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[gbrittain]

Cowboy Randall Williams scored the quickest touchdown ever to start a game. Philly onside kicked and Randall ran it back for a TD. Cowboys up 7-0 and the game was only about 3 seconds old.

 

[skinsscalper]

In all of the Cowboys Super Bowl wins, no touchdowns were scored by the opposing team in the end zone marked "COWBOYS".

 

[Hostile]

The host city for all 3 of Dallas Super Bowl losses was Miami, Florida. This year's host city, Miami, Florida.

 

[YosemiteSam]

The host city for all 3 of Dallas Super Bowl losses was Miami, Florida. This year's host city, Miami, Florida.

I'm ok with breaking lots of bad streaks this year. (bad December, no playoff wins, not winning a Superbowl in Miami)

 

[coblue]

LOVE these types of threads!

 

[Hostile]

The Dallas Cowboys are the only NFL team that I know of who can boast a WWII Veteran (Landry), a Korean War veteran (Eddie LeBaron), a Viet Nam War Veteran (Roger Staubach), and a Gulf War Veteran (Chad Hennings).

 

[THUMPER]

The Dallas Cowboys are the only NFL team that I know of who can boast a WWII Veteran (Landry), a Korean War veteran (Eddie LeBaron), a Viet Nam War Veteran (Roger Staubach), and a Gulf War Veteran (Chad Hennings).

Now that's a cool fact Hos!

 

[pancakeman]

In the 5 years between 1986 and 1991, the Cowboys drafted three wide receivers with first-round picks.
With first-round picks they had drafted zero WR's in the 24 years before that, and they have drafted zero WR's in the 17 years since.

 

[Hostile]

Now that's a cool fact Hos!

I was trying to remember who the Korean War vet was before I posted it. Then it dawned on me, try Google.

Memory jogged.

 

[pancakeman]

According to Chris Boniol's website, the kicker was the first player in Cowboy's history to record three consecutive 100-point seasons.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

http://knowyourdallascowboys.com/2009/01/classic-dallas-cowboys-trivia-answers.html

I thought these were interesting.

1. What position did Tex Schramm hold immediately before being named as general manager of the Cowboys (then the Rangers)?

He was assistant director of sports, where he oversaw the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California. These games were held less than a month after the NFL granted a franchise to Dallas.

2. With which team was Schramm previously associated prior to holding the position from question #1?

Schramm held several positions with the Los Angeles Rams, including publicity director, assistant director, and general manager.

3. Who recommended Schramm to Clint Murchison, Jr.?

George Halas of the Chicago Bears.

4. What job did Gil Brandt hold when he was hired by the Dallas franchise?

He was a baby photographer prior to joining the Cowboys.

5. What was Brandt's first title with the team?

Player scouting director.

6. Along with Murchison, who was the other franchisee (co-owner) when Dallas was awarded an NFL franchise?

Bedford Wynne

7. Which two teams originally drafted Don Meredith?

The Chicago Bears of the NFL and the Dallas Texans of the AFL.

8. How did the Dallas franchise obtain the rights to Meredith?

Dallas traded future draft picks to the Chicago Bears for the rights to Meredith, who was taken in the third round by the Bears. The team then signed Meredith to a personal services contract, which was contingent on Dallas receiving a franchise.

9. On January 3, 1960, Meredith starred in what game?

Meredith starred in the East-West Shrine Game on that date. His nine-yard touchdown pass to Don Bass of the College of the Pacific won the game for the West.

10. True or False: Meredith originally agreed to a three-year, $100,000 per-year contract with an AFL team before backing out of the deal.

False. Meredith was reportedly offered this amount, but he immediately made it clear he would play in the NFL.

11. Shortly after Lamar Hunt and other owners announced the formation of the American Football League, Chicago's George Halas in August 1959 announced that two cities would likely receive NFL franchises. Dallas was one city. What was the other?

The other city was Houston, which had not yet been offered an AFL franchise.

12. What did Hunt call the move announced by Halas?

Hunt referred to the move as "sabotage."

13. Which franchise was Murchison interested in purchasing in 1952 but could not because he was out of the country?

Murchison wanted to buy the Dallas Texans before the franchise was sold to Carroll Rosenbloom, who moved the team to Baltimore to become the Colts. According to Dallas Cowboys Trivia Challenge by Gary Stratton and Robert Krug, Murchison was in South America at the time and was unable to buy the team. Peter Golenbock in Landry's Boys, however, reported that Murchison asked NFL commissioner Bert Bell for a 24-hour grace period to study the team's books. Bell refused the request and awarded Rosenbloom the franchise. Golenbock's account is probably accurate.

