That 70 Yard Touchdown Pass to Michael Young on 3rd and 10 from ELWAY Reminded me with those Beautiful Uniforms why I grew up with Orange and Blue Fever in Weatherford, Tx.
That was a very awesome play. Tell a kind of play that gets you fired up. And I still love these bronco uniforms the best I hate it when they switch to navy blue in 97
I watched this game on Armed Forces Network (AFN) when my father was stationed in West Germany. I recorded this game on my VCR and I remember watching this game, along with "The Drive" many many times. It was my connection with the Broncos thousands of miles away. Thanks for posting this game! It brings back many childhood memories.
Manolo G. Know what you mean ! I had to listen to AFN radio’s « parade of sports » in Brussels relayed by the SHAPE station in Mons to hear about my niners. As a belgian with no affiliation to the military, it was my only connection to football. That plus the tuesday edition of the USA today international edition and their very expensive (from europe) phone line with live scores.... Yep no internet at the time and that phone line was how i found about my niners defeat vs Giants in 1986 playoffs 49-3... and i remember to this day where i listen to superbowl XXIV and my niners thrashing of this same Broncos team. Great memories...
2:15:43 Elway throws a Patrick Mahomes shortstop like pass. I keep hearing commentators saying Mahomes is the best passer they've ever seen, and it's because of the way Mahomes is able to throw against the grain while running. What these football experts forget is that it was the baseball player Elway who pioneered this throwing ability.
I thought the same thing when I heard them talk about that.Elway and Jeff george could throw out of any body position or angle,and with considerable velocity.
I respect the hell out of Mahomes. He's going to be a pain in the ass for us Broncos fans for years to come, but you're right. Mahomes has nothing in terms of arm strength we haven't seen years ago with Elway. John had a damn howitzer for an arm, especially in his younger years
This was probably the most critical play of the game for Denver. If this 3rd down and 10 was not converted, then the Broncos would have been punting right back to Cleveland when the Browns had already just narrowed the score to 24-21 with their two quick back to back late 3rd quarter touchdowns. Elway's pass was all the more incredible considering that number 31 on the Browns, pro bowl cornerback Frank Minnifield, had an astonishing 44-inch vertical jump. Even Bill Walsh said, "I can't believe it!" as he was processing what he had just seen.
I respect Mahomes...but John Elway made many of these same types of throws with the clock running out, after having spent 3 hours taking beatings like something out of the fifteenth round of a Rocky Balboa fight...There's just no comparison.
The thing that struck yours truly as weird was that the 1989 AFC Championship started at 11 AM Mountain Time (I was living in Portales, New Mexico at that time). I knew this was because the 1989 NFC Championship Game (Rams VS. 49ers) was right afterwards. Both games would be more Semi-Prime Time now, but the fact that it was still starting in the late morning in Denver was very unique. I don’t think that something like this will ever happen again. A different kind of a moment in pro football as well as pro sports.
To each his own. I know nobody cares about my opinion. But I LOVE for games to be played entirely under blazing sunlight. Maybe because football is the ultimate spectacle. No other sport is so visually arresting. Even as a kid, I loved the noon games. I'd get the Bronco game late in the afternoon, and after an hour or so there'd be all kinds of weird shadows on the field..By the second half, depending on the time of year, half the field would be in the shade, or it would be dark, altogether... There was a time when they did this even in Super Bowls. Roger Staubach won his MVP in Super Bowl 6, I believe, and that game was played entirely in broad daylight...Never again..
This game brings back so many memories as a kid. I was 11 years old. I remember watching this like it was yesterday. Browns were so close in the 80’s to making to the Super Bowl.
Same here, I remember playing the original Tecmo Bowl during this game thinking I was going to do some voodoo to help the Browns win. When it failed this was my last game as a Browns fan, Broncos fan since then
Back then you had a real love affair between the denver team and their fans the real mile high magic when back then they seem to be almost unbeatable at home man i miss the glory orange crush days
Me, too. It may sound crazy, but I'd trade the rings to go back. To this day, it sickens me that the Shanahan era was so perfect...I mean, STORYBOOK perfect...and they had to go and ruin it by changing their uniform...
Yeah when the Broncos had the Retro uniforms and Mile High stadium it was Mile High magic things never seen the same after they moved to the new stadium and changed the uniforms to those ugly navy blue ones I still hate them yuck 🤮 the uniforms in this game will always be my favorite regardless of our Super Bowl records in each of the uniforms
@@tgriffin3059 I agree with you 100%, it was cool when we did win the Super bowls but it was kind of bittersweet for me because I hated the fact we wanted and those butt ugly navy blue uniforms, I miss that orange crush they were that's Denver Broncos colors to me. I hated the navy blue when they went to it in 97 and I still do to this day
Thanks for the upload Bart!. What I remember for this game, I was 12 years old and flying back from Seattle . Plane was stuck on the tarmac at Stapleton International Airport for over an hour and the pilot was giving us game updates and the whole cabin cheering. Never did watch the game until now. A little tougher game than the score would indicate.
The Denver Broncos had the #1 defense in the NFL in 1989 regular season. They gave up a total of 13 passing touchdowns. They only allowed an average of 14.1 points per game.
