Inside the Star: The Ultimate Dallas Cowboys Fan Guide
By Barry Wilner
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This action-packed book offers a front-row seat to everything that makes the Cowboys great. The classic games. The iconic stadiums. The fierce rivalries. Not to mention the Super Bowl championships and the Hall of Fame players. Whether it's top-tier quarterbacks, powerful running backs, or hard-hitting defenders, Dallas has been home to some of football's best.
Season Ticket: Teams uses engaging and informative storytelling to take readers into the past, present, and future of their favorite sports teams. With chapters exploring historic moments, team traditions, and today's hottest superstars, Season Ticket: Teams is your all-access pass to the most iconic franchises in sports!
Barry Wilner
Barry Wilner has been a sportswriter for the Associated Press since 1976. He is the AP’s national pro football writer and has covered every Super Bowl since 1987. Barry also has authored 67 books. He lives in Garnerville, New York.
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Inside the Star - Barry Wilner
By Barry Wilner
Inside the Star: The Ultimate Dallas Cowboys Fan Guide © 2019 by Press Room Editions. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from the copyright owner, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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Chapter 1
Hail Mary
Roger Staubach is famous for many things. As the greatest quarterback in Naval Academy history, he won the Heisman Trophy in 1963. Then, after serving four years in the military, he joined the Dallas Cowboys. He went from backup to starter to champion to Hall of Famer. Dallas won two Super Bowls with Staubach at the helm, and he made the NFL’s All-Decade team for the 1970s.
Despite all those achievements, people always seem to ask Staubach about one play. And one phrase: Hail Mary.
The same goes for Drew Pearson, a star receiver for the Cowboys in the 1970s and also a member of the All-Decade team.
It slowly became the term for anybody that was kind of in trouble, and you had a hope,
Staubach said years later. Now the Hail Mary is used for politics, for business, and for football.
Especially for football, where every desperation pass by a losing team at the end of a game is described the same way: Hail Mary.
I get asked almost every day about the Hail Mary,
Pearson said. In some way, shape, or form, people ask me about that. To this day, when I sign autographs I write ‘Hail Mary always’ or ‘Hail Mary to you,’ ‘Hail Mary wishes,’ things like that.
So what prompted the phrase?
The Cowboys were visiting the Minnesota Vikings on December 28, 1975, for a playoff game. Dallas was a wild-card team with a 10–4 record. The Vikings, meanwhile, were a powerhouse. They had won the NFC Central with a 12–2 record, which was tied for best in the league.
The game took place at frigid Metropolitan Stadium, where the wind chill was only 17 degrees Fahrenheit. The Cowboys took a 10–7 lead early in the fourth quarter. But then Minnesota went in front 14–10, and things started to look bleak for Dallas.
Facing second-and-10 with less than 30 seconds remaining in the game, Staubach dropped back to pass against the Purple People Eaters. That was the nickname for the tough Vikings defense, which had allowed an average of only 13 points per game during the regular season. Along with a