fresh off a startling 51-7 victory oh my over the los
angeles rams it's a pleasure to welcome one of the great quarterbacks joe theismann
how you doing i'm fine but i've got to come back to giant stadium and play football
next year so let's say things let me ask you about the the rams what is the deal 51-7 we got lucky no
no no are you are you in a situation like that are you worried about uh running up the score
did anybody come to you and say look it's it's 40 to 7. we don't need another 11 points or
it's 30 to 7 we don't need to go 21 more points no not real i'll tell you why we had an experience in
the opening game of the season against the dallas cowboys when the score was 23 to 3 at halftime
we wound up losing that football game 31-30 yeah so we felt we feel right now that no
football game is beyond reach unless of course you get to 44 to 7 with four minutes to go then
you feel pretty comfortable 40 47 with four to go actually it was 44 to 7 at the end of the
third quarter so we had we really had things going on i mean that's an understatement but
we had things going our way pretty much i guess you did yeah now uh is it sunday or
saturday you're playing sunday we played sunday you're playing right before the 49ers yeah no no
no you can leave what joe why aren't you somewhere practicing or studying films or
well i am i i hope to get into television when i'm finished but i thought i'd get a little jump on it
well not here no no no if you want to get into television you'll have to go somewhere else this
is our day off you get a day off we do get a day off our normal work week really starts uh sunday
we play yeah monday we go through the films and have a light workout tuesday is our day off and
then really our hard preparation starts wednesday thursday friday and then tapers off towards the
end of the week and then sunday's showtime now are you uh thinking i know all football players
say no no we take one game at a time but uh should you defeat the 49ers there's a good chance that
you're uh in the super bowl against the oakland or the los angeles raiders excuse me well los angeles
has to get by seattle first of all and they've already lost to them twice of the four or five
losses that los angeles had this year the raiders uh two of them been to seattle one to the redskins
and we really can't afford to look past the 49ers yeah i know i'm going to forget all of that no no
wait a minute seriously but aren't you wouldn't you like to meet uh mr plunkett in the rose bowl
i really in all honesty i really don't care who is in the super bowl i just want i want to be lined
up on one side of the sidelines and i don't care who's on the other side i really don't but don't
you feel uh just a little bit of no i know what you're gonna say no even though he did win the
heisman trophy i don't forget you know i don't remember things like that i've put that away in
my mind the fact that i finished second in 1971. i mean i don't really dwell on things like that
but but seriously did that bother you for a while bothering me bothers me now
still bothers me a little bit no i lost the heisman trophy you know how
do you like you know nobody likes to be number two i mean you know to say
to walk up and say congratulations i'll try harder next time you know when you're a senior in college
well now they have five year programs i guess you could be a senior a few times that's right
but you never really get a second chance and uh it was something that uh you know at the time
you say the right things geez it's so wonderful to be considered a part of one or two of the
the finest players in the baloney yeah it breaks your heart really does i mean i congratulate jim
i think he does it was deserving he's a great quarterback but i would have liked it but you
guys uh have both had remarkable careers it's been interesting for both of us jim you know of course
uh started in new england and uh had tough times then went on and won a super bowl with the the
raiders and then lost his job and now they're back on the road again it's been back and forth mine uh
i started as a punt returner in the national football league that's where i started really
uh see how we've gone let's see who's the who's the highest paid quarterback in uh professional
football today not me yeah i know you're you're down there aren't you right now i think it's uh
well that's something we won't talk about how many years left you have in your contract i have two
remaining left on the present contract but the one thing that mr cook our owner has said is that he
and i will sit down and discuss that at the end of the season and that's really that all needs
to be said i think john elway and dan fouts right now are the two highest paid in the league who do
you have a million a year who do you think is is overpaid as a quarterback i don't think anybody's
overpaid in football i don't think anybody no i don't think anybody is overpaid in in any business
it's tough i think every business all right let me ask you a differently she's the best quarterback
in the league is it you excluding present company or uh yeah no i don't to say you're the best is
