Happy 20th Anniversary, Super Bowl XXV

Was epic…our ground & pound almost cost us…but thank the football Gods for norwood….I think had Sims played we might have had a better day on Offense ! Carl Banks & O.J anderson stand out in my mind as having legendary games…I tip my hat to the bills..Thurman thomas was killing us! That team was loaded! Just a bit of trivia..we gave the 1st lose to both 4peat losers denver & buff !

All I can find on Amazon is the “America’s Game” edition, which I think cuts out too much and has too much talking (but the music is great).

-The best singing of the National Anthem by Whitney Houston.

-OJ Anderson’s practice pants.

-OJ’s right hook on Mark Kelso as he rumbled down the sideline.

-Numerous camera shots of Darryl Talley, the ugliest man alive.

-The Hos miraculously hangs onto the ball as he takes the safety.

-Mark Ingram’s incredible effort to get the first down on 3rd and 13.

-And of course…Norwood’s miss wide right. To this day I have never seen my father jump so high.

as I am now. But I swear, I SWEAR I never for one second thought that Norwood would make that kick. Now,aat this age, I would have pictured it going thru the uprights 50 times before he actually kicked it. lol.

And how about Kelso’s helmet? Is Eli going to be wearing that style soon? Every year his helmet gets bigger! lol

Let me transition to current topics and recent posts. Anderson was well past his prime and yet he was breaking through the Bill’s line and his running style was similar to BJ. He ran well enough to earn MVP of the game.
 BJ, who has just reached his prime gets stopped at the LOS so often that it’s safe to say we don’t have a running game even though his yards per carry numbers were pretty good. Once he breaks through the LOS, he gets big yards that offsets all the short yardage stops.
Transition to the discussions about O-linemen. When I see a prospective lineman discussed here I give a mental thumbs up if the description says “He’s an excellent run blocker”. Thumbs down if the description indicates “good pass blocker but no push”. Like Solder, for example.
Forgive me if I am wrong, but Anderson was good because his front line blocking was good. I’d hate to see BJ go to another team with good run blocking and become a great back—again. Look at what happened to Ward. No blocking and he becomes so-so. Miami paid through the nose and dumped him. Think of BJ still tearing it up at age 33 and think Run blocking. We go to the Superbowl and WE RULE!

On military bases if you go to the movie theatre you must stand for Whitney’s National Anthem before the movie starts, or at least you had to when I was in. Its the best I’ve ever heard and it brings back so many great memories of us winning it all.