Via TNC, this list of the top ten Super Bowl drives of all time from CHFF:
3. Ben Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh, Super Bowl XLIII
Final score: Pittsburgh 27, Arizona 23
Big Ben’s legend-making drive began with a holding penalty that moved the ball back from the 22 to the 12. Roethlisberger then accounted for all 88 yards, passing for 84 and running for 4, ending the drive with a gorgeous pass over the heads of three defenders and into the hands of Santonio Holmes, who tip-tapped his feet in the end zone before falling out of bounds. It was a picture-perfect toss that capped a drive that will forever be remembered as Roethlisberger’s signature moment, and a pass that silenced once and for all the Big Ben doubters.
It won’t silence them here, just posting this will cause the Big Ben haters to come out of the woodwork, and on top of that, I will get called a “sore winner.” Whatever- I wave my terrible towel in their general direction.
Hawes
Big Ben is overratedd. I’m so fucking sick of hearing Big Ben this and Big Ben that.
We’re talking about the big clock, right?
Bostondreams
That list simply reinforces the fact that I DESPISE Eli Manning and the Giants with a passion normally reserved for the Yankees. How was he not sacked? How was that damn ball caught? Argh.
And out of the playoffs this year, too. Dang it.
calipygian
Did Roethlisberger of some team play recently or something?
Glocksman
Big Ben’s go two things the haters don’t have.
Namely two Super Bowl rings.
Or as someone else said ‘If you can do it, it ain’t bragging’.
Stuck
Never heard of the guy/
Peter von Nostrand
I think it’s his tendency to exaggerate the severity of his injuries that tends to lead people to not show him respect.
robertdsc
Brady’s got two plays on there. Cool.
Brady > Big Ben > Everyone else.
Tokyokie
Andy K
I might drop that drive a notch or two. The Cards’ defense was porous.
Maybe it’s because the article focuses on drives in the last few minutes of a game, and maybe it’s because the article is spotlighting QBs, but it does a great disservice to the Giants 3rd/4th quarter drive in Super Bowl XXV. Hostetler, Anderson and Ingram deserve a lot more attention than the failed drives (Staubach in SB X, Kelly’s in XXV, McNair’s in XXXIV, Delhomme’s in XXXVII and Brady’s in XLII).
Jason
Your obsession with this guy is seriously unhealthy.
Turn yourself over to the police before you do something rash.
MikeJ
They think it’s all over!
Just Some Fuckhead
Jesus Christ on the sideline, give it a rest already.
Andy K
Just noticed Elway’s 3rd quarter drive against the Packers is on the list. Was that drive better than my aforementioned Giant’s drive?
BTW, the best drive ever in a league championship game was the Colt’s last possession of regulation in ’58. It tied the game. Crappy weather and truly on the road.
Ninerdave
Speaking strictly from a fantasy point of view. Worthlessberger fully deserves his name.
And is it just me or is the Terrible Towel one of the stupidest fan things ever?
gbear
and shout "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!!"
Sadly,No! has been doing what they do so well to a hater today. The FBI must be monitoring this guy’s site given how much death he’s advocating. There needs to be a new folder for ‘hysterical losers’.
Comrade Dread
No, enjoy your victory. I won’t begrudge anyone that.
Because next year might not be so kind to you.
Next year, you might get your hopes up for a repeat and then watch in stunned horror as your team folds completely in their first playoff game to your hated division rivals, who shouldn’t have made the playoffs, after posting one of the best regular season records for the year.
Yeah, I’m looking at you, Giants.
Swervus
I got no problem with this last superbowl that Big Ben won nearly singlehandedly in a "drive" that should make Elway stand up and cheer, it was a great game won by the best team.
That CANNOT be said about 2005 vs. the Seahawks. The Seahawks outplayed the Stealers in every single category and got ass raped by the refs for the first illegitimate superbowl win ever. Hasselback got called for a BLOCK in the back while TACKLING a Stealer on an INT runback late in the game after the refs had swiped the win.
Why don’t we talk about that travesty instead?
joe from Lowell
Big Ben isn’t much of a passer, but there’s question that he’s up there with Brady and Manning when it comes to the 2-minute offense.
The Moar You Know
@robertdsc: 18-1.
That is all.
joe from Lowell
So much holding, so few flags. The offensive linemen had Richard Seymore in a choke hold, pulling him backwards, as Eli pulled out of his grasp.
That was a truly ridiculous call.
joe from Lowell
The Moar You Know,
Meh. Someone wins the Superbowl every year.
16-0 happened once in the history of the game.
