Английская Википедия:1978 New York Giants season

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The Шаблон:Nfly New York Giants season was the franchise's 54th season in the National Football League. In their first ever season that had a sixteen-game schedule, the Giants looked to improve on their 5–9 record from 1977. The season saw the Giants get off to a hot start. They beat newcomer Tampa Bay in Tampa 19–13, despite being a 1 point underdog. After a close loss to the rival Cowboys 34–24 the next week, the Giants beat the Kansas City Chiefs 26–10 and the San Francisco 49ers 27–10 to start the season 3–1, their first 3–1 start since 1969. However, the Giants then started to struggle, losing to the Atlanta Falcons 23–20 and the Cowboys again 24–3. Following wins at home against the Buccaneers and Redskins, the Giants went on a downfall, which saw them lose their next 6 games and 7 of their last 8. In week 12, the Giants played their arch-rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles, in a crucial game that saw the Giants fumble away the game on Joe Pisarcik’s fumble and Herm Edwards fumble recovery for a touchdown that won the game for Philadelphia, 19-17. The play was dubbed the “Miracle at the Meadowlands”.Шаблон:Citation needed The Giants never recovered from this game, getting pummeled on the road to the 3–9 Bills, 41–17, despite having a 10 point lead in the 4th quarter. In their final game, a rematch with Philadelphia, the Giants lost 20–3 to end the season 6–10.

Regular season

Шаблон:See also The Miracle at the Meadowlands is the term used by sportscasters and Philadelphia Eagles fans for a fumble recovery by cornerback Herman Edwards that he returned for a touchdown at the end of a November 19, 1978 NFL game against the New York Giants in Giants Stadium. It was seen as miraculous because it occurred at a point in the game when the Giants were easily capable of running out the game's final seconds. The Giants had the ball, and the Eagles had no timeouts left. Everyone watching expected quarterback Joe Pisarcik to take one more snap and kneel with the ball, thus running out the clock and preserving a 17–12 Giant upset. Instead, he attempted to hand it off to fullback Larry Csonka and botched it, allowing Edwards to pick up the ball and run 26 yards for the winning score.

Schedule

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1	September 2	at Tampa Bay Buccaneers	W 19–13	1–0	67,456
2	September 10	Dallas Cowboys	L 24–34	1–1	73,265
3	September 17	Kansas City Chiefs	W 26–10	2–1	70,546
4	September 24	San Francisco 49ers	W 27–10	3–1	71,536
5	October 1	at Atlanta Falcons	L 20–23	3–2	47,765
6	October 8	at Dallas Cowboys	L 3–24	3–3	63,420
7	October 15	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	W 17–14	4–3	68,025
8	October 22	Washington Redskins	W 17–6	5–3	76,192
9	October 29	at New Orleans Saints	L 17–28	5–4	59,807
10	November 5	at St. Louis Cardinals	L 10–20	5–5	48,820
11	November 12	at Washington Redskins	L 13–16	5–6	53,271
12	November 19	Philadelphia Eagles	L 17–19	5–7	70,318
13	November 26	at Buffalo Bills	L 17–41	5–8	28,496
14	December 3	Los Angeles Rams	L 17–20	5–9	62,629
15	December 10	St. Louis Cardinals	W 17–0	6–9	52,226
16	December 17	at Philadelphia Eagles	L 3–20	6–10	56,396

Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

Game summaries

Week 4

• Television Network: CBS
• Announcers: Don Criqui and Tom Matte

Joe Pisarcik threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to Al Dixon early in the game and Bobby Hammond set up two other touchdowns with long runs as the Giants are so far surprising the football world with a 3-1 record with a win over winless San Francsico. New York's Larry Csonka became the sixth player in NFL history to rush for 7,000 yards and he himself scored a 1-yard touchdown run in period 1 while Willie Spencer of the Giants scored a 1-yard touchdown run in period 3 while Joe Danelo kicked two field goals of 28 and 52 yards to provide the Giants scoring that day.

See also

• List of New York Giants seasons

References

• New York Giants on Pro Football Reference
• Giants on jt-sw.com