FRISCO, Texas — Mike McCarthy tried to say this week isn’t emotional.
The Dallas Cowboys head coach tried to say his return to Green Bay is “just like anything,” four years after concluding his 13-season tenure as Packers head coach.
McCarthy insisted that “you have to get ready to go win” and “I’m going in there to win.”
But slowly, over the course of his nearly 22-minute media conference, he let his tough exterior erode. Reality and its accompanying sentimentality, perhaps, set in. And McCarthy allowed a glimpse into how much the city in which he built a Super Bowl-winning legacy and a family truly means to him — for better and for worse.