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Question Details: The 1969 Vikings, 1981 Chargers, 1988 Bengals, 1990 Bills, and 1998 Vikings have all had their stories told as poignant stories of special teams that could have/would have/should have won an SB ring. But who should be in future series?
It seems the series is meant to convey the disappointment of missing a team's only chance (s) to win it all.
Teams that lost a SB before or after winning are obvious exclusions, since there is little reason to feel sorry for them, like the
1966 Chiefs (won in 1969)
1968 Colts (won in 1970)
1970 and 1975 Cowboys (1971 and 1977)
1971 Dolphins (1972 and 1973)
1983 Redskins (1982)
1997 Packers (1996)
2001 Rams (1999)
So as I see it, future choices should be teams that appeared (to themselves, the media and fans) as having a real shot at winning, and for whatever reason came up short.
This would eliminate the following teams whose blowout defeat seemed preordained.
1989 Broncos (55-10)
1985 Patriots (46-10)
1994 Chargers (49-26)
1998 Falcons (34-19)
The Bengals have already had their 1988 story told, which lessens the interest for the 1981 team which lost to San Francisco, since some of the same players got that second chance.
The 1990 Bills have been done, a story which effectively encapsules their increasingly bad performances in the subsequent three SB losses.
More recent SB losers have not had enough time in the collective memory to become sentimental, nostalgic cinderellas stories, if they ever will. This would eliminate
2002 Raiders
2004 Eagles
2006 Bears
2008 Cardinals
This leaves the following choices which I think meet the intended criteria for the show, special teams who had memorable seasons surprising their fans and the NFL, who seemed to have a real shot at a SB victory which would have been the perfect icing on the cake for a team who had turned it around, or at least taken the NFL by storm for that year.
1972 Redskins > George Allen's Over the Hill Gang fit this mold perfectly, electrifying the nation's capital after a quarter century of futility, and one playoff season. They played the Dolphins tough too.
1980 Eagles > Championship starved Philly loved this blue collar team of overachievers, especially after they beat hated Dallas in the NFC Title Game. But their loss had a lot to do with playing poorly against a well-coached Raiders team.
1977 Broncos > Broncomania was unforgettable that season, after 18 years of losing. It wasn't a foregone conclusion they would get beaten so badly, as they played the Cowboys tough in the regular season (14-6).
1984 Dolphins > Dan Marino's first and only SB shot, a remarkable season (14-2) with a record breaking passing attack, the Fins looked like an unstoppable machine coming to Stanford stadium.
Any other suggestions for a "Missing Rings" team episode?
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Answer by Midway 56
Missing rings? How about the story of the 2007 New England Patriots, 3 time Super Bowl champ in the decade, perfect season in hand and a lead in the fourth quarter of the Super bowl. A heart breaking loss to the NY Giants who were not supposed to win that game,
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Question Details: I think this is a pretty average writing sample of mine. Not my best and not my worst either. It's a character sketch I had to do in my creative writing class. Writing is something I'd like to pursue in some extent in the future. And I'm wondering if you think that in the future, if I keep practicing and getting better, that I could possibly make it in the writing world?
Voices refract their way against the walls, up the stairs, and in between the slightly ajar door.
“Coming,” she yells, but she doesn’t mean now.
Sitting in front of the vanity fixed-up from a garage sale, she adds one more layer of lime green eye-shadow above the smooth black line framing her eyes, to retouch the make-up she did earlier this morning. It matches some of the lines running through the collared shirt she is wearing, and perfectly counters the purple skinny jeans on her thin legs.
“Come on, Jamie, or we’ll leave without you,” says another voice from downstairs.
She pulls her favorite light pink lip-gloss out of the wooden draw that it calls a home. And smoothly pulls the wand out of the shimmering pink, and lightly and evenly applies it to her pink lips.
Jamie walks across the floor covered in clothes and the grid of shoes filling the once empty floor space, she’s careful not to step on anything. She runs the flat iron that had already been on through her already straight hair again in attempt to get the side bangs just right—damn cowlick. After turning it off, she puts it back exactly in its place, on the blue table in front of her jewelry, not turned on a side.
Returning to the row of shoes that lines a portion of her floor, she slips her orange-socked feet into her newer pair of Nikes; they look as if they were made specifically for this outfit: black purple, green, and white. She does a good job at keeping them clean, even her older pair of Nikes look like new still.
She turns off the Motion City Soundtrack she had on, and has been listening to religiously for about a week (it should be changing to something else soon, maybe her sister’s last favorite). She dumps her blue iPod nano and cheetah print covered cell phone into her black coach bag, and ducks down slightly to catch herself one last time in her mirror before walking out her door and guiding it to be perfectly closed as it should be every single time she leaves her room.
Heading down the beige carpet mountain of stairs, Jamie lets more yells slide past her, because now, she really is coming. Her eyes follow her down some of the stairs as she gets one more chance to see her reflection in a mirror. Everything looks the same, but it could have been better, if only she had more time…
“It took you long enough” she hears her mom say, but she just heads to the green-ish SUV sitting in the garage.
She sits shotgun in her mom’s car: the position of music control, if Mom is willing to put up with what she chooses. Going through the Dark Romantics (because Mom no longer liked it, like she seemed to last night), the car settles on Jason Mraz, and she sings along to “Geek in the Pink,” a favorite of hers.
As they pull up into the parking spot, Jamie checks her reflection in the side mirror. Why did the windows have to be open on the drive? She closed hers, but the gusting still rustled her hair. She gets out of the car and straightens her hair back to perfect in the reflection of the tinted back windows.
This will have to do.
The purpose of this assignment was just to develop a character, I'm aware it lacks with a good story line. This is just a sample I'm okay with sharing.
In more of my longer pieces, there is more plot development and it allows description to be spread out more.
The point of this was to be descripitive and create a character.
The girl is a bit of perfection.
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Answer by Calvin
Wow! You put so much details in this character and what she does every single second. But if you're going to try to amaze your readers with one page of words, I'm afraid this won't do because it doesn't capture the reader's attention to want to continue reading about Jamie as there is nothing happening to her yet.
But if you're writing for the purpose of developing a character into his/her personality and character then this will do.
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