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...forthrightness required him to add, "The way the 49ers played, it's hard to figure how we could have beat them." With last week's 38-16 defeat, he has matched the four Super Bowl losses of Minnesota Coach Bud Grant, whose quarterback for three of them was Fran Tarkenton. In a handy way, Tarkenton personifies the stakes of the game...
Marino came into the game the nation's most highly touted quarterback, but on this day he wasn't even the best on Alumni Field. Doing his best to look as wild and innovative as the early Fran Tarkenton. Boston College's Doug Flutie stole the spotlight. Throwing underhand, sidearing on the run, and while falling down, Flutie accounted for 304 yards through the air against the nation's best defense and kept his team...
Running the offenses are young quarterbacks who are not afraid of carrying the ball themselves. The league that once considered Fran Tarkenton a heretic for deserting his protective pocket of blockers now boasts quarterbacks who routinely gallop upfield. New England's Steve Grogan fancies the end run; Baltimore's Jones likes it up the middle...
...seen Cuccia play quite a few times and he reminds me of Fran Tarkenton. He impresses me not only as an athlete but as a gentleman," Munio added. "His height is the only thing that might hold him back...
Despite a long career at the top of his sport, Rod Carew is the least-known star in baseball's galaxy. He works his wonders in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, cities owned-in the national mind, if not in reality-by Fran Tarkenton, Mary Tyler Moore and blizzards. Carew's feats have gone virtually unnoticed by the national press. Without argument the outstanding hitter of his generation, he has appeared on the cover of the Sporting News-baseball's Bible-only three times in more than a decade. In an era of jocks selling...