This evening was interesting. I was sitting at the dinner table with my daughter today and my mother had given me a poster with all the Super Bowl tickets on it. She picked it up and the questions flowed. "Daddy did you and mommy watch this one?" I answered and then she went down the list and wanted details on each game. Of course some of these I had no memories of some of these Im just 36. Some however I had totally forgotten about. The game for me as well as millions of others is an "event" and the memories go beyond the game.
As a kid the first one that sticks out is XV when I saw the Raiders at there finest and Jim Plunkett killed Jaworskis eagles (I still cant stand that guy on ESPN).
My Mom and Dad had gotton divorced soon before SB XXV and I was single as well so we watched it at her apartment just the 2 of us and ate shrimp cocktail and just chilled.
The first bowl I can remember watching with my wife was SP XXX when Neil O'Donnell threw 2 pics to Larry Brown and got him a fat contract with the Raiders after the Cowboys won the game.
Of course, being from Atlanta nothing tops the insanity of the Falcons going to the bowl in '99.
I had never lived anywhere else until '98 when I moved to Dallas Texas.
That year the Falcons beat the Vikings who were the heavy favorite in the NFC championship. I was on the phone with my cousin in the ATL when Anderson kicked the game winning field goal.
Then Eugene Robinson (The NFL man of the year that year) decides he needs a hooker that week and gets busted for solicitation. The Falcons got killed of course in a very boring bowl.
The worst one ever was the one I thought would be the best one ever. I was in Vegas for the AFC/NFC championship weekend in 2002. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
The Raiders were playing the Pats in the AFC game.
This was the infamous "tuck rule" game in a blinding snow storm in New England. I was watching the game at the Mandalay Bay on a screen about as big as the first floor of my house. The Raiders lost on a questionable call and I thought I was going to be physically sick. This was the beginning of the Tom Brady era as the Pats went on to win the Bowl over the Rams.
I hope those of you who love the game as much as me will go back through your mental roll-a-dex and relive some of your favorite Super Bowl memories.
-Peace-
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I remember that snow game also. I was the only happy guy in the casino...I won $20 on the game.
My favorite super bowl...any one Dallas has lost in.
I didnt know you had money on the pats. I remember pushing on the Chicago game. Lots of unhappy Mexicans that night.
russg--You cant remember too many that " Americas Team "got into that they lost.Anyway lets go back to when a lineman by the name of Jerry Kramer and friends from Green Bay whipped a group from Oakland .The year of 67 or 68.Kramer by the way ,was paid a whopping salary of 32thou.The payout for the winning team was mid 20s per. the game was played in GB in Jan.Green Bay also won the next SB over KC in 68 and then JOE WILLIE beat up on the then Baltimore Colts in 69.Lombardi in a heated phone call to Shula wanted to know how in the hell could he have let a team from the "other league " beat a team from the NFL.It was a down day for all then Colts fans,myself included.Next year it happened again.Joe Kapp and the Vikings lost to KC.Stram was the coach of KC.Fond memories .Thought I would pass along to you and young Daryl.Cowboys have been in 6 SB games .Won 3--Bradshaw and Steelers still get my vote for great SB games---SO LONG--Arnie
I remember that Raiders/Pat game Daryl was talking about. Not so much for the game but for the fact that I was 8 weeks pregnant, sitting at the black jack tables ordering Seltzer Water with a Lime. I still don't know if I was feeling sick due to being pregnant or because how much money I lost that week......
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