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Most memorable MNF game Ever? (1 Viewer)

netnalp said:
October 17, 1994 Elway vs. Montana (KC 31 Denver 28). Hands down best MNF game ever.

http://espn.go.com/abcsports/mnf/s/greates...denver1994.html

It was the ultimate battle between two of the game's all-time greats. NFL enthusiasts could debate for hours who was the better quarterback, John Elway or Joe Montana, and on the night of Oct. 17, 1994, they would have gotten their money's worth.

Montana, in the twilight of his career, headed to Kansas City in 1993 after losing his job in San Francisco to Steve Young. In his first season with the Chiefs, he guided them to an 11-5 record and a spot in the AFC championship game. In '94, the three-time Super Bowl MVP led K.C. to the playoffs again in what proved to be his final season.

Meanwhile, Elway entered their '94 meeting without a Super Bowl ring. Deep in the back of his mind, he could remember when Montana and Co. blew him out in Super Bowl XXIV. That night in the 55-10 rout, Montana threw five touchdown passes whereas Elway was picked off twice.

Both were up to the challenge for their final showdown on Monday Night Football.

The game went back-and-forth all night with neither team gaining a true advantage. It was tied 7-7 after one quarter, 14-14 at halftime and 21-21 as they entered the fourth quarter. Neither quarterback blinked.

"Those kind of battles you get in are the fun games for a quarterback," Montana recalls. "You're going against the guy that can, you know if you let him back on the field, he'll do the same thing back to you."

The game remained tied until Lin Elliott kicked a 19-yard field goal with 4:08 to go to give the Chiefs a 24-21 lead.

Elway, who had negotiated six Broncos comebacks against the Chiefs already in his career, had the Broncos in line for another one until Shannon Sharpe fumbled on the Chiefs' 40 with just 2:45 to go.

Inexplicably, Marcus Allen handed the ball back over to Denver on the very next play.

This time, no one could deny Elway. On a classic Elway drive, he led the Broncos 39 yards on six plays, finishing it off himself with a 4-yard touchdown run to give them a 28-24 lead with just 1:29 left.

But it was more than enough time for Montana.

Even though a sore shoulder forced him to miss significant practice time during the week, the 38-year-old was near flawless in his execution of the two-minute drill, completing 7-of-8 passes as he moved them 75 yards on nine plays.

The Broncos had been given Montana the underneath throws and he worked it precisely, going perfect on the final four plays, 11 yards to Kimble Anders, 12 yards to Derrick Walker, 19 yards to Tracy Greene and then a five-yarder to Willie Davis as Davis extended his arms at the goal line before reaching the pylon for a touchdown.

"He makes a great catch, squeezes it in the end zone, and, and it was right in front of my wife and daughter who happened to be on the field," recalls Montana, who finished the night 34-for-54 for 393 yards, 3 TDs and 1 INT. "She was working for one of the TV stations there, and I kind of knew in the back of my mind that it was closing in on the end of my career, and to be able to do that and have them there was pretty special."

And to make it even more special for Montana, it left just eight seconds on the clock, not even enough time for Captain Comeback to lead the Broncos one more time.

"That's how everybody feels with John," Montana says. "You can't afford to give a player that relishes being in that time of the game any time on the clock. And the best thing you can see is when it says zero, because then you know, even if he's got the ball in his hand, he can't do anything with it."

The same could be said if the ball was in Montana's hands. On that night, Denver was unable to.
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I was at this one ... a good game but not a lot of fun leaving Mile High that night.

 
My personal favorite (as a long suffering Lion fan) was in September of 1994. I was watching the game as a Junior in college at a bar.

Lions vs. Cowboys. Barry vs. Emmitt

Lions win in OT 20 - 17.

Barry carries 40 times for around 200 yards

Emmitt carries 30 times for around 140 yards

Leon Lett blocked 2 Hanson FG attempts from over 50 yards to win the game.

