Top Ten Best Plays in Superbowl History

Top Ten Best Superbowl Plays Ever

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In almost fifty year of football the NFL's greatest game, has had some incredible plays. The two best teams in the league in the same year can create some very interesting situations and moments. Weather the play be game winning or just all out skill, the Super Bowl always promises one great/iconic plays.

Here are the top ten…

10. Super Bowl 31 - Desmond Howard Fantastic Kick Return

9. Super Bowl 10 - Lynn Swann Circus Catch

8. Super Bowl 48 - Jacoby Jones Electrifying Kick Return

  

7. Super Bowl 49 - Doug Baldwin Miracle Catch

6. Super Bowl 34 - Rams-Titans Game Saving tackle

5. Super Bowl 18 - Marcus Allen Incredible Run

4. Super Bowl 23 - John Taylor Super Bowl Winning Touchdown

3. Super Bowl 42 - David Tyree Amazing Catch

2. Superbowl 43 - James Harrison 100 Yard Pick Six

1. Superbowl 43 - Santonio Holmes Miraculous Championship Winning Touchdown

The 25 Best Sports Plays of 2014

The video below is long, but it's a must watch. There were some plays that I felt were left out, but it's still very entertaining.

The Best Players vs Fans Fight

1971 - Boston Bruins players fight in the crowd

BWN Play(s) of the 2014

Last Year's

Fabian Guerra incredible catch

OBJ Catch

Popeye's Bahama's Bowl Christmas Eve Miracle

The Pro Bench Warmer Hall of Fame

Since 2013 I have been doing the Pro Bench Warmer Hall of Fame. This goes out to all the benchwarmers who have succeeded. This category mainly include players that were once a benchwarmer, but are no longer; other will have been benchwarmers their entire career. Every year, there will be five players chosen to the hall. The players already in are: Brett Favre, Steve Young, Tom Brady, Kurt Warner, and George Blanda. Click the link to see last year's inductees. Here are the 2015 Official Pro Bench Warmer Hall of Fame members.

Mike Webster for Ray Mansfield

Mercury Morris for Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick

  Jeff Hostler for Phil Simms

Doug Williams for Jay Schroeder

Charie Batch

James Harrison for Joey Porter

My (Matt Gauntner's) Favorite Football Game of 2014

Last Year's

Throughout the year of 2014 there were a number of entertaining games (other than thursday night). I started this last year where I blog about my favorite game of the year. Im trying to traditionalize it by putting it under the category of BWN awards (which I'm also trying to traditionalize.) I can choose from peewee (which is unlikey), high school, college, the NFL, and any other formalized leagues. Last year I picked the Chick-fil-a Bowl which was Duke vs. Texas A&M. This year, my favorite was from the NFL. It came very early this year. In fact it actually came from the 2013-14 NFL season.

My favorite football game of 2014 wast the AFC Wild Card game of the Chiefs vs Colts. The game took place on January 4, 2014. This is old new because it happened in the 2013 season, but still very memorable. Andrew Luck and the Colts made a comeback from behind victory in epic fashion. Watch the video below and tell me if you agree.

Top Ten Players of the 2014 - 2015 Season

Last Year's

10. Odell Beckham Jr.
NFL.com's Rating: #32

Odell Beckham Jr. AKA OBJ had one of the greatest rookie seasons by a wide receiver in NFL history. He was drafted 12th overall in the first round by the New York Giants. Due to a hamstring injury, he missed the first four games of the season, but he still managed to put up incredible stats. In eleven games, he had ninety-one receptions (only player to have more than 75 receptions in 12 games), twelve touchdowns, and 1,305 yards. He is most remembered for his dumbfounding Sunday night catch against the Cowboys. He also made the Pro Bowl. Had OBJ played more games, then he'd probably rank higher on my list, but other than that, he had an excellent season.

