For Tom Landry's Sake, Stop Embarrassing the Dallas Cowboys

As I, along with many other Dallas Cowboys fans, recuperate from another spoiled season I realized that many today's group of Cowboys don't realize what it took to make the Cowboys America's Team. I am talking about the early 1960s to mid 1960s Cowboys and the coach who made them who they became. Tom Landry was born September 11, 1924 in Mission, Texas.  After valiantly defending his country as a bomber pilot in World War 1, and graduating from the University of Texas in 1949,  Landry played  corner-back and coached for the New York Giants from 1950-1956.  From 1956-1960 Landry was the defensive  coordinator for the Giants where he created the 4-3 defense. (Vince Lombardi was the offensive coordinator, talk about an all-star coaching staff,)  In 1960 Tom Landry was hired by Cowboys GM Tex Schramm to be head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.  The Cowboys were not allowed by the NFL to participate in the real draft so instead the ... (link)