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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.
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