the beginning of this gave me goosebumps… the way boomer explains the perfect ending to a super bowl, is how he loses…. that’s something that would haunt me for the rest of my life.
Yea I loved that too, all true as well. Levy really bitched & moaned that week leading up to the championship game. Then incorporating that very no huddle the next year, it’s the old of you can’t beat em join em mentality.
the steelers have so many bandwagon fans. maybe now that u guys will suck for the next 5 years with jimmy g coming over you can finally see who is a real fan
@@thefrase7884 I hope u guys get jimmy g too so u know what us niners fans went thru w/ a 27.5 mill QB who throws picks to make blowout games turn into nail biters
I’ve never been a 49er fan but I was SO GLAD they stuck it to Paul Brown. It wasn’t that he passed on Walsh as a coach, it was that he tried to block him from getting other coaching jobs. Said this on Coach Walsh’s episode of A football life.
As a Bengals fan respect your position @jonfranks6902 Paul Brown remember how he basically forced Jim Brown to retire as well as a great coach your right he could be an ass.
@@patrickgray5633 I know this post is over a year old, so I don't know if you ever looked up what happened, but Paul Brown was fired after the 1962 NFL season and Jim Brown retired during 1966 training camp after Art Modell threaten to fined him for missing training camp for the shooting of the movie The Dirty Dozen.
The first super bowl I ever watched in my life was that one. I became a Cincinnati Bengals fan that night with Boomer Esiason being my all time favorite. I'm still a Bengals fan to this day
49er fan since 81' that was the best super bowl I ever saw in my life. I wish we could've had a rematch. The score in the big game is 49ers 2' Cincinnati Bengals 0'. It should've been a 3rd game for it all.
My childhood heroes. I was just a kid, balling after that Superbowl. Thank you, Boomer, Sam, Ickey, Tim, the whole team. Taught me what a fun season was, and how to appreciate even a loss. Tough one. Congrats '9ers.
You and me both brother. Those guys were Gods to me. Boomer lived in the neighborhood close to me and was just the coolest guy. We would go to his house and he would let us come in and hang out and walk his dogs with him and his wife. Love that guy.
I wish we hadn't choked against the Rams in the NFC Championship so we could have had a part 3 . I wonder if toward the end od Super Bowl 23 , Sam Wyche, having been an assistant coach on the other sideline in Super Bowl 16 had nightmares in his head that ended up being realized in front of his eyes.
Boy, what incredible timing. You posted this right at the beginning of the 2021 season, where the Bengals followed up another 4-win season with a young hotshot quarterback with a trip to the Superbowl. The exact... same... thing. Unless they win this time of course. Best of luck to them.
I agree; this one's amazing, and Super bowl 23 was the beginning of me getting into the sport of football (the Bengals were fun, and the 49ers were a classy football machine, although 1988 wasn't the most consistent of Niner teams).
As legendary as the 49ers dynasty or any other dynasty was, triumph always has tragedy for those who lost so those dynasties could thrive. The Missing Rings series did so well with explaining that. And the 88 Bengals were the best examples. The Drive just gets frustrating to watch the more and more times I see it.
@@TBevill1231 And also it was a great choice to get Tim Krumrie as one of the 3 guest interviews. Boomer & Wyche were easy go to’s but Krumrie was amazing on here. His backstory, the emotion and heart you could tell he had and then the tragic broken leg early in the biggest game of his life, I felt so bad for him. And then not wanting to leave despite the agony he was in cause he didn’t want to miss the game.
Bears fan here. After that awful NFC Chanpionship game I was rooting for Sam and ended up just numb - gutted that the Bengals couldn't take out the Niners after hanging in there against the odds. That cold chill and next to no hope they could do anything with 34 seconds after being schooled like that by Joe cool and his polished receivers. You had to hand it to them - The 49ers were a treat to witness...retrospectively of course, because I was 14 and hated them at the time heheh Go Bengals! Shame you didn't get the rematch with the niners this time round.
Hey Bears fan.. I've been watching the 49ers since the 70s and have seen many of there great teams play. I must tell you I think that NFC championship game versus the Bears was the "best game" I saw the 49ers ever play. The weather was miserable and many thought SF would fold in those Conditions. But they dominated the Bears that day. I was stunned.
I love this because it is all about the journey! The adventure leading up to eventual failure is what a lot of people involved in the trek ultimately remember.
My uncle is Ickey Woods. The last time we had talked about this team, that Super Bowl, was about 15 months before my cousin Jovante, his second to youngest child, died of a severe asthma attack...that was 2010, so 2009. I was with my other two cousins, including Ickey's youngest Aubhree talking about a game none of them were alive for. And we get in to it, the Stanley Wilson situation, the Lewis Billups drop, and he's still talking about it like it happened a couple days ago. Well, he took my cousins to the Bengals Super Bowl and they took a lot of photos with legends like Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, Ed Reed, and lots of great current players. Point is, I reached out to him the night before the Bengals/Rams Super Bowl...that loss still bothers him. I think it would've been nice for the Bengals to win, but not the same. Those of you who think it's 'just a game'...talk to someone that's lost a Super Bowl and doesn't have a ring...it'll change your viewpoint really quick.
