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Hyde: Jimmy Johnson didn’t just win his way to Hall of Fame — he changed the NFL game | Commentary

Jimmy Johnson sits in the office in his Tavernier home, holds up the few pages that comprise his Pro Football Hall of Fame speech and says, “Here it all is.”

He gives the healthy smile of retirement and says it might be the quickest speech in the history of the Hall.

It’s going to be fun watching Johnson try to get through even that short speech Saturday night with a steady voice and eyes that don’t squirt like windshield-wiper spray.

He was so overwhelmed last January on the Fox television set when informed about being voted into the Hall that his breath caught, eyes teared and he barely squeaked out, “I can’t talk.