14. Which current NFL franchise did Murchison try to purchase during the 1950s?
There are actually two- the Chicago Cardinals and the Washington Commanders.

15. At the NFL owners' meeting in Miami in January 1960, four cities were in the running to receive an expansion team. In addition to Dallas, what were the other three cities?

The other three cities included Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and St. Louis. The Cardinals later that year moved from Chicago to St. Louis, and Minneapolis-St. Paul received an expansion team in 1961. Miami received an expansion team in the AFL in 1966.

16. Tom Landry succeeded which quarterback at the University of Texas in the late 1940s?

Bobby Layne.
17. Landry reportedly had at least three head coaching offers prior to accepting the job with the Cowboys. Which teams were interested in hiring him?
Three other teams included the Los Angeles Rams, who had just fired coach Sid Gillman; the Houston Oilers of the AFL, who eventually hired Lou Rymkus; and the Dallas Texans, who hired Hank Stram, a backfield coach with the University of Miami.

18. True or False: Landry served as a coach during a pro football game at the Cotton Bowl prior to his arrival as head coach of the Cowboys in 1960.

True. The New York Giants travelled to Dallas in August 1959 to play an exhibition game against the World Champion Baltimore Colts in the Cotton Bowl. Landry was still the defensive coach of the Giants at that time.

19. Landry was well-known as a businessman in Dallas before he was hired as the head coach of the Dallas franchise. What was his area of business during the offseason?
Landry sold insurance in Dallas during the off-seasons.

20. In December 1959, Dallas tried to obtain the rights to a halfback who chose instead to sign with the AFL's Dallas Texans. Who was this player?

Abner Haynes.

 

[Hostile]

Bedford Wynn was Clint Murchison's partner when he was seeking an NFL franchise. Wynn chose the team name to be the Dallas Steers.

Insert "An Officer and a Gentleman" jokes here.

That got changed to Dallas Rangers, and then to Cowboys.

 

[Chief]

Bedford Wynn was Clint Murchison's partner when he was seeking an NFL franchise. Wynn chose the team name to be the Dallas Steers.

 

[Hostile]

The Kennedy Administration assisted the Cowboys in becoming a franchise. Clint Murchison allegedly bribed Senator Estes KeFauver $25,000. Kefauver was the head of the Senate anti-monopoly committee designed to make sure no business can hold a monopoly. The "bribe" induced him to look into the Commanders TV network which blanketed the southern states.

With pressure from a Senator, the rights to his fight song owned by a rival owner, and other NFL owners fully on board, Commanders owner George Preston Marshall finally relented and gave his yes vote.

Clint Murchison often said his price for buying the Cowboys was $627,500.

$600,000 for the franchise.
$25,000 for the "bribe" to Senator KeFauver (he denies it).
$2500 to Barnee Breeksin for the rights to "Hail to the Commanders."
_________
$627,500.00

 

[Aikbach]

Guard John Gesek's father was a 49er season ticket holder during Dallas' 1990s Super Bowl triumphs.

Troy Aikman's NFL favorite growing up was Vince Ferragamo.

Former Giants Jesse Armstead and Jeremy Shockey both openly resented Dallas for not drafting them.

 

[Hostile]

Ralph Neely, Walt Garrison, Cliff Harris, Mike Ditka, and Charlie Waters were out jumping dirt bikes when Ralph broke his ankle. The players were too scared to tell Tom Landry what they were doing so they invented a story about horseback riding and a rattlesnake spooking Ralph's horse.

The Cowboys brought Tony Liscio out of retirement and he played for them in the Super Bowl.

 

[DandyDon1722]

Guys, who was our number one pick who broke his leg running on the beach in LA when he was told not to go running on the beach?

It's my Mad Cow Disease...it creeps up slowly.

 

[Hostile]

Guys, who was our number one pick who broke his leg running on the beach in LA when he was told not to go running on the beach?

It's my Mad Cow Disease...it creeps up slowly.

Mike Sherrard.

 

[DandyDon1722]

Mike Sherrard.

Yes! You da man Hos.

I think we cut him after that too didn't we?

 

[Hostile]

Yes! You da man Hos.

I think we cut him after that too didn't we?

He was a Cowboy from 1986 through 1988 and then was let go.