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00:01For each of the past 25 seasons, one player has been selected as the True Value NFL Man of the
00:08Year.
00:09For 1994, True Value, as the official hardware store of the NFL,
00:15is proud to honor San Diego Chargers linebacker Junior Seau
00:19for his contributions on and off the field.
00:24True Value salutes Junior Seau for his kindness.
00:30His generosity.
00:32His compassion.
00:35And his helpfulness.
00:38Off the field.
00:40For all you've done, you're the True Value Hardware NFL Man of the Year.
00:45Awarded to the most outstanding citizen athlete.
00:49Congratulations, Junior.
00:50You've been a big help.
01:04We'll be right back.
01:04Cheers.
01:36It is a position unlike any other in professional sports.
01:42The men who play quarterback in the National Football League are a cut above.
01:47They are the best and the brightest.
01:52A quarterback controls so much, more than any other team sport.
01:56He controls the action, controls the pace, controls really the result much more than anyone else on the field.
02:10Once the game's on the line, everybody looks at you.
02:14When you step into the huddle, all ears and eyes are on you.
02:21That's the reason I play quarterback is because it's the most challenging position in team sports.
02:26You never send a boy for a man's job, right?
02:28There's nothing like being a quarterback, especially in the National Football League,
02:32because of the focus, because of the pressure, because of all the eyes that are on you to make the
02:36big play.
02:57It's the only sport where there's 10 of the guys relying on you to make the big play and not
03:03to make the big mistake.
03:04The toughest thing to me probably about playing quarterbacks is if you can get it in your mind that, you
03:09know, people are going to be taking shots at you.
03:11If you don't let that situation bother you as far as when things aren't going well, that they're blaming it.
03:17And you're saying to yourself, well, I'm doing everything I can possibly do, but they're still blaming it.
03:21Why are they doing that?
03:21If you can get through the fact that that's going to happen, that's part of the position,
03:26then you're going to be, you're going to enjoy playing quarterback and you'll be a much better quarterback
03:30if you can just do your job and do it the best you can.
03:33Okay, man, let's go out and have some fun and do it the best you can.
03:35That's all you do.
03:36Ready?
03:36Go, baby, let's go!
03:37Let's get it going right now.
03:38Relax, have some fun, and do what we can do.
03:40No way, here comes the blitz.
03:42He steps away from it and lets the pass go long.
03:45Are you kidding me?
03:45He's going for a touchdown!
03:47You're kidding me!
03:48And Sean makes it catch!
03:50No way was submerged!
03:52There's a lot of factors that are out of your control that prevent you at all times from
03:59knowing exactly what's going to happen.
04:01But yet, in the end, you're responsible for the end result.
04:04Hostetler is back to throw.
04:06Looking over the middle, he's flushed out, rolls over to the right side.
04:08Running, running.
04:09He's got Brown coming back to the near side, fires, Brown's there.
04:12Touchdown, Raiders!
04:14What an ad-lib by Jeff Hostetler.
04:16Being an NFL quarterback, that's probably one of the biggest challenges you face is once a ball
04:20snap, it is chaos.
04:20And can you control it?
04:23Young, back to throw.
04:25In trouble, he's going to be sacked.
04:26No, gets away.
04:28He runs, gets away again, goes to the 40, gets away again, to the 35, cuts back at the 30,
04:36to the 20, the 50, the 10, he dies!
04:40Touchdown, 49ers!
04:42You have to be able to possess athleticism along with a type of intelligence that is going
04:48to enable you to kind of anticipate what is going to happen, and you don't know what's
04:53going to happen.
04:59That's the experience of Boomer Sison.
05:01Saw the change in the defense.
05:03Read it, bang.
05:04It may have been an audible, may not.
05:05The mental work, people don't understand what you have to put into for one game.
05:11Regular 16 power, Tiger, 67A, U, 92 counter, 22 Circus, 21X bingo cross.
05:20Let's go two jet, scat, halfback option.
05:23Two jet, scat, halfback option.
05:25We work 365 days a year for 16 games.
05:30It's just so taxing on your mind that it's hard to even understand.
05:34We're putting in 40 to 50 new plays a week.
05:37You're seeing new defenses every week.
05:39You're seeing new personnel every week.
05:40And it's almost like you're taking an exam every Sunday.
05:45You have to understand the job of everybody on your side, all 11 guys.
05:49And then you also have to understand, to a certain extent, the job of all the 11 guys
05:53on the other side of the ball.
05:54I would have had to wait to throw it in there to him, and the safeties were coming down
05:57a little bit, so.
05:58Yeah, I mean, it's just so complicated trying to learn everything that you have to learn
06:02to play the position of quarterback.
06:03You've got about two and a half seconds to really figure out exactly where you're going
06:07to go with football, and pick a receiver, and read coverages, and get the ball delivered.
06:15Oh, what a throw!
06:16What a throw that is!
06:24The thing that's so hard to master about the quarterback position is that there are so many
06:29aspects.
06:30There's so many intangibles that go with being a quarterback, and being a great quarterback,
06:34and making it to the level that not only myself, but other quarterbacks across the NFL have done.
06:39It's a tough combination to get exactly right.
06:41The mental part is the part that you've got to be on top of every week, in and out.
06:45Mentally, that's where the games are won and lost, in my mind.
06:48It's really a position where you have to study the game.
06:51You just can't show up and let your athletic ability take over, because nowadays with the
06:56defensive schemes and all the different pressures they can put on a quarterback, you really have
07:00to study the game, and then go out there and try to execute the plays.
07:04First down, 10.
07:06O'Donnell with a fake.
07:08Two fakes.
07:10And then, passing to the left, the posture is over to 20, to 15, to 10, to 5.
07:14He's running.
07:15He's in the end zone.
07:16And it will fake it by O'Donnell.
07:17Hey, O'Donnell!
07:19Hey, Neal!
07:20Don't laugh at my calls anymore.
07:23Physically, you have to have the tools, or else you're never going to have a chance.
07:26I don't care how smart you are.
07:32Marino, slogging in the mud.
07:33Back to pass.
07:34He throws downfield.
07:35Has a man open.
07:36Mark Ingram has it at the 30.
07:37He's to the 20.
07:3810.
