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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 03:44 PM
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Here's what the Super Bowl will look like in 2014...
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Yeah. This should go real well.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/05/joe_gibbs_on_a_new_york_super.html

On Jan. 11, 1987, the Redskins played the Giants for the NFC championship in East Rutherford. The Redskins lost, 17-0, getting shut out for the first time in the Gibbs era. The winds that day were gusting up to 30 mph, and Gibbs later said that the coin flip, which the Skins lost, "was possibly the biggest play of the game." And the post-game reports read more like weather reports than game stories.

Christine Brennan:

The score was New York 17, Washington 0, with the following footnote: the only thing more dominating than the Giants was the wind, which gusted up to 30 mph....

There was no comeback today, for several reasons. The wind was the largest factor. "You had no control over the ball after 12 to 15 yards," Schroeder said. He threw 34 times in the second half (the Redskins ran only once), but completed just 14.

Ken Denlinger:

There had been a quadruple conspiracy against Sunday: his own erratic arm, his receivers dropping passes properly thrown, the Giants' relentless defense and a wind that made the football fluttery as a balloon....

"The wind took the ball after about 15 yards, made it tough to judge," he said. "I tried to power it, but it was like catching a knuckleball. Green Bay was as windy, but this was more of a swirling wind. That one was straight on {and a tight spiral could defeat it}."

Leonard Shapiro:

Lots of things didn't happen for the Redskins this blustery day. Yes, they even blamed the wind for Bostic's low snap on a botched 51-yard field goal attempt that led to the Giants' final touchdown.

"When you have a 40-mile-per-hour wind, it's amazing what it can do to the football," Bostic said. "I was trying to keep the snap low. I really don't know if the wind got it, but I'm sure it was a factor. The wind had an effect on everything."

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