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Post by SG88 on Mar 27, 2024 23:42:07 GMT -5
You're welcome. Certainly not the best game to watch, but if you enjoy seeing LT win a game by himself, this is it. Additionally, the commercials are absolutely hilarious and Summerall and Madden loved them some Lawrence Taylor.
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Post by Kruunch on Mar 28, 2024 6:17:53 GMT -5
This was the game that put Taylor on the map.. With a bad knee on top of an offense that couldn’t get past midfield. Lawrence who was pacing on the sidelines like a mad dog.. Got shot out of a cannon once he got put into the game. There are players who play well.. and there are players who dominate. Taylor took the game over from jump and didn’t stop till he slid into the endzone on a pick six that iced the game. Billy Sims who never got caught from behind in his career.
Felt Taylor breathing down his neck when he caught him after running the whole damn field to track him down. The stories are all true.. The hype is real. Lawrence Taylor made tough men reconsider their careers. Quarterbacks forgot play calls.. offensive tackles got mysterious injuries. No one was safe.. He tipped the scales in our favor for thirteen years. As long as he was strapped and locked and loaded. We could hang with anyone.
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Post by Sarcasman on Mar 28, 2024 10:52:49 GMT -5
I remember that game so well. My folks had just bought a vacation house in the Poconos and dragged us all out there for Thanksgiving. My brother, father and I watched that game (as usual) and it was slow torture until that pick. Taylor saved Thanksgiving that year
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Post by DJones19 on Mar 31, 2024 16:12:25 GMT -5
Commercials were so much better back then..makes me nostalgic.
No Simms this game?
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Post by shocknaweny on Apr 13, 2024 9:33:45 GMT -5
Commercials were so much better back then..makes me nostalgic. No Simms this game? Don't think he was drafted yet was he ?
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Post by DJones19 on Apr 28, 2024 10:14:49 GMT -5
Commercials were so much better back then..makes me nostalgic. No Simms this game? Don't think he was drafted yet was he ? He was drafted a couple years earlier in 1979 ...looked it up and found the article from 1982, he tore his ACL and MCL in a preseason game vs the Jets...the 3rd year in a row he went down with injury. www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/31/New-York-Giants-quarterback-Phil-Simms-underwent-major-knee/2262399614400/NEWARK, N.J. -- New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms underwent major knee surgery Monday and will miss the entire 1982-83 season, the team announced. Simms, who battled Scott Brunner for the starting quarterback job throughout training camp, injured his knee in the first quarter of Saturday night's exhibition victory over the New York Jets. The fourth-year pro -- who hurt his shoulder last season and watched as Brunner took the Giants to the playoffs for the first time in 18 years -- underwent arthroscopic surgery at University Hospital, where it was discovered he had a complete tear of the medial collateral of the right knee. A clean tear of the anterior cruciate ligament was also repaired. 'It's the worst thing possible,' said Ed Croke, the Giants' public relations director. 'It's a complete tear and he'll be lost for the season -- even if we make the playoffs.' Dr. Kim Sloan, the Giants' orthopedic surgeon, decided to perform the major surgery while Simms' knee was opened. 'He's (Simms) snakebit,' said Croke, who termed the operation 100 percent successful. 'We feel bad for Phil. This is the third year in a row he's gone down.' ...The Giants are reportedly searching for a veteran quarterback who would serve as Brunner's backup.
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