European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday june 17, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary nil marches on eng Anco Sweden if you were hot witching the pistons and lakers sweat through the Silva Rome s 90 degrees tuesday night think of this football in july. Helmets suffocating Damp Heads. Shoulder pads smothering wet bodies. It s enough to make refrigerator Perry dip below 350 pounds. Or make you jump in a Pool. Start jumping because just As basketball is about to escape june s heat football Aims to join Europe s summer wave. Local football learns in Europe especially in Germany and England have been tackling the heal All Spring. Now eel ready for the National football league. Perry s Chicago dears Anthony Carter s Minnesota Vikings Joe Montana s san Francisco 49crs, Dan Marino s Miami dolphins. They re planning to hit Europe in the biggest inva Sion since Perry raided Hii ice Box. On july 31, Miami will play san Francisco in London. On aug. 14, Chicago will meet Minnesota in Gothenburg Sweden both Are exhibition games in keeping with this trend of big time football in Europe army will play Boston College in Dublin Ireland. The Dale is nov. 19, which promises cooler weather. At least this gives you a couple of options. If you want to catch this unprecedented Rush of serious football in Europe your local information Tours and travel office can set you up Wilh either a package Deal or a simple flight. If you Merer football from the confines of to land Abc will cover the London game lbs the Sweden showdown and esp the Dublin Duel. If you re Lucky an will carry the broadcasts to you. Bucky Fox with the Miami san Francisco game Only a month away the nil flew to London this week for a build up session. Among the league s drum rotters were two 49crs, Montana and running Back Roger Craig and one Dolphin running Back Troy Strad Ford. Montana will go against Marino in a game featuring the top ranked Active quarterbacks in the pfc and acc. Montana and Marino hold a total of 18 Alt time nil passing records. Them a boys grab the imagination of football fans. Which is one big reason he nil chose the 49crs and dolphins for this third edition of he american bowl. After the bears and cowboys packed 82.000 at Wembley in 1986, the rams and Broncos left about 10,000 scats empty in 1987, that 87 game also lost Money for Usa eur which bought 3,250 tickets and could t sell a Bunch. Be cause of that the army d in t buy any this year. The nil can t afford that kind of shrinkage with its London game. Commissioner Pete Rozelle said during his super bowl press conference thai eng land s to Market makes the american bowl crucial. The league wants capacity at Wembley and the Best Way to guarantee that is marquee teams. Montana who headlines the 49ers marquee said at the London press conference this week we gel a lot of fan mail and when you get it from different countries you become aware of the interest there. But i know that there is nothing like playing Here to really gauge the Montana won t need a hearing aide to gauge Lon Don s interest july 31. From the 6 . Kickoff until the final gun britons will wobble Wembley with Waves and songs. No Mailer that this is a Mere exhibition. No matter that Montana and Marino will Sil out the fourth Quarter. British fans know How to enjoy a football game As i hair pandemonium Al isted in the last two american bowls. It s easy to conceive football in London. Huge English speaking City. But Gothenburg Sweden of All the cities in Europe you d think Rome Paris and Frankfurt would follow London As nil exhibition possibilities. Vou d probably rate Gothen Burg of somewhere after Oslo. Why Gothenburg in a word Money. Volvo s Money. The car corporation headquarter Erl in Goth Enburg forked Over a bundle to draw the bears an Vikings to Scandinavia. How much Volvo in t say ing which is curious since this is the same outfit that boasts of sponsoring the $425,000 Tennis tournament in Straiten i. You have to figure Volvo enticed the nil with a few million Bucks. Thai should cover Perry s meal Money once the bears land in Sweden aug. 8. The Vikings land the next Day presumably on a Jet not a wooden ship. Kickoff for the aug. 14 game called the american football classic is 7 . The swedes Are ready. They Hope to fill the 51,000-scat Uulevi stadium. They la make a big Deal about Chicago and Gothenburg starting a sister City relationship in 1987. Did someone mention big Deal that would be the refrigerator whose 377 pounds infuriated bears coach Mike Ditka last month. Ditka was the fridge to lose 57 pounds. Perry can sweat some of that off playing summer football to Sim ind a trip Dantley shows his old touch As finals toughen Detroit Islah Thomas crashes after colliding with a s Myc Lul Thompson in game 3. By Howard Ulman Pontiac. Mich. Api Adrian Dan Ley remembers the old Days when drive in the Lane was no walk in the Park. Etwas an invitation to decapitation. Those Days arc gone bul Dantley whose game is built on rushes to the Bas Ket is still around. The Detroit Forward finds the path to the hoop still filled Wilh obstacles but less bruising. Bob Lanier he said wednesday re calling the hulking former Center for de troit and Milwaukee. I remember the first Lime i played him. And you like to go to the Hole you Ain l going to go to the Hole tonight. I la take your head off i went into the Lane and he took my head off. You Don t want to go in again bul the 6-foot-s Dantley now in his 2th Aba season and second with de troit after seven with Utah kept doing it and emerging in one piece. That style got him into i Ullh place on the All time Aba scoring list with 21,058 regular season the pistons 111-86 Victory Over the los Angeles lakers tuesday night tha evened the Aba championship scenes at 2-2, six of Dan Ley s seven baskets came on Hups. He also made 13 of 15 free throws and led All scorers Wilh 27 a pills. Gatling into the Lane is less punishing than it once was Dantley said. Magic Johnson coming Down the Lane Michael Jordan coming Down the Lane you re not going to see them gel fouled hard he said. You re not sup posed to do get to be friends with somebody and he comes Down the Lane you re not going to hit him Hal , however did in to his Friend Isiah Thomas tuesday night when inc series look on a More physical Lone. The pistons dished Oul forearms and elbows and the lakers vowed to respond in came 5 thursday night. You might see a step Back in Lime these next couple of games los Angeles Center Forward Mychal Thompson said. A photo pistons Forward Adrian Dantley. "1 have toy body protected Dan Ley s experience helps him handle the punishment he receives game after does t Wear me Down because when i do gel fouled. I have my body protected he said. I have my forearms up. I Sec Guys coming at me and i m protecting he Felt he did t get enough Prui Calion from the referees in the third game whence took jus two free throws bul thought he was fouled Many More times. You be got to live Wilh Hal Danl Ley said. You be got logo to the Basket so hard thai you be got to make the referee Call thai through his years in the league redeveloped moves Hal allow him to be effective inside against taller players. He said former new York Knick Bill Brad Ley who retired after the 1976-77 season was one of the last forwards he faced who was Shorter than he