Sadly, if we had won that game we would probably have more Bengals in the HOF. We lost a major offensive and a major defensive player/star go down early. If we had either one of them, we'd probably won. Who Dey
@manuginobilisbaldspot424 I loved your uncle many don’t know his career with our Bengals was only 4 seasons. Your 100% right I’ve seen the game on tv & I immediately turn the channel. Your so right on how it bothers your uncle & several other guys I’ve talked to David Flucher about it he’s not over it, I’m only a fan I’m not over it until the Bengals get one I’ve been a fan since 1985 & the being made fun of, the pot shots from media mainly ESPN those are other reasons I hope the Bengals get one & shove it at them. However your 100% winning or losing a Super Bowl it changes lives good for the winners & the losers will think about it daily for the rest of their life when they don’t win one.
I lived in Champaign, IL in '88 and wasn't a fan of either team, but Cincy being the closest I rooted for them to win. The more I watched, the more I wanted them to win and felt really let down when they lost, but it was a fantastic game. In all of the '80s, the only two SBs worth watching, assuming your dog wasn't in the fight, were the two SF-Cincy games. They were both exciting right down to the end. I still feel sorry for Krumrie. IMO it looks like his foot got caught on that g'damn rug. Thanks for uploading this, Bryan.
@@snellsman yes sir, Moss was the reason I even know who Marshall University is. Then he tore up the league as a rookie! Bengals fan here who loved that Vikings team hate that the Falcons squeaked by in that NFC CHAMPIONSHIP
I greatly admire Krumrie's honesty about his injury and taking responsibility for it -- while he doesn't explain that he had extended his leg in an attempt to illegally trip the runner and it resulted in him bringing his foot down so hard that it shattered his leg, he doesn't try to blame anyone else and alludes to it being caused by him trying to do too much, which is far more honest than most people are when they suffer such a horrific self-inflicted injury in the biggest game of their career.
@@TheBearGrappler So did Jumbo Elliot but their injuries weren't half as severe. I remember watching Krumrie because I played the same position in high school and I watched him like a student. I thought his shoe came off when it happened. No one has ever continued to finish a game with that kind of break.
What a turnaround from '87 to '88. The Cinderatti Bengals got to Dance at the "Ball" and let the 49ers have the football 34 seconds after "midnight". i'm a Bears fan and liked the 49er's in the 80's because Bill Walsh drafted NE Running backs, but i was rooting for the Bengals in the Superbowl. The Bengals gave Cincinnati Fans a great season and football fans whose teams stunk that year enjoyed them too.
Never knew about this episode. Glad it's posted though. I don't know which is the best team never to win SB, but the 1988 Bengals were the most interesting I've seen. Boomer, Wyche, the Swat team, Ickey, Krumrie, epic SB amid mostly blowouts.
Oh the memories... My team was the Houston Oilers, and they played the first meeting in Cincinnati. The Bengals stormed out to a 28-0 lead. As much as I disliked the Bengals then, Sam seems like the nicest guy.
excellent doc. I remember as a niners fan the only super bowl they won where I felt bad for the other team was this one against the bengals. I knew how awesome of a team they had and how close they came. of course, I was the happiest kid when the niners won but even at the time I sensed a hard lesson about football:there is always one winner and one loser, no matter how good that loser is and deserves a win. those interviews w/ wyche, boomer and krumrie can make any man emotional watching their vulnerability and passion for the game on display!
This brings back so many great memories…and some tough ones. What a magical season, with a heartbreaking conclusion. I can’t watch it without getting emotional. #WhoDey #JustOneBeforeIDie
Great doc brings back so many memories that bengals team was a great story.. two bad bengals miss the playoffs following year I felt bengals had the players to be a perennial playoff team for next five seasons
As a Niners fan, I was hoping for a Niners-Bengals Part III this year. But I'll be rooting for the Bengals to win the Super Bowl this year! Everyone is saying the Rams will win, but I believe this team has the moxie to overcome any hurdle.
I do believe the Rams will win but am telling everybody who bets on the Rams to hold their breath because this Bengal Team may very well pull it out. I never gamble but this is one game I'd stay away from gambling on it. I'll be happy for whoever wins. I have a feeling that the Bengal Kicker may very well decide the game.
I have, and up to this day, the recording VHS tape of Cincinnati Bengals last super bowl game of their '88 season. It was the last game that I watched the with my father.
I honestly believe that if Stanley Wilson had played in this Super Bowl, the Bengals would have won. It's like Tim Krumrie said, the Super Bowl didn't mean enough to Wilson to make the right decision. And when one considers that so many other great players never even got this far in their careers, it makes Wilson's bad choice all the more tragic. He had the chance to be a Super Bowl champion and he pissed it away.
