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...Thompson, is well-placed, insinuatingly pleasing, and most effective in the play's most difficult areas--evoking a time and a crowd of people through only two performers, and holding an audience through two hours without an intermission and without any visual or sonic pyrotechnics. Ralph Pochoda and Maryann Plunkett define themselves against each other from the start: Pochoda's Matt is fidgety, defensive, and given to speechifying--his mouth seems to hemorrhage words. Plunkett's Sally takes a pose and holds it, folds her arms over her chest, and seems almost sullenly reticent--giving up words only with great...
...game was not as close as the score. Even though Philadelphia Quarterback Ron Jaworski attempted 38 passes, a Super Bowl record, completing 18, for 291 yds., the Eagles were lame on the ground, gaining only 69 yds. Philadelphia's main problem was Oakland Quarterback Jim Plunkett, the Super Bowl M.V.P., who seemed to have all day to pass-and did, completing 13 of 21 for three touchdowns. Plunkett had waited a long time for his moment of glory, enduring injury in New England, humiliation in San Francisco and, finally, a year on the bench at Oakland...
...Said Plunkett: "I hate to admit this, but I think I needed rest both mentally and physically." When the Super Day came, he was rested and-as the Eagles could testify-ready. With his veteran offensive line chopping down the Eagle rush, Plunkett calmly picked Philadelphia's secondary apart. One throw, a sideline pass to Running Back Kenny King, resulted in an 80-yd. touchdown play, a Super Bowl record...
...Flores who devised a complicated blocking pattern that nullified the fearsome Eagle pass rush. In an earlier meeting with the Eagles this season, Plunkett was sacked eight times as the Raiders lost 10-7. This time, Plunkett went down just once, and then gently, at the end of a scramble...
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...