Dallas Cowboys
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 21-07-2010
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Football is getting closer…Last two days we have had articles in our paper on the Cowboys. I love football, love Alabama football, New Mexico Lobo foofball, Mountain West football, but I really love Dallas Cowboy football…The world stops when they play…I am not as bad now as I used to be…At least I will now talk to my wife some during the game and she will even watch a close one with me, sometimes!!!!…I heard some guys talking the other day about how long they had been a fan and I mentioned that Eddie LaBaron was the quarterback when I started following them. They said, “Who”….Eddie LaBaron, all 5’6” of him. Remember that he had to loft the ball to get it over the on rushing linemen, 1960 – 62…But he was a gritty guy….Before retiring I worked some events that lineman Randy White also worked, several years running. I have two pictures, autographed of course, of him. It has been two or three years ago, but even then he looked like he could walk on the field and play just anytime they needed him….Who is your favorite…I have so many it is hard to pick just one, Stauback, White, Meredeth,Aikman, Newhouse, Dorsett, Johnson, Perkins, Harris, Waters, Lilly, Jordan, Novack, Smith, Irvin, Garrison, Reeves, Hays, Hill….oh, gosh, the list goes on and on, not to mention Coach Landry…I wish you guys would take a little time and name your favorite cowboy, if you have one….Please notice that I did not include the current crop of “Boys”….Some of them will make it to great status one day also…I can name three on offense and a couple of defense right now that will be among the greats, if not already….Let me know who you liked…..Pete Hester
Only a few Uncle,Leroy Jordan, Lilly and Garrison. And maybe Don Merideth.
Hey, ok… good choices….good quality players…You remember, at least I think it was Jordan who would knock the crap out of them, then help them up and say, “God bless you”..Wasn’t he the one that did that? Thanks Nephew
Gosh! You have so many favorites, you should consider fielding your own football team. They may be just a little “over the hill” now, but an “over the hill” cowboy is a cowboy barely passed his prime. Sorry! I have no cowboy favorites (other than Roy and Trigger), I never cared for the Cowboys. In fact, I always hated the Cowboys almost as much as I hated Dallas, which is almost as much as I hated Texas. When Uncle Sam finally gave me an assignment in the Air force, I am just happy that I ended up in New Mexico where I only had to deal with transplanted and uprooted Okies and Texans. Here in Arkansas, we only have to deal with the lousy Texas weather and real estate as it blows across with the prevailing winds.
Well, we know some of these guys are over the hill, but in evaluating their play as opposed to players of today is our only comparison. But it seems to me the game is more vicious today than it was just a few years ago…..Knowing a lot of the readers of this blog, you did not endear yourself to them either, “this here is Cowboys Country”……just a touch of pulling for Green Bay, except when they play the cowboys….You remember that Bart Starr played his college ball at ‘Bama, huh? At Alabama his back up was Albert Elmore and I played football with some of Albert’s cousins. so I always wanted Albert to play….
My all-time favorite Cowboy is Don Perkins. I think he was the third leading rusher when he retired.
Of the current team, I like TE Jason Witten. He reminds me of a throwback to the good ol’ days, especially that game where his helmet was knocked off and he kept running!
Great article — thanx.
I have never claimed to be much of a football fan (except for Bama and, at one time Georgia Tech), but I fail to understand what Bart Starr has to do with the Cowboys, other than that he beat the fool out of them a few times. Bart was okay. Leroy Jordan was okay when he was at Dallas. The Dallas Cowboys are okay too, but they have never been my favorite professional team, at least not since the days of Coach Landry; and his running off after the Arkansans took over. I suppose that is due to my reaction to the “cowboy mania” that has swept across Arkansas on occasion. I’d much rather watch those boys down in Austin, or even the Aggies in College Station, than I had the cowboys. I’ll still take Roy and Trigger and Gene on the late night reruns instead.
You certainly pre-date me. I have never heard of Albert Elmore from “Elmoretown”, better known as Reform. I don’t even remember much about Bart Starr when he was at Alabama, except that the poor guy played his heart out without ever having won a game. I remember Dad and Uncle Buck talking about his “bullet like” passes, but he almost never completed any of them, and he never won a game. It was almost like me shooting bullets at wild game and always missing. Perhaps Andy Griffith had it right after all in “What it was was football?” It was just a bunch of guys chasing a funny looking ball up and down a cow pasture, dodging a lot of bull shit along the way. You can imagine my confusion when I first got to Albuquerque, and I walked down to the “Home of the Loboes” and saw someting even funnier: a bunch of guys chasing a round ball up and down a cow pasture while being too lazy to pick up the ball and run with it. I found out later that they called it soccer. What kind of funny farm was this?
Thank you for this lovely blog, even if it took quite a long time to understand. (English is not my first tongue) May I ask where you got your sources from? Many thanks!
When it comes to Dallas Cowboy football, most of my sources are from my memory bank,(which is getting a little low on funds) but it works pretty good for ex-cowboy players. Come back any time. By the way, English is not my first tongue either. I’m from Alabama originally and I still speak southern.
Errol, I said I pulled for the Dallas Cowboys all the time and the Green Bay Packers some of the time, because of Bart Starr, an ex-Alabama QB who had a spotted career because of injuries, not because of being a poor player. Albert Elmore was a qb same year and was kin to Coach H. C. Elmore and the other Elmore’s there in Pickens Co. I don’t know where he lived, but he played football for Alabama. Did you follow Bart Starr’s career as a Packer. He is loved in Green Bay, played there for years and is remembered (by a lot of folks) for being the winning qb in the Ice Bowl with Dallas. Some of the Elmore’s in Reform could tell you about Albert, I’m sure…..
Uncle, I think Albert played at Gordo but in the Alabama sports books,show Reform as home town…..Alot of Elmore’s from both places…….
You know Dan, he may have lived in Reform…But I knew the Elmore’s that played a couple of years in front of me and a couple of years behind me and Albert was not in that crew..Does the Alabama sports book show where he is today?
let me know…Uncle
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