Most Memorable Super Bowl Games

In the decades of Super Bowl play there have been countless teams and players to see the field of action. Entire seasons are long forgotten, lost in mediocrity or simply because nobody outside the fans of the two teams in question really cared about the game. Still, there have been a select few Super Bowl matchups that have resulted in nothing less than the very definition of an instant classic. Games that go beyond simple entertainment and make us as fans stand up and shout, and remember them years later. Here are three of the most memorable, in no particular order:

SUPER BOWL III - Jets vs. Colts
It was the game that made Joe Namath a household name and it had became synonymous with the term Super Bowl. Widely considered the best and biggest Super Bowl game ever, future game MVP Joe Namath made headlines by guaranteeing a victory against the heavily favored Baltimore Colts. What followed was an upset for the ages, as Namath led the Jets to an improbable 16-7 victory. The everlasting image from that unimaginable game: Namath jogging into the tunnel, one finger raised to the sky, victorious.

SUPER BOWL XXXIV - Rams vs. Titans

A game destined to be a classic based solely on the teams competing. On one side of the ball was The Greatest Show on Turf, the Kurt Warner-led Rams in their first Super Bowl appearance. On the other side, Steve McNair's Titans, who arrived on the heels of "The Music City Miracle," the play that would resonate through the NFL for all time and sent the Titans past Buffalo in the AFC Championship game. In a game that was back and forth until the very end it was only fitting to come down to the final play. And in that memorable moment, down by six points, Tennessee receiver Kevin Dyson caught a pass and was stopped by Rams linebacker Mick Jones at the one-yard line as time expired, giving the Rams the victory.

SUPER BOWL XXV - Giants vs. Bills

The twenty-fifth playing of the championship game invented the term "wide right" and brought it into football's vernacular for all time. It would also mark the first of four straight trips to the big game for Buffalo, none of which they would win. In a back-and-forth game, it was the Giants who held the one-point lead coming down to the final play. In that final snap, which would dictate the rest of the Buffalo Bills' history, kicker Scott Norwood missed the game-winning field goal, one foot to the right, and in doing so he cemented himself into the annals of Super Bowl history, for all the wrong reasons.