Secrets of the Super Bowl Quarterbacks
SUPER BOWL XXIX
We were a pretty veteran team and we had guys that had come from other teams, like Chris Doleman and Deion Sanders and guys who played for a long time, Kenny Norton. So we kind of felt like we knew what we were doing, the guys that had played Super Bowls before. Because we were so knowledgeable about everything, we had some conflicts around curfews amongst the guys who really thought they knew what they were doing. So, it took I think a loud voice like Tim McDonald to kind of say, "Look, I don't care how long you've been here, I don't care what you've done, we're locking this thing down." And this is not a time to be fooling around. There were a few voices that when they spoke, we could self-police. I've always watched that over the years. Good teams, great teams, Super Bowl teams always self-police. It was a really heavy, humid night in Miami. The air was thick and all of the fireworks had gone off in pregame and they just never moved. And so, the first few series were played in this surreal -- not fog, I mean, you could still see -- but it wasn't full visibility. And I can remember early in the game I threw a touchdown pass to Jerry Rice, I don't know, 50 yards or so, and I remember him catching it down the middle and disappearing into the fog. I was like, 'This is awesome.' It was artistic and a great moment.-- As told to Greg Garber of ESPN.com
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