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1989-1990 |
| Date: |
12/10/1989 |
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NFL |
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Regular Season Wk: 14 |
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New York Giants (NFL) |
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Denver Broncos |
| Location: |
Denver, CO - Mile High Stadium |
| Network: |
CBS |
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| Commercials: |
Partly Edited |
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None |
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Complete |
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Unknown |
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Converted From VHS Master |
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John Madden and Pat Summerall Call the game.
The Giants win a big one out west. Key plays - Dave Meggett getting a 57 yard touchdown on 3rd and 31...Gary Reasons stuffs Bobby Humphrey on 4th and goal from the 1 and knocks his mouthpiece out doing so. L.T. was injured and didn`t play until the 4th quarter. Pat Summerall and John Madden have the call.
Giants Plow Past Broncos in Snow, 14-7
By FRANK LITSKY, Special to The New York Times
Published: December 11, 1989
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DENVER, Dec. 10— On a cold, nasty day on which at least 8 inches of snow fell on Mile High Stadium, the Giants warmed the hearts of supporters who had almost given up on them.
The Giants had lost their last two games - against the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles - because they kept giving the ball away. Here, they upset the Broncos, 14-7, as the offense made no turnovers and the defense allowed John Elway to pass for only one touchdown.
The Giants raised their record to 10-4 and moved closer to a berth in the National Football League playoffs. They remained tied for their division lead with the Philadelphia Eagles, who beat the Dallas Cowboys, 20-10, earlier in the day. Because the Eagles won both of their games with the Giants, Philadelphia is favored to win the division title. But if the Giants beat the Cowboys on Saturday or the Los Angeles Raiders eight days later at Giants Stadium, they will clinch at least a wild-card playoff berth.
The Broncos have already clinched their division title. This was their second consecutive loss and dropped their record to 10-4.
It was a nice day to stay home and watch football on television.
The 63,283 who braved the weather (12,771 who had bought tickets did not) saw the Giants score twice in the first 23 minutes and then hold off Elway`s scrambling and bombing.
The field was covered by tarpaulins until 75 minutes before the opening kickoff. By game time, the temperature was 23 degrees and falling, the wind had reached 15 miles an hour and the wind-chill factor was zero and falling.
As the game went on, the field became muddy on the inside and frozen outside.
``You couldn`t breathe because of the cold,`` said Mark Collins, the Giants cornerback.
``I slipped bad one time,`` said Ottis Anderson, the Giants` running back.
``I slipped a couple of times,`` Collins said.
It was amazing that in such conditions, neither team turned over the ball on an interception or a fumble. Elway did not even seem to mind the weather, saying, ``I had no problem throwing the ball.``
He was able to move the ball, too, completing 23 of 47 passes for 292 yards. Of that total, 100 yards came in the last five and a half minutes of the game.
In weather like this, an early lead is especially important. The Giants got that early lead.
The first time they had the ball, they held it for 8 minutes 53 seconds and drove 85 yards to a touchdown. On the second play of the second quarter, Anderson scored it on a 3-yard run. Meggett`s Return Helps
Five and a half minutes later, Dave Meggett`s 26-yard punt return put the Giants on the Broncos` 36. A tripping penalty against Bart Oates and a 12-yard sack of Simms knocked the Giants back to their 43, facing third down and 31 yards to go for a first down.
Then came the play that decided the game. Simms threw a screen pass to Dave Meggett, who juggled the ball, then caught it. Oates and William Roberts threw big blocks and Meggett darted left, then right, then raced alone for a 57-yard touchdown play.
It was sweet redemption for Simms and Meggett. In the last two weeks, Simms had turned over the ball seven times. Last Sunday, Meggett`s fumble cost the Giants a touchdown, and when he misplayed a 91-yard punt, the Eagles went on to score the winning touchdown.
``The offensive line made a lot of good blocks on my touchdown,`` Meggett said, ``and I took it to where the opening was.``
``That was a huge play for them,`` said Coach Dan Reeves of the Broncos. ``It gave them a 14-point lead, and these were tough conditions to have to play catch up against anybody, but especially against a good defensive team.`` Penalties Hurt Broncos
After that, the Broncos controlled the Giants` running game by committing as many as eight defenders to stopping it. Meanwhile, the Broncos` offense tried to catch up, only to abort drives with penalties.
In the second quarter, Bobby Humphrey`s 50-yard run was wiped out by a holding penalty against Gerald Perry, a Broncos` offensive tackle. Perry had trouble all day with Leonard Marshall, the Giants` quick defensive end, and finished with two penalties for holding and one for tripping (the Giant declined that one).
Last Sunday, the Giants made a successful goal-line stand against the Eagles. Late in the third quarter here, they had another opportunity when the Broncos had second down on the Giants` 2. On fourth down, the Broncos were a foot or so from the goal line. Humphrey leaped over right guard, only to have Gary Reasons, the Giants` inside linebacker, leap himself and smash into Humphrey with frightening power, for a 1-yard loss.
``That`s where I was supposed to be,`` Reasons said.
The Giants escaped that time, but not the next. They punted away the ball, and three plays later, after a scramble, Elway passed 32 yards to Michael Young, alone in the end zone. Broncos Stopped
That narrowed the Giants` lead to 14-7, with 14:29 left in the game. The Broncos had the ball three times after that, but could not tie the score.
They moved from their 20 to the Giants` 15, only to have Elway`s fourth-down pass batted high and knocked down in the end zone. They got the ball again and moved from their 23 to the Giants` 34, only to have another pass knocked away in the end zone as time ran out.
``This is one of the great games since I`ve been here,`` said Coach Bill Parcells of the Giants. ``We had two very disappointing losses that took a lot of starch out of us, but we came out to this place in this weather and won it.``
Photos of Giants` David Meggett breaking tackle by Broncos` Tyrone Braxton (AP) (pg. C1) game between the Giants and Bronco`s (AP)` (pg. C6)
Score: N.Y. Giants 14 Denver 7 Scoring: NYG - Anderson 3 yd run (XP Nittmo) NYG - Meggett 57 yd pass from Simms (XP Nittmo) DEN - Young 32 yd pass from Elway (XP Treadwell)
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