Hanson eventually won the game with about 30 seconds to go in overtime. It's unfortunate that he's had to spend his entire career with that team and not have an opportunity to make more clutch kicks.... if he did... he'd be a shoo in for the Hall of Fame.

 
netnalp said:
October 17, 1994 Elway vs. Montana (KC 31 Denver 28). Hands down best MNF game ever.

http://espn.go.com/abcsports/mnf/s/greates...denver1994.html

It was the ultimate battle between two of the game's all-time greats. NFL enthusiasts could debate for hours who was the better quarterback, John Elway or Joe Montana, and on the night of Oct. 17, 1994, they would have gotten their money's worth.

Montana, in the twilight of his career, headed to Kansas City in 1993 after losing his job in San Francisco to Steve Young. In his first season with the Chiefs, he guided them to an 11-5 record and a spot in the AFC championship game. In '94, the three-time Super Bowl MVP led K.C. to the playoffs again in what proved to be his final season.

Meanwhile, Elway entered their '94 meeting without a Super Bowl ring. Deep in the back of his mind, he could remember when Montana and Co. blew him out in Super Bowl XXIV. That night in the 55-10 rout, Montana threw five touchdown passes whereas Elway was picked off twice.

Both were up to the challenge for their final showdown on Monday Night Football.

The game went back-and-forth all night with neither team gaining a true advantage. It was tied 7-7 after one quarter, 14-14 at halftime and 21-21 as they entered the fourth quarter. Neither quarterback blinked.

"Those kind of battles you get in are the fun games for a quarterback," Montana recalls. "You're going against the guy that can, you know if you let him back on the field, he'll do the same thing back to you."

The game remained tied until Lin Elliott kicked a 19-yard field goal with 4:08 to go to give the Chiefs a 24-21 lead.

Elway, who had negotiated six Broncos comebacks against the Chiefs already in his career, had the Broncos in line for another one until Shannon Sharpe fumbled on the Chiefs' 40 with just 2:45 to go.

Inexplicably, Marcus Allen handed the ball back over to Denver on the very next play.

This time, no one could deny Elway. On a classic Elway drive, he led the Broncos 39 yards on six plays, finishing it off himself with a 4-yard touchdown run to give them a 28-24 lead with just 1:29 left.

But it was more than enough time for Montana.

Even though a sore shoulder forced him to miss significant practice time during the week, the 38-year-old was near flawless in his execution of the two-minute drill, completing 7-of-8 passes as he moved them 75 yards on nine plays.

The Broncos had been given Montana the underneath throws and he worked it precisely, going perfect on the final four plays, 11 yards to Kimble Anders, 12 yards to Derrick Walker, 19 yards to Tracy Greene and then a five-yarder to Willie Davis as Davis extended his arms at the goal line before reaching the pylon for a touchdown.

"He makes a great catch, squeezes it in the end zone, and, and it was right in front of my wife and daughter who happened to be on the field," recalls Montana, who finished the night 34-for-54 for 393 yards, 3 TDs and 1 INT. "She was working for one of the TV stations there, and I kind of knew in the back of my mind that it was closing in on the end of my career, and to be able to do that and have them there was pretty special."

And to make it even more special for Montana, it left just eight seconds on the clock, not even enough time for Captain Comeback to lead the Broncos one more time.

"That's how everybody feels with John," Montana says. "You can't afford to give a player that relishes being in that time of the game any time on the clock. And the best thing you can see is when it says zero, because then you know, even if he's got the ball in his hand, he can't do anything with it."

The same could be said if the ball was in Montana's hands. On that night, Denver was unable to.
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:goodposting: For those of us who were fortunate enough to watch it, this was definitely one of the top games of all time, between two of the best QB's of all time, and for it to be on Monday Night Football was just a bonus. :thumbup:

I still get chills everytime I think about this game. Montana and Elway, trading jabs back and forth..Elway running that touchdown in from 4 yards out near the end of the game to take the lead, pumping his fists in the air and screaming "hell yeah!" to the Denver fans in the endzone, at the old Mile High, T.V. cameras shaking so badly that you thought it was just a matter of time before the whole damn stadium came crashing down!!!

