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4 TIMES SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1982 0 'You never get rid of the butterflies SPORTS EDITOR jonn Qouimnn those games, however, Feacher was in an unusual place on the bench. "That seems to be what happens when you become a starter," he not used to it, but I like it when I see (quarterback Brian) Sipe and the other starters next to me. "As for the season, I hope we end up in Pasadena in January." THE ROOKIE: George Floyd had to wait until last Monday to begin searching for an apartment When the Jets broke camp Monday, Floyd went about looking for a place close to the Jets' practice complex and within easy driving distance of Shea Stadium, where the Jets play their home games. Wednesday afternoon he was still looking. "It isn't easy finding one," Floyd, 21 and single, said via phone from the Jets' lockerroom.

"I couldn't do anything about it before because I wasn't sure I would make the team." As a All-Everything prep player at Hernando High and a two-time Division II All-America at Eastern Kentucky, Floyd has been the center of attention on the football field most of his career. Now he finds himself playing second fiddle a rookie just trying to make the team. "When I saw my name on the bulletin board Monday morning, I knew I had made it," he said. "The players don't worry much about the rookies like you hear. They're just concerned about making the team, too." Floyd doesn't expect to see extensive playing time when the Jets open their season at home against the Miami Dolphins on national television today.

But he does hope to get in the game. "I expect most of my playing time, at least early, will come on the specialty teams," he said. "I hope to get to run back some punts and kickoffs. I just want to do the best I can and wait for my break." George Floyd rookie. Ricky Feacher is a veteran.

But both admit they get nervous knots in their stomachs just thinking about today's National Football League regular season openers. "You never get rid of the butterflies," Feacher, a seventh-year wide receiver with the Cleveland Browns, said by phone Thursday. The 1982 season is an important one for both former Hernando High standouts. For Floyd, the reason is obvious: He's a rookie defensive back, relieved that he made the final cut of New York Jets but still unproven as a professional player. He is anxious to get the chance.

"I USED TO dream of just playing college football when I was in high school," Floyd, a former All-North Suncoast defensive back, said. "It really wasn't until my junior year at Eastern Kentucky, when my coaches started telling me I had a chance to play pro ball, that I really began to think about it "I'm listed on the second team at safety but my main goal is to just do well on the special teams and wait for my chance." For Feacher, this is the first season he went into camp as a starter. He has started a number of games including the final five games in 1981 but never No. 1 on the depth chart in preseason. "This year is a little different, given a starting job going in," he said.

"But it hasn't changed my attitude. I'm still preparing the same and working just as hard." THE VETERAN: Feacher has been more caught up in the talk of strike than most, especially the past few days. The Browns are scheduled to open their season at Seattle today, but until Friday night it looked like the show might not go on. Seattle player representative Sam McCullum was placed on waivers Tuesday, and the immediate reaction of Seahawks players was to boycott today's opener. It wasn't until Friday night that the players voted to play the game.

"Nobody wants to see a strife," Feacher said Thursday. "I hope they come up with an agreement because it would hurt the game and the fans. I don't want that to happen." The Browns, AFC Central champs in 1980 but a disappointing 5-11 in 1981, shuffled its wideout positions during the offseason to take better advantage of Feacher 's ability to get open deep. In the past, Feacher usually played flanker, spread to the wide side of the field. Now he plays split end (or in NFL lingo) on the weak side.

Former split end Dave Logan has moved to flanker. "With the things we do offensively they felt they needed me oh the weak side," Feacher explained. "The split end runs a lot of deep routes. Logan is one of the best position players around, which makes him an ideal flanker." ONE THING Feacher will miss as a starter: He won't get to play as much on the special teams. In each of the past two seasons, teammates elected him the special teams captain.

"I'll miss that," he said. "I lived and died on special teams for six seasons. I enjoy the chance to knock somebody else's head off." The Browns enter today's regular season opener full of optimism after a 4-0 preseason. During most of NFL veteran Ricky Feacher has reason'to smile at the beginning of this season. For the first time, the former Hernando High star is listed as a starter on the Browns' depth chart.

