You can bet Pete didn’t care for this

I don’t know if this means anything, but … On the New York Times’ most recent list of bestsellers (hardcover, non-fiction), Pete Rose’s “My Prison Without Bars” and Al Franken’s “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” were running 1-3.

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Amazon.com should offer a discount if you buy ‘em together.

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Reason No.974 why Joe Gibbs will succeed in his second term with the Redskins: 61-year-old Dan Henning, one of his offensive assistants in the ‘80s, is still calling the plays for the Super Bowl-bound Carolina Panthers.

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In Thursday’s column, I talked about how little the Panthers threw the ball in the NFC Championship game — 14 times total, three in the second half. Well, when Gibbs’ Redskins beat the Lions in the ‘91 NFC title game, they threw it 17 times (with Mark Rypien completing 12 for 228 yards and a pair of touchdowns).

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You forget how land-based Gibbs could be in big games. In the other three conference championship games he won (‘82, ‘83 and ‘87), he called 20, 27 and 26 passes. Mr. Fun ‘n’ Gun, he ain’t. (And thank goodness for that.)

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Speaking of Carolina, is it just me, or do the Panthers’ white uniforms make Stephen Davis look — how shall I put this? — unusually wide?

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In fact, he could pass for Marion Motley.

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