@@KWCline91 I will respectfully disagree. Wilson was the Bengals' third-leading rusher that season and since the playing field in Miami was a little muddy for that game, Wilson usually excelled under those conditions. And he had scored two TDs in their two playoff games prior to the Super Bowl. I think he would have made a difference.
@@KWCline91 thats what im saying dude Wilson was a good 3rd back slash special teams player but ickey woods and james brooks were our 1-2 punch man wilson didnt even play that much
Sam, we are heading to the super bowl!!!! Who Dey!!!! Ickey Woods is a great ambassador to that team!!!! We are carrying your spirit of "finish everything" I'm in shock but so happy
I'm a Packers fan, but if you're born and raised in Wisconsin, you're a Badgers fan. People forget that Tim Krumrie had 400 tackles at Wisconsin, 276 of them were solo- as a nose tackle! This film did a great job of highlighting how much talent the '88 Bengals had, on both sides of the ball.
49er fan since the 81 season, I'm not going to say anything. I'm going to let you see for yourself the footage of the best super bowl I saw in my life.
From 1988 to 90 the Bengals were that good. They should have been in the playoffs in 89 but they just lost those close games, but in 90 they won a wildcard game and got back at the Oilers. Still, after losing to the Raiders, it's been 31 years and counting since they last won a playoff game.
To be honest, the first 22 years of the franchise were pretty solid for the most part. Won a division title in their 3rd season of existence and were a constant contender in the first half of the 70s in a tough division. Then they went to two Super Bowls in the 80s, which they could have just as well won either one.
Yeah, I wish they would have done the 1981 Bengals for this episode instead of 1988 Bengals. Not a Bengals fan but I think 1981 was their best Super Bowl season of the 3 Super Bowls they’ve been to.
When I was a teenager Tim Krumrie was our neighbor. I remember visiting him when he got from the Super Bowl and his leg was still broken. He was devastated. I told him he was my hero and he hugged me with us both crying. I went to use his restroom before leaving and saw his medicine cabinet had two full bottles of pain pills. I stole both bottles and left. For the ensuing couple nights I could hear yelling at his wife saying she was a "pill-popping whore" and "a gold-digging b*tch". A couple days later a Uhaul showed up and we never saw him again.
Huge Steelers fan here. With that said, I support all of Pittsburgh’s professional sports teams(with the exception of Pitt, huge Nittany Lions fan), as a staunch supporter of the Pirates. I have to say Go Bengals! Get this for every small market team out there! As a diehard Steelers fan, I’m a little conflicted. Lol, in summation, I’m just hoping for a great game come Sunday!
Boomer and Sam were funny in this video. They are perfect narrating the season but I guarantee you this is not the NFL film series they want to participate in.
Boomer say's it all in the first 30 second's. Been a Bengals fan since the 87 season. I remember watching the Super Bowl they lost against Montana when I was 9. Boomer even signed his ALL-PRO card for me at the Salem Mall in Dayton Ohio (it's been torn down since the early 2000's) but I'll always remember standing in line for it. WHO-DEY, peace and love y'all 🤟
Fun fact: With Al Toon already drafted in the 1985 draft, Bill Walsh wanted Eddie Brown over Jerry Rice. But Sam Wyche refused Walsh's trade offer and chose Brown instead. Walsh settled for Rice.
The real fun fact is that Bill Walsh saw Jerry Rice play on tv while Walsh was in a hotel in Texas to play a game the next day. He knew he wanted Rice from watching him on tv.
@@Catking076 the worst fun fact is that bill Walsh interviewed with the Jets after he left the Bengals in 1979. Of course they turned him down for a head coach. That was on a football life of bill Walsh.
This is the only year during the 49er's 80's dynasty that they weren't the better team. The Bengals scored no offensive touchdowns in the game, lost their best defensive player, lost one of their best offensive players, and it still took a Joe Montana last minute TD drive to win the game.
Being apart of my varsity h.s. football team was some of the best experiences that I will ever have in my life. Sports are more than sports its like a religious experience I cant describe it, but sports are less than a god.
U r so so correct. ONLY those who never experienced the feeling of tryin out let's say for JV then getting cut not making the cut then come back n make it next season then try out for Varsity n make it n start n win etc. Those triumphs those bonds whether u were that or a freshman/sophomore straight to Varsity don't matter without College or Minors or Semi pro etc that's the highest we got to go n that was an incredible, religious experience so well said. The high of the high!
The 1988 Bengals can hold their heads high even after the Superbowl loss because they actually gave the fans a good game to watch not these lopsided game losses that happened during that decade.
