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Man I miss these glory days!
Dallas Cowboys Historical Thread
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Man I miss these glory days!
dbair1967
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As bad as this sounds, I'd rather have Clapper as HC than Schottenheimer.
And Zimmer as DC over Parker.
That's how truly bad things are.
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Proof you REALLY did loathe "fat McCarthy". He's laughing at his replacement in Big D with a 6-2 record in Pittsburgh.
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Deion is way too high. Heck, I'm not sure he should even be on this pyramid. Yes, he was a fantastic player and helped us win SBXXX, but our winning culture declined almost the moment he hopped on-board. Guys like Tony Tolbert and Mark Tuinei contributed way more to the 90's Cowboys. And Woody, Novacek and Moose all have legit claims to be on that 3rd row instead. Norton might be too high also (he fucked off to the hated Niners after '93).
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We'll see how they end up doing. They have one really good win this yr to date and their offense is not very good.
If they make the playoffs they will almost assuredly be 1 and done.
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The Dallas Cowboys exist because a Texas oilman's son quietly bought the rights to another team's fight song and used it as a bargaining chip.
In the late 1950s Clint Murchison Jr. wanted a pro football team in Dallas, and the man standing in his way was George Preston Marshall, owner of the Washington team. And Marshall loved his team's song, Hail to the Redskins. The music had been written by his band leader, Barnee Breeskin, and the words by Marshall's own wife.
The man who wrote the music had fallen out with Marshall. So for 2,500 dollars, the rights to the song ended up on Murchison's side of the table. Then Murchison let Marshall know he could have his song back if he dropped his opposition to a team in Dallas. Marshall dropped it. On 28 January 1960 the league granted Dallas its franchise.
Murchison hired Tex Schramm to run the club and Tom Landry to coach it, and when people wanted Landry fired in the lean early years, Murchison gave him a ten year contract instead. The first team went 0 and 11 and 1. Murchison stuck with them anyway, and in 1971 he opened Texas Stadium in Irving, the one with the hole in the roof.
The money did not last. When oil collapsed, he sold the team in May 1984, and creditors forced him into bankruptcy the next year, one of the largest personal bankruptcies in the country. By then he was in a wheelchair with a rare degenerative nerve disease. He died in Dallas in 1987 at sixty three, and the team he got with a fight song is still playing.
In the late 1950s Clint Murchison Jr. wanted a pro football team in Dallas, and the man standing in his way was George Preston Marshall, owner of the Washington team. And Marshall loved his team's song, Hail to the Redskins. The music had been written by his band leader, Barnee Breeskin, and the words by Marshall's own wife.
The man who wrote the music had fallen out with Marshall. So for 2,500 dollars, the rights to the song ended up on Murchison's side of the table. Then Murchison let Marshall know he could have his song back if he dropped his opposition to a team in Dallas. Marshall dropped it. On 28 January 1960 the league granted Dallas its franchise.
Murchison hired Tex Schramm to run the club and Tom Landry to coach it, and when people wanted Landry fired in the lean early years, Murchison gave him a ten year contract instead. The first team went 0 and 11 and 1. Murchison stuck with them anyway, and in 1971 he opened Texas Stadium in Irving, the one with the hole in the roof.
The money did not last. When oil collapsed, he sold the team in May 1984, and creditors forced him into bankruptcy the next year, one of the largest personal bankruptcies in the country. By then he was in a wheelchair with a rare degenerative nerve disease. He died in Dallas in 1987 at sixty three, and the team he got with a fight song is still playing.