The Most SURPRISING Blowout in NFL HISTORY | Steelers @ Bengals (1979)
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- In a 1979 game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers, the Steelers (5-1) entered as the defending champions, having won 23 of their last 25 games. The Bengals (0-6) entered as a winless team that had lost 19 of their last 23 games. Somehow, the Bengals did the impossible, and won 34-10. This is the story behind what led up to the most improbable blowout in the history of the NFL
NOTE: Because the NFL doesn't understand how fair use works, I had to remove 10 seconds of footage for copyright reasons. This comes at the 1:00 mark, where I talk about a Bills/Vikings game from 2018, and how the Vikings were favored by 16.5 points, but the Bills won 27-6, leading 27-0 late in the fourth
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Members of the 1979 Bengals:
Ken Anderson
Jack Thompson
Charles Alexander
Archie Griffin
Pete Johnson
Nathan Poole
Deacon Turner
Don Bass
Isaac Curtis
Steve Kreider
Mike Levenseller
Jim Corbett
Dan Ross
Rick Walker
Glenn Bujnoch
Blair Bush
Barney Cotton
Mark Donahue
Vernon Holland
Bob Johnson
Dave Lapham
Max Montoya
Mike Wilson
Ross Browner
Gary Burley
Eddie Edwards
Mack Mitchell
Mike White
Wilson Whitley
Glenn Cameron
Tom Dinkel
Bo Harris
Howard Kurnick
Jim LeClair
Tom Ruud
Reggie Williams
Louis Breeden
Jim Browner
Scott Burk
Marvin Cobb
Vaughn Lusby
Ray Griffin
Dick Jauron
Scott Perry
Ken Riley
Chris Bahr
Pat McInally
Homer Rice (coach)
Members of the 1979 Steelers:
Terry Bradshaw
Mike Kruczek
Cliff Stoudt
Anthony Anderson
Rocky Bleier
Franco Harris
Greg Hawthorne
Rick Moser
Sidney Thornton
Theo Bell
Jim Smith
John Stallworth
Lynn Swann
Bennie Cunningham
Randy Grossman
Larry Brown
Steve Courson
Sam Davis
Thom Dornbrook
Jon Kolb
Gerry Mullins
Ted Petersen
Mike Webster
John Banaszak
Tom Beasley
Gary Dunn
Steve Furness
Joe Greene
LC Greenwood
Dwight White
Robin Cole
Tom Graves
Jack Ham
Jack Lambert
Loren Toews
Zack Valentine
Dennis Winston
Larry Anderson
Mel Blount
Ron Johnson
Donnie Shell
JT Thomas
Mike Wagner
Dwayne Woodruff
Matt Bahr
Craig Colquitt
Fred Anderson
Russell Davis
Larry Douglas
Willie Fry
Ray Pinney
Calvin Sweener - Sport
There are five players on the 1979 Bengals who can a strong case to be in the HOF.
Ken Anderson
Ken Riley
Isaac Curtis
Reggie Williams
Pat McInally
It goes to show you even the 70s Steelers were human. It doesn't matter how good you are or how bad the other team is in the NFL. You give the ball away 9 times, you're probably not going to win. Sometimes it's easy to forget that even the worst teams have professionals who were studs in High School and College.
love your context of videos & videos info
Wow days of our Steelers was a thing in the 70s as well
Browns 34, Patriots 14 from 2010 has to be up there as well. I'd definitely put that ahead of Bills-Vikings.
Hey sorry I pasted under the wrong thread. I deleted. Comes with age. lol
O yes! Buffalo went HAM on Minnesota!
That game sucked to watch as a Pat’s fan. Peyton Hillis looked like Walter Payton
Dolphins 21, Patriots 0 from 2006 also could be up there. Brady played in that game.
Back story: The Pittsburgh Pirates were in the World Series played that week in the same Three Rivers Stadium (& Baltimore) & Steelers players said years later they were caught up in GOING to the Pirates games. Some Steelers players were shown on TV watching the World Series games that very week. This victory couldn’t save the Bengals coach but Bengals QB Ken Anderson was hot in this game w/an offense partially installed years earlier by former Asst Coach Bill Walsh. The Bengals got better the next 2 seasons & played the 1981 49ers in the Super Bowl. 1979 was the last year of that great Steelers dynasty.
