3 biggest plays you've seen in your time as a Cowboys fan

[The30YardSlant]

My first Cowboys experiance was during the 1991 season at the age of 6, so my list is somewhat limited. These are the plays that, in your mind, shaped the course of a season/set of seasons or determined the season's result moreso than others.

3: Emmitt Smith's TD run on the first drive of SB 28

2: Alvin Harper's 70+ yard catch and run to seal the 1993 NFC Title game

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[Yeagermeister]

I don't know if it changed the outcome of the season because I think we lost the game but Dorsett's 99 1/2 yard run is the best play I can remember seeing.

 

[jterrell]

I don't know if it changed the outcome of the season because I think we lost the game but Dorsett's 99 1/2 yard run is the best play I can remember seeing.

me too.

and the garrett pass to harper.

and emmitt running over the ginats after his shoulder had been separated.

 

[bigE79]

My first Cowboys experiance was during the 1991 season at the age of 6, so my list is somewhat limited. These are the plays that, in your mind, shaped the course of a season/set of seasons or determined the season's result moreso than others.

3: Emmitt Smith's TD run on the first drive of SB 28

2: Alvin Harper's 70+ yard catch and run to seal the 1993 NFC Title game

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1-bob lilly sacking bob griese for,i believe,26 yards,in our 1st sb win.2-the hail mary.3-tony dorsetts 99 yard td run.those are my favs

 

[Stautner]

Some obvious candidates (at least for those of us who have been around awhile).

* The Hail Mary.

* Either of Clint Longley's TD passes on Thanksgiving day after the skins predicted they would knock Staubach out of the game and succeeded.

* Bob Lilly's 30 yard sack of Bob Griese in the Super Bowl.

 

[Big Country]

Butch Johnson's diving TD catch in SB 12.

Larry Cole's 3rd down stop behind the LOS on John Riggins against the Commanders in 1979.

Charles Haley blasting Jim Kelly in the end zone and Jimmie Jones recovering in mid air for a TD in SB 27.

 

[Green28]

2005
Santana Moss
70 yards
TD

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[Big Country]

who asked you???!!!






jkdg
enjoy your memories

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

1# Dropped pass by Jackie Smith from Roger, in the endzone, against the Steelers. IMO, if we win that, we are the team of the Decade.

2# The Catch by Clark cost us another Super Bowl. We win that game and Landry is probably not fired in the manner he was, maybe the Cowboys are not sold to Jerry, Danny White probably gets his due.

3# 1988 Cleveland Browns vs Dallas Cowboys. 1:38 seconds left, Ruzek kicks a FG that is taken off the board on one of seventeen penalties called on the Cowboys that day. Randy White is called for tripping. Why was that big? Had we tied, the Green Bay Packers get the first pick in the draft and the Detroit Lions get the second. If that penalty is not called, Troy Aikman never becomes a Dallas Cowboy.

 

[LongSnapper]

how can a team with 5 Lombardi's have only 3 plays man I can count a Dozen with out even trying

 

[ZeroClub]

Staubach to Ron Sellers in December 1972 to complete an amazingly unlikely come from behind playoff win against the John Brodie's 49ers. This was the game that truly established Staubach's role as Captain Comeback. It set the tone for the rest of the 1970's, really.

The bookend to the 1972 49ers game was Staubach to Tony Hill in Staubach's final regular season game, which happened to be against the Commanders in 1979.

December 1975 - Staubach's Hail Mary to Drew Pearson in Minnesota. This one has got to be on the list.

Aikman to Harper in their first championship game vs. the 49ers.

James Washington's fumble return vs. the Bills makes the short list for me too.

 

[BlueStar II]

1. The Hail Mary

2. Clint "The Mad Bomber" to Drew Pearson on Thanksgiving vs. the Commanders.

3. Tony Dorsett's 99 yard run vs. the Vikings with just 10 men on the field due to Ron Springs still being on the sideline and not on the field.

