CBS Super Sunday 1990

[smashdude64]

@Jeff051176 Like this Super Bowl.

[drr345]

I always enjoyed Pat Summerall's intros to big games. He and Madden were the best announcing duo ever.

[dpinzow]

Bud Bowl 2 was more exciting than Super Bowl XXIV

[xaqshuna2003]

55-10, biggest raping in Super Bowl history! Thanks Leon Lett for being such a dumbass and Don Beebe for being so fast!

[DoverBroadcasting]

"Yardstick for legends?" Did I hear that right? Was Pat Summerall high that day?

[xaqshuna2003]

@DoverBroadcasting Yes he did! It was a term saying that the 49ers were the best of the best, measuring themselves with the other great teams.

[deacon072007]

LMAO AT the Bud Bowl part this is so funny I remember this wish it was like this these days

[cag1970]

Absolutely love the music here...I hated it when CBS got rid of this theme.

[Mechanized0]

@cag1970 Likewise. While difficult to articulate why it somehow simply evokes an NFL spirit.

[flames24lightning]

@cag1970 I totally agree 100%. I hope there is a clean download of it without the voiceover.

[vversusv]

I was born during this super bowl! The doctors were all watching and my mom was like, "hey, I'm going into labor over here." lol

[dgrz1]

@vversusv My son was born 2 days before this suberbowl. I thought if we're at the hospital,attention is going to be on the game instead of my wife having the baby,but it worked out ok.

[gillianseed]

Broncos got raped FAMILY STYLE!!!

[303MileHigh420]

@gillianseed raped family style? so your dad or grandpa raped you or something?

[twoliveted]

pat sajak had his own talk show? that blows my mind

[gamelover1949]

It's a good thing you don't remember his show. :-D

[MrJdmcknight]

@twoliveted oh yes he did..., it was a o.k., show though, but too bad it didnt even last long...  Jason+

[dalekusa]

oddly primitive moving graphics at 2:13.

[MrLogoman007]

0:25- surprised not to see the CBS StereoSound bumper there.

[mandm916]

Denver safties where not overrated watch steve atwater in superbowl 32 and tell me if he was overrated. the problem with the 1989 denver broncos is they did not have the right team built around johnn elway, and they 49ers where to much for anyone to handle, watch how the 49ers played the other playoff teams that year

[bnegs521]

Denver's defense was just awful against any decent team. they couldn't stop the browns the week before in the second half of theat game and they brought that right into the Super Bowl. Dennis Smith and Steve Atwater were two of the most overrated safties in NFL history who couldn't cover ANYBODY! Even denver's only TD was bogus. A disgrace.

[Protains]

what the hell is the bud bowl?? i guess i'm showing my age (or lack thereof) lol

[zakkbuckley]

San Francisco simply dominated this game. The entire sideline was very disappointed when they gave up a TD to Denver. Still, 55-10 wasn't bad.

[DNSKansas]

WORST. SUPER BOWL. EVER. NO QUESTION. IT ISN'T EVEN DEBATABLE.

[cbaldwinjr]

Jesus could've been QB for Denver and they wouldn't have stayed within 21 points of the 49ers.

[Jeff051176]

The Bud Bowl was so dumb lol.

[MrJdmcknight]

@Jeff051176 but was so funny as hell, dont get me wrong, but too bad i had ended up crying my eyes out, when the bills had lost to the giants on sb 25, a year later....  Jason+

[StFidjnr]

@ 3:34 here comes the king of beers and @ 3:35 and (here comes) the one light that outshines them all.

[StFidjnr]

@ 2:59 you are looking live.

[vitoduval]

It took another player wearing #30 (davis) to get Elway his ring and suffering a migraine doing it....

[Ducksrule123]

0:33

true legends....

[TideatMileHigh]

I kind of miss those mid afternoon kickoff super bowls.

[Market42Fan]

"Appliance of Defiance" (from the Bud Bowl commercial).

That line was corny even by typical Brent Musburger standards.

