ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, January 28, 1996               TAG: 9601290101
SECTION: SPORTS                   PAGE: C-1  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: TEMPE, ARIZ.
SOURCE: Associated Press 

A MATCHUP AS CLEAR AS BLACK AND WHITE

They are glamorous and cocky. They almost have to be.

They are the Dallas Cowboys and they represent a conference that has won 11 consecutive Super Bowls. They've won two of those titles themselves, in 1993 and 1994.

Nobody has to ask the millions of fans who wear blue-and-white jerseys - especially Nos.8, 21, 22 and 88 - bearing the names of their favorite players.

The Pittsburgh Steelers?

Low-key, soft-spoken, ``just happy to be here.'' Barely a star in the bunch. Quick, who are Nos.91 and 95?

But when the Cowboys and Steelers meet at 6:20 p.m. at Sun Devil Stadium, the majority of neutral fans in America are likely to be rooting for Pittsburgh for all those reasons. They're tired of NFC dominance, of one-sided Super Bowls and, perhaps most of all, of Jerry Jones, the Dallas owner whose unceasing pursuit of the spotlight has made him as well-known as any of his players.

Thus, for Super Bowl XXX, the team in black jerseys wears the white hats; the team in white jerseys the black ones.

LENGTH: Short :   35 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  color photos. color graphics. 
KEYWORDS: FOOTBALL