1995 AFC Championship Ending

[etchosts]

Captain comeback.

[TommyC503]

@etchosts You mean Captain Cumquat?

[phillyphan221]

Neil O'Donnell wwas the Donovan McNabb of the 90s

[fuckrareware]

that was a catch. that sucks man

[robmatliv]

this was one of the greatest games EVER!!! Carnell Lake had a game-saving tackle on Marshall Faulk, Yancey Thigpen had a HUGE catch in the 4th quarter that saved the Steeler!

The next year, though, the Steelers killed the Colts...they sacked Harbaugh like 7 times!!! Chad Brown Sacked Harbaugh so hard he bit a big hole through his bottom lip! it was NASTY!!!!

EPIC GAME!!!!!

[icausewipes]

@robmatliv

faulk did not play in this game. he was hurt in the sd game (1st afc playoff game) and did not return the entire run. zack crockett and lamont warren carried the load during their playoff run. lamont warren was tackled before he broke a long run by willie williams.

[robmatliv]

@icausewipes.... you're right! good memory! still that was one of the greatest games ever! it was tough to watch....especially the last second Hail Mary!

[BackStageCowboy]

I love Jim, he is the living incarnation of competition. I hate the fact that he lost this game and then as a coach (amazing coach) lost the NFC champ game with the 9ers. It kills me. I really hope and pray that he finally gets a ring with the niners. I want it so bad I can't even describe it.

[idrumudrum]

I will NEVER give the officials credit for this game. I will never give them the benefit of the doubt. This was my childhood team, and the refs decided to see that incompletion, but didn't see when Stewart stepped out of bounds and caught a TD pass earlier in the game. Inexcusable.

[jmedley18]

Why Aaron Bailey Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[lilross2k6]

this was like the first year i got into watching football. first playoffs i ever watched as a kid. i was going for the colts but still was a great game

[Wolfman71691]

And Hardbugh had to deal with that again..FUCK THE GIANTS!!!

[baltech22]

Man, if Bailey had caught that ball, imagine the ramifications all over the NFL.

[buzznyc]

i hate the colts but god that was heartbreaking.

[Ballay05]

What a play. Poor Aaron Bailey. This play would of been up there with Flutie's, but he just missed it.

[MIKESOWELL]

I remember this game....

[bnegs521]

I didn't mind the Colts but I am glad they lost because their QB Jim Harbaugh was and still is a douche bag.

[PrankCallGin]

@bnegs521 COACH OF THE YEAR.... Bitch.

[bnegs521]

@PrankCallGin He is a great coach and was a decent QB. I m giving him all that BUT he is a Class A Douchebag.

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

We Cots got ripped off this game. The game winning touchdown scored by Pittsburg was a pass to Kordell Steward who went out of bounds in the back of the endzone then came back in bounds to catch the pass. Instant Replay would have nullified this touchdwon. Cheating Steelers!!

[BlackNGoldRules]

@JayGatsbyOdysseus I guess your selective memory forgets that earlier in that game the Colts got away with a blatant pass interference on the goalline that would have given the Steelers the ball first and goal on the one yard line. Instead, they had to kick a field goal. Be a Steeler hater if you want, but at least give ALL the facts.

[DannySportsTalk]

@BlackNGoldRules I think the only one you can blame here in this situation, is the Indianapolis Colts. They had too many chances to win the game and flat out blew it.

[xThemalemodelsx]

Fuck John Harbaugh. Fucking loser.

[xThemalemodelsx]

@xThemalemodelsx Jim*

[Kavio99]

Jim Harbaugh back in the a championship game! I love it...I never thought watching back then Capt Comeback would lead my 9ers back to glory...

[chessarama]

Phil Simms was unusually quiet toward the end.

[moneylover6000]

0:49 back then could you celebrate taking your helmet off?

[speechtrain]

@moneylover6000 Yep. Not against the rules until years later.

[moneylover6000]

@speechtrain Alright Thanks Man

[bnegs521]

@moneylover6000 Yes you could. It was not a penalty yet. Wtch the Super Bowl in 1993 Emmitt Smith took his off with no penalty either. It was not a penalty until 1998.

[moneylover6000]

@bnegs521 Thanks Man

[pronkb000]

@moneylover6000 Yes. That rule didn't go into effect until the end of the decade or beginning of the '00s.

[24Reference]

Mike Tomczak seems more excited than Neil O'Donnell. Between O'Donnell, Tomczak, and Kordell Stewart that is quite a few career starts.

[24Reference]

Paul Justin.

