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The NFL presents the 1998 NFC Championship Game between the Atlanta Falcons & Minnesota Vikings! 11:13 – Chris Chandler throws 5-yard TD pass to …
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This NFL’s video is titled 1998 NFC Championship Game: Atlanta Falcons vs. Minnesota Vikings| NFL Full Game and credited to NFL. Viewing time is 02:32:02, enjoy our fellow NFL fans!
11:13 – Chris Chandler throws 5-yard TD pass to Jamal Anderson
16:34 – Randall Cunningham finds Randy Moss for 30-yard TD
24:36 – Harold Green fumbles, recovered by Vikings
32:56 – Gary Anderson makes 29-yard FG
34:00 – O.J. Santiago fumbles, recovered by Vikings
38:55 – Cunningham rushes in for 1-yard TD
47:50 – Gary Anderson makes 35-yard FG
53:48 – Cunningham is strip sacked, fumble recovered by Falcons
55:18 – Chandler zings 14-yard TD pass to Terrance Mathis
1:14:51 – Morten Anderson makes 27-yard FG
1:25:06 – Cunningham slings 5-yard TD pass to Mathew Hatchette
1:30:58 – Morten Anderson makes 24-yard FG
1:38:30 – Vikings mishandle snap and Falcons recover fumble
1:41:48 – Falcons are unable to convert on 4th down
1:53:20 – Gary Anderson misses 38-yard FG
1:58:28 – Chandler finds Mathis for 16-yard TD
2:23:10 – Falcons begin game-winning drive
2:31:12 – Morten Anderson makes 38-yard FG to send Falcons to Super Bowl
Missed kick at the end of this game provides much drama and a moment for the NFL history books. Rewatching this game I would say the vikings should have been up 3 scores at the half but were only up 6 points. They came out lackluster at the start of the first half and their special teams and defense were subpar compared to the falcons. Vikings should have never needed a last second FG to win this game, they should have won it going away.
ATL had been to the playoffs 5 times prior to '98 not 2 times as stated.
1998 Vikings was the best offense in NFL history. I was there in the stadium!
Vikings fan here…All day long I take Chandler over Cousins
ATL was 14-2 and wildly underestimated. Dan Reeves installed the perfect game plan: try to shut down Randy Moss with two defenders and play 9 vs 10 football. Got lucky with Gary Andersson's missed FG, but teams that routinely blow out other teams don't usually play well when under pressure in the 4th Quarter. Ditto the Vikings.
The legend of Chris Chandler
The Vikings should have tried too finish it in regulation
The Vikings lost this game when Cunningham fumbled at the end of the first half. Going into the locker room with a 20-7 lead instead of a 20-14 lead was a big deal.
I’m not even a Vikings fan but this game hurts to watch. So many times they were so close to clinching the game and it didn’t happen. It also pissed me off because the falcons were no match for the broncos. Vikings choking made the super bowl suck.
I was 3 years old watching this game.
Damn that Vikings team was so stacked, and were by far the best team to not make the Super Bowl. They surely would have put up a hell of a lot more of a fight than the Falcons did, who rolled over, and played dead at the sight of that Bronco uniform right from the start. The foolish stunt Eugene Robinson pulled the night before surely didn't help matters much either.
Being an Eagles fan it breaks my heart that Randall Cunningham was just a field goal away from playing in his first Super Bowl, if the Vikes had won the Broncos would've had more of a challenge and Elway would've had to fight hard to get his 2nd ring
ALL FOR NOTHING!
Forgot how epic trash the Vikings secondary was in this game. 6:00 min to go in the game with a 7 point lead……no excuses for losing this game. Still unreal.
I remember watching this game as a 8th grader. That year the Vikings blew out everyone and there offense was unstoppable with Moss. They beat my Cardinals in the previous round but I remember this game. I watched the game at my friends house. His dad cooked us breakfast and gave me my first beer lol and Viking went down like David vs Goleth, Tyson vs Buster Douglas. It was definitely an UPSET!!!
Damn!
Moss can make any average to decent QBs look like stars.
Griffith dropped 2 game clinchers on falcons game tying drive
20 plus years later. I still can't watch this or the NFC Championship game.
I was 16 at the time and I remember crying. Why the heck did they go for a more conservative offense in the second half. We should have just blown them out like they did with every other team that year.
Mannn I remember that Game….. I broke my fricken Ankle… kicking a fire hydrant out side a bar I’m Minneapolis Mn. After the game. Ouch…. lol
Vikings was ready for dirty bird Anderson but falcons kept the counter punch
That yellow dot has haunted my dreams.
Tim Dwight one of the fastest white nfl players
Beautiful ??
I remember watching this when I was younger and being in shock when the falcons won this game…now watching it, I see how some situational stuff blew this game for Minnesota. Taking a knee with timeouts? Gary Anderson missing the kick, yeah, but there were points in this game where you just scratch your head and laugh.
Seeing this gave me PTSD…
Vikings pass rush is weak. Vikings are blitzing EVERY down; with no pressure resulting, always one LB A Gap Blitz; sometimes a safety. EVERY time FB or Jamal Anderson hits him hard. It's like the opposite of 01 Patriots SB; to punish Marshall Faulk by sending a rusher; the Backs are punishing a LB or a Safety EVERY play. Because they get blocked on the runs. BUT; they're actually decent against the run and Im finishing the 1st quarter.
It's 5/22/20 and I began my old NFL game review. After 5 months of classic College; the Schematic sameness of the NFL seems even more puzzling today. WHY did everyone run the same thing with same personnel? It's like watching Wisconsin Vs Stanford every single game. The offense every game is drawn up here. http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/07/nfl-offense-what-is-it-why-does-every.html It's the same 10, maybe 20 plays. Thank God for the innovators; the Andy Reid, Doug Pederson, even Josh McDaniels for the Shotgun spread 2007 Patriots. There's SOOO many other ways to move the ball. 2019 Ravens unleashed the first Smashmouth Spread base offense; but it's at least 15 years old; it's almost 'Old School' now; Urban Meyer won titles in 2000's using it. And then again 2014.
1:53:10 Madden curses him.
I remember this game, I really thought the Vikings were going to win it all, the first "greatest show on turf" but on another note at 8:21 1st qtr, they show Minnesota snow, but the blue skies of the 90's, now we have white outs, from those damn planes…blue skies and white snow, nothing more beautiful!!
Vikings weren’t going to beat the Broncos in the SB imo
1:00:05 the Droste effect
I still can't watch this one in its entirety.
ATL 30 MIN 27 (OT)
still cant watch it after all these years FML
A little part of me just died son.
This is probably the worst loss by a team in the history of the NFL. Absolute all around choke job
1:52:50 That 3rd down pass call makes NO SENSE…put the ball in the middle of the field for your straight ahead kicker!