Giants’ Bite Worse Than Bark; Can You Believe It?
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — He had the look of a man who had just walked into a bulldozer. He had the look of a man who had just skinny-dipped in the Arctic circle. He had the look of a man who had just discovered a horse’s head in the sheets. Woof.
“Did you even know what you were doing out there by the last play?” someone asked Washington quarterback Jay Schroeder, after his team’s 17-0 NFC title loss to the New York Giants.
“Well,” he said, dizzy from a mild concussion, “I had an idea of what was going on out there.”
The idea was this: His team was getting killed.
It All Comes Back To The Backat Least, That Is Lajoie’S Reasonfor Not Giving In To Parrish
In his 10 years as a professional baseball player, Bill Lajoie reached Opening Day just once. Kansas City, 1963. He got to the park early. He was ready. He was excited. He was sold.
Sold?
“Sorry, Bill,” his manager told him a few hours before game time, “we just sold your contract to another team.”
Lajoie packed his bag and left.
So you can lower that pie now. The man “who let Lance Parrish get away” is no stranger to rejection. He didn’t do it to be a jerk.
GET USED TO IT RIGHT NOW: A PROUD TIGER IS GONE
Money talks. Lance Parrish walks.Did you really expect him to be a Detroit Tiger this morning? Why? Because the others who had threatened to leave had all come back? Not this time. Midnight came and midnight went and there were no phone calls, no salvation, no...
Stranger In The Night Gets A Kick Out Of Wings
I did not go to the Red Wings game Tuesday night because they were in first place. I went because . . . I love hockey. Yeah. That’s it.
“How about that Greg Stefan?” I said to a familiar-looking face in the press box elevator. “He’s looking awful sharp, don’t you think?”
“Who are you?” came the answer.
What a kidder. Yes, the Wings are something, aren’t they? Bounding back from that embarrassment of a season last year, and now, under coach Jacques Demers, playing a different kind of hockey, the kind with effort, the kind with heart.
Bears Old As Yesterday’S Bad News
CHICAGO — It was like watching one of your favorite TV shows get canceled.
Washington 27, Chicago 13.
Bad news, Bears.
Yes, America, the airwaves are safe once more. No more videos. No more Super Bowl shuffles. No more Taco Bell commercials, if we’re lucky. McMahon, Payton, Ditka, the Fridge? All passe now. This is 1987. The Redskins advance, the Bears go back, where? Their caves, I guess.
Right Out Of The Blue, Giants Emerge As Best
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The truth is, the Chicago Bears were never really eliminated — they died and came back as the New York Giants.
Lock your doors. It’s the Blue Meanies this year. The Giants. They’ve won 10 in a row, and they’re one massacre away from the Super Bowl. I don’t like to use words such as awesome and destructive, but when the Giants’ defense comes off the field, you expect it to burp.
Bears Without Jim Like ‘Dallas’ Without J.R.
CHICAGO — It was like watching one of your favorite TV shows get canceled.
Washington 27, Chicago 13.
Bad news, Bears.
Yes, America, the air waves are safe once more. No more videos. No more Super Bowl shuffles. No more Taco Bell commercials, if we’re lucky. McMahon, Payton, Ditka, the Fridge? All passe now. This is 1987. The Redskins advance, the Bears go back, where? Their caves, I guess.
U-M’S Rosy Hopes Blowin’ In The Wind
PASADENA, Calif. — Suddenly the magic was gone, dried up in the California wind and blown out to sea. Jim Harbaugh took his first snap of the third quarter — how many first snaps of the third quarter had signaled Wolverine fireworks this year? — and he overthrew Greg McMurtry. By a mile. Harbaugh took the second snap and tried to run. He was stuffed. He took the third snap, scrambled around, and dumped the simplest of lobs to Jamie Morris. Morris dropped it.
Blowin’ In The Wind Roses Are Dead, And Wolverines Are Blue
PASADENA, Calif. — Suddenly the magic was gone, dried up in the California wind and blown out to sea. Jim Harbaugh took his first snap of the third quarter — and how many of those had signaled fireworks for Michigan this season? — and, look out, he overthrew Greg McMurtry by a mile. Second snap. Harbaugh was sacked. Third snap. Harbaugh scrambled, dumped the simplest of lobs to Jamie Morris.
Morris dropped it.
Michigan punted away.
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