The 50 Biggest Fails in Super Bowl History

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As big games go, the Super Bowl is the biggest. How big is the Super Bowl? It's the one time out of the year where people who think that "touchdown" is what happens when you go comforter shopping actually watch football. It's that big.

Come up big in the big game, and you're an icon for the rest of your life. Come up short in the Super Bowl, however, and you're screwed. At best you become a laughingstock (see Lett, Leon, and Aguilera, Christina); at worst you break a city's heart (see Norwood, Scott). We've dug deep into the files of big game ignominy, from bye week shenanigans to halftime show flubs to game-losing drops to bring you the 50 Biggest Fails in Super Bowl History.

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50. Don't Mess With Jack Lambert's Kicker

Super Bowl: X (1976)
Final Score: Steelers 21, Cowboys 17
Date: 1/18/1976

No one respects kickers. But don't tell that to Jack Lambert. Early in the third quarter of Super Bowl X, Steelers kicker Roy Gerela missed a crucial field goal, and Dallas safety Cliff Harris patted him on the head and "thanked him for helping Dallas." Well, the craziest man in the league, Jack Lambert didn't appreciate that too much and slammed Harris to the ground like a quarterback. Memo: Don't mess with Jack Lambert's teammates—not the kicker, not the punter, not even the water boy.

49. Asante Samuel Drops 19-0

Super Bowl: XLII (2008)
Final Score: Giants 17, Patriots 14
Date: 2/3/2008

The Man with the "Get Paid" tattoo wasn't money when it was time to be money. Everyone remembers "The Helmet Catch" but no one remembers the game-sealing interception that went through Samuel's hands earlier on the same drive. Can you imagine how insufferable Brady and Belichick would be if Asante had hung on to this throw.

48. John Riggins Trucks Don McNeal

Super Bowl: XVII (1983)
Final Score: Redskins 27, Dolphins 17
Date: 1/30/1983

The Redskins had the ball on the Dolphins 43 yard line down four points late in the fourth quarter. To make matters worse it was 4th and 1. Luckily the Miami Dolphins cornerback, Don McNeal, rigged the game. The Skins ran handed the ball off John Riggins who went off tackle and he met McNeal just passed the first down marker. Don McNeal, being a typical pussy corner, surprised absolutely no one by getting run over like a squirrel on the freeway as Riggins scampered to paydirt for the lead-taking touchdown.

47. How Can You Miss James Harrison...Twice?

Super Bowl: XLIII (2009)
Final Score: Steelers 27, Cardinals 23
Date: 2/1/2009

Double fail for Kurt Warner here. He had his Cards on the Steelers 2 yard line with 18 seconds left in the first half. Phoenix were going to get a touchdown and go up three or tie the game with a field goal. Unless, you're Kurt Warner, don't see James Harrison, throw the ball right to him, fail to tackle him (sure he's the baddest motherfucker in the league but this is the Super Bowl man) and watch him change the course of the entire game as he takes your pass 100 yards for the score.

46. Dumb Question Julie Brown

Super Bowl: XXVIII (1994)
Final Score: Cowboys 30, Bills 13
Date: 1/30/1994

Nahhh...Downtown Julie Brown didn't ask Emmitt Smith what he would be wearing to the game did she? Nope we refuse to believe it. Unfortunately it's true and she did. Way to go Julie, you've just set female sports journalists back 80 years.

45. Darrell Jackson Helps the Refs

Super Bowl: XL (2006)
Final Score: Steelers 21, Seahawks 10
Date: 2/5/2006

Everyone cheats in football. You just have to know how to do it right (i.e. don't get caught). Big time failure here for Darrell Jackson of the Seahawks. He pushes off on Steeler free safety Chris Hope to get separation so he could score a touchdown. Happens all the time. Problem is, Jackson extended his arm, making it an easy offensive pass interference call for the refs. Of course that wouldn't be the only time the 'Hawks would have beef with the zebras in this game.

44. Whitney Houston Mails It In

Super Bowl: XXV (1991)
Final Score: Giants 20, Bills 19
Date: 1/27/1991

In football, premier talents with lazy work ethics are an unfortunate reality. We didn't know this was the case with skinny girls with fat opera girl lungs that have won multiple Grammys. Whitney Houston, one of the greatest vocalists of our generation, decided to lip sync the national anthem at the Super Bowl. Big players make big plays in big games! They don't mail it in!

