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...Bowl between the N.F.L.'s Green Bay Packers and the A.F.L.'s Oakland Raiders. The Packers-by 14. He gave Green Bay two points each for superior quarterbacking, pass receiving, line play and linebacking, plus four points for pass defense and three for "intangibles" (meaning Coach Vinnie Lombardi), minus one for inferior place-kicking. "The Packers will play a conservative first quarter," predicted Jimmy. "But Lombardi's game plan for the second half should be something. That's when the Raiders will be in real trouble...
Sunday afternoon in Miami, Fla., the most overrated team in professional football will meet the most underrated. Vince Lombardi, Tex Maule, Frank Gifford, Gale Gillingham and other Green Bay Packer types will receive a comeuppance: if the Oakland Raiders don't give the AFL its first Super Bowl victory, they will come damn close...
...quarterback, Daryle Lamonica personifies Oakland's humble, inconspicuous approach to this game. If there is another man as cagey as Lombardi, it is Raider boss Al Davis, and he has his team laying low. They will be psychologically ready when the time comes. In any case, Lamonica couldn't play worse than Dallas's Don Meredith did two weeks ago. We are betting he will be spectacular. If the game is close and low-scoring, as it should be, then Oakland's edge in both punting and place-kicking will also be important...
That the defense, after years of playing patsy to the razzle-dazzle offense, is catching up fast and getting off some dazzling shots of its own. The coaches know it. After all, Green Bay's Vince Lombardi has always insisted that "defense is the most important part of the game." Now they are beginning to make believers of the fans. As the Rams trot ted out of the Los Angeles Coliseum last week, the standing ovation was not so much for Quarterback Roman Gabriel, who threw three touchdown passes, but for the eleven battered defense...
More than ever before, this season professional football needs its rookies to fill up its ranks. Injuries are ripping through rosters so steadily that sports pages read like medical reports. Even sanguine Coach Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers admits: "These days, we're happy to get out of games with our lives...