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Answer by Brian Billick, Head Coach, 2001 Super Bowl Champs Baltimore Ravens
You know that professionally you will forever be introduced as "Super Bowl winning Head Coach Brian Billick". I won my Super Bowl in just my second year as a Head Coach and created a whole new dynamic with regards to expectations going forward.
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Answer by Steve Weatherford, Super Bowl Champion with the New York Giants (XLVI)
I got a new last name! Now it's Steve Weatherford, Super Bowl Champion, and nobody can ever take that away from me. It's something I worked really hard to achieve, but at the same time I couldn't have done it without my amazing teammates and an unbelievable coaching staff and the opportunity that the general manager and Tom Coughlin the head coach gave me to become a New York Giant. I had just signed with the team seven months before I became "immortalized in Super Bowl lore." It was an unbelievable opportunity and it absolutely changed my life.
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Answer by Mike Tomczak, NFL quarterback for 1985 Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears
It gave me the confidence that I could play this game at a high level. The biggest growth I had was in my rookie year. I was the opposition quarterback in practice, I was the 3rd team quarterback behind Jim McMahon and Steve Fuller, so I got a lot of my repetitions in going against our defense. And our defense was pretty dynamic, fierce, and our practices were very physical. I took a beating in practice, and they gave me every scenario I was to handle for the next 15 years of my career.
And I always go back to that: preparing for that defense, trying to simulate what the opposition was going to run. Back then, there weren't a lot of scrambling quarterbacks. These guys knew exactly where your launch point was, whether it be 5, 8, or 10 yards deep in the pocket, and even if the ball was thrown, they toughened you up with a punch or a slap to the head or they'd knock you down or try to taunt you because that was their game.
I just knew that the experience would pay dividends for me, and I carried that in my back pocket for the rest of my career.