University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 22, 1987
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Broncos hope for Super Bowl upset
United Press International
PASADENA, Calif. — The Denver Broncos portrayed themselves yesterday as a team just happy to be here and in a perfect position to pull off an upset in Super Bowl XXI.
The New York Giants, meanwhile, indicated that it was time for the tension to start to show.
"As you have seen before, the tendency is for players to get nastier when they goes along." New York strong safety Sean Williams. "It's time for that to start happening."
Super Bowl week reached the midway point yesterday with no controversy, plenty of sunshine and both teams beginning to anticipate what all the excitement is about.
"There are a lot more people here than the last time I was here," said Denver Coach Dan Reeves, who is making his sixth trip to the Super Bowl, but his first appearance in nine years. "It's the kind of excitement you expect before a big game
"Take (linebacker) Tom Jackson
When we get ready to play the Los Angeles Raiders, his intensity moves up two or three notches. I think the same thing is true with him this week."
The Giants, winners of 11 in a row and a dominant victor over San Francisco and Washington in the playoffs, are a 10-point favorite to capture the Super Bowl in their first try when the teams meet Sunday before 100,000 in the Rose Bowl.
That, the Broncos say, puts them in just the right spot.
"All the pressure is on the Giants." said Denver quarterback John Elway. "We can turn it loose. We have nothing to lose.
"People weren't expecting us to win in Cleveland. We were on our own goal line late in the game, behind by seven points. But we're here."
"Not many people believe in us," added Broncos defensive end Rulon Jones. "But not many people believed in us before the playoffs, so I guess we shouldn't expect them to believe in us now."
Hill, a fierce hitter on a defense filled with them, said he thought his teammates had to develop a split personality so they could slowly build to the proper attitude when game time rolls around.
"Any football player has to have aggressive tendencies," said Hill, who was fined by the National Football League for two late hits on San Francisco receiver Jerry Rice during the Giants-49ers divisional play-off game.
"You have to be able to call up those tendencies on demand and submerge them when the game is over." Hill said. And that's not the easiest thing to do.
"When you are out there on the field sweating and bloody, and somebody comes along and takes a cheap shot at you, it is hard to turn the other check and react to it in a gentlemanly way."
The Giants returned to practice yesterday after getting a day off this
"I watched a little film yesterday."
New York Coach Bill Parceells said, "and I took a nap. I think we are trying to pay the proper amount of detail to things, but sometimes you can work so hard that you wind up having diminishing returns. We are trying to avoid diminishing returns."
The only news that seemed to turn a few heads yesterday was that New York running back Joe Morris had been wearing contact lenses for three years.
"He couldn't see," Parcells said. "I guess he thought everybody had the same kind of vision he had. But a doctor told me that I could see the end zone from the 50-yard line better than Joe could see it from the 7-yard line.
"I think the most important step in Joe's career was when he started wearing glasses."
Parecils' mention of the eyesight problem caused the kind of run on Morris that only the Super Bowl car create.
Super Bowl fans will generate big money
United Press International
PASADENA, Calif. — The Super Bowl traditionally attracts the biggest of the sporting world's big spenders. And Sunday's contest between the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants will be no exception. The Giants could generate more than $100 million for Southern California's economy.
But for the city of Pasadena — home of the Rose Bowl and host of the Super Bowl — the financial rewards of the big game are as comparatively slim as the chances of buying a ticket for face-value at game time.
Pasadena expects almost $2 mil
lion worth of business from fans of the Broncos and Giants — about the same as the receipts from the annual Rose Bowl game on New Year's Day.
"It probably balances out," said William Turley, interim manager of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce.
Almost all of the hoopla — except for the extravagant halftime ceremony — is being held outside of Pasadena. Both teams have headquarters about 30 miles away in Orlando County and the traditionally lavish pre-game party is being held at 20 miles north in Universal City.
bution to the economy of the San Francisco Bay Area. Almost $100 million was generated in the New Orleans area during Super Bowl XX in 1986.
Super Bowl held in the Los Angeles area, which was the host for the first Super Bowl in 1967 between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Green Bay won the first Super Bowl 35-10.
"There is not a single convention or event that comes into Los Angeles that compares to the Super Bowl," said Ty Stroh of the Los Angeles Visitors and Convention Bureau.
San Diego is forecasting $140 million for its economy during Super Bowl XXII next year
Super Bowl fans are expected to spend about $250 a day, nearly four times the amount spent by the typical California, convention officials said.
Super Bowl XIX at Stanford Stadium resulted in a $117 million contri-
Convention officials expect about 75,000 visitors to travel to Southern California for this year's Super Bowl week.
To help football fans feel at home in the ritz surroundings, the Beverly Wilsher has hoisted the official NFL flag atop its driveway flagpole.
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KC Chiefs announce new receivers coach
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KANSAS CITY, Mo — Dick Wood has been named receivers coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, filling out the staff of the National Football League team's new head coach, Frank Ganz.
The team announced yesterday that Wood, a former NFL quarterback and veteran assistant coach, had been hired while two other assistant coaches agreed to stay with the team.
Nearly all of his choices are men with whom he has worked in the past. Wood and two others, Homer Smith and Billy Matthews, have been offensive coordinators in the NFL.
Wood, offensive line coach Carl Mauck and C. T. Hewgley, the strength and conditioning coach, all signed two-year contracts.
Gansz has moved quickly to complete his staff since being named as successor to John Mackovic, who was fired despite bringing the Chiefs to the playoffs for the first time since 1971.
Wood, 50, most recently was passing game coordinator at Auburn, his alma mater He has coached 11 years in the NFL after seven years as a player for the Baltimore Colts. San Diego State and Montana, New York Jets, Oakland Indians and Miami Dolphins.
He began coaching as an assistant at Georgia, then joined the Oakland Raiders in 1969. After three years at Mississippi, he returned to the NFL as offensive director of the Cleveland Browns.
Under Mackovic, the Chiefs' offense had difficulty putting points on the board. Every point in the victory over Pittsburgh that put the team into the play-offs was scored by the special teams.
Later, he was quarterback coach at New Orleans for two years and Atlanta for five, then offensive coordinator with the Philadelphia Eagles, where he worked with Gansz. He spent two years in private business before joining Auburn last season.
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