1999 Jaguars Make List Of 'Best Teams To Not Win A Super Bowl'

by Alfie Crow on Feb 14, 2012 9:00 AM EST in Jacksonville Jaguars Off-Topic

The Jacksonville Jaguars have never played in a Super Bowl, but they've come close on two occasions. The closest the team ever game was the 1999 season, when the Jaguars went 14-2, and lost to the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship game. That 1999 team made Sports Illustrated's "Top 15 Teams To Not Win The Super Bowl."

No. 10 - 1999 Jacksonville Jaguars (14-2)

It's not a stretch to draw parallels between the 1999 Jaguars and 2007 Patriots, the kingpins of this countdown. Both clubs proffered double-digit excellence in point differential and turnover margin, while winning at least nine games by 10 points or more. The two head coaches, Tom Coughlin (Jags) and Bill Belichick (Patriots), were prominent branches from the Bill Parcells coaching tree. And both teams, curiously, only lost to one franchise during their near-flawless campaigns. Of course, New England lost to the Giants in the waning moments of Super Bowl XLII ... whereas Jacksonville went 0-for-3 against division rival Tennessee (including the AFC title game). That, in a nutshell, explains why the Jags aren't sitting at No. 2.

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Has one team ever had another team’s number quite like the Titans did that year? I feel like that 1999 Jaguars team was so excellent that if we didn’t have to play the Titans in the AFC championship, there was a good chance we would’ve won that Super Bowl.

by Nuke on Feb 14, 2012 9:13 AM EST reply actions

why did i read this?

depressing

Cold Blooded

by Jaggaholic82 on Feb 14, 2012 9:20 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

LOL

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by T.Holmes on Feb 14, 2012 9:31 AM EST up reply actions

+1 bazillion. Ugh

by Sourwine on Feb 14, 2012 10:01 AM EST up reply actions

The Music City Miracle...

Begat the Duval County Heartbreak. They should have never been there.

by FanofJag on Feb 14, 2012 10:04 AM EST reply actions

I may be wrong...But to this day I feel that was a Blown Call!

by Jags85 on Feb 14, 2012 10:11 AM EST via mobile up reply actions

I watched the BUF-TEN game at BW3's on Baymeadows that day.

Never saw more pissed off Bills fans. There was no way the refs would overturn that call in Tennessee.

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by Joe Fisher on Feb 14, 2012 11:18 AM EST up reply actions

I can remember watching the MCM

And just getting a bad feeling

by jlana24 on Feb 14, 2012 11:26 AM EST via mobile up reply actions

I cried

Im man enough to admit it

by DrewPav27 on Feb 14, 2012 10:36 AM EST reply actions

It takes a big man to cry

and an even bigger man to laugh at that big man crying.

by jagfanb88 on Feb 14, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions

I was 9 years old....

When this happened and it killed me haha. I didn’t watch the Jags again after this season til like ’04. Which turned out pretty well as they were terrible the next few years.

Boom

by Matthew Grossberg on Feb 14, 2012 10:39 AM EST reply actions

Remember this game like it was yesterday

the Father and Sons trucks driving laps; KC and the Sunshine Band at the half; incredible flyover and Coughlin just taking it all in; Uh Oh; everyone planning the drive to Atlanta.

I still have the ticket stubs.

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by Joe Fisher on Feb 14, 2012 11:17 AM EST reply actions

Hahahahhah

I had COMPLETELY forgot about the Father and Sons trucks driving back and forth on the Hart Bridge Expressway the whole time.

I remember sooooo much about that game, but had completely forgot about that.

by Sourwine on Feb 14, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions

the funny thing was I was absolutely blasted that game. Started tailgating at 6 am

My Carnell Lake jersey was ruined from all of the diving catches I was making while tailgating.

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by Joe Fisher on Feb 14, 2012 3:17 PM EST up reply actions

That was the only Super Bowl I never watched.

I was so pissed off after losing to the Titans for the third time that I went out of the country on vacation after I had been planning on going to the Super Bowl (especially on the heels of the destruction of the Dolphins). At least I get a warm feeling of schadenfreude every time I see the replay of the Titans coming up just one yard short on the last play of the game.

I graphy your geo!

by rasvar on Feb 14, 2012 11:38 AM EST reply actions

still painful to think of

My bitterness was mostly satisfied when the Titans lost in such a painful way. they lost by about this much
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by justinthered on Feb 14, 2012 11:57 AM EST reply actions