UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, January 31, 1996
9B
NFL
Super Bowl MVP looks to star
Acting,free agency lure Larry Brown
DALLAS — Once his football career is done, Larry Brown wants to be an actor. He has a college degree in the theater, and he still is taking lessons.
But Brown's career is far from being finished — It's just taking off.
Brown began cashing in on his Super Bowl MVP award — and practicing for his second career — on Tuesday by kicking off a stay in New York with an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman."
Today, Brown will be on "CBS This Morning" and Conan O'Brien's late night show.
Tomorrow, he'll do "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee" in the morning then at night sit courtside for a Knicks-Magic game.
Friday begins with a quick trip to Washington to be on Black Entertainment Television, followed by another promotional appearance in New York.
He'll finally come home Saturday, unless other things — like possible visits with Jay Leno or Charles Grodin — come along.
"I'm enjoying it," Brown said. "I'm a real laid-back person, so I'm having fun but keeping it in context."
Brown is so laid back that he hardly fits in the same locker room as Deion Sanders, Michael Irvin and other extra-extroverts.
at cornerback, Brown is not even the best-known player at his position on his team. And considering there's a successful NBA coach named Larry Brown, he's not even the most famous person with his name.
"I think people noticed me before, but now everybody does," Brown said. "I find it flattering. I'm not a guy who has an ego or lives for this, but I can enjoy it."
Brown first made a name for himself in 1991, when he went from 12h-round draft pick to starter. He started on Super Bowl winners the next two years then took harsh criticism when Dallas didn't three-peat in part because he was burned by Jerry Rice in last year's NFC title game.
Brown was supposed to lose his job this season with the arrival of Sanders, but an injury to Kevin Smith kept him in the lineup. A bigger distraction than Delon, though, was the premature birth of his son, Kristopher, who weighed only one pound at birth and lived less than three months.
Good things began happening again for this good guy during the NFC title game when he made up for a first-quarter blunder with a game-saving interception.
Then, in Sunday's Super Bowl, Brown had two interceptions and returned them for a record 77 yards. Both set up touchdowns. The first helped Dallas go ahead of Pittsburgh 20-7, and the second sealed the 27-17 final.
For that effort, he was named the game's top star, as teammates Troy
NEW YORK — Kansas City quarterback Steve Bono was chosen Monday to replace injured Miami quarterback Dan Marino on the AFC team for the Pro Bowl.
The Associated Press
Bono passes into Pro Bowl
With Marino out, Cincinnati's Jeff Blake will start the all-star game on Sunday night.
Bono, in his 11th season, will be making his first Pro Bowl appearance.
Alkman and Emmitm Smith had been in previous Super Bowls.
But they were no help preparing Brown for this avalanche of attention.
"They did not warn me," Brown said, laughing. "It's been hitting me by storm."
Brown's agent, meanwhile, is ready.
He has been working since August to prepare his client Brown to be an unrestricted free agent, and he has sure Brown will be able to cash in on this success.
"I felt like over a month ago Larry became the No. 1 UFA (unrestricted free agent) candidate based on the things around him," Scott Casterline said.
Casterline said he wouldn't be surprised if Brown could get a deal worth $3.2 million a year, as Eric Allen got from the New Orleans
In his first year as a starter, he passed for 21 touchdowns and 3,121 yards in leading the Chiefs to a 13-3 record and the AFC West title.
Marino will miss the game because of knee and hip injuries. Marino set NFL career records for touchdown passes, yards, complements and attempts last season.
Blake, in his fourth NFL season,
led the AFC with 28 touchdown passes.
Saints last year.
"This is even going to be better for him because he's going to be the top guy and nobody else will be even close," Casterline said.
For the first time in his career, Brown won't be dedicating his entire off-season to preparing for football.
Instead, he's finally ready to carve out time for acting.
"This year, I told myself I want to pull back and start building my resume," Brown said. "I'd love to do some television."
Realizing he's in New York now and planning on spending lots of time on TV sets, Brown added: "I've got to take advantage of my opportunity. Anybody can play an athlete. I'd like to do more challenging roles."
