Secrets of the Super Bowl Quarterbacks
SUPER BOWL V
John Unitas started the game and was hurt early on. I came in to relieve him. The game was a tough defensive battle with Dallas taking the lead twice before we managed to tie the game. We were on the 3-yard-line and on second down. I called a running play for our fullback Tom Nowatzke. He only gained 1 yard as he ran a different route than the play I called in the huddle. When he came back to the huddle, he begged me to call the same play again, saying he had really screwed up and wanted to have another chance. I called the same play, and we scored to tie the game. To this day, he claims that was the one and only time Unitas or I ever listened to him. He said that regardless of what the backs or ends wanted called, we never listened. In those days, we called our own plays all the time. And in Super Bowl V, I never wavered, except that once."-- As told to Elizabeth Merrill of ESPN.com
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