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.

The hardest guy ever to contain was Fran Tarkenton. He was like a rabbit.

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.

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.

Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

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.