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Gig'Em Vision
Texas A&M plays 11 football games
this season, not counting a bowl. Of
those 11 games, only TCU and Texas
have been picked up by television.
Assuming Raycom picks up a game —
which they almost didn't do last year
— that still leaves eight Aggie games
which won't cross the airwaves this
fall.
LSU, on the other hand, is prepared
to show Tiger games not picked up by
the networks to any fan in Louisiana
willing to pay for them. This
"TigerVision," in existence in one
form or another since 1982, has
become a major moneymaker for LSU.
Last year, when LSU declined to
reschedule their game with A&M for
television, LSU lost very little revenue
from the deal because of TigerVision.
A&M, on the other hand, was left
scrambling to market the game on a
pay-per-view basis on Raycom.
Needless to say, Aggieland did not
reap the financial success Tigerland
Treva Tidwell, Coordinator of
Electronic Media at LSU, said the
university netted over half a million
dollars last year — a losing season
with only 6,000 subscriptions sold.
She said this year subscriptions were
up — closer to the 1988 level when
over 11,000 subscriptions were sold,
and LSU bank accounts swelled.
"Not many places could do what we
do here," Tidwell said. "The athletic
department contracts the games
directly to cable distributors, with no
intermediaries.
"In Louisiana, LSU football is king,"
she said. "Of course, with their
tremendous fan base in Houston and
Dallas, A&M and Texas could do the
same thing."
It's no secret that money is an
important thing to the athletic
department here at A&M. The
advertisements that grace the message
boards at Olsen and Kyle Fields give
testimony to that.
By creating Gig'Em Vision, the
University would not only be filling
their coffers, but offering a service to
the thousands of former students
across the state unable to attend the
games.
Aggies want their Gig'Em Vision.
Quarterback job Stoudt's to lose
ftlCHARD S. JAMES/The Battalion
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Cliff Stoudt has the inside track to be Troy Aikman’s backup after good
performances in the Cowboys’ scrimmages against the Houston Oilers.
AUSTIN (AP) — Cliff Stoudt, a former
Pittsburgh Steeler who now has the in
side track as the Dallas Cowboys' backup
quarterback, sees the irony of his new
address.
During the 1970s, the Steelers and the
Cowboys battled for NFL supremacy.
Now Stoudt is with the once-hated
enemy, and he doesn't mind a bit.
"What makes it easier is that the whole
team is different," said the 36-year-old
football veteran. "I'm the only Steeler
left. The rivalry isn't what it was. (Tom)
Landry, (Tex) Schramm, (Roger) Stau-
bach, they're all gone. Of course it's been
a lot of years since I've been with the
Steelers."
Stoudt recalled the methods coach
Chuck Noll would use to fire up the
Steelers in their rivalry with the Cow
boys.
"It was more than Cowboys vs. Stee
lers," Stoudt said. "It was white hats
against black hats. The computer against
the chalkboard. Staubach vs. Terry
Bradshaw. Doomsday against the Steel
Curtain. I don't know if it'll every hap
pen again."
With Tuesday's release of quarterback
Babe Laufenberg, Stoudt becomes the
front-runner over rookie Bill Musgrave in
the competition for the role as Troy Aik-
man's backup.
Stoudt cemented his position when the
16-year veteran completed 11 of 16
passes for 134 yards and two touch
downs in last Thursday's 30-30 scrim
mage tie with the Houston Oilers.
There's not much wear and tear on his
arm after years of carrying a clipboard on
the sidelines. He also brings experience
to the table. He's as old as some assistant
coaches.
Coach Jimmy Johnson has indicated
the backup job is Stoudt's to lose.
Still, Stoudt says he can't afford to be
complacent. He was on the bubble last
year at training camp with the Miami
Dolphins before he was cut and has been
in the same position for most of the sum
mers of his career.
He was signed by Dallas at the close of
last season as an emergency quarterback
after Aikman went down with a sepa
rated shoulder. After being released by
the Dolphins at the close of1990 training
camp, he bided his time at home in Phoe
nix, paring his golf handicap from a 10 to
a four before the Cowboys called. Dallas'
offense at the time was similar to Miami's
and Stoudt would require no lengthy
break-in period.
