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udo gwr Walter Payton Chicago Bears running back centre is stopped for no gain in the fiist quarter of Sundays game at Giants Stadium Making the stop are Giants Harry Carson left and lyde Powers Sleet and an icy field hampered Paytons chances of breaking Simpsons NII single season rushing record AP Laserphoto Tony Dorsett 321 Dallas owboys running back is tackled by Billy Thompson Illit Demer Broncos safety after Dorsett made first down in the first quarter of the game at Irving Tex Sunday AP Laserphoto Miami coach disappointed as Colts stage late rally MIAMI AP Watching division title slip away on tele vision Don Shula was trapped in his own legacy If theres anybody who knows how the Colts can come back said Shula its me Shula spoke after his Miami Dolphins were eliminated from playoff contention Sunday by Baltimore Colts the team Shula once coached Baltimore staged rousing 27point revival in the second half to snatch the National Football Leagues AFC East crown away from Miami by beating New England Patriots 3024 The Colts and Dolphins finished with identical 104 season records but Baltimore claimed the tiebreak because of better record within the American Conference On Saturday Miami had kept its hopes alive by thumping Buffalo Bills 3114 But the Dolphins playoff chances rode on New Englands ability to beat the Colts the team Shula guided for seven seasons before taking over struggling Miami fran chise in 1970 hate for the season to end the way its ending Shula said Sunday night at final session with reporters in deserted Dolphins lockerroom can take it he said Ive been through it before This festive season relax with family and friends in the oldfashioned warmth of Mothers Parlour Or bring Mothers to your home by planning party with little help from the hospitable folks at your DON SIIUIA dejected In NFL action Chicago makes playoffs Bengals fall to Oilers By THE ASSOCIAIEI PRESS As the National Football League season concluded Sun day kicker Bob Thomas of Chi cago Bears quarterback Bert Jones of Baltimore Colts and speedy receiver Billy Johnson of Houston Oilers provided the heroics that filled in the final division titles and wildcard playoff berths After 14 weeks 28 teams have become eight for the start of the NFLs second season the road toward the 12th Super Bowl championship Jan 13 in the Louisiana Superdomc On Saturday Washington Redskins beat Los Angeles Rams the NFC West chain pioii 1714 and kept alive its hopes of playoff berth But on Sunday lhomass 28yard field goal kicked in brutal freeing rainstorm with nine seconds left in suddendcath ttlllllll gave Chicago 120 victory over New York Giants and the National Conference wild card and kicked the Itcdskins liopcs down the drain The Bears had to settle for the wild card because Iin ncsota Vikings clinched the NFC eiitral Division title Sat urday night with to 21 victory over Detroit Lions Also on Saturday Miami Dol phiiis remained in the playoff picture by beating Buffalo Bills 3114 But the Dolphins nccdcd loss by Baltimore to win the American Conferences ICast Division title For more than two quarters things looked fine for them because New England led the olts 214$ JONES SIltIKICS Ihcn loncs struck for three touchdown passes and the Colts aided by what some felt was questionable call roared to 3021 Victory that kayocd the Dolphins playoff plans In Sundays other berth deciding action Pittsburgh Stcclcrs who beat San Dich Chargers 1079 in game they really didnt have to win backed into the It cntral title wlicii incinnati Bengals tossed it away by losing It to Houston In games involyiiig iillltt playoff bound teams NH lCast champ Dallas owtioys defeated Al West champion Denver Broncos If it and Oakland Raiders the AFC wildcard team nosed out Kan sas City Chiefs 2120 And in other games Tampa Bay Buccaneers surprised St Loui Cardinals 177 Atlanta Falcons whipped New Orleans Saints 357 Seattle Seahawks humbled Cleveland Browns 20 19 Philadelphia Eagles shut out New York Jets 270 and Green Bay Packers toppled San Francisco 1614 Here then is how next week