SUPER BOWL XXVII : DAILY REPORT

Steve Young, who needed no more contract ammunition after his big season, got some anyway when he won the NFL player-of-the-year award.

Young, the first quarterback in league history to post 100-plus point ratings in consecutive seasons, led the league in passing in the final year of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers.

Young beat Dallas’ Emmitt Smith, Pittsburgh’s Barry Foster, Green Bay’s Sterling Sharpe, San Diego’s Junior Seau and Seattle’s Cortez Kennedy in player of the year balloting by a media panel.