07:39He is gone.
07:40Oh, touchdown!
07:41Yes!
07:44You have to have the physical ability to throw the deep balls, or have the velocity to throw
07:49by a defender.
07:51What a pass, Dan Marino!
07:53But also, you have to be smart enough to know where to throw it, when to take chances, and
07:57when not to.
07:58Marino throws deep downfield.
08:00It is caught by Friar.
08:01Touchdown!
08:02Yes!
08:03Touchdown Dolphins!
08:04That's on fourth and five!
08:06Unbelievable!
08:08In this league, the bad plays are what kill you.
08:12The great quarterbacks are the ones that overcome that, don't make those mistakes, and move on.
08:16And then, when they have the chance to make the big play, do it.
08:21Aikman, a deep ball.
08:22He's got a man down the left side.
08:23It's caught!
08:24Irvin's in for the touchdown!
08:27You've got stronger and quicker people on the other side of the ball.
08:30They aren't putting the best guys on the offense anymore.
08:34They have these outside linebackers now who are 6'4", 250 pounds, who can run like wide
08:40receivers.
08:40So, that's the scary part.
08:42You have these big guys who can run.
08:46I really do think it's a tough job, and it takes a special person and a special skill level
08:51to play at the high level that the guys in the NFL do.
08:56There's no position like it in sports, to be a quarterback in the pocket, trying to find
09:00a receiver with, you know, five guys bearing down.
09:04It's a great thing.
09:14Handsome guy is a heck of an actor.
09:17Old, beat up.
09:19What a man.
09:22The wit and wisdom of self-analysis.
09:26Jim Kelly.
09:29John Elway.
09:32And Dan Marino.
09:34Each selected in the first round of the 1983 NFL Draft.
09:39Each has already achieved a lasting place in NFL history.
09:45The best pure passer, I think, that ever played.
09:48The quickest release I've ever seen in my entire life.
09:57The extraordinary numbers put up by Marino.
10:01The fourth quarter magic of Elway.
10:04The man.
10:06Superman in the mist.
10:11The ability of Kelly to do whatever it takes to win.
10:16He's the ultimate warrior.
10:17The guttiest, if not the toughest, quarterback ever to play.
10:30He likes it better when he takes a lot of hits.
10:33If he's not beat up after the game, he probably doesn't feel like he played very well.
10:37He's the toughest guy I've ever met.
10:40Kind of gritting your teeth and going and winning games.
10:43One of the great qualities that a quarterback needs is to have the ability in the late in the game
10:47to just suck it up and go get it done.
11:08He has that attitude that he doesn't care if he misses 20 throws in a row.
11:12King left, king left, king left.
11:14He can hit the next throw for a touchdown and can beat you.
11:17Ray, Ray, Ray.
11:18Set.
11:19Ray.
11:20It's an uphill climb, but you'd think they'd learn.
11:23It's never over until that final gun goes off with this guy.
11:26With number seven out there, you're right.
11:29Elway lets it go to Jackson.
11:31Touchdown.
11:32Jackson makes the catch.
11:33Just inside the goal line and inside.
11:36Elway's got the ball to the end zone.
11:38And it's got to the touchdown.
11:42Boy, I tell you, unbelievable.
11:44If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I don't think I'd believe it.
11:47Boy, I tell you, you ought to knight the guy.
11:54Marino takes the snap.
11:55He's under pressure.
11:56Dodges the run.
11:57Now throws deep downfield.
11:58Has a man open.
11:59I watch him, and it all happens so fast.
12:03You know, the ball's here and it's gone.
12:05And you don't see anything else.
12:08You see the ball in one position, and then all of a sudden it's out.
12:12He has a unique talent.
12:14The way he's able to throw the football from his ear, like a catcher.
12:18If the rest of us tried to do that, our arm would be sore.
12:21We wouldn't be able to throw for more in a day.
12:23Worst mechanics in the NFL.
12:25Gets it done.
12:26He's amazing.
12:27The way he throws some of those balls and the way he gets it in creases like that.
12:32Great confidence.
12:34He can throw it through a wall.
12:36He believes that.
12:38Throws balls that I would never throw.
12:40Throws passes that shouldn't be thrown.
12:43You know, there's no way that that should be thrown.
12:45And it gets them in there and makes great plays.
12:48Lots of time, guys.
12:49Keep it forward.
12:50Hang with your box.
12:51A guy who probably hasn't gotten the recognition that he deserves based on what's happening in the Superballs.
12:57Could have been called one of the greats of all time if he'd have won just one of the Super
13:03Bowls.
13:06Still, I think he'll always be remembered as a great quarterback.
13:09Downfield for Lofton.
13:11And he's got it.
13:12What a throw by Kelly.
13:14Some of the things that he's accomplished over the years have been truly remarkable.
13:18Four Super Bowls in a row is a heck of an accomplishment.
13:21He's the kind of guy that can carry the whole team on his back.
13:25When you walk on the field, you can have kind of a mediocre team and he'll go win games for
13:30you.
13:30One play at a time and make that the hardest play of the day.
13:40He can make the first two guys miss and then can stand up and throw the ball 40, 50 yards
13:45down the field on a rope and make a big play.
13:49Two or three of those a game and you win 21 to 10.
13:52Rolls left.
13:53Gets some time.
13:54Now the time is going away.
13:56Slips the tackle and throws it deep.
13:58The ball is caught inside the 25.
14:01Two will go to the end zone.
14:02A 54-yard touchdown pass.
14:06Consider him probably one of the best ever.
14:09We'll go down as one of the all-time greats in the NFL.
14:14Really carried the team on his back for many, many years.
14:18The Bills have written history.
14:20They are going back to the Super Bowl for a fourth straight time.
14:27You talk about championship courage.
14:29A will to win.
14:31A flame burns inside that man, Dan Marino.
14:35This guy will go down as the greatest come-from-behind player in the NFL football league history.
14:52When you're behind and you've got two minutes left in the football game, to me that's the freest time in
14:56the football game because you've got nothing to lose.
14:58Denver at the two-yard line.
15:00They're 98 yards away from six.
15:02Everyone knows that it's now or never.
15:06Well, it's come down to this.
15:082.50 to play in the football game.