This game nearly destroyed me that day in Oct 14, 1979. I vividly remember the blowout from my couch that day, may father was upset. But then later that night the Pirates won plus they won the next 2 games to win the World Series. Thank you JaguarGator9.
I remember they were talking about this in the 1979 America's Game series. One of the players that were interviewed (John Banazak, I believe) actually said the players were talking about whether or not the Pirates would rally back from 3-1 down in the series before they played Cincinnati. After the game, the players were wondering whether the Pirates had lost. Then Chuck Noll accused them of throwing the game.
@@KWCline91 Yes!! Don’t know if you remember bye grand jury testimony four years later brought out crazy stuff about that Pirates team. Yogi Bera’s son Dale was named & the guy who wore the Pirates mascot character suit was apparently the real “candy man” instead of just John Candelaria’s nickname.
The 1970s and early 80s were actually more off the chain then the late 1960s. The only difference was that politics were no longer worn on shirt sleeves and the people had jobs instead of camping out for a weekend at a music festival. Some blame the Raiders while others blame the Steelers but injectable steroids took hold in the NFL in the 1970s. It’s more innocent than people realize because all the players took the same steroid pills that we take for injuries or sinus issues today. Look at some of the holes that Franco Harris had & the size of the legs on some of those O-lineman. When I saw Mike Webster & some other Steelers for autographs I realized that they weren’t giants as far as height. It impressed me even more. Today I guess these same positions would be 6’7” & over 300 lbs.
Pirates won game 5 v the orioles later that day. So it kind of took the sting off the Steelers loss. The pirates would win games 6 and 7 to win the World Series..and have not won one since.
The Steelers lost to the Bengals twice in 1980, thus keeping the Steelers out of the playoffs and therefore bringing to an end the Steelers dynasty.
The two match ups from this past season weren't too bad either :)
And the Steelers lost both games vs Cincy in 1981 too. A rare 4-game streak against Pitt.
THAT’S why they play the games
The biggest blowout upset game in recent NFL history was actually the September 21, 2008 Miami Dolphins-New England Patriots "wildcat" game. The Dolphins were 0-2 following a horrible 1-15 2017 season. The Patriots were on a 21-game regular season winning streak tainted by the Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants. Tom Brady had torn his ACL in the Patriots’ season opener but still no one gave the Dolphins a chance. The Dolphins used running back Ronnie Brown to run the hastily concocted "wildcat" offense taking a shotgun snap six times, scoring an amazing five touchdowns (four rushing and one passing) and shockingly blew out the Patriots 38-13.
*YESSS!!! THANK YOU FOR REMEMBERING THAT ONE!!!* 🤘🤘🤘
Here’s another surprising blowout: Atlanta 34, San Francisco 17 in Week 3 of 1988. Atlanta finished a league-worst 3-12 in 1987, and lost their first two games that year, including to the lowly Lions in Week 1. San Francisco finished a league-best 13-2 in 1987, and won their first two games on the road. They won in New Orleans in Week 1, a year after the Saints finished 12-3, second best in the league only behind the 49ers. Not only did the Falcons win by 17, they won in San Francisco.
Oh that's a really good one. I'm a 49ers fan and didn't even think of that.
I'm something of a music-history expert, and I'd say you're a little off in saying "Never Can Say Goodbye" was the first disco #1 on the Hot 1, especially since it only reached number 9. I'd say it was "Rock the Boat" by the Hues Corporation, which came out a few months earlier as well.
As mentioned in the video, this was the Steelers only loss to a team that finished the year with a losing record during their dynasty yesrs (1972 - 79).
I forgot the specific number, but it was an amazing 40-1 record or something.
49-1
Very good story telling.