43. Giants Special Teams Give Trent Dilfer a Hand

Super Bowl: XXXV (2001)
Final Score: Ravens 34, Giants 7
Date: 1/28/2001

Let's say you're playing a team that features Trent Dilfer at quarterback. It's the third quarter and you've just scored your first points of the game on a 97-yard kickoff return, to cut your opponent's lead to 17-7. The momentum is on your side. What's the one thing you DON'T want to do? Give up a kickoff return of your own. But that's what the G-Men did in the third quarter of SB XXXV. And now Trent Dilfer has a Super Bowl ring and Dan Marino still doesn't.

42. A Nipple and a Dream

Super Bowl: XXXVIII (2004)
Final Score: Patriots 32, Panthers 29
Date: 2/1/2004

For the majority—you know women, kids, brands, and the NFL—this was a complete lack of judgement and a terrible Super Bowl failure. For the minority—you know men—this was a success.

41. Andre Rison Tosses His Super Bowl Ring

Super Bowl: XXXI (1997)
Final Score: Packers 35, Patriots 21
Date: 1/25/1988

There are probably NFL players who cherish their Super Bowl rings more than their wedding rings. When Andre Rison, who scored the Packers first touchdown in SB XXXI, was asked about his ring, he responded, "I don't even know where it is. How Desmond Howard was treated, how I was treated, no. To hell with that ring. [Former Packers coach] Mike Holmgren lied. That team has never been the same." So...Rison doesn't know where his Super Bowl ring is and he doesn't care because the coach lied? No matter what happened after the game, the fact remains that he played in the biggest football game of the 1996-1997 season, he helped the team win, shouldn't he want to keep that ring?

40. Just Sit Down Man!

Super Bowl: XIII (1979)
Final Score: Steelers 35, Cowboys 31
Date: 1/21/1979

Randy White's thumb was broken so he was wearing a cast. His brain must have been broken as well. The Steelers unintentional squib kick headed straight for White, but instead of falling on the ball, he tried to advance it. "We had it planned that if a kick was squibbed we would lateral the ball back to one of the deep backs," White said. "But it took me so long just to pick up the ball I had to go with it. When I started running, I fumbled the football. That's all there was to it. I just fumbled the damn football. I've handled a couple of kickoffs this year, but I dropped this one." The Steelers recovered and scored on the game winning touchdown on the next play. Damn bro!

39. Commercials at the Super Bowl? Never That!

Super Bowl: XLI (2007)
Final Score: Colts 29, Bears 17
Date: 2/4/2007

The NFL is a business with partnerships and sponsors. Players seen wearing brands outside of those the NFL has partnerships with face penalties. If it's during the season you're looking at 10K, during the Pro Bowl, 50K, and during the Super Bowl, 100K. Brian Urlacher learned this the hard way. In 2006, the NFL's official athletic drink sponsor was Gatorade. Urlacher was rocking a Vitamin Water hat with a bottle of Vitamin Water chilling right in front him at Media Day. The NFL lowered the boom on Urlacher and gave him the 100K fine. Now does the fail go to Urlacher for "losing" some small fraction of what Vitamin Water paid him to be a spokesperson, or the NFL for its ridiculous No Fun League policies?

38. Mercy!

Super Bowl: XVIII (1984)
Final Score: Raiders 38, Redskins 9
Date: 1/22/1984

Already down 19 points late in the 4th quarter, the Redskins decided defense and dignity were optional. Raiders running back Marcus Allen made 11 Redskins look like they were ready for the showers as he "Ran With the Night" for 74 yards.

37. Really, We'd Prefer to Watch the Game

Super Bowl: I (1967)
Final Score: Packers 35, Chiefs 10
Date: 1/15/1967

Both NBC and CBS were covering Super Bowl I. And they both had an epic fail. CBS did not return in time from a halftime commercial break for the start of the second half and NBC missed the first kickoff and return. They can't even say they were caking up on ad dough, the cost of a Super Bowl commercial back then was just $40,000 (it's $3.5 million this year). How the hell does that happen?

36. Revenge of the Voodoo

Super Bowl: XLIV (2010)
Final Score: Saints 31, Colts 17
Date: 2/7/2010

Some weird New Orleans voodoo was going on in this Super Bowl. The Saints had never been to the big game. Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning grew up in New Orleans where his dad Archie was the quarterback for ten seasons. Archie never had a winning season as a Saint and only got to .500 once. In one play, an epic fail pick 6 to Tracy Porter from Manning sealed the game for the Saints. Tracy Porter went to college at Indiana University. Gris-gris!

