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07-11-2007
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Right Kind of Guy
Years Donated 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
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Dallas Cowboys 101... 1993
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 1993 Cowboys Draft 2…Kevin Williams, WR, Miami (FL) 2…Darrin Smith, LB, Miami (FL) 3…Mike Middleton, DB, Indiana 4…Derrick Lassic, RB, Alabama 4…Ron Stone, G, Boston College 6…Barry Minter, LB, Tulsa 7…Brock Marion, DB, Nevada 8…Dave Thomas, DB, Tennessee 8…Reggie Givens, DB, Penn State 1993 Cowboys schedule 12-4 NFC East Division Champs (11th) NFC Conference Champs (7th) 9/6/93…Lost @ Washington Redskins, 16-35 9/12/93…Lost vs. Buffalo Bills, 10-13 9/19/93…Won @ Phoenix Cardinals, 17-10 9/26/93…Bye week 10/3/93…Won vs. Green Bay Packers, 36-14 10/10/93…Won @ Indianapolis Colts, 27-3 10/17/93…Won vs. San Francisco 49ers, 26-17 10/24/93…Bye week 10/31/93…Won @ Philadelphia Eagles, 23-10 11/7/93…Won vs. New York Giants, 31-9 11/14/93…Won vs. Phoenix Cardinals, 20-15 11/21/93…Lost @ Atlanta Falcons, 14-27 11/25/93…Lost vs. Miami Dolphins, 14-16 "No Leon, no!" 12/6/93…Won vs. Philadelphia Eagles, 23-17 12/12/93…Won @ Minnesota Vikings, 37-20 12/18/93…Won @ New York Jets, 28-7 12/26/93…Won vs. Washington Redskins, 38-3 1/2/94…Won @ New York Giants, 16-13 OT “Emmitt Smith’s separated shoulder” 6-2 @ Dallas 6-2 on the road Points scored...376, 23.5 ppg Points allowed...229, 14.3 ppg 1993 DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS 1/16/94...Won vs. Green Bay Packers, 27-17 1993 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP 1/23/94...Won vs. San Francisco 49ers, 38-21 "They're brass." SUPER BOWL XXVIII @ ATLANTA, GA 1/30/94...Won vs. Buffalo Bills, 30-13 All time franchise record...294-198-6 All time Post Season Record...27-17 |
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Another great year and great team. It didn't start out too well with losses to the Redskins and Bills.
Cable TV was still weeks away when the season started and my antenna reception was awful for the Redskins game. So I watched it at a girlfriend's house in a different town. What a disaster! |
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No one could believe that Emmitt would be so good for so long. I think Jerry thought that Emmitt would wear out at the pace he was going and didn't want to invest a lot of money in him figuring he would break down soon. How could anyone think that he would play for 15 years and only miss significant time in his next to last season? Other than 2003, Emmitt carried the ball at least 241 times and gained at least 937 yards every season. His final regular season game of 1993 was a classic and showed the heart the man had. Jerry should have torn up his contract after that game and doubled it. beating the 49ERs in the NFC Championship game, AGAIN, was the sweetest game of the year for me. I fully expected to beat the Bills in the SB again but was a bit surprised that they played as well as they did in the 1st half. It was the 49ERs I wanted to beat the most that year as all of the Niners fans I know were making excuses about the 1992 loss and claiming that they would take back their rightful place in 1993 but by halftime, when we were up 28-7, I didn't hear them crowing anymore. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 
Captain Nathan Brittles: "Only the man who commands can be blamed. It rests on me... mission failure!"
"Jerry Jones is a billionaire fan who bought his own team for the express purpose of buying his way into the game. He wants to hang out with the players, stand in front of the cameras, be the face of the team (yech), make personnel moves as if this were a video game, and more than anything else, be seen as the guy who made it all happen." THUMPER 10/14/2009 |
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Right Kind of Guy
Years Donated 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
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I have more memories of this season than I can possibly share without boring the hell out of you. I've told the next story before. This will be a shorter version of it.
In 1988 my Grandma was dying. She had become a Cowboys fan with me despite the rest of the family being Packers fans. I was the last person to talk to her before she died and we talked about how bad the Cowboys were and I assured her we were going to draft Troy Aikman and win 2 more Super Bowls. After Super Bowl XXVIII was over I went out on my balcony and looked up to the heavens because I needed to share that with her. It is perhaps my favorite Super Bowl win because of that memory. I didn't think I could be madder at Jerry Jones than I was while Emmitt was holding out and we were losing. I couldn't understand why he'd not pay the man who was quite simply the best weapon in football at that time. I wondered if he had lost his mind. After the season and he uttered the infamous "any of 500 men could coach the Dallas Cowboys," well, I found out I could get madder at him. Saying goodbye to Jimmy Johnson after back to back Super Bowl wins has to be the dumbest thing ever. If I had been in Jerry's shoes I'd have promised Jimmy just about anything to stay. I'd have found a way to make it work. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. To me the epitome of Jimmy Johnson's impact on the team was right before that NFC Championship game where he guaranteed victory. Everyone remembers Joe Namath before Super Bowl III. Jimmy didn't leave any doubt. He said, "we will beat San Francisco. Put in 3 inch high letters. We will beat San Francisco." Man oh man, that is confidence and bravado, because the 49ers were not a slouch team by any wild stretch of the imagination. Those guys could play. I'll never forget George Seiffert's reaction to Jimmy's bold prediction. "Jimmy's got balls, I'll give him that. We're going to found out if they're brass or paper mache'." After the game Jimmy walked up to the microphone and simply said, "they're brass." Probably one of my all time favorite moments after a game. I'll share another one below. You will hopefully get a chuckle out of it. In this season I saw the greatest performance by a player that I have ever witnessed. That was the last game of the season and Emmitt Smith playing with a separated shoulder. Most guys would have been out there as a decoy if they were in his condition. Not Emmitt. Not only was he not a decoy, he was the workhorse. He piled the team on his separated shoulder and he carried them to the NFC East Championship. It was one of the most amazing feats I have ever seen. I need to contact the guy who sells DVDs of games and get this one because it is a classic. All the way into overtime Emmitt kept pushing, the Giants kept trying to take him out, and he kept getting up. To be truthful I was afraid it was going to end his career, or at the very least sink our post season hopes. 