do not consider the importance of the game, just how unexpected the ending was considering what had been going on prior.
Sticking to past four years, there are certainly others
Sticking to past four years, there are certainly others
Most ridiculous unexpected recent big Pats winning ending?
- Thread starter Lose Remerswaal
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Pats over the Rams on the road, 1986. Last second heave by Tony Eason.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-17/sports/sp-3800_1_rams-jim-everett
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-17/sports/sp-3800_1_rams-jim-everett
Was that Show Ponies?
I'm not sure it was as important as the three I listed. And of course today's was less important by far than the two recent super Bowls.
I remember the Patriots-Ravens game from 2007
http://www.espn.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=3140574
Second Edit: Didn't see the "past four years" thing. Sorry not sorry, these games are all awesome.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=3140574
Edit: Not to mention the 2011 AFC Championship game when Cundiff missed a chip shot to tie.
Second Edit: Didn't see the "past four years" thing. Sorry not sorry, these games are all awesome.
It was. I wasn't considering the importance of the game, as you requested.
edit......Of course, you probably meant importance going into the game. My apologies.
Of course that Ravens assistant coach was Sexy Rexy. That's a great, forgotten, crazy game.
Tonight was probably the craziest given that the go-ahead TD was called on the field and then reversed. But The actual last play of 49 was better.
2009? vs Buffalo, first game of the season.
Down 2 TDs, score with a little more than 2:00 left, kick deep, strip the returner, recover, score another TD.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200909140nwe.htm
EDIT: 2017 - 2009 < 4, by my math
Down 2 TDs, score with a little more than 2:00 left, kick deep, strip the returner, recover, score another TD.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/200909140nwe.htm
EDIT: 2017 - 2009 < 4, by my math
2001 at Buffalo, David Patten unconscious fumble/non-fumble in OT. Helped on the way to game winning drive.
The obvious and only answer is Super Bowl 51. They were down 28-3 in the second half! Teams rarely come behind from those deficits.
I'm amazed this isn't winning unanimously. Super Bowl 49 was a crazy ending, as was today's game, but far from unprecedented. Game winning goalline stands happen all of the time. Coming back from 25 point deficits do not.
I'm amazed this isn't winning unanimously. Super Bowl 49 was a crazy ending, as was today's game, but far from unprecedented. Game winning goalline stands happen all of the time. Coming back from 25 point deficits do not.
Amazing only 1 mention of the tuck rule so far ITT and so many other legitimate amazing wins. How lucky we are we to be fans of this team?
Probably 49. I mean on the 1 with beast mode?
Today was the most unexpected because the defense had played so poorly. The big play to get the ball down the play was far worse and fristarting than anything inother games. I mean Seattle was very lucky with the deflected catch but the big play today was just bad D. That made the idea they would score seem even more inevitable than the Seahawks on the one.
Today was the most unexpected because the defense had played so poorly. The big play to get the ball down the play was far worse and fristarting than anything inother games. I mean Seattle was very lucky with the deflected catch but the big play today was just bad D. That made the idea they would score seem even more inevitable than the Seahawks on the one.
Troy Brown causing the fumble to beat the Chargers in the playoffs. Doesn't stick to the timeline, but others haven't, and what's more improbable than an offensive player making the play of the game on defense?
As an aside, I was listening to this week's Bill Barnwell podcast and his guest thought the Seahawks should have won that game. If not for the Kearse catch Seattle definitely loses. The luck was with Seattle. Butler's play wasn't luck, the Pat practiced it.
Lynch was iffy on 4th and short all year. And the very first game of the next year they had a chance to demonstrate it, and he was stuffed on 4th and 1 to end the game.
Doesn't mean much, but it's nice to mention to the people who say that it's 100% that running Lynch would've sealed it. Honestly mixing it up a little shouldn't matter much, unless the crazy (practiced) pick happens.
Amen. The Pats drove the field on the Seahawks' D twice in the 4th quarter.
Kearse was nothing but lucky. The ball bounced up in the air and he lost track of it and then it bounced off him gently enough up in the air that he snagged it. Pure luck and it almost served as the linchpin to overcome those 2 great Pats drives.
Just because threads such as these are incomplete without it, the Bob Windsor game
http://www.patriots.com/news/2016/10/27/day-bob-windsor-lays-his-career-line-game-winning-score
http://www.patriots.com/news/2016/10/27/day-bob-windsor-lays-his-career-line-game-winning-score
Well said. Could not agree more. It was not far removed from the Frank Reich game in terms of improbability, just way off the end of the bell curve. Sure, Butler and Hightower had to make great plays to seal SB49, but about 15 distinct great plays had to be made to get a shot at the comeback.
Thanks for the link, had never heard that story. Definitely shouldn't be forgotten; I guess Windsor is kinda the Curtis Leskanic of the Patriots.
Yup. 12/8/13. Game they lost Gronk. Got the ball back on their own 18 down 26-14 with 2:35 left. Onside kick with 1:04 left. Controversial DPI. Won 27-26
He was 6 for 16 from the 1 yard line from 2012-2014.
Link in spoiler
The tuck rule game is 1 and 2. Even before the tuck rule, the Pats were outplayed all game, and there were several other important plays that went their way, like a 2nd and 3rd and short the possession before that would have ended it if the Raiders had converted.
