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Show 120 the porch, where Red stood over Jon like a good cowboy after an unfortunate death, "Back to the god-damn hospital," mumbled Red, retrieving his ball and fumbling with the Rainbow keys. Helen already had a cloth on Jon's head. "Oooh Red, so very big, big so very much man, so," said Edju, clinging behind Aunt Elizabeth. "He was a good lawyer," said Bush. "And a war hero." Jon's face looked whiter than the porch trim. "My chest," gasped Jon. "If you need any work on your heart," Neda said to him. "Now might be a good time." The New York Giants Experiment with Death Every year the Giants went to the NFL Championship game and every year they lost, according to Red. Of course mostly Red liked to remember when the Browns just entered the league with Otto Graham and always won everything everytime, but now it was different and the Giants always won the Eastern Division by beating somebody they had to, usually the Browns, then went on to lose in the title game to the Packers or the Rams or the Lions or the Bears (though never the Forty-Niners) and this year they were going to lose to the Colts with Johnny Unitas and x Allan Ameche and ikaxxaxi Big Daddy Lipscomb. Red said the Giants didn't where blue or even white for the title games, they wore yellow. That was a big joke for Red. So the day of the Championship Game came and me and Red jammed in front of the TV and made sandwiches and had some beer and prevented Neda from watching a Shirley Temple movie and watched the New York Giants HX play the Baltimore Colts broadcast from Baltimore, and though the Giants weren't wearing blue the first half they must not have been wearing yellow till the second half because that's when they started fumbling axaxxa the ball and xatfcia settling for missed field goals instead of touchdowns and making penalties whenever they had a big gain and letting Johnny Unitas pass the ball wherever he wanted, right up to the end when the Colts came back and tied the game at 17-17 at the end of regulation. And it was Lindsay Nelson or Curt Gowdy or Mr. Famous Announcer Somebody-who Jbody aaid toxc^the game now went into Sudden Death even though KstxxtertbcxxxiXKXXX |