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00:00Thank you very much.
01:30That I would no longer be the head football coach with the Dallas Cowboys.
01:36Jimmy was looking for an exit door.
01:39Just when they reached the pinnacle, people just had a hard time understanding, why does
01:44this have to end?
01:45We were all disappointed.
01:45We were all sad to see him go because he was a great coach and he was our leader.
01:50And it was stunning for me that he would walk away from a team that was fully loaded and
01:54ready to march on and win and three-peat here.
01:57So it was frustrating for me.
01:59I didn't think it was fair.
02:00We'd always talked about team.
02:02We always talked about when we start winning championships, there's going to be enough
02:07success to go around for everybody.
02:09And then the people who were telling us that couldn't find a way to balance it out between
02:13the two of them.
02:13And the group of guys missed out on an opportunity to try and make history.
02:20I feel very strongly that we've got one of the most talented teams that there is in the
02:25NFL today, if not the most talented team and one of the best that has ever been put
02:29together.
02:30I feel very confident that the continuity can be kept in place and be motivated with
02:36the new head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Barry Switzer.
02:40Let me introduce you to it.
02:42Barry.
02:42Thank you, Jerry.
02:43The energy and the electricity packed into that room that day, it was very tense.
02:50It was also very emotional.
02:55And then about halfway through it, Barry interjected some humor into it.
03:00And I don't know that Jerry was ready for it.
03:02I hope I can do as good a job as Jimmy Johnson.
03:04That's what you're hoping.
03:05And that's damn sure what you're hoping.
03:08That's why I'm here.
03:10Well, I'm tan, rested, and ready.
03:12You know, that's all I can say to you.
03:14I'm ready to go.
03:14I want to start tomorrow.
03:16Nothing's going to change, Cowboy fans.
03:18Get ready to watch the Dallas Cowboys be the best in the NFL.
03:22We've got a job to do, and we're going to do it, baby!
03:28I think Jerry wanted to prove that it wasn't all he had.
03:33He could just put the fucks in one end, and we'd go on to win that 94 season.
03:37Well, coach, welcome to your new home.
03:39It's good to be here, Jerry.
03:40Thank you for that opportunity.
03:41This is going to be the most exciting, it's going to be the most challenging camp that
03:45we've ever been a part of.
03:48And not just because of Barry Switzer's coaching the Cowboys instead of Jimmy Johnson, but also
03:56because we are in pursuit of a third straight Super Bowl.
04:01I think Barry walked into the biggest no-win situation that any coach has in the history
04:06of the National Football League.
04:07He walked in with enthusiasm, and he walked in eager to go.
04:19Yeah, this is what I look forward to.
04:21Really, it's not, you know, all the attention and all that's not important to me.
04:29But I don't know that he knew the full depth of what a trap it really was.
04:35Because if he won, he won with the players that were there that Jimmy had coached to this level.
04:43And if he didn't win to any level other than the Super Bowl, it was a failure.
04:48Jimmy had the last say in things.
04:50And I don't know if Barry had the last say on that field as far as how the team operated.
04:55He was so hands-off.
04:56He allowed the coordinators to basically run practice.
05:00If there's a problem, he allowed them to make the adjustments for a while.
05:03I think Barry Switzer was smart, and he respected his staff and his players enough not to lie to them,
05:10say that I'm in control, I'm making all the decisions, it's me, me, me, me.
05:14He respected us enough not to say that.
05:16He realized that Mr. Jones was now moving and getting deeply involved in the organizations
05:21in every aspect of it, from talent to free agency to coaching,
05:26and that Mr. Jones ultimately would be making those decisions.
05:29The atmosphere just wasn't the same.
05:32And I don't know, maybe that was one of the reasons that we started to lose our edge,
05:36because there wasn't that threat there.
05:39I am ready today.
05:40I'm finally getting around to do what I want to do.
05:43And I'll be glad to get rid of you guys, where I can go do it and say,
05:47I'm going to do one interview a day, and that's it, and let me go coach.
05:50Let me go do what I want to do.
05:53And it's not worth trying to kiss their butt, because they can't help you and they can't fire you.
05:59I've had enough of the Barry Switzer interviews.
06:05How about them Cowboys?
06:07We are going to 3P.
06:08We are going to make history.
