Exactly back when we love the country which I still do we didn’t have all these people crying racism all the time and all these left-wing whack jobs in this country I don’t know how we’ve changed so much since this time but I’m a huge football family I have trouble watching it now that they let them sing that black national anthem for games is disgusting that should not be allowed America is not about what race you are we are a country of people not racist why would you sing the black national anthem I can’t believe the NFL allows that
@@BruceWayne-ri4wr The dictatorship of the NFL is of and always was caucasian white supremacy. There isn't any black supremacy in the NFL due to the ownership and leadership of caucasian white supremacy.
I went to SB XXV, the following week in Tampa; experiencing this last second win, and then sweating out, the last second win over the Bills, made me nuts
Ethan Henry I’m a bears fan as well but loved old style football when we had the 46 defense and were 15-1 in the 85-86 season and we were super bowl contenders now I’m here telling myself we are going to win next year but we haven’t gotten a good quarterback in years hopefully nick foles is going to be good this year us bears fans need it 🐻⬇️
Your objectivity is appreciated. I was a NYG fan back then but it was a lot of fun watching the Bears just steamroll over everyone that big year that they had. As good as the NYG defense was over many years, the Bears may have had the single best defensive team in history that year.
Torgo1969 giants were also fun to watch they had phill sims and Lawrence Taylor and Morris your team was one of the best in the 80s your team was really good hopefully are teams go back to this powerhouse level are teams are not doing well and if are teams go back to this level it will be like I’m watching the 85 bears and the 86 giants GG for the 2020 season
@@Sgtalex-iv6eo UA-cam is a treasure in these days of quarantine, isn't it? I'm still working but with a cut in hours, and it feels great to watch and relive happy moments from my younger days. BTW, I was at a veterinary lecture a month ago and the lecturer mentioned a specific research dog #34 that the vet technicians named after "a certain football player that wore 34" but he was drawing a blank up at the podium. So I yelled out "Walter Payton", and he said Yes! Even better if the techs named the dog Sweetness, eh?
@@michaelgronnan4621 With his big old coconut! My buds are I thought the Gs were done for, with SF driving forcefully down the field. Then Pat Summerall's sweet voice came from Heaven to tell everyone The Good News.
When MEN WERE MEN. A titanic struggle between 2 outstanding organizations. I can not say enough about this absolute classic contest. Such is my admiration for this game. The 49ers showing that they were more than just high flying pretty boys, and got down in the mud on even terms with the rugged Giants. The guts of Hostetler. The great call by Parcells on the fake punt. The underrated Niner defense was stout, never allowing NY in the end zone. The cool of the veteran kicker Matt Bahr. The most important play of the game by Erik Howard, knifing into the line and stoning Roger Craig. This is FOOTBALL. The way it oughta be.
Even though this was a painful loss for my team, I couldn't agree more. Football is and always will be a violent game, but that's what we love about it. It's a game meant to be played by warriors of men tough as nails fighting for a big prize. I'm all for protecting the players from serious injuries, but the NFL is turning this once beautiful gladiator game into a pussy league with its garbage rules and playing now acting like Primadonnas it makes me sick to watch.
Jonathan83X I agree protection is important but the officials are ruining this game with there bad calls and even defense players now wonder what roughing the passer is anymore
@@nintendofan6099 Oh I fully agree with you on that. The rules and officiating is so bad now, the game is hardly even watchable. To me, the solution to this problem is better equipment, not punishing defenders for merely doing their job. All helmets should be mandated to be energy absorbing to reduce helmet to helmet blows and padding should be something as high tech as Tempur-Pedic memory foam so a violent hit is reduced by 1/3 or more. Yea, it won't reduce injuries entirely, but I believe it'd reduce them alot.
Legendary football game....brutally physical contest....LT said it was the most intense and hard hitting game of his career....thanks for upload my friend.....
He was an unsung hero on that hit by "Leonard the Marshall" by stopping Joe's roll and LT got great penetration to be Johnny-on-the-spot for when the ball popped out of Craig's hands and right into Taylor's! "And the Giants have the ball!"
@@jamesroberts1810 no sir, the numbers say otherwise. Pro Football Reference has Lawrence Taylor’s 1990 season rated as the fifth best of his career and he was rated higher in the 1990 season than he was in 1986, 1982, 1984, and 1988 and these were First Team All-Pro seasons.
Such a physical and well played game. I remember watching it High school. To have the 49ers trying to threepeat and the Giants trying to add to their legacy with another Super bowl was amazing. The Giants defense matched up well against them in several playoff games. It was just straight up physical football, and both teams knew what was at stake
The other thing that made this game seem even more momentous was that Madden & Summerall still had their fastball - so many memorable teams in the NFC's dominant run of the mid to late 80's - Chicago, Washington, NY Giants, & San Francisco, and Madden & Summerall were the dominant voices calling all of those games.
The wizardry that Parcells and Belichick pulled those weeks to hold the 49ers to 13 and the Bills to 19 was something to behold. With hindsight, the way the Giants won that Super Bowl reminds me very much of the Patriots' wins, and as a Giants fan, I sure hope there wasn't any Belichick funny business that year.
Realhousewifexxx - You're right, such NFC dominance; Bears, Giants, Redskins 49ers, going into earltly 90s with Cowboys and Packers. The AFC seemed so over powered by them, untill my Denver Broncos finally stopped looking beyond pathetic in the Super Bowl and won back to back did the NFC's dominance end. But this game shows why a lot of people said the NFC Championship game was the super bowl. Even though my team was destroyed, I still have fondness for this of the mid 80s and early 90s. This game shows what the NFC power house teams and games were like, another one of my favorites was seeing the 94 49ers/cowboy's NFC Championship game Deion Snanders a 49er, the Cownboys always beating the 49ers in NFC Championship.. oh, and Madden and Summerall broadcasted that game, love them too.
The 1989 and 1990 49ers teams are the most loaded and deepest teams of all time. For them to be held to 13 points in the NFC Championship is uncharacteristic. Only the Giants would've been able to do something like that to THAT 49ers team. That Giants coaching staff was no joke. Bill Parcels had his "Ten Geniuses" on that staff: Bill Belichick, Tom Coughlin, Romeo Crennel, Charlie Weis, Ron Erhardt, Mike Pope, Fred Hoaglin, Al Groh, Mike Sweatman, and Ray Handley. You can't find a better coaching staff than that.
So glad I grew up in this era of the NFL. Could you imagine what would happen to Leonard Marshall if he hit a QB in this current era. One of the best games of football I've seen. Bill Parcells "power football"
@@howardcampbell6796 Yeah. Funny that Burt ended up on the niners and got his 2nd ring with them in 89. Then hit Hoss in this one and put Hoss out of the game for a few plays.
This was the greatest NFC Championship game of all times. It was perfect football. Defensive, physical, smashmouth football. Giants outlasted the 49ers in game that stands alone in the history of sports.
Giants fan here, I compared the 2011 playoff game against SF to this one. That was a brutal defensive game turn over at the end gave thr Giants the win.
Moved from Hawaii and arrived in SF (SFO) the night the niners won the 88 Super Bowl, 90, I'm a freshman in Galileo H.S. in S.F. when Craig Fumbles. This ended the Montana Era. And childhood for me.. LOVE HURTS
My living room was packed with family and friends watching this 1990 NFC Championship game. For some odd reason we had as many people over our house watching this game as if we were watching the Super Bowl. I would never believe the Giants would win this game scoring I think nothing but field goals. The 49ers, arguably the best offensive championship juggernaut football team I have seen to this day only score two touchdowns. And still the game went down to the end. One of the greatest games I've ever watched. I compare watching this game to the 1981 NFC Championship between the 49ers and Cowboys.
Cinnaminson 06..........check the video at 2:56:24.....when Howard forced the fumble. Pepper Johnson forced Guy McIntyre to abandon his double-team block with Jesse Sapolu on Erik Howard allowing Howard to get his helmet on the football. Then Lawrence Taylor evades a block by Brent Jones at the line of scrimmage and fights off a block by Tom Rathman immediately after that to race to the spot along the line where Craig is located........to snag the ball when Howard popped it out. Magnificent.
@@byrongammonbyrongammon9937 Then he pranced around with the ball for a bit. I was 21 at the time and my college buds and I absolutely lost it with joy when we saw LT grab that ball. What an unbelievable 4th Quarter that was.
