European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday november 28, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary Allen Breaks a Fife Junior exec rules most working stiffs Are 9-to-5 Guys. The trick is to turn those eight hours into three of actual production. What you do is you come in to work. You hang up your Coal then you go Hunt up a colleague and you go out for Coffee. You catch up on the latest gossip. You hang around the water cooler a lot. You shuffle papers Call your Bookie have the switchboard Tell callers you re in a meeting. Maybe you go out for a Shine. You turn the lunch hour into two. First of All you pretend it s a business lunch even if the Only business you discuss is the Chicago bears. You loiter at the newsstand a lot. Research you convince the auditor. Back in the office the idea is to let somebody else Slick his n Kout. It s the key to corporate Success. It s sure the key to longevity. That s Why i find it hard to understand the incomprehensible totally unprofessional behaviour of a Young business executive in the Well respected conglomerate doing business As the los Angeles raiders inc. Marcus a. Allen has done a great Deal for that firm about on the order of what Lee Iacocca has done for Chrysler. He has boosted sales dumb founded Competition opened up new markets. If anyone was entitled to sit and do his nails and try to decide where to go to dinner on the expense account it would seem to be this quasi chief executive officer Marcus Allen. The last thing you would think he would want to do is Rock the boat. Instead Marcus Allen has set the Art of How to succeed in business without really trying Back by decades. Allen s Stock in Trade is to carry or catch the foot Ball. He does that better than almost anyone in the game give or take a rival executive like Walter pay ton or so. But lots of things can happen to you career Wise when you go Back into the Basic rough and Tumble of everyday Commerce. You can Fumble the Ball. You can drop the pass. You can get knocked Down behind the line of scrimmage. You can gel stopped on the goal inc. The really experienced executive Bucks these chores to unwary Junior partners eager beavers on the Way up Guys trying to be noticed Guys who so to speak Don t have their names on the door yet. When you re an exec who has it made what you do in football for instance is wait for the easy ones the Tampa Bay buccaneers for example and you say ill handle this  you Duck the Tough ones. Otherwise you run the risk of the office staff Whis Pering the old boy does t have it anymore. Got caught from behind by a tackle the other Day or could t put it in from the i against the bengals. Can you believe it even management seemed Content to let Marcus play the  to leave a pcs Sage game. When Marcus asked to run More the managing general partner Al Davis suggested the Beach at Twilight. But Allen was t interested in Coupon clipping gliding toward his pension. He wanted the action. He wanted to be on the floor of the Exchange. He got noisy about it earlier this season. He Felt he was getting like the executive whose phone stops ring ing whose number stops being called who is not counted on anymore no is treated like a Guy who has been put out to pasture and carried on the books As q consultant. Allen violated every Canon of the business code. He screamed to be allowed to earn his pay. He did t want to be just another vice president going around a photo raiders Marci Altai it work. No 9-to-s clock watcher cutting ribbons. He did t like the Way the company was going and he thought he could do something about it if they d bring him Back on line. That s a no no for the exec looking for a cushy place to rest on his laurels or to keep out of the Eye of the stockholders or the Indus try analysts in this Case the sportswriters. Marcus did t have to do it. His salary was Guaran teed for several years. His pension is vested. He could have artfully covered his aspects picked his spots run the Ball out of Bounds said give it to somebody else on the i showed up with mysterious ailments on the Days they played the sea hunks. Nol gotten open when he knew the 49cr secondary was wailing Over the Middle. But the company was going bad and Allen decided it was because they had slopped using hrs talents. He took charge again. He risked his reputation to say nothing of his Knees and Ankles. He d either turn the company around or he d have to have lunch in a bag at the desk by himself every Day. The firm had just lost marketing decisions to the Kansas cily chiefs and inc san Francisco 49crs when Marcus loosed his Blasl of dissatisfaction. He was