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Remember Mark Pelluer?
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Lol
$100.00?!
$100.00?!
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:duck:Hostile;1417227 said:
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Crown Royal;1417229 said:
You'll have to pony up a little more for Tom Rafferty's. Now that's what the uni numbers should look like. Old school, baby.
http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=35366
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I met Steve back in the day........
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1fisher;1417310 said:
Or tell him that you'd be willing to pay $1,000 if he can get it autographed by old Mark himself!
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Steve wore # 16 & was a Univ. of Washington product, as I recall. Had a brief stint with the Chiefs after he ticked off Jimmy.
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Kangaroo;1417668 said:
My bad. Make that five interceptions.
Cowboys are out at home
11/10/1986
By TIM COWLISHAW / The Dallas Morning News
When the Cowboys' defense creates four turnovers and sacks the quarterback five times, Dallas expects to win.
When Tony Dorsett rushes for 100 yards in Texas Stadium, the Cowboys always win. That had been the case on 27 of 27 occasions before Sunday.
But Sunday all the rules got broken, including the one Raiders coach Tom Flores had about never benching Marc Wilson, and that departure from normal procedure may have been the second most important reason for Los Angeles beating the Cowboys, 17-13.
The most important reason, of course, was the Cowboys' charity in the first half, which included three of Steve Pelluer's five interceptions. The Cowboys were presented with a half dozen scoring chances and they made the least out of it. Five times they reached the Raiders' 30 without scoring. Two touchdowns were wiped out by penalties and Herschel Walker's midair fumble above the goal line erased another.
"We're not Santa Claus," said Dorsett, "but in the last two weeks we've been 45 of his helpers."
The Cowboys will also be home for Christmas if the pattern established the last two weeks continues. A week ago against the New York Giants in the Meadowlands, it was on the final drive that the Cowboys kept self-destructing. Sunday it was an entire half.
The only reason Wilson didn't manage to lose the game with his 4-for-14, three-interception, one-fumble half was because Pelluer was almost as bad. Pelluer went into the Cowboys' record books alongside Eddie LeBaron and Danny White with five interceptions. He was also sacked four times.
"Steve made some passes that I'm sure he would like to have back," Dallas coach Tom Landry said. "It was like a nightmare, like a bad dream there in the first half."
The Cowboys led 10-3 at halftime despite a 258-80 advantage in total yards. Given the reprieve, the Raiders capitalized as Jim Plunkett came off the bench to throw two second-half touchdown passes to Dokie Williams. The latter was a 40-yard bomb with three Cowboys surrounding Williams.
The game left both teams 6-4 and trailing their division leaders by two games.
"We'll need help now," said Landry. "if we can win five out of six, we'll be close."
Said Dorsett, who gained 101 yards on 22 carries and moved past O.J. Simpson to become the NFL's fifth all-time leading rusher, "We're not up against the wall, our backs are in the wall."
If the Cowboys don't make the playoffs, Sunday's game is almost certainly the one players will remember during a long off season.
They will remember a wasted 30 minutes, a horrible half that might have been so different.
The Cowboys scored on their first possession after Gordon Banks' 19-yard punt return had given them possession at the LA 24. The Cowboys drove to the three before settling for Rafael Septien's 20-yard field goal and a 3-0 lead with 10:15 to play in the first quarter. The Cowboys moved to the Raiders' 26 on their next possession but Septien's 44-yard field goal try fell short.
The Raiders tied the score in the second period with Chris Bahr's 45-yard field goal. The kick was set up by Vann McElroy's interception of a ball Pelluer threw into triple coverage, and that interception came one play after Everson Walls' first interception of the season.
The Cowboys reached the one on their next series, but when Walker tried to dive over the left side, the ball came loose and Lester Hayes recovered for the Raiders.
Two plays later, Wilson's long pass for Jessie Hester was intercepted by Ron Fellows and returned 12 yards to the Raiders' 32. Three plays later, Dorsett burst through a hole at left guard and coasted into the end zone from 13 yards out. The Cowboys had several other opportunities.
Ed Jones forced Wilson to fumble on the Raiders' next possession and Jim Jeffcoat recovered at the Raiders 27. On second down, Pelluer scrambled around the right side and raced 25 yards to score, but a holding call on guard Glen Titensor wiped out the play. Another penalty followed by a loss on a fumbled handoff forced the Cowboys to punt.
The Cowboys got to the Raiders' 30 on their next drive, but Pelluer, running from pressure, tried to force a pass to Doug Cosbie. Sam Seale intercepted. Three plays later Wilson's pass for Tim Moffett was intercepted by Walls, who returned it 47 yards to score, but a clipping call against Jones cancelled that score.
A screen pass to Dorsett gained 31 yards, but on second-and-seven at the 15 with 43 seconds left in the half, Howie Long hit Pelluer's arm as he was throwing and Jeff Barnes intercepted.
Pelluer went on to throw his fourth interception on his first second-half pass, and Plunkett beat a Cowboys' blitz three plays later with a 20-yard touchdown pass to Williams.
Pelluer's final interception was a long pass for Mike Sherrard that McElroy had timed all the way on the Cowboys' last play of the third quarter. The Raiders followed that with an 80-yard drive that included Todd Christensen catching a pass Bill Bates had batted into the air. Christensen gained 17 yards on the third-and-13 play. It ended with Williams' 40-yard touchdown grab two plays later.
And Pelluer, whose scrambling style (59 yards rushing) has already had Landry and others comparing him to Roger Staubach, showed he does not yet have the fourth-quarter rally part down just yet. After halftime, he was 3-for-13 for 22 yards.
"I obviously didn't play the way I would have liked to," said Pelluer. "My head wasn't working as smart as my heart was working hard. But I know I'm capable of playing in this league and I'm capable of taking this team to the playoffs."
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We really had a chance to do something that season- if Danny had not gotten injured. It was the last year we were good. TD, Too Tall, Danny, and most of our key players were getting old. It would have been our last hurrah- had Danny not gotten hurt. THough we faded badly the last month- our old guys ran out of gas.