sign in sign up
<<
Home , Super Bowl XXXIX, Super Bowl XXXVI

The Pendulum THE PENDULUM Thursday, January 20, 2005 Page 21

Youthful exuberance Injury Depleted Young women's basketball Men's basketball tries to hoping to build on right itself, earn first overtime victory. conference victory. See story p. 22 See story p. 23 Week'^ And then there were four ... m Patriots could extend modern-day dynasty

Mike Demos they’ve posted an NFL best 55-16 overall Saturday Columnist record including the playoffs) the mindset of Women's basketb.ill \s. Apjialachian an underdog, letting the other teams talk a big On Sunday, both conferences in the NFL State, 4:30 p.m. game and the national media not give them the will conduct their yearly title games with the credit they deserve. Men's basketball vs, Georgia ultimate prize to the respective victors being Coming into this game, both teams are fairly Southern, 7 p.m. ' an all expenses paid trip to Jacksonville, Fla., even and both sport the two best reconds in the for a chance to play in, and possibly win. league, with Pittsbuigh winning their last 15 XXXIX. Sunday games under the direction of rookie phenom Ben In the AFC, an intriguing Roethlisbeiger. However the Steelere showed No games scheduled. rematch, as the defending some kinks in the armor against the Jets, and if Super Bowl Champion not for two missed late field goals by kicker Monday trav­ Doug Brien, the Jets may have been watching el to (Teresa) this game from their homes. Men's basketball @ Furman, 7 p.m. in Pittsburgh to play the Meanwhile the Patriots are coming off an Steelers. The Patriots and emotional high. Everyone across the country Steelers have played twice Tuesday had finally written them off against the Demos in the new stadium, with No games scheduled. unstoppable Colts offense, then the Pats each team eaming a win. defense, with a little help from tlie New In 2001, the heavily favored Steelers hosted England weather, held one of the greatest Wednesday the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game offenses of all time to a mere three points. Women's basketball vs. Longwood, only to lose to backup Drew More impressive was that the Patriots did it all Bledsoe who filled in most of the game for the noon with a secondary anchored by a converted injured and led the Pats on their and an undrafted rookie. KRT Campus game winning touchdown drive, his last as a The Patriots seem to be the more polished Patriots coach Bill Belichicl<, above, member of the Patriots. The Patriots went on team. Pittsbuigh players have been outspoken all will iooia to hoist another Super Bowl to play in Super Bowl XXXVI, where they season long, and as history would dictate, that trophy in Jacksonville. defeated the St. Louis Rams for their first NFL usually comes back to bite a team in the playoffs. Championship. Also, you saw what Belichick did against week Vick ran for an unbelievable 119 yards Then this season, the Patriots took an NFL one of the greatest of all time last on the ground, a playoff record for a quarter­ record 21-game win streak into Heinz Field on week, so it is hard to think he cannot do the back. It broke the previous record set last year Halloween night only to be outmatched and same against a rookie who greatly stmggled in by none other then McNabb. outplayed by the healthier Steelers, 34-20. his first playoff game. The the Falcons, which used the combina­ This game will have historic implications as The Pats want payback for Halloween and tion of D-V-D (Dunn-Vick-DucketO, obliter­ well, as two of the AFC’s most successful payback they will get. Pats win this one going ated a porous Rams defense. franchises over the past 10 seasons match up away, 20-16. Against Ed Donatell’s revamped Atlanta on the gridiron. For Bill Cowher and the Now to the NFC where it’s the defense, the dink and dunks to Brian Steelers, this will be their fifth AFC tide game Eagles hosting the . The Westbrook won’t be enough for the Eagles in the last 10 seasons, most of any team in the Eagles are playing in their fourth straight con­ sans . For the fourth yeiir in a NFL. However, like their cross-state rival the ference championship game, one short of the row, Philly will go home in shock. The Eagles, the Steelers have stmggled in these Mason honored NFL record of five straight held by John Buft'alo Eagles, err, I mean Philadelphia, drop ■games.’ All five games have been in Madden’s Raiders back in the 1970s. For the Bi^ndon - Mason, center for theElon this one, 24-17. Pittsburgh, all five times Pittsburgh has been dirty birds (a.k.a. the Falcons) this will be their University football team, continued to rack So that sets up a New England-Atlanta favored, but they have only advanced to the first championship game since 1998, when swards and recognition well after the Super Bowl. This one will be a one-sided Super Bowl once in that time. Sunday will be they went on the road and upset the Vikings ^3son’s end. So far this offseason, Mason affair. The Falcons will need to take advantage another chance for redemption for Cowher, before losing in the Super Bowl to been named to the "ESPN The of the Patriots depleted secondary, but the one the NFL’s current longest-tenured head coach. and the . ^agazine Academic All America First dimensional Falcons will try iind run, run, run, For and the Patriots, this will In this game, it’s all going to rest on the ®am» Seventh Annual Division I-AA which suits the Patriots defense. Pats win their be their third AFC Championship game in quarterback’s arms, or quite possibly, the feet. Ubieties Directors Association Academic third Super Bowl in four years and achieve four years, and fourth in the last 10, the second and Donovan McNabb have Team, 2004 modem day dynasty status, 31-13. most in the NFL in that time to the Steelers. been two of the most mobile quarterbacks in >^HegeSportsReRort.com First Team All- The Patriots have maintained all along over NFL history and whoever has more yards on ^ e r ic a and the 40-player 2004 I-AA.org Contact Mike Demos at pendulum®elon edu this tremendous four-year run (in which the ground could very well be the winner. Last «^!!::Star football team ____ or 278-7247.