Your Top 5 Loved and Hated Cowboys?

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Loved:
1. Emmitt Smith
2. Roger Staubach
3. Tony Dorsett
4. Drew Pearson
5. Jason Witten/Larry Allen
(I barely remember Bob Lilly, but he'd probably be on there if I got to see his career.)

Hated:
1. Deion Sanders
2. Terrell Owens
3. Drew Henson/Chad Hutchinson/Quincy Carter/Clint Stoerner/Ryan Leaf/Anthony Wright/Randall Cunningham/Vinny Testeverde
4. Brian Baldinger
5. Tony Casillas
 
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FiveTime said:
We are pretty fortunate to have so many great players to have been members of the Cowboys for what is really one of the newer franchises in the NFL. A list of five is not enough. My best friend and I always debate our top 5 list...top 5 hottest women, top 5 best songs, top 5 cd's we would pick if we were stranded on a desert island. He is a Bears fan. I ask him for his top 5 Bears QB's and Wr's and the list is hard to come up with. I think Patrick Crayton is the Cowboy I am most upset with...he had 2 chances to to put that game away in the 2007 season playoff game vs the Giants and came up small. That and Jackie Smith dropping the ball in the Super Bowl; I was too young to see that live though.
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Jackie Smith got a lot of heat but I remember Scott Laidlaw fumbled earlier in the game near the Steelers goaline and I hated him for that.
 
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Loved: Tony, Witten from this generation. Michael and Woodson from the most recent Super Bowl era. Rodger from the one before that.

Hated: Deion Sanders and Pacman Jones. I don't get mad at players for sucking, but the personal failings with those two are pretty tough to overlook.
 
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Love

Jimmie Jones - best DT for the first two 90s Championships
Michael Irvin - plain fun to watch play.
Demarcus Ware - returned the team to relevance as a HoF pass rusher
Randy White - father's favorite player and the most feared player in the NFL for his era.
Dak Prescott - won me over after initial doubt. taught me about myself in doing so. appreciate how he approaches the game and tragedy in his own life.
Mark Stepnoski - undersized warrior. was not happy when he left for the Oilers.

Hate

Rafael Septien - I can say it: child rapist. Lowest of the low.
Harvey Martin - pathological wife beater and liar. never took responsibility nor tried to change his actions.
Nick Hayden - god awful DT and Marinelli talking him up at every chance caused more than a little cognitive dissonance. Not in the same category as the above two though.
Russell Maryland - hugely disappointing 1st overall draft pick.
Chad Hutchinson - whiny, entitled, talantless
 
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Rafael Septien, the Dallas Cowboys' place-kicker, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of indecency with a child in an agreement with prosecutors that brought him a sentence of 10 years' deferred probation and a $2,000 fine.

Septien, 33 years old, was indicted Jan. 22 in the sexual assault of a 10-year-old friend of his roommate's daughter. He originally pleaded not guilty. Under deferred probation, if Septien follows the terms of his sentence, it will not go on his record as a conviction.
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http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/09/sports/sports-people-septien-pleads-guilty.html

Can I also hate the DA that allowed him to plea to no time served and a deferment?
 
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Loved:
Romo
Emmitt
Haley
Troy
L. Allen

Disliked:
Rowdy
Peon Dion
J. Ratliff
M. Irvin
G. Hardy
 
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timb2 said:
Jackie Smith got a lot of heat but I remember Scott Laidlaw fumbled earlier in the game near the Steelers goaline and I hated him for that.
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This is true. Lots of different things you can point to in that game, not the least of which is the Ref blocking out our D on a TD run from Pittsburgh. Honestly, Jackie Smith was a class guy and a great, great player. HOF TE that basically picked up the phone when Coach Landry called and agreed to play for us, even though he was already retired. Such an easy pitch and catch, it just went sideways. Roger often says that it was on him because he took something off the through but that's Roger and that's why he is Roger. It's just really a shame, they say Smith was never the same after that.
 
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Loved:

1) Irvin
2) Emmitt
3) Romo
4) Witten
5) Woodson

Honorable Mentions:

1) Troy
2) Pearson
3) Novacek
4) Moose
5) D.White
6) R. White
7) Too Tall
8) Beautiful
9) Coakley
10) Thrill

Hated:

1) Sanders
2) T.O.
3) Tank Johnson
4) Tony Dixon
5) Pozderac

Didn't get to see Roger play much, but I'm sure he would be in top 5 had it been my generation.
 
