Anybody remember Thurman's Thieves?

[GimmeTheBall!]

Thurman is Thieves.
Has there been another celebrated bunch aside from the Doomsday D and the triplets??
Anyone? Anyone?
Hollah!

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I appreciate the revisionism. And the excuses as to why old Tom was pushed to failure on the field.

At the end of the marathon, Tom, old but bull headed and wheezing, looked around and saw 7-8 in 1987 and 3-13 in 1988.
Bright had had enough. Business losses and a clown team.
Thank goodness Jerry and Jimmy, after rebuilding, brought us back some semblance of respectability and then pride, old fellow.
Had old man Tom, steeped in 1950s football, held on, the fans would have stormed the field and handcuffed him and turned him over to the old folks home. The other 20 fans, mostly old farts, would build a statue to Tom, 2 super bowls in 28 years, but mostly heartache.
Too busy to meet like a man with Jerry to determine his coaching future. BS!
Too busy to watch the 1992 Super Bowl. Liar!
Senile, irrelevant and unwanted.
Blimey, what good riddance!

I will fight you on the West Mesa. No weapons. Only fists and me fists of stucco.

There is no revisionism. I was alive to see it, to watch it. It's not third hand info. All of what I said is true.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

There is no revisionism. I was alive to see it, to watch it. It's not third hand info. All of what I said is true.

Sorry. It's the meth.
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No! The math!!!!

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Sorry. It's the meth.
...
No! The math!!!!

I think you had it right he first time GTB.

LOL.....

 

[phenyx2]

I will fight you!
Tom helped to build it. Then pulled it into mud as a laughingstock of the NFL.
Jerrry and Jimmy built something beautiful from the ashes of Tom' s intransigence, bullheadedness (redundant), his leather helmet ways and predictability on Defense and undermined Paul Hackett on defence because of envy of PH's innovative ways and youth..
Even Hank Schram saw the writing on the mall and wanted Tom out (to preserve his job, too).

Actually, Bum Bright, failed Tom Landry, The Dallas Cowboys and their entire fan base by being a penny pinching fool who actually took over a playoff team and ran it into the dirt. He didn’t like Tom and worked against him hoping Landry would just retire so he could name his own HC. Jerry had every right to let Tom go when he bought the team but I wish it had been done in a more positive way. The very first thing Jerry should have done as owner was elevate Tom Landry in the ring of honor, not wait 4 years. But you can’t rewrite history, as they say. All and all, Jerry did present Tom in the ROH, in a very touching ceremony in 1993.

 

[phenyx2]

No, together with Tex Schramm, Coach Landry did build this franchise. The tearing it down part is not accurate GTB. Teams don't stay at the top forever. Teams eventually lose talent and have to start over. That's what happened to Coach Landry after 20 years. Tex Schramm didn't want Coach Landry out, he just didn't have any choice because of that idgit Bum Bright, and is desire to sell the Cowboys. Once that happened, you know Jerry wasn't going to let Coach Landry stay. He was going to replace him with Jimmy. But seriously, Tom was not allowed to build back, he was just fired and not treated very well after being fired, by the team. But Bright, he was losing money hand over fist. He had lost like 30 mil in other business dealings, which at the time, was considerably more then it's worth today, and he decided to sell the Cowboys. He was not a Football guy and a pretty bad owner as well. There is a long history there of bad ownership with Bright that contributes to the issues the team had at the time.

I too, lived through, and watched the Cowboys become “America’s Team” because of the excellent decisions of Murchison, Schramm, and of course Landry. You remember the facts very well. I just hate revisionist who can’t see Bum Bright for what he was. Tom would never have let the team become so bad if he had had an owner who wasn’t a bean-counter and had no idea about football. jmho