15:10Everybody in the huddle is looking at you to see how big your eyes are.
15:14I've tried to always start with a joke or always try to say something funny like, boy, isn't this fun
15:19or isn't this, or geez, we've got to go back here and win another game.
15:22I know they start smiling because it's so much fun to be in that situation.
15:25The good thing about it is, you know, you've done it before.
15:30Nothing's safe with Dan Marino on the other sideline.
15:32I can run out there and my 10 guys with me know that I'm capable of bringing them back and
15:38winning the game.
15:39And I know I'm capable of doing that.
15:45It kind of takes you back to, you know, your playground days when you're growing up playing.
15:49Just going out there, calling plays and, you know, doing what comes natural.
15:5430 seconds to go.
15:55I believe Marino is saying I'm going to spike it.
15:58Marino takes the snap from center.
16:00He's looking.
16:01He throws.
16:01All right!
16:02Touchdown, Dolphins, Mark Ingram!
16:04Yes, yes!
16:05I know you like that, Carl.
16:07Woo!
16:09Two-minute situation is where you become the man.
16:15I told my guys, I said, don't you guys love this?
16:18When all the pressure's on you and it's on me, and I said, hey, let's do or die.
16:23Let's go do it.
16:24Back again.
16:25He's looking.
16:26He's firing.
16:27Caught by Calvin Williams who takes it at the Redskins.
16:3040.
16:30A minute at five.
16:31A minute at four.
16:33The field goal is of no use.
16:35Cunningham is back.
16:36He's looking.
16:37He puts it in the air.
16:38Diving for six by Calvin Williams at the 10.
16:40The birds are alive.
16:42Cunningham is back.
16:43He's looking.
16:44He's looking.
16:45He's pumping.
16:46He fires.
16:46Good!
16:47Touchdown!
16:48Calvin Williams!
16:49Four-second flips!
16:51What a comeback with four-second flips!
16:55Hey!
16:57It's all about the NFL.
16:59The job is on the line.
17:00You gotta go get it.
17:02A few years back at Joe Robbie's Stadium, I think it was like three or four seconds going
17:06to win the game, and we're down by, I think, five or six points.
17:09We need a touchdown to win.
17:13Kelly waiting.
17:14Last play of the game.
17:16Back to throw.
17:17And he's gonna run.
17:18And he dies for the touchdown!
17:20He dove for the touchdown!
17:22I decided to run the ball, run over to the left side, dive in for the touchdown, and last
17:27no time on the clock to win the game.
17:29Without a doubt, it's my most memorable time.
17:33Jim Kelly!
17:33A lot of people ask, well, how could you do that?
17:35There were 80,000 people watching you at the stadium, millions on TV, it's the fourth quarter.
17:40Pass protection.
17:42I mean, two-minute drills if you don't have pass protection, because everyone in the world
17:46knows you don't throw the football.
17:47So if those guys up front can't protect the quarterback, there won't be any two-minute
17:51situation.
17:52Every quarterback probably feels some sense of being scared.
17:57If I don't win these last two minutes, I'm nothing.
18:01That's how important those final two minutes are in a game.
18:04People don't realize how guys go crazy thinking about what they're gonna do in that situation.
18:12Favre goes straight back in the pocket, Favre looking, now Favre running to the right, Favre
18:16is on the run, Favre is down the sidelines, Favre, touchdown, he dived into the end zone!
18:22There could be no second chances, and I had to make it, and when I dove, I just knew,
18:26I could hear the crowd just going crazy, it was something.
18:29With Favre, I've never seen anything like it, Jim, what a play, what a way to get this
18:34team into the playoff.
18:37A lot of times, as athletes, you let the negative creep in your mind.
18:40It can affect your performance, but for me, in the two-minute drill, I don't ever worry
18:44about making a mistake, I don't worry about throwing an interception, I don't worry about,
18:49you know, if I do this, this could happen.
18:50So, I mean, it's really kind of the freest part for me in a football game.
18:54Here's the fourth down and ten play, Elway's got the ball, runs up out of the pocket,
18:59lets the pass go, it's caught, Johnson to the 40, 35-30!
19:03You really can't even hear the crowd, either.
19:05I mean, it's like playing in the street.
19:06Get open, we need to get something done.
19:09For the minute 56, Elway is in the shotgun.
19:12They come after him.
19:13He escapes.
19:15Lets the ball get up.
19:16Go upfield!
19:17Jackson's got it up to 45!
19:18I, a lot of times, wish I could play, like, the whole game, like I do in the two-minute
19:22drill, just because there's no fear.
19:24You want the ball in that situation, and every quarterback will tell you that.
19:27It's when it all counts, and that's what you play for.
19:30Best situation is the best feeling you can have in football.
19:39Well, if I had to build the perfect quarterback, I'd start with an arm, and probably the guy's
19:45arm I'd start with would be a Drew Bledsoe.
19:48Probably the strongest arm, I would say, is Brett Favre.
19:51I mean, he's got a rocket for an arm.
19:53Favre, straight back in the pocket, looking, looking, Favre comes upfield, and it's out!
19:58Starling Sharp in the end zone, and a bullet thrown by Brett Favre.
20:02Right now, I'd say Drew Bledsoe has the best arm in the league.
20:06Drew Bledsoe delivered a bullet!
20:08Brett Favre's probably got the best arm in the league right now.
20:10He threw a ball in the Pro Bowl practice a couple years ago to Michael Irvin on a comeback
20:15route, and Mike didn't have his helmet on when he was running the route, and the ball was
20:20behind him, fortunately, but if that thing had, if it had hit him in the head, there's
20:24no question in my mind it had killed him.
20:26To me, the greatest arm is not the guy that can throw 80 yards.
20:29It's getting the ball up there, you know, the way it needs to be up there.
20:33Just because you can throw it 80 yards through a brick wall doesn't mean anything.
20:37Yeah, that's not the big thing.
20:39A lot of guys can throw hard, but it's complete in passes.
20:42Everybody I've seen has made great throws from time to time.
20:45Myers scrambling to his left, trying to buy some time, does.
20:47Looks, Myers back against the green, got a man out there.
20:50Kelvin Martin caught the football!
20:51He's got it at the 47-yard line!