[beebyH]

gotta love these chessey classic 90s commercial..lol

[newjerseyjew]

@beebyH hey this is still late 80's tv not 90's yet

[boav090109frmmia]

I haven't seen this theme in years

[DMPSports]

In order of quality:

1) Bud Bowl II

2) CBS Dream Season

3) CBS News

4) Super Bowl XXIV

5) Pat Sajak Show

[StFidjnr]

@ 3:34 and here come's the king of beers and @ 3:36 here comes the one light that out shines them all.

[bakerandbaker1]

Best NFL Today theme. Should use it now.

[BradJamesRocks]

Time for my Broncos to rise again! Orton, Tebow, makes no difference to me

[Jean0987654321]

bud bowl 2?? WTF

[vogeljf]

I miss player introductions at the Super Bowl, this come out as a team crap is stupid. Guys work their whole careers to get there they should be recognized.

[EJ160E]

@vogeljf you can thank the stupid New England Patriots for that shit!

[quarf53206]

Elway was asked to do much for the super bowl teams of the late eighties and this one

[StFidjnr]

@ 3.37 here comes the one light that outshines them all.

[jasmcc1]

the niners were so superior it wasnt even funny

[krierp8]

I have followed every Super Bowl since '79 except this one, and thankfully I was glad to miss this lopsided game.

[krierp8]

I remember the day when this game was played. I was 18, and I had to work that night so I couldn't the game off. I was sacking groceries at a grocery store, when I asked a customer who was winning the game and he told me the 49ers won 55-10. I thought he was joking, so after I got off work, I went straight home and checked the score, and he was right. The 49ers did actually win by the 55-10 score.

[donjabroni]

That game was a joke, a terrible blowout. I had already changed the channel around the 3rd quarter. Also I've always thought that the 3D graphics of the first-half 90s were the best, it sure beats the 2D crap that came later on in the decade.

I remember The Pat Sajak show, nothing really special about it. Who knows, it could have done well had he not came out during Arsenio's time.

[ChristianKidsShowFan]

Anyone notice how in all 3 Dan Reeves-coached Super Bowls, Denver constantly kept hemorrhaging points in the Super Bowl. Consider the following

1. 30 points in 2nd half of Super Bowl XXI

2. 35 points in 2nd QUARTER of Super Bowl XXII (in addition to 30 2nd half points in the AFC title game vs. Cleveland)

3. 55 points in this game (and this was supposed to be the best defensive team of the 3).

How's that for NFC domination?

[lmswentzeljr]

@ChristianKidsShowFan Of all the thing s you could levy against the AFC during that 13 yr SB streak. was the fact that the AFC teams, to me were not as physical and I think that lead to the weakness in defense among those teams.

[jfliguy]

I really would want to see the original broadcast of the game. Not the NFL network replay cause it does not have the same feel.

[ultraback29]

I'm posting this on the day of Super Bowl XLIV, February 7.

Interesting what many sports websites are saying about the effect of the outcome of the Super Bowl on Peyton Manning's legacy. There are those who say by beating the Saints, Manning ought to be considered the greatest QB ever even ahead of Montana.

I've witnessed both QBs as a Bears fan. At Super Bowl XLI, the final was mainly due to the Bears playing badly. In the NFC title games, Montana absolutely shredded defenses the Bears.

[TurtlesandWolves]

Montana had Rice, a better offensive line, etc. Manning never has a receiver WIDE open the way Montana did with Rice.

[jfliguy]

@TurtlesandWolves So are you saying that because of lack of coverage that is Joes fault or are you making another statement? I am sorry I can say that Jerry was wide open and running all over the Bronco's secondary that day but I am not following you.

[landinmycourt]

Your right, Montana did have Rice...for his last 2 Superbowls. He won his first two without him. You make it sound like Peyton had no good recievers. Do the names Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne ring a bell?

[AgentRaven77]

Man they need to birng back the bud bowl, but the FCC won't allow it.

[ultraback29]

I'm posting this on January 26, 2010 and in two days, it'll be the 20th anniversary of this Super Bowl.

Pat Summerall begins his introduction by saying, "Only with the passage of time can true greatness be measured."

[kascnef82]

@ultraback29 20 years later, here's a super bowl on cbs. At the time, I thought football was kinda boring since I was 7 and autistic. But when I grew up, I started to enjoy the game as much as I liked my baseball.