Then out comes Montana, cool as ever, oblivious to the ravenous crowd, pandemoneum had broken loose. His ears were probably bleeding from the noise, he then has one of his "look, there's John Candy!" moments. Drives KC right down the field effortlessly and throws the winning TD to Willie Davies...WOW! Just simply wow.

Catch it on NFL replay if you can sometime..an all-time classic put on by two all-time greats! :thumbup:

 
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benm3218 said:
Was it Monday night the night Favre played after his dad died? Best game I have ever seen.
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It was a MNF game. Not really getting the comments from people mentioning lopsided games like this as the best they've seen.
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Did you see it? It was so incredible. I was moved for Favre. The guy would throw a TD and then walk off crying. It was a movie quality feeling watching that game. I love Brett Favre.
 
easy call . . .

Colts/Bucs from 2003 -

Bucs were up big in the 4th and the Colts stormed back to complete one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history . . . even better was watching Keyshawn Johsnon talk trash early (I think he finished with 4/62) he was dissing Marvin Harrison and sayiong he always outperforms WRs from his class when he plays against them . . . Keyshawn finished the game with some phantom injury while Harrison repeatedly torched the Bucs secondary . . .

classic . . .

 
One of my favorites that I was at was 1987 Bears-Broncos. It snowed all day and finally let up before the game. Bears with McMahon went out to a 14-0 lead and drove down to the one yard line at the end of the 1st qtr- I'm freezing thinking I should be home watching the Broncos lose as they change ends as we are about to go down to the Bears 21-0 when Ditka decides to let Fridge run one in. The Fridge loses the ball on the exchange and Mark Haynes comes out of the pile with it. Elway leads the Broncos to 3 straight touchdowns in the 2nd to take the lead at half. Mile High is rocking as only it could. Then McMahon leads the Bears back in the third to a 29-21 lead. In the fourth - Elway leads a killer last minute drive down the field for the game winning touchdown - ran the no huddle and caught the Fridge twice trying to get back to the line of scrimmage after some long gains - the crowd was dying in laughter watching the Fridge try this at altitude - and the place was shaking, thankfully I was in the solid West stands. McMahon threw 320 and Elway went for 341 + 35 rushing. I wasn't cold at the end of that game.

I really miss old Mile High - I went to some great Monday Nighters there..Packers snow game, Snowball game against 49ers, the Atwater vs. Okoye hit, the Montana Chiefs game.

 
I recall a Packer Redskins shootout in the early 80's where both teams scored in the upper 40's. In spite of the score the game also featured some incredible defensive plays. Each team was regularly put in 3rd and long by great play, but overcame it with better play to keep scoring drives alive.

I remember a packer Bronco game from around the same time where a blizzard allowed the Broncos to prevail on a few snw caused turnovers for very short scores. the packers marched up and down that field, but the Broncos often stiffened. the packers dominated the stats but the Broncos did enough to win and their fans where going crazy. Must have been a great night to be at mile high.

The Montana vs Elway tilt was classic.

I also remember a great 49ers Giants game from the late 80's.

 
Most memorable MNF game Ever?

For me, it's the jets comeback, with the Favre game a close second.

Can tonights be it?

Anything is possible, but it's highly doubtful/improbable. Tonight's game has been buzzed to death by ESPN, who are broadcasting it, since the trade.

It's not a done deal that it's not a stinker.

In fact, it's likely it's not even memorable past next weekend's games.

