Tremendous Bowl Historical past, third Add

After per week of riots inside Miami, San Francisco captured its third Tremendous Bowl of the Nineteen Eighties and have become the primary NFC group to win thrice.

The 49ers outgained the Bengals 454 to 229, however discovered themselves trailing late within the sport. Jim Breech’s 40-yard discipline purpose, with 3:20 remaining gave Cincinnati a 16-13 lead.

San Francisco began the profitable drive at its 8-yard line, with quarterback Joe Montana famously scanning the gang at the start of the march and telling his teammates, “Look, there’s John Sweet.”

Then Montana took aside Cincinnati’s protection. On the eleventh play of the collection, Montana hit John Taylor with a 10-yard go over center for the profitable landing with 34 seconds remaining.

At halftime, the rating was 3-3, the primary time in Tremendous Bowl historical past the sport was tied at intermission. Each groups exchanged discipline objectives and Stanford Jennings’ 93-yard kickoff return gave the Bengals a 13-6 lead with 4 seconds remaining within the third quarter.

The 49ers got here again with an 85-yard drive in 4 performs, concluding with Montana’s 14-yard go to Jerry Rice. Rice was voted essentially the most precious participant after catching 11 passes for a document 215 yards. Montana accomplished 23 of 36 passes for a document 357 yards.

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The Washington Redskins, with the best quarter in NFL playoff historical past, scored 35 factors within the second interval to beat a 10-0 deficit and win their second Tremendous Bowl championship.

John Elway threw a 56-yard landing go to Ricky Nattiel on the Broncos’ first play from scrimmage and Wealthy Karlis kicked a 24-yard discipline purpose on the subsequent possession to take a 10-0 lead.

The Redskins scored 5 touchdowns on consecutive possessions within the second quarter, 4 on passes by MVP Doug Williams, who set a document with 340 yards passing within the sport. Washington scored the 5 touchdowns in 18 performs with a complete time of possession of solely 5:47.

Williams turned the primary African-American quarterback to win a Tremendous Bowl.

Tim Smith, a rookie backup who gained 126 yards for the complete season, was given the beginning by Redskins coach Joe Gibbs. Smith rushed for a document 204 yards. Ricky Sanders caught 9 passes for 193 yards and two touchdowns, breaking one document and tying one other.

Simply as within the 1982 season, the Redskins received the title in a season shortened by a gamers’ strike.

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Phil Simms led the New York Giants to a 30-point second half to beat the Denver Broncos, profitable their first Tremendous Bowl and first NFL championship in 30 years.

Simms accomplished 22 of 25 for 268 yards, together with three landing passes, and was unanimously voted the Most Helpful Participant. He additionally set a Tremendous Bowl document with 10 straight completions throughout New York’s second-half tear. His 88 p.c completion charge was an NFL playoff document.

John Elway, in his first of 5 Tremendous Bowls, helped Denver to a 10-9 halftime lead. New York began the second half with three performs for 9 yards, and the Giants’ punting group ran onto the sphere at its 46. Immediately, the Giants shifted out of punt formation, and Jeff Rutledge, the second-string quarterback, got here up behind heart to take the snap and sneak for 1 yard and a primary down. Six performs later, Simms hit tight finish Mark Bavaro for 13 yards, the Giants led 16-10 and the rout was on.

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The Monsters of the Halfway in all their overpowering glory.

And with some brashness: a number of gamers made a music video, the “Tremendous Bowl Shuffle,” earlier than heading to New Orleans.

The Chicago Bears received their first NFL championship since 1963 by setting a Tremendous Bowl document for factors scored in defeating the Patriots 46-10. The NFC champions, who received by the biggest margin in Tremendous Bowl historical past, broke the mark for factors in a sport set by San Francisco and the Los Angeles Raiders within the earlier two Tremendous Bowls.

New England capitalized on a Chicago fumble to attain the quickest factors in Tremendous Bowl historical past on Tony Franklin’s discipline purpose 74 seconds after kickoff. That simply made the Bears mad, they usually scored 44 straight factors.

