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OK, now Tom should rescind his acceptance, play vs. the Cardinals, then reaccept and sit out the next four...ESPN is not relevant enough to warrant the term "villain"; they're just a meaningless pile of cow dung...I do not know how much money they'd have to pay me to work for them, and then I would still not defend them.I'm thinking ESPN needs an dishonorable mention.
What a bunch of children over there.
Sorry, Pats, especially Grogan, were beat up by the time they played that game, Chuck Fairbanks' last here. Tom Owen led a too-late comeback charge. But Dan & the Oilers were really always the likable alternative to the annoying Steelers throughout the 70's; Coach Phillips drawled pearls of wisdom every time he opened his mouth, and he treated his players like family, and they responded. When they traded Dan, somehow things were never the same...his personality was huge, like Russ Francis. I was frankly happy later though, when he got injured and it gave Jim Plunkett a chance to get back in there, after maybe the worst five-year stretch of injuries and misfortune I've seen an athlete endure.
It was a bad, sad day all around, for us. Hasselbeck got back-back holding calls in one drive. Things definitely went the Oilers' way. Today, they're gone. What does Houston have? The Texans? Please. And the franchise, now in Tennessee...
Having been there that day, with all due respect, suggesting that the game that day was lost on a bad call is like saying that Katrina was a thundershower. It was disgraceful. Pats sucked big time.
Of course that play didn't determine the game; it was simply indicative of how the day went. Besides playing with some bad injuries, the Pats weren't focused properly and they certainly weren't playing well at the end of that season. To clarify, the anger directed at coach Fairbanks was unjust; after he built the best team in the league, he got robbed in '76; then, after he came to an agreement with Hannah & Gray in '77, Mr. Sullivan refused to pay them, extending their holdout and leading to costly early losses at Cleveland and New York which kept us out of the playoffs. As coaches do all the time, he accepted a golden offer from Colorado so he didn't have to worry about having the rug pulled out from under him again. The worst thing he ever did was to try to make Plunkett a runner, which nearly got the kid killed, and cutting Tom Neville.
But there are people here who vilify Kraft as an owner without ever having experienced the clown show under the Sullivans. And injuries didn't play a significant part in that game. Horrible ownership did, as well as awful coaching and leadership. 31-14 loss to a team you're clearly better than is inexcusable. Fairbanks didn't cover himself in glory that day, either. He quit caring days before and made no secret of it. Walking across Route 1 about 12:30 pm on our way into the game that day scalpers were were offering tickets for under $5. Everyone knew what was coming.
Sorry. William? Billy?
Is it finally time to accept the truth and allow CT to secede from New England?I'm thinking ESPN needs an dishonorable mention.
What a bunch of children over there.
