European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 23,1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary defense rests As offence romps nil court is now in session. May we please have our first witness for the defense come now gentlemen. Don l be shy somebody please step Forward. Anybody. What s that you re whispering you re embarrassed just because there were 10 touchdown passes in sunday s Miami dolphins new York jets game just because the dolphins Dan Marino and Ken o Brien of the jets combined for a record 884 pass ing Yards just because the two teams scored 3 combined six touchdowns Over a furious stretch of 11 minutes 35 seconds in the second Quarter in route to a combined 96-Pointday? hey Don t worry about it these things happen. Why there was a time Back in the Days of the Hurt and gun american football league when games like this were routine. You should have seen Daryle Lamonica and Jack Kemp before he was a con Gressman Al Dorow and Butch Songin. George Blanda and Len Dawson. Those Guys could Pill the Ball in the air and Points on the scoreboard in a hurry. The dolphins once lost a game 58-24. The jets once scored 62 Points in a game and twice allowed 56. Thai s the Way football is or was sometimes. Now May we please have a witness someone who might say something anything for the de sense perhaps the quarterbacks. A or. Marino thank you. Tell us or. Maha Bock Rino what do you think of the new York jets defense their defense is  unbelievable or. Marino you threw for 448 Yards and sin touchdowns against them sunday. Thai might be unbelievable for you not for them. Their pass Rush they line up and come at you. It puts their defensive backs in difficult coverage sometimes and leaves them open for big plays. Thai s the Way they play  we Sec. Thank you. Or. O Brien what did you think of the Dolphin defense they were hanging on defense which gave our receivers a lot of  there were some people who though the Miami defense ought to be Hung. Did you feel comfortable against their defense As Long As i gel the time from my line i will find somebody against that kind of  you Are not atone. The Dolphin defense what Ever became of the killer bees who look this  to to super bowls in the last four seasons sur rendered 50 Points in the opener against san die of. No Don Shula coached team Ever gave up More Points until sunday. Coach , your thoughts please. We Felt at half Lime that if we could go out an do anything at All defensively we could get Back in the Ball game. We did. We got Back into it and had the Ball game  Well not quite. There is the matter of the first Down you did not make in the last two minutes when you had a Chance to run out the clock. In Stead you gave the jell one last Chance. Against the Miami defense it was one Chance too Many. Or. Marino do you have something to say on that subject was the Jet defense just too Lough at that juncture thai was the biggest series. We be go to gel that first Down. We had been doing it pretty much Alt Day. When we needed to do it i did t do  that turned the Ball Over to the jets at their 20 for one last drive. Eighty Yards to go. Sixty four seconds to do it. Did you Admire the accomplishment or. Marino they had some big plays. Everything went heir Way. They were out of timeouts and they kept bet Ting Oul of Bounds. They made a big thro at the end for the tying  and then came the key play of the game. The Coin flip won by the jets. Or. Marino you slay on the sidelines. Or. O Brien Here is he football and there is the Dolphin defense. Go to it. Two pass completions for first Downs. Two runs for another. Then a 43-Yard to pitch to Wesley Waiker. Final score jets 51, dolphins 45. Witness for the defense what defense sea Hawks overcome patriots Foxboro mass. A Dave Krieg s 67-Yard touchdown bomb 10 Ray butter with 1 14 left in the game capped Seattle s 17-poin explosion in the final three minutes and gave the unbeaten sea Hawks a 38-31 nil Victory Over the new England patriots sunday. Butler who had teamed up with Kring for a 54-Yard touch Down pass in the third Quarter beat cornerback Ronnie Lippelt Down the right sideline for the decisive Points. That play ruined an outstanding passing Day for the patriots. Quarterback Tony Eason threw for 422 Yards including three Long touchdown passes to Stanley Morgan. Seattle which began the Day with the Best pass defense in the acc improved its record to 3-0. New