#4 2004 Chiefs vs. Raiders
No-bearing games are usually hard to watch since they involve no-hopers. Howerver, there have been a few exceptions. This is one of them.
Everyone today knows the Kansas City Chiefs as the overlords of the league, but before that they were the textbook definition of "mid": not bad enough to miss the playoffs, but not good enough to win a Super Bowl. In 2004, they were among the unlucky ones.
That did not stop them and the similarly-eliminated Oakland Raders from delivering a classisc defined initially by offensive outbursts (including futire Hall-of-Famer Tony Gonzalez destroying secondaries en route to 124 yards and two touchdowns), then special teams heroics that culminated in Lawrence Tynes finally hitting a field goal in the clutch after two misses for the 31-30 win.
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