I was at this game, Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick sat right in front of me. When I say right in front of me, I mean when they leaned back a little their backs would hit my knees. The Rose Bowl had wood bench seats and the rows were very close together. When I leaned back my back with hit Ted Williams knees. He was sitting right next to Stan Musial. One of my Wolfie Moments.
I wish by brother saw this game. He was a HUGE Giants fan who was killed in a car accident 21 months before this game was played. He liked lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson. Tears are running down my face as I am typing this.
@Rico Suave Good call on all accounts. NFL Films did a great job in the 80s of setting the table for the Super Bowl film. I also liked Super Bowl XXVII's introduction and Super Bowl XXXII as well.
I remember just how good Simms was in this game. I remember the Giants when they first moved to the Meadowlands and they were a bad team. To see them improve and then win the 1986 Super Bowl was such a special moment.I will never forget this Super Bowl.
They weren't just bad. They were horrible. In 76, the Seahawks inaugural season, they came to the Meadowlands and beat the Giants. We got the tickets for free, because the season ticket owner who gave them to us was busy committing suicide.
@@bconni2 It was a quote from the original highlight tape. Maybe if you learned something and knew who said that then you wouldn't think it was stupid at all but then again.....
The Giants had bullied and beaten opponents all year. Now, nothing would stop them on Super Bowl Sunday. (Quoting the next part from memory - I may not have been 100%).
If you look at the ticker at the bottom you can tell that this was aired right before the Giants won Super Bowl 42 over the previously unbeaten Patriots in 2007
Elway passed for 304 yards and a TD. Kubiak came in to mop up 48 yards. Elway ran for 27 yards and a TD. ALL of the running backs combined churned out 25 yards rushing. That ain't going to get it done.
Yep. Simms may not have had the career that someone like Joe Montana or Bart Starr did, but for that one game, all the stars aligned perfectly for him.
Montana played in four Superbowls and out of 122 passing attempts threw 11 touchdowns zero interceptions. So let's not get carried away about Phil Simms and his one Superbowl.
Great clips of the team broadcasters (and the Spanish language one too), loved Jim Gordon the Giants radio play by play voice for a good 15 + years in the early 80s through the mid to late 90s when Bob Papa took over to this day still.
Broncos gained respect despite the loss they scored 20 points on a Giants defense who only gave up 3 points combined in their 2 previous playoff games. The narrator's voice classic NFL Films
21:47 This represents a great summary of Giant fans of the 57-85 era. Years of wanting it so bad and finally getting to the top. Things were rough for a long time. These fans could finally rejoice.
Giants 1st, decades before they turned into the Patriots. 😄 The Great Parcells puts NE on the map & snowballs Kraft to investing in Foxborough, bringing in Belichick, the defensive coordinator here.
Remember, this Giant team was supposed to be the 1st team since Pittsburg to repeat as champions, not only did they not repeat, they didn’t even finish the next season with a winning record. They were supposed to be the next dynasty, they did win another 4 years later, however, never turned into the power house like most of us thought they would
The Broncos had their chances to upset the Giants. Having that 10-7 lead and having the ball at the 1 and doing nothing with it. Then Rich Karlis missing that very short field goal and then missing another field goal allowed the Giants to stay in the game. Once the fake punt on 4th and inches worked and the Giants scored, the game was over. The Broncos had no running game and they were entirely zeroed in on Elway. Phil Simms couldn't miss in the second half and the Giants defense clamped down on Elway. It wasn't until 11 years later that Elway finally had a running game in Terrell Davis and a defense that stepped up in the Super Bowl that the Broncos FINALLY won their first Super Bowl.
Very well said! That's how I see it too. Who the hell was Sammy Winder? If the Broncos had a better running back they could've won this. But your qb can't be the leading rusher if you want to win Superbowls.
Spellman Pat Four losses as head coach. And, Craig Morton's last interception that set up the winning field goal in Super Bowl V bounced off Dan Reeves' fingers.
