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Too much Dallas
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00:04...Rivalry of all time, 49ers-Cowboys.
00:11We just hate each other's guts.
00:14Aikman is shaken up. He stays in, but he is shaken up.
00:18Taking pleasure in someone else's pain.
00:22Could have snapped his leg in half.
00:23That's a great rivalry.
00:25Well, sure, but does it rate top 10 status?
00:28I'm stuck somewhere between yeah and hell yeah.
00:34They met seven times in the playoffs,
00:36and six of them were in the conference championship round.
00:39I mean, everyone will talk about the catch game,
00:41and then most people will talk about the 92 championship game
00:45and the 94 championship.
00:47They faced off at three consecutive NFC championship games
00:51where the winner just went on and blew out the other team in the Super Bowl.
00:58So, three years in a row, they played what was considered the real Super Bowl
01:03because everybody knew who was coming out of the NFC was going to win.
01:11People forget, though, is the playoff games in the early 70s.
01:14There it is! The Cowboys are the champions!
01:17Back in 1972, Cowboys came back from this huge deficit
01:21led by Roger Stahlbeck, his first great comeback ever.
01:25Great playoff game, but not so great for the Niners.
01:31They had games that defined the franchise.
01:33Like the 1981 NFC championship game.
01:36We just wanted to knock them off that pedestal.
01:45The catch, of course, later in life, you know, is why I take foul tracks.
01:52All of a sudden, you have one of the rivalries that you can talk about forever.
01:57In the early 90s, the Niners and Cowboys played in three straight NFC title games.
02:02When they beat the Niners to go to the Super Bowl.
02:06And the Cowboys are going to a Super Bowl.
02:08And won a Super Bowl.
02:11And then beat the Niners to go to a Super Bowl.
02:13Dallas is going to win the NFC championship again.
02:17And won a Super Bowl.
02:19This Cowboys team is the team of the 90s.
02:22That helped pour a little gasoline on the fire.
02:25They win two in a row.
02:26Jerry Jones allows Jimmy Johnson to leave.
02:30And Barry Switzer shows up.
02:32And he just could not out-coach George Stevenson.
02:34He could not out-coach him.
02:35Back to throw again is Aikman.
02:37Some pressure gets the pants away.
02:38Eric Davis picks it up.
02:40The Eric Davis pick six at the start of the 94 championship game.
02:44You can almost feel the shift in power in that rivalry.
02:48You know, if you want to play a what-if game,
02:50how many Super Bowls do the Niners have?
02:52If Troy isn't at Dallas, Jerry doesn't hire Jimmy.
02:59Well, I remember Terrell Owens dancing on his star in Dallas.
03:02That was a lot of fun.
03:04Someone's doing it again.
03:05Oh, somebody's coming to try to tangle.
03:07Oh, oh, hey.
03:09This is going to open up a lot.
03:11You can start to break off real interesting talking points
03:14from four different decades.
03:16I can see how you can make a case for it.
03:18I don't know.
03:18Maybe move that one up a little bit.
03:20But that may be a little low for that one.
03:22The number nine rivalry of all time.
03:25The birds and the boys.
03:26Stop the fight.
03:27Somebody stop the fight.
03:30You can do it.
03:31You can do it.
03:32You can do it.
03:32You can do it.
03:34You can do it.
03:34You can do it.
03:34If you were taking a pole in Philadelphia,
03:36Eagles-Cowboys would be number one,
03:38and everything else would be ten.
03:40It's like all of my friends who are Cowboys fans.
03:42That's the thing.
03:43I mean, Philly, you don't mess with.
03:45You can go into any sports shop in Philadelphia
03:47and find a T-shirt or a hat that has Bleep Dallas on it,
03:52Dallas Bleeps on it.
03:53It's always going to be hatred.
03:55It never changes.
03:56Hey, shut up!
03:57You get an eagle giving the one-finger salute.
04:02I don't think the Cowboys look at the Eagles as a huge rival.
04:06Oh, I hate those dirty Eagles.
04:09But do they really hate the Eagles?
04:11Hate them.
04:12I mean, the Eagles hate the Cowboys,
04:14but it's got to be a two-way street here for the rivalry.
04:16They care.
04:17They're dirty.
04:17Eagles play dirty.
04:18Philly fans like their athletes a little on there.
04:23Injured.
04:23I mean, kind of injured.
04:25Michael Irvin.
04:26Dirty son.
04:27They cheer when people get hurt.
04:29I was there the day that, you know,
04:32Michael Irvin was hurt at the vet.
04:33Irvin is slow getting up.
04:34And laid motionless,
04:36and it seemed like most of the vet got a big kick out of that moment.
