[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by sherck

From Peter King's last MMQB column for Sports Illustrated:

I hope he can coach as well as he has lived his life. We could really be in for something special.

Walk Worthy,


Thank you, Frank Reich, for the 41-38 comeback to beat Houston in the wild-card playoff game in 1992. Talk about memorable—a backup quarterback erasing a 35-3 lead and winning a playoff game. I recently told Reich the story about the Houston TV guy—when it was 28-3, Oilers, at halftime—who made the nonrefundable airplane reservation for the next week, the next game, at Pittsburgh. It got to be 35-3 on a bad Reich pick-six in the third quarter, but all he kept thinking about was, “Just one play.” The Bills won in overtime. I waited for everyone to leave the locker room till it was just me and Reich left, talking about the greatest game of a backup quarterback’s life. He called over an equipment man, wanting to see his wife, and said, “Could you bring Linda in?” And when the door to the locker room opened, they hustled to embrace like they hadn’t seen each other in five years. “I love you,” Linda said, and I bet 15 seconds passed before he said anything. “Praise the Lord,” were Frank Reich’s words. That was a moment.

o


Frank Reich also engineered the Maryland Terrapins' unbelievable comeback win over Miami, Fla. eight years earlier, in 1984.

Maryland was losing by a score of 31-0 at halftime. They came back to win by a score of 42-40.


Those are 2 of the most historic comebacks in football history, and Reich was the QB in both of them.


o