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i THX SUM C-3 Phillips terms tampering charges 'ridiculous' AOCiM PrU Bum Phillips, fired as the Houston Oilers' head roach on Dec. 31 and accused of tampering with the club's assistants earlier this week, said Thursday, "I'm just mad at all this stuff. It's ridiculous." Phillips, in Los Angeles to appear on the know they (the Saints) have some more people to talk to. There's no big hurry- We don't have any games to play." Meanwhile, in Houston earlier Thursday Oilers general manager Ladd Herzeg said be will pursue tampering charges against Phillips and seek compensation in the form of draft choices if Oiler assistant coaches accept Jobs with the Saints. Bradshaw may quit Quarterback Terry Bradshaw of the Pittsburgh Steelers, contacted in Las Vegas, said he might quit football if a deal develops for him to star in an NBC television series.

Bradshaw said he had talked with NBC about doing a pilot show. He said the pilot, if approved by NBC, could lead to a television series, the filming of which would conflict with football next summer. "If NBC buys the pilot, then I'll have to quit playing football," Bradshaw said. Falcoa rook 1m share award Linebackers Al Richardson and Buddy Curry, who stood side-by -side in Atlanta's defense and helped turn the Falcons into division champions in 1980, were named NFL defensive rookies of the year by As- sociated Press. Playoff tclerast gets high rattisgi With the exception of the Super Bowls and three conference championships, CBS' divisional playoff between Dallas and Atlanta last Sunday was the highest-rated National Football League game of all time.

Dallas' 3027 victory had a 34.8 rating (percent of total sets watching) and a 59 share (percent of sets in use tuned in), according to Neilsen figures. 'if 'Tonight" show with Johnny Carson, also said, "1 haven't nfl roundup 3 4 gotten to the point with New Orleans of them setting conditions for hiring me. I Bum Phillips The Chargers' pass rush is in good hands (Continued from C-l) fensive tackle in the league right now. Result: The trip to Honolulu for the Pro Bowl, his second, but first as a starter. He was a reserve last year.

This recognition is all fairly new for Johnson. As a pro, anyway. Before being selected to last year's Pro Bowl, Johnson says he "hadn't won anything." Now, he's a certified all-Pro and just 60 minutes away from the Super Bowl. Again, that's a new Klein, Davis (Continued from C-l) Browns-Raiders game Sunday. Klein read a few paragraphs and said: "I ask you gentlemen of the Is that fair, honest, equitable reporting or is that reporter in somebody's pocket and for hat reason? "It is an insidious attempt," Klein went on (boy, did he go "to undermine and intimidate the officials for this game." Klein implied that Davis suggested Durslag write what he did, but he said he had no proof of that.

Durslag, from Los Angeles, denied that Davis suggests material for his columns. "Klein," Durslag said, "is a scurrilous individual who takes the position that if you are not on his side, you must be a crook The NFL is not above reproach, and neither is Mr. Klein. "As for his remarks on the Cleveland officiating, his piety is touching. When Oakland rolled the ball to beat him on a phony fumble a few years back, Klein objected strenuously and brought in a new NFL rule." Rozelle said not long ago that the league is very prosperous, that the only thing it has to fear is itself.

When Davis' Raiders are playing Klein's Chargers, Rozelle's warning rings loud and clear. So have at it, gents, and may the best man, er, team, win. though he did move into the starting lineup his rookie season. First of all, he was playing for a loser. Second, he says he wasn't really playing that well until 1977, his third year.

Not coincidentally, that was the year Jerry Smith came to San Diego from Baltimore, where his Colts front four led the NFL in sacks with 59 in 1975 and were second with 57 in 1976. In 1976, the Chargers had 28 sacks. The next year, under Smith, they had 44. Since then, the Chargers have improved steadily, as has the defensive line. In the 1980 regular season, the Chargers topped the NFL with 60 sacks, led by Johnson's YIVz.

Next was Jones with 12, Dean with 10 Vi, and Kelcher and reserve Charles DeJurnett with 5Vi. "We were just greenhorns back several years ago," Johnson said. "When Smith came in, everything turned around for us and we've just become better and better." Usually, it is the ends who get the most quarterback sacks, but Johnson's extreme quickness has allowed him to consistently get around double-teaming. "You don't have to be double-teamed if you don't want to be," he said. "You can just go away from it." Which is what Johnson does.

