On the game’s opening kickoff, the Steelers kicker lofted the ball to Preston Pearson, the former Steeler who had signed with the Cowboys during the off-season. Pearson cradled it and then, using the trickery the Steelers so despised, handed the ball off to Thomas “Hollywood” Henderson, the Cowboys first-round pick that year as a linebacker. At Henderson’s first press conference, reporters made the mistake of calling him Tom several times. Henderson stopped the session and said, “My name is Thomas. If my sister has a daughter, I don’t want her growing up to call me Uncle Tom.”
