European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. December 30,1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 corny entry ouf of sync i Jeff need a big Broom they paraded into the locker room head Down once More losers one last time in this lost nil season. For Many new York jets it was the last Lime they would make this Long sad walk. Dul not Tor coach Joe Walton. Armed with owner Leon Hess Assurance that he would be Hack As conch next year Walton Rocs to work this week to sweep up inc jets mess. He will need a big Broom. The jets played the new York giants on sunday at Easi Rutherford n.j., in what might be called inc sad sack bowl or something worse if you were not a kind person. The giants won 20-7, playing with something vaguely resembling inc passion Hal car ried them to a super bowl championship a year ago. The acis merely played. On the jets first Possession icy faced fourth andean Inch and punted. The giants in the same Situa Tion later Well for the first Down and made in. Those two plays spoke volumes. Here were two learns with nothing to lose no game next week. Twas Lime to have a Lille fun in whal has no been a fun season for either. The jets chose Elose to Lac vast football he giants did not. Maybe the jets misfired fake Field goal on  from the 4 later Lold you Why they chose a More conservative route. Later both would miss Field goals and there would be inc requisite number of blunders the kind that pock marked their respective seasons. These Leasim finished Wilh identical 6-9 records Holh of of the playoffs Strealy on Merit. But Thow numbers arc n Little misleading. Giants coach Bill Parcells has some talented Young players replacement parts fur veterans who Nave broken Down. He can look Back on three Victo Ries in the task four Gomes. Walton Only has the big Broom and the memory of four straight losses in is season and five straight setbacks Al the end of last Scavon. December can be a depressing month around this learn the buzzword for the jets ii  Walton must have said in a dozen limn in sunday s postmortem. He said it for weeks but this Lime n had clout because the Man looking the evaluation knows hell be on the sidelines next season. Or. Hess has mid me 1 will he the coach no  he said. One of inc fun things about this Job is there will he a 198s. If s a great Challenge i link Forward to in the off Sacaton. "1 have been m this game for 31 years. There have been Good ones and bad ones. The Good ones Are Good and the had ones Are bad. We be got to make in Good  Good Luck. The jets Art a trim in disarray. They Are old in a number of key positions. Their sad Silva lion is evidenced by the fact thai they managed to place just one player wide receiver Al Timon. In inc i to bowl. A syst inc problem is their color scheme. The Playan Wear foot Green in their uniforms and Emer Ald Green Windbreak in. The coaches jackets Art Aqua Green. This is slightly Oul of synch much like i hair performance pm inc Field. The giants bad car seemed More a Case of  they were Hall Rcd in the opener by a fired up Chicago icam Ihnn lost to Dallas on Delait play of the game. Their strike replacement team lost Ihrck slur int and. Just like thai the super bowl champs were ft-5 and the season was Oul of their grasp. Perhaps nothing better symbolized inc giants year than whal happened at the end of sunday s game. Linebacker Ham Carson tried to capture a nil of the better times by buttling Parcells in gatorade the symbolic soaking that accompanied each Victory on inc March to inc super i kill. Predictably he missed. L p�49ers right on schedule Bill Walsh know whal it Laker  san Francisco api the a the san Francisco 49cr$ ran met Ihei Las three regular season opponents Indi Cates they re running right on schedule for a third super bowl title. Coach Bill Walsh does t operate Onhree year plans to just seems Hal Way after inc in team finished Al 13-2. The Best Mark in inc nil. We be been to the super bowl and know whal in  Walsh said after a 48-0 manhandling of the los Angel srams sunday night gave the 4ers won their first nil championship Afler posting the league s Best regu Lar season record 13-3, in 1981. Three Yean later a is-1 record made them Clear Cut favourites id win another till. And they 16m super in Lxix. Richer the Washington redskins or Minnesota Vikings teams inc 49crs did nol face in the regular season will be the opening playoff opponent his time vis Iling candlestick i Ark on Jan. 9 far Annec semifinal. I m nol concerned about who Well be playing Jusi thai we All realize what s Onich line right  said Ronnie loll one of inc Mcleran players Wilh a Chancel earn a third super bowl championship ring. The 1481 edition of the 49crs won Illast five regular season games inc 1984 team took a nine game Streak into the playoffs and this