Being down 21-0 at half time in the World Bowl, what was said in the locker room?
BD: I don’t remember exactly what was said. But it was a locker room that said, “What the hell are we doing here? We have thirty more minutes to play… it’s our last game of the season… we can win this thing, and we can, we need to play our game.” We did go out and play our game. Play action, slash running, I threw a touchdown to Tommy Reamon and Greg Latta. Then we held them on defense and Rod Foster returned a 76-yard punt and suddenly it was 22-21. We almost pulled it out. HOF: What was the game plan going into the World Bowl against the Americans? BD: It wasn’t much different. We never changed our game plan. We didn’t run that kind of offense; we didn’t go out and stack four wide receivers. We wanted to control the line of scrimmage, run the ball well and use the play action to open it up. You have to remember that the World Bowl was our 23rd game of the season. It was tough. I’ll never forgot that at mid-season I had both elbows completely swollen, and I was constantly getting
