European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday december 11, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary these picks Ore Fox locks Nof Luck you i gawk noticed in inc is staff College bowl prod Icli is i hat the Fox Fis is on. Guarantees All from by Over Virginia in the All american bowl to Oklahoma Over Miami in inc All Cheater bowl. Fox locks is what icy arc. And when the soon cars lock up the National championship you la nil tally recall that prediction in Liis space last August. How docs he do it you ask. How Dot s this dude who made a joke of himself by Pickin Gilic a aiders Over the bams in this season s super bowl How docs he show such Clairvoyance with these College games 1 can t hide the secret and More 11 runs in my family. Dun l laugh. My Grandin Olfier Ada Raffaelli picked the Kansas City royals 1o win in All in 1985. They did. Thai from a 92-year-old woman who could t Tell George Brett from Willie Wilson. Now 94, Ada is at it again. My dad writes from Pennsylvania thai when he asked for her super Boh pick she wanted to know what learns constituted the National football league and so slip was in formed by a droning elucidate or who storied in inc Northeast and followed a general geographical Pat Tern thus new England patriots. New York lets. New York giants Buffalo Bills that s it,1 cried can Nama Buffalo Bill. I saw him in Italy when t was 14 years old " Jim Kelly a pennsylvanian himself Musl be heard her. He has Buffalo in the Hunt for la first Lime since Bill Cody Quarter backed the wild West show. I must admit the Fox fix looked More like the Fon Ron three months ago. I slumped along at 16-24 through the first four weeks of the is College predictions. My managing editor offered you d do Bucky Fox belter if you flipped a Way i was Helling i did t have any coins left so my family Rode to the Rescue. In particular my wife Marii. It s i filing embarrassing she said. I concurred. Makiji do can studying the weekly Iii lamps with the to alous Ness of a Stock Market ticker Bine Groupie. She broke Down the 10 games scientifically five were gimmicks three borderline two what she labelled thinking Man s for instance in week h she saw five gimmicks Maryland Over Duke Michigan slate Over Illinois Iowa Over Purdue Rutgers Over army and notre Dame Over Southern Cal. She liked Arizona Over Washington state Jackson slate Over Grambling and Boston College Over West Virginia in the Bor Derline games. She said to with Long Beach so Etc Over san Diego state Uriel Stanford Over Oregon in the thinking Man s contests. Result 6-4. Marji revealed three preferences when facing Bor Derline games High powered offences big name schools and the team coming off an Idle weekend. Which explains her picking Penn slate Over West Virginia in week 9. The comeback was on. With Marii studying the matchup and me endorsing nearly All of her choices we averaged 7-3 Over the last 10 weeks. From .400 before Marji s cavalry charge the foxes galloped to .593 by season s end. We Rose from the Dank cellar to a tie for seventh place. From humiliation to gratification. Did we take this Ion seriously yes. And it Cost us. In week 6 we picked Michigan to heat Marji Alma mater Michigan state. Mss my. We re still wiping the eggnog off our faces. Well never show such disloyalty again. We re going with Michigan Kiaie Over Southern Cal in inc spartans will shake the big ten Jinx in the rib bowl i Don t know. Hut they will. Here s How we see the other bowl matchup by Over Virginia the cougars own the belter record. Urcla Over Florida the Bruins never gel bilk Dover Georgia Over Arkansas the a bulldogs rave us a crucial Victory Over Honda last month and we Don t forget. Arizona stale Over air Force this in t the academics year. Wyoming Over Iowa belter record. Leu Over South Carolina two Janusy bowl learns. At least the tigers have been bad in More bowls. Penn state Over Clemson Trust Joe i Alcerno. Florida state Over Nebraska explosive offence Over Tom Osborne. Texas am Over Nuiry Dame Tver since Helling on Ohio stale Owr notre Dame in the Irish s great cum Backer of 1935, my dad says never never never of against Dame. Sorry. Syracuse Over Auburn better record. Oklahoma Over Miami sticking to my preseason no. 1 and Faith in Barry Switz or Over Jimmy John son in the Money game. Now if Only those picks meant Money. Thi Slit and strtp4a bears to beat 49ers in veal super bowl Chicago s Jim Mcmahon should be culling signals in monday night s showdown. By Dave Goldberg a pwt Hall writer disregard what will happen Jan. 3 Insan . The real sep r Hitzl takes place Mon Day night in san Francisco where the bears meet the 49crs. In a year where there arc no real standout teams in the nil this is As close As they come. The 49ers arc favored by five the so called chm is spread developed when coach Bill Wash suggested a few years ago that the jut is were always favored by More than they should be be cause there Are a lot of chinese in san Francisco and truly like to what s at stake Here is simple. The bears Art playing not to return to candlestick for the pfc title game the 49ers Are playing to stay away from cold weather in the playoffs. With each team 10-2, the Winner probably will have the Home Field for the playoffs. What can happen Here ii that Joe Mon Tana and Jerry r ice with help from Dwight Clark and John Taylor can pick Chicago s suspect secondary apart. What can also happen is that the 49crs offensive line won t give Montana Lime to do it. Bears 2-1-20. Denver plus a i at Seattle Dan Reeves has been complaining for years about being scheduled into the King dome for the last game of the year. So he gets the third from the last. This is desperation time for the sea Hawks who have gone into one of their customary slides the last two weeks. They came out of ii about this time last year and John Elway is due for a bad game. In t he sea Hawks. .11-27. Buffalo plus 3 i at Indianapolis last week the Bills met to. This Lime it s Erie. It s also for survival. Nil Roundup Bills. 23-20. Dallas plus 9w it washing no did anyone think Here would come a a Mil when this game did t Mailer redskins 27-9. Raiders minus at san Dii in san die is playing i hi1 via it was supposed to Ai inc beginning of the Stasun Pitts Burgh is not. Is feelers. 27-20. Jets minus 3 i at new knt Lund will Vil in of their learns Hae enough healthy bodies to put on a game patriots. 17-16. Minnesota minus 3vi of Crit to Hay will the Vikings still be thinking about the bears not with a playoff spot to be , 17-13. Oulu Tuame Home team in taps Philadelphia minus i i 24. Miami 21. Cleveland minus to a Cincin Nati 19. Giants minus 2 / j 27, St. Louis 21. Rams minus 10 27. Atlanta 16. Tampa Bay minus s of 31, Detroit 21.lasi week 5-9 spread. 7-7 straight up. Season nun Minke game 60-6-j spread70-53-1 straight up
