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Super Bowl XXVII took place on January 31, 1993, when the Buffalo Bills faced the Dallas Cowboys at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
Buffalo was coached by Marv Levy, and they were appearing in their third straight Super Bowl.
The Bills looked a little weaker in 1992, having only won 11 games after back-to-back 13-win seasons and missing out on the AFC East title for the first time in five years.
But after dominant wins against higher-seeded Pittsburgh in the divisional round and AFC East champion Miami in the AFC Championship, the Bills were ready to take a shot at their first win in the Super Bowl.
Dallas was back in the Super Bowl for the first time in 15 years, since they dominated the NFL along with the Steelers in the 1970s.
Coached by Jimmy Johnson and with the firepower of Troy Aikman, Emmett Smith, and Michael Irvin, they were averaging almost 30 points per game on their way to a 13-3 regular season record.
The Cowboys were rolling, having beaten the Eagles and 49ers by double digits in the playoffs on their way to this matchup with the Bills.
This audio recording is from the CBS Radio broadcast featuring announcers Jack Buck and Hank Stram.
Welcome back to Pasadena everyone. Greg Gumbel joined now by John Madden. John, let's start it right in with the Dallas Cowboys.
If the Cowboys are going to win, I know that you feel Emmett Smith has to have one of his good days today.
Yeah, but I don't think he has to do it right away, Greg. I think the secret for the Cowboys' offense is I think they have to start opening up.
I think they have to start off with Troy Aikman. I think they have to start off with their passing game throwing to Michael Irvin, throwing to Jay Novichek, getting the ball to Alvin Harper once in a while, Kelvin Martin on the third down.
Those types of things. Then I think if they can spread that Buffalo-billed defense out, make them think pass, loosen them up a little, maybe get ahead, then I think they can come back later with Emmett Smith.
I think Emmett Smith will probably get most of his yards in the second half.
What you're talking about the Cowboys doing, Jack, isn't that par for the course for the Buffalo Bills? They try to throw to open things up for Thurman Thomas?
Yeah, that's the thing that they do. The other thing they try to do is speed up the tempo of the game with the no-huddle defense, the no-huddle offense, which puts the pressure on the defense, whether they can get their substitutions in or not.
Because the Dallas defense is number one in the league, and I think the best thing about what they did on defense all year, Greg, was their third down defense, and they play nickel better than anyone does.
So it's going to be interesting to see if they're going to be able to get their nickel substitutions in on second and long and on third down.
John, do you think that no-huddle is going to be a problem for the Dallas offense?
No, it'll be a problem for the Dallas offense if they can't get on the field. It'll be a problem if they can go no-huddle and get first downs and score points.
Now, if they just go three and out quickly, then it's something that can hurt you, because then that means your defense just gets over to the other side of the field and they have to turn around and go right back in.
So I think the no-huddle will be successful if their offense is successful. If their offense isn't successful and they're not getting first downs and or scoring points, then it could be a negative thing.
We said that Emmett, and you feel that eventually Emmett will have a good day for Dallas to win. For Buffalo, it's Jim Kelly, isn't it?
Well, I think so, especially early. I think Jim Kelly has to have a good day. Andre Reed, James Lofton, Thurman Thomas, Kevin Davis, those guys all have to be part of that passing game.
And then I think where the running game comes is to control the clock after you get the lead.
I mean, I think that that's why I think the Cowboys, if they get the lead and they're in the lead in the third and fourth quarter, then they can just give the game to Emmett Smith.
And to me right now, Emmett Smith is the best player in the National Football League. He can win for them. I think the Buffalo Bills could probably do the same thing.
If they get the lead, then they could just give it to Thurman Thomas and Davis and just let them run the ball in the third and fourth quarter and win it for them.
But I don't know that those guys can get the lead for them. I think they're going to have to get the lead with the passing game.
And then probably at the end of the game, one of the running backs is going to be the most valuable player.
We do know the key players on offense. John, who are the important people on defense to watch today?