The '79 World Series turned out to be a distraction for the Steelers that particular week. And their woeful performance against the Bengals proved that, not because of scheduling conflicts at Three Rivers Stadium because the Pirates and Orioles were playing, but because the Steelers were so distracted with how the Pirates were doing that they took their focus off the Bengals. At least that's the legend.
1994 49ers were favored by 9 points at home against the Eagles, and then got blown out 40-8.
That game was my first thought, too. I remember after the 49ers scored their lone TD late, the dude celebrated. Then an Eagles player tapped him on the shoulder and pointed at the Candlestick scoreboard.
@@c71score That's right! The Eagles went down and the 49ers went up! Winning 9 in a row and defeating the Cowboys on the same field that the Eagles defeated the Niners on!
I wonder if Steve Young was playing. That didn't happen very often to the 49ers of those days.
@@badgerden7080 Yes he played, and got benched. He was very angry about it.
@@astrostar49 That incident and the score are all I remember from that game. I vividly remember Young arguing on the sidelines after things went sideways.
"We're on from Cincinnati"
I first learned about this final score from Comrade Dobler's channel. I couldn't believe my eyes to see that the 0-6 Bengals defeated the Super Bowl winning 1979 Steelers. I thought it was a typo. However, keep in mind that the 0-13 Adam Gase led 2020 New York Jets defeated the Los Angeles Rams in L.A. 23-20. Granted, the Rams were not a Super Bowl winning team and it was only 3 points, but the Jets were atrocious last year with a very bad offense that was scoring an average of just under 10 points per game. They were able to score 23 points on a defense that has Aaron Donald and a good defensive line. Sometimes things like this happen. Even to a Super Bowl winning team. I guess the expression "Any Given Sunday" applies here.
According to the Steelers America's Game episode the Steelers had their eyes on the 1979 World Series between the Pirates and Orioles instead of this game.
The 1978-79 Bengals went a combined 8-24. But seven of those wins came against teams that finished .500 or better and five came against teams that made the playoffs. In fact, two weeks after blowing out the Steelers, Cincinnati won 37-13 over an Eagles team that finished 11-5 and reached the divisional round of the playoffs. It's a little bit puzzling that the Bengals had such poor records given their level of talent and the fact that they were clearly capable of beating and even dominating quality opponents. Homer Rice must've really sucked as a coach.
True. Teams from Penn were whipped badly in Riverfront in 1979!
@@lutherjennings6565 Homer Rice and Tiger Johnson .. 2 worst coach’s in Bengal history
The 1979 Steelers led the league in turnovers with 52, but not many teams win by turning the ball over 9 times. In fact, the only other game I know about in which a team had 9 turnovers was the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXVII.
I can’t believe you mentioned Bills-Vikings as I was just thinking about that game at the beginning of this video. As a Bills fan I think that game was huge in establishing early what Josh Allen would be capable of later in his career
It's the one game of the 1979 season that the Bengals weren't the "Bungals", and the Steelers had unaccustomarily mailed the game in before boarding the flight to Cincy...
December 1971 was NOT "well before the Steelers were any good," since the very next season was the start of the dynasty (the Immaculate Reception, etc.)
my brother-in-law at the time, was a cab driver. he drove many of the Steelers players back to their hotel, at 4 AM the morning of the game. they were at the strip clubs in Newport Kentucky. which is right across the Ohio river.
That explains A LOT! 😂
They always played the Steelers tough even though the Steelers won more of the games.
Not a blowout, but it was a WTF double-digit game. Rams over Niners (who turn the ball over six times) 28-17 at the Stick. The significance? Niners and Giants were a week a away from an undefeated showdown the next week on MNF, both lost (Giants at Eagles 31-13) to go in 10-1. George Seifert said that team was possibly better than the '89 team (a little off there)
Strange decade for the Rams that began with *Curt* Warner, and ended with *Kurt* Warner
The Bengals played the Steelers as well any team in the 70`s...
Al Pacino saying in Any Given Sunday is “Any given Sunday, you can win or you can lose. But can you do it like a man?”
I was 9 and lived football. I told my father that “you watch. The Bengals are going to win”. I lived in the American Southwest lol. I miss the way they use to play.