ends playoffs shape up On Sat urday in the AFC Oakland is at Baltimore and Pittsburgh is at Denver twhcrc the Broncos beat the Steelers 217 Novii week from today in the NFC firstrround games Chicago is at Dallas and Minnesota is at Les Angclcs twhcre the Rams routed the Vikings 2i53tct24t Both conference champion ships will bc played Jan1 If the owboys beat Chicago theyll host the NFC title game If the Bears and Los Angelcs win the Rams arc the hosts And if the Bears and Vikings win Minnesota is the host since Chicago as wildcard team cannot play playoff game at home In the Denver hosts the title game if it beats Iittsv burgh If the Steelers and Colts win Baltimore is the site and it the Stcelers and ltaidcrs win Pittsburgh is the host since Oakland like hicago is wild card tcam Bears 12 Giants it Dont say gaVc hicago the playoff berth Thomas aid after he had done just that with his pressure field goal dont feel that way And wouldnt have felt that cost us the bcrtli if hadnt made it Hc almost was the goat my stead of the hero In the first quarter he missed field goal when the ball hit an upright In the fourth quarter after rookie Robin IZarl ran four yards for the games only touchdown lhomas cxtiarpoinl try was batted down And with less than minutes gone in the over time he was wide on fieldgoal attempt that could have dccidcd matters The ltltily put the Bears in the playoffs for thc first time Sllltt they beat the Giants lll lllt itiillt Nlil championship game Favorite breaks leg at Aqueduct Raceway IlIII Dl IItlISS unnnig lrick lllt to la voritc broke leg as lb was forging into the lead at thc head of the stretch til the $31130 play Handicap at Aqueduct race track Saturday and had to be lest roycd thii the horse stumbled hc threw jockey Jian ruguet over his head and three other horses piled into the fallcii hor so and also fell Gallivantor ridden by Jorge Velasquez went on to win the imile race by lengths over Yamanm and lamii hu cay third After the race trainer Billy Iurncr Jr who earlier last week lost his job as trainer of Seattle Slew said that tunniiig Irick four year old by Buck passer had to put down be cause be snapped the cannon bone in his left leg clcai through riiguet was taken to hospital with bruised left thigh In the other major race Sat tiirlay in the lnitcd States Willie Shoemaker rodc Table The Itumor to victory in the $9030 Fair Grounds Oaks at the laii Grounds in New lcaiis When tuimimi lrick went down on the outside iii the clear as he was starting his move Social Seeker ridden by Pat rick Day fcll oycr him Itight behind him Igloo Ill ridden by Eddie Maple tlicii stumbled over the first two and fell Misty Model ridden by Irancisco aldcron then came along and threw his rider avoid mg the three fallen horses Day Maple and alderon sufr fcrcd only bruises and all rc tiirncd to the jockey room Gallivantor off at to uti der llli pounds ran the muddy track in 1539 before crowd of 21446 and paid Sit no $020 and 34 ill Yainanm ridden by Johnny Huaiic under 110 pounds re turned Sll 20 and $10 00 as tit tol shot Iamu hiicay 407 to longshot under 113 pounds and jockey Iton Iurcotte of Grand Falls NB paid $14 to show Gallivantor earned $32400 for his victory his fourth in 21 star ts this year to bring his earr nings for the year to $125096 AGHRISTMAS GIFT FOR may roormm FAN Official GELyeaxbook forsaleat withasectiononeaehteam neighbourhood Mothers Pizza Parlour Spaghetti House At Christmas as at every season of the The game was supposed to be showcase for Walter Payton trying to surpass Simp sons singleseason rushing record of 2003 yards He needed 199 to do it The impos sible conditions ruined any chance he had He finished the game with 47 yards and the season with 1852 for the NFL rushing title Colts 30 Patriots 24 Bert showed what great quarterback he is Baltimore coach Ted Marchibroda said af ter Jones 19f0r30 passing game his 340 yards gained and his touchdown passes covering 14 78 and 12 yardsAbut few folks thought lucky quar terback may have been more appropriate Linebacker Sam Hunt recov ered what appeared to be Jones fumble at the New Eng land