Next Week

Pro Football, 1979 has been the year of the passer, the blitzer, the holder, the lawyer and rules maker, not to mention the AFC (again), says Paul Zimmerman, who reviews the first 11 weeks of the season and speculates about what's ahead.

The ultimate scouting report: Bob Ottum plunges into the swirling mists of Transylvania, not to check out Count Dracula but to get a line on the spectacular young Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, which is only slightly less difficult.