Well, I think when you think about the Dallas Cowboys, I think they have one dominant player, and that's Charles Haley.
And I think that, you know, he has to be the guy, maybe not that gets the sack on a Jim Kelly, but he has to be the guy who gets the initial penetration that allows other guys to get there.
And then when you talk about the Buffalo Bills, I think it's Bruce Smith. I know he has the bad ribs, but I think he has to have a big day, not only on rushing Troy Aikman, who gets rid of the ball quickly, but on helping against the run.
And then the Buffalo Bills also have to hope that Cornelius Bennett is healthy today because he's had that hamstring and he really hasn't practiced for a long time.
And I don't know if you can play a Super Bowl at the top level on just adrenaline.
All right, John, two coaches that are quite used to winning as the season comes down to the end, Jimmy Johnson and Marv Levy.
And, John, we'll talk with you again just before kickoff, okay?
Okay.
Next, Jim Hunter gives us some insight into the players and how they've handled Super Bowl week here in California after we pause for this word.
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Welcome back to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the site today of Super Bowl XXVII, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Buffalo Bills,
who have been here all week long.
And are they exhibiting pressures? Are they antsy about this?
Let's get more from Jim Hunter. Jim?
Well, you know what game day means? Hype Week is over.
The players certainly survived the week.
But now the question is, can they overcome the buildup, Greg, come kickoff in about a half hour?
Or will this be just another football game? Well, and it's Smith thinks so.
I look at it as another game.
We play football all year long and we play it.
We've been playing it for years and years.
The game, the rules haven't changed.
The strategy of the game haven't changed.
Not much anyway.
And the players, the only thing you do is just get prepared the same way you've been prepared all your life.
So there's nothing different about this game.
Except for the fact that the NFL Championship rides on the outcub.
Now, even though Smith is trying to keep his emotions in check,
you can't help but experience the Super Bowl atmosphere on game day.
We come out for warm up.
We have a tendency to walk around, look up in the sky and everything, look at the crowd, look at the fans,
see exactly how many people are going to be there and hear the fans hollering and booing and all that stuff.
It's a great feeling when you're doing all that.
But once the game gets started, you tune everything out.
You tune everything out and just concentrate on what you're supposed to do.
Well, there was no booing when the Dallas Cowboys came out a short time ago for their pregame warm up.
This crowd at the Rose Bowl decisively behind the Cowboys.
Now, as for the other side, the Billsfield, they're better prepared to win the Super Bowl this year
because they've matured as a team.
And it all starts with quarterback Jim Kelly, who has learned the art of allowing the game to come to him.
For one thing, I have to realize that, you know, don't think you have to do it by yourself.
At times, quarterbacks tend to do that.
I make the big play this time, I have to do that.
I have to realize that, you know, we have a great running back back.
There's some great receivers.
And I guess the main thing is for us is the key to this game for us is without a doubt is turnovers.
I think if we limit the turnovers and our defense gets off the field
and we don't see the same thing happen that happened against in Super Bowl 25 that they could control the clock.
Because you look at time possession, Dallas Cowboys number one in the NFL.
And if you look at that, that's one thing, you know, as a quarterback you sit back and say, I hope that doesn't happen.
Well, the Bills focus this week was completing the job.
The Bills have had two consecutive opportunities to win a championship, but as of yet haven't gotten it done.
But now they're back with a rare third chance.
And Kelly knows the Bills have to take advantage because time might be running out.
Well, without a doubt, not many people get a chance to go once, let alone three times.
And as far as I'm concerned, it's almost a must win for me.
I'm not a young pup, but I hope to play four or five more years.
But getting a third chance is just unbelievable.
And we've got a third consecutive chance.
And it's just a matter of topping this off.
And if we do win, it's for my mother because she hasn't been able to come to a Super Bowl game yet.
She can't fly.
And this is one that, you know, I could just knock up and put a knock right on that board and put this one for you, Mom.
And Greg, Jim Kelly's mom suffers from emphysema.
