From: sjsmith@cs.umd.edu (Stephen Joseph Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Best Facial Expressions of the Week, Foster, MVP Montgomery, Booths
Summary: "Stephen, shut up about the Steelers already!" :^)
Date: 30 Dec 92 05:20:51 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park

In article <16117@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>In article <103346@netnews.upenn.edu> satish@a.chem.upenn.edu (Satish Nair) writes:
> 
>|PS Anyone else notice the look on Steve Young's face?  Let's see, he leads the
>|Niners to the best record in the NFL, is the highest rated passer in the
>|league, will probably lead the team to the NFC Championship game and all 
>|50,000 Niner fans wanted was "Joe! Joe! Joe!"
>
>I thought Sieferts expressions were better.  After Montana ran for a first
>down the show Siefert with kind of a satisfied grin on his face.  Later when
>Montana completed his second touchdown pass he had sort of this "oh shit,
>now what am I going to do" expression on his face.  

I missed MNF, was playing cards with my siblings.

Of the games I did see, I nominate Steelers Coach Bill Cowher for Best
Facial Expression of the week.

Steelers are up 17-10.  Gary Anderson, of the Anders[e|o]n kicking twins,
lines up to kick a routine 26-yard field goal from the right hashmark late
in the fourth quarter.  The kick goes up, BOUNCES OFF THE LEFT UPRIGHT...
and falls in for a 20-10 lead.

Cowher watches the kick... you can see his heart leap in his throat... then
he relaxes and gives the world a truly withering "Why me?" look.

They replayed it in its entirety at least once.


Anybody else amazed that Barry Foster got a chance to tie Eric Dickerson's
100-yard rushing game record?  Browns are down 20-10, driving with a minute
left in the fourth quarter.  Barry has 93 yards rushing for the game.  If
the Browns score... convert an onside kick... the Steelers don't get the
ball back to hand to Barry.  If the Browns score... kick and the Steelers
recover...  the Miracle in the Meadowlands looms in Cowher's mind, and he
has Bubby kneel the game out.

So what happens?  The Steelers get the Browns QB [sorry, it's late and my
brain is gone, Bernie's backup] to FUMBLE!  So they hand it to Barry twice,
and voila, 100 yards.

Before I get flamed endlessly for this, let me say that Eric Dickerson's
twelve 100-yard game season was much more impressive than Foster's.  I
don't have the stats in front of me, but my impression was that Foster had
a lot of 100- to 110- yard games that certainly didn't add up to 3000 yards
or whatever [exaggeration.]


MVP of the games I saw: HOUSTON PUNTER richard? MONTGOMERY.  He kicked
every single punt over 55 yards.  I am not kidding.  Was he pissed over not
getting picked for the Pro Bowl or something?  I really think he made the
difference between a 27-3 win over the Bills and a 16-14 toss-up; field
position can mean a LOT.


On another note, who are the top NBC and CBS announcing teams?  Yeah, I
know I'll have to suffer through Sumerall-Madden for one of the play-off
games.  [Anyone else think that Sumerall used to be good, used to try to be
a steadying influence for that Maddening guy, and has now given up?]  Also,
is ABC *really* covering two divisional play-off games???

- Stephen
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