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Section X's O's 2 Press Box 2 Super Bowl Rosters 3 College Basketball 67 Racing 11 Outdoors 12 The Pittsburgh Press Sundcfy, January -20, 1980 Both QBs Confident Steelers Go For No. 4 Sports ANl STEELERS- go play football against With that, Bradshaw summed up what the Super Bowl, with all its hype, happens to be a big football game. The Steelers are the only team to ever win three Super Bowls and now they are seeking their fourth in six years. v- (Other Super Bowl stories, statistics, pictures, Pages D-2, 3, 4, and 5.) By JIM O'BRIEN Press Sports Writer PASADENA Rival backs Terry Bradshaw and Vince Ferragamo have had their say, and now it's finally time to get today's 6 p.m. Super Bowl XIV under way.

Both quarterbacks have predicted victory for their side. The two have shrugged off the effect a wet field might have on the outcome of the National Football League championship and smiled at so many photographers' flashbulbs that both appear tan even though the sun seldom peeked through the clouds all week. "I know we're going to win," offered Ferragamo, who started this season as the Rams' No. 3 quarterback and keyed a late season surge that vaulted the team into the playoff picture. "I can't give anyone the score, but I know we're going to win." Someone asked Ferragamo if he would "guarantee it," as the New York Jets' Joe Namath did in 1969.

"I told you what I believe," snapped Ferragamo, "in my words. Namath's not playing in this game." So much for the pride of Beaver Falls. How about Bradshaw? What words of wisdom did he have to impart on today's contest, expected to be viewed here by more than 100,000 fans at the Rose Bowl and by 100 million people on TV? He says Ferragamo should forget he's playing in the Super Bowl, otherwise the pressure will overwhelm him. "Ferragamo is a real good quarterback," Bradshaw said, "but the pressure might bother him. I think if he finds out he's in the Super Bowl, he'll get scared to death.

I know. I went through it." And that, of course, is another reason the Steelers are favored by as many as 12 points to win their fourth Super Bowl STEELERS VS. RAMS No. Name Ht. Wt.

Pos. No. Name Ht. Wt. Pos.

82 Stallworth 6-2 183 WR 85 Ja. Youngblood 6-4 243 LE 55 Ko 6-2 262 LT 79 Fanning 6-6 248 LT 57 Davis 6-1 255 LG 90 Brooks 6-3 254 RT 52 Webster 6-1 250 89 Oryer 6-6 230 RE 72 Mullins 6-3 244 RG 53 Ji. Youngblood 6-3 231 LLB 79 Brown 6-4 255 RT 64 Reynolds 6-1 231 MLB 89 Cunningham 6-5 247 TE 59 Brudzinski 6-4 231 RLB 88Swann 6-0 180 WR 33 0'Steen 6-1 190 LCB 12 Bradshaw 6-2 215 OB 27 Thomas 5-9 184 RCB 32 Harris 6-2 225 RB 42 Elmendorf 6-1 196 SS 20 Bleier 210 RB 21 Cromwell 6-1 197 FS RAMS VS. STEELERS No. Name Ht.

Wt. Pos. No. Name Ht. Wt.

Pos. 80 Waddy 5-11 180 WR 68 Greenwood 6-6 250 LE 77 France 6-5 268 LT 75 Greene 6-4 260 LT 72 Hill 6-5 260 LG 87 Dunn 6-3 247 RT 61 Saul 6-3 243 76 Banaszak 6-3 244 RE 60 Harrah 6-5 251 RG 53 Winston 6-0 228 LLB 78 Slater 6-4 269 RT 58 Lambert 6-4 220 ML8 83 Nelson 6-2 241 TE 56 Cole 6-2 220 RLB 88 Dennard 6-1 ''185 WR 29 Johnson 5-10 200 LCB 15 Ferragamo 6-3 207 OB 47 Blount 6-3 205 RCB 26 Tyler 5-10 188 RB 31 Shell 5-11 190 SS 32 Bryant 6-1 234 RB 24 Thomas 6-2 196 FS -a 1 Super Bowl may hinge on whether the Rams' defense can shut down the Steelers' well-rounded offense. I'm playing it," Bradshaw said, "I get too uptight and the picture gets cloudy. I can't relax or concentrate and then I can't execute. I have to put the Super Bowl out of my mind and say to myself, 'Here are the Los Angeles Rams.

Let's him an advantage. However. "If I think of winning the game while title. Bradshaw and the Steelers have been there so many times. Bradshaw believes his Super Bowl experience gives They March To A Different Beat In PASADENA In blase Los Angeles, where the appearance of a movie star or an eccentric oddball on a street corner draws more attention than a Super Bowl, there are people who see today's battle between the Steelers and the Los Angeles Rams as a clash of life styles Scoreboard Two of pro football's oldest franchises are matched here, but they have been infrequent opponents in the past.

They have played only 12 times since the Rams moved from Cleveland to Los An-eeles in 1946. The Steelers have not beaten LA since 1956, and are on the short end of a 10-1-1 record in the series. Here's something interesting. The Rams are the only team the Steelers have not defeated in Chuck Noll's 11 sea sons as the team coach. His record is 0-3, with losses coming in 1971, 1975 and 1978.

