but a lot of women are knowledge as knowledge about football as i am
can i guess your favorite team if you had one might be the Steelers well i can understand that i you know i kind of like the Cowboys too
yes
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do you
they've had some great games in the past
uh-huh i i always enjoy watching this Dallas the Dallas and Pittsburgh together you know
uh-huh me too
it wasn't nearly as much fun when Bradshaw was playing for you guys i'll tell you he lives in the Dallas area now as a matter of fact
does he really
well actually it's probably closer to Fort Worth but it's it's in the same area he bought uh bought a big horse farm out in a little town called Roanoke Texas
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but he pops up on the Dallas scene quite often as a matter of fact there was some talk about trying to get him involved with the team management in some sort of a coaching job
oh wow i wonder if he'd ever do that
i don't know he'd be good at it he's such a motivator he primarily you know with the quarterbacks that would be his specialty i wished i wished they could work something i really like him i really do
yes
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uh-huh well what about the Houston Oilers do you like them
yeah okay i'd love to see Dallas and Houston play in a Super Bowl that would be really great
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that may not ever happen i don't know uh Houston has had some wonderful talent you know down through the years and in the earlier years they really had some super teams
uh-huh and Warren Moon is is proving himself quite well right now
that's right
he certainly is he's very good
uh-huh he's one of the few uh black quarterbacks that there are
he's very good
that's right Randall Cunningham was with Philadelphia i guess last year but he's no longer with the team
so you're right there are very few black quarterbacks or at least that are starting anyway how do you think the Steelers are going to do this year you have any idea
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i don't know i hope they they do better they they during the past couple of years they've been doing a little bit better
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but uh i think they still have a little i think they're still such a a young team i think they still have a little bit to go before they reach the potential that it did when ever Bradshaw was playing
yeah
oh yeah that was just such super team
or if they even reach that potential again you know they may never reach that again
yeah
well that's a tough it would be tough to do it really would they have such a super team for years
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that won what four Super Bowls
yeah four in a row
four in a row i don't know if that could ever be duplicated again or not
oh i don't know shooting for one for the thumb now is what they were saying but basically everyone that was on the team then is gone now so
yeah
that's right and
that's right that's right
i think Mike Webster was left but then he he just left uh
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he may have been the last of the old guard i don't know
yeah i think he is i think he was
yeah they had such a super team
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have you been following the big draft that occurred yesterday
no i didn't
i see
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there's quite a bit of activity now of course they had so many you know nice uh choices because their record was so lousy the last few years they picked up you know quiet a few
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of the of course you never know the guys they pick you know may may never play a game you just never know it's it's a gamble it really is they may get hurt or not be able to participate at that level if you know
yeah
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well who would you say is your favorite player or has ever been your favorite player
ever been
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probably an old guy that played probably before you were born his name was Sam Huff he used to play for the New York Giants
oh
that was one of the toughest guys that i've ever seen in my life as far as you know dedication he just went all out every single play of course there have been some other great ones too Dick Butkis and Bradshaw you know there's been so many
really
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yeah yeah
but if i had to pick one i would probably pick Sam Huff as a matter of fact
oh you know that's really funny um well i i come from a large family and there there's quite a few boys so that's kind of how i got in with the football either watch that or watch nothing and um
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that's right
at one time i could name all the players on the Steelers you know and but even when Bradshaw was playing i i don't know i i didn't particularly care for him i thought he was kind of cocky or something uh-huh
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he is he is of course there a quarterback has a big ego
yes uh-huh
they really do they have to have they can't survive
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they always think they can win you know which is the way it should be and boy he never gave up i'll tell you
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yeah him and Franco Harris i really didn't care for the either two of them
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i mean they were good but i you know you couldn't deny that but i didn't i thought you know well i just didn't really care for either one of them uh today my favorites out of those guys were probably um
oh yeah
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Lambert Ham and uh Stallworth and Swan
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uh-huh absolutely i can't disagree with that they were super players they really were they really
yeah
uh-huh i i i like not just with the Pittsburgh i like watching on Saturday afternoons when they'll have like the plays or the the best plays from you know from the week or something
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yeah highlights yeah uh-huh
