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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, JANURAY 19, 1979 Page 9 5 Super Bowl winner? Closed circuit possible for Tech-A&M ,ggies inayU or the ThI n y over ,y it. hi win a ({iiirJ am. Metal over Kentaj i) play (in a | night). BuItU ale lesson frj uul a few dJ i get our md o do against r that there's] same. .tory would e with Tea showdown j i Austin agiis fech vietoni nd of theaj Raiders. F game in thes iff is schedi NFL scout says flip a coin By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor KMIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The most impartial witnesses you can find in football are the scouts. They have no ax to grind. When their teams are not involved, they don t care who wins. Jim Royer is a man like that. He’s strictly neutral. His team isn’t involved in Super Bowl XIII. if Royer is chief scout and pro per sonnel coordinator with the New York Jets, one of five teams in the NFL who met both Dallas and Pittsburgh this season, and he fol lowed and scouted both the Cow boys and Steelers. H When it comes to evaluating next Sunday’s Super Bowl competitors, Royer says you can flip a coin, they re that close. And if you’re going to the game or plan to watch it on TV, he adds, keep an eye on Pittsburgh’s offense. ■ “That could be the key to the game, Royer says. "The determin ing factor I think will be how well Pittsburgh can run the football. If Dallas can limit Pittsburgh’s rush, that will force the Steelers to throw the ball more, and that would play right into the Cowboys’ hands be- tpause one of their greatest strengths . is their pass rush. | The basic difference in the teams, says Royer, is their style of attack. ■ “Pittsburgh is more physical, of fensively and defensively, he re minds. “Dallas goes in more for finesse. The Cowboys try to finesse you by shifting so much. They try fora mismatch right there at the line of scrimmage, feeling if you miss by half a step they have that much of an edge on you. Otherwise, most of the matchups are pretty even. If the two teams lined up shoe to shoe and there were no other outside factors involved, the end residt probably would be nothing-nothing. But it can’t possibly wind up that way even if the Cowboys and Steel ers have to keep hammering away at each other all day and all night in the Orange Bowl, where it could boil down to which of the two quar terbacks has the better game. “That’s one I don’t think anyone could call in advance, says Royer, who coached at Navy under Wayne Hardin and first ran into Roger Staubach there 15 years ago. “He h asn’t changed much since I first met him, except to get better, says Royer. “From the first day he came out for football, he had a strong arm and good velocity when he threw. You could see the leader ship qualities in him when he was at Navy and they have carried into pro fessional football. Terry Bradshaw is more physical than Staubach, Royer says. “On occasion, he 11 still challenge the tackier. Roger doesn’t, but that isn’t a negative point against him. He’s smart. He’ll go for the sideline more often than Terry will, preferr ing to lose the battle but win the war. That doesn t mean Roger won t run the ball if he gets the chance or feels he has to. If push comes to shove, he and Terry will both go for it, knowing they have all winter and summer to get well. Both teams use the standard 4-3 defense except the Cowboys make use of the flex, which means they keep adjusting to the opposing team’s offense depending upon where the tight ends and running backs line up. The Steelers have the strongest defense in the league. They gave up less points than any other team this season and what makes their Steel Curtain even tougher yet is the fact it never comes down on the other club the same way twice. “Pittsburgh’s defense is always doing something different,” Royer says. “You’ll see Joe Greene and Jack Lambert fooling around the middle, jumping around or doing something to confuse the offensive blocking patterns. They have a way of forcing the other teams to do something it doesn’t want to,do. "The quarterback sees something like that and he has to change the play. That causes indecision, and you know what that does. I asked Royer if he’d pick a win ner, and he laughed and said no be cause the Cowboys and Steelers are too evenly matched. The bookmakers, who have made Pittsburgh a slight favorite, feel pre tty much the same way. Bear in mind, though, they made the Steel ers only seven-point choices over the Oilers last week and you re member how that one came out. Super profit United Press International A one minute commercial on Super Bowl XIII cost a sponsor $370,000. Super Sunday will be super profitable for NBC, which stands to gross about $7.5 million for the one-game World Series of foot ball. The Texas Tech-Texas A&M bas ketball game will be televised on closed circuit television Saturday night in Rudder Auditorium in the event that all student tickets are dis tributed, according to Wally Groff, assistant athletic director for busi ness affairs. Two thousand seasts will be avail able on a first-come-first-serve basis only to basketball season pass hol ders. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. Saturday and the game begins at 7:30 p.m. Groff also said that Monday night’s Texas A&M-Texas game in Austin is completely sold out. Chanello's Pizza Buck This note is legal tender for ONE DOLLAR OFF any 17” or 20” pizza with one or more ingredients. 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