@@lindseysummers5351 Yeah, I like the Cowboys, but not Morton, who was also a Giant and a Bronco at one point, and Reeves, who certainly did a good job, but also had the "can't win the big one" odor about him.
And the CBS broadcast was the only one to use the title music (and it also was the debut of that music) that has remained a mainstay of CBS' SEC and larger college football coverage: the 1987 college football title music by Lloyd Landesman!
Ben Masters great memory. And the graphics used the silver football too. It seems so strange to think that was given to the college broadcast instead vice versa.
Great game..was happy for the Gmen..i am a Jets fan and wanted so bad to see a NY Subway Superbowl, but was glad Cleveland lost and Denver went..NYG took care of business..
A lot of people forget, but through 11 weeks that season the Giants weren’t the best team in New York at that point. The Jets were 10-1 and the Giants were 9-2. The final 5 weeks of regular season: Jets: 0-5 Giants: 5-0
"Upset was in the air, and Denver's head coach Dan Reeves decided to put the Giants away by running right at their strength for a touchdown that was only 36 inches away." Love NFL Films. This Super Bowl Highlight video probably has the best music from start the finish.
How would Cleveland have done vs the Giants? Cleveland’s running game would have been a tougher challenge for the Giants. That said, neither Denver nor Cleveland would have beaten the Giants on that Sunday in Pasadena.
@@ericradford2142 But I still think Cleveland’s running game would’ve been tougher for the Giants to stop early, but I think at halftime they would make the proper adjustments and the Giants still would’ve won going away in the 2nd half. And I also think they would’ve shut down Kosar, the same way they did with John Elway, in the 2nd half especially. Remember, Cleveland was without Earnest Byner throughout those playoffs, would he have given it a go in that Super Bowl? Most likely yes. Their best back was Kevin Mack that season. Curtis Dickey did not play in the AFCCG v Denver and would have been questionable going into that Super Bowl v Giants. Phil Simms went 22-25 v Denver’s secondary. Cleveland’s secondary would have been more formidable (two all-pros in Dixon and Minnifield) for Simms and the Giants O. That said, Simms would be I’d say about 16-24 v Cleveland.
@@dannyboy34677 In the words of the late, great John Madden: "You're not gonna make a living running against these Giants". During the Harry Carson era (including the Super Bowl vs. Denver), opponents averaged just 80 yards/game rushing vs. The Giants. And this was against the John Riggins, Tony Dorsetts, and the Walter Paytons of the world. Cleveland had a good run game, but compared against the three Hall Of Fame running backs just mentioned, Cleveland running backs pale in comparison.
Cleveland didn't even earn the right to be a part of the Super Bowl discussion. The 1986 12-4 Browns had home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs that year. Here's what they did with their home field advantage: Divisional Round: Beat the 10-6 Jets 23-20. AFC Championship: Squandered a 20-13 lead in the 4th Quarter and lost to the visiting 11-5 Broncos 23-20 in OT. A "championship" defense doesn't surrender a 98 yard TD drive late in the 4th quarter. The Browns didn't protect their own house - giving up 43 points at home in two games (21.5 points/game). Here's what the 14-2 Giants did with their homefield advantage: Divisional Round: Thrashed Joe Montana and his 10-5-1 49ers 49-3. NFC Championship: Shut out Joe Gibbs' 12-4 Washington Redskins 17-0. The Giants championship defense held their opponents to just THREE points (1.5 points/game) in the NFC playoffs, and 23 points in THREE games (7.6 points/game) when you include the 39-20 victory over Denver. The Giants not only protected their house in the NFC playoffs, they made their opponents pay dearly for entering their house. Giants were the hungrier team in 1986, after their 1985 10-6 season came to an end after a 17-3 NFC Wildcard win over the 49ers the week prior then getting shutout 21-0 by the 15-1 Bears during the 1985 NFC Divisional Round which provided them with extra motivation. The 1986 Giants were a team on a mission, and they weren't going to be denied. Facts.
