European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday novembers 1985 the stars and stripes 4-4 Page 23 i commentary buccaneers keep hoping if won f last Long before the Nickel Back or the fair catch was t it Thomas Jefferson who wrote that certain truths Are held to be self evident one is that the Tampa Bay buccaneers Aren t going to make it to the super bowl. Not with that perfectly consistent record. They begone to the Post nine times this season and have come Back on the Short end every time the Only team in thenal that does t have at least one Victory. That s the bad news. The Good news is they Haven t Given up Hope. They be been Down this Road before. When they first came into the league in 1976, they lost 26 in a Row under John Mckay before finally knocking Over new Orleans for their first regular league win. They even got to the playoffs two Yean after that and again a couple of times later to they have the Assurance that nothing is forever. Besides the buccaneers can take some measure of Comfort from still another development while they wait to get on the Board. They re losing games much closer. Two weeks ago they were picked apart by the new England patriots 32-14. Against the new York giants sunday they led All the Way into the third Quarter before dropping a 22-20 Deci Sion. Occasionally the final score does t reflect the actual superiority of one team. The giants buccaneers score at sent Rutherford sunday was about right. The giants were Only a Shade better and were it not for Little Eric Schubert kicking five Field goals against them the buccaneers might be finally won one. Jimmie Giles Tampa Bay s three time pro Bowler is having a Good year. He scored both the losers touchdowns sunday on passes from Steve Deburg. After the game he talked about How he and the others try to Block out their record from their minds. You know the old cliche he said. We know we can play against anybody on any Given  that s not an old cliche it s a new one. Borrowed in part perhaps from that one Pete Rozelle made famous. Remember it on any Given sunday any team in the nil is capable of beating any other one. The trouble is the buccaneers arc running out of sundays. I la say this. There s no quit in them. The were still scratching clawing and struggling until time ran out on them sunday. They were moving the Ball within Field goal Range for Nigeria s Donald in we Buick in the final minute when a 10-Yard holding penalty called on guard Sean Farrell finished Ihm for Good. Of All the teams with lopsided losing records i be Ever seen 1 can t think of any one which shows As much ability or conducts itself better than Tampa Bay. I believe the person chiefly responsible is  Man Bennett the bucs new head coach. It had. To be trying for him to answer Al the questions put to him after sunday s ninth straight loss but he handled that perfectly. He declined to blame the officials either although he must have been tempted. Bennett vigorously disagreed with the holding Call on Farrell by line judge Dick Mckenzie that killed off the bucs last threat 40 seconds from the end. He said my feeling about that Call is that when i coach perfect game i la be concerned about the officials calling c perfect one  Obi Ottly the first thing that strikes most people about the buccaneers is their record. The next thing is their attitude. Surprisingly upbeat and hardly Down at All. The key to our attitude is Leeman Bennett said Deburg. A nine year Veteran who has also seen service with the 49crs and Broncos. We Wanna win so bad for the Guy As Well As for ourselves. It s so frustrating. This really was the hardest one to  Giles agreed with Deburg about Bennett. Without a doubt he s responsible for keeping inc team together. He does t let us get Down on our selves. He has told us we can do it. We believe him. Some games we be played excellent and lost. Today we played Well and some Good things happened to us. The offensive line blocked Well. Lawrence Taylor did t have a sack. It was just some things that happened to us in the final series that Hurt us one thing that Hurt was the penalty in Farrell for offensive holding against right end Casey Merrill. Was i mad about the Call Farrell repeated a reporter s question. "1 was furious. I was enraged. You Battle pm All game Long and All of a sudden someone Mckenzie decides to gel involved in the game at a critical poem. The Guy never Akca lit Flag outta his pocket until the end of inc game i did look like holding to the Guy referee Dick Jorgon san four feet away Schubert did much More harm to Tampa Bay than Mckonic. He kicked his first Field goal from 24 Yards in the opening Quarter another .16 yarder in the second Quarter his second 24-Yirder in the third Quarter and iwo More from 41 and 33 Yards in the final 20 minutes. Last week the Chunky 5-fool-7 Schubert was teaching school in new Jersey. With