06:09We still had such a talented, poised team that was made up of veterans in their prime
06:17that we could go out on form and, for the most part, handle anybody that we had to come up
06:23against.
06:26Barry Switzer had not coached for five years,
06:29but his many critics were silenced when the 94 Cowboys marched to a 12-4 record and into the NFC
06:35Championship.
06:36Deep ball to the middle. Here's Harper. At the 45, he caught it.
06:40Left to the 40 of the Packers.
06:42Down the sideline to the 20.
06:43An inside move to the 10.
06:45He broke away. He scored. He scored.
06:48They've been waiting all year long to go play the 49ers in the championship game.
06:54It's exactly what everybody said would happen, and now it's going to happen.
06:58Nothing was going to be measured in terms of success in 94 as to whether we won 13 or 14
07:04regular season games
07:05in the NFC Championship game.
07:07It was going to be, did you beat the 49ers, and did you win the Super Bowl?
07:11It was, that was, that was success, and everything else was bust.
07:15My mindset going into that game, and our mindset as a team was going in saying,
07:21we had San Francisco's number.
07:23We felt if we went out and played our best game, and they played their best game, we'd beat them.
07:27But we didn't do that.
07:27Back to throw again is Aikman.
07:29Some pressure.
07:30Gets the pass away.
07:31Eric Davis picks it off.
07:32He's got a lane down the left side.
07:3420-10 ball.
07:36Touchdown, 49ers.
07:38The game was won in the first eight minutes of the game.
07:41Back to throw is Aikman.
07:42Has time.
07:42Sends it down the left side.
07:44Ball is caught and knocked down.
07:45That could be a bumble.
07:47Yes, it is a bumble.
07:4849ers have the ball again.
07:49Tim McDonald.
07:5121-0 deficit with eight minutes gone in the game.
07:54They give it to Floyd.
07:55He gets in.
07:56He's standing up.
07:57Washington grabs them.
07:58It's too late.
07:5949ers.
08:00After seven and a half minutes of this game, lead 20-0.
08:05The 38-28 defeat left the Cowboys devastated.
08:09Well, if there was a honeymoon, or some semblance of a honeymoon for Barry Switzer, it ended that
08:16day out in Candlestick Park.
08:18The mood was complete and total shock.
08:20And I think everyone who was with that team from 89 or 90 onward shared that feeling.
08:27Couldn't believe we lost.
08:29Didn't want to get on the plane.
08:31Didn't want to do anything because...
08:3331-14 at half.
08:36You knew tomorrow morning you're going to have to get up, go out to the front yard and pick
08:39up the paper.
08:40And it was going to say, Cowboys drop NFC Championship game.
08:44Not only Barry and not only Jerry was going to be judged on whether the season was successful
08:49or not by winning the Super Bowl.
08:52Period.
08:54And when that didn't happen, there was just a very short list of people to blame.
09:02And it started with the two guys at the top.
09:05Jones Switzer Union.
09:07The team rallied around their embattled head coach.
09:11I think he related very well to players.
09:13He loved football.
09:14He wanted to know how you're doing outside of football.
09:19And a lot of black players gravitated to him because he was open.
09:23Black players loved him in the past.
09:25And the black players in our locker room loved him also.
09:28Red ball, red ball, twins, twins.
09:311995 began with many questions.
09:33Had the talent level slipped?
09:35Would free spirits and free agency sink this impending dynasty?
09:39Come on.
09:39Yeah, dog it.
09:40Let's go.
09:41We started losing guys that were parts of that engine that we had built over those seasons
09:48that you couldn't replace them.
09:50Free agency decimated Dallas.
09:52Lost were center Mark Stepnoski and high wire receiver Alvin Harper.
10:01Let's live with giving him the final offer.
10:04And then if he doesn't, then we'll all live with it and then go get the other guy.
10:08Is that where we went?
10:09The owner was also the general manager.
10:12This two-headed monster was roasted by the media, which enraged Jerry Jones.
10:17Meddling.
10:18I will tell you right now, if you have worked as hard as I have to get where I've got
10:22and
10:23somebody says you're meddling in what you've done, that will make you a little defensive
10:27and turn you into something you don't like yourself.
10:30And I'm tired of defending that.
10:32The facts are that's not been the way it's been out here since 1989.
10:35It's not going to be the way it is going forward.