@@dantesinfernopurgatory7826 And I was still saying that 2nd half if it were Cleveland (instead of Denver), the Giants would’ve found a way to shut down the Cleveland running game and then pull away like they ultimately did against Denver in the 2nd half In Pasadena
Sry to nitpick, but a definite mistake in narration at the 8:20 mark stating that they set a record for first Qtr SB points (17). They only tied the previous record at 17 set by Miami and SF from a few years before this one. Surprising as NFL films is normally pretty careful & exact in what they release
One of the WORST days of my LIFE ! ! ! I visited with John Elway the night BEFORE the superbowl & could have done the after superbowl win party. . .sadly, that didn't happen . The Broncos management fired the entire coaching staff except Dan Reeves . GETTING to the Super Bowl wasn't enough for their POS management ! ! !
bRad Nichols I will never understand Dan Reeves. In those days, he always designed his offensive gameplan on a non-existent running game. When you have John Elway as your quarterback, you design your offense around his talents.
I would have said, "You gotta be kidding me!!! We got you here to the dadgum Super Bowl, came up short against a really good Giants team, and you're gonna act like we were winless?! That is just plain crazy!"
A few months ago, the New York Mets beat the Boston Red Sox in seven games of the 1986 World Series. A few months later, the New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos with a 39-20 victory in Super Bowl XXI.
The music at the end gets me so friggin hyper every time! Remember this game like it was yesterday. Superb team! Loved seeing Elway get destroyed in those Super Bowls.....eventually he'd win a couple though but early on he was a punk and needed to get some good baptism by fire "If I can't play for the Broncos, I won't play for the Colts wah wah wah..." Same goes for that punk Eli Manning, he too ended up with 2 Super Bowl rings though....(throwing my hands up in the air).
I don’t blame him for not wanting to play for the Colts. A great player can transform a team but the Colts had very serious problems that went beyond the playing field and the coaching staff. They were a trainwreck of dysfunction as an organization, and might well have wrecked Elway’s career had he played for them.
If I'm a Giants fan in 1986, I'm relieved that the Browns lose the AFC championship game due to Elway's late-game heroics, because the Browns match up better against the Giants than the Broncos do.
SingleTax Really? Let me tell what the Giants were saying in the NY papers leading up to the Super Bowl. "No disrespect to Bernie Kissers but compared to Elway, he would have been a stationary target in the pocket and no way would have he survived the first half. I tend to agree and one more thing. As good as Cleveland's running game was, NOBODY ran on the Giants, nobody.
I was at this game, Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick sat right in front of me. When I say right in front of me, I mean when they leaned back a little their backs would hit my knees. The Rose Bowl had wood bench seats and the rows were very close together. When I leaned back my back with hit Ted Williams knees. He was sitting right next to Stan Musial. One of my Wolfie Moments.
YOU WERE SO LUCKY TO BE SEATED AROUND LEGENDS IN MUSIC AND BASEBALL
Boomer
@@Jckuz1man Boomer didn't play in this game. He played in 88 against the Forty Winers
James Hayes I was calling the guy who commented a boomer
@@Jckuz1man That's funny.
I love the Giants old uniforms
@Havic(open): The NY Giants' 1986 era uni's, to me, are the true uni's... and I'm not a Giants fan.
SuperPat88 it always bothered me how similar bills and giants unis look and looked, and same with cowboys and lions
Gotta love #OldSchool! 👍
fun fact: this was the first all white face mask super bowl...
The Giants across the helmet with road white and blue is great
I wish by brother saw this game. He was a HUGE Giants fan who was killed in a car accident 21 months before this game was played. He liked lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson. Tears are running down my face as I am typing this.
james taddeo my condolences
james taddeo sorry for your loss
Condolences, and Christmas greetings, to you and yours.
sorry for your loss
sorry to hear that
The “dad our dream has come true”. Is the best ever sign at a game.
Yeah I always wanted a back story on that one. Was dad passed away? Was he back home in Secaucus watching?
@@mtj8 great question
This was the Giants' first NFL championship in 30 years, and their first Super Bowl win EVER.
Giants are the only multiple SB winner to have more losses than wins during the SB era...Giants are basically the worst of the best...
