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Show Page B2 Thursday, February 3, 1983 Park City News Grocery Delivery e9ie A Eomn Semite 649-FOOD 2Su. Je$e,e y Mt. Air Breakfast! When it's too cold to go out or you're just too tired from a hard day on the slopes, call Room Service. We deliver from a variety of restaurants in Park City. We feature our own after midnight munchies anytime day or night. by Jim Murray He's Little Big Man in the nation's capital CONDOMINIUMS M.JL I ! mmmm mmmm i i n mmmmkb U V U 7 Ui li AMENITIES THAN ALL THE REST WBte - ... - -v .- . ....... ...... I' i SWIMMING POOL INDOOR AND OUTDOOR OUT-DOOR SPA SAUNA WADING POOL TENNIS & ICE SKATING SKI STORAGE HOTEL SERVICE ON SITE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY DESIGNER DECORATED 2 BEDROOM UNITS WITH LOCK-OFF LOCK-OFF 1 BLOCK TO PROPOSED DEPOT CHAIR LIFT SHORT WALK TO MAIN STREET. Call Janet Reeves, Huntsman-Christensen Real Estate Corp. 62 jp There is, in Washington, this personality known as "The Great Communicator." He's got this crest of brown hair in tufts, rosy cheeks, a nice smile, an engaging manner, man-ner, is kind of outdoorsy and extroverted and has a sort of love-hate relationship with the nation's capitol. He's kind of a public monument. He holds press conferences from time to time to answer an-swer his critics in the media, He stops traffic traf-fic wherever he goes and everyone in town has an opinion on him one way or the other. He has this kind of identification with the legend of Notre Dame and he's theatrical in the extreme. Ronald Reagan? Are you crazy? Who'd he ever hit with a 30-yard bomb with 30 seconds to play? Did he ever befuddle the minnesota Vikings with a quarterback keeper? Did he ever take Washington to the Super Bowl? No, the Washington monument in question is the Rt. Hon. Joe Theismann and if he's not first in peace and first in war, he is at least in the NFC. Joe Theismann goes through life as if he's running for office. He's gregarious, talkative, breezy, Hubert Humphrey in cleats. You couldn't send him to funerals because he would have a hard time looking sad. He's always had a firm grasp of the dramatic. He's the only guy in history to change his name -to rhyme with his profession's top award. I mean would Barrymore change his name to "Oscar" to win the Academy? Well Joe's name is "Theesman" if you ask his father. But that di'nt rhyme with "Heisman," as in Trophy. Ergo, Joe altered it to "Thy-sman." He didn't get the award, but that's show business. Joe, not a Catholic, picked Notre Dame for a school. He liked the neighborhood. Not South Bend, the cultural neighborhood. The pictures on the wall. George Gipp, Knute Rockne, The Four Horsemen. The stuff of the Late Show. Joe liked that kind of company. The Gipper, The Rock, Stuhldreher, Crowley, famine, pestilence and Joe Theismann. A nice part for Ronald Reagan. You know all you need to know about Joe when you know that he is a quarterback and dis jockey. You all know what a disc jockey is. A fellow who talks so much he doesn't even listen to himself. A fellow to whom noise is golden. Joe makes noise. Joe was one of the best quarterbacks Notre Dame ever had. But that's like being the best dancer in Bulgaria. Notre Pame is not exactly a quarterback school. Theismann was coming after a long line of them that included George Izo, John Huarte, Bob Williams, Terry Hanratty, Bill Zloch, and other household names. Lousy parts for Ronald Reagan. The pros thought Joe Theismann was too small and smiled too much to help them. He finished, second in the Heisman voting but 99th in the draft. Four rounds of players went before they got around to Joe. His last name might as well have rhymed with chopped liver. The real Heisman, Jim Plunkett, went first in the draft, followed immediately by two other quarterbacks, Archie Manning and Dan Pastorini. Then, non-Heisman quarterbacks quarter-backs like Lynn Dickey, Leo Hart and Bobby Bob-by Douglass went, and they left Joe standing there on tiptoe. Linebackers, safetymen, running backs, even backup centers went before Joe. Joe was too small, too light and too happy. The Miami Dolphins picked Joe finally. But only after they had picked a wide receiver named Otto Stowe and a linebacker named Dale Farley to name a couple of their more felicitous choices. Joe took the act to Canada, which is not exactly Gipp-Rockne-Four Horsemen country. coun-try. I mean, Canadian football is not even fodder for the Late Show. Dogsled races get more footage in the States. Canada is off-Broadway, off-Broadway, and Joe performed in the dark there for three years. The football equivalent of joining a convent. Joe didn't like the enforced vows of silence, and he next bobbed up at Washington, where George Allen, the coach, gave up a No. 1 draft choice for him. Before you suck in your breath, be advised George Allen would give up a No. 1 draft choice for a pizza. Still, Joe was finally a No. 1. But in spite of that, Washington put him to work returning punts, the football version of waiting on tables. Joe got to throw 11 whole passes his first year. The next year, the threw 22. This might crush fainter spirits but Joe took it in stride. He opened a restaurant, and wrote a book on the whole story of quarterbacking. Some people thought Joe should write a book on the whole story