10:38It has helped us win since 1989, and it's going to help us win again.
10:42Just keep on going.
10:43You motivate me.
10:45Chef!
10:45And I was happy to have him on our team, and he was never the same after his car accident.
10:50There were more critics than champions of the Cowboys.
10:53This team seemed like a house of cards.
10:56But in a game of Texas Hold'em, the Cowboys still had a few aces up their sleeves.
11:19This is going to be a great year.
11:20You know, look at that.
11:21Second play of the game.
11:22They give us something we've never seen.
11:24We pick it up.
11:25Everybody gets a hat on a hat, and he goes untouched 60 yards.
11:28It's, you know, you had a real good feeling about what that season was going to become
11:33just off of that game and especially that play.
11:43You kind of got the feeling that that game was one of those they're back type situations,
11:50and whether the country liked it or not, all these, you know, big star Dallas Cowboys guys
11:58are back in our face again on national television, and it looks like they might be pretty good again.
12:10Ah.
12:32There was a huge rivalry between us and the 49ers, so why not?
12:35You know, you need a corner.
12:36We just lost, you know, our number one corner, so why don't we take the one that was with the
12:41team
12:42that beat us last year in the championship game and won the Super Bowl?
12:44In Jerry's mind, I think he felt that the only way we get back to the Super Bowl
12:49is that we take Deion Sanders away from San Francisco and put him on our team.
12:54In Jerry's mind, he viewed Deion as a crown jewel, and if he could make it work financially, he wanted
13:02to do it.
13:03He and his son, Stephen, almost came to blows one night during the negotiation
13:06because Stephen was concerned about the salary structure of the club.
13:10Who else comes on TV but Jerry?
13:13Jerry said, Deion.
13:14Bringing him in was not just adding the best cornerback in football,
13:19but it was adding another first-name superstar to an organization that people said,
13:24geez, don't they have enough?
13:26He said to me, Rich, I don't love the camera.
13:32The camera loves me.
13:33I don't love money.
13:35Money loves me.
13:40Without Deion, who was injured, the Cowboys won four straight games,
13:44including an overtime...
13:46They just got him. How could he be injured?
13:49...thriller in Minnesota.
13:50And off to Emmitt Smith.
13:51Left tackle, running rim, 30.
13:52He may score to the 20, to the 10, to the 5.
13:56Touchdown, Dallas.
13:57This game is over.
13:59The Cowboys have won it.
14:02The Cowboys finally lost in week five to the lowly Washington Redskins.
14:07Touchdown, Washington Redskins.
14:09The Redskins have done it.
14:11Upset the Cowboys at RFK.
14:15Troy Aikman was accused of playing soft against his former coordinator, Norv Turner.
14:20We heard stories about, you know, Troy.
14:23Wow.
14:27The 92, 93, and 95 Cowboys all lost a game to the Redskins.
14:37Troy going easy on Norv, which was, you know, BS.
14:41I'm sure it was just the opposite.
14:43Troy wanted to prove to Norv that I can beat you without you.
14:46Troy is all about winning.
14:49And I don't care if his mom was the head coach and his dad was the offensive coordinator
14:54on the other side.
14:55He's going to want to beat him.
14:57So it didn't matter that Norv was over there.
14:59The last thing Troy is going to do is do anything to lose a game.
15:02Purposely to lose a game.
15:04We invented the conspiracy theory in Dallas.
15:06I mean, that's what we're known for.
15:08When there would be a rumbling that Troy didn't perform at his highest level when he was playing
15:14against Norv, people in the locker room just rolled their eyes and said,
15:16that's garbage, that's ridiculous, that's baloney.
15:19It was just part of the myth and madness of what being around that era of America's team
15:27was all about.
15:29The 7-1 Cowboys came to Atlanta, where Deion Sanders made his long-awaited debut against
15:35the team that originally drafted him.
15:37This is our house.
15:38This ain't Dallas.
15:38This is Atlanta.
15:42He already played them twice as a 49er.
15:47It's not the same anymore.
15:50Come in here.
15:51That's my Deion.
15:52What better time for him to come back than against the club that originally drafted him
15:56back in 1989.
15:57So, you know, you can't script some of the things that were revolving around that franchise
16:02for a while.
16:03Had a little bit of a show business, movie premiere type setting for Deion coming back
16:09to the Georgia Dome, playing his first game as a Dallas Cowboy.