Steve Atwater #27 of the Denver Broncos Career Accomplishments Denver Broncos (1989-1998) New York Jets (1999) 8x Pro Bowl selection 4x All-Pro selection 3 Super Bowl appearances 2x Super Bowl champion 1989 All-Rookie Team 1990's All-Decade Team Pro Football Hall of Fame selection He was instrumental in getting the Broncos their first Super Bowl victory. In fact, some would argue he could have been the Most Valuable Player in Super Bowl XXXII. His play was nothing short of stellar. He was credited with six solo tackles, one sack, a forced fumble and two passes defensed. Furthermore, his big plays came at the times when the Broncos needed them most. He sacked Brett Favre and forced a fumble when Terrell Davis was sitting out the second quarter due to a migraine. He batted down a pass at the line while blitzing that was intended for a wide open Green Bay receiver. Finally, during the Packers frantic charge in the final minutes, Atwater broke up a pass with a collision so fierce two players where knocked out. Had those plays not been made it is possible the Packers could have won the game.
i agree...i always thought McCaffrey was underrated on that team too....he was a great reciever...all the attention went to Elway and Davis...and they were great, but they can’t do it alone.
Don't tell the Broncos what's coming 2 weeks later. How can a team look this good only to get ground into the Superdome turf just 2 weeks later? I know the 49ers are one of the best teams of all time, but damn.
I said the same thing!! I was 15 years old when I saw this game. I said to myself , enjoy this moment while you can broncos!! Show nuff super bowl24 they didn't even bother to show up!!
Yeah Super Bowl XXIV was a disaster Denver was never a good team on artificial turf, but I agreed Denver looks really good in this game it was very disappointing how the Super Bowl turned out, but Denver played the 49ers the year before in 1988 at candlestick Park and beat them, it was a pretty epic game it's on UA-cam also
Here is a did you know, this game was played at 10:30 am in the morning Denver time. At that time the Championship games played on the afternoon one at 12:30 pm and one at 4pm. I hear rumors that the NFL wanted to move this game on a Saturday because the 49ers game against the Rams was also played on the West Coast. Many folk on the West Cost. This was the first and only time the bowl championship games were played on the West Coast
Actually, the game began just after 11:30am Mountain Time due to the circumstances. By 2002-03 playoffs, games now began at 3pm and after 6:30 Eastern Time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390_NFL_playoffs#Schedule
The Marty Ball years were the Browns' best chance of getting to a Super Bowl. It's sad that Marty was basically 4 or 5 plays away from having a legitimate Super Bowl Championship contender.
The Browns got back in it and then the 4th quarter came and they fell apart. Other than 94 the windowed closed for the Browns and they never recovered.
Bernie Kosar's elbow injury was evident during this game. The under thrown deep post to a WIDE OPEN Reggie Langhorne late in the 2nd quarter should have put the Browns up 7-3 (Langhorne should of caught it ANYWAY). It would have COMPLETELY changed the whole momentum of the game. The DEFENSE had a good game plan. Kosar's elbow was SO SWOLLEN after the game, it looked like a grapefruit was implanted into his arm. BUT he toughed it out during the game, enduring the excruciating pain and gave it ALL he had. MAD respect for Bernie Kosar!
@@bryanburrage9041 I’d say they deserved it for getting rid of Marty but Kosar was a warrior. If he had been healthy that year who knows what would have happened. I’m not sure if any AFC team was ready to face those Niners but the Browns should have stayed in Cleveland because they were actually starting to be a solid team and with the talent they had from the field, to the coaches and in the front office it should have been the Browns winning Super Bowls and not the GD Ravens!
Well there were young coaches then, as Tom Landry started at 35 for Dallas, but people were generally more patient about working their way up through the ranks. You had fewer Sean McVays then. Organizations weren't so trigger happy for change then either, as good coordinators had great job security, so there was less desire for them to risk it all for only a marginally higher salary (in relative terms) to be head coach. Some just thought they were born to be either an offensive or defensive coordinator for life, then the poop hit the fan one day when they saw all of their once blonde or brunette hair turn full gray, some having gone to white, and suddenly get the urge to get a taste of being a head coach once they realized they had little time left on Earth for work.
Because then they didn't had jobs to kids who weren't even old enough to have experience to be a HC. I don't know how these guys at 30 or younger are getting NFL HC jobs. You graduate hs at 18 and don't graduate college until 21. 7 years of coaching isn't enough to be a HC in the pros imo
Wow, Marc Trestman was the offensive coordinator for the Browns back then, no wonder why they lost. He was the Bears head coach from 2013-2014, and he stunk it up... Lol!!!
What's interesting is Bud was 2-1 vs. the Broncos. The problem was, the one loss was the one that counted. I think we would have given the '89 49ers a good game. We lost to them by a FG a year later, with a worse team!
It was obvious that the '89 49ers were an unstoppable machine, but does anyone think the Browns might have fared a little better than the Broncos did? I was only a kid, but I was watching this game just praying that Cleveland would win. I and everyone outside of Denver were sick of the Broncos by this point, plus we ALL knew what was going to happen to them in the Super Bowl.
In terms of a better game possible but niners peak during the 88 playoffs there was no team touching them in 89 14-2 that year and a well oil machine thru the playoffs
I remember the game being close at one time, but I thought the Broncos were killing them at one point. But it was pretty close through three quarters. @ (2:03:10)
I wish the Bills had managed to make it past Cleveland and Denver. They would have been more competitive against SF as they matched up better. Alas, the Bills kept getting in their own way that year.
@@RetroreviewsPlus It makes plenty of sense. Different teams match up better than others. The Bills were better equipped than the Broncos to give the 49ers a competitive game.
@@MaximusWolfe so the bills could beat the 49ers, but they couldn't beat the Browns and the Browns couldn't beat the Broncos I think that's wishful thinking and shoulda coulda woulda. Also the Broncos beat the bills during the 89 season 28- 14.... At Buffalo
@@RetroreviewsPlus I guess you still don’t get the point. Sigh. It’s about matchups. The broncos lacked the physicality and size on defense that gave them a competitive chance against most NFC teams. The browns and bills were very physical and big. It’s not that complicated.
Why would they switch out Humphrey for Sewell at RB when going to the 4-wide package? You could have the 3 Amigos, a TE and Humphrey in there and do the same thing?
