Alternate Super Bowl Outcomes

Well, not a result, but surely this one should have been Superbowl IL rather than XLIX.

My prediction is that the next one will be Superbowl 50 rather than just L.
 
Super Bowl XVII: Joe Theismann can't knock the ball out of Kim Bokamper's hands, and he runs the INT in to give Miami a 24-13 lead. The Dolphins go on to win 27-13 after a Lyle Blackwood INT in the 4th quarter sets up a Uwe Von Schamann FG.

Three months later: Draft Day in New York City. A certain QB from Pitt falls down to the 27th pick, where the Washington Redskins are waiting for him.
 
Super Bowl XXVIII, Thurman Thomas doesn't fumble the ball early in the third quarter, a fumble wiping out a Bills 13-6 lead? Previously the Bills had been playing well and seemed confident. Afterwards Thurman sat on the bench with his head held down and the fight in him just gone, something that just seemed ti kill the Bill's momentum. So what if the series end up as a 3 and out instead? Can the Buffalo muster up enough fire to extend their lead and win the Game?
 
Super Bowl XXVIII, Thurman Thomas doesn't fumble the ball early in the third quarter, a fumble wiping out a Bills 13-6 lead? Previously the Bills had been playing well and seemed confident. Afterwards Thurman sat on the bench with his head held down and the fight in him just gone, something that just seemed ti kill the Bill's momentum. So what if the series end up as a 3 and out instead? Can the Buffalo muster up enough fire to extend their lead and win the Game?

I don't know. Dallas decided to give the ball to Emmitt, and their huge O-line mauled the undersized Bill defense. That, and their defensive line, helped them get control of the game (along with a big pass to Alvin Harper) in the second half.

If the Bills are more aggressive at the end of the second quarter, though, go up 17-6, and just drive to midfield and pin Dallas back around their own 15 in the third quarter, they probably would have won.
 
Super Bowl III: With his team already deep in Jets territory on the opening possession of the game, Earl Morrall rifles a quick pass to Willie Richardson on the right sideline. Two plays later, Morrall hits Tom Mitchell in the endzone to open up the scoring, concluding an opening drive in which the Baltimore Colts were every bit as dominant as the country thought they'd be. They go on to win the game 24-9. Humorously enough, the Jets still manage to cover the spread thanks to some late-game heroics from Namath, whose pre-game guarantee will be briefly laughed at and then forgotten.

(In real life, Richardson dropped the first-down pass and the Colts were unable to gain another yard on the drive, then they shanked a 27-yard field goal, the first in a long line of missed opportunities and bad breaks for them in the 16-7 loss.)

Assuming the Colts meet expectations by pulling off a clear victory, what effects, if any, might it have had on the public opinion of the AFL after the merger? Obviously, the leagues had agreed to join long before the game was actually played, but does the perception persist that the AFL is clearly the inferior of the two?
 
Superbowl XLIII - Pittsburgh vs. Arizona

Kurt Warner does one of three things at end of first half and second half goes pretty much OTL

1. Completes the pass to Anquan Boldin, lead 14-10 at half - Cardinals win 30 -20
2. Throw the ball away and settle for a field goal at the end of half, go into half knotted at 10 - Cardinals win 26 - 20
3. Tackle James Harrison to end half, Cards are down 3 at half but rally and win 23 - 20

Cardinals win only SB, Warner is MVP and sure lock for HOF .....
 
Is it too much to ask that somebody in a Colts' uniform recovers the onside second half kickoff in SB XLIV? Peyton Manning wins his second Super Bowl MVP, and decides to hang it up after the following season and the neck surgery.
 
Is it too much to ask that somebody in a Colts' uniform recovers the onside second half kickoff in SB XLIV? Peyton Manning wins his second Super Bowl MVP, and decides to hang it up after the following season and the neck surgery.

Manning hangs it up? I don't know. I don't think that he would have been content with just two SB wins when Brady already had three, and a lot of people compare him to Tom.
 
I, a lifelong Broncos fan, don't take the job I had last year and don't end up watching the Super bowl with three co workers from Seattle.

Super Bowl I Green Bay 27 Kansas City 24. This game is kept close because Chiefs Running Back Gale Sayers makes several key first downs in the second half, keeping Green Bay's offense off the field and allowing the game to be decided in a last second field goal. (Sayers was drafted by the Chiefs in the 65 ALF draft).