ChrisB
@Andy K: Excellent observation about the Giants’ drives against the Bills. (In fact there were two big second half drives, the one with Ingram’s catch and Anderson’s run around left end at the start of the third quarter ending in a touchdown that made it 17-12 and the one for a field goal in the fourth quarter that made it 20-19.)
By the way, you can generally find play by play descriptions of particular Super Bowls by searching, say, "Super Bowl XXV play by play."
El Tiburon
Yep, Tittsburgh: King of the Moronic, no having any teeth, having sex with their own mother, quarterbacks.
First you got Terry (Deliverance) Bradshaw. That gunzlefuck dropped the IQ of the entire League 50 points. You know what Terry Bradshaw said when he was having sex: "Get up Ma, you’re squashing my chewing tobaccy"
And Rottenburgers? That dude has Forrest Gumped his way into more wins for the love of god.
If Bradshaw and Rottenbergers ever were to mate, their offspring would be dumber than the fucking football.
Meanwhile, America’s team boasted perhaps the classiest quarterback in Roger Staubach. Even Jesus Christ was like, man, that’s one saintly dude. And Troy Aikman? Troy Aikman is better looking than 98% of the "chicks" from Pittsburgh.
I’m sorry, what were we talking about?
D-Chance.
Two words: Eli Manning.
One good drive, one lucky catch, does not a superstar make.
Let’s see Rothy do it for a half-dozen seasons without plowing face-first into any more car windshields, and then we’ll talk.
joe from Lowell
I’m sorry, what were we talking about?
Not sure. Something about you liking Troy Aikman more than chicks.
Bob In Pacifica
Two things can be equally true. Ben R. can be a really good quarterback and John Cole can be a sore winner.
I think Rothlisberger would have been even better this year if his offensive line were a bit better. Seems like whenever I saw a Steelers game this year he was running for his life.
John Cole
This thread delivers, as expected. Seattle QQ and Cowboys whining. If only we could get some Browns and Ravens fans in here, but let’s face it- who is a Browns fan these days?
Mazacote Yorquest
I also can’t see Eli Manning coming back from a crash that doubled as a Witness Protection Program. Seriously, I can’t look at his lumpy face without getting the shivers. Dude’s tough.
4jkb4ia
@Tokyokie:
Carlee Roethlisberger is Ben’s sister.
(Today the tickets came for the Women’s Final Four. After missing the Oklahoma-SLU game I am hoping that Oklahoma will show up.)
Zzyzx
Hey I stayed out of this comments section, lest I spend the rest of the night rewriting XL to a different outcome…
Stuck
@John Cole:
Right here is a Browns fan, though the Ravens can suck an egg. The Dog Pound will rise again and wipe the pooh with those silly terrible towellettes. The day will come and will be just that much sweeter. And I still never heard of than Ben whatshis name.
Just Some Fuckhead
Christ John, I feel like I’m lettin ya down.
Uh, isn’t CHFF showing anti-Roethlisberger bias by not awarding him all ten spots for his last ten drives? I mean, if the editors weren’t clearly aching to give birth to one of Tom Brady’s bastards, wouldn’t they have just skipped the top ten drives and run pictures of themselves tossing Roethlisberger’s salad? Because anything else isn’t enough.
/Ravens fan
different church-lady
@The Moar You Know:
Actually that’s 3-1 > 2-0 > everyone else
Fierce Pika
I’m not a Ben hater or a Steelers hater, but it’s kind of a travesty that they won the Super Bowl, considering the quality of other worthy teams. I’m glad the Cards made a game of it, or it would have been at least as shitty as when Baltimore won it in 2000. I mean, fucking Trent Dilfer’s a Super Bowl winning quarterback? Blecch. So at least it’s not that, but damn close. Big Ben is a fine quarterback, but this year he helmed one of the most mediocre offenses in the league, and if he becomes a Hall of Fame-er we’ll know for sure that Canton’s more about franchise legacies and quarterback hagiographies than a monument to truly exceptional talent.
Still not totally sure whether completely lucking out on that Tyree throw should allow Eli & Co. into the top spot on that list, but even then it remains a helluva drive, and one of the best SB’s ever.
BTW, that Elway drive…that remains one of the best days of my life. Go Broncos!
4jkb4ia
PITT!
(Pitt 76, UConn 68)
4jkb4ia
I should remember better the two of these drives where the Rams were involved.
HRA
(sigh) Whatever you guys say – what counts is getting the ultimate win. You cannot believe the feeling of having a superb team choke at the big game time after time. Yeah I am referring to the Bills.
I must add I was thrilled to see Elway and Denver finally get their win. Oh and I did follow the Steelers with Bradshaw. They had some great players on that team.
