The 'Boys of Summer

[garyo1954]

There’s a reason why 20 NFL teams have never been featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks and the Dallas Cowboys are about to enjoy their third season in the spotlight. The training camp of America’s Team – for better or for worse – is always entertaining and more often than not, news-making.

A few of the most memorable moments from Cowboys’ training camps:

20. Hard Knocks, 2002 – Head coach Dave Campo made players punch time clocks and sang karaoke “My girl.”

17. Switzer vs. Hansen, 1994 – Not too many times has an NFL head coach “playfully” punched a member on the media on live TV, but so it was on a clownish August night with Barry Switzer and Channel 8’s Dale Hansen. Switzer accused Hansen of “fabricating stories”, to which Hansen stood by his account of a “power struggle” on the coach’s staff. To punctuate his points, Switzer aggressively slapped Hansen’s left arm three times and outright punched it once.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” Switzer screamed.

Retorted a semi-serious Hansen, “This is starting to hurt a little bit.”

9. T.O. vs. Tuna, 2006 – Throughout his tenure, Bill Parcells wouldn’t refer to receiver Terrell Owens by his name, instead only calling him “the player.” He also rolled his eyes at camp when Owens’ sore hamstrings relegated him to riding a stationary bike. The receiver poked fun at himself by one day showing up in a Lance Armstrong-replica yellow Tour de France jersey. The coach, as predicted, was not amused.

See all 20 here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...moments-in-cowboys-camp/ar-AALQ9G8?li=BBnbfcL

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

There’s a reason why 20 NFL teams have never been featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks and the Dallas Cowboys are about to enjoy their third season in the spotlight.

Because back-to-back playoff-less seasons isn’t a common occurrence for many teams?

 

[JoeKing]

I always thought, "the boys of summer" was a reference to baseball.

 

[ChuckA1]

Does it start when training camp starts or will we get a preview of staff make ready?

 

[Cowpolk]

Will there be free bacon?

 

[john van brocklin]

There’s a reason why 20 NFL teams have never been featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks and the Dallas Cowboys are about to enjoy their third season in the spotlight. The training camp of America’s Team – for better or for worse – is always entertaining and more often than not, news-making.

A few of the most memorable moments from Cowboys’ training camps:

20. Hard Knocks, 2002 – Head coach Dave Campo made players punch time clocks and sang karaoke “My girl.”

17. Switzer vs. Hansen, 1994 – Not too many times has an NFL head coach “playfully” punched a member on the media on live TV, but so it was on a clownish August night with Barry Switzer and Channel 8’s Dale Hansen. Switzer accused Hansen of “fabricating stories”, to which Hansen stood by his account of a “power struggle” on the coach’s staff. To punctuate his points, Switzer aggressively slapped Hansen’s left arm three times and outright punched it once.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” Switzer screamed.

Retorted a semi-serious Hansen, “This is starting to hurt a little bit.”

9. T.O. vs. Tuna, 2006 – Throughout his tenure, Bill Parcells wouldn’t refer to receiver Terrell Owens by his name, instead only calling him “the player.” He also rolled his eyes at camp when Owens’ sore hamstrings relegated him to riding a stationary bike. The receiver poked fun at himself by one day showing up in a Lance Armstrong-replica yellow Tour de France jersey. The coach, as predicted, was not amused.

See all 20 here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...moments-in-cowboys-camp/ar-AALQ9G8?li=BBnbfcL

The press loves us because of all our drama.
Wish we would focus on winning

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

The press loves us because of all our drama.
Wish we would focus on winning

Winning is for winners.

 

[Cowpolk]

Winning is for winners.

Well at least we are not Wieners

 

[TwoDeep3]

I always thought, "the boys of summer" was a reference to baseball.

And in the Don Henley song it refers to his ex girlfriend and the boys she would meet over the summer.

Side note, Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers wrote the music. Henley wrote the lyrics.

 

[JoeKing]

And in the Don Henley song it refers to his ex girlfriend and the boys she would meet over the summer.

Side note, Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers wrote the music. Henley wrote the lyrics.

