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SUPER BOWL XXVII

The night before the game I'm sitting there watching a movie. I don't remember what movie it was. It was some old Western and I'm with [Dale] Hellestrae, [John] Gesek and [Jay] Novacek, and as we're watching this movie, I heard this noise outside the window and I didn't know what it was. I open up the shade and it's just pouring down rain. It's thundering out. Just pouring out rain. I don't know if you remember this, but I couldn't throw a wet football at all. It was so bad to the point where I'd make the centers change pants at halftime because it would get wet from the sweat so as the ball would come up it'd get on my hands and I'd have a hard time gripping the football. I'd make them change pants at halftime. So now it's pouring rain and I'm thinking, "You've got to be kidding me." The biggest game of my life and it's raining. I mean, you could've put Nate Newton at quarterback and had a better chance of winning with him than me. I'm not kidding you. Coaches were always fearful of that going in, that it might rain on game day. I'm like, "Oh my God," and these guys think it's the funniest thing ever. They're just laughing at me. But I slept great and probably had the best night of sleep I'd ever had before a game. And when I woke up the next morning, the first thing I did was run over and open the shades and it was a beautiful Southern California day. It was just fabulous, not a cloud in the sky. That certainly helped as I went to the stadium that day.
-- As told to Todd Archer of ESPN Dallas