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DALLAS — Ho-hum.
By last year's standards, this
city's Super Bowl hangover was a
bummer. Maybe a mild headache.
An upset tummy. A sore throat or
two. Buffalo breath, at the worst.
Hangover XXVIII was only a
mere shadow of Hangover XXVII.
A year ago, after the Cowboys
crushed the Bills 52-17, diehard
Dallas fans partied hard and par-
tied late, then returned the next
morning to revisit the "hair of the
dog" that bit them.
"I called in dead this morn
ing," a sales representative named
Dan Wiskoski confessed last year
as he clutched a cold beer at the
Addison Point, a popular north
side sports bar.
"1 didn't wake up today. 1
came to," said his buddy, Craig
Shaffer.
After Sunday's victory, it was
more like the hair of the puppy.
"It just wasn't that frenzied,"
said Casey Gotcher, who surfaced
at the Point shortly before noon
Monday. "Last year, everybody
went crazy. This year, it was more
subdued.
"It's really kind of bizarre."
Police made only a couple of
arrests for drunkenness Sunday
Dallas fans subdued, confident
of Cowboy super three-peat
night. There were no reports of in
juries and only a few rowdy inci
dents.
Police did rebuke some 27
screaming and shouting fans
packed into an El Camino creep
ing through the historic down
town West End entertainment
complex, which was a madhouse
last year.
Anticipating another wild cele
bration, 312 extra officers were
scattered around the city's hot
spots, almost half of them in the
West End.
But there was more honking
and hollering than brawling.
Monday morning, nobody
showed up at the West End's Out
back Pub, the scene of one of the
city's biggest Super Bowl bashes
Sunday.
"They got their partying done
last night," laughed general man
ager Donnie Mixon. "We were
packed to the gills, but they were
a lot calmer than last year.
"A year ago, it was just may
hem."
With the 'Boys trailing by a
touchdown at halftime, the mood
across the Dallas-Eort Worth
Metroplex was a mite subdued,
but not gloomy.
"Our group had a feeling
something good was going to
happen in the second half,"
Mixon said. "And sure enough it
did."
The Outback crowd "hit the
rafters" when James Washington
returned Thurman Thomas' fum
ble for a touchdown early in the
third quarter.
Everything was downhill from
then on.
"The first half and second half
were like two different ball-
games," said Gotcher, the Addi
son Point regular. "I don't know if
the Dallas dynasty's back. But we
proved one thing — last year was
not a fluke.”
Gotcher and bartender Anita
Joyce insisted that no one's actual
ly blase over the Cowboys, it's just
that the 1993 Super Bowl victory
was the perfect end to a magical
season.
"We're just getting a little
cocky and arrogant, but that's the
way it should be, because we're
the Dallas Cowboys," Gotcher
said.
Said Ms. Joyce, obviously a be
liever in Cowboys coach Jimmy
Johnson:
"I think we're going to go back
a third time and set a record. Why
not? Jimmy's going to do it just to
hack off everybody in the NFL."
Butch Weatherby, a regular at
the Scoreboard in nearby Fort
Worth, was one Cowboy fan just
content with Sunday's verdict.
"My financial future and the
harmony of my household were
in jeopardy most of the night," he
confessed. He was one of the
many who bet the 'Boys, giving
101/2 points.
At the half, with Buffalo lead
ing 13-6, he trailed by 171/2
points.
"I had to suffer through all
that," he said, sipping a suds and
chomping on Scoreboard left
overs: "We had enough food last
night to feed the Somalians.
"We're still eatin' it today."
The Scoreboard party might
have been a little rowdier than
most. A reporter called Monday to
inquire and Rex Hill, a profession
al golfer, answered the phone.
"There's a guy here that can't
breathe," Hill said. "You want to
talk to him? He's lying on the
bar."
Super Bowl MVP takes trip,
offers advice to Bills' Thomas
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i Emmitt Smith, making the peren
nial Super Bowl MVP visit to Walt
Disney World on Monday, said he
gave words of encouragement to
his friend and Buffalo counterpart
Thurman Thomas after the Dallas'
victory.
