Our Super Bowl VI that we won was the biggest game because it took a lot of pressure off. It was enormously satisfying because we won the game and it was a nucleus of players who had grown up together, always losing the big ones. Started out with nothing and we were still together, and it was really, really neat.
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* 11× Pro Bowl selection (1963 Pro Bowl/1962, 1965 Pro Bowl/1964, 1966 Pro Bowl/1965, 1967 Pro Bowl/1966, 1968 Pro Bowl/1967, 1969 Pro Bowl/1968, 1970 Pro Bowl/1969, 1971 Pro Bowl/1970, 1972 Pro Bowl/1971, 1973 Pro Bowl/1972, 1974 Pro Bowl/1973)
* 7× First-team All-Pro selection (1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971 All-Pro Team/1971)
* 2× Second-team All-Pro selection (1970 All-Pro Team/1970, 1972 All-Pro Team/1972)
* 8× All-Conference selection (1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972)
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My hero when I was a boy was Sammy Baugh, who was in the pros already, but he came from a little town near where I grew up.
Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
The game when we started the flex was 60 percent run, 40 percent pass. Today's game-although I do see it turning back towards trying to run more and equalize the run-pass situation. I think the game has changed so much that right now, you try to stop the pass and the runner's in the secondary.
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.
I would say that as a lineman, I patterned myself after Gino Marchetti.
We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.
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