The Cowboys/49ers/Packers teams from this era are the most talented teams in NFL history, I don’t care what anyone says. Offensive strategies had really evolved by that point and the salary cap had not yet taken hold. Truly the sweet spot in NFL history.
And if Sterling Sharpe would’ve been there throughout that whole run then things would’ve played out a lil bit differently. No doubt those 3 teams were NFL greats
@@boomhawk6217the Packers interrupted the 49er cowboy rivalry by beating the 49ers only to choke to the cowboys Brett just couldn't get it done against Dallas.
Give two 49ers and cowboys all the credit coming up as a packer fans these teams were monumental giants to take down. When it was Green Bay’s time they made their run for the greatest Packer season I ever watched it would be a year later but here is where it started
We caught lighting in a bottle towards the end of this season Anything is possible and I believe in the energy the Green Bay packers are showing … see ya when the clock hits zero
This is when football 🏈 was football. For my generation at least. I grew up watching these games. Amazing time to be a kid. Respect to both teams. Long time Cowboys fan but the Packers and 49ers are fun to watch when they are great.
I was a huge 49ers fan back then.I remember thinking like the 49ers got this game so I went to sleep. I woke up 2.5 hours later and said to myself " Oh my God, what happen? How could you lose to the Packers?? This was when football was awesome. We had the dynasty in the 49ers, the young bucks in the Packers, and the bad boys in Dallas. I miss those games, those rivalries and times. 😞
The period of 94-02 might be the peak of NFL football. There were still big name QBs and high flying pass attacks, big name running backs and grinding ground games, same for big name receivers, but also a period of great defenses, like the 00 Ravens, 00 Titans, and the 02 Bucs.
Robert Brooks was the #1 WR on a almost SB team. The next season he breaks his leg and misses out on a SB Championship and Antonio Freeman takes his shine. Robert Brooks is a guy nobody ever talks about but was a bad ass WR.
Crazy part is that Shannon Sharpe's brother, Sterling was HOF quality and got a serious injury (I think back in 1994). If Favre had Sharpe + Freeman + Keith Jackson etc., those Packers teams might have won another ring or so. Niners had Cowboys number only after Jimmy left. Packers always struggled against Dallas because no matter what Favre did, the Packers D COULD NOT STOP Emmitt Smith. He used to run through them like Swiss cheese. Plus Favre always had a knack for throwing up a couple of gimmies and the Dallas D was really good at taking advantage.
Well, as much as I loved my pack I can honestly look back on this game and realize it wasnt the 94 niners we beat. No Ricky Watters. Not only did we not have a running game to worry about, Ricky was a good pass receiver too. We were a year away still.
Thanks for this video. The 49ers were a massive powerhouse team. Bill Walsh, George Siefert, Joe Montana, and now Steve Young. So many wins, and so many awesome players. Jerry Rice one of, if not the best WR EVER, and YES I am a Packers fan, but I give RESPECT where its due, and the 49ers deserve it. We may have won this game but SF has NOTHING to be ashamed of.
Me on April 28, 2024 watching this for the first time. I had to work on this day back in 95. A few minutes before I was off people were walking around the grocery store saying that the Packers are Super Bowl bound. What great memories. This is when l REALLY began watching and became an die hard Packer fan.
Thank you so much for putting this game up. One of the my favorite Packer games EVER. It was a coming out party, and Holmgren was absolutely jacked for this game.
Other than the 1998 Wild Card, Favre dominated Steve Young in the playoffs and in the 90's it was the NFC East (Giants and Cowboys) and the Packers that were the road blocks to the 49ers winning multiple Super Bowls.
@@josephruiz7233 ? Cowboys? The Cowboys fell in 94 to SF and in 96 for good, they ceased to matter in the 2nd half of the 90's. Theres no changing of shit in mid 90's that includes the Cowboys, theyre the early 90's. The Pack is the changing of the guard.
As a 49er fan myself I saw the 49ers were finished long before that game. Once they lost Mike Shanahan and Ricky Watters after winning the title the yr prior, they were done.
This brings back memories! 1994-1998 the packers were unbelievable. When they beat San Francisco the first time it was unbelievable Don Shula gives me goosebumps
Man as a 49ers fan we were outclassed this game. But it didn't stop it continued all the way til the 98 season when we finally beat them with the catch 2. Even that game turnovers plagued us. I miss football in the 90s unpredictable and just a blast to watch.
The 49ers got lucky on that game winning drive. Jerry Rice clearly fumbled the ball, but a quick whistle blew the play dead. That 94 team, as great as they played was a one year wonder
@@keithclark7266 they threw everything they had with free agents to stop Dallas that season and it actually worked. Then once Ricky Watters and Deion left it left a huge hole in their running game.
I agree 100%. I am a Packers fan and the 90's were a rollercoaster. I called Green Bay the Cardiac Pack because they always gave your heart issues...lol. But YES, the 90's were so much fun. There were some amazing games. Some we lost and some we won. What got me was SF had Dallas' number but GB would get to Dallas and then pfft, they'd lose. Finally we had home field throughout the playoffs. The Cowboys would HAVE to come to GB. Then the Panthers won and we ended up winning the Super Bowl, but we NEVER knocked out Dallas, which is something SF DID DO.
No. The Packers only won a Superbowl. 1 an the 49ers actually got better after the 95 season from 1996-1999 in terms of winning percentage. The 95 season 11-5 96 12-4. 97 13-3. 98 12-4. After Green Bay beat the lowly 1996 Patriots easily in the Superbowl they didn't do shit else. Until 2010 Aaron Rodgers.
@@akeemahchyam1735 youre just ignore that they made it back to the SB after the 97 season? A lot more of an achivement than those SF reg season record which do nothing but underscore how much they underachieved.