 
Sept. 18, 1978 -- Baltimore at New England

Colts 34, Patriots 27

In one of the most exciting fourth quarters in league history, the teams combined to score 41 points amid disastrous weather. Baltimore rallied for 27 points in the fourth behind Joe Washington, who threw a 54-yard TD pass and caught a 23-yard pass to give the Colts a 20-13 lead, which Roger Carr later extended to 27-13. But a Steve Grogan TD run with 3:22 to go and Sam Cunningham's 1-yard TD run with 1:32 remaining tied the game. But Washington took the ensuing kickoff 90 yards for the game-winning touchdown.

Best performance from any one player in Monday Night history and the rest of the game was pretty amazing too.

 
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Raider Nation said:
Bears @ Dolphins - 1985

Marino picks apart Chicago's D, and hangs the lone "L" on the best team I have personally ever seen.
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Dan Marino threw three touchdown passes and Ron Davenport ran for two more as the Dolphins handed the Bears their first (and only) loss of the season. Davenport's TD runs and Marino's two scoring passes to Nat Moore highlighted Miami's first-half explosion, scoring on their first five possessions to take a 31-10 lead. The Bears, who had shut out their previous two opponents, had come into the game 12-0 and looking to become just the second team in NFL history to finish a season undefeated.

 
Favre's game after Irv died is #1 for me. Other notables already mentioned include:

- Bo vs the Seahawks when he ran through the Kingdome tunnel on his 2nd TD of the night and his 3rd TD of that game when he annihilated the imposter Brian "The Boz" Bosworth.

- Freeman's miraculous catch and run.

- Bucs v Colts 2003.

- Bears v Dolphins '85: I was just a kid and I was crushed.

- Skins v Giants: Joe Theismann's leg vs LT.

 
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Hoss_Cartwright said:
Sept. 18, 1978 -- Baltimore at New England

Colts 34, Patriots 27

In one of the most exciting fourth quarters in league history, the teams combined to score 41 points amid disastrous weather. Baltimore rallied for 27 points in the fourth behind Joe Washington, who threw a 54-yard TD pass and caught a 23-yard pass to give the Colts a 20-13 lead, which Roger Carr later extended to 27-13. But a Steve Grogan TD run with 3:22 to go and Sam Cunningham's 1-yard TD run with 1:32 remaining tied the game. But Washington took the ensuing kickoff 90 yards for the game-winning touchdown.

Best performance from any one player in Monday Night history and the rest of the game was pretty amazing too.
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I prefer the
seven weeks later. Both games are featured here, but the week 10 game marks really the final game of the great Baltimore Colts while the first two weeks of that season marked the beginning of the laughing stock of the league that would continue well after the Mayflower van. The final reason for fondly remembering this game as this was the game that Bert Jones lead a comeback in obvious agony (see about 2:45 mark in the highlights) and from his already less than 100% separated shoulder. It also was during that all so brief era where televised NFL games took every opportunity to focus on the cheerleaders. As the uniforms have used less material over the years, the cameras have focused less and less on them (or they are merely a backdrop to obtrusive ads).
 
The Body Bag Game was a Monday Night Football game that was played on November 12, 1990. During this game, eight Redskins were injured, including starting quarterback Jeff Rutledge and backup Stan Humphries. The Redskins had to end the game with rookie running back/kick returner Brian Mitchell at quarterback.

Following the Body Bag Game game the Eagles would go on to win five of their last seven under Randall Cunningham, finish the season 10-6 and earn a wild card playoff berth, the fourth seed in the tough NFC.

The Redskins meanwhile also would win five of their last seven to finish the season 10-6, losing the number four seed spot to the Eagles. Despite this, the Redskins would return to Veterans stadium and defeat the Eagles in the Wild Card playoff game, 20-6.

I was at this game sitting in the 700 level as well

 
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Dallas in Buffalo a few years ago. Dallas had to recover an onside kick and Folk kick a 50+ not once but twice to win the game.

 
netnalp said:
October 17, 1994 Elway vs. Montana (KC 31 Denver 28). Hands down best MNF game ever.

http://espn.go.com/abcsports/mnf/s/greates...denver1994.html

It was the ultimate battle between two of the game's all-time greats. NFL enthusiasts could debate for hours who was the better quarterback, John Elway or Joe Montana, and on the night of Oct. 17, 1994, they would have gotten their money's worth.