20:55How in the world did he find Kelvin Martin back there?
20:58The more they say Rick Meyer looks like Joe Montana, the more I'm beginning to believe it.
21:03Third down and goal from the one-yard line with 28 seconds to play.
21:07Myers short drive, players it out, touchdown!
21:09Myr, myr!
21:11I think Rick Meyer, as a young quarterback, he's very well composed, you know, doesn't get
21:16too emotional out there.
21:18I think he plays the game very well with his smarts.
21:21I think I'm as competitive as any of these guys.
21:23I think I'm durable.
21:25I'm smaller than most, but I'm maybe a little shiftier than most.
21:30But I'm going to win somehow.
21:34Myers straight back.
21:35Myers the bomb up the right side for Kelvin Martin.
21:37Got it out there.
21:38It's a great slam at the three yards!
21:40I don't know, you know, what it's going to take or when it's going to happen,
21:44but hopefully sooner than later, I'm ready.
21:47I refuse to lose.
21:48I hate that in anything.
21:49I don't like losing with a little luck, you know, stay healthy.
21:52It's just going to happen, and I'm just dying to have it happen soon.
21:56I think that probably going into my second year is when things became clear,
22:03whereas, you know, that rookie year, it's such a different game than what college is
22:08that that first year was really a blur.
22:10Looking at what I'm doing now, what I did in college,
22:12this seems to be a lot more difficult than it was going to school.
22:15You don't have that grace period a year, a redshirt year, a freshman year,
22:20like you do in college to maybe watch it happen, the guy in front of you.
22:23When I was a rookie, it was like, you know, sticking my head in a popcorn maker,
22:28you know, everything was going a thousand miles away.
22:30The opening day, we played Philadelphia, and I swear for the first three quarters,
22:34I couldn't see what was going on.
22:35Guys are crossing in front of me, and everyone seemed to jump up that much faster.
22:39You know, starting the year, they were one of the best teams in the league,
22:41and to, in my first start, to go out there and beat them was something I'll always look fondly at.
22:45Yeah, Philadelphia jumps on a play.
22:48Freebie, and Brown throws to Callaway.
22:51Callaway will score!
22:52As I got more experience out there, the game did slow down,
22:55and I think it was evidenced by the way we finished up, by winning the six games.
22:58And the biggest game for us as a team was the Cleveland game.
23:02We played at Cleveland, and our playoff chances were dismal at the time,
23:05and they just came off beating Dallas, who was the favorite to win the Super Bowl.
23:09And we were stuck in the third and 15, and then went back and through over the middle,
23:14and we completed, went on to kick a field goal to win the game.
23:16And I think, at that game, it was the first time I really had to bring our team back,
23:20and that gave me confidence that I can do it.
23:22It gave my teammates confidence in me that we could do it.
23:25It's on the line today.
23:26It's all season right here.
23:28We want to go forward to the playoffs.
23:29It's going to be tough, but I think we can do it, though.
23:32Beating Dallas the last game of the year when we were in a must-win situation
23:35where, you know, we controlled a little bit of our own fate to make the playoffs
23:39where we had to win the game, and Tampa had to beat Green Bay, which didn't happen.
23:43But we held up our end of the bargain, and it was one that I'm very proud of.
23:47I think the one thing I learned most of all this year was handling the adversity that a year can
23:55bring about.
23:56It's a long year.
23:57I didn't realize how long the year is until you actually get in there and play.
24:00It's difficult for quarterbacks now just to come right from college
24:04and step in at the pros and be successful.
24:07And I think that's what made Drew Bledsoe's season last year pretty special,
24:12being he's a relatively young quarterback.
24:14If his arm holds up for throwing 1,000 passes a year like he did last year,
24:19he's going to be a good quarterback.
24:21The second coming, maybe, of Johnny United.
24:24He's got tremendous poise.
24:25And he is just a big...
24:26Can throw the ball through a brick wall.
24:28It's going to be the best to ever play the game.
24:31He doesn't even know how good he is.
24:33Russell alone set back behind Bledsoe.
24:35He drops straight back to throw.
24:37Pump fake.
24:37Going for the whole thing.
24:39His man is open.
24:47The thing that impresses me the most is how cool he is.
24:49In the NFL, there's so much scrutiny, so much pressure, so much expectations
24:55that they can become overwhelming.
24:57And he seems to just not even be faced by it.
24:59In fact, kind of bored with it all, you know,
25:02which is a great sign for a quarterback.
25:06The thing that I really noticed this year was that when everything really starts to click in your head,
25:11you can see everything happening on the field at once,
25:13as opposed to, well, this guy's going to do this, and then I do this,
25:16and then this happens.
25:17Instead of that, you have everything happening at once,
25:19and you can, you know, where everybody is on the field at the same time.
25:22Physically, you know, that's something that, you know, I was kind of blessed with.
25:26You know, I've got some talent to throw the ball.
25:28I've got size and so on, but the middle side of the game is something that I'm going to have
25:32to work on forever and ever.
25:34You know, there are times during a ball game when you've got to take chances,
25:37and there are times when you've got to play a conservative.
25:40If there's not a play there, you've got to eat the ball and do something else with it.
25:45When they turn the ball over to you and say, go play, call the plays, throw it every down if
25:50you want to,
25:51you know, do what you want to, that's when it's really fun as a quarterback.
25:54Back to throw, Bledsoe, looking, fires it long and deep right side, caught, touchdown, Fretenden.
26:00Oh, my goodness.
26:02The Patriots roar downfield in a minute and 38 seconds to start the second half.
26:07You've got to have it, you've got to have it, you've got to have it, you've got to have it,
26:10Drew.
26:11Bledsoe on first down, back to throw, fires a field and is caught by Crittenden across the 45
26:16to the 48-yard line on the first down.
26:19Bledsoe is smoking hot.
26:21Come on, Nats, come on, you the Nats, baby, you the Nats.
26:24Bledsoe calling signals.
26:25We're tied at 20-20 in overtime.
26:28You the Nats, baby, come on now, get ready, get ready.
26:30Bledsoe back to throw, looks, floats to the end zone.
26:33Touchdown, the Patriots win to Kevin Turner.
26:37That's the part of the game that I absolutely love.
