10 Best Super Bowls Of All Time

3. St Louis Rams 23 Tennessee Titans 16 (Super Bowl XXXIV)

Never has a game epitomised the idea of fighting for every yard more than Super Bowl XXXIV (34); one yard is all that stood in the way of the Tennessee Titans and an overtime chance of victory. Kurt Warner's second appearance in this list puts him on the winning side in 2000 as he led the St Louis Rams to victory in the Georgia Dome. St Louis scored all the points in the first half as kicker Jeff Wilkins successfully kicked three field goals to give the NFC Champions a 9-0 halftime lead. They continued their dominance into the second half scoring the first touchdown of the game when Torry Holt took a nine yard pass from Warner. Tennessee quarterback Steve McNair would be the biggest name in the last few minutes but when the Titans scored two consecutive touchdowns both came from Eddie George rushes from very close to the goal line. The game was tied at 16 when Titans kicker Al Del Greco hit a 43 yard field goal before Isaac Bruce scored the game winning touchdown for the Rams. Like Super Bowl XXV (25) there was late drama in Atlanta but of a very different sort than a missed field goal. McNair led his Titans team on a great last drive which got them all the way down to St Louis' 10 yard line before stopping the clock with just 0:06 seconds left to play. Never before had a team scored on the final play of regulation in a Super Bowl but the Titans would need to do just that in order to force the game into overtime. With the Rams defence struggling to cope with exhaustion McNair felt that his team had a chance in the last few seconds. Lining up in shotgun position, McNair threw to Kevin Dyson on the five yard line who was immediately tackled and brought down on the one yard line giving the Rams the world championship. So perhaps a pretty dull first half but the final two minutes of Super Bowl XXXIV make it one of the best in living memory.
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