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From: stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Super Bowl XX
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 12:34:50 EST
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>Notes on Super Bowl XX from a lifelong Patriots fan:

Although the complete text is not repeated here, I appreciate your
non-flaming and well-thought-out comments.  'Tis nice to see and
all-too-rare in net.sport.football.

>But bear this in mind, if you'll pardon the pun: The team the 
>Bears beat September 15 does not even resemble the team they will 
>try and beat January 26. Their offense was a mess. The 
>early-season Eason would make Marc Wilson look like Roger 
>Staubach.

As a Raider fan, I find it hard to believe that ANYONE could make
Wilson look like Staubach.

>Miami was better than Chicago, and I'm sure they would have 
>entered the Super Bowl with a good deal of well-founded 
>confidence. New England is better than Miami. Much better. They 
>should have been 3-0 against them this year. If you don't think 
>all that gives the Patriots reason to think they can beat the 
>Bears, think again. 

The good old "transitive property of football".  A lot of football
depends on how teams match against one another.  For example,
Miami could tear apart a team with lousy pass defense, while the
Raiders (with Wilson) would likely not take much advantage of it.
On a neutral site, I would pick the Pats over the Dolphins, the
Dolphins over the Bears, but the Bears over the Pats.  If I were
to play against the Bears, I would want either Miami or San Diego;
in other words, hope you defense manages to do OK, and hope your
offense plays up to its potential and lights up the scoreboard.

>This is not a prediction of a New England upset. I still haven't 
>decided about that. It is merely a statement that the Pats do 
>belong in New Orleans ...

Agreed.  In my opinion, the Pats, Raiders, Dolphins, Jets and Broncos
are all quality football teams; none is head-and-shoulders above the
others.  The Pats are better balanced than most, if not all, of the
others.  The clearly deserve to be in the Super Bowl, having gone 3-0 ON
THE ROAD against the others in this group.

		Steve Vegdahl
		Computer Research Lab.
		Tektronix, Inc.
		Beaverton, Oregon