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Eight Chargers named to AP All-Pro team
NEW YORK (AP) - Explo
siveness is the word to describe
the San Diego Chargers — and
they burst onto the Associated
Press’ All-Pro team in 1980 with
eight players, five of them as
starters.
Defensive end Fred Dean,
defensive tackle Gary “Big
Hands" Johnson, tight end Kel
len Winslow and wide receivers
John Jefferson and Charlie
Joiner are the first-team
Chargers named Wednesday to
the AP's team of National Foot
ball League all-stars. Quarter^
back Dan Fouts, place-kicker
Rolf Benirschke and defensive
tackle Louie Kelcher are San
Diego’s second-team represen
tatives.
Of the 50 first- and second
team players picked by a na
tionwide panel of 84 sports
writers and sports broadcast
ers, three from each NFL city, 27
players came from the Amer
ican Conference and 23 from
the National Conference. But on
the first team, the AFC is far
more dominant with 16 players
to nine from the NFC. It reflects
the AFC’s domination during
the season, when it won 33 of 54
games from the NFC.
Fouts, who passed for an
NFL-record 4,715 yards this
year and made the Chargers the
first team in NFL history to have
three 1,000-yard receivers in a
season, finished second in the
All-Pro balloting to Cleveland’s
Brian Sipe, the top-rated passer
according to the league’s for
mula. Winslow caught a
league-high 89 passes for 1,290
yards, Jefferson had an NFL
high 1,340 yards on 82 recep
tions and Joiner added 1,132
yards on 71 catches.
In the first-team backfield are
Houston’s Earl Campbell, who
gained 1,934 yards in 1980 to
lock up his third rushing title in
three pro seasons, and
Chicago’s Walter Payton, who
earned his fifth consecutive
NFC rushing crown.
The Pittsburgh Steelers put
three players on the All-Pro
team, all of them starters —
middle linebacker Jack Lam
bert, center Mike Webster and
strong safety Donnie Shell.
Cleveland, Houston, Oakland
and Los Angeles have two first
team players apiece — Sipe and
defensive end Lyle Alzado of the
Browns, Campbell and tackle
Leon Gray of the Oilers, outside
linebacker Ted Hendricks and
cornerback Lester Hayes of the
Raiders, and cornerback Pat
Thomas and free safety Nolan
Cornwell of the Rams.
Guards John Hannah of New
England and Herbert Scott of
Dallas, tackle Mike Kenn of At
lanta, defensive tackle Charlie
Johnson of Philadelphia, out
side linebacker Matt Blair of
Minnesota, punter Dave Jen
nings of the New York Giants,
place-kicker Ed Murray of De
troit and kick-returner J.T.
Smith of Kansas City round out
the first team.
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Campbell: $6-million man?
HOUSTON (A P) - Earl
Campbell's agent Witt Stewart
said Wednesday the three-time
National Football League
rushing champion is seeking a
$1 million per year deal with the
Houston Oilers and will sit out
next season if the team refuses
to renegotiate his contract.
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Stewart said he and Campbell
had decided during the 1980
season they would talk again
with the Oilers, who renegotiat
ed the former Heisman Trophy
winner's contract last February,
and seek another contract.
Stewart said he didn't want to
discuss details of his contract
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proposal, but when asked if $1
million per year for six years was
close he replied, "That’s pretty
close.”
There is nothing complicated
about what happens next,
Stewart said.
"There are no loopholes,”
Stewart said. "The Oilers can
renegotiate Earl's contract,
trade him, or Earl Campbell
can’t play pro football for the
next five years.”
Oilers General Manager Ladd
Herzeg already has said the
team would not, “under any cir
cumstances,” renegotiate
Campbell’s contract.
Campbell, who has five years
remaining on the contract that
pays him an estimated $500,000
annually, did not attend a news
conference called by Stewart
and has refused to talk about his
contract problems.
"It's not really a matter of
money,” Stewart said. “It gets
down to what is fair to one man.
Earl came out of college and
someone negotiated what they
thought was a good contract.
But it was a bad deal and the
Oilers have tried to hang that
over Earl’s head.”
North Carolina
beats Maryland
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -
Behind Al Wood’s second-half
shooting and some clutch free
throws down the stretch,
16th-ranked North Carolina
whipped eighth-ranked Mary
land 75-66 Wednesday night.