“Over the years, we’d see pictures of people up north shoveling snow and we’d laugh. We’d be down in the Keys in the pool or out fishing. But now, maybe the last laugh’s on us.”
—Jimmy Johnson, Super Bowl-winning coach and longtime resident of the Florida Keys, to me on Tuesday
Johnson has hosted Bill Belichick, Troy Aikman and other NFL bigwigs on his six-acre compound in Islamorada, on the southern side of the Florida Keys, 125 miles from Cuba. They’ve stayed in his guest house. They’ve fished with him on one of his two boats; Johnson has sailed and fished as far south as the ocean waters shared by Cuba and the United States.