16:13The glitzy atmosphere turned into the Golden Gloves for primetime.
16:21The only neon in Deion's debut was on the final scoreboard.
16:25Here's a deep drop for A good first in.
16:27Plunk fake.
16:28Going way down the field for Michael Irvin.
16:29Bumping and grinding at the ball.
16:31He's got it.
16:32It's the ball.
16:32Touchdown, Cowboys.
16:35That man dimmed down the Cowboys!
16:38Woo!
16:40Blood in the water when the red and gold came to Texas Stadium.
16:44This was heavyweight championship fight type stuff.
16:47There was a real sense of this is going to be a big game and this is going to be
16:52a great
16:52big game and it was in November and we had the best record in the NFC and this was our
16:57opportunity to reestablish, tip the scale back over to the Dallas side, reestablish the
17:04Cowboys dominance in the NFC.
17:06Don't forget what happened last year!
17:09It had some of that Ollie Frazier type atmosphere for a football game and it wound up being George
17:15Foreman and Joe Frazier.
17:17I mean, they knocked us out right out of the box and it was Beja Boo all over again.
17:2138-20 to Elvis Gerback.
17:26Running into the 40!
17:28They can't catch him!
17:29He'll beat them all!
17:32Touchdown 49ers!
17:3449ers!
17:37We thought we'd line Deion up on Jerry and the corner go opposite the whole game, but
17:41they didn't do that.
17:42They moved Jerry around, they got him on linebackers, they created matchups of what they wanted to
17:47see there and we really were to adjust.
17:48We were all over the place.
17:51We were trying to play man to man and Larry Brown was playing in a position where I was
17:57supposed to be playing in a safety position.
17:59Rice is lined up on Larry Brown.
18:01Rice ate Larry Brown alive in both games last year.
18:05Larry Brown had no idea what he was supposed to be doing in a safety position, so that's how
18:09crazy it was.
18:14You could just feel all the air going out of Texas Stadium and up through the hole in the
18:20roof.
18:21It was really that devastating because of what had happened the previous January.
18:27This one was actually worse than the championship game, we never even got close.
18:47So the psyche had changed.
18:49It went from us dominating them to them dominating us.
18:54I think we just pretty much, you know, we got out-coached that game.
18:57That was a point in the season where you started to think the Cowboys aren't what the Cowboys
19:03were and maybe the pendulum of power has completely shifted to the Bay Area.
19:10That San Francisco game was the first time in a long time that any of us ever felt that.
19:16They're just better than we are right now.
19:19I learned about who Leon was and he was with a group that some of the guys had already been
19:25in trouble.
19:27So it's going to take a very strong person to be able to decline some of the things that
19:32were going on at that point.
19:34If there was a party going on in Dallas, the Cowboys were a part of it.
19:37I think a lot of us craved the discipline that we had with Jimmy because we knew we had guys
19:41that you couldn't trust to be on their own.
19:43They were going to make mistakes.
19:44If you didn't have somebody there that had a strong presence and instilled a little bit
19:49of fear in them.
19:50It just was a little bit too loose while Barry was there.
19:53There was scrutiny and there was criticism because it was another opportunity to take
19:58a shot at our team.
20:00The team was a media target and every player became caught in their crosshairs.
20:06It was tabloid journalism.
20:09America's team isn't just for the positive.
20:14They're America's darlings, but you can also be America's punching bag.
20:35There was not a week that the Cowboys could go without the press and just a free week.
20:41We were dealing with something every week of that season and it was just a very difficult
20:45time for us and a lot of guys didn't know how to handle it.
20:48There were so many distractions over those times, during that time.
20:53The only time that we were really happy was playing on Sundays.
20:56Happiness came in week 12 when the Cowboys defeated the Raiders behind the playmaker,
21:01Michael Irvin, number 88.
21:03Michael Irvin, wide open.
21:0510 Cowboys.
21:06Oh, man, was he wide open.
21:08Irvin was the heart and soul of the 95 Cowboys.
21:12Big play!
21:13Oh, man, that ain't it!
21:15His combative spirit lifted him above the competition.
21:18Throws it in the end zone.
21:20Ball is caught!
21:21Michael Irvin!
21:25You get into those lulls during a season or a game and he was the guy that could get
21:31you out of it.
