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Greatest Team Ever, by Norm Hitzges and Ron St. Angelo.
Hitzges, who has been a sports talk show host forever in Dallas, makes the case in this coffee table book that the 1991-95 Cowboys were the greatest dynasty ever. He's not alone in that thought.
In the book's foreward, Pat Summerall backs up Hitzges. Summerall either played against or provided TV commentary for all the game's great dynasties: the 1950s Browns, 1960s Packers, 1970s Steelers, 1980s 49ers and 2000s Patriots. "The chore of labeling any one of these incredible clubs as 'the best' approaches impossibility," Summerall writes. "But of those dynasties over the last 50 years, I have to go with the Dallas Cowboys as the best of them all. They had it all … and then some."
Hitzges supplies a series of vignettes of the dynasty's critical moments from 1991 through 1995, and the photography of St. Angelo is on display throughout the book in vibrant color. St. Angelo was the team photographer for decades and had inside access, which he obviously put to good use over the years. The photos alone make the book a great keepsake for any football fan.
But Hitzges' argument of "greatest ever" makes the book attractive for the Cowboys fan. He bases his stand on the number of victories, playoff victories and Pro Bowls. Across the board, the Cowboys were tops of all the dynasties.
Hitzges also points out that if NFL free agency had not come along in 1993 and the Cowboys could have kept all their players like the previous dynasties, America's Team might have pushed their greatness out even further. But losing a Ken Norton, Russell Maryland, Mark Stepnoski, Dixon Edwards, Tony Casillas and others in free agency chipped away at the quality and depth of the roster.
It's a quick read. I read it on the plane last Saturday on the way to Indianapolis. You'll appreciate the candor of such players as Troy Aikman, Daryl Johnston, Charles Haley, Nate Newton, Stepnoski and James Washington.
I covered the Cowboys from 1990-91 when Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones was building them into a great team. I've long believed the 1992 Cowboys to be the greatest Super Bowl champion ever. They were young, deep, talented, fast and played the game with a swagger.
We all wonder how long the Cowboys could have kept their dynasty afloat if: a) Johnson and Jerry Jones could have gotten along; and b) free agency not arrived on the NFL landscape. As far as dynasties, though, I still favor the Lombardi Packers, who won five NFL titles in seven years with 10 Hall of Famers.
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Hitzges, who has been a sports talk show host forever in Dallas, makes the case in this coffee table book that the 1991-95 Cowboys were the greatest dynasty ever. He's not alone in that thought.
In the book's foreward, Pat Summerall backs up Hitzges. Summerall either played against or provided TV commentary for all the game's great dynasties: the 1950s Browns, 1960s Packers, 1970s Steelers, 1980s 49ers and 2000s Patriots. "The chore of labeling any one of these incredible clubs as 'the best' approaches impossibility," Summerall writes. "But of those dynasties over the last 50 years, I have to go with the Dallas Cowboys as the best of them all. They had it all … and then some."
Hitzges supplies a series of vignettes of the dynasty's critical moments from 1991 through 1995, and the photography of St. Angelo is on display throughout the book in vibrant color. St. Angelo was the team photographer for decades and had inside access, which he obviously put to good use over the years. The photos alone make the book a great keepsake for any football fan.
But Hitzges' argument of "greatest ever" makes the book attractive for the Cowboys fan. He bases his stand on the number of victories, playoff victories and Pro Bowls. Across the board, the Cowboys were tops of all the dynasties.
Hitzges also points out that if NFL free agency had not come along in 1993 and the Cowboys could have kept all their players like the previous dynasties, America's Team might have pushed their greatness out even further. But losing a Ken Norton, Russell Maryland, Mark Stepnoski, Dixon Edwards, Tony Casillas and others in free agency chipped away at the quality and depth of the roster.
It's a quick read. I read it on the plane last Saturday on the way to Indianapolis. You'll appreciate the candor of such players as Troy Aikman, Daryl Johnston, Charles Haley, Nate Newton, Stepnoski and James Washington.
I covered the Cowboys from 1990-91 when Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones was building them into a great team. I've long believed the 1992 Cowboys to be the greatest Super Bowl champion ever. They were young, deep, talented, fast and played the game with a swagger.
We all wonder how long the Cowboys could have kept their dynasty afloat if: a) Johnson and Jerry Jones could have gotten along; and b) free agency not arrived on the NFL landscape. As far as dynasties, though, I still favor the Lombardi Packers, who won five NFL titles in seven years with 10 Hall of Famers.
http://www.***BANNED-URL***/s/dws/n...0/stories/100307dnspofromthe50.12f3f7045.html
