European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 b the stars and stripes sunday june 14, 1992 Moon rises to Lead All pro quarterbacks by Jim Murray you might say the raiders have about As much Chance of going to the super bowl As going to the Moon it would be like asking for the Moon is what it would be. Except that if they could get to the Moon they would get to the super bowl All right. So probably would the san Francisco 49ers, Chicago bears or even the Green Bay packers. But getting it would be a Moo shot. For a trip to this Moon you would fittingly go to Houston not Houston control Houston s oilers. Waren Moon is unarguably the Premier quarterback in the game today commentary Given the decline in the great state of Montana As in Goethe problems of John Elway and Dan Marino and the unravelling of Jim Kelly in super bowl xxiv. This Moon broke the All time single season completion record last season with 404. This Moon really glows. It seems hard to believe now but National football league franchises which would now Send company jets and suitcases full of Money for him could have had him for a phone Call in 1978. But Warren Moon was so certain he  be drafted he signed with the Canadian football league Edmonton. He had such Brilliant seasons there he led the eskimos to Grey cup Canadas super bowl victories five consecutive times before he moved South. It was not so much the since discredited notion a quarterback had to be Blue eyed and caucasian Quot it Wasny to that a Warren Moon disclaims. A Tampa Bay drafted Doug Williams no. 1 that same  it was the fact he played for the University of Washington which was a Ball control team. If the level of play in the nil was supposed to be a notch above the Cal you  prove it be the Moon glow Warren brought to Houston. He began instantly producing the same number of Yards completions and touchdowns in the nil As he had in the Cal. The pressure in the pro game is always greatest on the quarterback. Under an Barcelona olympics e system its his game to win or lose. But two years ago the new Houston coach Jack Pardee landed on the Moon with a new wrinkle a the run and shoot offence. This is an nil refinement invented by a coach named mouse Davis at Portland state in which instead of having two Burly running backs and tight end servicing your attack you go to four spindly shifty wide receivers. By and Large Warren Moon reveals these Are undersized but Tricky Little Fellows who try to be invisible and Streak downfield to unde Fensod positions at the snap of the Ball. The advantage is a kind of Blitzkrieg attack which forces the defense grud singly to lift two or More Bull sized Linc Ackers and replace them with a Pony Backfield of six or so mid sized defensive backs. A they go into a Semi zone station defenders with responsibility for sectors not people to take care of a Moon sex Lains. The Good news is you done to get Homicidal linebackers blitzing coming unblocked through seams in the line the quarterback. A but the bad news is you can to give the Ball off to a Marcus Allen 25 times a game. The run is not really a  to counteract the onslaught of the killer Bee wide receivers in this offence Moon notes a a lot of teams will let us Complete those Short passes and then tear up our Little receivers As they get the Ball. Nothing illegal but very  it can get so that catching the Ball seems inadvisable he acknowledges. The new York giants in super bowl xxv and the Washington redskins last season used this intimidating tactic on buffaloes Rucic Vars Moon notes. The run and shoot which is really the pass and shoot increases the time of Possession for the team when it has the Ball Moon Points out. A a running play uses up the clock but the clock is always stopped after an incomplete pass. We get off 72-74 plays a game versus 60 under the old  it takes the Trench warfare out of football. If anything can make the run and shoot work it will be the Light of the Moon. The in an Palm trims As Joe Montana Jim Kelly Dan Marino and John Elway struggle Warren eclipsed them. But Moon has yet to play in a super bowl. A Moon has instant scoring could Cut political judging by Hal Bock the associated press let the athletes at Barcelona take care of the higher and stronger parts of the olympic motto. New scoring technology in place for the first time at these games will take care of the faster part. Instant scoring signals an evolution from the dark Ages to a new Era in judging. Gymnastics judge Robert cow an thinks it will be a Welcome change a for everyone involved. Quot As recently As 12 years ago in Moscow scores were submitted on chits of paper Quot Cowan said. A the Public sat waiting to be informed for what seemed an  there will be no eternal Waits at Barcelona. Scores in All sports including subjective ones like gymnastics will be relayed instantaneously via hardware put in place by eds a Leader in the information technology Industry. A judge who hesitates w to tries to sit on his score will be shut out. Quot you a belter have your ducks in a Row a Cowan said. A it makes you More objective. You get your score in and in a Flash everybody knows it. If you hold Back on your score you re locked  there will be no time then for a judge to contemplate and mull Over a performance considering perhaps not Only flips but flags As Well. A this will Cut Down on the politics a Cowan said. A in the past when a score went in and there was some question about it if a conference was necessary it would occur minutes later. You had time to create a defense for your score. Now with every aspect Factor already on your screen there a no time to prepare a Case. You just score what you  in other words the system returns judging to the Basic gut instinct instant reaction which is where it was supposed to be All along. Tor the future eds will be enhancing the system. There is a plan to digitally Analyse the Best performances a a 10 in gymnastics a 10 in diving a 6.0 in figure skating a and superimpose silhouettes of them on computer screens Over current performances As a basis for measurement. That function could also be used by coaches As a training technique. For the moment the Keypad technology and its instantaneous relay capacity is the Centrepiece. A this system provides judges the Opportunity to Tocus More on the task of evaluating performance rather than on the logistical system of scoring a said Eliott Mendleson eds account manager in Barcelona. In gymnastics they can watch the form of an athlete push a Keypad number and come up with a unified score. A it does not remove the judges objectivity. It enhances it. Cowan for one is anxious to see it in action. A in basketball the Ball goes in the Hole one team wins one team loses and everybody knows about it immediately a he said. Now we in moving in that direction in our sport of it s going to Impact on judging. It will allow you to be More specific about How you arrive at your score. J and that arrival will be instant