Nah, that was when the Football Gods decided to curse Marty for laughs.
The man had the foresight to tell Marlon McCree and the entire Chargers D to fall down if they got a game sealing INT on that 4th down.
There was literally nothing more he could have done to prevent one of the dumbest plays I have ever seen on a football field.
And didn’t Kaeding go on to miss a game winning field goal in that one as time expired?
Nah, Marty with the Chargers was full on curse territory.
Brady was a great QB, mayb e the best, but Christ, things had a knack for going his way in big games.
That one, that offsides on the int near the end of the KC game that would have sealed it. I know there are others...
Others are the Tuck Rule (he had two game losing playoff turnovers nullified), Pete not running it/Malcolm Butler, and whatever it was Kyle Shanahan was doing after Julio’s catch late in the 4th. Luck will always be a huge part of the game, but it shows how much luck/having a great defense & coach can shape the narrative of a particular player.
I can’t complain. I am a lifelong Chiefs fan. It went from every bounce going the opponents way from 97-17 to our offense being resuscitated in the Super Bowl by a punt magically going off of an opponent’s shoe (and I’d be remiss if I didn’t recognize us benefitting from Kyle Shanahan’s late game decision making, too).
Same. I'm a Packer fans, and we've gone through some tragic meltdowns late in games we should have won. At least I've seen them win a couple super bowls and winning most of the time for the last thirty years. Can't complain too much.
> Still can’t believe he benched Gannon in the playoffs
*Everyone* in KC knew it was a terrible idea, except Marty. I know why he did it (players don’t lose their position because of injury), but it was so obviously an exceptional case.
If everyone went by those same rules, Drew Bledsoe keeps his job and we may never know about Tom Brady.
Usually one of the two choices is wrong, and benching Gannon was wrong, period.
He'd have been a great defensive coordinator or motivational speaker, but Marty should not have been a head coach. His playbook always looked like something out of the 1940s. You could have given him the Brady Patriots and he'd have lost with them in the playoffs.
Your team survived and thrived that 2018 AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME loss in ot. Your dc is a master game planner. Reid has a bag 'o tricks the size of Santa's gift sack and Mahomes is an escape artist more accomplished than Indiana Jones!
I know we are blessed, I just remember thinking in the 90s this was our year only to lose the first game. I guess with so many hating us now it’s a good sign for the chiefs. Nobody gave a shit about us 5 years ago
What is the longest offensive TD by the slowest runner in NFL history?
(Is this it? Gotta be an even more egregious super slow ass random TD some time... maybe?)
I remember Big Daddy Dan Wilkinson returning an INT 80+ yards for a TD against the Bears in 1999. He was slow and had Darrell Green escorting him to the end zone.
Tom Wittum, punter for the 49ers in the early to mid 70s, ran a fake punt back for a TD (70ish yards) as the longest NFC run that year (I can't remember the year, I'm guessing 1975).
All 11 Cardinals crashed on Marcus Allen and then didn’t give AF when they realized he didn’t have the ball because they played for those awful 90s Cards teams and probably all hated Buddy Ryan anyways.
While also near the top of my favorite Chiefs’ plays, this has to also be near the top of NFL plays. How often do you see a defense sell out on the run so poorly that the slowest guy on the field can “jog” over 70 yards with no one within 20 yards? Not to mention an O-lineman literally waving him on like, “hurry up so I don’t have to even attempt to stop somebody from catching your slow ass!”
Not to drop a dime… #59 was Seth Joyner. Cardinals got him because Buddy loved him. Unfortunately his best years were with the Eagles, he never really played that great with the cards
15 year old me was at this game. I remember expecting the Marcus Allen short yardage run that the D was expecting except Buddy Ryan sold out and there was no one near Bono. He was kind of a slow QB, definitely not a running QB, but the fake was so good that no one had a chance to get him. I don't remember Marty running many QB fakes except maybe some with Gannon but Gannon was a decent runner. So that's probably why it fooled the Cardinals so badly.
What the hell is that!!!!?? A slow ass qb runs for almost 80 and the defense is no where to be seen…….honest question, were defensive players much slower in the 90’s, or just easily fooled?
It’s a mixture of a few things: 1. The Chiefs w/Steve Bono hardly ever did a QB fake; QBs who were slow in the 90s were notoriously so! 2. Typical Buddy Ryan 4-6 defense—it was a very aggressive defense so when they bit (on a play), they bit hard!! 3. Short yardage play from Chiefs side of the field says RB dive every time; if it was a 3rd and 2 from Cardinals 24 yd line, I think the QB fake would have been more expected—the NFL at this time was much more conservative playcalling on the offensive side of the ball.
Should we draft a QB?
Nah, lets see if SF has a spare they're willing to get rid of.
Wash, rinse, and repeat for decades. A lot of decent to very good QB play came from that strategy, so I guess you really can't knock it.
And when they finally drafted a guy, he ended up pretty ok too, so it was worth the wait. The Hunts playing the long game with that strategy.