BDeevDad
ESPN was saying Ben played the Superbowl with broken ribs. Anyone know if this was true?
ThymeZoneThePlumber
"Haters" in the Steeler fan lexicon means anybody who doesn’t kneel before the altar of Steelerdom.
When you guys stop talking about "Six" as if this current team had anything in the remotest way to connect them with the 4 Steeler Super Bowl wins of 30 years ago, I’ll have some respect for you (that’s a generic you, if the shoe fits, wear it).
Otherwise, fuck off. Six, my ass. The only thing more obnoxious than Steeler fans talking about "six" is Yankee fans talking about World Series from a hundred fucking years ago.
I used to think Pittsburgh had great sports fans, but now I think they just like to drag a cross around and nail themselves to it a little too often.
It’s the fans people hate, not the team. The team plays pretty good football, actually.
Common Sense
I found it hysterical when the Titans started stomping on your precious pieces of cloth after their win.
And before you start crying about the many towel haters in Tennessee, remember there’s a few anti-Towelers in Pittsburgh as well.
On the plus side, at least Reed is comfortable with looking like a gay model who stuck his finger in an electrical socket.
Mike
One of the commentators during the pregame show (I don’t remember which one) said that Ben isn’t a great quarterback but he’s a great football player. I’d actually agree with that statement. I was rooting for the Cardinals the whole way but I have to admit, that last drive was a thing of beauty.
Just Some Fuckhead
@ThymeZoneThePlumber: I was thinking earlier that Steelers fans are getting as annoying as Cowboys fans. And then it occurred to me the Steelers could share the Cowboys glory: Pittsburgh Steelers, hard-working white America’s team.
GuyFromOhio
Consume feces and expire, maternal fornicator.
That said, the pass to Holmes was fun to watch, even if I do hate everything else about the Steelers, especially those stupid yellow snotrags they wave around at every game.
Nothing tops John Madden saying "Brady should take a knee and hope his side wins the toss" as we threw empties at the tube, and then cheered Brady through a poetic 1:32 drill.
GO BROWNS!
TenguPhule
Illegal Aliens FTW!
Andy K
I dunno…I had Ben (handcuffed w/Leftwich), Hines Ward and James Harrison in my IDP league, and Harrison is the one that kept me in the money. But Ben usually pulled the Steelers out in the close ones and got me a few points this year. And I never blamed the QB so much this year- it was the Steelers’ O-line that caused his sub-par stats, imo.
(And there were a few times I wished Leftwich would start just to give Ben a rest, because my other QB was that jackass who used to play for the Jets…)
Andy K
Yeah, too bad they don’t give out rings for beating the eventual champs in the regular season.
D-Chance.
Pittsburgh Steeler cited by police for attacking… a restroom paper towel dispenser.
Heh.
eyeball
I put Ben right up there with FDR.
Ranger3
If he were so great, you wouldn’t need to keep saying how great he is.
He blows. His rings came against teams that were lucky to reach the super bowl. Somebody had to win, that it was his team doesn’t change the fact that he is an average player.
Paul_D
Ahem. Patsies. 2002. It was a fumble.
Thank you.
Comrade Dread
Wah.
Docrailgun
Where was the super-mega best defense ever? The Steelers barely won the game. If it hadn’t been for stupid AZ penalties, they’d have won the game.
Damned at Random
D-chance: Reed will be a hero to everyone who has walked out of a public restroom with dripping hands. Or worse.
rob
Is there a video of the final drive somewhere. I tried looking on YouTube, but couldn’t find anything.
Bill Belichick
Still don’t get the Ben haters. He’s clutch.
Hating Steeler Fans, that’s a no-brainer. But cut them some slack, look where they live. You can practically see West Virginia from there, how good can that be? Certainly explains the towel waving thing normally reserved for loser expansion teams who briefly stumble into the big time once in a while.
Jamey
Re: https://balloon-juice.com/?p=17334#comment-1152584
Several teams have gone 18-1: ’84 ‘9ers, ’85 Bears; ’07 Pats.
Guess which one didn’t win that "game that someone wins every year"?
Speaking as a Giants’ fan, I’d rather suck in the regular season and win the Roman Numeral game than go 16-0.
Re: Ben haters. Thing I heard most about Bradshaw when I was a kid was that he was stupid, had no touch as a passer, and was carried by his team’s awesome defense–and a lot of that was said AFTER he won Super Bowl MVP. Ben’s younger than most of the actors who play high schoolers on Gossip Girl, has two rings, a nine-figure bank account, and the unconditional love of a football-mad city.
Yeah, what a maroon…