MIAMI (CBSMiami) – South Florida football legend Jimmy Johnson is in town to cover the Super Bowl 54.
On Tuesday, Johnson talked about the incredible honor of being named into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He was surprised on national TV – a moment that took his breath away.
“I walked to David Baker and I went, ‘Oh my god.’ And my wife Rhonda said, ‘The reason you couldn’t talk was the whole time he was talking you weren’t breathing.’ I couldn’t talk. It was a great moment,” he recalled.
Johnson won two super bowls with Cowboys and coined the now iconic phrase “How ‘Bout Them Cowboys?