European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 32 the stars and stripes sports thursday january 27,1994 these 300-Pounders make champs of past look puny a it Terr to 2s. Quotes from Atlanta by United press International what was said at the super bowl tues is just another game. It May be a big game to some people but it s just regular game to me because i already won Dallas defensive end Charles Haley who beat his former teammates from san Francisco in Las sunday s pfc championship game. Emmitt Smith Emmitt Smith pm Mitt Smith. The Best running Back. A great running Dallas safety Mark Washington when asked to name the single most important Factor in Mak ing the cowboys successful. If i retire tomorrow and not have won a super bowl i be fulfilled All my dreams. But of course the ultimate is to win the super Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly. There is a lot of great Talent on this team. A lot of these Guys Don t realize How really Good we could Dallas defensive Back Bill Bates who is in i sloth season with the cowboys. We re too close to the super bowl to doubt ourselves. It would be like going to the Moon and on the Way having Buffalo linebacker Cornelius Bennett. By Steve Wilstein Atlanta a the Gap betwee football linemen and sumo wrestlers blurs with every super bowl fearsome fatsos bullying up to the Ball making champions of the past appear puny. The Way it s going the super bowl inthe year 2000 will have 2,000 pounds of linemen on the Hoof each Side of scrim Mage. Big Guys at 400 pounds. Really big Guys at 450. And the 500-Pound Barrier it s just a matter of time biotechnology nutrition training and Shah steroids. And the no. 1 draft pick is Bubba balloon 6-foot-5, 512-Pound guard with 4.8-second Speed in the 40." look at the progression from the first super bowl in 1966 to the one sunday Between Dallas and Buffalo. In Supe i Back when cigarettes were in weightlifting was out and steroid Sweren t quite so popular in High schools the Champion Green Bay packers had an offensive front line that averaged 6-3, 245pounds rather Brawny compared to most mortals. This week Dallas has an offensive line that averages just Over 6-5, 315, Buffalo offensive line averages 6-5,300. On the defensive line the packers averaged 6-4, 250. The cowboys today go 6-4, 280 up front on defense the Bills 6-4, 263. And even with that extra poundage today s players Are quicker and faster than their predecessors. There always were a few behemoths around years ago jiggly 300-plus Pound ers like the new York jets Sherman Plunkett. They just weren t so weight Boom really took off in the late 1980s, the decade of excess in the Economy and in waistlines with bigger Muscles through chemistry. In 1976, when Pittsburgh beat Dallas the Steeles offensive line was t much heavier than Green Bay s a decade ear Lier less than 10 pounds a Man differ 328-Pound Cowboy Kevin Gogan. Has lowered body fat ence. By 1986, when Chicago stomped new England the bears offensive line had edged up to a 268-Pound average and their defensive line with William refrigerator Perry at 308, strained the Scales averaging 275. I be seen High school kids bigger than me coming out now said Buffalo Offen Sive tackle Jerry crafts who s listed at 333 but admits to 348. Everybody s get Ting bigger faster and stronger. Put that All together and you have a great big boy.". -. ,. For All his weight crafts said his body fat is Only about 18 percent of his total about three times that of a Marathon runner but not too bad for a lineman. Kevin Gogan Dallas 328-Pound right guard said he s been measured at 17 per cent body fat though he grabbed a Roll of flab around his gut Ana acknowledged i be got some fat on me i d like to Gogan s paunch bulged his Belt but he was proud to note he had come Down from 33 percent body fat just a few years ago More than 100 pounds of sheer m chiselled now he said with a Grin and a joking Adonis pose. Would the teams today with All their beef have just blown away the superbowl champs of the 1960s and 70s? Gogan want so sure. I d have to sit Down and have seven or eight Beers and figure that one out he said. Howard Ballard Buffalo s 325-Pound tackle did t need even a sip to state flatly that today s team would Roll right Over the lighter slower teams of the past " i think football has gotten just like technology Ballard said. Back in the 20s and 30s, things worked slowly and then people invented new things to make them faster. It s nutrition and More people work ing out with weights. Football players did t used to lift weights so much. They used More physical on the practice Field. Now it s More mental in practice and we be got strength and conditioning coordinators weights stairmaster treadmills computers. Ten years from now Ballard said with a look of certainty you la see a lot of 400-Pound linemen. It la be a scary Levy Bills Start Fie dog quest on Ofa ouf song by John f. Bonfatti Atlanta a Marv Levy knew they would come the relentless bar rage of questions about the Buffalo Bills unprecedented Streak of super bowl fail ures. So one of the first things he did even before the plane left for Atlanta was coach the players on How to Deal with it. You re going to be involved in an unusual week. Ride with it. Enjoy it. Be Nice. Respond. Be likable enjoyable. Be truthful but give the answers you want to give Levy said. If it s a subject you want to talk about. If it s a subject you Don t want to talk about take it Over to a subject you do a ant to talk sure enough the questions came. They started monday when the Bills arrived to play their fourth straight super bowl. They came tuesday when the Bills and Dallas cowboys met the Media in the Georgia dome. And they were to continue wednesday and thursday when More interviews were scheduled.11 the questions Are variations of one Central theme of course after three successively worse super bowl defeats Why would anyone think this time will be Dif Ferent after All it was the cowboys who beat them 52-17 in the last super bowl. The Bills know they have no Choice but to answer the questions. But even Center Kent Hull acknowledged that after awhile it gets awfully you answer the questions and when they re on the negative Side i think they Start to eat at you a Little bit he added. But i think this team is mature enough to know they can handle it at least the ones who will be asked those negative questions will be Able to handle Mark Pike Buffalo s Best special teams player other than Steve Tasker said the Bills will Benefit from having Only one week Between the conference championship and the super bowl. In the Bills last two super bowls there was a two week break. I think this Short week is Good be cause that eliminates a lot of the negative things that we can hear he said. Things just happen with the extra week so Many things can happen so Many things can be said and taken the wrong Way Pike said. Linebacker Darryl Talley who report edly was involved in a barroom scuffle before last year s big game was t thrilled with questions about whether pre game partying had Hurt Buffalo in the past super bowls. I Don t think that s been the Case at All but that s what you Guys would like to emphasize he said. I just think we be been outplayed in the past super Pike said he planned to be spontaneous in answering questions but agreed that May be a dangerous approach for coach Marv Levy meets the press during Media Day at the Georgia dome tuesday. Some of his less patient teammates. Knowing some of the Guys on our team yeah with some of the Short Wicks we have on this team he said. Talley was asked what he would Dowhen he heard the same annoying questions for the umpteenth time on thurs Day the final Day of interviews. Ill just Start laughing and looking a you and shaking my head Talley said. There s no reason for me to get frustrated. All i have to do is sit Here. You Guys Are the ones that have to come up with the
