Afternoon fans I get into these moments when I want to share and read of your stories regarding our beloved Dallas Cowboys. I was thinking of how technology has really advanced from cable tv, to satellite tv, to streaming games on your mobile devices. There was a time when we didn't have this luxury. Some of my favorite moments of watching the Cowboys with my family involved my father and grandfather climbing on top of the house to turn an antennae a certain way to allow us to watch a game when it was blacked out in the local area due to it not selling out (other than that you would have to drive to Tyler or something). The joy of all the neighbors and other family members who were at our home screaming out the windows to let my father and grandfather know that they had the perfect reception, can't be explained with words.
That would be our first Thanksgiving Day game.
Back in 1966.
The whole family did Thanksgiving at noon and then we left for the game against Cleveland.
They were the best in the division with Frank Ryan at QB and Gary Collins at WR and Jim Brown at RB.
If we beat them..we won the Eastern Division.
We beat them and it was the biggest party.
The crowd went crazy. Meredith played well, Bobby Hayes and especially Danny Reeves at RB had big plays. I recall Reeves thru a half back pass for a TD.
It was the very beginning of everything.
We had portable radios and listened to the post game all the way back to the car.
We finally got home and my brother had hooked up his new VHS recorder to record the game.We were not sure it recorded the game but when he fired it up..
we all started cheering all over.
We stacked our plates high and sat down to watch.
This was entirely new technology at the time.
My brother had to rewind and slow mo play after play was we all ooed and marveled.
Great memories for sure of family and turkey and Cowboys.
People take it all for granted now..
But then it was first time stuff.