Ken Anderson was injured in 1978 and that did them in. 1979 is puzzling because the bengals had a lot of talent and pulled some upsets. Not sure why the record was so bad. They were tough in 1980 and put it together in 1981.
Homer Rice on the Hotseat. We Bengals fans were tortured this season. A week after this game Cincy lost 28-27 with less than a minute left. A week later Bengals beat Eagles 37-13
It happens. That's all I have. No excuses, no standing up for the Steelers or Bengals, nothing.
Steelers had like 9 turnovers and later admitted they were more focused on the pirates word series games the upcoming week.
Remember the Bengals blowing out the Oilers in the late 80's or early 90's 61-7 (they even missed an extra point)?
Oilers were favored going into that game because the playoffs were on the line.
I was there. The crowd kept yelling "Jerry" to taunt Glanville.
The Bengals beat the Steelers twice in 1980, which one could argue ended Pittsburgh's dynasty. Had the Steelers won those games, they would've finished 11-5 and in a three-way tie with Houston and Cleveland for the AFC Central division championship. The Steelers would have won the division based on head-to-head points differential.
They (Steelers) lost both games by a total of 3 points. 30-28 in the 1st meeting, Week#3. And, 17-16 in the 2nd meeting, Week#6.
These games were 40 plus years ago! But I love viewing them on CZcams! Network or NFL Films! I am a Steelers fan and where I live. We did not get that Steelers game on TV! But always watch the game that was on so I could get updates on their performance! Many of the NFL fans of the 70s know that TV was limited then! So you had to watch a game if not your team on to see how your team was doing! You were not even guaranteed to even see weekly highlights of all games! Not every TV market carried This is the NFL or Game of the week! But ABC had special Sunday night game and halftime showed Steelers Bengals highlights! Turnovers kill! 2 fumbles run back for TDs a 3rd set up another in a short span are going to hurt! I just wish somebody had this game in its entirety! But thanks to 1979 Bengals highlights and Comrad Dobler for sharing This the NFL weekly highlights! I got the full concept how the Steelers lost this game!! Any given Sunday!
The Pirates won the World Series 3 days later and the Steelers beat the Broncos 42-7 on MNF the next week. Should have won this game, but it didn't stop the Steelers from winning their 4th Super Bowl. Overall, this was just a bump in the road kind of game and the Pirates made everything all better that night and then on Tuesday and Wednesday that week. NBD.
You should cover the Browns Steelers tie a few years ago, the turning point of the Browns becoming a truly competitive team again.
I’m 52 and a lifelong Steeler fan. The Browns are a good team now with a chance to become great. The reason the Browns stunk for so long is their ownership. They were too impatient and switched coaches on a yearly basis. I think this is because they always had high draft picks and felt it had to be the coach’s fault. Even the best players would struggle with dealing with a new coaching staff every year. The Steelers only won 1 game in Chuck Noll’s first season. Plus the Browns whiffed on several high draft picks. There are some eerie similarities between the 70s Steelers and today’s Browns. Drafting Myles Garrett was the real beginning of the Browns turnaround much like Joe Green was to the Steelers. The Steelers had the #1 pick again and took QB Terry Bradshaw like the Browns did with Baker Mayfield. Although Bradshaw is a hall of famer and one of the best QBs ever, he did struggle for a couple years before putting it all together. Both had a pair of WRs who were considered among the best in the game. Also a pair of the best running backs in the game. While the Browns won’t be a decade long dynasty like the Steelers were due to free agency that didn’t exist in the 70s, they do have a couple of potentially dominating seasons in the next few years.
Why does this remind me of the Bengals and steelers game that such happened
Disco died in 1980
On any given day... 🙂
Hmmmmm! 1.10.2021: Wild Card Game when the Browns was up 28-0 in the first quarter!
This would be a precursor to the miracle on ice more than 4 months later
You can't turn the ball over nine times and expect to beat anybody, no matter how good you are.