04:39They've got an ambulance backed up out of the corner,
04:41and Jerry and Stephen Jones are both over there.
04:44I'm not sure they're not going to ride with Michael in the ambulance.
04:50In 1980, the Eagles' Harold Carmichael
04:53had made a catch in 127 straight games.
04:58Guess where his record streak ended?
05:00We need to end the streak against us.
05:03Dennis pulled the trigger on him,
05:04and that was it.
05:08Buddy Ryan loved to tweak the Cowboys.
05:11Number one objective, it seemed,
05:13was to get the Cowboys go.
05:15For him, it was almost like it was job one.
05:18Ryan reveled in the rough stuff,
05:20and occasionally went too far.
05:22He actually tried to go after a kicker.
05:24And Dejas is just shaking his way after he gets hit.
05:28It's actually funny.
05:30Not to Jimmy Johnson,
05:31who tried to get someone, anyone,
05:34to stand still and listen to the outrage.
05:37Oh, I would have said something to Buddy,
05:39but he wouldn't stand on the field long enough.
05:41He put his big fat rear end into the dressing room.
05:44I resent that.
05:44I've been on a diet.
05:45I lost a couple of pounds,
05:46and I thought I was looking good.
05:48Who's got each other?
05:49I'm Jimmy's hair.
05:50Two weeks later, the Cowboys came north,
05:53and things went south.
05:55You got batteries, snowballs,
05:57all types of stuff coming up the deck.
05:59We all remember snowballs of Jimmy Johnson.
06:01Jerome Brown, the defensive tackle of the Eagles,
06:03pleading, let's cut it out with the snowballs.
06:06Iceballs, not snowballs.
06:07This is really fun.
06:08You want to talk about what a rivalry is based on,
06:11you need historic moments of high levels of hate and vitriol,
06:15and there's all that.
06:18Number eight rivalry of all time.
06:20Patriots, and the Colts.
06:23In the last 20 years?
06:24I mean, that was really only a rivalry because of really two players,
06:30and it was a rivalry for, what, six years?
06:34It doesn't belong on the list,
06:37because nobody cared before or after.
06:42It's the equal of Yankees-Red Sox.
06:44No, what?
06:45I mean, it is, yeah, it's real.
06:48It's real.
06:48This is the one rivalry that really derives strictly from on the field.
06:53The Patriots and the Colts were the winningest teams in the NFL in the first decade of the 21st century,
06:59but the late 20th century wasn't always as kind to the franchises.
07:04The Colts were in the Patriots division for a long time.
07:08We played them twice a year.
07:09It wasn't the great rivalry that it turned into.
07:13It's safe to say that a 1-14 record does not help to boost attendance.
07:18In Baltimore, 17,000 brave Colts fans were rewarded with another flawless performance.
07:26They were both pretty bad for a fairly long stretch,
07:28which is why when people look at this list and see the Colts and Patriots on it,
07:34they might go, but that's not a historic, traditional rivalry.
07:36These guys just washed up on shore two years ago.
07:39Come on, Tom.
07:40It was over ten years of drama,
07:42and in the aughts, the Patriots and Colts may have produced more standout moments
07:47than any rivalry in any decade.
07:53It doesn't belong on the list.
07:56Every time those two teams met, it was an important game.
08:00This is the first time that two NFL teams have met undefeated this deep into an NFL season.
08:07The first calling card moment of this rivalry was the fact that Tom Brady's first NFL start
08:11came against the Colts.
08:14He took care of business that day.
08:16Back to throw as Manning on second 18.
08:18Fires to the right.
08:19It is intercepted.
08:20The Patriots had this amazing goal line stand with Willie McGinnis making a stop on fourth down.
08:26Oh, baby!
08:27Either they're going to score and win the game,
08:29or we're going to stop them and we're going to win the game.
08:32He stops.
08:34He is stopped.
08:35Teams met again six weeks later.
08:38Peyton Manning was horrible in the 2003 AFC Championship game.
08:42Fires.
08:43Intercepted.
08:44Tie off.
08:45Four interceptions of Peyton Manning.
08:47We wanted to send a message that we weren't going to let him score.
08:49In 2004, the Colts made two more frustrating visits to Foxboro.
08:54Caught and immediately dragged down at the 41.
08:57And they're going to have a chance for football.
08:59You remember the Mike Money-Vanerjack game?
09:02After Vanerjack spent the whole offseason talking about how money he was?
09:06And it came down to a field goal at the end and Vanerjack conked it.
09:09No doubt!
09:10The majority of these mega match-ups were won by the Patriots, but not in 2006.