She's back in Pennsylvania, of course, obviously will be monitoring the game today.
And I couldn't help but notice as I talked with Jim Kelly,
he kept swirling his AFC championship ring.
It's not the ring he wants.
He wants a Super Bowl championship ring, and he's hoping to get it done here this afternoon.
You get the impression Jim Kelly is going to have a very good day today, no matter what the outcome is.
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Super Bowl XIII in which the Dallas Cowboys came up short against the Pittsburgh Steelers 35-31.
And what many people feel was the best Super Bowl game ever played.
Joining me now is former Cowboy quarterback Roger Staubach.
First of all, did you think it would be that long before Dallas got back into a Super Bowl again?
Well, I did not because we still had a very good team there at the end of the 70s, early 80s.
And Dallas in the early 80s, Danny White was a great quarterback.
They went to the championship game three times and lost the teams that just really were on the roll.
Philadelphia one year and then of course the 49ers in the Redskins.
So they're back now and the city's excited about the Dallas Cowboys.
Your thoughts on being a member of five Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl teams were chronicled in a recent issue of Sports Illustrated.
And I thought your insight was amazing, including the thought that maybe since you didn't play in that first Super Bowl
that the Cowboys were in that you were part of that you felt like leaving the team.
Well, it was difficult because Craig Morton was really injured at the end of the year and our defense was fantastic.
In fact, I think we won a playoff game like five to two and I was disappointed I didn't get a chance to play more.
Tom Landry believed it took four or five years to develop as a quarterback and I was an old guy because I was in the Navy.
So I was disappointed. I told him that he didn't see any see my future in Dallas.
I really wanted to go and play. I was getting too old.
I was 29 by that time and he said I would have a chance to play the next season.
And I did get a chance to compete with Craig and Craig came back healthy and we had a very good competition for quarterback.
Give us a player's insight and you having experienced this more than an average player ever does.
The feeling of a player as he approaches a Super Bowl kickoff at a time like this.
Well, Greg, they're really nervous right now.
And any player that says they're not nervous or crazy because this is a big deal.
This is a big game. It can mean something the rest of their life either way, winning or losing.
And so it's really getting control of the emotions.
And you have that game plan that you've had in.
Now you've got to think about it. You've got to concentrate on it.
And especially in the first quarter, you've got to execute it.
You've got to let the emotions get under control, especially the quarterbacks, Kelly and Aikman.
They've got to take what they can get. They can't force the ball.
And they've got to go back to what they did all week in practice the last couple of weeks and all season is to execute the game plan and get away from the hoopla of the emotions.
And I know in the first quarter one time and against Denver, Robert Newhouse, we were stumbling around Newhouse.
I said, Roger, get this team under control. And I said, House, I'm trying to get myself under control.
So these guys are nervous, but they're excited. And I think it's going to be one heck of a game today.
Try to separate yourself from your natural allegiance to the Cowboys, if you would,
and give us an objective analysis of how you look at this game and how you feel it's going to play out.
Well, I think on paper being objective, Dallas has had the best season, the most consistent season, both offensively, defensively.
But the Bills have struggled. They've shown their vulnerability against Houston, and they also showed a great tenacity and perseverance against Houston.
So they've got some intangibles working for them that if they click in, it's going to be a better game than I would think based on just who's the best team.
Because Dallas has played the best this season, and I think is the best team.
But the Bills have those intangibles of the comeback and also the fact that this is their third Super Bowl.
Now, if those intangibles work for them, they protect Kelly, especially early, and Kelly has time.
It could be a very close, tough game, and the Bills could come out in front.
But I feel the Cowboys, they've focused all year, and I think they're going to focus today and execute and have a great game and win.
Roger Staubach, it's always a pleasure to see you and talk with you. Thanks very much for joining us here.
It's a lot of fun, Greg. Thanks.
Have a good day today. Up next, we'll check in with the coaches, Marv Levy of Buffalo, Jimmy Johnson of Dallas, after we pause for this message.