Later that night, the Pittsburgh Pirates was one loss away from losing the World Series to the Baltimore Orioles. The Pirates won that game, then won the next two played at Baltimore to win The 1979 World Series.
Had the Pirates lost that night, combined with the Steelers getting pulverized in Cincinnati, would have been A Sad Day in Pittsburgh.
@Jiltedin2007 The two teams were tight - in the America's Game episode, the Steelers straight-up admit that how bummed out they were from the Pirates going down 3-1 the night before was a significant factor in this performance.
@@TPTGopher
Is that why the Steelers played so badly in Cincinnati? Because they were actually saddened with the fact of Baltimore going up 3-1 on the Pirates? Seeing the Pirates trouncing the Orioles at Three Rivers must’ve pumped them. Then winning the next two games at Baltimore must have put a big enough charge on the Steelers to go and win Super Bowl XIV.
Voice sounds like a young Bryant Gumble
The 2014 Season 2-5 Redskins at 6-1 Cowboys on MNF.Redskins win 20-17 OT.That could be one of the biggest upsets.Cowboys went 12-4 and the Redskins went 4-12 that year.
Where would you put the Colts' 41-0 home win over the Dolphins in 1997? That one shocked the mess out of me!
That's gotta be the biggest. Who did they have... Paul Justin at QB?? Funny thing is, just a couple weeks before that, they were 0-10 and beat the SB champion Packers, who were like 9-1. It can happen to anyone at anytime
@@leogetz3570 Jim Harbaugh started at QB that day.
@@marcus813 ok...couldn't remember which games he missed that year
4-0 Raiders being destroyed by the 0-4 Rams in 2002 is another one
Rams got back to playing like they were expected (their last win of any kind before that was the NFC Championship Game!), and the Raiders inexplicably lost three more after that to fall to 4-4, before rallying for an 11-5 finish.
Rams were a talented team though, and the defending NFC champs. Kurt Warner's terrible play is what was holding the team back that year. When Marc Bulger took over, the team won a few more games that year.
The Rams were 0-5, I do believe.
Any Given Sunday
Could you do videos of Offensive Lineman Pancakes Blocks leading to big plays or Touchdowns ?
Yes the steelers dominated the rivalry during the 1970s, but that was because the bengals were winless in Pittsburgh. In Cincinnati, it wasn't the same, at all
games have always been fixed
No matter how good a team is, if you turn the ball over NINE (9) times, you'll eventually lose. Losing 7 fumbles! How is that even possible? Especially with how good Pitt was that year. Perfect example of "on any given Sunday".
If the Steelers owner muttered the number of turnovers that day, then Ferris Bueller‘a Day Off wasn’t the first time a Rooney exclaimed “Nine Times!”
I agree. It's very difficult to win a game when your offense turns the ball over even 2 or 3 times, much less 9 times.
Strange thing is, the Steelers were careless with the ball a lot (not 9 times every week, mind you) and won a majority of the time. That certainly is not the case in the league today, but it is a testament to the Steers overall talent.
@@orangelab6846 In the decade of the '70s only the Browns had more turnovers than the Steelers. They made up for it by leading all teams that decade in takeaways.
Does anyone have full game they can put on here?? I can’t seem to find anyone that has it. Thanks
6:01 "...the Bengals scored 34 unanswered points." If, after falling behind, 3-0, Cincinnati subsequently took a 34-3 lead, and Pittsburgh never scored again, then you could say those 34 points went unanswered. But the final score was 34-10. Pittsburgh did score again. Meaning, they answered after Cincinnati scored to make it 34-3. The Bengals scored 34 *consecutive* points, not 34 unanswered. Pittsburgh answered Cincinnati's last score.
Didn't the 2011 Packers go like 11-0 and get rekt by a 3 win Chiefs team?
That was the second of a two-game stretch that eventually led to the Chiefs hiring Andy Reid as coach.
@@CTubeMan I thought they hired Crenell for a year after this but the disaster(a guy killing his wife) and a messy season lead to Reid.