09:17It just comes down to who got the home match-up.
09:22Colts couldn't deal with it in Massachusetts, but let them get them back in Indy.
09:27And I don't even like the Colts, but look at this.
09:30Their match-up in the 2006 AFC title game, I still think, is one of the greatest games
09:35I've ever covered, when the Colts came back from an 18-point deficit.
09:39He hit Reggie Wayne over the middle, and he's running with it, and the ball pops up
09:43in the air, and he catches it back.
09:45He's got it!
09:46He almost lost the football!
09:48At that point, I think I realized that this is probably going to be a bad ending.
09:52The fourth and two call.
09:54Belichick.
09:55The Patriots are going to go for it on fourth down.
09:58I can't believe this.
09:59Looks, fires right, it is caught!
10:02It is short of the first down!
10:03It is short of the Colts take over!
10:05Now, that's an instant classic, right?
10:09When you look at the great games that were played, and the rivalry from 2001, really
10:13through until 2011, it was pretty magnificent.
10:17Put those higher before this goes on television, okay?
10:20Colt Patriots definitely should be higher.
10:22The number seven rivalry of all time.
10:25The Bears and the Packers.
10:27How?
10:28It is the oldest and most storied rivalry in sports.
10:32I mean, there's no disputing that.
10:35That is a fact.
10:36Program's here!
10:37The NFL's oldest rivalry, Packers and Bears!
10:40The Packers-Bears rivalry began in 1921.
10:44The tone for this rivalry was set right from the start, when Chicago guard John Tarzan Taylor's
10:50sneak punch broke the nose of Packer tackle Howard Cubbuck.
10:55It has been laced with hatred.
10:57You've got the same division.
10:59You've got great players on both sides.
11:03The rivalry also featured coaches of some renown.
11:06Allis and Lombardi.
11:08Look, Bears and Packers fans, even in the offseason, are still going back and forth right now, as
11:16we speak, as I'm watching this.
11:18Seventh?
11:20Hey, what about that now?
11:25George Hallis was a kick in the pants, you know.
11:28He was a great competitor.
11:29Despite the nickname of a papa bear, George Hallis was not always lovable and cuddly.
11:35He was always trying to steal our playbook, or we thought he was.
11:39Coach Lombardi always had us checking the linemen on the telephone pole, or check this guy, or who's that over
11:45there?
11:45They had a very, very fierce rivalry.
11:50Hallis wasn't the only Bears coach who understood the intensity of the Packers rivalry.
11:55Lovie Smith goes to Chicago, and the first thing he says is, we've got to beat the Packers.
11:59Not one goal we'll have is to beat Green Bay.
12:03When the head coach says, our number one goal is to beat the Packers, and then win a Super Bowl,
12:09come on, that's a rivalry.
12:13I can't remember any meaningful games, but I'm sure we can go rustle up a few guys down at the
12:19nursing home who can.
12:21Tom, you don't exactly need Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine to remember 2010.
12:25The 2010 NFC title game sort of punctuates that series as probably the best in NFL history.
12:34It's never meant more than this.
12:36The NFC Championship, the 182nd meeting, it truly is NFL history in the Yankees.
12:43My goodness, you know, to be playing the Bears in Chicago, you know, to go to the Super Bowl.
12:48Diving for the pylon, touchdown!
12:51I don't know if it will ever get any better than that.
12:53The crowning of a conference titleist wasn't the only dramatic moment in the history of our number seven rivalry.
13:04The Fridge on Monday Night Football running over George Cumbie.
13:08Oh, God, everybody remembers that flag.
13:10There he is, here's at number 72.
13:12First and ball to go.
13:13Hey, he's in behind the refrigerator.
13:17Look at him.
13:18Look at him.
13:1950 pounds, leading Walter Payton.
13:20This being the Bears-Packers rivalry, Chicago coach Mike Ditka wasn't content to use Perry as a blocker.
13:28First and goal inside the Green Bay 1.
13:30End of the Bears.
13:31Right side.
13:32Right side.
13:32Right side.
13:33McMahon fakes the end.
13:34He's open.
13:35Fires right side.
13:36Oh, God.
13:37He got it.
13:37I think Ditka took particular delight in doing it to the Packers.
13:47Does this elderly rivalry belong higher than number seven on our list?
13:51What a kick shot.
13:53It is so completely outrageous that the Bears-Packers is number seven.
13:57What the hell's going on out here?
13:59I think the Packers-Bears is number one.
14:01I'm really surprised it's not higher.
14:03I'm really shocked that it's number seven.
14:05To me, the Packers-Bears rivalry is as good as any all sports.
14:10They hate each other, man.
