bvanthielriceyoung
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+1 and bump this
+1 and bump this
I think this was posted in another thread....
Originally Posted by Joe
I always paid attention to what I ate before games. Your stomach has to be not empty but not full. I'd have a little piece of steak before games, maybe some coffee, a Snickers bar at halftime, then I'd have one of the guys on the team put a cheeseburger in my locker for after the game. Against Cincinnati, I got to the stadium so early that I was hungry, so I ate my Snickers bar before the game started. And in the fourth quarter, on the drive to beat them late in the game, I almost passed out. You couldn't even talk in the huddle. It was so loud. I was hyperventilating, yelling at the top of my lungs, and I was running out of juice. Halfway through the drive, I thought I was going to black out. I was seeing black and white fuzziness. I put my hands under center, and it felt like I was there for seconds. But I wasn't. Jerry [Rice] was running to a corner to the left, and I threw the ball 10 yards out of bounds because I thought I was going to pass out. I was using every bit of oxygen I had. Then, by the next play, it went away. I didn't say anything. I didn't even think about it again. And it came down to a touchdown pass to win the game. I did that 1,000 times in the backyard, throwing to my friends. To have that come into play and be a reality, that dream come true, that drive, I was extremely excited. There's nothing like that feeling, coming from behind, to throw a touchdown pass and have it be in the Super Bowl. And when I got back to the locker room, a cheeseburger was in my locker. Usually I have to fight some of the linemen for it, but this time I didn't.
Originally Posted by Steve
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.