While the Packers are the winners on the field, the AFL is the winners in the public relations battle.
 
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As Super Bowl Sunday looms,I felt that it would be fun if it would be fun to post some different Super Bowl Outcomes.
Here is one from me:
IV:Final Score:Vikings 37-34 Raiders (''The Mad Bomber'' Daryle Lamonica leads his Raiders to a 31-10 victory over the Chiefs in the AFL Championship Game,bringing the Raiders to their second Super Bowl in three years.Lamonica threw a 48-yard touchdown early in the game for a 7-0 lead.After an interception by Nemiah Wilson,the Raiders threw the long ball and got another touch down to make it 14-0.By the end of the quarter,The Raiders led 20-7.Then Joe Kapp rushed to the outside and slipped past 8 defenders for a 32-yard rushing touchdown.Then a costly throw by Lamonica laid out the rest of the game.At the half it was 24-21 Oakland.The first play in the second half,Kapp pulled off a play he called the ''flea flicker''.He gave the ball to Bill Brown,the running back,then back to Kapp.Kapp threw it 54 yards to the 21 yard line by Bob Grim.Then Kapp faked gave it to Brown,faked thrown it,then ran to the 5.Brown ran it in,giving Minnesota a 28-24 lead.Lamonica introduced a new play to the football world and is loved by everybody:the bouncerooski.Lamonica threw the ball on the ground,near the line of scrimmage,and it was picked up by WR Rod Sherman,and then threw it to Billy Cannon for the touchdown.31-28,Oakland.At the beginning of the quarter,the Raiders kicked a field goal,their score being 34-28.With 7 minutes left in the game,the Vikings kicked a field goal to bring it closer,34-31.On the final play,the Vikings had it on the 32.Kapp threw it to Tom Hall.When he was about to go down,he lateraled it to Gene Washington who scored the championship winning touchdown.The fans stormed the field,and the game was called,37-34,in favor of the Vikings.)

Cool scenario, and you're one of my favorite people for immediately starting with a Vikings victory. :D
 
Super Bowl II


Baltimore Colts VS NY Jets
POD: The Colts beat the Rams the first time around in Baltimore making the Rams rout on the last day of the season meaningless as the Colts still go in at 12-1-1 instead of being out at 11-1-2. The Jets don't fall apart the final quarter of the season and hold off the Oilers.


The set up...On a cold raw day in Milwaukee the Colts laid the final vestiges of the Lombardi Packers to rest with a dominating 17-0 victory that was complete. In the NFL title game in the dust of Memorial Stadium the Colts crush the Cowboys 41-17 for the NFL title.

In the AFL Namath despite his broken jaw and the terrorizing 11 angry men defense of the Raiders goes 21-33 for 278yds and 3TD's as the Jets pull out a inspired 31-28 victory.



In this timeline Joe is keeping his big trap shut, no guarantee coming from him as he is already drinking from a straw. Early on however the Jets are equal as they trade the lead with the Colts with Namath matching Unitas at every turn as the score is tied at 14 about midway in the 2nd.

Then for the Jets the wheels came off....

At first it appeared however that perhaps they were about to slow the colts down as Unitas has to settle for three just before halftime to make it 17-14. This a where Namath made his huge mistake, instead of running out the remaining minute or so a shot at play action ends with Bubba Smith seperating him from the ball and his senses and bashing him right out of the game. The Colts recover inside the ten, a neat little play fake and Unitas has TD pass #3 and a 24-14 lead.

2nd verse same as the first


Unitas leads colts 8 plays 72 yards, TD pass #4, 31-14

Poor old Babe Parelli, he would suffer a beating this day as the Jets offense went three and out once again and Unitas leads the Colts down and his fifth TD pass makes it 38-14 less than five minutes into the third.


From this point the Colts really started to pour it on... The AFL on this day did seem to truly be the bush league the NFL always said it was.

TD #6 follows shortly by #7 as the game is well in hand and a complete laugh in at 52-14 as Unitas takes a seat having thrown for a 512 yards and seven TD's.

