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Landry, Noll defensive sti ? ? rm m By Bruce Lowitt maybe. T AP Sports Writer Landry si the way Boring? The Super Bowl? Not a mistake t chance, say Chuck Noll of the way it die Pittsburgh Steelers and Tom years ago Landry of the Dallas Cowboys. block tha They're two coaches who ap- points or predate the finer points of the Steelers'c game of pro football, namely the get team* art of keeping points off the to avoid t scoreboard rather than piling them on. With te; That's why they're here and 26 fense and other National Football League the Stee coaches aren't. figures t! To some, many of the Dast rfnminato National Football League title pened so games have been called, for lack of doesn't ru a better word, boring. Noll and runaway. Landry, both defensive assistant coaches before ascending to their "All on? present posts, shrug aside such the jump suggestions. break tl "I saw the past couple of Super centratior Q/\tirlo *" ? -?,A * 11 W Liunia mat wc wcreil I in, Uieil 1 pOSSibilitj read accounts of the game af- hand," s* terward and there was a difference between the game I read about and the game I saw," Noll said Wed nesday. unM "1 guess 1 have an appreciation I of defense and one of the things n you're going to find in cham- [] pionship games are pretty good Ij defenses because you don't fiet I here unless you have a good defense. "There are some people who i may not have the appreciation for defensive football that I have, J people who think the best games / are where you run up and down the I field and score a lot of points ... j That's not outstanding football, in I my view. An absence of defense V doesn't necessarily make things more exciting. I think you have to be able to play a total game ? and I think you have two total football teams here," Noll said. j "What's more, I think people who really appreciate and understand the game ? and by that I mean all facets of it, not just points j and bombs ? appreciate how exciting Super Bowls really are." Landry, too, seemed almost to recoil at the thought that Super Bowls are boring. "How can you say that? The Super Bowl is almost like constant sudden death. You , can make mistakes during the season, lose games, then make up for it the next week. "Heck, we had plenty of experience in that area." Dallas was I f - ' 1 ? meuiocre ai one point auring the season, then reeled off six \ straight victories. \ "But in the Super Bowl, your \ whole season can hinge on one or \ two plays, one or two mistakes, \ The GAMECOCK it the student I \i | newtpAper at the University of South I (1 Caroline end is published three times I n week on Monday, Wednesday and I \i Friday during the tall and spring V | semesters and once weekly on Thurs- I t J \ days during both summer sessions with I the exception of university holidays and examination periods. J Opinions expressed in the Vy GAMECOCK are those of the editors and f not those of the University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution. Change of address forms, subscription \ ' [ ! requests and other correspondence B should be sent to the GAMECOCK, Box I M *3131 Russell House, University of S.C., M Columbia, S.C. 29208. Subscription rates ! j are (5 per semester and $2 for the r j summer sessions. : i f Third class postago paid at Columbia, I j hat, to me, is exciting," kid. "And because that's it is, with one play or urning things around the I in our game here three (Reggie Harrison's punt t gave Pittsburgh two i a safety and started the :omeback), you naturally i playing conservatively hose mistakes." ims as explosive on of- H mnrf)n?nun ,i ?C , ? ? ^-CT:aa^--,.L. muiuviuiM un ucicn&e as lers and Cowboys, it hat neither team will the other, as has hap- jSSgS^IWBWj!!? often ? but Landry ie out the possibility of a ^ 2 team has to do is to get on the other team, to ie other team's con- *L i, and you have the r of a game getting out of S lid the Cowboys' coach. WWW 0^ c e\^ other. 32 located Downtown, Richlanc January | iSilgSHO ' |mm ' .Iflpgi: ^MWWW^^feWw>Xvn aanaaMnHHBBnHBaMHninBBH n The docksider with bright white sole and contrast fopstitching. Leather thong laces. issel moc, perfect with 1 vu 3UMD pumb UIIU bMIIS. vine leather. ^2 , ^ (uebbys) \ on main J d Mall, Dutch Square iy, iyjv ? bAMECOCK ? Pag# 9 I Eyeing the basket Sheila Foster prepares to take a jump shot in v .. j fivuuoniaj infill 8 gttlllC I against Francis Marion. I Foster, a 6- 1 freshman Jl from Moore, has been a Hi key player in the success || of Pam Parson's Lady H Gamecocks this season. Ill Brltt Andrew ? GAMECOCK ] BELTL1NE AT FOBCST DB gj FROM DEEP SPACE _ ... THE SEED ? IS PLANTED . . TERROR GROWSI ( i 'v f r I Invasion | of tile ! r? # i?ll ONE DREAM I IC UIADTU H u nvmn THOUSAND REALITIES! j.n.B the -n l^RO of the I [ggl