Mick Shots: Award Winning

the territory spending the next forty five minutes. Vicky's got he's got a legal pad, he's got a notepad, he's got the press releases, game notes, stats, he's got every everything he's gonna fill us in. You guys might not talk today. Oh it's apisode. Here we go, yang, Yeah, there you go. Yeah, full of mix shots, right, this

edition of mix Shots. And the Cowboys have just completed a practice out on the practice field on a beautiful day for practice here right, Yes, absolutely, and this will probably be their hardest practice for this week since it's a short week. Um, didn't look like they head their pad. Maybe they had shells on. They went easy yesterday kind of a walk through. It did look like everybody didn't have a helmet. Uh. And then they well, yesterday today

they had their helmets on. Yeah. Today they okay, So yeah, so tomorrow will be kind of a rest day and then they'll go at it on Thursday. Two notes. Randy Gregory looked like he got somewhat of a veteran day, and I gave him grief for when I saw I'm walking off I said, where are you going? He goes, you know, I'm getting older. I said, oh, well, I said, you are not old enough to qualify for a veteran day. And he laughed and kept going right. Uh, Tony Pollard

missed it. He had a personal issue to take care of. So I knew those two things from the practice. And this week when they were doing the individual drills that we get to see Michael Parsons was working with the linebackers again. So very interesting to see. I don't know what kind of offense, Uh Carolina runs. You know, do they do a lot of base, because if they're in base, they probably want them as they just traded away a tight end, Well, they got to have another tight end. No,

we can't. They're gonna be like that story out of Detroit when they cut the kickers and oh, Matt campbelly, he's not gonna have kicked the ball. He's going for it. But actually they like the tight end that's replacing Dan Tremble. But more more likely the reason that Parsons might be used at linebacker, they use they use a fullback quite a bit. Ah, Giovanni Rizzy really is his name from the Old Country. Yeah, and in fact from the Old Country.

As you talk, I will look up how many snaps they're fullback back last week, and so that's a significant difference from what we normally see week to week in the National Football League. And that would be and the fact that the Cowboys get Bradley and I back, right, Mike didn't say that this morning. Might No, might they get brat? You said, might they get back? He said,

there was nothing different on the COVID front. Yeah, So the fact they've had a practice their main practice today, right, Okay, now we're moving into Friday, and so so who's playing d pensive end? I would maybe they liked what they saw from Chauncy Gholston Basham, Yeah, I was gonna say Basham and then Gregory and it's hard not to like anyone. They got into the game against the Eagles because the entire front line was getting decimated. So yeah, but it

looked like, I mean, just now they can change. But I don't think they would practice just to fake us out. Oh they're going to report he's at linebacker if I were really at defensive end. Right. Um, So there must be something that they saw in the Carolina offense that the fullback Giovanni ritchie r c c I there you go. Ricci Okay had eighteen snaps on offense at Houston, fifteen against New Orleans and twelve against the Job Okay, Well,

there you go. Every week he's getting fifteen to eighteen staff and they're probably thinking, if you know, to give Hubbard some help, maybe he needs a fullback out there to without McCaffrey. It's just part of their base. That might be their base offense because they were doing it with McCaffrey in there, and and you know what, you know, as much as McCaffrey goes out, maybe they felt like a fullback in the middle there helps out with pass protection. Well,

it's always good to have a fullback. You've got somebody small as McCaffrey back there. Just opened up that whole, dicing up the middle. So once again Everson Wall's name comes up again. Oh yeah, the discussion. So you usual good. You saw trey Vin Diggs was named the Defensive Player of the Month in the NFCUM I hadn't started that. Yeah,

when did? When did they start the award? Because this note says he's the first Defensive Player of the Month for the Cowboys, and he joins defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence twenty seventeen and linebacker Sean Lee twenty thirteen in twenty eleven as the only Cowboys to earn the honor. I'm thinking they started it in twenty eleven. I mean DeMarcus Lawrence, never DeMarcus Ware. DeMarcus Ware never won that. Come on,

