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The WORST Game by a KICKER in Monday Night Football HISTORY | Dolphins @ Bills (1976)
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- In a 1976 Monday Night Football game to kick off the NFL season between the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins, Bills kicker John Leypoldt had a game that was so bad that not only did head coach Lou Saban bash him in the postgame press conference and singlehandedly blame him for the loss, and not only did free agent kickers call up Buffalo asking if there was a job opening, but Leypoldt was cut almost immediately after the game. Of the over 1,400 performances by kickers on MNF, this is the story of the worst one of them all
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Members of the 1976 Bills:
Benny Ricardo
John Leypoldt
George Jakowenko
Marv Bateman
Joe Ferguson
Gary Marangi
Van Green
Steve Freeman
Clifford Brooks
Doug Jones
Roland Hooks
William Anderson
Dwight Harrison
Mario Clark
Bo Cornell
OJ Simpson
Vic Washington
Andy Reid
Jim Braxton
Darnell Powell
Jeff Kinney
Clayton Heath
Eddie Ray
Tony Greene
Keith Moody
Roscoe Word
Mark Johnson
Dan Jilek
Merv Krakau
Mike Montler
Tom Ruud
John Skorupan
Bob Nelson
Bill Adams
Willie Parker
Jeff Yeates
Bob Patton
Reggie McKenzie
Joe DeLamielleure
Ken Jones
Joe Devlin
Mike Kadish
Donnie Green
Jeff Lloyd
Ben Williams
Dave Foley
Marty Smith
John Holland
Bob Chandler
Sherman White
Tody Smith
Fred Coleman
Mike Holmes
Emmett Edwards
Paul Seymour
Reuben Gant
Bob Gaddis
Lou Saban (head coach)
Members of the 1976 Dolphins:
Garo Yepremian
Don Strock
Bob Griese
Earl Morrall
Larry Seiple
Tim Foley
Duriel Harris
Gary Davis
Bryant Salter
Norm Bulaich
Benny Malone
Stan Winfrey
Clayton Heath
Don Nottingham
Dick Anderson
Jeris White
Mike Holmes
Barry Hill
Curtis Johnson
Ted Bachman
Ken Ellis
Charlie Babb
Larry Gordon
Andy Selfridge
Mike Dennery
Rusty Chambers
Bob Matheson
Steve Towie
Don Reese
Jim Langer
Ed Newman
Larry Little
Bob Kuechenberg
Melvin Mitchell
John Andrews
Darryl Carlton
Bob Heinz
Randy Crowder
Tom Drougas
Wayne Moore
Loaird McCreary
Howard Twilley
Morris Owens
Ike Hill
Vern Den Herder
Bill Stanfill
Nick Bouniconti
Freddie Solomon
Andre Tillman
Jim Mandich
Nat Moore
Don Shula (head coach)
"This would be the Bill's most heartbreaking missed field goal against the Giants."
Love the sarcasm.
Not sarcastic
John Leypoldt, missing wide right for the Bills before it was cool
thats not funny! Scott Norwood attempted suicide after that SB... Bullet Missed Wide Right.
I remember that MNF game and can specifically recall that a Buffalo fan yelled out "Leypoldt, you belong in Seattle!" as he came off the field. It was clearly audible on the TV broadcast.
Of course, he was cut and quickly ended up for the lowly expansion Seahawks for the rest of 1976 and 1977. I suppose it was of some consolation to him that when Buffalo came to Seattle in mid-77, he kicked 8 extra points as the Hawks uncharacteristically rolled to a 56-17 win. I wonder if he heard that too.
Scott Norwood really appreciates your assessment of the “most heartbreaking missed FG by a Bills kicker against the NY Giants”.
Well to be fair, that was one kick. The was multiple ( performance) kicks
@@markmiller489 no doubt it was a series of kicks missed by this guy was hard for Bill’s fan to stomach but I don’t think a field goal missed to lose a Super Bowl isn’t the most traumatic miss in not only Bill’s history but would likely rank in the Top 5 of NFL history.
Beat me to it! LOL
5:09 Damn, I never knew Vanilla Ice played for the Bills. That guy was amazing.
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣😅🤣🤣
Fun fact. Charlie Brown has missed every field goal attempt in his entire career.