When I was 24 my dad and I (Giant's season tickets since 1976) took a weekend trip to Vegas for a weekend. We were flying from NJ and couldn't get the score on the plane back then, we landed in LV and there was a long line for taxis so my dad splurged for a limo to take us to our hotel. We burst into our room and turned on the TV and sat at the edge of your beds like kids, caught the last 10 mins and watched our Giants go to the SB. To say the least it was a great start to our trip.
As a niners fan this game has always been the hardest to accept. With Montana getting hurt and Craigs fumble. This is the first time I've watched this whole game .
@Matt Pizzano The 49ers best offensive team during that period. The Giants, best collection of defensive players during that period. I compared this game as if it were an immovable object vs an irresistible force. I thank 1980's and 199's era NFL football teams for providing amazing entertainment. Don't get me wrong, I love today's game, but there was something special about championship teams back in the day. They played intense football, and I look up to the 1990 49ers and Giants NFC Championship game as one of the top benchmarks.
@@bertrice999 The losses to Dallas hurt but Dallas was clearly the best team in '92 and '93. The 49ers were still able to beat the Cowboys twice in 1994 en route to super bowl #5.
The two games played by these two teams in 1990 should be watched as a package. 20-18 in two games. The 7-3 game on Monday night in November was a great game. 7-3, think about that.
Man, this game brings back memories. My grandma in California called my brothers, and I, to tell us our uncle cried at the end of this game. "Boy, oh, boy, a grown man crying over a football game." An end of an era.
I was bouncing around the family room as a 7 year old.. all I remember before the last field goal was my dad telling me to sit in the “lucky” seat so the Giants could win.
I became a fan of the NY Giants in 1990. After watching this Game and never looked Back. My opinion football will never be as exciting and memorable as the 80s and 90s. Once the rules changed and the $ increased the players and Game just wasn't the same. NYG 4 LIFE .
Please don't forget how free agency changed things immensely. Player movement was non-existent. It made for stronger teams for those organizations that had better coaching staffs. The players stayed in the same systems for longer time periods.
@@janspup6232 I was in college in Ithaca NY watching with some pals from Downstate that were even more rabid Giants fans than I was. We had had pizza and wings delivered, but by the 4th Quarter all appetite had vanished and pretty soon as SF were driving down the field we were climbing the damn walls with dread and anxiety. Then we hear "And the Giants have the ball!"
@@Torgo1969 nice, it's seems playoffs have some hohum years and then some classics, 1981, 1990 , 1999 and 2007 had some classics, after NY beat SF and statrted off +6 vs Buffalo, I'm in Niagara Falls which might as well be Buffalo so the line can get a little skewed due to hometown better, about a half hour before kickoff they bet it up to 9, i jumped on that fucker, i had them against the pats in 07' not just +13.5 but i took them straight at 4 to 1 with the under, talk about easy money.
Jeff Hostetler deserves so much more credit than he gets. I thought he was a great QB. More mobile than Simms which added another dimension to the offense
As a giants fan this was one of those games that exhausted me... but when you play a great team like the 49ers what did you expect , there was always allot of talk about the giants rivals back then.. but the niners were easily up there with the Cowboys, redskins and Eagles... from 81-90 they had some great games and epic ones in the playoffs... sadly the league is nothing like this anymore
Favorite Giant game of all time. Better than any of the SB wins. Facing the two time defending champion 49'ers with Joe Montana, in their stadium, with a back up QB, score no TDs, and win on a last second field goal. Amazing...
We don't know that. Young did nothing wrong. Young completed a key pass. Then they were running out the clock on the ground. The thing to do. But Craig fumbled. Actually he fumbled a few minutes before a few minutes earlier. But 49ers recovered.
@@adk46er5203 ...Roger Craig's fumble was FORCED. In addition to Roger Craig wearing the culpable goat label.......some of the blame belongs on the doorsteps of other 49er offensive players. Look at 2:56:24 of the video. #56 ROLB Lawrence Taylor gets past the block of #84 TE Brent Jones and immediately afterward #44 FB Tom Rathman fails to hold or stick his block of Taylor.....and what happens next?!?!? Taylor heads for the ball carrier and the ball squirts into the air after #74 NT Erik Howard put his helmet on the ball forcing # 33 RB Roger Craig to fumble the football.......Taylor recovers the football. Damn fantastic game.
@@danlivni2097 But if Joe stays in they're not running. Joe got hurt while attempting a pass. Young was cold off the bench and they clearly didn't want him passing in that situation.
Classic John and Pat calling the game. Jerry was a great referee. Also miss big red calling his famous "FIRST DOWNNNNN" ...Alot of HOFers in this game. Also these classic Comercials ... LT on one side and Charles Haley on the other... Great defensive game !! Glad I grew up watching these games.
The best game I ever saw. Greatest coaching job in all of NFL history. To get the Giants past Montana, Rice, Ronnie Lott with a backup QB and a 32-year old running back...unbelievable. The fake punt, the Marshall hit, the forced fumble...all as huge as the 'helmet catch' would become years later.
byrongammon byrongammon a case could be made for that sure. I’m a cowboy fan, so looking at it from an outsiders view I’d go with the Giants victory over Denver in SB 21. I say this because the Giants were hands down the best team in league that season so if they had lost to Denver, a less than dynastic team for sure, that would’ve washed away their whole season. Instead it put an exclamation point on their greatness. But yes, their victory over the two time champs was amazing. Well done indeed
@@byrongammonbyrongammon9937 It would seem that even Bill Parcells agrees with you. After all, Parcells is on record as stating the victory was the most memorable moment of his entire NFL coaching career. And shoot, even the referee of the game, Jerry Markbreit, said it was the greatest NFL game he was ever involved in as an official. Finally, I am almost certain that Lawrence Taylor himself has declared the 1990 NFC Championship victory as the greatest game he ever played in. Wow. These are some serious endorsements.
daboys1215 Joe Montana said over and over the NY Giants were the one and only team he ever feared. They hit you and hit you and never stopped coming, ever.
Thx for the upload-- my favorite game of all time ,have watched it many times... especially the last minutes of the game. Of course, as Giant fan, loved the Giant defense , and I actually had predicted(boasted?) before the game that Giants would hold 49er offense to "around 13 points" -- but had no idea how Hostettler wud do vs the underrated 49er defense. And 5 FGs got it done...fake punt...Marshalls hit...Craig's fumble...Hostettlers final drive is tremendous ,especially right away escaping sack and getting it to Bavaro...and of course "there will be no 3peat" from Summerall... All this with the Gulf War updates. Classic
I used to have this game on VHS and I would pop it in when there was nothing else to watch on TV. One of the most exciting defensive struggle/hard-nose hitting games ever. I remember setting my VCR to record this game and the AFC championship between Buffalo and Oakland and telling my co workers not to be spoiler and tell me who won before I got off work. I was quite surprised after watching this game. I was certain that SF was going to three-peat.
According to NFL Network Top 100, 3 of the top 5 NFL players of all time are on this field #5 Joe Montana #3 Lawrence Taylor #1 Jerry Rice WOW…incredible knowing that watching this
I hear you. Craig was a great RB and no one likes to see a legend make a turnover like that. But then he was going up against the big old coconut of big Eric Howard.
@@elik.webber1514 No, he did. Steve Young took over and when Montana came back, he played one quarter of a Monday night game then he was traded to the Chiefs.
This game, even more so than the Super Bowls, put Parcells in the Hall of Fame. This was clinical head coaching at its very best with everything on the line. Very Lombardi-like.
Patriots fan. I had never liked the Giants but in 1990 the they won me over as a sports fan. In 07 and 11 after both Super Bowl losses I had to raise toast the Giants.
The good old days. Football the way it was meant to be played, with two titans fighting it out to the end, without the officials turning into the pansy, don't hit anybody BS that we have today. We will sadly never see this kind of football again; no wonder so many people don't even tune in anymore.