An underrated team, considered one of the greatest SB teams!
@@bconni2Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The introduction in this film is masterful. The best of all the SBs done by NFL Films.
I Agree On That!
The best ever
Like the first films.
Best highlight film
@Rico Suave Good call on all accounts. NFL Films did a great job in the 80s of setting the table for the Super Bowl film. I also liked Super Bowl XXVII's introduction and Super Bowl XXXII as well.
The 1986 season belonged to Lawrence Taylor, but the 1986 playoffs belonged to Carl Banks. He DOMINATED in all 3 games!
+MrBaddog7676 No question. Banks was a monster!
the only giant team that mattered
MICOLE WHYTE Nah, 1990, 2007, and 2011 also mattered
MrBaddog7676 the other giant teams were lucky.
MICOLE WHYTE Nah
I remember just how good Simms was in this game. I remember the Giants when they first moved to the Meadowlands and they were a bad team. To see them improve and then win the 1986 Super Bowl was such a special moment.I will never forget this Super Bowl.
They weren't just bad. They were horrible. In 76, the Seahawks inaugural season, they came to the Meadowlands and beat the Giants. We got the tickets for free, because the season ticket owner who gave them to us was busy committing suicide.
William Roberts & Pepper Johnson dancing at the end was always my favorite image from this SB film.
They did a dance called the Whop, a popular dance in the neighborhoods in its day.
Two Ohio State Buckeyes getting down
@@saj8 "Make ya girl say LL, and do the Whop!"--LL Cool J, 'I'm Bad'
The Denver Broncos came into Superbowl 21 hoping they would win, The New York Giants came knowing they would.
stupid
@@bconni2 It was a quote from the original highlight tape. Maybe if you learned something and knew who said that then you wouldn't think it was stupid at all but then again.....
@@911Gameover ..yeah, it's stupid...i don't care if NFL films wrote it...
@@bconni2 A legend said it and you're right there is definitely something stupid involved. I will agree with you on that.
The Giants had bullied and beaten opponents all year. Now, nothing would stop them on Super Bowl Sunday. (Quoting the next part from memory - I may not have been 100%).
It is impossible for me to forget this day it was on my 13th birthday, way to go Giants #Simms11.
Phil Simms picked a good day to have the best game of his career...
Disneyland and Disney World!
He also threw 521 yards in a game.
The G-Men brought an old fashioned can of Whoop-Ass with them to Pasadena. Opened it up in the second half.
If you look at the ticker at the bottom you can tell that this was aired right before the Giants won Super Bowl 42 over the previously unbeaten Patriots in 2007
Seven years later Dan Reeves would become head coach of the Giants!
And when he was later head coach of the Atlanta Falcons they lost the Super Bowl to the Broncos of all teams lol
ol Dan reeves , god rest his soul , Died on Saturday 1/1/22
RIP COACH!!!!!!
"It was elway alone who was responsible for all of Denver's yardage."
Right as a receiver makes a reaching one handed catch.
It counts as passing yards for Elway
Yeah, but he is responsible for the throw. No one on the team could run the ball except Elway.
Elway passed for 304 yards and a TD. Kubiak came in to mop up 48 yards.
Elway ran for 27 yards and a TD. ALL of the running backs combined churned out 25 yards rushing. That ain't going to get it done.
Denver blew too many chances in the first half....couldv easily scored 20 points
Greatest performance by a quarterback in a Super Bowl ever. Phil Simms 22 of 25 for 268 yards 3 tds and 0 ints. As close to perfection as you can get.
Montana or Young might disagree
@@leeshackelford7517 Neither Montana or Young had an 88% completion rate in the playoffs or Super Bowl (20+ pass attempts).
@@leeshackelford7517 Simms did it with half the offensive talent those overrated clowns had.
Yep. Simms may not have had the career that someone like Joe Montana or Bart Starr did, but for that one game, all the stars aligned perfectly for him.
Montana played in four Superbowls and out of 122 passing attempts threw 11 touchdowns zero interceptions. So let's not get carried away about Phil Simms and his one Superbowl.