26:39But I'm maybe even overly calm in those situations.
26:43I think that a lot of times my teammates would like to see me come out and be real fiery
26:48and yelling and screaming and so on.
26:50But I just come out and that's when I get so calm.
26:52You get real calm and everything fades out and all you can see is just what's happening on the field.
26:56But also, you've got to show some sense of fire and wanting to do it.
27:01You can't just get in a huddle and say, okay, here we go, guys, we're going to score.
27:05I say, well, hell with him.
27:06But you've got to have some go-get-em, too.
27:08Farron goes straight back in the pocket.
27:10Now he pumps it.
27:10Now he's going to the end zone.
27:11There's a man.
27:12He's wide open.
27:13Touchdown.
27:13It is caught by the wide open.
27:16And it is Kittley Taylor.
27:17I can't believe it, Jim.
27:19A great pass by Farron.
27:20And the Packers win it 24-23.
27:24How about that?
27:25It was extraordinary.
27:26It was unbelievable.
27:27Especially for my first game.
27:28I'm not the perfect pocket passer who came out of college molded for the NFL.
27:33A linebacker playing quarterback.
27:35Edgar Bennett, they went to the outside.
27:37Brett Favre is on top of him.
27:39He's a wild man out there.
27:44Kind of a loose cannon.
27:47Favre, new game.
27:49Has that type of swagger you need as a quarterback.
27:51Do the man, Brett.
27:53Expect anything from him.
27:54No more rocket balls, please.
27:56I was chinged up.
27:57No, I know.
27:57An all-around animal when he gets on the field.
28:03I make a lot of things happen, whether it's throwing the ball underhand, behind my back,
28:07diving over people, running for a first down.
28:08Whatever it takes, I'm willing to do that to win.
28:14And then, to cap it off, you have to make the right throw, the right read,
28:18worry about getting hit, figure out the defense, what they're trying to do.
28:21You know, you're getting booed for three quarters.
28:23How are you going to react to it?
28:24When you step into the huddle, those other ten guys have to look at you and say,
28:27this guy is going to bring us down to win.
28:29And that's where you separate the leaders from the followers.
28:32And you realize that this is a situation that makes or breaks a quarterback.
28:36If you can come from behind, regardless of what you did the previous three quarters,
28:41it can be forgotten in these last two minutes.
28:44He's open.
28:44That's sharp.
28:45Right open.
28:46Touchdown.
28:47Sterling Sharp.
28:48Right open.
28:48He got away and scored the touchdown with 55 seconds left.
28:54One week, you know, as you know, you're the hero.
28:57People love you.
28:57The next week, you know, they want you out of town.
29:00And that's what makes us so special.
29:04That's why there are only 28 and now 30 of us in the whole world.
29:15Hey, baby.
29:17This movie is rated R.
29:19Adult language and violence.
29:21Lots of it.
29:36Taking your shots, it's one of the many demands placed on the men
29:40who play the most challenging position in sports.
29:44Dave Young is hurt.
29:45Oh, my.
29:47I don't know if he can get up from this one.
29:50Physically, it's not that much of a challenge because it's just there.
29:55My body takes a pretty good beating if you come back.
29:59And it's a part of the game.
30:00There's a piece of you that if you don't get beat up a little bit,
30:03you didn't really play.
30:04Sometimes I enjoy getting hit.
30:06It wakes me up.
30:07Sometimes when I'm having sort of a bad game,
30:09all of a sudden I'll get blindsided.
30:11It wakes me up.
30:12I wind up scoring three touchdowns in a row and wind up winning.
30:16Kelly will throw into the end zone.
30:22I don't think any quarterback likes to get hit,
30:24but every once in a while, a good wake-up calls on them.
30:31Early in my career, I took a lot of shots from the media
30:34in that they thought that there were times I should have gotten rid of the football
30:38and I was taking unnecessary hits.
30:39I don't really feel that I take unnecessary hits.
30:42I'm just not afraid to get hit.
30:45I'm just not afraid to get hit.
30:53All quarterbacks are kind of proud of the people that can take hits.
30:55He can take the licks like anybody.
30:58One of the questions everybody always wants to ask is,
31:00what do you want people to remember you for when you're done playing?
31:03And, you know, I'd like to have people say, yeah, he was a guy who would hang in there
31:08and do what was necessary in order for the team to win.
31:13A lot of guys are tough.
31:15I mean, there's a fine line between, you know, being a tough guy and being stupid.
31:22You know, some of these hits you need to take, some of them you don't.
31:26Our manhood test, I guess, is, you know, to get up from that big shot.
31:29You know, being able to take a hit and the whole crowd goes,
31:32but you hop up and you get back in the huddle, you know, that's toughness.
31:37You have to play hurt.
31:38You get banged up and you see all these offensive linemen and running backs,
31:42you know, they play nicked up all the time.
31:44So when they see that a quarterback can go out there and play nicked up,
31:47they really have a lot of respect for it.
31:50I'm playing with offensive linemen who have won Super Bowls
31:53and have been with Sims and Hostetler
31:55and have been with some great tough guys and great leaders.
31:57And one thing I wanted to set out to prove to them was that I was tough too.
32:04I was going to take every hit.
32:06When I scrambled, I was going to try to run over guys, do this and that,
32:09and show them that I was tough and I could handle it.
32:11There was a hit that I took against the Buffalo Bills.
32:15That was about the first sack that I took was Bruce Smith.
32:19He hit me blindside in the back.
32:22After the game, I remember he was standing on the parking lot and he said,
32:25Hey, I said something about, you know, nice shot, you know, good hit, whatever.
32:30And he goes, Hey, you took it like a man, which was kind of a badge of honor at that
32:36point,
32:36which when there wasn't much going for me as a rookie, you know, we just lost our first game.
32:40But, you know, to have Bruce Smith say, Hey, you know, you got up from it.
32:44You know, that's, that was, that was a real compliment.
32:48There's many times I go into week after week after week
32:51that I'm still feeling the pain of the game that I played the past weekend.
32:55So I guess it all depends on what type of game it was.
32:58There's, there's games where I only throw the ball 20 times a game and I love those games.
33:04There's games when I throw 50 times and get hit 25 of those.
33:08Those are the games that takes a little bit longer.
