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1984 Week 7 - Monday, April 9, 1984
Attendance: 19,115
TV: ESPN
[Notes: The game starts around the 6:00 mark if you want to skip all the pregame stuff]
A pair of fumbled Los Angeles kickoff returns late in the first half helped complete a 25-point second quarter flurry that lifted the Denver Gold to an improbable 6-1 record.
Denver, everybody's choice to be an also-ran in 1984, posted its fourth straight victory and raised its Pacific Division lead to three games with the 35-27 United States Football League victory over Los Angeles before 19,115 rain-soaked fans in Denver.
Panic might have set in after the Express jumped to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Steve Young, Los Angeles' $40 million rookie quarterback, set up the first score, beating the blitz by dumping a short pass over the middle to Mel Gray, who went 52 yards. Kevin Nelson scored four plays later. With 5:23 left in the opening period, Los Angeles safety Dwight Drane intercepted a Craig Penrose pass and returned it 22 yards for the second Express tally.
The Gold rebounded with a vengeance in the second period. First, Penrose lofted a 73-yard bomb to Kevin Williams, then David Martin scored returned a punt 79 yards. But the extra point attempt failed and Denver trailed 14-13. Then came the two crucial fumbles on kickoff returns. Gray, trying to negotiate a muddy area of the field, coughed up the ball at the Los Angeles 17.
Penrose hit Vincent White on a five-yard pass for the go-ahead TD with 1:31 left. Tony Boddie fumbled away the next kickoff return, giving Denver possession at the 10, and Bill Johnson's five-yard run made it 25-14 with 30 seconds left in the half.
Los Angeles never fully recovered from that second-period onslaught. Nelson took a short pass and turned it into a 69-yard scoring play early in the third period. But Denver used its ball control offense to eat up the clock and countered with a field goal and a touchdown before Young ran for the final score in the closing seconds.
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