[JayGatsbyOdysseus]

@24Reference Paul Justin was the worse quarterback in the NFL. However, he threw for 4,000 yards when he played for the Detroit Lion. Who was Justin's offensive coordinator? Mr. Tom Moore, the man who created Peyton Manning. It doesn't matter who the head coach is. Steeler win super bowl with Cowher. Steelers win super bowl with Tomlin. Same players and same off. and def. cordinators. Find a good offensive cordinator to work with Andrew Luck. Go Colts!!!

[eaglewheels1995]

As a Colts fan watching this game, my heart was pounding and it is pounding as I watched this video..what a game! Too bad the Colts lost..I'm cheering for Harbaugh to get the 49ers to the Superbowl!

[officerbarbrady12]

WAIT!!!! He caught that!!! That ball hit his forearm not the ground!!! And I'm not a colts fan, I'm just saying, seeing this for the first time it looks like the the ball hits his forearm, not the ground.

[bnegs521]

@officerbarbrady12 It clearly was on the ground.

[gzuploc]

@ 7:02 ->Offside #90 on the defense. 5 yard penalty 1st down.

[gillianseed]

So that's where Harbs got the infamous "bent pinky".

[ThatDamnbear24]

The first time I ever watched football. I just happened to do channel surfing looking for NBA basketball and saw this and never change the channel since.

[twinkee1011]

What a POS field!

[88cutty]

freddie mac!!!

[adawk20]

uhhhhh...where's the flag for mcafee throwing his helmet?? oh wait, the game's in pittsburgh...that's right...

[SD1Chargers]

O'Donnell had the worst looking beard in NFL history

[chubwright79]

Remember this game it was a classic.

[alleghenybob]

Wow, who directed this game? Awesome shots of the players and coaches. Also, best timeout I ever seen. Lee Flowers praying. Teddy freaking out. Love it. Wish the current networks would give us the same cuts as this. Just amazing sport journalism.

[in2ishin81]

Damm I remember this game I was like 14 and just felt horrible for the colts. I'll never forget that look on Harbaugh at the end...

[BBJamesB]

I was just thinking of "Captain Comeback" and had to watch this again. One of my earliest memories of a great playoff football game. Man, watching this again shows how much heart the Colts had. 4 man rush and they were getting mad pressure on Harbaugh. No big name WR's either. I was just thinking how you would never see this in today's game.

McAfee throwing his helmet down and celebrating after a big hit... no flags. Miss those days. LET THE BOYS PLAY!!

[JKCNinety]

Goose at 4:13!

[EdmacZ]

:50

Laundry would've been ALL OVER the field on that play. Geez. Also the Ernie Mills Catch would've been challenged and overturned.

NFL games were so passionate in the 80's and 90's. Both in the fans and the players.

[RUSHisRIGHT09]

Colts should have won this game. On the steelers last drive, Ernie Mills caught a pass at the 1-yard line which was NOT a catch. He dropped it falling out of bounds.

[iClassiqaL]

@RUSHisRIGHT09 Cry some more.

[RUSHisRIGHT09]

@iClassiqaL Cry for what? Im not a colts fan, and Im glad the cowboys smacked pittsburgh in the super bowl the next game. The refs did what they do best for the steelers which is help them win games, and they still couldnt help them beat dallas

[iClassiqaL]

@RUSHisRIGHT09 umad? umad.

[pacmantab]

@RUSHisRIGHT09, If not for two HUGE mistakes by O'Donnell in SBXXX, it might have been a different game. I don't buy the conspiracy theories about Neil "throwing the game." We got beat....and I for one can accept it, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.

But don't give me that old "refs help them win games" garbage. As I can accept the Steelers' big losses, you haters need to start accepting our big wins. You don't go to 8 SBs, winning 6 of them, via luck or the "fix" being in. sorry.

[gigantamos]

Man I remember this game how fucking epic was this game, I mean really? Wasn't this the year the colts Started off 5-0? I Remember them beating Dallas at home and Hardbaugh coming off the field yelling HOW BOUT THEM COLTS, he was that intense as a player and apparently he's the same way as a coach.

[DannySportsTalk]

@gigantamos You are thinking of the year after this 1996. They made the playoffs that year too, and it fell apart after.

[gigantamos]

@DannySportsTalk Yeah I think that was it. I just remember that game at dallas in particular.

[mk2128]

Buckner's hit on Harbaugh would be a penalty and a fine now days....As jack lambert said, Put dresses on em.



[chessarama]

One of the most underrated games in Championship history.

[Odawg96]

@chessarama Absolutely! So many people have forgotten about this game. This was like watching the THRILLA IN MANILA or Hagler-Hearns!! It was give and take DRAMA from start to finish! In my lifetime, this is the second best playoff game ever after the "Epic in Miami." This game had it all: action, controversy (Kordell's TD catch), missed opportunities (Coryatt's dropped interception), and of course a CLIFFHANGER ending. This Colts team would have BEATEN Dallas in the Super Bowl!