32 carries for 168 yards rushing, 10 receptions for 61 yards receiving and the season rushing title despite missing the first 2 games in a contract holdout. They don't make them like Emmitt Smith any more. John Madden said he had never gone into a locker room after a game in his entire broadcasting career, but he did that game because he just wanted to tell Emmitt Smith how great he really was. Had we lost that game, the Giants would have won the NFC East and we'd have had to play in the Wildcard game the next week. I don't think Emmitt could have done it, but he was a warrior and you can't underestimate the heart of a warrior. Once we beat the 49ers for the right to go to the Super Bowl I knew we'd beat the Bills. The previous year's Super Bowl drubbing left me with little doubt we were the better team. The day after Thanksgiving of that year I went to work in a little sporting goods store in Park Mall for some extra money for the holidays. There were 3 guys who worked there that are still good friends, though when they found out I was a Cowboys fan I wasn't so sure that was possible. They all went to High School together and are like brothers. I was the outsider. Let's start with Chris. He is a Bills fan, now a lawyer in the Phoenix area. He hates the Cowboys. Then there was Andy. He is a Packers fan and if I was going to describe him I would just say, Dante from the movie "Clerks." That's Andy. He's nuts. He hates the Cowboys. Finally there is Marc. Marc is a 49ers fan. You guessed it, Marc hates the Cowboys. Marc pegged me for a bandwagon Cowboys fan from the moment he met me. So he decided to test me. He asked me "who was the Cowboys Punter before Danny White?" I said, "Mitch Hoops." I thought he was going to faint. Mitch Hoops only played for the Cowboys one year, 1975. Marc knew the answer to this only because Mitch was his dad's college roommate. Once they realized I wasn't a bandwagon fan they respected me a little bit more. Packers, 49ers, and Bills. The 3 teams we steamrolled on the way to Super Bowl XXVIII. So I come to work there with those guys right after Leon Lett's goof on Thanksgiving versus the Dolphins. They gave me all kinds of hell about that. I said a couple of days ago that I loved karma. We didn't lose again that season. That's karma for all the crap they gave me. So now we have the playoffs and as I've already told you, Emmitt was dinged up. First up is the Packers and Andy wants to make a bet. The bet ended up being rather tame. Andy had to wear a Cowboys cap at work until the Super Bowl was over. Next up was the 49ers and Marc. If you picture Marc as kind of arrogant, you are on the money. So we're at work, I'm behind the register and Marc was selling. He sells a 49ers jacket to some woman and she is talking all kinds of trash about how the 49ers are going to stomp the Cowboys. I think Marc must have told her I was a Cowboys fan when he was selling her the jacket. For some reason she says, "I bet you're a piece of **** Cowboys fan." I said, "well, you got the Cowboys fan part right." This lady and Marc start talking trash about what the 49ers are going to do to the Cowboys. I talked it right back. I reminded them of who had won last year. I reminded them of who had won during the regular season. I reminded them the game was in Dallas. The whole store took notice of the trash talking going on, including the boss who was a little miffed. After the lady left Marc kept it up. So Andy, wearing a nice Cowboys cap, says the two of us need to make a bet. By this time Marc and I are a little pissed at each other. I suggested a repeat of my bet from 1991 with my Lions buddy Rick where the loser had to shave the winner's logo into the side of his head. Suddenly Andy chimes in with "a bust in the chops." His idea was that the winner got to punch the loser right in the mouth. I was not keen on the idea, but man oh man, all 3 of them were. I asked Marc if he really wanted me to hit him in the mouth. He said, "no, but I really want to hit you in the mouth." Finally I took the bet. Jimmy's were brass, the Cowboys won, I hit Marc right in the mouth, and he went down like a sack of potatos. I worried that he wouldn't be a friend after that. To Marc's credit he still laughs about that. I asked Chris, who loved the bust in the chops bet, if he wanted to make the same bet. He didn't. I guess I hit Marc pretty hard. Craziest bet I ever made. Last edited by Hostile : 07-11-2007 at 09:45 AM. |
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I like how we avenged both loses to the Deadskins and Bills!
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Great stories Hostile.
I had been dating my future and current wife for less than a month when Super Bowl 28 rolled around. We watched it together and it was the first football game she ever saw on TV. Watching a Dallas game with me, much less a Super Bowl, gave her a completely new perspective on my personality. She married me anyway about a year later. |
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07-16-2007
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Convicted of Gnostical Turpitude
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The '93 Cowboy team is special to me for a variety of reasons.
In my opinion, it's the best Cowboy team in franchise history. It has all the lauded depth of the '92 teams and another year's experience. But, most importantly, 1993 - my sophomore year in high school - was the first year I actually watched football in earnest. Before 1992, football annoyed me more than anything else. I didn't take an interest in the game until the end of the '92 season, solely because I live in Texas and was intrigued by all the hype. Then, after the Cowboys won the Super Bowl, I decided to continue following the team, and it was during the following season (1993) that I learned and became deeply enamoured of the game and the Cowboys. You could certainly argue I merely jumped on the bandwagon, but you should understand I haven't missed more than three games over this entire, wretched decade. |
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07-17-2007
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I was at every home game selling cowboys merchandise from a tent,great memories for sure
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