Raider Allen Might Get Chance to Keep His Vow

In Super Bowl XVIII at Tampa Stadium after the 1983 season, Raider running back Marcus Allen rushed for 191 yards, a record at the time, in the Raiders’ 38-9 victory over the Washington Redskins.

Allen recently told Vito Stellino of the Baltimore Sun: “At the end of the game, everybody was saying, ‘Stay in and get 200. Nobody has ever done it.’

“I said, ‘No, Greg Pruitt has never been to a Super Bowl before. Let him play. I’ll be back.’ ”

The Raiders haven’t been back to the Super Bowl since. This year, the Super Bowl returns to Tampa. You don’t suppose Allen meant. . . . Naaaah.

Trivia time: When was the last time the Kansas City Chiefs won a postseason game?

Worth considering: During the seniors’ golf tournament at La Costa Saturday, Chi Chi Rodriguez was about to take his approach shot from the fairway when he said:

“You remember that war that all the kids didn’t like--Vietnam? Well, for a war they should raise the draft age. They shouldn’t take the kids. They should make the age 50 and there wouldn’t be any war. Us senior citizens, we’re lovers, not fighters.”

Always thinking ahead: Bruce Allen, son of George Allen, spoke at the memorial service for his father Friday in Rolling Hills.

Allen said that the day before his father died, he called him in New Orleans with a request.

George Allen was scheduled to represent Cal State Long Beach as a defensive assistant for the West team in the upcoming Hula Bowl. Bruce said his father wanted him to get scouting reports on the eastern offensive players and western defensive players chosen for the game.

Bruce said George added: “And get me (names of) all the available talent that’s not in this game so that maybe we can make some trades when we get to Hawaii.”

Add Allen: Houston Oiler Coach Jack Pardee recently recalled his days as a member of Allen’s “Over The Hill Gang” with the Washington Redskins.

Said Pardee: “He kept two-by-three index cards taped to his telephone. Before we played Dallas every year, he had a card that said, ‘What have you done today that Tom Landry hasn’t?’ ”

That’s us: Tony Harper, a columnist for the Australian Associated Press, wrote recently that the American AP’s poll of the leading sports stories of 1990 “confirmed America’s reputation as the global leader in parochialism.”

Harper was shocked that the World Cup soccer tournament finished 20th, outpolled by three stories on college sports and CBS’ firing of sportscaster Brent Musburger.

Wrote Harper: “The U.S. is a nation peculiar in its egocentricity, elevating a national baseball competition to the status of World Series and supporting college sports to a degree seen nowhere else.”

Overexposure: After Sunday’s loss to Cincinnati in an AFC playoff game, Houston Oiler quarterback Cody Carlson shouldn’t have to worry about a repeat of what happened the previous week.

Filling in for injured Warren Moon, Carlson led the Oilers to a 34-14 victory over Pittsburgh to put Houston in the playoffs. Afterward, he returned home with his girlfriend to find two women in a car. They wanted to take his picture.

Said Carlson: “I guess I just don’t understand. I’m a regular guy. I just throw a football.”

He said he posed anyway, and added: “I stopped and then walked off. They had to be quick with that shutter.”

Trivia answer: Super Bowl IV, on Jan. 11, 1970. The Chiefs defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 23-7.

Quotebook: Detroit Piston forward Dennis Rodman, who had 34 points and 23 rebounds in a 118-107 victory over the Denver Nuggets last week: “It was like going out on the playground.”