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Perhaps my suggested idea of how a ‘Super Series’ should have been if it would have actually come into fruition may be a bit harsh on the road team. Allowing very little room for error if their opponent were to steal Game 1 from them. To then have to go on the road and now win back-to-back games...it would be a tall task even for the ’76 Raiders and ’89 Forty Niners in the hypothetical event of being upset at home in Game 1, then go to Minny and Mile High respectively to then rally. This despite both teams embracing the road and being more superior than their opponent at hand.

Perhaps 1-1-1 would have been the better, more-balanced format. Home team loses G1? Simply win just one game on the road thus stealing back momentum on your way back home for the rubberband match. Not, oh now we have win two on the road. Being down 1-0 in such an event I’d imagine being the equivalent of being down 3-1 in a best-of-7 (or 0-2 in best-of-5). The NBA Finals went back to 2-2-1-1-1 which, end of day, is better despite more traveling.

Some Guy From Mars wrote:

I'm curious as to what others think.
Do you think the 2007 Giants could've won 2 out of three games against the Pats?
How about the 1968 "series?" Could the Jets beat the Colts in 2 out of 3 games?

along similar lines, who would be interested in seeing the Bears & Patriots clash again in 1985 not to mention a second game between San Francisco and Denver in 1989?

No offense intended (and no pun either) but the '85 Bears probably beat the Patriots 8 out of 10 times (at least).

Likewise, no disrespect to the Broncos intended but no one was going to keep the 1989 Niners from a Championship.
I think the 49ers win 75% of those games.

(Although it would be fun to see those rematches!)

JohnH19 wrote:

JuggernautJ wrote:I'm curious as to what others think.
Do you think the 2007 Giants could've won 2 out of three games against the Pats?
How about the 1968 "series?" Could the Jets beat the Colts in 2 out of 3 games?

Not a chance in hell that the Jets would beat the Colts in a 2 out of 3. Highly unlikely that the Giants would beat the Pats.

Jets beat the Colts in 1 of 1. You think the Colts are guaranteed to win the next two?

Colts offense versus Jets defense is one thing. Colts should definitely have put up points. Jets front 7 didn't do that much. No one was expecting a shutout and it shouldn't have been close to one. That was the 1 in 100, 1 in 500 occurrence, no scoring until 3 minutes left.

The other way is something else. Winston Hill had his way with Braase. Don Shinnick got benched. Rick Volk got hurt and came back in, though I don't know how effective he was. Lyles and Gaubatz got benched during the 1969 season. There were apparently some issues. Can't win if you can't slow down Matt Snell some.

Jay Z wrote:

JohnH19 wrote:

JuggernautJ wrote:I'm curious as to what others think.
Do you think the 2007 Giants could've won 2 out of three games against the Pats?
How about the 1968 "series?" Could the Jets beat the Colts in 2 out of 3 games?

Not a chance in hell that the Jets would beat the Colts in a 2 out of 3. Highly unlikely that the Giants would beat the Pats.

Jets beat the Colts in 1 of 1. You think the Colts are guaranteed to win the next two?

Colts offense versus Jets defense is one thing. Colts should definitely have put up points. Jets front 7 didn't do that much. No one was expecting a shutout and it shouldn't have been close to one. That was the 1 in 100, 1 in 500 occurrence, no scoring until 3 minutes left.

The other way is something else. Winston Hill had his way with Braase. Don Shinnick got benched. Rick Volk got hurt and came back in, though I don't know how effective he was. Lyles and Gaubatz got benched during the 1969 season. There were apparently some issues. Can't win if you can't slow down Matt Snell some.

And in a rematch with Namath the following week, the Colts would have had some gamefilm to go on, the coaches would have learned some things from the film and from the players on how to play the Jets, Ewbank would probably have started Unitas, and the Colts likely would have rolled 34-10. I suspect if there was a rubber match, it might have become a shootout not unlike the 1972 Colts-Jets game.

Going back and re-watching Super Bowl III, the Colts could have very easily have been up 17-7 or 21-7 at halftime, which would have totally changed the second half, when Namath would have scrapped his conservative game plan and came out firing, which would have made things really interesting.