Word: playoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cleveland Browns led the Los Angeles Rams, 10-7. A year ago, when the two teams played for the National Football League championship, it was Groza's unerring toe which won the game, 30-28, in the last 30 seconds of play. In this week's playoff game at Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, football history seemed to be repeating itself...
...seldom got the fever so acutely or fallen so wildly in love with one team. The Giants' astounding last-second playoff victory over Brooklyn threatened to make the World Series itself an anticlimax. But it also captured the nation's imagination, and when the Giants' Monte Irvin stole home in the first inning of the first game (see SPORT), the Series was suddenly exciting...
Slowly, then faster & faster as the Dodgers faltered, the Giants closed the gap, winning 37 of their last 44 games, tied the Dodgers at season's end and forced a playoff. During that frantic final week, Durocher repeated persistently: "Don't interview me. I'm not doing a thing. It's my players who are doing the work. Talk with all of them; they're a great bunch. It's a privilege to manage them." While Durocher kept mum, the Giants won the first playoff game, lost the second, and trailed...
...most frantic finish in the National League since the Dodgers overhauled the Cardinals in 1946 and were beaten out of the pennant in a postseason playoff. The Giants, rated as red-hot contenders in spring training, had bumbled into an eleven-game losing streak at the beginning of the season, could never seem to get going again. But in mid-August, behind the standout pitching of Sal Maglie and Larry Jansen, they had started to move, and won a phenomenal 37 of their last 44 games. With the pressure on, the Dodgers dropped five of their last eight games...
...Brooklyn victory tied up the National League race again, and put the Giants and Dodgers into a two-out-of-three-game playoff this week for the right to meet the Yankees in the series...