What is your first Cowboys memory?

[DallasEast]

As I read this thread... most of you at 35-55. Good god. I won't even share my first memory... I know the responses I'll get... "Wasn't that last year??", or some other smart*** ****. 1950???? 1960?? Good gracious.

Hey! At 43, I resemble that remark! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! :

 

[Big Country]

Butch Johnson diving for a TD catch in Super Bowl 12...

 

[Big Country]

Butch Johnson doing his Touchdown Dance -- the "California Quake" i believe it was called

NICE ONE!!

I was so excited every time he scored and did that dance too... it was absolutely the best of all time.

I got pissed when I heard Landry made him stop doing it.

 

[THUMPER]

Mine was in 1968. I was 5 years old and the Cowboys were playing the Saints. I saw it on TV at my aunt and uncles house in Louisiana.

I saw the stars on the helmet and I was hooked. I remember Don Meredith throwing two TDs. One to Bob Hayes and I think the 2nd may have been to him as well. I also remember that the Saints QB was getting hammered and kept throwing picks. I don't remember how many but it was a lot because my Uncle kept screaming that he wanted to kill that SOB (whoever the saint QB was).

From that moment, I was a die hard Cowboys fan. Thanks to Bullet Bob Hayes and Don Meredith.

What was your first memory?

My very first memory of the Cowboys was in 1962 (I was 4) watching Eddie LeBaron play. I loved those old uniforms and LeBaron looked like a kid so I liked them (the Rams were my favorite team then since I lived in L.A.). The only other player I remember watching in that game was RB Amos Marsh who had a couple of big runs in that game. I don't even remember who they played, I just liked the uniforms.

I fell in love with the Cowboys the following year when they played the Rams in a pre-season game and I met Bob Lilly prior to the game. He became my hero and the Cowboys have been my favorite team ever since.

 

[HighTechDave]

Bottle caps.

Coca-Cola had a promotional campaign in the Dallas area. All of the bottle caps on Coca-Cola products that had a football stamped on the outside had on the inside a head shot of either a Cowboys player or an NFL star. From participating stores, you could get a map-size sheet that had corresponsing spaces on which to glue each bottle cap. When the sheet was full, you could take it to the Coca-Cola Bottling Company office in Dallas and trade it in for a new football.

My mother -- a saint -- would take me to all the convenience stores in the area, and I would talk the store clerks into emptying the bottle caps from their Coke machines. In those days, when you bought a soft drink from a machine, there was a bottle cap opener on the machine. The caps fell into a bin for later disposal. The clerks would empty those bins into my brown paper bag, and I would sift through all the bottle caps to find the ones that had the football stamp.

I filled the sheets -- two of them, actually -- and my brother and I got new footballs.

The NFL players were impressive -- John Unitas, Bart Starr, Y.A. Tittle, Deacon Jones, whomever -- but the guys who I wanted were the Cowboys. Not just stars like Don Meredith and Don Perkins, Bob Lilly and Frank Clarke. I wanted the Don Bishops, the Mike Gaechters, the Mike Connollys, the Jerry Tubbs, the Don Talberts, and on and on.

I had the Cowboys roster memorized when I was so young that I can't recall any specific games. All I knew was that these guys were important, that they were football players!

The Ice Bowl cost me my football virginity.

I'm not worthy to even be in your presence



right there with you on the Ice Bowl. I was 6 so do the math

 

[Redball Express]

I fell in love with the Cowboys the following year when they played the Rams in a pre-season game and I met Bob Lilly prior to the game. He became my hero and the Cowboys have been my favorite team ever since.

Bob Lilly became one of my favorite players when I dated his ex-wife in Dallas when I went to SMU back in the day.

First time I walked into her house, I saw all these pictures with her and Bob in them and I immediately recognized him in the pictures and I turned to her and said.."

.." are you Bob's sister or something..?"

To which she answered, " no, I'm his ex-wife. I don't usually tell my friends that because it usually scares them off if they are guys. I hope that doesn't bother you.."

I told her it didn't concern me and I walked into the den where he still had a good bit of NFL stuff hung there and I thought I was in a Cowboy museum.

From then on, we met at my place..haha..needless to say.

Ah yes, Bob and dating the ex-wife..

:beer1:

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[FCBarca]

I get this from futbol fans and American Footballs alike, 'How can you be a Cowboys fan?'...It started like it did for probably many pubescent kids...Cheerleaders...Then I realized there was actually a team of athletes doing something that the cheerleaders were cheering for...Rest, as they say, is history.

