Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well it's been two full days since the Super Bowl and as it always does, time puts things in perspective. What seemed like the most important event of the year just 48 hours ago has faded into memories of a good game, and I am left trying to understand what the big deal was all about...
...Dallas that first October a Redskin runner named Charley Harraway ran this-and thataway, every which-a-way, and Allen's credibility was established, 20-16. The very next year, Washington beat Dallas in the National Football Conference title game, 26-3, and ascended to the 1973 Super Bowl...
...losing track of. Players, for instance. Rich salaries, not to mention the recreational use some of the money is put to, have weakened the coaches' control and resolve. It seems nothing can test a coach's heart and stomach quite like coming back from a Super Bowl year. Walsh defines the 49ers' failure as "basically an inability to handle success." Though there were some injuries, and only one game was lost by more than a touchdown, he starts the list of downfalls with "arrogance...
...least one young player who started the Super Bowl was fired because of drugs; Linebacker Craig Puki talked of it publicly and has since come back with the St. Louis Cardinals. What element of the 49ers' story has to do with drugs? "Drugs are an element of every story today," Walsh says quietly, and he wonders if age and money haven't more to do with it than football. N.F.L. coaches are perplexed by the pervasive subject. Commissioner Pete Rozelle's longstanding line that professional football players have no greater drug problem than does society has been...
...they prepare for the Super Bowl or any other game, the coaches' handiest cliché is that they don't worry about the things they can't control. It's not true...