European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 16, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 25commentary an slips on delayed game move in a really angry and worried about the beating live sports coverage has taken under the new commander of an col Zack Fowler. During the persian Gulf War the same satellite that let us see live stateside games showed us iraqi tanks getting blown up on the front lines. Yet Fowler decided that the spouses and families left behind would be better served with something he called family programming sports Isnit family programming and sports fans would have to make do with delayed games. Of. Fine. I can put up with this until the end of the War. A a. A a a a a a a. / a a a a a a we get a cease fire after kicking Saddam a Bitt. The troops Start heading Home. And on sunday night an to shows the big East Atlantic coast conference and big eight championship games a All delayed. And the pairings show for the Mcaa tournament did no to make it at All. Three straight taped games Here those championship games were delayed two hours apiece so we could see the 1980 movie classic a stir crazy with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Take a Bow  was like the in Ltd of an Era. It was the first time in my three years Here that i saw three Back to Back delayed games. This was in Stark contrast to the 1990 nil season when wed routinely get three straight live games sunday evenings and Early monday mornings. What a going on Here i talked to Fowler on monday and he promised that since pro and College football have the highest viewer ratings on recent marketing surveys we will get a Jot of live football games this fall. But not All. Live a. A a a a. A. A a a ,7 a a. A a a a football has topped baseball and basketball on recent stateside surveys a Fowler said. A a we found most sports fans will watch  Fowler said Well still get the major championships live like the1 super bowl world series Mcaa final four Aba finals and Stanley cup finals. And Well still get some live games overnight. But live games in prime time Are a thing of the past. Anti sports families and non sports lovers have a new Champion. Between now and the nil season anything else in prime time a including baseball Mcaa tournament wait Morrissette games and the world league of american football a will most Likely be shown delayed. A a you la get less live sports a Fowler said a but you la get More games. Before i came when a game came in live they had to decide if they were going to show it. And if they did no to show it live More often than not they did no to show it at All. A on tape delay sports fans will see the games two to three hours later but  see All the games we get from arts in los Angeles. A it s not going to satisfy the sports fans who want to see Wall to Wall live but we have to keep a balance whenever possible. Well try to offer something in prime time before 9 . For family members basically movies. Then Well show sports after  in Fowler a new system less live is More delayed games. A a v a a a a a a a a. 1 a. A a a a a a a you just have to play the game a hear no scores see no scores speak no scores. Its a lot easier to keep readers and viewers in the a dark. A a a. A / a a a a a a. A you a think at least we can get live games on the radio right a wrong.  a a a a. A. A. A a a a Fowler has also Cut Back on sports on an radio. He used an a during the nil season lopping off a couple of sunday night and monday night games. He a using a Buzz saw now whacking off two first round Mcaa games. A Why to keep the blinders on. A when i ran the network in Korea a Fowler said a the listeners hated radio spilling the Beans on a tape delayed game on  did no the know that Over Here sports fans listen to games religiously on an radio a because its the Only other Way we can get stateside sports besides on an to a surveys done to support what you re saying a Fowler said a one problem with sports on the radio is when the overnight games spilled Over past 5 . We had complaints from viewers who woke up wanting to hear weather information a especially during the Winter we just had. They were complaining that sports from far away was pre Empting their local information.�?