Former Dallas Cowboys safety Cliff Harris went on 96.7 FM The Ticket's Norm-a-thon on Wednesday to discuss all things football. Here are some of the highlights from the interview:

On why he thinks he's not in the Hall of Fame

Cliff Harris: "First of all, Drew [Pearson] needs to be in for sure. I believe that.

"I think people forget through time: I think there was a bias against the Cowboys from the northeast. The Cleveland's, the Green Bay's. I think, and I don't know the reason particularly or specifically, because Dallas played in the Eastern Conference because of Tex Schramm moved us up where we played with New York, Philadelphia. The media capital of the world. I think the older foundation pro football teams in that area had a resentment against the Cowboys. I don't know. This is just a feeling and a thought going around early in the early 70s. But I think it's gone away. Now it's recognized that the Cowboys are accepted.

"But I think, for a long time, there are a lot more Dallas Cowboys that need to be in besides me and besides Drew that need to be in the Hall of Fame. If you look at the number of Pittsburgh Steelers in versus the number of Dallas Cowboys of that era, you're going to see a lot more of those guys. It's not anything I lose any sleep over."

On how fans resented "America's Team" nicknamefor the Cowboys when Harris was on the team

Harris: "Oh yeah. We would go into these different towns and they'd smack us and say, 'Why are you America's Team?' That was a motivating factor for them. Course it didn't help. But I think there was some resentment for that. Who knows? And who knows what the deal is? I think there's an effort these days to try to bring Drew and I back into the NFL Hall of Fame discussions. I was a runner-up the year Rayfield [Wright] went in. We were in the final group, Rayfield and I, and they weren't going to take both of us. Rayfield, justifiably, went in that year and I didn't."

On what impresses him about Dak Prescott

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (4) raises his hand as running back Ezekiel Elliott (21) scores a touchdown against Detroit Lions during the first quarter at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. (Jae S. Lee/The Dallas Morning News) (Staff Photographer)

Harris: "That's a big, big question. I can tell ya I'm so impressed with Dak. I was the honorary chairman of the Cowboy kickoff luncheon and I had a chance to visit with Dak there for quite a bit. And I told him, this was right at the beginning of the year, I said, 'One of the things that you do well is that you can see everything slow down.' As a safety you come in right when you're beginning and everything's a blur. You just [see] action [and] movement everywhere. But the more you play the better you get things slow down. Dak, you could see from the very beginning, everything is in slow motion for him. He reads well, moves well and is smart enough to know when to get down and not get hurt and take risk. I'm so impressed with the young guy.

"Also at one of the Cowboy games I had a chance to sit by Dan Mullen, his coach from Mississippi State in one of the Cowboys suites. The guy is a great guy. He was really doing a great job of analyzing from a free safety position what Dak was going to be running. I said, 'Man you'd been a great free safety.'

"But he told me what a good young man he was. I said, 'What's going to happen if [Tony] Romo comes back and he replaces him?' He said, 'He's going to support the team. He's going to support the team and support Romo. He's that kind of guy.' Man, that is the kind of guy that is a winner for ya. He's got the character and obviously ability. I think the team is rallying around him. They see something that we saw when had with Roger Staubach. 'Hey defense, stop these guys and get the ball back to Roger. He's going to win this game.' That's what I think this whole team [has]. They're thriving on him. Everything is growing and growing and growing.

" ... The thing that's good is that you can see players excited. You see less individualism. You see more team. That's just observations I was seeing subtly out there. So you've got a cohesive team this year that believes that they can win."

On the toughest running back he ever faced:

Harris: "Earl Campbell was the toughest running back I played against in pro football. O.J. Simpson was probably the best. He was big and strong and fast. But Earl, there was no way that you could tackle Earl without hurting yourself. He was a beast. I remember one preseason game, and this was later in my career, in Houston. Our backup safety was supposed to be playing and I was supposed to be resting because we were getting close to the season. Well he was hurt so I had to play. You had second-string guys in there and Earl Campbell was running up and down the field all day and I was the only one. So I came out of there out of the Astrodome with both my knees all scratched up, my elbows bloody and my bell ringing from Earl Campbell all night. That was a massacre."