European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 21 wild Bunch just likes to have fun by Mike Rabun new Orleans up in the hardest thing to shake is a once a shortstop has been tagged As Good no he is usually stuck with it for even if he starts slashing doubles Down the the Oakland raiders have a rep and it is not a Good they Are billed As the renegades of the National football and this is a it that they Are not trying to Oakland has been looked on that Way for a Long said quarterback Jim i guess it has to do with the style of weve got a Bunch of Loose charac ters on our admits running Back Kenny some go to its not that anybody wants to Hurt anybody they just like to have even coach Tom Calm and Serene As Leader of the wild cannot deny that he is guiding an unusual group of weve taken some players that other coaches have not Given a second said whose raiders will hassle with the Philadelphia eagles in super bowl Xiv i cant say that they All turned into Model but they have turned into pretty Good football John Matuszak a formidable foe As it some of the personalities of the raiders will Likely play a key role in How the super bowl comes one is John who perfectly fits the definition of Matuszak stands weighs 280 and has a wild crop of hair that makes him a formidable looking person whether he is playing defensive end or enjoying an evening he is known by his team mates As Matuszak is Apt to go into an irreverent description of the pregame speech delivered by Dan Devine when both individuals were at it is is not one of Matuszak favorite i remember one time when we were going to play notre said a he told Ive talked this Over with god and we Are going beat those right then i knew were in How is god going to let notre Dame notre won the but no matter what the personality traits of any of the raiders might they do As Flores says play and one of the strongest personalities of them All could be one of the biggest factors in the Ted the 68 linebacker who once played for is Pic tured by some of his Philadelphia foes As a person who just roams about on the Field wherever he Hendricks says that every now and but Flores insists its All said its not a freelance we decided during the of season that we had to play Ted every Down if last year we were bringing in an extra Back to cover on passing but this year we wanted Ted in he May jump around a but he knows where he is that is All by we move him Here and move him there just to confuse Hendricks says even his own team mates get confused there Are times when a couple of the linemen have Little games going on where they will but they dont Tell its happened that Ive planned to Rush a certain spot and wound up running into the other Guys because we Haven but you try to pick up clues from the films to Tell you what kind of play is coming and if you do that you can move to meet As for the reputation of the Hendricks says he is not sure what that but he likes it in i think i fit in pretty Well with this he but i think anybody in the nil would fit in be cause there is so much Freedom things they might get uptight about somewhere else they just take for granted raiders receive bomb threat new Orleans not in the tradition of super bowl Tom the coach of the Oakland was at the providing Dull answers to Dull ques but from the rear of the Fairmont hotel a different ques Tion woke up what do you know about the bomb scare in your hotel somebody what bomb scare Flores you had a bomb scare in your hotel at 3 Oclock yesterday nobody told me about a bomb Flores is merely the no reason to Tell no reason to create any distractions that might interfere with his concentration on the game distractions once were extremely fashionable during super bowl but since the Washington redskins lost super bowl Vii after their George had complained about All the other teams have insisted distractions do not sex not that the players really we were having a helluva time that eagles Choice of a writers new Orleans a the Philadelphia eagles Are picked to win the super bowl by the associated press writers covering the game but the Edge is five chose the eagles to win four others picked the Oakland the predictions will Grimsley Philadelphia Sam Boyle Philadelphia 1710 Austin Wilson Philadelphia 2117 Hal Bock Philadelphia 2414 Gary Clark Philadelphia 21 Byron Yake Oakland 1613 Bruce Lowitt Oakland 2420 Ralph Bernstein Oakland 17 14 Eric Prewitt Oakland 2416 Jerry Smith of the redskins said until George told us we now its fashionable to accept the distractions As part of what is More a festival than a football it was even the idea of the Raider front office to bus the players from the Gateway Motel out near the air port to and from the larger downtown Fairmont for wednesdays morning inter View tuesday afternoon the raiders calmly accepted the Alert that an unidentified woman had phoned their Motel to say that there was a bomb on the eighth floor where some of the raiders were soon Sev eral new Orleans policemen were on the knocking on doors and searching when i saw All the said Jim the i knew i had been on Bourbon Street the night before but i didst think id been that John the defensive end who is larger than most bombs and occasionally More laughed and give it to ill carry and the raiders tight Raymond shrugged and this is the Oakland raid ers this is just part of our game dont when the Philadelphia eagles Dick was asked later if his team had had a bomb he my bomb scare is now theres a coach who concentrating on his game and there is More truth than humor in Vermeil Vermeil remembers that before the eagles rallied for a 107 Victory Over the raid ers at Philadelphia on the 12th sunday of the regular the raiders had snatched a 73 Lead in the fourth Quarter when Plunkett collaborated with Cliff the raiders fastest wide for an 86yard not Many Vermeil have a wide receiver As fast As and Plunkett is As Good a Longballa thrower As Ive Ever on defense against the you Start deep and work Back toward the line of once a world class Branch is the raiders deep but the most compel Ling matchup of super bowl Xiv involves the eagles deep Harold Carmi the 6foot8inch wide receiver with 56 receptions for Yards and 10 touch Downs through the against the raiders Lester who has 18 interceptions 13 during the regular two in the wildcard two in the divisional one in the american conference championship but the matchup will be most of the Carmichael is expected to line up on the left Side of the eagles offence across from Dwayne the raiders right against the raiders in that 107 Carmichael caught Only three passes for a total of 18 looking Back on Hayes says he believes that Carmichael might have been intimidated Early by Burgess the raiders free Burgess caught him on a slant Hayes after he started looking for Burgess to hit its feasible that Harold was hearing Hayes also remembered that Ron Jaworski threw to Carmichael Only six times while he was covering him and that Carmichael did not catch any of those if he wants to catch any passes he should not go on my Side of the Hayes he has a slim Chance of catch ing the Ball on ill probably catch More passes than he its not going to be a piece of cake to cover him Hes a very Tough but if we Stop their whole passing game is null and void because theres no one else to go Hayes talked about my Side of the Field As if it were staked out with barbed but that to be expected of a defensive Back with one of those typical angelic Nick names that the raiders relish Lester the in other Jack Tatum was known As the skip Thomas was known As and George Atkinson was known for having inspired Chuck the Pittsburgh Steeles to charge that there was a criminal element in the National football league after Atkinson had All but beheaded Lynn Swann with a fore it is said that Tatum and Atkinson used to bet on which opposing receivers would be knocked unconscious or knocked out of the Jack Tatum taught me i cant Hayes was saying of the Strong safety traded to the Houston oilers last our Forte was being Dogfish per Hook a Guy in the tackle him that but that nickname of 1 dont like it at Osteen fits into the Raider when he was with the los Angeles he was considered too aggressive even in and when he talked about Carmi whom he expects to cover 80 percent of the time he talked about How Harold is a perfect gentleman with Excel Lent Field freed hostages getting lifetime baseball passes new York a the freed iranian hostages will be Given lifetime passes for All regular sea son major league or minor league baseball games starting with the 1981 the baseball com missioners office announced the passes will be presented to the 52 former hostages just re As Well As to Richard of and the 13 other hostages released baseball had previously made lifetime passes available to hundreds of prisoners of War who were re turning from starting with the 1973