14—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1986 Hard times befall 'Team of the '7os' By ALAN ROBINSON 'AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH The 1980 s haven't been so kind to the "Team of the '7os." Not only have times changed for the Pittsburgh Steelers, so have their faces. Mark Malone is at quarterback, not Terry Bradshaw, who led them to a record four Super Bowl championships in six years. Mel Blount has long since retired; free agent• rookie Chris Sheffield starts at cornerback. Remember Franco and Rocky? • Steelers' fans have found them hard to forget with players named Morse and Hooper as running backs. It has also been hard to forget a few other names like Lynn Swann, Joe Greene, L.C. Greenwood, Jack Ham and Jack Lambert. The Steelers have won but one playoff game in the last six seasons; • •:•t- their record the last 2 1 / 2 seasons is a nondescript 18-21. Despite playing in the AFC Central, perhaps the weakest division in the NFL, the Steelers were 7-9 in 1985, their first losing season in 14 years. And their problems are likely to continue this season. The team has made no major player acquisitions other than drafting first-round pick John Rienstra, an offensive guard from Temple. The Steelers' best defensive back, Dwayne Woodruff, will miss the sea son because of knee surgery, further weakening a defensive secondary that has been increasingly exploited by opposing quarterbacks. In 1 1 / 2 seasons as a regular, Malone has reminded few of Bradshaw. De fensive ends Darryl Sims and Keith Gary, first-round draft choices cho sen to strengthen an ineffective pass rush, have been major disappoint ments. Some have even dared to whisper what was once considered ludicrous on staying power kt,C,Z;O. - -Ir l Joe Paterno has com rig piled one of the best rec. W 4 4, ords in college football e , ; kO l , :. while emphasizing aca ;,..,„ demic excellence. In 20 e. 'ite, years as Penn State's head coach, he has never had a los ing season and has competed in 17 postseason bowl games. His teams hav,e been ranked first in the country in four of the last eight years. Equally important to Pa terno is the classroom per formance of his student athletes. Eighteen of his play ers have been named first team academic all-Americans and twelve have received NCAA postgraduate scholar ships, ranking Penn State in the top five teams nationally according to a recent NCAA report. that perhaps Chuck Noll, in his 18th season as Steelers' coach, perhaps should be getting on with his life's work. "Somewhere along the line, we lost that right frartie of mind you need to win games," Woodruff said. "It's easy to have the right attitude when you have championship years, but when you have problems, you work on attitude. Maybe we forgot how to do that." "There are times the last few sea sons when we needed to be motivated more," said wide receiver John Stal lworth, one of just three remaining veterans from the four Super Bowl teams. "Maybe the motivation was not there all down the line." Changing times have altered the way NFL teams scout college play ers, an area where the Steelers were preeminent. They built their most dominating teams almost exclusively through the draft; not a single player on their 1979 team had ever played for another NFL team. Having a bad start was probably the best thing that ever happened to me. We went 5 and 5 my first year, then lost the opener the following year. Everybody was placing bets on who would succeed me. -Had we been moderately success ful, I never would have questioned the way I was coaching. Now I con stantly question everything I do. Success is a journey I never get very elated over a win, be cause, as Churchill said, "Success is , never final." Likewise, I never get de pressed over a loss. I look for the les son in it. If you're knocked down, you can't lose your guts. You need to play with supreme confidence or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit. You must always do what you're afraid to do People aren't just lucky. Good things happen to them because they're will ing to take chances. I don't ever want to think about ties. If you don't win, you don't win, but at least you have the experience of going for it, of making something useful happen through your efforts. You either get better or you get worse You can never stay the same. All of us are changing every day. Every thing we read or see or do makes us different in some small way. If you think you can come off a practice field the same player you were when you went on, you're kid