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Monday, January 27, 1991
The Battalion
Sports Editor Alan Lehmann 845-2688
Alan Lehmann
Sports Editor
This bowl truly
Super; Giants,
Bills do it right
inally, a Super Bowl.
After six blowouts in the last seven
contests, it was nice to see a game live
up to the Super
moniker.
In an upset,
the Giants out
lasted the Bills
20-19. But it
wasn’t the score
that mattered, it
was the way that
the game was
played.
It was a battle
from start to fin
ish, featuring ev
erything that makes professional
football worth watching: hard hitting,
tough running, long passing and a last-
second finish.
One thing that was not a suprise was
the quality of both offenses. Each moved
the ball well in spurts, but neither turned
the ball over.
That’s right, for the first time in
Super Bowl history, there was a
turnover-free game.
In fact, Giants’quarterback Jeff
Hostetler turned in the play of the night
when he was sacked for a safety but
didn’t fumble.
Down 10-3 in the second quarter, the
Giants were backed up to their own five
yardline by a holding penalty. Hostetler
took the snap and dropped back to pass,
but tripped over his own blocker and
stumbled into the endzone.
Buffalo got a strong rush on the play
and Bruce Smith caught up with
Hostetler in the endzone. Reaching out,
Smith grabbed Hostetler’s arm and tried
to strip the ball.
But the cagey quarterback from West
Virginia somehow felt the heat coming
and covered the ball in the nick of time.
Knowing that he was sacked, Hostetler
fell to the ground and took the sack
rather than chancing a fumble.
Although the momentum was
squarely with the Bills at that point, the
Giants were down by nine points rather
than 14, a margin that would prove to be
the difference.
Pulling no Punches
The level of play in the Super Bowl
has typically been anything but super.
This one was different.Both defenses
hit ferociously, leaving no doubt that
they were playing for the championship
of the National Football League.
The underrated Giants’ secondary hit
Jim Kelly’s recievers early and often (as
well as late). How tough was the Giant
defense?
Even Buffalo’s highly-touted reciever
Andre Reed dropped several passes,
some because of New York hits, others
because he heard the footsteps and
acquired a sudden case of butter-fingers.
Although the Bills didn’t do a good
job of stopping the Giants’ running
game, they were zeroed in on Hostetler.
Smith and Cornelius Bennett hit the
Giant quarterback so hard and so often
that I wondered how much longer he
would stay in the game.
But Hostetler snowed the grit of a coal
miner picking himself up after every
play and going back to the huddle. No
doubt the thought of Matt Cavanuagh,
his back-up, facing the Buffalo defense
gave Hostetler inspiration.
And speaking of inspired play, what
more can you say about Ottis Aderson
and Thurman Thomas?
The two, so different in age and style,
played their hearts out.
Anderson, the gnarled, 33 year-old
veteran, ran over and through Bills on
his way to 102 yards on 12 carries. For
his efforts, he was named the MVP of
Super Bowl XXV, a fitting tribute to a
man who was twice all but abandoned by
the Giants.
Thomas, a budding superstar from
Oklahoma State, put on a show of his
own. The youngster, who juked and
outfaked Giant defenders every bit as
adeptly as he bulldozed them, was the
key to the Bills’ running and passing
games.
Living up to the name
Almost as impressive as the running
games was the passing of Hostetler, who
was starting for only the seventh time in
his pro career. He braved the Buffalo
pass rush to complete 20 of 32 for 222
yards and a touchdown pass.
Kelly, playing on a battered knee, did
everything that he could for his team.
When his recievers were covered, and
they often were by a Giant defense that
rushed only two men most of the night,
he scrambled several times without
regard to his health to pick up key first
downs.
But even these tremendous individual
efforts got lost in the culmination of this
great game.
Like every Super Bowl should, this
one came down to the final seconds.
Unlike two years ago when Joe
Montana led his 49ers on a last-ditch
drive and a victory over Cincinnati, this
one ended in frustration for the
offensive team when Scott Norwood
missed a 47-yard field goal attempt.
Bills fans have nothing to hang their
heads about, this game was a classic and
will be remembered as such for as long
as the Super Bowl is played.
Bills’ last-second field goal misses mark
Giants eat up clock, hold on
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The New York Gi
ants left the Buffalo Bills no time for the no
huddle.
