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For those of you who don't know, Walt Garrison wrote a book about his time with the Cowboys. It is called "Once a Cowboy." I highly recommend it. The only way to describe it is pure entertainment. I felt that sharing some blurbs from the book might cheer everyone up. I decided to just share the ones from the back jacket.
"A reporter asked me once if I'd ever seen Tom Landry laugh. 'No, ' I answered, 'I only played nine years. But I know he smiled at least three times because he's got three kids.'"
On Teammate DD Lewis trying to become an actor.
"After he'd flown to Hollywood for a screen test, somebody said to DD, 'I didn't know you football players could act.' 'Oh hell yes,' he replied. 'I acted like a football player the last four years I played.'"
On Dick Butkus.
"'If you ever come this way again,' Butkus said when I busted through the line into his territory for a pretty good gain, 'I'm gonna bite your head off.' And I looked at him and said, 'Well, if you do, it'll be the first time you ever had brains in your head.'"
On Drinking & Hunting.
"When the hunting wasn't too good, they got to drinking 'bird bigger. 'Talbert used to say, 'If you have a dozen beers, instead of them birds looking like flies coming at you, they look like turkeys. And the more you drink the bigger they get.' So they called their booze 'bird bigger.'"
On Don Meredith.
"Meredith was one of the best athletes on the team, but his calves were like skinny sticks of wood. Dan Reeves always used to tell him, 'You should sue your legs for non-support.'"
On Landry at Training Camp.
"'Walt,' Landry whispered to me one day in training camp, 'you don't have to run any 40's...If those rookies ever find out how slow you are and you've been playing for six years, they'll think it's a snap to make this team.'"
On the early years Cowboys.
"The early Cowboys teams were worse than bad...Once they managed a tie with the New York Giants, and they tore the locker room apart celebrating...The NFL Bloopers and the Cowboys Highlights were the same film. They just put a different title on it and sent it out."
"A reporter asked me once if I'd ever seen Tom Landry laugh. 'No, ' I answered, 'I only played nine years. But I know he smiled at least three times because he's got three kids.'"
On Teammate DD Lewis trying to become an actor.
"After he'd flown to Hollywood for a screen test, somebody said to DD, 'I didn't know you football players could act.' 'Oh hell yes,' he replied. 'I acted like a football player the last four years I played.'"
On Dick Butkus.
"'If you ever come this way again,' Butkus said when I busted through the line into his territory for a pretty good gain, 'I'm gonna bite your head off.' And I looked at him and said, 'Well, if you do, it'll be the first time you ever had brains in your head.'"
On Drinking & Hunting.
"When the hunting wasn't too good, they got to drinking 'bird bigger. 'Talbert used to say, 'If you have a dozen beers, instead of them birds looking like flies coming at you, they look like turkeys. And the more you drink the bigger they get.' So they called their booze 'bird bigger.'"
On Don Meredith.
"Meredith was one of the best athletes on the team, but his calves were like skinny sticks of wood. Dan Reeves always used to tell him, 'You should sue your legs for non-support.'"
On Landry at Training Camp.
"'Walt,' Landry whispered to me one day in training camp, 'you don't have to run any 40's...If those rookies ever find out how slow you are and you've been playing for six years, they'll think it's a snap to make this team.'"
On the early years Cowboys.
"The early Cowboys teams were worse than bad...Once they managed a tie with the New York Giants, and they tore the locker room apart celebrating...The NFL Bloopers and the Cowboys Highlights were the same film. They just put a different title on it and sent it out."
thats hilarious