33:11It becomes much tougher physically just because of the, the poundings and the edge
33:15and it gets tougher each week to come back.
33:25My one and only idol that I really remember watching and looking
33:30and look, trying to find him on TV and would sit and listen to every interview
33:36and ultimately ended up starting to wear his jersey in football was Burt Jones.
33:42Bradshaw was a guy I love.
33:43I mean, I love.
33:44Archie Manning was one of my idols.
33:47Brian Sipe and Terry Bradshaw.
33:48And I have a lot of respect for Phil Simms.
33:50Probably Y.A. Tittle.
33:51Terry Bradshaw and Roger Staubach.
33:53I was a big Roger Staubach fan.
33:55Joe Namath.
33:55Roman Gabriel.
33:56Even Joe Theismann.
33:58Roger Staubach was my hero.
33:59John Elway.
34:00Elway and Marino and Kelly.
34:03I was a big Vince Ferragamo fan.
34:07If you can believe that.
34:12No, I was.
34:14And I was, I was a fan of Vince's.
34:16I was a Rams fan.
34:18I was born in California when they were 12.
34:21And I, and I liked the Rams.
34:23And that was the year that they went on to go to the Super Bowl.
34:25And, and, and, uh, so I, I was a fan of his.
34:28Before the first Super Bowl, uh, someone asked me this very question.
34:32And I mentioned Vince.
34:33And he couldn't believe it.
34:34He heard, he saw it.
34:35He couldn't, he absolutely couldn't.
34:36In fact, they said it during the telecast.
34:38Uh, he, he couldn't believe it.
34:39And he sent me a telegram.
34:41Probably Y.A. Tittle I'd like to have seen a little more about.
34:44I, I think, uh, there's one picture of him, uh, with his helmet off and blood coming down
34:49his forehead.
34:50Just reminded me of a, uh, tough, hard-nosed quarterback that was going to do whatever he
34:55could to get it done.
34:56And, uh, I like that.
34:57Roman Gabriel, who played for the Los Angeles Rams, he's a big, strong guy.
35:02He was an Indian.
35:02And, uh, he was known for just staying in the pocket, no matter what was going on around
35:07him.
35:11He had great poise in the pocket.
35:13I would stay in there until the last minute.
35:15And I always, uh, remember how he could stand there and take such punishment, but still deliver
35:19the ball.
35:21I, uh, followed the Giants just from growing up in, uh, in New Jersey.
35:26And it was kind of, uh, great, you know, to see Phil Simms and watch him play.
35:30He sits back there, he takes the hits, never complains.
35:33I found out he's 40 years old and he looks great.
35:36He tried to come back out of retirement.
35:37I said, what are you, crazy?
35:38I said, you look great right now.
35:39Stay the way you are.
35:41My one and only idol in football was Burt Jones.
35:45He was everything that I wanted to be in a football player.
35:48Somewhat reckless, extremely bright, very athletic.
35:52You know, a football player that played the game the way it was supposed to be played.
35:56And that was full out, full speed, a quarterback that had a certain amount of toughness to
36:01him.
36:01Yeah, very, very severely hurting Burt Jones.
36:05He's going to go back in there and give it another try.
36:08In a standard pro set, far wide right, dolly wide left, a hurting Jones.
36:12Yanks it away, wants to throw, looking to set up.
36:14Has a little time, fires.
36:20You have seen and we have watched, and I hope you have enjoyed one of the guttiest performances
36:25by a professional quarterback.
36:27It's been my pleasure to watch in many, many years.
36:29Everybody has their own style playing the game.
36:32But when you're a kid, you know, you always try to emulate other pros.
36:37And being from Pittsburgh, Bradshaw was a guy I loved.
36:40I mean, I loved him, you know.
36:41They won four Super Bowls there while I was growing up through my younger days.
36:45And then also Namath was a guy I always enjoyed watching play.
36:49Without a doubt, the classiest guy and one of the, I guess, big game quarterbacks, Joe
36:55Namath.
36:55All right, 75 double choice.
36:57Flanker, Argo, out and Kago on two.
36:59Now you look back and even hearing a lot of things when I was growing up, it's a guy I
37:04wanted to idolize and look up to.
37:12My childhood heroes are still playing.
37:14Elway and Marino and Kelly.
37:16It's kind of funny, you know, now I get out on the field and instead of being my heroes,
37:20now I just want to go kick their butts.
37:22John Elway was a guy.
37:23I used to cut out Sports Illustrated covers and articles on him and hang them on my wall.
37:28And I used to have his poster in college.
37:30And it just seemed like, you know, number one, he threw the ball so hard.
37:34First snap, Elway drops to the 35 and he's throwing it up the far side.
37:39Nathiel is open.
37:39Ball coming.
37:40Nathiel catches it for a touchdown.
37:42Every quarterback, you know, when you grow up, you're playing with your friends.
37:45Okay, it's a two-minute drill.
37:46I'm down by four points.
37:48I need a touchdown.
37:49It was always, okay, I'm John Elway.
37:50Who are you?
37:51I was a big Roger Steinbeck fan.
37:52He was a guy that was a great athlete, couldn't move around.
37:58And I always enjoyed his competitiveness.
38:00And a guy that, if there's anybody that I idolized, was Roger Steinbeck.
38:04And I think not only on the field, but off the field.
38:07I think he'd be the best role model anybody could have.
38:10I hope I look like Roger Steinbeck a little bit when I play.
38:14That would be a great compliment if someone said, you know, you play like Roger Steinbeck.
38:18He was the best.
38:19He could do things.
38:21He was a great thrower.
38:22It's been funny, the times that we played the Cowboys, every time he's their honorary captain
38:26that would be on the midfield, I'd be out there thinking, they're just trying to, you
38:29know, trying to, you know, sight me a little bit while my hero being out here.
38:33I'll tell you what, I got my ankles taped.
38:35I am ready.
38:36He's a guy that I hope that when I'm done playing that they would say, you know, he's a lot
38:41like Roger Steinbeck.
38:4242 seconds left in the game.
38:45Redskins lead by six.
38:47Second down and eight from the eight-yard line.
38:50No shotgun this time.
38:52Staubach throwing in the end zone.
38:54Tony Hill.
