Internet Posts from 1971

Bobhaze said:
I was 13 in 1971 and my dad took y brother and I to one of the first games ever played at Texas Stadium which opened that year. We saw the Cowboys destroy the Jets that day. Seem to recall Joe Namath was injured and did not play.
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Ah, man, my brother and I had such bad luck with games. My parents would go to a game and come back all excited about the win. I remember some game they raved about against the Commanders. It was a night game, so we didn't get to go. They were all enthusiastic about what a great and close game it was. The Commanders' cheerleaders even went to the game, which was unusual. My parents were seated right behind them and laughed at them when they acted disappointed when the Cowboys scored. Our stupid killjoy baby sitter didn't even let us watch that game on TV.

So anyway, we wanted to go to a game really bad, and we got to go see them play the Giants. Back then the Giants were a crappy team, but somehow they beat us that day. It was so annoying. Then we got to go to another game, which promised to be exciting because a trip to the Super Bowl was on the line. It was the 1973 NFC Championship against the Vikings. As I'm sure you know, we lost that one. I was just a kid and didn't understand at the time that the team was hampered with a bunch of injuries. To make matters worse, there was this kid a couple rows in front of us who was a Vikings fan and kept raising this annoying Vikings banner up every time the Vikings did anything even remotely good. Two years later, we got revenge on the Vikes in the Hail Mary game. We didn't go to it since it was played in Minnesota, but it sure was nice to throw those guys out of the playoffs after what we had gone through two years before.
 
The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network.

On October 29, 1969, ARPAnet delivered its first message: a “node-to-node” communication from one computer to another. (The first computer was located in a research lab at UCLA and the second was at Stanford; each one was the size of a small house.) The message—“LOGIN”—was short and simple, but it crashed the fledgling ARPA network anyway: The Stanford computer only received the note’s first two letters.


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KingintheNorth said:
You forgot

CowboysSheep72
Clint Murchison, Jr. is the worst owner this Franchise will ever see! Literally anyone else would be better.
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And I think there was one from Baloo42 saying:

Yes, imagine if we had someone from the oil business buying us. He'd never keep a coach for 10 years.
 
Topics are becoming more bizarre by the day. Please let there be a training camp and a season!
 
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