"Coin Toss"

[fgoodwin]

http://i667.***BLOCKED***/albums/vv40/fg8578/CoinTossbyNormanRockwellPaintingPrintonWrappedCanvas%201.jpg

Trivia: What is this and what does it have to do with the Cowboys?

 

[Ranching]

http://i667.***BLOCKED***/albums/vv40/fg8578/CoinTossbyNormanRockwellPaintingPrintonWrappedCanvas%201.jpg

Trivia: What is this and what does it have to do with the Cowboys?

Tom Landry had it hanging in his office.

 

[aria]

Interested to hear more about it, I NR. If this had a specific connection to the Cowboys it would make it that much more special.

 

[fgoodwin]

Tom Landry had it hanging in his office.

Close but that's not quite right.

 

[AmericasTeam81]

Jerry Jones

 

[Ranching]

Close but that's not quite right.

Couldn't wait, I googled it. Sorry!

 

[RJ_MacReady]

A caricature of Dean Blandino's grandfather?

 

[Plankton]

http://i667.***BLOCKED***/albums/vv40/fg8578/CoinTossbyNormanRockwellPaintingPrintonWrappedCanvas%201.jpg

Trivia: What is this and what does it have to do with the Cowboys?

Jerry Jones owns an original of this Rockwell piece, and imagines that it's the Cowboys versus the 49ers in this painting.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Norman Rockwell is awesome.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Looking at the faces in that painting, you can tell it was made a long, long time ago.

 

[fgoodwin]

Jerry Jones owns the original, that is true. But he actually bought it right after he had bought the Cowboys when he was flat broke (as Jerry himself tells it), on the recommendation of Ross Perot, who collects Norman Rockwell paintings. Jones had to "scrape together" a million or so to buy it. It has supposedly been appraised at $18M.

 

[CWR]

Norman Rockwell is awesome.

Ive always gotten a sense of nostalgia looking at his paintings. Good stuff.

 

[Trouty]

Norman Rockwell is awesome.

Yes he is, Cal. A treasure.

 

[fgoodwin]

Looking at the faces in that painting, you can tell it was made a long, long time ago.

It was on the cover of the October 21, 1950, issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

 

[AbeBeta]

http://i667.***BLOCKED***/albums/vv40/fg8578/CoinTossbyNormanRockwellPaintingPrintonWrappedCanvas%201.jpg

Trivia: What is this and what does it have to do with the Cowboys?

OMG. Rockwell was so awful

 

[Silver Surfer]

OMG. Rockwell was so awful

 

[AsthmaField]

Ref looks fat.

 

[Plankton]

Ref looks fat.

If his hat were on backwards, I'd swear it was Romo.

 

[AbeBeta]

Visit a real museum or two. If you still enjoy that, there is no hope.

 

[TonyS]

I thought the title of this thread was about our chances of winning it all this year. Glad it was about the painting.