1/1/1995 Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings NFC Wild Card Playoff

[@minnielady7876]

My grandmother has worked for the vikings organization since 1980(She plans to retire for good after the 2024 season ends when she will be 82 years old) She still HATES the bears so much because of this game for some reason

[@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly]

To date, this remains the last Bears road playoff win.

[@skeletonshorror5184]

Wow, speaks volumes. 🐻⬇️

[@STP43FAN1]

It’s also Warren Moon’s final playoff game

[@SeanGrady90]

They’ve also only played two other road playoff game since this, right? The next week vs the Niners, and 2021 vs the Saints

[@sycasey]

Warren Moon had a fine career, but also a lot of conspicuous playoff flameouts.

[@STP43FAN1]

Yes.

[@jonmolina948]

I liked Warren Moon, but man he was the slowest moving black quarterback in history. Threw a beautiful spiral though. Nobody spun it like him.

[@markrobertson2196]

He would be remembered a lot differently if he would've had more playoff success.

[@josebocanegra4477]

As a Houston Oilers fan, this is typical Warren Moon: in the high stakes games, he had good moments but could never seal the deal on his own.

[@jamesroberts1810]

Some of those playoff loses werent his fault..the denver game and the buffalo collapse

[@josebocanegra4477]

​@@jamesroberts1810 Well, in 9 playoff games Moon played with the Oilers, he threw 10 TDs and the Oilers scored 112 points in the first half, and he threw 5 TDs and the Oilers scored 77 points in the second half plus overtime periods. Against the 91 Broncos and 92 Bills, Moon had zero TD passes while the Oilers had two FGs and a Bubba McDowell INT TD in the second half plus overtime period. The 91 Broncos had a slightly better Defense than did the 91 Oilers, but the 91 Oilers' Run and Shoot Offense was stronger than the 91 Broncos' Offense. It was the opposite with the 92 Bills who had a slightly stronger Offense than did the 92 Oilers' Run and Shoot, but the 92 Bills' Defense was not as strong as the 92 Oilers' Defense.

[@jamesroberts1810]

Agreed !! I grew up here in houston ass a oilers/ bill fans..loved the kgun and run and shoot offenses... Huge jim kelly and moon fans..i can remember exactly wat the sunday i doing when the oilers had that historic collapse

[@jonmolina948]

That run and shoot offense doesn’t allow you to control time of possession and give the D a break. Moon’s teams never ran the ball to seal some of those leads he had in the playoffs.

[@STP43FAN1]

Yes. Outside the CFL he played really good but never better than that.

[@brickwallblitz]

This game passed the Simpsons episode “Bart Gets An F” as the highest rated broadcast on Fox at the time.

[@Mark-xl1ze]

The first NFL playoff game broadcast on Fox with the debut of the "FoxBox" for an NFL playoff game.

[@taz1417]

Dennis Green: "They are who we thought they were"

[@ibraheemrao8434]

This is the most recent road playoff win for Chicago.

[@redmustangredmustang]

It wasn't until the 97 wildcard against the Giants that Dennis Green won a playoff game.

[@jasonwalker9091]

redmustang04 redmustang04 I beat you first by saying that lol 😋

[@CoreyT127]

Whole damn division made the playoffs except the yucs! It was a 9-7 bonanza in the central in 94! Lol

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Always tripped me out that 4 teams made the playoffs from one division, the Black and Blue Divisions finest moment.

[@phils9691]

I think the same thing happened in 1997, with the Bears being the only team not to make it.

[@fearless1024]

@@phils9691 You're right; also in '97, 3 out of 4 teams in the divisional round were norris teams (the 49ers were the only outsider)

[@markminter6312]

Also happened in 1998 in the AFC East. Jets won the division and the Bills, Dolphins, and Patriots were the wild card teams.

[@AmirKhan-yv8jm]

@@markminter6312Peyton’s rookie season

[@astralcrab]

It was sweet vengance for the home loss at soldier Field 3 months earlier.

[@STP43FAN1]

Or the overtime heartbreaker at the Humphrey Dome a few weeks before this playoff game

[@retiredstalker]

*lol* The Bears have had some many damn Quarterbacks that I don't even remember Steve Walsh.....ironic considering I remember watching them lose this game

[@mikethevike06]

This was the first game I ever went to I was 11

[@alexbrathwaite7677]

RIP Dennis Green.

[@kapo2012fb]

No replay in these mid 90s playoffs costed teams games 🤦‍♂️

[@johnphilpot5205]

Until 1999.

[@stellarcubicbeam7760]

They had replay of Carter dragging both his toes and they still called it out of bounds lol.

