Cowboys vs. Giants Sep. 20 , 1987 part 16 End

The Giants play their 2nd game of the strike-shortened 1987 season vs. the Dallas Cowboys in the Meadowlands.

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• Danny
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[playmayker88]

Dallas should have ran Dorsett on that 4th and Goal. He had a good game with 70 yards. Maybe with Walker in motion and Dorsett and newsome in the backfield would have spread out the defense and a pitch to Dorsett or even a draw to Newsome would have worked.

But who am I to 2nd guess Tom Landry?

[cnsparrot]

Back in the days GO COWBOYS

[optimus2g]

@22steve5150 Nor should they. Their dynasties were birthed in part to the Giants' incompetence during that era. I was lucky enough to be a fan of the Giants from the George Young era forward in which they won 3 SBs and got to a 4th, while also leaving a possible championship on the table in 1989. If Welly wasn't so overly loyal and into nepotism, they would have fired Allie Sherman and hired Lombardi before he got scooped up.

[22steve5150]

@optimus2g yeah, it is amazing how they had 2 of the greatest coaches in league history as OC and DC and ended up letting both of them go, though in fairness i believe they actually tried to get lombardi back in the early 60s. well too bad for them, as i dont think that any packers fans or cowboys fans are gonna shed a tear about it!

[optimus2g]

@22steve5150 Of course he loved Landry. Landry also loved the Maras. After JJ fired him, Welly invited him to sit with him in his Owner's box for the Rams-Giants playoff game at Giants Stadium in January of 1990. Welly had Landry as his DC---who played his whole career for them---and Lombardi---a native NYer---as his OC, and hired neither. No wonder the Giants' lost years were when those 2 were in their hey day and the Giants were completely mismanaged.

[22steve5150]

@optimus2g he also loved dallas, as he lived there and has worked locally on cowboys related things, and he may have also like dallas because of landry, who was the giants defensive coordinator during several seasons that summerall played for them

[optimus2g]

@FLA2000SEAN Summerall is actually a Giants homer. Remember that he played with them and remained close to the Maras his entire life. Listen to Summerall's call when the Giants beat the 49ers in the 90 NFC Title Game. You could here the favortism in his voive when LT recovered Craig's fumble, and when Bahr hit the game-winning kick at the final gun.

[battleax86]

@Weissmenchland Three of the players around him were doing the same thing because it started off straight, then hooked left...

[krierp8]

Yep, and a couple of weeks later (in a replacement game) the Cowboys went to Giants Stadium wearing their blue jerseys again this time against the Jets. The only difference this time is that the Jets wore their white unis at home for the entire season not just against the Cowboys.

[njwhse]

@DanimalBr ..yeah. that was the Thunder and Lightning game. Funny thing, i was at that game...i must've been drunker than i thought...i dont recall the jerseys that day.

[DanimalBr]

@njwhse Nope. Next to last game I do believe. In 2000, the year the Giants switched back to the Old jersey's with the "NY" on their helmets, they opened up the season by wearing their white jerseys at home in a game against the Arizona Cardinals. For what reason I do not know.

[quietriotfan1976]

There's just something about hearing Summerall and Madden call the NFC east games that just brings back alot of memories.

Also, Allegre was a medicore placekicker. That's why the Colts drafted Dean Biasucci in Indaniapolis, and why the Giants brought in Matt Bahr in 1990. Allegre was always in danger of losing his job.