What's with the Thigpen fixation?

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Originally Posted by PastorMikH

I don't think too many KC fans can live with that scenario. I read (and responded to) on the Planet in the last week where someone said they wrote Thigpen off in NY because he couldn't take the team down the field in the last minute for the win - in his second career start. John Horseface probably couldn't have done it in his second start.

Actually, he did it the very first time he set foot on an NFL field:

In a show-stopping performance that blazed across the Denver sky last Friday night, Bronco Quarterback John Elway established himself—in exactly four minutes, 22 seconds—as a phenom of extraordinary proportions. That's how long it took the NFL's most heralded rookie in eons, and at $l million a year its highest-paid player, to grab the Broncos—2-7 last year and trailing in this game 7-3—by the throat and march them, nay, stampede them, 75 yards into the Seattle end zone for the winning touchdown. The drive took 10 plays—Elway's first 10 as a pro—and during it the quarterback completed five of six passes, in the rain.

If he keeps this up, he'll be a legend by September and eligible for sainthood by October.

August 15, 1983
Douglas S. Looney
Sports Illustrated

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.c...1123/index.htm

It doesn't take that long to show something...