Dawson prefers cold facts
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)—Len Dawson isn't boasting. He's merely stating a fact.
"We played NFL teams four times this season; we beat them all four times."
Dawson, who'll quarterback Kansas City's AFL champs against Minnesota's NFL title holders in the Super Bowl here
who played in that historic first Super Bowl contest, recalled some of the things about it.
"I hope we're not as emotional this time as we were then," he said.
Green Bay held only a narrow 14-10 lead when the second-half of_ that game started but packer safety Willie Wood intercepted a
Kansas City has met Minnesota only once. That was in a 1968 pre-season game and the Chiefs won that one, 13-10. But Dawson
Sunday made the statement not so much as a boast but during the Chiefs' brief workout Tuesday as an illustration that, as he put it, "The mystery is gone."
Len Dawson
Those four victories he was talking about had to do with Kansas City's pre-season games.
The "mystery" he meant might have something to do with the Chiefs' first exposure ever to the team dominant AFL back on Jan. 15, 1967 when they were mauled 35-10 by the Green Bay Packers in the original Super Bowl at Los Angeles.
Huddled against the damp bone-chilling 42-degree temperature Tuesday and with his hands curled up in the pouch of his crimson sweatsuit, Dawson,
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Dawson pass and it was all Green Bay thereafter. Many claimed that interception was something Dawson never really has gotten over.
"I took it hard at the time," he conceded. "But I've thrown a lot of interceptions since and I've pretty much forgotten about that one."
Dawson acted as if he were surprised about the fact that the Vikings are 13-point favorites over the Chiefs. Either way, it didn't seem to bother him. "I heard Minnesota would be favored," said KC's calm, poised 34-year-old field leader evenly. "We have no control over that."
It was at that point he reminded his listeners the Chiefs had met NFL clubs four times in pre-season contests and won all four. The NFL clubs they beat were Detroit, Los Angeles, St. Louis and Atlanta.
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admitted he doesn't know much about the Vikings.
He did know enough, however, about the NFL champs to talk about their brilliant defensive end, big Carl Eller.
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"He's all over the football field. He never quits."
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A year ago, Dawson watched the Super Bowl game as a spectator in the stands when the New York Jets upset the Baltimore Colts in Miami. They asked him Tuesday what he thought of Joe Namath's performance that day.
"I think he called a great game," Dawson said.
Would he guarantee a victory as Namath had done before the game a year ago? No, sir.
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"I just hope I'll be able to show up," he said. "We're confident we'll do well but I don't think anybody knows for sure what's going to happen."
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