From: Adriene_Nazaretian@QM.YCC.YALE.EDU (Go GIANTS!)
Subject: Re: COMEBACKS! SHOCKERS! And various miscellani...
Organization: Yale University Computing & Information Systems
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:01:52 GMT

In article <92278.195256NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> Nelson Broat <NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>Subject: COMEBACKS! SHOCKERS! And various miscellani...
>From: Nelson Broat <NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET>
>Date: Sunday, 4 Oct 1992 19:52:56 EDT

>Somebody pinch me I thought I was dreaming, but unless I miss my guess
>I actually saw some emotion out of Handley today. Yes you heard
>correctly, Mr. Stoic Ray Handley actually showed emotion on the sidelines
>today. In the second half he was actually yelling and near the end of the
>game he through his headsets off, gee I wonder why?

>Next time Ray, try showing some emotion before the last play of the game.

Agreed!  Where the hell where the Giants the second half? And where has Ray 
been? (probably one of those self/help improvement seminars)     8-)

>Well, there goes one of the "should've won" games down the drain. 
Though>based on what happened in the NFL today, nothing is a sure thing eh?

>MINNESOTA 21 Chicago 20     Best comeback victory of the day with the
>                            exception of...
>DENVER 20 Kansas City 19    Elway does it again for the 21st time with
>                            less than 2minutes to go. Poor Chiefs, poor
>                            Browns...POOR MARTY! Elways such a thief. :->
>RAIDERS 13 Giants 10        The Boring Bowl I.  Well you didn't expect it
>                            to be exciting did you?
>PHOENIX 27 Washington 24    Shocker of the day as far as I'm concerned, with
>                            the exception of...
>Dolphins 37 BUFFALO 10      Jackson definitely earned his money today. And
>                            this crushing defeat of Buffalo will definitely
>                            be a confidence builder for Miami.

>                   Honorable mention

>LA Rams - Who would have thought they'd play S.F. that tough in the Stick,
>          even though these teams generally play well against each other
>          on the road. Certainly not me, because as far as I'm concerned
>          the Rams have one of worst (if not the worst) teams in the NFL
>          this year, IMHO.

>           Boring Bowl II

>           Patriots at Jets     Okay gang whats on TV tonight? :-)

>Tomorrow night...

>          GAME OF THE MONTH I

>          Eagles and Cowboys    Can't wait for this one!!!!!

>Final comment and it is about the Raiders/Giants game. I don't know
>about you, but did anyone else think the Raiders behaved like classless
>baboons at the end of the first half? 

Yes, they behaved poorly and I see this as a sign of their sheer desparation 
to win a game.  When I watched this game, it was easy to see why the raiders 
were 0-fer and the Giants only 1-fer.

>Okay, so first they tried to get
>the clock to run out on the Giants by not getting up out of the pile
>and off of any of the Giant players long after the whistle blew; this is
>a sometimes typical occurence by an opposing team, but to follow that up
>with obvious interference of the center! And they did it twice! First
>from in front, and then... :-) :-) :-) (sorry but I can't help but
>laugh) from the back! For those who didn't see the game, just before Simms
>turned around to take the snap, he found a Raider player in front of him
>ready to take the snap...now that was ridiculous. Funny but ridiculous.
>And the Raiders called two timeouts!?!? 

Yeah, the annoucers were laughing about it too...
Adriene L. Nazaretian        
Yale University              
ADRIENE@YALEADS.BITNET        
ADRIENE@YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU  
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