Elway had a canon the strongest arm of any Qb ....Patrick who Mahomes ..He doesn't even have a chance..Get real..nobody threw the ball like ELWAY ..He was the ultimate Weapon...
Still looking back on this I felt that Cleveland would have done a better job vs the 49ers. If they had come back and won (somehow) it would have been called: "The Comeback" 49ers still would have beat them in the SB... but I bet it would not have been 55-10. Might have been much closer simply because Cleveland matched up better with the 49ers than Denver did.
How does that make any sense if Cleveland can't beat Denver who then got destroyed by the 49ers. The Broncos had their worst game in the Super Bowl and the 49ers have their best game. A year earlier in 1988 the Broncos actually beat the 49ers at candlestick park
@@RetroreviewsPlus Some teams match up against others better. In 1984, Miami Dolphins go to Pittsburgh and wins 31-7 The very next week, the Steelers go TO San Francisco and give them a 20-17 loss. Mark Malone, QB of the Steelers out performed Joe Montana. It was the 49ers only loss all season. The 49ers then beat Miami in the Super Bowl 38-16. Similarly, a year later, New England beats Miami 2 out of the three games they played (final one being the Championship game. Earlier that season, the Dolphins handed the Bears their only loss that season 38-24 and it wasn't even that close. Bears beat Pats 46-10 in the Super Bowl. A LOT of people believe the Dolphins would have won that SB had they just got past *lucky* New England who had a "Cinderella Season".
@@d0nKsTaH yep every game is different, because I remember when the Denver Broncos led by quarterback Kyle Orton, beat the Tom Brady LED Patriots. Kyle Orton out doing Tom Brady.....🤯
Yet that score doesn't tell the story of how much of a thrashing it really was. Broncos had #1 rated defense going into that game, and it felt like the 49ers had a chance to score 80 on that Louisiana evening. That was the 1st football game I actually ever watched live, from start to finish, and while 80's a stretch, it would've been at least 65-10 if Bill Walsh wanted to just keep running the score up in the 4th period. The Steve Young 6TD pass Super Bowl 5yrs later in Super Bowl 29, has nothing on Super Bowl 24.
@@roninkraut6873 Thank you for pointing that out. I actually was aware of that (don't know if you'll believe me?), but was just typing too fast w/o thinking, so accidently typed Bill Walsh, meaning to type George Seifert. And Seifert gets historically underrated because of the talent that he had, but would take him over Mooch any day of the wk., and especially on Sunday. Untimely injuries in the early 90s, followed by the start of free agency in the mid 90s, cost him a few more Super Bowls that I believe he would've won. Still, two's not bad.
@@arsonhakobyan I believe you. I’ve done the same thing a lot. Don’t forget Dallas was also at the beginning of their dynasty too. For awhile there the NFC championship game was the super bowl
@@roninkraut6873 Yeah, the loss of Charles Haley was really due to bad management, as oppose to free agency, and it hurt us, especially since them Cowboys got him. But then losing the likes of Bill Romanowski, Deion Neon Sanders & Ricky Watters all in their primes to free agency was really the difference in the mid to late 90s match-ups w/ the Packers. Green Bay never would've sniffed the Super Bowl most likely, had we been able to keep just Ricky Watters after the Super Bowl, but definitely not if we also kept DPOY Deion Sanders. The Packers defense was great in 96 for instance, but liable against the run, as always against Emmitt Smith, and later Terrell Davis when trying to repeat. Watters isn't quiet as great as them, but he would've been still a handful for them green & gold to deal w/, against a team w/ such a prolific passing attack as them mighty 49ers, where you couldn't stack up 8 in the box to stop the run. When we lost Watters, Steve Young had to not be just our best quarterback, but also our best running back. Derek Loville is a good 3rd stringer, nothing more. Deion was a better player than Watters, but Watters gave us that balance. Great talented fullback Williams Floyd, from the National Champion Seminoles, ends up having to carry a bigger load in Watters' departure, so he gets hurt in middle of 95, is out for the season, and we have no balance left at all, especially when facing such a ferocious pass rush as that of the Packers. The one season Garrison Heart was close to healthy at end of yr. against the Pack in 98, before injuring himself against the Falcons, was the only yr. we beat Green Bay. Their defense can be had against the run. It's so aggressive that it can't stop itself to play the run. Their gang tackling is great, their gap containment, no so much. The Cowboys were stacked, but we easily would've had the 1-seed in 95 w/o free agency taking away our most valuable piece on both offense & defense, and Favre never wins in Big-D. Also, as much as I love Jerry Rice, even met him in person, really genuinely nice modest guy, while the 49ers had other good defensive backs in 94, none of them were Deion, none of them took a side of the field away. You need an advantage like that when facing the golden arm of Brett Favre. They needed to pay Deion! His presence alone in the secondary, allows the likes of Merton Hanks, Tim McDonald, Eric Davis, to blanket everybody else, or gives your safeties the flexibility to stack the line of scrimmage. The one season
NO. There NEVER HAS Been Or Will Be A better Quarterback than JOHN ELWAY. STRONGEST ARM, and Most Fun to Watch in NFL HISTORY- #7. Any negative comments on ELWAY are Nothing but Jealousy. Seen it All My Life and learned to live with it since the '80s
@@allengreene9954 well yea technically but who tf says that in professional football, it's known as the conference championship or afc/nfc championship. I actually respected and enjoyed listening to dick enberg (may he rest in peace) but he would be known to misspeak occasionally... in hindsight, maybe comparing him to biden was a bit harsh, hell talking for 3 hours at a time with minimal mistakes is pretty impressive.
