Camacho Certain Robe Not Fake--He Shot It

After he had put away Louie Burke in a lightweight fight at Atlantic City, Hector (Macho) Camacho was asked if the fur coat he had worn into the ring was real fur.

“It was a black wolf robe I got in Alaska,” he said.

But how did he know it was real?

“I shot it myself,” he said.

Take a bow, Anson Mount. He’s the Playboy magazine football expert who, in August, picked Miami in the AFC and San Francisco in the NFC, with the 49ers winning the Super Bowl.

The Prophet: Said Walt Hazzard on the KMPC pregame show Monday night: “I don’t like the Huskies. They used to bring a linebacker out of the stands to knock me on my butt. But they beat us only once. I guarantee you we’ll beat ‘em tonight.”

Miami Coach Don Shula can be expected to make some changes next season, but someone suggested his biggest need is for some Knute Rockne records to play at halftime.

In six Super Bowls, one with Baltimore, his teams have scored 67 points in the first half and 14 in the second. He’s been blanked four times in the second half.

Note: Shula and Bud Grant are tied for most Super Bowl losses at four.

Idle Thought: Wonder if the two Roger Craigs will meet this year and compare championship rings? The other Roger Craig, of course, is the retired pitching coach of the Detroit Tigers, baseball’s World Series champions.

From Randy Cross of the 49ers: “Dan Marino is the best thrower. I don’t think anyone has ever thrown the ball like this kid does. But I think Joe Montana is the best quarterback. The good Lord made a very special person when he built Joe Montana.”

From Tony Kornheiser of the Washington Post: “ There’s an old story about great coaches gathered in a room together around a blackboard. The offensive geniuses diagram something unstoppable only to see the defensive geniuses thwart them with something impenetrable. It goes on for hours until only one coach is left awake, and it is he who says, ‘Last guy with the chalk wins.’

“I’d give my chalk to Bill Walsh.”

Where They are Now: Former USC guard Dwight Anderson is playing for the Albuquerque Silvers of the Continental Basketball Assn. He’s second in the league in scoring with a 26.7 average. The coach is Norm Ellenberger, former coach at New Mexico, where he departed amid a scandal.

Quotebook

From Herb Caen’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle: “Remember Al Davis? He was espied in Mrs. Fields’ cookie store on Pine, sinking his fangs into a choc chippie with pride and poise.”