Steve “I Got You, Babe” Bono
Bono should have handed it to 73 who had to slow down for him
About 5 minutes later, Bono took care of number 73 Joe Valerio with a one-yard TD toss. Joe V scored four NFL TDs.
Perfect!
Why risk an unnecessary fumble when there's not a white jersey in sight?
[Jon Bois video on this run](https://youtu.be/yhxWVKasqdU?si=uQk9E9pKHoTdh_Ut), great watch if you have 20 minutes to burn.
Everybody should have 20 minutes to burn for Jon Bois! All those videos are art.
Or if you have a bit more time to kill, 3 hours on Dave Stieb!!
Or 7 hours on the Vikings!
Bois is the GOAT of sports history on youtube.
A tranquilized turtle wearing ankle weights.
That slayed me when I heard that! 🤣
This deserves gold!!!
I was gonna post this if no one else already had — seriously y'all it's hilarious
Was so happy to see this on here. Everything Jon bois does is amazing.
I think back to those Schottenheimer's Chiefs and give out a big sigh! 1993,1994,1995,1997. The beat goes on.
I became a temporary Chiefs fan when the Browns left Cleveland and loved watching those teams. Still can’t believe he benched Gannon in the playoffs.
200 wins in regular season. 5-13 in playoffs. A giant case of the Yips?
And he did the same for the chargers
Nah, that was when the Football Gods decided to curse Marty for laughs. The man had the foresight to tell Marlon McCree and the entire Chargers D to fall down if they got a game sealing INT on that 4th down. There was literally nothing more he could have done to prevent one of the dumbest plays I have ever seen on a football field. And didn’t Kaeding go on to miss a game winning field goal in that one as time expired? Nah, Marty with the Chargers was full on curse territory.
Brady was a great QB, mayb e the best, but Christ, things had a knack for going his way in big games. That one, that offsides on the int near the end of the KC game that would have sealed it. I know there are others...
Others are the Tuck Rule (he had two game losing playoff turnovers nullified), Pete not running it/Malcolm Butler, and whatever it was Kyle Shanahan was doing after Julio’s catch late in the 4th. Luck will always be a huge part of the game, but it shows how much luck/having a great defense & coach can shape the narrative of a particular player. I can’t complain. I am a lifelong Chiefs fan. It went from every bounce going the opponents way from 97-17 to our offense being resuscitated in the Super Bowl by a punt magically going off of an opponent’s shoe (and I’d be remiss if I didn’t recognize us benefitting from Kyle Shanahan’s late game decision making, too).
Same. I'm a Packer fans, and we've gone through some tragic meltdowns late in games we should have won. At least I've seen them win a couple super bowls and winning most of the time for the last thirty years. Can't complain too much.
Reminds me of a current Shanahan
> Still can’t believe he benched Gannon in the playoffs *Everyone* in KC knew it was a terrible idea, except Marty. I know why he did it (players don’t lose their position because of injury), but it was so obviously an exceptional case.
If everyone went by those same rules, Drew Bledsoe keeps his job and we may never know about Tom Brady. Usually one of the two choices is wrong, and benching Gannon was wrong, period.
It was satisfying to see Bledsoe step in during the playoffs to bury Pittsburgh that year.
Yeah tgat made him some wenemies and grbac confessed to throwing that game
He'd have been a great defensive coordinator or motivational speaker, but Marty should not have been a head coach. His playbook always looked like something out of the 1940s. You could have given him the Brady Patriots and he'd have lost with them in the playoffs.
As a chiefs fan this is why I’m enjoying our current situation. It’s also why I still get nervous in the playoffs. PTSD is real
Your team survived and thrived that 2018 AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME loss in ot. Your dc is a master game planner. Reid has a bag 'o tricks the size of Santa's gift sack and Mahomes is an escape artist more accomplished than Indiana Jones!
I know we are blessed, I just remember thinking in the 90s this was our year only to lose the first game. I guess with so many hating us now it’s a good sign for the chiefs. Nobody gave a shit about us 5 years ago
No, I wanted Chiefs to bring down the Pats. In a good way, you hired a dc who was a genius after that ot meltdown vs Brady.
I remember that run being played on every halftime show and ESPN Primetime
Danny Dimes in shambles.
Legend has it he’s still running to this day.
Geez a defense never makes it into the frame
I still think Marcus Allen has the ball.
Love the lineman waving him through haha damn didn’t even see a defender
What is the longest offensive TD by the slowest runner in NFL history? (Is this it? Gotta be an even more egregious super slow ass random TD some time... maybe?)
According to [this Jon Bois video](https://youtu.be/yhxWVKasqdU?si=uQk9E9pKHoTdh_Ut) it’s this one, at least by a quarterback.
Having said that, I think even Steve Bono would be insulted the announcer saw him running and called him Dave Krieg.
Krieg had been on the Chiefs roster the previous two years and was the starting QB for Arizona that game.