Conference Championship Television Assignments Sunday 1:30pm NBC Browns-Broncos Dick Enberg, Bill Walsh, OJ Simpson, Jim Donovan 5pm CBS Rams-49ers Pat Summerall, John Madden, Irv Cross
Cleveland's running game was practically non existent this game. Trading Earnest Byner was bad especially since the Redskins would win the Super Bowl in the next 2 years.
Kosar whining about the crowd noise is BS it's like you're on the road you didn't win enough games to get home field advantage deal with it. The Browns got within three but the Broncos turned it on in the fourth quarter in the Browns fell apart once again. The Browns could not overcome Elway and the Broncos
@@MaximusWolfe That is true. I have never heard anyone refer to Mile High like that, although the weather is probably a factor. Love the opening to this game too, very strong NBC production. They don't do TV like this anymore!
why tf couldnt elway take it easier on cleveland? every time he beat cleveland in an afc title game he lost in the sb. just once, you could not have let the cleveland fans get theirs? even steph curry knew that.
can you imagine the ass whooping the browns would've received if they made it to the super bowl instead of the broncos? it would've be the same outcome. no one was stopping that niners team!!!!
Great commentary by the late great Dick Enberg. Miss those old NBC games.
Wait until A I takes over....then we'll really miss it.
That 70 Yard Touchdown Pass to Michael Young on 3rd and 10 from ELWAY Reminded me with those Beautiful Uniforms why I grew up with Orange and Blue Fever in Weatherford, Tx.
That was a very awesome play. Tell a kind of play that gets you fired up. And I still love these bronco uniforms the best I hate it when they switch to navy blue in 97
No requests for any games Bart Simpson.
Only gratitude
R.I.P. Dick Enberg, Bill Walsh, Bud Carson and Dan Reeves.
I watched this game on Armed Forces Network (AFN) when my father was stationed in West Germany. I recorded this game on my VCR and I remember watching this game, along with "The Drive" many many times. It was my connection with the Broncos thousands of miles away. Thanks for posting this game! It brings back many childhood memories.
Manolo G. Know what you mean ! I had to listen to AFN radio’s « parade of sports » in Brussels relayed by the SHAPE station in Mons to hear about my niners. As a belgian with no affiliation to the military, it was my only connection to football. That plus the tuesday edition of the USA today international edition and their very expensive (from europe) phone line with live scores.... Yep no internet at the time and that phone line was how i found about my niners defeat vs Giants in 1986 playoffs 49-3... and i remember to this day where i listen to superbowl XXIV and my niners thrashing of this same Broncos team. Great memories...
I was 7 years old when i saw this game and had already been a fan of the Denver Broncos for two years.
Great game for Elway.
He had magic.
2:15:43 Elway throws a Patrick Mahomes shortstop like pass. I keep hearing commentators saying Mahomes is the best passer they've ever seen, and it's because of the way Mahomes is able to throw against the grain while running. What these football experts forget is that it was the baseball player Elway who pioneered this throwing ability.
I think you mean Patrick Mahomes throws a John Elway-like pass.
I thought the same thing when I heard them talk about that.Elway and Jeff george could throw out of any body position or angle,and with considerable velocity.
I respect the hell out of Mahomes. He's going to be a pain in the ass for us Broncos fans for years to come, but you're right. Mahomes has nothing in terms of arm strength we haven't seen years ago with Elway. John had a damn howitzer for an arm, especially in his younger years
This was probably the most critical play of the game for Denver. If this 3rd down and 10 was not converted, then the Broncos would have been punting right back to Cleveland when the Browns had already just narrowed the score to 24-21 with their two quick back to back late 3rd quarter touchdowns. Elway's pass was all the more incredible considering that number 31 on the Browns, pro bowl cornerback Frank Minnifield, had an astonishing 44-inch vertical jump. Even Bill Walsh said, "I can't believe it!" as he was processing what he had just seen.
I respect Mahomes...but John Elway made many of these same types of throws with the clock running out, after having spent 3 hours taking beatings like something out of the fifteenth round of a Rocky Balboa fight...There's just no comparison.
The thing that struck yours truly as weird was that the 1989 AFC Championship started at 11 AM Mountain Time (I was living in Portales, New Mexico at that time). I knew this was because the 1989 NFC Championship Game (Rams VS. 49ers) was right afterwards. Both games would be more Semi-Prime Time now, but the fact that it was still starting in the late morning in Denver was very unique. I don’t think that something like this will ever happen again. A different kind of a moment in pro football as well as pro sports.
To each his own. I know nobody cares about my opinion. But I LOVE for games to be played entirely under blazing sunlight. Maybe because football is the ultimate spectacle. No other sport is so visually arresting. Even as a kid, I loved the noon games. I'd get the Bronco game late in the afternoon, and after an hour or so there'd be all kinds of weird shadows on the field..By the second half, depending on the time of year, half the field would be in the shade, or it would be dark, altogether...
There was a time when they did this even in Super Bowls. Roger Staubach won his MVP in Super Bowl 6, I believe, and that game was played entirely in broad daylight...Never again..
Dennis Smith and Steve Atwater.
Both future HOF players
This game didn't need a " Drive" or a " Fumble" Broncos had this game from start to finish
It was known as "The Noise". Super loud in the stands that day. I was there :)
This game has a special place in my heart it was the one that converted me from a Browns fan to a Broncos fan
@@RetroreviewsPluswhat a bitch move lol
So cool to see these classic games I’ve never been able to watch. I was born one year after this. Go Broncos!
This game brings back so many memories as a kid. I was 11 years old. I remember watching this like it was yesterday. Browns were so close in the 80’s to making to the Super Bowl.