 

[arync]

1983 CBS, 4pm game, Tony Dorsett was running the football and it looked so beautiful and I've been a fan ever since

 

[Hostile]

Bob Lilly became one of my favorite players when I dated his ex-wife in Dallas when I went to SMU back in the day.

First time I walked into her house, I saw all these pictures with her and Bob in them and I immediately recognized him in the pictures and I turned to her and said.."

.." are you Bob's sister or something..?"

To which she answered, " no, I'm his ex-wife. I don't usually tell my friends that because it usually scares them off if they are guys. I hope that doesn't bother you.."

I told her it didn't concern me and I walked into the den where he still had a good bit of NFL stuff hung there and I thought I was in a Cowboy museum.

From then on, we met at my place..haha..needless to say.

Ah yes, Bob and dating the ex-wife..

:beer1:

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Great story. Bob's ghost in the home sent you to your crib for the rendevous. I think it would most thinking men.

 

[Arch Stanton]

It was a Raiders game I think. Danny White caught a TD pass from Ron Springs.

That one play WoWeD me!

 

[Hostile]

It was a Raiders game I think. Danny White caught a TD pass from Ron Springs.

That one play WoWeD me!

It is not a well known fact, but Danny caught 3 passes in his career and 2 of them were for TDs.

The one you share here was a 15 yarder in 1983 in a game we lost 38-40.

 

[Arch Stanton]

It is not a well known fact, but Danny caught 3 passes in his career and 2 of them were for TDs.

The one you share here was a 15 yarder in 1983 in a game we lost 38-40.

That's right. Was is a Halloween Game? I had this game on tape for sometime.

Back in the day when I bought a Betamax VCR. :

 

[the kid 05]

watchin them during the 93 season but my favroite and most cherrished memory is when this past season they came to Chicago and i could finally afford a set of tickets and me and my brother went up there and lost our voices

 

[Redball Express]

Great story. Bob's ghost in the home sent you to your crib for the rendevous. I think it would most thinking men.

..she kept saying it was OK to be there..they were on friendly terms and she had known him since she was about 15.

I had nothing to fear..according to her. He had since retired and she told me he had moved out to New Mexico and had a new girlfriend. And that he had left some of his stuff there until he wanted it.

She told me some interesting stories about being a Cowboy wife that I can't repeat here, but she said it was like a big extended family and that it was hard to get privacy and be normal during his career.

And that there were a bunch of divorced Cowboy wives she knew and they often met for lunch to stay in touch. Like a support group.

I was only like 21 at the time and she was about 32 at the time. And only my roommate at the time even knew about our relationship.

But I certainly appreciated the moment. As a fan of course.

Another Cowboy memory.

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[Hostile]

That's right. Was is a Halloween Game? I had this game on tape for sometime.

Back in the day when I bought a Betamax VCR. :

I had to look that up. No, it was October 23rd.

 

[Hostile]

..she kept saying it was OK to be there..they were on friendly terms and she had known him since she was about 15.

I had nothing to fear..according to her. He had since retired and she told me he had moved out to New Mexico and had a new girlfriend. And that he had left some of his stuff there until he wanted it.

She told me some interesting stories about being a Cowboy wife that I can't repeat here, but she said it was like a big extended family and that it was hard to get privacy and be normal during his career.

And that there were a bunch of divorced Cowboy wives she knew and they often met for lunch to stay in touch. Like a support group.

I was only like 21 at the time and she was about 32 at the time. And only my roommate at the time even knew about our relationship.

But I certainly appreciated the moment. As a fan of course.

Another Cowboy memory.

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You can PM me those any time. I won't betray a trust.

 

[The30YardSlant]

December 1991, I was 6 years old and the Cowboys were playing the Falcons in Atlanta the last week of the regular season. Emmitt Smith had a TD run where he bounced off half the defense, took it outside and outran Deion to the endzone. I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen.

 

[ANTHONYSCOTT]

1977, the line shifting, the star on the helmet, Dorsett and Roger, Harvey Martin, Randy White, Tony Hill, Drew Pearson, Robert Newhouse, Dennis Thurman, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Everson Walls and Michael Downs, I could go on and on. But Really its how all my parents friends REALLY HATED (and still do) the Cowboys growing up in Philadelphia.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

'67 Ice Bowl. I remember watching at my grandmother's house with my Dad and Uncle. They were pulling for the team in the white jerseys with the Star on the helmet so I also started pulling for them.

Come to think of it, my first game was one of the monumental losses in Cowboy history.

 

[Redball Express]

You can PM me those any time. I won't betray a trust.

..and neither will I..not now..

:laugh1:

Just incase Bob is poking around the Zone today..!!!

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