All during the anticlimactic final period the Colts debated privately on the side on what to do with John so close to not just the record for most TD passes but for most yards. Don Shula decided to send a message that the AFL might had conned the NFL into a merger but that they were not fit to hold their jock. With 5:10 to play UNITAS reenters the fray and start to sling it down the field. Four completions in six attempts bring the ball to the Jets 24 and Unitas to 548 yards total, just six off the Dutchman Norm Van Brocklins 554. The next play with the whole stadium knowing he is throwing the ball Johnny U drills John Mackey in the corner of the end zone for the final thrust to the Jets and the AFL's gut.... final stats 27-34 572 yards 8 TD's passes and the all time super rout 59-14


Butterflies??? The AFL is truly given 2nd class status as the NFL forces itself to relegation to decide who goes over with plans to allow teams to move up and down since hey it is obvious this AFL league is nothing but 2nd class and they should be happy lord NFL was willing to look out for them somewhat. Of course they will have to accept the Continental league serving as a division 3, which really sucks for the Denver Broncos who sink to CON-FL in 1970 and fail to resurface to the AFL until 1977.
 
Super Bowl XXII- Doug Williams doesn't recover from injury back up Schroeder throws 4 picks and Elway wins first Super Bowl
 
Super Bowl XIX.

QB Joe Montana hits his head on the turf when sacked in the first quarter by Miami's Doug betters and is out of the remainder of the game

Despite still being a superior team, the disillusioned 49ers are not able to pull it out and lose a squeaker 30-28 to the Miami Dolphins.
 
Consecutive, I don't know; but if the Pats win 2008, they could very well have won one or two more SBs by now, officially making Tom Brady the most accomplished quarterback in NFL history. So... reflect on that.
 
Exactly. With the touchdown on their backs, McNair and the Titans felt lucky enough to go for the extra two.

Would take some huge balls to go for two in that situation. But I can easily see the Titans managing to tie the game, making this the first Superbowl ever to go into overtime. Without the rule that both teams get at least 1 possession, Titans win the coin toss, make it to the 30 yard line, from where a field goal wins them to Superbowl 26 - 23.

St. Louis Rams, the "Greatest Show on Turf", go into history together with the Buffalo Bills of the early 90s as one the greatest teams with nothing to show for it. Despite the dominance of Kurt Warner and Marshall Faulk, the Rams only left the painful memories of 2 lost Superbowls behind when they moved back to Los Angeles in 2016.
 
Jimmy Johnson doesn't antagonize Jerry Jones in the 1993 offseason, after the Cowboys beat the Bills for the second straight time.

Jones doesn't fire Johnson in a drunken/tipsy rage, Johnson decides to stay somewhere more than 5 years for the first time.

The Cowboys win a 3rd Super Bowl in a row (beating the Chargers at least as bad as the 49ers beat them in OTL). Johnson and Jones then part ways in a much friendlier way than they pretended to in the '93 press conference.

Jones then passes the mantle to Defensive Coordinator Butch Davis in 1995, who oversees the team's 4th straight title, over the Steelers (as befits his expertise, they win more with defense than offense).

That's Davis' high water mark. They make the NFC Conference Championships the next two years, but lose to the Packers both times.

Davis is fired in 2000, and Bill Parcells is brought in for Troy Aikman's last season, leading them to a wildcard loss. This sidesteps the whole Barry Switzer/Chan Gailey/Dave Campo mess.
 
Jimmy Johnson doesn't antagonize Jerry Jones in the 1993 offseason, after the Cowboys beat the Bills for the second straight time.

Jones doesn't fire Johnson in a drunken/tipsy rage, Johnson decides to stay somewhere more than 5 years for the first time.

The Cowboys win a 3rd Super Bowl in a row (beating the Chargers at least as bad as the 49ers beat them in OTL). Johnson and Jones then part ways in a much friendlier way than they pretended to in the '93 press conference.

Jones then passes the mantle to Defensive Coordinator Butch Davis in 1995, who oversees the team's 4th straight title, over the Steelers (as befits his expertise, they win more with defense than offense).

That's Davis' high water mark. They make the NFC Conference Championships the next two years, but lose to the Packers both times.

Davis is fired in 2000, and Bill Parcells is brought in for Troy Aikman's last season, leading them to a wildcard loss. This sidesteps the whole Barry Switzer/Chan Gailey/Dave Campo mess.


I like this one.
 
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