21:31They startin' to say we can't run the damn football.
21:35They want a line stand made up in that same day.
21:37We'll run all the money.
21:38We'll run all the money.
21:39Let's go.
21:39All the damn day!
21:40All the damn day!
21:41All the day!
21:42You found the 88!
21:44You found the 88!
21:45Hot, hot!
21:47Chapman!
21:48Chapman on third and 13.
21:49Going for the bomb again for Michael Irvin in the corner of the end zone.
21:52He bobbles the hole!
21:53Oh, what a catch!
21:54Oh, man!
21:55Dale Carter was there, the ball was there, and Michael Irvin stayed with it.
22:02Wins over the Raiders and Chiefs gave Dallas a 9-2 record.
22:05To put those two wins back to back after the totally deflating experience with the 49ers
22:12led people to believe we were on the right path, and it was like little did they know
22:18that the December from hell was right around the corner.
22:22Wow.
22:24It began on a heavenly Sunday.
22:26The Cowboys lost once again to the underdog Redskins.
22:34We had some fallout during that game at halftime.
22:43There was a little fight that took place between Larry Brown and Charles Haley during the halftime
22:51of that game.
22:51Nothing got accomplished at halftime.
22:53We went right back on the field, and the Redskins continued to stomp us.
22:58Touchdown, Washington Redskins!
23:00There was an unsettling feeling starting to permeate its way through the locker room that,
23:05what is our identity, and can we, you know, beat somebody we're supposed to beat?
23:10We just got to take care of business in December and get it done.
23:14Here we go!
23:16I want to say the temperature was 19, and the wind chill in the vet was like 7 below.
23:21And it, cold in Veterans Stadium is a different kind of cold.
23:26It's just, it's unmerciful.
23:29The Cowboys burst to a 17-3 lead.
23:31Throw to sideline, intercepted by Larry Brown, he made score 40.
23:34We felt that we had control of that game.
23:37I was able to go grab that ball and take it back, and we felt we had a nice cushion
23:41there.
23:41It was a game that we felt we shouldn't have lost, and that we let slip away from us.
23:46Third goal.
23:47Hand off to Waters.
23:49He's in!
23:49Touchdown!
23:50And the Eagles are back in this game.
23:54Late in the game, with a score tied at 17, the Cowboys took a risky gamble on fourth down.
24:00I remember Deion saying, you know, it wasn't fourth in the foot, it was fourth in the ding-a-ling.
24:06When you have the offensive line that we've had, and you had probably at that time arguably
24:10the best back in the National Football League, and that line can't push forward for one yard,
24:16then something's wrong there.
24:19Here's your call game.
24:20Barry Switzer makes the call.
24:22Eagles completed if they stop the Cowboys here.
24:24They give it to Smith.
24:26He doesn't make it!
24:27They stop them!
24:28The Eagles take over a foul!
24:30The Eagles take over a foul!
24:32There was a flag after them.
24:34They got another chance.
24:35And the Eagles stopped the Smith again.
24:38The referees are talking.
24:39We've got some problems!
24:41We've got some problems!
24:42We lucked out.
24:44We got the snap off late.
24:45The two-minute warning goes off before the play.
24:48So, it looks as though we've dodged a bullet.
24:50But no, we're gonna go back and we're gonna do it again.
24:53And not only are we gonna do it again, we're gonna run the exact same play.
24:55Here we go, fourth down.
24:57They give it to Smith.
24:58And they stuck on the goal!
25:00And this time, I can't take it away from the Eagles.
25:03A safe play!
25:04And I can't believe Barry Switzer goes with the same play.
25:07Why would we call the same exact play?
25:10And run it right back in the teeth of that defense.
25:12We're in December.
25:13We're playing the worst football we've played all year.
25:15I mean, the media just...
25:17They crucified Barry.
25:20Barry takes a beating.
25:23Barry doesn't call the play.
25:24He just says, go for it.
25:26Barry says, go for it again after the penalty.
25:30And the exact same play is called.
25:32But Barry takes the heat.
25:33He's the head coach.
25:34We felt like it's a 90% least chance of making it.
25:37And we didn't make it.
25:39So that's a consequence of love.
25:41And I'm Bozo the Clown and Bozo the Coach.
25:43And I have to live with that.
