1995 Week 17 - SF 49ers at Atlanta Falcons

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

A game that had huge ramifications in 4 NFC cities: San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas

[@crawford371]

Atlanta clinched a playoff berth..eliminated chicago from playoff contention ,It gave Dallas the 1 seed knocked the niners to the #2 seed and proceed to lose in the divisional round by green bay

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

@@crawford371 If Atlanta lost, the Bears would have traveled to Green Bay (a rematch of their exciting week 11 game at Lambeau)

[@walterlv01]

Yup - the Bears left the field in their game against the Eagles that day thinking they had made the playoffs only to find out 10 minutes later that the Falcons had come back to win, eliminating them.

[@lmswentzeljr]

Matt Millen bringing up the 49ers lack of running game and needing to run in the playoffs, exactly how it played out

[@vudujl83]

A loss that completely altered the course of the 49ers franchise in the 90s…

[@scottross4374]

Was a huge help to the Cowboys

[@brianivey73]

Thank you for this upload! I watched this live back in 95'

[@cbod14]

I was going back and forth between this one & Green Bay-Pittsburgh

[@brianivey73]

@@cbod14 that was a cool game too

[@cbod14]

@@brianivey73First year out of college so I bought myself Directv. I was not going to be stuck watching The Jets & Giants who had seasons that would make a toddler drink.

[@E.Carrillo]

You could tell that Atlanta was playing hard from the first snap. A well deserved win. This was the beginning of the end of the Niners dynasty.

[@glawz]

Been waiting for this 1. If you ask me, the best game of 1995 and the most important.

[@sidneybrown155]

I remember the ending of this game as a Bears fan. Crushing :(

[@R.POliver]

Letting Watters go and Floyd getting injured, left the 49er backfield in absolute shambles in 1995. That was the beginning of the end. Those two were perfect in the 49er system and made their offense unstoppable. So we can talk about this game and the Packers in the Divisional Round. They have those two are there in the backfield in 1995 and the 49ers go back to back and then who knows.

[@kidmack3556]

It was also the beginning of the end of life like "Camelot" in the city too. It was the beginning of the tech industry employees filling every vacancy like locusts and turning the quiet off of the radar neighborhoods into hamlets of frat and sororities. Got Starbucks?

[@checkmateforever]

If the 49ers kept Ricky, Deion, or Shanahan I believe they would've repeated as SB champs.

[@R.POliver]

@@checkmateforever I think if they just kept Watters and Floyd stayed healthy, it would have been more than enough. Their defense was the best in the league without Sanders in 1995.

[@checkmateforever]

@user-em1dw3ft6m too bad DeBartelo Jr. wasn't a fan of Watters.

[@fortynights1513]

@@R.POliverThe Chiefs were better, but the Niners were still second. And the other three guys in the secondary all made all pro that year (first or second team by the AP).

[@lisahardy9707]

Wow GREAT quality & sharpness

[@scottross4374]

I’m a Cowboys fan….Falcons did Dallas a HUGE favor here….thank you Falcons!

[@rtsuh]

Not having Ricky Watters (left by Free Agency) really hurt the 49ers this year. This will pan out exactly as others have predicted agains the Packers in the playoffs.

[@checkmateforever]

I believe if the 49ers would've kept Ricky Watters or Deion Sanders, they would've repeated as champs.

[@tennessee450]

word

[@frankiesacco]

great post Jamie! thanks for the upload

[@Mark-xl1ze]

Christmas Eve 1995. The Cowboys received a nice Christmas gift from the Falcons on this day as they were on a plane ride to Tempe, Arizona. They would be back there a month later to win their last SB title to date.

[@brianshaughnessy4020]

June Jones was never a leader but he was way ahead of his time in offensive play-calling. He owned Pete Carroll in this game.

[@coreyrowe4119]

The game that broke the 1995 49ers, losing this one really took all the wind outta their sail.

