Our deal was this: we got a good football team. I told them that all year long,” Childress said. “I heard all that nonsense and all the hype about Dallas Cowboys coming to town, the hottest team in the playoffs. I asked my team early in the week to choke it back and shut up. We will play the game when we get here on Sunday. The game is always won on the football field. I am tickled to death for those guys; I knew they would play their tail off and be able to dispel that myth of (who) was coming to town.”
When asked by a reporter to clarify what he meant by the phrase “choke it back and shut up,” Childress had this to say:
“Just that the Tasmanian Devils that were coming from Dallas that were about to bombard the state of Minnesota and run through us like Sherman through the South. That was the aura that was left after last weekend’s games. All of us kind of felt that quite palpably. All of it, and then we had about enough of it come Tuesday. They did a great job with that. It’s hard to get guys like this to stifle themselves.”
