Best Super Bowl - 1st Round: XIII vs. XXXVII, XLIV vs. XXII

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Throughout this offseason, I'll be putting up polls to let TGP determine the greatest Super Bowl of all time. With 48 of them in the books, I've set up a bracket so that 16 get a "bye week," and the rest compete in single-elimination votes. There will be no seeding round or preliminary round of any kind. This is the offseason and we want to chew as much time as possible. Also, we get to reflect on every Super Bowl from 1967 to 2014.

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Super Bowl XIII

January 21, 1979 - Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, FL

Pittsburgh Steelers 35, Dallas Cowboys 31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03yFuRRTr6c

Highlights

• Both teams attempting to win 3rd SB
• 14 HoF players between teams
• Steelers scored 14 points in 19 seconds in 4th Q
• Third Super Bowl win for Pittsburgh
• MVP: QB Terry Bradshaw

 

 

Super Bowl XXXVII

January 26, 2003 - Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 48, Oakland Raiders 21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHdLuAbUXow

Highlights

• Bucs' 2002-03 cover 2 defense
• Known as the "Gruden Bowl"
• Rich Gannon: 5 INTs
• First Super Bowl win for Tampa Bay
• MVP: S Dexter Jackson

 

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Super Bowl XLIV

February 7, 2010 - Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL

New Orleans Saints 31, Indianapolis Colts 17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lR0hFl7mY8

Highlights

• #1 seed vs. #1 seed
• Saints opened 2nd half w/ successful onside kick
• Tracy Porter: 74-yard INT return TD in 4th Q
• First Super Bowl win for New Orleans
• MVP: QB Drew Brees

 

 

Super Bowl XXII

January 31, 1988 - Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, CA

Washington Redskins 42, Denver Broncos 10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AIZQ-vqm-U

Highlights

• Regular season shortened by players' strike
• Redskins scored 42 unanswered points after trialing 10-0
• Second Super Bowl win for Washington
• MVP: QB Doug Williams

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Choices felt pretty obvious here.

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Hah Super Bowl 37 was recently posted in it's entirety on Youtube.

 

The sad part of XXII was that Denver dominated the entire first quarter. Both teams were considered equal in talent coming in, with Elway being the difference at QB.

Edited February 17, 2014 by BigBen07