The NFL's big game is traditionally a Sunday filled with everything from record-setting performances on the gridiron to novelty prop bets inside of smokey casinos. It's also a massive stage where players sometimes fall flat on their faces (or can't find their helmets).
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One of the bloopers you're about to see could have cost an AFC team its undefeated season, while another proves that it's never a good idea to celebrate before you reach the end zone no matter how big of a lead your squad has.
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Let's check out seven of the greatest Super Bowl bloopers in NFL history but trust us, we promise there will be no mention (or at least video) of a certain halftime wardrobe malfunction.
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Super Bowl Bloopers Are Synonymous With Leon Lett
We might as well get right to the greatest Super Bowl blooper in the history of the league.
With the Dallas Cowboys annihilating the Buffalo Bills late in Super Bowl XXVII, defensive lineman Leon Lett scooped up a Frank Reich fumble and looked to be heading for one of the longest fumble recovery touchdowns in championship game history.
But Don Beebe showed why you never give up no matter what the score (and why it's never smart to showboat even with a big lead).
This, of course, is the same Leon Lett responsible for perhaps the greatest blooper in NFL history let alone in a title game.
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Thurman Thomas' Missing Helmet
Super Bowl XXVI was already going to be a tough mountain for Buffalo to climb having lost the big game the year before on a final-second missed field goal against the Giants, but the Bills stood zero chance of winning against the Redskins when star running back Thurman Thomas lost his helmet just prior to kickoff.
Buffalo would go on to lose its second straight title game, this time by the score of 37 to 24.
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Garo Yepremian's Failed Pass Attempt
With the Miami Dolphins firmly in control 14-0 over the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, kicker Garo Yepremian attempted to put the game far out of reach with just two minutes left. The kick was blocked, but instead of falling on it he scooped it up and tried to throw a pass downfield. The ball squirted out of his hands, and he bumped the pigskin in the air like an Olympic volleyball setter.
The Dolphins would hang on to win 14-7, but Yepremian's blunder nearly cost his team the only undefeated season in NFL history.
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Super Bowl XXXVIII And the Botched Kickoff
Jon Kasey deserves to go down as the greatest kicker in Carolina Panthers history, but his kickoff out of bounds after his squad tied the game late gave Tom Brady much too short of a field with about a minute remaining.
The rest is history.
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Jackie's Drop
Jackie Smith is a Hall of Fame tight end that put up monster stats for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1963 to 1977, but he may be known most for the biggest drop of his career during his only season with Dallas.
With the Cowboys down seven points in Super Bowl XIII and driving deep into Pittsburgh territory during the second half's first possession, Roger Staubach found Smith completely alone in the back of the end zone. The third down pass was somehow dropped, the offense had to settle for a field goal, and the Cowboys would go on to lose the game by four points.
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The Day Neil O'Donnell Made Larry Brown a Star
Remember the name Larry Brown? Yeah, me either.
But Pittsburgh Steelers QB Neil O'Donnell made the defensive back look like a Hall of Famer in Super Bowl XXX by hitting him right in the chest for two inexplicable interceptions – one of which was returned for a score and another that clinched the game.
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Left Shark Fail
Super Bowl bloopers don't always happen on the field of play.
Literally dancing to the beat of his or her own drummer, Left Shark was immediately trending the second halftime of Super Bowl XLIX was over and has even become a popular Halloween costume in recent years.