Rats....😁
Week 1 of 1976 holds the NFL record for most TV blackouts due to unsold tickets in the post-1972 era, with 11. Only Giants-Redskins, Steelers-Raiders, and 49ers-Packers had the blackout lifted.
A year prior a Bills fan climbed out on the cable that held up the net. You should do a video about that!
I remembered the fact that Miami never lost to Buffalo in the entire decade of the 70's, so I kinda knew who would win when I saw buffalo was playing the dolphins.
Jim Mandich, who played for the Dolphins for most of the 70s, likened it to an annuity which "never stopped paying". Bills went from 11/16/1969 to 9/7/80 between wins vs the Dolphins.
4:44 lol... Love those lil' zingers you put in there!...lol
As a follow up to yesterday’s video this zinger was appropriately done.
Nate Kaeding kicking for the Chargers in the playoffs here: Hold my beer.
Kadeing was way worse. Only lost by 3 points. He missed like 3 4 fgs that game
@Matt Joseph Walsh did score every point the Vikings had in that game. Teddy Bilgewater couldn't manage a single touchdown.
"Why you gotta bring up old stuff?" --- Scott Norwood
That's a lot of "No señor! No señor! No señor!".
A Saban with an awful kicker that cost him the game, now where have I seen that?
I seriously began looking for Nick on the sidelines thinking he was on there when they kept saying Saban and a bad kicker. I graduated from Alabama and for the life of me can't figure out why we can can have 5 stars in every other position but he still can't get good kickers. Memphis has 3 place kickers in the NFL, how can Alabama struggle so much and it not be a priority after the games it has cost him lol?
@@GR-bn3xj the same thing happened with Bobby Bowden in Florida State. 2 kicks in 91 and 92 cost him a chance in the national championship against Miami. The only good kicker Bowden ever had was Sebastian Janikowski.
@@redmustangredmustang yes I forgot about him and his kickers. Cost him at least one NC.
@@matthewdaley746 if I remember right, the baseball coach at the time at FSU was the same. Seemed like they were always #1 but idk if he ever won one NC.
@@GR-bn3xj Lou and Nick are not related however when Nick was a crappy coach Nick said he was related said they're there related distant cousins possibly
I'd have to say Erroll Mann's performance in the 1971 MNF opener between the Detroit and Minnesota had to be one of the worst kicking performances ever with Mann making 2 of 7 FG attempts in a 16-13 loss to Minnesota where the Lions actually outplayed the Vikings.
Well I'm inspired to now watch a couple former Super Bowls or perhaps Peterman's outing in where was that San Diego?
Wow,ROD JOHNSON!Too bad they didn't have a running back named COX,then when he scores a TD say
"AND COX GOES IN HARD"
Cox suckers would be a candy I would buy
Being a kicker is pretty much a no win situation. Very few guys have a run like Pat Leahy. Personally I love the guys like Leahy, Gostowski, Tucker that play in one place seemingly forever. I also love the guys that play for like 20 plus years for a couple of teams. Like Eddie Murray, or the Anderson brothers (not brothers) Gary, Morten, Norm.
I thought it was bad when Neil O’Donoghue missed three field goals in overtime for the Cardinals when they tied the Giants in a Monday Night game in 1983. You’re right, considering what happened afterwards this was worse.
Leypoldt got cut right after his bad game, while O’Donoghue got to stick around until at least 1984, when his miss in Washington played a part in getting the Giants to the playoffs. This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the Giants backing into the playoffs in 1984.
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I remember this game. About five minutes later he was playing for Seattle, which I thought was funny. My uncle said "Yeah, there's always room for someone like that in expansion."
where does this guy get all this old footage? this is awesome
I love these, thank you for posting them. Field goals attempts were a lot more interesting when they were not an automatic 3 points. Kickers may have gotten better but they are also kicking in much better conditions most of the time.
Leypoldt was one of the last of the old school "straight-on" kickers, which is far less accurate than the "soccer style" that is standard today.
Watching those kicks really shows how much the technique and form of a kicker has evolved over the years.
