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Top 10 Super Bowl FAILS of All Time

By Ian Tindell | Los Angeles
The playoffs are over now and two teams have the chance to win the ultimate prize: the Super Bowl. Players on both teams have chances gain glory, establish legends and, of course, suffer humiliation. Here's a list of the 10 biggest Super Bowl FAILS of all time and the people behind them.
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  • As a kid you have this dream, “eight seconds left in the super bowl and (your team) is down by one point. It all comes down to (you) making a 47 yard field goal. The ball is snapped, the kick is up…and it’s good! (Your Team) wins the game and it’s all because of the heroic efforts of (YOU)!”



    Well, in Super Bowl XXV, Scott Norwood had that exact chance to win the game against the New York Giants. Only it wasn’t good. It was wide right and the Buffalo Bills lost their first of four consecutive Super Bowls. They have actually never won a Super Bowl. For Buffalo Bills fans, the mere mention of Scott Norwood is a sure fire way to get your ass kicked.
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    1960 Placekicker Miami United States 1960-07-17
  • At the ripe age of 38 Jackie Smith got the opportunity to play in Super Bowl XIII for Dallas, his first and only after having a Hall of Fame career with the Cardinals. Even though he was a back up at the time, I’m sure Jackie was thinking, “if you just gave me the chance....” Well, late in the third quarter, Jackie got his chance for an absolutely wide open touchdown catch.

    Only he dropped it. Dallas was forced to kick a field goal and the ‘Boys lost to Pittsburgh 35-31.

    Only four points. The same four points Dallas would have had if only Jackie had held on.
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    1940 Punter,Tight end Columbia United States 1940-02-23
  • So you remember those Buffalo Bills losing that Super Bowl and three others after that? Well, Super Bowl XXVII was their worst defeat of all. However, the number three blunder of all time does not go to them. It goes to Dallas.

    Late in the game, Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Leon Lett was returning a fumble 64 yards for a sure touchdown (still the longest fumble return in Super Bowl history) when he started to showboat a little... that’s when Don Beebe caught up with him and knocked the damn ball out of his hands giving Buffalo back the ball to finish out their humiliation in style.
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    1968 Defensive end,Defensive tackle Mobile United States 1968-10-12
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  • Eugene Robinson Top 10 Super Bowl FAILS of All Time Sports & Games
    Eugene Robinson was a starting safety for the Atlanta Falcons’ Super Bowl XXXIII team. The night before the Super Bowl he was awarded the Bart Starr Award for being a player of “high moral character.”

    Mr. Robinson made sure he thanked God for guiding him in his life and was so excited about winning the award that he immediately went out to solicit an undercover police officer for oral sex.

    God also guided Robinson during the game as he got burned deep twice, one of which included an 80 yard touchdown against him. The Falcons lost to Denver 34 – 19.
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    1963 Defensive back,Safety Hartford United States 1963-05-28
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    Janet Jackson
    During halftime of Super Bowl XXXVIII, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake figured they’d class that whole stuffy affair by showing the world Janet’s right boob. They immediately claimed the incident was the result of a wardrobe malfunction but it was later revealed that the whole thing was planned.

    So why is this a FAIL? Because Janet Jackson's boob looked like a re-heated pancake draped over an English muffin. We could've had almost anyone else and this would've been a huge win...

    The Carolina Panthers were so distraught that they went on to lose 32 – 29 to the New England Patriots.
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  • Garo Yepremian Top 10 Super Bowl FAILS of All Time Sports & Games
    The 1972 Dolphins are the NFL’s one and only completely perfect team, having won every single game of that season including the Super Bowl (sorry ’07 Patriots). Their Super Bowl win could have also been a perfect stomping of the Washington Redskins but it was not to be.

    With two minutes left in the game, Miami lined up to kick a field goal, botched the attempt and Dolphin kicker Garo Yepremian picked up the ball and attempted a pass. What Garo failed to understand about passing a football, though, is that it’s supposed to go forward, not backward and consequently he made the worst looking pass in the history of the game. It was still completed, but TO THE WRONG TEAM.

