Sports AFC's Buffalo Favored At Super Bowl franchises assigned to the new conference as part of the 1966 merger. Except for the Raiders with three championships, the Dolphins with two and the Jets and Chiefs with one each, the old AFL has come up empty in this game. Now, though, here comes Buffalo, running on full. First-time visitors to this event often are flustered by the fanfare. The Bills, however, seem unflappable.
They play seat-of-your-pants, often impromptu football. They don't bothei with old fashioned stuff Like huddles. Who needs it? In the AFC championship game, Jim Kelly fumbled a snap and turned the busted play into a touchdown pass. That stuff doesn't come out of huddles. Fans watch that and wonder "What next?" based on an exciting no-huddle play mix.
The last time the AFC won a Super Bowl was the last time Tampa hosted this celebration of pro football in 1984, when the Raiders defeated Washington 38-9. Except for that, the AFC has spent the Super Bowl's Last decade as an afterthought, lopsided losers most of the time. Denver absorbed a 55-10 defeat by San Francisco last year, preceded by a 42-10 wipeout by Washington in 1988 and 39-20 loss to the New York Giants the year before that. Chicago embarrassed New England 46-10 in 1986. a year after San Francisco beat up Miami 38-16.
Overall, the AFC-NFC Super Bowl log is split down the middle 12-12. But four of the dozen AFC victories belong to Pittsburgh and another to the Colts, both old NFL the theater of the absurd. Denver's early teams wore outrageous looking tigcr-siripcd socks, because the owner got a good deal on them. New York's attendance figures included fans disguised as empty scats. There were point-a-minutc offenses and token defenses.
You didn't dare take your eyes off passers like Babe Parilli and Daryle Lamo-nica. You never knew what you might miss. It was fun football and Buffalo was right in the middle of the madness. Now the franchise is all grown up and in the Super Bowl for the first time. It arrives flying the flag in a place where the AFC has suffered terribly lately.
And it arrives playing some good old-fashioned AFL football. The Bills scored 96 points in their two playoff games and feature an offense TAMPA, Fla. (AP) For most of the past decade the only reason an AFC team was in the Super Bowl was because the NFL needed two teams to play the game. The conference six straight championship games by an average score of 40-14 and won just one in 10 years. But here come the Buffalo Bills, who arrive as 5-point favorites over the New York Giants for Sunday's silver anniversary game.
The Bills are not only an AFC team, but an original one, born 31 years ago as part of the old AFL, a let-it-all-hang-out league where anything was liable to happen and often did. Being favored over the old establishment Giants has to tickle them, considering their heritage. Sometimes, the AFL seemed like UK. 41 Dumars Leads Pistons Over Celtics, 101-90 then gave the Knicks the lead for good with a basket 33 seconds later. Bullets 121, Magic 119 Washington handed Orlando its fourth consecutive loss when Darrell Walker hit a jumper from the comer with 1.4 seconds remaining.
Walker's game-winning shot completed his third triple-double of the season. Walker had 10 points. 15 rebounds and 13 assists. Nuggets 115, Timberwolves 110 Denver snapped Minnesota's three-game road winning streak and defeated the Timberwolves for the seventh consecutive time behind Michael Adams' 24 points, including six free throws in the final 19 seconds. There were 12 ties in the second half before Walter Davis' layup gave Denver the lead for good, 109-107.
with 44 seconds remaining. 80-73 with 3:11 left in the period. but Jordan had four baskets and Craig Hodges two. including a 3-pointer, as Chicago built a 93-79 lead heading into the final period. Kings 97, Rockets 94 Antoine Carr scored six of his 19 points in the final three minutes.
Johnson's two free throws with 2:45 left tied it at 87. Carr made two free throws 14 seconds later to put the Kings on top for good. Travis Mays, who had 23 points, hit a jumper and Lionel Simmons added two 10-foot jumpers, giving the Kings a 95-91 lead with 42 seconds remaining. Knicks 117, 76ers 116 OT New York took advantage of six technical fouls against Philadelphia and Patrick Ewing had 37 points, 16 rebounds and six blocked shots. Ewing scored six points in overtime.
He tied the score at 111-111 with 2:56 left in the extra period, York 117, Philadelphia 1 16 in overtime; Washington 121, Orlando 119; and Denver 115, Minnesota 110. As usual, the Pistons did it with defense. They allow a league-low 95.8 points per game and are 24-3 when holding opponents to less than 100 points. Kevin McHale led the Celtics with 24 points, but had just six in the second half. Brian Shaw and Joe Kleine, Parish's replacement, each had 18 for Boston.
Lakers 120, Pacers 114 The Lakers made it seven straight wins as Magic Johnson led the way with 27 points and 15 assists. Rik Smits gave Indiana a 74-63 lead in the opening seconds of the third period. But Johnson, who had 13 points in the third quarter, led a 20-6 run for an 83-80 Lakers lead with 6:55 left in the period. Bulls 117, Heat 106 Michael Jordan scored 37 points, including 13 in the third period. Chicago led 69-66 when Jordan hit a free throw to open an 11-3 run that made it 80-69 with 4:14 left in the third quarter.
Miami got back to The Boston Celtics have won in Gardens. Arenas. Stadiums and Forums, but they still don't know how to play The Palace. With Vinnie Johnson and Joe Dumars picking up the slack for injured Isiah Thomas, the Pistons kept the Celtics winless in seven trips to The Palace by beating Boston 101-90 Monday night. It was a battle between two battered teams.
Boston was without Larry Bird for the seventh straight game and also played without center Robert Parish. Detroit was without Thomas; Dumars had 26 points despite playing with a badly sprained big toe, and Dennis Rodman, Mark Aguirre and Johnson were aching after the first of a home-and-home series with Boston. "Sometimes when things happen, you have to play harder," said Johnson, who had 18 points. "That's what we did tonight. Isiah's our captain.
It's an adjustment to play without him. He brings the ball up the court for us. They knew that. That's why they were trying to trap us out there." In other NBA action, it was the Los Angeles Lakers 110, Indiana 104; Chicago 117, Miami 106; Sacramento 95, Houston 91; New Crowley Visits Eunice In Key Tilts The Crowley Gents and Ladies will travel to Eunice tonight to play the 5. AAA district leaders.
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