Kind of surprising they just glossed over the early Boomer/Wyche years: 1984 (nearly make the playoffs despite an 0-5 start) 1986 (10-6, barely miss playoffs, Boomer made his 1st Pro Bowl)
I wonder if Cris Collinsworth still thinks about this game, and the 1981 super bowl, especially considering all the ecstatic Lombardi celebrations he’s covered from the booth. It must be tough knowing you were that close only to have it taken away. I also wonder if they’re ever going to make more missing rings. I think some good episodes would be 1999 Titans / Jaguars, 2001 Rams, 2003 Panthers, 2007 Patriots, 2008 Cardinals, 2014 Cowboys, 2016 Falcons, 2017 Jaguars, 2018 Saints, 2021 Bengals.
the beginning of this gave me goosebumps… the way boomer explains the perfect ending to a super bowl, is how he loses…. that’s something that would haunt me for the rest of my life.
Sam Wyche roasting Marv Levy and the Bills for inventing the no huddle offense a year after calling it the no-fair offense is absolutely priceless.
Yea I loved that too, all true as well. Levy really bitched & moaned that week leading up to the championship game. Then incorporating that very no huddle the next year, it’s the old of you can’t beat em join em mentality.
Levy beat him at his own game by going to the HOF tho
@Halos resolve and yet the only talented player for both bengal super bowl teams... is an offensive lineman
@@TimeofQwerty Not really but whatever makes you feel better...
@@TimeofQwerty But Levy's legacy is a crying dishonest asshole. That's a win?
Sam Wyche R.I.P. guy would walk the perimeter of Riverfront and give money to the homeless. never said anything to anyone.
I hope Cincinnati wins it all for 2021, coming from a Pittsburgh fan, Cincinnati deserves it and Burrow is a beast!
the steelers have so many bandwagon fans. maybe now that u guys will suck for the next 5 years with jimmy g coming over you can finally see who is a real fan
Raven fan here…..I’m pulling for them too. Much respect to your franchise !!
@@thefrase7884 I hope u guys get jimmy g too so u know what us niners fans went thru w/ a 27.5 mill QB who throws picks to make blowout games turn into nail biters
You don’t cheer for a division rival 🤦🏾♂️… that’s some sucker shit
I’ve been a Steelers fan for over 40 years. Bengals have deserved a title since Ken Anderson so I hope their fans see their team win.
I’ve never been a 49er fan but I was SO GLAD they stuck it to Paul Brown. It wasn’t that he passed on Walsh as a coach, it was that he tried to block him from getting other coaching jobs. Said this on Coach Walsh’s episode of A football life.
As a Bengals fan respect your position @jonfranks6902 Paul Brown remember how he basically forced Jim Brown to retire as well as a great coach your right he could be an ass.
Paul also got rid of Bobby Mitchell.
cronyism is awful.
@@patrickgray5633 I know this post is over a year old, so I don't know if you ever looked up what happened, but Paul Brown was fired after the 1962 NFL season and Jim Brown retired during 1966 training camp after Art Modell threaten to fined him for missing training camp for the shooting of the movie The Dirty Dozen.
The first super bowl I ever watched in my life was that one. I became a Cincinnati Bengals fan that night with Boomer Esiason being my all time favorite. I'm still a Bengals fan to this day
That's beautiful, ride or die.. true fan💪👍👏🤜
@@gregoryhayes2647 yes indeed! WHO-DEY!!
49er fan since 81' that was the best super bowl I ever saw in my life. I wish we could've had a rematch. The score in the big game is 49ers 2' Cincinnati Bengals 0'. It should've been a 3rd game for it all.
Had to watch this again after seeing the Bengals finally get back to the Super Bowl. Who Dey.
My childhood heroes. I was just a kid, balling after that Superbowl. Thank you, Boomer, Sam, Ickey, Tim, the whole team. Taught me what a fun season was, and how to appreciate even a loss. Tough one. Congrats '9ers.
You and me both brother. Those guys were Gods to me. Boomer lived in the neighborhood close to me and was just the coolest guy. We would go to his house and he would let us come in and hang out and walk his dogs with him and his wife. Love that guy.
I wish we hadn't choked against the Rams in the NFC Championship so we could have had a part 3 . I wonder if toward the end od Super Bowl 23 , Sam Wyche, having been an assistant coach on the other sideline in Super Bowl 16 had nightmares in his head that ended up being realized in front of his eyes.
That Bengals team was so fun to watch. They had a lot of personality.
What a great game Bengals! Thank you for beating the Chiefs as a lifelong Broncos fan, it’s awesome! Upset of the year!
I’d say them upsetting the Titans was bigger
Sam Wyche, one of the all-time great characters and human beings RIP
Boy, what incredible timing. You posted this right at the beginning of the 2021 season, where the Bengals followed up another 4-win season with a young hotshot quarterback with a trip to the Superbowl.
The exact... same... thing.
Unless they win this time of course. Best of luck to them.
Now the Bengals are back in the Super Bowl for the first time since 1988.