That opening was AWESOME. I got goose bumps. The image of Brett Favre and Reggie White walking off the field together gave my eyes a need for a tissue. Reggie came or chose Green Bay because he believed Brett Favre would win. The 90's was amazing. Back when players WANTED to cone to GB and when Green Bay actually signed good free agents. Sean Jones, Santana Dotson, Desmond Howard, Andre Rison, Don Beebe, and of course the BEST of them ALL, REGGIE WHITE. There's a few more but these guys were so instrumental in Green Bay winning as much as they did. I just wish they could have gotten one more for Reggie and Brett.
Everyone was expecting Cowboys vs 49ers part IV. the Packers had other ideas. The downfall of the 49ers started that day. The Packers and then the Broncos just took their system and expanded on it. The 49ers got old their O-Line wasn't good no William Floyd or Ricky Watters the offense was way to 1 dimensional, Young and Rice can only get u so far. The Packers announced their presence that day.
Very well said. As a Niners fan I was deeply hurt after this game but looking back you hit it on the head, they were just old and one dimensional at that point
@@TheWakeup011 They could have absolutely avoided the Packers by beating the Falcons in week 17 to claim the #1 seed. Instead they lost 28-27 and got the #2 seed. It was the beginning of the end for George Seifert that was always seen as the guy who inherited Walsh's team. Holmgren outcoached Seifert as well as the other factors
@@Judahseed l an well aware, trust me.... I agree about Siefert also. While he was a good coach, you need more than good to beat Jimmy Johnson and Holmgren. Siefert wasn't quite as good as those two. I read somewhere that 49er brass wanted Holmgren to be HC but it rubbed him the wrong way because Siefert was still at the helm.
Glad I found this. One of my favorite packers playoff games of all time. The packers hit the niners in the mouth all day. Dominating win despite being 10 point underdogs. Lets hope for same result November 2019.
Good times. I always will cherish my past heyday with the Packers. Beating the 49ers consistently in the 90s was how to make a statement in the league.
For some that don't know, Holmgren was the 49ers offensive coordinator during two of the Joe Montana-led 49ers championships so yes, Holmgren knew them better than anybody especially since they kept virtually the same offense.
I grew up watching the 49ers from the fabulous '81 season ("The Catch") all the way through to the end of the '90s. It's bittersweet, looking back, how by this point we just took the 49ers for granted, they were always good, always a "class team," as my father said. You just took them for granted. I guess all good things have to end.
When the Packers had that field goal blocked. I was like Oh man, here come the 49ers. However that fumble and score by the Packers changed the whole momentum of that game.
As a Cowboys fan, I knew Green Bay was going to win this game because 49er's were a finesse team that year and Green Bay's experience from playing Dallas showed up here..
I remember this.....a upset I didn't see coming. As a Cowboy fan, I was relieved as hell because Green Bay was a better match up for us. We could run the ball on them.
Adrian Reid Packers didn’t stay up for too long. I don’t care about either but let’s not treat this Packers team as some sort of dynasty. After the 98 season, there were more downs than ups. Still, great uniform matchup which is all I was saying.
Never will forget that crazy foam shell Steve Wallace wore on top of his regular helmet. Looked weird but he never suffered another concussion in his career once he adopted it.
Young was so happy when the 49ers beat the Cowboys in nfc championship game that year to win the Super bowl, that they overlooked Packers. Then the following year the Packers beat up the Niner's and they were never the same.
The 94 season, the 49ers brought in a bunch of guys on one year deals just to beat that cowboy team. It was basically a sell your soul for one year and many of those players were gone after that title run. They weren't going to be able to stay on top long
I think we would've beaten the 49ers anyways but that loss just made me think that we're playing a better version of SF with green Bay same type offensive better defense..we just had the experience factors that's why I felt we would win against green Bay
Favre and the offense kept getting better but their defense just wasn't good enough to beat Dallas yet. Emmitt was always good for 100 to 150 yards and 2 TD's against the Pack. Plus Aikman wouldn't turn the ball over while Favre always threw a pick or two. To beat Dallas, especially at Texas Stadium, you had to do EVERYTHING right. I do wish Irvin hadn't gotten hurt and Dallas had been able to beat Carolina in '96. A GB vs Dallas 1996 NFC Championship game at Lambeau Field would have been EPIC!!!!
This was also the last season for several teams to switch from there classic look to what they have now. The miners kindve went back to this look but not really the stripes on the pants are too thin now.
All the teams with pastel colors really did decide to streamline to darker, clash colors at the same time didn't they. Eagles, Broncos, Buccaneers, Rams, with the Patriots doing right before, and the Seahawks and Oilers/Titans right after.
First upset I remember watching,when I was a kid...the Cowboys and 49ers always seemed destined to play in the championship game. The Packers changed all that and put a whipping on the champs.
Niners were never the same after this game. John Madden said it on the other broadcast in the Bay Area, that they will pass this tape around the league and show how to beat the Niners. BTW, I believe many people forgot that Mike Holmgren was with the Niners prior as well, and knew all their plays. George Seifert lasted only one more season after this. *The 96 Divisional game between the Niners and Packers was in Green Bay. However, Steve Young had banged up ribs, from the Wild Card game, and barely played in that game.
I disagree. He was already dealing with injuries that he sustained in the regular season, plus, losing Rickey Whatters to free agency and injuries to the offensive and defensive lines didn't help, on top of that, losing Dieon Sanders to free agency downgraded their secondary.
@@Wolf_3125 I agree with you that all those variables were a factor. Top that off with another game where Young was asked to do so much. Time wears us all down eventually.
In the 90s, the Packers totally dominated the 49ers, but at the same time the Cowboys totally dominated the Packers. The 49ers could not beat the Packers. The Packers could not beat the Cowboys. The 49ers had times where they could, and did, beat the Cowboys. But when it was all said and done the Cowboys came out of the 90s with 3 Super Bowl championships while the Packers and 49ers got only 1 each.
@@joesakic91 I agree. I still can't get over the way the Cowboys would abuse the Packers and Brett Favre though. Dallas would just beat the crap out of Green Bay over and over again. And over and over some more. The beatings were so constant and so severe that Green Bay finally just quit and gave up.
