Finally a realistic opinion on our quarterbacks. I couldn’t agree more with the list. I’d put Romo as 6th on my list.
I keep coming back thinking about ranking them, but I couldn't be unbiased.
Don took over as QB when I was 9/10 so I was impressionable. In those days of black and white television you never heard a commentator give their opinion of the team or the play. Gil Brandt, Tex Shramm, the gang were all PR so everything they did was to promote the Cowboys in a positive light. And I never remember ever thinking we weren't going to win.
The biggest disappointment for me was the Eastern Conference Championship in 1968.
The Browns won the Century Division and the Cowboys had won the Capital Division.
The Western Division was Baltimore vs Minnesota.
The game was tied 10 at half. Then Cleveland picked off a Meredith pass for 6. And Leroy Kelly broke a run for a TD. Suddenly we're down 24-10.
Tom pulled Don for Craig Morton who drove the Cowboys for a FG just before the 4th quarter.
The Browns scored again pretty much sealing the game.
Walt Garrison scored on a pass from Morton, but it too little to late.
Baltimore beat Minnesota. And the big story was Cleveland was the only team to beat Baltimore in the regular season. So this was going to be a classic.
But Baltimore had other ideas. They annihilated the Browns 34-0 and went on to meet the Jets in the Super Bowl.
For a while I was glad we didn't meet the Jets. The NFL was the superior league and I wouldn't want the Cowboys to be embarrassed by this upstart inferior bunch.
But then I realized the Cowboys would have beaten the Jets, if they had just gotten passed the Browns.