With Super Bowl LIX on the horizon to be played on Sunday, February 9, 2025, football fans everywhere wait with bated breath on who will represent the NFC and AFC. The last three Super Bowls were decided by a combined total of just nine points with Kansas City winning the last two by only a field goal and the Rams beating the Bengals 23-20.
The last Super Bowl that was not close was when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers blew out the Chiefs 31-9 with Tom Brady at the controls in Super Bowl LV ironically and strangely enough played in the Bucs’ home stadium. Prior to that championship game, the last time a final score had a margin of more than 14 points was five years earlier in 2016 when the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10.
On February 2, 2014, current Steelers starting quarterback Russell Wilson led his Seattle Seahawks to the last big blowout in the Super Bowl as the Broncos were thrashed 43-8. How does Super Bowl XLVIII rank among the worst defeats in Super Bowl history? It is tied for the third biggest margin of victory matching the 35-point blowout by the Dallas Cowboys who won 52-17 in Super Bowl XXVII when they crushed the Buffalo Bills.
For the Denver Broncos they make three appearances in the top 12 worst defeats in Super Bowl history including the worst wipeout ever when the San Francisco 49ers topped the Broncos 55-10 on January 28, 1990, in Super Bowl XXIV. The other two embarrassing losses by Denver were to the aforementioned Seattle loss and when they lost a year earlier to the then Washington Redskins 42-10.
Rounding out the other seven wipeouts not mentioned are as follows:
How the 2024 season has played out this year with parity among the best teams, this season’s Super Bowl looks like we may have yet another close contest. Whichever team is the loser, rest assured they are hoping not to make this existing loser’s list.
