Remember how excited you got when a new Dallas Cowboys Weekly came out back in the day

willia451

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Oh I'm def feelin you on this.
When I heard they they were going to take down Texas Stadium - I had to go - went in 2006 - took the tour the whole 9.

I'll never forget the site of the stadium when I came out of the dark tunnel and looked down onto the field...

I thought it was a HUGE mistake to tear it down - The "hole in the roof" was iconic, it was like The Green Monster in Boston, the white facade of Yankee Stadium, the brick and ivy of Wrigleys field, they should have just refurbished it.

Its like an opposing player once said - "Going to Texas Stadium ware so many of the greats played was intimidating - it was an historic place, but going to Jerry World, its like going to Vegas"

Jerry made sure it was torn down. It could have been preserved. But no. He almost did not allow Tom Landry's statue to be moved outside the new AT&T. And he has always shunned the Landry family because he is intimidated.

The man is a pig. With a snout as large as the Mississippi and an ego to boot.

When he is dead, no one will mourn. And Tom Landry's statue will still sit outside the stadium he built. No monuments will be erected in his honor.

He will return to the dust from which he came. Forgotten in the sands of time.

But people will remember Tom Landry.

Forever.
 

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Jerry made sure it was torn down. It could have been preserved. But no. He almost did not allow Tom Landry's statue to be moved outside the new AT&T. And he has always shunned the Landry family because he is intimidated.

The man is a pig. With a snout as large as the Mississippi and an ego to boot.

When he is dead, no one will mourn. And Tom Landry's statue will still sit outside the stadium he built. No monuments will be erected in his honor.

He will return to the dust from which he came. Forgotten in the sands of time.

But people will remember Tom Landry.

Forever.
I think you may be reading him wrong, when it comes to Landry. He pretty much had to fire Tom just so he could buy the team. He could have let it be done before he bought them, but I think he felt he owed it to him to do it himself. Unfortunately, Tom got the news before Jerry met with him face to face.

I think if anything, Jerry feels ashamed that it went down that way.
 

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Cancelled my subscription the day they stopped.
My studio worked on a game that had the Playboy license and while I didn't work on it directly, they asked me to review it and suggest improvements. I played it for a bit and the first comment I had was, "where are the naked women?" I was then informed that Playboy no longer did that and they would be offended if I made such a suggestion. Just weird to have that license without what made it good in the first place.

To stay on topic, I used to love DC weekly. My favorite part was when they would review the draft picks because I never watched college football and knew very little about the prospects.
 

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I subscribed from 1989 for a couple years and being in CT, I SO looked forward to receiving them! Wish I kept them. I had saved them a while but no longer.
 

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Living in NJ I had to have it mailed to my home. It would show up at my home by mail every Thursday before that week's game - except when the Cowboys were about to play the Giants. Then it would arrive in my mailbox the week after the game. I swear my mailman was taking it and reading it! btw, I save all of them so I have every Cowboys weekly paper since before they drafted Aikman. I am trying to decide what to do with this stack of yellowing Cowboys newspapers taking up too much space in my basement.
you should digitize them and share with us of course!!
One way is to simply use your phone or digital camera on a tripod. and take a picture of each page. Then name them ep/date ___ pg 01 etc
once you have images, then you could make pdf file for each issue.
What you need is some sort of easel to set them on and then use tripod with camera
to get a clear picture. with phone it would need to be resting on something stable so it is
steady.
then figure best way to get a clear picture of each page.
 

khiladi

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I remember those - Lindys, Athlon, Football Digest ect.

And before when I was about 10 - my only source was buying the newspaper and pouring over the box scores - that and Monday Night Football for the halftime high lites.

Then came DC weekly - I was in heaven.

I remember local news here in DC and when Dallas would win, we’d still wait for the Monday local news afterwards just to see the brief 20 second sports highlights of the Cowboys key plays during that game as George Michael ran through the scores..

Good times..
 

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you should digitize them and share with us of course!!
One way is to simply use your phone or digital camera on a tripod. and take a picture of each page. Then name them ep/date ___ pg 01 etc
once you have images, then you could make pdf file for each issue.
What you need is some sort of easel to set them on and then use tripod with camera
to get a clear picture. with phone it would need to be resting on something stable so it is
steady.
then figure best way to get a clear picture of each page.

Yeah I'll get right on that!
 

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Jerry made sure it was torn down. It could have been preserved. But no. He almost did not allow Tom Landry's statue to be moved outside the new AT&T. And he has always shunned the Landry family because he is intimidated.

