Beebe recalled that he was upset that the Bills were "getting killed", and that the play "didn't mean nothing to me. Nothing. Until I got in the locker room, and Ralph Wilson, the owner, came right over to me, he bypassed every other player and he came right to me, and said 'You showed me a lot today. You showed me exactly what the Buffalo Bills are all about.' " "I didn't realize what an impact a professional athlete has", Beebe added, until he received thousands of letters from both Buffalo and Dallas fans who praised the play and Beebe himself for not giving up.