That loss last season, by 10-7 on a sloppy field in a Sunday night game, is paramount in most minds. Three of Noll's former assistants are on the Rams' staff: defensive coordinator Bud Carson, offensive line coach Dan Radakovich, and receiver coach Lionel Taylor. This would suggest the Rams' brass would be more familiar with the Steelers than most opponents, and they would be better prepared. "They still have to play better than us," said Steelers' defensive coordinator Woody Widenhofer, who has taken the heat over what he felt was too much attention being paid the Rams' staff. Also to be considered is the game is being played on grass, and the track may be still wet for the kickoff.

The Steelers played only twice on natural turf this season, beating Cleveland, 51-35, and losing to San Diego, 35-7. The Rams played all their home games and five away games this season on grass. The Steelers finished the regular season with a 12-4 record, tying them with San Diego for the best mark in the NFL. They won their sixth straight AFC Central title and tbeir seventh in the last eight years, which enabled tbem to make (Continued on Page D-8) win. No chance at all.

When the band marched onto the field at halftime, here comes the tuba player with this massive lettered sign attached "to his horn. "But We're Smarter," it read. But somehow the Bears managed to win. Now as the band paraded out of the stadium after the game, the tuba player had pointed the other side of the sign, "And Now We're Better." "That's California for you," Bailey said. But what about people who bet on football? Don't they bet in California? "Oh, sure," said Bailey.

"People out here will bet on the Rams if you'll give them 13 or 14 points. They wouldn't take the Rams if they have to give points." Why is that? In Pittsburgh, I told him, it's not at all unusual for the fans to bet on the Steelers and give anywhere from 10 to 17 points. "That's where the people in the East, the establishment, have it all over us," he replied. "They have more confidence." Steelers over Rams The Steelers haven't beaten the Rams even during the riotous Super Bowl years, but there was nothing at stake irr those games. Pittsburgh's defense will intimidate Vince Ferragamo, the Rams' too-young quarterback, and will contribute a touchdown or two to the blow-out score, 27-3.

Playoff record against the spread: 4-2-0. Percentage .667. Dukes' Rally Overcomes WVU, 73-66 By RUSS FRANKE In what Mike Rice described as a "cat-and-mouse game" at the Civic Arena, his Duquesne cats got out of the bag in the second half, and that turned out to be fatal for West Virginia. It was still a basketball game, though, and an important one. Duquesne won the Eastern Eight battle, 73-66, and moved back into second place in a tie with Rutgers behind Pitt.

The cat and mouse Rice referred to was the tense, cautious stalking among two teams that seemed to know what the other was up to. West Virginia played a triangle-and-two defense designed to stop the Dukes' two top scorers, B.B. Flenory and Doug Arnold, while the Dukes' 2-3 zone was aimed at keeping the outside pressure on Lowes Moore, the top guard in the Eastern Eight. Flenory scored 14 points, one below his average, and Arnold scored eight. (He averages 15).

Moore scored nine, and his coach, Gale Catlett, said Moore was unable to shoot from long range because of a bad push-off foot. t. Most of the action was concentrated on the inside, however, and Duquesne did slightly better than the Mountaineers un- (Continued on Page D-8) rather than football teams. "That's' the way we are out here," said attorney Bill Bailey. "In Los Angeles, we're already living in the 21st century.

And we love it." According to Bailey, there is a strange symbolism in today's game. It is Mid-America, hide-bound to tra By Pat Livingston Sports Uitor Door Closing On Year Of The Rams By JOHN CLAYTON, Press Sports Writer PASADENA Until Feb. 16 on the Chinese calendar, this is the Year of the Ram. In Los Angeles, the Year of the Rams has been filled with bandages, plane tickets, emergency phone calls, death, family warfare and dissension. Thirteen weeks of "Dallas," the popular prime time soap opera about rich Texas oil barons, has nothing on the Rams.

Heck, the Rams had to beat Dallas to advance to today's Super Bowl confrontation with the Steelers in the Rose Bowl. "The final episode of this soap-operaish season is where the Rams are gonna kick Tampa Bay's butt and go to the Saper Bowl and beat Pittsburgh," Rams Coach Ray Malavasi said before beating the Bucs, 9-0, in the National Conference championship. Malavasi is the only one to believe this fantasy. The Rams are 12-point underdogs, the biggest underdog since 1969, when a young New York Jets team with brash Joe Namath lined up against Baltimore as 17V2-point underdogs. Ironically, that day was Chuck Noll's last as an assistant coach.

He headed to the Steelers after the Jets' 16-7 victory. There is definitely some deja vu running through Noll's mind. "I hope they all lose their houses and even their kids' lunches on these guard Dennis Harrah. "I remember Super Bowl XII when Denver beat Oakland to win the American Conference and played Dallas in the Super Bowl. The press and people didn't criticize Den- (Continued on Page D-2) "If they were in California," said he, "it'd probably be a Chiquita Banana sticker." Bailey, a native of California and who is a clever and educated man with a responsible position in industrial relations, made a sweep of his arm to take in the landscape, a rolling terrain that curled in a series of verdant, green knolls softly down to the sea.

