1999 St . Louis Rams season The 1999 St . Louis Rams season was the team ' s 62nd year with the National Football League and the fifth season in St . Louis , Missouri . The Rams finished the regular - season with a record of 13 - 3 , and the NFC West Championship . The Rams were undefeated at home for the first time since 1973 . On the road , the Rams were 5 - 3 . In the post - season , they defeated the Minnesota Vikings by a score of 49 - 37 in the NFC Divisional Playoffs and went on to defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 11 - 6 in the NFC Championship Game . Both of those games were played in St . Louis . From there , the Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans by a score of 23 - 16 in Super Bowl XXXIV played on January 30 , 2000 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to claim their first ever Super Bowl title . It was also the franchise ' s first NFL World Championship since 1951 , when the Rams were in Los Angeles . The Rams also became the first " dome - field " ( indoor home games ) team to win a Super Bowl . The Rams were the third St . Louis - based pro sports team to win a major pro sports championship , joining the MLB Cardinals and the 1957 - 58 NBA Hawks ( now the Atlanta Hawks ) . Quarterback Kurt Warner was the MVP in both the regular - season and in Super Bowl XXXIV . Regular season . Kurt Warner . Warner was the backup quarterback for the St . Louis Rams during the 1998 regular season and the 1999 preseason . When starting quarterback Trent Green was injured in a preseason game , Warner took over as the starter . With the support of running back Marshall Faulk and wide receivers Isaac Bruce , Torry Holt , Az - Zahir Hakim and Ricky Proehl , Warner completed one of the top seasons by a quarterback in NFL history by throwing for 4 , 353 yards with 41 touchdown passes and a completion rate of 65 . 1 % . The Rams ' high - powered offense was nicknamed " The Greatest Show on Turf " and registered the first in a string of three consecutive 500 - point seasons , an NFL record . Warner threw three touchdown passes in each of the first three games in the 1999 season , his first three NFL starts . He is the only NFL quarterback in history to accomplish that feat , and only the second other than Dan Marino to do it in his first two NFL starts . Warner really drew attention , however , in the season ' s fourth game against the San Francisco 49ers , who had been NFC West Division champs for 12 of the previous 13 seasons . The Rams had lost 17 of their previous 18 meetings with the 49ers and had a 3 - 0 record along with the 49ers ' 3 - 1 record . Warner proceeded to throw three touchdown passes on the Rams ' first three possessions of the game and four in the first half to propel the Rams to a 28 - 10 halftime lead on the way to a 42 - 20 victory . Warner finished the game with five touchdown passes , giving him 14 in four games and , more importantly , the Rams a 4 - 0 record . After many years of defeats and losing records , football experts finally had to take notice . Warner ' s breakout season from a career in anonymity was so unexpected that " Sports Illustrated " featured him on their October 18 cover with the caption " Who IS this guy ? " He was named the 1999 NFL MVP at the season ' s end . In the NFL playoffs , Warner led the Rams to a Super Bowl XXXIV victory against the Tennessee Titans . He threw for two touchdowns and a Super Bowl record 414 passing yards , including a 73 - yard touchdown to Isaac Bruce when the game was tied with just over two minutes to play . Warner also set a Super Bowl record by attempting 45 passes without a single interception . Warner was awarded the 1999 Super Bowl MVP , becoming one of only six players to win both the league MVP and Super Bowl MVP awards in the same year . The others are Bart Starr in 1966 , Terry Bradshaw in 1978 , Joe Montana in 1989 , Emmitt Smith in 1993 , and Steve Young in 1994 . Playoffs . NFC Divisional Playoff . As expected , this match between the two high powered offenses produced a lot of points ( 86 ) , and yards ( 880 , 475 by St . Louis , 405 by Minnesota ) . But after falling behind 17 - 14 , St . Louis stormed to victory with 35 consecutive second half points to open a 49 to 17 lead early in the fourth quarter . NFC Championship Game . The Rams and Buccaneers would slug it out for most of the game , with the Buccaneers defense holding the Rams highly - potent offense in check . Tampa Bay , weak on offense , would only muster two field goals , and gave up a costly safety in the second quarter when a bad snap from center went over the head of rookie quarterback Shaun King and out of the endzone . Despite this , the Buccaneers nursed an unusual 6 - 5 lead into the 4th Quarter . The Rams broke open a defense dominated game when Kurt Warner threw a touchdown pass to Ricky Proehl with 4 : 44 left in the game . The Buccaneers would mount a drive on their final possession , however a controversial replay overturned what appeared to be a reception by Buccaneers wide receiver Bert Emanuel , and the Buccaneers never recovered . Super Bowl XXXIV . The first half of Super Bowl XXXIV had been uncharacteristically low - scoring for St . Louis , as they scored only three Jeff Wilkins field goals in the first half . The Rams finally got into the end zone in the third quarter , with a 9 - yard touchdown pass from Kurt Warner to Torry Holt , giving St . Louis a 16 - 0 lead . Tennessee , however , scored 16 unanswered points with two Eddie George touchdown runs ( 1 - and 2 - yards respectively , the first with a failed two point conversion attempt ) , and a 43 - yard Al Del Greco field goal . On St . Louis ' s first play from scrimmage after Tennessee ' s tying field goal , Kurt Warner threw a 73 - yard touchdown to Isaac Bruce to take a 23 - 16 lead with barely two minutes left in the game , which would give Tennessee one more chance to tie the game with a touchdown . The Tennessee Titans took over the ball at their own 10 - yard line with 1 : 54 left in the game after committing a holding penalty on the ensuing kickoff . McNair started out the drive with a pair of completions to Mason and Wycheck for gains of 9 and 7 yards to reach the 28 - yard line . Then after throwing an incompletion , defensive back Dre ' Bly ' s 15 - yard facemask penalty while tackling McNair on a 12 - yard scramble gave the Titans a first down at the St . Louis 45 - yard line . On the next play , St . Louis was penalized 5 yards for being offsides , moving the ball to the 40 - yard line with 59 seconds left . McNair then ran for 2 yards , followed by a 7 - yard completion to wide receiver Kevin Dyson . Three plays later , with the Titans facing 3rd down and 5 to go , McNair was hit by two Rams ' defenders , but he escaped and completed a 16 - yard pass to Dyson to gain a first down at the Rams 10 - yard line . Tennessee then used up their final timeout with just 6 seconds left in the game , giving them a chance for one last play . McNair threw a short pass to Kevin Dyson down the middle , which looked certain to tie up the game , until Rams linebacker Mike Jones tackled Dyson at the one - yard line as time expired . Dyson tried to stretch his arm and the football across the goal line , but he had already gone down , so it was too late . This final play has gone down in NFL history as simply " The Tackle " .