Montana, in the twilight of his career, headed to Kansas City in 1993 after losing his job in San Francisco to Steve Young. In his first season with the Chiefs, he guided them to an 11-5 record and a spot in the AFC championship game. In '94, the three-time Super Bowl MVP led K.C. to the playoffs again in what proved to be his final season.

Meanwhile, Elway entered their '94 meeting without a Super Bowl ring. Deep in the back of his mind, he could remember when Montana and Co. blew him out in Super Bowl XXIV. That night in the 55-10 rout, Montana threw five touchdown passes whereas Elway was picked off twice.

Both were up to the challenge for their final showdown on Monday Night Football.

The game went back-and-forth all night with neither team gaining a true advantage. It was tied 7-7 after one quarter, 14-14 at halftime and 21-21 as they entered the fourth quarter. Neither quarterback blinked.

"Those kind of battles you get in are the fun games for a quarterback," Montana recalls. "You're going against the guy that can, you know if you let him back on the field, he'll do the same thing back to you."

The game remained tied until Lin Elliott kicked a 19-yard field goal with 4:08 to go to give the Chiefs a 24-21 lead.

Elway, who had negotiated six Broncos comebacks against the Chiefs already in his career, had the Broncos in line for another one until Shannon Sharpe fumbled on the Chiefs' 40 with just 2:45 to go.

Inexplicably, Marcus Allen handed the ball back over to Denver on the very next play.

This time, no one could deny Elway. On a classic Elway drive, he led the Broncos 39 yards on six plays, finishing it off himself with a 4-yard touchdown run to give them a 28-24 lead with just 1:29 left.

But it was more than enough time for Montana.

Even though a sore shoulder forced him to miss significant practice time during the week, the 38-year-old was near flawless in his execution of the two-minute drill, completing 7-of-8 passes as he moved them 75 yards on nine plays.

The Broncos had been given Montana the underneath throws and he worked it precisely, going perfect on the final four plays, 11 yards to Kimble Anders, 12 yards to Derrick Walker, 19 yards to Tracy Greene and then a five-yarder to Willie Davis as Davis extended his arms at the goal line before reaching the pylon for a touchdown.

"He makes a great catch, squeezes it in the end zone, and, and it was right in front of my wife and daughter who happened to be on the field," recalls Montana, who finished the night 34-for-54 for 393 yards, 3 TDs and 1 INT. "She was working for one of the TV stations there, and I kind of knew in the back of my mind that it was closing in on the end of my career, and to be able to do that and have them there was pretty special."

And to make it even more special for Montana, it left just eight seconds on the clock, not even enough time for Captain Comeback to lead the Broncos one more time.

"That's how everybody feels with John," Montana says. "You can't afford to give a player that relishes being in that time of the game any time on the clock. And the best thing you can see is when it says zero, because then you know, even if he's got the ball in his hand, he can't do anything with it."

The same could be said if the ball was in Montana's hands. On that night, Denver was unable to.
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:unsure: First one I thought of, although two Miami games (Earl Campbell 199 & 4 TDs or beating the '85 Bears) are right there.

Not an especially memorable game, but will never forget Howard Cosell announcing John Lennon had been shot.

ETA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gcdz1IRVoM

 
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FreeBaGeL said:
Gotta be that stupid comeback by the stupid Jets in the stupid year 2000.
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One of the best, for sure...lol

The Monday Night Miracle

Background

Like their 1994 showdown at the Meadowlands which was made famous (or infamous, depending on viewpoint) by Dan Marino's "fake spike", this game was for first place in the AFC East as both teams entered the game with identical 5-1 records. But unlike the 1994 game which featured the Jets failing to hold a double-digit (18) lead in the second half, it was the Dolphins who failed to hold the lead.