My dad went to HS with that kicker, played on the same HS Football Team. They even got into a fight. Totally forgot about this guy and my fathers stories until I watched this. (Washington and Lee HS in Arlington VA The Blue and The Gray)
"This was the most heartbreaking missed field goal against the Giants" was exactly what i was thinking when I heard that line except I was thinking "most heartbreaking wide right missed field goal against the Giants in Buffalo history."
I would include in the “worst MNF kicker” list Neil O’Donaghue (1983 Week 8 - NY Giants @ St. Louis) - O’Donaghue missed 3 straight field goals in overtime (yes, 0 for 3 just in the overtime period). Some have considered this specific game as the worst MNF game in the history of the show.
Oh we've got a whole documentary on that game coming up in the coming days
Hello I’m looking for ray finkle…. And a clean pair of shorts lol you get that your a legend
The big story here is that on opening night in Buffalo in early September, their fans are all wearing whatever the '70s version of Starter jackets were.
Hmm, I kind of feel like you need to do a Lin Elliott episode. Chiefs/Colts, 1995 playoffs. Chiefs are HEAVILY favored in the matchup. While it was brutally cold outside that day (11 degrees at kickoff, -15 wind chill), Eliott goes 0/3 on kicks from 35, 39, and 42. Kansas City loses 10-7. The only thing he could have done worse was miss that XP on KC's lone TD. He has since been referred to by every Chiefs fan I know as "he who shall not be named". But since the Chiefs finally did win the SB, I feel like it's safe to speak his name out loud again.
Reported to the Chiefs Kingdom for using the name.
Ray Rhodes-who later became the Eagles HC in the 90s.
Benny Ricardo got the job as Bills kicker for two games, where he went 1 for 4 on FGs and 2 for 2 on XPs. The kicker for the majority of the 76 season for the Bills was George Jakowenko. In a 17 game career with the Raiders, where he saw no game time in 6 games, and Bills; Jakowenko hit 12 of 17 FGs and 21 of 24 XPs, for a total of 57 points. He was out of football after the 76 season.
Ricardo bounced around after that, but had a pretty great 1983 season with the Vikings where he led the NFL in overall scoring.
Worst performance Jay Feely Giants against the Seahawks
The game so bad SNL did a skit that week starring Dane Cook as Jay Feely on that long plane ride back from Seattle.
@@RichV20 its actually on CZcams
Opening night 2020, Stephen Gostkowski missed an extra point and three field goals. Got redemption kicking a last minute field goal to give the Titans a 16-14 win in Denver
Anyone remember Buffalo kicker Booth Lusteg?
@Matt Joseph He was in the Dolphins organization very briefly and lived for a time in South Florida. When I was in middle school there, we had charity basketball game between our PE coaches and a few teachers versus "the Miami Dolphins." Wut!? Our humble school hosting the likes of Csonka, Warfield and Buonoconti? Well, the "Dolphins" team shows up and it's the biggest group of stiffs imaginable. Guys on the taxi squad, a few obscure backups, guys who had been cut in training camp. And Booth Lustig. He was the only name any of us recognized. They did win the game, though.
If he had made the two kicks that weren't blocked, the Bills still lose 30-27. So Saban is full of crap.
He didn't blame him for the 1st miss, so I wonder if he'd still blame him for the loss if he made the other 2. Though it's weird that he said 1 miss wasn't his fault, but the loss was... even though, like you said, they're still down 30-27 with 2 makes...
Plus, he could've made all 3 kicks and the team still lose in OT... So then it's still not the kicker's fault... The kicker sucked, but it's just a dumb thing to say overall.
John Leypoldt wasn't responsible for the 30 points the Bills defense gave up.
45 Years Ago
Makes me feel old
Haha and we’re still using the same stadium
Saban must have been thinking to himself. "He's killing me Whitey He's killing me!"
Here's some context, the 1976 Bills stunk. They went 2-12. One of their two victories was over the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14-9.
Worst performance Neil O'Donoghue St. Louis Cardinals in 1983. Missed 3 fields and caused a tie.
Neil may have gotten a break because he made two earlier in the game.
phins owned the bills in the '70's. 20-0. bills owned the phins in the 90's. 3-1 vs. miami in playoffs. seahawks and chiefs were perfect against each other at home in afc west in the '80's.
