51.   Because every game is going to be a knock-down, drag-out.

52.   Because he knew the game was going back to Philly, where he had all his friends.

53.   Bellmen, cooks and waitresses clung to the balconies as the game went into overtime.

54.   Both teams prepared as if the games would go on.

55.   Both teams were in Storrs, the referees were in the area and the fans were jamming the phone lines, excitedly inquiring whether the game would go on.

56.   A game like that usually goes one of two ways.

57.   A lot of defenses are able to get a rhythm as the game goes on, anticipate certain things.

58.   A.J. Mleczko, a forward from Nantucket, Mass., and Harvard, said the game went by so fast that the ending caught her by surprise.

59.   Actually, that was how the game went.

60.   After the lackluster game, some Seahawks players dressed and quickly headed out to the team bus as the Raiders-Chiefs game was still going on.