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...Oakland Raiders were the J.R. Ewings of professional football, and the list of suspects anxious to shoot them down in the Super Bowl was a long one. The favorite: N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle, who has wanted Raiders Managing General Partner Al Davis out of the way ever since Davis led the upstart A.F.L. to victory in a bidding war for talent with the N.F.L. and forced a merger of the two leagues in 1966. Next were the 22 N.F.L. owners who voted last year to block Davis' plan to move the Raiders to Los Angeles. Then there were...
...when Super Bowl XV finally drew to a close, the Raiders had the last sneer. With a 27-10 drubbing of Philadelphia, which was favored to win, Oakland became the first wild-card team to win the Super Bowl. Thus the Raiders could gleefully ask: Guess who shot the Eagles...
Irony is the sportswriter's most valued tool. It elevates merely exciting events to the realm of the extraordinary. The Oakland Raiders' Super Bowl victory, for instance, was a prime example--as the first wild card entry ever to win, it was interesting, but Jim Plunkett's remarkable comeback made it a story in the fullest sense...
Will Super Bowl XV be worth $CD, or even $XL? To avid Philadelphia and Oakland fans, probably so. But to most N.F.L. observers, there is a ticket worth even more: a front-row seat when Al Davis and Pete Rozelle meet in court next month...
...member school board, pressed for the appointment of Chicago's veteran deputy superintendent, Manford Byrd, 52. But the other board members felt Byrd is too closely associated with past mismanagement to rebuild the school sys tem. Last week Chicago picked Ruth B. Love, 48, superintendent of schools in Oakland, Calif, and a former director of the Right to Read program. Love will be the nation's highest-paid school superintendent at $120,000 a year. Even at that price, she says, "I'm not looking forward to a rose garden, and I'm sure...