Hey,George Hunt the kicker,didn't he have a brother named MIKE HUNT and when they were in grade school he got beat up and a student said to the teacher:
MIKE HUNT TOOK A BEATING!
The fins were living rent free in the Bills' heads in the 70's. 0-20 vs Miami
@Matt Joseph Marino was lit in that game. Unfortunately Joe Ferguson had his career game that day and got the W.
I remember a mnf game when a card kicker missed like a 23 yd fg to win the game. Maybe '83 game vs. nyg and neil o' donoghue. Ended in a tie game.
If only he'd spiked the ball...
This must have been after Booth Lusteg got ran out of town.
Just a couple weeks earlier 1976, he was one of the final cuts for the Bucs when they had decided to go with Dave Green instead.
Maybe he wasn’t watching the game like Ricardo was.
Surprised saban didn't quit after the game. Dude quit as coach every other week for like 50 teams. And remember how emotional he got when bills nearly beat perfect phins saying he felt like quitting right then and he was too distraught at how it got away from them. Saban = ultimate quitter.
Poor guy died of heart attack at 40. 😳😞
Actually the worst Monday Night Football performance from a kicker IMO was Neil O'Donoghue of the Cardinals against the Giants in 1983.
In overtime he missed not one, not two, but 3 field goal attempts. Strike 1 was from 45 yards out, strike 2 was 20 yards out (which at that time was an extra point kick) and strike 3 was from 42 yards out. Thus the game ended 20-20, the only OT Monday Night game to end in a tie.
Neil kept his job, but wait; there's more. Week 16 of the 1984 season against the Redskins, he missed a 50 yard FG with no time left and the Cardinals lost 29-27. Had he made it, and had none of the other week 16 results changed (going into week 16, the Redskins stood atop the division at 10-5 with the Cardinals, Cowboys and Giants at 9-6) the Cardinals would've won the NFC East (and hosted the Bears in the divisional round) and after tiebreakers were applied; the Redskins would host the NFC Wildcard game against the Rams.
He was a lot more accurate playing pool!
The Bills ended up having a terrible season during the bi-centennial year - going 2-12 and Coach Saban was out after Week 5. This was the ignominious first game of that season.
The second Bills game I went to was the week 4 game against the Chiefs; where the Bills clobbered them 50-17, to go 2-2 on the season. They then went on a 10 game losing strek to end the season at 2-12. The Bills were tied for second worst record in the NFL with the expansion Seahawks.
@@tygrkhat4087 Only expansion 0-14 buccs were worse. Even with the juice bills only win 2 and lose 10 in a row. too funny.
Leypolt died in 1987 of a heart attack =(
I still find it amazing how much the game has changed were 70% fg percentage was considered good
And 50 percent passing.
It helps knowing that you wont get tackled.
Lou Saban is the only coach to win a world championship for the Buffalo Bills
If by "world" you mean the American Football League.
Even if he made the kicks they still would have lost. Dolphins owned the Bills in the 70s. 20 consecutive victories from 1970-79.
Great content as always, keep up the good work!
Wow I wouldn't ever guessed this to be the worst performance, technically should be 0/2, I agree that the block is out of his control but nothingless, if he at least made the 2nd field goal, then the Bills would've went on a game winning drive and most likely seal it 30-31, who knows.
Welp, at least he isn't Scott Norwood ....
Scott wasn't a great or good kicker, but he was at least serviceable as a kicker in the 1980s.
I feel sorry for the poor guy! I'll still be a fan of his!
The 74 and 75 Bills had the ingredients for success but could not get past Miami. The 76 Bills were going to be bad regardless of the outcome of this game.
Really, Really. Really Leypoldt had the most heartbreaking missed FG by a Bills kicker against the NY Giants JG9. Come on... man..
#sarcasm
Beny Ricardo,nice kicker,wasn't he married to Lucy and they had a kid named RICKY RICARDO,nice kid.
While this performance didn’t help, as mentioned the first miss wasn’t on the kicker. A further study of the season reveals Lou Saban quit on the team 4 games later. A good subject for a future video would be his nomadic career of jumping from team to team.