@@CTubeMan Is the first game the same one that Secret Base made this video about? czcams.com/video/wJLNQ83vm2g/video.html
41 years, 5 months, 13 days ago
Those Steelers crumbled in the second quarter with those 2nd quarter fumbles. What do you think SCOTT?
@@matthewdaley746 That's true. People forget how close the Super Bowl was that season against the Rams, who weren't a very impressive team. They were losing in the 4th quarter but they pulled it out the bag with 2 Bradshaw to Stallworth bombs to seal the deal
Fixed
You should say the most surprising blowout "in your opinion". The Bengals always played the Steelers hard back in the 70s
Yes!!! You remember too! Remember a couple of years later Matt Bahr missed a FG to lose a chance for OT against the Bengals. Chuck Noll got got Gary Anderson next season. Here’s the Somme that I posted here about the game I’m the video & my memory:
Back story: The Pittsburgh Pirates were in the World Series played that week in the same Three Rivers Stadium (& Baltimore) & Steelers players said years later they were caught up in GOING to the Pirates games. Some Steelers players were shown on TV watching the World Series games that very week. This victory couldn’t save the Bengals coach but Bengals QB Ken Anderson was hot in this game w/an offense partially installed years earlier by former Asst Coach Bill Walsh. The Bengals got better the next 2 seasons & played the 1981 49ers in the Super Bowl. 1979 was the last year of that great Steelers dynasty.
This game nearly destroyed me that day in Oct 14, 1979. I vividly remember the blowout from my couch that day, may father was upset. But then later that night the Pirates won plus they won the next 2 games to win the World Series. Thank you JaguarGator9.
@@r.williamcomm7693 Right. I was a teenager then and a Cowboys fan. So naturally I hated the Steelers. I remember getting a big kick out of that loss. I do remember that the Bengals always played the Steelers tough eventhough the Steelers won most of the games. The next best big loss around that time was when the Chargers beat the Steelers in SD like 35-7. May have been the next season
@@mhlaw229 Yes! That’s great. I was convinced that Chargers would eventually get rings. Steelers barely got there & finally won the SB over the Rams who I believe got there beating Cowboys in their last playoff game with Roger Staubach. Chargers & Raiders started giving Steelers problems. Cowboys were still good for years to come. Having Danny White become starter helped. Steelers Noll got to a conference title game but the next year the QB who took over for Bradshaw left the for the USFL. Noll’s biggest Mistake (& maybe Landry’s too) was passing on Dan Marino in 1983. 😀
Great “talking” w/you.
@@r.williamcomm7693 Right, completely agree with you. Funny thing, as you get a little older and aren't as fired up about sports rivalries anymore, you can look back and appreciate teams you didn't like as a kid. The 70s Cowboys were a great team, but the Steelers were better, especially defensively. And defense wins championships. Take care buddy!
That was also the day of one of the CFL's biggest upsets, when the 0-12 Saskatchewan Roughriders edged the champion Edmonton Eskimos, 10-1-2 going into the game, 26-25 in Regina in a game that ended with a punting exchange in and out of the Sask. end zone on the last play.
Disco still sucks!!!!
I hear you!! 😆
They lost here big because entire team was not thinking about the Bengals before game they were talking about and discussing the World series where the Pirates at time were down 3 games to 1 wondering if they were going to come back and win series
Did this win somehow lead to the Bengals turning it around and two years later they end up in Super Bowl 16? Or was there something else? Don’t know just wondering.
Well, curiously the same thing happened the next year early in Cincinnati. Then 3 or 4 weeks later, the Bengals went into Pittsburgh with that having been the only Bengals win and only Pittsburgh loss. The Bengals won that rematch in a close one.
The next year after that, 1981, was the year that the Bengals went to the Super Bowl and Pittsburgh got blown out in Cincinnati for the third straight year.
The Steelers were arrogant bullies that liked to hit late and laugh at you when they did it. They hated when teams stood up to them, which aside from the Raiders didnt happen often. This was a team that expected other teams to fear them and would get angry if a team dared to execute a long play on them. So when the Bengals did this, there was the predictable "The Steelers will punish them for the next ten years" And after that 37-17 blowout later that season, many people thought thats what would happen but the Steelers wouldnt sweep the Bengals in a season until 1987. The Bengals swept them 3 times in that period...go figure.