Are you sure we can say 'never' though? If everything has changed to how it is nowadays, doesn't that meant it's always possible to revert the changes?
pound for pound......probably the hardest hitting game in nfl history.....and im not talking about 09 saints just illegally tee off on the qbs brain type stuff....i mean good clean high stakes smashmouth football
Lol it wasn't clean. There are *plenty* of late or dirty hits in this game. I agree its one of the most physical games ever but take the rose tinted glasses off. Giants probably had "take Montana out. take Rice out" underlined on their whiteboards.
@@patrickharrison1913, you’re spouting nutrient-rich fertilizer. Did you forget 49ers’ NT Jim Burt diving into Hostetler’s knee? Marshall’s hit on Montana was LEGAL.
That's a bold statement, but hard to argue against. NYG fan here and that was memorable watching with my college buds, we lost our sh*t when LT recovered Craig's fumble.
My beautiful daughter was born the Monday after the Super Bowl we were both screaming and yelling though the whole house we both lost voices the week before at home against the Bears those were great days
Holy cow LT in the postgame talking about our soldiers just shows you how far we’ve come as a country. And not in a good way. Love it that he supported them.
@@patrickpersianni5314 ok great that’s nice. I was commenting on how someone like LT openly supported our soldiers, whether you agree or not about the war, versus today where they rarely show such patriotic thoughts. Maybe I’m wrong about that, but kneeling back then wouldn’t even have been a consideration.
I was at this game (3 days after my 27th Bday), and to be honest, I only watched the video to watch JT's TD. It is the only time I have ever seen any footage of this game. Season Ticket Holder: Sec 14 Ubox. It still stings.
Pass is to Johnnnn Taaylorrrr! 14 yard pick up. First downnnnn, 49ers! I just love SUMMERALL and Madden' s commentary during the game. This is good stuff! 👍
One of the hardest hitting games ive ever seen, plenty of hall of famers, previous sb champions, and best of all madden and summerall call the game! Great upload, thank you
Love good defense, this Giants team had such a great D... It’s nice seeing the 49rs struggle to move the ball, they ran over everybody else, but this Giants D said HELL NO!
The very best football game I ever watched! Had to see it again! It’s a rare occasion when two of the very best teams of an era, at the top of their game, face each other with everything on the line, but this was one of those times…. Not a lot of people gave the Giants much of a chance to win at Candlestick Park, but they had faced the 49ers in three previous playoff games going back to 1981 and were very familiar with them…. So, I wasn’t surprised that they won but knew it was gonna be super close and extremely violent (my kind of game 😁)!
1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990 (NOTE: should have met in 1989 ... damn Flipper Anderson). I think a lot of folks forget that these two teams were doormats in the 1970s before changes to both teams put them on the right track and both shared the elevator ride up during the 1980s. The 49ers hired John McVay for GM who was the Giants' head coach from 1976-78. Had circumstances played out differently, the Giants were planning to promote him to their GM. But look at their success from 1981-1990: six (6) Super Bowl championships between the two teams, five (5) head-to-head playoff matches, countless Hall of Fame players. SF and Dallas is played up as a more sexy rivarly; however, Giants-49ers is an honest, hard-nosed combination of chess match and smash-mouth combined into one. That's what makes this rivalry special to 49ers and Giants fans alike. After the Parcells - Walsh/Seifert years, the teams only met three times in the post-season (1993 Division Playoff 49er blowout, 2002 Wild Card barn burner and the legendary 2011 NFC Championship Game).This year will be the first time the teams have played since 2020 when the Giants were in turmoil. Hopefully a better game in Santa Clara week #4. But what are the chances of the Giants and 49ers rekindling their old rivalry again? We saw glimpses in 2002 and 2011, how about 2023 with Purdy vs. Danny Dimes? They have a lot of catching up to do before they'll ever top one of the greatest NFC Championship games ever played. Peace!
This game and the game that Eli survived against the Niners on the way to the SB are right up there with the toughest fought, and most memorable wins ever for us NYG fans. Absolutely the hardest hitting games we lived through. They were cleanly played games at the highest level. Not dirty at all. Clean and tough as hell. Football is not like this anymore. Also, who knew that Matt Bahr and Lawrence Tynes wore the same number 9 ? Kickers can be tough football players too.
Freshman year in college, running the dorm hall screaming like a madman. I've loved this game more than any of the 4 SB's the Giants have won. To go into Candlestick against the 2-time defending champions, not score a TD....and win. Best game I've ever seen.
Easy to look GOAT when the playoffs and homefield are determined by beating on the lowly Bills, Dolphins, and Jets twice a year. pfft. GOAT at longevity maybe... only because Brady never got his ass pancaked into the astro turf by Lawrence Taylor and Reggie White. if he played in the 80s/90's his ass would have gone out in a wheel chair 6 years ago. then where's your 8 superbowl appearances and 5 rings? I wonder how many more rings Montana would have if he played 20 years in the "don't touch the QB" era.
Agreed, Brady would have gotten slaughtered playing in this era. Just look at the defenses that have actually gotten to and beat Brady during the Pats' dynasty: the Giants, the Ravens, the Broncos, but defenses like this were the NORM back in the 70s and 80s! Montana's 49ers were playing mini-dynasties in the 80s: the Redskins, the Giants, the Bears, a combined 6 SB victories during that time. Brady's getting cred for playing in a division of shitty competition and beating cupcake opponents like the Texans, Titans, and the (Luck era) Colts in the playoffs! LOL Please. Plus, the Pats went TEN years in between their 3rd and 4th SB wins. Basically, Brady just hung around long enough for his competition to go away. Peyton Manning owned him in the AFC Championship games, a 3-1 record against him, then he retired. The Ravens disintegrated after Ray Lewis left. Brady is part of a well-oiled machine. He doesn't have to worry about the pocket collapsing on his ass like Aaron Rodgers and Carson Wentz do. Any QB worth a plug nickel can hit wide open receivers when you have an eternity to throw. Maybe playing under Bill Belichick has something to do with his success.
This was the game that made me a Giants fan. The next day was MLK Jr Day, I doorbell ditched every 9er fan in my neighborhood then went home and listened to Aerosmith’s Pump…on cassette 😎
I lived in park slope brooklyn at the time, 2 old high school buddies came over to watch with me and wife was at work, what a game! I love Roger craig to this day for his fumble late in game.
I am a fan of Brady, Brees, Rodgers, etc... They should be grateful that they are playing the in the current protect-the-QB era. These defenses were HARD! Didn't play around one bit! When you got tackled, you stayed tackled.
Brady Brees, Rodgers are good but would not for an instant last as long as they have if they had to face defenses like the Giants and 49ers back then. No way...no how.
One of the epic games of all time... Both teams peaking along with VERY contrasting offenses makes it a classic. Have to love the comments here as well from football fans.
Did anyone else notice that the pricing on the Medium Pepperoni pizza from Domino's at the beginning of this video is pretty much the same deal you can get 26 years later?
@2:49:22.....Pat Summerall's communication of the report on Montana's condition is something I'll never forget. 'Doctors want him to stay right where he is because the report from the 49ers bench.....is that EVERYTHING hurts.'
L Marshall was on the ground 2x on that play, never gave up, and turned his Will into Speed. Then LT stopped Montana's roll and had the critical assist as LM immortalized himself in the hearts of NYG fans that play.
As of today, March 11, 2019, there are ONLY 6 Hall of Famers who participated in this game. Parcells, Taylor for the Giants...Montana, Lott, Rice, Haley for the 49ers. Pull up the 1974 AFC Championship game between Pittsburgh and Oakland on UA-cam. There are a total of 23 Hall of Famers from this game. 12 Steelers: Art and Dan Rooney, Chuck Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Ham, Mel Blount, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Jack Lambert, Mike Webster, Lynn Swann, John Stallworth, Donnie Shell. 11 Raiders: Al Davis, John Madden, Kenny Stabler, Fred Belinickoff, Dave Casper, Art Shell, Gene Upshaw, Jim Otto, Willie Brown, Ray Guy, George Blanda. No comparison
My Favorite Slugfest as a little kid; my hopeless double digit Underdog Giants without Starting QB Simms or 1st round rookie RB Rodney Hampton; go into San Fran and beat the Dynasty. Fun Fact: Giants #1 Defense; 49ers #2 Defense of 1990. Amazingly: The 1990 NYG Defense is BETTER then 86 in points allowed; yet 86 Lawrence Taylor was peak and the D was just way more fun to watch in 86; if you can get your hands on 86 games like the October Redskins and Cowboys games you see way more aggressive blitzing nearly every down by All Pros and Hall of Famers...but they allowed more points then the less exciting 1990 D which was more effective at keeping teams from scoring. 1990 I guess maybe Bellichik got smarter about how to use players who were visibly slower 4 years later, LT; Reasons, Carl Banks Leonard Marshall were unblockable for stretches of 86. Big Blitzing is always a risk; you're gambling QB can't find the wide open guys before you can hit him, force him to chuck it away; or hopefully throw a pick or get strip sacked.
