September 09, 1987 | Volume 67, Issue 11

For some, it's a three-century wait to get a Redskins season ticket

The rose up with such fury at the end of '86 that everyone is picking them to go to the Super Bowl, even though they didn't even make last season's playoffs. I pick 'em, too. Like everyone else,...

The NFL should do away with the instant replay

The Giants will be hard to catch this season, and labor peace may be elusive, too

In our special football issue of a year ago, senior writer Paul Zimmerman picked the Giants, Bears and 49ers to win their respective divisions in the NFC. He chose the Broncos, Patriots and...

Sorry, Dr. Z, but there are too many players—no-necks in particular

First things first. I think the will repeat as NFL champions. They will beat the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl 24-17. The Giants should be better than they were in 1986 unless, of course,...

In 117 days during 1926-27, Duluth played 29 games—27 away

Forget all the summer speculation. We won't know for sure until quarterback Jim McMahon takes the field—or does not take the field—in the opener against the Giants on Monday night. Has it been a...

When Motown's Jimmy Williams plays, he loves to hear the sound of his hits

It was a grim, haunting memory, a picture that stayed with the San Francisco 49ers throughout the off-season: Joe Montana stretched out on the Giants Stadium turf for 10 minutes and then wheeled...

It's going to come down to the Dec. 28 Monday night game in Miami. Seems that the fate of the New England Patriots always depends on some kind of shoot-out in Miami at the end of the season. Two...

I keep running back the tapes of the Cleveland Browns' last two games of the 1986 season—the playoff against the Jets, which they should have lost, and the AFC Championship against the Broncos,...