Secrets of the Super Bowl Quarterbacks
SUPER BOWL VI
The first one I knew I was going to start we were still the team that could not win the big game and I was nervous in a healthy way. But Coach Landry, he just wanted to make sure, so he hid me in his room every night down there in New Orleans. Coach Landry's wife, Alicia, one night just said, "Let the poor guy alone," so he did let me go. I went out one night on my own and saw "Dirty Harry" with Joe Williams, which was a Clint Eastwood movie. I was probably not as nervous as Coach Landry was. I could see that great intensity he had for this game. I think our whole team felt it and we played almost error-free football on game day. I thought I was nervous and I started worrying because he was so nervous and had me in the room every night going over the same things. I'm like, "Coach, I graduated from college. I got this thing figured out. I know what you're saying." But his intensity was greater than I ever saw it in my career before that first Super Bowl game. When we went back to the Super Bowls after that, we didn't have the same meetings at night, but we always had that extra week and giving him a little more time. Sometimes our players would say, "You give Tom a little more time and there's too many changes." But we were always prepared.-- As told to Todd Archer of ESPN Dallas
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