NFL rookie George Floyd had to wait before going apartment hunting in New York. The former Hernando High standout had to wait until the Jets posted the cut list to see if he made the team. Bowhunters can look forward to a bountiful whitetail season OUTDOORS Fnnmi snnGEMiT around $400, and arrows and accessories can quickly add another $100 to $150 to that But the challenges of bow hunting are drawing thousands of new William Tell's into the field each year. It's possible to get started in bow hunting for as little as $100, but the big attraction is the extensive open seasons. The whitetail deer season opens Sept 18 and runs through Oct 17 statewide.

In addition, there are numerous special hunts in many Wildlife Management Areas that are strictly for bow hunters, and these hunts often take place in some of the best deer areas in the state, such as our own Citrus WMA. Bows are also legal weapons throughout the regular gun season, from Nov. 13 through Jan. 9 in most of the state. The reason for the liberal regulations is that, though modern bows are powerful, they're nowhere near as accurate as a rifle in the hands of the average hunter.

It's necessary to get within about 40 yards of a deer to have much chance of scoring for most hunters. Just about all of us have owned a bow and arrows in our childhood. The bow may have been only two-feet long and the arrows tipped with rubber suction cups, but they were sufficient to fight off attacks of the calvary and any errant lions or grizzly bears that might have wandered into the back yard. The bows that sportsmen will be using in the Florida woods when the archery season opens Sept 18 are a far cry from those backyard toys. Modern compound bows, devised with a series of cables and pulleys to greatly increase their power and speed while reducing the strength necessary to draw back the string, can send an arrow on its way at better than 165 miles an hour.

Experimental foot bows have been known to cast an arrow over a mile, and hand bows can shoot up to a half mile. Armed with razor edged broadheads, modern arrows are as deadly as the slug from a high-powered rifle. And the equipment required to shoot them can be just as expensive as a good rifle. The finest bows made today for hunting cost deer with archery equipment And the woods are as quiet as if there were no hunters there at all. It's a good wilderness experience." Though you can save money by buying a bow at a discount store, chances are the bow won't "fit" you.

Bows come in a variety of draw lengths and strengths, and in order to get the right combination you're far better off to visit a sporting goods store specializing in the sale of archery gear. They'll measure your draw length, test your strength, find out what kind of hunting you want to do, and help you select a bow that you can become accurate with. Even with a bow that fits, accuracy takes lots of practice, however. It takes weeks of daily practice to become competent. No hunter should step into the woods unless he's reasonably sure he can place his shots well enough for a quick, clean kill.

Florida's deer herd is larger than ever in most parts of the state this year (a fact that led to the tragic die-off in the Everglades this summer when rising waters forced too many animals to compete for too little food and dry land) and hunting should be excellent. The bag limit is a liberal two deer per day, three in possession, and there's no season bag limit Biologists feel it's necessary to crop'the herd in many areas to prevent over-populating the available habitat. The state has an estimated 600,000 white-tails at present The bow is also a legal weapon for taking wild hogs and most of Florida's resident small game, so if you're not a deer hunter you can still enjoy hunting with a bow. In fact, the simple act of shooting a Jbow is so fascinating that you don't need to hunt at all to get a lot of pleasure from archery. There are organized target shooting clubs in many parts of the state, and competitive target shooting is a rapidly growing sport.

Area archery shops can put you in touch with target shooting groups, as well as with other hunters who can show you the ropes in your first year of bowhunting. That's not an easy thing to do, as any outdoorsman knows. Last year there were about 24,500 bow hunters in Florida, and only a small percentage of them brought home venison, despite the fact that both bucks and does are legal for archers everywhere except in a few wildlife management areas during the month-long archery season. "The challenge is what attracts a lot of hunters to archery," says Vic Heller, wildlife specialist with the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. "It takes real skill, not only with the bow but in woodcraft, to go out and take a raoyjon use m.