I guess it depends on your age. That song doesn't even register on my radar when I think of the phrase, "Boys of Summer".

"The Boys of Summer" is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn. After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series.

 

[TwoDeep3]

I guess it depends on your age. That song doesn't even register on my radar when I think of the phrase, "Boys of Summer".

"The Boys of Summer" is a 1972 non-fiction baseball book by Roger Kahn. After recounting his childhood in Brooklyn and his life as a young reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, the author relates some history of the Brooklyn Dodgers up to their victory in the 1955 World Series.

Which was evident when you related it to baseball. The origin of that phrase. Henley read that book and drew the juxtaposed position of an ex lover trying to reignite a relationship with a girl that dumped him.

The counterpoint of that song is the lyric, "And summer's out of reach."

 

[JoeKing]

Which was evident when you related it to baseball. The origin of that phrase. Henley read that book and drew the juxtaposed position of an ex lover trying to reignite a relationship with a girl that dumped him.

The counterpoint of that song is the lyric, "And summer's out of reach."

I read the book my first year in middle school(1978) to my grandfather who gave to me the love of baseball. I've read it again(1991 I think) while I was in the military deployed to the Middle East. My grandfather passed away in 1993. The MLB strike of 1994 ended my love of baseball. The song still doesn't register on my radar.

 

[Hoofbite]

Alright! Don Henley!

 

[TwoDeep3]

I read the book my first year in middle school(1978) to my grandfather who gave to me the love of baseball. I've read it again(1991 I think) while I was in the military deployed to the Middle East. My grandfather passed away in 1993. The MLB strike of 1994 ended my love of baseball. The song still doesn't register on my radar.

Then I say to you, the very self same I say to all my brothers who served in combat zones.

Welcome home.

 

[JoeKing]

Then I say to you, the very self same I say to all my brothers who served in combat zones.

Welcome home.

That's much appreciated but I've been home for a long while. Honorable discharged/retired in 2006.

 

[Rockport]

Hard Knocks can’t pick teams that were in the playoffs the previous year. Hopefully that will give the team something to think about and help keep anyone (HotBoyz) from getting a bigger head.

 

[MyFairLady]

TO with the yellow jacket. Such a boss move.

 

[CowboyRoy]

There’s a reason why 20 NFL teams have never been featured on HBO’s Hard Knocks and the Dallas Cowboys are about to enjoy their third season in the spotlight. The training camp of America’s Team – for better or for worse – is always entertaining and more often than not, news-making.

A few of the most memorable moments from Cowboys’ training camps:

20. Hard Knocks, 2002 – Head coach Dave Campo made players punch time clocks and sang karaoke “My girl.”

17. Switzer vs. Hansen, 1994 – Not too many times has an NFL head coach “playfully” punched a member on the media on live TV, but so it was on a clownish August night with Barry Switzer and Channel 8’s Dale Hansen. Switzer accused Hansen of “fabricating stories”, to which Hansen stood by his account of a “power struggle” on the coach’s staff. To punctuate his points, Switzer aggressively slapped Hansen’s left arm three times and outright punched it once.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” Switzer screamed.

Retorted a semi-serious Hansen, “This is starting to hurt a little bit.”

9. T.O. vs. Tuna, 2006 – Throughout his tenure, Bill Parcells wouldn’t refer to receiver Terrell Owens by his name, instead only calling him “the player.” He also rolled his eyes at camp when Owens’ sore hamstrings relegated him to riding a stationary bike. The receiver poked fun at himself by one day showing up in a Lance Armstrong-replica yellow Tour de France jersey. The coach, as predicted, was not amused.

See all 20 here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...moments-in-cowboys-camp/ar-AALQ9G8?li=BBnbfcL

Yawn........................................

 

[TwoDeep3]

That's much appreciated but I've been home for a long while. Honorable discharged/retired in 2006.

It might make more sense if you had been in Vietnam. The reception we received by Americans was a slight bit different.

 

[JoeKing]

It might make more sense if you had been in Vietnam. The reception we received by Americans was a slight bit different.

What might make more sense? I can't help when I was born. I was 9 years old when America pulled out of Vietnam in 1975.