The Bears’ protection, which allowed solely 10 factors in postseason play, held New England to 7 yards speeding and 116 yards passing.

Jim McMahon, who handed for 256 yards, turned the primary quarterback to hurry for 2 touchdowns. Richard Dent, who contributed 1 1/2 sacks, was voted the Most Helpful Participant.

Chicago all-time nice working again Walter Payton didn’t rating, however defensive deal with William “Fridge” Perry had a 1-yard TD run.

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Billed as a matchup of the NFL’s prime two quarterbacks, Joe Montana simply received the higher of Dan Marino.

Montana accomplished 24 of 35 passes and threw for a Tremendous Bowl document 331 yards and three touchdowns. He additionally rushed 5 instances for 59 yards and a landing. Operating again Roger Craig caught two of Montana’s landing passes and ran for an additional to set a Tremendous Bowl document.

The San Francisco protection sacked the record-setting Marino 4 instances within the sport and held the Dolphins to 25 yards speeding.

Montana joined Inexperienced Bay’s Bart Starr and Pittsburgh’s Terry Bradshaw as the one two-time Tremendous Bowl most useful gamers. Montana was the MVP within the 1982 Tremendous Bowl in opposition to Cincinnati.

Marino would by no means make the Tremendous Bowl once more in his Corridor of Fame profession.

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Marcus Allen rushed for a Tremendous Bowl-record 191 yards on 20 carries and scored two touchdowns because the Raiders trounced the Redskins, 38-9.

The Raiders took a 7-0 lead 4:52 into the sport when Derrick Jensen blocked Jeff Hayes’ punt and recovered it ultimately zone for a landing.

Jim Plunkett connected with Cliff Department for a 12-yard TD go and a 14-0 lead. Washington reduce the margin to 14-3 on a 24-yard discipline purpose by Mark Moseley, however with 7 seconds left within the half, Washington coach Joe Gibbs referred to as for a display screen go. Raiders linebacker Jack Squirek noticed it coming and intercepted Joe Theismann’s throw, jogging 5 yards into the top zone to present Los Angeles a commanding 21-3 halftime benefit.

Allen, voted the sport’s most useful participant, scored on runs of 5 and 74 yards, the latter a Tremendous Bowl document and an excellent effort, placing the Raiders forward 35-9.

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Fullback John Riggins churned out a Tremendous Bowl-record 166 yards on 38 carries to spark the Redskins to a come-from-behind 27-17 win over the Dolphins.

For Riggins, voted the sport’s most useful participant, it was his fourth consecutive 100-yard speeding sport through the playoffs, additionally a document.

Riggins gave the Redskins their first lead with 10:01 remaining when he ran 43 yards off left deal with for a landing on fourth-and-1.

The Dolphins had constructed a 17-10 halftime lead on a 76-yard landing go from David Woodley to broad receiver Jim Cefalo within the first quarter; a 20-yard discipline purpose by Uwe von Schamann; and a Tremendous Bowl-record 98-yard kickoff return by Fulton Walker simply earlier than halftime.

Mark Moseley reduce the Miami result in 17-13 with a 20-yard discipline purpose within the third quarter.

After Riggins’ run put the Redskins on prime, Theismann capped the scoring with a 6-yard go to broad receiver Charlie Brown with 1:55 left.

The Redskins and Dolphins survived a strike-shortened season to succeed in the Tremendous Bowl.

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The primary Tremendous Bowl held in a cold-weather metropolis — however within the Pontiac Silverdome — was preceded by the 49ers’ bus getting caught in site visitors and a number of other gamers needing to stroll into the stadium.

Didn’t trouble them a lot: Ray Wersching kicked a Tremendous Bowl record-tying 4 discipline objectives to assist elevate the 49ers to their first NFL championship with a 26-21 win over the Bengals.

The 49ers constructed a game-record 20-0 halftime lead on the energy of two lengthy landing marches led by Joe Montana, and two Wersching discipline objectives.