35. Sweetness N' Sour

Super Bowl: XX (1986)
Final Score: Bears 46, Patriots 10
Date: 1/26/1986

In 1984, Walter Payton broke Jim Brown's all-time rushing record. A year later, Payton, who was nicknamed Sweetness, would find himself at the Super Bowl witnessing a crime as the '85 Bears stole every ounce of pride from the Patriots. What Payton didn't expect to witness was a lack of respect from his head coach, Mike Ditka. The Bears put up 46 points and Payton didn't score one touchdown. At one point Ditka let William 'The Refrigerator' Perry barrel in for a TD. How do you not let the greatest running back of his era not score a touchdown in the biggest game of his life?

34. Eugene Robinson's "Mental" Lapse

Super Bowl: XXXIII (1999)
Final Score: Broncos 34, Falcons 19
Date: 1/31/1999

How do you celebrate winning the Bart Starr Award given by the Christian organization, Athletes in Action? You get arrested by an undercover female cop for offering her $40 bucks for some head the same day you received the award and the day before the Super Bowl. You then cap it off by letting John Elway throw a bomb over your head for a touchdown, and let Terrell Davis run you over. Athletes in Action, indeed!

33. Sure, We'll Spot You a Touchdown!

Super Bowl: XXXII (1998)
Final Score: Broncos 31, Packers 24
Date: 1/25/1998

With under three minutes to play and the Broncos already inside the Packers' five yard line, Green Bay head coach Mike Holmgren told his defense to let the Broncos score, so the Pack could get the ball back with time on the clock. Problem was that it was 2nd down, not 1st as Holmgren had thought, and there might have been time to hold the Broncos to a field goal. You're coaching in the Super Bowl, and don't know the down and distance when the markers are right beside you? Fail.

32. 49ers Goal Rush

Super Bowl: XVI (1982)
Final Score: 49ers 26, Bengals 21
Date: 1/24/1982

The 49ers led the Bengals 20-7 late in third quarter, but Cincinnati had a first and goal from the San Francisco 3. At which point Dan Bunz led the 49er defense to the goal line stand of their lives. Bunz (real name!) made a great tackle on a swing pass to Charles Alexander on third down, and combined with Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds and a rookie named Ronnie Lott to stuff Pete Johnson. If you can't score from the your opponent's three yard line you don't deserve to win the game much less the Super Bowl.

31. Who Do You Think You Are, Tim Tebow?

Super Bowl: VI (1972)
Final Score: Cowboys 24, Dolphins 3
Date: 1/16/1972

Bob Lilly > Bob Griese at least on this day. Lilly damn near chased Griese out of the stadium in the course of recording a 29-yard sack. That's a record by the way. Must have been a minor setback for a major comeback, though, because a year after this Super Bowl defeat, the Dolphins went undefeated.

30. Stanley Wilson and That White Girl

Super Bowl: XXIII (1989)
Final Score: 49ers 20, Bengals 16
Date: 1/22/1989

What do you do before the Super Bowl? Uh, go to meetings and study your playbook? Well, that's what Stanley Wilson was supposed to be doing. He told his teammates that he needed to go get his playbook, and then twenty minutes later his coach finds him in the bathroom messing with that "white girl." It was his third time abusing cocaine and got him a lifetime suspension from the NFL. Was she that good?

29. Stealing Shula's Watch

Super Bowl: VII (1973)
Final Score: Dolphins 14, Redskins 7
Date: 1/14/1973

As you look at this image, Don Shula looks as happy as can be. He just completed the only undefeated season in NFL history! Wrong, he's quite pissed. As he's trying to enjoy the moment of his players hoisting him on their shoulders, someone got hold of Don's wrist and jacked his watch. Don't worry, Don is an OG, though. He got off of his players' shoulders, got his watch back and hopped back up to resume his victory lap. Whoever tried to still that watch took a major L.

28. Don't.Kick.To.Hester.

Super Bowl: XLI (2007)
Final Score: Colts 29, Bears 17
Date: 2/4/2007

The Indianapolis Colts said "We ain't scared of Devin Hester!" Mind you, Devin Hester was only a rookie, but had already set a league record with 6 special teams touchdowns in a season. How did that work out for the Colts on the first play of the game? Hester took it back 92 yards for the score.

27. Squirek!

Super Bowl: XVIII (1984)
Final Score: Raiders 38, Redskins 9
Date: 1/22/1984

Trailing 14-3 deep in your own territory with 12 seconds before halftime is football code for "Don't fuck up". Well, Joe Theisman fucked up. He threw a lazy screen pass that got taken back for a pick six resulting in the Skins being down 21-3 instead of 14-3.

