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Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1980, The Evening Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa. B3 Dunn and Harrah mix if milton richman py not one By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor after being given a bath. Then it was Dunn's turn and really let one fly. By this time, the shocked diners in the restaurant had stopped eating to watch what they were sure was an honest-to-goodness fight, one with a lot more action in it, anyway, than the celebrated confrontration in a Fort Lauderdale, bar between Joe Namath of the New York Jets and Lou Michaels of the Baltimore Colts before Super Bowl III back in 1969.

Namath and Michaels weren't kidding around when they got into it. BUT HARRAH and Dunn There's still time to clown around before the Super Bowl starts Sunday. On the Rams' side Rams scoff at Evening Sentinel UPI it's (from left) linebackers Bob Brudzinski, Jack Reynolds and Jim Youngblood. the 1 1 points ANAHEIM, Calif. -You've seen those beer commercials where a couple of long-time buddies are drinking at a bar, reminiscing about the good old days and having themselves a ball.

Well, that's exactly what big Gary Dunn of the Pittsburgh Steelers and bigger yet Dennis Harrah of the Los Angeles Rams were doing. They go back together, all the way back to when they were college roommates at Miami, and the fact they'll be wearing different uniforms and playing on opposite sides Sunday in Super Bowl XVI called for something of a reunion. Harrah, the Rams' 6-foot-5, 251-pound guard, talked over the idea a week or so ago with Dunn, the Steelers' 6-3, 247-pound defensive tackle, and suggested the perfect place a combination restaurant and bar he and his partner own, called Legends, located in Belmont Shores not far from here. Great, Dunn said, he'd come over Monday night and bring some of the other Steelers with him. Dunn brought five of them along, Mike Webster, John Banaszak, Steve Furness, Steve Courson and Mike Kruczek.

They made up the Pittsburgh delegation. As the official host, Harrah asked teammate Gordon Gravelle to join him and they composed the Los Angeles faction. ALL EIGHT were enjoying themselves at the bar, laughing, joking and needling each other, with Harrah putting away his fair share of beer and Dunn more than keeping up with a combination of kamikazes, peppermint schnapps and only the bartender knows what else, when suddenly the party turned physical. Wham! Harrah hauled off with his open hand and nailed Dunn with a beauty flat across his face. Dunn never even flinched.

Whock! He let Harrah have one right back. Same place. Right across the face. The Rams' All-Pro now was entering into the spirit of the thing. He put everything he had into his next offering and Dunn shook it off the way a wire terrier shakes off water ask me to pick it, I'd pick it dead even.

We have just as good a chance to win as them. If they make mistakes, we'll win. If we make mistakes, they'll win. It's as simple as that." "IT'S ridiculous," said Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi. "The bookies are telling the people in football, who know better, which is the better team.

If I was allowed to bet and of course I'm not I'd take the bet. It's way out of line. Other Rams agreed. "I read a story last week, after we beat Tampa Bay," said center Rich Saul. "It said how little chance we have of beating the Steelers, that we don't even belong on the same field as them.

The guy must be an idiot. Either that, or he knows very little about football. How can somebody say something like that after the way we played in beating Dallas and Tampa Bay the last few weeks?" "Psychologically, it helps," said quarterback Vince Ferragamo. "It takes a lot of pressure off us and puts a lot on them to perform. How they reach the conclusion is beyond me.

I've never known them to be 100 percent correct." "I pay no attention to the odds or the color of the uniform or any of that," said defensive back Pat Thomas. LOS ANGELES (UPI) -An army of more than 400 reporters and photographers surged toward the Los Angeles Rams as the players sat together on a five-tier bench. Players screamed and covered their heads in mock terror as the wave of camera and ballpoint pen-wielding news people rushed forward for pictures and, in most cases, well-worn quotes. And although the players' cowering was in jest, it symbolized the effect of the mob-like scenes and enormous distractions the Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers must endure as they prepare for Sunday's Super Bowl XIV in which the Rams are listed as 11-point underdogs. And although the lopsided point-spread set by Las Vegas oddsmakers appeared stable, there wasn't a player on either team supporting the line as they worked out under mostly clear skies.

It had rained for seven consecutive days. "Underdogs, hah!" said Ram defensive end Fred Dryer, 'it's really funny. The people who decide these things and make the odds are not in football. They're not the guys who see movies every day, who see opponents, who know what goes on on the field. I don't see any coaches making lines.

"I've seen three or four Super Bowls where the line was way out of line. If you Bradshaw. "We've never beaten these guys, we're playing in their home city and they almost have a home-field advantage. I saw what they did to a good offensive team like Seattle (NFL-record minus 7 yards in total offensive yardage) and you know they have to have a good defensive team to pull off something like that. As far as I'm concerned, the Rams are an outstanding team and they pose a lot of problems for me." "I THINK the challenge of this game is that we've never beaten them," said Steeler center Mike Webster.

"They beat us last year and we know what they are capable of doing. Their defense is awesome. The Rams play the rush and the pass equally well. In fact, they rush the passer as well as anyone. I would say the front seven of the Rams is as good as anyone in football.

