Special Coverage of Super Bowl 49 from 92.1 FM - The TEAM Sports Radio and KTBB 97.5FM

Former Cowboys QB wraps it up for us on Radio Row.

Danny White had the unenviable job of succeeding Roger Staubach as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. In 13 seasons, he put up very impressive numbers and is well-remembered for a near miraculous comeback victory in a 1980 playoff game against the Atlanta Falcons.

Though he did not go to the Super Bowl as a starting quarterback, Danny White led the Cowboys to three consecutive NFC Championship Games. The Cowboys lost all three, including the 1981 loss to San Francisco as a result of “The Catch,” one of the most celebrated NFL plays of all time.

Danny now covers the Cowboys on the Compass Media Network. He offers his insights about the 2014 Dallas Cowboys and his predictions for next season.

(Danny is joined late in the interview by Cowboys tight end and five-time Pro Bowler Jay Novacek so it’s worth sticking around for the whole thing.)

Greg Ellis on the Cowboys of the NFL and of Dallas Carter High.

Greg Ellis played 11 seasons at defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys. Now retired from football, he is in the video production business and is producer on a movie called “Carter High.” The movie tells the story of Dallas’s Carter High School, whose 1988 football team demolished opponents on its way to a state title — only to have the title stripped in 1991 because of allegations of cheating and academic ineligibility.

Greg talks about the Cowboys – the ones from Carter High and the ones for whom he played in the NFL.

Brian Billick on Landry, the Cowboys & Manziel.

For a few weeks, Brian Billick was a Dallas Cowboy. He made it to the last cut prior to the start of the 1977 season. Never playing a down in the NFL, he nevertheless went on to have a big impact in the league.

After coaching high school and college football, he made his way back to the NFL, starting as a tight ends coach for the Minnesota Vikings. When Baltimore Ravens coach Ted Marchibroda was let go, it was Billick who got the nod.

He would go on to lead the Ravens to victory in Super Bowl XXXV against the New York Giants.

Coach Billick is now an analyst for the NFL Network. He joined us on Radio Row to share his thoughts on being cut by Tom Landry, the job done in 2014 by Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett and the lackluster first season in the NFL for Johnny Manziel.

Hall of Famer Jackie Slater on having a son in the game.

There are couple of things that make Hall of Fame offensive tackle Jackie Slater unique.

First, he holds the record at 20 for the most seasons played for a single NFL franchise. While playing for the Los Angeles Rams, Slater went to seven Pro Bowls while holding opposing teams to league-low numbers of quarterback sacks. Jackie played in Super Bowl XIV in which the Rams lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-19.

Second, he has a son playing in Super Bowl XLIX. Matt Slater is a four-time Pro Bowler who plays on special teams for the New England Patriots.

The real life Jerry Maguire at SB XLIX.

The name Leigh Steinberg may or may not ring a bell but the name Jerry Maguire, played by Tom Cruise in the 1996 movie by the same name, probably does.

The movie is about a sports agent and it was inspired by one of the biggest names in that business, Leigh Steinberg. His list of superstar clients includes Troy Aikman, Steve Young and Warren Moon.

Leigh joined us on Radio Row at Super Bowl XLIX and talked about the creation of the movie Jerry Maguire, dealing with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and the art of negotiating a deal.

A great coach talks about coaching.

Dick Vermeil holds the distinction of having been named Coach of the Year at every level; high school, junior college, NCAA Division I and the NFL.

He began his NFL coaching career in Philadelphia in 1976 and by 1980 defeated the Cowboys to win the NFC Championship and go on to Super Bowl XV. He lost that Super Bowl to Oakland 27-10.

Vermeil would win his next Super Bowl. That journey started in 1997 when he took over the flailing St. Louis Rams. His first two seasons in St. Louis were abysmal and the third was shaping up as a repeat when starting quarterback Trent Green was hurt in pre-season and Kurt Warner came in to take his place. The Rams exploded and went on to a record of 13-3, capping the season by defeating the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl XXXIV.

Now a successful wine producer, Dick Vermeil spoke with us on Radio Row about coaching in Super Bowls while sharing his thoughts on Jason Garrett and Jimmy Johnson.

A one-man clinic on SB 49.

Herm Edwards played cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles. He was a head coach for the Kansas City Chiefs and the New York Jets. He is now an analyst for ESPN and is properly cast in that role.

Herm breaks talks about the pre-game distractions at this Super Bowl, Seattle’s defense, the chances of success next season for the Dallas Cowboys and his pick for Super Bowl XLIX.

