Yes we spit the bit giving up that 47 yard bomb allowing them to re-establish their 'mojo' (and home crowd) back into the game, but truth be told imho there was a lot of "shot with their own gun" (fumbling) that went into it. I remember leading 10-0 and blowing an opportunity to break the game open via a turnover… That particular 'feel' (10-0 vs. a potential 17-0 lead) gave me pause… Atlanta in the SB?…..vvv ….Weeb to Namath circa 1998: "Joe, remember that 'don't rile 'em up?' stuff I warned you about back in 1/69?…..Fugggetttabout it…run your mouth for all I care you pre-arthroscopic son-of-a-bitch!….Morton Anderson's their biggest 'O' weapon…oh no, maybe that milquetoast punt returner (that we subsequently brought in for a cup o' coffee) " is the guy we gotta worry about…"
The bomb to McCaffery changed that game. we had that team and crowd stunned w/ the 10-0 lead. Our D had been playing great. You can't turn it over the way we were and expect to beat a top team. I still feel we were the better team.
I think we would have won but I'm not sure it would have been as easy as everyone thinks. They were really good and we did beat them up in the reg season BUT we were at home and Chris Chandler was out and 65 year old Steve DeBerg was at QB.
Bellicheck had a great gameplan In the 1st half he had Elway befuddled, Victor Green gave up the 47 yard bomb and then Meggett absolutely killed us in the 2nd half
There's some interesting irony in that picture of Flowers running for the NY Titans vs. the San Diego Chargers. Flowers signed a contract with the NY Giants in December 1959 but asked the Giants to keep it under wraps and not submit it to Pete Rozelle's office for approval so that he could remain an "amateur" and elligible to play in the Sugar Bowl on January 1. Wellington Mara accepted Flower's request and kept it hush-hush. Now the fun part: just before the Sugar Bowl the Los Angeles (later S.D) Chargers offered him more money than the Giants. Flowers accepted the Chargers' offer and backed out of his contract with the Giants who attempted to enforce their "hushed up" contract. But the sneaky G-men's request was denied due to their surreptitious wheeling and dealing...... *muted trumpet* 'wha...wha...wha...wha......' I like telling that one to my 'classy' Giant fans (along with the Pete Gogolak "gentlemen's agreement breech").
Sad thing Abyz Is he was a very good player who never fumbled...the last nail in the coffin was Van Dyke's fumble, it was still 20-10 and we were on their 22 yard line witn maybe 10 minutes left
I KNOW!!!! I loved the guy until that very moment, he was kind of a beast. Van Dyke, I just want to forget existed.
He was a great pass catcher out of the backfield and he was huge and strong and he would flatten LB's as well as corners and safeties
Mike Battle The first Jets-Giants game, August 1969, " In the second quarter, Mike Battle, the Jets’ glass-eating kick returner, leaped over two Giants on his way to an 86-yard punt return to give the Jets a 24-0 lead after the first 17 minutes." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/69-ny-jets-savor-super-encore-giants-inaugural-battle-bragging-rights-article-1.995230#ixzz38YZvEmjb
