Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...index finger on his throwing hand still shows the marks of off-season surgery, and the little finger on the same hand zigs at right angles from one fracture, then zags back again from a second break. It is these hands that will load the Dallas shotgun against a Pittsburgh defense that is skilled at masking its strategy with fake formations until the play is underway...
Utterly methodical in everything he does (father of five, he has a small library of volumes on child raising), Staubach is fascinated by the intellectual challenge of dissecting pro defenses, especially one as sophisticated as Pittsburgh's. "I'm really learning new things all the time," he insists. "I'm constantly growing." Head Coach Tom Landry calls the Dallas plays, and while Staubach would prefer otherwise, he admits that the system frees him to search for telltale flaws in a defense. Like Bradshaw, Staubach knows all the tactics that his opponents are likely to use in given...
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...
...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 and establish the Steelers as the dominant pro football team...
...Pittsburgh Stellers and the Dallas Cowboys treated the nation to a Super Bowl worthy of its advance billing, as the two conference champions flailed away at each other for four hours with the Steelers holding on for a 35-31 victory...