Joe Theismann strips Kim Bokamper, preventing game changing TD in Super Bowl XVII

Annoying pivotal play late in the third quarter of the Dolphins vs. Redskins Super Bowl in January 1983. Miami led 17-13 at the time.

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[dcbandnerd]

Too friggin' close. Thank you, Theismann.

[GGE47]

Good switch from offence to defence by Theisman.

[donnpatc]

@MisterEvasion Theismann's toughness and savvy are overshadowed in most people's opinion by his mouth. But even his lineman called him as tough as they saw. Doc Walker called him "a caveman when it came to Sundays." Guess so.

[donnpatc]

@ross5928 You could make the case. I wonder how many plays anyone could come up with - regular season, playoffs, heck forget about preseason ha ha - that a QB made a play like that on a ball. QBs handle deflections, but in almost all cases he gets the ball uncontested, right back in his hands.

It's hard to make a case for the Skins' chances if that one is a TD. Their running won the game, and it would have become, if not a nonfactor, very problematical at that point.

[ross5928]

Speaking from experience, I'm old enough to have seen EVERY Superbowl.

IMO Joe Theismann's defensive move is the most head-up

play I have ever seen in a Super Bowl . As another poster said it would have been Miami 24-13 and probably a Dolphin win.

Most people have forgotten this play because of Riggin's late TD run.

Shows you how 1 play and 1 Ring gets you set for life after football.

[310MANRUTH]

Theismann made a big play.

[vincethegoat1]

What a heads up play by theismann Go Redskins

[PagsandRags]

Hell of a job by Theisman there.

[gootchie]

@GGE47 It was actually Gary Hogeboom who replaced Danny White and almost brought the Cowboys back until that last interception. Inexplicably a few years later, Tom Landry made Hogeboom the starter and the Dallas fortunes plummeted until White was put back in. For all the criticisms about not getting them back to a Super Bowl, White was still a far better QB.

[gootchie]

This may very well have been the game for Miami. The Dolphins defense kept the Redskins passing game in check for most of the game, they just wore down in the fourth quarter under the relentless running of John Riggins. Had Bokamper held on, it would've been a 24-13 game at this point with the Dolphins in the lead and the Redskins forced to throw to play catchup against the finest pass defense of the time. Riggins wouldn't have been a factor with the Redskins being down by two touchdowns.

[pp63100]

@MisterEvasion ....Im a Dolphin fan & its this play that still stings more than Riggins TD run. Skins just scored TD this Sunday vs Giants, So right away I thought damn, if only Bokamper could of came down with that ball.

[StFidjnr]

that's an OH MY moment