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ii 1. I II II El IB II 11 yver AifiL Uhnefs 1CK is iwius racKers ir The Tampa Tribune Tampa, Florida II 1 Sunday Jan. 15. 1967 -i dLSXS" I '1 fa By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer LOS ANGELES Bart Starr's passing and a ball-hawking defense make the experienced Green Bay Packers the solid favorites over the explosive Kansas City Chiefs today in the first clash of champions of the National and American football leagues in the Super Bowl. Ever since the two pro leagues decided to merge last June, this test of strength has been awaited with great interest.

However, it appeared that there would be no sellout of the vast Memorial Coliseum. A crowd of about 70,000 is expected in the arena. Resistance to the television blackout in the Los Angeles area and the prices of some of the less desir- SECTION MARKETS able tickets, plus the fact that there is no home team involved, were given as some of the reasons for the failure to sell out. THE GAME WILL START at 4:05 p.m., EST. It will be beamed across the nation on television and radio by both the Columbia Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Co.

who are paying a total of $2 million for the rights. The Packers and Chiefs will be shooting for the biggest pay-off in the history of team competition with $15,000 guaranteed for each member of the winning team and $7,500 for each loser. As the Packers already have won approximately $8,500 for beating Dallas in the NFL title game, 34-27, they can take home $23,500 each by winning as expected. Kansas City's share for beating Buffalo in the AFL title game 31-7 was $5,308.39 so each Chief could pocket more than $20,300. The highest payoff for a World Series winner was $12,794 by the 1963 Los Angeles Dodgers.

GREEN BAY'S SOLID defense and Starr's brilliantly directed attack took the Packers through the regular NFL season with a 12-2 record. They capped this with a victory over Dallas on four TD passes by Starr to four different receivers and then shut off a THE MORNING AFTER ml Twit MEll)lt TRIBUNE SPORTS EDITOR iS WMif ji I I ft- late Cowboy threat with an Comparing Super Bowl rivals Green Bay and Kansas City are compared position by position on Page 4-D. LEN DAWSON scrambling: Chief QB The First Super Three Super questions come up for Super solution in Super weather on this Super Sunday in the Super Bowl, the matching of the Super-b teams of the National and American Football Leagues in a Super showdown which has had a Super buildup that borders on Super-ficiality, through the NFL's Green Bay Packers no longer act Super-cilious in regard to the AFL's Kansas City Chiefs, but look upon them as Supercharged. Super-silly, isn't all that? But, it isn't to the two teams, the two leagues and the two television networks involved. These are burning questions up for decision: factor, except possibly as a pass receiver, although Coach Lombardi insists he is ready for duty.

It was the ability of the Packers' defense to throttle NFL opponents that made them the favorites over the Chiefs by about two touchdowns. Willie Davis leads a fine front four that pressures the passer. Dave Robinson, Ray Nitschke and Lee Roy Caffey are a formidable trio of linebackers, perhaps the best in football. Herb Adderley and Bob Jeter at the corners and Willie Wood and Tom Brown at safety are tough on pass defense. Kansas City rolled to the AFL crown with an 11-2-1 (Continued on Page 4, Col.

1) interception by Tom Brown with 24 seconds to go. The Packers, who have won four NFL titles in eight years under Coach Vince Lombardi, feature a well-balanced offense that leans more heavily than usual on Starr's passes to Carroll Dale, Boyd Dowler, Jim Taylor, Elijah Pitts and Marv Fleming. The running game, less effective than in past years, still has a blockbuster in full-b a Taylor and a speedy threat in Pitts. Pitts took over Paul Hornung's old job when the Golden Boy was forced out of action with a pinched nerve in his neck. IT IS DOUBTFUL if Hor-nung will be an important Li i suss- ssr 'mr swssf Packers' Bart Starr I) 2) Which is the better team? If Green Bay wins, how good is the AFL? Editor's Note: If Kansas City wins, we'll know super-quickly.

Which network has done the better job of promotion, and thus won the rating war, every bit as ex- 3) GREEN BAY OFFENSE LE Carroll Dale (84) LT Bob Skoronski (76) Fuzzy Thurston (63) illy Curry (50) RG Jerry Kramer (64) RT Forrest Gregg (75) RE Marv Fleming (81) QB Bart Starr (15) FB Boyd Dowler (86) HB Elijah Pitts (22) FB Jim Taylor (31) DEFENSE LE Willie Davis (87) LT Ron Kostelnik (77) RT Henry Jordan (74) Lionel Aldridge (82) Dave Robinson (89) MLB Ray Nitschke (66) Lee Roy Caffey (60) Herb Adderley (26) RHB Bob Jeter (21) LS Tom Brown (40) RS Willie Wood (24) KANSAS CITY OFFENSE LE Chris Burford (88) LT Jim Tryer (77) LG Ed Budde (71) Wayne Frazier (66) RG Curt Mens (64) RT Dave Hill (73) RE Fred Arbanas (84) QB Len Dawson (16) FB Otis Taylor (89) HB Mike Garrett (21) Curt McClinton (32) DEFENSE LE Jerry Mays (75) LT Andy Rice (58) Buck Buchanan (86) Chuck Hurston (85) LLB Bobby Bell (78) MLB.Sherrill Headrick (69) RLB E. J. Holub (55) Fred Williamson (24) Willie Mitchell (22) LS Bobby Hunt (20) Johnny Robinson (42) 3 Here's the game plan or television's "Super Nielsen Bowl" showdown coverage of the Packers-Chiefs battle for pro football supremacy today. Both NBC (Channel 8) and CBS (Channel 13) will telecast the game in color. NBC's coverage of the game, with the kickoff at 4 o'clock in the Los Angeles Coliseum, begins at 2:30 with a pre-game show.