[@johnnyc5422]

The Catch II in San Francisco would never have happened.

[@jcarreon1983jc]

Look at it a little closer and you can see Carter not have control of the ball till later in the sequence,. By then his right foot was off the turf and he was out of bounds by that point. It was great call by the sideline official.

[@roguegust8832]

3:55 he would play another 5 years in the NFL but Steve Walsh never threw another touchdown pass.

[@GenX_-um2ct]

I was at this game. It was my last day out before shipping out to MCRD San Diego on 1/3/95. At least we lost so that I wasnt wondering what happened the next week. LOL

[@astrostar49]

Is that Phil Simms with Berman? Guess he was just starting out on TV, because he sounds pretty wooden here.

[@JohnGoetzGaming]

Yeah he had just retired after the 93 season

[@jonmolina948]

Didn’t know Simms started on ESPN. I remember Sterling Sharpe went to ESPN after this season.

[@zachrizzo6525]

Dennis Green defenses’ held them back from being great

[@baxter1896]

From 1992-94 Vikings were top 5 defensively, in 1995 they started to slip

[@jasonwalker9091]

A complete collapse for the Vikings in the 1st round it took til the 1997 season/wild card they finally get pass the opening round by beating the Giants in the Meadowlands

[@davidroberts7282]

They barely won that game, too in the sense to give Dennis Allen his first postseason victory as Vikings HC. Randall Cunningham came off the bench for a injured, depleted Brad Johnson and scored 13 unanswered points in the last 2:00 minutes to pull off a major upset of NFC East winner New York. Even though Minnesota was solidly beaten the following week in Divisional Playoffs in SF, 38-22, I think the momentum, team chemistry and togetherness the offense showed with Cunningham at QB really carried over to the next season combined with the drafting of future HOF WR Randy Moss as their 1st round pick. I think the Vikings and whoever ended up at starting QB(Johnson or Randall) would've had a good season even if they'd chose somebody else, but the team finishes maybe at 10-6, 9-7, and loses again in the WC round. Drafting this generational athletic phenom of a WR that was such a deep threat and so-NFL ready is very rare and that propelled Vikes to that 15-1 record. Unfortunately, Dennis Green in 1998 showed his propensity to be conservative at inopportune times in-games similar to Andy Reid instead of trusting his team and Moss to win that NFCCG. Green got out-coached, out-manuevered by Dan Reeves' Falcons and their one, best shot at making a SB and I'm not sure even if they play in SB XXXIII vs. Broncos, they win because 1998 Vikings defense was a bit above-average at best, unlike its 2009 counterpart that played my Saints in NFCCG. The Vikings have always been sort of my back up team, second favorite team besides New Orleans, I have a ton of respect and admiration for the Minnesota Vikings organization, it's history, it's long litany of Pro Bowlers, HOF position players, HOF HC's, HOF GM's and even owners in Max Winter. This is the organization that gave the NFL Cris Carter, Randy Moss, Alan Page, Carl Eller, Paul Krause, HC Bud Grant, GM Jim Finks, Fred Cox, John Gilliam, Matt Blair, John Randle, Steve Hutchinson, Mick Tingelhof, Fran Tarkenton, HC Dennis Green, Jake Reed, Ahmad Rashad, Steve Jordan, Harrison Smith, Chad Greenway, Adrian Peterson. Most of those former players, HC's, GM's, owners are enshrined in Canton or will be once those who are currently still playing retire for good.

[@jasonwalker9091]

David Roberts The Vikings have alaways been overlooked over the years as a talented team but the underdog team that will never win the Super Bowl. As for 1998, i was dissapointed that we didn't get Broncos and Vikings in Super Bowl 33, you can thank Gary Anderson for that, as Randy Moss in 1998, you can tell he was going to be a threat, he was Cris Carter the " future " version of WR's in the NFL, espically at Marshall in one game he sprained his ankle and his teammates carried him and finished the game. That toughness 😊😊.

[@SkolneyVikings]

This was more embarrassing than 41-donut.

[@roguegust8832]

There weren't many worse teams to win a playoff game than the 94 bears.

[@cbod14]

So true. The fact they were basically a non factor vs. The 49ers the following week

[@chrisuncleahmad]

RogueGust and go figure the 1995 Bears, a better team statistically, did not even make the playoffs

[@chrisuncleahmad]

Christian Boddie counterpoint- would the Vikings have fared any better at Dallas?

[@andrewlarson7]

2010 Seahawks?

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

As someone said earlier the 2010 Seahawks, the 2014 Panthers and the 2020 Redskins will set you up for a Keg Stand.