I watched this game as a 17 year old. I was saddened about this game because the Giants beat my Bears at the Meadowlands the previous week 31-3. But I quietly liked and respected the Giants and their style of play. I had developed quite a dislike for the 49ers because not only they beat the Bears in the NFC championship games of January 1985 and January 1989, they had been blowing away my Bears the last two times they visited Candlestick Park on Monday night's by the scores of 41-0 and 26-0. So I was pulling for the Giants to win this game and was delighted by the result at the end.
Mick Funny bust or not, all they needed was someone who could run for three yards without fumbling the ball. Something that was beyond Roger by the end of the game.
Saddest words I ever remembered hearing Pat summer all saying was there will be no three peat made me cry 😢I was so broken hearted that hit Montana took from the helmet would of been illegal now a days never got over this game and never will 😢
As a Giant fan, with the history of Montana getting beaten up by the Giants' defense, it left me chilled to see that blank stare on his sweaty face as he staggered to get up off the carpet. But I must confess that Summerall's words, on that day, to this day, invoke tears in my eyes as well. For all who said it couldn't be done, there it was done and I've used the Giants' unlikely win as inspiration as I began my life in the real word, at the time, to never let anyone tell me I can't do something. Parcells and his men found a way. Throughout my life, I did as well and count Bill as a mentor in my life because of the life lessons he taught his players. Peace!
This Championship game should simply be known as THE HIT! It was the biggest hit I ever saw historically speaking. 1. Because it was a Championship game. And 2. Because It was Montana, arguably the Greatest Champion Quarterback to ever play the game, who was on receiving end of The Hit.
One of the best playoff games of all time. Every yard was highly contested and the hitting was at an all-time high. Can't believe that was 27 years ago...remember it like it was yesterday.
its a shame what the game has turned into with all the rules.. that cardinals packers playoff where both teams just kept going down the field was actually rather boring.. they ruined the game
Ryan David Only people who never played the game get into that blame nonsense. Two great teams going toe to toe trying to knock each others block off, stuff is going to happen. Giants moved the ball all day but SF was able to keep them out of the end zone. No doubt the game could have gone either way but the Giants were the better team on this day, two points better.
When it was a game!
I was in Desert Storm back then, so cool to watch old news footage of the war from the 30 years ago!
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Exactly back when we love the country which I still do we didn’t have all these people crying racism all the time and all these left-wing whack jobs in this country I don’t know how we’ve changed so much since this time but I’m a huge football family I have trouble watching it now that they let them sing that black national anthem for games is disgusting that should not be allowed America is not about what race you are we are a country of people not racist why would you sing the black national anthem I can’t believe the NFL allows that
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The dictatorship of the NFL is of and always was caucasian white supremacy.
There isn't any black supremacy in the NFL due to the ownership and leadership of caucasian white supremacy.
Both games in 1990 between the Giants and 49ers were epic slugfests. Total classic!
Still pisses me off Parcells didn't go for the FG with 4 mins left in 1st game : ) awesome football
I totally agree!!!
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Don’t forget Tom Coughlin (WR Coach) as well.
@@jamesgray7064 , indeed. Giants should have won that game 9-7.
I went to SB XXV, the following week in Tampa; experiencing this last second win, and then sweating out, the last second win over the Bills, made me nuts
I'm a bears fan till I die. But this is inarguably one of the best football games I've ever watched as a kid. I was 14
Ethan Henry I’m a bears fan as well but loved old style football when we had the 46 defense and were 15-1 in the 85-86 season and we were super bowl contenders now I’m here telling myself we are going to win next year but we haven’t gotten a good quarterback in years hopefully nick foles is going to be good this year us bears fans need it
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Your objectivity is appreciated. I was a NYG fan back then but it was a lot of fun watching the Bears just steamroll over everyone that big year that they had. As good as the NYG defense was over many years, the Bears may have had the single best defensive team in history that year.
Torgo1969 giants were also fun to watch they had phill sims and Lawrence Taylor and Morris your team was one of the best in the 80s your team was really good hopefully are teams go back to this powerhouse level are teams are not doing well and if are teams go back to this level it will be like I’m watching the 85 bears and the 86 giants GG for the 2020 season
@@Sgtalex-iv6eo UA-cam is a treasure in these days of quarantine, isn't it? I'm still working but with a cut in hours, and it feels great to watch and relive happy moments from my younger days.
BTW, I was at a veterinary lecture a month ago and the lecturer mentioned a specific research dog #34 that the vet technicians named after "a certain football player that wore 34" but he was drawing a blank up at the podium. So I yelled out "Walter Payton", and he said Yes! Even better if the techs named the dog Sweetness, eh?
I am a lifelong Bears fan as well. And I agree this game was probably the best game I’ve ever watched in the NFL
"and the Giants have the ball! Lawrence Taylor out of the pack with the ball!" Absolute classic moment and call.
Prancing around giddily with the ball!
@@Torgo1969 lol I have to Google one of those words giddily
Thanks to Erick howard for knocking the ball loose!!
@@michaelgronnan4621 With his big old coconut!
My buds are I thought the Gs were done for, with SF driving forcefully down the field. Then Pat Summerall's sweet voice came from Heaven to tell everyone The Good News.
Notice LT doesn't care about keeping the ball for the team trunk. He's after the win and the Ring.
When MEN WERE MEN.
A titanic struggle between 2 outstanding organizations.
I can not say enough about this absolute classic contest.
Such is my admiration for this game.
The 49ers showing that they were more than just high flying pretty boys, and got down in the mud on even terms with the rugged Giants.
The guts of Hostetler.
The great call by Parcells on the fake punt.
The underrated Niner defense was stout, never allowing NY in the end zone.
The cool of the veteran kicker Matt Bahr.
The most important play of the game by Erik Howard, knifing into the line and stoning Roger Craig.
This is FOOTBALL.
The way it oughta be.
Amen!
The fake punt is probably my favorite play call of all time.
Even though this was a painful loss for my team, I couldn't agree more. Football is and always will be a violent game, but that's what we love about it. It's a game meant to be played by warriors of men tough as nails fighting for a big prize.
I'm all for protecting the players from serious injuries, but the NFL is turning this once beautiful gladiator game into a pussy league with its garbage rules and playing now acting like Primadonnas it makes me sick to watch.
Jonathan83X I agree protection is important but the officials are ruining this game with there bad calls and even defense players now wonder what roughing the passer is anymore
@@nintendofan6099 Oh I fully agree with you on that. The rules and officiating is so bad now, the game is hardly even watchable.
To me, the solution to this problem is better equipment, not punishing defenders for merely doing their job. All helmets should be mandated to be energy absorbing to reduce helmet to helmet blows and padding should be something as high tech as Tempur-Pedic memory foam so a violent hit is reduced by 1/3 or more.
Yea, it won't reduce injuries entirely, but I believe it'd reduce them alot.
A classic game of two amazing defenses. THIS is when football was great. And Pat and John were an amazing team in the booth entertaining us.
There will never be two announcers like this ever this was the best game ever great memories of your youth!
Legendary football game....brutally physical contest....LT said it was the most intense and hard hitting game of his career....thanks for upload my friend.....
He was an unsung hero on that hit by "Leonard the Marshall" by stopping Joe's roll and LT got great penetration to be Johnny-on-the-spot for when the ball popped out of Craig's hands and right into Taylor's!
"And the Giants have the ball!"
LT Was just past his prime still a probowl player thou
@@Torgo1969 agreed, re LTs part in the Marshall hit.
@@jamesroberts1810 no sir, the numbers say otherwise. Pro Football Reference has Lawrence Taylor’s 1990 season rated as the fifth best of his career and he was rated higher in the 1990 season than he was in 1986, 1982, 1984, and 1988 and these were First Team All-Pro seasons.
