When you were growing up...

[theebs]

Don Mattingly and Bruce Springsteen.

 

[lurkercowboy]

Staubach, Danny White, Too Tall Jones, Charlie Waters.

I couldn't cover, but I specialized in big hits and batting down passes.

 

[BruceWayne]

the original #88 Drew Pearson and when I was on defense I was Too Tall Jones

 

[zrinkill]

Earl Campbell

my dads from tyler.....

 

[percyhoward]

I had that one too. My brother gave away all my cards my first year of college. Swapped them for some dope. About a 100 bucks worth.

:bang2:

Now that's sad.

I have no idea what happened to mine. Went down the same black hole my Cowboys Weekly's fell into, I suppose.

 

[COWBOYSNUM1]

Larry Bird

 

[the kid 05]

Offense - Emmitt
Defense - L.T.

 

[Clove]

Drew Pearson was my guy. That's why I wore 88 through-out my playing days.

 

[DipChit]

Always was into being a RB.. so Calvin Hill early on then Dorsett when he came on board when I was 16.

When I was like 9 I went to the local public library in the town I grew up in, in WI and they had phone books from big cities. I found a Calvin Hill in the Dallas book and wrote him a fan letter.. Yeah, as if it was *the* Calvin Hill. Who knows though, maybe it was.

 

[DA FAN]

Like the song says..."I was Roger Staubach in my back yard..."

I was Roger Staubach. hehehe

What song are you referring to?

 

[BHendri5]

aah LOL a number of people, it depends on who said who first. Most of the time I was Bob Hayes, Dorsett, Walter Payton, Drew Pearson, Tony Hill, Butch Johnson, Golden Richards, or Joe Washington

 

[Clove]

aah LOL a number of people, it depends on who said who first. Most of the time I was Bob Hayes, Dorsett, Walter Payton, Drew Pearson, Tony Hill, Butch Johnson, Golden Richards, or Joe Washington

Loved Butch and Hill.. The california quake was priceless.

 

[Hostile]

I was Roger Staubach. hehehe

What song are you referring to?

Mark Wills' "19 Something"

Nineteen Somethin'Saw Star Wars at least eight times
Had the Pac-Man pattern memorized
And I've seen the stuff they put inside...Stretch Armstrong (yeah)
I was Roger Staubach in my backyard
Had a shoebox full of baseball cards
And a couple of Evil Knievel scars
On my right arm.

I was a kid when Elvis died
And my momma cried...
It was nineteen seventy somethin'
And the world that I grew up in
Farrah Fawcett hairdo days
Bell bottoms and eight track tapes
Lookin' back now I can see me
Oh man, did I look cheesy
But I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'
Oh it was nineteen seventy-somethin'.

It was the dawning of a new decade
We got our first microwave
Dad broke down and
Finally shaved them old sideburns off
I took the stickers off of my Rubik's Cube
Watched M-TV all afternoon
My first love was Daisy Duke
And them cut-off jeans.
Space Shuttle fell out of the sky
And the whole world cried...

It was nineteen eighty-somethin'
And the world that I grew up in
Skatin' rinks and black Trans-Ams
Big hair and parachute pants
And lookin' back now I can see me
Oh man, did I look cheesy
I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'
Oh it was nineteen eighty-somethin'.

Now I've got a mortgage and an SUV
But all this responsibility...
Makes me wish...Sometimes...
That it was nineteen eighty-something
And the world that I grew up in
Skatin' rinks and black Trans-Ams
Big hair and parachute pants
And lookin' back now I can see me
Oh man, did I look cheesy
I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'
Oh it was nineteen eighty-something...
Nineteen seventy-something...
Oh, it was nineteen...somethin'.

 

[kartr]

No doubt, it was Bob Hayes first and Mel Renfro second. I got his autograph when I was twelve.

 

[dogberry]

Jimmy Saxton, Texas HB

 

[Glenn Carano]

Tony Hill and Mike Renfro on O and Everson Walls and Michael Downs on D, yep Mike Renfro.

 

[Big Country]

Danny White and the original playmaker Drew Pearson...

and once in a while Scott Laidlaw

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

It was always touchdown Tony Dorsett.... whenever jumping over a pile it was Herschel

 

[Jack-Reacher]

Funny you should ask this, because this is how I became a cowboys fan. My friends in school were always Bradshaw and Swann, so naturally my teammate and I became Staubach and Dorsett. Haven't looked back since those elementary days in the 70's...lol

Jon

 

[jem88]

Naturally it was Issaic Holt. A distant second was Michael Irvin.