ding yourself. If you practice well, you'll be better. Some players think that when Saturday comes, they can get by on natural ability, that practice isn't important. That's foolish. In our The days when the Steelers could comb infrequently scouted campuses like. North Texas State, Southern and South Carolina State to stockpile tal ent are gone. Scouting is compute rized. Every NFL team but the Los Angeles Raiders belongs to scouting combines which distribute volu minous player data to their various clients. Noll, who has coached his team longer than all but three coaches in NFL history, disagrees with those who charge the Steelers are unwilling to keep up with the times. "People say we're predictable," he said. "But look at the Chicago Bears. They didn't fool anybody last year, everybody knew what they were going to do but they still did it." Art Rooney Jr., son of the team's beloved patriarch and the Steelers' vice president, summarized the Pitts burgh problem more bluntly. "If we have another season like last year," he said, "we'll all be looking for jobs next year." league, everyone is good. If you want to be #l, you better get yourself ready. That's also why I emphasize academics so much. Preparing for a game is like preparing for life. The will to win' is important, but the will to prepare You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. Profes sionalism has nothing to do with get ting paid for your services. We only promise a fair shake One of the things we look for in play ers is honesty. If you accept people who are only interested in a flashy car and handouts from alumni, they won't have much staying power. To be consistently good takes commit ment to the good of the group: Coaches have to be honest, too. Too many make promises they can't keep just to sign a kid. When he shows up on campus, he discovers he has to make the team just like every one else. Then he gets disillusioned and morale islowered. It's easy for first-stringers to have good morale. But what about the guys who almost never get to play? If they have good. morale, then every one has it. And the only way every one will have it is if everyone believes he has had a fair shake. To win you must play as though you can't lose We've had five Undefeated regular seasons and three all the way. To have a 10 and 1 or 9 and 2 season isn't exactly what our fans hope for today. PENN STATE STUDENT USHERS Be a part of the Penn State Football Tradition! . All student ushers will receive two hotdogs and a Coke free and the best seats in the house. Ushers will help seat other students right up until game time and then take their seats on the 40 yard line • • (the first nine rows behind the Nittany Lions). To apply call 234-2142. Applications will be accepted all this week. is vital The secret to performing well un der that kind of pressure is poise. To develop poise, you need to con stantly subject yourself to more stress than you'll find in games. Then when you find yourself in a difficult situation, you react confidently. Our players work so hard in prac tice, Saturdays seem easy by compar ison. We go out to have fun and it shows on the scoreboard. In that sense, I feel my greatest ac complishment has been to keep foot ball in its proper perspective. You don't know what you have until you have to use it Football is only a tiny part of a kid's total emotional, physical, and intel lectual development. All I ask is that they give it their best. If we win, great. If we lose, there's always next Saturday. If we can't get knocked on our rear end once in a while and come back and be better, I'm going to be awfully disappointed. You don't know what you have until you have to use it. Through conversations with people widely recognized as perennial lead ers in their professions, we hope to provide insight into the. enduring values and attitudes that lead to suc cess over a long period. Their con sistent achievements in a constantly changing society exemplify staying power—the hallmark of Panhandle Eastern, which has been a leader in energy for more than half a century. For a reprint of this essay or a copy of our latest Quarterly Report,.please write Department J 5, P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642. PANHANDLE EASTERN CORPORATION scoreboard ,major league baseball Boston Toronto New York Detroit• Baltimore Cleveland Milwaukee California Texas Oakland Kansas City Seattle Chicago Minnesota New York PHILLIES St. Louis Montreal Chicago PIRATES Houston Cincinnati San Francisco Los Angeles Atlanta San Diego' AMERICAN LEAGUE