[ultraback29]

A considerable amount of time has passed. Two decades of football have been completed since then and what these 49ers did still impresses me.

Many consider the '85 Bears the best ever. As a long-time, die-hard Bears fan, if a fantasy tournament of greatest NFL teams could ever happen, I would have to say that the two teams I fear the most would be the '84 49ers and the '89 49ers, both led by Montana.

[chirinoslat]

I remember on Halftime that there was a glitch in the sound and it was awful. Brent Musburger made an analogy to that with the poor play by the Broncos LOL!

[fatmanfiftythousand]

I'm probably the only one who cares about this...but am I the only one who notices that, at least for awhile, CBS was prone to changing their NFL themes on Super Bowls? I mean, they did it with this one, they did it two years later...

[gfscarface13]

do you have the game?

[NYJYIK]

The Bud Bowl was more exciting than this game. Pretty amazing that Elway carried 3 mediocre Bronco teams to the Super Bowl by himself. He is the greatest QB ever.

[dpinzow]

The 49ers were head and shoulders above every team in 1989 except for the NY Giants...the Rams victory over the Giants in the playoffs ensured a SB title for the Niners because the Giants were really the only team that could play with them

[TOROKILL]

uh, the rams split the series with the 49ers in 1989. sure the nfc championship was a blowout, but both the regular season games were close.

[landinmycourt]

Actually they beat The Giants 34-24 on MNF that year.

[JBSchmoov]

@ apollo... yep, nfl network showed that '91 ATL/SF game not too long ago...and mike pritchard clearly false started on the hail mary play. but those are the breaks. go niners!

[NJYankee920]

that super bowl was over way before halftime.

[apollo792]

That was the last year a team was head and shoulders the best in the NFL..

[idster7]

redskins were head and shoulders the best in '91. the 49ers were head and shoulders the best in '94. the broncos were head and shoulders the best in '98. the patriots were head and shoulders the best in '03.

[apollo792]

The only who could really challenge the '91 Skins was the 49ers that year..The 49ers always played stronger in December, and finished the year winning 6 in a row..BUT they didn't make the playoffs, NFC West was very tough that year(THAT FUCKING FLUKE HAIL MARY WIN BY THE FALCONS WAS THE DIFFERENCE)...I remember the 49ers embarrassing the Bears( a playoff team) on Monday night football, 52-14...Nobody wanted the Niners in the playoffs..

[apollo792]

Also idster, the 49ers AND the two-time defending champion Cowboys were head and shoulders the best in 1994..The 1998 Broncos I think had 2 challengers, the '98 Vikings and '98 49ers..Funny how when the Falcons played both teams the lost key players(G.Hearst and then John Randall)...No parity team is head and shoulders the best, so the '03 Patriots don't count, otherwise the '07 Pats would of finished 19-0...The 1989 49ers were like the 1985 Bears, THERE WERE NO SERIOUS CHALLENGERS...

[cbaldwinjr]

Stop saying the '98 49ers were real challengers. You bring up a fluke Hail Mary...well what about that OBVIOUS fumble by Jerry Rice that wasn't called on the final drive? Jeez...the Falcons beat the 49ers TWICE in '98...they were the better team. So kill that noise...

Now, the 1989 49ers were HEAD and SHOULDERS above everyone that year. They were a professional team on a clear mission to prove they were more than the 'genius' of Bill Walsh.

[a7b7c78]

@idster7: The Pats were never head and shoulders over the league. Their 01 and 03 title teams were a fluke, and the 04 team was good, but Donovan McNabb gave them the Super Bowl that year.

And, as far as SB XXIV is concerned, If Elway faced this 49er team with Shanahan as coach, and with the offense that he had in the late-90's on his side, he could have beaten this 49er team. Reeves was a joke as far as offense was concerned, and Elway didn't have any real teammates on offense back then.

[madrecka]

@a7b7c78 Stop smoking crack! This '89 49ers team was one of the best NFL teams of all time! Neither the '97 nor the '98 teams would've beaten this team. No sir you're wrong!

[a7b7c78]

@madrecka: Denver's 1997 team had several Pro Bowl players on offense, like Elway, Terrell Davis, Rod Smith, McCaffrey, Shannon Sharpe, and Gary Zimmerman. They also had a defense that made plays in Super Bowls instead of giving up the big play.