sixyard linevbut the play already had been blown dead the Colts kept possession and moments later Don McCauley scored the winning TD from the three with less than three min utes to go The quarterback was in the grasp of the tackler and blew the whistle said referee Fred Silva The ball came out Thats it Said Chuck Fairbanks coach of the disconsolate Patriots thought it was fumble but there were lot of plays which could have decided this game That one came at the wrong time And in Miami equally dis tressed coach Don Shula said Its unbelievable to think season can end like it did and said it was evident Jones fum blul and New England recov ered just feel so bad for our players and their families Oilers 21 Bengals it Billy tWhitc Shocsi Johnson caught six passes for 138 yards and TD rushed once for 31 yards returned four kickoffs 81 yards and ran two punts back for 13 yards 263 yards in all And it was all Houston needed to even an old score and ruin the Bengals playoff chanr ces Ihe ilers lost 1310 game to the Bengals earlier this year when an officials mistake took away Houston touchdown Weve been claiming that we should have won that first game and we had to prove that we were better said ilers coach Phillips Once more the Bengals who beat the Steelers week ago in what everyone said was the game that gave them the play off berth tell just short of title We were not high as for our game against Pittsburgh last week said Bengals coach Bill Johnson Steelers 10 haigers The Steelers naturally were mile high after finding out Houston had given them present We should give Bum Tull Mens 91in Collars to l9 Sleeves to 36 $10 MIN to Dunbp 11325 Plain English not cat in bag Phillips the game ball said Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw Cowboys 14 Broncos Roger Staubaeh threw TD passes of 22 yards to Preston Pearson and seven yards to Robert Newhouse and Tony Dorsett became only the eighth rookie to gain 1000 yards gain ing 50 to finish with 1007 for season in Dallas triumph against Denver Each team fin ished at 122 Raiders hiefs 20 Errol Mann atoned for pair of extrapoint misses by kicking 28yard field goal with 633 to play giving the Raiders their victory over Kansas City Bucs 17 Cards Gary Huffs passes of 61 and 52 yards to Morris Owens scored one TD and set up an other score as the Bucs love able losers only two weeks ago beat the Cardinals for their sec ond straight victory Falcons 35 Saints Steve Bartkowski threw for two TDs and Haskel Stanback ran for two against the Saints Meanwhile Atlanta wound up allowing only 129 points all sea son four lower than the 14 game record set by the 1969 Minnesota Vikings Packers 16 liters 14 Cornerback Willie Buchanon intercepted pair of passes setting up field goal with one of them and running 29 yards for 11 with the other in Green Bays victory over the 49ers Before you renew policy you dont really understand look into whats new from Royal Insurance homeowners policy written in the language you speak every day No fancy legal jargon or footlong words Just the straight simple facts Youll know where youre covered and when you can ma claim After all youre buying insurance Cull 72865 forunindepe with homeowners insura Royal Insu the examlner Monday Dec 19 1917 1d Read loses ski fails to finish CP Italian veteran Herbert Plank pleased large home crowd Sunday with Italys first of the season when he beat world champion Frank Klammer of Austria in downhill race Plank mastered the 3750metre Sasslonch course with time of two minutes 147 seconds Klammer the Olympic champion failed to even make second place edged out by Austrian teammate Peter Wir nsberger who was timed in 20260 Klammer took third VAL GARDENA Italy World Cup ski victory place in 20332 Ken Read of Calgary who had posted the second best time in Saturdays practice runs lost ski on the middle reaches of the course and did not finish It was Planks third World Cup downhill win for the two of you this Christmas mutuallme Downtown Barrie Watch for this sign it will mean message from Barrie Down town Free Parking Friday Nights and Saturdays Jo ran Canada n1 neqryou am English