Tuesday • January 31, 1995
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The Battalion • Page 11
49ers face post-Super Bowl questions SLC tO be broadcast on HSE
MIAMI (AP) — Super Bowl winners rarely get
a chance to savor victory.
So Steve Young and George Seifert, whose San
Francisco 49ers put on a dazzling offensive show
Sunday, spent Monday playing defense.
They responded to questions such as:
— What will they do if offensive and defensive
coordinators Mike Shanahan and Ray Rhodes
leave for head-coaching jobs?
— What will they do if Ricky Watters and
Deion Sanders sign lucrative free-agent contracts
with someone else, or if Jerry Rice should actually
decide to retire?
— How will they avoid the inevitable post-vic
tory letdown?
Some postmortem.
They just went through a pressure-filled season
that ended it in the only way acceptable to them
— with a Super Bowl victory. As Carmen Policy,
the team’s president, said a couple of weeks ago of
owner Eddie DeBartolo’s philosophy:
“If you win, it’s hugs and kisses and cham
pagne. If you lose, it’s death.”
Well, it wasn’t death.
But if the Niners hadn’t beaten the San Diego
Chargers on Sunday by the NFC team’s now tra
ditional 23-point margin, who knows what the
volatile and emotional DeBartolo might have
done?
He might have kicked Seifert upstairs, plucked
Shanahan off the plane to Denver and made him
the head coach. He might have traded with
Kansas City for a quarterback named Joe some
thing; he might have ...
Instead, Young and Seifert, weary from the all-
night celebration, basked in the glory for a minute
or two.
Then they were asked less about the past than
the future, or about the place in history of a fran
chise whose five victories in the past 14 years give
them the most Super Bowls in the 29-year history
of the game.
The fact is, the 49ers are in pretty good shape.
Even with all the free agents they signed this
year, the 49ers ranked only 16th of 28 teams in
salary-cap expenditures. Only $1.6 million in
bonus money — $838,000 to Rickey Jackson,
$750,000 to Sanders and $10,000 to Toi Cook —
will count against next season’s cap.
DeBartolo and Policy acknowledge it will be
hard to re-sign Sanders, and who knows how
many veterans may have to be cut to satisfy Wat
ters? But San Francisco has become players’ heav
en, because the 49ers are always a good bet to get
to the Super Bowl and because they have a well-
deserved reputation as a first-class organization.
“People will be surprised how positive our situ
ation is with the cap,” Seifert said.
Young’s six touchdown passes in the 49-26 vic
tory broke the record set by Joe Montana, whose
shadow he worked so hard to escape. So Young
spent the morning answering the inevitable ques
tion about his “arrival” at age 33 into the “Hall of
Fame” category among quarterbacks following a
career that included.
Young didn’t regret his long and winding road
to the top.
“If someone told me I’d have to go through all
that and end up where I am today, I’d do it again,”
he said.
The big question: Can the 49ers do it again?
The answer: Who knows?
Riot: Officials call for stricter punishment
Continued from Page 10
with the crime.
Spagnolo was knifed in
the stomach outside the
Genoa stadium as fans were
streaming in to watch the
game against AC Milan, the
team owned by media tycoon
and former premier Silvio
Berlusconi. Berlusconi also
owns Fininvest.
As the news spread during
halftime, angry Genoa fans be
gan raining bottles and other
objects on the field. The game
was suspended, and hundreds
of fans rampaged outside the
stadium, smashing car win
dows, setting fires and throw
ing rocks at police, who re
sponded with truncheons and
tear gas.
The events have seized pub
lic attention, dominating front
pages, and resounded through
the halls of church and state.
The Cabinet condemned
the crime. Senate President
Carlo Scognamiglio, during
debate on a government confi
dence vote, expressed condo
lences to the victim’s family.
Milan's city council held a
moment of silence. The Vati
can’s official newspaper called
for stricter punishment for
soccer violence.
“Everything has been taken
too seriously and a simple
game has turned into a ques
tion of life and death,” L’Osser-
vatore Romano wrote.
The Italian Bishops Con
ference criticized a “diffuse
soccer culture, lacking in eth
ical criteria.”
Berlusconi called for soccer
clubs and security officials to
do more to end soccer violence,
“this scourge on civilization,”
and defended Milan fans.
“Sportsmanship, respect for
others, loyalty and tolerance in
competition ... that is, the
ideas we teach in the schools of
Milan, are the opposite of bru
tal and violent hooliganism,”
he said.
Many of the most violent
fans congregate in extremist
clubs with a skinhead cast.
Soccer teams have attempted
to weed out troublemakers
from the highly organized fan
club system.
PLANO (AP) — Eight foot
ball games involving Southland
Conference teams will air
on Prime Sports/Home Sports
Entertainment the next
two seasons, the league has
announced.
SLC Commissioner Britton
Banowsky said Monday
that McNeese State, Nicholls
State, Northwestern State, Sam
Houston State, Southwest Texas
and Stephen F. Austin will par
ticipate in the package, to be an
nounced in the summer.
The eight conference and
non-conference games will
include opponents such as
National Collegiate Athletic
Association I-AA playoff
team Northern Iowa and de
fending national champion
Youngstown State.
“This is a significant step
forward for the conference,”
Banowsky said. “The confer
ence has been blessed with
outstanding athletes for
many years and we are pleased
to be able to give them an
opportunity to showcas their
talents to television audiences
throughout the region.”
Prime Sports/HSE televised
two conference football games
Iowa matchup and the Stephen
F. Austin-Sam Houston game.
Prime Sports, in addition
to four regular-season basket
ball telecasts, will televise
four games from the 1995 Cen
tury Cellunet SLC Basketball
Classic at Shreveport, La.,
in March.
They included the men’s
and women’s finals
and men’s semi
final games.
“We rekindled
our relationship
with the Southland
Conference through
this year’s basket
ball package. It
is great to extend
the relationship
forward for foot
ball,” said Kelly
O’Neil, Prime Sports director of
business affairs.
"We rekindled our relationship
with the Southland Conference
through this year's basket ball
package."
— Kelly O'Neil,
Prime Sports director of business affairs
last season, including the
Southwest Texas-Northern
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