@@jamesroberts1810no. He was shot after the dreaded achilles injury
Such a physical and well played game. I remember watching it High school. To have the 49ers trying to threepeat and the Giants trying to add to their legacy with another Super bowl was amazing. The Giants defense matched up well against them in several playoff games. It was just straight up physical football, and both teams knew what was at stake
The other thing that made this game seem even more momentous was that Madden & Summerall still had their fastball - so many memorable teams in the NFC's dominant run of the mid to late 80's - Chicago, Washington, NY Giants, & San Francisco, and Madden & Summerall were the dominant voices calling all of those games.
The wizardry that Parcells and Belichick pulled those weeks to hold the 49ers to 13 and the Bills to 19 was something to behold. With hindsight, the way the Giants won that Super Bowl reminds me very much of the Patriots' wins, and as a Giants fan, I sure hope there wasn't any Belichick funny business that year.
Ryan Evans NFC Football on CBS was much more magical than it is on Fox.
Realhousewifexxx - You're right, such NFC dominance; Bears, Giants, Redskins 49ers, going into earltly 90s with Cowboys and Packers. The AFC seemed so over powered by them, untill my Denver Broncos finally stopped looking beyond pathetic in the Super Bowl and won back to back did the NFC's dominance end. But this game shows why a lot of people said the NFC Championship game was the super bowl. Even though my team was destroyed, I still have fondness for this of the mid 80s and early 90s. This game shows what the NFC power house teams and games were like, another one of my favorites was seeing the 94 49ers/cowboy's NFC Championship game Deion Snanders a 49er, the Cownboys always beating the 49ers in NFC Championship.. oh, and Madden and Summerall broadcasted that game, love them too.
@@JesseH76 Don't forget Jim Everett and the L.A Rams.. Also eagles, Anthony carter Vikings..
Madden and Summerall never lost their fastball..
The 1989 and 1990 49ers teams are the most loaded and deepest teams of all time. For them to be held to 13 points in the NFC Championship is uncharacteristic. Only the Giants would've been able to do something like that to THAT 49ers team. That Giants coaching staff was no joke. Bill Parcels had his "Ten Geniuses" on that staff: Bill Belichick, Tom Coughlin, Romeo Crennel, Charlie Weis, Ron Erhardt, Mike Pope, Fred Hoaglin, Al Groh, Mike Sweatman, and Ray Handley. You can't find a better coaching staff than that.
I just pinned this post. Well done, sir!
I wouldn't call Ray Handley a Genius
Big facts man
I had season tickets that year. Agree, Niners most dominant season ever.
@@RobertJohnson1975 Handley was a terrible Head Coach, but is universally recognized as a fantastic position coach/coordinator.
This game was pure physicality
I just realized that Jim Burt was with the enermy,he was a great player with and them
So glad I grew up in this era of the NFL. Could you imagine what would happen to Leonard Marshall if he hit a QB in this current era. One of the best games of football I've seen. Bill Parcells "power football"
Tuned in now just to see that hit , Jim Burt the nose tackle got him good in 86 game also
@@howardcampbell67962 of my favorite hits,Burt & Marshall.
@@howardcampbell6796 Yeah. Funny that Burt ended up on the niners and got his 2nd ring with them in 89. Then hit Hoss in this one and put Hoss out of the game for a few plays.
The Golden era of the NFL on CBS
No doubt bro!! I really miss those days
@@davidmaez7253 golden age of cbs
Indeed
This was the greatest NFC Championship game of all times. It was perfect football. Defensive, physical, smashmouth football. Giants outlasted the 49ers in game that stands alone in the history of sports.
Giants fan here, I compared the 2011 playoff game against SF to this one. That was a brutal defensive game turn over at the end gave thr Giants the win.
Moved from Hawaii and arrived in SF (SFO) the night the niners won the 88 Super Bowl, 90, I'm a freshman in Galileo H.S. in S.F. when Craig Fumbles. This ended the Montana Era. And childhood for me.. LOVE HURTS
Greatest NFL game ever played.
This game and the Redskins vs Vikings NFC title game was special also ....
Raiders Patriots Playoff Game
Their Monday Night matchup that same year was epic! Both 10-1. At Candlestick.
My living room was packed with family and friends watching this 1990 NFC Championship game. For some odd reason we had as many people over our house watching this game as if we were watching the Super Bowl. I would never believe the Giants would win this game scoring I think nothing but field goals. The 49ers, arguably the best offensive championship juggernaut football team I have seen to this day only score two touchdowns. And still the game went down to the end. One of the greatest games I've ever watched. I compare watching this game to the 1981 NFC Championship between the 49ers and Cowboys.
Clearly you have not watched many games.
Hit by Eric Howard and recovery by LT simply one of the greatest plays in the history of the NYG. Right of there with any play they have ever made .
Cinnaminson 06..........check the video at 2:56:24.....when Howard forced the fumble. Pepper Johnson forced Guy McIntyre to abandon his double-team block with Jesse Sapolu on Erik Howard allowing Howard to get his helmet on the football. Then Lawrence Taylor evades a block by Brent Jones at the line of scrimmage and fights off a block by Tom Rathman immediately after that to race to the spot along the line where Craig is located........to snag the ball when Howard popped it out.
Magnificent.
HAIL TO THE GIANTS
@@byrongammonbyrongammon9937 Then he pranced around with the ball for a bit. I was 21 at the time and my college buds and I absolutely lost it with joy when we saw LT grab that ball. What an unbelievable 4th Quarter that was.
Torgo1969 .....same here. I was 20 and will always cherish the memory of this game and Parcells’ and Belichick’s final post season with the Giants.
Yes, you are so right no nose tackle could have made that play
When I was 24 my dad and I (Giant's season tickets since 1976) took a weekend trip to Vegas for a weekend. We were flying from NJ and couldn't get the score on the plane back then, we landed in LV and there was a long line for taxis so my dad splurged for a limo to take us to our hotel. We burst into our room and turned on the TV and sat at the edge of your beds like kids, caught the last 10 mins and watched our Giants go to the SB. To say the least it was a great start to our trip.
Awesome.
As a niners fan this game has always been the hardest to accept. With Montana getting hurt and Craigs fumble. This is the first time I've watched this whole game .
not when the Cowboys bitch slapped ya 2 years in a row?
@Matt Pizzano The 49ers best offensive team during that period. The Giants, best collection of defensive players during that period. I compared this game as if it were an immovable object vs an irresistible force. I thank 1980's and 199's era NFL football teams for providing amazing entertainment. Don't get me wrong, I love today's game, but there was something special about championship teams back in the day. They played intense football, and I look up to the 1990 49ers and Giants NFC Championship game as one of the top benchmarks.
@@toddsands6000 you only need an explosive offense these days. you can't win with a smothering defense now
@@bertrice999 The losses to Dallas hurt but Dallas was clearly the best team in '92 and '93. The 49ers were still able to beat the Cowboys twice in 1994 en route to super bowl #5.
The two games played by these two teams in 1990 should be watched as a package. 20-18 in two games. The 7-3 game on Monday night in November was a great game. 7-3, think about that.
I was a heartbroken 7 year old little Niners fan, but even then I respected the Giants toughness. This game made me a football fan for life.
Bill Parcells finest hour.
Man, this game brings back memories. My grandma in California called my brothers, and I, to tell us our uncle cried at the end of this game. "Boy, oh, boy, a grown man crying over a football game." An end of an era.
Thanks Spencer. As a Giants fan I was crying too- tears of joy!
A 49er fan, l cried too. l was 12 though.
I was bouncing around the family room as a 7 year old.. all I remember before the last field goal was my dad telling me to sit in the “lucky” seat so the Giants could win.
That's awesome, good memories.
I became a fan of the NY Giants in 1990. After watching this Game and never looked Back. My opinion football will never be as exciting and memorable as the 80s and 90s. Once the rules changed and the $ increased the players and Game just wasn't the same. NYG 4 LIFE .
Please don't forget how free agency changed things immensely. Player movement was non-existent. It made for stronger teams for those organizations that had better coaching staffs. The players stayed in the same systems for longer time periods.
David Uboy well said. I’m a Dallas fan and your passage brought a tear to my eye. Man I miss the 80’s and 90’s NFL. Today’s NFL sucks.
