that guy. he scoops up his fumble and he is gone. giants loose after being up 21 points with just over eight minutes to play in the game. packers at new england last night. dan connolly, a 6 4 big man takes low, bounce kickoff, the kick that you kick to the lineman because you don t want to speedy guy to run it to the house. he goes to the house. not really, he goes to the 4 yard line. boy, you re looking at the longest kickoff return by an offensive lineman. the patriots barely won. the university of connecticut, the uconn women s basketball l team beat out ohio state yesterday to win their 88th straight game. they tie ucla teams from 1971 from 1974 for the longest stream, they will go for the record breaking 89th win
sports action. some wild, wild games yesterday. i don t know if we can get the giant in. we don t have enough time. that must be the lead. sunday night football, packers visit new england. check out this 390 pound dan connolly on the kickoff return. this guy would rumble 71 yards. all right, not 390 but he s heavy. slowest return in nfl history unofficially. packers finally get him down close to the goal line. that would set up a tom brady touchdown pass 17-14 packers at the half. late in the fourth, the pats want to make it six in a row. would they do it? yeah. tom brady, he married a model. there he goes. they would go on to a 31-27 raf recovering that fumble. congratulations to the patriots. they might be the hottest team in football. next, they call it the sequel to the miracle at the meadowlands. same city, different stadium. same team, different players. why would you pass why would
the american love affair dates back to the first game between princeton and rutgers. so there s a bitter irony to the fact it was a rutgers junior, eric lagrand left paralyzed. he was injured making what appeared to be this routine tackle on a kickoff return late in the game he lay motionless on the ground as a hushed stadium held its breath only to see him then carted off and taken to the hospital. now, his injury was followed by several close call miss the nfl the very next day, and his parents across the country and a lot of parents across the country are wondering if it s safe to let their own kids play football. we have head of neurosurgical trauma care. he s part of the team treating eric lagrande. what typically causes the spinal cord injury?
ohio state. the opening kickoff return, 97 yards, by david gillre and ohio state. got within three, but wisconsin had the answer every time. you ve never seen the party like in madison, wisconsin. the whole stadium was moving. 31-18 are final. number one dethroned two consecutive weeks and brett favre set to meet with officials a scandal with a former jets employee. and xhegser tocommissioner saide official were sit done with the q.b., and allegedly sent messages and photos and college football folks, a lot of fun. texas beats nebraska so the whole bcs system thrown into a
football, 20-14, you wake up and find out the pats destroyed the dolphins, 21-14. they seemed to score every which way possible. you have this big kickoff return here. the reason i care about how many different ways the pats scored? because it wasn t tom brady throwing touchdown passes because some of us might have tom brady as a starting quarterback. so instead, the pats defense and special teams score all these points of which i got none of them because, of course, i m not starting the pats defense because any defense that gave up 30 points the week before to the bills wasn t worth starting. and there goes. i went 0 for all of my leagues all thanks to the pats special teams breaking out. ronny brown not scoring any touchdowns, by the way. and tom brady not being involved in a 41-point victory. good thing you fell asleep. i was just going to say, it would have stressed me out. you re absolutely right. a nightmare. that s it for the daily rundown. next on msnbc, chris jan