SB matchups you're glad we didn't get

[Bryan]

Giants vs. Browns, XXI. That would have been an even bigger slaughter than 39-20.

Would Phil Simms have gone 25-for-25 against the Browns?

[ChrisBabcock]

Steelers vs. Bears, SB 19

[74_75_78_79_]

Steelers vs. Bears, SB 19

Well, 8th grade me at the time wanted to see that in the week leading up to the CCs - Steelers for obvious reasons and Bears simply to root for the underdog. Of course anyone neutral wanted to see SF & Miami, as well as Den@Mia the week prior, but Steelers/Bears may have been a more interesting matchup than you think. Noll would’ve had the experience of already winning SBs in his favor, but Ditka as a HC would end up 3-0 vs the ’Burgh (wins in ’89 & ’92 each over a Steelers team that’d make the playoffs as Bears themselves would finish below-500). The only other year that these franchises would both be in the CCs would be 2010.

[CSKreager]

Super Bowl XLVI, Packers vs Patriots. Yes, 15-1 vs 13-3/Rodgers vs Brady but to see two one-dimensional teams at it? A 'video-game' Super Bowl it, perhaps, would have went down as.

2010/2014 would have been better years for a Rodgers/Brady Super Bowl (with less one dimensional teams)

[GameBeforeTheMoney]

Jaguars vs Panthers instead of Patriots vs Packers.

[Crazy Packers Fan]

Cowboys-Chargers, XXIX, because if that had happened, the Cowboys would have 4 straight Super Bowl wins and all us non-Cowboys fans would never hear the end of it. But seriously speaking...

Cowboys-Colts, XXX, because not even Barry Switzer would have been able to hold the Cowboys back from winning by 5 touchdowns.

Giants-Chargers, XLII, because that would have ruined the greatest Super Bowl of all time in my mind.

Broncos-Panthers, XL, 10 years before their actual meeting. Now that would have been one dull Super Bowl. Not that 50 wasn't.

[7DnBrnc53]

Cowboys-Colts, XXX, because not even Barry Switzer would have been able to hold the Cowboys back from winning by 5 touchdowns.

If Week 3 of the 1996 season is any indication (when the Colts won 25-24 in Dallas), I don't see Dallas doing that. The Colts would have had a much better chance of winning that SB than people realize. The 90's Cowboys were overrated.

[Retro Rider]

Broncos vs. Redskins Super Bowl XXVI. That would have been another disaster for Denver.

[sheajets]

Raiders-Giants Super Bowl XXV. Didn't think the Raiders had an exciting offense at all and had no shot to beat NYG. Schroeder would've put up some ugly numbers and likely ended up on the bench. Would've been a 17-3 snoozefest or something like that

[sheajets]

Panthers vs. Jaguars Super Bowl XXXI

No...just no. The teams literally came into existence a year ago...let them build up and learn how to win and take their lumps. Too much fairytale Hollywood stuff. It should not be that easy. Let those teams prove they can build up a competitive squad from scratch.


SB XIV. Steelers-Bucs. Rams deserved to finally get there ahead of an expansion team (though Tampa did take their lumps). Bucs were a nice story but another team that I didn't find exciting offensively nor think would give Pittsburgh a true scare like the Rams did.

Raiders-Colts. SB III. It very almost came to pass. No Namath Guarantee. So much of NFL lore would be permanently altered. Granted if this happened...maybe the Jets come back in 1969 and are the ones playing Minnesota in the Super Bowl.

Could the Raiders have done to Baltimore what the Jets did? Honestly I have no feel for how that would've gone but I think they absolutely had a chance. Raiders were no joke that year...and the Jets were a little bit lucky in beating them (the lateral they recovered, Namath knocked unconscious during the game but being able to continue, Maynard after the long 4th Q reception fumbling but it going out of bounds) though we were incredibly unlucky in the Heidi Game so that's the way things go.