Rest in peace Chief Zee.

“The Diesel” would run through you, around you, didn’t matter. John would do 30 + carries a night. Defenses even knew what was coming....and for a guy with his power, his speed was dazzling.

I remember playing running back as a kid, and the coaches would always say "when you get hit, keeps your legs moving". When I saw that run by Riggins, I understood why.

Riggins and the Redskins are the best. I have my garaged all Redskins out. Everyone who see's' it can't believe how cool it is. And I'm from calif. And been a Redskins fan since 1972.

My all time favorite Redskin and running back. I'm from the DC area and we loved him, he was a renegade and man could he play. He dominated the playoffs and the super bowl.

John Riggins was not only big, he was a freaking sprinter, the dude was a freak of nature, very athletic

The run on 4th and 1 told of Riggins' power and speed, but the ball toss to the ref afterward (0:56) told of his character. No celebration, no taunting, no "look at me, everybody!" He did his job, and now he'll make his way to the sideline. He was the best.

John Riggins Thanks for the memories. You were one of the best. Hail to the Redskins

I'm a Patriots man from Boston but I loved John the Diesel Riggins back in the day . Loved watching that crazy ass locomotive !

God bless John Riggins...and Chief Zee of blessed memory

You cant take anything away from Mcneil he was the best at his position for years not to many guys could stop Riggin's one on one!!!

Riggins is one of my all time favorite players even though I'm not a redskins fan. Watch his "Football Life" episode. It'll make you appreciate him even more.

wasn't expecting that last line lol

I'm just glad that Chief Zee never had to see what PC did to his beloved Redskins!! _Rest in Peace Chief... you are remembered very fondly!!_

What doesn't get talked about much is the block that #39, Otis Wansley, threw on Miami linebacker #55, Earnest Rhone. Wansley literally launched himself in the air and took out Wansley, leaving only one defender for Riggo to deal with.

Easily Frank Herzog's greatest call.

The "Head Dress Guy" was Chief Zee who passed away this past spring.

This is the GREATEST SINGLE PLAY in NFL history. Here's why: 1. IT HAPPENED IN A SUPER BOWL. For any individual play to the be considered the greatest it has to happen with the most on the line and against the very best competition. 2. IT WAS SCORING PLAY. The Tyree catch and the Swan catches were spectacular to look at but didn't score a single point. Other plays like "The Tackle" or "Wide Right" also just kept the score the same. 3. IT WASN'T A KICK. Last second field goals are exciting but for a sport like pro football to say it's single greatest play was made by a kicker would be embarrassing. 3. IT WAS A COME-FROM-BEHIND, GO-AHEAD SCORE. The Redskins were losing 17-13 with 10:10 left in the game. Other famous plays like Elway's helicopter TD or Warner to Bruce's touchdown broke ties that may or may not have been broken on the very next down anyway. 4. IT WAS FOURTH DOWN. This is significant because it separates this play from others that are considered great. Unlike other notable Super Bowl plays, if Riggins does not shake off the tackle just behind the line of scrimmage the Dolphins take over on downs and have the ball on the 42 yard line in the 4th quarter with a 4 point lead versus a team they have held to only 1 touchdown at that point. The Dolphins' "Killer Bees" defense was #2 in the NFL that season. 5. IT WAS 43 YARD RUN FROM SCRIMMAGE. It was Riggins longest run of the season and one of only a dozen runs by any team the entire year. 6. IT FOOLED NO ONE. The Redskins handed the ball to Riggins 38 times that game. Everyone knew it was coming and yet the 'Skins still executed it. It was the ultimate, in-your-face, ball control, tear-your-opponent's-heart-out 4th quarter rushing score. 7. THE REDSKINS WERE UNDERDOGS. The Dolphins were a 3 point favorite. Montana to Taylor (XXIII) was a good play but it was ultimately it was a case of the 7 point favorites completing a 10 yard pass to win a game by 3.

Best play ever. 👍🏿

Like a semi heading down I-395.

The radio producer who had the presence of mind to hit that Diesel sound button at the right time of the call is the real MVP

I remember one of the Dolphin's defensive players saying, after the game that "When you hit him, it hurts".

