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...actually nicknamed Joe Pa. His Nittany Lions, who won the national championship in 1982, have long been counted among the purest football players in the land. In the plainest uniforms, down to the bare calves and black shoes, they even dress the part. Quoting a predecessor, Junior Quarterback John Shaffer recalls, "Chuck Fusina once said that if Coach Paterno could get away with it, he'd remove the numbers from the jerseys." Before marching unbeaten into Miami's Orange Bowl last week, the players of the No. 1 team in the nation voted to eschew the traditional orange ornament...
Penn State quickly scored the first touchdown against Oklahoma, showing roughly what Switzer meant when he called State "a physical, smash-mouth type of ball club" that "splatters you." The wishbone running of Freshman Quarterback Jamelle Holieway was well splattered, but then Holieway blithely dropped back and threw a 71-yd. touchdown pass to a wonderful tight end named Keith Jackson. Oklahoma's most splendid players are on the defense: Nose Guard Tony Casillas, Linebacker Brian Bosworth and Safety Sonny Brown. Penn State could not match them, and in fact had to do heroic work just to keep the Sooners...
...than many winters past, the actual football playing has seemed an adjunct to the celebration. Though they have their appealing characters, including the game's regal running back, Walter Payton, the Bears are far from the most comely players in the National Football League. In fact, beginning with a quarterback who cuts his own hair, young Jim McMahon, they could be the least glamorous people ever to dine at a Super Bowl, which may start to explain their charm...
...breezy receivers like Willie Gault, the track star, and Dennis McKinnon, the football player. On the other hand, when Ditka dispatched a draw play in the third quarter, McMahon snorted and whipped a touch down pass to Gault. Los Angeles Coach John Robinson said he "played like a great quarterback today. He had presence and command." Now, there's a slogan for a headband...
...Astoria again, but the U.S. Football League's Denver Gold hired him for his marketability. Sales boomed briefly, but within a year he was fired again. At 58, Miller has, in a phrase coaches use on cut day, "resumed life" as a Dean Witter stockbroker. Norris Weese, the Bronco quarterback who finished the Super Bowl, visited Miller's office recently, and the coach gave him a tour of the different-size cubicles. "Like coaching," Miller says, "it's just a matter of putting in more hours than anyone else. I want to win the stockbrokers' super bowl. Hell, yes." XIII...