, having just scored on a 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game to take a 16-15 lead, kicked off to the Titans’ Lorenzo Neal. Lorenzo Neal pitched the ball to Frank Wycheck who lateraled the ball to Kevin Dyson who ran 75 yards for the winning touchdown. Titans win 22-16!
NFC Wild Card game- Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons, Jan. 3 2009. The only playoff game I’ve been to. My brother was living in Phoenix at the time so I drove down and we went to the game. Hall-of-Famer Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to future Hall-of-Famer Larry Fitzgerald. The Cardinals won 30-24 and made it to the Super Bowl that year, but lost to the Steelers.
Super Bowl 51, the only overtime Super Bowl. It was 3-28 in the 3rd, New England losing to Atlanta. Final score was 34-28, New England wins in overtime.
The comeback game - January 3, 1993. The Houston Oilers were ahead by 32 points but the Buffalo Bills came back and won the game in overtime. I was there in the stadium.
Super Bowl XLI - Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game, ugh…
55-10! Fifty Five to Ten! Yes! Go Niners!
Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000. Rams vs Titans. Last play of game, Titans down 23-16, Tennessee’s Kevin Dyson was tackled at the Rams’ 1-yard line, preventing a possible tie and what would have been the first overtime Super Bowl. The Houston Oilers drought continues.
Roger Craig’s fumble in the 1990 season’s NFC Conference Championship game at Candlestick Park. Niners lose, 15-13, and they lose the chance to Three-Peat. DAMN!
Super Bowl XLIX, 2015, halftime show with Katy Perry and Left Shark. The most watched halftime show ever.
Super Bowl XXXVIII, 2003 season: Patriots 32 - Panthers 29; another win by Adam Vinatieri’s foot, a 41-yard FG with 4 seconds left on the clock. Also it’s “Nipplegate” - Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction. But I was outside like I usually am during halftime, throwing a football around until the 3rd quarter starts.
Tom Fears caught a TD pass late as Rams top Browns, 24-17 for NFL title… We didn’t have TV yet in 1952, we were visiting my uncle.
NFL Playoffs or Super Bowls — Greatest Events You Watched Live In Person or on TV
The Music City Miracle — the 1999 season AFC Wildcard round, the Tennessee Titans defeat the Buffalo Bills in Nashville TN at the end of the game: the Bills, having just scored on a 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds remaining in the game to take a 16-15 lead, kicked off to the Titans’ Lorenzo Neal. Lorenzo Neal pitched the ball to Frank Wycheck who lateraled the ball to Kevin Dyson who ran 75 yards for the winning touchdown. Titans win 22-16!
NFC Wild Card game- Arizona Cardinals vs. Atlanta Falcons, Jan. 3 2009. The only playoff game I’ve been to. My brother was living in Phoenix at the time so I drove down and we went to the game. Hall-of-Famer Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to future Hall-of-Famer Larry Fitzgerald. The Cardinals won 30-24 and made it to the Super Bowl that year, but lost to the Steelers.
Super Bowl 51, the only overtime Super Bowl. It was 3-28 in the 3rd, New England losing to Atlanta. Final score was 34-28, New England wins in overtime.
The comeback game - January 3, 1993. The Houston Oilers were ahead by 32 points but the Buffalo Bills came back and won the game in overtime. I was there in the stadium.
Super Bowl XLI - Devin Hester returns the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. The rest of the game, ugh…
55-10! Fifty Five to Ten! Yes! Go Niners!
Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000. Rams vs Titans. Last play of game, Titans down 23-16, Tennessee’s Kevin Dyson was tackled at the Rams’ 1-yard line, preventing a possible tie and what would have been the first overtime Super Bowl. The Houston Oilers drought continues.
Roger Craig’s fumble in the 1990 season’s NFC Conference Championship game at Candlestick Park. Niners lose, 15-13, and they lose the chance to Three-Peat. DAMN!
Super Bowl XLIX, 2015, halftime show with Katy Perry and Left Shark. The most watched halftime show ever.
Super Bowl XXXVIII, 2003 season: Patriots 32 - Panthers 29; another win by Adam Vinatieri’s foot, a 41-yard FG with 4 seconds left on the clock. Also it’s “Nipplegate” - Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction. But I was outside like I usually am during halftime, throwing a football around until the 3rd quarter starts.
Tom Fears caught a TD pass late as Rams top Browns, 24-17 for NFL title… We didn’t have TV yet in 1952, we were visiting my uncle.
Super Bowl XXXII, too painful to watch, because my then-girlfriend who’s now my wife and I fell in love on just the night before. We were coworkers and we went to an office party but we weren’t ready to “announce”. She and I had to watch it, apart, not sitting down together, painfully just a few feet apart. And, oh yeah, there was a game to be watched, “This. One’s. For. John.”
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Jerry Howarth did the Toronto Blue Jays’ radio play-by-play for years. A donation to the Blue Jays’ charitable organization last season got the donor a Jerry Howarth bobblehead. I got one, and was pleased to find that he’s even got his microphone.
Walter Payton
A coworker of mine who recruited me into the company had a hookup for jerseys and sports memorabilia and I bought a Payton bobblehead from him. Sadly, this coworker died from cancer around 8 years ago.
Larry Sanders, an obscure player for NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks about 7 or 8 years ago. It was a free handout when I went on a day trip to Milwaukee to see the Lakers. I still have it on my bookshelf!
Larry Sanders, an obscure player for NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks about 7 or 8 years ago. It was a free handout when I went on a day trip to Milwaukee to see the Lakers. I still have it on my bookshelf!
I DO NOT want any LA Dodger bobbleheads. If I did, I’d burn it. Boo Dodgers!
Larry Sanders, an obscure player for NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks about 7 or 8 years ago. It was a free handout when I went on a day trip to Milwaukee to see the Lakers. I still have it on my bookshelf!
I DO NOT want any LA Dodger bobbleheads. If I did, I’d burn it. Boo Dodgers!
A Yomiuri Giants bobblehead that can be adjusted to smile or cry, depending on the team’s performance
Larry Sanders, an obscure player for NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks about 7 or 8 years ago. It was a free handout when I went on a day trip to Milwaukee to see the Lakers. I still have it on my bookshelf!
I DO NOT want any LA Dodger bobbleheads. If I did, I’d burn it. Boo Dodgers!
A Yomiuri Giants bobblehead that can be adjusted to smile or cry, depending on the team’s performance
Russ Ortiz from the 2002 San Francisco Giants World Series team.
2002 World Series – how painful!
ETA: especially game 6! 2002 World Series - Wikipedia
Larry Sanders, an obscure player for NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks about 7 or 8 years ago. It was a free handout when I went on a day trip to Milwaukee to see the Lakers. I still have it on my bookshelf!
I DO NOT want any LA Dodger bobbleheads. If I did, I’d burn it. Boo Dodgers!
A Yomiuri Giants bobblehead that can be adjusted to smile or cry, depending on the team’s performance
Russ Ortiz from the 2002 San Francisco Giants World Series team.