What an official NFL football is supposed to look like.

One of the sidebar stories attendant to Super Bowl XLIX has been the possibility that the Patriots’ Tom Brady might have been involved in deliberately under-inflating the footballs used in the Pats’ victory over the Colts in the AFC Championship Game.

So what is a Super Bowl football supposed to look like? And how is it made?

To find out, we went inside the NFL Experience located in the Phoenix Convention Center to watch Wilson Sporting Goods workers (artisans really) manufacture the Wilson “Duke” football that has scored every point in the NFL since 1941.

ESPN’s Mike Greenberg on dads and the Cowboys

Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic form the highly successful team of Mike & Mike on ESPN Radio. Greenberg joined us on Radio Row to talk about his role in Dove Men+Care’s commercial for Super Bowl XLIX. He also had some things to say about the Dallas Cowboys.

Rocky Bleier remembers Super Bowls against the Cowboys.

When he was wounded in Vietnam, Rocky Bleier was told that he would never play football again. Yet with the help of the Rooney family, owners of the Pittsburgh Steelers, running back Rocky Bleier came back from his injuries to earn four Super Bowl rings and have an outstanding career with the Steelers, some of it spent thwarting the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowls X and XIII.

Rocky now works with the health care company Humana in their efforts to support and sponsor the Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Game, which is played on Wednesday evening in Phoenix in advance of Super Bowl XLIX.

HOF Green Bay LB Dave Robinson remembers the “Ice Bowl”

If not for a couple of plays in the late 1960s, the Vince Lombardi Trophy that is awarded to the Super Bowl champion team might well be called the Tom Landry Trophy. Hall of Fame linebacker Dave Robinson played for the Green Bay Packers team that took that eventual honor away from Tom Landry and forever enshrined legendary coach Vince Lombardi.

Dave joins Bill Coates on Radio Row at Super Bowl XLIX to recall playing in Super Bowl I and share his memories of playing against the Cowboys for the NFL Championship on Dec. 31, 1967 in what will always be remembered as the “Ice Bowl.”

It’s not just SB49 happening in Phoenix.

Here in Phoenix Super Bowl XLIX is the biggest event in town. But it’s not the only one. The Waste Management Phoenix Open tees off Thursday here as well. CBS Sports and Golf Channel analyst David Feherty offered some (sometimes comic) perspective as he made the rounds on Radio Row at Super Bowl XLIX.

Looking ahead to 2017 & SB51 in Houston

Super Bowls are such huge events that each one is literally years in the planning. Gayden Cooper from Space Center Houston is in Phoenix for Super Bowl XLIX, scouting parties and taking notes to help her organization win the bid for the Media Party for Super Bowl LI in Houston in 2017.

If we get a vote we say, “great idea.” There’s more to a good party than loud music. Eating good food while browsing the collection of NASA artifacts at Space Center Houston’s fabulous museum would make for a truly memorable media party.

Media Day at SB XLIX: More hype than help?

Media Day was created for the purpose of assuring one day when the media would have access to every player on both teams. But when you cram the event into a basketball arena (they used to hold it on the game day field) and then bring in close to 6,000 members of the media, it’s hard to get anything useful done.

Former Cowboys VP Gil Brandt on Johnny Football.

At Super Bowl XLVIII, Gil Brandt was speaking very highly of East Texas’s Johnny Manziel. A year later, at Super Bowl XLIX, the word is “disappointment.”

Thoughts on the hottest player of 2013 from one of the most successful pickers of NFL talent in the history of the game.

Former NFL QB Ray Lucas on Radio Row.

Ray Lucas played in the NFL for seven seasons for the Patriots, the Jets, the Dolphins and the Ravens. But it was after his playing days that Lucas’s life journey really began. So seriously addicted to prescription painkillers that he came within minutes of suicide, only a phone call to a suicide hotline saved his life. Lucas talks about whether or not kids should play football, his journey to hell and back and his thoughts on “Deflategate.”

David Hunt with NFL collectibles on Radio Row

Collecting NFL memorabilia is a hobby for some, a passion or others and for a select group of people, an obsession. And the truth is, if you select your item carefully, and avoid counterfeits, NFL memorabilia can be a very lucrative investment. Each year on Radio Row at the Super Bowl, David Hunt of Hunt Auctions shares some of the items that will be auctioned off to benefit NFL Charities in connection with the Big Game.