SPORTS-(BRONCOS)

10/23/05 vs. New York Giants (L 23-24)
The old cliche is that ya's gotta' be tough ta' make it in New York. For 56 minutes on Sunday, the Broncos were tough. Their defense controlled the game and the offense chugged along with a workman-like, smashmouth pace. Mike Anderson ran up 120-some yards and Tatum Bell provided another 60 with flash. Anderson and Bell were more "Thunder and Lightning" than the Giants old 2000-2001 duo of Ron Dayne and Tiki Barber.

Around the 56 minute mark, the Broncos felt that they had done enough, being up 23-10. Half of the team started up the Turnpike and wanted to get the hell out of New Jersey. Eli Manning was rallying the Football Giants until he was picked off by Champ Bailey around the 4-minute mark of the fourth quarter. The Broncos were slowly driving into Giants territory until George Foster was flagged for holding. Mike Anderson had run for a first down and ended up close to the 20, but it was wiped out and the Broncos faced fourth down around the 30. Jason Elam launched a curveball that missed the right upright and suddenly the dying Giants lurched off the operating table and began to walk.

Manning led the Giants down the field and threw what was officially a 2 TD pass to Amani Toomer for the 24-23 win. John Lynch blitzed on the play and chased Manning back to roughly the 20 yard line. Unofficially, it may have been the longest 2 yard TD pass in NFL history. Just as they did in 1998, the Broncos were doing their best Governor Arnold in "Kindergarten Cop" impressions, by shouting "it's not a Toomer!" With 5 second left, The Broncos tried a lame lateral attempt on the ensuing. The Giants recovered the lateral, ending the Broncos trunover-free streak as well as their 5 game winning streak.

I'm mildy happy, because if the Donkies had to lose, at least it made my "cousin", Michael Strahan happy. Strahan flashed his famous gap-toothed grin and kicked his legs in the air after Toomer's catch. Strahan got a good vertical flight...but it's nothing compared to the usual vertical distance and kicks that were missed due to the absence of Renee Herlocker and Kollette Klassen.

If the Donkies had won, they would have received typed fellatio from the vaunted East Coast Press. The Giants are an okay team...but they're not the world beaters that the eastern media believes them to be. How else would you explain a 3-2 team being favored by 2 against a 5-1 team? A Donkies win would have been like a mid-season playoff victory...at least in the eyes of the media. Well, at least the Dnkikes lost by 1 point... so the Giants didn't cover the spread and thus, screwed over the bookies. I'm sure Silvio and Paulie are tossing someone in a car trunk as I type this.

Now at 5-2, the Broncos are right on schedule for their annual collapse. With upcoming games Philadelphia, at Oakland, the Jets, at Dallas, and at Kansas City, the usual phrases about "we've got too much talent to be in this situation" will appear before Thanksgiving. Come out of those games at 9-3, things are happy. Come out at 7-5 and you can start making plans for another road wildcard bludgeoning.

FINAL CUTS
...||...So help me out, here..are the Saints still the "inspirational story" they were in Week One?

...||... Dogs and cats living together! CBS went three full posessions and roughly 10 minutes of game time in the first quarter, before cutting away to commercials.

...||... Heads up trolls; here's your Renee Herlocker in Stuff Magazine picture, blatantly ripped off from StuffMagazine.com. Have fun with yourself. And how big of a weenie am I for putting it at the BOTTOM of this page? Not that you, y'know, READ the above article or anything.

...||... Thought it odd that Tatum Bell has a weekly radio show at Coyote Ugly in the Denver Pavilions, wednesdays at 6pm. I guess Shotgun Willie's doesn't open until 10.

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