Controlling the ball on touchdown drives
at the end of the first half and the begin
ning of the second, the Giants won their
second Super Bowl by beating the Bills 20-
19 when Scott Norwood missed a 47-yard
filed goal with 8 seconds left.
The winning points in the closest Super
Bowl in history came on Matt Bahr’s 21-
yard field goal with 7:20 left in the game.
But the game was really won by New
York’s ball control offense, which moved
the ball 87-yards to a touchdown just before
the half to cut a 12-3 deficit to 12-10, then
held the ball for nearly 10 minutes to start
the second half to take a 17-12 lead.
The Giants had the ball for 40:33, leav-
iner the Buffalo offense on the field for only
19:27.
One hero of a game in which the lead
changed hands four times was 33-year-old
Ottis Anderson, who picked the most im
portant game of his career to notch his first
100-yara game this season — 21 carries for
102 yards. He went in from the one for a
touchdown to cap the third quarter drive.
Another was Jeft Hostetler, the backup
? [uarterback who directed the New York of-
ense almost impeccably, running his career
record to 7-0 as a starter. He completed 20
of 32 for 222 yards and a 14-yard touch
down pass to Stephen Baker.
In fact, seven was the number of the day
— it was the seventh straight win by the
NFC in the Super Bowl. It was also the most
exciting — only San Francisco’s 20-16 win
over Cincinnati two years ago was close.
It was also a victory for the New York de
fense against an offense that had scored 97
points in two playoff games. Challenging
the Bills to run, the Giants went most of the
game with six defensive backs and two
down linemen, blanketing Andre Reed and
James Lofton and shutting down the Bills
offense that had scored 95 points in two
pervious playoff games.
“Every swing of the leg is critical and this
one didn’t work out,” Norwood said. “You
don’t get a second chance on a kick like
that.”
Six of the last seven Super Bowls had
been blowouts, but this one was decided by
a toe. And for the Giants was it was much
more difficult than their 39-20 rout of
Denver in the 1987 Super Bowl.
“This one was a lot better,” Lawrence
Taylor said. “We just sort of sailed through
the last one. This one we had to play as a
team.”
Anderson was named the game’s Most
Valuable Player.
“In 1987, I was nominated for the
‘Where-is-he-now’ trophy,” said Anderson,
who, after an outstanding career in St.
Louis, was obtained to back up Joe Morris
on the Giants’ last Super Bowl team. “No
one gave me a chance in hell.”
“He was supposed to be washed up be
fore our first Super Bowl in 1986,” said
center Bart Oates. “He certainly wasn’t
washed up today.”
Giants general manager George Young
praised Hostetler.
“However frustrated he was, he hung in
there,” said Young, Hostetler’s strongest
Hapless Aggies fall to Owls 98-76
HUY THANH NGUYEN/The Battalion
Texas A&M forward Shedrick Anderson tries in vain to block Rice forward Will
Strickland’s layup in the Aggies’ 98-76 road loss Saturday afternoon.
By DOUGLAS PILS
Of The Battalion Staff
HOUSTON — For the second weekend
in a row the Texas A&M men’s basketball
team brought out the very best in its oppo
nent.
Saturday, it was the Rice Owls’ turn to
shoot the lights out as they poured on the
points in the second half to take a 98-76 vic
tory over the 5-13 Aggies.
Two Owls, Chase Maag and Marvin
Moore, helped Rice, (7-10 overall and 2-5
in Southwest conference play) finish the
game with a 62.5 shooting percentage. Both
came away with career highs in points.
Maag, junior college transfer from Colo
rado, scored 29 points, 21 of which came
from hitting seven of eight three-point
shots. He was nine of 11 overall and he
made all four free throw attempts.
Moore, a sophomore from Killeen who
averages seven points per game, busted the
A&M defense for 23 points.
Last week it was Baylor’s David Wesley
who scored a career-high 33 points as the
Bears took a 90-85 win in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. Wesley’s efforts against the Ag
gies earned him SWC Player of the Week
honors.
A&M head coach Kermit Davis Jr., who
displayed a calm demeanor despite watch
ing the Aggies match their worst SWC start
since 1957 (0-7), said too much emphasis is
being placed on the losing streak.
“I think it’s time we stopped talking
about it getting worse,” Davis said. “We’re
definitely not playing as well as we can play.
We’ve just go to pull ourselves together
with a more positive outlook.”
