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Show Jim Murray Former Rams’ Kicker Doesn't Miss the Point Any More “Old placekickers never die, they just go on missing the point.” — Lou (The Toe) Groza, circa 1966 The thing about Daniel Dario raised in Calexic Danny was hired by the Rams out of New Mexico State i 1960 by the then- , coach. Bob Wa ield, himse! placekicker. $250 ‘bonus Villaneuva, whoplacekicked for the Rams and Cowboys for 13 years in the NFL, is that he “They gave me a later deducted from mysalary of $5.20a year — and took me to a field where } had to gudition almost always got the point. He still holds the record for the most points - after - touchdownwithout a miss for a season in the NFL. 56, in 1966. He made 97.9 percent of his PAT’sin his career, second only to George Blanda and Tommy Davis. Hestill holds the Rams’ record for the best Placekickers are the loneliest football playersin the land. Even a scenariolike this usually finds our hero tending bar in a place on the practice like “Between The Uprights’’ or The Extra Point,” but Danny decided that the restof hi life he was not going to be just omebody called in after somebody else made the touchdown ‘I retired on the way to the field. they're regulars. “You can always tell poured through 496 points in his two-team career. ing across oceans — hours of field goal (51 yards) and he DannyVillaneuvais a historic figure for another reason — he wasthe first Mexican-American to play pro football in the United States. Born in New Mexico. boredom punctuated by moments of sheerterror.” Notsurprisingly. placekickers are not noted for their sense of humor. But Danny was. Son of a Herald Want Ads Bring Results Danny had goal to put the Cowboys ahead of Green Bay, 17-14. until, with only 16 seconds left to p Packers pulled it ovt § Danny, the I remember Lombardi yelling characterized the Ramattack as the tango offense one-two three. kick!” the placekicker on the team. He's the one eating alonein the coffee shop,”’ Villanueva notes. Thelate Red Sanders once characterized the kickers’ life as “‘a lot like fly- and in a season (45.5). He holds the Rams’ record for the longest elected to go home a good game. He kickedthe field I was tradedto the Cowboys by the Rams for Tommy McDonald and a CARE package to Mexico.” He once ing off the side of a hill. I had to kick downhill lies, but I made 46 straight isolated from the rest of the punting average in a game (52.5) Methodist) p over at me as I warmedup if you could call it that Mex icans don’t like this weather! “I had And I yelled back ‘Polar bears to make 87 punts one year and 88 the next.”’ The usual next reel in don’t like it either’ I went into the locker roomafter the game and said ‘What timeis the next dog sled to Chicago?’ And quit Tuesday practice Danny Villaneuva today plays thefull 60 minutes, President and neral manager of KMEX. or Channel 34, theSpanish-speaking channel. heis vice president and general manager of Spanish International Communications Corporation, which owns seven television stations and is af filiated with 122 others. He is Villaneuva always had a manana” complex. Only in his cer team. Hesits on 10 boardsof he was working furiously president of the L.A. Aztecs soc directors, has an office on Park Avenue, a condominiumin the towards a different manana He desert. and heis to be commis conducted a sports commentary in English for KMPC in Los sioner of boxing for the upcoming Angeles and for KMEX TVin Heis thus a top American corporate executive and he hasthe scars from three ulcer operations to proveit. But he may be the only executive in America Spanish even while he was play ing in Dallas. He did commer: cials for Coca-Cola, for Ford, and he made so many banquet ap- ‘Dallas won the toss — and Angeles trip after a game in the East, spent the day in a studio. then flew to Dallas in time for the game on the spot In a way. you might say Danny case. dressing room after the 1967 championship game in Green Bay. It was 21 degrees belowzero and dropping.’ That was the game where someone cracked pearances he frequently flew the Red Eye” New York-to-Los ‘ 1984 Olympics who doesn't blame pressures of the neuva thinks he got his kick- ing the Rams out of trouble or sometimes, into kick afield g with Tom Landry g’ on one side and Vince Lombardi yelling at you on the other and 11 guys with frostbite taking it out on you? It’s the hardest, hardest job in the world. You got to answer to a town, a team, a coach, a stadium, and 50 million nuts en TV Compared to that. running seven to 12 businesses, eating lunch out of a briefcase, running for a planeor the 1984 Olympics and televising World Cup Soccer is chip shot from the 10vard line against the New Orleans Saints for Danny Besides, in business, he points out. they sometimes blame the holder (c) 1981, Los Angeles Times Syndicate Se sores HOLIDA aOFF Video Recorders 6 Hour VHS Format VIDEO RECORDER Thelatest 6-hour VHS Video Recorder enables you to record one television pro- gram while watching anotheror record programs while asleep or away. Connectseasily to any TV. 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