26. Mark Washington Holds Lynn Swann to "Only" 4 Catches

Super Bowl: X(1976)
Final Score: Steelers 21, Cowboys 17
Date: 1/18/1976

Mark Washington. You sir, were a paid professional cornerback. Are we reading this correctly, you let Lynn Swann catch 4 passes for 161 yards and the game winning touchdown as well as another reception that is the dopest catch in NFL history? Swann's performance, courtesy of you, led to him being named Super Bowl MVP also. Do you have any problems with being on this list? We didn't think so.

25. This Is Why Francis Scott Key Hates Football

Super Bowl: XLV (2011)
Final Score: Packers 31, Steelers 25
Date: 2/6/2011

What in Super Bowl Hell is this? Only watch if you are an unpatriotic soul or if you want to be extremely disappointed. How do you win four Grammys but you botch the national anthem? That's like Aunt Jemima fucking up some pancakes?

24. Barret Robbins' Bender

Super Bowl: XXXVII (2003)
Final Score: Buccaneers 48, Raiders 21
Date: 1/26/2003

Barret Robbins took his happy ass to Tijuana, Mexico the night before the Super Bowl and was banned from the game by his team. Who is Barrett Robbins? The Raiders Pro Bowl center, a.k.a. the guy responsible for all the offensive line protections and blitzes. Robbins was manically depressed, but he'd known about his condition going back to his college days at TCU. No excuses for that. Sorry.

23. It's Spelled W-I-N

Super Bowl: XIII (1979)
Final Score: Steelers 35, Cowboys 31
Date: 1/21/1979

During Super Bowl week, Hollywood Henderson famously said Terry Bradshaw was so stupid he couldn't spell "cat" if you gave him the "c" and the "t". Bradshaw went on to throw for 318 yards, 4 touchdowns and win the MVP. Who cares if he can spell, he can win.

22. Warner's on the Wrong Foot

Super Bowl: XXXVI (2002)
Final Score: Patriots 20, Rams 17
Date: 1/26/1992

Remember when Tom Brady was an underdog? SB XXVI was supposed to be a formality on the way to the St. Louis Rams' coronation as an official dynasty. Then Kurt Warner got them off on the wrong foot. One of the more important rules of being an NFL QB is to never throw off your back foot—just stand tall in the pocket and let it rip. Midway through the 2nd quarter, Warner forgot this crucial rule, throwing the pick 6 that jumpstarted the Pats toward their first title. And the rest is Uggs (and football) history.

21. Hank Baskett Doesn't Do a Face Mask Catch

Super Bowl: XLIV (2010)
Final Score: Saints 31, Colts 17
Date: 2/7/2010

Hand eye coordination is pretty much a requirement of an NFL wide receiver (and by "pretty much" we mean "abso-fucking-lutely"). Hank Baskett played smart (not always a requirement for wide receivers) on the Saints' surprise 2nd half onside kick, but his hands let him down. He was the first to see the ball, he made his way for it, and it somehow bounced off his face mask. If this were a defensive player or an offensive lineman it would be acceptable, but not from somebody who's paid to catch a football.

20. Big Ben Tebows During the Pick 6

Super Bowl: XLV (2011)
Final Score: Packers 31, Steelers 25
Date: 2/6/2011

Blame the offensive line for the pressure that forced Big Ben into the crappy throw. But blame Big Ben for being QB shook during the run back. As Nick Collins crosses the goal line (after running through many of Ben's offensive teammates), you can see Roethlisberger getting his Tebowing on in the middle of the end zone. Yo Big Ben?!?! This game is kind of a big deal. Go make a play!

19. Three on One Isn't Fair (For the Three)

Super Bowl: XLIII (2009)
Final Score: Steelers 27, Cardinals 23
Date: 2/1/2009

The Cardinals are on the brink of winning their first Super Bowl ever. In the final minutes of the game they chose the wrong time NOT to cover the Steelers No. 1 receiver, Santonio Holmes. Scratch that, three people had him covered—just not very well.

18. Ron Jaworski's Bad Day

Super Bowl: XV (1981)
Final Score: Raiders 27, Eagles 10
Date: 1/25/1981

Here's some really deep football analysis: Never, ever, pick the biggest game of your life to have the worst game of your life. Ron Jaworski finished Super Bowl XV with a 47% completion percentage and 3 picks. What's the saying? If you can't do, commentate?