The game is notable for having the second largest fourth-quarter comeback in NFL history and the largest comeback in Jets history. It was also voted the greatest game televised on ABC's Monday Night Football[1].

At the end of the third quarter with the score 30–7 in Miami's favor, Jets broadcaster Howard David announced, "And with a whole quarter to go, this game is over."

The Jets proceeded to stage a furious rally in the fourth quarter, scoring 23 unanswered points to tie the game at 30. On the Dolphins' first play from scrimmage after the game was tied, they took a lead on a long touchdown pass by Jay Fiedler. However, the Jets still managed to drive downfield and tie the game. Improbably, the tying touchdown was caught by offensive tackle Jumbo Elliott.[2] After Elliott caught the touchdown pass, Dennis Miller remarked how opposing defenses, "couldn't keep him down forever." Jets kicker John Hall won the game with a field goal with 8:13 remaining in the extra session.[2]

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, while visiting the ABC broadcast booth, said at halftime,

“ Wayne Chrebet is going to pull it off. I think as usual the Jets are going to come from behind, you will see... I think the Dolphins have to be terminated. ”

Chrebet would catch a pass in the fourth quarter for a touchdown to tie the game at 30–30, and the Jets would go on to complete the historic comeback.

The Monday night game for the Jets was in between Games 2 and 3 of the All New York (Yankees vs. Mets) 2000 World Series. The series overshadowed the game. In fact, the crowd broke out into "Lets go Yankees" chants countered by "Lets Go Mets" chants during the third quarter.

 
From a fantasy perspective my fav MNF memory has to be 2004 KC vs TEN. I was down like 60-80 points and had T.Green, E.Kennison, and D.Bennett.. I assumed I was dead -Kennison catches 2 of Trents 3TDs, while Bennett goes 12 for 233 and 3TDs(had to look this up, wasnt sure).. I won by a handful. Best part I watched the game with coworkers including the dbag that was crushing me and had to listen to him run his mouth all day at work up until about 15 mins into the game..

 
As an Eagles fan one that always sticks in my mind was against the Cowboys in the late 90s. Eagles rally from behind and then lose when Tommy Hutton fumbles the snap on a last second go ahead chip shot FG. Painful after years of being dominated by the Boys.

 
Favre chucking the ball all over and ending the last hope for his team on a bad turnover...sorry, happened way too much to be memorable.

 
2003 Colts-Bucs came to mind.

Was that stupid Freeman crazy off-the-leg catch on a Monday night? Tough being a Vikes fan sometimes. :goodposting:

 
It was an SNF game and not an MNF game, but my favorite game of all time was the 2003 tilt between the Baltimore Ravens and St. Louis Rams. It was an honest-to-goodness defensive shootout. St. Louis had 121 yards of offense, gave 75 yards back in penalties, turned the ball over 4 times... and scored 33 points. Baltimore had 276 yards of offense, 80 yards worth of penalties, 7 turnovers, and 22 points. 11 total sacks, 11 total takeaways. The Rams had TD "drives" of 36 yards and 1 yard, and FG "drives" of 32 yards, 8 yards, 4 yards, and 26 yards. They didn't have a drive all game longer than 36 yards, but they still put up 33 points. Baltimore added a 45 yard TD drive and FG "drives" of 26 and 5 yards. At one point, Marshall Faulk had 4 carries for -1 yard and 2 TDs. The game was a nail-biter until St. Louis buried Baltimore under a rain of FGs (4 of them in the 4th quarter).

For most people, the game was totally unmemorable, but I loved it. It pretty much smashed to pieces many of the widely-held assumptions people have- that points are the best indicator of a good offense, that defensive struggles have to be low-scoring affairs, etc. I don't care one whit about either the Ravens or the Rams, but that was just good entertaining football.

 
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