How could people have been talking about them as possibly the best team ever, when they are a few years removed from the perfect 'Phins?
Like, I get talking about the '07 Pats like that. Or possibly the '85 Bears. Eh, idk.
Pittsburgh captured records of 4 SB titles ,more then those fins , and only team to twice repeat ,the 2 repeats still hasn't been accomplished again , those fins were underdogs in both SB wins ,lost 1 of SB's by being blown out . Pittsburgh set a conference record 8 consecutive playoff appearances ,remained dominant longer then the Dolphins inthe 70's , the WFL adventures of hofers Paul Warfield ,Larry Csonka ,and great sub utility guy Jim Kiick ,is overrated , exception to Warfield ,the other two were past their prime by 1974 and the Dolphins did a great job of replacing Warfield with Freddie Solomon, Duriel Harris, and Tony Nathan ,Delvin Williams in 1978 rushing 1258 yds rushing and Mercury Morris in 1975 rushing 875 yds gave the Dolphins solid production . Those bears only captured a single SB because the conference powerhouses 49ers and Washington were retooling their rosters and the Giants had to devolope a Championship mentality , those three teams won multiple SB's inthe proceeding 5 years while the Bears never got to another SB .The bears benifetted from the advantageous situation ,otherwise they never captured a SB ,let alone even get to one . The bears greatest offensive weapon in that SB run Walter Payton only averaged 2.8 yds per carry in that post season . When they had to encounter poised QB's inthe ensuing years 86,87,88,89,90 they loss twice to Washington ,once to the Niners ,Once to the Giants ,the fog bowl.playoff game, Randall Cunningham torched the bears defense for over 300 yards ,the bears adopted to the fog better then the eagles ,the bears only playoff win after the SB win . The Patriots onthe objective debate is the only team whom a credible debate amongst the teams you mentioned who could be considered a superior SB era dynasty . Spygate scandal , the fact the only team they defeated by double digits inthe SB were the Rams ,and Pittsburghs competition the Cowboys ,Dolphins ,Raiders , Landry ,Shula,Madden ,once had to hold off division adversary's in 1975 the Bengles and Oilers who won 11 and 10 games that season , 5 times the central division had multiple teams make post season ,in 1976 the Bengles won 10 games and missed post season , journeys to a Championship that were superior then the Patriots travels .
Didn't the Patriots lose to the Buffalo Bills on opening day back in 2003, 31-0?
If I'm right that has to be the worst blowout of a Super Bowl team in NFL history because the Patriots went on to win the Super Bowl in the 2003 season.
I don't even think Buffalo-Minnesota should be considered a monumental upset because Minnesota was 1-0-1 while Buffalo was 0-2 then. It was still early.
Also, you might've just predicted the future with your end statement of the Texans beating the Chiefs given their quarterback saga. It's a long shot, but it could happen.
Turnovers.
the steelers were ordered to lay down. this is how "certain mafia" fiqures make a lot of money. The steelers were going to the superbowl that year, so whats a loss to the bengals in cincinnati...it makes the home crowd happy. plus, the city of pittsburgh was distracted as the pirates were in the world series, so there wouldnt be "any fishy questions" asked. same thing later in year steelers lose to chargers 35-7 but then the chargers conveniently lose to the oilers 17-14 which set up another oiler- steelers afc championship game...of course when renfro scores a TD the officials look the owther way so steelers win 27-13...football is played for money and distraction. since the winner of the superbowl is decided on park avenue in the summer, any story lines or "upsets" or "fantastic finishes" or "great comebacks" work as a whole in the NFL's favor. The Rooneys are apart of the Knights of malta which is an occult/mafia organization. I am not saying all of the NFL or sports is fake, but it is manipulated from time to time...you can read more at thefixisin.com....I also knew the packers would lose 31-26 to the Bucs in last years nfc championship game. that explains Aaron Rogers not running in for a touchdown.
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