Man Im glad to be related to the diesel.

I know that John Riggins was not born and raised in the DC area. But he had that attitude that either fit in well with who we were OR educated us as to how to make our own luck. I feel so blessed to have grown up watching the Redskins of that era. The Smurfs, the Hogs, THE DIESEL! That team was alternative rock and ROLL! So were Jim McMahon's Bears. There was just a magic going on like the Beatles.

I always felt he looks like Tommy Lee Jones. Riggins was a different kind of dude!

I was 10 and I haven't jumped up and down and screamed my head off like I did the day that Riggo made that run.

what people never talk about is if you watch the whole play, McNeel, on changing back directions from the motion, slipped and fell all the way to the ground and still got back over to try to make the tackle.unbelievable speed

I am 57 years old born & raised in DC. I WILL NEVER FORGET! Thank you Riggo, Hogs, Coach Gibbs, Art Monk, Darrell Green, Sean Taylor - PROUD REDSKINS! ILL NEVER BE A "comnanders" fa. EFF THAT GREMLIN dan snyder - I hope those ladies testifying against that terrible little man end up getting him removed from DC and hopefully locked up. 26 years of Dan Snyder and he has literally broken an NFL franchise and fan base.

Riggins wouldn't just run over you, he'd run by you. He had some good speed for 235 pounds.

My favorite of all time. 44 diesel! HTTR!

One of the best

Riggo was a legit Track star at Kansas. he ran the 100 and 200 and relays and some other stuff.

Great video...yep really great 👍👍

Might be the most majestic filmed run in super bowl history !

John riggins lives in the same neighborhood as me. no joke. his daughter went to the same high school as me

The play that made my brother a lifelong Washington fan.

I have a poster of mcneil missing riggins and its awesome

He was friends with my uncle. As a kid, my dad and I used to go hunting with him and my uncle.

John Riggins is my friend's grandpa or something like that

I grew up in dc. HTTR baby

One of the best, The “Diesel” John Riggins!!!

That was a man playing with boys, crank up that Diesel!!

Pump up that diesel!

"I-Left, Tight Wing, 70 Chip"

Frank herzog is so underrated

I'm the biggest Redskins fan EEVVEERR

my favorite player the diesel

I was proud to be a Skins fan then

The greatest

I was about 11 years old when i saw this happen on TV. I have no memory of anything football prior to this. I remember hearing the playback, and hearing the horn sound, and the announcer yelling " hes gone!! hes gone!!" I was at the dinner table, and my back was facing the TV. I quickly turned around, and saw what the commotion was all about. A REDSKINS fan was born. I am now 50, and thought the name has changed, the memories are as fresh as they were 39 years ago.

That was the "old" Marshawn Lynch

The thing we keep over looking is the o line made a massive hole for big John and by the time the dolphins player hit him he had the first down…..the rest was just epic

Best running back of all times.

0:18 Unfortunately Chief Zee passed away a few years ago.

RIggo the GOAT 👏🔥🙌🐐

Can’t take away from Don McNeil. He slipped and came back to try and tackle Riggins. I’m glad he slipped! 😁

Miami fans like to point out that McNeil slipped early in the play and got there a half-step late. I like to counter with a full season's worth of highlight films showing Riggins knocking aside and carrying multiple defensive players on his back as he motored up the field. He ran like Earl Campbell that season.

It's a shame I wasn't born five or ten years sooner to have some notion of the '80s and early 90's WSH Redskins.... HTTR!

badman!

There is a reason his nickname was the diesel. The best running back ever, sanders and the others were great but this man iwas the best, watch his videos, if you like nfl videos, you will be carried away by the diesel, john Riggins

Beast mode before Beast mode

Diesel Power!!

Loosen up Sandy baby. You're too tight.

Riggo!

I would love to see the Redskins perform somewhere near the glory days and yes I still call them Redskins.

