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Article: Strahan sacks field: DE honored to be on verge of passing LT on team's all-time list.
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- Newsday (Melville, NY)
- Article date:
- October 27, 2006
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Byline: Bob Herzog
Oct. 27--Michael Strahan recalled the first sack of his 14-year NFL career not so much for the victim, immobile Jets quarterback Ken O'Brien in 1993, but for the circumstances. "I got it the last play before the half. I got up and was celebrating and the crowd was cheering. I thought they were cheering for me, but they were cheering because it was halftime," Strahan said yesterday. The cheering hasn't stopped for Strahan since that day at Giants Stadium, and the ovation will be prolonged if he gets another sack Sunday against Tampa Bay in front of the home crowd. Regardless of the circumstances of this one, it will break a tie between ...