They have a great ability to work together. "We really don't feel pressure, despite what the oddsmakers say. We know what we have to do. If you are prepared well and know what's expected of you, you don't have that pressure. "But it's not going to be as easy as it looks.

We still have to play the game." Davis for spreads FULLERTON, Calif. (UPI) Have you ever run into anyone who has never made a bet in his life? Meet Sam Davis of the Pittsburgh Steelers, still one of the best pulling guards in the NFL at 35 after 13 seasons in the league. And when he says he has never made a wager of any kind, he isn't pulling your leg. He means it. "That's the truth, I've never made a bet in my life," Davis was saying before Tuesday's workout for which he dressed but didn't participate in so as to help strengthen an ailing leg that doesn't figure to keep him from playing against the Los Angeles Rams in Sunday's Super Bowl XIV.

"I'm from a family of Baptists," laughingly explained Davis, who was born in Ocilla, "and in the environment I was brought up, you'd better not even think of such a thing as making a bet or else it'll be the end of you." What raised the subject in the first place was the countless number of times during the past week that Sam Davis, like so many of the other Steelers, has been asked about "the spread," or about the 11 points Pittsburgh is favored over Los Angeles by the bookmakers. "I don't know about those kind of he went on. "The only spreads I know about are peanut butter and jelly. NOW IF somebody else would try to hand you a bag of groceries like that, you might back off a little, raise a skeptical eyebrow and ask him what are you selling me here, but Sam Davis, in addition to being a superb football player, is such a straight arrow, you automatically know he's giving it to you 100 percent honestly. That's the way he does everything, on the football field and off.

"This team doesn't pay any attention to something like the odds," he said, looking around him at some of his fellow Steelers also speaking to newsmen. "When somebody talks to us about the 11 points we're favored or something like that, we laugh. We're not laughing at the Rams or because we think we can beat them by 11, but because we've come to the Super Bowl as underdogs ourselves and now, suddenly everybody believes in us. "The ones we're laughing at are the oddsmakers. It's like they've finally discovered us.

The Rams may never have been to the Super Bowl before, but they've been in a lot of playoffs and we know how much it takes to get there. We wanna win the game by one point, three points, 10 points, anything. We're gonna play our hearts out. DAVIS, WHO has been on all three winning Super Bowl teams with Pittsburgh, goes along with the other Steelers when it comes to making any predictions. He says they don't mean a thing and that despite the odds, nowhere is it chiseled in stone that it's impossible for the Rams to win.

"We're confident in our own ability, but I think you'll find we all respect the Rams and feel the team that plays the hardest and makes the least mistakes will win the game." Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic about the Steelers is the mark of complete professionalism about them. They're poised, they're relaxed and they don't go around looking as if Sunday's contest is a matter of life and death. If there's any pressure on them at all, it certainly doesn't show. They're so loose when they're off the field, you'd think they're getting ready to go on one of those Sunday picnics. "We never feel we're under pressure at any time," said Davis.

"I suppose the time we kid around most, while we're playing, I mean, is when we're way behind. Like in that game with Cincinnati early in the year." The Bengals won that one 34-10 and when things got so bad that nothing he did seemed to help, Steeler quarterback Terry Bradshaw joked in the huddle to help lighten the atmosphere and take some of the sting out. "When we lose a ballgame like that, we don't criticize one another, we try to learn from it because that's the way we're programmed," Davis said. "All of us know how well we're prepared. We have complete confidence in our defense and in Terry.

I was with Terry here when he first started out. As much as Terry has improved, I've improved, and as much as I've improved, the team has improved. We know where we're at. We're not fat cats. We still go out there and bust our behinds every game we play." Gardner advances in hoop shoof confesf "Things like that aren't important.

I look through the uniform, I look through the individual. I look to the man's physical capabilities, what he can do. Not what they say he can do. "The key is to play under control. You can't let things get you overenthusiastic.

Otherwise, it detracts from your game. You must play under control." MOST OF the Steelers felt the same way about the odds, one of the highest in Super Bowl history. Only four times in the 14 Super Bowl has a team been favored by 10 or more points and oddly enough, the biggest underdog the New York Jets defeated Baltimore 16-7 in Super Bowl III despite entering the game as underdogs. "The Rams are a dangerous football team," said wide receiver Lynn Swann. "When you list the top defensive teams, the Rams are near the top.

We've played them before and we haven't beaten them. I think that will be a good part of our motivation but I don't think we'll be running away with the game. I think it will be a close, well-played game, a very competitive game." "I don't see why such big favorites," said quarterback Terry Stallworth. But both men said they don't see that as a factor. "I wish it meant something," smiled Stallworth, "but it won't.

If I were 6-8 like Harold Carmichael it might be important, but with Rod's jumping ability and quickness, he'll get around the height difference." "Height is not important in our matchup," echoed Perry. "I'm about 5-9 but I feel I can jump with him." The Rams showed a new defensive formation in their playoff victory against Dallas, using seven men in the secondary and confusing Cowboy quarterback Roger Staubach. Stallworth said he wouldn't mind seeing the so-called "seven penny" formation. "It would be a challenge," he said. "They run a good man-to-man defense and if they use the seven-man set it will give us options over the Stallworth: The other guy kept laughing about what they were doing to each other.

