Wild Card Sunday
by Rob Holecko
Well today is Wild Card Sunday, a couple good games on tap today -- the Falcons take on the Giants in Game 1 and the Steelers take on the Broncos in the last game of the weekend. It's been a good weekend for all three Gulf coast teams. The Texans and the Saints stamped their ticket into the next round, and for the first time in ten weeks, the Bucs won't have a loss this weekend.
We now take you back to our "On This Day..." segment. Twelve years ago, on January 8, 2000, the Titans pulled off the Music City Miracle, as Frank Wycheck threw across the field to Kevin Dyson on a kickoff return, who took it down the sideline and to the end zone for the winning score. The Titans went on to defeat the Colts and the Jaguars before coming up a yard short in Super Bowl XXXIV to the Rams.
We are proud to add this game to our collection of past games in our database.
Things have picked up over the last week, so we haven't been bringing you a "On This Day..." religiously everyday, however, there was another one from a couple days ago we'd like to mention anyhow. Friday was the anniversary of the January 6, 1980 playing of the 1979 NFC Championship. The fourth-year expansion Bucs were the story of the NFL in 1979, making it all the way to nine points away from the Super Bowl.Also regarding a recent "On This Day.." I corrected a typo regarding the January 5 On This Day, I erroneously said that the Giants had come back from a huge deficit in their 2002 Wild Card win against the 49ers. It was actually the 49ers that came back from trailing in that game, and I was corrected by our own Bill Schaefer. I don't know which was worse, that I again displayed such a blatant disregard for fact-checking, or that of our 98,000+ visitors, none of them noticed the error. Which reminds me, there is a hidden "Easter Egg" of sorts on our site, an intentional error that I left on the site in early October, to see if anyone noticed. I'm not going to give any more hints, but it involved a team that won a game yesterday. First one to notice and reply in the comments will receive recognition in tomorrow's blog and will be allowed to select a favorite game of theirs from any game in NFL History for us to add to our database. (Tim & Bill not eligible, this time.)
Another thing we'd like to mention is we will soon be rolling out the 2011 team pages for all of the teams that missed the playoffs, as well as further teams as they are eliminated, will be added soon. These pages will be added to the links in the left and right columns on the main page. Look for these soon.
Tomorrow is my birthday, but more importantly it is also the earliest date that a Super Bowl was ever played, so our "On This Day..." segment will be kicked up a notch to "Super" status beginning tomorrow. All Super Bowls will be added to the site in the next month, as they will be featured in upcoming "On This Day..." segments.
Have a good, enjoy the football.
The 1976 Saints aren't showing up, is that the Easter Egg?
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I did notice the error from the 2002 Giants - 49'ers Wild Card Game. I chose not to offer a correction as I still have scar tissue from that one and deep down still feel the Giants were jobbed. The thought of the Giants being the team that came back made me smile a little...
No, that wasn't the easter egg -- just an ordinary foul up (which will be fixed immediately)... Also, it'd didn't matter about your '02 Giants, either Niners or Giants would have gone down to my Bucs that year! Although, I know the feeling, as Derrick Brooks said whichever team that won that '07 NYG-TB wild card game was going to win the Super Bowl, it saddens me to think how close the Bucs were to being the team that would have knocked off the 18-0 Pats instead of your G-Men.
ReplyDeleteHa! Maybe the Giants would've lost, but they would've given Tampa a better game than San Francisco did.
ReplyDelete...and if no one notices the Easter Egg, I will continue to add hints each day until someone gets it.
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