"I wasn't doing anything else," Stoudt
said. "I had a chance to go to the play
offs. I said, 'What the heck. Let's go. "
He dressed as Laufenberg's backup in
Dallas' season finale against Atlanta as
Laufenberg struggled through a 10-of-24
afternoon. The 26-7 defeat dealt a crip
pling blow to Dallas' hopes for a wild
card playoff spot.
Stoudt re-signed with the Cowboys in
the spring as a long-shot to make the
team. But he was impressive from the
start as Johnson compared Stoudt to a
used car with low mileage.
"I always felt I could play," Stoudt
said. "I didn't know if I'd get the oppor
tunity. Sometimes you get a label and the
label on me was that I hadn't played
much in a few years."
He feels he has plenty of mileage left.
"Physically I'm not over the nill," he
said. "I still have the same quickness I
did; the arm strength is still there. Hon
estly, I'm in better shape than I was as a
rookie. Then I was 245 pounds, fat and
sloppy and slow. I feel great right now."
Clements says goodbye to Texas, hello to BYU
AUSTIN (AP) — Quarterback Steve Clements, who had
the NFL-type passing arm many Texas Longhorn fans were
looking for, says he will attend Brigham Young University
since he has obtained his release from Texas.
Clements, a redshirt freshman, was expected to start fall
practice as the No. 2 Texas quarterback behind junior Peter
Gardere, who missed part of spring training after spraining a
knee ligament.
"I feel that my goals in life will be easier to obtain at Brig
ham Young University," Clements said Wednesday in a pre
pared statement. "BYU throws the football and they always
will."
Clements, the state's all-time leading high school passer,
has close family ties to Texas, which he chose over Brigham
Young when he was being recruited two years ago after his
high school senior year at Huntsville.
His father, Joe Clements, was a Longhorn quarterback in
1955-57 and is head football coach at HuntsviUe. Clements'
mother also attended the University of Texas.
BYU, which has a long tradition of producing outstanding
quarterbacks, has Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer return
ing for his senior season.
Clements will not be eligible to participate in games this
season but he will have three years of engibility remaining
when the 1992 season kicks off. He would have had four years
at Texas.
In Texas' spring training final intrasquad game, Clements
completed 15 of 42 passes for 218 yards and had a perfectly
thrown 60-yard pass dropped. He had touchdown throws of
22 and 7 yards, and was intercepted twice.
Rangers due for
a break or two
ARLINGTON (AP) —The Texas Rang
ers have had enough bad luck in two de
cades to last two lifetimes.
They've suffered through bad players,
bad managers, bad bounces and bad
front office trades.
You'd think by now The Baseball Gods
would have had enough fun tweaking
the noses of the major league team good
fortune forgot.
This year the Rangers finally have a
team capable of making a bona fide pen
nant run. All they need is good fortune
and good health to go with their youthful
talent.
Over 1.5 million fans have already
spun the turnstiles, boosted by nine
crowds of more than 40,000 inside the
43,521-seat Arlington Stadium.
But strange things have started hap
pening to the Rangers just as they were
about to kick their pennant run into late
summer overdrive.
First, Jeff Russell's arm started acting
up — and that's not good when you've
only had four complete games from your
starting pitching staff all year. Russell is
the closer, the saver, and the Rangers
will have to get him going to stay with
Minnesota, Oakland and Chicago.
Kenny Rogers can only carry the load
so long.
Then there's that doggone trapezius
muscle, the most famous and spiteful
one in sports. It is located behind Nolan
Ryan's right shoulder.
If you've never been tackled by the tra
pezius, it's not life threatening or any
thing.
Just go outside and throw a rock 90
times and you'll feel the trapezius bark
ing at you the next day.
Ryan had 90 pitches last Sunday night
before he couldn't take the trapezius tor
ment any more. It tightened, then it got
sore. The next morning, it hurt like the
dickens. Now he'll miss at least one start,
and probably won't pitch on the team's
current road trip.
It's the same problem that put Ryan on
the disabled list for 15 days in May.
Ryan was hurting so badly this last
time that he couldn't lift weights the next
day. When Ryan misses a day of lifting
weights, he's hurting.
Now, the question that begs for an an
swer: can the Rangers win the pennant
without Ryan?
The answer, it says here, is "no" the
Rangers can't win without him. In fact,
they might finish fourth if they don't
have his presence in the lineup every
fourth or fifth day.
The young Rangers have to have his
steadying influence.
"This is disappointing," Ryan said.
"I'd like to be able to go out every fifth
day and not deal with these things."
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