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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.
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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.”
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le Want to U.S. District Court today for a
suit that should decide whether
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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.
Currently, the only question
being decided is which contract
is valid. Sims accepted part of his
bonus money from Argovitz in
July — and also was given a $1
million bonus for signing with
Detroit.
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DETROIT — Thomas
Hearns of Detroit will make the
ombim f lrst defense of his World Box-
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Worldljltlc in his home city Feb. 1 1
(jingcl.agcunst Italy’s Luigi Minchillo.
theUill I haven’t seen much of my
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eddies el 6 h ear d a lot about him. He
has great lateral movement,
which will make it difficult.
outmisjB "I’m planning on putting on a
said. 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
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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.
Top-rated Mike McCallum, a
Jamaican now boxing out of
Emanuel Steward’s Kronk Gym,
will face Don King in a 10-round
super welterweight fight while
another Kronk boxer, Jimmy
Paul, will fight for the USBA
lightweight championship
against Darrell Tyson in another
12-rounder.
“We’re putting together a
deal to get Wilfred Benitez on
the card, too,” said
Bill Kozerski.
Hearns defeated Benitez to
win the 154-pound title July 26,
1982, but has been bothered by
promoter
injuries to his right hand since.
He last fought on July 10, de
feating Murray Sutherland of
Bay City, Mich., in a mid
dleweight fight.
Young, Detroit Red Wings
owner Mike Hitch, Steward and
Kozerski also announced a
hoped-for monthly series of
fights featuring Kronk boxers.
Hitch is head of Olympia Are
nas, Inc., which runs Joe Louis
Arena and Cobo Arena for the
city.
“We’re putting together
something for (WBC welter
weight champion Milton)
McCrory in March,” Steward
said. “We’d like to have six title
defenses here this year.”
“We want a fight a month,”
Young said. “We’d like a major
fight involving Thomas Hearns,
either (Roberto) Duran or
(Sugar Ray) Leonard.”
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