Eric Bjornson

[CowboyStar88]

so funny story we are doing open enrollment for our company healthcare and we switched brokers. I see this name and I'm like hmmm. Well I'm walking out of the office for a meeting and as I'm walking out he comes walking out of the bathroom.

I say to him I know who you are, I was a big fan of his and thought he reminded me of Jay.

Anyways cool little story

 

[RS12]

Part of one of the worst draft classes ever for this franchise. The 95 "draft for depth" class. Ranks up there with 2009.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I always thought he was a solid backup TE for Jay Novacek and David LaFleur.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Didn't Jerry at the time say something like " we got our next Novacek" ? Or was that LaFleur I am thinking about?

 

[xwalker]

so funny story we are doing open enrollment for our company healthcare and we switched brokers. I see this name and I'm like hmmm. Well I'm walking out of the office for a meeting and as I'm walking out he comes walking out of the bathroom.

I say to him I know who you are, I was a big fan of his and thought he reminded me of Jay.

Anyways cool little story

So he works for the insurance broker?

 

[popp1234]

Seriously, I shutter at the mentioning of some of these names. No disrespect to the players, but bad days. Bad days, indeed.

 

[Plankton]

When he wasn't laid up with a sprained ankle, which was often, Bjornson was a decent pass catching tight end.

 

[Maverick84]

were Shante Carver and Kavika Pittman with him too?

 

[AsthmaField]

I would have just screamed, "You'll never be Jay Novacek!"

 

[Yakuza Rich]

When he wasn't laid up with a sprained ankle, which was often, Bjornson was a decent pass catching tight end.

Except for that actually catching the ball thing.



YR

 

[Virginia-Dave]

He was no Scott Galbraith. Oh, how I disliked Scott Galbraith. Can't believe he got a SB ring. Actually, so did Bjornson now that I think about it.

 

[joseephuss]

Bjornson got off to a decent start in Dallas. After backing up Novacek in 1995, he had 48 catches in 1996 and 47 in 1997. Those numbers are similar to what Novacek did in Dallas in most seasons and were second on the team each of those seasons. He fell apart after that.

 

[CowboyStar88]

So he works for the insurance broker?

I believe he owns it

 

[CowboyStar88]

I just spent the last 30 mins with him chatting it up

Really one of the good guys, He told me he is really good friends with JG and David was one of his business partners at one point and one of his best friends. As we were talking we discovered we were basically neighbors when I lived in Dallas.

 

[Wood]

Didn't Jerry at the time say something like " we got our next Novacek" ? Or was that LaFleur I am thinking about?

yea its LaFleur your thinking of. He was one Aikman worked out himself and told the team to get him.

 

[CowboyStar88]

I would have just screamed, "You'll never be Jay Novacek!"

Funny, I was saying we had high hopes until his injury, he is a huge huge Cowboys fan


Best part was he was all do we know each other? and I'm like we meet back in 95 at training Camp in Austin... He said wow you must be a huge Cowboys fan... Yessir I am

 

[CowboyStar88]

Some of the hate is ridiculous

Dude had skill, but a sad case of injuries derailing a career...

 

[Scotman]

yea its LaFleur your thinking of. He was one Aikman worked out himself and told the team to get him.

LaFleur was really talented. He was just never, ever healthy if I remember correctly. They finally gave up on him.

 

[Plankton]

Bjornson got off to a decent start in Dallas. After backing up Novacek in 1995, he had 48 catches in 1996 and 47 in 1997. Those numbers are similar to what Novacek did in Dallas in most seasons and were second on the team each of those seasons. He fell apart after that.

His target to catch ratios were basically a match for Novacek. Bjornson had ankle problems from the onset, and had a hard time keeping weight on, which hurt his ability to block.

 

[CowboyStar88]

His target to catch ratios were basically a match for Novacek. Bjornson had ankle problems from the onset, and had a hard time keeping weight on, which hurt his ability to block.

Super skinny dude now

He was down here in SoCal but lives in the Bay Area close to big LA