@@scottmitchell3641 When did Green Bay "give up"? I don't remember that at all. I remember them having to go to Dallas seven times in a row, and when the Cowboys finally had to come up north in 1997 the Packers crushed them. Then they stopped being on each other's schedule almost every year until 2004.
LATE 90s. They only played once in the 90s prior to this January 1996 game (49ers won by 4 at Lambeau). I don't think Green Bay does this in 93 and especially not in 94 had the visited The Stick.
this was a sad game to watch as niners fan..they made the score respectable for a while there but they were manhandled throughout. It took till the last few years of Favre's career for me to finally be a fan since I hated him always winning the niners.
Watching this game, it's pretty clear to me Derrick Loville was no Ricky Watters. The running game sucked. As a 49er fan, you gotta give it to the Packers Defense, they destroyed Young and the 49er offense. Whoever was the offensive coordinator, he was no Mike Shanahan. Shanahan would have schemed a perfect offense for Steve Young to prevail. It was not to be
The OC for the Niners after Shanahan was Marc Trestman. He had been with Minnesota, after before them, Cleveland when Bud Carson was the Head Coach. But you're 1,000% right about him being no Mike Shanahan. I think this game showed the way to kinda be able to slow down the West Coast Offense. Throw in a LOT of zone-blitzes. That is exactly what the late Fritz Shurmur, the Defensive Coordinator for the Packers did to these guys. No wonder LeRoy Butler had Steve Young's number.
@@brianwaas9085 Le Roy Butler the creator of the Lambeau leap and a bad a** blitzing Saftey. He was and is along with the late Reggie White a HUGE reason why our defense was so dominant. Everyone watched Reggie then off the end here comes Butler....POW!! He was awesome.
If Ricky Watter was on that team they win that game. They were unstoppable with Ricky Watter on that team. He was a key part. He fit that team perfectly.
This reminded me of the 90 nfc playoffs. The Giants won the title but everyone saw the Redskins coming . Same for this. Everyone saw GB as the future champs.
I mean, there were REAL questions about whether Mark Rypien could be a Super Bowl QB. He answered them for one year and got a ring and Super Bowl MVP. But it wasn't a slam dunk.
I remember when the Teams were practicing for this game and a Green Bay Reporter tried to ask Rice a question and he hollered back “can’t talk now I have a tee time in 20 minutes (or whatever it was) that’s how lightly they took this Packer Team
In 1981 49ers had no running game. They used pick plays to move the ball. Every time they played the Cowboys they did this . Coach Landry wouldn't do anything about it. It was great seeing Packers do it to them." Pick plays"
Do you remember this: "OK! the time touchdown! Green Bay Packers" was found on KDFW (Dallas, Texas, then as News 4 Texas prior to acquired by FOX) long ago even today still find them.
The Pack just had their number till 1998. They both ran Walsh west coast, who knows eachothers shit more. The Pack knew it more then the Niners did and zone blitzed it. Also way more stacked defensively.
Divisional round games had been a formality for the 49ers since 1988 - they usually massacred whoever they played and coasted to the NFC title game. The Packers' win was not as surprising as how they did it - you just did not see that era's 49er teams get thoroughly dismantled like this.
The 49ers Offense was basically Steve Young and Jerry Rice. No Running Game, Offensive Line had a couple of Guys who were a Little Long in the Tooth, Brent Jones and John Taylor were on Their last legs, JJ Stokes wasn’t ready yet and the Defense while still Good but wasn’t as Great as it was the Year Before. The Packers had none of those problems and it showed.
I was a huge NFL fan at the time this was played, and I hated the 49ers. I didn't watch this game at the time because I didn't want to see them beat the Packers! Seeing it for the first time today, and it was just the opposite - Green Bay whipped them mercilessly. I did enjoy this video immensely!
Both QBs in this game were lucky to get one ring. Both big time chokers in the biggest moments. Both had all-star teams when they won their championships. Young has three rings due to two coming as Joe Montana’s backup.
@TakeaWalkontheWildSide Favre outplayed him by a mile. Who cares about those rings. Jim McMahon got a ring backing up Favre, and so did the Quality Control coach and the Secretary. Favre is way better. Young is lucky Dallas handed him a ring. He was a turnover machine in big games. Then against Green Bay got sent home constantly by Favre.
One of the announcers said early in the first half , the packers practiced on this new turf yesterday , but this game is the first time the 49ers have played on it, their home field . how could that be ?
THIS RIVALRY OF THE 49ers/Packers WAS LIKE A WAR BETWEEN TWO MAMMATHS GOING AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS! DURING THIS PLAYOFF GAME, I REALIZE THAT THE 49ers DEFENSE HAD A LITTLE TROUBLE STOPPING FAVRE AND KNEW THEY CAME UP SHORT
Yep, at least Watters. Losing Watters made their offense so one dimensional its crazy. Which was the reason they lost 5 games, and if Green Bay swept the Buccaneers, they easily get a 2 seed and a first round bye. Not only that, because of the loss to Atlanta, the 49ers would've had to meet Atlanta again in San Fran, and I don't think they beat the Falcons. The Falcons would've gone to Dallas, while Philadelphia goes to Lambeau.
@@josephruiz7233 they were the defending champs and along with dallas had dominated most of the early 90s, and the packers didn't have a 2-1 lead are you thinking of the title game 2 years later?
By this time everyone was using different variants of the Walsh West Coast Offense, & other coaches like Holmgren & Shanahan were simply better than George Seifert who had coasted to 4 NFCCGs & 2 titles with Walsh's playbook & built the 49ers to beat Dallas, not GB.
@Jonathan Dee The One And Only it was a great ride though! The 90's 49ers were my absolute favorite team. I look at all these games with child-like nostalgia.
