“I was relaxed and at peace,” Searcy concludes. “The Cowboys representative was pissed off, to say the least. He ripped up the contract and marched to the front door. As he was about to leave, I asked him if I could keep the Dallas jersey with his name on it as memorabilia for the day.”
“Son, you’re a Steeler now,” he drawled. “Cowboys would never give anything to a Steeler!”