European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday. January 17, 1990 Broncos eyeing fast Start to end super bowl Jinx Denver Couch Dan Reeves is changing the routine by installing his game plan Early. Bijou Mossman Denver a hoping to have 1.000-Yard rusher Bobby Humphrey healthy by next week. Inc Denver Bron cos coaching staff began devising a game plan that they la install earlier than usual in an Effort to end their super bowl frustrations. The Broncos listed As 1 i Point underdogs to the san Francisco 49ers. Went through Light individual workouts an meetings on monday. Work began the Day after Denver Defeated Cleveland 37 21 in the acc championship game. Coach Dan Reeves gave his players tuesday and wednesday off. Scheduling practices for thursday. Friday and sat urday. The team will depart sunday for new Orleans where the game will be played Jan. 28 in the super Doc. The Broncos Are 0-3 in super bowls just one loss shy of the Minnesota Vikings record for futility. By contrast. Pfc Champion san Francisco is 3-0 and one Victory Short of Pittsburgh s record for super bowl victories. Reeves believes any change in routine from past super bowl trips can t Hurt. He admits to calling everybody 1 know to try to find out what it takes to win this  one change will be implementing the game plan this week in Denver. Well Start working on our game plan right away instead of wailing until we get Down there quarterback John Elway said monday. It s such a zoo once you get to the super  Haven t been successful leaving on monday for the super bowl so this year we re going to leave on  said of another change. Tight end pal Kelly who started in place of the injured Clarence Kay against Cleveland won t Pla in the super howl after injuring his right knee. Trainer Steve Antonopulos said Kelly appears Mohave suffered a torn Anterior cruciate ligament. Arthroscopic surgery was to be performed monday to determine the extent of damage. Humphrey sidelined in inc second Quarter sunday Afler sustaining two in cracked ribs Felt a Little but scr Mon Day. Antonopulos said. Hell avoid con tact this week. We Hope he progresses nowhere he s capable of playing. It s too Early to Tell right  if Humphrey is Able to play Antono Pulos said the Broncos would have a Spe Cial pad made extending his shoulder pads in cover the area of the injury which is High in the rib Cage. Humphrey caught a helmet just above his rib pads and below his shoulder pads. He had his Arm up. And it was a perfect hit right Between the shoulder and rib pads the Trainer said. Antonopulos said players react differently to cracked ribs. Elway had a cracked rib during the regular season but it did t even faze him As far As being Able to practice or  Kay s pulled thigh muscle meanwhile continues to improve and Antonopulos said he was optimistic Kay will be full go when he feels capable. He could have played yesterday if the need had  Reeves again praised the play of Elway on sunday. That s the Best i be seen him play and i be seen him play some great  Reeves said. Every Lime Cleve land tried to close the Gap John would t let  passed for 385 Yards and three touchdowns repeatedly scrambling or rolling out to avoid the Blitz repeatedly frustrating the Browns with the big play. We re looking Forward to our next Challenge which after looking at the other game yesterday is a big  said. San Francisco is an Awe some team. We Cali a we be got to be perfect to have a Chanee against them. These Guys have won three championships already. It s going to be a big thrill for our Guys to play against people like Joe Montana and Jerry Rice. You can t gel into a scoring contest with them. If we gel into a High scoring game with them it will be a disadvantage to us. The rams beat them when they Kepi the score Low. We beat them last year 16-13 by keeping the score  contest from Page 1 ing for that last touchdown. I kept saying to myself. Score seven score seven. Don t kick a Field  notre Dame did score seven with full Back Anthony Johnson getting the to with 1 32 left in the game to beat top ranked Colorado 21-6. When notre Dame scored i went in and woke up my wife Carolyn and told her i though i had won. And we might be going to the super  when in became official this week so Nier kept his word. He said he plans to Lake Carolyn and 6-Monlh-old son Mau Rice with him to new Orleans and then visit his family in Houston after the game. Carolyn is from Nashville Tenn. The sonics two other sons. Mike jr., 4, and Marcus 3, will stay with friends of the family in . While the final notre Dame touch Down made a Winner out of one Man from kaisers Lauvern it took the Ponze away from another. Ken Devries who is stationed at Kapaun air station near . Predicted 20 Points for the Orange bowl. The touchdown dropped him from first to eighth place according to final tabulations by a Crew of stripes contest workers. Here is How the contestants who did not have a miss in the 12 games thai made up the Competition finished with tiebreaker predictions for the Orange bowl total of 27 Points scored. Sugar bowl 58 scored and Rose bowl 27 scored 1. Mike sonic Kaiserslautern West Germany 27, 37, 21. 2. John Thompson Iraklion air Sta Tion. Crete. Greece 28, 45, 56. 3. Thompson 30, 40. 50. 4. Tic Willie Mecks Wurzburg. West Germany 30, 30, 30 Meeks 30. 30, 30 Mecks submitted two identical entries. 6. Meeks 30, 30, 40. 7. Wallace Wright. . 31, 52,37. 8. Ken Duvries Kapaun air station. West Germany 20, 28, 12. 9. Josh Skaggs Gic Ssan West Ger Many 35, 60, so 10. Keith Osborn Sembach a West Germany 35, 34, 44. 11. Terry Driscoll Elemis Greece 37, 50, 30. 12. Karen Molcan Augsburg West Germany 37, 42. 29. 13. Basil Trouton Frankfurt West Germany 38,49,47. 14. Henry Hepnir Hess Isch Olden Dorf West Germany 38, 45, 31. 15. Paul Portnor Sembach a West Germany. 38, 27, 41. 16. Mecks 40,40. 60. 17. Michael Riley. Vai Hingen West Germany 41, 46, 318. Hepnir 41.45. 34. 19. Ron Houston. Giessen. West Ger Many 42, 45, 48. 20. Craig Henry Wiesbaden a Ger Many 43, 46, 57. 21. Victor Salazar. Berlin. 44.46. 58. 22. Jose Olazagasti and William Grask. Nurnberg. West Germany 44, 46.65. 23. Beth ring. Mainz West Germany. 44. 38. 35. 24. Jeffrey Vanlake. Buchol. West Germany 45, 56, 35. 25. Chris Buscema Rhein main a West Germany. 45, 30, 45. 26. William Hammer and Greg Marx Fried Borg West Germany 48, 41, 38. 27. Jack Sondag Kalterbach West Germany 48, 36,40. 28. Brian Allen Kirch Gons West Germany 51,54, 34. 29. Kevin Belmont Aviano Italy 51, 45,42. 30. Eddie Davis Firth West Ger Many. 52. 44. 32. 31. Jeffrey Holman Kirch Gons West Germany 57,48,49. Sonic s winning entry was Post marked dec. 18 and was one of Only six entries he submitted during the 10 Day the contest form ran in stripes. Hammer and Marx who finished 26th with one no miss entry sent a letter an picture is dec. 30 in a Box with 1.122 entries. We again apologize for the condition and smell of some of our entries they wrote. We went for the gusto. We bought papers begged for papers made up entries and. Of course dug those dumpsters harder than Ever. No bags of Kitty litter were going to Stop us. We pushed those bags of smelly diapers aside and grabbed those papers stripes contest workers Joann Vasqucz. Shawna Scantland Jan Jen Kins Cheryl la Valley Angela Jones and Pam Hill never complained except for a few cases of hand cramps near int end of two weeks of making Check Marks on the contest ballots. Each of the 90,000 entries was cheeked twice each time by a different worker