Comments on: Giants versus 49ers: January 4, 1987 http://gmenhq.com/2012/10/12/giants-versus-49ers-january-4-1987/ A NY Giants Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: tom_brant http://gmenhq.com/2012/10/12/giants-versus-49ers-january-4-1987/comment-page-1/#comment-4841 tom_brant Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:26:06 +0000 http://gmenhq.com/?p=9711#comment-4841 All good points!!! There are so many great moments in this series! Gets you pumped up as a Giants fan! All good points!!! There are so many great moments in this series! Gets you pumped up as a Giants fan!

]]> By: Tufdan http://gmenhq.com/2012/10/12/giants-versus-49ers-january-4-1987/comment-page-1/#comment-4840 Tufdan Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:09:09 +0000 http://gmenhq.com/?p=9711#comment-4840 Yes...That hit on Montana was brutal. See a post I did a few weeks back to view it. http://gmenhq.com/2012/01/04/giants-pound-49ers-next-stop-nfc-championship-25-years-ago-this-week/ Yes…That hit on Montana was brutal. See a post I did a few weeks back to view it.

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]]> By: dbs50 http://gmenhq.com/2012/10/12/giants-versus-49ers-january-4-1987/comment-page-1/#comment-4838 dbs50 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:35:25 +0000 http://gmenhq.com/?p=9711#comment-4838 You forgot to mention two memorable events in this game: (1) Early in Q1, Jerry Rice caught a pass on a crossing pattern over the middle and then began streaking down the field toward the endzone. No one was going to catch him. SF was going to break out to an early lead. And then, maybe five yards or so from the endzone, out of the blue, for no apparent reason whatsoever, Rice fumbled the ball. No one hit him. No one knocked the ball loose. He just dropped it. The Giants recovered--if memory serves, in the endzone--and it was all G-Men from there. (2) Joe Montana wasn't just "unable to finish the game." Jim Burt absolutely leveled him on a pass deep in SF territory late in Q2. Montana's pass was intercepted by LT who took it in for a pick six and made the score 28-3 at the half. People somtimes forget about the Burt hit because of the even more devastating one by Leonard Marshall in the NFC championship four years later. But it was brutal. You forgot to mention two memorable events in this game:

(1) Early in Q1, Jerry Rice caught a pass on a crossing pattern over the middle and then began streaking down the field toward the endzone. No one was going to catch him. SF was going to break out to an early lead. And then, maybe five yards or so from the endzone, out of the blue, for no apparent reason whatsoever, Rice fumbled the ball. No one hit him. No one knocked the ball loose. He just dropped it. The Giants recovered–if memory serves, in the endzone–and it was all G-Men from there.

(2) Joe Montana wasn’t just “unable to finish the game.” Jim Burt absolutely leveled him on a pass deep in SF territory late in Q2. Montana’s pass was intercepted by LT who took it in for a pick six and made the score 28-3 at the half. People somtimes forget about the Burt hit because of the even more devastating one by Leonard Marshall in the NFC championship four years later. But it was brutal.

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