European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. January 30,1990 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports goal Rush 49ers strip mine Broncos 55 j 0 by Bill Dwyre los Angeles times new Orleans this Lime the. Denver Broncos said it would be differ ? Cut. And they were right. This Lime twas even worse. The san Francisco 49crs won their ? second consecutive super bowl in game no. Xxiv Here sunday before a crowd of 72,919, each of whom expected entertainment and i Sicad got a figurative  final score was 55-10. And it could have been worse. Denver fittingly Nick named the Orange crush went Flat for the third time in Lour years in this game. The Broncos have lost those games by a total score of 136-40. Never have so Many players from one team played so badly in front of so Many people. All this team needed was wrong Way  Montana passed for 3 super howl record five touchdowns and the 49crs. As expected were awesome. But Many of Montana s passes were completed to receivers who were open enough to be in a different Lime one. Even Montana in t that  slightly More than 10 minutes left in the game. Montana gave Way this backup. Sieve Young. By thai time Montana had completed 22 of 29 passes for 297 Yards and established All sorts of super bowl game and career records. Montana set career records for touch Down passes completions Yards passing attempts and Muf awards. In his four super bowls. Montana has completed 83 of 122 passes 68 percent for 1.142 Yards. He also completed a record 13 consecutive passes  icam. Now certain 10 be touted As the Best Ever in the nil broke Chi Cago s super bowl Point record. The bears beat new England. 46-10. In 1986. The 49crs. Who outscored their opponents in inc playoffs. 126-26. Led 27-3 at halftime. And the Only question that seemed to remain was just How embarrassing it would be for Denver this time. The beleaguered Broncos had already lost two super bowls in the 1980s, and each one was in the category of a drub Bing. They Are 0-4 in super bowls. The new York giants kicked them around. 39-20. In the 87 game Ihen the Washington redskins battered Ihm in the 88 game. 42-10. Super bowl stats records Page 22 Montana wins an map or the Ages Page 23 Are Montana 49ers, the Best Ever Page 23 Elway ponders what went wrong Page 26 so sunday s 27-3 halftime deficit rep resenting the second largest such spread in super bowl history since the redskins took a 35-10 margin into the locker room in 1988, was an All too familiar to cycling for Denver. While Montana was doing what Mon Tana docs Best passing for three touch Downs and knocking off some More of Terry Bradshaw s super bowl records John Elway. The Man who seems to be super Only when he is playing a game that does t carry that Label appeared to he in some kind of  finished the half with six completions in 20 attempts. His big gainer via the airways was a 2-Yard shovel pass in the Backfield to Bobby Humphrey which Humphrey turned into a 27-Yard gain. The Broncos eventually turned that into a 42 Yard Field goal by David  seemed to like that approach so Well that he tried three other shovel passes in inc half but those have always worked belter at Stanford where he played in College than Thev have in inc nil. At the half lie was i for 4 on shovel passes an unacceptable statistic even in Halo  finished with 10 completions in 26 attempts for 108 Yards two interceptions and he fumbled . While Elway was adding More negatives to his super bowl legend. Montana was calmly taking his learn to new  passed 20 Yards Over inc Middle to Jerry Rice for a 7-0 Lead and the first of Rice s super bowl record three receiving touchdowns. Then on a Roll out later in the first Quarter he passed to Brent Jones As the Lead grew to 14-3. In the second Quarter he used nearly seven minutes in a 14-play drive that resulted in a i Yard scoring run by Tom Rath  just for Good measure. Montana decided not to run out the clock with minute or so left in the half choosing in Scad to go for another score on second and on from inc Denver 38. Rice Cal Denver s Dennis Smith by Only 15 or 20 Yards and the 49ers sent inc Broncos into their locker room with a limited number of choices come Back out of Pride or slip quietly out the Back door and catch a plane before anybody  addition to shredding the Broncos see 49ers on Page 25 Jerry Rice beats Dennis Smith fair the first of his three and san Francisco s eight to s. A a fizzle overloaded Denver d by William n. Wallace new York times new Orleans John Elway s in ability to get the Denver Broncos pass ing offence going in the Early part of the super bowl on sunday put an unrealistic Burden on his defensive teammates. And Bobby Humphrey s Fumble in the first Quarter broke the game open for the 49crs. Elway s faults were crucial in the Opin Ion of Mike Lombard the pro personnel director for the Cleveland Browns who compiled a pc game scouting report of the Denver Broncos for the new York times. For the Broncos to win said Lorn Bardi they had to play Well in Ever part of the game. There was no allow Ance for mistakes because they had so Small a margin of error. Analysis and when Elway could t perform they had no  in the first half. Elway completed Only six of 20 pass attempts for 64 Yards. Twenty seven of those Yards came on a run by Humphrey after he caught a shovel pass from Elway behind the line of scrimmage. The Denver defense was a lot belter than the  Lombardi said. The defensive Guys played pretty Well in the beginning. At least they made the 49crs work hard to get i Host scores with Long  s reference was to the four san Francisco scoring drives in the first half of 66, 55,69 and 58 Yards. But those defenders were on the Fieldfare too Long and the 49crs just wore them Down. San Francisco had too Many weapons. The Broncos were out there dodging bullets. The knockout blow came when the score w As 20-3. With two minutes to go before the half Denver failed to get a first Down at their 37 and had to punt the Ball to inc 49crs. That was fatal. The 49crs Gol inc Ball Back Al mid Field and you just knew at least 1 knew they were going to score again. And of course they did on the Long pass to Jerry  Fumble by Denver s Humphrey came on first Down at the Broncos 48 Yard line after they Iliad kicked a Fiel goal to narrow the 49cr Lead to 7-3 and then had forced san Francisco to punt for the first time. That was a disaster said Jack Faulkner director of football operation for the los Angeles rams who compiled see analysis on Page 26