As a Cowboys fan I can tell you that I was disappointed 49ers lost to GB because I knew the Cowboys were going to beat them and reclaim revenge. Unfortunately 49ers got owned by GB and Cowboys went on the win the SB anyways lol
Nah, it was refs and chop blocks that won it for Dallas. GB had the lead going into the 4th quarter, then Dallas turned into rolling logs - one chop block ended Jon Jurkovic’s career that game. Winning it all the following year was satisfying, and we did get our SB with Pittsburgh eventually. But the ‘95 Packers were 1 piece away from besting Dallas.
How big a deal was homefield advantage in the 1990s? Only one team in the NFC won a divisional road game that decade: the 1995 Packers and they did it as 10 point underdogs.
The Cowboys/49ers/Packers teams from this era are the most talented teams in NFL history, I don’t care what anyone says. Offensive strategies had really evolved by that point and the salary cap had not yet taken hold. Truly the sweet spot in NFL history.
When football was football! I agree 100%
And if Sterling Sharpe would’ve been there throughout that whole run then things would’ve played out a lil bit differently. No doubt those 3 teams were NFL greats
@@boomhawk6217the Packers interrupted the 49er cowboy rivalry by beating the 49ers only to choke to the cowboys Brett just couldn't get it done against Dallas.
Nah this years a bit more stacked
Well...2 years later a team in Denver that dominated won back to back super bowls. Can't leave them out.
It was Steve Young vs the Packers. The rest of his teammates decided they wanted an early vacation. Young's toughness was seriously underrated.
Adam Walker was a complete turd . He simply wet the bed.
Give two 49ers and cowboys all the credit coming up as a packer fans these teams were monumental giants to take down. When it was Green Bay’s time they made their run for the greatest Packer season I ever watched it would be a year later but here is where it started
We caught lighting in a bottle towards the end of this season
Anything is possible and I believe in the energy the Green Bay packers are showing … see ya when the clock hits zero
This is when football 🏈 was football. For my generation at least. I grew up watching these games. Amazing time to be a kid. Respect to both teams. Long time Cowboys fan but the Packers and 49ers are fun to watch when they are great.
I was a huge 49ers fan back then.I remember thinking like the 49ers got this game so I went to sleep. I woke up 2.5 hours later and said to myself " Oh my God, what happen? How could you lose to the Packers??
This was when football was awesome. We had the dynasty in the 49ers, the young bucks in the Packers, and the bad boys in Dallas. I miss those games, those rivalries and times. 😞
Same here. I miss those days of NFL football and the old 49ers.
Huge niners fan and you miss a playoff game to go sleep?
@@robertgarcia7024 😫 Yes I went to sleep right after the 9ers fumbled.That was the first and last time I did that while watching a 9ers game.
The period of 94-02 might be the peak of NFL football. There were still big name QBs and high flying pass attacks, big name running backs and grinding ground games, same for big name receivers, but also a period of great defenses, like the 00 Ravens, 00 Titans, and the 02 Bucs.
@@unlimitedpower978 I would argue 89-99 was the best era of tha NFL. 2000s were weak.
Robert Brooks was the #1 WR on a almost SB team. The next season he breaks his leg and misses out on a SB Championship and Antonio Freeman takes his shine. Robert Brooks is a guy nobody ever talks about but was a bad ass WR.
Crazy part is that Shannon Sharpe's brother, Sterling was HOF quality and got a serious injury (I think back in 1994). If Favre had Sharpe + Freeman + Keith Jackson etc., those Packers teams might have won another ring or so. Niners had Cowboys number only after Jimmy left. Packers always struggled against Dallas because no matter what Favre did, the Packers D COULD NOT STOP Emmitt Smith. He used to run through them like Swiss cheese. Plus Favre always had a knack for throwing up a couple of gimmies and the Dallas D was really good at taking advantage.
@@jstruggs9143 And Erik Williams always schoolyard bullied Reggie White.
Well, as much as I loved my pack I can honestly look back on this game and realize it wasnt the 94 niners we beat. No Ricky Watters. Not only did we not have a running game to worry about, Ricky was a good pass receiver too. We were a year away still.
Thanks for this video. The 49ers were a massive powerhouse team. Bill Walsh, George Siefert, Joe Montana, and now Steve Young. So many wins, and so many awesome players. Jerry Rice one of, if not the best WR EVER, and YES I am a Packers fan, but I give RESPECT where its due, and the 49ers deserve it. We may have won this game but SF has NOTHING to be ashamed of.
you are correct
A respectable statement from a non Niners fan
@@chuckdavis2692 same to you
Me on April 28, 2024 watching this for the first time. I had to work on this day back in 95. A few minutes before I was off people were walking around the grocery store saying that the Packers are Super Bowl bound. What great memories. This is when l REALLY began watching and became an die hard Packer fan.
That was next year bro, they lost to the Cowboys in the championship game, then the 'boys beat the Steelers in the superbowl
Thank you so much for putting this game up. One of the my favorite Packer games EVER. It was a coming out party, and Holmgren was absolutely jacked for this game.
That intro was awesome!
Other than the 1998 Wild Card, Favre dominated Steve Young in the playoffs and in the 90's it was the NFC East (Giants and Cowboys) and the Packers that were the road blocks to the 49ers winning multiple Super Bowls.
Then 49ers have dominated Aaron Rodger's packers.
@@robertgarcia7024 Lombardi dominated the Niners. Great rivalry, but definitively has one-sided clumps
Packers should've won in 1998 too. Rice fumbled.
Well this is something Aaron Rodgers hasn't been able to do! Beat the 49ers in the playoffs!
Rice fumbled!!! 1998 playoffs
awesome upload thank you been wanting to rewatch this forever
The changing of the guard in the NFC in the mid to late 1990s.
Yup. The Cowboys, Broncos and Packers, were all above the 49ers in the 90s. This game established that "pecking-order" in the NFL, entirely.
