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‘The best two-yard run I’ve ever seen’

GIL BRANDT
Gil Brandt has been to every Super Bowl. He was vice president of player personnel for the Dallas Cowboys from 1960 until 1989. During that time, the Cowboys were in five Super Bowls. Brandt now writes for NFL.com and advises the NFL on which prospects to invite to the NFL draft.

I have been to every Super Bowl. I am one of the few, who is still alive, who was at Super Bowl I.

Brandt has fond memories of his years with the Cowboys.
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As you reflect on that, you have memories of what could have been. You know we (Dallas) lost (our) first Super Bowl (Super Bowl V) to Baltimore on a fumble. When Duane Thomas fumbled the ball, Jack Fette was a side judge. He came running in from the side and gave the ball to Baltimore. And our center, Dave Manders, handed him the ball, because he had the ball.

So that was probably the lowlight of the five Super Bowls that I was in, because we would’ve won that game, had it not been for the fumble on the goal line.

The highlight, I think, was in New Orleans (Super Bowl XII), when we beat Denver, 27-10. It was probably the best team that we had. … It was kind of the crest of our team. By that, I mean, it was a bunch of guys, the Randy Whites, and Harvey Martins and a bunch of guys that were just reaching the pinnacle of their career. Roger Staubach, Danny White, Tony Dorsett. And I think the thing that is most memorable in my mind is Dorsett’s two-yard run for a touchdown early in the game. That was probably the best two-yard run I’ve ever seen and it was against a very, very good Denver defense that was known as the Orange Crush. …

The Super Bowl has grown from watching tickets going for $6, $10 or $12 to where it’s now. One of the first ones was in L.A. I don’t know if anyone even knew there was a game being played. And one of the reasons why is they felt it was going to be a lopsided game, because the AFL wasn’t as good as the NFL. But it turned out to be a pretty close game, closer than the score indicates. But it has grown from a little one-story motel in some remote town in Wyoming to the Sears Tower and growing bigger.

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