The flea flicker broke the Broncos back, after that the Giants began to dominate.
Ali York the missed field goals in the first half didn't help either.
Robert Teague Your right about that.
Love the music. Pumped from the start.
2:05 veteran Broncos LB Tom Jackson in what would be his last game ever.
and NFL primetima legend, the best laugh in history
@@sodica81Tom Jackson from where??? LOUISVILLE!!
I just want to thank you for posting these. These documentaries are awesome.
The whole narration of this video was poetry.
If Denver goes up 17-7 I wonder how the game would have continued
This one's not for John. Go Giants.
@Joel Johnson Not to mention misspelling Peyton's name.
@Jacob The Bee Kid 45 you must be so stupid right now lmfao 2016-17 season was for Brady and the patriots! #gopats!!!!
Great clips of the team broadcasters (and the Spanish language one too), loved Jim Gordon the Giants radio play by play voice for a good 15 + years in the early 80s through the mid to late 90s when Bob Papa took over to this day still.
The late announcer John Doremus who died back in July of 1995.
"A great player rarely beats a great team" True.Ask Marino.
Broncos gained respect despite the loss they scored 20 points on a Giants defense who only gave up 3 points combined in their 2 previous playoff games. The narrator's voice classic NFL Films
Two favorite teams ANYONE playing against John Elway, and the Pats
My first NY Giants SB. Amazing. I've seen every one since.
GOOOOOOO BLUE!!
***** Yawn.
That’s my dad at 1:03 !! :)
Wow really?
I love this narrator!
What’s his name? It sounds like William Conrad
@@thekeeper7067 I don't think that was Brad Crandall. Looking it up, it was actually John Doremus.
@@thekeeper7067 John Doremus
21:47 This represents a great summary of Giant fans of the 57-85 era. Years of wanting it so bad and finally getting to the top. Things were rough for a long time. These fans could finally rejoice.
7:13 to 7:45 Vintage NFL Films
Giants 1st, decades before they turned into the Patriots. 😄 The Great Parcells puts NE on the map & snowballs Kraft to investing in Foxborough, bringing in Belichick, the defensive coordinator here.
LET'S GO GIANTS!!
Remember, this Giant team was supposed to be the 1st team since Pittsburg to repeat as champions, not only did they not repeat, they didn’t even finish the next season with a winning record. They were supposed to be the next dynasty, they did win another 4 years later, however, never turned into the power house like most of us thought they would
I can rewatch this and keep enjoying it just for Tom Jackson's remarks on the sideline....
The Broncos had their chances to upset the Giants. Having that 10-7 lead and having the ball at the 1 and doing nothing with it. Then Rich Karlis missing that very short field goal and then missing another field goal allowed the Giants to stay in the game. Once the fake punt on 4th and inches worked and the Giants scored, the game was over. The Broncos had no running game and they were entirely zeroed in on Elway. Phil Simms couldn't miss in the second half and the Giants defense clamped down on Elway. It wasn't until 11 years later that Elway finally had a running game in Terrell Davis and a defense that stepped up in the Super Bowl that the Broncos FINALLY won their first Super Bowl.
Very well said! That's how I see it too. Who the hell was Sammy Winder? If the Broncos had a better running back they could've won this. But your qb can't be the leading rusher if you want to win Superbowls.
Listened to this game while manning the A-10 maintenance support section in Suwon AB, ROK . . .
NFL Films struck gold with John Doremus as a narrator. I wish he could have stuck around with NFL Films longer.
Bar none the best NFL Films piece ever
Pepe Espinosa en 1:37 ,el gran "brother" perpetuado por NFL Films, gran recuerdo dondequiera que estés.
I was 12 years old... AWESOME DAY!!! GO BLUE 💪💪💪
I was 9
Horrible play calling by Denver with 1st and goal at the 1. Broncos left too many points on the field in 2nd quarter.
poor Dan Reeves so close yet so far greetings from Buffalo ny
Spellman Pat Four losses as head coach. And, Craig Morton's last interception that set up the winning field goal in Super Bowl V bounced off Dan Reeves' fingers.
