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The End Zone

by Peter King

Posted: Wed October 1, 1997

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Replacement games—those three weeks of faux football while the players were on strike—began 10 years ago this week. Oilers general manager Floyd Reese was the club's linebackers coach at the time. "We'd heard a lot of talk about the unions choosing our first game in Denver as one to picket," Reese recalls. "On the team bus, I usually sat in the first seat on the left behind the driver, but when I got on that day, there was a guy in my seat. He had a newspaper under his arm. He looked suspicious. I asked him who he was. He opened his paper, showed me a small machine gun and said, 'I'm with the FBI.' I said, 'Oh, please, sit anywhere you want.'"

Issue date: October 6, 1997