Remember giant players praying on sidelines before field goal attempt. Parcells and Bellicheck together made for dynamic coaching duo.
the most physical game in nfl history!
The 1984 Chicago Bears vs Los Angeles Raiders is also up there in physicality.
Watch the 1975 AFC Championship game for physical play
It's definitely right up there
this is REAL football. back before they took the physicality out of the game.
“There will be no 3peat” music to my damn ears!
To this day, this is my all time favorite Giants game!!
Agreed. The 4th Quarter is immortal! "Roller coaster" doesn't do justice to the emotional swings that both teams and fan bases experienced.
@@Torgo1969 i remember watching every play of this game living just north of Buffalo, what a game.
Watched it live with a old friend, in a bar on long island, NY. It was a great game, and still is one of the best.
@@janspup6232 I was in college in Ithaca NY watching with some pals from Downstate that were even more rabid Giants fans than I was. We had had pizza and wings delivered, but by the 4th Quarter all appetite had vanished and pretty soon as SF were driving down the field we were climbing the damn walls with dread and anxiety.
Then we hear "And the Giants have the ball!"
@@Torgo1969 nice, it's seems playoffs have some hohum years and then some classics, 1981, 1990 , 1999 and 2007 had some classics, after NY beat SF and statrted off +6 vs Buffalo, I'm in Niagara Falls which might as well be Buffalo so the line can get a little skewed due to hometown better, about a half hour before kickoff they bet it up to 9, i jumped on that fucker, i had them against the pats in 07' not just +13.5 but i took them straight at 4 to 1 with the under, talk about easy money.
Love these 49ers. Seeing Lott's hit proved how violent a game this is.
Jeff Hostetler deserves so much more credit than he gets. I thought he was a great QB. More mobile than Simms which added another dimension to the offense
I wouldn't call Hostetlet great but he was the perfect curve ball
I’m an Eagles fan, but thank you sooooooooooooo much for these videos. Golden Era of football gets no better.
Go Birds!!!!
As a giants fan this was one of those games that exhausted me... but when you play a great team like the 49ers what did you expect , there was always allot of talk about the giants rivals back then.. but the niners were easily up there with the Cowboys, redskins and Eagles... from 81-90 they had some great games and epic ones in the playoffs... sadly the league is nothing like this anymore
Favorite Giant game of all time. Better than any of the SB wins. Facing the two time defending champion 49'ers with Joe Montana, in their stadium, with a back up QB, score no TDs, and win on a last second field goal. Amazing...
knix200129 But if Montana doesn't get hurt I always believed he closes that game out.
We don't know that. Young did nothing wrong. Young completed a key pass. Then they were running out the clock on the ground. The thing to do. But Craig fumbled. Actually he fumbled a few minutes before a few minutes earlier. But 49ers recovered.
@@adk46er5203 ...Roger Craig's fumble was FORCED. In addition to Roger Craig wearing the culpable goat label.......some of the blame belongs on the doorsteps of other 49er offensive players.
Look at 2:56:24 of the video. #56 ROLB Lawrence Taylor gets past the block of #84 TE Brent Jones and immediately afterward #44 FB Tom Rathman fails to hold or stick his block of Taylor.....and what happens next?!?!? Taylor heads for the ball carrier and the ball squirts into the air after #74 NT Erik Howard put his helmet on the ball forcing # 33 RB Roger Craig to fumble the football.......Taylor recovers the football.
Damn fantastic game.
@@Price70 No what cost the 49ers the game was that Roger Craig fumble in the 4th quarter
@@danlivni2097 But if Joe stays in they're not running.
Joe got hurt while attempting a pass.
Young was cold off the bench and they clearly didn't want him passing in that situation.
This game changed a lot of lives.
Classic John and Pat calling the game. Jerry was a great referee. Also miss big red calling his famous "FIRST DOWNNNNN" ...Alot of HOFers in this game. Also these classic Comercials ... LT on one side and Charles Haley on the other... Great defensive game !! Glad I grew up watching these games.
2:47:20 Bill you are the man! Greatest playoff game I've ever seen. 1/20/1991.
3:09:31 absolute pandemonium!!!
The best game I ever saw. Greatest coaching job in all of NFL history. To get the Giants past Montana, Rice, Ronnie Lott with a backup QB and a 32-year old running back...unbelievable. The fake punt, the Marshall hit, the forced fumble...all as huge as the 'helmet catch' would become years later.
Bluestone524.....in my opinion this the most significant victory in the history of the Giants' franchise.
byrongammon byrongammon a case could be made for that sure. I’m a cowboy fan, so looking at it from an outsiders view I’d go with the Giants victory over Denver in SB 21. I say this because the Giants were hands down the best team in league that season so if they had lost to Denver, a less than dynastic team for sure, that would’ve washed away their whole season. Instead it put an exclamation point on their greatness.
But yes, their victory over the two time champs was amazing. Well done indeed
Bluestone524
@@byrongammonbyrongammon9937 It would seem that even Bill Parcells agrees with you. After all, Parcells is on record as stating the victory was the most memorable moment of his entire NFL coaching career. And shoot, even the referee of the game, Jerry Markbreit, said it was the greatest NFL game he was ever involved in as an official. Finally, I am almost certain that Lawrence Taylor himself has declared the 1990 NFC Championship victory as the greatest game he ever played in. Wow. These are some serious endorsements.
BESIDES SUPER BOWL 42@@byrongammonbyrongammon9937
"There will be no three-peat!" ~ Pat Summerall
@@disneydanny2 are you on crack? What rule book you reading from lol
Ahhhhhh STFU!
daboys1215 Joe Montana said over and over the NY Giants were the one and only team he ever feared. They hit you and hit you and never stopped coming, ever.
Gives me Goosebumps every time I hear it, and it will do that till my dying breath.
"Everything hurts." -- Joe Montana
Thx for the upload-- my favorite game of all time ,have watched it many times... especially the last minutes of the game.
Of course, as Giant fan, loved the Giant defense , and I actually had predicted(boasted?) before the game that Giants would hold 49er offense to "around 13 points" -- but had no idea how Hostettler wud do vs the underrated 49er defense.
And 5 FGs got it done...fake punt...Marshalls hit...Craig's fumble...Hostettlers final drive is tremendous ,especially right away escaping sack and getting it to Bavaro...and of course "there will be no 3peat" from Summerall...
All this with the Gulf War updates.
Classic
Yes. It was a memorable day in what was an otherwise depressing final year of college for me. Hooray for the NYGs!
I used to have this game on VHS and I would pop it in when there was nothing else to watch on TV. One of the most exciting defensive struggle/hard-nose hitting games ever. I remember setting my VCR to record this game and the AFC championship between Buffalo and Oakland and telling my co workers not to be spoiler and tell me who won before I got off work. I was quite surprised after watching this game. I was certain that SF was going to three-peat.
According to NFL Network Top 100, 3 of the top 5 NFL players of all time are on this field
#5 Joe Montana
#3 Lawrence Taylor
#1 Jerry Rice
WOW…incredible knowing that watching this
You are absolutely right bro 3 of the world greatest football ball player's are in this game
That fumble broke my heart.
John Sy get over it haha
Eric Howard baby!!! Big Blue 💪💪💪
I hear you. Craig was a great RB and no one likes to see a legend make a turnover like that. But then he was going up against the big old coconut of big Eric Howard.
Yep the Giants broke your heart Don't think montana Played another game after that one.
@@elik.webber1514 No, he did. Steve Young took over and when Montana came back, he played one quarter of a Monday night game then he was traded to the Chiefs.
No love loss between these two teams, they played blood and guts whenever they tangled with each other.
I miss Bill Parcell Giants some of the best defense teams ever to take the field
Probably the biggest game in the history of the NFL where defense dominated on each team
Best game ever. Parcels said it was his favorite game he coached in
This game, even more so than the Super Bowls, put Parcells in the Hall of Fame. This was clinical head coaching at its very best with everything on the line. Very Lombardi-like.
This is the best NFC Championship Game I've ever seen even to this day. What an epic battle
As a 49ers fan, it was the "Catch" vs the Cowboys. You never forget your first (Superbowl season).
I like what LT had to say after the game
I️ just realized how bad today’s football is after watching this game.
