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Most of the talk heading in centered around Southern Miss’ trio of offensive playmakers. “Because of the cheerleaders, not because of the game.” The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders were at Missouri’s team hotel, after all. Tigers quarterback coach Andy Hill, a sophomore wideout on the 1981 team, had some butterflies in his stomach.

When Sally and his teammates headed south, they were part of the team that had made four straight bowls after a four-year drought. When Missouri plays Minnesota in Orlando’s Citrus Bowl on Thursday, it will be the Tigers’ ninth bowl game in the past 10 seasons. That episode epitomized Missouri’s last trip to an Orlando, Fla., bowl game, a close, defensive battle with chippiness that the Tigers eked out 19-17 despite a late comeback effort from Southern Miss.

“And we learned to respect each other and just play the game real hard.”

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“The next series or play, I gave him a nice forearm up underneath his chin,” Sally said. “They definitely were trying to do their intimidation role against us.” “The first series was pretty brutal,” Sally said. The guard tried to pick Sally’s helmet clean off his head. Sally, Missouri’s senior nose guard, took on a double team by the Golden Eagles’ center and guard. On the first play of the 1981 Tangerine Bowl, a Southern Mississippi offensive lineman tried to let Jerome Sally know exactly what type of game it would be.