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Skins, Broncos say being
‘Super’ losers will help
SAN DIEGO (AP) — To a man,
the Denver Broncos claim that losing
the Super Bowl last year gives them
the motivation that will carry them
to victory on Sunday.
Almost to a man, the Washington
Redskins are telling them: “Hey,
wait a minute. We’re losers, too.”
As Sunday’s Super Bowl between
the only two teams this decade to
reach the NFL title game two years
in a row drew a day nearer, a subtle
game of onedownsmanship was
going on. Each team was trying to
claim it is the bigger loser.
It’s almost as if to win a Super
Bowl, you have to lose one first.
“I certainly remember both our
Super Bowls,” said Washington
Coach Joe Gibbs, whose team beat
Miami 27-17 in 1983, then was
routed 38-9 by the Los Angeles
Raiders the next year.
“The first one was one of the
great experiences of my life. But I
also had a bitter, bitter experience
the next year when we lost. You’d
think it would have been enough to
he here, but it wasn’t.”
That was the general tenor of the
debate over which team feels worse
about its loss.
The Broncos were beaten 39-20 to
the New York Giants a year ago.
They claimed that the aftermath of
that defeat — Coach Dan Reeves
uses the word “haunted” to describe
his feelings — has given them an un
quenchable thirst that can be slaked
only by victory on Sunday.
“Everybody but one team ends the
season unhappy,” Reeves said. “But
the unhappiest team of all is the one
that loses the Super Bowl.”
The Redskins buy that argument.
But they don’t buy the corollary
— that because the Broncos lost last
year, they have more motivation.
“There was nothing worse than
that,” said linebacker Neal Olkewicz,
one of 13 Redskins left from the
1983 winner and one of 18 who
played in the 1984 loss.
“I’d rather lose in the conference
championship and not get to the Su
per Bowl than to lose in the Super
Bowl. It leaves you with an empty
feeling.”
The great debate even enters into
a friendly dispute between Washing
ton linebacker Mel Kaufman and
Denver strong safety Dennis Smia
who went to high school to
and remain close f riends.
“We talked the other day,andi
cussed being in the Super Bmvli
losing,” Kauf man said Wednesday,!
“He said, ‘At least you wonontj
them. Give me a chance towino
this time.’ ”
Wednesday, meanwhile, was I
day that both teams began
buildup for the game, with
teams resuming workouts afterc
ing T uesday off in accordance J
their regular-season routines.
Included in the Washind
workout was starting wide reed*
Art Monk, who missed the last!)
weeks with a knee injury andi
missed the 1983 Super Bowl will
foot injury.
However, Ricky Sanders, whoi|
placed him, is expected to
ahead of Monk, who holds thes
gle-season NFL reception record!
106, set in 1984.
Denver injured wide read
Vance Johnson missed theAFCii
f ;ame with a groin injury. But(
)an Reeves said he expected himl
play, if not start.
Mav goes from bench
to the court to oblivion
DALLAS (AP) — Despite an el
egant north Dallas home and a
$245,000-a-year contract, these are
difficult times for Bill Wennington
of the Dallas Mavericks, a 7-foot for-
• ward who went from towel-waver as
a rookie, to role player last season,
and this year to the forgotten man
under the system of new coach John
MacLeod.
The popular third-year player ap
pears headed next summer for a Na
tional Basketball Association expan
sion team, if he is not traded by then.
Passed in pre-season by 7-2 center
Uwe Blab and now the fourth-string
power forward, the former center
for St. John’s has played even less
than rookie guards Jim Farmer and
Steve Alford.
As of mid-January, Wennington
had played one minute since Dec. 9
and had averaged 4.8 minutes a
game after averaging 10 in his first
two seasons.
“It’s like putting a kid in a candy
store and saying, ‘Look, but don’t
touch,’” Wennington said. “You talk
to people and they say that when it
comes down to it, I’m getting paid.
That’s not enough. Making the
league is one thing, but there are
those of us who love basketball and
want to play.”
Wennington has handled the situ
ation with dignity, saying he does
not want to “rock the boat.” Despite
deep-down feelings, he did not go
off the deep end when the Maver
icks nixed a possible trade in Decem
ber with the New York Knicks, one
that would have sent him back home
with swingman Detlef Schrempf for
center Bill Cartwright.
But Wennington is realistic. He
knows that at this rate, he will be one
of the four Mavericks left unpro
tected for the expansion draft next
summer. Dallas can lose only one
player. With veteran guard Brad Da
vis unexpected to join another team
and with 7-footers in demand, Wen
nington all but has his plane ticket to
Charlotte, N.C., or Miami.
“I can’t think that far ahead (to
the expansion draft). Maybe tomor
row, tops. Things like the New York
trade get you upset for nothing.
“I feel I can play in this league an
other eight years, at least. It’s hard to
look out there and see that some
one’s not playing well. I think, ‘Hey,
I could be in there.’ But if 1 get put
in for a .minute, 1 don’t care what
happens. If I get put in witli four
other guys who sat the bench the
whole game. I’m just going to try not
to look bad. There’s not much you
can do.”
The situation has become so bad,
in fact, that Wennington works out
at local gyms after each team prac
tice. That generally is frowned upon
by the organization, for fear of in
jury or overexertion, but the team’s
front office has sympathized.
“I like Bill as a person and as a
forward,” MacLeod said. “Bill was a
very popular guy here and 1 know
that. 1 sympathize. I appreciate the
way he’s handled things. He played a
lot last year. Dick (Motta) went with
him and I’m using Uwe. It’s nothing
against Bill.”
Uwe Blab, drafted by Dallas one
spot (17th overall) after Wennington
in the 1985 first round, averaged 5.3
minutes last season and is averaging
11.1 now.
Wennington had those minutes
under Motta as the ninth man in a
fairly regular rotation.
But in training camp, starting cen
ter Janies Donaldson was out with a
sore hamstring and Wennington was
out with a groin pull. Blab started all
but one pre-season game and
showed a newfound coordination on
offense.
MacLeod then moved Wenning
ton to forward.
Lowe lifts
Red Raiders
past Aggies
LUBBOCK (AP) - Sopkl
more Wes Lowe scored a carmf
high 28 points Wednesday
power Texas Tech past Ten
A&M 72-61 in SouthwestConfel
ence basketball action Wednei
day.
Lowe, whose previous carefl
lnsfo \s .is 27 points last Satui 11
against Southern Methodfil
scored 14 of his points in thefircl
half to help the Raiders fashio»!|
33-3 1 lead at intermission.
Lowe was busy early in thesttl
ond half, scoring six points ast)|
Red Raiders outscored A&M2lI
to build a 54-37 advantage wi!l
9:06 remaining to play.
The Aggies, who fell to4-2it|
( onIcreiK < pi.iv and 12-8 overa|
chipped away at the deficit anil
came within nine points thref|
times but could get no closer.
The Raiders are now 8-9
3-3.
Joining Lowe in double figure
for Tech was Sean Gay with 1
points and Greg Crowe with ill
Lowe and Crowe also shartf
game-high rebounding honor!
with eight each.
Donald Thompson was high!
point man for the Aggies with lt|
and Darryl McDonald added 13
McDonald, who hit only fw[
of 12 field goal attempts
turned the ball over six times,"«[
baffled by the Aggies poorsho»j
ing.
“We didn’t play together asl
team,” he said. “I don’t
what the problem was. I'vel
starting slow the past fewganrtS
and I can’t explain it. We havei
get hungry again.”
A&M head coach Shelby
calf was equally disappointed it
his team’s second-straight loss.
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