European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Pm 9 Page 42 the stars and stripes sports thursday november 10,1994 by Jason Whitlock the Kansas City Star late sunday night Ash flights from Arrowhead stadium flickered in my rear View Mirror i shed a Tea for the children of the acc. There s a crisis ravaging Little boys and girls in this country and no one wants to talk about it. Until now. I m going to air America s disgusting secret. From being forced to watch the acc millions of american children Are getting a warped perspective of thenal / someday this will Lead to chaos in this country. Not Long from now grown men raised in acc cities will spend fall sunday afternoons talking with their wives playing with their children mowing lawns and eating at their in Laws without a Beer or a Remote insight. I be seen the future America and it s not pretty. This vision came to me sunday after watching the chiefs and the raiders play a Brand of football so sick ening that esp was forced to run an nc-17 Label rat ing on its second half coverage. � words can do Little to describe the filthiness the Gro Tesque Ness the utter a elusiveness of Kansas City s 13 3 penalty plagued boredom plagued and ineptness plagued Victory. The chiefs and the raiders combined for just 500 Yards of offence 26 first Downs both numbers were commentary the lowest in the nil on sunday and 21 penalties for 155 Yards. In 3r hours 26 minutes the time from Kickoff to the final gun there were exactly two exciting Offen Sive plays chief Derrick Walker s 57-Yard to catch and run and Raider Tim Brown s 48-Yard punt return. I kept thinking these were the two preseason favourites to represent the acc in the super bowl what have we the men and women of the acc done to de serve this mind you the chiefs and the raiders weren t the Only acc teams playing pulp fiction on sunday. No sunday made Clear that those of us Force fed acc foot Ball May be undergoing harmful psychological Side effects the government won t Tell us about. Surely there is some Price for viewing football this inferior to the pfc. While the pfc thrills its fans with four super bowl Quality teams Dallas san Francisco Minnesota and Philadelphia the acc kills us with five or six sugar bowl Quality anyone really believe Buffalo san Diego Kan Sas City Miami Cleveland or Pittsburgh can beat an pfc team in the super bowl Don t get caught up in the numbers. Yes the acc is a respectable 11-14 against pfc opponents. Yes Kan Sas City dismantled the 49ers this season. But look at the unflinching facts displayed on sunday the chargers just weeks ago a source of acc Pride travelled to Atlanta and never crossed the fal cons goal line. I know the chargers played without a a Stan Humphries but that is to excuse for going touch Dow less against the defenceless Falcons. The unpredictable Bills fell to 5-4, losing to the Newyork jets. Cleveland squeaked out a touchdown and two Field goals against arguably the nil s worst defence in its 13-6 Victory Over the patriots. Pittsburgh was involved in an acc clash As pathetic As the one at Arrowhead stadium. The Steeles and oilers combined for 510 Yards of offence 20 penalties for 202 Yards and no touchdowns. Steeles 12, oilers 9 in overtime. -.-. Miami perhaps our last Hope was unimpressive in its exciting 22-21 Victory Over the Colts. Sunday acc teams averaged 1.4 Points while pfc teams put up an average of 21. The acc games were not dominated by defense. They were dominated by mediocrity. And that is fright ening because there Are no simple solutions. I weep for our children. Distal Butwid by script Howard new str Vic centers on by Michael a. Lutz Houston a Cody Carlson finally played a full game for the Houston oilers no one seems to know who made the decision. Assistant head coach Kevin Gilbride said the coaching staff had instructions from above to play Carlson the entire game unless he got Hurt. Carlson said general manager Floyd Reese decreed that he would play the entire game against the Steeles although Carlson missed eight passes in a Row Dur ing the first half and was ineffective most of the game. We Felt like he could play. Physically it was time Reese said. We were going right Down to the end with a Chance to a Acoach Jack Pardee does t know any thing about a command to play Carlson. I certainly was t told i had to play him Pardee said. I talked to Floyd and pro 919 he s a Good football person. I asked him who he thought was ready. The last couple of weeks we did t feel he was it s the latest Public squabble on the oilers who have .juujnui.