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15 years ago today, X-Clown

Mr. Scot

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Memorialized by Jourdan Rodrigue with the help of John Fox, Kevin Donnalley and Jake Delhomme...

Remembering X-Clown

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“Ironically, we ran it in practice multiple times that week and Steve (Smith) and I never connected on it. He’d run up, like, start to run toward the corner and then put his foot in the ground and start to cut right across the safety’s face back to the post. In that Cover 2 area, that’s a huge void in the middle. And I would think he was going to take a high approach, so I’d go high. And he’d kind of flatten it. Then the next time he would take it really high and I’d flatten the throw. So we never hit it, and we were both frutstrated on our end. ... Dan Henning just knew, though. He said, ‘Y’all are gonna connect on it in the game, I’m not worried about it.’”

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Mills and Fields, as well as Hope Stout, magnified the emotions of every win and loss that year. Every week there were new heroes or villains, less opposing team fans showed up every week, we had an aw shucks guy finally getting his shot QBing the team through all of it, and Dan Morgan literally killing himself every week. Only 2 years after going 1-15, which is why the bad years have their place too - when you finally hit some success it's way sweeter when you've been through a lot to get there.

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That season really did have a magical feel to it, probably having a lot to do with the miracle finish in Week 1. That game set the tone for everything that came afterward.

During the playoff game, I was actually working in an office and sitting in the same aisle as a Rams fan. We had big TVs up watching the game, and he and I alternated between standing up and cheering and sitting down looking glum as the teams kept going back and forth.

Happily, I was the last one standing :)

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