Marooned on a deserted island with only a DVD player and 5 Patriot game tapes

ok, lets, for arguements sake, say you have a solar powered DVD player.

If you had to choose the 5 Patriot game tapes to get you through, which is not to different than a typical offseason, which 5 would it be?

for me, its

1. Super Bowl 36
2. 1985 AFC Champsionship Game.
3. 1996 AFC Championship Game
4. Super Bowl 38
5. Snow Game vs Oakland

i have a lot of full game broadcasts of games from the olden days too like Super Bowl 3 and a couple from CBS with Ray Scott and Pat Summerall.

1. Superbowl 36 - Best Game Ever for a Pats fan

2. Superbowl 38 - Established the dynasty, dramatic, back-and-forth game

3. AFC Champ vs Pittsburgh (1/2005) - Pats dominate a 15-1 team at their house, get revenge for early season loss

4. vs Denver (2003 Monday Night) - The miracle comeback and BB's intentional safety

5. vs Chargers (9/2007) - Pats dominate the team that LdT says would win '9 out of 10 times' against them, and kickstart the 16-0 season

PrairiePat said:

1. Superbowl 36 - Best Game Ever for a Pats fan

2. Superbowl 38 - Established the dynasty, dramatic, back-and-forth game

3. AFC Champ vs Pittsburgh (1/2005) - Pats dominate a 15-1 team at their house, get revenge for early season loss

4. vs Denver (2003 Monday Night) - The miracle comeback and BB's intentional safety

5. vs Chargers (9/2007) - Pats dominate the team that LdT says would win '9 out of 10 times' against them, and kickstart the 16-0 season

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I think SB 39 was the one that established our dynasty.

1. SB 39 - dynasty
2. Snow Bowl Game against Raiders
3. Pats v. Giants 2007 - week 17. Brady's 50th TD/Moss 23rd TD.
4. SB 38
5. SB 36

do we have a solar powered TV set too? It would seem to me kind of difficult to watch on a solar powered DVD player otherwise.

SB 36
SB 38
SB 39
AFC championship 2001
2002 first game ever at Gillete and first banner game.

Gotta have the Super Bowl wins and the win vs the Steelers that year was amazing. Drew and his return to behind center. Not to mention it was the spring board to the Dynasty.

And that first banner game was so amazing though I dont know if a DVD would do it justice. I still think that was the loudest Gillete has ever been and man was that one special day. We were champs and being recognized for it and we were fans who once were nomads and then we were in a house made of straw and to finally be in a state of the are facility and have the hardware to adorn it was really probably the most special regular season game of my life.

Great thread...thanks

1. The controversial '76 playoff loss at Oakland. #1 on my list because I never saw the game and nobody seems to have a copy of it anywhere.

2. Super Bowl 36. Still one of the best underdog stories ever. BB and co redfine T-E-A-M to shock the world.

3. Playoff win in '04 over the Colts. Total domination of Peyton at the height of his powers.

4. '85 AFC championship win in Miami. Red-hot wildcard Pats exorcise Orange Bowl demons en route to first Super Bowl.

5. '06 playoff win in San Diego. Poise trumps talent as BB & Co outfox Marty's ****y, pro-bowl laden Chargers in their own backyard.

1 Mnf 1986 Last game at the orange bowl

2 Snow Bowl - greatest game in Pats history

3 SB 38 - My fav super bowl

4 SB 39

5 Pats vs Giants - the record breaking game... Not the other one that will not be mentioned

Marooned on a desert island...I would say the tapes that have the most footage of cheerleaders on them....

Everyone seems to have forgotten that regular season game back in 04 against the Colts in Indy for homefield when Willie Mac stuffed Edgerin James on the goaline. That was one of the best Patriots games ever!

MrTibbs said:

Everyone seems to have forgotten that regular season game back in 04 against the Colts in Indy for homefield when Willie Mac stuffed Edgerin James on the goaline. That was one of the best Patriots games ever!

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Yeah, I loved that one, too, though it probably wouldn't make my top 5. Same with the Denver safety game.

1. SB 36
2. '04 playoff vs. Colts
3. '03 playoff vs. Colts (I love those two games)
4. '08 vs. Steelers (the Randy Moss lateral)
5. '01 playoff vs. Steelers (Drew Bledsoe's finest hour)

The last 5 losses from the 1-15 season, to remind me of how good I have it stranded on that island in comparison.

All 3 super bowls and the Colt games on the way to the super bowls.