-,.,dropped into a with Cincinnati for the worst record in the nil at 1-8, including sunday s 12-9 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steeles. There was a time earlier this season when the players were pointing Fin Gers at each other. Now the coaches Carlson and management Are playing the same game among themselves including owne Bud Adams and Reese. Carlson really was t healthy and Likely ii focusing won t be the rest of the season. Head fitted he was out of shape because of his season Long shoulder and knee ailments. Floyd pretty much made the decision which i was Happy with but i m out of shape no doubt about it said Carlson whose biggest problem has been with hampered mobility caused by a chronic knee injury. I Haven t been Able to run since the beginning of the Billy Joe Tolliver was scheduled to make his second straight Start for the Oil ers but the change came Down saturday. The decision was made going in the parameters were set Gilbride said. Wearied to win with what we were Given. I expressed my opinion to the people who needed to what opinion i d rather not say he said. Adams who earlier instructed the Oil ers to use More tight end play in the of sense said he wished the assistant coaches would keep quiet and let Pardee be the coaches spokesman. You Don t see Don Shula s assistant coaches talking Adams said. Gilbride s response i d love to be out of it he said. If these remarks weren t directed to me i would t say wide receiver Ernest Givins who suggested last week that conditions would improve if the quarterbacks threw to him More often did t complain after Sun Day s loss. " this is no time to Point fingers he said. We re Anery because we lost. But we be got to get focused and ready to play cornerback Cris Dishman said coaches and management should do what the players did earlier in the year Stop pointing fingers. They should each take responsibility Dishman said. When i get beat on a pass i say i got on hispanic audiences Lyric Cantu Cox news service Austin Texas judging by the 112,000 who witnessed the Dallas hous ton exhibition in Mexico City the nil is a hit with hispanic audiences. Hoping to tap into one of the nation s fastest growing groups pro football wants to showcase its product in Spanish. Super show Deport Ivo produced in Austin is a 30-minute to program syndicated in 14 cities. It allows Spanish speaking football fans to see film and commentary of the nil. The program with a distinctive his panic flair made its debut oct. 8. High Light reels Are accompanied by Rock Salsa mariachi and Samba music. The nil is committed to developing closer links with the growing Spanish speaking football fans in the United states and abroad said Ron be Nard president of nil enterprises. The Success of the Houston Dallas preseason game in August was noticed by nil executives. It was the largest crowd Ever to watch an nil game and Dallas owner Jerry Jones recently announced the cowboys will play another exhibition at Aztec stadium in 1995."from everything i be seen i would t mind going Back to Mexico City the next two or three years Jones said. The cowboys owner also predicted that Mexico City might be Given a fran Chise if the nil decided to expand to foreign countries. For now Spanish speaking viewers can watch the nil on super show Deport to which is hosted by former All pro kicker Raul Allegre of Austin. Allegre a member of two new York giants super bowl Champion teams played for the University of Texas in 1981 and 1982. The show offers analysis of key games and includes stories on hispanic role Model who have made their Mark on thenal. We Are committed to making this the most entertaining weekly Magazine Tele vision show on Spanish language television Allegre Saia. The show can be seen in 14 cities including los Angeles new York Dallas fort Worth Houston san Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley. Other cities Are Chicago san Francisco Denver Phoe Nix Tucson san Diego and Miami. Player columnist s work Coral Gables Fla. A without question Chad Wilson is coach Dennis Erickson s favorit sports writer. Wilson plays for and writes about the Miami hurricanes. The cornerback columnist starts on a defense that is the nation is tiniest and he reviews his team s performance each week in the school newspaper the Miami Hurricane. I read some of Chad s stuff. He s Good. He s Wilson very realistic about life and he under stands the game unlike some of you Guys Erickson said with a smile besides that he s playing real Wilson and his teammates Lead the nation in total defense and scoring de sense. The fifth ranked hurricanes 7 1 have yet to give up an offensive touchdown in the big East. Wilson made his second interception of the season in saturday s 27-6 Victory a Syracuse. A senior in his first full year As a starter Wilson began his column at the Start of the 1993 season. He declined to say whether he is better As a defensive Back or sports writer either Way he takes Pride in his coverage. Wilson writes commentaries rather than features rarely including any quotes. Mixing wit with Candor he Man Ages to avoid angering his teammates. I read his column every time he writes it Middle linebacker Ray Lewis said. I m behind him with everything he says. He lets you know How he feels on the Field Wilson s interest in sports writing started with his Junior year in High school at Moreno Valley calif., when he became sports editor of the student paper. T
