| Show 4: t - A 4r- - IV N 00ip1C1 4 AN:04 41 ' 4 444:4 44 ""&17-&‘&7111- A '1 - 414 )4 4 4 4 I i 4 effirt I e - - --- ' t A o 1 7 2004 0 3 PAGE (Sto7 vets share tales from the Super Bowl - George Male - downs and a Super Bowl © Zap 2it victory that was sewn up In the third quarter His efforts earned him MVP Marcus Allen's memories of his only Super Bowl honors Joe Theismann an anaappearance are somelyst on ESPN's 'Sunday what of a paradox On one hand the Night Football and conevents in Tampa Fla the tributor to Sunday NFL Countdown: was on the weekend of Jan 1984 during which his Los other side of the field that day as the starting Angeles Raiders routed quarterback for the RedRedskins the Washington skins Not surprisingly he in Super Bowl XVIII 38-I are a blur remembered has memories that aren't "" lootf The as by Allen the way most re- quite was happy full of just member their wedding game bizarre plays" he says On hand other the day was what happened in the Our firstfor punt toucha blocked 414 still seems game itself threw an interdown now-CBto vivid the 6 very A ception at the end of the commentator half that was run back for The best way can dea touchdown Marcus scribe It is: Just Imagine a Allen broke a run still painting and I'm the for a touchdown Cliff 't only figure in the painting -- Bkurich daugnt a bomb brouricl —anct- for running And we a touchdown everybody else is sort of couldn't get out of our standing still trying to own way stop me: says Allen who Theismann 's first experl- will file reports from the Former Washington Redskins Joe Theismann a contributor to ESPN's "Sunday NFL came a year earlier Countdown" is a veteran of two quarterback ence field on The Super Bowl Super Bowls and a winner of one Today prior to the CBS in Pasadena Calif when As a second-yea- r According to Theis- - the Raiders had a little pro broadcast of Super Bowl the Redskins defeated mann Redskins came ritual the team liked to Allen remembers he was the 27XXXVIII live from Reliant the Miami Dolphins to Pasadena to go engage in during prac- - too young and naive for Stadium in Houston on 17 in Super Bowl XVII He to war 'I've ready always de- - tice for a big game 'The it to occur to him that he 'There's says 'From the mental scribed my role Sunday Feb on that thing remember most' should feel nervous or really not much they can side of it your first game football team as more of Allen says 'the now-Goverwhelmed 'I was do about it mean my is one of real euphoria a ringmaster than a guar- - Matt Millen (then a there to really win justa awareness was so keen it's very hard to describe terback: he says "be- - Raiders linebacker) was game and to enjoy the and it was so vivid and to someone what a Su- - cause my wide receivers a fight with experience: he says"It is really staging can see even the anguish per Bowl is like had this were nicknamed 'the line- - an offensive incredible experion the guys' faces as ran conversation with Junior smurfs: my offensive line' (Raiders Marvin be- - ence to be man) Mickey guess at them' by Seau before the San were called 'the liogs' cause we were sort of su- - the epicenter of the exAllen's Zenlike state of Diego Chargers went on 'We had John Riggins perstitious Anytime we citement And to have mind was such that to Francisco San at a Friday night party had fights during prac- - that sort of gravitational the play 'everything was surreal 49ers (in 1995 in Super before the Super Bowl tice we thought we were pull on people not only to me' he says "When Bowl XXIX) We did a show up at (then-Red- to And from an audience stand-walke- d play prepared out on the field skins owner Jack Kent) remember in the season late Matt on and television but game point (and) looked around for or them and said 'I'd ooke's party' in white Mickey Marvin got into a even in Tampa Bay was in some reason tails top hat and a cane fight and they did such where everybody was at such peace and very really like to tell you what and is an Bowl like probably ripped incredible but of the hotel the Super ' trying to get a calm and really nothing to the gills And the line- - pulling it off they job it t o made of do it' Justice can't glimpse trying to bothered me Anything backers when we arrived seem so real because get a piece you of you it can that found sort of inter- - And then after e ga saw him at a function they drew blood No one become overwhelming esting or could have Into like Army fatigues knew about it until later think "I found it sort of enter- did said 'What been disturbing I'd end you were ready to go to they it because didn't He So Bowl' of at though the up smiling Super guess taming (and) crazy at the was in a pretty good said'You know you really war mean it was just a appear to be acting to same time Yet my focus very unique group We was clear - wanted to else frame of mind: can't describe it It's big- - very of men I've always de-- - anybody it was The result was a good ger than life It's bigger scribed exactly go there and win the that group of thought we needed to see game and be a world day for Allen: 191 yards than a football game It's guys as characters with what Matt later told us that champion and every-rushin- g on 20 carries In- - 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