@@josephruiz7233 ? Cowboys? The Cowboys fell in 94 to SF and in 96 for good, they ceased to matter in the 2nd half of the 90's. Theres no changing of shit in mid 90's that includes the Cowboys, theyre the early 90's. The Pack is the changing of the guard.
Your talking about the 80's to 1990? That was the Giants that closed that book, 15-13 NFC championship. Kids these days don't know their shit.
Packers were robbed in that WC game too. Rice fumbled that ball
@@stevenhempel2311 well in that case SF got robbed in the 96 regular season game that gave GB home field.
49ers were never the same after this game
Dennis Everett
Never thought about that your exactly right
As a 49er fan, I agree. Even today 😢
Had never seen them so out schemed like that
Terrible game by Steve Young. One of his most disappointing games
As a 49er fan myself I saw the 49ers were finished long before that game. Once they lost Mike Shanahan and Ricky Watters after winning the title the yr prior, they were done.
This brings back memories! 1994-1998 the packers were unbelievable. When they beat San Francisco the first time it was unbelievable
Don Shula gives me goosebumps
I'll trade those 3 wins vs Frisco and they can have the 1998 one lol
Man as a 49ers fan we were outclassed this game. But it didn't stop it continued all the way til the 98 season when we finally beat them with the catch 2. Even that game turnovers plagued us. I miss football in the 90s unpredictable and just a blast to watch.
The 49ers got lucky on that game winning drive. Jerry Rice clearly fumbled the ball, but a quick whistle blew the play dead. That 94 team, as great as they played was a one year wonder
@@keithclark7266 they threw everything they had with free agents to stop Dallas that season and it actually worked. Then once Ricky Watters and Deion left it left a huge hole in their running game.
I agree 100%. I am a Packers fan and the 90's were a rollercoaster. I called Green Bay the Cardiac Pack because they always gave your heart issues...lol. But YES, the 90's were so much fun. There were some amazing games. Some we lost and some we won. What got me was SF had Dallas' number but GB would get to Dallas and then pfft, they'd lose. Finally we had home field throughout the playoffs. The Cowboys would HAVE to come to GB. Then the Panthers won and we ended up winning the Super Bowl, but we NEVER knocked out Dallas, which is something SF DID DO.
@@EdsterIII In 96 Dallas shut down GB. Cowboys scored 7 field goals and won 21-6.
I love pre- Roger Goddell NFL too. I miss Kap too
The intersection of two franchises...the Packers on the ascent and the 49ers on the descent.
No not really 🤷🏼♀️
No. The Packers only won a Superbowl. 1 an the 49ers actually got better after the 95 season from 1996-1999 in terms of winning percentage. The 95 season 11-5 96 12-4. 97 13-3. 98 12-4. After Green Bay beat the lowly 1996 Patriots easily in the Superbowl they didn't do shit else. Until 2010 Aaron Rodgers.
@@akeemahchyam1735 youre just ignore that they made it back to the SB after the 97 season? A lot more of an achivement than those SF reg season record which do nothing but underscore how much they underachieved.
I agree the Packers have been consistent winners and the 49ers have been unable to sustain success over the last 20 yrs.
Christmas Eve at Atlanta was the beginning of the end
That opening was AWESOME. I got goose bumps. The image of Brett Favre and Reggie White walking off the field together gave my eyes a need for a tissue. Reggie came or chose Green Bay because he believed Brett Favre would win. The 90's was amazing. Back when players WANTED to cone to GB and when Green Bay actually signed good free agents. Sean Jones, Santana Dotson, Desmond Howard, Andre Rison, Don Beebe, and of course the BEST of them ALL, REGGIE WHITE. There's a few more but these guys were so instrumental in Green Bay winning as much as they did. I just wish they could have gotten one more for Reggie and Brett.
From 91-96 Dallas was 8-0 against GB including 3 consecutive playoff wins 93-95.
Yet they only won one Superbowl😂😂😂😂😂
I remember this being the “Oh shit the Packers are for real” moment.
This was the Stepping Stone to their championship the following year!!
I live in GB. We couldn't believe. All my life nothing but futility, and now we're legit SB contenders.
Everyone was expecting Cowboys vs 49ers part IV. the Packers had other ideas. The downfall of the 49ers started that day. The Packers and then the Broncos just took their system and expanded on it. The 49ers got old their O-Line wasn't good no William Floyd or Ricky Watters the offense was way to 1 dimensional, Young and Rice can only get u so far. The Packers announced their presence that day.
Very well said. As a Niners fan I was deeply hurt after this game but looking back you hit it on the head, they were just old and one dimensional at that point
@@Judahseed that being said, if they could have avoided GB, l think they beat everyone else.
@@TheWakeup011 They could have absolutely avoided the Packers by beating the Falcons in week 17 to claim the #1 seed. Instead they lost 28-27 and got the #2 seed. It was the beginning of the end for George Seifert that was always seen as the guy who inherited Walsh's team. Holmgren outcoached Seifert as well as the other factors
@@Judahseed l an well aware, trust me....
I agree about Siefert also. While he was a good coach, you need more than good to beat Jimmy Johnson and Holmgren. Siefert wasn't quite as good as those two.
I read somewhere that 49er brass wanted Holmgren to be HC but it rubbed him the wrong way because Siefert was still at the helm.
The 49r's had done to them the same way, plus the 21 points. The same number that the 49r's did to Dallas.
Glad I found this. One of my favorite packers playoff games of all time. The packers hit the niners in the mouth all day. Dominating win despite being 10 point underdogs. Lets hope for same result November 2019.
Good times. I always will cherish my past heyday with the Packers. Beating the 49ers consistently in the 90s was how to make a statement in the league.
This game is fantastic!
I was a new fan at 10 years old and forever crushed by this loss.
For some that don't know, Holmgren was the 49ers offensive coordinator during two of the Joe Montana-led 49ers championships so yes, Holmgren knew them better than anybody especially since they kept virtually the same offense.