THANK YOU! This has been missing on youtube for some time now, heartbreaking documentary, really one of the best ones the NFL Network ever did
I agree; this one's amazing, and Super bowl 23 was the beginning of me getting into the sport of football (the Bengals were fun, and the 49ers were a classy football machine, although 1988 wasn't the most consistent of Niner teams).
As legendary as the 49ers dynasty or any other dynasty was, triumph always has tragedy for those who lost so those dynasties could thrive.
The Missing Rings series did so well with explaining that. And the 88 Bengals were the best examples. The Drive just gets frustrating to watch the more and more times I see it.
@@TBevill1231 And also it was a great choice to get Tim Krumrie as one of the 3 guest interviews. Boomer & Wyche were easy go to’s but Krumrie was amazing on here. His backstory, the emotion and heart you could tell he had and then the tragic broken leg early in the biggest game of his life, I felt so bad for him. And then not wanting to leave despite the agony he was in cause he didn’t want to miss the game.
@@rustykuntz94 Oh absolutely!
Bears fan here. After that awful NFC Chanpionship game I was rooting for Sam and ended up just numb - gutted that the Bengals couldn't take out the Niners after hanging in there against the odds. That cold chill and next to no hope they could do anything with 34 seconds after being schooled like that by Joe cool and his polished receivers. You had to hand it to them - The 49ers were a treat to witness...retrospectively of course, because I was 14 and hated them at the time heheh Go Bengals! Shame you didn't get the rematch with the niners this time round.
Hey Bears fan.. I've been watching the 49ers since the 70s and have seen many of there great teams play. I must tell you I think that NFC championship game versus the Bears was the "best game" I saw the 49ers ever play. The weather was miserable and many thought SF would fold in those Conditions. But they dominated the Bears that day. I was stunned.
I love this because it is all about the journey! The adventure leading up to eventual failure is what a lot of people involved in the trek ultimately remember.
“I must break you” - Tim “Drago” Krumrie
My uncle is Ickey Woods. The last time we had talked about this team, that Super Bowl, was about 15 months before my cousin Jovante, his second to youngest child, died of a severe asthma attack...that was 2010, so 2009. I was with my other two cousins, including Ickey's youngest Aubhree talking about a game none of them were alive for. And we get in to it, the Stanley Wilson situation, the Lewis Billups drop, and he's still talking about it like it happened a couple days ago. Well, he took my cousins to the Bengals Super Bowl and they took a lot of photos with legends like Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, Ed Reed, and lots of great current players. Point is, I reached out to him the night before the Bengals/Rams Super Bowl...that loss still bothers him. I think it would've been nice for the Bengals to win, but not the same. Those of you who think it's 'just a game'...talk to someone that's lost a Super Bowl and doesn't have a ring...it'll change your viewpoint really quick.
Sadly, if we had won that game we would probably have more Bengals in the HOF. We lost a major offensive and a major defensive player/star go down early. If we had either one of them, we'd probably won. Who Dey
@manuginobilisbaldspot424
I loved your uncle many don’t know his career with our Bengals was only 4 seasons. Your 100% right I’ve seen the game on tv & I immediately turn the channel. Your so right on how it bothers your uncle & several other guys I’ve talked to David Flucher about it he’s not over it, I’m only a fan I’m not over it until the Bengals get one I’ve been a fan since 1985 & the being made fun of, the pot shots from media mainly ESPN those are other reasons I hope the Bengals get one & shove it at them.
However your 100% winning or losing a Super Bowl it changes lives good for the winners & the losers will think about it daily for the rest of their life when they don’t win one.
Please tell your uncle he is still loved and remembered till this day.
I pray our beloved bengals take this win today and get us back in the super bowl! Much deserved and a long time coming. Who Dey gentleman.
I lived in Champaign, IL in '88 and wasn't a fan of either team, but Cincy being the closest I rooted for them to win. The more I watched, the more I wanted them to win and felt really let down when they lost, but it was a fantastic game. In all of the '80s, the only two SBs worth watching, assuming your dog wasn't in the fight, were the two SF-Cincy games. They were both exciting right down to the end. I still feel sorry for Krumrie. IMO it looks like his foot got caught on that g'damn rug. Thanks for uploading this, Bryan.
Great point those were the two best superbowl of the eighties
To me, this is the saddest Missing Rings of all of them.
As a kid in Hamilton, I was inconsolable
@@teen_laqueefa I am not even a Bengals fan but it just seems like a deserving team. Plus I hated the 49ers--they did not need another one!
@@pendragon2012 I have a healthy dislike to this day of them
98’ Vikings
@@snellsman yes sir, Moss was the reason I even know who Marshall University is. Then he tore up the league as a rookie! Bengals fan here who loved that Vikings team hate that the Falcons squeaked by in that NFC CHAMPIONSHIP
On Feb 13th, the Bengals have a chance to re-write history. Good luck to them!
Aged like a dog turd.