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Not surprised by seeing TO on alot of lists, he was polarizing, either you love him or hate him.

But Deion I don't see why, he played defense, offense, and returned punts for us. Sure, hate his personality, but he did more things for this team than most people in the modern era. Who has played defense, offense, and special teams in the last 20 years for this team??

I don't get hating Deion for what he did for this team, one of the greatest athletes of all time and even had time to play baseball. As good as we want to think we are right now, we don't have a single player on our team that could do everything Deion did for us.
 
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timb2 said:
Yes we all have our favorite Cowboys but also what Cowboys have you wished never dawned the silver helmet and blue star. No owners and coaches, just players.


For me

Most Loved

1- Drew Pearson- He was my childhood hero growing up. He was a rookie and I started for the first time in Little League Football and our team was called the "Cowboys" and I wore #88 and Drew Pearson was a rookie WR and he was awesome. My favorite always when they say #88 I see Drew not Irvin or Dez...

2-Tony Dorsett- The guy was awesome he was so smooth running the ball. It was like he was in a ballet out there. Still one of the fastest players I have ever seen.

3-Charles Haley-Everytime I watched the defense I keyed on him and he was like a sprinter coming out of the blocks and the LT was like moving in slow motion. They can say The Triplets all they want,we didn't win Superbowls until he arrived.

4-Randy White--I still remember that Eagles game where he chased the WR down,but the play that got me awestruck by him was him being blocked and he swatted at the Eagles RB back of their head like a grizzley bear and knocked him down to the ground.

5-Demarcus Ware-Was just like Haley I always watched how he would play and teams constantly had to know where he was because he was unblockable at times.





Most Hated

1-Quincy Carter- The guy couldn't throw a tight spiral to save his life. He had me wanting to pull my hair out of where some simple 5 yard pass was going to go.It was either 10 feet above the receiver or at their feet inches away from the turf.

2-Phil Pozderac- Bigger than Too Tall Jones,but this guy was Frankenstein. He couldn't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. He was clumsy seemed like he had 2 left feet. Couldn't remember the snap count on a consecutive plays and lost a tight Giants game. Fred Sanford comes to mind when I would see him "YOU BIG DUMMY"!!!

3-Manny Hendrix- Drove me nuts. He was a project Tom Landry hoping for the next Cornell Green. I remember watch preseason and the Bears threw right to him for an interception and he had this great run for a TD and everyone was cheering and I'm freaking out because I didn't want him on the team after a couple of years watching him constantly getting burned. I swear the Bears players looked like they were missing him on purpose. never failed when he came in as the nickel or dime in a regular game the other team went right after him and 1ST DOWN everytime. Just drove me nuts.!!!


4-Soloman Page- I hated him.This guy was lazy. He would do 1 push and 2 push and then wouldn't care and that defender would be on a jail break after the QB. He should have been the LT but I think the team couldn't trust him. Also he refused to play OG in his final game. Just a waste of a 2nd round talent


5-Dat Nguyen- Yes this should surprise some of you,but I hated him as a MLB. The guy was an ankle biter. he made a lot of tackles but teams constantly targeted him. He was small and I wanted a MLB who could knock an OG on his butt and run after and punish the ballcarrier. Not Nguyen he would grab an ankle and be dragged for 5 yards. His stats were inflated to me and ankle biting to me is not a tackle that is someone scared to be embarrassed that he might be knocked on his own butt. Tyrone Wheatley got him in a preseason game. Nguyen came on a blitz unblocked and Gannon just gave Wheatley the ball and you think was going to tackle him and Wheatley dropped him like a bad habit and ran for 3 or 4 yards. Nguyen got hurt by a WR Joe Jurvicous blocking him. Yeah Jurvicous was big but a freaking WR hurt you???



Well everyone what are your list of Loved and Hated???
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Randy, Quincy and Solomon all worked with one of my teams at one time or another. Randy was my idol growing up and he did not disappoint as a person. Got to know him a bit and picked his brain about some of the greats. He spoke about Roger as if he was a God, he also spoke some truths about some other legends which i will not share. lol
Quincy was a nice but troubled guy. I actually felt bad for the guy after meeting him.
Solomon worked out with my team in the weightroom, was very cool with them. He and a few others came over for a BBQ and we played dominos into the night. I like all Cowboys, when they are Cowboys and I am glad to say that I have met several players and coaches throughout the years and have never been disappointed in any of them.

Loved- Randy, Roger, Too Tall, Tony D and Larry Allen if I had to pick 5.
Hated- Can't think of any.
 
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