9. Jordy Nelson

With the help of Aaron Rodgers, Jordy Nelson had the season of his pro career. Whenever I watched the Packers games, I noticed that Nelson had almost always received the long bombs. Helping the Packers receive a 12-4 regular season record and guiding them all the way to a Divisional round before losing to Seattle. Putting up impressive stats, he made his first pro bowl. His best game was against the Jets where he had nine receptions, a touchdown, and 209 yards. He finished the season with 98 receptions, 13 touchdowns, and 1519 yards. There's no doubt that Nelson deserves to be on this list.

8. Ben Roethlisberger

Big Ben had the season of his career, no doubt. He was part of the Killer B's and led the Steelers to an 11-5 record. The big 6'5, 241 pounds quarter back was elected to his third pro bowl appearance. He led the league in passing with Drew Brees with 4592 yards (his career high.) His best game of the year was week eight against the Indianapolis Colts where he passed for 522 yards and six touchdown passes in a 51-34 victory. The week after that against the Ravens, he again threw six touchdown passes. At the end of the season, he had 32 passing touchdowns and passer rating of 103.3. This is the greatest season of his entire career (so far).

   

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7. Peyton Manning

Peyton had another exceptional season. He led the Denver Broncos to a 12-4 regular season record, making his fourteenth pro bowl appearance. Manning threw for 4,727 passing yards, thirty-nine touchdowns, and only fifteen interceptions. In a game against the San Francisco 49ers, thirty-eight year old Peyton Manning broke Brett Favre's former record of most career touchdowns, Peyton had 509 touchdown passes. He had 530 career touchdowns at the end of the season. Peyton had another phenomenal season along with more records. 

6. Andrew Luck

I played fantasy football for the first time this season, and Andrew Luck was the toughest opponent I'd have to play against. In all of the offensive players in fantasy football, he ranked second among scoring leaders with 351.74 points. Excellent fantasy points translates into excellent stats, which means Andrew Luck had a lot of great stats. He passed for over 300 yard in eleven games, including a 400 yard game against Pittsburgh. In Week 3, against Jacksonville, he had a passer rating of 140.4! Luck ended up leading the league in passing touchdowns with 40. Luck made the pro bowl for the third time in his three year career (so far). He brought the Colts deep into the playoffs playing against the New England Patriots, in the AFC Championship.

5. Le'Veon Bell

Le'Veon Bell gave Steeler Nation something they were in a desperate need of: a running game. He's a like a mixture of Willie Parker and Jerome Bettis, both elusive and powerful. He broke the record for most yards in a single season by a Steeler. He led the to an 11-5 regular season record, but was injured in the last game of the season prohibiting from playing in the playoff game - which they lost. Bell made his first pro bowl, was the Steelers team MVP, FedEx Ground Player of the Year, and the AFC Co-Offensive Player of the Year. If it wasn't for DeMarco Murray, Bell would be the best running back of 2014-15. Le'Veon Bell finished the season with 1,361 rushing yards, 8 rushing touchdowns, and zero fumbles. He was also a key part in the Steelers' passing game catching 83 passes, 854 yards, and 3 touchdowns. Bell was one of the best running backs this season.

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4. Antonio Brown

Brown had 1,499 yard last season breaking the Steelers' recored for most receiving yards in a single season. That was an awesome season to watch Antonio Brown, 2014 was even better to watch. Brown started out the season making headlines. In his first game of the season, against the Cleveland Browns, he had five receptions for 116 yards, but he was most popular for kicking Browns' punter, Spencer Lanning in the face off of punt return. From there on, the season was a success. He led the NFL in receptions with 129; that is the second most in NFL history behind Marvin Harrison. He also contributed thirteen scores to the Steelers (most in AFC). Brown's most impressive stat was again his receiving yards. He shattered his record he broke the previous season, capturing 1698 yards. He also starred at quarterback, throwing two completions for twenty yards and a touchdown, as well as a quarterback rating of 99.95. He made the pro bowl, AP All Pro Team, and (along with his teammate Le'Veon Bell) AFC Co-Offensive Player of the Year. 