14:11Yeah, that's number one.
14:13There is no other rivalry.
14:15There's no pro football if you don't have the Packers and the Bears.
14:18Come on.
14:18Number seven?
14:19If you remember the 1970s, this doesn't matter.
14:21If you remember the 1980s, this doesn't matter.
14:24If you remember the 1920s, yeah, it's number one.
14:27The number six rivalry of all time.
14:31Ravens-Steelers.
14:33Hey, thank you.
14:34Baltimore, I just get angrier as the week goes on.
14:39They don't like us?
14:42We're down for sure.
14:43Don't like them.
14:44No excuses.
14:46No excuses.
14:47Is there another rivalry in the NFL that even compares to that one?
14:50It's the relaunch of the Steelers-Browns rivalry.
14:54Except that in this case, you know, both teams are good.
14:58Really good.
15:00No doubt this rivalry rocks.
15:02What does it have?
15:03The pedigree.
15:04It's too new.
15:05I mean, this is just insane.
15:07I mean, this rivalry goes all the way back to 2009.
15:11So you're telling me that Ravens-Steelers is greater than Chiefs-Raiders who've been battling
15:18each other forever?
15:20Holy Toledo, it's the free-for-off!
15:24That's crazy.
15:25Nah, we haven't lost our head.
15:28This rivalry rates because it's wicked mean.
15:31I don't have a problem with it because it is the hardest-hitting, most bloodthirsty rivalry
15:35in the NFL right now.
15:36We talked about this was going to be a bloodbath, and it is just like we thought it was going
15:41to be.
15:44Those teams truly dislike each other.
15:49There's no nastier game in the NFL.
15:52Oh, that'll like that!
15:54Oh, that'll like that!
15:56They get on each other's nerves, and it shows.
15:59It gets chippy.
16:01It gets a little cheap at times.
16:03It really is the most physical games of the year.
16:06They really punish each other.
16:08And then he's clobbered!
16:09I remember Ray Lewis breaking Rashard Mendenhall's collarbone.
16:13Oh, my God!
16:15I literally pray for no injuries when we play the Ravens.
16:17I saw Ben Roethlisberger get hit as hard as any quarterback I've ever seen.
16:21There's something hidden, there's some joy, there's everything we thought there would
16:24be.
16:25What guts we said, right?
16:26You know it.
16:27You know Roethlisberger's nose being pushed aside and looking like Lombard Street.
16:32Oh!
16:36It's a great game.
16:38And it's going to mean something.
16:40This is our championship!
16:41The showdowns are true in the AFC North.
16:44And then the next one's going to mean something.
16:46And then they may play again in the playoffs, and it means even more.
16:50The American Football Conference championship game.
16:53The winner goes on and plays its Super Bowl XLIII.
16:57Trying to call him out of touchdown!
16:58It's so easy to feel the heartbreak, and the Ravens have to stomach the knowledge that the
17:02Steelers will be on to Tampa.
17:05And they beat them again in 2010 to go right back to the Super Bowl.
17:11The fact that they're both in the same division just adds to the hatred.
17:14That game should not be played on a Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock.
17:19The Steelers-Ravens should be played in a dark alley at midnight.
17:22The number five rivalry of all time, Steelers-Cowboys.
17:28When they were in their heyday, and they played in those Super Bowls, that was as good as NFL football
17:34got.
17:35Seven of the ten seasons of the 1970s culminated with either the Cowboys or the Steelers playing
17:41for an NFL title.
17:43In Super Bowls X and XIII, the teams faced each other, with Pittsburgh winning each time.
17:49It was pretty clear to everybody that when you had a Cowboys-Steelers Super Bowl, you
17:55had the two best teams in the league playing each other, and that's what you wanted.
17:59You can't think of Steelers-Cowboys, you know, without thinking of those games and those
18:05moments and those Super Bowls.
18:06Sawbox straight down to the middle, the man of the 15th, he's over the team, six down, Dallas Cowboys.
18:11The Lin-Swain catch.
18:13They beat Mark with Lin-Swain, and they won a good catch.
18:16The Jackie Smith's drop.
18:17Roger back to throw, has a man open in the end zone, caught, touchdown, a drop.
18:21Oh, bless his heart, he's got to be the sickest man in America.
18:28They are the Dallas Cowboys, America's team.
18:33The Cowboys really laid down the gauntlet when they became America's team.
18:37For a Steelers fan, that's really an awful thing to say.
18:40In my opinion, it was disrespectful to the rest of the league.
18:44What makes you so special that America has chosen you?
18:48Do you really want those guys representing you as a country?
18:51Yes, Scott.
