Paul: "They had everybody at the line. I kept askingNeely if he could throw anything, even a little jump pass over the middle, anything to loosen up their secondary."
Neely: "I could barely grip the ball."
Paul: "Second down, we swept left—"
Neely: "No, second down, we sent three wide and deep, I dropped back to pass, then tucked it and ran, got sixteen yards but couldn't get out of bounds. Devon Bond hit me again and I thought I was dead."
Couch: "I remember that. But he was slow getting up too."
Neely: "I wasn't worried about him."
Paul: "Ball was on the forty, about a minute to go. Didn't we sweep again?"
Nat: "To the left, almost a first down, and Alonzo got out of bounds, right in front of our bench."
Neely: "Then we tried the option pass again, and Alonzo threw it away, almost got it picked off."
Nat: "It was picked off, but the safety had one foot over the line."
Silo: "That's when I told you no more passes from Alonzo."
Couch: "What was it like in the huddle?"
Silo: "Pretty tense, but whenNeely said shut up, we shut up. He kept tellin' us we were stickin' it down their throats, that we were gonna win, and, as always, we believed him."
Nat: "The ball was on the fifty with fifty seconds to go."
Neely: "I called a screen pass, and it worked beautifully. The pass rush was ferocious, and I managed to shovel the ball to Alonzo with my left hand."
Nat: "It was beautiful. He got hit in the backfield, broke away, and suddenly he had a wall of blockers."