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Quarterback Craig Morton is a Cowboy reject, the Dallas starting quarterback until Semi-Peerless Roger Staubach unseated him. In their locker room after beating the defending Super Bowl Champion Oakland Raiders for the A.F.C. title, the Broncos were ecstatic, scarcely believing the dream had come true. Shouts, cheers and champagne washed their victory. When the Cowboys filed into their redoubt after their N.F.C. title win over Minnesota, there was no raucous celebration and no bubbly wasted by the cool young professionals from Dallas. And in their cities ... well, Denver fans went berserk, while the Dallas fans, accustomed to such moments...
...baseball). The charts and tables allow you to plot the biorhythms of the pros, to predict which team will triumph on which particular day. When you reach an advanced stage of the art, the ads say, you can even predict the score. Or at least how well Roger Staubach is getting along with his wife...
...Standby. Quarterback Roger Staubach, who is having his best season, must be counted on for much of the drama. Staubach, 33, completed 57% of his passes and scrambled for 316 yds. He has been better in the playoffs. His bomb to Wide Receiver Drew Pearson beat the Vikings in the final minute, and he buried the Rams with four touchdown passes. Staubach's infantry consists of Running Backs Robert Newhouse and Preston Pearson. Neither is O.J. Simpson, but both ran effectively enough to make Dallas the top rushing team in their conference...
...Staubach's talent is throwing from the shotgun-the old football stand-by that Coach Tom Landry has adapted for third-down passing plays. Staubach sets up 5 yds. behind scrimmage, backpedals seven more after the snap and looks to hit any one of five receivers downfield. He says that the tactic allows him "to save a crucial couple tenths of a second"-time enough to read the defense, then choose one from a confusing mixture of possible passes in front of or behind opposing linebackers...
...Dallas shotgun they will be forced to cover more ground, and with five receivers, the double coverage Pittsburgh favors is impossible. But Linebacker Coach Woody Widenhofer sees some compensation in the shotgun. Says he: "You can't run the football, so the front four can tee off on Staubach...