For Giants, it's déjà Blue all over again - Lawrence Tynes stopped himself this time, waited for the delirious rush of New York Giants, refused to sprint away from his teammates and through the tunnel like he did in Green Bay four years back.
That was the one difference between overtime at Lambeau Field and overtime at Candlestick Park. The moment his right foot returned the Giants to the Super Bowl for another shot at the Bradys and Belichicks, Tynes decided he needed a hug from his teammates, then another from his wife.
"The last time I ran away," Tynes would say in the locker room of the NFC champs, "it was strictly to get out of the cold."
He ran away from the subhuman conditions at Lambeau, but remained to celebrate in the rain, wind and mud of Candlestick. Tynes lost five yards to a delay-of-game penalty, waited through a 49ers timeout, then embraced the same routine from 31 yards out that he embraced from 47 yards out in Green Bay.
"Three steps back, two over, keep my head down," Tynes said.
Back in Milton, Fla., the kicker's father Larry couldn't believe what he was seeing. "I thought, 'How could this be happening again for Lawrence and the Giants?'" Larry wrote in an email.
continue reading => For Giants, it's déjà Blue all over again
"The last time I ran away," Tynes would say in the locker room of the NFC champs, "it was strictly to get out of the cold."
He ran away from the subhuman conditions at Lambeau, but remained to celebrate in the rain, wind and mud of Candlestick. Tynes lost five yards to a delay-of-game penalty, waited through a 49ers timeout, then embraced the same routine from 31 yards out that he embraced from 47 yards out in Green Bay.
"Three steps back, two over, keep my head down," Tynes said.
Back in Milton, Fla., the kicker's father Larry couldn't believe what he was seeing. "I thought, 'How could this be happening again for Lawrence and the Giants?'" Larry wrote in an email.
continue reading => For Giants, it's déjà Blue all over again
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