Football: Best Intercounty game ever

[heganboy]

the games listed below have been nominated by forummers as the best inter-county games ever. There are a couple of minor matches thrown in for good measure. The rules are simple you nominate your 5 favourite in order 1 to 5 1 being the best. You can only vote for games in which your home county did not play. Voting continues until next Friday (feb 16th)midnight
I will also compile a list of your favourite game that your own county played in, so you have one separate nomination in that category
Here are the games

1973 Cork Galway
1977 Dublin Kerry
1980 Kerry Offaly
1982 Kerry Offaly
1983 Cork Dublin (draw)
        Cork Dublin (replay)
1991 Meath Dublin (3)
        Meath Dublin (4)
        Meath Down
        Derry Down (draw)
1992 Derry Donegal
1993 Dublin Derry
1994 Down Derry
1995 Tyrone Derry
1997 Tyrone Kerry (minor replay)
        Kildare Meath
1998 Galway Kildare
        Clare Cork
2000 Armagh Kerry (replay)
        Kildare Dublin (replay)
2001 Dublin Kerry
        Meath Kerry
        Galway Armagh
2002 Armagh Tyrone (draw)
        Armagh Tyrone (replay)
        Armagh Kerry
        Dublin Donegal
        Sligo Tyrone
2003 Armagh Tyrone
        Down Tyrone (replay)
        Armagh Sligo (draw)
        Tyrone Kerry
        Roscommon Kildare
2004 Tyrone Galway (draw)
        Tyrone Galway (replay)
        Kerry Galway
        Armagh Donegal
        Fermanagh Armagh
        Roscommon Sligo
2005 Tyrone Armagh
        Down Offaly (Minor)
        Tyrone Kerry
        Tyrone Dublin (draw)
2006 Mayo Dublin

       

[heganboy]

Home county Armagh- Armagh Kerry 2002

1 Kerry Offaly 1982
2 Down Derry 1994
3 Dublin Kerry 1977
4 Dublin Kerry 2001
5 Meath Dublin (3) 1991

[Owenmoresider]

Home county - Sligo v Tyrone 2002

1) Armagh v Tyrone 2005
2) Mayo v Dublin 2006
3) Meath v Dublin IV 1991
4) Kildare v Meath 1997
5) Tyrone v Kerry 2005

Heganboy - Cork/Wexford in 2003 shouldn't be there if you're considering football only. FWIW the hurling top five:

1) Waterford v Cork 2004
2) Cork v Tipp (Act 2) 1991
3) Cork v Wexford (Act 1) 2003
4) Offaly v Cork 2000
5) Galway v Kilkenny 2005

[heganboy]

changed- well spotted

[ClosetotheHarte]

Home County - Tyrone Armagh 2005 (All Ireland Semi-Final)

1 1994 Down Derry
2 1993 Dublin Derry
3 1982 Kerry Offaly
4 1991 Meath Dublin (4)
5 2006 Mayo Dublin

[heganboy]

ps will do a hurling one in a couple of weeks

[David McKeown]

When was the Amragh v Sligo 2003 game I dont remember it.  I do remember the one in 2002 being quite good

[Redhandfan]

Home County Match
1997 All-Ireland Minor Semi-Final Replay: Tyrone v Kerry

Top Five - Not Involving Tyrone
1991 LSFC Meath v Dublin (4)
1998 AIF Galway v Kildare
1993 AISF Derry v Dublin
2006 AISF Mayo v Dublin
1994 USFC Down v Derry

[deiseach]

Dublin v Meath knocked everything else into a cocked hat. Even my mother sat down to watch the fourth game.

[Doire abú]

Would there be any way of obtaining a copy of the 94 Derry Down match?

[Tyrones own]

Could someone please explain without jumping down my throat why that Derry/Down
game has gotten so much airtime to this day, no disrespect to either team but I honestly
can't see it for anything more than what it was, IMO, a typical Ulster Championship game.

[Billys Boots]

1. 1980 Kerry Offaly
2. 1991 Meath Dublin (4)
3. 1977 Dublin Kerry
4. 1998 Galway Kildare
5. 2001 Dublin Kerry

[behind the wire]

Would there be any way of obtaining a copy of the 94 Derry Down match?

my granda has it on tape, watches it every now and again. anyone got a dvd of it? amallon might possibly be able to sort something out, he seems to be able to get his hands on a copy of any down match.

[screenexile]

Could someone please explain without jumping down my throat why that Derry/Down
game has gotten so much airtime to this day, no disrespect to either team but I honestly
can't see it for anything more than what it was, IMO, a typical Ulster Championship game.

Great midfield play, great scores, intensity and tackling at the highest level, great players at the peak of their powers with everything at stake, consistency on the scoreboard i.e. no team pulled away from the other, controversy, mistakes the game had absolutely everything you could want in a football match but what marks it out from other Ulster Championship games was the fact it was between the 2 teams that had won the last 2 All Irelands and were undoubtedly the 2 best teams in Ireland at the time slogging it out on a warm day where blanket defence wasn't even thought about. A proper battle and show that match to anyone who hadn't watched GAA before and they would be hooked!

[Leo]

Could someone please explain without jumping down my throat why that Derry/Down
game has gotten so much airtime to this day, no disrespect to either team but I honestly
can't see it for anything more than what it was, IMO, a typical Ulster Championship game.

Great midfield play, great scores, intensity and tackling at the highest level, great players at the peak of their powers with everything at stake, consistency on the scoreboard i.e. no team pulled away from the other, controversy, mistakes the game had absolutely everything you could want in a football match but what marks it out from other Ulster Championship games was the fact it was between the 2 teams that had won the last 2 All Irelands and were undoubtedly the 2 best teams in Ireland at the time slogging it out on a warm day where blanket defence wasn't even thought about. A proper battle and show that match to anyone who hadn't watched GAA before and they would be hooked!

Spot on answer screenexile but would not expect tyrone's own to have proper appreciation for the more positive aspects of the game when no ack door route existed.

What I cant fathom is the national pre-occupation, fuelled by commentators who hail from wither parish, of the Kerry-Dublin basketball game of 1977.  Yes, it was close but did you actually see any football being played in it?