Of course, that leaves a hole in the line, but Johnson says the experience the front four has playing together compensates for that. If he vacates his spot, someone else will fill it. So far, it's worked marvelously for Johnson, who says he's not trying to hurt anyone but, at the same time, he enjoys nothing better than getting to the quarterback. "There's no tellin' what you might feel after a sack," he said. "There are so many good feelings rushing through your body.

"I don't hate quarterbacks but I don't like them because they can hurt you. The quarterback is the deadliest player. If he's not running around, he's sitting pretty in that pocket and throwing big passes." Johnson doesn't taunt QBs, though, or talk to them. "They're having enough problems getting up," he said. Johnson seems sincere when he says the relative anonymity in which he labored for five years doesn't bother him, that it is the respect of teammates and opponents he craves.

And sacks, of course. Anyway, anonymity is a thing of the past for Gary Johnson. "When I was in college I used to watch the great tackles on film," he said. "Now they can watch me." Maybe they'll watch him sack Jim Plunkett a couple of times Sunday and help his team into Super Bowl XV. After all, the Chargers are in pretty good hands with Big Hands.

feeling. Johnson was the first pick of what turned out to be a bumper 1975 draft for the Chargers. Johnson was the eighth player selected in the draft. "We were really sweating," said Chargers owner Gene Klein. "New Orleans drafted right before us and they took the full 15 minutes We thought they were going to take Johnson.

When they took Larry Burton, it took us about three seconds to choose Johnson." Later in that draft, the Chargers picked up starting cornerback Mike Williams, Dean, Kelcher and starting strong safety Mike Fuller. As an amateur player, Johnson won many honors. A four year letterman at Grambling, he was an all-America selection after his senior year and was named outstanding lineman in the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl. Professional football was a different matter, al- 'Good OV Boys' (Continued from C-l) Weil, not exactly. There are these things called airflow and turbulence.

With a fastback you get good airflow and little turbulence. The opposite is true with the notchback because the airflow detaches where the roofline ends, causing turbulence, causing drag, causing slower speeds. Or, put more to the point by J.C. Elder, the crew chief of the Di-Gard team: "That straight up-and-down back glass is not good." The only saving grace with the new cars is their front ends, which are low and small and should provide better penetration through the air. Although teams have been testing the new cars for several months, opinion is still divided on how they will do under race conditions.

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"And at the superspeedways like Daytona and Talladega, I think they'll be slower because the car's real short. We're not going to be able to get the car's nose as low as we can on the current cars." Pre-race notes Almost every major team has been affected by the game of musical cars, so take notes. Bobby Allison, formerly In Bud Moore's Thunderblrd sponsored by San Bernardino businessman Warner Hodtfdon, will drive the No. 28 car for Harry Ranier. That move put Buddy Baker out of action, so he switched to the Hoss Ellington team.

Ellington had brought David Pearson out of retirement earlier last year after splitting with Demote Allison. Pearson is now driving for Joel Halpern. Donnie, meanwhile, is driving for Ken Chllders. Dan-ell Wallrip. released from his Di-Gard contract, will drive for Junior Johnson In the No.

11 car vacated by Cale Yarborough, who has cut back his racing schedule. Ricky Rvdd takes over the No. 88 Di-Gard car while Yarborough, in the races he does run, will pilot the No. 27 car for C. Anderson.

That car was the one that Benny Panons drove to victory In the Times 500 In November. Parsons lost the ride after that race but was signed on by Bud Moore to drive Bobby Allison's old No. IS. Viola. Full circle.

But that's not quite all. Richard Petty has made things a little worse by switching cars with bis son Kyle. That means King Richard's thousands of fans will have to remember to root for No 42 Instead of his familiar No. 43. Richard says he made the switch "just to confuse people" but It actually was a bit of financial hocus-pocus on his part to allow his heir apparent to cash in on contingency money.

In NASCAR rules, the car Is everything and the driver nothing and NASCAR gives the top teams tread: cars) from the previous season extra money (about $5,000) for every race they enter In the new year. Richard didn't need It, so now Kyle will get It. As far as "switching" cars, you can bet that the two Petty machines are Identical. Since the new cars don't have to be used until next month at Daytona, several teams will be running the older can for this race including the Pettys, Allison and Parsons. Originally about 15 of the new cars were entered for the 500-kilometer event but after practice at the track Thursday, the list had been trimmed to eight, the others switching back to their old machines.

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