CBS reports its warmup program at 3:30. Both Channel 8 and Channel 13 plan post-game shows, featuring interviews with players and coaches. The Channel 8 coverage is expected to end at 7:30 p.m., Channel 13 at 7 p.m. The game will also be broadcast on NBC and CBS radio, WFLA (970) and WINQ (1010) in the Tampa area, starting at 3:30 p.m. i 5 I HANK STRAM determined VINCE LOMBARDI winning smile cruciating as will be the tackle play in Los Angeles this afternoon.

It won't matter which network comes up with the better production, because those who miss it won't know it. The deed is done. The contest was in the buildup, in trying to convince Viewers whether NBC or CBS would have the commentators who'd talk the least, and which would have the quickest, most vivid instant replays. The competition is over after two solid weeks of well-prepared propaganda, right down to sports writers testimonials on this telecasting team and that. Frankly, it's a tossup as to whether there is more interest In the Packer-Chief game, or.

the NBC-CBS match. IT'S NO PROBLEM for-the very rich, I mean the very rich and very talented, the two-color TV family with members who also have peripheral vision. Of course the two-TV, one black-and-white set and one color set family, can handle it by i allowing each network one-half on the color set and one on the old-timey unit. The two black-and-white TV set family, with the good eyes, can handle it and won't know what it's missing, 'but the one-set family is simply out of luck. Those people might consider a neighborhood party, a sort of BYOTV to get I the whole picture, so to speak.

tPros Talk Like Collegians It is a classic event, one of such importance, it seems, it has old pros talking like collegians. i Guard Jerry Kramer, hard-bitten nine-year-old veteran of the Packers, said he'd rather have the $7,500 loser's share and the victory than the $15,000 winner's share, and lose. "We've said we're Number One so long, )ind we have 4 been so we have to keep on being No. One," he said. His teammate, Fuzzy Thurston, who's been blocking for Quarterbacks to pass for 10 years, said, "we want it badly.

This is what we've worked eight years for under Vince Lom- mm $100,000 Pact- Gain 12-1 Mark oins Gators Whip 'Cats 89-72 Elite roup BALTIMORE LP) Frank Robinson, the American League's most valuable player and the 1966 World Series ifit 1 if hi h4kf ft By SKIP PEREZ Tribune Correspondent GAINESVILLE Tommy Bartlett's surging Florida Gators showed over 7,000 hometown fans here last night why they're ranked among the 10 best teams in the country by soundly thrashing Kentucky's once-proud Wildcats, 89-72. IT WAS the worst defeaz handed Adolph Rupp's 'Cats since Auburn whipped them on Feb. 20, 1965 by 19 points, 88-69, and the second time this season that the Gators, rated 10th in the Associated Press poll, downed Kentucky this season. Earlier, the Ga- (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) GOLF And, plenty of it, the San Diego Open on 3-D, details of Gasparilla Invitational and Pro-Proxy news on 2-D.

BANQUET The annual Sports Awards Dinner program, in detail, outlined on 6-D. hero, signed a $100,000 con-tract yesterday with the Baltimore Orioles. The 31-year-old slugger conferred only five minutes with Harry Dalton, the club's director of player personnel, before joining a select list of superstars who have reached the six-figure salary bracket. Robinson was paid an estimated $65,000 last season. AFTER A brief chat, the two negotiators wrote on separate slips of paper a figure each had in mind for Robinson's 1967 salary.

"He dealt his face down, and I put mine on the desk face up," said Robinson, a card player. "I don't believe in sweating, so I looked right away. It was just what I needed. He gave me a royal straight flush." Robinson said the suggestion by Dalton that they exchange notes took him by sur- Continued on Page 6, Col. 7) We want to be the best.

We've stnved for it. weve Jgot to win it to be the best in football." It's been a long time coming. Not long ago, the NFL snubbed its nose and said never talk of a playoff. Then, the AFL was assured of a career when it won a 1 television package. Next came Sonny Werblin's $400,000 bonus to Alabama quarterback Joe Namath.

