DMN: Blog: Jerry rules out Ring of Honor class this year

[Chief]

That's what the NFL Hall of Fame is for. The Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor is for Cowboys players that the Cowboys fans loved to watch.

Who gives a damn what fans of other teams like or don't like?

As I said, no one outside of longtime Cowboys fans know who Don Perkins was and people only know Don Meredith from MNF and Lipton commercials. That in no way should diminish the contribution those players made to the team or to the Cowboys fans.

Totally agree with that.

The Cowboys have a chance to honor whomever they want, how they want, and The Committee of One is letting a lot of people down.

Hey Jerry, you may own the Cowboys, but you don't own their history. Put together a committee of Brad Sham, Frank Luksa, Roger Staubach, Rayfield Wright and Michael Irvin and do it right.

 

[DWhite Fan]

That's what the NFL Hall of Fame is for. The Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor is for Cowboys players that the Cowboys fans loved to watch.

Who gives a damn what fans of other teams like or don't like?

As I said, no one outside of longtime Cowboys fans know who Don Perkins was and people only know Don Meredith from MNF and Lipton commercials. That in no way should diminish the contribution those players made to the team or to the Cowboys fans.

I agree with you. I think that untill Drew Pearson is put in the ROH no one else should be. His being left out is totally ridiculous. Tex and Jerry both share in that disgrace.

I know most in here use Super Bowl rings as a standard to judge QBs. But I have to ask this question, what makes Don Meredith's career ROH worthy and Danny White's not? I am not picking on Meredith and have all the respect in the world for him. I know some would say that Don had to play with an expansion team that only started getting good at the end of his career. This is true, but I also say that Meredith did not have to face replacing a legend like Staubach either. I wonder how Meredith would be remember if he had followed Roger instead of playing before him?

I think Danny deserves to be in the ROH just like other former Cowboys.
But not untill after Drew gets in there:starspin

 

[DWhite Fan]

I could give a flying fig about the casual fans not knowing who Rayfield Wright is.

In this day and age of Maden if a casual fan doesn't know who Larry Allen is they should just admit to being pure stupid and not pro-create.

:laugh2:

 

[Tractor1]

Well then noone gets in, because the general public doesn't have a clue about Dallas Cowboy football.

I have a different opinion as to what makes the ROH special? Like it or not, I'd prefer those being honored to transcend the game. Some currently do, but IMO it would have been better to leave others out.

 

[bbgun]

But I have to ask this question, what makes Don Meredith's career ROH worthy and Danny White's not?

Probably because he steered the team to actual NFL championship games (those losses to GB were basically Super Bowls), not just conference champ games. True, "conferences" did not exist in Don's day, but you get my drift.

 

[jackrussell]

I have a different opinion as to what makes the ROH special? Like it or not, I'd prefer those being honored to transcend the game. Some currently do, but IMO it would have been better to leave others out.

Like it or not, your ignorance of Cowboy history is coming through loud and clear.

 

[percyhoward]

Drew is the most glaring omission at the moment. You make the NFL's "All-70's" team but not your own club's ROH? Curious.

Exactly, and Harvey Martin also made that team.

I watched the careers of Fred Dean and Harvey Martin, and it's pathetic that Dean is in the Hall of Fame, while Martin can't even get recognized by his own team.

Pathetic.

 

[DWhite Fan]

Probably because he steered the team to actual NFL championship games (those losses to GB were basically Super Bowls), not just conference champ games. True, "conferences" did not exist in Don's day, but you get my drift.

Same difference. Whether it is called a conference championship or league championship, it is still the game before the Super Bowl and Danny got them there 3 times to Don's 2 times. Meredith's Cowboys lost to the Packers twice while Danny's team lost to three different teams (Eagles, Niners, and Deadskins). Either way, neither of them was able to win a league title. So the question remains, why is Meredith ROH worthy and White not? The only real answer is the same as to why Drew and other deserving Cowboys are not in the ring. The opinion of one man, Tex then and Jerry now. Nothing more, nothing less. I totally believe that, with the closing of Texas Stadium, the window for any more of Landry's Cowboys entering the ROH closes aswell.
Truly sad:starspin

 

[bbgun]

Same difference. Whether it is called a conference championship or league championship, it is still the game before the Super Bowl and Danny got them there 3 times to Don's 2 times. Meredith's Cowboys lost to the Packers twice while Danny's team lost to three different teams (Eagles, Niners, and Deadskins). Either way, neither of them was able to win a league title. So the question remains, why is Meredith ROH worthy and White not? The only real answer is the same as to why Drew and other deserving Cowboys are not in the ring. The opinion of one man, Tex then and Jerry now. Nothing more, nothing less. I totally believe that, with the closing of Texas Stadium, the window for any more of Landry's Cowboys entering the ROH closes aswell.
Truly sad:starspin

Wrong. Those matchups with the Packers were World Championship Games. The early Super Bowls before the merger were merely exhibition games of sorts. Failing to get the team into those Packer games would have made Don the equivalent of Danny. He didn't.

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Darren Woodson, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Harvey Martin, Drew Pearson and Larry Allen all deserve their spot in the Ring of Honor...

 

[DWhite Fan]

Wrong. Those matchups with the Packers were World Championship Games. The early Super Bowls before the merger were merely exhibition games of sorts. Failing to get the team into those Packer games would have made Don the equivalent of Danny. He didn't.

No sir, you are mistaken. Those championship games meant the same as the coference title games that Danny lead the Cowboys to in the early eighties. You cannot rewrite history to fit your opinion. I don't remember the first Super Bowl between Green Bay and K.C. being called "Exhibition Bowl I." It was called the "World Championship Game." The leagues ( AFL and NFL) had merged. In your opinion, the '66 and '67 games against Green Bay mean more than the championship games White played in. I respect your opinion and I am not degrading what Don did in his career. I am asking what makes his career more worthy of recognition than Danny's. They both deserved better than what they got and they both deserve more respect. Don is in the ring and Danny should be.:starspin

 

[chinch]

Larry Allen... thanks for the laugh.

Pearson & Martin are the only two who *really* need to go in ASAP