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Super Bowl 3-4 top 76ers 5 Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.D. Monday, January 21, 1985 At Ni I III be rrggr? Vx Oak? cms? i AP photo Joe Montana passes as John Ayers (63) blocks Don McNsal. ws Don San Francisco wins 38-1 6 it: i I 1 fru a Montana said he was able to get outside because of Miami's overloaded deep coverage. He also pointed out that San Francisco, which rushed 40 times for 211 yards, was not the first team to run Miami into the ground. "We've seen in films that a lot of teams have been moving the ball on the ground against them," Montana said.

"We felt we should be just like everyone else. If they took it away from us, then we were going to try and throw some more. But they never did. "A lot of times, they don't get a lot of pressure on the quarterback because they are trying to cover everyone. In the nickel defense, they try and double-cover different people and they leave the middle open.

They don't account for the quarterback a lot of times in that defense. And when the holes open up, if there is just the slightest chance of me getting the first down, I take off. I can pick up 7 or 8 yards." He said most quarterbacks have not run against Miami this season, MontanaSee 3C Joe Montana is MVP again STANFORD, Calif. (AP) San Francisco quarterback Joe Montana said he never planned to run with the ball against the Miami defense. As it turned out, Super Bowl XIX's most valuable player rushed for more yardage than the entire Dolphin offense.

"None of it's by design," Montana said Sunday after rushing five times for 59 yards and a touchdown compared to the Dolphins' nine rushes for 25 yards in the 49ers 38-16 blowout of Miami. "Oh, occasionally, there is a set play when I run, but most of the time it's just something that happens. A play breaks down, a big hole just opens in front of me and I just take off. "You go into some games not being real confident in yourself about staying in there. Today my offensive line did such a great job that I probably could have stayed in there all day." By MIKE LOPRESTI Gannett News Service STANFORD, Calif.

As it turned out, this was no Super Bowl at all. The San Francisco 49ers are in a league of their own. Even the thick fog rolling off the bay couldn't hide that Sunday night, not after the 49ers destroyed Miami 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX. Almost everything they did belonged in a showcase. Almost every strategy they tried paid off.

It was a three-hour San Francisco highlight film with $1 million-a-mi-nute commercials. Pick an area, any area, and see what happened to Miami. Dan Marino? Sacked four times for the first time in his career, intercepted twice, harassed into un-derthrowing all day. He went from invincible to invalidated. The record-setting Dolphin offense, which gained its yardage by the dozen and its points by the peck? Didn't score a touchdown after the first period.

If you take out one long last-minute drive in the first half against the San Francisco prevent defense, the Miami offense had five possessions from the beginning of the second period to late in the third. It gained minus 9 yards in those five possessions. San Francisco scored after every one of them. The Miami defense? The 49ers tied a record for most points scored in a Super Bowl. MVP Joe Montana, who was 24 of 35, set a record for most passing yards 331.

He also rushed for 59 yards, passed for three touchdowns and ran for one. He appeared to arrive at Stanford Stadium fresh out of telephone booth, with a red on his chest. Four touchdowns in 16 minutes of the first half made it 28-10 and drove the Dolphins into early desperation. Only once after that would it approach being a game, and it took San Francisco's worst mistake of the day to do it. After Uwe von Schamann kicked a field goal with 12 seconds left in the half to make it 28-13, guard Guy Mclntyre fumbled the kickoff.

In came von Schamann again to make it 28-16. 'J ,10 I 7 So what happened? A look at San Francisco's first-half romp shows a peek of how Miami walked right into the line of fire of the San Francisco strategy. Down 3-0, the 49ers took the lead on a 33-yard Montana pass to back Carl Monroe, who had 11 catches all season. A big play on the drive was a Montana 13-yard scramble on third-and-five that went to the Dolphin 33. The quarterback did the running, but running back Roger Craig did the thinking on the play.

When Montana started to run his way, Craig made the split decision of not coming back to block but rather continue going long, taking linebacker Mark Brown with him. Brown never looked back to see who was coming up in the empty spaces he was leaving. It was Montana. After Miami went ahead 10-7, Montana took the 49ers 53 yards in four plays for the score, the final 8 on San Francisco 38-16See 3C Change of momentum for the second half? No. In the opening series of the third period, Marino, who was 29 of 50 for 318 yards, was sacked for the first time in the playoffs, by Dwaine Board.

