Notes on a Scorecard - Jan. 26, 1993

About the only people working for 1983 wages Sunday in Pasadena will be the Dallas Cowboys and Buffalo Bills. . . .

The winners of Super Bowl XXVII will be paid $36,000 each and the losers $18,000, figures that have remained unchanged since Super Bowl XVII. . . .

In contrast, full World Series shares last year were worth $114,952 to the Toronto Blue Jays and $84,259 to the Atlanta Braves. . . .

The Bills and Cowboys are getting shortchanged because the players had no labor agreement with the NFL owners from 1987, when the five-year contract expired, until this month. . . .

Once their union is recertified, the players probably will seek to have their postseason pay doubled, as it was in 1982. . . .

Three members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame attended high school in South Central L.A.--Joe Perry at Jordan, Hugh McElhenny at Washington and Pete Rozelle at Compton--and Bill Walsh, who spent his 10th grade year at Washington, should join them in Canton, Ohio, this summer. . . .

Walsh is up for election Saturday and would seem to be among the four most deserving candidates along with Walter Payton, Chuck Noll and Lynn Swann. . . .

Jerry Jones, then 23, tried to buy the San Diego Chargers from Barron Hilton in 1966 before Eugene Klein got them for what was an NFL-record $10 million. In 1989, Jones bought the Cowboys for $100 million. . . .

“The trip out here was different from before the last two Super Bowls,” said Pete Weber, host of the Bills’ pre- and postgame shows and former radio and TV analyst for the L.A. Kings. “This time, everybody was quiet. You got the feeling that it was strictly a business trip.” . . .

Bill Granholm, who died Jan. 7 at 70 and will be remembered at a service Thursday at 7 p.m. at St. Timothy’s Church on Pico Blvd., was equipment manager for Ram, Chicago Rocket and Wausau, Wis., High School teams that featured Elroy (Crazy Legs) Hirsch. . . .

A much-decorated soldier in World War II, Granny went to work for the NFL in 1967 and led goodwill tours by players to military installations and hospitals in Europe and the Orient until 1988. . . .

Ten years from now, 500,000 Buffalo fans will say they were there the day the Bills staged the greatest comeback in NFL history to beat the Houston Oilers. In reality, it was the first playoff game that failed to sell out Rich Stadium. . . .

The crowd of 61,946 for the first NFL-AFL championship game was the fourth-largest of the 1966 season at the Coliseum. Two USC games and a Ram game outdrew it. . . .

Cornerback Nate Odomes, a replacement for Gill Byrd of the San Diego Chargers, gives the Bills four defensive players in the Pro Bowl, or four more than the Cowboys. . . .

Now we will learn whether Dan Reeves or John Elway was more responsible for the Denver Broncos’ success over the years. . . .

Mike Gottfried, former Kansas and Pittsburgh coach who is an ESPN college football analyst, might return to coaching as an NFL assistant. . . .

Ray Perkins should find that the New England Patriots’ offensive personnel compares favorably with what he coached at Arkansas State last season. . . .

New York Knick guard Rolando Blackman fouled out for the first time in his 900th NBA regular-season game last Friday. Wilt Chamberlain never fouled out during 1,045 regular-season games. . . .

NBA scouting consultant Roger Newell says that Cal State Long Beach guard Lucious Harris will be drafted in the middle of the first round. . . .

John Thompson was quoted as saying that J.R. Rider of Nevada Las Vegas is as good an offensive player as his Georgetown teams have faced. I wonder where that leaves Michael Jordan. . . .

The Kings are proof that goaltending is as important in hockey as pitching is in baseball. . . .

How much longer can King General Manager Nick Beverley afford to keep not one, but two cold goalies around? . . .

The Dallas Mavericks and Ottawa Senators are 0-41-0 on the road this season. . . .

You know that time is flying when Toronto Maple Leaf goaltender Felix Potvin says he grew up rooting for the Quebec Nordiques.