Word: championships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While a career in the NHL may be lurking in Taylor's future, he's not thinking about that yet. There are other matters to take care of--10 more regular season games, the ECAC Tournament and (perhaps) another crack at the NCAA Championship...
...Young had forecast, a terrible wind came up last week at the conference- championship game against the Washington Redskins. The runner he had standing ready was 5-ft. 7-in. Joe Morris of Syracuse University, and the defense consisted hugely of Linebackers Harry Carson, Gary Reasons, Carl Banks and the Most Valuable Player in the National Football League, Lawrence Taylor. The Giants won the game, 17-0, and the playoffs, 66-3, maiming two opposing quarterbacks in the process...
...play march third downs required something wonderful. On a third-and-18 play near midfield, Coach Dan Reeves advised Elway to try for just half of it, recalling the cautious voice of Baltimore Coach Weeb Ewbank that Johnny Unitas never heeded in the Colt-Giant sudden-death championship game of 1958. Elway completed his 20-yd. pass to Mark Jackson, and another of 5 yds. for the touchdown. In terms a Giant can understand, pro football had a new standard for closing flourishes. No less an authority than Dallas' Tom Landry, New York's defensive coach in that legendary loss...
...York won on a Martin interception, 19-16. "Their pass defense was terrific," said Simms. "I hate playing teams with terrific pass defenses." Of Elway, Taylor mused, "I sure hope we don't have to face him again." If everyone is right, and the Giants win their first world championship in 30 years, Coach Parcells will be soaked with his usual Gatorade. If everyone is wrong, something stronger will be in order, at least in New Jersey...
...like a bloodbath or a serious algae problem. Notre Dame's famous jocks are ossified as the Fighting Irish, though Hibernian-American athletes are about as rare in South Bend as they are on the Boston Celtics. Nothing exposed the nickname crisis more starkly than the 1982 NCAA basketball championship game played between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Even if you know what a hoya or a tarheel is, the only sensible strategy is to forget it. (For those overwhelmed by a need to know, hoya is short for Hoya saxa!, a garbled Greek and Latin...