The azure midday sun shone brightly in the sky. A few cumulus clouds drifted lazily by. "How can you take football, or really anything, seriously in a place like this?" he remarked. "This is a climate, a setting, where you just cannot lose. We might concede the battlefield, but we'll never consider it lost.

I can't understand why anybody would consider living anyplace but in Southern California, south of Los Angeles, anyway." Where, except in California, he wanted to know, would a tuba player in a college band wear a sign on his horn? It happened at Berkeley, at the University of California where the state's free educational program sends the intellectually elite. California was playing a rival Bailey didn't recall which rival it was in an important conference game which they didn't have a chance to dition and the work ethic, against the Flake. And the Flake has to win, says Bailey, an out-and-out Ram fan who refuses to consider the possibility that the Rams just might lose. "They're our champion. They won't lose," said Bailey.

"It's our style of life out here that there's no such thing as losing. Even if we lose on the scoreboard, we still win. "You people in the East are more realistic," said he. "You storm out here in droves, waving your dirty towels and wearing your hard hats, and we look at you and yawn." To the average Southern Californian, said he, football is sort of a surrogate war. "You're sending your champion in to fight for your cause.

Our champion is fighting for our way of life and the Steelers are fighting for theirs. "But the Steelers can't win," he continued. "Even if they put more points on the board, even if they walk home with the Lombardi Trophy again, the people of California will find some way to rationalize that they really didn't lose. They were cheated, or they didn't get the breaks. But they'll never concede that they lost.

That's us. That's how we are." Even the teams, said he, reflect the difference in life styles. "Look at the squads," he explained. "You have clean-shaven Terry Bradshaw, the skilled, disciplined dirt-farmer who is the All-America boy. There's Rocky Bleier, the war hero, the man who reflects the establishment image of the East.

A kid gives Joe Greene a Coke and Joe throws him a jersey and smiles. We don't have people like that on the Rams. We don't have people like that in California. "What are the Rams? Flakes. Freddie Dryer is a day-dreamer, the ultimate beach bum.

Jack Youngblood is carefree, a drifter who'll never do a day's work in his life. Ferragamo. He's trying to play football, but that's all a put-on. What he really wants to be is a movie star. These are our heroes.

Who are yours?" Bailey doesn't even like the Steelers' helmet insignia, the steel mark. Prtss Photo by Andy Slarnti Edmonton fight it out at the Arena. --MM'V I -J tJEW fi, fsi JKjt if. Fights Pepper Pens' 5-2 Loss (8 players booted after long brawl, Page D-8). By BOB BLACK Rodney Dangerfield's famous line about going to a fight and seeing a hockey game breaking out was most appropriate last night during Edmonton's 5-2 victory over the Penguins in front of 12,896 fans at the Civic Arena.

In all, 257 penalty minutes were recorded during the blood letting, which saw four players from each team thrown out of the game and 11 penalty records being set before the marathon contest, which took nearly 3M hours to play, was completed. The Oilers got a hat trick from Blair MacDonald and two goals from their 18-year-old scoring sensation, Wayne Gretzkv, to offset a pair of goals by the Penguins' Greg Malone. It also marked the third straight Saturday night home game that the Penguins lost. Goalie Greg Millen, who has played in 16 straight games, was in the net for all three losses. Although the Penguins did manage to come up with a pair of power play goals by Malone, the meager offensive effort was completely overshadowed by the most physical game they've been involved in in the history of the franchise.

Considering that the teams will get together again Wednesday night in Edmonton, chances are good that a rematch may lie ahead. The Penguins showed signs of solving their power-play problems in a penalty-riddled first period. Greg Malone gave them a 1-1 tie by picking up his 12th goal of the season 48 seconds into their second power play of the period. (Continued on Page D-8) Panthers Shuffle Past Aces, 78-70 By BOB SMIZIK, Press Sports Writer EVANSVILLE, Ind. Behind them was Duquesne and in front of them was Iona.

It would have easy enough for the Pitt Panthers to have looked off in another direction last night. But they looked neither ahead nor behind, only at the task at hand and came away with a 78-70 win over the Evansville Purple Aces With a crowd of 10,055 watching, the Panthers pulled slowly away in the second half and then clinched the victory with excellent foul shooting in the closing seconds. The win, the Panthers' seventh in their last eight games, left them with an 11-3 record: Evansville fell to 11-5. Pitt was able to win without a strong offensive game from Sam Clancy, who failed to take a shot in the first half and finished with eight points. Carlton Neverson picked up the slack for Clancy, scoring 18 points, 10 of which came in the first seven minutes of the game.

After three sub-par games and missing two others with an injury, Sammie Ellis came back to score 17 points for (Continued on Page D-8) Tempers flare and fists fly as the Penguins and.