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From: tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: How The PATS WILL WIN
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Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 17:58:03 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 17 17:58:03 1986
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    The PATRIOTS will win the SUPERBOWL.  
                        
    Here's how:

    They will stop the BEAR'S offense completely.  
    The Chicago offense is not as good as either Marcus Allen
    or Dan Marino.  Walter Payton has never rushed
    for as much as 50 yards in a game against the
    PATS.  Jim McMahon may be Danny Ainge's favorite
    NFL player but he will be too busy this week
    deciding what to wear around his head to prepare
    for the football game.  Willie Gault will be covered
    by Raymond Clayborn.  I am not sure whether McMahon
    will have Dan Marino's audacity and try to throw 
    on Clayborn but I hope so.

    On offense the PAT'S VETERAN offensive 
    LINE will completely dominate the BEAR'S linemen, 
    who include a Patriot's reject and a ROOKIE 
    from Clemson.  The Pats will play an extremely
    boring RUN RUN RUN offense and will only pass on
    2nd and 2.  The Patriots will be able to RUN on
    the BEARS.  People will suddenly remember why
    the Pat's offensive line is so highly regarded,
    just as they were reminded last week against
    Miami that you don't throw in Raymond Clayborn's
    area.

    Final Score: Pats 29 (2 TDs, 5 Field Goals)
                 Bars 12 (1 TD, 1 FG, 1 Safety)

    The safety will occur early in the game giving
    the BEARS a 2-0 lead.  The PATS will regroup
    after the west coast changes channels and launch
    a short march to the BEARS 25 yard line where they
    will kick a field goal (Pats lead 3-2).   Chicago
    punts, New England marches to the Bear's 32 and
    kicks ANOTHER field goal; Pats lead 6-2.  Walter Payton
    fumbles on the Chicago 33 yard line and the PATS
    score the first TD of the game on PROBABLY a 
    Craig James option pass to STEVE MOORE (unlikely, 
    but that's what the muse says).  Pats lead 13-2.
    Walter Payton fumbles AGAIN, this time after catching
    a screen pass.  (I know what you're all thinking:
    this prediction is based on the BEARS having a lot
    of turnovers and that it's the only way the PATRIOTS
    could POSSIBLY WIN.  I say that's a moot point;
    we'll never know how the PATS' playoff opponents would 
    have fared without all the turnovers because that's
    what happened.  What are the patriots supposed to do,
    give the ball back?)  New England kicks another
    field goal after Payton's second fumble: Pats lead
    16-2 at half.

    Chicago will fumble a kickoff in the 3rd quarter, after
    which the PATS will score another TD.  Pats lead 23-2.
                                                          
    Tony Franklin will kick 2 more field goals to set a 
    single game Superbowl record.

    Fred Marion will intercept a pass on the PATS
    12 yard line late in the game as BEARS try to come
    back.  
                   
    I will make one more prediction:

    Even after the PATS have beaten the BEARS people
    will say it was a fluke; they were lucky; the 
    raiders and bears are "really" better teams
    (by some unknown set of rules).  Only NEXT
    YEAR, after Clayton Weishuhn returns to join
    Nelson, Blackmon, and Tippet will people start
    to really notice the PATRIOTS.  Maybe by the
    8th game next year the PATS won't beat the spread.

    Kill them BARS,

    Tom Gross
    Apollo Computer, Inc.