The Super Bowl Run Of The 1986 New York Giants
… no one came close the impact of Lawrence Taylor. “LT”, as the ferocious outside linebacker was casually known, had 20 ½ sacks and won the MVP award, the last defensive player to do so.
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The Game-By-Game Narrative Of The 1986 New England Patriots
The 1986 New England Patriots didn’t make a Super Bowl run like they had in 1985. But in its own way, the ’86 Patriots were just as impressive. While the 1985 AFC Championship had a magical quality to it, with three straight road playoff wins, the 1986 team showed its mettle by winning the franchise’s […]
Ranking The Best NBA Dynasties Of The Modern Era
“We’re better than the Showtime Lakers”. That was the comment Golden State’s Klay Thompson made after his team routed Cleveland on Sunday night in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. It was a fun jab at the team his father Mychal played on in 1987-88. And it was a jab with a serious intent behind […]
The Game-By-Game Narrative Of The 1986 Minnesota Vikings
The 1986 Minnesota Vikings marked a new era in franchise history. The legendary head coach Bud Grant retired for good after 1985. Grant initially retired in 1983, then came back after a disastrous season in 1984. This time around the Vikes did what they should have done the first time and hired Grant’s long-time offensive […]
Quarterback Woes Doom The 1986 Chicago Bears
The talk of a dynasty was freely in the air for the 1986 Chicago Bears as the season began. They were coming off a 1985 season where they simply demolished the NFL and won the Super Bowl. The ’86 Bears were awfully good in their own right, but quarterback instability proved to be their undoing […]
How The 1986 Cleveland Browns Drove To The AFC Championship Game
The 1986 Cleveland Browns came closer than any team has in franchise history to reaching the Super Bowl. After a stellar regular season and an epic playoff win, it took the signature moment from one of the NFL’s signature players to deny them at least a chance at the Vince Lombardi Trophy. GREAT 1980s SPORTS […]
The Game-By-Game Narrative Of The 1986 Cincinnati Bengals
The 1986 Cincinnati Bengals didn’t make the playoffs. But they came close for the first time in several years and set the stage for what would ultimately be a Super Bowl team. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. Cincinnati had been mired in mediocrity since the playoff years of 1981-82, where they reached the Super Bowl […]
The Season-Long Narrative Of The 1986 Miami Hurricanes
The 1986 Miami Hurricanes were loaded with talent on both sides of the ball, and weren’t afraid to let you know it. They spent the entire regular season backing up their talk and looked poised to secure a place in college football history. They did…but for the wrong reasons, as an infamous bowl loss has […]
The Season-Long Narrative Of The 1986 Oklahoma Sooners
The 1986 Oklahoma Sooners were the defending national champions and with a lineup loaded on both sides of the ball were in prime position to repeat. That goal got away from them early, but Barry Switzer’s team was still one of the country’s most dynamic and remain memorable thirty years later. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart […]
1986 Michigan Football Makes A Rose Bowl Run
The 1986 Michigan Wolverines had a lot of momentum coming into the season, after finishing #2 in the nation in 1985. But it had been 1982 since they reached the Rose Bowl, and that was an eternity in the era of Bo Schembecler, who had guided the program to Pasadena seven times since 1969. The […]
The Seasonal Narrative Of 1986 Penn State Football & A Championship Season
The 1986 Penn State football team came into the season focused on nothing less than the national title. They had gone undefeated in the 1985 regular season, but an Orange Bowl loss to Oklahoma ended their year in disappointment. The Lions were loaded in 1986 for another run at college football’s mountaintop and in a […]
The Game-By-Game Narrative Of The 1986 World Series
The 1986 World Series is one of the games’ historic, thanks to an ill-fated groundball that skipped through the legs of Bill Buckner. But the battle between the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox had more—it had early twists of fate, a Game 7 itself that was dramatic and the entire Game 6 run-up […]