Word: quarterback
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During his five years as a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Bob Waters, now 48, suffered more than his share of bruises and broken bones. Thus when he began to experience some shakiness in his right arm more than four years ago, he simply chalked it up to an old playing injury that had been repaired with a metal plate. "My doctors and I decided that, well, maybe it has something to do with the metal," says Waters, who coaches at Western Carolina University. But gradually, as the muscle spasms spread and both arms weakened, Waters became alarmed...
Meanwhile, in far-off Cleveland, a quarterback for the ages was coming of age. Denver's John Elway, 26, a Stanford baseball and football phenom prized above Miami's Dan Marino in the great quarterback draft of 1983, gathered the Broncos in their own end zone with less than six minutes and more than 98 yds. to go. Just to tie, they needed a touchdown. "We've got these guys right where we want them," drawled Denver Guard Keith Bishop, a Texan, but everyone else was looking at Elway. "We have a long...
Craig Morton, Denver's Super Bowl quarterback of 1978, a former associate of Roger Staubach's in Dallas, calls Elway "simply the best quarterback I have ever seen." As Morton viewed it, the push then to the overtime field goal, which devastated Cleveland, 23-20, was an inevitable extension of the storied drive. At every Bronco stall afterward, the moral was the same. "I knew if anyone could do it, it was us," said Place-Kicker Rich Karlis. "We have John Elway." "When you have John Elway," Bishop said, "anything is possible." "Anytime you have John Elway," said Reeves...
...founded in the old American Football League too, and Elway casts something of a Joe Namath shadow on the mismatch. As of last week Elway had not guaranteed a victory, but he did say this, "You have got to win the Super Bowl before you are a great quarterback...
Last year, when Penn State lost the title to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, 25-10, it was starting Quarterback John Shaffer's most horrendous game and first defeat since seventh grade. A memory of the aftermath was how bravely he stood up to it. Though this performance probably reinforced the pros' small opinion of Shaffer, there was one touchdown drive in the middle of the game that suggested why he is 66-1 since junior high. "When it's really hanging out there," Paterno said, "Shaffer can do it." The quarterback said, "I feel total ecstasy...