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...National Football League quarterbacks were ringed in a battle royal, wouldn't these two be the ones left standing at the end? That roughly describes the process of the past four long and occasionally languorous months, during which Marino's Dolphins lost only two games and Montana's 49ers merely...
...stop, old Stanford Stadium. This is the sophomore Marino's Super Bowl essentially, since Six-Year-Man Montana had one three years ago all his own, a special season that Defensive Coach Chuck Studley has particular cause to review. "In my opinion," says Studley, formerly of the 49ers, currently of the Dolphins, "Montana is the master of the big play. Every time we needed it, 20 eyeballs would turn and look at Joe, and he'd get 10 ft. tall. He was always that way, even at Notre Dame. Before Marino, I'd have said Montana was the quarterback...
Marino also caught a pass, from Running Back Tony Nathan, though the play was canceled by a penalty. "We just wanted to show that to them (the 49ers), get them thinking," according to Shula. So the battle is drawn, potentially the least inhibited in all Roman-numeral history. For meanwhile, shutting out Chicago 23-0 in the National Conference title game, Walsh had Montana exchange places with Wide Receiver Freddie Solomon once, and twice a third guard was slipped into the backfield. "There's some excitement and adventure to those kinds of things," Walsh says, "and some risk of embarrassment...
They're going to Northern Cal to take on the 49ers...
With Harmon--currently employed by the San Francisco 49ers now dancing through the backfields of the National Football League, senior fullback Tony Baker will finally get a chance to strut his stuff...