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The NFL Minneapolis Star and Tribune Sunday, December 23, 1984 2C Two easy choices: Marino best player, Tose top weasel Allen earns $250,000 a year and quarterback, then I'm going to trade era gave up on them early in the progressed. The Vikings got worse. They finished with a 3-13 record after losing 11 of their final 12 games. They were blown out of their last six games and allowed a quarter mile of yardage in each of those games. They allowed NFL highs in points (484) and yardage figures that ranked fourth and third, respectively, on the league's all-time list Comeback team of the year New York Giants.

The Giants were almost as bad in 1983 as the Vikings were in 1984. But the Giants did a U-turn and made it to the playoffs for only the second time since 1963. Comeback player of the year Pittsburgh's John Stallworth spent most of the 1983 season injured. He was on the verge of retiring. In 1984, he had his greatest season, catching 80 passes for 1,395 yards.

Only three players had more receptions Washington's Art Monk (106), Cleveland's Ozzie Newsome (89) and Tampa Bay's James Wilder (85). Only St. Louis' Roy Green had more yardage Weasel of the year Philadelphia owner Leonard Tose wins this one. Nobody else was even close. Tose, who a few weeks earlier had said the Eagles would leave Philadelphia over "my dead body," had quite a a quarterback, Landry said.

Said White: "I think we've got to realize that we're back on an even par with everybody now. For a long time, the entire organization has dwelled on the heritage ot this football team. We went to the Super Bowl two out of the first three years I was here. You kind of develop a thing where you say, 'Hey, this is easy. What's so tough about In the past, we could blow a couple of games, come back and play well and still make it That's not the case now.

Now I think you have to fight and scratch for everything you get" Defensive back Dextor Clinkscale summed up the season best: "I think we realized to play effectively we have to play collectively." Raider running back Marcus Allen was upset after rushing only 13 times for -38 yards in last week's loss to Pittsburgh. Allen, who had been the AFC rushing leader after IS weeks, finished second to San Diego's Earnest Jackson. Allen had performance clauses in his contract and losing the rushing title may have cost bim from $25,000 to $50,000 in bonuses. Allen had a heated exchange after the game with Raider boss Al Davis. "They just totally took me out of the ballgame," Allen said.

"It was ridiculous. They devised a scheme where I just stand out there and block. It's crazy." few people willing to accommodate him after he threatened to move the club to Phoenix. It took some heavy-duty begging and concessions from Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode and the NFL before Tose finally agreed to stay put Tose reportedly went $40 million into debt and then everybody had to rally 'round to save his weasel hide. Best decision of the year Luring Bud Grant out of retirement Worst decision of the year Letting Bud Grant retire in the first place.

Final regular-season tally for betting the house, the car and nothing: Last week's record was 8-6 and overall it was 151-72-1. Notes, quotes, anecdotes A lot of noise was made about the Denver Broncos' plans to wear earplugs for last Saturday's game against the Seattle Seahawks at the Kingdome. The Broncos ordered the custom-fitted earplugs at $40 a pair with the idea they'd dim the deafening roar of the Seahawks' fans. "That was a fraud," said Seattle coach Chuck Knox. "The plugs created such an annoyance that the play- i- jo 3 JJLLV week.

The Broncos found another way to quiet the Seattle fans. They jumped to an early lead and maintained it en route to a 31-14 victory. "I have a great idea," said Bronco linebacker Tom Jackson. "Let's sell them to the Raiders for $75 a piece and tell them they work." The Raiders played the Seahawks in the AFC wild-card game Saturday at the Kingdome. Dallas quarterbacks Gary Hoge-boom and Danny White combined for 18 TD passes, only two more than Dan Marino threw in the Dolphins' last four games.

That statistic partially explains why the Cowboys didn't make the playoffs for the first time since 1974. It was only the second time they were eliminated in 19 years. Cowboy coach Tom Landry said he will consider trading White or Hoge-boom to improve the team's drafting position. Landry also said defensive tackle Randy White and running back Tony Dorsett were the only players he wouldn't consider trading. "When you start saying, 'What are you going to have to do to get into the playoffs next and the only way I'm going to get it is to trade a L.A.

Raiders 0 0 77 Seattlo 7 3 313 FIRST QUARTER No scoring. t. A. RaMon SmHI SECOND QUARTER Soa Turner 26 pass from Krieg (Johnson kick), 10:41. Drive: 93 yards, 9 piavs.

Key play: Hughes iu pass from Krieg; Hugnes iz run. pass intoner ence on Haves on Los Angeies' 44 yard-line. Seattle 7, L. A. Raiders 0 THIRD QUARTER Sea FG Johnson 35, 13:31.

Drive: 21 yards, 7 plays. Key piav: Kreig run. Drive; 21 yards, 1 pievs. Key play: Krieg 13 run. Seattle 1, L.A.

Raiders I FOURTH QUARTER Sea FG Johnson 44. 4:10. Drive: 23 yards. 5 Plavs. Key play: Tice 20 pass from Kreig.

Drive: 23 yards, 5 piavs. Key piav: Krieg 20 pass to Tice. Raiders-Allen 46 pass from Plunkett (Bahr kick), 9:55. Drive: 70 yards, 6 plavs. Key play: Allen 20 pass from Plunkett.