am Lalaji sheikh the giants regular kicker on injured Reserve coach Bill Parcells called Schub Crl and invited him for a tryout. Schub Cit passed it. After sunday s five Field goals. Schubert said. I just wanted to make  he surely did. Unfortunately for the buccaneers in had to be against them. In Ltd Prill i 25-yarder with 9 seconds of play Steeles nip Browns on Anderson Fig Waller Abercromby. Scores game s Only to Pittsburgh up Gary Ander son booted a 25-Yard Field goal with nine seconds left sunday to lift the Pittsburgh Steeles past the Cleveland Browns 10-9. The St Celers Triumph coupled with Vic tories by Houston aria Cincinnati brings the four teams in the american football conference Central into a tie at 4-5. The Browns have yet to win in three Rivers stadium since it opened in 1970. Anderson s winning kick capped a 10 play 73-Yard drive by the Steeles in the final four minutes. The Browns fran Minnifield was called for a 30-Yard pass interference penalty on the first  Steeles ran the clock Down to 11 seconds before Anderson s 12 Field  Pittsburgh trailing 6-0, the crowd of 51,976 helped the Steeles move ahead in the third Quarter. Browns Rookie Quarter Back Bernie kor was in a Shotgun forma Tion in a third Down situation when the Spectator noise caused him to Wail. Center Mike Baab snapped the Ball when Kos Arwas not ready and Kosar had to scramble to recover losing 12  loss forced a Cleveland punt which travelled Only 32 Yards giving the St Celers Possession at the Browns 44.david Woodley playing for the injured Mark Malone hit Louis Lipps for 12 Yards. Walter Abercrombie followed with a 32-Yard sprint off left tackle for the Only touchdown in inc game. Matt Bahr s third Field goal of the game a 30-yarder, moved Cleveland ahead 9-7. That score was set up when the Steeles Harry Newsome got off a 35-Yard punt that was returned 29 Yards to Pittsburgh s 22 by Brian  Steeles moved with their second Possession with Woodley making his first Start since the eighth game of last season. Weenie Thompson made a difficult catch of a third and 12 pass for 13 Yards. Abr Crombie picked up a first Down with a 7 Yard sweep around right end. The sleepers reached the Browns 33 before the Cleve land defense stiffened holding Abercrombie to 3 Yards on three  Kosar making his initial three Riv ers stadium appearance Cleveland also put together an impressive drive. The Brown consumed the final 7 25 of the Quarter be Hind the passing of Kosar and the running of Kevin Mack. Kosar completed a pair of third Down passes one to Harry Holt for i Yards and another to Brennan for 9.the drive stalled As the Quarter ended with running Back Earnest byner taking a snap from the Shotgun and coming up 2 Yards Short at the sleepers 17.Bahr then kicked the first of his iwo first half Field goals this one from 34 Yards. Kosar later led the Browns on another scoring March. His 24-Yard pass to Brennan Down the Middle to the sleepers 39 being the big play. When the drive faltered Bahr hit from 45 Yards. Gretsky leads oilers rout of Maple Leafs by the associated press be Toronto Maple Leah Wayne Gretzky s favorite Patsie. Were in town. So the Edmonton oilers superstar celebrated. After misfiring on 10 shots in a 2-0 loss to Buffalo Gretzky regained his shooting Eye sunday night scoring three limes on seven shots to help the oilers defeat6 Toronto Maple Leafs 7-1 As the oilers looked More like the Stanley cup champions they Are. Gretzky completed the 35th career hat trick in his seventh season Al 15 47 of the nil Roundup second period with a Power play goal that increased the oilers Lead to 4-1. Gretzky has eight goals and 27 Points in 11 games. The Center opened scoring at 10 26 with a 30-foot slap shot past Tim Bernhardt s Glove Side. Mark Napier put the oilers ahead 2-0 at 14 05 when he tipped in Dave Semienko s  scored his second goal at 2 10 of the Middle period after Toronto de Senseman Borje calming knocked his own goalie to the ice. The Maple Leafs who have won Only once in 11 games out shot inc oilers 10-7 in the first period and 10-8 in the third period As both teams totalled 28 shots on net. Nevertheless the opportunistic oilers put the game away with third period goals by finnish Rookie left Wing Ernimo Summa Nen at 11 20, Craig Mactavish at 14 47, and defend scan Larry Meln Kat 17 50. Blu 4, Otis 3 Doug Gilmour beat goalie Dan Bou Chard at 3 55 of overtime for the visiting blues who built a 3-0 Lead Only to Sec the jets rally for a lie. Flyers 7, Kings 4 Philadelphia which has scored the first goal in each of its game this season got off to a Quick Start As Ilkka Sinisalo scored a goal then sent a pass off the end boards which took a weird hop in front of inc net past goalie Bob Janecyk. Tim Kerr tapped it in for his first of three Power play goals. Kerr who has 11 goals later broke a 3 3 lie with a second period Power play tally