1934 \u2014 The New York Giants wins the NFL championship by beating the Chicago Bears 30-13 in the \u201cSneakers Game.\u201d With the temperature at 9 degrees and the Polo Grounds field a sheet of ice, the Giants open the second half wearing basketball shoes and score 27 points in the final period to overcome a 13-3 Chicago lead.<\/p>\n
1973 \u2014 Jim Bakken of the St. Louis Cardinals kicks six field goals in a 32-10 victory over the Atlanta Flacons.<\/p>\n
1984 \u2014 Eric Dickerson of the Los Angeles Rams rushes for 215 yards and two touchdowns against the Houston Oilers, breaking O.J. Simpson\u2019s NFL single-season rushing record of 2,003 yards.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2014 Miami\u2019s Dan Marino passes for 281 yards and three touchdowns and reaches 20 TDs for an NFL-record ninth season as he leads the Dolphins to a 37-13 win over the Cincinnati Bengals.<\/p>\n
1995 \u2014 Eddie George, who led the nation with 24 touchdowns and rushed for an Ohio State-record 1,826 yards, wins the Heisman Trophy by a wide margin over Nebraska\u2019s Tommie Frazier and Florida\u2019s Danny Wuerffel.<\/p>\n
2000 \u2014 Dallas Cowboys running back Emmitt Smith rushes for a season-high 150 yards, putting him over 1,000 for a record-tying 10th straight season and joins Walter Payton and Barry Sanders as the only players in NFL history with 15,000 career yards.<\/p>\n
2001 \u2014 Bode Miller becomes the first American since 1983 to win a World Cup giant slalom race. Miller, third after the opening leg, has an excellent second run to win in a combined time of 2 minutes, 36.02 seconds in Val D\u2019Isere, France.<\/p>\n
2006 \u2014 Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith is a runaway winner for the Heisman Trophy. He receives 801 first-place votes, the second most ever, and 1,662 points more than second-place finisher Darren McFadden of Arkansas. It\u2019s the second-most lopsided Heisman vote. Only O.J. Simpson\u2019s 1,750-point victory in 1968 is more one-sided.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 Tom Brady throws four touchdown passes and the New England Patriots stay unbeaten with a 34-13 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Patriots are the fifth team with a 13-0 record, joining the 1934 Chicago Bears, 1972 Miami Dolphins, 1998 Denver Broncos and 2005 Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 Peyton Manning of Indianapolis becomes the fifth quarterback in NFL history to throw 300 touchdown passes, getting four and going 13-for-17 for 249 yards in a 44-20 win over Baltimore.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2014 Cassidy Schaub rolls consecutive 300 games and sets a Professional Bowlers Association 16-game scoring record, averaging 257.25 to retain the second-round lead in the Pepsi Red, White and Blue Open. Schaub had a 16-game total of 4,116 pins to erase the PBA record of 4,095 set by John Mazza in 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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