Hey Hostile, I talked to Bob Lily over the phone, but never met him in person, now i was like 20 feet away from him, but couldnt get to him at another time. Yet, I did talk to him on the phone about 4 minutes or so.
The others, I met some at valley ranch, dallas cowboys headquarters, training camp out at austin, and training camp at san antonio. The one at san antonio, I met about 17 players, but I was getting autographs signed, and this friend of mine had a football of a friend that lived close to him, and his dad was dying of cancer, so most of the players signed the football for me. I did get to talk to about 7 individually, but the others were signing the football for me, they were looking at my cowboys cap, and i think they would have signed it for me, but other fans were tryinng to get autographs and you know how hetic that is.
Most enjoybable players I met were drew pearson, we talked a good bit, and he wanted to know where I had gotten a football book that I had, he signed it and about 9 other players. One of them was Billy Joe Dupree, and we talked some too, real nice fella too, at that time they were playing basketball for dallas hoopsters.
In Austin, I met Leon Lett, whom was really big, and a nice guy, he was jolly, met Nate Newton too, he is real nice, and I have talked to him alot on the phone too. I also got to talk in detail with daryl johnston the moose, now there was a real enjoyable event. Troy was ok,, but he was just signing autographs you know, hectic somewhat.
These are all of the memorable ones I can remember. I also got to talk to Chris Canty, now he is huge, and a real nice guy, he was surprised, that I knew about his eye and family. So was Stanback, and he was nice too. Glymph and Urban were ok, but again hectic autographs.
Matt Moore and Bartel spent some time too, and so did gramatica. Gramatica the kicker, not sure i spelled his name right, but he was real nice after he found out about the football for the boy's dad that was dying of cancer.
I really liked Urban too, wished the Cowboys had kept him.
there are numerous stories too like meeting alicia landry going up to the cowboys headquarters, and then meeting golden richards there and john wooten. Wooten was the one that i gave a booklet pages of the shotgun formation from a book that red hickey had written.
I was close to roger staubach too, but not close enough, so i wrote him, he sent me an autographed photo of him throwing a pass to calvin hill in the vikings game, and he had some nice things to say in the letter.
