1984 - USFL Divisional Playoffs: New Jersey Generals vs Philadelphia Stars

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1984 Quarterfinals - Saturday, June 30, 1984 Attendance: 19,038, TV: ABC [Note: If you want to skip all the pregame analysis forward the video to the 6:15 minute mark where the game starts. Also the game audio is mute for a few minutes at the start due to issues the local affiliate had with broadcasting the game. The audio comes back at the 8:43 minute mark.] The Philadelphia Stars caught up with the New Jersey Generals at the right time, in a playoff game, and thrashed them, 28-7. With the running back Kelvin Bryant scoring three touchdowns, the Stars won all the small struggles that make up a football game and ended the Generals' season without argument. The result wiped clean the two losses, their only two, to the Generals in the regular season and moved the Stars (17-2) to the Eastern Conference title game in the United States Football League playoffs. On a humid afternoon following rain, the attendance was only 19,038 at the home stadium of the University of Pennsylvania, which has a 60,546-seat capacity. The Stars' ultimate goal is a second consecutive appearance in the U.S.F.L. championship game, which they lost to the Panthers last year. Herschel Walker of the Generals added, ''When you play a team as good as Philadelphia, you have to put points on the board when you get in their end.'' And that the Generals, whose season ended at 14-5, did not do. They moved the ball well against the league's top-rated defensive unit but did not get the big play, or even the medium-sized one, that must come from the quarterback position in playoff contests. Sipe had his troubles. His late pass, late by a split-second, to his tight end, Jeff Spek, was intercepted by Scott Woerner at the Stars' 15-yard line, ending the Generals' first thrust. Philadelphia jumped out to a 28-0 lead and never looked back...the game was played at Franklin Field because the Phillies were scheduled in Veterans Stadium...both teams dressed at the Vet because the locker rooms were too small at Franklin...the teams then walked a block to Franklin Field. Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/01/sports/generals-eliminated-by-stars-28-7.html http://www.oursportscentral.com/usfl/usflgame.php?game_id=298