Greatest Show on Turf stays on top

ATLANTA, GEORGIA--JANUARY 30: Quarterback Kurt Warner #13 of the St. Louis Rams celebrates winning Super Bowl XXXIV in the post game celebration after the contest between the St. Louis Rams and The Tennessee Titans at the Georgia Dome on January 30, 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | Getty Images

The Los Angeles Rams were the closest team to beating both of the last two Super Bowl winners in the playoffs, but fell shy of the Super Bowl in 2024 and 2025. The Philadelphia Eagles and Seattle Seahawks have now won the last two Super Bowls after their closest competition to winning was clearly the Rams, and some would rank the 24 Eagles and 25 Seahawks as two of the best teams of recent times.

But are they as good as the 99 Rams Greatest Show on Turf"?

One stat that still leans in the Rams' favor is point differential: The St. Louis +308 point differential in 1999 is still the best of any Super Bowl champion in the last 26 years, per ESPN Research:

The Seahawks finished with a point differential of plus-246. Per ESPN Research, that's the highest by a Super Bowl champion since the 1999 Rams.

It's fourth-highest among SB champs over the last 30 seasons.

'99 Rams, +308
'96 Packers, +298
'98 Broncos, +255
'25 Seahawks, +246

- Brady Henderson (@BradyHenderson) February 10, 2026

The Rams went +284 in the regular season and then won 49-37, 11-6, and 23-16 in the playoffs.

Keep in mind that the Rams had one fewer game to play in the regular season than the Seahawks and Eagles, which could go both ways. That game could work more in their favor or against them.

The 99 Rams had NINE wins in the regular season by more than 20 points. Nine. With a 9.

Last year's Eagles had four such games in the regular season.

This year's Seahawks had five.

(Both the Eagles and Seahawks had another blowout win in the playoffs, but still fell well shy of St. Louis's nine regular season games of 21+ victories in 1999.)

Another aspect to that Greatest Show on Turf that gives them an advantage over the last 26 Super Bowl winners is the legacy behind the Rams team that year. The unbelievable story of Kurt Warner and then unparalleled talent around him from Marshall Faulk to Orlando Pace to Isaac Bruce to Torry Holt.

Sam Darnold's story has a similar movie-like quality to it. But he's far less out of nowhere" than Warner, having been a top-3 pick and a quarterback who won 14 games with the Vikings last year prior to losing to the Rams in the playoffs.

So I think people might remember the 99 Rams more than any other team of this era because the dominance of that season wasn't just impressive, it was also totally unexpected. It was one of the worst teams of the previous season, with an unknown quarterback, beating most of their opponents into a pulp in 1999.

There are many ways to measure the impact of the Greatest Show on Turf that will make you remember what they did in 1999. But let's be honest: Most fans could never forget.