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

it was stunning when you consider the run they had been on since 38-20 in Dallas

[@checkmateforever]

They just suffered from losing Ricky Watters, Deion, and Shanahan

[@scottross4374]

As a die hard Dallas fan I 100% agree…Falcons did Cowboys a huge favor here

[@ckap7276]

Been looking for this game for a long time. Thanks for posting. If only the 49ers would have held on to win they would have played Philadelphia in the divisional round and not Green Bay. I think they matched up better with Philadelphia and Dallas. Mike Holmgren know SF too well and how to beat them.

[@juliansmith1951]

The Falcons in 1995 gave the Dallas cowboys a early Christmas present while the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia eagles got lumps of coal

[@KingJaymo2k11]

This is the game that award the Colts the chance to draft Marvin Harrison because of the Jeff George deal stipulated that the Falcons give a first round draft pick to the Colts if they make the postseason in the 1995 season..the definition of bitter sweet

[@timbliss9892]

That Jeff George trade ended up being crushing for the Falcons. The Colts got Marvin Harrison because of it. But it goes deeper than that. The Falcons traded their 1994 1st round pick to the Colts in that deal as well. That pick was pick #7. Pick #7 eventually was traded by the Colts to the Rams when the Colts moved from 7 to 5 to draft Trev Alberts. The Rams then flipped the pick to the 49ers who used it on Bryant Young. Colts and 49ers ended up with 2 HOF players while the Falcons ended up with the very forgettable Jeff George era.

[@timbliss9892]

@nikosuavesworldofsportsmusic I didn't realize I was slandering the man by expressing the Falcons could have had 2 HOF players had they not made the trade.

[@timbliss9892]

@nikosuavesworldofsportsmusic Do you remember 1996? Do you remember the embarrassment he and June Jones caused the franchise? The Falcons despite making the playoffs in 1995 got promptly blown out and had a losing record with Jeff George at QB. Yeah, I would say that makes his era pretty forgettable when the Falcons forfeited having a chance to land 2 HOF players because of that trade. You make the kind of trade the Falcons did for George you expect to land a franchise QB for a long time and George didn't even make it 2 1/2 seasons with the Falcons before everything fell apart. No, it wasn't all his fault, but he played a big role in it.

[@SmilingDolphins-ye4zm]

The GOAT can only do so much

[@checkmateforever]

As a 49ers fan, I remember feeling something was off about the 49ers after this loss and thinking we likely won't repeat as champions.

[@jamiejohnson4524]

I got that feeling when the Niners lost to the Colts earlier in the year.

[@wta1981]

Adam Walker fumbling on the first drive. Foreshadowing for their next (and last) game of the season

[@ericradford2142]

After watching Ricky Watters as a Philadelphia Eagle, the 49ers wished they had him back.

[@sre94]

One of the worst regular season losses in 49ers history. Cost them homefield advantage. Had that happened, they likely would have played Dallas, and they were built specifically to beat that team

[@beasley10]

Them throwback black white falcons jersey were so 🔥🔥🔥

[@redmustangredmustang]

All the 49ers had to do was win this game and they get homefield advantage throughout the playoffs. Instead, the Cowboys who were flying to Arizona to play the Cardinals on Christmas heard the 49ers lost. So the Cowboys had to beat the Cardinals Monday night in Arizona which they did. The Cowboys go on to beat Philly in the divisional round, then the Packers in the NFC championship, and finally beat the Steelers in the Super Bowl.

[@wta1981]

Yep. One of the biggest results in a reg season game in Niners history. They had beaten Dallas 3 in a row at this point and Dallas owned GB during these years. Win this game and Niners would have likely played Philly and then Dallas. Could have been the difference in winning another Super Bowl. However no guarantees…this was the beginning of the end for the Niners dynasty

[@mikeatlanta9306]

What a catch!! 51:30

[@critic2380]

Goat accounted for a ridiculous amount of tds.....amazing that the only 2 out of his total, that weren't conventional scores, came in the same game.....and of course it was against his punching bag ....the Falcons

[@cbod14]

Dallas sent Atlanta a Christmas card after this one. So did Green Bay come to think of it. I mean right after the one they sent to Yancey Thigpen

[@chrisuncleahmad789]

Chicago OTOH probably sent a lump of coal

[@nostalgiaman6816]

You mean Neil O Donnell? Yancy just ran the routes. It was Neil who threw the game and threw it right to Larry Brown twice.

