Prior to the big game in February, D Magazine released a Super Bowl special edition featuring a wonderful article titled "Super Bowl Memories." Several former Dallas Cowboys, as well a couple of Texas-born stars from other teams, recounted to Mickey Spagnola how the Super Bowl changed their lives.  

In part 7 of the 12-part series are the reflections of the only player in NFL history to have been on five Super Bowl-winning teams, yet who is inexplicitly not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Charles Haley
San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowls XXIII, XXIV
Dallas Cowboys, Super Bowls XXVII, XXVIII, XXX

After I won four Super Bowls, I had the same goal Ronnie Lott had, and we always had this thing, I’d tell him I was going to beat him [for most Super Bowl rings in the NFL], and whoever got five rings first was supposed to hit the other guy on the head with it. So when I got my fifth ring [most by any player in NFL history], I went to California, and I took all five rings with me and plunked him upside the head with them. He had filled me up with the love and passion for the game.

When I got to the Cowboys, we had all that talent, but every year we would lose like five or six players. So by the time [Barry] Switzer came [in 1994] we had lost a lot of great players. So it had to take rededicating yourself to football. You had to have the hunger. You had to have the passion [to keep winning Super Bowls], and those things Coach Switzer brought back to the organization. So I just wanted to play for the guy; I gave it up. I came back two weeks after major back surgery to play [in Super Bowl XXX] because you know what? I loved that man that much because he was a great inspiration to me.

Source: D Magazine Special Edition Super Bowl; Wikipedia  |  Photography by Layne Murdoch

Part 1 of 12  Super Bowl Memories of Troy Aikman
Part 2 of 12  Roger Staubach's Super Bowl Memories
Part 3 of 12  Super Bowl Memories of Michael Irvin
Part 4 of 12  Tony Dorsett’s Super Bowl Memories
Part 5 of 12  Super Bowl Memories of Daryl Johnston
Part 6 of 12  Ed “Too Tall” Jones' Super Bowl Memories