Everyday gets worse and worse not better
I am so glad I grew up watching the NFL in these days. I will never watch another game ever again.
to be fair this is one of the greatest games of all time
The level of physicality is night and day between this game and current nfl
it sure is a different game now. More speed, skill and finesse and less a physical battle of endurance and willpower
Patriots fan. I had never liked the Giants but in 1990 the they won me over as a sports fan.
In 07 and 11 after both Super Bowl losses I had to raise toast the Giants.
The good old days. Football the way it was meant to be played, with two titans fighting it out to the end, without the officials turning into the pansy, don't hit anybody BS that we have today. We will sadly never see this kind of football again; no wonder so many people don't even tune in anymore.
Are you sure we can say 'never' though? If everything has changed to how it is nowadays, doesn't that meant it's always possible to revert the changes?
pound for pound......probably the hardest hitting game in nfl history.....and im not talking about 09 saints just illegally tee off on the qbs brain type stuff....i mean good clean high stakes smashmouth football
TreyBear very well said.
Lol it wasn't clean. There are *plenty* of late or dirty hits in this game. I agree its one of the most physical games ever but take the rose tinted glasses off. Giants probably had "take Montana out. take Rice out" underlined on their whiteboards.
@@patrickharrison1913, you’re spouting nutrient-rich fertilizer. Did you forget 49ers’ NT Jim Burt diving into Hostetler’s knee? Marshall’s hit on Montana was LEGAL.
That game was the Super Bowl
Greatest game of that era.
In your mind. Not in mine
That's a bold statement, but hard to argue against. NYG fan here and that was memorable watching with my college buds, we lost our sh*t when LT recovered Craig's fumble.
I have been watching Football for 60 years and I have always believed that, "DEFENSE WINS GAMES" and this was a typical example! Great Game!
My beautiful daughter was born the Monday after the Super Bowl we were both screaming and yelling though the whole house we both lost voices the week before at home against the Bears those were great days
Gotta ask ... is she a Giant fan now? Cheers!
👍 Yes
I was waiting for someone to post this game. Also like the commercial breaks.
Holy cow LT in the postgame talking about our soldiers just shows you how far we’ve come as a country. And not in a good way. Love it that he supported them.
what the hell are you talking about
@@patrickpersianni5314 you have trouble reading words?
@@rkid727 i just wanted to make sure i understood,we should not have been in any of those wars in the first place
@@patrickpersianni5314 ok great that’s nice. I was commenting on how someone like LT openly supported our soldiers, whether you agree or not about the war, versus today where they rarely show such patriotic thoughts. Maybe I’m wrong about that, but kneeling back then wouldn’t even have been a consideration.
@@rkid727 don’t mind the kneeling at all to protest how people are treated by police brutality, nothing to do with military
I was at this game (3 days after my 27th Bday), and to be honest, I only watched the video to watch JT's TD. It is the only time I have ever seen any footage of this game. Season Ticket Holder: Sec 14 Ubox. It still stings.
I was 8yrs old when this game played.It was the first NFL I saw in its entirety.Thanks Ken Gelman for having this game up.Its a childhood memory.
Enjoy!
Pass is to Johnnnn Taaylorrrr! 14 yard pick up. First downnnnn, 49ers! I just love SUMMERALL and Madden' s commentary during the game. This is good stuff! 👍
One of the hardest hitting games ive ever seen, plenty of hall of famers, previous sb champions, and best of all madden and summerall call the game! Great upload, thank you
I remember watching this back in 90 as a 12 year old, thanks for the upload
Thank you for posting. Having all the commercials, news breaks, and post-game stuff really makes this a gem. Thank you.
Love good defense, this Giants team had such a great D... It’s nice seeing the 49rs struggle to move the ball, they ran over everybody else, but this Giants D said HELL NO!
best defensive game of all time by 2 teams. unreal. I remember missing 2nd half 2 go to the movies I was 6 I think. so pissed I missed ending lol.
The very best football game I ever watched! Had to see it again!
It’s a rare occasion when two of the very best teams of an era, at the top of their game, face each other with everything on the line, but this was one of those times….
Not a lot of people gave the Giants much of a chance to win at Candlestick Park, but they had faced the 49ers in three previous playoff games going back to 1981 and were very familiar with them…. So, I wasn’t surprised that they won but knew it was gonna be super close and extremely violent (my kind of game 😁)!
1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990 (NOTE: should have met in 1989 ... damn Flipper Anderson). I think a lot of folks forget that these two teams were doormats in the 1970s before changes to both teams put them on the right track and both shared the elevator ride up during the 1980s. The 49ers hired John McVay for GM who was the Giants' head coach from 1976-78. Had circumstances played out differently, the Giants were planning to promote him to their GM. But look at their success from 1981-1990: six (6) Super Bowl championships between the two teams, five (5) head-to-head playoff matches, countless Hall of Fame players. SF and Dallas is played up as a more sexy rivarly; however, Giants-49ers is an honest, hard-nosed combination of chess match and smash-mouth combined into one. That's what makes this rivalry special to 49ers and Giants fans alike. After the Parcells - Walsh/Seifert years, the teams only met three times in the post-season (1993 Division Playoff 49er blowout, 2002 Wild Card barn burner and the legendary 2011 NFC Championship Game).This year will be the first time the teams have played since 2020 when the Giants were in turmoil. Hopefully a better game in Santa Clara week #4. But what are the chances of the Giants and 49ers rekindling their old rivalry again? We saw glimpses in 2002 and 2011, how about 2023 with Purdy vs. Danny Dimes? They have a lot of catching up to do before they'll ever top one of the greatest NFC Championship games ever played. Peace!
This game and the game that Eli survived against the Niners on the way to the SB are right up there with the toughest fought, and most memorable wins ever for us NYG fans. Absolutely the hardest hitting games we lived through. They were cleanly played games at the highest level. Not dirty at all. Clean and tough as hell. Football is not like this anymore. Also, who knew that Matt Bahr and Lawrence Tynes wore the same number 9 ? Kickers can be tough football players too.
2:49:29
Summerall: The Report from the 49ers bench is that everything hurts.
@pmerk36 It was like being hit by a car. Giants fan, but I really felt for Montana.
Imagine Brady having to had to play in that era.....he wouldn't have lasted more than a few games.
@pmerk36Don't forget a concussion as well
He looked like he didn't know where he was.
@jaboo82681 correct, he was the starting quarterback going into the 1991 season and fully recovered, he just blew out his elbow in training camp.
Freshman year in college, running the dorm hall screaming like a madman.
I've loved this game more than any of the 4 SB's the Giants have won. To go into Candlestick against the 2-time defending champions, not score a TD....and win. Best game I've ever seen.
The last 10 minutes of this game...
Yes. 2 QB injuries, a fake punt, a critical fumble. Unforgettable.
If Leonard Marshall did that to Brady - he'd have been arrested and thrown into Guantanamo Bay for the rest of his life.
brady is the goat
Montana was in a system........West Coast offense
Brady's offenses were constantly changing
Easy to look GOAT when the playoffs and homefield are determined by beating on the lowly Bills, Dolphins, and Jets twice a year. pfft. GOAT at longevity maybe... only because Brady never got his ass pancaked into the astro turf by Lawrence Taylor and Reggie White. if he played in the 80s/90's his ass would have gone out in a wheel chair 6 years ago. then where's your 8 superbowl appearances and 5 rings? I wonder how many more rings Montana would have if he played 20 years in the "don't touch the QB" era.
Agreed, Brady would have gotten slaughtered playing in this era. Just look at the defenses that have actually gotten to and beat Brady during the Pats' dynasty: the Giants, the Ravens, the Broncos, but defenses like this were the NORM back in the 70s and 80s! Montana's 49ers were playing mini-dynasties in the 80s: the Redskins, the Giants, the Bears, a combined 6 SB victories during that time. Brady's getting cred for playing in a division of shitty competition and beating cupcake opponents like the Texans, Titans, and the (Luck era) Colts in the playoffs! LOL Please. Plus, the Pats went TEN years in between their 3rd and 4th SB wins. Basically, Brady just hung around long enough for his competition to go away. Peyton Manning owned him in the AFC Championship games, a 3-1 record against him, then he retired. The Ravens disintegrated after Ray Lewis left. Brady is part of a well-oiled machine. He doesn't have to worry about the pocket collapsing on his ass like Aaron Rodgers and Carson Wentz do. Any QB worth a plug nickel can hit wide open receivers when you have an eternity to throw. Maybe playing under Bill Belichick has something to do with his success.