As a Bills fan I’m honestly grateful for the two AFL champions and am impressed by his career but I do feel that he squandered the OJ years
@@Mustafa777. Buffalo Bills are the reigning AFL Champions, FOREVER!
I think Neil O'Donahue's performance on MNF on 10/24/83 is worse. He missed 3 FG's in overtime including one from 19 yards. Speaking of FG ineptitude, the Cards/Seahawks SNF game from 2016 needs a closer look especially with both kickers missing chip shot FG's in overtime. That game ended in a 6-6 tie.
Yeah, that's about as bad as it gets
1:50 did number 32 just drop a black glove right there? That wasn't me. It must have been Mark Furman.
🤣💥
these two teams history between placekickers with the National football league in the American Football League merger to Buffalo Bills Giants home game in 1976 this talking about into the Super Bowl 25 Norwood
'Wide Right' is now The Curse of John Leypoldt.
WIde Right! Is the most heartbreaking kick against the giants make it in bills History!
My man Scott Norwood who made a career of being the only guy who could kick in the swirling winds in Buffalo
You beat me to it! I can't believe he said that was the most heartbreaking miss against the Giants. But ironically, after that Monday Night game in 1975 the Giants wouldn't beat the Bills again until Super Bowl XXV 15 years later.
@@scottfarmer8758 he was clearly being sarcastic. How did you not get that?
Steve Christie is their all time leading scorer
Jim Gordon SHUT UP!!!! STOP BRINGING UP the MOST PTSD MOMENT in Buffalo Bills fans HISTORY!!!!!
As far as best kicking performances on MNF that you talked about at the beginning of the video, didn't a Cowboys kicker go 7-7 against the Packers on like 1996 where there was a big scuffle after the 7th one?
Look into the 1991 Bills vs Raiders Regular season game for a story of a kicker redeeming himself that no one remembers
I remember that game vs this 1976 game. Scott missed 3 FG's in regulation, but made a game winner in OT. He was awful and would've been axed after that game if they didnt win. The game pretty much sealed his fate as a kicker with the Bills and the NFL, being his final season.
@@RichV20 don’t forget that Norwood also missed an extra point too which is why the Bills and Raiders went to Overtime.
It's weird seeing O. J. Simpson in a football uniform on the sideline. What happened after his career ended made people forget he was ever in the NFL.
4:45 I see what you did there
I'm a huge Bills fan and placekicker fan, and I knew nothing about this. A forgettable kicker from a forgettable 2-12 season.
0-3 is the worst performance in Monday Night history?
fun video, i like epilogue that tells what happened to kicker after released, you video on coach that replaced lombardi, that video on how he became pats coach, i would have liked similar epilogue that said what happened to him after he was fired by pats & charger. fun videos.
The much needed context: 1:38
How the shit did he hang onto his job going 1 for 5?
The other guy must have gone 0-5
"(...) scoring all 6 points for Buffalo in a 6-0 home win against the division rival Baltimore Colts"
Must have been one riveting nailbiter of a game :)
I have a John Leypoldt football card. Does that make it worth anything? And Saban was a loser coach not equipped for losing who quit on nfl, college, and h s teams. He walked out on donkeys as well. Probably pee wee teams too. Saban would berate a pee wee player if he had to.
Mark Richt, the longtime Georgia football coach, played QB for Saban at the U. Mark and I went to high school together and when I caught up with him years later he had some great Saban stories. Suffice to say he holds few fond memories.
@@nathandebartolo8330 haha. Cool story. And are you saying Saban was a pure a hole? The intel I get says that. I think he was just old school hard. Not suited for later generation type players. And i remember richt as Bowden's o c at fla st. And matt s's coach for the dawgs.
Saban? isn't he that burn out coach who walked out on too many to count teams including college? bills as well. And this was his second rodeo as bills coach. I remember him walking out on donkeys too. I believe he walked out on bills not too long after that one. Last i heard he was berating h s kids as coach. Or is he dead now? very vile coaching specimen and notorious quitter. The guy had 21 coaching jobs. avg. 2.38 years each job.
What's with the troll comment about that EP missed was the biggest missed kick in Bills history against the Giants every Bills fan knows that's a troll job. Go ahead a give shot but don't try and sneak it in.
It's called sarcasm.