[banklikefrankwhite1]

@Odawg96 give me a break man. Pittsburgh was a much better team. The Colts were lucky to be there. If it weren't for mob bosses threatening O'Donnell's life, the Steelers would have won that game too. They fully outplayed the Cowboys the whole time. (minus the two very strange int's that lead directly to the margin of victory) I understand if you're a Colts fan, but be realistic.

[Odawg96]

@banklikefrankwhite1 It's not that I'm a Colts fan. I watched this team all through playoffs that year, and they beat all of the "much better teams" they played...and they did this WITHOUT Marshall Faulk (who was hurt). Let's not forget that the next season the Colts actually BEAT what was essentially the same Cowboys team that weighed the Super Bowl. "Mob bosses threatenin O'Donnell's life"? And you have the nerve to tell ME to be realistic? Give ME a break!

[banklikefrankwhite1]

@Odawg96 they beat them in the regular season. The year the Cowboys won, the team was already falling apart. The next year, despite their wins, they were not the same team.

The mob boss thing should have been an obvious joke chubs. Would have, should have, could have, didn't

[RyanPelley1]

This is the first football game I can remember... I was 7 years old at the time, and the image of Bill Cowher crying and grinning is burned into my brain.

Colts had this game won. I remember Marchibroda saying that he believes the Colts would have beaten Dallas in the Super Bowl... What if.

[banklikefrankwhite1]

@RyanPelley1 that's easy for him to say since he wasn't in it.

[jennyboom]

During The Ginger Hammers regime, McAffee would be fined 3 James Harrisons.

[Navdan87]

What a great game!!

[LivinWorstNightmare]

I hated Dallas so much, and as much as one hates Pittsburgh, I would have much rather seen a Colts/Cowboys super bowl, then I could have rooted for one of them.

[slappy09]

:50 (NFL 2011) Ref: Unsportsman like conduct...excessive celebration on #25.........15 yard penalty....also...player removed his helmet...15 yard penalty....used helmet as a projectile....15 yard penalty.......#25 is ejected from the game. The ball will be placed at the colts 40 yard line...First down Colts!(Later that week) Fred McAfee is fined $20.000.

[DannySportsTalk]

@slappy09 Ain't that the truth homie... By the way to all you Colts fans, I am reuploading the season highlights for 1995, so check them out.

[rupp87]

@slappy09 YEAH that doesnt sound like football to me why they do that is a mystery back then was when the NFL actually meant something having players content with making a million dollars a year to ten or twenty million it is a freakin pleasure to play football greed is threatening to destroy the game we love. Now quarterbacks get hit its a 15 yard penalty its really stupid play the game plain and simple.

[banklikefrankwhite1]

@slappy09 you are aware that none of those rules existed at that time right?

[speechtrain]

@slappy09 In today's game, yes. But those rules were not in place back then. Your post is equivalent to someone missing a field goal short 3 yards today and saying, "But it cleared the goal line 12 feet up!"

[bnegs521]

@slappy09 It wasn't a penalty then. Emmitt Smith took off his helmet after every play in the 90's, so did Warren Sapp.

[douker]

in the era of instant replay the colts win this easy. at least two Pitt scores never would have stood.

[SuperTugz]

@douker

One Pitt score would have been washed out, Stewart out of the back of the endzone. Not sure what second one you're talking about tbh.

[mrmajikjr]

Now he's a coach

[Royberg]

5:11 if you want to know what brett favre might have looked like as a colt :-/

[RySenkari]

I was only eight when this game was played and I cried all night after the Colts lost :(

[panthersXyankees89]

Word was that a foul smell started to come from Three Rivers. It was everyone in that stadium collectively shitted them selves.

[DannySportsTalk]

@panthersXyankees89 Hell yeah... That game was a total nailbiter, and the Colts really blew it. Coryatt dropped a game winning pick, the refs missed Slash running out of bounds and scoring a TD.

[panthersXyankees89]

@DannySportsTalk I like when Jim was hugging players on the field he was telling them "I think he caught it right?"

[PhillySports11]

@DannySportsTalk if they get that call right its a 16-16 game and the colts drive only needs a field goal. Im still convinced bailey caught the ball

[DannySportsTalk]

@PhillySports11 Not even that, if Coryatt catches that fucking pick the game is over. I'll try to get the whole thing up on another account one day.

[PhillySports11]

@DannySportsTalk yea i agree their but u had to be proud that this team came within 1 play of a superbowl

[jlthrift]

@panthersXyankees89

I felt awful that day for Jim Harbaugh. Indy should have been in that SB, but look at what he's doing in San Francisco now. He might win his championship yet!

[metalmaniac622]

football crowds are never this loud anymore :(

[DannySportsTalk]

@metalmaniac622 In College they are for sure.