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...fast with a theological hot potato as he is with a football. At a post-Super Bowl press conference Roger was expatiating on his Christian principles when a reporter asked him if he thought there were zone defenses "up there." Staubach: "From what I understand, every pass is a touchdown up there." Reporter: "If you're a defensive back, every pass wouldn't be a touchdown." Staubach: "They don't have any defensive backs up there...
...Terry Bradshaw, 23, 6 ft. 3 in., 214 lbs., finding his groove in his sophomore season, sparked the Steelers to their best winning season in five years; Buffalo Bills' Dennis Shaw, 24, 6 ft. 3 in., 205 lbs., the A.F.C. Rookie of the Year in 1970, fired eleven touchdown passes this season...
...learned their trade during on-the-fieid training. Or, in some instances, flat-on-the-field training. Bradshaw, for example, suffered the humiliation of being tackled for a safety in each of the first three games he started; it took him two more games before he threw his first touchdown pass. "The plain truth is," he says, "I didn't know how to attack a defense, how to set one thing up by using another...
...their taxi squad behind Quarterbacks Craig Morton and Don Meredith. Then, in quick succession, Don Meredith announced his surprise retirement and Craig Morton was injured-leaving Staubach to start the opening game of the season against the St. Louis Cardinals. In the first quarter Staubach fired a 75-yd. touchdown pass, and the Cowboys were never headed as they won 24-3. Off and on over the next two seasons, Coach Landry, a Methodist minister known to his players as the "Rev. T.L.," alternated Staubach and Morton as the starting quarterbacks. After...
...confident that Brodie would throw to Washington that he sent one of his portable "mini" cameras 50 yds. downfield from the line of scrimmage. Sure enough, Washington caught a Brodie pass only a few feet from the sideline camera and raced into the end zone for a touchdown; Verna's viewers saw it all in a stunning instant-replay closeup. It is in such moments that TV football freaks are born...