The Boston Globe, December 21st, 2003
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. When Sparky Anderson was managing a very bad Detroit Tigers team to the end of the 1982 season, he was asked if he might be able to rally his troops to play well in the role of spoiler with a big September series looming against contending Baltimore. Anderson's response was to deal with the realistic side of such a role. "No spoilers don't cash no checks," Anderson said that day. While Anderson's point was well taken, it may not have counted for much last night at Giants Stadium, where the floundering Jets awaited the arrival of their archrivals, the streaking Patriots, w...
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