They were just two good friends having themselves a slam-bang old time. While all this was going on, one of the other players in the group laid a 50 dollar bill on the bar, ordered another round of drinks and made a quick trip to the men's room. When he got back, his 50 was gone, there was no change on the bar, there was no nothing. "I'm pretty sure I put 50 dollars down here a couple of minutes ago," he said, without over-reacting. "Now it's gone.

What happened to my change?" Pretty soon it was discovered that one of the other patrons, a woman, had picked up the money. She returned it and all the players laughed some more. "Dennis and Gary are real close friends," Gravelle said, when questioned about the episode. "They were hitting each other and laughing and you never saw any two guys have a better time. We all had a great time, and I'm telling you, those two were really letting each other have it." Harrah, a fun-loving 26-year-old bachelor, was still laughing when he confirmed the details of his "reunion" with Dunn before Tuesday's practice session.

"We were there a few hours and we didn't talk very much football," he said. "Gary and I know each a long time time and it was good to get together again with him." Harrah isn't too sure what Dunn said to him when they parted. He isn't too sure what anybody said when it was time to say goodbye. "By then, we were numb," he said. know Mi(a) iL-o-ouq i wsC AlK.

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They plan to give the Los Angeles Rams' secondary all it can handle in Sunday's Super Bowl in nearby Pasadena. Stallworth, a 6-foot-2, 185-pounder in his seventh NFL season, ranks among the elite of the league's receivers. He may be overshadowed by just one man: Swann. "A lot of it is natural," Stallworth said. "What speed and agility and strength I have isn't my doing.

But much of it is hard work and experience. You'll Greene FULLERTON, Calif. (UPI) Pittsburgh's Joe Greene, formerly Mean Joe Greene, has officially requested that his name be changed. He wants to be known as Dedicated Joe Greene. "I'm a person." the Steelers' All-Pro defensive linemen said Tuesday as his team prepared for Sunday's Super Bowl showdown with the Los Angeles Rams in Pasadena's Rose Bowl.

"I am emotional mean, angry, tough, sincere, sensitive. But during a game, I'm dedicated. That's what I want to be known dedicated. "I resented 'Mean I never understood it. Now I look on it as a compliment, but I still don't like it." middle and to our receivers coming out of the backf ield.

"We've (he and Swann) been double-teamed all year; we get used to it. When they throw two men on one of us, it's just natural one of us will be working on just one defender. "I hope we can go deep against them, but we'll take what they give us. The game will dictate that." THE RAMS use a straight man-to-man defense in their secondary and Stallworth wouldn't admit to a preference in working against the man-to-man or rotating zone defense like that used by the Houston Oilers. But he said he might reveal his preference after the game.

"I'm going to say he said with a smile. "I don't prefer either to work against. I can handle each of them." together," he said of the Steelers. "We live together every day of the season. We've become very, very close.

"Pittsburgh is someplace special. It's a working man's town. It's a tough place. Everything's tough there. terrain, the ethnic groups and the potholes in the roads," he laughed.

Greene cited several controversial calls by officials in the playoffs and said his main concern Sunday will be not to allow the officials to determine the outcome of the game. "What I worry about most is the game being very close and taken out of our control by bad calls," he said. "We need more honesty out there." All vou ever dedicated Joe wanted to about Florida! Attend our Florida Living Seminar. JOHN STALLWORTH never get real good without a combination of the natural skills and desire." STALLWORTH, 27, will spend Sunday working on Ram cornerback Rod Perry, who gives away nearly six inches in height to prefers Whatever you say, Dedicated Joe. Greene, a 6-foot-4, 265-pound tackle, will spend 60 minutes Sunday across the trench from the Rams' 6-5, 251-pound guard, Dennis Harrah.

Many see it as a crucial match in the battle to control the line of scrimmage. "The Rams have some big guys that are real strong," the 33-year-old Greene said. "And Cullen Bryant in the backfield is like having a guard blocking down on you. "Harrah is strong and real quick and has fine balance. He dominated his man in each of the (playoff) games against Dallas and Tampa Bay.

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No obligation to purchase. GREENE was irritated at talk of the Rams, who head into the game as 11-point underdogs, not being the best team in the NFC West despite capturing the title. "The Rams are the best in the NFC," Greene roared. "They're the best because they're here. Never mind Dallas and all the others.

This year the Rams were the best and we want to play the best." The 1 1-year veteran from North Texas State (the Mean Green) said all the Steelers are proud of Pittsburgh and believe it's a city of champions. He said the Pittsburgh Pirates, World Series champions in 1979, are no more a "family" than the Steelers. "We spend a lot of time Thursday, January 17, at 2 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Crossgates Inn S401 Carlisle Pike Mechanlcsburg, Pa.

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