�. Fowler says he a in a no win situation. A a it a like trying to put 10 pounds in a 3-Pound bag. There Are a lot of people in out audience who done to care much about sports so we have to take their feelings into consideration too. I know we re going to anger a lot More sports fans than we satisfy but that a the Way it  As a lifelong sports fan and trivia Buff on football baseball and basketball anyway in a White hot angry amazed and confused. Why is he using �?T90s technology with Early 80s-style programming methods Down in Italy she has the sense to run every game live. After talking to Fowler i went through a tremendous or. Jekyll and or. Hyde mood swing. My or. Hyde said a you mean i can to watch live sports on an anymore because some 0-6 wants to play a tape games and hide the score the Way he did in Korea i did no to know they did anything in Germany the Way they do it in Korea. A Why arc we paying so Many millions of taxpayers dollars for arts to Send us live stuff from l a. By satellite just so Fowler a Guys can tape it a a that a it. Its time to go Back to the land of Wal Mart 24-hour grocery stores and slow traffic and big cars on the interstate. Back to a place where i can watch Wall to Wall live sports every night on esp mag lbs Abc Abc win int sports Channel etc., without military  or. Jekyll kicked in and said a get a life Walt. Its not that bad. You can see some basketball baseball football and hockey games live on the dish from scr Cusport and eur sport. Besides if your baseball withdrawal symptoms get too bad you can always Fly to l a. And catch a dodger  As for our unlucky troopers who depend on an As their sole source for televised sports. Just a count your Days to Deros baby a As Dick Vitale might have said it. The live party is Over. Fowler has set live programming Back 10 years. Ted Turner he ainu to. Turner had the original superstition with his Tbs because of its live sports via satellite. Now we have an stealing the sup Costa Tion Hajne without delivering the goods sup station an has sunk into a stupor station a the stars and ship a Galaxy pounds through scrimmages amps Ken George Mike Perez in tuesdays practice. 2 to passes Friday by Walt Morrissette staff writer Frankfurt Germany the Frankfurt Galaxy flexed its offensive Muscles against its 46 defense Friday in its first inter squad scrimmage. With the world league of american football opener a week away the offence ran 70 straight plays against the defense in the 90-minute scrimmage. Each series started at the 50, and the series ran until the offence scored or until the defense forced a turnover. Mike Perez the Galaxy a starting quarterback played three series and 25 plays total. In his first series he led a nine play scoring drive highlighted by a 30-Yard play action pass to Alvin Lee and culminating with a 5-Yard to pass to Alvin Lee. A. The defense pummelled the offence on the second series to hold it on Downs. The third series was an 11-play drive three runs eight passes in which Perez hit Tony Jeffery with an 11-Yard scoring strike. A your offence has made Progress a said head coach Jack Elway a a it a coming together As a unit. A Perez is a Good one. Tony Baker is the slashing Type of runner we expected. Larry Jackson a tailback fullback was very physical. A. A the defense did no to get a Quick Start but they came on. They did what we expected them to make the big plays. Our defense is Way ahead of the offence but that a Normal. We have a big play defense. They re very physical. We re going to be Good on  the defense got stronger As the offence wore Down. A we ran right at them for 70 plays a said quarterbacks and running backs coach Joe Burke a the offensive line did a super Job in the first half and they had a Good second half when backup quarterback Sam Garza threw two interceptions. But we were working Perez so much that by that time they were teeing off on  Tim Broady the Galaxy Stop pick in the defensive backs draft from Murray state was the defensive standout. He picked off two passes one from Garza and one from Alex Espinoza. A we were shuttling Guys in and out a said defensive backs coach Kevin Clark. A there were some Guys we wanted to get a look at. There Are going to be some cuts , a the Guys took  the Chance to  two major challenges stand out As Elway prepares for the Galaxy a Home opener against the London monarchs next saturday night. Hell have to trim from 50 players Down to the 40-Man limit Over the weekend and have starting lineups by midweek. A i had to Cut 22 Guys in Florida a Elway said a that was Tough. But they took it like men and thanked me for the Chance to play. Ill have to Cut 10 Here next week. Well look at a lot of  and hell have to get the offence moving at two minute Speed. A a we la Start picking up the Tempo this week a Elway said. A the Tempo is real slow now with a lot of instruction and answering questions Between plays. That will have to  you might not recognize a lot of the Galaxy players. Elway said the Galaxy bypassed a lot of name players in the draft a like Paul Palmer to draft Baker a after checking into their histories a we really went into their backgrounds a Elway said. A we have charac Ter Guys. Guys with a work ethic. They work to win they be been a pleasure to be with. A Palmer was one dimensional As a runner at the Combine in Orlando a a Elway said. A at times he was Good at other times he was not so great. He would run but he  do anything else like Block or catch passes. Plus he had problems off the Field. He consistently had problems being where he was supposed to be. A Baker is Good and fast sometimes he gives too Many moves but we like