All-time Super Bowl power rankings: Which game was the best?
By James Dudko
44. Super Bowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys 52, Buffalo Bills 17
If a good portion of America was tiring of the Packers in the late-sixties, the same was true of the Buffalo Bills in the early nineties. The Bills had already lost two-straight Super Bowls and there can’t have been many thinking things would change when they met the star-studded Cowboys after the 1992 season.
Jimmy Johnson had built a precocious and braggadocios team littered playmakers such as wide receiver Michael Irvin, quarterback Troy Aikman and running back Emmitt Smith. Haley and Jim Jeffcoat led a defense faster than you know what from a sneeze.
This group didn’t win may popularity contests, but few around the league could deny the awesome talent they possessed.
Johnson’s Cowboys won this Super Bowl alright, with the Bills only getting as close as 21 points adrift all day. Buffalo’s nine turnovers may have provided a few chuckles between periodic dozing, but this one was done before kickoff.
43. Super Bowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers 16, Minnesota Vikings 6
Those flatter-to-deceive Vikings of the ’70s getting trucked by another bruising running back. Hooray.
This time its was Steelers workhorse Franco Harris trampling over the bloated Purple People Eaters on a Super Sunday. Harris amassed 158 yards, but still the Steelers could only manage a mere 16 points.
Pittsburgh would win three more Super Bowls in the decade. Mercifully, all three of those games were more memorable than this drab affair.