Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years of Football
THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED AMERICA’S TEAM.\ Not because everyone in America is a Cowboys fan, but because every football fan in America pays attention to the Cowboys. In this book, on the occasion of the Cowboy’s 50th anniversary, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED tells their tale in photos both rare and famous and in revealing stories culled from past pages, bringing the team’s glorious legacy to life. \ 8 SUPER BOWLS\ 5 SUPER BOWL TITLES\ 30 PLAYOFF APPEARANCES\ 12 HALL OF FAMERS\ 50 YEARS OF FOOTBALL\ Few...
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THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED AMERICA S TEAM. Not because everyone in America is a Cowboys fan, but because every football fan in America pays attention to the Cowboys. In this book, on the occasion of the Cowboy s 50th anniversary, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED tells their tale in photos both rare and famous and in revealing stories culled from past pages, bringing the team s glorious legacy to life. 8 SUPER BOWLS 5 SUPER BOWL TITLES 30 PLAYOFF APPEARANCES 12 HALL OF FAMERS 50 YEARS OF FOOTBALL Few teams in American sports history have generated such powerful emotional reactions as the Dallas Cowboys. Like the New York Yankees or the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the Cowboys are both revered and reviled in the extreme. For the fans who love them, the famed franchise has, over its first half century, delivered heroes like Bob Lilly, Chuck Howley, Roger Staubach, Bob Hayes, Mel Renfro, Tom Landry, Cliff Harris, Randy White, Troy Aikman. Record-breakers like Tony Dorsett, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin. Memorable characters like Don Meredith, Pete Gent, Tex Schramm, Harvey Martin, Too Tall Jones, Hollywood Henderson, Jimmy Johnson. They have been, over their first 50 years, the most fascinating team in football. In 1960, their first season, the Cowboys were winless. By the 1966 season they were playing in the NFL Championship Game. In January of 1972 they won their first Super Bowl title. In 1996 they won their fifth in their eighth Super Bowl appearance, the most by any team. The Cowboys have won dramatically, won stylishly and won relentlessly. Their captivating odyssey is all here in nearly 200 pages of pictures, stories, iconography, numbers and arcane from those five decades a unique celebration of a football team.
