European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mcnair airs it out today ,. .1.  career yardage record by Stephen Hawkin Lorman miss. A when Steve air to Nair becomes the Mcaa career total offence Leader he will not have fully lived up to his nickname Mcnair has taken a different route to the record than to Detmer the Heisman trophy Winner hell re place in the record Book. Alcorn state s senior quarterback is just 264 Yards shy of breaking the three year old record of 14,665 total Yards set by Detmer at Bri Hamyoung. Even though Alcorn 5 2 is hosting Southern University 4-2the top ranked defense in Divi Sion 1-aa allowing 190 Yards per Gam Mcnair will Likely break Detmer s record saturday. My dream was to play Mcnair in the nil. As a kid i was t looking at becoming the Mcaa total offence Leader Mcnair said  s something i m looking Forward to  Detmer set the total offence record through the air. Mcnair could easily surpass the record with a run. Vikings slip by Southern 4-2 at Alcorn state 5-2 8 45 . Get today on an television Mcnair has 14,402 total Yards 12,337 passing and 2,065 Rushing. He became the division i a total of sense Leader oct. 1 with a 22-Yard scrambling touch Down run against Mississippi Valley state. Detmor was a pure passer. I m a scrambler As Well Mcnair said. I elude the Rush and get Yards on the ground As  this season Mcnair already has four 100-Yard Rush ing games including three in which he also threw for More than 300 Yards. He has thrown for 2,704 Yards and 28 touchdowns and rushed for 672 Yards and six scores. Detmer will keep his career passing record of 15031 Yards. But the minus-366 career Yards Rushing brought his total offence numbers Down. Now playing a backup role with the Green Bay pack ers Detmer said thursday that he has t had time to think about his total offence record being broken. But he said he has heard about Mcnair and seen him onto. A. " Mcnair is a great athlete. He s the main focus of their team. They just give Mcnair the Ball and let him go with it Detmer said. He mixes it up pretty Good. In of Minneapolis a Green Bay was five minutes from climbing Back into the pfc Central race thursday night. That was All the time Warren Moon needed to Rescue Minnesota. Hounded by the packers relentless pass Rush most of the night Moon led the Vikings to a tying Field goal with 17 seconds left in regulation and then to Fuad Revei s winning 27-Yard kick 4 26 into overtime and a 13-10 Victory. This was a real character win for us As a team Moon said. You pull out a redskins will Start Frerotte at a a Page 37 game like we did and it gives the whole team a  Moon sacked four times and intercepted twice lifted the Vikings 5-2 into first place in the pfc Central one half game ahead of Chicago which plays de troit on sunday. The packers 3-4 Trail Minnesota by two games but they Aren t conceding anything. Known for slow starts and Strong finishes in 2l/i seasons under Mike Holm Gren Green Bay nearly beat the Vikings in the metro Doc for the first time since 1991, despite losing quarterback Brett Favre in the first Quarter with a hip Pointer. Favry s status for Green Bay s next game oct. 31 at Chicago was Uncertain. We be lost Tough games before and it will happen again Holmgren said. Green Bay which beat Minnesota 16 10 in the season opener harassed Moon for 3v1 quarters while backup quarterback Mark Brunell led the packers to a 10-7 halftime Lead that almost stood up. Most of my Rushing Yards were  our offence is basically w Ide open. If we execute As Good As we can the record will take care of itself said Mcnair averaging 482.3 total Yards per game this sea son and 379 in his 38-game career. V Mcnair is on Pace to break the career and season re cords for total offence per game. Former Mississippi Valley state quarterback Willie Totten who threw most of his passes to Jerry Rice holds the career Mark at 325 Yards per game. David Klingler set the single season record of 474,6 Yards per game at Houston in 1990, the same year Detmer won  a \ on sept. 10, Mcnair set i a records with 647 Yards total offence 491 passing and 156 Rushing and eight to passes in a 54-28 Victory at Tennessee-Chattanoo-ga.,  -.-v, ".  the records Many still question Mcnair s being considered for the Heisman because he plays 1-aa football. Others believe Lutis a legitimate Candi Date. -.-. -.-. ,. Everybody has got their own opinion about it my Nair said. I Don t even pay much attention to it. Know what i m trying to do i m trying to make it to the next level. All i have to do is perform an on the next level that s the nil. That will quit the  but he s got a few More College records to break be fore getting there. The stars and stripes ports october 22,1994 Page 40 Packer end scan Jones sacks Viking quarterback Warren Moon in thursday s game. Friday update reds retain Johnson Cincinnati a the Cincin Nati reds rehired Davey Johnson As manager and he said he will remain in that Job Only for 1995. In 1996, Johnson will become a a special assistant to Gen eral manager Jim Bowden. Threatt returns to practice Inglewood Calif. Apse Dale Threatt who began an unexplained absence from the los Angeles lakers a week ago rejoined the team europeans take Lead White Sulphur Springs a a. A England s Laura Davies continued her domination in sol Heim cup play teaming with Alison Nicholas to win their alternate shot match and stake the europeans to a 3 2 Lead Over the United states. Nil reduces schedule to 40-50 games new York a the nil con firming what has seemed inevitable said thursday it will not be Able to save its entire 84-game season an announcement will be made be fore too Long and it will involve some reduction in the number of games on the schedule said Jeffrey Pash the league s general counsel. Pash speaking at a luncheon sponsored by the new Jersey devils said the league Aims to have a credible regular season leading to the playoffs. Obviously the longer the Start Date is in the past the More Likely you have to truncate your season Fie said. As commissioner Gary Bettman said we re not going to push the season past  nil spokesman Arthur Pincus said thursday an announcement regarding the schedule will be made in the next few  it was the first acknowledgement by the league that games will be lost. The 20-Day lockout has resulted in 110 game called offi Don t know what a re formatted schedule would look like Pash said. 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