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===Pregame news=== Many sportswriters and fans were a bit upset that the Bills advanced to their fourth consecutive Super Bowl. They were distressed with Buffalo having lost the three previous Super Bowl games and did not want to see them lose again. Some Bills fans appeared to be defensive about their team's presence in the game; during Buffalo's victory in the AFC Championship Game a week earlier, one fan displayed a banner defiantly proclaiming, "We're back; deal with it, America!"<ref>{{cite news|last=Murray|first=Jim|title=SUPER BOWL XXVII: Buffalo Bills vs. Dallas Cowboys : It's Tough to Deal With It|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-25-sp-15099-story.html|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=January 25, 1994|access-date=January 8, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Warner|first=Gene|title=The Bills go fourth!|url=http://bills.buffalonews.com/1994/01/24/the-bills-go-fourth/|newspaper=[[The Buffalo News]]|date=January 24, 1994|access-date=January 8, 2016}}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Therefore, the Super Bowl hype was more focused onto Cowboys owner/general manager [[Jerry Jones]] and head coach [[Jimmy Johnson (football coach)|Jimmy Johnson]]. Although the two rebuilt the team with young talent that eventually won the previous year's Super Bowl, both men had huge egos that conflicted with each other. Both had different ideas on the future personnel plans for the Cowboys, and both wanted equal credit for the team's recent success. The dispute became so ugly that Super Bowl XXVIII became Johnson's final game coaching the Cowboys after his feud with Jones boiled over. Johnson would join [[Vince Lombardi]], [[Bill Walsh (American football coach)|Bill Walsh]], and [[Bill Parcells]] on the short list of coaches who won a Super Bowl in what turned out to be their last games with the winning franchise; like Lombardi and Parcells but unlike Walsh, Johnson would later return to coach another team, helming the Miami Dolphins between 1996 and 1999 before retiring from coaching for good. This was the fourth rematch in Super Bowl history, and the first time that both teams met in consecutive years.<ref>The Dolphins and Redskins met twice ([[Super Bowl VII|VII]] and [[Super Bowl XVII|XVII]]), as did the Steelers and Cowboys ([[Super Bowl X|X]] and [[Super Bowl XIII|XIII]]) and 49ers and Bengals ([[Super Bowl XVI|XVI]] and [[Super Bowl XXIII|XXIII]]). The Steelers and the Cowboys would also meet again, in [[Super Bowl XXX]].</ref> Both the Bills, as the [[Super Bowl#Home team designation|designated home team]] in the AFC/NFC annual rotation, and the Cowboys wore the same uniforms as the previous year, with the Bills donning the home blue jersey/white pants set and the Cowboys wearing the white jersey/silver pants set. Before the game, the Super Bowl became the target of protests over the [[Flag of Georgia (U.S. state)#Second_flag_(1956%E2%80%932001)|Georgia state flag]], which at the time included the [[Confederate battle flag]] and was seen as offensive by the African-American community. Several high-profile Georgia politicians got involved, including state senator Ralph D. Abernathy. The NFL tried to duck the issue, with spokesman Greg Aiello stating, "We're not a political-advocacy group. It's not our role to get involved in political issues that have nothing to do with the Super Bowl." However, the NFL had cancelled plans to hold the Super Bowl in Phoenix three years earlier after a referendum to make [[Martin Luther King Jr. Day]] an Arizona state holiday was defeated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.philly.com/1994-01-27/sports/25825911_1_state-flag-confederate-battle-flag-flag-issue|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225152649/http://articles.philly.com/1994-01-27/sports/25825911_1_state-flag-confederate-battle-flag-flag-issue|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 25, 2015|title=Archives - Philly.com|website=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]}}</ref> Ultimately, the flag was not flown inside the Georgia Dome, but was mounted on a pole outside the stadium. [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Al Gore]] attended the game.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 3, 2017 |title=Vice President Mike Pence will attend the Super Bowl|url=https://www.boston.com/sports/super-bowl-li/2017/02/03/vice-president-mike-pence-will-attend-the-super-bowl|work=The Associated Press}}</ref>
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