That started the price war for players that frightened owners into the i merger and the Super Bowl. As this season developed, and the game was set up, few figured the AFL representative could stay on the field with the NFL winner, which even then looked as if it would be these very Green Bay Packers. But, these Chiefs began to perform better than they were supposed to for a second-rate league. They turned up big and quick and more collegiate In offensive approach, using a variety of formations. The Packers, By Two NOW AT GAMETIME, the Chiefs are a respectable two-touchdown underdog.

Kansas City Coach Hank Stram thinks his variety will catch the Packers off guard. Lombardi believes his finesse will win out. There also is the matter of the Packers appearing, on paper, to have the simple advantage of better, more experienced football players. This is the way it looks. Then, there is that definite advantage the Packers have of having been in championship games about as often as the old New York Yankees, who have forgotten the loca KENTI'CKY FLORIDA BOWLING Bob Austin keeps you up with progress on the $40,000 PBA Tour-nay coming this way, 8-D.

AUTO RACING Bob Smith's Wheels column resumes after a fall hibernation, 7-C. HOG HUNTING Herb Allen takes you on an exciting search in sawgrass. for the wild boars, 9-C. HORSE RACING What's in store with Florida Downs opening this week is reported on 4-C. DAVID MILLER 23 for Gators Game on TV A film of last night's Kentucky Florida game will be shown in full on Channel 16, the University of South Florida's educational channel, from 8 to 10 p.m.

Tuesday. ft tP ft tp Keller 10 3 23 Arsento 2 2 6 MrElroy 2 5 9 Riley 0 4 4 Walk 7 1 15 Jaracz 4 2 10 Hieley 5 3 13 Dampier 8 1 17 Miller 9 5 23 Tailent 12 2 26 Rollyson 0 1 1 Bounds 3 17 Welsoh 10 2 Berser 0 2 2 Ramsey 113 LeMaster 0 0 Winkler 0 0 0 Gamble 0 0 0 Pcore 0 0 0 Clevenger 0 0 0 Teazel 0OO Totals 35 19 89 Totals 28 14 72 Coming Our Way! in five days, the 1967 thoroughbred racing season at Florida Downs, and this scene. For details, see Page 4-C. Vi NBA uints ixon a 1 tion of the panic button, who aren't likely to commit the errors of inexperience. These factors command a prediction that Green Bay will win, and by about the margin the wisest men on earth predict, those gentlemen being the bookmakers who risk more than reputation and a couple of bucks on their appraisal.

In contrast, and for those who seek more reasons to stand behind the underdog, do not forget the Cleveland Browns in 1950 and the upset they pulled off. The Browns were members of the old All-America Conference, a post World War II league that competed with the NFL for a time. The Browns won 51 games, lost only five and were tied twice in the four years the AAC lived, before the NFL agreed to take in three clubs, the Browns, San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Colts. Showing disdain for the AAC and to prove a point, NFL commissioner Bert Bell scheduled the Browns to open the 1950 season, their very first game in the NFL, with the Philadelphia Eagles, winners of the NFL the year before. It was to be a rout.

It very nearly was. The Browns won 35-10 and went on to dominate the NFL for years. BUT. JUST DON'T believe the Chiefs are the Cleveland Browns, when Otto Graham was quarterback. Go with the bookies, and see a 30-14 Packer win, and a decision that the AFL is plenty good and still coming and a proper partner in the merger.

Also see this as the Last Super in Los Angeles unless a California team is in it, and predict both networks will claim victory in the Telecontest. St. Louis simply isn't expecting a ticket stampede. But this is a major league event, the first NBA game ever played here that will count in the standings. If Tampa has been waiting for the big leagues, this is it.

"Frankly, we don't know what to expect," insists the Hawks general manager, Marty Blake. "More than 3,000 tickets are gone and we still have about 2,800 good ones left. "We won't be sad or overjoyed either way." Blake is about the first promoter who ever came here with such an attitude. HE DOES KNOW the game will cost more than it will gross, but says it's worth the experiment to make friends in this area. Blake wants to get his team down here in August to cut travel time and expenses.

"We'll play exhibitions in Jacksonville, West Palm (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) By JIM SELMAN Assistant Sports Editor Tampa will be competing for new sports business tomorrow night when the St. Louis Hawks play the Baltimore Bullets in a National Basketball Association game at Curtis Hixon Hall. It starts at 8:15 following a 6:30 college game between Florida Southern of Lakeland and St. Leo.

ST. LOUIS, WHICH brings the pro game here because it can play only 29 of its 41 home games in St. Louis, is looking for a base from which to play several exhibitions next August. Tampa and St. Petersburg are in the running.

St. Pete drew around 5,000 at its Bayfront Center last October for a St. Louis Boston Celtics exhibition. A good backing by the Tampa sports citizenry tomorrow night may clinch it although history says it will not do so well. One thing is for sure, though.

Tampa is not in for a bad rap. '7 BILL BRIDGES Hawks scorer DON" OHL Bullet ace.