18:52Pittsburgh fans would never dream of such audacity.
18:56That kind of arrogance on both sides helped earn the Cowboys-Steelers rivalry the number
19:01five spot on our list.
19:06They played again in, you know, the 95 season, Super Bowl 30.
19:10The coach, Bill Cowher, he's always thinking.
19:12And with his beard, Neil O'Donnell looks like he's Abe Lincoln.
19:15The Cowboys are back, and they're walking on air.
19:17They no longer have to look at Jimmy Johnson's hair.
19:19And the Cowboys won.
19:21And the Cowboys win another Super Bowl title.
19:24Neil O'Donnell threw two unfortunate interceptions.
19:26And he fires a pass, and it intercepted and supported.
19:29Neil O'Donnell played pitch and catch with Larry Brown.
19:32A pass is picked up at open field.
19:35You get one more, you get one from Mayo.
19:36You're better.
19:37You're better.
19:38I'll vote for you, dog.
19:39I think it was extremely important for the Cowboys to get one against the Steelers.
19:43Touchdown!
19:44Emmitt Smith scored!
19:45If nothing else to the Pittsburgh fan, who always had that scoreboard on you.
19:49Yeah, but you'll never beat the Steelers in the Super Bowl.
19:52Well, they finally got him.
19:53We did it our way, baby!
19:55We did it!
19:55We did it!
19:57That put them at five to the Steelers' four.
20:00But then, the Steelers got more in the 21st century.
20:07Does a rivalry based largely on the weight of three games merit the number five spot on our list?
20:13I think that's...
20:14They played 14 times in 40 years when both of them were actually good.
20:19That's not...
20:20That's 40 years leading up to this being put out.
20:23That's not a great rivalry.
20:25It's the greatest postseason rivalry of all time.
20:27That can't be a rivalry when you play somebody every four years.
20:29So, I wouldn't put that on the list.
20:31I guess you've got to be old and remember what it meant when the Cowboys met the Steelers.
20:35That, to me, is the essence of a huge rivalry.
20:37When you have, you know, two really good teams that very likely are the best at the time.
20:43That's all you ask for.
20:45Number four rivalry of all time.
20:47The Browns and the Bengals.
20:50This one derives from sometime before my lifetime.
20:53Because, for as long as I know, the Bengals and Browns have always been the second and third best football
20:59teams
20:59in Ohio right behind the Buckeyes.
21:02Listen, kid.
21:03This rivalry does have roots before your time.
21:06And they're deep.
21:07The competition between the Browns and the Bengals really goes back to Paul Brown.
21:11Paul Brown built the Cleveland Browns.
21:14In 15 seasons with Cleveland, Paul Brown won seven championships.
21:19The last in 1955.
21:21In 1962, owner Art Modell decided to make a change.
21:25And an NFL pioneer was sent into exile.
21:29It was seismic when Art Modell dismissed Paul Brown.
21:34And then here comes Paul Brown down in the south part of the state and forms the Bengals.
21:38And every time they went to Cleveland, it was Paul Brown versus the Cleveland Browns.
21:43This is the day Paul Brown returns to the city where he founded a football dynasty.
21:47He never forgave Art Modell.
21:49One guy can just screw up the whole thing terrible.
21:52He never forgot.
21:54I'm sure he's still thinking about it.
21:59His new team became a mirror image of his former Browns in more ways than one.
22:03They were brown and orange.
22:05We were orange and black.
22:06We wondered why we look so much like the Cleveland Browns.
22:09If you were watching it from the upper deck, you could have sworn it was an inter-squad scrimmage.
22:14Although the similar uniforms made their games look like inter-squad scrimmages, the battles were fierce.
22:20What are the big games?
22:21Have they played in the playoffs?
22:22Do we have one big game example of Browns-Bengals?
22:27Back in the 80s, I mean, those were some dogfights.
22:32It was a great rivalry in 2004 or so when people realized, yeah, this new Browns team isn't that good.
22:44They haven't been close since.
22:47The 10 AFC Central titles in the 80s were won by the Bengals or the Browns, with Cleveland eking out
22:53a 4-3 advantage.
22:55Touchdown to feature!
22:57The Browns win.
22:58They go into the playoffs.
23:00But in the last three decades of our number four rivalry, one moment stands out above all others.
23:11Sam Weiss gets on the microphone and tells the entire crowd in Cincinnati.
23:17You don't live in Cleveland!
23:18You live in Cincinnati!
23:19It was classic TV.
23:22It was classic Sam Weiss.
23:23I'm sure, Paul, it was...
23:27...somewhere.
23:27Sam knew exactly what he was doing, and it was good for the rivalry.