25:45So I'm the type of guy that can handle it.
25:47Everybody, including me, knows your team win.
25:49Ended a rollercoaster season.
25:51A wild, stomach-churning ride that saw them go from commanding to collapsing to champions of the East.
26:01End off Emmitt Smith at the five.
26:04Up to the three.
26:05To the one.
26:06Touchdown Emmitt Smith.
26:07L-O record.
26:10What the...
26:16That game was just so special.
26:18Those guys were excited.
26:19And I think it gave us the belief in ourselves again that we could do it.
26:23That we could make it back to the Super Bowl.
26:25Everything that happened back there from the injury to Kevin Smith to getting beat by the 49.
26:30Beating the Cardinals gave you confidence you could win the Super Bowl again.
26:35It's the Cardinals.
26:38To the fourth and one disaster in Philadelphia.
26:41The Redskin losses.
26:43All that stuff.
26:43It's meaningless.
26:44Because guess what?
26:44We did what we set out to do when we were in training camp.
26:48So for the first time there was kind of a positive vibe.
26:51But the vibe from Troy Aikman is that of a prisoner walking the last mile.
26:57Here comes the blitz.
26:58Anthony Davis attacks Troy Aikman.
27:01Looks like he might have hurt his knee or ankle.
27:04He's shaking up.
27:06He's gonna go.
27:08Touchdown for it.
27:09There's a gun.
27:12Aik is looking left.
27:14Intercepted by Inez Williams.
27:15Touchdown, Arizona Cardinals.
27:181995 was less an odyssey than an ordeal for Aikman.
27:22That's all you media folks.
27:24Getting in the way.
27:25He was hounded by the press about his strained relationship with his head coach.
27:29A relationship that began under Switzer at Oklahoma.
27:35Aikman transformed the Sooners from a wishbone attack to a wide open office.
27:40But when he was injured his sophomore year, Switzer helped him transfer to UCA.
27:45Hey.
27:47It was an odyssey.
27:49It was an ordeal for Troy Aikman.
27:51That was one of his best seasons of his career.
27:54In regular season terms.
27:58L.A. where he starred and became the NFL's number one draft choice in 1989.
28:14While his relationship with Jimmy Johnson had been harmonious, it remained off key with Barry Switzer.
28:22I sort of knew that there was a little rift between the two, between Switzer and Aikman.
28:28The lackadaisical style of coaching that Switzer had.
28:32Troy was a perfectionist.
28:33He wanted to win games and he wanted things to go exactly the way they went when Jimmy was there.
28:39Troy is a guy, all he wants to do is win championships.
28:41He wants everybody to do everything they possibly can.
28:47And, you know, there were times when we felt that Barry, you know, needed to do more.
28:51Am I happy with my relationship with Aikman?
28:53As I've told you before, you know, I don't know if Chuck Knoll had a great relationship with Terry Bradshaw
28:58or not.
28:58It wasn't important. He won four Super Bowls, right?
29:01That's the bottom line.
29:02I'm not going to drink RC Colas and double date and, you know, with him.
29:06We're not going to do those things.
29:07I mean, just, it's not part of the game. It's not important.
29:09It's kind of like a jockey itch. You can't have your rhythm thing, you know.
29:12You keep talking and everybody keeps bringing it up.
29:14And one of you have to answer it, you know, it rubs your raw.
29:20The most volatile situation erupted when assistant coach John Blake told Barry Switzer that Aikman was criticizing just the black
29:27players.
29:29Barry had called me in the office to talk about it.
29:31And what I told Barry was, hey, listen, you know, Troy is not that guy.
29:36And we don't look at Troy. I don't look at him personally as a guy that's a racist or if
29:40he's just yelling at black guys.
29:41I told him, listen, this, that's what I expect out of Troy.
29:44And I went to Troy the same, that same day after walking out of Barry's office and telling Troy, hey,
29:49listen, we got your back.
29:50The guy that summarized it.
29:52Most of the players on the team are black.
29:56Who do you think is going to get a yell of that?
29:59Er is black.
30:01Larry Allen is black.
30:03Haley's black.
30:04Larry Brown's black.
30:06Woodson's black.
30:09Did I say Irvin and Emmett?
30:12Yeah, they're black too.
30:14Leon Lett's black.
30:15Best for me was Charles Haley.
30:18And he said, look around that huddle.