Same here, I remember playing the original Tecmo Bowl during this game thinking I was going to do some voodoo to help the Browns win. When it failed this was my last game as a Browns fan, Broncos fan since then
Back then you had a real love affair between the denver team and their fans the real mile high magic when back then they seem to be almost unbeatable at home man i miss the glory orange crush days
Me, too. It may sound crazy, but I'd trade the rings to go back. To this day, it sickens me that the Shanahan era was so perfect...I mean, STORYBOOK perfect...and they had to go and ruin it by changing their uniform...
Yeah when the Broncos had the Retro uniforms and Mile High stadium it was Mile High magic things never seen the same after they moved to the new stadium and changed the uniforms to those ugly navy blue ones I still hate them yuck 🤮 the uniforms in this game will always be my favorite regardless of our Super Bowl records in each of the uniforms
@@tgriffin3059 I agree with you 100%, it was cool when we did win the Super bowls but it was kind of bittersweet for me because I hated the fact we wanted and those butt ugly navy blue uniforms, I miss that orange crush they were that's Denver Broncos colors to me. I hated the navy blue when they went to it in 97 and I still do to this day
Thanks for the upload Bart!. What I remember for this game, I was 12 years old and flying back from Seattle . Plane was stuck on the tarmac at Stapleton International Airport for over an hour and the pilot was giving us game updates and the whole cabin cheering. Never did watch the game until now. A little tougher game than the score would indicate.
Yeah the Browns and Broncos had some good memorable games over the years
The Denver Broncos had the #1 defense in the NFL in 1989 regular season. They gave up a total of 13 passing touchdowns. They only allowed an average of 14.1 points per game.
It really helped them in The Super Bowl
And then gave up 5 passing touchdowns in the superbowl
Thanks dude been looking for this one for quite a while
Steve Atwater #27 of the Denver Broncos
Career Accomplishments
Denver Broncos (1989-1998)
New York Jets (1999)
8x Pro Bowl selection
4x All-Pro selection
3 Super Bowl appearances
2x Super Bowl champion
1989 All-Rookie Team
1990's All-Decade Team
Pro Football Hall of Fame selection
He was instrumental in getting the Broncos their first Super Bowl victory. In fact, some would argue he could have been the Most Valuable Player in Super Bowl XXXII. His play was nothing short of stellar. He was credited with six solo tackles, one sack, a forced fumble and two passes defensed. Furthermore, his big plays came at the times when the Broncos needed them most. He sacked Brett Favre and forced a fumble when Terrell Davis was sitting out the second quarter due to a migraine. He batted down a pass at the line while blitzing that was intended for a wide open Green Bay receiver. Finally, during the Packers frantic charge in the final minutes, Atwater broke up a pass with a collision so fierce two players where knocked out. Had those plays not been made it is possible the Packers could have won the game.
Yes sir!!
i agree...i always thought McCaffrey was underrated on that team too....he was a great reciever...all the attention went to Elway and Davis...and they were great, but they can’t do it alone.
Don't tell the Broncos what's coming 2 weeks later. How can a team look this good only to get ground into the Superdome turf just 2 weeks later? I know the 49ers are one of the best teams of all time, but damn.
It’s called being outclassed. What does Crow think? Or Gypsy?
I said the same thing!! I was 15 years old when I saw this game. I said to myself , enjoy this moment while you can broncos!! Show nuff super bowl24 they didn't even bother to show up!!
Yeah Super Bowl XXIV was a disaster Denver was never a good team on artificial turf, but I agreed Denver looks really good in this game it was very disappointing how the Super Bowl turned out, but Denver played the 49ers the year before in 1988 at candlestick Park and beat them, it was a pretty epic game it's on UA-cam also
That shot at 2:07 showing downtown Denver is crazy as it looks absolutely nothing like that today. Wow.
It's the effects of overpopulation. It's taken its toll on the midland too.
Yeah I wish it was like before
@@arsonhakobyan. The Government has the money to build houses for everybody.
Denver is too big for its own good. It’s lost its charm and become pretentious.
This game marked the beginning of the end for the Cleveland Browns as dark days loomed ahead after this loss...
6 years later they were off to Baltimore
The team really was never the same after Marty was fired. Had some OK seasons but the magic was gone.
Yeah this was their decent team for a long time
Here is a did you know, this game was played at 10:30 am in the morning Denver time. At that time the Championship games played on the afternoon one at 12:30 pm and one at 4pm. I hear rumors that the NFL wanted to move this game on a Saturday because the 49ers game against the Rams was also played on the West Coast. Many folk on the West Cost. This was the first and only time the bowl championship games were played on the West Coast
Actually, the game began just after 11:30am Mountain Time due to the circumstances. By 2002-03 playoffs, games now began at 3pm and after 6:30 Eastern Time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390_NFL_playoffs#Schedule
When Cleveland went from down 24-7 to 24-21 I thought it was an epic finish in the making. But Denver outclassed them the rest of the way
The Marty Ball years were the Browns' best chance of getting to a Super Bowl. It's sad that Marty was basically 4 or 5 plays away from having a legitimate Super Bowl Championship contender.
They were a legitimate Super Bowl contender. You mean maybe 4 or 5 plays away from a conference championship.
It was just sad that whatever the reason was Denver seemed to always have Cleveland's number
It would be over 30 years before the Browns were in contention again
25:12 elway with the super fast ball almost a blur
This Broncos team always gets labeled with the SB loss but they really were a great team. Its too bad
This was the game that converted me from a Browns fan to a Broncos fan. Family called me a traitor
The Browns got back in it and then the 4th quarter came and they fell apart. Other than 94 the windowed closed for the Browns and they never recovered.
The failure of the 80s set the team back.one day my browns will win it all
@@eulissbenoit5968 They are still haunted by '85-'89 to date, 30-35 years later!
