PHOENIX -- Well-wishers stopped Mark Davis midstride on his triumphant-yet-hazy walk from a ballroom at the Arizona Biltmore to an onsite restaurant.
There was Pete Carroll, followed by John Elway, both stopping the Oakland Raiders owner to offer their respective congratulations, before Ron Rivera took a break from his lunch to do the same.
And as Davis waited for his lunch to arrive, the texts landed with regularity -- hey, that’s Eric Dickerson -- before Davis placed a congratulatory call of his own to UNLV president Len Jessup, whose university’s football team will share the 65,000-seat, $1.