The man is a pig. With a snout as large as the Mississippi and an ego to boot.

When he is dead, no one will mourn. And Tom Landry's statue will still sit outside the stadium he built. No monuments will be erected in his honor.

He will return to the dust from which he came. Forgotten in the sands of time.

But people will remember Tom Landry.

Forever.

WRONG
And that was the 1st thing he done was have the statue moved, he was the one that put it up in the 1st place.

The city of Irving had it torn down.

Jerry had nothing to do with it. He did not own the stadium and the lease was up.
Irving owned it.

Stop your stupid BS.
 

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you should digitize them and share with us of course!!
One way is to simply use your phone or digital camera on a tripod. and take a picture of each page. Then name them ep/date ___ pg 01 etc
once you have images, then you could make pdf file for each issue.
What you need is some sort of easel to set them on and then use tripod with camera
to get a clear picture. with phone it would need to be resting on something stable so it is
steady.
then figure best way to get a clear picture of each page.

There are apps now that can do some of this, I dowloaded one so I can take all my old photos's 35mm, and it basically works as a scanner. I haven't tried it yet. Supposedly you can take a shot of multiple photo's or items, and then it will crop them and adjust them.

but if it works it will save check of a lot of time of scanning them in and getting a good pixel count.

I guess it would work for magazines and papers and such as well.
 

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I remember local news here in DC and when Dallas would win, we’d still wait for the Monday local news afterwards just to see the brief 20 second sports highlights of the Cowboys key plays during that game as George Michael ran through the scores..

Good times..
I loved George Michael, especially after the SB wins in the 90s, he always had troy or emmitt on.
 

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I made a reference to this in someone else's post but I thought some of you may be able to relate. I remember back in the 90's rushing to the 7-11 when The Dallas Cowboys Weekly came out and I would go to my favorite sandwich shop called Cuco's in North Richland Hills and read it cover to cover while I had my food.

Man, I was loving life back then when it came to our Cowboys! Just savoring every page. Jerry should be ashamed how he has run things into the ground because of his EGO and Pride...
I had a subscription. I was interviewed in a two page spread. Still have it, always meant to frame it. I took my staff to camp and I yelled at Jerry "I want to shake the hand of the man that fired Jimmy Johnson". Jerry came over and talked to me and my guys for about half an hour, even took us on the field. As we walked off a reporter came over and started talking to us. The next week we were in the Falls Cowboys Weekly! It was awesome.
 

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My week would revolve around it coming in the mail each week. I was so bummed when it would get there on Friday or Saturday. There were even a few times around Christmas where it wouldn’t get there until Monday. I would read every word sometimes twice.
 

willia451

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WRONG
And that was the 1st thing he done was have the statue moved, he was the one that put it up in the 1st place.

The city of Irving had it torn down.

Jerry had nothing to do with it. He did not own the stadium and the lease was up.
Irving owned it.

Stop your stupid BS.

Ok. So I got a little carried away. My bad.
 

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I made a reference to this in someone else's post but I thought some of you may be able to relate. I remember back in the 90's rushing to the 7-11 when The Dallas Cowboys Weekly came out and I would go to my favorite sandwich shop called Cuco's in North Richland Hills and read it cover to cover while I had my food.

Man, I was loving life back then when it came to our Cowboys! Just savoring every page. Jerry should be ashamed how he has run things into the ground because of his EGO and Pride...

I have several copies of the SB years I have saved.

Also for us real old-timers I can remember getting a fax each week that had a Cowboys update... That preceded the Weekly
 

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I remember local news here in DC and when Dallas would win, we’d still wait for the Monday local news afterwards just to see the brief 20 second sports highlights of the Cowboys key plays during that game as George Michael ran through the scores..

Good times..
 

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There are apps now that can do some of this, I dowloaded one so I can take all my old photos's 35mm, and it basically works as a scanner. I haven't tried it yet. Supposedly you can take a shot of multiple photo's or items, and then it will crop them and adjust them.

but if it works it will save check of a lot of time of scanning them in and getting a good pixel count.

I guess it would work for magazines and papers and such as well.
well the taking a picture idea of mine is because the weekly was too big to fit in a scanner, so better to just take a picture./
then you could crop and adjust color or brightness of each page if you wanted to.
If he had a bunch many people might want pdf's of them, he could sell them for $1 each. or just share.
plus it is history, especially the jimmy years.
 

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I think i threw all my weekly's , I had years of them. Always irritated how long it took to get to my mailbox :)
 
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