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...finish last in the A.F.C. West this season, and after losing three of their first five games, seemed out of the hunt. Then Plunkett, the former Heisman Trophy winner from Stanford who had watched his injury-studded professional career unravel on other teams, stepped in to replace injured Dan Pastorini. The Raiders began to roll. In an amazing late-season rush, they won twelve of 14 games, outscoring the high-powered San Diego Chargers in the A.F.C. championship game...
...Oakland Raiders traded quarterback Ken Stabler to the Houston Oilers for quarterback Dan Pastorini...
...Pastorini of Houston, 6 ft. 3 in., 216 Ibs., hurled 35 touchdown passes at Santa Clara, but was still relatively unknown outside California until the close of the 1970 season. Then he was named most valuable offensive player in the East-West Shrine game. Pastorini, who is also the Oilers' punter this season, got his chance last Sunday in the second half against the Kansas City Chiefs. Sent in to replace ineffective veteran Charley Johnson, Pastorini nearly handed the mammoth Chiefs their second upset in a row. Although he suffered two interceptions, he completed ten of 21 passes...
...expected, they picked Heisman Trophy Winner Jim Plunkett, the strapping Stanford quarterback who was everybody's all-everything. Not to be denied in the Year of the Quarterback, the New Orleans Saints then snapped up Archie Manning from Ole Miss, while the Houston Oilers opted for Dan Pastorini of Santa Clara College, a bullet thrower who also excels at punting and place-kicking. Then came the surprises. After a brilliant season, Notre Dame Quarterback Joe Theismann languished until the fourth round before going to the Miami Dolphins; at 6 ft., 170 lbs., he may seem a mite slight...