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We just heard from one of the all-time great members of the National Football League, Roger Staubach.
He was part of the Dallas Cowboys history. This Dallas franchise is making NFL history today with its record-six Super Bowl appearance.
The team that Jimmy Johnson brings to the Rose Bowl today is the youngest in the NFL and has just two players with previous Super Bowl experience, defensive end Charles Haley, defensive back Ray Horton.
I talked with Jimmy Johnson and asked him if he was concerned that the height of Super Bowl week would be a distraction to his young players.
I think the distractions can be a problem if you let it be.
I told the guys, I said, hey, don't build this thing up bigger than life.
Don't make more out of it than what there really is.
I said, we're going there to play a football game, and it'd be the same as if we played the Buffalo Bills out here on the practice field and nobody even watched us.
All that's secondary and all that's something that you can insulate yourself from.
You're talking about the physical aspect of the game, and I'm talking about the mental approach.
In your head, you know it's not really just another football game.
Yeah, but I think you can almost strike yourself into thinking that it is just another game.
I think that's important for the guys to downplay the importance of it.
I've told them that the enjoyment that they will obtain will come after the ball game.
So go ahead and prepare yourself in the same way that you would for any other game, and then go out there and make plays.
If you do that, then you'll have some good times after the game.
One of the things that has been said most frequently about your defense this year is that it's quick.
Does that make you better equipped than most to handle the no-huddle?
Well, I think because of the number of players that we have used throughout the year,
it gives us more depth to play a no-huddle offense.
The no-huddle offense I think can really wear down a defense because of the pace of the game.
And because of that, I think we'll have to substitute by series some of those defensive linemen just to keep them fresh.
That may give us an advantage that other teams don't have.
You're not supposed to get it done this fast.
Well, I don't know that anybody made a rule as far as how fast it could be done or how long it was going to take.
The only thing I said a few years ago is we're going as fast as we can,
and however fast it happens, it's not going to be fast enough for me.
For whatever reasons, Jimmy, sometimes in this game the teams don't play as well as they've played all season.
Any fear of that?
No, I expect to play well. I think our guys are going to go out there and play very well.
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On the other side of the field will be the veteran coach, 64-year-old Marv Levy,
who brings his Buffalo Bills into the Super Bowl for the third straight year,
and he's very aware of how rare it is for teams who have won three straight conference championships.
Well, it is. Only Miami has done it before. That was 20 years ago.
They won to the second and third game. We're still striving for our first one.
It's very difficult to get here. When we're asked, is it difficult to get back at the beginning of a season,
I say, of course it is, but it's difficult to get there if you weren't there the previous year, too.
Well, for the team that loses the Super Bowl, there is no feeling of satisfaction for a great season
because of the finality of that outcome of the game.
And we asked Marv if the three straight AFC titles his team has won gets overlooked
because they haven't been able to win the Super Bowl.
Well, possibly so. I made the point earlier in the week that no team in the history of football
has won as many games over a five-year span, 66 over five consecutive years.
The great 49ers, the Miami teams, Dallas hasn't. Pittsburgh Steelers did.
They won exactly 66, which is what we've won.
Now, if we can win the Super Bowl, we'll take charge of that statistic.
He has his numbers down, and knowing what's at stake today with the Bills facing a third straight Super Bowl,
we asked Marv how he thought he'd feel when he walked onto the field here at the Rose Bowl today.
Most of the butterflies I have come about a week before the game, and we work on the game.
We're doing the right thing. We're going to teach this to our team all week right now,
and if it's wrong, we're wrong. But by the time I walk out there on Sunday, I'm not very nervous at all.
I feel pretty calm. I feel very calculating. I think about what we're going to have to do.
I know what our calls are going to be. I know what our game plan is.
You fall behind, you have to come out of your game plan.
But on Sunday, I just feel good. It's where I want to be.
The term I use with our team was just before a kickoff and a big game.