Lol
Now the Bengals are back, after a 27-24 OT win against the Chiefs.
They won. I sure know how to pick them.
Everyone remembers that as one of the best super bowl ever and the Bengals being part of it is historic
And then they would lose to the Rams 23-20
@@ChiefBlue4298 Screw the Bengals.
When The Bengals were successful. This 1988 team won more playoff games (2) than the Bengals have won since 1989 (1).
It’s same now (2)😬
I greatly admire Krumrie's honesty about his injury and taking responsibility for it -- while he doesn't explain that he had extended his leg in an attempt to illegally trip the runner and it resulted in him bringing his foot down so hard that it shattered his leg, he doesn't try to blame anyone else and alludes to it being caused by him trying to do too much, which is far more honest than most people are when they suffer such a horrific self-inflicted injury in the biggest game of their career.
You admire someone for telling part of the truth?
To this very day, I've never seen a better noseguard.
Either way it's disgusting. But, gruesome leg injuries are an unfortunate part of the game.
Jack Youngblood played in the SB with a broken leg.
@@TheBearGrappler So did Jumbo Elliot but their injuries weren't half as severe. I remember watching Krumrie because I played the same position in high school and I watched him like a student. I thought his shoe came off when it happened. No one has ever continued to finish a game with that kind of break.
The intro music has always stayed with me.
What a turnaround from '87 to '88. The Cinderatti Bengals got to Dance at the "Ball" and let the 49ers have the football 34 seconds after "midnight". i'm a Bears fan and liked the 49er's in the 80's because Bill Walsh drafted NE Running backs, but i was rooting for the Bengals in the Superbowl. The Bengals gave Cincinnati Fans a great season and football fans whose teams stunk that year enjoyed them too.
Never knew about this episode. Glad it's posted though. I don't know which is the best team never to win SB, but the 1988 Bengals were the most interesting I've seen. Boomer, Wyche, the Swat team, Ickey, Krumrie, epic SB amid mostly blowouts.
Best hour of TV ever.
I wish NFL Network does more if these america's games missing ring episodes.
Some options they could do include 1979 Oilers, 1999 Titans or 1999 Jaguars, 2015 Panthers
@@KWCline91 or the 2017 Jaguars, 2016 Falcons
@@KWCline91 that 98-99 Jags team was loaded but couldn’t beat the Titans. Brunell was a stud.
Sam Wyche was a special.human being who cared about people first coaching and football second. RIP sir. You ate missed
Oh the memories... My team was the Houston Oilers, and they played the first meeting in Cincinnati. The Bengals stormed out to a 28-0 lead. As much as I disliked the Bengals then, Sam seems like the nicest guy.
He's just a southern boy. His remarks caused me to chuckle in amusement often in this documentary.
excellent doc. I remember as a niners fan the only super bowl they won where I felt bad for the other team was this one against the bengals. I knew how awesome of a team they had and how close they came. of course, I was the happiest kid when the niners won but even at the time I sensed a hard lesson about football:there is always one winner and one loser, no matter how good that loser is and deserves a win. those interviews w/ wyche, boomer and krumrie can make any man emotional watching their vulnerability and passion for the game on display!
Great doc guys. I graduated high school in Cincy in 89. This team and the season deserved this doc.
Who Dey!!
That SB was the reason I'm a Bengals fan. 🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🖤🧡🐯🏈✌🏻
34 seconds away..... 😭😭😭😭😭😭
This brings back so many great memories…and some tough ones. What a magical season, with a heartbreaking conclusion. I can’t watch it without getting emotional. #WhoDey #JustOneBeforeIDie
I've watched this before every Bengals playoff game this year and I believe Burrow can get this franchise into the promised land. Who DeY 🐯
Great doc brings back so many memories that bengals team was a great story.. two bad bengals miss the playoffs following year I felt bengals had the players to be a perennial playoff team for next five seasons
And here comes a chance at redemption......
Yeah how’d that turn out
@@jayscruggs2814 better than it did for my Dolphins. I'd rather get to the Super Bowl than not get to the Playoffs
As a Niners fan, I was hoping for a Niners-Bengals Part III this year. But I'll be rooting for the Bengals to win the Super Bowl this year! Everyone is saying the Rams will win, but I believe this team has the moxie to overcome any hurdle.
I was wishing for the 49ers bengals also.
I do believe the Rams will win but am telling everybody who bets on the Rams to hold their breath because this Bengal Team may very well pull it out. I never gamble but this is one game I'd stay away from gambling on it. I'll be happy for whoever wins. I have a feeling that the Bengal Kicker may very well decide the game.
Titans had 9 sacks, and the Rams D say they want to beat that.
I have, and up to this day, the recording VHS tape of Cincinnati Bengals last super bowl game of their '88 season. It was the last game that I watched the with my father.
Fun fact: That 77 yard touchdown pass from Boomer was to Darnay Scott in the ‘97 season finale against the Ravens.