    The Redskin’s Mike Bass caught the dead fish and returned it 49 yards for a touchdown.
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    1944 Placekicker Larnaca United States 1944-06-02
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    Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos Top 10 Super Bowl FAILS of All Time Sports & Games
    Can you declare an entire game a blunder? I’m sure Denver fans did after their team lost Super Bowl XXIV to the San Francisco 49ers 55 – 10 and suffering the worst Super Bowl loss in history. To add insult to injury, it was John Elway’s third Super Bowl loss during which he completed just 10 of 26 passes for a meager 108 yards, was intercepted twice and fumbled twice.

    Years later he would redeem himself by beating the Falcons in the Super Bowl. Some claim Elway actually won two Super Bowls back to back when he defeated the Green Bay Packers the year before. As a Packer fan, however, this writer cannot back the validity of that statement.
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  • Barrett Robbins Top 10 Super Bowl FAILS of All Time Sports & Games
    The Super Bowl is a big game and some people just can’t handle the pressure. People like Raiders’center Barrett Robbins in Super Bowl XXXVII.

    Two days before the game, Robins apparently woke up in the middle of the night in a manic depressive state, booked it down to Tijuana and was found in a dive bar, chugging tequila.

    He then spent the Super Bowl in the mental ward while his teammates were blown out by the Bucs. Hard.
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  • Speaking of getting blown out by the Bucs, let’s move on to number nine on our list. That would be Rich Gannon’s performance in Super Bowl XXXVII when Oakland lost 48 to 21 to Tampa Bay.

    Now, you might claim that Rich Gannon didn’t have the worst Super Bowl of all time for a quarterback but he did do one thing, he broke the single game record for the most interceptions thrown at five. Three of those interceptions were returned for touchdowns. Now what makes this even worse?

    Rich Gannon was the league MVP that year. In the nine years since, the Raiders have yet to put together another winning season.
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    1965 Quarterback Philadelphia United States 1965-12-20
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    Chicago Bears
    To round out the list, I had to include this music video from the Super-Bowl-winning ’85 Bears.

    This is the kind of crap you can ONLY do if you WIN the Super Bowl.

    Otherwise, there's really no excuse for this.
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by CorieGirl at March 05, 2010 17:42
superbowl blunders are kind of sad. i feel badd for anyone who makes their team lose, especially in such an important scenario.

by GoBruins at March 05, 2010 17:46
What r u talking about?! super bowl blunders are awesome!

by Whatevayoulike at March 05, 2010 17:47
Hhaahiagree any super bowl fail is worth watching. i fiend off other's failures!

by Brettski at March 05, 2010 17:44
Especially being the top 10 fails of all time. Haha they definitely get beat up in the locker room after.

by calistylie at February 24, 2010 17:38
The top 10 superbowl fails is awesome, unless of course I was one of them. Especially Janet. Put your tit away, the children are watching! How was Michael supposed to cover all those children's eyes at the Neverland Ranch watching his sister?

by jdemo23 at February 24, 2010 17:40
the michael jokes never get old. rip michael. haha why are we talking about michael on a list called top 10 superbowl fails of all time?

by calistylie at February 24, 2010 17:41
Because obviously his sister's been acting sleezy. Clean up her act or we bring up the brother.

by Mark at February 24, 2010 17:22
worst superbowl fail is definitely janet's nipple! my little cousin even saw that. not cool janet!

by jdemo23 at February 24, 2010 17:27
If she had nice tits it would be something different, but that Janet slip was a worse fail then garo yepremian pass video

by howdyhigh at February 24, 2010 16:53
biggest super bowl blunders are awesome! haha i love leon lett's the best though. what an idiot.

by crzygirl at February 24, 2010 17:13
haha yeah that one is great! i would def rather see the top ten super bowls failures then success plays. IT"S MORE FUN!

by howdyhigh at February 24, 2010 17:15
its more fun unless your part of the worst superbowl fails haha then life really sucks. i wonder how long it takes these guys to truly get over their errors.....

by Greg at February 24, 2010 17:18
the guys who have a super bowl fail dont get none from the cheerleaders and thats punishment enough rite?

by Freebird at February 10, 2010 15:35
When Jackie Smith dropped that pass i literally almost threw up. To this day he will always be to us Cowboy fans what Bill Buckner is to Red Sox fans. CHOKE A HOLICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Jack at February 10, 2010 15:02
Leon Letts Blunder in that game was on a Thanksgiving day game.

by jdemo23 at February 24, 2010 17:30
superbowl blunders on holidays make it that much better. at least if you were a letts fan you got eat a turkey and still see the cowboys win.