The Bengals got here again within the second half, narrowing the margin to 20-14 on quarterback Ken Anderson’s 5-yard run and 4-yard scoring toss to Dan Ross. However Wersching linked on early third-quarter discipline objectives of 40 and 23 yards to extend the 49ers’ result in 26-14, making meaningless Anderson’s 3-yard landing go to Ross within the closing seconds.

Montana accomplished 14 of twenty-two passes for 157 yards; Anderson established sport information for completions and completion share .

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Jim Plunkett’s two first-quarter landing passes, together with a Tremendous Bowl-record 80-yard strike to working again Kenny King, led the Raiders.

Philadelphia, which had defeated Oakland 10-7 a number of weeks earlier, by no means received on monitor till late within the third quarter. Linebacker Rod Martin arrange Oakland’s first landing along with his first of three interceptions, a Tremendous Bowl document for one participant.

Earlier than the primary quarter ended the Raiders upped their result in 14-0 when Plunkett hit King close to midfield to document the longest play in Tremendous Bowl historical past. In all, Plunkett accomplished 13 of 21 passes for 261 yards and three touchdowns. The sport capped a storybook season for Plunkett, the sport’s MVP.

The journeyman quarterback took over the reins of the Raiders’ offense and received 9 of the final 11 regular-season video games. Within the playoffs, the Raiders beat Houston, San Diego and Cleveland en path to turning into the primary wild-card group to win the Tremendous Bowl.

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The Metal Curtain dynasty concluded as Terry Bradshaw accomplished 14 of 21 passes for 309 yards and set two passing information because the Steelers turned the primary group to win 4 Tremendous Bowls.

Regardless of three interceptions by the Rams, Bradshaw introduced the Steelers from behind twice within the second half. Trailing 13-10 at halftime, Pittsburgh went forward 17-13 when Bradshaw linked with Lynn Swann for a 47-yard landing early within the third quarter.

On the Rams’ subsequent possession, Vince Ferragamo responded with a 50-yard go to Billy Waddy that moved Los Angeles to the Steelers 24. On the next play, Lawrence McCutcheon linked with Ron Smith on a halfback possibility go that gave the Rams a 19-17 lead.

On Pittsburgh’s preliminary possession of the fourth quarter, Bradshaw lofted a stunning 73-yard scoring go to John Stallworth to place the Steelers in entrance to remain, 24-19. A forty five-yard go from Bradshaw to Stallworth was the important thing play in Pittsburgh’s closing scoring drive, which was culminated by Franco Harris’ second 1-yard TD of the sport.

Bradshaw, the sport’s MVP for the second straight yr, set Tremendous Bowl information for many landing passes and most passing yards .

The Steelers wouldn’t win one other Tremendous Bowl for a quarter-century.

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In one of the crucial thrilling Tremendous Bowls, Terry Bradshaw threw 4 landing passes to guide the Steelers to their third win. Bradshaw, voted the sport’s most useful participant, accomplished 17 of 30 passes for 318 yards, breaking Bart Starr’s document of 250 yards passing by halftime.

Two Bradshaw-to-John Stallworth and one Bradshaw-to-Rocky Bleier throws within the first half gave Pittsburgh a 21-14 lead at halftime.

Franco Harris ran 22 yards for a rating after Rafael Septein had reduce Pittsburgh’s result in 21-17 with a discipline purpose. Pittsburgh then seemingly put the sport out of attain with lower than seven minutes to play when Bradshaw hit Lynn Swann for an 18-yard TD strike to make the rating 35-17.

However Roger Staubach threw his second scoring go of the sport with 2:23 left, a 7-yarder to Billy Joe DuPree. The Cowboys then recovered an onside kick and scored once more on Staubach’s third TD go with 22 seconds remaining.

Dallas’ bid for an additional onside kick restoration and a miracle comeback failed as Rocky Bleier fell on the following kickoff with 17 seconds left.

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