Someone did a line of scrimmage analysis of Super Bowl winners recently that took into account each team's rankings at stopping the run and running the ball, and Denver's SB winners rated ahead of the 89 Niners in that stat(con't).

[madrecka]

@a7b7c78 The '97 and '98 Broncos had great teams no doubt and they the Super Bowls each of those years; but you're telling me that the NFC teams of that era didn't have great offenses: The Redskins(who in '87 whooped your Broncos 42-10); my 49ers in '89 who whooped your Broncos as I said before; The AFC back then were more known for offense aka The Oilers(run and shoot); the Bills(K gun offense); the Bengals(in '88 with their no huddle offense). The NFC back then had better defense.

[a7b7c78]

@madrecka: I think that the Denver O-line would have done to the Niners what they did to the Packers in SB XXXII, and that is dominate them at the line of scrimmage, and control the ball against the 89 Niner defense, who didn't have as big of a front wall as the 97 Pack did. They wore big 360-pound Gilbert Brown out in that Super Bowl. Imagine what they would do to Michael Carter. The 89 Niners never played an offense that good. None of the NFC teams that won in that era did.

[madrecka]

@a7b7c78 Plus I will say this the Broncos had the 49ers West Coast offense just like the Packers did. I'm refering to the late '90s Broncos who won Super Bowls. Well if you check out the NFL Networks polls or any other football Super Bowl polls the '89 49ers are rated higher than the '97 Broncos or the '98 team. Even the '84 and '94 49ers are rated higher than the late '90s Broncos teams! Word up!

[a7b7c78]

@madrecka: Denver and Green Bay did run a variation of the West Coast, but it wasn't the same thing. Sure, they used principles of the offense, but they had QB's with stronger arms in Elway and Favre that could throw downfield better. Denver also had more of a power running game than the Niners usually had.

And, when I said that thing about offenses, I meant the Super Bowl. The NFC teams usually didn't face great offenses in their era of dominance, except for Buffalo(con't).

[a7b7c78]

@madrecka: However, the Bills were more of a finesse offense that was flashy. When they met a tougher and stronger NFC East team in the Super Bowl, they crumbled. They didn't win the battles at the line of scrimmage in those Super Bowls. The 88 Bengals may have been the team that could match up with one of those more physical NFC teams during that era because of their running game and O-line.

[madrecka]

@a7b7c78 Yes and the '88 Bengals lost to the 49ers that year 20-16; you forgot to mention the '84 49ers shut down the Dolphins with Marino that year when he set the NFL passing TD record(48) which wasn't broken until Manning passed him in '05 and Brady in

'07. You bring valid points to the table regarding the Broncos and Packers ran a variation of the West Coast offense but Denver did have a great RB in Davis and physical O-line in '97 and '98; where as the '80s and early '90s(cont)

[madrecka]

@a7b7c78 49ers teams with Montana and Young ran the original West coast offense with a short passing game, running game with traps and off tackle and vertical passing game downfield to confuse defenses. Oh yea Favre and Elway had a stronger arm than Montana but Joe was more accurate and he had a soft touch to his passes to Rice,Taylor, Clark and Solomon along with Craig out of the backfield.

[a7b7c78]

@madrecka: Actually, the original West Coast offense isn't the Niner system, but the system that Sid Gillman created with the AFL Chargers. Don Coryell also used it in college and the pros as well. It is more of a downfield game. Bill Walsh was a RB coach with the 66 Raiders. Al Davis brought that offense to Oakland, and Walsh probably took it with him to the Bengals when he started there as an assistant in 1968(con't).

[a7b7c78]

@madrecka: When Greg Cook couldn't play anymore after 1969, Walsh had to use QB Virgil Carter, who was more of a short passer, so he had to tweak his attack. That was where he started using the offense that Ken Anderson, Montana, and others benefitted greatly from.

[madrecka]

@a7b7c78 I agree with you on that one. But the West Coast offense became legendary with 49ers in the '80s with Montana and offense being led by Walsh. Walsh learned it from Sid Gilliam

[madrecka]

@a7b7c78 You forget the '89 Broncos had the #1 defense in the NFL and the 49ers destroyed them in the Super Bowl.