Miami had to punt. A few moments later, Ray Wersching's 27-yard field goal made it 31-16. The Dolphin hole grew deeper. Marino looked wearier, the 49ers came harder. Marino was sacked twice in the next series, Miami had to punt, and this time it cost the Dolphins a touchdown.

Montana hit Wendell Tyler for a 40-yard play, and soon after he passed to Roger Craig for a 10-yard score. That made 38-10 and left you looking only for the final drop of the axe. Try these Eric Wright stole a touchdown from Mark Clayton with an interception near the end zone late in the third period, then Carlton Williamson intercepted a badly thrown Marino pass in the fourth quarter. 1 AP photo Dan Marino looks as a pass goes incomplete late San Francisco and completed 29 of 50 passes for in Super Bowl XIX. Marino was harassed all day by 318 yards.

He was sacked four times. One football team's mastery over another is not dull, just domination John Egan ST. One person who might be entitled to feel a bit sheepish, however, is Gary Austin, a Las Vegas resident. He is, unofficially of course, the setter of the line. He said the 49ers would win by three points, and the money started coming down.

Austin succeeded Bob Martin, who retired not long ago, reportedly caught up in a tangle of legal difficulties. San Francisco by three points is what Austin said. The 49ers won by 22. Yet, in the unique world of betting, Austin did his job. He coaxed about $200 million into the sophisticated world run by bookies.

Big deal. The rest of us across the land did at least twice that much business, person to person. I won a Pepsi from my wife, Jan. She never saw the final score, however. At 8 she left for Crazy Like a Fox.

John Egan is the Argus Leader sports paved parking lot, one which turned down the invitation the first time the Super Bowl question was asked. Only one guy was going to score a touchdown for the Dolphins, and he had been sick for a week. A place-kicker who was thought to be his team's greatest handicap turned out to be its biggest point producer. It took a quick flurry of no-huddle offense to take the Dolphins on their only sustained journey. Two-minute drill? Sure.

But in the first two minutes? Tell us about all that great football that's played in Pennsylvania, Texas, California and Florida. The runner who scored three times hails from Waterloo, Iowa. Carl Monroe started the scoring for the 49ers. When did he get into shoulder pads? I thought his nickname was Pearl and that he invented the shock absorber. No player who reaches the Super Bowl need feel embarrassed.

Consider the alternative, in places like Buffalo, Houston and Minneapolis. Now, that's embarrassment. They'll say two things about the 19th Super Bowl. There's bound to be the comment that San Francisco found the secret to beating Dan Marino force him out of the pocket. That's not news in the National Football League, folks.

It's just that nobody has been able to accomplish it before Sunday. It took a defense so good that Fred Dean is a third-stringer to get it done. The key in defensive coordinator George Seifert's plan has been a fundamental in coaching strategy since Bob Burns was a pup: Identify an enemy's strongest attribute, then take it away. When Marino put Bernoulli's principle of aerodynamics into practice during a season which started on Labor Day, either Mark Clayton or Mark Duper was at the spot where the football came back to earth. The mighty mites simply tore the league apart.

That's a matter of record. Just as certainly, the 49ers removed them from the mainstream of the Super Bowl. When Marino looked for his talented pair of favorites, he saw two or three jerseys instead. And the majority of them were red, with numbers in the 20s. That job turned the Miami quarterback into a sprinter.

In that department, the second-year Dolphin sensation is merely mortal. Everybody knew that; but no one could do anything about it. There will be those who describe the game as dull. That's what happens whenever a football game of supreme consequence turns into a one-sided affair. It's a phenomenon somewhat unique to football.

A no-hitter in the World Series weakens spectators' knees. When a basketball superstar's scoring is shut down in May, the defense merits praise. When you turn off Marino, you deserve a better description than boring. The San Francisco victory was much more, of course, but on this particular afternoon it was Joe Montana over Marino. It was a triumph for efficiency and im-' provisation over audacity and verve.

There was little suspense. In fact, when Montana donned telephone headphones after his team went ahead 21-10, one wondered if it wasn't Pres. Reagan calling to get his now-routine congratulatory message out of the way before an early bedtime. The 49ers' domination was so outlandish that they could afford two grade-school football turnovers on a snort kickoff and the fair catch of a punt. I guess a strange game might have been expected.

You had the population of Sioux Falls watching in a stadium without a.