yeah i love watching that then i like watching their bloopers too you know
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yeah yeah that's kind of funny too as a matter of fact some of them a a bit embarrassing
yeah well they make mistakes too i guess
yeah uh-huh it's funny that more people don't get hurt
absolutely
absolutely
you know especially i would say the receivers when they're in the air and they get tackled
uh-huh go ahead
they take such a beating
oh yeah it's funny some of their necks don't get broken
absolutely i don't know how they do it it's it must just take a hundred percent concentration i guess because they know they're going to get hit it's just a matter of how hard you know or where
yeah
an they have to be in ideal physical shape basically
oh absolutely they look like sometimes they're just broken in two like a match stem gosh what a beating they really do take a beating they really do
yeah well what did you think of um a couple years ago for the Bears the refrigerator
i think he was just probably a passing phenomena i think i don't know i i'm
knowing what you know of course Mike Ditka was in Dallas for years and years as coach is knowing his or you know knowing of his temperament i'm just surprised he ever you know kept the guy around i really am he's such a he's about a half hot head anyway such a temper
oh you know and to me he does um oh he's just so big and fat he doesn't even look like he's in shape he's just so big no one can move him
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that's right yeah absolutely there's just so much mass there i guess they just can't i don't know you know i probably the guy is you know probably physically strong i you know obviously not very fast but i guess it's just
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like you say a mass that nobody can seem to to get out of the way as far as him scoring touch downs you know i think that was kind of weird i don't know
Dallas has a guy uh his name is Nate Newton now he has a real weight problem too he fights it every single year but he manages to still keep playing but
yeah
he has a terrible weight problem
wow
they watch the coaches watch him all year long they they weigh him several times a year just to make sure he's not you know completely out of control
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but i guess most every team has some has someone like that i don't know
oh yeah there's there are some really big guys playing in football
absolutely they get bigger and bigger it seems every year i guess you have to to
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know to stay in the game i guess yeah
yeah you would
uh-huh um now who would you say that you have a favorite i mean other than Dallas would you say that you have uh a favorite quarterback i mean the quarterback's seem to get most of the the attention you know
oh yeah sure well you'd have to uh or i would have to say you know someone like Montana i guess who's done so well for so many years
yeah i really i i enjoy watching him play
yeah his age is about to catch up with him though
he's no Spring chicken anymore and like you say Warren Moon's an excellent Warren Moon's an excellent but he's very exciting to watch uh-huh sure uh-huh absolutely
no but he's still performing
yes he is i i i enjoy watching him also
what about uh Marino
uh i'm obviously he's a very good quarterback i'd i never was you know too a whole lot of a big fan you know
i think he'll get better as he gets older
yeah he may uh-huh
because he he well was he was the youngest quarterback there was wasn't he
yes he was i believe that's right at one point in time yeah but he's a very young fellow yeah
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of course a quarterback can look so good if he's got a lot if he's got a good supporting cast you know if not he gets beat to death like poor old Troy Aikman has the last couple of years anyway you know well Dallas did better last year hopefully they'll do better this year
that's true that's true
uh probably around twelve
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yeah um i didn't i don't know i i just think you know Marino will get better and uh his team's not as good as what it was when he went to the Super Bowl you know so
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that's right that's right yeah Miami's had some down years too
yeah
but they all do i guess it's it's cyclical i guess as the players get older get slower
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yeah that's true yeah and with age comes you know the the i'm sure arthritis sets in with them you know right yeah
get slower
yeah
oh yeah
oh yes very much so hip injuries and things like that yeah yeah that that forces a lot of the guys to get out of the game
uh-huh and they're so young but they're retired you know and their so young still
that's right uh-huh yeah i read some time well not too long ago that the average
uh professional career only lasts seven years so that's when you think about it that's really not a very long time of course
oh
oh yeah but then you think about how many have been in there longer than that
yeah but if the average is seven years that means a lot of guys don't make it seven years you know
yeah a lot of them would have to get out like in just a couple
that's right yeah that's right yeah
holy smokes i didn't that doesn't seem like very long
that's that's a pretty short career on average
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of course they play their you know cards right and do some good investments they'll you know they'll do all right but a lot of them don't unfortunately
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yeah um what do you think of the uh LA Raiders used to the the Oakland
yeah they they're always branded you know as a bunch of outlaws and if their if their
you know arrest record won't let able won't let them play anywhere else they seem to go to they seem to go to the Raiders but that just may be you know perceived
yeah
you know perception i don't know Al Davis is he's a kind of strange character strange strange looking guy apparently he's
kind of a wild guy i don't really know for sure they've had some excellent teams though obviously i'm not sure they've yet decided where they want to play they keeping talk about you know going
yes they have uh-huh
