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...NFL Confidential Meanwhile, it's gavels on the NFL gridiron as Niners owner Edward DeBartolo steps down, Cowboys coach Barry Switzer pays up, and troublesome running back Lawrence Phillips gets another chance...
BATON ROUGE, La.: Edward DeBartolo Jr.'s deep pockets have made the San Francisco 49ers one of the NFL's dynasties. Now he'll need that cash for some good lawyers...
...Young Thundering Herd," as Lengyel labeled it, did win two games that season, the first a miraculous 15-13 win over Xavier in the second game of the year. But Marshall settled into a perfectly understandable futility after that '71 season. Sonny Randle, the great NFL receiver, arrived in 1979 to breathe fire into the program, and while he did lay the foundation for the future, he left Marshall after winning 12 games and losing 42 in five seasons. In 1984 the team had its first winning season in 20 years, and the Herd hasn't had a losing season...
...excellent playmaker," the 1970 Marshall football program said of the junior quarterback. Indeed, Shoebridge set 18 passing records at Marshall, and his stats compared favorably with other star college quarterbacks at the time--Terry Bradshaw, Joe Theisman, Jim Plunkett, Dan Pastorini. His path seemed headed for the NFL...
Lessons we learned in the NFL's Week 13: All the Pack needed to beat the Cowboys was some home cooking ? and a Dallas lineup that is just a pale imitation of those Super Bowl teams. Other revelations: Although the Redskins and Giants showed they were equally mediocre in stumbling to a 7-7 overtime tie, 'Skins QB Gus Ferotte proved he could be dumber than most by landing in hospital after ferociously head-butting the stadium wall. And the Saints are so bad they've even humbled Mike Ditka after their latest loss to the Falcons...