@@lindseysummers5351 Yeah, I like the Cowboys, but not Morton, who was also a Giant and a Bronco at one point, and Reeves, who certainly did a good job, but also had the "can't win the big one" odor about him.
Soup bowl proud 😊🤗👍 N.Y. GI-ANTS.
And the CBS broadcast was the only one to use the title music (and it also was the debut of that music) that has remained a mainstay of CBS' SEC and larger college football coverage: the 1987 college football title music by Lloyd Landesman!
Ben Masters great memory. And the graphics used the silver football too. It seems so strange to think that was given to the college broadcast instead vice versa.
The goal-to-go situation completely changed the game. The momentum left Denver and they never got it back.
1:38 Pepe Espinoza RIP He narrated the NFL and NBA in Mexico for more than 30 years, and he went crazy with the cheerleaders.
And remember, the temp dropped like 22 degrees when the sun set, Giants were in their element and Elway seemed off in the second half.
8:20
8:33
Phil Simms
Most Valuable Player of SBXXI 🏟🏈🏆
89% passing competition
This Super Bowl was played at same place as superbowl Xl between Vikings & Raiders
maurice carthon...one of parcells favourite players...
A guard in fullback's clothing. One of my favorite narrations.
Great game..was happy for the Gmen..i am a Jets fan and wanted so bad to see a NY Subway Superbowl, but was glad Cleveland lost and Denver went..NYG took care of business..
A lot of people forget, but through 11 weeks that season the Giants weren’t the best team in New York at that point. The Jets were 10-1 and the Giants were 9-2.
The final 5 weeks of regular season:
Jets: 0-5
Giants: 5-0
"Upset was in the air, and Denver's head coach Dan Reeves decided to put the Giants away by running right at their strength for a touchdown that was only 36 inches away."
Love NFL Films. This Super Bowl Highlight video probably has the best music from start the finish.
The music in the first nine minutes is freakin awesome.
Shame that Dan Reeves can't sniff Canton while Marv Levy got the sympathy vote.
@Keith(open): Yeah; Reeves played for the Dallas teams that won in the early 70s.
Keith Froehlich especially since he took THREE teams to the postseason and two to the Super Bowl.
Reeves took 2 teams to superbowl!
The stigma is elway carried him?
And one of the last NFL coaches to wear a suit on the sidelines during games. 1:49
Top 15 team of all time.
6:39 Howard Dean
I remember hating Elway and praying that he'd lose big, because I was a Baltimore Colts fan, and Elway had refused to play for them.
Everyone hated "pretty boy" Elway, but you have to admit he looks like a Bronco.
+elshpen why would he when him and his dad knew the colts were gonna move and screw baltimore. why would he want to be part of that mess?
That's because going to baltimore back then would have been like being drafted by the bengals in the 90's,or the Bucs now.
+elshpen God forbid he didn't want to play for a broken franchise owned by a drunk.
+MarsRacingNetwork or Jacksonville
How would Cleveland have done vs the Giants? Cleveland’s running game would have been a tougher challenge for the Giants. That said, neither Denver nor Cleveland would have beaten the Giants on that Sunday in Pasadena.
Cleveland would have fared no better against the Giants because the NFC was always the better conference.
@@ericradford2142 But I still think Cleveland’s running game would’ve been tougher for the Giants to stop early, but I think at halftime they would make the proper adjustments and the Giants still would’ve won going away in the 2nd half. And I also think they would’ve shut down Kosar, the same way they did with John Elway, in the 2nd half especially. Remember, Cleveland was without Earnest Byner throughout those playoffs, would he have given it a go in that Super Bowl? Most likely yes. Their best back was Kevin Mack that season. Curtis Dickey did not play in the AFCCG v Denver and would have been questionable going into that Super Bowl v Giants.
Phil Simms went 22-25 v Denver’s secondary. Cleveland’s secondary would have been more formidable (two all-pros in Dixon and Minnifield) for Simms and the Giants O. That said, Simms would be I’d say about 16-24 v Cleveland.
