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09-09-2001, 01:54 PM
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I knew this one right away, but to even the odds for others, I don't think it was a trick play - I think it was a muff... |
09-09-2001, 02:33 PM
|  | Rockin The Suburbs | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chantilly, VA
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I stand corrected and plead early Sunday morning pre-coffee (okay, pre-third cup) memory lapse. Let me recast the spell:
Thank goodness my team ended up winning the game. In fact, we were perfect that season; we never lost. We had a couple of big name players, but faced a gritty team in the championship. There, with a comfortable lead, I was the focus of a botched play. Great at my position that year, I tried to salvage this play and ended up making things worse. In baseball, poor Fred Merkle has stood through time as an example of a boneheaded play, but historians later mostly exonerated him, just like they have me. (In fact, there was this fellow Risch who once corrected, but nah, that's another story...)
In any event, here's a clue. My first name has the same number of letters that our pal Merkle's had.
Oh yes, we won by more than the scoreboard showed, (we did every game that year) but it might have been a shutout were it not for this play. You might say we were greasy fast, kicked the stuffing out of them and zonked everyone we played that year. |
09-09-2001, 03:17 PM
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You are Garo Yepremian, kicker on the Miami Dolphin's perfect 1972 team. With 2 minutes left you hit a teammate in the back while trying to kick a field goal. You manage to get the ball and try to pass it to a teammate but the ball was intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
I really liked the clues (greasy particularly) but once I woke up they weren't needed (just took me a while today! jeesh).
I'll be back with the next entry momentarily.
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09-09-2001, 03:24 PM
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In a sport dominated by Russians we were the first given not only a chance to beat them, but even favored to win over them. Five time national champions competing in our home country, a collective gasp was heard live and on television when we were forced to withdraw from competition due to an injury during the warmups.
Have at it!
Janice |
09-10-2001, 02:31 PM
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It's better NOT be figure skating
*whistles innocently*
Finn |
09-10-2001, 03:13 PM
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*looks sweet and innocent* Would I do that?
Janice |
09-11-2001, 01:58 AM
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*raises eyebrow* Why not? Technically I've got a couple of answers, but then it turned out that England was injured in Germany and Germany was injured somewhere else. Makes sense? Gawd, I don't know, but it's better NOT be figure skating.
At least it's not baseball or football this time, mwa-haha
Finn |
09-22-2001, 11:46 PM
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Hint: it is figure skating 
Janice |
09-23-2001, 09:58 AM
|  | Geeky goof | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Boston, Mass.
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Hmmm ... did that happen after 1980?
Ailsa
who has no clue, but has never let that stop her before |
09-23-2001, 11:34 AM
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did that happen after 1980? No
Janice |
09-23-2001, 02:22 PM
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The only thing I can come up with is when the US team was killed in '61.
Question - what country was being represented? |
09-23-2001, 09:21 PM
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Question - what country was being represented? USA
And no one died in the making of this event.
Janice |
09-24-2001, 01:00 AM
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Hmm, ok, let's try... figure skating, aye?
Event: 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid
Who: Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner
Finn |
09-24-2001, 10:12 AM
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You are correct Finn. Your turn.
Janice |
09-24-2001, 02:29 PM
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Hmm, maybe for the second time in my life I'm glad I'm Russian, heh
Here is mine:
It was one of the most spectacular comebacks in the history of my sport. After years of struggling with back injury I decided to wrap up my career and did not hope to get anywhere far. Shocking as it was to me, it was surprising to everyone I made it to the Final. If the tournament consisted of only that one game, it would still stay in history forever. Everyone expected an easy win for my opponent. I did not care, just wanted to play what it seems like my last final [which later turned out to be not true]. Crowd was way more supportive to me than to my opponent. That’s what broke her after a terrific beginning. That and a linesman calling the ball out. She started arguing for no reason whatsoever, I was standing there thinking, “what the heck, it’s just one ball”. She still could win after that, physically, not mentally. I played my game and won my last major tournament. Terrific finale for a terrific career.
Easy, err?
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