Got a story about the guy hat goes "rrrum, ruum .... pump up that Diesel". I used to work with a die hard Eagles fan, and according to him he lost all his front teeth when Eagles fans threw him from the stands at the old Veterans stadium. My coworker is known to embellish stories, but then I wouldn't put anything Eagles fans back then lol

Jayhawk great

00:34 "Here comes the Diesel, here comes the Diesel" and again at 01:12. The late, great linebacker Sam Huff (#70 Washington Redskins, 1964-1969 / New York Giants, 1956-1963) was part of the great radio trio, "Sonny, Sam and Frank" on WMAL broadcasting the Redskins' games through the great Joe Gibbs era. People would turn down the sound on their televisions and turn up the game on the radio because QB Sonny Jurgensen (#9 Washington Redskins, 1964-1974 / Philadelphia Eagles, 1957-1963), Sam Huff and Frank Herzog were more informative, funny and quite frankly, lovable "Homers" when they called the games. Frank Herzog called the play by play and was the straight man to Sonny and Sam's frequent hilarity. 00:43 is Frank, calling Riggo's run, ending with his trademark call, "Touchdown, Washington Redskins!" I still get chills when I hear that line and I was a diehard Baltimore Colts fan. That diesel horn sound-bite was a constant during the games. In November of 2021, Sam Huff was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. RIP, Sam.

Anyone else always get the usaa or bud light commercial?

From a cowboy fan growing up in DC... Football fan before foolish pride that alcoholic kicked ass hard or harder than anyone on GameDay...😂Get it?🎉🎉🎉. Then damn hogs. I'll never forget though the year we only won one game. I hung my hat up on that win against those hogs. That's all we had to be proud of that year😢😅😂. Did some serious gloating about that Haaaaaaa... Fact😅

Rev up that Diesel!

John "The Diesel" Riggins Hall Of Famer, 6'2" 238lbs.

Hogs baby. Good blocking and Riggins can’t go wrong

Goaline, I-left, tightwing, 70 Chip on white.

The play: I-right, Fake Zoom, 70 chip, on 2!! That tells you complicated the play is!!

Imagine John Diesel Riggins nowa days he'd make elite running backs like leveon bell ezekiel elliot or even marshawn lynch look like amateurs. Whew!

Just scored and tossed the ref the ball....no showboating!

Are all #44 fullbacks awesome?

They named Tim Riggins after John. That says a lot.

Typical Riggins response lol

SHAQ BE KNOWIN ABOUT "LORD RIGGINS"!!!!😅USED HIS NAME!!I TOLD THEM,THAT RIGGS WAS A DIFFERENT BEAST!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

James Harrison's 100 yard INT needs to be top 10 :(

Thanks Riggins for ripping apart the Name. #HTTR

Riggins says that if he didn't break that lame tackle attempt, he didn't deserve his game check. The best part of that run is what he does with the ball after he scores.

look at those helmets ? wow...

Old school … Riggins has the bar down the middle - Theisman with the single cross bar face masks … it’s tough smash mouth football the Redskins way.

i played ‘diesel’ in west side story in college at salisbury. just sayin 😎

DAM THAT MAN RAN HARD AS ANY OF THE OTHER GREATS IN HISTORY.... RIGGINS WAS A BEAST AND GLAD HE PLAYED ON MY SKINS AND HTTR AND WE WILL FOREVER BE IN THE HISTORY BOOKS !!!!!!

Yeah we remember them day I'll remember they call him the mack truck he ran over Defender and bite semi truck ran over a deer good busting wide open

As a Fins fan back in the day. Worst run ever. The one the Chiefs just broke off in LVI in Maimi reminded me of this.

I wonder how many times on 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1 Riggins was ever stopped? It had to be a single digit...

I have John riggins football card

Deceptively fast. Wasn't like a cheetah. Got to top speed slowly, like a diesel truck.

Marcus Allen

Chad

ONLY figuratively though

that wasnt even a bad tackle attempt.

Where's Marcus Allen's 74-yard touchdown run in Super Bowl 18??

Riggins...big..fast..strong and crazy....deadly combination...lol

I honestly think Dan Marino deserved a super bowl. Would've cemented himself as THE best QB in NFL history.