European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 18. 1998 the stars and stripes Pago 23 commentary Raff ing the radio with fan talk Welcome Back to fan talk your Chance to air it Oul on fan radio. We Haven t done this i three months. Musi be Short on commercials. So let s , Germany you re on the air. Him by. I m cutting about pro football. I can t believe you re nicking the oilers Over the eagles in the super bowl. Wruss mrs sin with your mind must be the sugar on my Cereal. You have a belter pick yeah the Sec Clurs. The who you re Lucky 1 Don t get mean like Pete Franklin at our sister station fan in Newyork. You know what he Calls the steel res Home town pills puke Spang Dahlum Germany you re live on fan radio. We re picking you up loud and Clear in the Eifel. Bui we Haw a problem. Our football coach kicked the Best rusher in Safe off the team. What gins what a mess. Spang Dahlum looked ready to win its first Continental sports conference football championship. Then just before the season kicked off your coach Dave Lockwood gave his Rushing Champion c. Boyd the Bool. The Best i can make of this is it s a War of Texas egos. That s what i think. And the sabers look horrible without him. They had no offence in their loss to Rhein main last week. What s going to happen my bet is Lockwood is too smart to keep Boyd in the Oul House. It s not like Boyd is some knife wielding maniac. He s a cop for crying Oul  biggest crime is talking Back. His biggest asset is As a running Back. Lockwood s biggest Job is bringing him Back. Bremer Haven Germany what s on your mind College football. Any upsets this week 1 like Michigan to Knock off Miami can you picture to slopping Miami s passing game no Way. In Case you re from the great Lake stale Here s a better Hunch Michigan stale Ove notre Dame. You must in joking. Thu lost to Rutgers last week. Nothing terrible about that Rutgers is a Good learn. So Are he spartans. Bacn Huuson Germany let s hear it from you. Co red sax All the Way. Baby. It makes me sick 10 admit it bul you re right. The sox arc Lough Hombres. You know what turned them around thai Margo Adams Alimony Suil against Wade Boggs. Once that suit hit the fan the sox started Hilling each other. A fighting team is a winning team. Bucky Fox Baum older. Germany you re live on fan talk. Holy cow let s talk about Kay Mercer. The bad dust Bear from Baum older is a scout Man. That s what i m Talkin about. He s winning the olympic Gold Alj right. With out the cubans there s no heavyweight Boxer in Mercer s class. The Only Guys who can Slop the three Lime u5areur Champion arc i Host com Mie officials. Here s a Call from Lakenheath England. How arc we coming through up there Clear As a Bell. It was great seeing that nil exhibition game Between Miami and san Francisco in London what was the game like in Sweden last month 1 did t go. But i caught his item in the new York Post during Vikings bears overseas exhibition swedish Model standing on sidelines casually removed lop to change into another. Or. Football Mike Dilka noticed i almost swallowed my whistle " Zarzgoza Spain you re live on fan talk hey did you hear about this Spanish basketball team Down Here trading for Mel turf in of the Utah a yeah. You belter Stock up on the Paella for that dude. Augsburg Germany what s on your mind army sports. I read about la Ruck Martin leaving his Job As via rear sports chief. Who s taking Over it s a Bailie Between three Guys who were usar eur sports assistants this decade Larry Parker who s now in Berlin Van Stokes who s at for Campbell by. And Jim Mattingly who s in Munich. H to do you think Wiltgen in Parker. He did a solid Job As in Crim sports chief the first half of 1986. Then his Boss Norm Marcus pushed Parker aside and brought in Martin. Parker Hail every High to be miffed so he booked Lober Lin. Then get this Marcus was miffed Over not getting the top Usa eur Community and family affairs Job so he left for . You know where Martin is heading  to work for Marcus Vincnza Italy you re on the air. Howdy. I m calling about these drag suspensions in the nil. T say kick the hums out. I say Knock some sense into the nil. Which it exactly what Richard Dent s lawyer did by Success fully contesting his drug suspension. The nil should t be allowed to Lesl Tor drugs. If players arc stupid enough to snort through the season that s their problem. Go ahead Wiesbaden. Hello. What s wrong with oar flyers in Csc foot Ball we beat Pitburg by 20. Then lose two. In Tell you what s wrong. Your commanders for got tradition when they changed your team s name from the Wiesbaden flyers to the Lindsay flyers. Ask them whal that a is doing on the flyers helmets. By bling in Germany it s your turn on fan talk. U to Sno. I Miami. Until ocl i. Thai s the Day my Missouri tigers invade the Orange bowl. They la gel within40 Points. Pollsters will be so shocked they la hurl inc hurricanes off the top spot. Tilburg Germany you re live. Finally got through. Man. Am 1 ticked off about Safe dropping All those sports last week. You re not alone. For those listeners who Haven t heard Safe axed the All Star football game boxing Power lifting skiing and rack and Field. Just like that whack. The Safe sports chief Dick Mullins. Blames Money. I