Where else would you rather be than right here, right now? And that's the way I'll feel.
Marv Levy, and in the background, the crowd is cheering as the players are starting lineups being introduced.
The kickoff from the Rose Bowl in Super Bowl XXVII is just around the corner.
We'll be back in just a moment.
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Welcome back to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where this crowd of upwards of 105,000 people are getting set
for Super Bowl XXVII between the Buffalo Bills and the Dallas Cowboys.
We talked about the Cowboys and what a young team it is,
and what a giant step they have taken under head coach Jimmy Johnson.
His first season was 1989 as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
In that year, the Cowboys just won one of 16 starts.
In 1990, they went to 7-9.
Last year, in 1991, they went 11-5 and then 13-3 this season.
On the road to Pasadena, they beat Philadelphia 34-10.
In Dallas, they beat the 49ers 30-20 two weeks ago today in the NFC Championship game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
The Cowboys are 3-1 in the postseason under Jimmy Johnson.
Marv Levy's Buffalo Bills are 8-4.
The Cowboys, as we said, appearing in an NFL record-six Super Bowl game.
Buffalo Bills are only the second NFL team ever to appear in three straight Super Bowls.
They follow in the footsteps of the Miami Dolphins back in 1970, 71, and 72.
The Bills and the Cowboys haven't met since 1984.
That's when Buffalo upset Dallas by a score of 14-3,
and the Bills were winless in 11 games going into that matchup.
How did Buffalo get here?
They beat Houston 41-38 in overtime in the wild card game after trailing 35-3 early in the third quarter
and then engineering the biggest comeback in NFL history.
The following week, they beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 24-3 in Pittsburgh,
and then in the AFC Championship game at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami,
they knocked off the Dolphins by a score of 29-10.
And here is something to remember about these Buffalo Bills.
Since falling behind Houston 35-3, they have outscored the opposition 91-16.
They are an awesome, awesome, awesome offensive team when their game is right.
Miami, you may remember, lost its first Super Bowl appearance but won the next two,
and the Buffalo Bills would like to switch things around.
They would like to think that they would lose their first two and then win the third.
They feel that the Buffalo Bills are due, and the players think so as well.
The pregame introductions have been completed,
and we are awaiting the start of the national anthem.
And as we do that, let me turn to Hank Strand and ask Hank,
what a coach is thinking as we approach kickoff, Hank?
The only thing you're thinking about is winning the football game
and executing and doing what you practiced,
what you rehearsed all year long and all week long for this game.
That's what it's all about.
It's the talent that wins the game, and you better play up to your potential.
Hank, we talk about the players having butterflies and being nervous.
How about the coaches?
Same thing. If you don't have butterflies, why forget it?
You know, I learned this. I asked a question when I was a kid.
I'll never forget. I thought something was wrong with me
because I had so many butterflies before a game,
and I finally went to the coach and asked him about it.
He said, listen, the day you don't have butterflies, don't play the game.
We've seen it from time to time, Hank, that there are coaches
who will pull back from what got them there during the regular season
and hesitate to call the same kind of a game that they did.
Is that a result of being nervous?
Well, I don't know whether it's that or whether it's just the lack of the right kind of preparation.
I think you have to do what your team always does best.
You've got to just continue to utilize that skill and ability.
And regardless of what the game is, you've got to do the best things that players can do
and hope that they're going to execute and win the game.
All right, Hank, it is a very sunny, clear afternoon here in Pasadena, California.
The temperature is in the upper 60s.
The sun has been shining all day long.
Earlier this week there was a threat of rain in the area.
It rained last night in Los Angeles, but today dawns clear and pools,
and a perfect day for football.
And as we continue the count toward the kickoff from Super Bowl XXVII
at the Rose Bowl here in Pasadena, California, it's time for our national anthem.
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And now, to honor America, please join Grammy Award winner Garth Brooks in singing our national anthem.
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and will be followed with a flyover of F-18s by the Navy Strike Fighter Squadron from the USS Nimitz.
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