Word: flankers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Super Bowl, gains in perspective represent the toughest yardage of all. Lining up in a prevent defense for 18 years, perspective has been conceding huge slabs of ground to outlandishness. During the early days of Roman numerals, President Nixon was content to recommend flanker-reverse plays. Now President Reagan appears on a split screen to express his nuclear reaction to a 191-yd. performance by Raiders Running Back Marcus Allen. Because of the Super Bowl, the stock market in New York goes down, some bookies in Las Vegas go broke and a water main in Salt Lake City goes blooey...
Johnny Rodgers, the Heisman Trophy-winning flanker of that time, considers this team better. "They're faster than we were," he says. "The Big Eight was the toughest conference in the world in 1971 [Oklahoma and Colorado finished second and third in the Associated Press poll], but some teams are too good to be measured just by opponents. I think our team was, and this team is. We probably had a better defense, with guys like Larry Jacobson, Rich Glover and Willie Harper. Heck, John Button [three-time All-Pro Defensive Tackle for the Dallas Cowboys] played behind Jacobson...
...limits Restic to working with only two or three QBs during the week. He made things easier for the backfield by settling on Gizzi by Monday, rather than waiting until Friday as he often does. Gizzi could also stop wondering what position he would play: he saw action at flanker against Dartmouth. Frustrated at being third on the quarterback list, he met with Restic and offered to shift to another position...
...various defenders all calling the Army offensive setups at once, the Cadets picked up 31 yards on three plays against the confused Crimson. When linebacker Kevin Garvin took over after a few plays. Harvard settled down some-what, though only a tackle from behind by John Dailey kept Cadet flanker Jarvis Hollingsworth from tying it up off a Healy pass on the half's final play...
...superiority with a nuclear carrier resembling the Nimitz and missile-carrying nuclear submarines comparable to the Tridents. The Blackjack bomber is intended to fill the role proposed for America's B-1B. Two new fighter jets being developed by the Soviets, the MiG-29 Fulcrum and Su-27 Flanker, are to contain high-tech radar and weapons-guidance avionics like those...