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Wednesday .January 25, 1984A'he Battalion/Pa^ No rest for Theismann Twelfth Man to return Photo by DEAN SAITO The Twelfth Man Kickoff team makes a tackle in the game against the University of Texas last season. The athletic department announced yesterday that plans are underway for continuing the kickoff team for next season. United Press International TAMPA, Fla. — Tote that barge, lift that bale. Joe Theis mann got roughed up pretty good by the Los Angeles Raid ers, and you’d think he had more than enough football to keep him for awhile, so where do you think he’s going now? Off to play still another foot ball game. This one, though, won’t be half as hard for the weary, banged-up Washington Red skins’ quarterback to take as last Sunday’s 38-9 flogging in Super Bowl XVIII where he couldn’t do much to avert the most one sided beating ever inflicted on any Super Bowl team. Theismann is heading for Honolulu to play in the Pro Bowl for the second straight year. He’s going with six of his Red skin teammates, Charlie Brown, Russ Grimm, Joe Jacoby, Mark Murphy, Jeff Bostic and Dave Butz, and it’ll be a little like old home week because while all of them will be playing for the NFC team, seven of the Raiders, Todd Christensen, Lester Hayes, Ted Hendricks, Henry Lawrence, Howie Long, Vann McElroy and Greg Pruitt, will be staring at them across the line wearing AFC jerseys. These are the best players in the NFL, chosen by their peers, their fellow players. A lot of players used to consider the game a drag, the same way many of the major league baseball players look at the annual All- Star contest. The Pro Bowl meeting turned into a fun game four years ago when it was shifted permanently to Aloha Stadium in Honolulu from such other mundane places as Los Angeles, Kansas City and Irving, Texas. Now the players chosen can bring their wives or girl friends to Hawaii and lie on the beach with them soaking up some sunshine. The $ 10,000 for each winning player and $5,000 for each loser isn’t that hard to, take, either. The best part of all is the knowledge it is the last game until next season. Theismann is taking a souve nir of the Super Bowl along with . him. He’s going to the land of the pineapple with a nice red strawberry bruise under his chin where he took a late lick by Dave Stalls, the Raiders’ defensive tackle, during the fourth quar ter of Sunday’s one-sider. Quite possibly, Rich Milot, the fifth-year linebacker for the Redskins, spoke for all of them when he glanced around the gloomy locker room, noticed all the solemn expressions on the faces of the members of the media, and declared: “Nobody died. It was a foot ball game. Nothing else. This isn’t a funeral.” Theismann felt that way, too. He answered all the questions put to him evenly and patiently until one reporter asked him whether the lopsided loss wasn’t “a bitter pill for you to swallow.” Standing in his locker stall with the charcoal smears still under his eyes, Theismann frowned. Why would such a question be asked him, he wanted to know. The query was prompted by the fact Theis mann had been so enthusiastic about the game and the Red skins’ chances all week long, he was told. “I am not devastated, I’m dis appointed,” he made the distinc tion. “We didn’t really get many breaks. It was like banging your head against the wall hoping you’d find a crack in it.” Theismann meant the wall, not his head. “There’s a point where you become a realist and stop being an idealist,” said the Redskins’ 34-year-old field leader. “We hit a spot where we said let’s keep our heads up and not go in for any dirty stuff. None of us wanted that. Naturally, the game was important to me as it was to all of us. But you have to understand football is only part of my life. I don’t live and die for football.” UNDERGROUND DELI AND STORE THE DIET PLACE OPEN BREAKFAST LUNCH 7:30am - 10:30am 10:30am - 3:30pm Mon— Friday QUALITY FIRST’ inishedl laiihel !5of5()l gamei® ■olden Sf tnonlvM he floo'i Sims: NFL or USFL; trial begins today I United Press International istonsw ic first® DETROIT — Billy Sims goes le Want to U.S. District Court today for a suit that should decide whether ht’s a star running back for the USFL Houston Gamblers or the \|Y| NFL Detroit Lions, rllllj Sims signed a five-year, mul ti-million contract with the Un- itenma; ited States Football League ex- tslalom:pansion team on July 1 and re- ■econdp inked a similar contract with the World! same team in November, points,® Then, on Dec. 16, Sims Zurbn; signed an even bigger five-year rd is Li contract with the National Foot- tVenzeh ball League team he originally signed a four-year contract with, didnotfl U.S. District Court Judge Isoleadi Robert DeMascio will deter- ngs will mine, beginning Wednesday, secondi which of the two the 1978 Heis- dansEn man Trophy winner from Okla- dwithihoma should honor, j fromif lympicsl jrofessitf: II race! giant sUi artnisf Muddying matters is the fact that one of the Houston owners is Dr. Jerry Argovitz, former de ntist who negotiated Sims’ ori ginal pact with the Lions and also signed the running back to his contract with the USFL team. Argovitz received a commission of nearly $200,000 for signing Sims for the Gamblers. “I think this is a relatively sim ple case,” Sims’ attorney, Elbert Hatchett, said, “of whether he can be forced to honor the Argo vitz contract. I don’t think it’ll take a lot of witnesses to deter mine that he doesn’t.” Hatchett said his case would take less than two days to pre sent. Attorneys for Argovitz say their case could take a week. Sims and the Lions originally filed a joint suit in Oakland County Circuit Court last year but that was transferred to fed eral court. The suit charges Argovitz with fraud and misrep resentation while representing Sims in contract talks with De troit. Judge DeMascio on Monday ruled the Lions have no stand ing to assert Sims’ rights on his behalf and dropped them from the suit. The Lions also have a suit for damages against Argovitz and the Gamblers but that will only come to trial, at a later dale, if DeMascio decides Sims’ contract with Detroit is valid. 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Heat show,” said Hearns, who well i-announced he intends to match ed witbffer ticket the promoters intend to donate to the Detroit Library Fund. Budget cuts threaten to itstohattut down some city library jrth olf ranches. ist after■ “This fight is very important inlatef 0 a return °f Detroit to the j (jjjiHnks of major boxing centers,” ■ I Mayor Coleman A. Young said. lOOlbitt; e first proof Detroit is back l ,1 as a major fight center is to jam ityprlaiiii [e Louis Arena.” ! bettei Decern^ seem i®' in( mil >°/c The fight card, scheduled for cable television, begins at 8 p.m. with Detroit blacked out. Matthew Saad Muhammad, the former WBC light heavyweight champion from Philadelphia, will face Willie Ed wards of Detroit for the NABF light heavyweight title in a 12- rounder on the same card. 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