17. Super Bowl Security?

Super Bowl: Multiple
Final Score: N/A
Date: N/A

A number of all-time great football players have never gotten to a Super Bowl. Dion Rich? He's only been to 30+. The best part? He never paid once. The self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Gate Crasher" watched the first 32 Super Bowls gratis (including the first after 9/11), and made his way onto the field for many of them. He was on the dais with Vince Lombardi and even helped carry Tom Landry off the field after SB XXII. No groupies, he's not telling his secrets.

16. 218 lbs > 595 lbs

Super Bowl: XLII (2008)
Final Score: Giants 17, Patriots 14
Date: 2/3/2008

You mean to tell us that Jarvis Green (285 lbs) and Richard Seymor (310 lbs) both had their hands on Eli Manning (218 lbs) for the sack on 3rd and 5 with 1:15 left on the clock and an undefeated season on the line and they couldn't tackle him? Really?

15. The O'Donnell-Brown Family Reunion

Super Bowl: XXX (1996)
Final Score: Cowboys 27, Steelers 17
Date: 1/28/1996

Something just doesn't feel right about this fail. Neil O'Donnell throws two inexplicable interceptions to Larry Brown. One of those was a pick 6 and the other sealed the game. Larry Brown signs a free agent contract with the Raiders and never duplicates anything close to his Super Bowl performance ever again. Sure, Brown and O'Donnell don't look alike, but has anyone ever actually checked the DNA to make sure they're not related? O'Donnell may not shave his beard...but a point or two or TEN...hmmm.

14. Rodney Harrison Is No Match for a Helmet

Super Bowl: XLII (2008)
Final Score: Giants 17, Patriots 14
Date: 2/3/2008

There's always a fall guy. Never mind that Patriots defensive linemen Richard Seymour and Jarvis Green both had Eli Manning in their grasp for the sack. Bottom line, Eli got away and heaved a terrible pass with four Patriots in the area to David Tyree with Rodney Harrison draped all over him. Tyree succeeded, Harrison failed. Sucks to be Rodney Harrison.

13. Roethlisberger's Close Enough Touchdown

Super Bowl: XL (2006)
Final Score: Steelers 21, Seahawks 10
Date: 2/5/2006

The Refs should never make an impact on any game, but screwing up a Super Bowl is really, really bad. Unfortunately for Seattle Seahawks fans, that's just what the zebras did in SB XL. Several controversial calls were made that day by the refs, but this one was the backbreaker. Roethlisberger clearly didn't get into the end zone and even after a replay review, they still said Big Ben got in. Wait, the refs apologized? Oh, well that makes it all better, right?

12. The Missing Helmet

Super Bowl: XXVI (1992)
Final Score: Redskins 37, Bills 24
Date: 1/26/1992

Football players and their rituals, I tell ya. Thurman Thomas' ritual was to always place his helmet on the 34-yard line before the game. Harry Connick Jr. sang the National Anthem before SB XXVI, and someone picked up Thomas's helmet so Connick Jr. could do his thing. The game started, alas, Thurman Thomas didn't. He was looking for his helmet, and missed the Bills' first possession. "Oh say can you see...Thurman Thomas' helmet."

11. Denver's Orange Cream Puff Defense

Super Bowl: XXIV (1990)
Final Score: 49ers 55, Broncos 10
Date: 1/28/1990

The Famed Denver Bronco Orange Crush defense of the '70s didn't beat people up so that the 1988 Broncos defense could play like a bunch of ponies. Those ponies decided guarding the best receiver in the game wasn't important as they let Jerry Rice loose to catch 7 passes for 148 yards and 3 touchdowns. And then they got sent to the glue factory.

10. Loss Potion No. 9

Super Bowl: XXVII (1993)
Final Score: Cowboys 52, Bills 17
Date: 1/31/1993

Offense sells tickets, defense wins championships, and nine turnovers will get your ass seriously embarrassed in the Super Bowl? The Buffalo Bills threw four picks between two quarterbacks, and lost five fumbles. Yeah, nine turnovers. Which is, not surprisingly, a Super Bowl record.

9. The Revenge of Chucky

Super Bowl: XXXVII (2003)
Final Score: Buccaneers 48, Raiders 21
Date: 1/26/2003

And the "winner" for most interceptions thrown in a single Super Bowl goes to...Rich Gannon, with five! (Three of which were pick sixes.) It wasn't really fair though, Gannon was facing the Jon Gruden, the coach who designed the offense Gannon was running, and just so happened to be leading an all-time great defense in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We don't want to speak ill of the dead, but maybe the fail was letting go of the coach who resurrected (however briefly) the franchise?