Tim Krumrie. The manliest man in the HISTORY of man. Those aren’t around in the game anymore.
Broke my 11yr old heart and never got to see the Ickey Woods shuffle.
I was 10.
I honestly believe that if Stanley Wilson had played in this Super Bowl, the Bengals would have won. It's like Tim Krumrie said, the Super Bowl didn't mean enough to Wilson to make the right decision. And when one considers that so many other great players never even got this far in their careers, it makes Wilson's bad choice all the more tragic. He had the chance to be a Super Bowl champion and he pissed it away.
Not gonna say we would have won, Wilson was our 3rd string running back,
Even if Wilson played, I don’t think it’s enough. Tim Krumrie’s injury was a major factor in that game.
@@KWCline91 I will respectfully disagree. Wilson was the Bengals' third-leading rusher that season and since the playing field in Miami was a little muddy for that game, Wilson usually excelled under those conditions. And he had scored two TDs in their two playoff games prior to the Super Bowl. I think he would have made a difference.
@@KWCline91 thats what im saying dude Wilson was a good 3rd back slash special teams player but ickey woods and james brooks were our 1-2 punch man wilson didnt even play that much
That was a beautiful story. A great team that didn't get a ring.
RIP Sam Wyche
Damn right, Sam we miss you!
Sam, we are heading to the super bowl!!!!
Who Dey!!!!
Ickey Woods is a great ambassador to that team!!!!
We are carrying your spirit of "finish everything"
I'm in shock but so happy
Who's here because Bengals are back in the superbowl against Rams
They’ve got a chance for redemption
I'm a Packers fan, but if you're born and raised in Wisconsin, you're a Badgers fan. People forget that Tim Krumrie had 400 tackles at Wisconsin, 276 of them were solo- as a nose tackle! This film did a great job of highlighting how much talent the '88 Bengals had, on both sides of the ball.
we're back in the afc championship guys
This was the first Super Bowl I remember watching and I remember Tim Krumbrie breaking his leg more than the game winning TD
My first Superbowl as well. Still a Bengals fan born in Dayton, Ohio.
im a Steelers fan, and it's two Cincinati Bengals QB's that i like kenny Anderson & Boomer Esiason💯
Tim Krumrie has the face of an action figure
The AFC Central was a beast of a division
Lifelong Eagles fan, but I always loved the 1988 Bengals and was so bummed when they lost
I'm from Cincinnati and born in 84 let's go Bengals!!!!!!
They 88 Bengals were one of the most fun teams to watch, I was 14 years old then and really pulled for them to win but Montana was just Montana
49er fan since the 81 season, I'm not going to say anything. I'm going to let you see for yourself the footage of the best super bowl I saw in my life.
rooting for the bengals against the rams. this fan base has suffered a long time.
🤣🤣 most of them live in Ohio. Thier life is constant suffering. And last night added
Our family are 49er fans through and through. My mom loved this sb and we named our first pup Boomer. In 2009. This sb impacted our family for dacades
My Favorite Super Bowl all-time! That night became a fan of “Joe 😎 “
the whole world wanted the bengals to win.
RIP coach Wyche. Hope you are looking down on us this weekend. We need your help!
How many people are watching this the night the Bengals beat the Chiefs to go to the Super Bowl
From 1988 to 90 the Bengals were that good. They should have been in the playoffs in 89 but they just lost those close games, but in 90 they won a wildcard game and got back at the Oilers. Still, after losing to the Raiders, it's been 31 years and counting since they last won a playoff game.
Until now 😁
2021 we beat the Raiders to finally end the drought next up we have the Titans.
To be honest, the first 22 years of the franchise were pretty solid for the most part. Won a division title in their 3rd season of existence and were a constant contender in the first half of the 70s in a tough division. Then they went to two Super Bowls in the 80s, which they could have just as well won either one.
One of the best team to never win it all man that team was fun to watch
Thanks for sharing this! Man Krumrie is one tough dude!
If they added teams: 2016 Falcons (losing the Super Bowl) and 2021 Chiefs (losing to Bengals in AFC Championship) would be the two i think would work!
Yeah, I wish they would have done the 1981 Bengals for this episode instead of 1988 Bengals. Not a Bengals fan but I think 1981 was their best Super Bowl season of the 3 Super Bowls they’ve been to.
And now the 2022 eagles
@@FR3SH180 No, Eagles still won the Super Bowl five years before that.
When I was a teenager Tim Krumrie was our neighbor. I remember visiting him when he got from the Super Bowl and his leg was still broken. He was devastated. I told him he was my hero and he hugged me with us both crying. I went to use his restroom before leaving and saw his medicine cabinet had two full bottles of pain pills. I stole both bottles and left. For the ensuing couple nights I could hear yelling at his wife saying she was a "pill-popping whore" and "a gold-digging b*tch". A couple days later a Uhaul showed up and we never saw him again.