23:33Oh, it was just, uh, how dare he criticize the Cleveland fans?
23:37Who is Sam Weiss?
23:39Right now, you go for the jugular!
23:41To this day, when his name is mentioned, Browns fans have things that I can't say here, uh, that would
23:46get bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep all the time.
23:49Ha ha ha!
23:51Do you know the difference between Cleveland and the Titanic?
23:54Uh, no, what's that?
23:54Well, at least Cleveland has a better orchestra.
23:59So, is the Bengals-Browns rivalry too much of a joke to earn the number four spot on our list?
24:05Yeah.
24:05He throws an interception with his left hand!
24:08Unbelievable!
24:09It absolutely belongs on the list, and I don't have a problem with it being number four.
24:12Can't put it at number four on this list!
24:14A coach on the PA address is the best moment of the rivalry.
24:18I played for the Cleveland Browns my last three years, but I never knew that was a rivalry.
24:22So, you got me there.
24:24Ha ha ha!
24:24Give me another one.
24:26The number three rivalry of all time, the Jets and the Patriots.
24:30What?
24:31I think the Jets-Patriot rivalry's been incredible.
24:33F*** the Pats on three!
24:34Let's go, Bill!
24:35One, two, three!
24:36F*** the Pats!
24:37So much of it has nothing to do with the football on the field.
24:40It's been the front office, back and forth, personnel, bad blood, starting with Phil Parcells.
24:47Parcells took the previously floundering Patriots to a Super Bowl, but his relationship with owner Robert Kraft deteriorated.
24:55If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the
24:58groceries.
24:59It doesn't take much to stop the fire when you're talking about New York and Boston anyway.
25:04Then you throw Parcells taking the Jets job into the mix and that amplifies it even more.
25:10Patriot fans started to hate the Jet fans, even more than they did because they were taking the big tuna.
25:15And then the Patriots got their revenge.
25:21Belichick resigns as head coach of the Jets.
25:23The most bizarre press conference I've ever seen in my life.
25:26Due to the various uncertainties surrounding my position as it relates to the team's new ownership,
25:31I've decided to resign as the head coach of the New York Jets.
25:34Let's just say he didn't like the New York Jets and he didn't like anything about the organization.
25:39I want to wish everyone with the Jets my very best.
25:42Where does he end up going?
25:44To the Patriots.
25:45I'm very excited to introduce to you our new head coach.
25:49That just starts it all.
25:50Then you add Spygate, you add Mangini, and then you've got a great rivalry there.
25:58In 2007, there was a scandal with a particular video camera.
26:03Spygate took Patriots Jets and added HGH and Jolt Cole.
26:08Mangini, who was a New England Patriot guy, gave the information on the whole Spygate thing.
26:13And obviously that did fan the flames a whole lot.
26:16The Jets only knew that because they had been exposed to the same tactics when they had been with the
26:21Patriots.
26:21What other rivalry had the Patriots?
26:23It's like Russian-American spy stuff in the 60s. It's great.
26:31The rivalry escalates with Rex, obviously, because he's the guy that can add fuel to any fire.
26:37First thing he does when he comes in is starts talking about who?
26:41The balance act.
26:41I'm not intimidated by him or anybody else in this business.
26:44The presence of Rex Ryan showing up, saying,
26:47I'm not going to kiss Bill Belichick's rings,
26:48and then going to back-to-back AFC championship games.
26:51Three home teams advance, and a f***ing win!
26:56It kind of went right up different areas of the New England Patriots fan base.
27:00That's soap opera stuff.
27:01Let's talk about football.
27:03Exactly.
27:04The rivalry's been 47-17 Patriots since Bledsoe got there.
27:10Stop.
27:13It was a Jets game when Drew Bledsoe was injured that allowed Tom Brady to come in and start his
27:18career.
27:18Chased by Ellis!
27:20It's a terrible shot!
27:22What they should do is have a big ceremony and build a statue to Mo Lewis.
27:26We all pay Mo Lewis every day.
27:28The Patriots mostly dominated during the Brady-Belichick era.
27:33The Jets haven't gone to a Super Bowl since the 60s.
27:36The Patriots have gone to five under Belichick.
27:39Yeah, that'll ramp up a rivalry.
27:41The number one-seeded Patriots were denied another possible Super Bowl trip in 2010.
27:46We'll see you in Pittsburgh for the AFC championship game.
27:50The Jets doing a Jet landing in Foxborough.
27:53It was a defining moment of rivalry.
28:00The rivalry doesn't lack of our feelings, but have the teams played enough meaningful football to warrant the number three
28:06spot on our list?
28:07The Patriots 45, the New York Jets 3.