8. "How Long Have You Been a Black Quarterback?"

Super Bowl: XXII (1988)
Final Score: Redskins 42, Broncos 10
Date: 1/31/1988

It turns out a reporter probably didn't actually ask Redskins quarterback Doug Williams this question on Media Day before Super Bowl XXII, Williams only thought he heard it that way. The actual question seems to have been, "Doug, it's obvious you've always been a black quarterback. When did it start to matter?" But that's not a whole lot better. Other queries Williams, the first black QB to start a Super Bowl, heard that day? "Doug, would you have been able to handle all of this, especially the black thing, if you had made the Super Bowl a few years back, when you were 25?" "Doug, why haven't you used the being the first black quarterback as a personal forum for yourself?" Although our favorite was asked of Redskins offensive lineman Mark May: "How does it feel to block for the first black quarterback in the Super Bowl?"

7. Ellis Hobbs Shoots Himself in the Foot

Super Bowl: XLII (2008)
Final Score: Giants 17, Patriots 14
Date: 2/3/2008

How do you make Plaxico Burress look like a fleet-footed Randy Moss? You have Ellis Hobbs cover him in a Super Bowl. It makes perfect sense if the game-winning catch that ruined the Patriots perfect season was a fade to the 6'5" Burress over the 5'9" Hobbs. It wasn't, Burress ran a slant and go (which is the play he should've run instead of going to that club that same year).

6. Tom Brady Doesn't Need Help

Super Bowl: XXXVIII (2004)
Final Score: Patriots 32, Panthers 29
Date: 2/1/2004

The Panthers had just scored, tying the game late in the fourth quarter. Tom Brady is good but he might not've been 80 yards good, especially against the Panthers' 10th ranked defense. But 60 yards in 1:08 with three timeouts? Yeah, he can do that in his sleep. Panthers kicker John Kasay put the ensuing kickoff out of bounds, giving Tom Brady a short field to work his magic.

5. Earl Morrall's Dilemma

Super Bowl: III (1969)
Final Score: Jets 16, Colts 7
Date: 1/12/1969

In 1968, Earl Morrall was the NFL MVP. In Super Bowl III, he was the New York Jets Super Bowl MVP. Only problem? He played for the Colts. The MVP changed the game when he missed a wide open Jimmy Orr and threw a pick to the Jets as they went on to victory. Rumor has it that Edwin M. Anzalone aka Fireman Ed was at the game assaulting Colts fans at the ripe old age of 9.

4. Garo's Gaffe

Super Bowl: VII (1973)
Final Score: Dolphins 14, Redskins 7
Date: 1/14/1973

Kickers have the best job in practice. They kick and do nothing else. It's not that kickers don't want to do other things to do in practice. It's that when they touch the ball, shit like this happens. Thanks to Garo's gaffe, a.k.a. the most unintentionally funny play in football history, the '72 Dolphins, who went 17-0, were unable to shut out the Redskins. But maybe it was worth it for the laughs.

3. A Bad Time for a Case of the Dropsies

Super Bowl: XIII (1979)
Final Score: Steelers 35, Cowboys 31
Date: 1/21/1979

The excuses are plentiful for Jackie Smith. He was 38 years old. He was only used as a blocking tight end and in goal line situations all season long. He hadn't caught a pass all season long either. But in the third quarter, with the 'Boys down 21-14, Dallas QB Roger Staubach hit Smith in the numbers and he dropped it. Big time failures, make big time fails, in big time games.

2. Buffalo's Long Winter

Super Bowl: XXV (1991)
Final Score: Giants 20, Bills 19
Date: 1/27/1991

Look here! You think being a kicker is easy? They are at practice three and four hours at a time kicking. And kicking. And kicking. Countless practice trying to make things perfect. They aren't learning schemes, they're...kicking. Shit is hard work. We understand why Scott Norwood missed a 41-yard chip shot in the Super Bowl. It's not easy being a kicker.

1. Leon Lett Gets Beebed

Super Bowl: XXVII (1993)
Final Score: Cowboys 52, Bills 17
Date: 1/31/1993

Players dream of making it to the Super Bowl. Defensive tackles pray to God, Allah, and Tebow that they score in the big game. With the Cowboys up 52-17 late in the fourth quarter, Leon Lett scooped up a fumble and rumbled 63 yards for the score fumble because Don Beebe stripped him just before he crossed the goal line. And to think, this is the most remembered postive moment in Buffalo Bills Super Bowl history.