NFL Uploading Classic Games to YouTube

Hoya81

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Apologies if there is a more appropriate thread but the NFL has been uploading high quality versions of classic games, without commercials, to YouTube that were picked as part of a fan vote during the summer. The finalists for the Pats were SB 36, SB 49 and the Snow Bowl vs the Raiders. The SBs have already been uploaded, the Raider game will be up later in the year.

SB 36
SB 49


A number of Pats losses (SB XX, 2006 AFCCG, Black Sunday) were selected by other fan base vote.
 

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Just watched first half of XXXVI.
Forgot that Wilkens missed a field goal and that Faulk bailed Adam out on the kickoff after the Pztten touchdown. It's kind of amazing how quickly Madden and Summerhall sensed something was up.
 

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Watching the snow game.

Question--is the top of the snow considered the ground?
 
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Tuck Rule Game.
Every time I go back and watch - JR Redmond with some huge plays. Jermaine Wiggins obviously an unbelievable game, and David Patten flopping around and catching everything in sight.

Meanwhile, how interesting to watch the Tuck Rule moment play out, knowing what we know now -- Simms remarking that there's a term for it that they were briefed on before the season but can't quite remember the name of. One of the officials (not Walt Coleman) CLEARLY explaining the ruling to an Oakland coach (not Gruden), clearly gesturing a post-pump "tuck." And, of course, being reminded that the Raiders had several opportunities to still win that game. What a game, what a STORY.
 

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As soon as that play transpired I turned the TV off and started stomping around the house in disgust. My son (then 6) and a friend watching with us turned it back on. If I had been alone I like to think I would have come back to it but I may have missed the entire rest of the game.
 

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Every time I go back and watch - JR Redmond with some huge plays. Jermaine Wiggins obviously an unbelievable game, and David Patten flopping around and catching everything in sight.

Meanwhile, how interesting to watch the Tuck Rule moment play out, knowing what we know now -- Simms remarking that there's a term for it that they were briefed on before the season but can't quite remember the name of. One of the officials (not Walt Coleman) CLEARLY explaining the ruling to an Oakland coach (not Gruden), clearly gesturing a post-pump "tuck." And, of course, being reminded that the Raiders had several opportunities to still win that game. What a game, what a STORY.
Oh, it's one of the great games in NFL history. Any game that can be referred to by shorthand -- the Tuck Rule, the Catch, the Music City Miracle, etc. -- is a special game. But this one featured the two teams that would represent the AFC in the Super Bowl in '01 and '02, a number of future Hall of Famers (Brady, Vinatieri, Seymour (?), Law (?), Rice, Brown, Charles Woodson (?)), the greatest kick in NFL history, and an overtime classic in a driving blizzard.

And it also just so happened to launch the arguably greatest run of success in professional sports this side of the 1950s Celtics and Yankees.
 

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As soon as that play transpired I turned the TV off and started stomping around the house in disgust. My son (then 6) and a friend watching with us turned it back on. If I had been alone I like to think I would have come back to it but I may have missed the entire rest of the game.
I was 14, prime angst years, watching with friends in the basement while the adults watched upstairs. At 13-3, I basically just seethed in complete silence and barely breathing while my friends sat there alternating between trying to cheer me up and being afraid to speak. Brady's TD run broke the spell and I was good to go even through the non-fumble, as I found it immediately weird that the review took longer than 5 seconds.

edit: Also, goodbye to any hope of productivity today.
 
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Did anyone else's notice a camera cut-to of the scoreboard BEFORE the game winning FG showing the scoreboard already at 16-13? They cut away from it really quick - or my eyes were deceiving me. Either way, I'm too lazy to go back and check.
 

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Did anyone else's notice a camera cut-to of the scoreboard BEFORE the game winning FG showing the scoreboard already at 16-13? They cut away from it really quick - or my eyes were deceiving me. Either way, I'm too lazy to go back and check.
Yup. I saw that today too, and don't remember ever seeing or hearing about that before. It was around 2 hrs 21 minutes into the youtube game video (and a play or two before the game winning kick)..
 

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Gruden decision to call the timeout gave Walter and Vinatieri more time to clear snow and make a better hold spot. Hey, at least they didn't send out a snowplow! Adam would have made it in all cases though.
 