guarantee this if Richard Pasco were still the iwo Star at 17lh air Force Headquarters Safe would t have dared kill the All Star game. That was his baby. Now he s gone and so is the All Star game after just one year. Top bad. It was due to replayed in Germany this year and in would pc drawn a big crowd. Especially if it Ivon wac Ivan played Here in Rit Birg. And what about Power idling that sport booming in the military. We have a running Back a Rcd die Miller. Waw did t come out this year be cause  yeah Freddie must be thrilled about u Safe s knife Job. I asked an army sports Guy Larry Parker in Berlin about the air Force ejections and he ripped the move. I la read whal he said that s horrible. Worse than horrible. You Don t eliminate just downgrade. That s my philosophy. Instead of sending two  Send one. Us too easy fan out to eliminate boxing Power lifting skiing and track on that Happy note we be run out of Lime. Later fan talkers. Colts no. 1 problem Lack of no. 1 s by Dave Goldberg a football writer the Colts Bob and Jimmy Iray seem to think that if Bobby Beathard can win super bowls in Washington without no. I draft picks so can they. There s one problem Bob and Jimmy Irsay Aren t Bobby Beathard. And like Beathard s Boss Jack Kent Cooke they re wilting to spend Money but they spend it selectively and often unwisely. Some examples Indianapolis would t pay Cornelius Bennett who will be a dominant linebacker for a decade. So they traded him and piles of draft picks for Erie Dickerson admittedly a great Back. But if Dickerson had committed two costly fumbles the Colts might now be 2-0 instead of 0-2. After giving Bennett to division rival Buffalo in the Dickerson Deal they gave up two no. Is for another linebacker Fredd Young. That leaves them without first round Nicksin 1988,1989and 1990. Then they signed Young to a five year 14 million contract close to what Ben Nett wanted after giving Duane Bickell an Alt Pio Caliper linebacker a new con tract for even More. Inconsistent zebras the cardinals Gene Stallings has a Gripe with Art Mcnally inc league s us ill notes per visor of officials. If nil officials have been More Liber Al in allowing pass inner Crenco and the have Why did they throw a questionable Flag against Reggie Phillips with 1 52 left in Phoenix loss to Dallas monday night costing the cards a Chance to gel the Ball Back and perhaps tie or win. Granted the Way the cards had been self destructing they probably would have either fumbled right Back lined up illegally or tried to have Al Greco run in a fake Field goal from 60 Yards out. It was a Laic Call stalling said. "1 looked at it a few limes on film. We had a Blitz on and in looked Tike inc Ball was thrown away by cowboys quarterback Sieve Pelluer. The defender had nothing to do with the receiver catching the Ball or not catching the Ball. The thing 1 objected 10 the most was the delay of the Call. If you re going to Call it Call it. In was crucial we Nad three timeouts left and it looked like we were going to get the Ball  in fact Stallings was being Nice. The nil through its Competition committee has officially loosened the pass interference rules this year allowing More Contact if both players seem to begging for the Ball. The committee Ironi Cally is headed by Tex Schramm the president of the cowboys who is All for the Rule. And in fact a lot of Calls that might have been made in the past have been overlooked. In the tint monday night game Mark Collins of the giants had a stranglehold on Washington s Gary Clark on one play and in went ignored. Strange statistics Cleveland which was Down to its third quarterback by the second Quarter of its second game has no touchdowns tend just three Field goals this year. Yel it s 1-1. Buffalo has scored just one touch Down yet it s 2-0. The raiders had just 158 net Offen Sive Yards Yel scored 35 Points against Houston. The problem was that they gave up 38. It where Are you the giants the defensive Scourge of the nil since 1984, Are last in inc pfc and next to last in the league on defense. Moreover the team whose regulars had t Given up More than 100 yams to a running Back for two years until slump Mitchell of the cards gained 111 against them in week 14 last year have Given up 100 to Timmy Smith and j10 a Craig in their first two games. They re also i2ih in the pfc and 2 1st in the league on offence. Yet they would be 2-0 but for the desperation Joe Montana Jerry Rice Hookup last sunday. And where s Reggie Reggie White who had 20vi sacks in ii games and was the nil s defensive player of the year in 1987, had just two tackles and no sacks in Philadelphia s 28 24 loss to Cincinnati last week. He was held in Check primarily by Joe Walter Journeyman four year tackle whose Only claim to Fame is a certain skill As a pats Blocker. So Boomer Esiason threw for 363 Yards against an Eagle secondary thai had five interceptions against Tampa Bay the week before. Another answer i buddy Ryan s blitzing "46" defense which the eagles used Only six times against the Mobile Siaion. White who had one sack against the bucs says he needs the help we have to Blitz More get linemen open gel to the quarterback. We got to concentrate More. While says we got the athletes and the strength and Power. We just have to do