Marshall would have KILLED Brady, literally.
This was a great game..Hostetler made some big throws
+1000 for Hoss
This was the game that made me a Giants fan. The next day was MLK Jr Day, I doorbell ditched every 9er fan in my neighborhood then went home and listened to Aerosmith’s Pump…on cassette 😎
I hated both of these teams but hot damn this was a great game between two great teams.
The atmosphere was so much better in old Candelstick Park (the team was too).
9ers made a huge mistake building their new stadium in Santa Clara….Candlestick point was perfect for home team
the giants are a great organization.im a cowboys fan
One of the best games ever
I lived in park slope brooklyn at the time, 2 old high school buddies came over to watch with me and wife was at work, what a game! I love Roger craig to this day for his fumble late in game.
I am a fan of Brady, Brees, Rodgers, etc... They should be grateful that they are playing the in the current protect-the-QB era. These defenses were HARD! Didn't play around one bit! When you got tackled, you stayed tackled.
Brady Brees, Rodgers are good but would not for an instant last as long as they have if they had to face defenses like the Giants and 49ers back then. No way...no how.
Ronnie Lott's hit at 20:30 is definitely a 15 yarder today.
One of the epic games of all time... Both teams peaking along with VERY contrasting offenses makes it a classic. Have to love the comments here as well from football fans.
It was a great game. Had to believe it was 32 years ago.
Did anyone else notice that the pricing on the Medium Pepperoni pizza from Domino's at the beginning of this video is pretty much the same deal you can get 26 years later?
JoeJacobyforHallofFame Pizza doesn’t taste better now
Lol
@2:49:22.....Pat Summerall's communication of the report on Montana's condition is something I'll never forget. 'Doctors want him to stay right where he is because the report from the 49ers bench.....is that EVERYTHING hurts.'
yep the golden boy put out of the game i loved it .
My Giants helped me win a lot of money in this game and especially two weeks later in Super bowl
When the Giants were BIG BLUE. Now they’re baby blue.
@ 2:49:20 - Quite possibly the BEST and funniest sideline injury report ever...given by Pat Summerall.
But totally true. I thought they killed him when I saw this game live.
L Marshall was on the ground 2x on that play, never gave up, and turned his Will into Speed. Then LT stopped Montana's roll and had the critical assist as LM immortalized himself in the hearts of NYG fans that play.
A classic game. A lot of legends out there.
As of today, March 11, 2019, there are ONLY 6 Hall of Famers who participated in this game. Parcells, Taylor for the Giants...Montana, Lott, Rice, Haley for the 49ers. Pull up the 1974 AFC Championship game between Pittsburgh and Oakland on UA-cam. There are a total of 23 Hall of Famers from this game. 12 Steelers: Art and Dan Rooney, Chuck Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Ham, Mel Blount, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Jack Lambert, Mike Webster, Lynn Swann, John Stallworth, Donnie Shell. 11 Raiders: Al Davis, John Madden, Kenny Stabler, Fred Belinickoff, Dave Casper, Art Shell, Gene Upshaw, Jim Otto, Willie Brown, Ray Guy, George Blanda. No comparison
@@keithclark7266 no one cares.
@@TheWakeup011 Someone does to make that statement of "a lot of legends out there"
@@keithclark7266 legends. Not hof's.
@@TheWakeup011 aren't all those "legends" in the HOF?
Ken Gelman.....thank you for uploading this game.
with the commercials its the ultimate 90s experience..hell of a game btw
My Favorite Slugfest as a little kid; my hopeless double digit Underdog Giants without Starting QB Simms or 1st round rookie RB Rodney Hampton; go into San Fran and beat the Dynasty. Fun Fact: Giants #1 Defense; 49ers #2 Defense of 1990. Amazingly: The 1990 NYG Defense is BETTER then 86 in points allowed; yet 86 Lawrence Taylor was peak and the D was just way more fun to watch in 86; if you can get your hands on 86 games like the October Redskins and Cowboys games you see way more aggressive blitzing nearly every down by All Pros and Hall of Famers...but they allowed more points then the less exciting 1990 D which was more effective at keeping teams from scoring. 1990 I guess maybe Bellichik got smarter about how to use players who were visibly slower 4 years later, LT; Reasons, Carl Banks Leonard Marshall were unblockable for stretches of 86. Big Blitzing is always a risk; you're gambling QB can't find the wide open guys before you can hit him, force him to chuck it away; or hopefully throw a pick or get strip sacked.
To this day this was the most heartbroken I felt after a game 29 years later I still can't watch it
Greatest game I've ever watched, David. As a Giants fan I can honestly say the rivalry with the Niners from that era was everything and more.
I only watch the JT touchdown and that's it. A beautiful play in an otherwise horrific, and demoralizing defeat
I felt more like that against the cowboys in 92
"There will be no three-peat" still burned in my memory.
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We should've had that one for sure. But this one was for a three-peat and immortality.
I watched this game as a 17 year old. I was saddened about this game because the Giants beat my Bears at the Meadowlands the previous week 31-3. But I quietly liked and respected the Giants and their style of play. I had developed quite a dislike for the 49ers because not only they beat the Bears in the NFC championship games of January 1985 and January 1989, they had been blowing away my Bears the last two times they visited Candlestick Park on Monday night's by the scores of 41-0 and 26-0. So I was pulling for the Giants to win this game and was delighted by the result at the end.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing, LaTrone. And hey- I think your Bears are on the way back! I like the coach they hired. Good stuff!
Definitely a "full contact" game one of the top 5 of all time for sure
ah, when the giants had a running game. as Archie and Edith Bunker would say, "those were the days".
Oh how this one hurt. Worse than '72 and the Cowboys. 27 years later and I'm still pissed. Hold onto the ball Roger...... 1 fricken play.
phil lamonica should have used Tom Rathman, seriously was he even on the field? Dexter Carter too. They weren't getting anything out of Craig.
Flynn Hagerty Dexter was a draft bust
phil lamonica Seifert should've kept the ball in Steve Young's hands after that 25 yd pass to Jones.
Mick Funny bust or not, all they needed was someone who could run for three yards without fumbling the ball. Something that was beyond Roger by the end of the game.
NY was the better team, get over it.
Saddest words I ever remembered hearing Pat summer all saying was there will be no three peat made me cry 😢I was so broken hearted that hit Montana took from the helmet would of been illegal now a days never got over this game and never will 😢
As a Giant fan, with the history of Montana getting beaten up by the Giants' defense, it left me chilled to see that blank stare on his sweaty face as he staggered to get up off the carpet. But I must confess that Summerall's words, on that day, to this day, invoke tears in my eyes as well. For all who said it couldn't be done, there it was done and I've used the Giants' unlikely win as inspiration as I began my life in the real word, at the time, to never let anyone tell me I can't do something. Parcells and his men found a way. Throughout my life, I did as well and count Bill as a mentor in my life because of the life lessons he taught his players. Peace!
This Championship game should simply be known as THE HIT! It was the biggest hit I ever saw historically speaking. 1. Because it was a Championship game. And 2. Because It was Montana, arguably the Greatest Champion Quarterback to ever play the game, who was on receiving end of The Hit.
Sure, we can blame the game on Craig all we want but give Giants' defense a lot of credit for just allowing 49ers 13 points. It was pretty impressive.
Lawrence Taylor called it the greatest game he ever played in. The intensity from both teams was unparalleled.
One of the best playoff games of all time. Every yard was highly contested and the hitting was at an all-time high. Can't believe that was 27 years ago...remember it like it was yesterday.
its a shame what the game has turned into with all the rules.. that cardinals packers playoff where both teams just kept going down the field was actually rather boring.. they ruined the game
Ryan David Only people who never played the game get into that blame nonsense. Two great teams going toe to toe trying to knock each others block off, stuff is going to happen. Giants moved the ball all day but SF was able to keep them out of the end zone. No doubt the game could have gone either way but the Giants were the better team on this day, two points better.
Ryan David True but Craig is the reason why they lost the game