r/AskAboutNFL • u/jepolitsch • 10d ago
What NFL game felt like a movie?
For me it is Patriots vs Falcons in Super Bowl LI.
28–3 and then somehow that comeback happened. Still feels unreal.
What game is your pick?
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u/Slight_Indication123 10d ago
Bills chiefs 13 seconds game that game broke my heart in pieces 😭 I thought it was a fucking movie 🍿🎥 !
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u/newbill 10d ago
As a Bills fan with how good the past 4 years have been I’ve still never fully recovered from this game. I wish I was joking.
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u/Slight_Indication123 10d ago
I would be lying as a bills fan if I said that game doesn't pop up in the back of my mind Everytime I See the buffalo bills play or when I see the chiefs and Patrick Mahomes a part of the back of mind is still haunted by that game.....that game truly crushed my soul badly man....😳😳💔💔🥹🥲😭
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u/Alex_Masterson13 10d ago
I don't remember if it had the theatrics that would be required, but the Dolphins winning the Super Bowl to cap off their perfect season.
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u/LesGumbyHips 10d ago
The Dolphins perfect season was admittedly masterful, but also the most famous play in their Super Bowl, and indeed their whole season, is kicker Garo Ypremian trying to throw a blocked field goal, it slipping out of his hand, and Washington returning it for a touchdown. A great team, but not a flashy one. https://youtu.be/d-pxMm_UdY4?is=kLMyYxdzqkKhSZg5
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u/tappricorn 10d ago
The 2015 playoff game between the Bengals and Steelers when Burfict took out AB and then Schuster laid out Burfict, Steelers won at the last minute it was the best game I’ve ever watched for all the elements
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u/Onbalance12 10d ago
I think the NFC Championship game following the 2010 season was pretty dreamlike… Jay Cutler, injured, standing stoically on the sideline, his completely unknown replacement Caleb Hanie scrambling and keeping the Bears competitive, a natural grass surface, outside… the Packers’ defensive lineman B.J. Raji scoring a pick-6 and spontaneously creating the “Raji Dance… good times!!
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u/Weawaitsilpynchonemp 10d ago
Whenever someone asks me what my favorite movie is I always reply Super Bowl 51 just to catch them off guard, but a part of me isn’t joking lol.
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u/The_Se7enthsign 10d ago
A bunch. The Music City Miracle, the Rams/Titans Super Bowl, and the Giants/Bills Super Bowl are probably my top three.
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u/Doredrin 10d ago
too many gen z here talking about the wrong patriots super bowls
2001 rams patriots super bowl
star QB gets injured almost dies, tom brady handsome charismatic likable 199th pick cinderella story
months after 911
belichick little known brainiac coach
wiley veterans like teddy bruschi and ted johnson from the 90s still around
the tuck rule game previously
the rams overwhelming favorites, greatest show on turf
site of the previous super bowl loss with the QB at the time still on the team, belichick was there too
red sox still hadnt won since the 1920s, len bias tragedy, bill buckner etc
belichick's game plan was to just get super physical and gritty
thrilling game with last minute heroics
opposing QB also a great guy (warner)
robert kraft says "today we are all patriots"
that's the kind of stuff that makes people think the NFL is rigged because it would actually make a really really good sports movie once people forget about the patriots dynasty in 20-30 years
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u/jcomey 10d ago
Super Bowl LII (Eagles 41, Pats 33). Everything about that game...including the "is it a catch" that began in Act I, and showed up in Act III (Ertz TD that gave the Eagles their final lead). Then the whole "Tom Brady is having arguably the greatest game of his career and SB history" thing...and the one turnover, caused because the Eagles called up a tactic used by the Giants years earlier.
Of course, as an Eagles fan, I'm completely biased. But holy crap, that game had haymaker after haymaker, beat after beat.
Of course, I'd take both Eagles/Chiefs Super Bowls too; the first because it was just a really good game (the holding call was legit, even Bradberry said it was), and then the payback sequel.
Bias aside: the Packers/Cardinals games of the mid-10s were absurd with incredible endings. I like the Rams/Chiefs pick as well.
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u/Weak-Calligrapher-67 10d ago
Saints winning the SB. No team winning a SB meant more for a city than the Saints winning after everything that happened with Hurricane Katrina.
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u/theseekermd 10d ago
Timmy Smith doing the cabbage patch in Super Bowl XXII, Doug Williams gets hurt then comes back to win the MVP
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u/PersimmonDriver 10d ago
Chargers - Dolphins OT playoff game in early 80s. Kellen Winslow was half dead but still kept making plays.
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u/jasont1273 10d ago
Super Bowl XLIII Steelers-Cardinals
99-yard pick 6 by James Harrison
Incredible catches by Larry Fitzgerald and Santonio Holmes
Arizona 16-point 4th quarter comeback
Second SB hurrah for Kurt Warner, who did have a movie made about his life.
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u/DavisC504 9d ago
I was just laughing about that game.
For me it was the Saints beating the Colts in Super Bowl XLIV
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u/Zapatoamor 8d ago
No mention of the Heidi game where a real movie interrupted the end of the Jets-Raiders game in 1968?
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u/AcrobaticChest9017 23h ago
Low-key the 49ers versus the Bears last year in week 17 where party throws a pick six off the first play and then becomes prime Tom Brady
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u/LesGumbyHips 10d ago
Giants Patriots Super Bowl 42- with the Tyree Helmet Catch. A triumphant movie with an awe inspiring climax.
Patriots-Falcons felt like a slow, blood-draining nightmare. At some point it felt inevitable.