Fading Away
2001 - Drew Bledsoe leads the Patriots to the NFC Championship while Tom "Can't Play Hurt" Brady nurses an aggravated hangnail or something.
2004 - The Buffalo Bills (hissssss) pull Drew from a hopelessly lost game, Ron Borges writes the epitaph.
In his prime, Bledsoe was my favorite quarterback ever. He was the only person I ever saw on a football field get into the Larry Bird rhythm, where he was simply untouchable. One other game comes to mind - 1994 vs. the Vikings. Pats trail 20-0. They go no-huddle. Bledsoe goes 45-70 (most attempts and completions in a game in history up to that time),426 yards, 3 TDs. The Patriots won their next seven in a row.
The Hall of Fame observes that "only Manning, Marino, Warren Moon, Drew Bledsoe, Brett Favre, Dan Fouts, Kurt Warner, and Steve Young have passed for 4,000 yards in a season more than once in their careers."
posted by Anonymous at 9:50 PM
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My favorite Bledsoe memory is one of his as well. Here's what he had to say about the 1992 Apple Cup:
"My alltime favorite football memory is of the 1992 Apple Cup. The Huskies came to Pullman ranked No. 5 and were going to the Rose Bowl. We played in a huge snowstorm, and on one play I threw a long pass to Phillip Bobo, who caught it for a touchdown and slid into a snow pile in the back of the end zone. My teammates and I ran downfield and jumped onto the snow pile with him and started throwing snowballs, acting like a bunch of kids. We won 42-23."
I watched that game on television. It was the best Apple Cup ever.
Those who don't understand the significance of The Apple Cup probably can't even fix their own computers.
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