season ended Wilh a six game winning Streak All six victories were necessary to hold off the new or leans Saims who finished 12-3, for the . There was no break for us and it s the same Way now loll noted. If the 49ers win their playoff opener they la Hosl the pfc championship Jan. 17. The learn is 5-0 in Home playoff games under Walsh. Our objective was nol to gel on an of her plane said Mike Wilson another two Lime super bowl participant. Last season the 49crs won the pfc in rough by outscoring three Posl sea West title but had to open on the Road upon Gnu �2-26, trouncing Miami 38 they also closed there being blow out Ameson opponents 49-3 by inc eventual super howl Champi on new York giants. We re a lot healthier this year. Thai s the biggest difference nose tackle Michael Carter said after sunday Nigil s game. Quarterback Joe Montana who pulled 8 hamstring Early in inc dec. 14 Gam against Chicago returned to action in the rams game and threw i in touchdown passes in the second half. Sieve Voung. Who will Clurn to the backup Job in the playoffs had three to passes in the first Halfast the 49crs built a 27-0 Lead. "1 fell that i threw the Ball Well and was Able to move around Well Montana said. Montana finished the season As the nil s top ranked quarterback passing for 3, is4 Yards and a icam record 31touchdowns. Young contributed 10 to passes including nine in the final three games in about 10 quarters of playing Lime during inc season. The 49er? offence ranked no. 1 in the nil Wilh ils average of 399 Yards per game. The defensive unit also ranked no. I allowing 273 Yards per game and did not allow a touchdown Over the final 13 quarters of regular season play. Are the 49cre clearly the favo riles in inc super bowl picture Why nol said Rice. Hurtin hurricanes trying to hold that line Miami a the left tackle Wasim Pended after testing positive for an Mcaa banned substance and his Back up is the starter. The right tackle has a knee injury the right guard is inc right tackle and the backup Center is inc right guard. Thai s inc Good news for the Miami hurricanes  team adversity. The offensive line is an area that we re thin Al anyway coach Jimmy Johnson said after the second ranked hurricanes received another crippling blow sunday. Mall pal Chan a 276-Pound senior Lackly and the team s Busl Blocker suffered a sprained left knee during a passing Drill Hal threat cons 10 keep him out of Friday s National championship Orange bowl with no. 1 Oklahoma. The bad news is that if anyone else goes Down Johnson an offensive guard during his playing Days Al Arkansas May have to suit  re not a deep football team really Al any position but the offensive line is one of the  areas because we re shirted the entire freshman Tine Johnson said. If we go to a backup now we re going to a player hat really has t played ii year. And if it s a physical ballgame we re going to need some  depth hoho. To. And that s nol a leftover from Santa  second learn Center Bobby Gar Cia is starting at guard backup left Lackne Gary Mahon will Back up Dar Ren Bruce who became the starter when John o Neill was suspended and Bruce will Back up Scott prov in who move from right guard to right tackle John son said. Provin missed sunday s workout with a stomach  Barry Panfil will Back up both guards and Garcia will still Back up Cen Ter Rod Holder even though he s now a Starling guard Johnson added. Right now we be got about six healthy offensive linemen Tolar for the. Baj Idamc Wilh i rec new Star tors when you consider that Provin will be starting Al tackle for the first Lime this year. The Only backups Hal were getting any action were Bruce Panfil and Gar Cia and now two of Ihm Are Star tors to fill Oul the second team line. John son promoted tackle Bill Schwac for and guard Sieve Rosinski whose 1987 action has been limited to inc Field goal unit. The Only regular linemen who apparently will Start Al their Normal positions Are sophomores Mike Sullivan at left guard and Holder Al Center. Patchan s injury was anything but a Happy birthday present for offensive lint coach Tony Wise who was supposed to Lurn 36 tuesday but May have aged rapidly in the last few Days. Last thursday Miami lost o Neill and Star linebacker George Mira  inc drug la six which helps rid the body of excess fluids showed up in urine specimens they provided As pan of inc Mcaa s pre bowl testing program. Mira s lawyer obtained a temporary restraining order permitting him to prac Tice but Johnson said he and Mira agreed it would be better if the linebacker worked out on his own pending fur ther court action. The loss of Mira Miami s career Leader with 490 tackles has forced some changes in the Lin backing corps. Soph Omore Bernard Clark who started two games this season will replace Mira in the Middle of m Iam i s 4-3 defense