30:20Most of the people that he hands the ball off to or that he interacts with in the offensive huddle
30:25are black.
30:26And it's his job to straighten them out if they step out of line.
30:31And if he doesn't do it.
30:32Three non-black players besides Troy Aikman I could probably name.
30:39He's messing with my money and I'll go in there and do it for him.
30:42He is a perfectionist.
30:44He is the ultimate competitor.
30:46The most competitive person I've ever met.
30:48You don't want to disappoint Troy.
30:49You don't want Troy mad at you.
30:50He had these physical gifts that were just God given.
30:53The physical stature, he just looked like a quarterback.
30:56He looked like a statue to the game of football during the national anthem.
30:59When number eight went out into the huddle, you knew there was a top flight professional quarterback in there.
31:05He was just out there cutting people up, performing surgery.
31:10Aikman's discontent rarely surfaced, and his bottom line was still accuracy, efficiency, leadership, and guiding his team to championships.
31:20All quarterbacks follow the same path, but the great ones like Troy Aikman leave different footprints on the game.
31:27He cuts it up at the five.
31:29He scores!
31:30He scores!
31:31He scores!
31:32Watch out!
31:32Cowboy!
31:33You knew his ultimate goal was to win games.
31:36That's what brought him happy.
31:38He's the imperfectionist and winning games.
31:41People who have that character trait where they're always looking for a way to improve or a way to get
31:46better and a way not to be satisfied,
31:48generally have a positive impact on the whole organization doing well.
31:58The Packers have become the Cowboys' whipping boys, and the lash was applied on a 99-yard drive before halftime.
32:05You just take the ball off the one, and you go right down the field.
32:10There's nothing more demoralizing than that, especially at that critical part of the game.
32:15It was a vintage Cowboy March.
32:18Powered by the triplets, it drained the clock and the Packers' will.
32:22e a ball.
32:41–off-smith again, blocking again, and Emmett scores this time, and the Cowboys have taken the lead with the Emmett
32:48-smith touchdown,
32:49with 24 seconds remaining in the first half.
32:53That drive coming off of our goal line was absolutely huge.
32:57And, you know, it kind of is an indication of how far we'd come in a month's time.
33:03You know, back in early December, I don't know if we'd make that drive.
33:07We're Musco, baby! We're Musco!
33:13Absolutely owners.
33:16Tigers were 9-4 in the playoffs.
33:19In 92, from 92 to 97.
33:259-1 against everybody else on 3 vs. the Cowboys.
33:33And off Emmitt Smith at the 15th.
33:35Oh, look at that hole!
33:37To the 10, he'll score!
33:38Emmitt Smith dances to the end zone!
33:41The Steelers and the Cowboys in Arizona for Super Bowl 30.
33:46Going again!
33:47Going again!
33:51Y'all are tremendous, and I really appreciate some of the things that you guys said to me personally.
33:58Some of you players in the ballgame.
33:59It really means a lot to me.
34:00It really does.
34:01And I want to thank our coaching staff.
34:03I want to thank these guys that all we have to put up with and all the people outside.
34:09Hey, the law, they stuck with me and fought their rear ends off, and I believe in them, and they
34:14believe in me.
34:19For Barry Switzer, the former Oklahoma head coach, his ultimate moment seemed no bigger than a college bowl game.
34:28He kind of enjoyed just the circus atmosphere of it and didn't take it too seriously, and I think for
34:36him it was like a big bowl game.
34:37That's why we're at the orange bowl, that's why every, I mean orange bowl, my God, a big orange bowl,
34:43that's why we're at the big orange bowl.
34:44Barry didn't pay lip service to taking care of his kids and enjoying his family, and he wanted them to
34:52enjoy this because he basically said to them, this is why I did this.
34:57This is why I put up with all this criticism.
35:00Max's wife's coming in too.
35:02She told my daughter, my daughter called her and said, Mom, you want to go to the Super Bowl?
35:06She said, well, I'll live with that for 22 years.
35:10I said, I guess I can come to the Super Bowl.
35:13And I said, well, come on, I'll put a roll away in there for you.
35:17Hey, it's been a long time coming.
35:20When we finally here, let's go out here and play a complete game.
35:24Let's go from the Alpha to the Omega.