3. Aaron Rodgers

Rodgers and the Packers begun the season with an unfortunate 1-2 record. That caused Rodgers to start a start a popular trending phrase - "R-E-L-A-X, relax, we're going to be okay" After that, the Packers won four straight and Rodgers threw thirteen touchdowns with zero picks. I remember watching a game in Week 10, I wasn't  going to really watch the game because I figured it would be a blowout, and I was right; although I continued watching the game because of the way the blowout was being played. In the first half of the game, Rodgers threw six touchdowns (only quarterback in the 21st to do this.) I kept watching this because I though he would brake the single game touchdown record. Unfortunately he didn't, but it was still very entertaining to watch. I had drafted Aaron Rodger on my fantasy team, and I was the champion of my league thanks to him. He was the scoring leader in all of fantasy points with 354.14. He brought the Packers all the way to the NFC Championship, but lost to Seahawks in a heartbreaking comeback. He finished the season with 4381 yards, 38 touchdowns, only five interceptions, and a 112.2 passer rating. He made the pro bowl, was all pro, the Bart Starr man of the year, FedEx Air Player of the Year, NFC touchdown passing leader, NFC Player of the Year, and AP NFL MVP. Even though Aaron Rodgers was the NFL MVP, I still believe that their were two more players better than him.

Aaron Rodgers - New York Bozo

2. Demarcco Murray

The Dallas Cowboys gave Murray the rock so many times a game and it was worth it. He got the ball 392 times this season (leading the league) which is the seventh most rushing attempts in NFL history. He averaged 115.3 yard per game (leading the league). Murray had 1845 rushing yards (leading the lead) braking the Cowboy single season rushing record for thirteen rushing yards (leading the league). His most impressive stat was most yards from scrimmage (leading the league) with 2261 yards. Week after week, ESPN show continuously showed incredible highlights of him. Although, Murray did have an extremely helpful hand - his offensive line, having three of the linemen being pro bowlers with rookie Zach Martin leading the way. He helped the Cowboys into the playoffs with a 12-4 record before losing to Green Bay in the divisional round. Demarcco Murray was All-Pro, made the pro bowl, and was the AP Offensive Player of the Year.

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JJ Watt AKA Megawatt AKA The Milkman AKA JJ Swatt, is so good he has three nicknames. He agreed to a six-year contract extension, worth $100 million. Watt received $30.876 million at signing. He truly brings the phrase, "don't mess with Texas," to life. I honestly believe that he should've been the NFL MVP, because he was the best player in the NFL this year. The big 6'6, 290 pound, nose bleeding beast defensive end played on a team with no stud quarter back- which is the key ingredient to have a successful team/season. Megawatt was so incredibly astonishingly good that the Texans had play on both sides of the ball. In his college career, at Central Michigan (before he transferred to Wisconsin) he played as tight end, so the Texans took advantage of tight end skills. In a game against the Raiders, Watt was put in at tight end and scored a one yard touchdown. The week later, against Buffalo, Watt "swatted" a pass out of the air and ran it back 80 yards for a pick six. That month (September) he was named AFC Defensive Player of the Month. Against the Indianapolis Colts, Watt forced a fumble off of Andrew Luck, recovered it and ran it back 45 yards for a touchdown. He scored another touchdown against the Browns, by a two yard touchdown reception. He scored yet another touchdown a one yard reception. He became the only defensive lineman since 1944 to have five touchdowns. That season, he also surpassed Mario Williams for sack by a Texans franchise record of most career sacks with 57. He also broke a franchise record of most fumble forces with twelve. Watt made the pro bowl as team captain for Team Carter. In that game he had a fumble recovery and an interception, making him Defensive MVP of the game. He ended the season with 32 points, four receiving yards, four receiving yards, five touchdowns, four fumble forces, five fumble recoveries, 20.5 sacks, 59 tackles, and a safety. He was First Team All-Pro, the Pro Bowl Defensive MVP, runner up NFL MVP, AFC Defensive Player of the Year, and the only unanimous NFL Defensive Player of the Year. The bottom line is, Megawatt was a total beast on the field on both sides of the ball.