@@joshuaecht 80 also
Bernie Kosar's elbow injury was evident during this game. The under thrown deep post to a WIDE OPEN Reggie Langhorne late in the 2nd quarter should have put the Browns up 7-3 (Langhorne should of caught it ANYWAY). It would have COMPLETELY changed the whole momentum of the game. The DEFENSE had a good game plan. Kosar's elbow was SO SWOLLEN after the game, it looked like a grapefruit was implanted into his arm. BUT he toughed it out during the game, enduring the excruciating pain and gave it ALL he had. MAD respect for Bernie Kosar!
@@bryanburrage9041
I’d say they deserved it for getting rid of Marty but Kosar was a warrior. If he had been healthy that year who knows what would have happened. I’m not sure if any AFC team was ready to face those Niners but the Browns should have stayed in Cleveland because they were actually starting to be a solid team and with the talent they had from the field, to the coaches and in the front office it should have been the Browns winning Super Bowls and not the GD Ravens!
the score of the actual game at that point is being written down in the commercial
commercial 1:35:10
game score 1:35:47
lol😂😂😂
@@juanparty😆
Bud Carson was 58 years old in his first season as head coach. So much different these days with much younger coaches.
What about Rob? I know Right!!!
Well there were young coaches then, as Tom Landry started at 35 for Dallas, but people were generally more patient about working their way up through the ranks. You had fewer Sean McVays then. Organizations weren't so trigger happy for change then either, as good coordinators had great job security, so there was less desire for them to risk it all for only a marginally higher salary (in relative terms) to be head coach. Some just thought they were born to be either an offensive or defensive coordinator for life, then the poop hit the fan one day when they saw all of their once blonde or brunette hair turn full gray, some having gone to white, and suddenly get the urge to get a taste of being a head coach once they realized they had little time left on Earth for work.
Bud Carson was he related to Johnny Carson??
Because then they didn't had jobs to kids who weren't even old enough to have experience to be a HC. I don't know how these guys at 30 or younger are getting NFL HC jobs. You graduate hs at 18 and don't graduate college until 21. 7 years of coaching isn't enough to be a HC in the pros imo
The 1989 AFC Playoffs-Aka What team was gonna get destroyed by the 49ers.
And the winner of the AFC championship game gets the honor of playing, oh I meant to say get routed by San Fran in the super bowl.
How times have changed.
Bill Walsh's comments at 2:38:38 was so wrong. Denver was on it's way to get humiliated by San Francisco
Wow, Marc Trestman was the offensive coordinator for the Browns back then, no wonder why they lost. He was the Bears head coach from 2013-2014, and he stunk it up... Lol!!!
What's interesting is Bud was 2-1 vs. the Broncos. The problem was, the one loss was the one that counted. I think we would have given the '89 49ers a good game. We lost to them by a FG a year later, with a worse team!
I'm a broncos fan and I think you're right every time the broncos beat the browns to always thought Cleveland what have done better in the superbowl.
Maybe with a healthy Kosar but it may have been much worse with his elbow injury
This sucks!! Browns beat broncos 16-13 and 30-29 under Carson but lost the playoff game
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Dick Endberg was the GOAT❤️ he made all these Cleveland losses tolerable
I lost count in the second quarter how many times Walsh called Elway Kosar. Cheers!
Just not to confuse. This was the 1989 season AFC Championship. The 1989 AFC Championship Game winner was the Bengals.
This game turned from a strong defensive battle to an offensive slug fest
Considering the well oiled machine the winner of this game would be facing in 2 weeks Cleveland definitely got off easy!
1990 AFC Championship please with Raiders vs Bills plus pregame and post game next?
It was obvious that the '89 49ers were an unstoppable machine, but does anyone think the Browns might have fared a little better than the Broncos did?
I was only a kid, but I was watching this game just praying that Cleveland would win. I and everyone outside of Denver were sick of the Broncos by this point, plus we ALL knew what was going to happen to them in the Super Bowl.
In terms of a better game possible but niners peak during the 88 playoffs there was no team touching them in 89 14-2 that year and a well oil machine thru the playoffs
@@mikegillins4992 you nailed it
I remember the game being close at one time, but I thought the Broncos were killing them at one point. But it was pretty close through three quarters. @ (2:03:10)
I wish the Bills had managed to make it past Cleveland and Denver. They would have been more competitive against SF as they matched up better. Alas, the Bills kept getting in their own way that year.
True!!!
Well your statement doesn't make any sense, the Bills lost to the Browns.... Who lost to the Broncos convincingly in this game
@@RetroreviewsPlus
It makes plenty of sense. Different teams match up better than others. The Bills were better equipped than the Broncos to give the 49ers a competitive game.
@@MaximusWolfe so the bills could beat the 49ers, but they couldn't beat the Browns and the Browns couldn't beat the Broncos I think that's wishful thinking and shoulda coulda woulda. Also the Broncos beat the bills during the 89 season 28- 14.... At Buffalo
@@RetroreviewsPlus
I guess you still don’t get the point. Sigh. It’s about matchups. The broncos lacked the physicality and size on defense that gave them a competitive chance against most NFC teams. The browns and bills were very physical and big. It’s not that complicated.
This game still gives me nightmares
Why would they switch out Humphrey for Sewell at RB when going to the 4-wide package? You could have the 3 Amigos, a TE and Humphrey in there and do the same thing?
Because Sewell was much better receiver than Humphries..
@@ronaldclatterbuck5953 thank you, I honestly didn't know that.
Hey Bart, do you still have a way where you can upload the second half of the 2014 Packers Jets game please? Thanks!!
Elway had a canon the strongest arm of any Qb ....Patrick who Mahomes ..He doesn't even have a chance..Get real..nobody threw the ball like ELWAY ..He was the ultimate Weapon...
