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...BRADSHAW: The week before the A.F.C. championship play-off game between the Steelers and the Houston Oilers, Pittsburgh Quarterback Terry Bradshaw was sick, and Rocky Bleier was worried. "Terry wasn't able to eat all week long, and I was concerned about how he would play," says Bleier, a running back who blocks like a lineman. "When he comes out fired up and cocky, our offense plays that way. But if he comes out tentative and unsure, we play that way too. So every day I asked how he felt." The answers were reassuring but unconvincing, until the morning...
Everything has indeed been all right for Terry Bradshaw, 30, in his ninth and finest season in the N.F.L. He led the Steelers to their third Super Bowl with a brilliant year: completing 207 of 368 passes (56.3%) for 2,995 yds. and 28 touchdowns, and winning the A.P.'s N.F.L. Player of the Year Award. The No. 1 draft pick of 1970 has become the No. 1 quarterback of 1978, and nobody laughs about his chewing tobacco any more...
...Even Bradshaw admits that this year has been special. "Last year I throw a pass to Swann, it's a good pass, a good catch, and somebody is right there to tackle him. This year I throw the same pass, and he zigs around four guys and goes into the end zone. Call it luck or magic or whatever, I like it." So do the Pittsburgh fans. As rugged as their team, they will be waving those orange-and-black towels in Miami to cheer on their country boy quarterback as he struggles to win a third Super Bowl...
...Terry Bradshaw, who was named the game's most valuable player, dominated the exciting, but mistake-filled contest, passing for four touchdowns and 313 yards in the offensive orgy witnessed by nearly 80,000 at the Orange Bowl in Miami and a national television audience estimated at 125 million...
...Bradshaw took charge on the Steelers' first possession when he found Stallworth for 15 yards and tight end Randy Grossman for 17 more at the Cowboy 28-yd. line...