Playboy.com: The question on everyone's mind after the Super Bowl was, What the hell happened?
Marshall Faulk: I just let it go. It's gone. It happened and it's gone.
PB: You had 21 touches in the Super Bowl. A lot of armchair quarterbacks thought Mike Martz should have fed you the ball 50 times. What do you think?
MF: I always want the ball. But at no point in time will I ever say anything or do anything to criticize how the game was called or what happened with the game. As a team, and especially on offense because we have a lot of [good] guys, we never critique who gets the ball or what decisions are made with the ball. We play, we go out there, we execute, we do the best we can. Whatever happens, that's it.
PB: Are the Rams all business in the huddle?
MF: Oh, no. We have fun. If you watch us play, the thing that I think that people like about us is that we have fun. You practice, you do it like business, and you go outside and have fun on Sundays. What's the sense of playing a game if you can't have fun? It's grueling enough to go and get your butt kicked, regardless if you win or lose. So you gotta enjoy something.
PB: You've said that former Colts star Eric Dickerson talked to you about studying the game while you were hurt in Indianapolis, and after taking his advice, the game slowed down for you. What did you mean by that?
MF: It's kinda tough to explain. If you sit in the stands, you think you can dictate what's going on. But if you stand on the sidelines, it's like, man, they're moving. It's fast. And even for me, if I sit there and watch the game, and I'm not playing, it's fast. But then you get on the field, and it's like you can see everything and you know everything that's gonna happen. Once I got healthy, I understood exactly what was gonna happen -- how the play was supposed to work, how the defense was supposed to react -- and I was able to study what they were trying to do to us, and what we were trying to do to them. I played the game within the game, and it just became easier. I had a sense or feel of what was supposed to happen before it did happen. If it did happen, I was there. If it didn't, I knew where I could go to get outta trouble.
PB: You've said that your vision is your best attribute on the field. Can you explain that?
MF: Some guys are fast and they rely on that. Some guys are strong and rely on that. I rely on what I see.
PB: Speaking of vision, your former Colts teammate Jason Belser once said you've got a stare that could "intimidate a Secret Service agent." Do you feel like you intimidate guys on the field like that?