@@dannyboy34677 In the words of the late, great John Madden: "You're not gonna make a living running against these Giants". During the Harry Carson era (including the Super Bowl vs. Denver), opponents averaged just 80 yards/game rushing vs. The Giants.
And this was against the John Riggins, Tony Dorsetts, and the Walter Paytons of the world. Cleveland had a good run game, but compared against the three Hall Of Fame running backs just mentioned, Cleveland running backs pale in comparison.
Cleveland didn't even earn the right to be a part of the Super Bowl discussion. The 1986 12-4 Browns had home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs that year. Here's what they did with their home field advantage:
Divisional Round: Beat the 10-6 Jets 23-20.
AFC Championship: Squandered a 20-13 lead in the 4th Quarter and lost to the visiting 11-5 Broncos 23-20 in OT.
A "championship" defense doesn't surrender a 98 yard TD drive late in the 4th quarter. The Browns didn't protect their own house - giving up 43 points at home in two games (21.5 points/game).
Here's what the 14-2 Giants did with their homefield advantage:
Divisional Round: Thrashed Joe Montana and his 10-5-1 49ers 49-3.
NFC Championship: Shut out Joe Gibbs' 12-4 Washington Redskins 17-0.
The Giants championship defense held their opponents to just THREE points (1.5 points/game) in the NFC playoffs, and 23 points in THREE games (7.6 points/game) when you include the 39-20 victory over Denver.
The Giants not only protected their house in the NFC playoffs, they made their opponents pay dearly for entering their house.
Giants were the hungrier team in 1986, after their 1985 10-6 season came to an end after a 17-3 NFC Wildcard win over the 49ers the week prior then getting shutout 21-0 by the 15-1 Bears during the 1985 NFC Divisional Round which provided them with extra motivation. The 1986 Giants were a team on a mission, and they weren't going to be denied.
Facts.
@@dantesinfernopurgatory7826 And I was still saying that 2nd half if it were Cleveland (instead of Denver), the Giants would’ve found a way to shut down the Cleveland running game and then pull away like they ultimately did against Denver in the 2nd half In Pasadena
Man, this one really hurt at the time, but now I can look back and say, dammit, it still hurts!
I hope it still hurts donkey fan 🦄
@@user-rn4tt9gw2p It does a bit, thanks for replying to a 2 year old comment. I hope that makes you happy.
This is one Super Bowl highlight film John Facenda should have narrated.
Mike Vanriel he passed away in 1984.
I said he should have narrated. I knew he died in 1984.
Sry to nitpick, but a definite mistake in narration at the 8:20 mark stating that they set a record for first Qtr SB points (17). They only tied the previous record at 17 set by Miami and SF from a few years before this one. Surprising as NFL films is normally pretty careful & exact in what they release
it was closer than the scoreboard will indicate
Tom Landry taught his guys well, Landry's coaching tree is good
Tom Landry invented the 4-3 defense. Giants were a 3-4 defense throughout the 1980s and early 1990s beginning with the Ray Perkins era.
3:17 Been looking for Craig Palmer's "Determination" track forever. Someone have it?
That music and sequence in the beginning will make you fucking body someone.
One of the WORST days of my LIFE ! ! !
I visited with John Elway the night BEFORE the superbowl & could have done the after superbowl win party. . .sadly, that didn't happen .
The Broncos management fired the entire coaching staff except Dan Reeves . GETTING to the Super Bowl wasn't enough for their POS management ! ! !
Wow...that's pretty lame...especially since this was the best the Broncos played in the SB in that era.
bRad Nichols I will never understand Dan Reeves. In those days, he always designed his offensive gameplan on a non-existent running game. When you have John Elway as your quarterback, you design your offense around his talents.
Lindsey Summers i guess Reeves had a lot of faith in Sammy Winder LOL
I would have said, "You gotta be kidding me!!! We got you here to the dadgum Super Bowl, came up short against a really good Giants team, and you're gonna act like we were winless?! That is just plain crazy!"
