
Monday, December 31, 2007
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Super Bowl: Bears 20, Jets 17

On the second play from scrimmage Ken O'Brien hit Al Toon in stride for 34 yards. The only


The Jets took the lead 14-7 on a 4 yard TD toss from O'Brien to backup TE Rocky Klever. The big play on the drive was a 49 yard delayed draw by Freeman McNeil, which brought the ball down to the Bear 4. The game was tied at halftime thanks to a 5 play 79 yard drive that culminated in a 7 yard McMahon to Ortego TD pass.
Chicago openend the second half trying to sneak a handoff to seldom used back Thomas
Now the game gets interesting, as if it wasn't a nail biter up until this point. On the Bears next
The league sends congratulations to Coach Ed Mikhli on winning his first ever Distant Replay Tournament Championship !!!
NFC Title Game: Chicago edges New York by 1 to gain Super Bowl Birth
Here's how things played out after the opening TD by the Bears. New York tied the game on their next possession moving 82 yards in just 9 plays. Stacy Robinson caught a 37 yard pass from Simms (23-38-299) for the score. Later in the quarter NY took just 3 plays to take a 14-7 lead.The big play was a 49 yard TD jaunt by Joe Morris (25-119).
The Chicago offense did nothing the rest of the half (70 total yards)while NY's next three possessions led to FGAs. Allegre made 2 of 3,missing a 50 yarder. The Giants looked very confident with a 20-7 lead at the break.
Chicago received the second half KO and moved 80 yards in just 6 plays.That made it 20-14, NY. The Giants then fumbled and things suddenly looked different on the Giants' sideline. No worries though as two plays later McMahon was picked by George Martin who took it to the house for a 27-14 lead.
All was not lost though as the Giants defense held and the NY offense took over at the Chicago
38 yard line with with 3:33 remaining. This time they converted a 3rd and 7, a 4th and 9 and a 3rd and goal from the six yard line. The last TD made it 35-33. Time for two. D**M - no two point conversion in 1986. The XP point is good, the onsides kick fails,and Chicago goes to the Super Bowl with a 35-34 win.
This was a tale of two halves. Eddie did a great job shutting down NY in the second half and revving up the Bears' offense at the same time.Chicago put up 28 points in the second stanza, including 21 unanswered.NY had a very un-Parcells game: 4 turnovers, 11 penalties and 5 sacks of Simms.
Congratulation to Eddie and the Bears. Too bad this wasn't the real NFC Championship game in 1986.
-contributed by Wayne Poniewaz-
AFC Title Game: Jets 33, Broncos 10

Denver needed to ride the hot hand, one John Elway. Elway has carried

The first quarter saw neither team score, although the Jets did move down the field with ease on a long drive that should have yielded points but the normally reliable Pat Leahy missed a 39 yarder.

The first half ended with the score NYJ 14, DEN 10, which coincidently was

Kenny O'Brien proved to be the better "class of 83" QB as he outdueled his much more hearalded counterpart Mr. Elway. OB threw for 356 yards and 4 TD's as he went 27 for 39. Johnny Hector peformed more than admirably rushing 17 for 79. On the defensive front the Jets shut Elway out in the second half. Al Toon was 9-134 and two TD's. Johnny Hector caught 7 passes for 65 yards and a TD as well.
AFC Div Rd: Denver 30, New England 20
New England only ran the ball 7 times all afternoon. Elway had 3 picks to go along with his 3 TD's. Tony Collins caught 11 passes for 99 yards in lieu of a running attack for the Pats. New England's Ronnie Lippett had 2 INT's off of Elway in a losing cause.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
NFC Div Rd: Bears Scalp Skins 31-13

This game got off to an auspicious start. At one point Washington had a 13-7 lead in the first quarter. One of their TD's came off of a blocked Maury Buford punt, which Rich Milot recovered and ran back 31 yards. After that all the scoring went Chicago's way. Dennis Gentry grabbed two TD catches as Washington keyed Walter Payton and McMahon made them pay dearly.
Friday, December 28, 2007
AFC Div Rd: Jets re-write history in Cleveland

The second quarter saw a frenzy of points put on the board (33 total). The key play being a
Matt Bahr botched XP that gave the Jets a 1 point lead at the half. Cleveland moved the ball at will against the Jets pourus defense. Bernie Kosar hit Reggie Langhorne in stride for a huge 46 yard TD pass with :32 seconds left in the half to put the hometown team up by 6. As most fans headed to the warm corridors of Municipal Stadium to get their half time hot chocolate, amongst other beverages, Bobby Humphrey took a short Bahr kick back 90 yards and all of a sudden the Jets had a 1 point lead at the half.

Coaches Schneider and Weiss returned with their troops for second half that
would ultimately decide the contest. Cleveland struck first as Bahr hit a 28 yard field goal to culminate an 8 play drive. Up by 2 the Browns now had to play some tight defense. 4:07 later the Jets traveled 80 yards and went up by 5 as Ken O'Brien hit Wesley Walker in the end zone for 15 yard TD strike.

Opposite of real life the 4th quarter was all Jets. Cleveland's passing game
ground to a halt. The Cleveland receivers were all fatigued beyond belief. RB Earnest Byner only touched the ball 4 times. Cleveland's game play had gone awry. The Jets spent the whole 4th quarter double teaming and playing nickle D, just daring the Browns to run. The run never came. The Jets finally opened it up and began throwing the ball all over the place. Al Toon caught an 9 yard TD pass and Freeman McNeil caught one for 4 yards as the Jets pulled away. Ken O'Brien had a career day going 22-29-329-4TD-Int. He was unstoppable. Freeman McNeil had 100 yards, even, on the ground.
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