38:55Touchdown, Tony Hill.
39:02Oh, the stadium goes wild.
39:06These are the things that you live for.
39:08These are the things that when you were a kid growing up in your backyard and you didn't
39:11envision yourself as a Burt Jones or a Johnny Unitas or a Craig Morton or whoever the other
39:16great quarterbacks were.
39:17You just, you know, he drops back and he throws and there's three seconds left and he makes
39:20a dive and catch and you win.
39:21And, you know, that's the excitement, the fulfillment of the sport that you live for.
39:33Submitted for your approval, there is a dimension beyond that which is known to man.
39:38It is a dimension most often found in the imagination where perfection reigns supreme.
39:45It is known simply as the zone.
40:04Oh, it's wonderful.
40:05It's like you can close your eyes and play.
40:07It's incredible.
40:09It's so much fun.
40:10It is, uh, it's special.
40:12When you're in the zone, you feel unstoppable.
40:15You can't try to do anything wrong because it's not going to happen.
40:18You have that certain release, that certain rotation on the ball.
40:21You can sense that things are happening despite yourself almost.
40:26It's a feeling of just supreme confidence.
40:29And at this position, you know, when you get to that level and you have that type of feeling
40:33about your performance, that's when you become most dangerous.
40:47I usually experience that in every ball game.
40:49Sometimes it occurs much sooner, uh, in other games.
40:52But there's usually a period in every ball game to where I just feel like I can hit everything.
41:08You'd love to be able to go there whenever you can, but it only happens once in a long while.
41:14So you've got to savor those moments when it happens.
41:16But it's a great feeling.
41:21When you're in the zone, you're so confident nobody can touch you.
41:23You can throw the ball wherever you want to, and nobody's going to knock it down.
41:27Nobody's going to pick it off.
41:28And you just get such a supremely confident feeling from that.
41:33Every guy you look to is open.
41:35Every time you make a throw, it's a perfect throw.
41:38You're making the right decisions.
41:40You're going the right thing.
41:40It's almost like, uh, everything's planned out for you.
41:43It seems like you drop back to pass and you throw a ball that you leave your hand.
41:47You're like, eh, I'm not sure.
41:48Boom.
41:48Jerry Rice catches for a touchdown.
41:50You think, eh, okay.
41:52This is, this is, this is the zone.
41:53This is the zone when something just seems like everything's going right.
41:56I just feel like no matter who's covering who, he can have him cover like a blanket.
42:01I'm going to get the ball in there somehow.
42:02Whether he has to go down and get it, whether he has to go up and get it,
42:05I'm going to put it in a place where he can get the football.
42:14Everybody that you're looking at is wide open and there's nobody around them.
42:18And when you do throw the ball, you're hitting them right in the chest
42:20and they're catching everything.
42:23You're going to have four or five games where you just, there's nothing you can do wrong.
42:27And those games are fun to play in.
42:29It seems like you're moving at regular speed and everything else is moving at a much slower speed.
42:34And you just see things so clear and know exactly what the defense is doing,
42:38know where your guy's going to be.
42:45It's really the feeling that keeps me playing and enjoying the game.
42:50There isn't a player that plays this position that doesn't desire or hunger for that fulfillment.
42:56It's a kind of high that, you know, is something that people will never experience unless you played quarterback.
43:02I've been in the zone for a whole decade.
43:15He's a guy that's not going to make many mistakes, and that's really saying something in the NFL.
43:18The most fundamentally sound of the quarterbacks.
43:21I think every quarterback would like to have his arm.
43:26Aikman deep ball, his man is there.
43:27It's caught at the 50, in for the touchdown.
43:3053 yards.
43:32Aikman back to throw.
43:34Deep to the post.
43:35Harper, touchdown.
43:37Tough.
43:39Efficient.
43:41A great anticipator.
43:44Throws the deep ball well.
43:45Throws the touch ball very well.
43:53I think he's kind of the consummate quarterback.
43:56Kind of the mold for quarterbacks nowadays.
43:58If you're 6'3", 6'4", 230, then, you know, you're right down there, right down the alley.
44:04Young drops back to throw.
44:06Looks downfield.
44:07Got a run for it.
44:08He may get there.
44:09Oh, what a play.
44:10What a play by Steve Young.
44:12Young to throw.
44:13The guy can do about anything with football.
44:14Runs away to his left.
44:16Has some space.
44:17He's got lots of room.
44:1835, 30.
44:19Stays inbound.
44:20He's to the 20, 15.
44:22One man to get by.
44:23He's to the 5.
44:24There he's a bit of the end zone.
44:26My role model, I love the guy.
44:29The second best left-handed quarterback ever to play the game.
44:33Smart guy that knows where to throw the football.
44:35Doesn't make a lot of mistakes.
44:37Really has a great feel for the quarterback position.
44:40His timing passes, 1, 2, 3, doesn't get hit a lot.
44:43He's very on top of his game right now.
44:47When you look at what he's been able to accomplish over the last three years,
44:51in terms of numbers, in terms of victories,
44:55his significance to his football team,
44:57all the things that he has done,
44:59his ability to win,
45:01his creativity on the football field,
45:04his consistency.
45:06Look at the reaction by Steve Young.
45:08He has got rid of some things on his shoulders.
45:13He, in my estimation,
45:15is by far the best player at our position at this point.
45:19I'd say Troy Aikman.
45:20I don't know why I'm partial to Troy Aikman.
45:22It just seems like he has a strong arm,
45:25has a good head, has good feet,
45:26he can run, has good size,
45:29can take a hit.
45:29That's probably the prototypical quarterback these days.
45:38I remember that game more so than any other game I've ever played.
45:42I remember everything about it.
45:43Everything was very clear.
45:44I remember going out there on the field
45:46and knowing that this had been a dream of mine
45:49ever since I started playing football
45:52and that I was actually going to live out that dream.
45:54So I didn't want to take any of it for granted.
45:56I wanted to remember and take everything in.
45:58and I was as calm and as content
46:03as I've ever been before.
46:05Just very at peace with the whole surrounding
46:08and me playing in that game.
46:11It wasn't until when we did player introductions
46:15and I ran out on the field
46:17that I finally realized, I think,
46:20that, you know, hey, this is the Super Bowl.