I grew up watching the 49ers from the fabulous '81 season ("The Catch") all the way through to the end of the '90s. It's bittersweet, looking back, how by this point we just took the 49ers for granted, they were always good, always a "class team," as my father said. You just took them for granted. I guess all good things have to end.
I remember watching this game and honestly wasn't surprised because you saw this coming with the Packers
I remember watching this as youngling! Go Pack Go!
FINALLY someone added this game!
When the Packers had that field goal blocked. I was like Oh man, here come the 49ers. However that fumble and score by the Packers changed the whole momentum of that game.
As a Cowboys fan, I knew Green Bay was going to win this game because 49er's were a finesse team that year and Green Bay's experience from playing Dallas showed up here..
I remember this.....a upset I didn't see coming. As a Cowboy fan, I was relieved as hell because Green Bay was a better match up for us. We could run the ball on them.
I'll never forget Bart Farver, what a great QB
Yeah he is amazing, and tough as nails. On the end around @ 6:45 or so watch Favre actually try to block defensive players. Not many QB's did that.
lmao@Farver
Lets gooo! Thanks Bart!!
Great uniform match up.
Packers rising, 49ers on way down, for a long time to come
Adrian Reid Packers didn’t stay up for too long. I don’t care about either but let’s not treat this Packers team as some sort of dynasty. After the 98 season, there were more downs than ups. Still, great uniform matchup which is all I was saying.
Key Plays:
6:35 GB: Brooks 15-yd rush
14:25 SF: Blocked Green Bay FG attempt
15:10 GB: Newsome 31-yd fumble ret TD
21:10 GB: Jackson 35-yd rec from Favre
22:00 GB: Brooks 20-yd rec from Favre
24:15 GB: Jackson 3-yd rec TD from Favre
36:05 GB: Morgan 20-yd rec from Favre
37:20 GB: Jackson 35-yd rec from Favre
38:55 GB: Chmura 13-yd rec TD from Favre
47:30 GB: Brooks 53-yd rec from Favre
52:30 SF: Jones 29-yd rec from Young
57:25 SF: Rice 32-yd rec from Young
1:08:35 SF: Young 41-yd rush
1:25:15 SF: Loville 24-yd rec from Young
1:31:15 SF: Young 1-yd rush TD
1:41:40 GB: Jackson 28-yd rec from Favre
2:19:35 GB: Prior 4-yd INT ret
2:27:20 SF: Jones 20-yd rec from Young
2:32:40 SF: Loville 2-yd rush TD
2:34:55 SF: Onside kick
2:40:20 GB: Newsome INT
Key Stats:
GB:
Brett Favre 21/28 pass, 299 yds, 2 TD
Edgar Bennett 23 car, 51 yds
Robert Brooks 4 rec, 103 yds
Keith Jackson 4 rec, 101 yds, 1 TD
Craig Newsome 1 INT, 6 tackles, 1 FR, 1 TD
Wayne Simmons 1 sack, 10 tackles
SF:
Steve Young 32/65 pass, 328 pass yds, 2 INT, 9 car, 77 rush yds, 1 TD
Derek Loville 8 car, 5 rush yds, 1 TD, 7 rec (12 targets), 70 rec yds
Jerry Rice 11 rec (17 targets), 117 yds
Brent Jones 8 rec (13 targets), 112 yds
Dana Stubblefield 1 sack, 9 tackles
65 pass attempts in the 90s was pretty rare!
As a Cowboy fan I approve this Packed win!!!
As you should! Smart fan!
Never will forget that crazy foam shell Steve Wallace wore on top of his regular helmet. Looked weird but he never suffered another concussion in his career once he adopted it.
The end of an age. After two decades battling for Conference Supremacy, The Cowboys and 49ers no longer dictated the NFC.
We were supposed to see Dallas vs San Francisco part 3 but we were robbed...ultimately much respect to farve thou 3 X MVP
Part 4 !!!
IV
The weekend of the Blizzard of 96 that paralyzed the east coast for a week.
I remember it well.
Same here. First time I remember being snowed on rather iced and church services were canceled due to the treacherous weather
Young was so happy when the 49ers beat the Cowboys in nfc championship game that year to win the Super bowl, that they overlooked Packers. Then the following year the Packers beat up the Niner's and they were never the same.
The 94 season, the 49ers brought in a bunch of guys on one year deals just to beat that cowboy team. It was basically a sell your soul for one year and many of those players were gone after that title run. They weren't going to be able to stay on top long
I’m a die hard Cowboys fan....the Packers did the Cowboys a huge favor this year.....once this game was over...I KNEW Dallas would win the SB
I don't think anybody was beating Dallas that year. I wished 96 would have had G.B. vs Dallas in playoffs.
I think we would've beaten the 49ers anyways but that loss just made me think that we're playing a better version of SF with green Bay same type offensive better defense..we just had the experience factors that's why I felt we would win against green Bay
Favre and the offense kept getting better but their defense just wasn't good enough to beat Dallas yet. Emmitt was always good for 100 to 150 yards and 2 TD's against the Pack. Plus Aikman wouldn't turn the ball over while Favre always threw a pick or two. To beat Dallas, especially at Texas Stadium, you had to do EVERYTHING right. I do wish Irvin hadn't gotten hurt and Dallas had been able to beat Carolina in '96. A GB vs Dallas 1996 NFC Championship game at Lambeau Field would have been EPIC!!!!
Honestly I thought the Cowboys were better than San Fran that year...but the Niners were just in their head (since Jimmy left)
Nfl's greatest era
2:12:05 that's a penalty, ejection, fine and suspension today
Yep the NFL is so gay and soft now!
This is when the Packers arrived and became a legit contender.
Wayne Simmons!!!!!!!
We need a repeat of this tomorrow.
NEED. IT.
Almost
No dice! Lol
Brett Favre is the reason why I started watching football. It was 1996
Packers 49ers playoff rivalry began on that January afternoon.
