Byline: Bob Croce Staff writer
Greg McMurtry, a soft-spoken sort who some might describe as a shy guy who likes to hide out all night near the frat party punch bowl, finally decided he just had to dance.
So after one catch and a brilliant move across the new grass field at Foxboro Stadium Sunday, the New England Patriots wide receiver went about abusing the National Football League's stodgy rule against such demonstations.
He two-stepped inside an end zone embrace of Patriots teammates, then slam-danced all the way back to his team's sideline where - with a funky flair - he revived the bump with head coach Dick MacPherson.
The fancy footwork served as a vent for McMurtry's season-long frustration and celebratory device for an unlikely, certainly amazing, 24-20 victory over the no-longer- unbeaten Houston Oilers.
The festiveness, in a place that has featured mainly home team gloom the past few years, was the result of the biggest catch of McMurtry's brief and …
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