European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 31,1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary thank Marcus for your seat in London the National football league hits London again auf. 9. The show is called the american bowl starring John Elway and Eric Dickerson. Or the Denver Broncos and los Angeles rams. Showtime is 6 . The theater is Wembley stadium. Or Abc if you re staying Home and if an carries the Lele Cul. If you re wading across the Channel to catch foot Ball plan on three penalties 1. Slaying wet in last year a Chicago Dallas game rain came Down As hard As a refrigerator sack. Your Only Hope is a domed stadium. Maybe after expansion. 2. No names. This is an exhibition. The broncs and rams might make the playoffs again but not of this game. So buy a program Tor when the rookies and free agent replace Karl Mecklenburg and Jim Everett before halftime. 3. Odd cheers. No your old High school us by you Ain t Gol no Alibi you ugly chant won t Cut  la be drowned out of a wave of brits singing Clever lines like Here we go Here we go Here we  on every other Down. But brighten up. You re mixing London and pro football a concoction possible for Only the fourth Lime. If Broncos Ranu plays anything like bean cowboys in which Chicago won 17-6, expect these Long taint 1. Loyalty. You Ever tee 80,000 . Tans at an exhibition half leave by the second Kickoff to beat the traffic. If 80.000 . Fans pack Wembley like they did last year they la sit through every Fumble. 2. Merest. So Elway sits and Gary Kubiak relieves. The nil comes to Europe Only once a year this crowd will keep cheering. 3. Airtime. The Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders turned Wembley on last year. I Hope it s the ram cheerleaders turn this Lime. When a group of nil players Voled Germany a few years ago gis asked them who were the finest cheerleaders. No question the Kami. It s easy to get into this american bowl. Buy a Bucko Fox bleary Ted Nomura Marco finishes his count. Ticket from an information Tours and travel office and drive to London. Or buy a package Deal that includes flight or bus. Tickets can still be had unlike last year when theban cowboys marquee wowed gis into Flash ticket buying. How itt offices got hold of these american bowl tickets leads loan army snorts official who doubles As an air Force football referee. His name a Norm Marcus. He s 49, from Peoria til. His tide is Usa eur s Deputy director Community and family support Agency. The office he sat in wednesday took up less space than his title twas pressed into the basement of a Campbell bar Racks building in Heidelberg. On july 9, Marcus flew Hal Coop for London. His Mission buy american bowl tickets for . Forces personnel in Europe. Not that this was Sleuth work not like last year when he mapped Security plans in Case of terrorist threats. But Marcus did Check into Trie Sherlock Holmes hotel then he slipped into the guts of Wembley to collect the 3,250 ick cts costing either $35 or $26.50 apiece for scots Between the 20-Yard lines. He counted every one. I was bleary eyed said Marcus. Marcus turned around and sold 500 to the Navy in London. Then dealt out 710 to the air Force in Ramstein. Then 2,000 to the army s major com mands on the continent. That s dedication to the military on the part of the nil said Marcus. This game is sold out be fore it s announced so when the nil Sells us 3,250 tickets they re taking 3,250 tickets away from some one  when the air Force asked for more., Marcus Goethe nil to Send 1 so tickets last week. Marcus worked in London with the nil s Bill Granholm who gave him the latest. Such As 1. Expect nil exhibitions in London and Gothen Burg Sweden in 1988, Hanks to huge Volvo Back ing. Said Marcus next year we Hope to offer tickets to both  2. Forjet Germany As a game site. Marcus said the army would support teams with transportation and practice Fields out Germany has no big interested sponsor. If there were a third game i d say it would be in France because they have the commercial inter est said Marcus. Marcus has the interest. But he can t make . Game. He s  football at Roncin main that Day. Walker predicts some surprises cowboys want to regain respect a 4101 he Tkac Walter ,. In training Camp Early by Denne h. Freeman thousand Oaks Calif. A Herschel Walker did t like what the new York giants did to him and the Dallas cowboys on nov. 2 last year. After the giants beat us they Gol very cocky Walker said. Now it s like peo ple Don t respect us Al  for hat reason. Walker said i Hope we get off to a fas Start. It s very important that we do because we have to re gain our Confidence and have to earn thai respect Back again. The giants took thai away from us. Dallas was on a 6-2 Roll including a season opening 31-28 Victory Over Newyork but both quarterback Danny while and Walker were Hurt in the ninth Earne 17-14 loss to the giants. While suffered a broken wrist and Walker pulled a hamstring and the cowboys never recovered sliding to a 1-7 finish. We just could t get it going again Walker said. I had ankle injuries to go with the hamstring and i was never Al full Speed  Walker arrived Al training Camp Early so could gel ready for this season. My wife told me logo on to Camp because i was killing myself around Home working out anyway Walker said. I be had a Busy  part of the off season program included the nil s fastest Man Competition in which Walker lost to Ron Brown. He surprised me Walker said. He said he is looking Forward to Start ing the season in the same Backfield with Tony Dorscht they did l Hook up until almost mid season last year. It will be great for us Walker said i feel Tike Tony and i can really jell together with a solid training Camp be Hind us i d like to see our passing game pickup also. I m not so Good thai i can t be  Walker said the cowboys move to Ward bigger offensive linemen has his Blessing. "1 love to see those big Guys out there he said. They can Uit Shadow Box and Tony and i can run by the de fenders. Those big Guys make you look  Walker rushed for 737 Yards and scored 12 touchdowns last year. He also set a club season record by catching 76 passes for s37 Yards. He made his nil debut by scoring two touchdowns against the giants. Well be Back Walker said. It s just a matter of getting our self respect Back. Nobody Wil expect much from the cowboys this year. They May gel a sur prise. The been playing a lot of Book fool Ball just looking Al our playbook with a lot of new wrinkles. I m ready for the real thing Sec sugar bowl sign new 3-year contract Birmingham Ala. A the Southeastern conference and the sugar bawl wednesday announced the signing of a contract to Send the Sec Cha Pionto the new Orleans event for Ai lean three More  contract covers the 1988. 1989 and 1990 new year s Day games an includes a provision for a review period after the 1939 game for consideration of Al least a one year Extension. The agreement includes a minimum guarantee provision thai is projected to be competitive with the amount paid by the Cotton Orange and fiesta bowls but sugar bowl officials declined loan ounce the  Sec and the sugar bowl entered into a lie in for the first time in 1977,and the payout has grown from just Over j900,000 Lor each participating team in 1977 to Ibe i2.55u.ooo paid each com after the 1987 game. The Sec Champion automatically qualifies for the Host berth. In the event of a tie for the Lille the sugar bowl will make inc final decision. The contract says that the sugar bowl will announce its decision in the event of title tic after All games that might have a bearing on the race have been played. Thu sugar bowl came in for some criticism in Louisiana last year when leu clinched at least a share of the title with Alabama still in position to share it. Since leu had Scalen Alabama it fans thought the invitation should have been Given before inc Crimson tide completed their conference slate later losing Itil in finale m Auburn. We believe that with some of the new features in this agreement inc Long association Between inc Southeastern con Ference and the sugar bowl will be strengthened to an even greater extent Sec commissioner Harvey Schiller said. The contract also Calls for an annual 150,000 Grant from the sugar bowl to the Conier Enre. We believe that with the Southeast Ern conference we have the nation s pre scr conference and. With the. Cooperation of aug to we urn Able to create a package which Wai Wiira Cirii to the 10members of the Sec Jerry e. Romig president Follic sugar his a. Said