Tom Landry Died a Giants Fan??

[StrayDawg]

I'm not a Cowboys fan, but I'm also not posting this to tease Cowboys fans.

Everyone knows how poorly Jerry Jones handled the Tom Landry situation, but this sounds much worse than I thought...and it comes from Coach Landry's wife.

Firing him is one thing. Taking away his box and banning his son from buying season tickets? Bush league. So, she says that Tom Landry cheered for the Giants for the rest of his life and she is still close to the Mara family. Can't blame either of them.

http://network.yardbarker.com/nfl/ar..._head_14942945

[PawDawg]

I'm not a Cowboys fan, but I'm also not posting this to tease Cowboys fans.

Everyone knows how poorly Jerry Jones handled the Tom Landry situation, but this sounds much worse than I thought...and it comes from Coach Landry's wife.

Firing him is one thing. Taking away his box and banning his son from buying season tickets? Bush league. So, she says that Tom Landry cheered for the Giants for the rest of his life and she is still close to the Mara family. Can't blame either of them.

http://network.yardbarker.com/nfl/ar..._head_14942945

I'll have to go back and confirm, but it sounds like the biography and the autobiography don't agree.

[dawg80]

Tom Landry is dead? Since when?

[Dwayne From Minden]

Didn't he play for the Giants?

[PawDawg]

Didn't he play for the Giants?

Yes, he played and coached there. He and Lombardi coached together as assistants there.

[TYLERTECHSAS]

[3rdGenDawg]

Hank Hill is having a nervous breakdown right now. A Giants fan????????????

[dawg80]

Tom Landry is dead? Since when?

Had to Google it myself. He passed in 2000. I didn't know that. Thought he was living quietly somewhere, on a Texas ranch, laughing at the losing Cowgirls. Well, I suppose he is....from on high.

[ChuckK3]

Tom Landry has been gone a long time. His last season to coach was 1988...25 years ago. Having grown up a Cowboys fan, I was accustomed to my team winning, but I had no idea how good Dallas really was in the "golden years" of the late 60's to mid 80's. If I am reading this correctly, the Dallas Cowboys didn't have a losing regular season record from 1966 to 1985. TWENTY STRAIGHT YEARS of winning regular seasons. The worst record for Dallas in that span was 8-6 in 1974, and 6-3 in 1982 -- which was a strike year. Tom coached the Cowboys to 7 --- that's SEVEN --- NFL Championship games, but only won 2 of the 7.

I am not a Jerry Jones fan, I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan. I disagree with Jerry's management style, but it doesn't erase what the Cowboys have accomplished, their history, or what great men like Tom Landry, Roger Staubach, and later under JJ... Troy Aikman, and Emmitt Smith ... did to show that good guys really can win.

[glm47]

Tom Landry has been gone a long time. His last season to coach was 1988...25 years ago. Having grown up a Cowboys fan, I was accustomed to my team winning, but I had no idea how good Dallas really was in the "golden years" of the late 60's to mid 80's. If I am reading this correctly, the Dallas Cowboys didn't have a losing regular season record from 1966 to 1985. TWENTY STRAIGHT YEARS of winning regular seasons. The worst record for Dallas in that span was 8-6 in 1974, and 6-3 in 1982 -- which was a strike year. Tom coached the Cowboys to 7 --- that's SEVEN --- NFL Championship games, but only won 2 of the 7.

I am not a Jerry Jones fan, I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan. I disagree with Jerry's management style, but it doesn't erase what the Cowboys have accomplished, their history, or what great men like Tom Landry, Roger Staubach, and later under JJ... Troy Aikman, and Emmitt Smith ... did to show that good guys really can win.

Landry, Staubauch and that bunch were definitely a bunch of crybabies. Listened to a lot of their crap every time the Steelers kicked their ass. My favorite SB play of all time is still Jack Lambert throwing Cliff Harris to the ground like a rag doll and watching Cliff walk off the field like a whipped dog.

[PawDawg]

Landry, Staubauch and that bunch were definitely a bunch of crybabies. Listened to a lot of their crap every time the Steelers kicked their ass. My favorite SB play of all time is still Jack Lambert throwing Cliff Harris to the ground like a rag doll and watching Cliff walk off the field like a whipped dog.

You never heard Landry or Staubach whine about getting their ass kicked.

[glm47]

You never heard Landry or Staubach whine about getting their ass kicked.

Complaining about the officiating counts in my book, so yea I did.

[PawDawg]

Complaining about the officiating counts in my book, so yea I did.

Don't believe you heard that either. There were no controversial calls in those games. Landry never complained about bad calls in all the years he coached. He took responsibility for losses.

[glm47]

Don't believe you heard that either. There were no controversial calls in those games. Landry never complained about bad calls in all the years he coached. He took responsibility for losses.

Interference call on Dallas against Swann in 2nd SB was very controversial call.

[TechDawgMc]

I remember Landry making a complaint about the Benny Barnes interference call. Heck, some of the biggest Cowboy haters I know said that was a bad call. Not as bad as the stupid fumble call that cost the Cowboys Super Bowl V, but still pretty bad.

Of course, pretty much every coach complains about terrible calls. It becomes whining when it's someone else's coach--especially if you don't like the team. The Cowboys were never any worse than anyone else (heck, there was constant whining about how the Cowboys got all the breaks)