England which had t Given up a touchdown before sunday fell to 2-1, Seattle had tied the score with 2 12 left in the fourth Quarter on its second blocked punt of the  Rich Camarillo standing in his own end zone Patrick Hunter blocked his punt and Paul Moyer recovered for the touch Down. Norm Johnson s cure Point tied the score 31-31. New England had taken a 3 i -21 Lead on Eason s third touchdown pass to Morgan covering 30 Yards with 6 51 remaining in the fourth period. Bui Johnson Drew the sea Hawks to within seven Points with a 33-Yard Fiol goal with 2 53 left in the Quarter. The patriots had taken a 17-7 Haff Lime Lead on Morgan s first touchdown a 27-Yard pass from Eason. Krieg s first touchdown pass to Butler made the score 17-14 Midway through the third period. Morgan s 44-Yard scoring grab restored new England s to Point Lead on the first play of the fourth Quarter. By Curt Warner tallied on a 1-Yard run 2i23 into the period culling the Lead to 24-21. Seattle s first touchdown on Warner s 13-Yard run came after Kerry Justin blocked Camarillo s first period punt. A 6-Yard run by Tony Collins and. Tony Franklin s 26-Yard Field goal helped the patriots build their halftime Lead. Startle s Dave Kirg throws bomb for clincher. Imp Oil Alefs series tickets accidentally sent to Calif College Santa Maria Calif. A an Arkansas printing company made quite hit with Allan Hancock College s Box of fice Crew when it sent the school about64,000 world series tickets instead of theater tickets. When Marty Rafetto assistant Box of fice manager for the College s Pacific conservatory of performing arts opened the cases of tickets which had been printed for the new York mets her first thought was we re going to new  Weldon Williams and licks inc. Of fort Smith ark., sent the College Only part of the tickets it ordered for upcoming plays. The rest were mistakenly substituted with four cases of baseball tickets each con Taining about 16,000 Field and loge Box scat tickets Worth $40 apiece. We have enough world series tick ets for All of Santa Maria Rafello said before returning them saturday. I tried to Call the ticket company but they were closed and i thought of calling Shea stadium where the met play but they would be closed Loo the acts have clinched the National league East title but 41 ill must defeat the my West Champion in a bust of seven series to get into the world series. Simms leads giants past wingless raiders los Angeles a quarterback Phil Simms threw a pair of touchdown passes to wide receiver Lionel Manuel and the new York defense did the rest sunday As the giants downed the wingless los Angeles raiders 14-9. ,.,. The Victory before a crowd of 71,164 at the los Angeles coliseum in the raid ers Home opener was the second in a Row for the giants after a 31-28 nil season opening loss to Dallas. New York has Given up a local of Only 16 Points in ils two wins. The raiders 0-3, and off to their worst Start in 22 years got Field goals of 22 and 35 Yards from Chris Bahr on their first two possessions and a 33-Yard-Erby Bahr with 5 44 left in the game. Los Angeles was held without a touchdown for the second consecutive game. The first Simms to Manuel touch Down pass was an is yarder with 7 25 remaining in the third Quarter to Cap a 50-Yard, tour play March. Manuel juggled he Ball before making the reception in the los Angeles end  second Simms to Manuel to throw was an 11-Yardcr with 12 22 left in the game to Climax a 69-Yard, four play drive. Manuel made the catch after the Ball was deflected by los Angeles cornerback Mike Haynes in the raiders end zone. Los Angeles running Back Marcus Allen had his nil record Streak of Rush ing for 100 or More Yards come loaned. Allen had accomplished the feat in 11 straight games the final nine last season and the first two this year. Allen gained Only 40 Yards on 15 car Ries. He did t carry the Ball after suffer ing what was called a slight sprain of the Rij pit ankle with 5 32 remaining in the third Quarter. He appeared briefly in the fourth period. Simms finished with 18 completions in 30 attempts for 239 Yards. He was intercepted twice and sacked four times. Team mate Joe Morris was the game s leading rusher with 110 Yards on 18 carries. Quarterback Jim Flun Kell of the raid ers mating his first appearance in a regu Lar season game in nearly a year hit on 21of his 41 passes for 281 Yards without an interception. He was sacked three times