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...Redskins seemed to have been diluted recently by greater dread of other teams, particularly the Pittsburgh Steelers, but also the Philadelphia Eagles. The sourest personal feuds had dried up and blown away. Diron Talbert, a singularly unruly Redskins tackle, especially had it in for Cowboys Quarterback Roger Staubach. Both are retired now. The Cowboys had won the last six Washington-Dallas games, including a 24-10 victory last month. But then this season bloomed for the Redskins into the most blessed of all their 46 years. During the eight-week strike, most of their tough games were canceled. The Redskins...
...Roger Staubach and John Brodie were there, on the sidelines, Cowboy and 49er quarterbacks of another time. "I'll tell you, he's something special," said Staubach. Brodie senses something more. "I saw Joe Montana the first time three years ago. He walked into the room and I said, 'There's a man.' I can't define it for you. He knows what he's doing. You know it and he knows it. Joe Montana, I think, will become the best quarterback who ever played the game...
Brent Musberger hosted one of the silliest parts of the CBS pre-game, a simulation that pitted the play-calling abilities of Roger Staubach against those of Terry Bradshaw. Bradshaw and Staubach were presented with various situations that could occur during the game and were asked to call defensive and offensive plays...
...Staubach never called his own plays when he quarterbacked the Dallas Cowboys, and neither player had any experience calling defensive signals. As a result the "video computer" always showed the offensive play working...
...then, just when it looked like Danny White was going to pull a Roger Staubach and put the Cowboys in field goal range...he fumbled. It did it all just to see the expression on Landry's face...