t Content just to take his paycheck and polish his Mercedes. The raiders won five straight games after Marcus outbreak. They gave him the Bacall right. He gained More than 100 Yards in seven of the last eight weeks including a 173-Yard outburst against Denver last sunday. He reached 1,000 Yards gained faster than any Raider exec in history. The team won five straight games after his eruption and seven of nine. Two weeks ago Allen illustrated his Worth to the company. A desultory game of almost Santol foot Ball it was Cincinati 6, raiders 6 in the fourth Quarter a sort of thinly disguised scoreless tic when they began to give Marcus Allen the football. With about three minutes to play Allen s firm had fourth and two on the rivals 31-Yard line. A Flat pass to Allen Over the Middle and it was first and 10 on the 13. Two plays later he scored the game s Only touchdown for the Victory and a season saving sales move. In the locker room later someone wanted to know whether Allen s outburst earlier in the year had resulted in his role change and his getting the Ball More. Of no he said. It had to do More with the inexperience of the quarterbacks. We had to change the  As you can Sec a Good company Man to the last. No 9-to-5 Guy Marcus. If he ran a restaurant he d want to Wash the dishes too. Pm and Ltd of envy Falcons waive Bartkowski Suwanee a. Up the Atlanta Falcons placed quarterback Steve bar Tkowski on waivers tuesday. Bartkowski who was the Falcons starter during the first half of this season had been on the injured Reserve list since oct. 23 because of a problem with his right Luice. He has undergone five operations during his 11-year nil career. Bartkowski 33, threw for 23,468 Yards and 154 touchdowns and owns 22 Falcon records. Steve has expressed his desire to Complete his career with t contending team said fal com executive vice president Eddie Labaron. He attorney contacted us about placing him on waivers. We wish him the Best. Bartkowski passed for 3,544 Yards and a league leading 31 touchdowns in 1980. When the Falcons built a 12-4 record and for 3,830 Yards and 30 touchdowns in 1981. During his first year under current at Lanta coach Dan Henning Bralkowski s figures were 3,167 Yards and 22 touch Downs. Last year while missing five games they dropped to 2,158 and 11. He had one of the Best ratings in the nil 92.8 when Henning decided to Bench him in favor of second year Quarter Back David Archer because Archer was More Mobile. Fuller is making the most of backup Job in Chicago Sieve Fuller. A Winner in the wings Lake Forest Iii. A if Steve Fuller was t a quarterback he might Well be a fireman waiting on Call. Every week. Fuller remains in the wings his status with the undefeated Chicago bears depending on quarterback Jim me Mahon i injured right shoulder. That i the Only Way to approach it said Fuller until further notice. Mcmahon who has tendinitis says every week that hell try to be ready to play. For the last three weeks though Fuller has stepped in and won. Victories no. 10, ii and 12 have come with Fuller it the throttle As the bears have outscored their opponents 107-3. They have not allowed a Point in 10 quarters or a touchdown in the last 13. Until three weeks ago i Felt i had t contributed said Fuller who started the season s third game at Minnesota but had to be relieved by Mcmahon who rallied the team to 33-24 Victory. That bothered me but i feel a lot better about my place now. It s not always great to be i backup quarterback but i Don t mind playing behind Jim he said. Fuller s career in the National football league has been Check ered. He was drafted out of Clemson by Kan Sas cily in 1979 and played four years for the chiefs mostly As a starter. He was traded to the los Angeles rams in 1983 and did not throw a pass that sea son. The bears acquired him last year from the rams for two draft choices. When Mcmahon suffered a kidney in jury in the filth game last season. Fuller was called on to relieve him starting four games before he was injured himself. Fuller returned to duty in the playoffs. He led the bears to a Victory Over washing ton before Chicago was eliminated by san Francisco the team which went on to win the super bowl championship. Hell Start against Miami on monday night but says Mcmahon will be Back it the Helm before the playoffs. Every player s dream is to Start in the super bowl Cut i have every Confidence Jim will be Back. His rehabilitation now is entered on getting him ready for the play offs he said. "1 would t shy away from that possibility said Fuller when asked if he had thought about starting in the playoffs and possibly the super bowl