NFL Week 3 running thread ...

Doc, you forgot to mention the one-and-done playoff performance,a la 2001and 2005. :0

 

4th-and-26.

 

At home coming off a bye week, no less.

 

4th-and-26. Don't forget this one, too ...

 

Yeah I have no idea you are referring to ... but from that pic looks like you want to discuss the Packers' 20-10 victory over the 49ers in 2003.

 

No, I was referring to Owens' game-winning TD catch over the Pack in 1999. Just found the pic ...

 

That's OK... beating the 49ers three straight years in the playoffs, twice on their home turf, is enough to make me forget that.

 

My god, he was quick coming off the ball in mid-puke. That guy was a gamer.

And let me tell you, in HD ... it was magnificent.

 

Ah, the 1980 playoffs.

I was 9 and lived in Dallas for that Falcons-Cowboys game. I remember we went to Prestonwood Mall when the Falcons were kicking Dallas' ass at halftime. The mall was deserted, and on the drive back to The Colony (back then it was out in the country), Brad Sham, Frank Leiber or Verne Lundquist or someone was having an orgasm over the Cowboys' comeback.

We had to dodge the sound of celebratory gunfire from Carrollton to Farmers Branch to Lewisville (this was before they developed all the roads in North Dallas), many armadillos took friendly fire that good day, I'll tell you.

Of course the Cowboys peed themselves the next week at Philly. And the following year in San Fran. Living down there for those two years, I began to think the Cowboys were cursed.

Had I lived in Texas one more year, I might have become a fan. But, we moved back to Milwaukee, the Cowboys beat my Packers in a close 1982 playoff game (GOD that pissed me off! James Lofton got OFF in that game, running triple-reverses and shit), and I've disliked the 'Boys ever since!

And yes, it sucked that the Cardiac Kids got knocked out by that particular Raiders team. Those Raiders were, at best, the third-best team in the AFC playoffs that year. San Diego and Cleveland were both better, probably Buffalo too. They deserve credit for beating several teams that were superior to them.

 

Good Doctor, I declare pictorial war on you, the Bears, and Chicago sports teams in general ...



Let's start at the top. Chester Marcol, 1980, catching a blocked field goal off the helmet of Alan Page and running it in for a game-winning, overtime touchdown.

Greatest ... finish ... to ... a ... game ... I've ... ever ... seen! And enshrined forever at the Hall of Fame as one of the seminal Alcoa Fantastic Finishes (God I miss those).

 

Um, last year they beat the Bears (your one legit test), then ended the Vikings' six game winning streak with an 18-3 win in the Metrodome, which -- last I checked -- isn't an easy place to play. Then the two easy ones.

How many easy ones have you seen become upsets or near upsets? A lot. Every week.

 

Does having one of DeBartolo's partners in crime like Carmen "Make My Own" Policy count?