You beauty.
Things don't come much better than this, beating the world champion Australians in front of the biggest crowd in rugby history, most of them our cousins across the Tasman.
As Jonah Lomu left Australian star Stephen Larkham sprawling for the last-gasp try to beat the Wallabies 39-35 in the thriller
in Sydney, former Australian captain Nick Farr-Jones was moved to call it "the greatest test ever."
Extraordinary, yes. Nerve-fraying. Bloody great. Lucky. Call it what you will - but greatest?
Not according to former All Black greats.
For them, the highest highs and worst lows have come against the old enemy, the Springboks.
Former captain Sir Wilson Whineray said Saturday's was among the most exciting of games but it couldn't beat the 1965 fourth test at Eden Park, when the All Blacks beat South Africa 20-3 - a stunning score in those days of three point tries.
"The game was the final test of a very hard-fought series. It was just lovely weather, the ground was perfect, there was a very big crowd and there were some great tries scored."
But he thought the game's ten tries - five from both sides - made it exciting rather than great.
"You just can't allow any team to score five tries against you and hope to win, but it did sort of even out."
Sixties skipper John Graham gave the game high praise, ranking it with the 1960 second test, when the All Blacks clawed back an 11-3 win against the 'Boks, although they went on to lose the series.
Colin "Pinetree" Meads nominates the 1960 and 1965 games against the 'Boks as the greatest, but says the 2000 test was nearly as good.
"It was a fascinating game, full of surprises. At 24-nil I thought, 'There's no way we're going to lose this one' and then by half-time it was like 'Oh, my god, I think we've lost it'."
The great All Black captain of the 90s, Sean Fitzpatrick, said Saturday's game was "up there" but beating the 'Boks 33-26 at Pretoria in 1996 for the first series win on South African soil remains at the top of the list of great games.
The Herald's rugby writer, Wynne Gray, had this to say: "It was exhilarating, surreal and magnetic, right up there in the top group because of its speed and intensity, but with too many mistakes to qualify as the best in test rugby. Anyway, how do you define the greatest?"