This was the Divisional game, the Packers lost to Dallas in the NFC Championship game
Brevon Townes I meant Packers 49ers renewing their playoff rivalry.
Niners!!!!!!!
I love how my son that's 21 and I'm 45 and we can relive this game......
Back when...
Men were Men
Football was fun to watch.
After the missed FG by Jacke the crowd was LOUD and the defense was looking like they won it all......WHOOOPS.
C’mon man!!!
This was also the last season for several teams to switch from there classic look to what they have now. The miners kindve went back to this look but not really the stripes on the pants are too thin now.
All the teams with pastel colors really did decide to streamline to darker, clash colors at the same time didn't they. Eagles, Broncos, Buccaneers, Rams, with the Patriots doing right before, and the Seahawks and Oilers/Titans right after.
Packers should have kept the extra stripes on the sleeves
The lethal Favre to Jackson combo
Never seen this. As a cowboys fan I'm just hear to grin through it.
Here we go. :)
Havent won shit since boi go pack go
Ingur Lund Cowboy would be the Packers the following week!
00:12 great opening song for the broadcast…. it’s so 90s 👍🏼
First upset I remember watching,when I was a kid...the Cowboys and 49ers always seemed destined to play in the championship game. The Packers changed all that and put a whipping on the champs.
Pretty mind-blowing that Don Shula had JUST retired when this game aired.
This was earth shaking at the time for many that viewed the NFL as a DAL/SF 2 team hegemony.
Why are the nfl broadcasts not even close to this good anymore
Wish they still did these types of intros
if you watch 80's qbs and 90's qb's it's a massive difference. the greatest yrs of football ever played is from 1993 to 2009 maybe 2010.
First of four straight playoff games between the 49ers and the Pack.
Niners were never the same after this game. John Madden said it on the other broadcast in the Bay Area, that they will pass this tape around the league and show how to beat the Niners. BTW, I believe many people forgot that Mike Holmgren was with the Niners prior as well, and knew all their plays. George Seifert lasted only one more season after this.
*The 96 Divisional game between the Niners and Packers was in Green Bay. However, Steve Young had banged up ribs, from the Wild Card game, and barely played in that game.
The day the NFC stopped being a two team conference
This game shortened Steve Young's career.
& then aeneas williams ended his career
I disagree. He was already dealing with injuries that he sustained in the regular season, plus, losing Rickey Whatters to free agency and injuries to the offensive and defensive lines didn't help, on top of that, losing Dieon Sanders to free agency downgraded their secondary.
@@Wolf_3125 I agree with you that all those variables were a factor. Top that off with another game where Young was asked to do so much. Time wears us all down eventually.
In the 90s, the Packers totally dominated the 49ers, but at the same time the Cowboys totally dominated the Packers. The 49ers could not beat the Packers. The Packers could not beat the Cowboys. The 49ers had times where they could, and did, beat the Cowboys. But when it was all said and done the Cowboys came out of the 90s with 3 Super Bowl championships while the Packers and 49ers got only 1 each.
I don't think the NFL will have a great three-way rivalry like the Cowboys, 49ers, and Packers had in the 1990s.
@@joesakic91 I agree. I still can't get over the way the Cowboys would abuse the Packers and Brett Favre though. Dallas would just beat the crap out of Green Bay over and over again. And over and over some more. The beatings were so constant and so severe that Green Bay finally just quit and gave up.
@@scottmitchell3641 When did Green Bay "give up"? I don't remember that at all. I remember them having to go to Dallas seven times in a row, and when the Cowboys finally had to come up north in 1997 the Packers crushed them. Then they stopped being on each other's schedule almost every year until 2004.
LATE 90s. They only played once in the 90s prior to this January 1996 game (49ers won by 4 at Lambeau). I don't think Green Bay does this in 93 and especially not in 94 had the visited The Stick.
Free agency killed the 49er's and Cowboys it is just hard to keep that much talent on a team just surviving injury let alone money..
this was a sad game to watch as niners fan..they made the score respectable for a while there but they were manhandled throughout. It took till the last few years of Favre's career for me to finally be a fan since I hated him always winning the niners.
Watching this game, it's pretty clear to me Derrick Loville was no Ricky Watters. The running game sucked. As a 49er fan, you gotta give it to the Packers Defense, they destroyed Young and the 49er offense. Whoever was the offensive coordinator, he was no Mike Shanahan. Shanahan would have schemed a perfect offense for Steve Young to prevail. It was not to be
Lovell and mike cofer are my least favorite 49ers ever
The OC for the Niners after Shanahan was Marc Trestman. He had been with Minnesota, after before them, Cleveland when Bud Carson was the Head Coach. But you're 1,000% right about him being no Mike Shanahan. I think this game showed the way to kinda be able to slow down the West Coast Offense. Throw in a LOT of zone-blitzes. That is exactly what the late Fritz Shurmur, the Defensive Coordinator for the Packers did to these guys. No wonder LeRoy Butler had Steve Young's number.
@@brianwaas9085 Le Roy Butler the creator of the Lambeau leap and a bad a** blitzing Saftey. He was and is along with the late Reggie White a HUGE reason why our defense was so dominant.
Everyone watched Reggie then off the end here comes Butler....POW!! He was awesome.
If Ricky Watter was on that team they win that game. They were unstoppable with Ricky Watter on that team. He was a key part. He fit that team perfectly.
Marc Trestman was garbage.
This reminded me of the 90 nfc playoffs. The Giants won the title but everyone saw the Redskins coming . Same for this. Everyone saw GB as the future champs.
I mean, there were REAL questions about whether Mark Rypien could be a Super Bowl QB. He answered them for one year and got a ring and Super Bowl MVP. But it wasn't a slam dunk.
I remember when the Teams were practicing for this game and a Green Bay Reporter tried to ask Rice a question and he hollered back “can’t talk now I have a tee time in 20 minutes (or whatever it was) that’s how lightly they took this Packer Team
Lol owned
Those were great days !!