35:26Let's go out here, kick deep Pittsburgh, steal his hands up and down the field, and go home and enjoy
35:32it for four years.
35:35Let's go, Mom, come on.
35:46Oh, man.
35:49Imagine thinking they had a chance against the Cowboys when they were a dropped Hail Mary away from losing to
35:58the Jim Harbaugh Colts.
36:03This game was really close than it should have been.
36:11The Cowboys overpowering defense and picture-perfect offense overwhelmed the Steelers.
36:24We've got control of the game.
36:25All of a sudden, there's a lull, and we don't have control of the game anymore.
36:31First and goal at the six.
36:32Slap pattern for the goal line.
36:34Touchdown, Steelers!
36:36I remember the Steelers scored right before halftime.
36:41And it gave me a sick feeling in my stomach, and I went up on the roof of the press
36:46box.
36:46I was thinking, if I could get on that helicopter and get out of here, I would.
36:50And I'd go home and watch it on TV because I don't know if I have the stomach to sit
36:54around and watch the rest of this one.
36:57Because these guys think that they're in it.
37:01And we let them think that they're in it, and they are.
37:04All of a sudden, they're back into it because we have a little bit of a lull during the course
37:08of the game.
37:08And then we've got to hold on and have a little bit of luck help us out at the end.
37:12And Larry Brown happened to be in the right place at the right time twice.
37:15My hands were so bad that, as a rookie, he used to call me Edward Scissorshands.
37:20He couldn't catch anything at practice.
37:23He had his biggest games against the best players on the biggest stages.
37:27It was just a zone play for us there, and I think Neil O'Donnell, the ball got away from it,
37:32just slipped.
37:32He actually tried to hit a crossing route in my zone and ended up flowing right to me.
37:38I said I was going to make sure I caught it.
37:39And I think at that time, I was trying to score, get up and down the sideline, get that ball
37:43in the end zone if I could.
37:45It was a freebie, it was a gift, and I gladly appreciate it.
37:57Instead of burying the Steelers, they gave them a stay of execution.
38:01And Dan walks into the end zone for the Steelers.
38:04Touchdown, a three-thousand in Super Bowl 30.
38:08On the second interception, we were blitzing, and we were sending everybody.
38:11I think Neil recognized that it was a blitz check, and I beat the receiver to the spot.
38:15And again, I just tried to take it and get it in the end zone from there.
38:1820, 10, out of bounds at the six-yard line.
38:23Hey, you get one more, you can run for me up.
38:25And Dan, I'll go for you, Doc, as long as you give me a job.
38:30Second and goal from the four.
38:32Watkins in motion, handoff Emmitt Smith on the right-hand side.
38:36Touchdown, Emmitt Smith scores.
38:46It was such a unique bundle of personalities, unusual, unpredictable circumstances, and results
38:55that I don't know that another season will come along like that again,
39:00and a team will wind up being on the platform with the trophy at the end.
39:05Victory was final vindication for Barry Switzer and his psychiatrist's dream of a team.
39:11Somehow, they had survived this turbulent season and had won Super Bowl 30.
39:15I think that there was a collective sigh of relief mixed with a strong sigh of euphoria.
39:24The joy just wasn't there, man.
39:25It was not the same.
39:27It was, thank God, the season's over.
39:29It was just a very, very strange year.
39:32A testimony to that team that we were able to get through all that and somehow find a way to
39:38win a championship.
39:39My position coach, Joe Brodsky, said it was one of the best performances he'd ever seen by a team.
39:44I asked him why, and he said because he goes, you guys won in spite of the coaching.
39:51The Cowboys would have made a great reality show.
39:54When you think about the characters and the type of people we had,
39:57from Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders, to Barry Switzer as a head coach, to a unique owner in Mr. Jones.
40:05I think it was a relief off Jerry's shoulders to say, hey, listen,
40:10Barry Switzer's sitting up here at this podium.
40:12Not Jimmy Johnson.
40:13Barry Switzer, and he's the head coach of the Super Bowl champion, Dallas Cowboys.
40:18For Barry especially, a dramatic weight had been lifted off his shoulders,
40:22and he just wanted to get up there and say, we did it.
40:27Are you having a good time now, Jerry?
40:29I don't want to take it.
40:31We did it our way, baby.
40:32We did it.
40:33We did it.
40:34We did it.
40:38We did it.
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