Giants broadcaster has humorous, real reaction to Patriots QB's 86-yard TD run

Tom Gatto

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Carl Banks was a Super Bowl-winning linebacker for the Giants in the 1980s and '90s. Now he's one of the team's broadcasters. He has seen lots of players lose jobs in the preseason. He marked a few more for unemployment Thursday night after they were embarrassed on one play.

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Patriots rookie QB Danny Etling somehow faked out all 11 New York defenders on the field and then raced 86 yards to the end zone untouched for a fourth-quarter touchdown. After play-by-play announcer Bob Papa called Etling's score, Banks delivered the bad news while "quoting" defensive coordinator James Bettcher:

The eye in the sky doesn't lie, as the football truism goes. The video of that play may lead to multiple playbooks being handed in this weekend.

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.