This Saturday night inside Lambeau will be the ninth time the 49ers and Packers will meet in the playoffs.
In 1981 49ers had no running game. They used pick plays to move the ball. Every time they played the Cowboys they did this . Coach Landry wouldn't do anything about it. It was great seeing Packers do it to them." Pick plays"
Do you remember this: "OK! the time touchdown! Green Bay Packers" was found on KDFW (Dallas, Texas, then as News 4 Texas prior to acquired by FOX) long ago even today still find them.
Who would of thought Aaron Rodgers= Steve Young
Aaron has a stronger arm
Changing of the guard in the NFC
I like the intro. Sf is still counting. 😂😂😂😂😂
First of three straight losses to GB in the playoffs by the Niners
The Pack just had their number till 1998. They both ran Walsh west coast, who knows eachothers shit more. The Pack knew it more then the Niners did and zone blitzed it. Also way more stacked defensively.
They had their number in '98 too. Rice fumbled.
Divisional round games had been a formality for the 49ers since 1988 - they usually massacred whoever they played and coasted to the NFC title game. The Packers' win was not as surprising as how they did it - you just did not see that era's 49er teams get thoroughly dismantled like this.
walterlv01 and how totally unprepared they seemed
The Packers did a San Francisco on San Francisco
The 49ers Offense was basically Steve Young and Jerry Rice. No Running Game, Offensive Line had a couple of Guys who were a Little Long in the Tooth, Brent Jones and John Taylor were on Their last legs, JJ Stokes wasn’t ready yet and the Defense while still Good but wasn’t as Great as it was the Year Before. The Packers had none of those problems and it showed.
I was a huge NFL fan at the time this was played, and I hated the 49ers. I didn't watch this game at the time because I didn't want to see them beat the Packers! Seeing it for the first time today, and it was just the opposite - Green Bay whipped them mercilessly. I did enjoy this video immensely!
When Steve Young went back to choking.
Both QBs in this game were lucky to get one ring. Both big time chokers in the biggest moments. Both had all-star teams when they won their championships. Young has three rings due to two coming as Joe Montana’s backup.
@TakeaWalkontheWildSide Favre outplayed him by a mile. Who cares about those rings. Jim McMahon got a ring backing up Favre, and so did the Quality Control coach and the Secretary. Favre is way better. Young is lucky Dallas handed him a ring. He was a turnover machine in big games. Then against Green Bay got sent home constantly by Favre.
One of the announcers said early in the first half , the packers practiced on this new turf yesterday , but this game is the first time the 49ers have played on it, their home field . how could that be ?
This game was missing Madden and Summerall
THIS RIVALRY OF THE 49ers/Packers WAS LIKE A WAR BETWEEN TWO MAMMATHS GOING AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS! DURING THIS PLAYOFF GAME, I REALIZE THAT THE 49ers DEFENSE HAD A LITTLE TROUBLE STOPPING FAVRE AND KNEW THEY CAME UP SHORT
I loved me some Edgar Bennett
And Dorsey levens
Now this is football!!! They be are going to war!
I have the chills watching this.
The worst decision the 49ers made was not resigning watters and Sanders I believe they win this with those two
Yep, at least Watters. Losing Watters made their offense so one dimensional its crazy. Which was the reason they lost 5 games, and if Green Bay swept the Buccaneers, they easily get a 2 seed and a first round bye. Not only that, because of the loss to Atlanta, the 49ers would've had to meet Atlanta again in San Fran, and I don't think they beat the Falcons. The Falcons would've gone to Dallas, while Philadelphia goes to Lambeau.
underrated playoff upset I guess not as big in retro but at the time it was
The Packers were 2-1 win/loss against the 49ers up to this point in the 90s. The 49ers of the 90s were pretty overrated.
@@josephruiz7233 they were the defending champs and along with dallas had dominated most of the early 90s, and the packers didn't have a 2-1 lead are you thinking of the title game 2 years later?
@@paulevereklian: I was referring to regular season matchups between the 2.
@@josephruiz7233 only 1 prior to this season in the 90s before this game
When the check for the Ricky Watters trade finally cashed out for SF.
By this time everyone was using different variants of the Walsh West Coast Offense, & other coaches like Holmgren & Shanahan were simply better than George Seifert who had coasted to 4 NFCCGs & 2 titles with Walsh's playbook & built the 49ers to beat Dallas, not GB.
@Jonathan Dee The One And Only it was a great ride though! The 90's 49ers were my absolute favorite team. I look at all these games with child-like nostalgia.
@Jonathan Dee The One And Only Shanahan was already in Denver in 1995...
I know this many Dallas Cowboy fans were relieved Green Bay beat San Francisco that year.
Scott Davidson The Cowboys coaching and game preparation sucked, after Jimmy Johnson left the team; and Jerry Jones became more hands-on.
Not really we was ready for them indeed i would've loved to see it the best rivalry in football m.less
Yea cuz they 49ers had their number
Cowboys were probably more talented in 95, but they were just snake bitten.
As a Cowboys fan I can tell you that I was disappointed 49ers lost to GB because I knew the Cowboys were going to beat them and reclaim revenge. Unfortunately 49ers got owned by GB and Cowboys went on the win the SB anyways lol
This game showed the 49er's had no running game to open up passing this why Dallas was able to beat Green Bay the following week..
Nah, it was refs and chop blocks that won it for Dallas.
GB had the lead going into the 4th quarter, then Dallas turned into rolling logs - one chop block ended Jon Jurkovic’s career that game.
Winning it all the following year was satisfying, and we did get our SB with Pittsburgh eventually. But the ‘95 Packers were 1 piece away from besting Dallas.
@@sigonellapc2 You fuckn moron... The refs just like a simple minded fan keep sipping Corona a nasty azz beer.
Cowboy fans were so happy
How big a deal was homefield advantage in the 1990s? Only one team in the NFC won a divisional road game that decade: the 1995 Packers and they did it as 10 point underdogs.