Double Down
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Is there any way we can make this thread about the Steelers, a team that was shirt this year and last year? Thanks.
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Double Down said:Is there any way we can make this thread about the Steelers, a team that was shirt this year and last year? Thanks.
YGBFKM said:People might listen to you if you had the capacity to analyze anything without relating it to the Steelers.
Uncle.Ruckus said:YGBFKM said:People might listen to you if you had the capacity to analyze anything without relating it to the Steelers.
Don't give him false hope. No one ever will listen to him.
YGBFKM said:People might listen to you if you had the capacity to analyze anything without relating it to the Steelers.
LongTimeListener said:Azrael said:LongTimeListener said:I do not recall Elway being criticized as such.
Before winning in 97 and 98, in discussions just like this one, Elway was respectfully or wistfully spoken of as one of the best never to win a Super Bowl. He was measured as much by his disappointments as by his achievements. Just as Manning is now.
I would have to see some links on that, because I just don't remember it. The general narrative I recall, as Mizzougrad does, is "how in the heck are they even getting there and oh my God are they in for trouble." The fact they were beating the Giants at halftime of their first Super Bowl was a minor miracle.
To hear people talk, Super Bowl XXII between Washington and Denver could be the most one-sided game in history, what with one quarterback, John Elway, having to face 45 Redskins all by himself.
Has there ever been so much talk about trying to stop one human being before? Napoleon, maybe.
Of course, Elway's not just Elway anymore. He's the Duke. He swaggers toward enemy end zones like John Wayne. Women and children duck under tables when he's in town.
The feeling today at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium is that if there's going to be a fight, and a guy is going to be surrounded by Redskins, well then the Duke is probably the guy you want in the middle of it.
That's why Denver is the favorite today, despite the NFC's dominance over the AFC in the last three Super Bowls.
If it was out there at that time, it was quite silly, because Elway was well above .500 in the playoffs back then and he was winning close games with big moments.
BTExpress said:If it was out there at that time, it was quite silly, because Elway was well above .500 in the playoffs back then and he was winning close games with big moments.
Elway's team was 7-8 in the playoffs, with 4 one-and-dones, entering the postseason of his first Super Bowl-winning run.
LongTimeListener said:Interesting. It was out there. But it was hardly the only or even dominant storyline. His reputation did maybe a 45 or a 90, not a 180.
Again, though -- we're talking about a guy who took his team on his back to three Super Bowls (something that even your clips acknowledge, he was all alone out there). Also, when you say -- But the gifted Elway was also seen as a Superman QB and the dominant narrative seemed to be "If anyone can pull this off, maybe Elway can." -- the fact that he didn't do it doesn't mean he choked, it just means it couldn't be done. Phil Simms completed 88 percent of his passes that day!
If it was out there at that time, it was quite silly, because Elway was well above .500 in the playoffs back then and he was winning close games with big moments.
We are talking about Peyton Manning being unable to win even one game most years against clearly inferior teams.