Extra Points

Martha Rogers, owner and president of Rogers Tour & Travel in Rochester, N.Y., really had no choice. Ten days before Sunday's Bills-Browns game featuring two teams with a combined record of 1-17, she was stuck with 45 tickets.

"I'd sold out four buses [180 tickets] for the Jets game September 23, and I'm sending three buses to the November 18 game against Dallas," she said. "But I couldn't get any takers for Cleveland."

So she decided to give the Browns tickets away...almost. She dreamed up a can't-lose proposition for her customers: a game ticket and round-trip bus fare for $25, with the money to be fully refunded if the Bills lost. Sure enough, she sold out within two days. "If I hadn't sold them, I'd have had to eat the tickets anyway," Rogers says.

Word travels fast in the NFL. Said Cleveland quarterback Paul McDonald, "Our new motto is: 'Make 'em give back the 25 bucks!' "

Well...the Bills lost, 13-10, and Rogers was out more than $1,100. "But I just may do this again next year," she says. "I'm a Bills fan. I won't give up."

John McKay of Tampa Bay is out, effective at the end of the season, and Monte Clark of Detroit is hearing footsteps. McKay, 61, the only coach the 8�-year-old franchise has had, resigned Monday but will stay on as team president. "It wasn't to be," said McKay, who is 3-7 this year and 42-88-1 overall.

Lions coach Clark, whose record is 3-6-1, may also be gone after the season. "If they can find somebody better, I'm not going to panic," he said last week. "I put my life into this thing, and when it doesn't work, it hurts. I do my best, and if that isn't enough, I'm sorry."

Sunday was a tough one for quarterbacks: Here are two battlefield reports.

After a vicious hit early in a 45-0 loss at Seattle, K.C.'s Bill Kenney, as he put it later, "wasn't sure what was going on. I was asking the offensive linemen and receivers what the plays were."

The casualties were higher at Soldier Field during the Bears' 17-6 win over the Raiders. Chicago's Jim McMahon was hospitalized with a lacerated kidney ("He could hardly breathe," said his center, Jay Hilgenberg), and L.A.'s Marc Wilson (grogginess) and David Humm (knee injury) also went down. The Bears' best weapon was defensive end Richard Dent, who did so well against tackle Bruce Davis that L.A. boss Al Davis, watching from the press box, ordered the "offensive" lineman to the bench.