European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 21 raiders win super bowl map Star of 27i0 Victory raiders linebacker Rod Martin indicates his super bowl record three interceptions new Orleans a Oakland Jim Plunkett wrote a storybook and record Book ending to his remarkable comeback season sunday with three touchdown passes one of them an 80yarder that propelled the renegade raiders to a 2710 super bowl Xiv Victory Over the Phil Adelphia named the games most valuable threw scoring strikes of 2 Yards to Cliff Branch and a record 80yard play to Kenny King in the first those and branches 29yard touchdown catch in the third gave a team torn Between two its second super bowl and it made the raiders the first wildcard team to win the National football league it was also the ultimate Triumph for Al the owner of the the Man nil commissioner Pete Rozelle called an who rescued Plunkett and so Many of his teammates from the Ash the game was also a tribute to the 52 former who returned to the United states earlier in the Day after being held captive in iran for 444 the super dome wore a Gigantic yellow the play ers wore a yellow strip of tape on their the Field officials wore yellow stripes on their sleeves and most of the crowd of wore yellow it from the opening the kind of game the raiders thrived on during the 1980 season and again during the play when they were underdogs each it was a game of instant opportunities for them and blown plays by the a team without a championship since a team making its first super bowl Philadelphia quarterback Ron Jaworski was intercepted three times by linebacker Rod Martin a super bowl record by the Raider reclamation project and completed 18 of 38 passes for 291 Oak land played a nearly flawless sacked eight times by the eagles in their 107 regular season Victory Over Oakland in received virtually airtight Protection this he completed 1 3 of 21 passes for 261 Yards and was trapped behind the line just with the exception of Tony Franklins 30yard Field goal in the second the first half belonged to the on the third play of the Martin stepped in front of John swiped Jaworski first pass of the Day and ran the Ball 17 Yards to the Philadelphia 30yard two running plays and an offsides Call against eagles Middle guard Carl Hairston gained 11 then Plunkett passed for 14 More to who was slanting unguarded across the Center of the twice Plunkett called on Mark Van eeg Hen to run it into the end but the continued on Page 22 Oakland Mentor finally has his Day Flores is no longer the other coach7 new Orleans up he had introduced himself earlier in the week to All the Media As the other in the other coach in the super Tom Flores of the Oakland raiders had started off one of his news fully aware that most of the Media attention was being focused on Dick his alter ego with the Philadelphia he without seeming As if he was crowing Over the raiders 2710 Victory Over the eagles in super bowl Xvi not the other coach any in the coach of the world Champion football team and i cant Tell you How proud i am of this was their finest Flores used the word their instead of my because he invariably thinks in terms of third person plural rather than firs person on the sideline during the game in the he never cracked a smile until there were Only 26 seconds left on the and after he had hugged his quarterback Jim the map of the while they were walking off the he answered questions in the dressing room about com missioner Pete Rozelle presentation of the Vince Lombard trophy to team owner Al someone wanted to know whether the publicized hard feelings Between Rozelle and Davis Over Davis projected Transfer of the Oakland franchise to los Angeles had been any kind of distraction to the Al would never let it be a Flores this is a very together and if you saw the Way Al accepted the trophy from the then you know it was done the Way Al always does things with the proper when Rozelle presented the Silver foot Ball mounted on a Silver base to he congratulated the raiders the play ers and its a great credit to Rozelle said to i think Tom Flores did a magnificent Job of coaching the Jim Plunkett was simply i think his comeback was one of the outstanding accomplishments in professional you have All earned Rozelle concluded his remarks to Davis also called the raiders second super bowl championship in four years their finest it was a phrase repeated Over and Over again by Many in accepting the trophy from Davis paid tribute to Flores and All the Raider without trying to Praise any of his players More than repeatedly mentioned who threw three touch continued on Page 23 Vermeil Nof satisfied with teams play new Orleans up Dick ver who had guided Philadelphia to the Brink of the nil said Sun Day night he had expected a much better Effort from the eagles than he saw Dis played in super bowl in not satisfied at All with the Way we Vermeil said in the glum eagles locker room following Oakland 2710 Tri i thought we would play a lot better but maybe the reason for the score was that they have that much better a football team than we like most of his zeroed in on the fact that Oakland quarterback Jim Plunkett had plenty of time to throw the Ball As a chief cause of the we didst put enough pressure on Jim my and when we did he scrambled out of they just did a super Job of pass Vermeil at halftime i told the Guys that it just didst seem to me like it was our football team out and after the game i thanked them for bringing me Here and for playing As hard As they did and that i Felt sorry for them because we two of the key plays in the game were a record 80yard to pass from Plunkett to fullback Kenny King and a 29yard scoring toss to Cliff the defenders on those two plays could Only credit superlative efforts by the on the touchdown pass to King it looked like Plunkett going to scram said cornerback Herman i looked at Plunkett for a second and King kept to the it looked like Plunkett was going to come upfield and i took a step to him and All of a sudden he threw the it just got past eagles defensive Back Roynell a member of the Nils Al Rookie appeared to have an interception in hand Early in the second but had the Ball taken from him by Branch at the goal i Felt he Branch was behind said i was just getting ready to jump and the Ball seemed to hang he came in front of me and got his hands on the Ball and just made a great Edwards said the disheartened eagles should not be ashamed of their performance theres no use getting Down and feeling sorry for said the fou year Veter i did the Best i could and so did every body we had a great season and we got to the super bowl and now Well just be the i cant see any reason Why any of these 45 Guys should have their continued on Page 23