Know Your Dallas Cowboys: The Blog

One of the big news items this week is that the Cowboys hired Dave Campo to serve as secondary coach. I’ve always wondered: how exactly could Campo have played defensive back at Central Connecticut State when he stands at somewhere around 5′4″?
Anyway, Campo’s defenses in the 1990s were solid, thanks largely to the unit’s […]

Here is some obscure trivia (also posted on the Classic Cowboys forum):
Contrary to what I believed, the Cowboys did not always wear white for their home games.
Below is a shot from the very first game in franchise history, a 35-28 loss to Pittsburgh at the Cotton Bowl. #87 is DE Nate Borden and #72 […]

[Note: this piece was updated after its original posting] Thanks to the suggestion of Marty Ogelvie of Cowboys Cards (great site for Cowboys history), we have a second nominee for Most Obscure Player of 1961. The original winner was defensive back Don Bishop, but there was a second player equally deserving of the recognition.
Dicky (also […]

The first name given to the NFL franchise in Dallas was the Dallas Rangers. Prior to the time that the other NFL owners voted to allow Dallas to enter the league, the Cowboys had already signed a quarterback named Don Meredith and a coach named Tom Landry. The headline in the Dallas Morning […]

The original idea behind this website was to provide a trivia blog that would somehow connect the Cowboys teams from the past with the team of the present. Then the season comes, and I tend to veer off-course. If I were driven solely by bringing traffic on the site, I suspect there might be […]

Last June, a moderator named Starbuck on the Dallas Cowboys Fan Zone started the Favorite Classic Cowboys Elimination. Several of us offered names, and then the competition began. Seven months later, we have a winner: Roger Staubach, who proved to be more popular than Emmitt Smith, Tom Landry, Bob Lilly, and a whole […]

Here is a stat you may or may not have noticed: only six members of the Cowboys recorded rushing attempts in 2007. This includes quarterbacks Tony Romo and Brad Johnson. This ties a mark set in 1962, when the following players recorded rushes in a 14-game season: Don Perkins, Amos Marsh, Amos Bullocks, Don […]

I could hardly bring myself to watch the Giants/Packers game on Sunday, and I do not take much comfort in the fact that the team that beat Dallas is the one going to the Super Bowl. I am instead focusing on some history that may be obscure to some: the old Playoff Bowl (Bert […]

Last year I ran a piece about how the Cowboys performed against eventual NFL/Super Bowl champions. Including Indianapolis in 2006 and including the pre-Super Bowl years, Dallas is 6-19 against eventual champions during the regular season. If New England beats the Giants, the record will fall to 6-20. If the […]

Now that Jason Garrett is going to be here a while, seems like a good time to provide a summary of the offensive coordinators in team history. This is not as extensive of a list as it may seem, for one man ran the offense for most of the first 29 years.
Tom Landry (1960-1988)
Although […]