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Colts 34 Cleveland 0
‘Average Back’ Tom Matte
Was Great Against Browns
By JOHN G. GRIFFIN
LPI Executive Sports Editor
CLEVELAND (UPI) — Tom
Matte tells it to you straight,
“I’m just an average back,” but
the National Football League
champion Baltimore Colts say
that’s a lot of baloney.
So do the Cleveland Browns,
who have Matte chiefly to
blame for the 34-0 blasting they
took in Sunday’s frigid battle
for the NFL crown in Cleveland
Stadium—the first shutout hand
ed Cleveland in 143 games.
And the New York Jets, who
reign as American Football
League champions and will
meet the Colts in the third
annual “Super Bowl’’ at warm
Miami on Jan. 12, had better
not take Matte at his word if
they want to have a chance of
stopping the Baltimore express.
At the moment. Matte, who
equalled the NFL title game
record by scoring three touch
downs in Sunday's clash, is an
uncertain starter for the Super
Bowl. He took a hard knee in
the back late in the game and
was woozy In the dressing
room. He was scheduled for
examination in Baltimore to
determine whether he has a
cracked rib or another injury
Joe Namath’s 3 TD Passes
Put Jets In Super Bowl
By GARY KALE
UP! Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPD—lt’ll be
old home week for Weeb
Ewbank and the Baltimore
Colts in the Super Bowl Jan. 12.
Ewbank, patting his paunch tn
contentment as he sat in his
swivel chair after the New York
Jets rallied for a 27-23 victory
over the Oakland Raiders in the
American Football League
championship game Sunday,
said he looked forward to
greeting the Colts he coached to
National Football League cham
pionships in 1958 and 1959.
Baltimore beat the Cleveland
Browns 34-0 Sunday and will
represent the NFL in the ultra
rich inter-league title game in
Miami’s Orange Bowl next
month.
Ewbank was given the game
ball, something reserved for
players this season, in recogni
tion of his building the Jets into
championship caliber. He nur
tered Joe Namath from a rich
rookie to a richer veteran
during his coaching tenure.
Namath paid off with his
finest season as a leader. From
a brash $400,000 bonus quarter-
Broadway Joe:
‘Nothing Hurts When You Win’
By MILTON RICHMAN
CPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPD—There
were blood stains on his
uniform, mud stains all over his
shoes and what looked suspi
ciously like tear stains around
his eyes.
Joe Namath was a mess.
This was in the mad, frantic,
babbling New York Jets’
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that would keep him out of the
Miami game.
Another Colt uncertainty is
gigantic end Bubba Smith,
whose first-period block of an
attempted Browns’ field goal
was called by Browns’ coach
Blanton Collier the key play of
the game. Smith suffered a
sprained left ankle and, al
though he returned to the game
after receiving medication, was
on the doubtful list for Miami.
But mainly, Sunday was
Matte’s day, as he ran for two
touchdowns in the second period
and one in the third to equal the
NFL title game record held by
two Brownies—Otto Graham in
1954 and Gary Collins in 1964.
A Star In 65
Matte Is the guy the Colts
turned to in 1965 when Johnny
Unltas was injured and they
needed a quarterback. He
quarterbacked a win over Los
Angeles for a Western Confer
ence tie and then put on a game
but futile effort in the
conference title playoff against
Green Bay. That put Matte on
all the cereal boxes as a pro
football hero, even though he
was a loser.
And it was Matte the Colts
turned to again after a
back, the former Alabama star
turned into the team inspiration
and was offensive captain this
year.
Three TD’a
Broadway Joe threw three
touchdown passes, one less than
his season’s high, and each one
was worth approximately $3,000
as the Jets hauled down a
winner's share of about $9,000
for beating the defending
champions.
Namath completed 19 of 49
passes for 266 yards. Two of his
touchdown passes went to
flanker Don Maynard, the all
time pro leader in yards gained
receiving, on throws of 14 and
six yards. Pete Lammons
scored the other New York
touchdown on a 20-yard pass
and neat ballet step that beat
defender Dave Grayson to the
corner of the goal line.
Jim Turner, the league’s
leading scorer kicked field goals
of 33 and 26 yards as the Jets
unlimbered their other point
making weapon to keep the
Raiders in check.
Daryle Lamon i c a, after
throwing five touchdowns in the
game that beat Kansas City for
after they moved into the Super
Bowl Sunday with a roller
coaster-like 27-23 win over
Oakland for their first Ameri
can Football League title ever.
“What’s-a-matter, Joe, were
you crying or something?" said
a guy who had seen him duck
into the privacy of the trainer’s
room and remain behind a
closed door a few minutes.
Joe Namath didn’t answer
scoreless first period in which it
was clear this would not be a
day for the star passers.
For one thing, a 20-degree
temperature with 25-mph winds
made it a tough day to throw,
For another, although Colt
passer Earl Morrall was getting
plenty of time to throw, his
receivers were being tightly
guarded.
So the Colts switched to a
running game with Matte
leading the way, assisted by
Jerry Hill. After Lou Michaels’
28-yard field goal at 0.15 of the
second period gave tl.j Colts a
3-0 yead. Matte ran one yard for
a touchdown to make it 10-0 and
then 12 yards for another before
halftime to make it 17-0. Late in
the third period, he blasted two
more yards for another score to
make it 24-0.
Michaels’ 10-yard field goal
and Tim Brown’s four-yard TD
in the fourth period put the
icing on the cake. All told,
Matte carried 17 times for 88
yards, Hill 11 times for 60
yards. In contrast, Browns' ace
Leroy Kelly gained only 28
yards in 13 tries, a 2.2 average.
Not Fast
“I'm not deceptively fast,’’
said Matte after the game. "I
the Western title last Week, was
given a massive rush by the
Jets defense which limited him
to Fred Biletnikoff’s 29-yard
scoring catch.