(mam, We're bringing six famed Olympic gold medalists to town in a way you've never seen them before: on canvas. They're all part of Budweiser's Olympic Art Collection, a unique program to raise $1 million to help train our Olympic Team for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. jy V1 Hernando Time Bob Moreland Trophies all around iimrm The athletes Olympic hockey great Mike Eruzione; basketball star Bill Russell; swimmer John Naber; discus thrower Al Oerter; track star Wilma Rudolph and distance runner Frank Shorter were all commissioned by Budweiser to create original paintings using the tools of their athletic trade: the discus, hockey stick, running shoes, even a basketball! The result is truly something to see. And after you're done looking, you can look into buying a signed high-quality lithograph of any one of the paintings. They're available on a carefully controlled, limited-edition basis for just $198.40.

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When the Gulf Coast Conference coaches voted to award the school with the overall best sports program last fall, little did they realize that one school would end up with both the best male and female sports programs. But that's exactly what Brooksville Hernando High did. Hernando athletic director Dub Palmer (left) and principal Don Turner accept the GCC's All-Sports trophies from Hernando Times Sports Editor John Bowman prior to Friday night's opening-season football game at Tom Fisher Stadium. The Leopard football team got Hernando High back off on the right foot in search of the 1 982 trophy with a 37-0 win over Inverness Citrus High. ffr I spartslog I 4.40 Trltecta (5-2-4) 162.40 1 Plaza Arazota Qulniela (5-7) 45.40 Ocala jai alai FRIDAY'S NIGHT RESULTS FIRST GAME Doubles 7 RenedoOtn 17.S0 4.60 10.00 3 Randy Coy 6.00 4.20 4 Owtnt Echanii 400 QuinMa (3-7) 53 00 Trltect (7-3-4) 754.40 IMP 14 Olympic CtmMtt TM KING Of BFF RS.IWHfUSf BIISCH INC ST LOUIS Trltecta (5-7-3) 42.60 FIFTH GAME Doublet 2 Owent Coya 1.00 4.60 3.60 I Altor Arazota 5.60 50 4 RenedoMondra 3.M Qulniela (1-2) 41.60 Trltecta (2-1-4 571.00 SIXTH GAME Singlet 3 Owent 133.40 4.00 4.00 1 Chucho (.60 6.00 1 Cheilo I 4.00 Oumiela (1-3) 3 Trltecta (3-1-7) 490.00 10 SEE THE BUDUEISEH 520 30 540 4 40 5 20 NINTH GAME Doublet 3 Altor Almorza 16.60 11.00 (.20 7 Joaquin Totorlca 0.00 4.20 4 Rutlnolrlgo 4.00 Qulniela (3-7) 46.40 Trltecta (3-7-4) TENTH GAME Double 1 Aramayo Irlgo 14.20 3.00 2.40 2 Altor Laced 4.N 2.40 5 Ruflno Arcarazo 3.00 QuMela (2-7) 29.00 Trltecta (7-2-5) 150.00 ELEVENTH GAME Singlet 4 Aramayo 11.20 4(0 3.60 7 Arra I 5.60 4.00 4 Gorrono 7.20 Qutnlelo (4-7) 70.00 Trltecta (6-7-4) 1.227.40 TWELFTH GAME Doublet 3 Rutmo Almorza 3.20 4 Arra Totorlca 3.00 SECOND GAME Doublet 2 Benny Arazota 1 EuMMoOHn I Hernandez Freddy Oumiela (1-2) 40.20 Trltect (2-1-t) 1,063.40 DaHy doubt (7-2) 174.30 X2 gj.vlv.pjl am cou.ectid:j lit: 17.20 2500 440 7.60 40 4.20 00 7.40 5.00 4 00 5.20 THIRD GAME Singlet 7 Aramburu 4 Crui 3 Coy Oumiela (4-7) 53.20 Trltecta (7-4-3) (45.00 SEVENTH GAME Doublet 7 Aramayo Lecue 17.20 Arra I Arcarazo I 1 Joaquin Cruz Qulniela (5-7) 30 Trltecta (7-5-1) 32.60 mM VIELU SQUARE EME1 U.S.

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