 

[jackrussell]

3# 1988 Cleveland Browns vs Dallas Cowboys. 1:38 seconds left, Ruzek kicks a FG that is taken off the board on one of seventeen penalties called on the Cowboys that day. Randy White is called for tripping. Why was that big? Had we tied, the Green Bay Packers get the first pick in the draft and the Detroit Lions get the second. If that penalty is not called, Troy Aikman never becomes a Dallas Cowboy.

Lawdy, how can ANYONE remember that play?

What a miserable day that was. Crappy seats in a crappy stadium with crappy refs and crappy fans. You'd have thought they'd just won the Super Bowl. (I mentioned crappy didn't i?)

Loved the play when Cleveland's kicker Matt Bahr picked up a fumbled snap and ran right...only to meet Eugene Lockhart head on. He looked like road kill.

 

[Hostile]

1. The Hail Mary. For sheer impact on a win or go home game it was huge. In fact all late passes since then have been called "Hail Mary." So it changed the vernacular of the game.

2. Tony Dorsett's 99 yard TD run. It cannot be broken and anyone who matches it will not do it with only 10 men on offense.

3. Bob Lilly's sack of Bob Griese in Super Bowl VI. Given the hurdle of "Next Year's Champions" that haunted the Cowboys, that sack lives as the single moment in our History that says we had arrived.

 

[Rampage]

#1 harpers slant against the 49ers

#2 deion owning the giants(i think it was a monday nighter)

#3 roy williams intercepting mcnabb in 05 to win the game

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

No love for Aikman to the Rocket with our come from behind win over the Skins?

I had to pick something different because the best ones have already been named.

Oh and although it may not be a cowboys great play but there is another that I love and is one of my personal faves.

Greg Lloyd, in his prime was a pretty tough player. However when the cowboys played the superbowl Lloyd found out what bad really was.

Larry pulled to block for emmitt. Lloyd absolutely mowed over lloyd it was like a crash test dummy in a car going 100 mph.

Best part was a friend of mine I was watching the superbowl with was a long time steelers and all week leading up to the game he was saying Emmitt better "Avoid Lloyd" (as that was Lloyds slogan by fans).

:laugh2: Man alive larry just leveled him.

 

[jackrussell]

No love for Aikman to the Rocket with our come from behind win over the Skins?

I had to pick something different because the best ones have already been named.

Oh and although it may not be a cowboys great play but there is another that I love and is one of my personal faves.

Greg Lloyd, in his prime was a pretty tough player. However when the cowboys played the superbowl Lloyd found out what bad really was.

Larry pulled to block for emmitt. Lloyd absolutely mowed over lloyd it was like a crash test dummy in a car going 100 mph.

Best part was a friend of mine I was watching the superbowl with was a long time steelers and all week leading up to the game he was saying Emmitt better "Avoid Lloyd" (as that was Lloyds slogan by fans).

:laugh2: Man alive larry just leveled him.

The grass stains on Lloyd's golden rear end was priceless.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

The grass stains on Lloyd's golden rear end was priceless.

I don't think it was just grass stains.:laugh2:

 

[Yeagermeister]

No love for Aikman to the Rocket with our come from behind win over the Skins?

I had to pick something different because the best ones have already been named.

Oh and although it may not be a cowboys great play but there is another that I love and is one of my personal faves.

Greg Lloyd, in his prime was a pretty tough player. However when the cowboys played the superbowl Lloyd found out what bad really was.

Larry pulled to block for emmitt. Lloyd absolutely mowed over lloyd it was like a crash test dummy in a car going 100 mph.

Best part was a friend of mine I was watching the superbowl with was a long time steelers and all week leading up to the game he was saying Emmitt better "Avoid Lloyd" (as that was Lloyds slogan by fans).

:laugh2: Man alive larry just leveled him.

And he was never the same player after that :laugh2:

 

[Jarv]

Clint to Drew on Thanksgiving 1974, besides superbowls, my biggest memory.

Bob Lily chasing down Griese in the Superbowl, 1st Superbowl I watched.

Golden Richards catch along the sidelines where he did a summersolt and landed on his feet and kept on going.