Arm strength alone doesn’t make a great qb. Look at Doug Williams. Mahomes already has as much Super Bowl wins as Elway. The goat was Montana
Still looking back on this I felt that Cleveland would have done a better job vs the 49ers.
If they had come back and won (somehow) it would have been called: "The Comeback"
49ers still would have beat them in the SB... but I bet it would not have been 55-10.
Might have been much closer simply because Cleveland matched up better with the 49ers than Denver did.
How does that make any sense if Cleveland can't beat Denver who then got destroyed by the 49ers. The Broncos had their worst game in the Super Bowl and the 49ers have their best game. A year earlier in 1988 the Broncos actually beat the 49ers at candlestick park
@@RetroreviewsPlus
Some teams match up against others better.
In 1984, Miami Dolphins go to Pittsburgh and wins 31-7
The very next week, the Steelers go TO San Francisco and give them a 20-17 loss.
Mark Malone, QB of the Steelers out performed Joe Montana.
It was the 49ers only loss all season.
The 49ers then beat Miami in the Super Bowl 38-16.
Similarly, a year later, New England beats Miami 2 out of the three games they played (final one being the Championship game.
Earlier that season, the Dolphins handed the Bears their only loss that season 38-24 and it wasn't even that close.
Bears beat Pats 46-10 in the Super Bowl.
A LOT of people believe the Dolphins would have won that SB had they just got past *lucky* New England who had a "Cinderella Season".
@@d0nKsTaH yep every game is different, because I remember when the Denver Broncos led by quarterback Kyle Orton, beat the Tom Brady LED Patriots. Kyle Orton out doing Tom Brady.....🤯
This was a 10:30am start time
How many times did the Bowns play the Broncos in the playoffs back in the 80s? Seems like a lot
3 times. ‘86, ‘87, and ‘89.
You mean Browns!!!
@@adamdorgant9454No, he mean Bowns!
Can you get the Saints and chargers game from today?
Great intro by NBC & Dick Enberg
2:38:40 Bill Walsh predicts the Broncos stand up to the NFC with the best Bronco team they ever had. Result: SF 55 DEN 10
Yet that score doesn't tell the story of how much of a thrashing it really was. Broncos had #1 rated defense going into that game, and it felt like the 49ers had a chance to score 80 on that Louisiana evening. That was the 1st football game I actually ever watched live, from start to finish, and while 80's a stretch, it would've been at least 65-10 if Bill Walsh wanted to just keep running the score up in the 4th period. The Steve Young 6TD pass Super Bowl 5yrs later in Super Bowl 29, has nothing on Super Bowl 24.
@@arsonhakobyan
Walsh wasn’t coaching the Niners anymore. It was Sieffert’s first year. I’m not sure if you noticed Walsh calling this game
@@roninkraut6873 Thank you for pointing that out. I actually was aware of that (don't know if you'll believe me?), but was just typing too fast w/o thinking, so accidently typed Bill Walsh, meaning to type George Seifert. And Seifert gets historically underrated because of the talent that he had, but would take him over Mooch any day of the wk., and especially on Sunday. Untimely injuries in the early 90s, followed by the start of free agency in the mid 90s, cost him a few more Super Bowls that I believe he would've won. Still, two's not bad.
@@arsonhakobyan
I believe you. I’ve done the same thing a lot. Don’t forget Dallas was also at the beginning of their dynasty too. For awhile there the NFC championship game was the super bowl
@@roninkraut6873 Yeah, the loss of Charles Haley was really due to bad management, as oppose to free agency, and it hurt us, especially since them Cowboys got him. But then losing the likes of Bill Romanowski, Deion Neon Sanders & Ricky Watters all in their primes to free agency was really the difference in the mid to late 90s match-ups w/ the Packers. Green Bay never would've sniffed the Super Bowl most likely, had we been able to keep just Ricky Watters after the Super Bowl, but definitely not if we also kept DPOY Deion Sanders. The Packers defense was great in 96 for instance, but liable against the run, as always against Emmitt Smith, and later Terrell Davis when trying to repeat.
Watters isn't quiet as great as them, but he would've been still a handful for them green & gold to deal w/, against a team w/ such a prolific passing attack as them mighty 49ers, where you couldn't stack up 8 in the box to stop the run. When we lost Watters, Steve Young had to not be just our best quarterback, but also our best running back. Derek Loville is a good 3rd stringer, nothing more.
Deion was a better player than Watters, but Watters gave us that balance. Great talented fullback Williams Floyd, from the National Champion Seminoles, ends up having to carry a bigger load in Watters' departure, so he gets hurt in middle of 95, is out for the season, and we have no balance left at all, especially when facing such a ferocious pass rush as that of the Packers. The one season Garrison Heart was close to healthy at end of yr. against the Pack in 98, before injuring himself against the Falcons, was the only yr. we beat Green Bay. Their defense can be had against the run. It's so aggressive that it can't stop itself to play the run. Their gang tackling is great, their gap containment, no so much.
The Cowboys were stacked, but we easily would've had the 1-seed in 95 w/o free agency taking away our most valuable piece on both offense & defense, and Favre never wins in Big-D. Also, as much as I love Jerry Rice, even met him in person, really genuinely nice modest guy, while the 49ers had other good defensive backs in 94, none of them were Deion, none of them took a side of the field away. You need an advantage like that when facing the golden arm of Brett Favre. They needed to pay Deion! His presence alone in the secondary, allows the likes of Merton Hanks, Tim McDonald, Eric Davis, to blanket everybody else, or gives your safeties the flexibility to stack the line of scrimmage. The one season
23:13 Coach Shanahan!!!!
Could we get Seahawks Patriots 2012 in HD?
If you honestly know NFL football, is there really a better NFL quarterback than John Elway????
Absolutely not !
Joe Montana and Tom Brady.
