Pardon me everyone for resurrecting this post but it is my first childhood memory of the Cowboys - Tommy McDonald that is. I was 6 in 1964, watching on black and white TV.
1. Last player in NFL not to wear a face mask. (other than a kicker).
2. Wore big old black plastic honking horn rimmed glasses when he played.
3. Was real good even with the Cowboys IIRC (no stats sorry) ..
He looked to me then either like Groucho Marx, or Harold Lloyd playing WR - with those glasses. .. Perhaps a cigar in his mouth, or cigarette ha .. got my attention. I guess Meredith was QB then.
1964 was the last real bad year of the Cowboys. The next year they finished 7-7, made the consolation bowl, and Tom Matte whipped us as QB for the Colts, even though he was a RB, Unitas was injured, and Matte had to wear a big sleeve on his arm full of plays to figure it out. We lost. How humiliating, being beaten by a RB playing QB.
Really the last of an era sort of dude. McDonald was ..
