It’s time for top 10 Thursday. The NFC East has had a different division winner for 20 years. This will be true again this year as well because the Cowboys won the division last year and that isn’t happening this year. The winner of tonight’s game has the inside track to winning. The NFC East actually leads all divisions with championships. Due to the game tonight here are my top 10 memories of the NFC East in their Super Bowl wins.

10. Almost Perfect and then perfectly annoying

In one of the first super bowls I remember watching the Giants beat the Denver Broncos when Phil Simms completed 22 of 25 passes and won MVP. Phil later became the main and often annoying commentator for years on CBS. My Broncos loving in law family can often be heard saying “shut up Phil Simms!”

9. Larry Brown wins MVP after opposing QB throws the ball directly to him

Larry Brown was an average corner that played opposite Deion Sanders. Due to Neil O’Donnell avoiding Sanders, he also avoided throwing to his own players and instead threw the ball directly to Brown twice and so Brown landed the MVP and used that to get a lucrative deal with the idiot Raiders who apparently didn’t look at the rest of his resume. He barely played for them.

8. Wide Right

The Giants controlled to clock but the Bills still had a shot to win. And then poor Scott Norwood missed it wide right. 11 year old me thought it was ridiculous that he missed a 47 yarder because my brother made one from the same distance as a senior in high school earlier that year. 45 year old me understands that the significance of the kick probably added a little more pressure than my brother’s kick in a blow out win in the middle of nowhere America with a couple of hundred people watching.

7. The Redskins are real good

The following year the Bills made it back but the result was even worse. The Skins finished 14-2 and then won through the playoffs with their ridiculously good team led by Mark Rypien at Quarterback which was probably their weakest position. This game was not close as were most of their games that year.

6. Giants beat Brady…again

In 2007 the Patriots were 18-0 until the Super Bowl when the Giants shocked the Pats with their first loss. More on that in a little bit. A few years later they met again in a rematch. It was again a really close game that the Giants came up on top and Eli Manning seems to be the Brady killer.

5. Leon Lett is not faster than Don Beebe

The Cowboys were rolling in this one and Leon Lett was about to put the final touch on the game. But as he was celebrating on his way into the end zone he didn’t realize that Don Beebe and his double helmet came running down and knocked the ball out of his hands and out of the end zone for a touch back. The Cowboys won big but this was probably the most memorable play of the game.

4. Unknown guy still has all time Super Bowl rushing record

In 1987 The Skins switched to QB Doug Williams which everyone remembers. But what you probably don’t remember as they used little know Timmy Smith played running back in the big game. Overshadowed by Williams being the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl, Smith ran for a record 212 yards that seems like a record that will hold for a long time. Ironically Smith only ran for like 300 yards total outside of that game.

3. Philly special

Not many thought that Nick Foles would out dual Tom Brady in the Super Bowl but that is exactly what happened. Along with that, he also caught a td on a trick play. It was a fun exclamation point on on a fun and surprising game.

2. All the Touchdown passes

The Broncos got off to an early 10-0 lead and then Doug Williams went off and threw for 4 touchdowns and along with a long td run from Timmy Smith. And all of the sudden it was 35-10.

1. Guy catches pass on helmet

The Patriots had dominated all year long to an amazing perfect record. Enter the Giants. Spags worked his magic to contain Brady and the potent offense. Then Eli Manning some how avoided getting sacked by like 3 different guys and launched a pass down the field to a random player named David Tyree who caught the ball on his helmet. The Giants went on to score the winning td and ruin the Pats attempt at a perfect season leaving the stupid 72 dolphins as the only undefeated team even though the Pats had already won 1 more game than they did.