At the point of the tuck rule being invoked, turnovers were 1 for NE and 0 for OAK, penalties were 1/15 for NE and 4/20 for OAK, 3rd down conversions were 3/13 for NE and 4/15 for OAK, and total yards gained were for 278 for NE to 231 for OAK.
I'd call it pretty even at that point. But the untold story of that game is that the Oakland defense just ran out of gas in the 4th quarter. The whole team, really. Here were the possessions by NE in the 4th and 5th quarters:
10 plays for 67 yards, TD
4 for 12, punt
8 for 26, FG
15(!) for 61, GW FG
Meanwhile, the 4th quarter possessions for Oakland:
4 for 10, punt
8 for 25, punt
3 for 9, punt
1 for -1, kneel-down, end of regulation, and I hope Gannon gave the ball a little kiss goodbye before he handed it to the officials
Other than the extraordinary field conditions, and the legendary FG by Vinatieri, that 4Q/OT bears more than a little resemblance to SB 51 in terms of the endurance of the respective teams - one team's tank being on "E", and the other team being coached by Bill Belichick.
Loved all the posts here. We have surely been blessed with many amazing victories.
I chose sb49 barely over yesterday because I'm sure with 20 seconds left, after that ridiculous catch, we all expected Seattle would score. Yesterday I think most of us thought Pittsburgh had scored, or would at least tie it up. In sb51, by the final 20 seconds, I think most of us saw how dead Atlanta was, and although the comeback as a whole was ridiculous, by then we knew the Falcons were done
I chose sb49 barely over yesterday because I'm sure with 20 seconds left, after that ridiculous catch, we all expected Seattle would score. Yesterday I think most of us thought Pittsburgh had scored, or would at least tie it up. In sb51, by the final 20 seconds, I think most of us saw how dead Atlanta was, and although the comeback as a whole was ridiculous, by then we knew the Falcons were done
Shawn Jefferson's "blades of grass" catch that set up a Bledsoe game winning touchdown in 1998 against the Bills.
This was the impetus to get Ralph Wilson to flip on the instant replay rule that he had opposed for many years. And the rest, as they say, is history.
This was the impetus to get Ralph Wilson to flip on the instant replay rule that he had opposed for many years. And the rest, as they say, is history.
That game was in Champaign, IL. I only remember because I was going to University of Illinois at the time and I went to the game.
I was at Gillette for that one with my son. I was getting ready to leave in the 4th Q, as the Pats looked like shit. It was my son's first game in person, so he wanted to stay. We stayed until the end, thankfully, And what was even better for us was that our seats were in the 200's, directly above the 5 yard line at the "good" end of the field. So we got to see the ending right in front of us.
51 had an aura of inevitability near the end, we knew the pats were gonna win. But 49 was already lost, no one expected the D to hold.
While I've appreciated Gronk's ability all along his performance yesterday took my love for his game to a new level.
add: I realize this isn't about Gronk but feel compelled to make mention of his role in yesterdays win
add: I realize this isn't about Gronk but feel compelled to make mention of his role in yesterdays win
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Right, I remember that. Pretty sure Vinatieri hit a really long FG at the half but the Pats were down bigly in the 2nd half and had the ridiculous interception to a DL only have him fumble but it turns out it was just incomplete, then Brady hit Patten from about 30 yards in the back corner of the end zone to win it
That's where my mind first went, too. I wanna say that game was the same night as a Boris/Om show at the Middle East upstairs. I think I heard the end of the game on my way in.
Is it just the very end? If not, I don’t now how the answer is anything other than the comeback from down 28-3. Malcolm was dramatic but it was one play (or two, if you count the Ayers-Hightower tackle). SB 51 was an incredible string of events where really every one went the Pats way.
I think ignoring the OP criteria of last 4 years, the Snow Bowl game has to be it. The game was over if the tuck rule isn't properly called, with the Patriots out of timeouts and less than 2 minutes. Then it took Vinatieri's awesome kick (I think I was just as surprised with the refs called it good as when Coleman ruled it an incompletion, with how much of a low knuckler it looked like off Adam's foot. ), and then a drive in OT featuring a 4th down conversion to a falling down Patten and that was almost knocked away by Wiggins.
Plus, this was all before Tom Brady was Tom Brady. Last night, the Patriots still would have had 28 seconds and two timeouts to get down the field for a TD.
The best part was that it was Brady who came in and knocked the ball loose rather than giving up on the play after throwing a pick.
It's basically impossible to find any video from this amazing game besides a grainy clip of the game-winning Brady to Patten connection. One of the few remaining sources of info on this classic game is a Bill Simmons running diary he wrote while the game was going on during a fantasy NBA draft: http://proxy.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/021114
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Correct. They didn’t announce the review in the stadium, at least not that I heard. The Bears fans all started leaving the stadium, high-fiving each other. I moved down to like the second row. Call overturned (Brady actually knocked the ball lose from the DL). Then came the Patten TD. My roommate at the time (big Bears fan) was celebrating in the parking lot until like midnight before he found out they lost. I got taunted a few times walking back to my apartment and had to explain to the person doing the taunting that their team had, in fact, lost. Would never happen now with smartphones and all but that was one sweet victory.
Can't find it now, but i recall reading something back then that stated that Fryar's catch was in the same area as Dave Henderson's home run a month or so earlier.
Am I crazy or was this the same day that Billy Beane accepted the Sox GM job and then turned it down?