That’s not entirely true. Joe Collier was the Denver defensive coordinator until the end of the 1988 season. So your story has holes in it.
Elway jumping into the endzone was kind of his thing lmao ha ha ha🤣🤣🤣🥇🔥🥇😶🌫️🌍📡😍🤣🥇
Simms had he not gotten sick would have been a FOURTY NINER he was the target of Bill Walsh in the '79 draft.
Outdoors football in the daylight. The way it oughtta be!
D Me If the NFLis going to insist on a kickoff at 1845, then all Super Bowls should be played on the West Coast.
A few months ago, the New York Mets beat the Boston Red Sox in seven games of the 1986 World Series. A few months later, the New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos with a 39-20 victory in Super Bowl XXI.
RIP Dan Reeves super coach who unfortunately never won the big game in four tries
Played for Dallas under Tom Landry and I think played in the infamous Ice Bowl against Green Bay Packers.
He did win one as a player-coach.
Really bad playcalling. Archaic
New York, Washington, and everyone ELSE!!
Lawrence Taylor
1986/87 Most Valuable Player 🏆
1986/87 Defensive Player of the year 🏆
What is the song played at 13:43?
BIG
Thank god the giants beat the broncos in super bowl XXI I'm a giants fan in Football and I gotta like my Giants.
+oleirishdragon I'm a Giants fan living in Denver so I REALLY needed the Giants to win.
Sorry Stewie
I am a giants fan
Lol, congrats
Giants champions 🏈
their cool
The New York Giants along with stomped a mudhole in the Broncos and process to walk it dry
The NY Giants were the first to this in history 20:36
He was Simmsensational!
What was that music in the first 3 mins of this video?
PopCultureGuy Overlord by Ray Russell
I met lee roudson today
What music is that at the beginning? I swear, if THAT doesn't get you excited for the Super Bowl, nothing else does.
Overlord by Ray Russell
NFL FILMS always has good music. Check out the music at the very beginning of the Super Bowl 19 highlight video.
Good lord! How short was Joe Morris?
Five feet, seven inches tall. Seeing him probably inspired five-foot-six Darren Sproles.
They ALWAYS CHOKED!!
How many FG did Denver miss in this game? Atleast 3!
Defensive players 💘 to signal a safety.
What music starts at 17:00
The music at the end gets me so friggin hyper every time! Remember this game like it was yesterday. Superb team! Loved seeing Elway get destroyed in those Super Bowls.....eventually he'd win a couple though but early on he was a punk and needed to get some good baptism by fire "If I can't play for the Broncos, I won't play for the Colts wah wah wah..." Same goes for that punk Eli Manning, he too ended up with 2 Super Bowl rings though....(throwing my hands up in the air).
I don’t blame him for not wanting to play for the Colts. A great player can transform a team but the Colts had very serious problems that went beyond the playing field and the coaching staff. They were a trainwreck of dysfunction as an organization, and might well have wrecked Elway’s career had he played for them.
Always was curious about the musical score between 0.00- 3.05
@Matt Pizzano Thanks 👍
Only team to score a rd on n.y. in the postseason. They gave up 1.5 ppg coming into this game!
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG-MEN!!!!
If I'm a Giants fan in 1986, I'm relieved that the Browns lose the AFC championship game due to Elway's late-game heroics, because the Browns match up better against the Giants than the Broncos do.
The Browns would have lost the SB however. Don't overrate the Browns, they were lucky to even made it past the injury depleted Jets.
SingleTax Really? Let me tell what the Giants were saying in the NY papers leading up to the Super Bowl. "No disrespect to Bernie Kissers but compared to Elway, he would have been a stationary target in the pocket and no way would have he survived the first half. I tend to agree and one more thing. As good as Cleveland's running game was, NOBODY ran on the Giants, nobody.
Broncos were a better team than the $hitstains. Period.
Phil Simms was slow as all hell, slower than Elway, but he made that Broncos defense look ridiculous.
Where are the intros by Steve sabol
william shultz nfl network doesn’t use them. They edit the intros too.