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Bill Walsh of the 49ers and Dick Vermeil of the Philadelphia Eagles, the N.F.L. Coaches of the Year last year and the year before, knew about pressure before they got to their Super Bowls, but learned about futility there. Walking away from his $250,000 job last week, Vermeil, 46, expressed something of the toll that accrues from 24 years of X's and O's, using that corporate phrase "emotional burnout." But Walsh's portrait of himself after the 49ers' 41-37 loss to the San Diego Chargers Dec. 11 is more achingly descriptive...
...weariness has to do with calling essentially all of the plays in some 260 games since 1969 for the Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers, Stanford University and the 49ers. Seasons can get away from a football coach. "The changing trees, the colors in the fields, amazed him," Carol Vermeil said of her husband's simple wonder during the eight-week strike. "You know, I think that he thought all fields were green with white stripes on them." And so can years get away. "How does an eleven-year-old qualify for a driver's license?" Madden remembers asking...
...show was pre-empted indefinitely. The players huddled to plot union "allstar games," the first conceivably to be telecast Oct. 10 by Ted Turner. The owners huddled to try to thwart that and to consider retooling with renegades and scabs (though a few coaches, like Philadelphia's Dick Vermeil, said they were disinclined to soldier on in the company of the French Foreign Legion). As usual, the first problem was getting both sides into the same huddle...
...last year by the Maryland-based Knapp Foundation. Used for the first time last week, the new dinner service, with a raised presidential gold seal in the center of the plates and a red-and-gold lattice border, was accompanied by Morgantown crystal from the Kennedy White House and vermeil flatware purchased during the Monroe Administration. When one fretful guest reminded President Reagan of a Greek custom of breaking plates, Ronnie smiled, then said of such guests, "Well, they will either never be invited, or we'll just use the old china...
...Minnesota, the Philadelphia Eagles became the final team to lose its undefeated status, as the Vikings shocked Dick Vermeil's gang, 35-23. Minnesota quarterback Tommy Kramer passed for 246 yards to lead the Vikings to their fifth straight victory...