34 Years Ago Today - Page 2 - Dallas Cowboys Forum

Hostile · 01-15-2012

I have this Super Bowl on a DVD. I wish I knew how to load it into this thread. I'd post it so people could see how dominant that DL was. It is the entire game too. Pregame, post game, everything.

windward · 01-15-2012

When I started watching the Cowboys, Steve Pelluer was our QB, Michael Irvin was just a rookie and Emmitt and Troy were in college. The Cowboys as we all know were an awful team. I was 5 years old

One day I went to a flea market with my mom and somebody was selling a book that covered the first 12 Super Bowls. This game was on the cover. My mom bought it for me and on the ride home, I started to pore over the book ( looking mostly at the pictures. I was a pretty good reader for my age, but the book was for an older audience). This was my first inkling of the history behind this team. For some reason it really pleased me to no end that the book ended with our beatdown of the Broncos. It just seemed appropriate to my 5 year old mind. Over the next few years my mom scoured used book stores that had books that chronicled the Cowboys past even more in depth

Guys like Roger Staubach and Bob Lilly ended up being my favorite Cowboy players even though I had never seen them play live on tv and actually retired before I was born. I believe that book helped sustain my interest in the Cowboys and cemented me as a lifelong fan

I have since watched the game broadcast. It holds a special place in my heart.

Cowboys&LakersFan · 01-15-2012

Being a young fan sucks. I really wish I had been born 30 years earlier. Yeah I'd be old right now, but at least I would've witnessed the 5 Super Bowls.

CaptainAmerica · 01-15-2012

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Originally Posted by Hostile

I have this Super Bowl on a DVD. I wish I knew how to load it into this thread. I'd post it so people could see how dominant that DL was. It is the entire game too. Pregame, post game, everything.

We should have won that game 42-0. We made almost as many mistakes on offense as Denver. I think we were tight and wanted it very bad.

windward · 01-16-2012

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Originally Posted by Cowboys&LakersFan

Being a young fan sucks. I really wish I had been born 30 years earlier. Yeah I'd be old right now, but at least I would've witnessed the 5 Super Bowls.

I suffered through a couple bad seasons and then won Super Bowls when I was 9, 10 and 12 years old. I honestly did not appreciate them as much as I should have, although I do remember appreciating the SB XXX title more than the previous two.

When we win again, it will be so sweet after all the heartbreak since 1996. At least you know you will be at the age where you can cherish your first one.

CanadianCowboysFan · 01-16-2012

It was the first year I really watched football. I was 11 and a pee wee hockey player. I believe that day my dad's team was playing Northern Vermont so I had to go with my parents to watch his team's game. By time got home, it was halftime but game was pretty much over. I have it on the greatest games DVD.

01-16-2012

I was born four months to the day before that game. My father (he was a cowboys fan) must have had a joyous few months.

fgoodwin · 01-16-2012

Only 34 years? And still not old enough to qualify for the "History" forum?

BIGDen · 01-16-2012

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Originally Posted by Hostile

Dallas won Super Bowl XII vs. the Denver Broncos, 27-10. They completely dismantled our former starting QB, Craig Morton. Harvey martin and Randy White were named co-MVPs. The only time there have ever been 2. Ed "Too Tall" Jones easily could have made it a trio of honorees.

It was the first ever indoor Super Bowl, played in the Super Dome in New Orleans. For many years it was the most watched television event in History.

This was the first game I ever watched as a kid and the reason I became a Cowboys fan. My dad (a huge Giants fan) had bet more than usual on the SB that year. He told me "Root for the team with the star on the helmet". I did. Everyone was so happy when they won and I never looked back. Ironically, the fact that I root for the Cowboys and not the Giants has be a source of much tension over the years between me and my father. Randy White was my favorite player and his was the first jersey I ever owned. He was simply awesome.