How many, have nursed a knocking Rod home?

superbowl sunday, Broncos Giants 1987. four hours before the game we decided to go shooting to kill some time. jumped in the 73' Dart /6 drove 40 miles out and wasted a few boxes of ammo. about half way home i knew something was wrong, then the knock started. 5 miles later i had the pedal to the floor, only able to get 50 mph. we were laughing just wanting to make it home for the game because /6's are cheap and easily available if it decided to throw a rod through the block... which it did :finga:
after tearing it down i realized it was my fault as the day before i did a full tune up, oil change and valve cover gasket and i obviously missed some of the old gasket as it fell into the pan and clogged the pick up :banghead: