Ever since I was a little girl, I have always been a Dallas Cowboy fan. I remember spending Sundays with my uncle watching Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Ed “Too Tall” Jones and the rest of the doomsday quarterbacks who ruled our Sunday afternoons.Being a Southerner, you had no choice but to be a Cowboy. a fan because both the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons were terrible at the time. I love the blue star on their helmets and what it represented: a great team, a great organization, and the best and most beautiful cheerleaders in the league; Team America in short..
I was with the Cowboys during their dominance of the 1970’s and early 1980’s and stood with them through that 1-15 season in 1989. It was hard to be a Cowboys fan at that time as new teams like the San Francisco 49ers and the Chicago Bears. appearedWe also lose the familiar faces of Tex Schramm and Tom Landry. When Jerry Jones took over in 1989, I hated the way he did things. He did a clean sweep of the entire organization, which I thought was crazy at the time. How do you get rid of the people who help build the USA team?He brought in an arrogant Jimmy Johnson from the University of Miami as head coach and what was even worse; they got rid of the team’s best player in Hershel Walker with a bunch of unknown draft picks. What I didn’t know or realize at the time was that doing Jones would contribute to the Cowboys’ resurgence.
The Walker trade to the Minnesota Vikings was the biggest blockbuster in NFL history. My ex-boyfriend, who is a huge Vikings fan, still to this day despises the Cowboys because of that one trade.That trade changed the future of the Cowboys forever. In exchange for one fading star, we got two future Hall of Famers in Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith, and a young Michael Irving, also a future Hall of Famer, who had already been taken by the Cowboys in the previous draft. But who knew then that they would be the foundation of Jones’ teams for years to come and what every Cowboys team would be compared to after that.I think that’s why the 1992-93 Cowboys meant so much to me. It was the first time in 14 years that the cowboys went to the Super Bowl. I was too young to appreciat
e those early Super Bowl wins, so technically it was the first time in my life that my favorite football team won a Super Bowl.That team restored the Cowboys’ supremacy. They won two more Super Bowls after that, but neither team was greater. I remember how scared Charles Harley and Ken Norton Jr. was on defense and how big the holes were for Emmitt on that unsung offensive line created by Moose Johnson, Nate Newton and the rest of the guys. I remember how sharp Troy’s passes were to tight ends Jay Novacek and Michael Irving, who applied just enough pressure to leave him room to make a great catch and then dive into the end zone. I also remembered the long passes to wide receiver Alvin Harper, who was very dangerous one-on-one.I will always love and thank this team for their dedication and hard work to bring meaning back to this brilliant Texas star.B/R Recommended.