28:11You know, you heard that saying, sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.
28:15The Patriots have been the windshield most of the time.
28:17So, Jets players can't stand the Patriots.
28:19Jets coaches can't stand the Patriots.
28:22Vice versa.
28:22And then, by the way, it's New York and it's Boston.
28:25Even better.
28:25Yes.
28:26Patriots, Jets.
28:27Awesome at number three.
28:30The number two rivalry of all time.
28:33The silver and black and the black and gold.
28:36Oh my gosh, that's great.
28:38We definitely didn't like each other.
28:40Now there's a little bit of milling around going on.
28:43Lambert is off to one side and the Datton Velo off to the other.
28:48Playing on the fringe of what was legal and beyond the fringe.
28:52So it's like pouring gasoline on the fire.
28:54I think Raiders-Steelers represents everything that was great about the 1970s and the way the NFL used to play.
29:02The Oakland Raiders have taken a 7-6 lead.
29:06Rarely can you point to the precise inception of a rivalry.
29:09But make no mistake, this one began with this snap in the 1972 playoffs.
29:16It's down to one big play.
29:17Fourth down and 10 yards to go.
29:20Ratshaw running out of the pocket.
29:22Looking for somebody to throw to.
29:24Fires it downfield.
29:26And there's a collision.
29:28And it's cut out of the air.
29:29The ball is played in by Franco Harris.
29:32Harris is going for a touchdown for Pittsburgh.
29:35I think the immaculate reception is, in Pittsburgh, you learn that right after you, you know, go to school.
29:43Immaculate deception.
29:45What, are they still crying about he didn't catch it?
29:47He caught that ball.
29:48And I go to my grace and, you know, the ball hit the ground.
29:50Fuqua knows he hit it.
29:52And it should have been our game.
29:53The Steelers got the best of that deal.
29:56The officials helped him with that.
29:58I thought we got taken.
30:00The word is stronger than that.
30:01It was a mistake, but it was one of those things.
30:03It was an honest, I guess it was an honest mistake.
30:05You know, you can't just keep crying about that.
30:07You got to move forward.
30:10I think uniforms help this one.
30:12Steelers, Raiders.
30:14What's so great about this rivalry is it's been pretty much even.
30:20They met six times in the playoffs between 72 and 83.
30:25That's once every two years.
30:26And it's three each.
30:29Just from physical appearance, these are the two most villainous-looking teams in the league.
30:34And Jack Lambert, okay, he had his moments, okay.
30:37But, I mean, after all, how can you respect a guy who has no teeth?
30:42You know, the thing you have to remember about the Steelers and the Raiders is that
30:46usually one of the two teams is going to be in the championship.
30:49Three straight seasons, 1974, 75, and 76, they met in the AFC championship game.
30:58Each year, the winner went on to take the Super Bowl.
31:02John Madden's grin is from ear to ear.
31:05He looks like a slick watermelon.
31:09The Raiders and the Steelers, if you didn't come out of that game with a few stitches, you
31:13didn't play.
31:14And I just love that about that rivalry.
31:15However, easy for him to say, Lynn Swan felt different.
31:19The blow was illegal, delivered with what would seem to be some type of malice.
31:28The Raiders were never real empathetic.
31:31And if he don't want to get hit, his best bet is not to show up when we play Sunday,
31:34because
31:35I guarantee he will get hit.
31:37And I'm sure Swan's out there in the middle.
31:40So we're glad he did ballet.
31:42He could usually just fly over those guys.
31:44Oh, now I see something that's different and close first.
31:52Lynn Swan, soft.
31:57Steelers, Raiders, as long as the guys from the 70s are still around, still walking the
32:02earth, this will be a rivalry, because it was that intense in the 70s.
32:06Raiders, Steelers definitely deserves to be top five.
32:09It was ultimate hate.
32:11And in the National Football League, that's beauty.
32:15The number one rivalry of all time.
32:18Eagles, Giants.
32:21Giants, Eagles, Giants, Eagles, Giants, Eagles, Giants, Eagles, Giants, Eagles, Giants,
32:24Eagles, that's a, I mean, that's got its own show.
32:26Everybody want to see nobody else in the NFL playing except the Eagles and the Giants.
32:29Hit them all!
32:30Giants, Eagles was a phenomenal rivalry.
32:32You were ready to just get into a fistfight.
32:34You hate them, man.
32:35I wanted to play Wednesday in the parking lot.
32:37Absolute hatred for each other.
32:41It's a nasty rivalry.
32:42That one might be the nastiest rivalry.
32:45It's got to be the number one rivalry simply because of the bizarre endings to all of these
32:50games.
