European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Into 3rd Straig it bowl by Barry Wilner Miami apr through injuries and wild cards through historic comebacks and hostile Road games the Buffalo Bills never flinched. They persevered and now they re in their third straight super bowl. Maybe this time with a suddenly dominant defense  get it right and win the big one. The Bills won the right to try for their first nil title with a convincing 29-10 Victory Over the Miami dolphins in sunday s acc championship game. Quot its been a Long Road and a hard the men of this  Thurman Thomas the a Fly a total offence Leader the last four seasons showed Why with 96 Yards Rushing and 70 More on five receptions. Quarterback Jim Kelly Back after missing 2vi games with a knee injury had a 17-Yard to pass to Thomas. He Wasny to Sharp but his performance blunted any criticism of Levy for Starling him Over Frank Reich who led the Bills to their first two postseason victories. A i want to thank my teammates for hanging in there with me All week Quot Kelly said. Ken Davis had a 2-Yard to run and Steve Christie tied a postseason record with five Field goals from distances of 21, 33,21,31 and 38 Yards Buffalo s defense a virtually impenetrable since the third Quarter of the first playoff game a flustered pan Marino All Day. The Bills who have allowed just 16 Points since falling behind 35-3 in their playoff opener against Houston had four sacks As defensive stars Bruce Smith Darryl Talley and Cornelius Bennett were dominant. The dolphins winners of the acc East on the final Day of the season As Buffalo lost Hurt themselves with five turnovers. Seeking their first acc title since 1984, the dolphins could not come close to stopping their archrival from equating their feat of three successive super bowl appearances 1971-73. Buffalo 6-1 at Joe Robbie stadium became the fourth wild card team to make the Long trip to the big game. Only the 1980 Oakland raiders won the nil championship As a wild card. Lew stretched his hex Over Don Shula. The Dolphin coach is the second win ingest in nil history but he is 412 against Levy. Buffaloes dominance sunday was built buffaloes Thurman Thomas churns through a tackle by Miami a Stephen Braggs on sunday. A even though Smith has been hampered by a fractured rib. Smith had seven tackles Ivi sacks forced a Fumble on a sack and batted Down a pass. So did the Bills other end Phil Hansen who caught the Ball setting up a Field goal. The Bills were helped by Miami s offensive ineptitude. Marino was 22 for 45 for 268 Yards with eight drops by Dolphin receivers. The Only Miami touchdown was a 15-Yard pass to Mark duper with 7v6 minutes remaining. Miami a defense coming off a 310 Vic tory Oyer san Diego that seemed to stamp it As a major Force was run Over by the Bills. Buffalo had the Ball for 36 19 and 73 plays in securing a third straight postseason Victory for the first time. The other wins were the 41-38 decision Over Houston in which the Bills staged a record comeback from a 32-Point deficit and a 24-3 win at Pittsburgh their first of the Road in the playoffs since 1981, Christie a five Field goals tied a playoff record set by Chuck Nelson for Minnesota in 1987 and tied by Matt Bahr of the new York giants in 1990. The stars and stripes january 18,1993 Page 36 Foreman batters Roetzer Reno Nev. Up George Foreman methodically bloodied Pierre co Etzer a face put him Down twice and stopped him in the eighth round saturday night to keep alive his Hope of gaining another shot at the heavyweight title. Foreman 44, won the title 20 years ago this week with a stunning second round knockout of Joe Frazier. He lost a 12-round decision to then Champion evander Holyfield in april of 1991, and wants a shot at Champion Riddick Bowe or wac Champ Lennox Lewis. Foreman is under contract to fight Tommy Morrison a april. Morrison stopped Carl a the truth Williams in the eighth round of a wild co feature bout saturday night. Foreman of Houston barely used More than a heavy Jab during most of the fight to improve to 72-3 with 67 knockouts. Roetzer a 33-Vear-old South african dropped to 39-5. He was stopped in seven rounds by Bowe last july and in eight rounds by England a Frank Bruno in september. A wide left Hook put Roetzer Flat on his Back with 2 00 left in the fourth round. Roetzer Rose but Foreman rocked him with several rights then turned to ask referee Joe Cortez to Stop the fight. Cortez refused and Roetzer survived. Foreman reeled off five punches finished by a right that dropped Roetzer to his Knees Midway through the eighth round. Cortez finally stopped it at 1 48 of the round after Roetzer Rose and was sent reeling across the ring by Foreman head  prevails despite 64 from Jordan Chicago apr Michael Jordan scored an Aba season High 64 Points but the Chicago bulls needed More saturday night As they lost to the Orlando magic 128-124 in overtime. Jordan and Indiana a Reggie Miller held the previous season High with 57 Points Jordan whose career High is 69 Points made 27 of 49 Field goal attempts against the magic who also won at Boston on Friday night. With 1 07 left in overtime and the score tied 118-118, Nick Anderson hit the first of two free throws to put the magic ahead for Good then followed his miss on the second attempt with a Basket that made it 121-118.see Page 30 for other Aba games Scott Skiles scored 31 Points and Shaquille of Neal 29 for Orlando in the fourth Quarter the bulls led by 10 before Orlando rallied for a 105-105 tie with 1 59 left then forced the overtime on Anderson s 3-Pointer with 1.4 seconds remaining. A Jordan apparently put Chicago Back in control with six consecutive Points giving the bulls a 111-105 Lead with two free throws after being hammered to the floor by o Neal with 44 seconds left. But Andersons Layup with 37 seconds to go made it 111-107 and of Neal a Basket with 15 seconds left brought Orlando to 111-109, Bill Cartwright a free throw with six seconds remaining put Chicago in front 112-109 before Anderson s 3-Pomter forced overtime. The bulls outscored the magic 36-20 and Oishei them 70 percent to 35 percent in the third Quarter to take an Sa-78 Lead into the final 12 minutes. The first Quarter w As Vintage Jordan As he convened on 11 of 15 shots for 22 of the bulls 32 Points. The Marie then shot 71 percent in the second Quarter while the bails hit a dismal 29 percent to Trail 55-52 at the half