Honored, Even if You Are Out of Here

Last month’s Shrine all-star high school football game turned into a public relations nightmare for quarterback Stais Boseman of Inglewood Morningside High.

Boseman, all-state in football and basketball as a senior, was kicked off the South team three days before the game for leaving camp to visit his girlfriend.

The dismissal, however, came after press deadline for the game program. In it was a full-page ad taken out by Boseman’s mother and uncle congratulating Stais on his selection.

Add Boseman: Shrine officials said the Boseman family will be reimbursed $250 for the full-page ad and any tickets they may have purchased.

Trivia time: How many quarterbacks switched teams in the NFL this year?

Back in the saddle: Buddy Ryan, who has been an NFL assistant with the Jets, Vikings and Bears and head coach of the Eagles, has returned from a two-year absence to become the Oilers’ defensive coordinator.

The hiring has caused quite a stir in Houston, where there is speculation that Ryan was brought in to eventually replace Coach Jack Pardee.

Ryan disagrees. “I’m here to save (Jack’s) job,” he said. “I’m here to win a Super Bowl this year, and if we do that, everybody wins. Jack stays, and somebody will want to hire Buddy Ryan.”

House that Ruth built: George Steinbrenner has become disillusioned with Yankee Stadium and is threatening to move the team to New Jersey if improvements are not made.

Fan Neal Dolan said such a move would be sacrilegious: “It would be disconnected and alienating. It would be like going to church in a shopping mall.”

Meet us in Bedrock: Wallace Matthews of Newsday suggests “Meet the Flintstones” should replace “Meet the Mets” as the theme for the team, “which is all Pebbles and no Bamm-Bamm.” He says Manager Dallas Green is “big as Fred Flintstone” and has nicknamed the clubhouse “Romper Room.”

Trivia answer: A record 16. Twelve were free agents and four were traded.

Quotebook: Eric Davis of the Dodgers on the recent incident with an explosive device: “It’s not like we were in the car plotting, like, to blow up a plane or anything.”