Davis said that while it might be hard to
see a light at the end of the tunnel, he is
confident that the team and the coaching
staff is having that difficult year that a lot of
programs go through in the first year.
“You take a look around the country with
new coaches going into a new program and
it’s a big struggle,” he said. “It’s been tough
for the new coaching staff, losing the peo
ple we’ve lost.”
Davis pointed out that Rice played an ex
ceptional game.
“Give Rice a lot of credit,” Davis said.
“They played extremely well. Today they
played the way people thought they would
play at the beginning of the year.
“They played like a team that was picked
to finish third or fourth in our league.”
Offense doesn’t seem to be a problem for
the Aggies as they shot 54 percent for the
game and 57 percent from three-point
range. It’s on defense that A&M seems to
falter the most.
Sophomore guard Brooks Thompson,
who led the Aggies with a career-high 22
points, including a school record for three
pointers and percentage in a SWC game,
agrees.
“Our defense is struggling really bad,”
Thompson said. “Offensively I think we’re
fine. Right now we just have to stay positive
and keep practicing hard and maybe it’ll all
come together.”
Davis was most upset with the team’s pe
rimeter defense. Every time that A&M
would put the clamps on Brent Scott, Rice’s
6-9 center, Maag and Moore would burn
the Aggies from outside.
Once again free throws continue to ham
per A&M. The team shot 46 percent from
the charity stripe, hitting only seven of 15.
Other Aggies scoring in double figures
were Rashone Lewis and Isaac Brown with
15 each and senior captain Lynn Suber
chipped in 11.
A&M’s next outing will be Tuesday night
in G. Rollie White as they take on the Hous
ton Cougars (12-6, 4-3) who were upset by
Southern Methodist Saturday night. Tipoff
is at 7:30 p.m.
Foyt trying to make one more comeback
FORT WORTH (AP) — Two months
into rehabilitation from an accident, race
car driver A.J. Foyt has made agonizing
progress toward his goal of starting in one
last Indianapolis 500.
His original goal was to be healthy
enough to attempt to qualify for a record
34th consecutive Indy 500 in May.
But in true Foyt fashion, he now hopes to
drive in the Autoworks 200 Indy-car oval-
track race in Phoenix on April 21.
“I’m going to set it up,” said Foyt, whose
first 1991 Lola chassis cleared customs from
England on Tuesday, when he lowered his
barrel-sized chest and fragile feet into the
Lola’s tub for the first time.
It was a noteworthy moment, because
1991 is Foyt’s self-proclaimed last year of
driving in any race.
“They were all laughing at the shop, but
I’ve got to be careful with my legs and feet,”
said Foyt, 56. “I sat there 10 or 15 minutes
kind of messing with the pedals.”
Foyt’s career almost ended last year when
he slammed into an embankment on the
26th lap of the Texaco-Havoline 200 at
Road America.
He asked rescue personnel to hand him a
tool so he could help them cut him from the
wreckage.
He underwent three surgeries for a vari
ety of injuries, including fractures in his
legs and feet.
In mid-November he began his
comeback with Steve Watterson, strength
and rehabilitation coach for the Houston
Oilers.
“I study biomechanics, and I’m an exer
cise physiologist, but I didn’t know any
thing specific to racing,” Watterson said.
r visiting Foyt’s shop to learn all he could
about the cars and conferring with Foyt’s
doctor, he was confident.
“I told him, ‘This time, I’m the driver.
You’re the car,”’ Watterson told the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram. “After that we had a
good relationship.”
Foyt suffered a severe dislocation of his
right ankl** and still has sensory deprivation
in that foot-
He cannot fit his feet into his pre-acci
dent size lOVa D shoes and boots. “My kids
are standing in line, seeing which one gets
these alligator boots and ostrich boots ...”
Foyt was permitted to put weight on his
right food in mid-November. But his left
foot and leg require a crutch.
He suffered a compound fracture of the
left tibia. The impact fractured the bone at
the joint line, and the bone shot out the side
of his leg. The main artery was twisted,
prompting immediate surgery.
“That was the leg they were talking about
taking off at the hospital,” Foyt said. “At
least they’re both still there. I could take a
lot of things, but I don’t know if I could
take that.”
Foyt said the pain has diminished but
hasn’t left him.
“You know how your feet will go to sleep
and feel like pins and needles? That’s how
they are constantly.”
Foyt is an auto racing legend.