32:50And they seemingly all go in the Eagles' favor.
32:53Cunningham vaulting over Carl Banks on a Monday night game.
32:57Now rolling with the football and being flattened at the 10, but throwing the ball to Giants for a touchdown!
33:03And there were probably some good plays for the Giants, too.
33:05I just don't remember any of them.
33:09Eagles line up for a field goal.
33:11Overtime, 1988.
33:12It's blocked by the Giants.
33:13Okay, we escaped, right?
33:15The kick is blocked!
33:16It's blocked!
33:17No, you didn't.
33:18But it's picked up!
33:19Wright Simmons, I think.
33:20Wright Simmons!
33:21And running in for a touchdown!
33:24Oh, wait.
33:25There's a defensive lineman running the football into the end zone.
33:28Eagles win.
33:29We had to spend a half hour figuring out if that was legal afterwards.
33:33And I'm still not sure it was or not, but they gave it to the Eagles.
33:37They just have weird things that happen, like the miracle at the Meadowlands.
33:41The guard kicks, fumbles the football, and it's picked up by the numbers!
33:4516, 10, 5, on that Eagles!
33:49I don't believe it!
33:50I don't believe it!
33:51Another act of stupidity by a Giant.
33:54Zani is playing NFL history.
33:55Except that it happened again.
33:57That dodge the puck, gets a high snap, gets it away.
34:01It's a dunkler.
34:02Jackson takes it at the 35, fumbles it, picks it up, looks for running rope.
34:06He's at the 40, he's at the 45, midfield!
34:09He's at the 40, he's going to go!
34:12Deshaun gets it!
34:13The Eagles win!
34:15This is Miracle in the Middle East, number two!
34:18The most remarkable win I have ever seen!
34:22You see Deshaun?
34:23Go down right past Tom Coughlin as he slams down his papers.
34:29He took the call for the next day, and the guy admitted he sat in a darkened room with
34:34the lights off by himself for the rest of that evening.
34:37Now, don't tell me that doesn't add to the rivalry.
34:43Proximity helps.
34:44It's like territorial.
34:45Yeah.
34:46You know?
34:46Like, yeah, you guy, you think you're good?
34:48No.
34:49Eagle fans are vile and disgusting.
34:52They're rights and divorce towards straight hands!
34:54I ain't never seen a city or a team so full of f***ing holes.
34:58You're going down, put your hands off, and you give them a fine elbow.
35:01When I think of Michael Strahan and John Runyon through the years, and how physical things
35:05would get.
35:10I mean, nasty, violent.
35:13I tell you right now, you know everybody gonna watch this?
35:16You have Keith Byers knocking out Pepper Johnson.
35:19He was a dictator.
35:21And I'm mad, I want to go fight Keith now.
35:24It was personal when it came to the two teams.
35:27There's been Chuck Benarek nearly killing Frank Gifford.
35:30You're wondering, in today's world, how many people remember the Gifford-Benarek hit?
35:35Probably most remembered defensive plays in NFL history.
35:38Gifford swings out of the backfield.
35:40As soon as he caught the ball, I rammed him.
35:44I thought he was dead.
35:50More than anything else, you see that still picture of...
35:53Yeah, well, Frank Gifford died, it was 55 years later, but that hit didn't help.
36:01Chuck's standing over, and the way he used to sign the picture, add a little bit to it.
36:06What a Chuck right, he signed his name.
36:08These exact words, this effin' game is over.
36:15This rivalry has lived up to its billing, including some postseason games.
36:20You gotta love it, playoff football, you hear it, Giants stadium.
36:23It's got the distance!
36:25It's good!
36:27When David Akers kicked that field goal, he nearly cost Tom Coughlin his job.
36:31It actually led to the evolution of Coughlin, and then ultimately the next season, the Giants
36:35would win the Super Bowl.
36:36The New York Giants have knocked off the New England Patriots!
36:39We get those, like, Hail Mary moments, but we never finish them in the season.
36:44Maybe the Giants actually owe the Eagles some thanks, because when the Eagles knock them
36:47down, they get so angry, they say, we really gotta fix this thing, and now we're gonna find
36:51a way to win, and then they just end it with a Super Bowl.
36:53And the Giants have finished off the Patriots in the Super Bowl for the second time in four
36:59years.
37:00It's an East Coast deal.
37:02That's all it is.
37:03That's no East Coast bias.
37:04Anybody outside the East who believes there's a bias there, then they're not paying very good
37:09attention.
37:10If they cry East Coast bias in this, just tell them, we put Browns-Bengals number four.
37:14What do you want from us?
37:16We threw you a bone.
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