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He remembers playing poker with Tony Hill and Drew Pearson and basketball games at Staubach's house. He remembers summer parties at defensive end Ed 'Too Tall' Jones' house and playing basketball with linebacker Eugene Lockhart.Ĭornerback Larry Brown was drafted by the Cowboys in 1991, when Newton, Mark Tuinei, Bill Bates and Jim Jeffcoat were the lone key holdovers from the Landry teams.

Newton said he might feel that way because he was a former Landry player.

There really wasn't a connection because Jimmy wouldn't let there be none. He knew you, but it was all about what Jimmy wanted and Jimmy thought. Within two years, all those guys were basically gone, so our paths didn't cross. 'When he did that, 80% of players had to go that direction, too. Sorry, we're going in a different direction,'' Newton said. 'Jerry had to go to Coach Landry's house and say, 'Hey, man, this is it.

#DALLAS COWBOYS ROSTERS BY YEAR PRO#

Guard Nate Newton played three seasons for Landry and 10 more after the arrival of Jones and Johnson, making the Pro Bowl six times. There was once a divide between eras, real or perceived, because Jones fired Landry almost immediately after buying the team. To have been a player on a team that's quote-unquote America's Team is a good feeling.'

'That Cowboys name, it means a lot in the National Football League. 'Obviously this franchise has come a long way in those 60 years,' Dorsett said. In 2020, the Cowboys celebrate their 60th birthday. And the franchise's other Super Bowl-winning coach, Jimmy Johnson, will join them in the Hall this summer. The Jones era has six Hall of Fame players: Troy Aikman, Larry Allen, Charles Haley, Michael Irvin (who was Landry's final first-round draft pick in 1988), Deion Sanders and Emmitt Smith. The Cowboys won Super Bowls in three of Jones' first seven years as owner. Today, the Cowboys are the richest franchise in the world, valued by Forbes at more than $5 billion. In 1989, Jones purchased the Cowboys, paying $140 million for the team and Texas Stadium. Schramm and Brandt also have busts at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. In addition to Lilly and Staubach, the Landry era had five more Hall of Fame players in Tony Dorsett, Bob Hayes, Mel Renfro, Randy White and Rayfield Wright. The roster had some all-time greats from their first draft pick, Bob Lilly, in 1961 to arguably the Cowboys' best draft pick, Roger Staubach, a 10th-round selection in 1964. They were Next Year's Champs before winning two Super Bowls in the 1970s. Along with president and general manager Tex Schramm and vice president of personnel Gil Brandt, America's Team was born. It's much more than that, of course, but the eras are marked by the Pro Football Hall of Fame coach with his fedora and the Hall of Fame owner and general manager with a never-ending twinkle in his eye.įrom 1960 through 1988, Landry was the Cowboys, the only coach the organization knew. The Dallas Cowboys' 60-year history splits into two chapters: Tom Landry and Jerry Jones.

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