by Freebird at February 10, 2010 15:56
Check your FACTS, it was indeed during the Super Bowl. You are thinking of his gaffe when he attempted to flop on the snowy ball, yes snowy, on Thanksgiving Day in Texas Stadium. Good ole Leon was never confused with the sharpest tool in the shed!!!!

by bruce at February 09, 2010 22:45
How could you leave Leon Lett's going after a punt just laying on the ground, then he tried to pick it up, and instead kicked it and the other team recovered. can't remember the Super Bowl, but what a goof.

by Ian Tindell at February 10, 2010 01:35
Yes, that was quite the goof. Unfortunately, it did not happen in the Super Bowl.

by Freebird at February 10, 2010 15:49
Sorry Tindell, check your notes or better yet check somethng a little more accurate. It WAS indeed during the Super Bowl!

by Freebird at February 10, 2010 16:04
Lets clear this up. Tindell, the punt boner was not SB stuff although him running with the ball like a loaf of bread was. Until Don Beebe ran him down and swatted it away.

by Ian Tindell at February 10, 2010 23:04
I think the confusion is happening because they are two huge blunders that happened in back to back seasons. The one I listed with Don Bebe swatting the ball did indeed occur in Super Bowl XVII. The very next year, on a Thanksgiving game in Dallas against the Dolphins, Lett made his second blunder by touching a ball that would have been dead, and changed the outcome of the game from a Dallas win to a Miami win. It's all very clearly laid out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Lett and can also be easily looked up on youtube which would confirm both events and the timeline for each. I appreciate the back up Freebird...after your initial attack anyway...and I hope these details clear up any further confusion from people in the future.

by caltbird58 at February 09, 2010 20:03
Packer fans can't comment credibly on the Bears' "Super Bowl Shuffle". Period. Most people in Green Bay claimed they couldn't understand it because it sounded to them a lot like opera and, frankly, given the paucity of opera in the Dairy State, I don't blame them for guessing at what opera must sound like.

by Zach at February 07, 2010 01:20
Leon Lett holding the ball out while returning a fumble for a touchdown, and then fumbling it himself (thanks to Don Beebe) has to be high on a list of fails. It's like "Hahaha You can't catch me I'mma stick this ball out, slow down, and you still can't get it" followed by seconds later "Oh **** I guess you got it".

by zach at February 07, 2010 01:21
Ah crap I just realized that was #3 on the list. You should make a list of Top 10 List Reply Fails of Top 10 lists. I'd probably be high on that list.

by hogiewan at February 05, 2010 12:03
#1 - the laces were in

by Dan at February 04, 2010 23:53
No mention of the massive failure(s) by the refs in SBXL? Their game-winning performance (for Pittsburgh) is remembered in the Northwest, for sure.

by T at February 05, 2010 07:33
Typical whiny Seahawks fans

by Philly55 at February 09, 2010 21:20
Sorry chief, but the referees in Superbowl XL were the worst of all of them and determined the winner of the game. Pittsburgh got a gift, it's an accepted fact. So glad the referees were good for the Saints victory.

by C at February 04, 2010 16:27
Ironically most of the Bears players in the video are now homeless.

by 46xx10 at February 04, 2010 11:24
What the Bears did, was do this video to raise money for the homeless in Chicago. So how in the hell can that be a FAIL?????

by Ian Tindell at February 04, 2010 19:28
Which is awesome...but it's still a very silly video.

by Zack at February 04, 2010 11:05
Yeah, Gannon's performance was spectacularly bad, but it's worth remembering that Bucs coach Gruden had coached Gannon and the Raiders the year before and brought their offensive playbook with him to Tampa. The Bucs defense knew the Raiders offensive schemes inside and out which is why they were able to dominate so completely.

by Kevin at February 04, 2010 07:48
The Bears actually recorded that song before they won the Super Bowl. That was a team, but a horrible video

  by anonymous at February 04, 2010 15:10
Yeah, but as our friend up in the item 10 comments said: imagine if they'd lost after this.

by Adam O. at February 03, 2010 21:29
No Minnesota Vikings on that list? I'm a fan, but am well aware of losing four Super Bowls. Brent McLanahan's fumble deep in Raiders territory, following blocking a Ray Guy punt for the first time in his career, is a good specific moment of fail.
 

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