Postgame

Legendary Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson has a gym in his Florida home. It’s normal enough for somebody from his line of business, and its walls are covered with framed football awards, fishing photos and magazine covers picturing him. It’s the ultimate man cave, I think, until he leads me through a door on the ground level of his guest house. There, we enter a room lined with offshore-class rods and reels, plus stacks of lure boxes filled with rigs — rigs that Johnson tied. The space is an offshore angler’s nirvana.

Next, he leads me down the dock to his two black, diesel-powered Sea-Vees, a 39- and a 43-footer, hanging like onyx jewelry from lifts behind his oceanfront home. Each is named Three Rings, for his two Super Bowl wins with the Dallas Cowboys and national championship with the University of Miami in the Orange Bowl. The SeaVees are among 21 boats that Johnson has owned. “My 39 SeaVee is the most unbelievable boat I’ve ever had, for everything we do, from lobstering during mini-season to fishin’ by myself 25 miles out, or going to Bimini and Nassau,” he says. “It’s just a fantastic boat.”

Johnson is as passionate about fishing today as he once was about football.