46:22The adrenaline got to pumping so much
46:24that I was hyperventilating in the huddle
46:27and I could hardly get the play out of my mouth.
46:29I was just caught up in the excitement of it all.
46:33And finally, fortunately,
46:34I was able to come back down.
46:46Aikman with a straight drop to throw again.
46:48Going for the end zone.
46:50Over check and the two takes it in.
46:52Touchdown on the line.
46:55That's how you overcome a shaky start.
46:58Wow.
46:59Quick post slam.
47:01Aikman to Irvin.
47:03Dallas touchdown.
47:04Aikman play action fakes.
47:06Slips, gets up, throws a deep ball.
47:08Harper's all alone.
47:09Touchdown, Cowboys.
47:11Oh, what a throw.
47:13I never really felt the pressure of it.
47:16I never concerned myself with what the ramifications were
47:20if we had lost that game.
47:22I was too busy being excited about being in it.
47:25At quarterback, number eight.
47:28Steve.
47:30The ultimate compliment to a professional
47:32is walking up to them and saying,
47:34you make it look easy
47:35because that means that you're really good at what you do.
47:39They are at the 44-yard line of the Chargers.
47:42And a play fake.
47:43Young goes deep middle.
47:44He's got Gary Wright.
47:46Touchdown, 49ers.
47:46First touchdown of the game
47:48comes after only a minute and 24 seconds.
47:52Young with a play fake.
47:53Grabs back to throw.
47:54Deep middle.
47:54Waters a break.
47:56Over the shoulder kick.
47:57Bounces away.
47:58Bounces away again.
47:59Oh, what a good answer.
48:04When we made it look easy,
48:05people say,
48:06was there a defense out there?
48:08Were you in the zone?
48:09I mean, that's the ultimate compliment.
48:10That means that we're playing as great as we ever can.
48:13The easier it looks,
48:14the better you are at it.
48:16It was just amazing to watch Steve
48:18because all that he's gone through
48:20out of the lack of respect
48:21that many people have had for him.
48:23Someone take the monkey off, Montana!
48:25Please!
48:26Oh, he was a gorilla!
48:27Stop it!
48:28Oh, it's gone forever!
48:30So now he doesn't have to be compared
48:31to Joe Montana anymore.
48:33He got a lot of good job.
48:35To watch that,
48:36to know all the things
48:37that have gone on in Steve's career,
48:38that was just a remarkable performance
48:41from a remarkable person
48:43and to see him do that.
48:44I just wanted to stand up
48:46and give him a standing ovation
48:47because he certainly deserved it.
48:49Steve!
48:51Wow!
48:54Yeah, I do!
48:57Hey, you deserved it.
48:58You deserved it.
48:59Hold on to it tight.
49:01Take it home with me.
49:19If I'm going to build
49:20the perfect quarterback,
49:21I'd start with an arm.
49:22Best arm probably be
49:25Troy Aik.
49:26Arm strength, no doubt about it,
49:28probably John Elway.
49:29That's fine.
49:33I would say myself,
49:35but I don't want to say that.
49:37Release is not a better one
49:38to business than Dan Marino.
49:40Danny Marino has the quickest release.
49:42Dan Marino.
49:42Dan Marino does.
49:44We know Dan has that.
49:46Marino.
49:46Most guys can only dream
49:47of having his release.
49:48They've always said
49:49that I have the quickest release
49:50in terms of the feet and the legs.
49:52Bernie Kosar has
49:53definitely the best feet.
49:56Feet is Steve Young.
49:58I'll give that one to Randall.
49:59Steve's dangerous.
50:01Randall Cunningham.
50:01He has to have cute legs
50:03because of women
50:03look at that kind of stuff.
50:04Feet and legs,
50:05you could put it all
50:06with one footer back
50:07to Steve Young.
50:08Heart and guts.
50:09Boomer Sison.
50:12I'm pulling that one.
50:14Jim Kelly has the most heart.
50:15I'd throw Boomer's name
50:16in there somewhere.
50:17I'd have to give that
50:18to Jim Kelly.
50:19John Elway.
50:20Jim Kelly.
50:21The heart, Marino.
50:23I think I'd put a lot of heart.
50:24Best in the business right now.
50:26Steve Young.
50:27Steve Young.
50:28Steve Young.
50:28Steve Young.
50:29Steve Young.
50:29Definitely.
50:30Absolutely.
50:31Steve Young.
50:32Goofball.
50:34Loser.
50:36Zero.
50:37No, Steve,
50:38let's start over.
50:39I don't want you doing that.
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50:47some editing on this tape.
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52:44To be continued...
52:45to be continued...
53:45Nice concept, in life and on the field.
53:48The ones you stick by.
53:49Here are all the moments you most want to remember from the 94 season.
53:5328 NFL teams.
53:5528 NFL team videos.
53:57Plus two expansion teams.
54:02We're all a little nosy.
54:03Football's a vocal game.
54:05And we don't mean play-by-play commentary.
54:07And just what is it that the players are shouting at each other?
54:10Hey, baby!
54:11We're gonna be here all day, baby!
54:13Intimidation can be more than physical.
54:16Words push their weight around, on and off the field.
54:19We'd grab the choicest soundbites so you can experience football as you've never heard it before.
54:25In NFL Turf Talk, the 100 greatest soundbites of the NFL.
54:30This isn't college.
54:31You're not at a home college.
54:32I understand.
54:33This is NFL, which stands for not for long when you make them calls.
54:37I'll be selling groceries.
54:39This is 50 minutes of impact.
54:41The pure muscle of the game.
54:44Schwarzenegger saving the universe.
54:46Hey, you tackle problems every day.
54:48It feels good to watch someone else do the impossible for a change.
54:52It's NFL's 100 greatest tackles.
54:56This is going to be the high point of the season.
54:59Nothing comes near it, and you'll want to see it again.
55:03Superheroes, super power.
55:04Coming in February on video, Super Bowl XXX.
55:08You know when good just doesn't come near it.
55:11And great is only halfway there.
55:13We're talking the greatest.
55:16Be sure to own the greatest season ever.
55:18On home video from Polygram Video and NFL Films.
55:25We'll be right back.
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