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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...
...Mike Moroski. Neither can be expected to match the two-time MVP of the Super Bowl. By a complicated system the N.F.L. employs for measuring quarterbacks, Miami's Dan Marino has just dislodged Montana as the highest rated in history, followed at a distance by Hall of Famers Roger Staubach and Sonny Jurgensen. Montana unhinged himself in the opening game of his eighth season, throwing in one direction while running in another, his trademark. He was something to see, and to hope to see again...
Since almost everything in Dallas is charted against the National Football League's Cowboys, plotters of the Mavericks' curve note that the N.B.A.'s arrival nearly coincided with Quarterback Roger Staubach's departure. As Replacement Danny White began to lose The Big One, in the pecking order of the city disappointing favorites gave ground to surprising underdogs, and loud emotions started to overtake cool indifference. Suddenly Texas became basketball territory. Eventually the Mavericks may be required to win a championship, but for now Dallas would be satisfied with becoming the fourth team in league history to improve its record each...
...National Football League quarterback has thrown more passes, completed more, for more yards or touchdowns. Still Tarkenton is regarded vaguely as a loser and alibier. Had the Vikings made good on even one of their chances, would he have been left at the door last week when Roger Staubach and Joe Namath (the league's 61st-ranked passer) stepped into the Hall of Fame? To the victors go the spoils...
...only rookie quarterback ever elected to start the Pro Bowl. Throwing 55 in 18 games this year, he displaced longtime Record Holders George Blanda and Y.A. Tittle, who took it manfully: "You can't criticize a trapper who's got the skins on the wall." Marino puts Roger Staubach in mind of Hockey Prodigy Wayne Gretzky. By the CBS-New York Times calculations, Marino is already the country's favorite N.F.L. player (Chicago's Walter Payton second, Montana third), and in the cautious view of the Miami Herald, "the best quarterback alive." Even Shula seems to cast Sunday's game...