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Sports of The Times: Warren Moon, Clearing Way for Black Quarterbacks, Recalls His Struggles

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SAN FRANCISCO — Warren Moon sits there in the hotel lobby with his black beret and black shirt, recounting, at my request, tales of his days as one of the great and dominant quarterbacks of his time.

In his Hall of Fame career, he set so many records, piled up so many yards, that his place in the history of this game is assured. And yet there is that gap, like a rib ripped from his handsome frame.

After Moon left college in 1978, a Rose Bowl champion and Pacific-8 player of the year, he headed not to stardom in the N.