When I was covering them, they had nothing and the league knew it. I mean, in 1986 David Archer led the NFC in passing for the first half of the year and that was it.

We knew going in that if we wanted to repeat as league champs this game meant everything. This game put us in the driver's seat.

In 1998, I was with Tampa Bay when we led the league in rushing - and we stunk. We led the league in rushing because we ran the ball all the time.

He basically led this team for the last 10 years when you think about it. We knew why he came back. It was no secret he wanted to finish his career with a championship.

It's nothing like on TV, ... On the way down there we knew we had no idea what it was going to be like. I've been shot at before in life, and it wasn't as intense as what I saw.

You had to act as if nothing was wrong, ... It was very difficult to do, but you knew in the back of your head that you had to do it, that you couldn't tell anybody.