Sunday's Games Boston 4, Cleveland 3 Toronto 7, Minnesota 5 . Chicago 3, Texas 1 Kansas City 6, Milwaukee 1 Oakland 7, Baltimore 0 California 4, Detroit 3 Seattleß, New York 2 Yesterday's Games Late Games Not Included Toronto 5, Cleveland 4 Minnesota 9, Milwaukee 3 Baltimore at California Detroit at Seattle Texas at Boston, (n) Chicago at Kansas City, (n) New York at Oakland, (n) Today's Games Cleveland (Schrom 11-6) at Toronto (Clancy 14.7), 7:35 p.m. Texas (Guzman 9.12) at Boston (Nip per 8.9), 7:35 p.m. Chicago (Carlton 2-2) at Kansas City (Jackson 9.9), 8:35 p.m. Milwaukee (Vuckovich 0.0) at Minne sota (Blyleven 14.10), 8:35 p.m. Detroit (King 9-4) at Seattle (Lan gston 11.10), 10:35 p.m. New York (Rasmussen 14-4) at Oak land (Young 10.8), 10:35 p.m. Baltimore (Flanagan 7-8) at California (Sutton 12-9), 10:35 p.m. Tomorrow's Games New York at Oakland, 3:15 p.m. Cleveland at Toronto, 7:35 p.m. Texas at Boston, 7:35 p.m. Chicago at Kansas City, 8:35 p.m. Milwaukee at Minnesota, 8:35 p.m Detroit at Seattle, 10:35 p.m. Baltimore at California, 10:35 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Sunday's Games San Diego 4, Montreal 1 Los Angeles 7, New York 4 PHILLIES 4, San Francisco 3 St. Louis 9, Cincinnati 3 Atlanta 4, Chicago 3 PIRATES 8, Houston 2 Yesterday's Games Late Games Not Included New York 5, San Francisco 2 Houston 6, Chicago 4 PIRATES at Cincinnati, (n) Los Angeles at Montreal, (n) San Diego at .PHILLIES, (n) St. Louis at Atlanta, (n) Today's Games • Saturday's Games Houston (Ryan 9.8) at Chicago (Moy- i Chicago 31, Buffalo 17 er 5-4), 4:05 p.m. New York Giants 17, STEELERS 3 San Francisco (Krukow 13.8) at New New England 16, Green Bay 9 New Orleans 13, Kansas City 10 York (Gooden 13-4), 7:35 p.m. Minnesota 23, Indianapolis 20, OT PIRATES (Kipper 3-6) at Cincinnati Houston 17, Dallas 14 AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB 76 54 .585 74 58 .561 70 61 .534 68 64 .515 65 65 .500 65 67 .492 64 66 .492 West Division W L Pct GB 74 56 .569 69 62 .527 61 71 .462 60 70 .462 58 74 .439 56 73 .434 56 75 .427 5 1 / 2 14 14 17 17 1 / 2 191/2 NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W L Pct GB 88 43 .672 68 62 .523 19 1 / 2 65 65 .500 22V2 62 65 .488 24 55 76 .420 33 53 76 .411 34 West Division W L Pct GB 74 57 .565 66 64 .508 65 66 .496 62 68 .477 61 68 .473 61 70 .466 11 1 / 2 12 13 (GuHickson 12.8), 7:35 p.m. Los Angeles (Welch 6-10) at Montreal (Youmans 11-9), 7:35 p.m. San Diego (LaPoint 0.1) at PHILLIES (Bittiger 0.0), 7:35 p.m. St. Louis (Tudor 13.6) at Atlanta (Mahler 11-14), 7:40 p.m. Tomorrow's Games Houston at Chicago, 2:20 p.m. Los Angeles at Montreal, 7:05 p.m. San Francisco at New York, 7:35 p.m. PIRATES at Cincinnati, 7:35 p.m. San Diego at PHILLIES, 7:35 p.m. St. Louis at Atlanta, 7:40 p.m. W L T Pct. PF PA New England 4 1 0 .800 103 90 Miami N.Y. Jets Buffalo Indianapolis Cleveland Houston Cincinnati 1 3 0 .250 71 STEELERS 1 3 0 .250 81 San Diego Kansas City 2 2 0 .500 63 LA. Raiders 2 2 0 .500 70 N.Y. Giants Washington St. Louis EAGLES Dallas Minnesota Green Bay 1 3 0 .250 73 Tampa Bay 0 4 0 .000 43 LA. Rams New Orleans 2 2 0 .500 70 San Francisco 2 2 0 .500 79 Thursday's Games New York Jets 37, EAGLES 30 Cleveland 25, Los Angeles Raiders 22 Friday's Games Miami 21, Tampa Bay 3 Washington 29, Atlanta 21 Detroit 30, Cincinnati 20 Denver 19, Los Angeles Rams 10 San Francisco 21, Seattle 10 San Diego 24, St. Louis 17 LlO Streak Home Away 5.5 Won 2 37-24 39-30 9-1 Won 9 38-30 36-28 4-6 Lost 1 34.34 38-27 3-7 Lost 4 41.27 27-37 2-8 Lost 1 33-30 32-35 3.7 Lost 3 37-32 28-35 46 Lost 3 33-31 31-35 LlO Streak Home Away 8-2 Won 7 38-25 36-31 7-3 Lost 1 41.25 28-37 8-2 Won 1 37-28 24-43 6-4 Won 2 35-30 25-40 5-5 Won 1 36-31 22-43 3-7 Won 1 31.34 25-39 4-6 Won 1 31.33 25-42 LlO Streak Home Away 8-2 Won• 1 42.21 46-22 7-3 Won 5 37.25 31-37 6.4 Won 2 36.32 29-33 3-7_ Lost 2 28-31 34.34 3.7 Lost 3 33.33 22-43 6-4 Won 2 26.42 27-34 LlO Streak Home Away 5.5 Won 1 40.26 34.31 7-3 Lost 2 32-30 34-34 3-7 Lost 4 37-31 28.35 4-6 Won 1 40.29 22-39 4-6 Won 2 31.30 30.38 4-6 Won 2 36-32 25-38 AMERICAN CONFERENCE East 2 2 0 .500 67 85 2 2 0 .500 95 105 1 3 0 .250 67 1 3 0 .250 75 Central 4 0 0 1.000 88 4 0 0 1.000 81 3 1 0 .750 106 2 2 0 .500 87 2 2 0 • .500 85 NATIONAL CONFERENCE 3 1 0 .750 83 3 1 0 .750 84 2 3 0 .400 99 1 3 0 .250 100 0 5 0 .000 87 4 1 0 .800 126 3 1 0 .740 99 2 2 0 .500 82 2 2 0 .500 93 2 2 0 .500 75 70 61 90 105 Stromboli Pizza dough stuffed with cheese & your choice of stuffings sm. 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