Roger Staubach

[Reid1boys]

The navy boot camp in San Diego is right across a bay from the marines training base. There we were watching those cats running relay races carrying buckets of sand, whoa!!!!

the Navy has breaks for cell phone usage each day during their "Basic training." lol

 

[EdmCowboy Fan]

Just watched his NFL story again....what an awesome person! He's the reason I love the Cowboys and will dispute anyone that disses them.....I've met many numerous players, but never Roger.....its on my bucket list.

I am from Kenya moved to Canada in 1978. Cried as 13 year old when they lost to PS. He played his last year the following year. The most memorable quote on SI that year “a beatable team but with a QB that refused to be beaten”. Yes. He why I love the Cowboys

 

[Cowpolk]

One of my favorite days ever.

I was at that game was a great play and I was on that end of the field got to see it coming right at me

 

[RS12]

Here is one of footballs true icons

Bingo. Did as much for the leagues popularity as he did for the Cowboys popularity. 70s NFL icon.

 

[RaZon]

the Navy has breaks for cell phone usage each day during their "Basic training." lol

Basic training/boot camp story...

We had a mini Olympics between the six different barracks. My job as APO was to get our team together/...

Me,,,anyone here ever run the 100
Robert Gene...(tall thin black cat)...I ran a 9 fo. (9.4)
Me...(that is an amazing time)...Robert a 9,4?
Robert Gene....Lousiana State champ.
Me....(doubting that but he sure looked the part)....ok cool.

So the day of the race there stood Robert in tennis shoes on a dirt track, long story short, he won easily in 10.0 flat. Why this guy wasn't running track in the NCAA.?????

Then there was Lonnie Riley another black cat from North Carolina, think Ronnie Coleman, and he never lifted weights or so he said.

 

[Shane612]

Just watched his NFL story again....what an awesome person! He's the reason I love the Cowboys and will dispute anyone that disses them.....I've met many numerous players, but never Roger.....its on my bucket list.

When I was a kid on the 70s, my friends and I often played football at Church Hill Park in Dallas.
One day we saw Roger Staubach jogging at that park.
We stopped playing for a l while to watch him jog.
And he was nice enough to give us a nod as he pass by.
Swear to God, true story.

 

[Jake]

Just watched his NFL story again....what an awesome person! He's the reason I love the Cowboys and will dispute anyone that disses them.....I've met many numerous players, but never Roger.....its on my bucket list.

Legend.

He's why I'm a Cowboys fan, in spite of Jerry and his kids.

 

[Mk2_Cowboys]

He’s the best . A couple of friends of mine once ran into him at a restaurant in Dallas . He saved someone that was choking with a Heimlich maneuver , afterwards my buddies got an autograph signed to me . I have it on my wall.

 

[Cowpolk]

I liked Staubach. Honest I did. Hope some you folks did also. Ha I punkuated!

 

[Cowpolk]

Legend.

He's why I'm a Cowboys fan, in spite of Jerry and his kids.

At least we are getting a lil better at it than we were I think they are delegating decisions to coaches more than some folks think is actually happening

 

[Bigdog]

I liked Staubach. Honest I did. Hope some you folks did also. Ha I punkuated!

I did. He was pure class.

 

[Cowpolk]

I did. He was pure class.

And pirdy dang gooder Oops scuse the suthun langeg translatiun is avalibl

 

[cowboyec]

#12

and thank you...for everything.

 

[john van brocklin]

Just watched his NFL story again....what an awesome person! He's the reason I love the Cowboys and will dispute anyone that disses them.....I've met many numerous players, but never Roger.....its on my bucket list.

Ditto
He and Landry are the reasons I have been a fan 46 years.
Godly men with a lot of class.

 

[john van brocklin]

Roger would hate the way ya'll have accepted mediocrity.

Roger didn't embrace moral victories and participation trophies like ya'll have.

Roger was all about winning, while ya'll.... well, as long as everyone has fun, right?

Who here accepts mediocrity?
Most of the posters I hang with here love the Cowboys
But hold players and staff accountable when necessary

 

[john van brocklin]

Allow me to tell you my Roger story and it is well worth the read.

His first commercial real estate venture was a group of office buildings on 635 at Hillcrest and we had just started a new company and we're his first tenants in one of the two buildings. Once they filled out the offices, they had a welcoming party for all of the people that worked in the buildings. Roger would be hosting and joined by Cliff Harris.

My oldest son was 8 at the time and his two favorite sports figures were Roger and Harvey Martin, who I had taken him to meet and they talked Star Wars for almost 10 minutes while he signed autographs, what a big kid.

The reception was in the other building so I walked over and just as I walked in there stands Roger with his hand out. I shake his hand and move on as the line is forming but as the party wears on, I get the chance to chat with him for only a couple of minutes. I tell him that my son is his biggest fan and imitates him out in the front yard with me striking Roger poses as he makes passes and has even worked on Roger's jump pass. He laughs and asks his name and I tell him Josh. He does not make a note of it and doesn't have a name keeper walking around with him. Needless to say I am a celebrity at home that night, at least with my oldest son, because he got to shake the hand that shook Roger's hand.

The next morning, the receptionist calls me up to the front and there is a young lady up there with an envelope addressed to me and she tells me that Roger enjoyed meeting me last night and wanted Josh to have this. I am speechless as I open it and there is an autographed 8 x 10 of Roger signed To Josh, Keep those jump passes coming, Roger.

I was a nobody, not the owner of the company, just a working guy in one of his buildings and from a short few minutes he remembered my name and my son's name and remembered the jump pass. I brought that home and not only was I a hero with my wife, Roger was with her as well and she never watched him play the same way again.

Roger embodied what I wanted all sports "heroes" to be as I had grown up as a kid only to find many had feet of clay when I was an adult. I think he is more responsible for the legion of Cowboys fans and the America's Team label than any person ever with the team, including Landry. Lilly might have been the #1 draft pick and Mr. Cowboy but to me Roger Staubach will always be Mr. Cowboy.

A Football Life got this thread started, make sure you see the one on Drew Pearson for another good Roger story. He was more than just Drew's QB.

Nice, thanks for sharing.

 

[BourbonBalz]

Roger is and always will be the Cowboys. Fact.

 

[terra]

Who here accepts mediocrity?
Most of the posters I hang with here love the Cowboys
But hold players and staff accountable when necessary

Those who are satisfied with winning a division and nothing more. There are a lot here like that; deny it all you want.

 

[Aviano90]

Roger would hate the way ya'll have accepted mediocrity.

Roger didn't embrace moral victories and participation trophies like ya'll have.

Roger was all about winning, while ya'll.... well, as long as everyone has fun, right?

You bet. These homers sprinkle sugar on defeat and swallow it down like a treat, begging for more. Mentioning that it tastes like crap despite the sugar costing upsets them.

 

[CCBoy]

Those who are satisfied with winning a division and nothing more. There are a lot here like that; deny it all you want.

Oh, that's something like a fact, huh?

In the history of the NFC East, the winner needed to take the division to become forged in fine for the start of an equally strong in the playoffs! Naw some of us look truth in the face...Stronger the East, the better December on becomes.