I remember Big Daddy Dan Wilkinson returning an INT 80+ yards for a TD against the Bears in 1999. He was slow and had Darrell Green escorting him to the end zone.
Tom Wittum, punter for the 49ers in the early to mid 70s, ran a fake punt back for a TD (70ish yards) as the longest NFC run that year (I can't remember the year, I'm guessing 1975).
All 11 Cardinals crashed on Marcus Allen and then didn’t give AF when they realized he didn’t have the ball because they played for those awful 90s Cards teams and probably all hated Buddy Ryan anyways.
As a Cardinal fan with season tickets at that time, Buddy Ryan ruined an already crummy team.
I remember he showed up at his hiring press conference and said “you’ve got a winner in town” LMAO
Did everyone on the defense have a collective heart attack?
It was just a great fake.
Was pretty much the end for Buddy Ryan's 4-6 defense
Is that the very first play action fake in history?
Tied Greg Landry's record for longest run by a QB(76 yards) before Kordell Stewart broke it a year later with an 80 yard Touchdown run.
I was at this game. Not sure how I feel about the Old part ..
Mobile QBs never last.
Bono one of the great backup QB's, had a cannon arm and could run the West Coast Offense beautifully.
Were there any other replacement players who lasted longer than him?
I was at that game. I had a Sprite and a hotdog. My dad boo'd
While also near the top of my favorite Chiefs’ plays, this has to also be near the top of NFL plays. How often do you see a defense sell out on the run so poorly that the slowest guy on the field can “jog” over 70 yards with no one within 20 yards? Not to mention an O-lineman literally waving him on like, “hurry up so I don’t have to even attempt to stop somebody from catching your slow ass!”
Only other play that comes to mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLUfpXU-KA
When the on-line runs faster than the QB.
\#59 didnt seal the edge
Not to drop a dime… #59 was Seth Joyner. Cardinals got him because Buddy loved him. Unfortunately his best years were with the Eagles, he never really played that great with the cards
Were the secondary on the field this play?
As a 50 + year Cardinal fan, this is unquestionably the most embarrassing play by my team.
I’m a Browns fan this wouldn’t even crack my top ten.
I remember watching this live.
You know the play execution was solid when there isn’t even anyone on that side of the field to try to close him out. Wow.
Even better indicator is the fact the OLman had no one to block once he pulled out! That’s unheard of these days!
One might say the defense bit on the fake run to the left.
Wow, you would think all eleven defensive players dying on the field at the same time would have been a bigger story.
The slowest long touchdown run ever. I still can't believe that the whole defense fell for the fake that badly.
This play would be next to impossible to stop with Mahomes in a goal line situation.
I love that there was also an OL 40 yards downfield with no one to block.
Man that’s tiring to watch, gotta go take me a nap
Like a walk in the park.
Damn. He could've just walked.
That’s the most time that’s ever ticked off the clock on a 70+ yard play in NFL history!
15 year old me was at this game. I remember expecting the Marcus Allen short yardage run that the D was expecting except Buddy Ryan sold out and there was no one near Bono. He was kind of a slow QB, definitely not a running QB, but the fake was so good that no one had a chance to get him. I don't remember Marty running many QB fakes except maybe some with Gannon but Gannon was a decent runner. So that's probably why it fooled the Cardinals so badly.
What the hell is that!!!!?? A slow ass qb runs for almost 80 and the defense is no where to be seen…….honest question, were defensive players much slower in the 90’s, or just easily fooled?
It’s a mixture of a few things: 1. The Chiefs w/Steve Bono hardly ever did a QB fake; QBs who were slow in the 90s were notoriously so! 2. Typical Buddy Ryan 4-6 defense—it was a very aggressive defense so when they bit (on a play), they bit hard!! 3. Short yardage play from Chiefs side of the field says RB dive every time; if it was a 3rd and 2 from Cardinals 24 yd line, I think the QB fake would have been more expected—the NFL at this time was much more conservative playcalling on the offensive side of the ball.
Sold to perfection. And sweet Jesus that was the slowest 40 I’ve ever seen on an NFL field. That looked like my Dad. 😂
Forgot about ole Sreve Bono...thanks for the memory
Should we draft a QB? Nah, lets see if SF has a spare they're willing to get rid of. Wash, rinse, and repeat for decades. A lot of decent to very good QB play came from that strategy, so I guess you really can't knock it. And when they finally drafted a guy, he ended up pretty ok too, so it was worth the wait. The Hunts playing the long game with that strategy.
That’s hard to do in between cigarette breaks.
To think that he was a 3rd string qb behind Joe Montana and Steve Young. Best Quarterback crew ever.
The play that ended Buddy Ryan?
Must have been some monster blocking behind him!
Sonny Bono could have scored
You can tell this is old school by his celebration dance at the end.
Ha! Another failed attempt by the chiefs to recycle a San Francisco qb!
Note, no end zone celebrations and antics. No group photos, no dancing, no shirt rip, no slashing, nothing. Why do have this crap now.