"I just wished the man well,"
Smith said. "I told him I loved him
... to go away, have fun, relax and
continue to work hard and per
haps he would be there again
someday and they'll win."
Thomas' two fumbles led to 10
’'Dallas points, while Smith led the
Cowboys to their second consecu
tive Super Bowl win against Buffa
lo.
Despite only one hour's sleep.
Smith was energetic, shaking
hands with Mickey Mouse and
jumping on the back of a fire en
gine for a parade down the Magic
Kingdom's main street.
When the vehicle's engine died,
it was no problem for the running
back. He sat among a crush of fans,
smiling, waving, signing auto
graphs and chatting with Mickey
before the fire engine was restarted
and the parade headed for Cin
derella's Castle.
Smith was named most valu
able player for his two-touchdown,
132-rushing-yard effort in the
Cowboy's 30-13 triumph. He later
spent more than two hours an
swering reporters' questions at an
other Disney park, Epcot Center.
McGinnis
Continued from Page 8
McGinnis is a 6-foot-7 junior at
S. R. Butler High School who is
already being recruited by
many college basketball pro
grams.
"A lot of kids in my neigh
borhood had a lot of ability,
and they just gave up," Tony
McGinnis said. " l try to teach
my brothers that working hard
can get you somewhere.
"I am an example for that.
It isn't going to guarantee you
success, but without hard
work, you will not stand a
chance."
Whenever he can not get in
touch with his family, he
spends time talking to his
roommate, Edwards, who is
also from out of state.
"We talk a lot about a lot of
different things," McGinnis
said. "We argue, but it is noth
ing personal.
"We get on each other to
help pick each other up.
"That fills some of the void
of not having family close by.
Anything you can have some
body pick you up, that helps."
Edwards agrees.
"Sometimes we just sit
down and talk about how we
miss home," Edwards said.
"We just tell each other to keep
our heads up."
But if Edwards or McGinnis
get a call from their parents,
they share the call.
"We just complain," Ed
wards said, "about each other
to the other one's parents."
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dally the 85-84 victory over UT.
You can't imagine the types of
pain I endured trying to remain
impartial and not cheer while sit
ting at the press table.
You see, there's this code of
impartial behavior journalists
have to live by when reporting
from the press box/booth.
1 couldn't resist a little partial
ity, however. A writer for the
Daily Texan (UT's student news
paper) was next to me and I
couldn't help but crack him a
gloating smile after the game.
That game was probably one
of the most exciting basketball
games I can remember in my life
time.
And it is not the only come-
from-behind victory the Aggies
have pulled out this season.
UNLV, Rice, Montana State and
Loyola Marymount all suc
cumbed to A&M tenacity.
Last year the comebacks fell
just a little short, but this year the
Aggies are pulling them out.
One reason the Aggies are
coming back to defeat opponents
is the stingy A&M defense.
Through 16 games this year,
A&M has allowed opponents
only 41.8 percent shooting and
69.6 points per game.
Defense, however, is only a
part of the Aggies' success. A
balanced offense in which four
players are averaging double fig
ures is helping A&M win.
Guards David Edwards (11.4
points per game) and Tony
McGinnis (10.6 ppg) lead the
starting backcourt in scoring,
while forward Damon Johnson
(12.1 ppg) leads the starting front
court.
However, it is reserve junior
forward Joe Wilbert that leads
the team in scoring with 13.5 ppg
coming off of the bench.
Edwards, McGinnis and John
son were all expected to perform
well this season, but the surprise
of the team has to be Wilbert.
He transferred from Tyler Ju
nior College and has already
made a huge impact on the team.
His block of Texas guard B.J.
Tyler on the final shot of the
Texas game is probably one of
the biggest plays of the year.
If Wilbert does not get the
Conference Newcomer of the
Year Award, there is no justice in
the world or at least no justice in
the SWC.
With his recruits and transfer
acquisitions, Barone has led the
A&M basketball team back from
the wasteland.
Two years ago A&M was 6-22.
Now we're on the way up. I
wouldn't say we're ready for the
final four, but at this rate, just
give us a few years.
Hey, the Cowboys were 1-15 a
couple of seasons ago and they
just won their second consecutive
Super Bowl.
In this wacky world of sports
anything can happen.
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