Damn man why did you do that
Huge Steelers fan here. With that said, I support all of Pittsburgh’s professional sports teams(with the exception of Pitt, huge Nittany Lions fan), as a staunch supporter of the Pirates. I have to say Go Bengals! Get this for every small market team out there! As a diehard Steelers fan, I’m a little conflicted. Lol, in summation, I’m just hoping for a great game come Sunday!
thank u so much for uploading this !!!
It's just unfortunate that they caught the 49ers at the height of their greatness
Boomer and Sam were funny in this video. They are perfect narrating the season but I guarantee you this is not the NFL film series they want to participate in.
Now the Bengals are back in the Super Bowl!
And they would lose to the Rams 23-20
Sam Wyche was a great coach. Truly cared about his players. His ice cream story with Stanley Wilson shows how much he cared
Boomer say's it all in the first 30 second's. Been a Bengals fan since the 87 season. I remember watching the Super Bowl they lost against Montana when I was 9. Boomer even signed his ALL-PRO card for me at the Salem Mall in Dayton Ohio (it's been torn down since the early 2000's) but I'll always remember standing in line for it. WHO-DEY, peace and love y'all 🤟
yeah and even the star rookie jamarr chase like ickey woods
Wyche was a great Coach.
Fun fact: With Al Toon already drafted in the 1985 draft, Bill Walsh wanted Eddie Brown over Jerry Rice. But Sam Wyche refused Walsh's trade offer and chose Brown instead. Walsh settled for Rice.
We could’ve had one of the greatest players In NFL history go figure lol
The real fun fact is that Bill Walsh saw Jerry Rice play on tv while Walsh was in a hotel in Texas to play a game the next day. He knew he wanted Rice from watching him on tv.
How did Walsh settle for Jerry when he traded 3 draft picks to get him...
@@Catking076 the worst fun fact is that bill Walsh interviewed with the Jets after he left the Bengals in 1979. Of course they turned him down for a head coach. That was on a football life of bill Walsh.
The 88 Bengals were in the Superbowl on my first bday. I've always been a fan of underdogs
This is the only year during the 49er's 80's dynasty that they weren't the better team. The Bengals scored no offensive touchdowns in the game, lost their best defensive player, lost one of their best offensive players, and it still took a Joe Montana last minute TD drive to win the game.
Boomer is one of the best QB's who never won it. Great broadcaster as well.
Bernie Kosar > Boomer
Being apart of my varsity h.s. football team was some of the best experiences that I will ever have in my life. Sports are more than sports its like a religious experience I cant describe it, but sports are less than a god.
U r so so correct. ONLY those who never experienced the feeling of tryin out let's say for JV then getting cut not making the cut then come back n make it next season then try out for Varsity n make it n start n win etc. Those triumphs those bonds whether u were that or a freshman/sophomore straight to Varsity don't matter without College or Minors or Semi pro etc that's the highest we got to go n that was an incredible, religious experience so well said. The high of the high!
WOW Tim is the man I'll go play for him right that's my kinda guy that's freaking Tough
Bengals going to the super bowl now baby!!
We're going to the Superbowl.
23:33 - WHO DEY?!
WOW!!! I appreciate you posting this. Great documentary. For sure got my like & sub
Wyche has a way of comparing a football with a booger.
Cincinnati and Cleveland are two teams who could and probably should have came out of the 80's with a ring but just didn't have luck on their side.
John Eleanor and Joe Montana were the reasons.
The 1988 Bengals can hold their heads high even after the Superbowl loss because they actually gave the fans a good game to watch not these lopsided game losses that happened during that decade.
Tim Krumrie breaking his leg was the beginning of the bad to the dropped int by Billups. One play would have changed this game. It was exciting.
Then they just faded away. In 1989 they only lost one division game, but the Browns still won the division.
Love the highlights from Nippert
Who's here after that lost?😭
Kind of surprising they just glossed over the early Boomer/Wyche years:
1984 (nearly make the playoffs despite an 0-5 start)
1986 (10-6, barely miss playoffs, Boomer made his 1st Pro Bowl)
Can't wait to see Joe Burrow's episode...
Lmfao 🤣
I wonder if Cris Collinsworth still thinks about this game, and the 1981 super bowl, especially considering all the ecstatic Lombardi celebrations he’s covered from the booth. It must be tough knowing you were that close only to have it taken away.
I also wonder if they’re ever going to make more missing rings. I think some good episodes would be 1999 Titans / Jaguars, 2001 Rams, 2003 Panthers, 2007 Patriots, 2008 Cardinals, 2014 Cowboys, 2016 Falcons, 2017 Jaguars, 2018 Saints, 2021 Bengals.
2020 Chiefs
2007 Cowboys
Let's Go Cincinnati!! BEAT THE LAMBS!!!
With love from us 49er fans😉👍
Haven't watched this in a long time, so i didn't expect sam wyche telling us how to flick a booger