Cowboys we really didn't get to know

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Blaine Nye, starting RG from 1970 to 1976, a period in which the Cowboys went to three Super Bowls. He made the Pro Bowl his final season.

In the photo shown (hopefully), we see him after a very hard fought game on very real turf. He was fighting in the trenches in the rain and the mud.

Dr. Blaine Nye earned two Masters degrees during the offseason, one in Physics and one in Business. After retiring from the NFL he earned his Phd. in Finance from Stanford. He founded the Stanford Consulting Group Inc. and performs numerous economic analyses and research, and provides expert testimony in multiple areas including securities litigation, intellectual property, business litigation, damages, and insurance economics.

During his playing days, Blaine Nye was one of the founders of the Zero Club, a group of Cowboys that deliberately avoided publicity. Their goal was to get together and do nothing. A player once approached the group and requested membership. He was automatically disqualified for expressing interest.
 
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Real college players drafted by the Dallas Cowboys:

QB Lowndes Shingler - Sounds like a medical condition
RB Amos Bullocks
RB Ken Tureaud
T Whaley Hall
DB Theophile Viltz - "Theo" for short....just like Uncle "Pedo"
RB Al Geverink
RB Sonny Utz
T Bob Svihus
T George Allen - No, not him.
WR Pat Riley - Yes, him.
RB Ron Shotts
DB Ken Kmiec - Let's just hope his middle name wasn't Kyle
DB Drane Scrievener - Would make a good porno name
T Lawrie Skolrood
RB Andy Andrade
 
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Glenn Carano, backup QB in the Landry era, father of Gina Carano, MMA star, fitness model, actress was on The Mandalorian. Glenn only had to backup Roger and Danny White, no wonder he got not much playing time. But he did get a SB ring against Miami. He was in Dallas for about 7 years, but no one knew much about him because of the above.
 
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darthseinfeld said:
Fun fact: Kyle Wilber is now 31 and still in the NFL

Makes his money almost solely on ST now though. Gotta give him credit for doing what he has to to stick it out
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he came up big moving from DE to LB when we played the giants in 2013.
 
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unionjack8 said:
Carl Lewis
Mark Hutson
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Carl Lewis was drafted in the 12th round by the Cowboys in 1984. (Later that year, the Chicago Bulls drafted Lewis with the 208th pick in the NBA draft - although he never played HS or college basketball.)
 
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plasticman said:
Real college players drafted by the Dallas Cowboys:

QB Lowndes Shingler - Sounds like a medical condition
RB Amos Bullocks
RB Ken Tureaud
T Whaley Hall
DB Theophile Viltz - "Theo" for short....just like Uncle "Pedo"
RB Al Geverink
RB Sonny Utz
T Bob Svihus
T George Allen - No, not him.
WR Pat Riley - Yes, him.
RB Ron Shotts
DB Ken Kmiec - Let's just hope his middle name wasn't Kyle
DB Drane Scrievener - Would make a good porno name
T Lawrie Skolrood
RB Andy Andrade
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lol and we just signed Anger and Sprinkle
 
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plasticman said:
During the pre-internet days of the Dallas Cowboy Weekly, the greatest publication in the history of mankind, they had detailed biographies of almost every Cowboy.

I remembered them all. Nowadays I can't remember were I put my car keys.
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I still have some of those
 
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Winonesoon said:
Should have kicked the tires better. The inside tread was slick.:) That was the perfect buying a name Cowboy that wasn't.
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Hard to see how the Cowboys missed his back issues, he had a herniated disk, maybe didn't do an MRI or just mis-read it...
 
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