European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lunday february 7,1993 sports Bills Flavoured acc the stars  stripes b Page 25 Steve Young. Starts for pfc Troy Aikman. Seeking More glory by Ken Peters Honolulu a following what has become an annual embarrassment by its super bowl teams the acc tries to close the books on the season sunday with a pro bowl win against the pfc. The acc All stars at least have fared better than the conference s super bowl representatives in recent years pfc teams have won the league s title game nine years in a Row but its All stars merely have won three of the last four pro bowl games. The pfc owns a 13-9 Edgein the series. Of course you would rather win the super bowl but if you Don to you at least want to win this one said Buffalo s Steve Tasker a special teams player for the cafe. The american conference squad has a definite Bills flavor. Eleven Buffalo play ers were scheduled to appear in the pro bowl although quarterback Jim Kelly running Back Thurman Thomas  tackle will Wolford won t be Able to play because they were injured in last Sun Day s 52-17 super bowl loss to Dallas. With eight players in the game Buffalo has More representatives than any team other than Houston which has nine. The cowboys meanwhile have six players on the pfc squad topped Only by the san Francisco 49ers with seven. The Dallas contingent is led by quarterback Troy Aikman the super bowl map Emmitt Smith who rushed for 108 Yards in that game  wide receiver Michael Irvin who had six catches for 114 Yards sad two touchdowns. Other Cowboy All stars arc tight end Jay Novacek  Center Mark Stepnoski  guard Nate Newton the first Dallas offensive linemen to play in the pro bowl in 11 years. Noticeably absent Are any players from the cowboys defense statistically the nil s Best this season  a unit that forced a super bowl record nine turnovers by Buffalo. They All play with such a sense of urgency  they re so in synch i think it May be hard to single out individual play ers on the Dallas defense theorized pro bowl pfc coach George Scifert of the 49ers. The pfc s defense is led by end Reg Gie White who will be a free agent  May or May not be Back with the Phila Delphia eagles next season the new or leans saints line backing Trio of Pat Swilling Rickey Jackson  Sam Mills Atlanta cornerback Deion Sanders  Phoenix safety Tim Mcdonald. The game will be the Swan song of Mike singltary the retiring Chicago bears linebacker who has played in 10 consecutive pro bowls tying Lawrence Taylor s record. Offensively san Francisco s Steve Young who led the league s passing rat ing at 107, will Start for the pfc with Aikman  Brett Favre of Green Bay sharing the duty. Detroit s Barry Sanders will join Smith As the starters at running Back. The acc coached by Don Shula will have the dolphins Dan Marino open at quarterback with Houston s Warren Moon  Pittsburgh s Neil o Donnil a replacement for Kelly the backups. Although he can t play because of a knee injury Kelly still decided to come to Hawaii for the game. Kelly who threw a late touchdown pass for the acc the last time the conference won the pro bowl 23-21 two years ago will have a quite Dif Ferent assignment this time handing out the punt pass  kick awards to youngsters. Barry Foster of the St Clurs  Lorenzo White of Cincinnati arc scheduled to Start at running Back for the acc with the wide receiver corps including Anthony Miller of san Diego  Hay Wood Jeffires of Houston. The acc defense will be led by san Diego linebacker Junior scan who along with the pfc s Smith  Young were the Only unanimous choices in the pro bowl voting by the league s players  coaches. Also on the acc defense arc Buffalo end Bruce Smith Seattle tackle Cortez Kennedy  linebackers Derrick Thom As of Kansas City  Bryan Cox of Miami. Mike singltary. Ending Brilliant career Dion Sanders. Key defender reality replaces ticker tape in Atlanta Atlanta apr the bid to  Golf to the at Lanta olympics ended in humiliation the pockets of corporate sponsors Aren t so deep  labor leaders Are loudly insisting that the games Wear the Union Label. For the organizers of the 1996 games who not Long ago revealed in a ticker tape Parade reality has set in. The Atlanta committee for the olympic games is faced with a number of problems some of them financial that Are making the Days of parades  parties seem As Remote As the ancient Competition Atlanta s Centennial games will be commemorating. The change from Candi Date to organizer is pretty what zit enormous said Richard Pound of Montreal a member of the International olympic committee. The problem for Atlanta is the whole thing is Rev Enue Donven. You can Only spend what you raise  if you can t raise it you have these anxiety  the top planners of the Atlanta games maintain their olympics will be the Best  that they will be profitable. As far As we can see. We re still operating on a steady course said . Frazier chief operating officer for the Atlanta committee for the olympic games. The latest budget for the games envisions a slim $16 million profit excluding $100 Mil lion in expected surplus that will be placed in a contingency fund. The original budget for the Atlanta olympics projected a $157 million profit. We have to be very careful. We have to manage the precious resources we arc Able to secure  raise in the private sector said cog president Billy Payne. One glaring problem has been the slow Progress in signing . Corporate sponsors. Officials have signed Only four of 12 corporations counted on As olympic partners for about $40 million apiece. Cog says the problem is one of Complex negotiations for sponsorships not reluctance among potential sponsors. But others say the Cost of sponsor ing the Atlanta games is simply too expensive especially in a weak Economy. You re getting Price resistance. It s a big Bill said Georgia state University economist Donald Ratajczak. In the past you d say of yeah sure go touch ism for $40 million " Ratajczak said. It s not a Good time to hit  a complication is the availability at a Standard Price of a worldwide sponsorship package offered by the Ioc. And the City of Atlanta is pushing for $3 million a Deal whereby companies can Market their goods As official products of the City. Atlanta s olympic worries extend beyond the bal Ance Sheet. Cog had to take the embarrassing step last week of withdrawing its bid to make Golf an olympic sport for the first time since 1904. Wish great fanfare cog announced last fall it would stage Golf at the Augusta National Golf club site of the masters tournament. 13ut some Ioc members objected to adding any More sports to the games  opposition built be cause Augusta National has Only one Black member  no women. Finally cog folded its tent. Even Payne usually Able to find a Silver lining in any olympic Cloud admitted sadness Over the Golf episode. Cog also is engaged in slow moving negotiations Over the details of the proposed .85,000-scat olympic stadium. Local governments  the Atlanta braves who will occupy the stadium after the games have raised objections. Organized labor has loudly protested  threat ened More demonstrations Over cog s refusal to use Only Union workers for venue construction. And wha Lizit the squiggly Blue Mascot of the at Lanta games still draws snickers even though cog says souvenirs featuring the creature arc sell ing Well. A major question looming for cog is television rights which at $549.2 million account  the single largest chunk of the games $1.47 billion budgeted revenues. The recent $250 million contract for european to rights nearly tripled what was paid for the 1992 bar Celona games but negotiations for . To rights stand to be stickier. . To rights which sold for $401 million in bar Celona will be negotiated amid increasing network trepidation for fat sports deals. And the widely Dis cussed concept of spreading olympic coverage among a network  several Cable channels is largely uncharted territory. Whether the complications from the Selling Side of doing that would be offset by added Revenue remains to be seen Pound said. Abc s excursion into olym pics Cable the ballyhooed pay per View triple cast for the Barcelona games was a Money losing fiasco