SUPER BOWL XXI : NOTEBOOK

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

Jan. 26, 1987 12 AM PT

<i> From Staff and Wire Reports </i>

Center Bart Oates had a great view of the successful fake punt play the Giants’ executed in the third quarter.

The Giants moved out of punt formation, with reserve quarterback Jeff Rutledge lining up behind Oates.

“Their linebackers were five-yards deep,” Oates said of the Broncos. “They couldn’t stop us.”

And they didn’t. Rutledge, on a quarterback sneak, gained two yards on the play for a first down, leading to the Giants’ go-ahead touchdown.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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