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Sorry to resurrect a zombie thread, but someone on the Facebook AFL group posted (at my request) the pages from the Super Bowl III program with the article by Don Smith of the Pro Football HOF and it confirms what I remembered from over 50 years ago: the AFL (J5-V) and NFL (F1100) balls had exactly ...

1) Tom Landry predicted that zone defenses would dominate the 1970's. The Cowboys had mostly played man defense during the 60s, as Landry's original 4-3 defensive scheme with the Giants had secondary players who could cover man-to-man. Landry noted that with the addition of the AFL and general expa...

The biography of retired Dallas Cowboy Pettis Norman has been published.

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/202 ... biography/

You can find the Cowboys gamebooks and media guides by using their media site: https://www.nflomg.com Select the Cowboys, and then enter the following: Username: cowboysguest Password: cowboys2021 I believe they have every single media guide in team history, and every single gamebook minus a 1967 g...

Forgive me if this has been posted already, but the Dallas Cowboys are making their weekly game programs available online: https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/star-magazine/program/2021/ I assume other teams are doing this, but I don't know. I can't find their gamebooks or media guides, which used to...

Did y'all know Disney is shutting down ESPN Classic? I didn't even know ESPN Classic was still around, and now that I do, it's too late!

https://www.on3.com/news/disney-shuttin ... ry-1-2022/

The 1988 Bob St. John bio of Tex Schramm is a hardback. The 2006 bio is a paperback of the same book although I cannot say if it includes updated material. I don't recall the cover saying it was a second, updated, or revised edition. Instead it carries a different title, just to make things more con...

Interesting article about a book by Britni De La Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo called “Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League.” https://news.yahoo.com/in-telling-story-of-forgotten-womens-football-league-new-book-details-nfl-battle-still-being-fought-today-184438132.ht...

According to Wikipedia, Moegle legally changed his name to Maegle in 1962 because people mispronounced his birth name. The article doesn't say this, but I thought I read someplace that he changed it back later as an adult, but I can't confirm that. The Dallas Cowboys Encyclopedia (Donovan, 1996) lis...

In 1995, Cowboy DB Alundis Brice (DB: 1995-96) switched from #21 to #29 so Deion could wear it.