NO. There NEVER HAS Been Or Will Be A better Quarterback than JOHN ELWAY. STRONGEST ARM, and Most Fun to Watch in NFL HISTORY- #7. Any negative comments on ELWAY are Nothing but Jealousy. Seen it All My Life and learned to live with it since the '80s
@@perryanderson5642 🤘🤘fuckin a!!!
Do you have the Browns @Bengals 2004 game 58-48
2:07 Dick enberg calls the conference championship games the semi finals to the superbowl
Well dick enberg was kinda like the joe biden of announcing
@@LGZ024 He was right.
@@allengreene9954 well yea technically but who tf says that in professional football, it's known as the conference championship or afc/nfc championship. I actually respected and enjoyed listening to dick enberg (may he rest in peace) but he would be known to misspeak occasionally... in hindsight, maybe comparing him to biden was a bit harsh, hell talking for 3 hours at a time with minimal mistakes is pretty impressive.
and yes, are the semifinals you dumbbutt
Classic!
Conference Championship Television Assignments
Sunday 1:30pm NBC
Browns-Broncos Dick Enberg, Bill Walsh, OJ Simpson, Jim Donovan
5pm CBS
Rams-49ers Pat Summerall, John Madden, Irv Cross
While watching g this I just took a big dump in the toilet my belly feels much better than the other day
Many thanks for the update, Sport.
That should be your own business, what goes on in the bathroom should stay in the bathroom
At 1:00 Very Creepy Live Action Cartoon Characters! So Terrorfying!
Are you ok? Are you scarred for life?
Cleveland's running game was practically non existent this game. Trading Earnest Byner was bad especially since the Redskins would win the Super Bowl in the next 2 years.
Denver had Cleveland’s number !
To bad the NFL season didn't end after this game..
1:46:30…..qb draw. Tell me the left tackle didn’t false start
The niners would have destroyed any AFC team
Kosar whining about the crowd noise is BS it's like you're on the road you didn't win enough games to get home field advantage deal with it. The Browns got within three but the Broncos turned it on in the fourth quarter in the Browns fell apart once again. The Browns could not overcome Elway and the Broncos
Cleveland had Denver daddy issues in the '80s.
Crowd noise/silent count/false starts: unbelievable. Just watch the football dummies. The defensive line is.
1:35:21
WTF is a "turtleneck city" of Denver at 0:55-0:58? I've never heard anyone refer to Denver as that, only as the Mile High City, etc.
Dick Endburgh can say what he pleases, breh!
@@MaximusWolfe That is true. I have never heard anyone refer to Mile High like that, although the weather is probably a factor. Love the opening to this game too, very strong NBC production. They don't do TV like this anymore!
1:03:18 & 1:49:55 those this guy, Bill something knows anything about football ?
Amazing
Dawg defense failed again. So many big games lost because of the defense.
I wish the Niners had gotten past the Giants, cowboys…..Feast time! For whatever reason the NFC was in total control of the SB for a decade. 😂
Broncos had Cleveland’s number and they lost sleep over it
1:54
This game didn't matter Niners would smash both of them. Well they smashed Denver
Do have 2017 49ers where Jimmy G 5 starts
@@Ninerwayne21 how do u feel about Jimmy G ? Do u believe in him?
@@andrewmartinez9992 i have to see him for a full season then give my answer
@@Ninerwayne21 me too. But I feel like with Nick behind him and hungry he will play better
Andrew Martinez Kosar would eventually get a Super Bowl Ring as a backup Quarterback as a member of the 1993 Dallas Cowboys!!!
Where was Merlin Olsen on Color? As great a Coach as Bill Walsh was , that’s how horrible he was as a Color guy!! Wow!! Really Bad!!
why tf couldnt elway take it easier on cleveland? every time he beat cleveland in an afc title game he lost in the sb. just once, you could not have let the cleveland fans get theirs? even steph curry knew that.
The announcer said they would be a viable competitor in New Orleans. Niners hold my beer 55-10
Dick Enberg not only announced this game, he also did the pre game show due to the regular pre game host Bob Costas was under the weather.
Cleveland QB damaged did not throw well. - Brian
That defense faced Alot of plays in the first quarter. - Brian
Back to back touch downs (more or less) in that third quarter proves you can keep it close a play or two can change the outcome. - Brian
The Broncos won, and their prize? A ticket to the worst beating in Super Bowl history.
can you imagine the ass whooping the browns would've received if they made it to the super bowl instead of the broncos? it would've be the same outcome. no one was stopping that niners team!!!!
@@1990Thunderbolt
I think the Browns would have been more competitive for some reason.
@@MaximusWolfe i doubt it, it's the browns. they'll always find a way to lose horribly lol
@@1990Thunderbolt
I didn’t say they’d win. I said more competitive.
@@MaximusWolfe still would've lose horribly. there's no competitive within the brown's franchise at all! lol
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Bye Felicia with your 400 dollar hair braided talking about supporting kids and bad habits..you just like to steel😂
Elway was just an amazing QB ..MY favorite Qb of all time ..what a playmaker he was..Give me Elway or Montana and you can have Brady and the rest...
@Ronald Clatterbuck Give me Brady, Peyton, and Montana over every other QB in NFL history. While John Elway was clutch, he was criminally overrated.
@@broderickcrawford8110. Some of his numbers in the 80s were Mark Sanchez or Kyle Boiler status🤢🤢🤢🤢
@@allengreene9954 big facts 💯
I'll take Aikman or Montana for the win
I give you a million to one odds Broncos lose a Super Bowl
5K bet. I’ll give you Denver +44
And they did 55-10 to the Niners in Super Bowl XXIV my favorite Super Bowl of all time
I want 5 MILLION TO 1 at + 43!! 😂😂😂😂
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