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 First Quarter Clarence Verdin waddles the ball out to the negative 31. Colts Drive #1 If you thought we'd see any three-and-outs today, then your name must be "everyone." Thanks, Colts, for getting that party started early. Punt kicker Rohn Stark, one of the best in the league, is on for the punt kick.
After a one-yard loss by John Stephens on first down, Grogan fires up what can only be described as a "lazy lob" to Eugene Daniel, Indianapolis cornerback. Daniel and Fryar indiscriminately either wrestle or vigorously make out for ten seconds, before the play comes to a welcome conclusion. Colts Drive #2 George threads a first-down pass to Jessie Hester for eleven yards. Albert Bentley, everyone's favorite disintegrating halfback, is hit by Ronnie Lippett on the draw play and coughs it up. The Patriots will be starting at the eleven again and the Colts' offense will be gaining as many yards while standing on the sideline as they do when they're on the field. Patriots Drive #2 After a Grogan mortar shot was dropped by two Colt defenders, John Stephens picks up 17 yards on a sweep. Two plays later, Grogan painfully heaves a pass to Hart Lee Dykes (...not quite as cool as Ivy Joe Hunter...) who hauls in the miracle and has the Patriots almost to the 50. The Pats then use a pass and a run with John Stephens to move them into prime scoring range at the Indy 35. End of 1st Quarter: Indianapolis-0, New England-0
Patriots Drive #2 (Continued) Stephens is clearly the best player in this game right now, chewing up another fifteen yards on the bottom sweep. Three plays later, though, it's the man feared by more airborne animals than anyone else scoring the TD on the scramble. 7-0, New England Colts Drive #3 Now what happened here was as unjust as the elaborate framing of OJ Simpson. Jessie Hester hauled in a pass from Jeff George but then coughed it up. The ball bounced out of bounds, off the first down chains, and then into Maurice Hurst's taped hands. The referees, wherever they might be, turned a blind eye and allowed the play to stand. The Indianapolis protests of "It is reprehensible to job a team without any discernible football talent" fell on similarly deaf ears. Patriots Drive #3
10-0, New England Colts Drive #4 After their first two plays netted them exactly -7 yards, Jeff George threw a three yard pass into the chest of Ed Reynolds who brings the ball inside his opponents' ten. Patriots Drive #4 With time dwindling in the first half, Jason Staurovsky drills home another kick from 25 yards to push the New England lead to 13. 13-0, New England End of 2nd Quarter: New England-13, Indianapolis-0 Halftime The panty shot brightened the Colts' fans moods a little bit, but the fact that they committed a Tecmoally astounding FOUR turnovers in one half has both of them wondering why they would stay committed to a digital team with exactly four wins since the game's creation. 3rd Quarter Patriots Drive #5 Grogan tries the same scramble bullshit on first down, but Jeff Herrod buries his poor decision-making head into the turf for Indy's first sack. Steven then overshot his receiver by a good ten yards, but Mr. Lee Dykes soared for the ball and then brought it down to the Indianapolis 35. Grogan gets justice shoved into his grill on the next play, though, when his moon shot is intercepted for the second time by a diving Eugene Daniel. Colts Drive #5
Patriots Drive #6 Steve Grogan picks up 31 yards on a scramble on first down. If there was any doubt that the Colts needed to have their NFL operators' license revoked before, there isn't any longer. Marvin Allen gets his name in the scorebook on the next play with a twelve-yard reception. Two plays later? He gets to etch his name into the gurney as it hauls him off the field. To the dismay of the crowd, New England elects to substitute Adams instead of Tatupu. Naturally the drive stalls after this horrible oversight and Jason Staurovsky is forced to bail his squad out yet again. 16-0, New England Colts Drive #6 Runs by Ivy Joe and Albert give Indianpolis a first down and leave them just a couple touchdowns and incredibly elusive two-point conversions short of a tie ballgame. End of 3rd Quarter: New England-16, Indianapolis-0 4th Quarter Colts Drive #6 (Continued)
On the very next play, Jeff George connects with Bill Brooks to get Indianapolis on the scoreboard. 16-7, New England Patriots Drive #7 While Adams is still no Mosi, he does pick up thirty yards to already move the Patriots into Colts territory. Adams carries again on the same play and has another first down, but then coughs the ball up to Mike Prior. Prior plods down the field in one of the slowest returns that the Japanese have ever produced, finally collapsing from boredom at the Pats' 39. Colts Drive #7 This is probably part of the reason why the Colts have only one win this year. Down by two scores, Indy is facing a fourth-and-four and rather than allow BiaSucky the chance tack up an important three points, the Colts are going for it. Yeah, Bentley ends up busting a 30 yard run for a TD, but that was just poor football manag....oh man, I can't believe I just got shown up by Indianapolis. 16-14, New England Patriots Drive #8 Grogan recovers the onside kick with 1:05 remaining and the Patriots look to be in good shape. On third and four with forty seconds left, Grogan ices the game by scrambling for twenty-five yards, avenging the Patriots' first week loss to Indianapolis. Closing Thought Shmindianapolis made this pretty exciting by rallying in the fourth quarter and if they could've contained Grogan on his last scramble, may have had a chance at one more hail mary. But four first half turnovers would doom anybody, especially when the automatic leg of our player of the game, Jason Staurovsky, capitalizes on them every time.   |