something that i don't think i could say it's nice to have people come up and up to you and say
statistically you've accomplished a lot and you're the best but that's not for me to evaluate i think
you have to take the position of quarterback and look at it in a lot of different ways
two main ways to look at it is number one the group of guys that a quarterback plays
with the type of offense he's in and also and really also the type of system that he plays in
is it conducive to his style can he run can he throw what happens there's so many things
that go into but it's not broadcasting you're going into though is it politics i don't know
uh we got some more time coming up here and i want to uh see if you can explain to us
the play that nebraska used last night in the uh orangeville oh
the guard around yeah can you show us that i think so okay
welcome back to the show you know joe in new york that's a good way not to get
not to get the football back
oh you all right jack oh my gosh oh cameraman
this is a dangerous business yeah it is now joe let me ask you about did you see the uh
the orange bowl last night yes i did now would you would you have gone for the two points or
just played for the tie in that situation oh no i think i think you'd have to go for two yeah
there's no doubt you know you're fighting for your national championship life you have to go for two
so it would have been yeah tai won't get you the national championship thai would have gotten them
a national championship but a thai would have gotten them a national championship under a
lot of criticism like you can recall the notre dame michigan state game back in 1966 i believe
when notre dame actually elected to go for a tie i you know i hate to bring that up little
personal feelings there but they went for a tie and wound up being the national champions it was
a 10-10 tie but there was a lot of controversy i mean you know oswald was going to make sure
nobody did joe i have here a copy of the book quarterbacking by joe theismann introduction
by era parsigan techniques tactics and tips on how to play the most important position on the
field and there there you are right here all right i'm going to give you a little quiz here
this is right out of your book here what determines the amount of underwear worn in a game
weather that's right the weather condition at the
game time to print determines the amount of underwear one
what do well-fitting pants do for a quarterback
get you underwear endorsements yeah yeah actually actually it makes the pads fit very
snug and tighten your pants it adds protection to legs and hips but also gives a neat appearance
close and joe what are the two types of hip pads used today
outside and inside sorry i'm sorry joe you don't win the car you don't get the fryer pan
uh it's uh strap on and girdle types right yeah quarterbacking with joe theismann now
you can explain to us a lot you can explain to us the the play that nebraska used last night
to score their first tension all right come over here and yeah could i be the center in this sure
can i take this off please do thank you and who else do we need for this we need a right guard
paul you want to be a red guard or bill you're almost as big as you're almost you're almost as
big well you're a little bit more like the guy who played right guard but how about me though
how would you say that do you want to be a center i'm gonna go reach
okay all right i'll tell you what plays downs are there they're in american football there's four
and canadian footballers three right you want to be the center i'd love a very integral position
okay so we'll set the ball down now but why don't you play right paul you play left guard
okay now what you're gonna do okay is what happened on the play is um now take this
take this trick take this professionally okay take this professionally bend over
my ring may be a little uncomfortable but
come on that is let me just set this over here
nobody's allowed to leave here oh no this is i wouldn't this is new york
put that on this hand you know paperweight that would have there yeah it's uh
all right we got to get going here okay but it is now what happens is the center board
i think i've done this what's gonna happen here bill you take a little paul you get down here
okay you're gonna face this way all right now when i say hut
that means you bring the ball up now what's going to happen is i'm going to let the ball fall back
to the ground okay you're going to go forward you're going to go forward and you're just going
to pick the ball up and go to the left right and i'm going to go to the right yeah you'll roll this
in the score but you'll pick the ball up on the way watch out for the guy in the trunk ready hut
the ball goes back down you go this way and i fake like
this guy has dropped he's dropped two of them hasn't it uh joe nice to see you
good luck next week and uh be nice to seeing the supervisor joe bison we'll be right back
that's it folks we're we're out of time my thanks to pee wee herman and i joe
good luck to you thank you very much it was a pleasure meeting you nice having you here sir
here kid
thanks joe
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