ESPN: Twenty years later, Larry Brown’s Super Bowl heroics grow in stature

ESPN: Twenty years later, Larry Brown’s Super Bowl heroics grow in stature

Todd Archer
ESPN Staff Writer

IRVING, Texas — On Sunday, Larry Brown will be hobnobbing with some of the best players in NFL history. This time, he won’t be booed.

Dallas Cowboys teammates Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith will be there. Cowboys greats Roger Staubach, Chuck Howley — who will participate via video — and Randy White have been invited. Joe Montana, Steve Young, Lynn Swann, Franco Harris, Richard Dent, Doug Williams, Jerry Rice, Marcus Allen and many others have been, as well.

The last time he was in the full company of those greats was 10 years ago at Super Bowl XL, when the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks at Ford Field.

Before the game, the Super Bowl Most Valuable Players were announced to the crowd before a game filled with Terrible Towels, thanks in part to the short drive from Pittsburgh to Detroit. …

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