Pete Banaszak scored on a
five-yard run and unperturbed
George Blauda booted three
field goals of 27, 9 and 20 yards
for Oakland.
“I wouldn’t say this is the
greatest game,” Ewbank shout
ed through a mouthful of water
after he was hurled into the
shower by the celebrating Jet
players. “There have been a lot
of games equally satisfying.”
In A Euphoric Fog
Namath, an eligible bachelor,
came up with the understate
ment of the season for him
when he said “Don’t ask me
about Baltimore, I can't even
think about girls today.”
Tlie last quarter had ail the
excitement of the “Heidi”
episode when Oakland beat New
York with two touchdowns that
were never seen back East
because a children's program
pre-empted the final 65 seconds
of action.
Namath’s only intercepted
pass was returned 32 yards by
right away.
“Nahh,” he said after awhile.
•'l’m just tired.”
Then he laughed and looked
at the guy who had asked him
the question like a kid who had
just been caught with his mitt
in the cookie jar.
He took a long swig from a
bottle labeled Cold Duck Cham
pagne and furtively hid the
bottle behind his back when a
photographer tried making a
picture of him gulping the
amber liquid.
“C’mon now,” he chided the
lensman. "A lotta’ parents
around the country will get on
me if they see a picture of me
doing this.”
In all the excitement, Joe
Namath didn’t realize it’s
perfectly okay, even with a lot
of parents around the country,
to have some champagne on
such special occasions as these.
"Were you worried those last
30 seconds?” somebody put a
question to the weary Jets’
meal ticket.
”. . . . right I was,” he came
right back. “I remember the
last one.”
He referred to the last
previous encounter with the
Raiders during late October in
which they scored twice within
a span of nine seconds in the
final minute against the Jets to
pull out a 43-32 triumph.
The electricity hadn’t worn
off this one yet, however, Joe
Namath didn’t quite know what
to do with his hands now that
they weren’t busy completing 19
of 49 pegs against Oakland for
266 big yards.
Not knowing what to do with
his hands, Namath employed
them in a nervous reaction. He
tugged at his long sideburns
from time to time.
Now somebody wanted to
know what he considered the
turning point of the ball game.
Namath, who obviously was
enjoying every second of the
championship celebration,
winced at this one question.
have average speed, and I
consider myself just an average
back.
“I didn’t set the record—the
offensive line did,'' said Matte.
“They blew the Browns out of
there.”
Colts’ coach Don Shula said
Matte’s first rup of the day
may have been his most
important. It was a draw play,
and it gained nine yards.
“That established our running
game right at the start,” said
Shula. “I think Cleveland’s line
was so intent on getting to
Morrall that we caught them off
balance with our running.”
This was a revenge win for
the Colts—wiping out the
memory not only of a 30-20
regular season loss to Cleveland
(the Colts’ only loss this year)
but that humiliating 27-0 loss to
the Browns in the 1964 title
game here.
"Remember ’64, remember
’64,” chanted the Colts’ bench
during the game like a bunch of
rah-rah college kids. Late in the
game they switched to “blank
the Browns, blank the Browns.”
It wasn’t for glory alone, of
course. Each Colt earned about
SIO,OOO for the victory, plus a
shot at another $15,000 in the
Super Bowl.
defender George Atkinson to the
Jets five and Banaszak bulled
over for the TD that put
Oakland in front 23-20 midway
in the final period.
Atkinson quickly turned into
the goat of the game when he
allowed Maynard to dodge him
twice for key catches after he
ensuing kickoff. Namath found
Maynard with a 52-yarder and
then the go-ahead six-yard
scoring strike which Maynard
scooped up at nearly turf-level.
"The last pass wasn't even
supposed to go to Maynard,”
Atkinson said bitterly. “He just
came up and turned and made
another great catch.”
On Oakland’s last gasp
attack, with two minutes
remaining, Lamonica brought
the Raiders deep into New York
territory with passes of 24
yards to Bilctnikoff and 37 to
Warren Wells. On a first and 10,
the Oakland quarterback then
threw a swing pass behind
Charlie Smith and it rolled free
as a fumble. Ralph Baker
grabbed it to smother the final
Raider attempt at victory.
"Geez.” he frowned, “that
guy sounds like a broken
record. You wanna know when
the turning point was? I’ll tell
you when it was. When (Jim)
Hudson tackled (Hewritt) Dixon
and there wasn't any more time
left.”
He meant the final play of the
game, of course.
They were shoving micro
phones under Namath's nose
now and the questions came at
him like machine gun fire.
“What one dominant thought
ran through your mind trotting
into the dressing room just
now?” he was asked.
“We won, just we won,” he
replied.
“How do you compare Balti
more to Oakland?”
“I haven’t seen enough of
Baltimore to compare ’em with
anyone. I think (Daryl) Lamoni
ca throws better than (Earl)
Morrall. Baltimore’s defense is
better. I know they’ve got a
terrific tight end, (John)
Mackey.”
“What do you think of the
Super Bowl? Who’s gonna win?’
“We’ll be there," Namath
laughed.
“Do you remember any day
of your life ever topping this
one?”
“I don't guess.”
"What did it for you guys?”
“The defense . . . the
defense.”
"Gonna take a few days off?”
"Yeah, until tomorrow.”
Earl Christy, one of the Jets’
defensive backs, came over and
threw an arm around Namafn
and hugged him. Namath
hugged him back. Christy asked
him if his knee hurt.
“It never hurts,” laughed
Namath, “when you win.”
Namath held still for dozens
of more questions, then walked
rather absently into the shower
with his uniform still on. The
water hit his feet and he looked
down at them, shaking his head
without saying anything.
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