For now, he'll just continue playing the role of Super Bowl MVP.
Cowboys will honor Super Bowl win
Police department preparing for scores who plan to gather for downtown parade, party
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Police and educators will be taking extra steps next week to deter violence or truancy when the city honors the Cowboys with a Super Bowl victory parade.
The procession is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 7.
Ben Click, Dallas police chief, said 800 officers would be assigned to parade duty.
Members of the department's gang units will wander through the crowd to identify gang members, keeping them under surveillance to prevent a recurrence of the violence that marred the Super Bowl parade of 1993.
The Dallas school district is considering allowing students to watch the "Dr Pepper Presents 'Dallas Salutes the Boys'" parade on televisions in class so they won't leave early.
Classes end at 3 p.m. throughout the district.
"We're working on
"We're working some creative ways and po-lice will have officers out looking for truants," said Robert Hinkle, spokesman for Dallas schools.
The downtown
course will take the Vince Lombardi Trophy winners and their entourage south of Reunion Arena to Young Street and then to City Hall, which has been renamed "Cowboy Plaza."
A committee planning the celebration selected Feb. 5, 6 or 7 as possible dates but left the final
choice to the Cowboys.
The team agreed to the celebration after defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday 27-17 in the Super Bowl at Tempe, Ariz.
The parade will feature players and cheerleaders on nine police-escorted floats, marching bands and a float carrying the Super Bowl trophy.
The city will pay $100,000, and corporate sponsors have pioned up $255,000.
The excess above the original $271,000 projected tab will not go to reduce the city's share — a fact criticized by City Councilman Paul Fielding.
Instead, it will be spent on extras such as decorative floats, banners, balloons and free pompons for fans along the parade route, said Robert Shaw, a Dallas businessman and leader of the parade committee.
NBA names All-Star reserves
Knicks' Ewing makes East team, Utah's Malone lines up with West
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Centers Patrick Ewing and David Robinson and Utah teammates Karl Malone and John Stockton were among 14 players selected yesterday as reserves for the NBA All-Star game.
The New York Knicks' Ewing was selected for the 10th time.
It was the eighth time for both Utah Jazz forward Malone and point guard Stockton. Robinson, of the San Antonio Spurs, was chosen for the seventh time.
Joining Ewing as reserves on the East team for the 46th edition of the game — Feb. 11 at San Antonio — will be Cleveland's Terrell Brandon and Indiana's Reggie Miller at guard,
Miami's Alonzo Mourning at center, and Milwaukee's Vin Baker, Charlotte's Glen Rice and Milwaukee's Juwan Howard at forward.
Robinson, Malone and Stockton will be joined as West reserves by Seattle's Gary Payton and Sacramento's Mitch Richmond at guard, Denver's Dikembe Mutombo at center and San Antonio's Sean Elliott at forward.
The West starters will be center Hakeem Olajuwon of Houston, forwards Charles Barkley of Phoenix and Shawn Kemp of Seattle, and guards Clyde Drexler of Houston and Jason Kidd of Dallas.
Earlier, fans voted for the starters, picking center Shaquille O'Neal of Orlando, forwards Grant Hill of Detroit and Scottie Pippen of Chicago, and guards Michael Jordan of Chicago and Anfernee Hardaway of Orlando for the East.
Head coaches voted for reserves.
Fox Sports names baseball announcers
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Fox Sports named Joe Buck, Thom Brennaman and Chip Caray as its three play-by-play announcers for baseball next season.
Fox's weekly coverage of the games begins Saturday. June 1.
Brennaman, son of Cincinnati Reds announcer Marty Brennaman, has announced baseball on television for the Reds and on the radio for the Chicago Cubs. Buck, son of Hall of Fame announcer Jack Buck, also has had baseball experience working with his father on St. Louis Cardinals' games on both radio and television.
Buck and Brennaman already were on the Fox payroll as football announcers, while Chip, grandson of Hall of Fame announcer Harry Caray and son of Atlanta Braves announcer Skip Caray, is a Fox newcomer.
Chip Caray is the voice of the Seattle Mariners.
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