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I don't think I've ever heard the clip of Phil Simms getting hit by the snowball. I've only heard the clips from the DVD's etc. all which use the radio audio. Whoever did that, bravo!
 

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That was fun to watch again 15 years later. I had forgotten how strong the Pats came out on their first drive with three straight screens which really put the Raiders on their heels and drove deep into their territory before things bogged down..

Amazing that this game was Brady's first playoff game. I also forgot that Woody could not handle snapping in the shotgun formation and generally would slide over so that Compton could play center on those plays . Woody went to the Pro Bowl that season which is remarkable considering he couldn't do a large part of the job that a center is expected to do.

Interesting also that Seymour, McGinest, and Johnson were not in the starting lineup for the game.
 

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Interesting also that Seymour, McGinest, and Johnson were not in the starting lineup for the game.
It's easy to forget, McGinest and Johnson were both left unprotected in the expansion draft a month later. Very lucky Houston didn't grab either one (instead grabbing Matt Stevens).

Speaking of luck, watching that game is a reminder of the gigantic horseshoe the Pats had jammed up their ass all season. Not only Wiggins catching the ball Patten bounced off his knees (and his defender as well), but on the big 4th down play in OT, Wiggins stretching out and just missing knocking away a pass that wasn't intended for him.
 

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Thanks for posting the link and watching this game never gets old. I pick something new up every time and it is a perfect way to start this weekend. The feelings I get by watching this bring me right back to 2002 and where I was when watching this at the time. It really is amazing how much of life has changed during this run the Patriots have sustained (e.g., careers, family, places of residence, etc). I am pretty sure very few had a cell phone at the game (or at least not a smartphone).

But watching it through the lens of 2002 still gives me the feelings that they will lose the fumbles (especially the Troy Brown one), or something will go wrong. It is a lot of fun watching it now realizing that we would have no idea that the fun was really just beginning. Someone had posted in another thread that they have not played a meaningless game since 2000 (with the two playoff misses going right up through the last weekend of the 2002 and 2008 seasons). And the quote of "Tom Brady is now 12-3 as a starter"....Certainly savoring every moment that this era lasts. And I know that Gillette is more comfortable, but having all of the fans packed into the lower sections must have made the acoustics deafening from the 4th quarter onward.
 

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Thanks for posting the link and watching this game never gets old. I pick something new up every time and it is a perfect way to start this weekend. The feelings I get by watching this bring me right back to 2002 and where I was when watching this at the time. It really is amazing how much of life has changed during this run the Patriots have sustained (e.g., careers, family, places of residence, etc). I am pretty sure very few had a cell phone at the game (or at least not a smartphone).

But watching it through the lens of 2002 still gives me the feelings that they will lose the fumbles (especially the Troy Brown one), or something will go wrong. It is a lot of fun watching it now realizing that we would have no idea that the fun was really just beginning. Someone had posted in another thread that they have not played a meaningless game since 2000 (with the two playoff misses going right up through the last weekend of the 2002 and 2008 seasons). And the quote of "Tom Brady is now 12-3 as a starter"....Certainly savoring every moment that this era lasts. And I know that Gillette is more comfortable, but having all of the fans packed into the lower sections must have made the acoustics deafening from the 4th quarter onward.
In the realm of how much life has changed:
-- the crawl at the bottom pimping cbssports.com also suggested "AOL Keyword: CBSSports"
-- 4:3 video format
-- yellow line technology was there but nothing else and a lot fewer graphic overlays

As far as the game:
-- on the 3rd and 4th down stops late in the game, Tebucky Jones was a key factor on both. On the 3rd down stop, I think Garner likely falls forward for the first down after the initial stop if it wasn't for TBuck knocking him backwards
-- also on that 4th and 1, both Bruschi and Vrabel came out for Ted Johnson and Bryan Cox
-- I'd forgotten how different a style of PR Troy Brown was, compared to Edelman or Amendola
 

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Watching a bit of the first Super Bowl now (watched most of the Snow Bowl yesterday) and I think the most startling thing is watching a 2nd year Brady work. I remember thinking he was a game manager etc. but he's on the line, identifying and changing protections, calling audibles, looking off wide receivers, making 2-3 reads etc.

He obviously didn't have the experience he's got now but it's clearly there. Anyone who thought that they were going back to Bledsoe was out of their mind.