[SpeedyRaven2000]

Every year, Bud Bowl was more exciting than the Super Bowl.

[cbaldwinjr]

Na'ah...the Bengals/49ers had a slightly better ending than Bud Bowl I lol

[sirweeze]

4:49 apparently the CBS dream season includes a blistering Yanni track

[untexan]

Call me crazy but I think this theme is underrated.

[eyeontv]

I completely agree, much better than the one that followed, this one has good energy.

[fatmanfiftythousand]

@eyeontv I find it odd that someone would consider what amounts to a downgrade from the previous theme better than one of the best sports theme songs of all time...

[Jeff051176]

@eyeontv - I agree, I liked this theme but not as much as the "pots and pans" theme between 86-88. That one was the best.

[domirules28]

@untexan: i agree i remember hearing this really well back in 1990 and 91, and despite this game being a blowout, i remembrer it very well...remember that the afc was weak in '89 compared to the nfc,

[vitoduval]

3:24 Budway Joe and 3:15 Bear Bryant Classic

[vitoduval]

3:35 Best tribute to Bear Bryant I've ever seen.

[gillianseed]

HAHAHAHAHAHA Jerry Rice at the 00:55 Mark!!!

[videoguy604]

"Weather conditions not a factor... Not EVER here!" Did that foreshadow something?

[gillianseed]

It's true, this 49ers blow-out literally set up a Louisiana blow-out 15 years in the making!

[skykid3000]

Am i the only one who finds it dumb that there's clips of O.J. Simpson and Jim Brown in that Montage at the start when they never played in a Super Bowl?

[rustyshackleford01]

The Daytona 500 promoted here for Feb 18 has become known as one of the most infamous in history. Dale Earnhardt dominated the race, only to blow a tire on the final corner of the final lap, and lose the race to the unlikeleist of winners: Derrike Cope in the Puorlator car. Dale would go on to win the race 8 years later in a most triumphant victory, only to be killed in the same race on Feb 18, 2001.

[rustyshackleford01]

Wow, the SuperDome looked so clean back then. I was in New Orleans just a couple of weeks ago, and the dome looked so nasty, almost rust colored

[skykid3000]

Well certain things will cause that.

[thedude19766]

terry brent does pbp for bud bowl two LOL

[newscaster13]

Two Great Voiceover Artists:

Don LaFontaine - movie trailer king selling CBS News.

Ernie Anderson - the Voice of the ABC Network pitching Bud Bowl.

RIP you powerfully great-sounding guys!!!!

[crawford371]

bring back the bud bowl

[megamanj2004X]

Ernie Anderson, the original voice of ABC covered this game on CBS?

[mediadude08]

No, Ernie Anderson promoted the fictional "Bud Bowl". Pat Summerall and John Madden called the real game.

[brithgob]

"Hey, Homer, didn't you say if Duff Lite beat Duff Dry, then Lisa loves you?"

[Nickrj3]

I know the Simpsons ran their 4th ep "There's no disgrace like home." against the Super Bowl at 8:30 est. I'm sure by then the 49ers had it locked up so a lot of bored people switched to FOX.

[mediadude08]

Nowadays, on Super Bowl Sunday, the networks that don't cover the game air either reruns or a movie.

[crawford371]

Do you have more of super bowl xxi coverage on cbs?

[MrLogoman007]

Cool graphics, the theme could use some work. I'd rather take the "Pots and Pans".

[FOXSportsFan]

Great stuff. And it harkens back to the good old days, when Summerall was drunk like a skunk.

"Weather conditions, not a factor. Not ever here." Thanks, Pat. Still he's the greatest to ever call a game.

Also more awkward, the Bud Bowl spot featuring Musberger and Bradshaw. One could easily make the case based on other clips, that Brent should have been the guy in the cowboy attire.

[Market42Fan]

Quite funny, considering this was the last Super Bowl Brent worked for CBS.

[EwingOil]

Quite possibly the worst Super Bowl of all time

[MrLogoman007]

Worst NFL theme of all time.

[lothartheterrible]

Agreed. The Bud Bowl was more engrossing than the actual game.