I don't know whether to call them pessimists or realists. They seem to blend the two together.
By the way, I was too young to remember this game.
Actually the quadruplets played very well that game. The Lions quads that is.
Sept. 19, 1994 - In one of the most dramatic contests in recent memory, Detroit slipped past the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys as Jason Hanson drilled a 44-yard field goal with 32 seconds left in overtime to give the Lions a 20-17 win. Detroit snapped a four-game Monday Night Football losing streak as its defense forced three Cowboy turnovers (two in OT) and Barry Sanders tallied 194 yards rushing (second-highest in his career) on a club-record 40 carries. Dallas staked itself to a 7-0 lead after Troy Aikman hit Alvin Harper on a 17-yard strike to culminate an 80-yard drive on the game's opening possession. Detroit stormed back with a Hanson 32-yard field goal and Scott Mitchell (13-of-27 for 134 yards and 2 TDs) scoring tosses to Brett Perriman and Herman Moore to take a 17-7 lead midway through the third quarter. Detroit's defense stiffened after Dallas had first-and-goal at the Lion eight-yard line on the following drive, forcing Chris Boniol's 19-yard field goal to shrink the lead to 17-10. Emmitt Smith scampered six yards for the tying TD with 4:09 remaining in regulation. Hanson had a 57-yard attempt blocked by Dallas' Leon Lett on the final play of the fourth quarter setting up a wild overtime period. In overtime, Detroit took the kickoff to the Dallas 34-yard line setting up another chance for Hanson, but Lett blocked his second-consecutive Hanson offering to keep the score knotted. The next two Dallas drives were snuffed when Pat Swilling (one sack and seven solo tackles) recovered a fumble after Dallas G Derek Kennard caught a tipped pass, and Broderick Thomas (one sack and nine tackles) pounced on an Aikman fumble, giving Detroit possession at the Dallas 43-yard line and setting up Hanson's third chance at heroics. Detroit was also aided by a gutsy performance by Chris Spielman, who tallied 17 tackles (one short of his career-high) and two passes defensed.
Leon Lett blocked two GAMEWINNING field goals in the 4th and OT, respectively. Was he a starter yet at that time? Hopefully that 6'7" guy we brought in can block a FG or two this season.
Unfortunately I became a diehard Cowboy fan the year of the last Superbowl, actually I was a fairweather fan on the verge of diehard. So I don't remember much of the glory days. The first years of remembering the Cowboys came under Aikman's last days, 5-11 every season, Irvin at the Vet *shudder,* sigh, if only I was born 5 years earlier.