Drive: it yards, 6 piays. Key play: Plunkett 9 and 20 pass lo Allen. Seattle IX L.A. Raiders 7 A 62,049. No-shows 2361.

Raiders Seahawks First downs 14 17 Rushing 5 12 Passing. 8 4 Penalty 1 I Third down eff 4-13 2-13 Fourth down eff 0-0 0-0 Total net yards 240 241 Total plavs 58 61 Avo. oain 4.1 4.1 Net yards rushing 105 205 Rushes 25 51 Avo. per rush 4.2 4.1 Net yards 135 46 Completed-att 14-27 4-10 Yards per pass 4.1 3.8 Sacked-vds. lost 6-49 2-24 Had intercept 2 0 Punts-avg 8-42 8-38 Return vardaoa 33 111 Punts 5-52 KiCkoffS 2-28 2-38 Interceptions 0-0 2-21 Penalties-yards 8-68 Fumbles-lost 2-1 0-0 Time of possession 25:41 34:19 Individual leaders RUSHING: L.A.

Raiders-Allen 17-61, Hawkins 6-34, Pruitt 1-6, King 1-4. Seattle-Door nlnk 29-126, Hughes 14-54, Lane 4-17, Krieg 3-10, Largent 1- (- 2). PASSING: L.A. Raiders-Plunkett 14-27-2, 184 vards. Seattle Krieg 4-10-0, 70.

RECEIVING: L.A. Raiders-Allen 5-90, Hawkins 4-27, Barnwell 3-34, Chrlstensen 1-21, King 1-12. Seattle-Turner 1-26, Tice 1-20, Doornink 1-14, Hughes 1-10. SACKS: L.A. RaMers-Aliado 2.

Seattle-Butter 1, Mangiero 1, Fanning 1, Bryant Va, Green 2'. INTERCEPTIONS: L.A. Raiders-None. Seittte-Harris, Easlev. MISSED FIELD GOALS: None.

Keith Simpson recovered it on the Raiders' 38. The Seahawks went 21 yards in seven plays to the Los Angeles 17 and Norm Johnson kicked a 35-yard field goal with 1:29 left in the third quarter. He kicked his second field goal, a 44-yarder, to make it 13-0 with 10:50 remaining in the game when after the Seahawks went 23 yards in five plays. Each member of the Seahawks is guaranteed $16,000 $6,000 for qualifying as a member of a wildcard team and $10,000 for winning yesterday. If they were to win the Super Bowl on Jan.

20 in Palo Alto, they would each earn $70,000. 3y Bob Sansevere Staff Writer Who was the NFL's best player in 1984? Which team stunk up the most stadiums? Who was the NFL's biggest weasel? Its awards time (or the best, the brightest, the worst, the dimmest i Player af the year Dan Marino, of course. He set NFL records for most touchdown passes (48), completions (362), passing yards (5,084) and 400-. yard passing games (four). He closed the regular season in grand fashion, throwing four touchdown passes In each of Miami's final three games.

He threw four TD passes in five different games and had five TD passes in a sixth game. He also led the league in passing efficiency. Player of the year, first runner-up If Jt wasn't for Marino, people would be saying Eric Dickerson had the greatest offensive season of all time. Dickerson broke O.J. Simpson's single-season rushing record with his 2,103 yards on 379 carries, 5.6 yards per carry.

Without Dickerson, the Rams never would have made the playoffs. Without Dickerson, they sever would have approached .500. Worst team of the year It's the Vikings. Hands down. True, the Buffalo Bills had one less victory, but the Bills got better as the season AFC Continued from page 1C didn't it?" Said Seattle coach Chuck Knox: "We, just felt we bad to run the ball against these people.

We felt like we could run it if we were patient and stayed with it There was execution, wo blocked well and we tried to run fneSeahawks had passed 88 times in lopsided losses to Kansas City and Denver to end the regular season. Se Seahawks' defense had surren-red 34 and 31 points in those mes. I he victory put the Seahawks in the Ivtsional semifinals against the Miami Dolphins, the AFC East champions, next Saturday in Miami. It will be the second time the Seahawks and Dolphins have met in the divisional round. Last the Sea- Aawks defeated Denver in the wild-' card game and then beat the Dolphins in Miami.

They then lost to the Raiders in the conference championship game. "I thought we were ready," said coach Tom Flores, who directed the Raiders to Super Bowl victories In 1981 and 1984. "We haven't been very productive offensively all sea- -son. Today, we just didn't pull it out of the barrel." The Raiders also scored only one touchdown against Pittsburgh last Sunday in losing the home-field playoff advantage to the Seahawks. Plunkett, injured much of the season, couldn't get anything going until he threw a 46-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Allen with 5:05 to play.

The Raiders' deepest previous pene- -tration before that was to the Seattle 41 in the second quarter. Raiders got the ball back on their own 6 with 45 seconds to play, but safety Kenny Easley intercepted aidesperation pass by Plunkett The Seahawks, who finished in second place behind Denver one spot ahead of the Raiders in the AFC West took a 7-0 lead on a 93-yard, nine-play drive. It was capped -by Krleg's slant-in pass to Turner, who beat the Raiders' Lester Hayes and Odis McKinney. The drive was kept alive by a 23-yard interference penalty against Hayes. Sid Hartman Sid Hartman is on vacation.

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