1. 2001 season, Super Bowl XXXVI, Patriots vs. Rams
2. 2003 season, Super Bowl XXXVIII, Panthers vs. Patriots
3. 2004 season, Super Bowl XXXIX, Patriots vs. Eagles
4. 2001 season, "Snow Bowl", AFC Divisional, Raiders @ Patriots
5. 2006 season, AFC Divisional, Patriots @ Chargers

PrairiePat said:

1. Superbowl 36 - Best Game Ever for a Pats fan

2. Superbowl 38 - Established the dynasty, dramatic, back-and-forth game

3. AFC Champ vs Pittsburgh (1/2005) - Pats dominate a 15-1 team at their house, get revenge for early season loss

4. vs Denver (2003 Monday Night) - The miracle comeback and BB's intentional safety

5. vs Chargers (9/2007) - Pats dominate the team that LdT says would win '9 out of 10 times' against them, and kickstart the 16-0 season

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Hard to beat this list. I might switch one of them out for the 31-0 season finale against Buffalo, and the one I agree with the most is that thrashing of the Steelers in 2005 playoffs. Rodney baiting, then picking off, Roethlisberger, that whole game was awesome.

If not for the obvious bitterness engendered by last year's ending, I'd pick one of those dominant blow-outs, as well. Maybe the Buffalo or Washington game.

Even tho we lost, the championship game against the Colts is still the best game i've ever seen.
Just what a game.... have to take that one.

TommyBrady12 said:

1. SB 39 - dynasty
2. Snow Bowl Game against Raiders
3. Pats v. Giants 2007 - week 17. Brady's 50th TD/Moss 23rd TD.
4. SB 38
5. SB 36

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This was my list as well.

Aside from obvious BB-era choices, I'd have to go with the '86 regular season finale, a road game against the Marino/Two Marks Fins. Not only was it a thoroughly entertaining game with high stakes and a dramatic finish, but I enjoyed seeing the live feed of the would-be wild-card-qualifying party attended by Boomer Esiason and Chris Collinsworth. They were so sure the Fins would run away with the game. Ah, to see their glee turn to funereal grimaces again! You couldn't write comedy that golden! Someday I'd like to acquire a recording of that... Sure, the story had a sad ending, but the sentimental part of me would have to have some happy representation of the mid-80s edition of the team - that is when my fandom was born after all...

For the rest, I guess I'd go with the first two SBs and the "cut that meat" Colts matchup. It'd be a toughie, but the last slot would go to either XXXIX or the Snow Bowl. Damn, I wish I had more slots

If I had a DVD player, I wouldn't want any tapes...I'd want DVD's!!!!

patsox23 said:

If not for the obvious bitterness engendered by last year's ending, I'd pick one of those dominant blow-outs, as well. Maybe the Buffalo or Washington game.

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Similar situation with me. Due to my childhood revulsion for the Redskins, in a 19-0 context that game would move to my #1 slot. I still haven't decided whether to scrap my recording... It's tough...

My choices are all regular season games that happened in Foxboro. I bought my season tickets in 1992 and I'll never forget these games with my friends in Section 111.

In no particular order:

1993: Last game of the season against the Dolphins. Bledsoe to Timpson in OT. We knocked them out of the playoffs with that play.

1994: Against the Vikings. Down 20-3 at the half the Pats storm back and Bledsoe throws a pass to Turner in OT.

1998: Against the Dolphins. Drew had a pin in his finger and threw the winning TD pass to Jefferson with hardly any time left.

1998: Against the Bills. This occurred a week after the Dolphins game. Pass interference call on a hail mary gives the Pats 1st and goal at the 1 with no time left. The Pats run play action and Bledsoe finds Coates in the back of the endzone.

2002: The 1st game at Gillette with Dennis Hopper on the scoreboard doing the MNF intro. That place was the loudest I have ever heard it (apart from the 2003 AFC Championship Game) and we destroyed the Steelers.

Just to be different -

1. The 48-17 thrashing of Oakland in Foxboro 1976
2. The 1974 victory at Minnesota to put us at 6 and 1.
3. The 21-14 victory at Baltimore in 1976 that gave us control of our playoff destiny.
4. Gotta have that Snow Bowl Classic against the Raiders in Schaffer Staduims farewell. I want to see that impossible AV kick that tied the game.
5. The Squish the Fish 1985 AFC Championship playoff game at the Orange Bowl

Remember I started following the Patriots in the Clive Rush Era so those games mentioned above were significant psychologically to me.