of how to hold for place-kicks, but Joe always had a flair. He was a guy who showed up at a party with holes in his pockets, cardboard in his shoes and toothpicks tooth-picks in his cigar butts, but passed out tips on the stock market anyway. Now, Joe has won the Super Bowl, at last, the dream of every red-blooded American boy. He's on prime time more than any star of stage, screen or radio including the one in the White House. He is as popular as a tax cut. He makes his rival quarterbacks in this game look like they're civil service employees em-ployees by,omparisoBlJfisl public utterances utteran-ces are, copied down as though they were , Lincoln's Gettysburg or Washington's Farewell address. You might say his name finally rhymes with "Heisman." Even if it didn't, it's for sure it rhymes with "rich man." f) 1983 Los Angeles Times L In Ctjj PARR CITY Sew-;: , til? Tonight thru Saturday Monday & Way SILVERADO YEIWWSTOIIE Country Rock Feb. 10th thru 12th JUDIL Wed., Feb. 9 nouTnim Feb. 16th thru 19th PUBS PMimiE LEAGUE Happy Hour 4-7 Tickets on sale at Cosmic Aeroplane, Smokey's Records, allZCMI stores, Salt Palace & Cowboy Bar Liquor Store. 649-4146 w restlers head for region tournament byJohnKinch In sports, competition is often bitter-sweet for the participants. The Park City wrestling team tasted region victory for only the second time all season, defeating South Rich. But the flavor was soured somewhat by a loss to North Summit in the same meet. In the tri-meet held Jan. 27 at South Rich, the Miners whipped the South Rich Trojans, 42-6, but were whipped by the North Summit Sum-mit Braves 58-12. Against South Rich, Greg Reed, 98, pinned his opponent op-ponent in the second period. Rex Fletcher, 119, won by a forfeit. Mike Birch, 126, fought a tough match coming up with a 5-2 decision. Geoff Palmer, 132, was also a decision winner. John Howard, 155, picked up a forfeit win. Bill Reed, 167, and Greg Bair, 185, won as expected. Against North Summit, however, Bair and Bill Reed were Park City's only winners, win-ners, both pinning their opponents. op-ponents. The rest of the Miners all fell to the Braves. The North Summit-South Rich meet was the last for Park City before the Region 11 tournament at North Summit High School Friday. As a team, Park City is third in the region with a 2-4 record, behind North and South Summit and ahead of South Rich. According to Coach Jesse Schaub some of the wrestlers enter the tournament tour-nament with a good chance of advancing to the state tournament. Bill Reed and Greg Bair, who boast 16-5 and 16-3 records, respectively, respec-tively, have defeated all their region opponents and are seeded first in the tournament. tour-nament. John Howard, 5-9, is seeded second and has a good chance at state, as does Mike Birch, 6-12. The tournament winner automatically goes to state. Of the wrestlers who place second in the Region 11 tournament, tour-nament, they will go to a Wrestle-off meet on Feb. 8 at Carbon High School. There they will compete against Region 13 wrestlers for a spot in the state tournament to be held at Carbon High School on Feb. 11-12. Girls' basketball Dugway pounds Park City 80-28 by John Kinch The Park City girls' basketball team was em-harassed em-harassed in front of the home town fans by Dugway last Thursday, getting blistered 80-28. There were few things that the Miners did right last Thursday, as the lopsided score indicates. They were outclassed and overpowered Dugway is the strongest team in Region llreeonhng to Park City coach Maggie Haun. To beat them the Miners needed to play errorless error-less basketball. Instead the Miners got themselves into foul trouble in the first quarter. "The fouls hurt us," said Haun. "The girls were uptight up-tight about fouling so they backed off and didn't play aggressively enough." Park City was down 18-2 at the end of the first quarter. Dugway exploded again in the second quarter and when the halftime whistle blew, Park City was behind 45-10. However, in the second half Park City began to play better, with good outside shooting. Sadi Nacki led the Miners' offense until she fouled out in the third quarter, ending the game with 14 points. In the fourth quarter the Miners scored 12 points and gave up only 15 points, but Dugway coasted to a 80-28 victory. Coach Haun was pleased with the second half. "We picked it up in the third and fourth. We stayed with them. We had trouble getting started, but the girls didn't give up," said Haun. Haun often sees a silver , lining in Park City's defeats' andthis one was ho different! She saw an improvement in rebounds, outside shooting, and the fast break. The Miners will try to use the fast break today at South Summit when they take on the Wildcats. In a preseason game earlier this season Park City lost 53-17, but Haun does not expect this game to be a repeat. In fact she is optimistic about Park City's chances against South Summit, and against North Summit next week. Although Haun feels that the team has to win one of these two games, Park City will go to the state tournament, tourna-ment, regardless of its record. The Miners will join North and South Summit and Dugway, because there is room for four teams from Region 11 in the tournament, and Wendover did not field a team this year. 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