It was just my way of kind of soaking it all in, I think. Just reflecting on my idea of the Super Bowl when I was young, and that I was actually living that, that dream, at the time. I had been playing the game for about 25 years at that point. The Super Bowl in general was a very reflective time for me, as far as thinking back to when I first started playing the game, up until that point in my life. … I ran, like, looking to the sky with my arms out, like I couldn't believe that I was in that position, on that field. I'm excited that my great friend, and we're still friends to this day, we still talk today, that he got to have that ultimate feeling of winning the Super Bowl one more time before he left the game.ĭaniels: For me, it was just completely, it was like, uh - I don't want to say it was a relief, but it was like a release of emotion. It was really good to send him out on top so he could feel comfortable about his decision when he retired, that he has no regrets and he can look back and love it and enjoy the process. And what he wanted to prove that he could still do it, whether it was his 55-touchdown year or his -interception year. You never thought years later that he'll just happen to be putting on another uniform. At that time, at that moment, the preparation, the hard work - everything that he just went through, from the neck injuries to his time in Indy where, you look at that those type of players that they'll never leave, you know? They'll never leave the home that they've built, when he was drafted number one overall to Indy way back in the day. Everything that I learned from Peyton I still use to this day, even in coaching. I just want you to touch it and go to bed, get some rest and I want you to dream about holding this trophy up at the end of the game.Īnderson: It meant everything. Before you guys go to sleep tonight, I want for you to go touch this trophy. And I said, It's time to go to battle, fellas. They don't know what we molded this season. … And I said, The Carolina Panthers are going to come here and try to steal our trophy. This isn't ours, but we have an opportunity to live forever by building a piece of armor that we can take to battle with us every single day for the rest of our lives. And from all the ups and downs we went through, the fire that we had to go through, we have molded this steel - which is this Super Bowl trophy right here. And I looked at all the guys' eyes and seeing, just getting a gauge of, Do y'all want this or not? And I said, This year, our motto was iron sharpens iron, and another man sharpens another. I pulled the trophy out and I stuck it on the table, and I sat there and looked at it.
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