He has been racing professionally for
over 34 years.
for win
advocate as he waited to take over for Phil
Simms, who injured a foot Dec. 13 in a 17-
13 loss to Buffalo.
The Giants took the kickoff to start the
second half and mounted a touchdown
drive that covered 75 yards and consumed
14 plays and 9 minutes, 29 seconds.
The score, on Anderson’s 1-yard run,
gave New York a 17-12 lead.
The drive included four third-down con
versions. Hostetler hit Meggett with an 11-
yard pass on third-and-8 to get the march
started.
Hostetler also hit Mark Ingram for 14
yards on third-and-13 to move the ball to
the Buffalo 18. And on third-and-4, he hit
Howard Cross for nine yards to the 3.
The Bills marched 63 yards to take a 19-
17 lead early in the fourth quarter. But New
York’s patient, deliberate offense re
sponded again, moving 74 yards in 14 plays
to set up Matt Bahr’s 21-yard field goal with
7:20 left.
During that drive, Hostetler hit Mark Ba-
varo for gains of 17 and 19 yards.The 20-19
score marked the closest margin of victory
in Super Bowl history.
The previous closest score was Balti
more’s 16-13 win over Dallas in Super Bowl
VIII.
O.J. Anderson
named MVP
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — He is the old
man of running backs, a graybeard who
twice was discarded as used up by the
New York Giants.
On Sunday, Ottis Anderson used up
the Super Bowl clock and the Buffalo
Bills.
Anderson, left available as a Plan B
free agent after each of the last two sea
sons and unclaimed each time, was the
MVP of the Giants’ 20-19 Super Bowl
victory over Buffalo.
He scored one touchdown, ran for
102 yards on 21 carries and provided the
heavy duty work along the ground,
keeping the clock running and New
York moving down the field.
“It’s easy to run behind a group that
blocks like that,” Anderson said. “We
knew we could put some points on the
board. We tried to control the clock.
They did some things early that hurt us,
but we were able to come back.”
Anderson was the keystone of the Gi
ants’ attack, the guy who had to hold on
to the football if New York was to keep
Jim Kelly and the Bills’ offense on the
sidelines. He was flawless at the task.
Anderson is 33 with 12 years in the
league. His age and his salary make him
the perfect Plan B player and he was
there for the grabbing each of the last
two years.
Nobody grabbed and each time New
York coach Bill Parcells welcomed him
back. Each time, it paid off.
A year ago, Anderson rushed for
more than 1,000 yards. This season he
went over 10,000 yards for his career.
Anderson came to New York in 1986
and was a small part of the Giants’ Super
Bowl championship that year. The next
season he was virtually unused, carrying
just twice all season.
It was like a year off and a respite for
his weary legs that had produced five
1,000-yard seasons in 6 years with St.
Louis. He was an extra back in 1988,
gainingjust 208 yards all year.
He had 784 yards this season.
It’s entirely likely he could be on the
Plan B list again when the they are an
nounced next week.
This time, though, somebody might
claim him. It’s tough to ignore the Super
Bowl MVP.
Raycom will
show A&M-UT
DALLAS (AP) — The Southwest Confer
ence, Raycom Sports and HSE-Prime Net
work announced Friday their men’s basket
ball telecasts for Sunday, Feb. 3 and
Tuesday, Feb. 5.
Texas A&M (5-13 overall and 0-7 in
SWC play) will host the Texas Longhorns
(12-5, 6-1) at A&M’s G. Rollie White Col
iseum on Sunday, Feb. 3, on Raycom
Sports.
The Longhorns, who find out today if
they’ve cracked the Associated Press Top
25, are still in the hunt for a conference title
as they are only one game behind league
leading Arkansas.
Airtime is scheduled for 1 p.m.
The game, moved from Saturday, Feb. 2,
will be syndicated on Raycom’s 20-station
Southwest network throughout Texas, Ar
kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New
Mexico.
TCU (12-4, 4-2) and SMU (9-9, 4-4) will
be featured on Tuesday, Feb. 5, on the
SWC’s mid-week package with HSE-Prime
Network. Airtime is set for 7:30 p.m. from
SMU’s Moody Coliseum.
The game will be shown live throughout
six states in the Southwest on Home Sports
Entertainment (HSE) and selected areas na
tionally through Prime Network.
Additional games on the Raycom and
HSE-Prime Network schedules will be re
leased on a 12-day advance by the South
west Conference office.