[@cbod14]

@@nostalgiaman6816 Do you even know what I am talking about? This has nothing to do with Super Bowl XXX. Green Bay played Pittsburgh that day & if Green Bay won they won the division. On the last play of the game a wide open Yancy Thigpen dropped a TD pass. They gave Green Bay the division & sent Detroit to Philadelphia where they got mauled.

[@nicholaseaster58]

Derek Louville and Adam Walker. Probably the worst nfl backfield ever lol

[@PhillyCYOSports]

Remarkable quality. How?

[@ryanjacobson2508]

Must've been recorded on a high end VHS player, from a high quality source feed (either over the air broadcast signal or cable/satellite feed). BTW, Fox's broadcast master tapes should be in even higher quality.... Unfortunately, even some of the NFL's Superbowl uploads clearly aren't using first Gen master tapes.

[@flames24lightning]

Was this game blacked out in Atlanta? Looked like too many empty seats for the game to be televised under the rules back then

[@kcaruso37]

it was blacked out, i remember listening to this on radio, fox showed the bears vs eagles game

[@ryanjacobson2508]

Ughhhh.... Atlanta is a TERRIBLE sports town... Pro wrestling doesn't count! They've lost two hockey teams and all of their teams IMO should be moved elsewhere.

[@drewzuhosky6826]

Atlanta United fans always show up. @@ryanjacobson2508

[@StevenAsadi]

Bears were good in ‘95. Could have been 11-5. Underrated team. Should have made playoffs. Donnell Woolford injury killed them

[@paulkelly8232]

What happened to some of the game breaks?

[@jamiejohnson4524]

@paulkelly8232 They had to be edited out or the game would have been blocked.

[@paulkelly8232]

@@jamiejohnson4524 Good info! Thank you.

[@placekicker1]

@@jamiejohnson4524 Hey Man, hope you're doing great. Do you have by any chance the Chiefs-Lions game from '03? I'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[@wta1981]

@@jamiejohnson4524curious…how does that work? Seems wild that the game breaks would be the thing to get the game pulled down.

[@jamiejohnson4524]

@wta1981 I honestly do not know. It’s not just game breaks that can cause a game to be blocked. It can be a single play, music, intro graphics and even kickoffs that can also get a game blocked. I just recently had to edit out all kickoffs for an upcoming game. And there was nothing spectacular about any of those kickoffs, just touchbacks and ordinary returns.

[@speedyeagle2.25]

9:53 21:25 28:50 34:25 1:27:20 2:07:10

[@tylerm5774]

Damn jerry rice had a cannon

[@kidmack3556]

Did loville, the guy in the thumbnail get out of prison yet?

[@jamiejohnson4524]

Yes. I looked it up and he was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2017.

[@kidmack3556]

@@jamiejohnson4524 We used to work with him. I remember him as someone who was always looking for the "Easy Button"

[@ericradford2142]

I completely forgot how Matt Millen, before he ruined the Detroit Lions, was a ripoff of John Madden.

[@davissae]

Derek Loville was so bad

[@kcaruso37]

If Atlanta would have beaten the Panthers the previous week in Clemson south Carolina, i bet this game would have been sold out

[@MNsportsnut]

I think this game being on Christmas Eve hurt the sellout chances.

[@SmilingDolphins-ye4zm]

Steve Young overated can't win the big game

[@binary]

yup. another choke.

[@brockgeorge777]

Except when he did like in the 1994 NFC Championship Game and the Super Bowl. I would call that a “slight”exception”.

[@binary]

@@brockgeorge777 he had the most stacked team of ALL TIME lol. And they weren't winning shit until Deion came in. Young was a CRAZY choker.

[@tylerm5774]

They should have won 1992.