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Super Bowl XIII will turn on how well two talented but distinctly different men perform under fire. Sports Editor B.J. Phillips visited the Pittsburgh Steelers' Terry Bradshaw, and Reporter-Researcher Peter Ainslie sought out the Dallas Cowboys' Roger Staubach. Their findings...
...STAUBACH: "You have a camera and it's focused downfield. All the other is a blur-the hands, the people, the movement-but your point of focus is beyond them. If you stare at the closer stuff so that you actually see a guy's arm or hand, then you're in trouble. There's an antenna, a sixth sense, inside you that directs the ball past the guy's hands...
Tony Doresett capped a 101-yd. day with a 10-yd. scoring romp, and Roger Staubach threw a pair of touchdown tosses while linebacker Thomas Henderson capped the scoring with a 68-yd. interception return...
...large measure of credit for Morton's success in Denver can be traced to his days as a Dallas Cowboy, which ended only after Lieut, (j.g.) Roger Staubach, U.S.N. (ret.) took away his command in the huddle. It was in Dallas under Coach Tom Landry that Morton polished his skills in running a complex offense. Much of the sophisticated strategy that marks modern football was devised in Landry's fertile mind. For beneath the ubiquitous hat a size too small, behind the stony visage, resides a genius of the game. As a player-coach in the 1950s, Landry refined...
...family album in shoulder pads. They are the offspring of their cities and their coaches. Roistering Red Miller and Man-with-a-New-Grubstake Craig Morton are the kind of frontier dreamers old Denverites would have appreciated. Cerebral, straight-thinking Tom Landry and All-American Technician Roger Staubach are the steady, main-chance men that made Dallas Big D. These two very different teams from two very different Western cities will shoot it out in the most spectacular corral ever built. The teams and the setting are unique. Before Super Bowl XII is over, the showdown could turn into...