Twitter: Reminisce!

Risen Star said:

Butch Davis not Bill Bates.

Cmon, bro.

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100%.......pretty sure it's Butch Davis as stated

Rockport said:

No one has ever said Troy hates Jimmy or vice versa.

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I think it was an old college rumor

john van brocklin said:

Good ole days, I miss them...

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I hate to say it the good old days was the 60s and 70s

Risen Star said:

Yes. Real fans can.

Davis, Aikman, Johnson, Wise, Dalrymple, Wannstedt, Turner.

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Did you seriously do it without cheating. They changed too much for me. Don’t get old age is a killer

Send JJ and his sons to Cabo for a year ( exile)...and let these guys run the team for a year..
Operation: Pride Restoration

If it wasn't for those gentlemen, and of course some others, we'd be talking about the Dallas Cowboys last being great in the 1970's.

Did I ever mention how much I hate Jerry Jones and his entire family?

unionjack8 said:

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wheres ES he was the piece that brought it all together

Whirlwin said:

I hate to say it the good old days was the 60s and 70s

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The Cowboys weren't the team of the 60's or 70's but they were the team of the 90's.

They had more sustained success with Landry. They reached their highest heights with Jimmy.

KingintheNorth said:

Does Jerry know Dalrymple is cheating on him?

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Jerry will not like this picture , but I doubt he will get to see it . I think he has more urgent issues at hand .
I think many people forget that it was Jimmy who instigated his departure from dallas . Jerry was thirsty for publicity , but Jimmy could have been more accommodating. Jimmy generally does not stay in one place longer than 5 years .

GoCowboysGo said:

Without looking it up, I can’t.

Bates, Aikman, Johnson, ?, Dalrymple, Wannstedt, Turner.

quite the gathering!

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Butch Davis in the house?

Is Jimmy shrinking?

Whirlwin said:

I hate to say it the good old days was the 60s and 70s

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90s were pretty good too, my friend

Whirlwin said:

Did you seriously do it without cheating. They changed too much for me. Don’t get old age is a killer

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"Youth is wasted on the young." George Bernard Shaw

Aikman and Johnson had a couple of rough patches but it always got fixed.

He wanted Aikman to transfer to Miami from OU but Aikman picked UCLA. That was the second time he'd turned Johnson down. He recruited him because of his awareness of Aikman from his OSU days.

They take Aikman with the first overall pick and Johnson doubles down by spending a 1st in the supplemental on Walsh. Johnson traded Walsh once they were settled in but that rookie season of Aikman's was a disaster. However, Johnson stayed with him and traded Walsh.

Aikman didn't fault Johnson for the break up as much as he faulted Booger for bringing in a HC that had lost the fire and in his very first pc says he's going to treat the players like what they are, professionals. Switzer didn't know what Aikman and the rest of the team knew. But he liked Switzer because he'd done right by him until he got injured at OU and actually acted as his agent with other HC's. Switzer had changed his offensive strategy just like he told Aikman he would when he recruited him but when he got injured, he reverted back to what he'd always liked, the run game and D.

Aikman liked both Johnson and Switzer a lot more than he did Booger because the players knew about the stunt Booger tried to pull at the draft that forced Wannstedt to talk Johnson into even showing up in the war room. On top of that, Booger lied about Aikman being released. He's a hell of a lot closer to Johnson and Switzer than he is that slimebag Booger.

CouchCoach said:

He's a hell of a lot closer to Johnson and Switzer than he is that slimebag Booger.

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Absolutely. I believe this as well.

I think Aikman's relationship with Jerry is business and cordial because they have such a long and rich history together. But his relationship with Jimmy is much more meaningful and personal. Didn't see Aikman's eyes swell up with emotion and pride when Jerry got the HOF nod the way he did Jimmy.

Nice to see the former staff getting together informally....surely some great stories were swapped during that reunion.

Motorola said:

Nice to see the former staff getting together informally....surely some great stories were swapped during that reunion.

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They all have Charles Haley locker room stories to share.

Tony Casillas told his on a radio show one day and I had to pull over I was laughing so hard at the visual of Haley's first day in a team meeting. The coach holding that meeting must have wondered what didn't the Niners tell us about Haley?

CouchCoach said:

They all have Charles Haley locker room stories to share.

Tony Casillas told his on a radio show one day and I had to pull over I was laughing so hard at the visual of Haley's first day in a team meeting. The coach holding that meeting must have wondered what didn't the Niners tell us about Haley?

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1986 4th round pick, no. 96 overall out of James Madison University (the only Division I or I-AA program to offer him a scholarship).

Risen Star said:

The Cowboys weren't the team of the 60's or 70's but they were the team of the 90's.

They had more sustained success with Landry. They reached their highest heights with Jimmy.

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They became America’s team in the 60s and 70s. That’s more important isn’t it Yup I’ll take the entire thing

Risen Star said:

If it wasn't for those gentlemen, and of course some others, we'd be talking about the Dallas Cowboys last being great in the 1970's.

Did I ever mention how much I hate Jerry Jones and his entire family?

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Yes, a billion times.