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BOTH IMAGES: COURTESY, U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY Staubach spent 11 sea - sons as for the , help - ing the team win two Super Bowls. He was in - ducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. S Y O B W O C S A L L A D , Y S E T R U O C

JANUARY 20 11 * ARMCHAIR GENERAL * 19 “After the game, a reporter asked, ‘What were you thinking about when you threw the ? ’ I said, ‘I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary. ’ [ That was the first time the phrase was ever used in the NFL.” ]

South China Sea, and I was in the rear in charge of all the shipping and receiving of ammunition supplies that came in, and we would get it off to the Marine bases. Between our tiny huts , we put up this field , and one day I woke up and they had put this sign on the field that said “Staubach Stadium.”

ACG You have said that your heroes are military, so who are those heroes? STAUBACH: They are Tommy Holden, my classmate who was killed in Vietnam, and other classmates of mine that gave their lives. They are also famous military people that I read about. I was in the Naval Academy, and those who really devoted their time and most of their livelihood to the military are heroes of mine.

What process led you to end up ACG at Annapolis after growing up in Cincinnati? STAUBACH: Assistant Coach Rick Forzano came to my high school in 1960 be - cause he wanted to talk to our center, who was interested in the Naval Academy. Rick was watching some film, and my coaches told him he needed to talk to the quarterback, so he called me out of class. I talked to him, and then my teammate and I went up to visit the Naval Academy, and I just took a liking to it.

Is it true that you coined the now- ACG famous phrase “Hail Mary Pass” after your legendary game-winning touch - throw to Drew Pearson? February 2010. Staubach holds a copy of the May 2009 issue of Armchair General at a ceremony STAUBACH: Yes, it was 1975, the score during last year’s Week in South Florida. was 14 -10, and we were big underdogs as the wild-card team in the playoffs against Min - ment of losing to Texas in the , came to see my mother in Cincinnati and in - nesota. On the play, the ball was a little un - which was a rough loss, although we were still sinuated to her that I should get out of the derthrown, but Drew caught it and went into the number two team in the country. It was Navy and have a big contract with the Cow - the . After the game, a reporter one of the most fun years I have ever had, but boys. She threw him out of the house – not asked, “What were you thinking about when if we had beaten Texas, it would have been an physically though. I was an only child, and we you threw the ball? ” I said, “I closed my eyes even better year. had high principles, so it was not even a and said a Hail Mary. ” That was the first time thought, and I would never have considered the phrase was ever used in the NFL. * When you graduated from Annapo - doing something like that. John Ingoldsby , a leading writer on the intersection ACG lis, you had the opportunity to play of sports and the military, conducted this interview. He pro football with the Dallas Cowboys , yet you What are your strongest memories is president of IIR Sports & Entertainment Inc. ACG chose to fulfill your military obligation and from your service as a logistics offi - (iirsports.com), a public relations and writing firm in go to Vietnam. How did that all play out? cer in Vietnam? Boston. As a former newspaper reporter covering Fort De - STAUBACH: After my junior year, when I STAUBACH: The strongest memories are vens, Ingoldsby was the first New England media represen - Y B S

had a really good year, I was drafted because just of the courage of the Marines that I was tative ever chosen by the Pentagon to cover NATO D L O G N I was at New Mexico in prep school for one supporting there. They were fighting in the wargames in Europe. His father was a lieutenant colonel in I N H O

year. Gil Brandt, who was with the Cowboys, northern sector of South Vietnam on the General Patton ’s legendary 3d Army during World War II. J

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