I'm thinking they started it. Yeah, that must fairly recently, the one when they used to do of the week. Okay time, when when did Twitter start? That's about it. You're looking for things to fill up. Don't ask me. Ask me when I started Twitter. You know, Twitter started about ten years ago, so that's probably when they started that award. So they asked they asked McCarthy if he had announced that to the team at the team meeting today in the press conference, and he said, no, Rich

didn't tell me in time meeting. Del Ruth eat it. No, they actually don't announce it until about mid warning that finally let it go. So when we were out there, Uh, someone asked him about, well, how did you find out and he said, uh, Mica told me, And they said Mica. He goes, yeah, you know, Mica, he's on social media, right, he goes, He goes, I'm not on it. He goes, I stay off the internet. So he was the one

that told him. I rest my case. The reason that they do the Player of the Month is to fill up a Twitter feed. And by the way, guys, nineteen eighty six was the first time of the month. Yes, nineteen eighty six, so there was no Cowboy player Charles Haley. Cowboys had the number one ranked defense in the league. They won the Super Bowl. I went back and looked Bill and no that had won it. But with San Sanrasis. And we've spent all this time complaining about no Cowboys

in the Hall of Fame. What about no Cowboy defensive players? I think that's the pre requisite right there, he starts from the player of the month, player of the week first, didn't player of the month? You don't get that. If you shout out of that, you're not going to be part of the legacy of the NFL has actually won

it twice. By the way, San Francisco, Well, you know what that ninety two season, and I don't know if anybody has a media guide, but I want to say they ended up with the number one defense and I don't know if they had even a player named to the Pro Bowl that year, but you shouldn't be able to find that out real quick. Interesting, which is I think that's what I remember seeing. Uh And if it was two, is one or two maybe at the at

the most because um Darren Woodson wasn't starting at that point. Well, it wasn't until the playoff run in ninety two before everyone realized that Cowboys had a Super Bowl team. Knew early early that season. You remember the Monday Night game, which is, well, we're probably looking at pretty close to thirty years ago right now. First, it was the first week of October ninety two, be twenty nine years ago. There was the Monday Night game at Philadelphia where the

Eagles just killed them. Yeah, thirty one to seven. There was a big celebration before the game out there. Yea. And in fact, this is how TV has changed and just the way the media covers the NFL. I spent the entire week out in Philadelphia, uh, covering that leading up to the game. Ye for a regular season game, a Monday night game, and we spent four or five days. This was in Philly, and uh and beat writers from

here would go and cover the opposing team. I mean I spent the whole week going into the Eagles locker room that week. Whatever. That's how we two. Okay, So when was King Wat's uh the division? Yeah, December ninety one, No, they qualified as well, that was very cool. That's when they lost to Detroit kat the Bears and then lost in Detroit. So ninety two Pro Bowl, Okay, ninety two Pro Bowl. I was looking at eighty two. That was

Onnyway when all right, ninety two Pro Bowl. You had these fine defensive players for the Cowboys, Troy Eateman, Michael Irvin, Nate Newton, Jane Novacheck, Immtt Smith, and Mark Stepnosky. You are there were no defensive players, not one yeah, and they were the number one defense. Okay, love about ninety three, I bet there was a breakthrough. Well that's when you had Thomas Everett and Russell Maryland. Yeah, Ken Norton, that's it. And that's it. There were three that Charles Hayley, this

is when they started coming, Leon Letton, Darren Woodson. That's ninety four. There's three, okay, five Charles Haley, Darren Woodson too. So when did I make it? Five? Was his first year? Yeah? Okay, so then and uh and then things started for half of all right, and so yeah, like eighty five. My other good, my other good, uh, Mick shot on Trey Von Diggs was they asked him he if he was

aware that or what if he knew? Uh that he was the first player since eighty five when uh, Everson Walls had three interceptions, one in each of the first three games, and you were the next player to do that? Did you even know who Everson Walls was? And he goes U, I googled him. Wow, you got Google. I got googled. It is with burning yesterday. I was wondering what the heck was so he googled him. Here in the last couple of days or when he found out today about when he found out about it, and they

said that was since eighty five. And they said, so you never met at me goes now, never met him, never heard of me? You never heard of me? I mean with all my pictures around here, got they should you should know. I mean I've got so many. I mean I'm you know, in the locker room and all of that, I mean all up and down the wall, you know, three or four, five times in the stadium. I mean you can you can find my picture on one level. Try every everybody. Everybody's heard of Emerson Walls.

He called me Emerson less. That's a good thing. Did he call me Emerson when I googled him? They don't. They all did wrong. They were the names. Your name is not with the picture, probably probably not, like okay, you know who you are. These young guys. Plus, they're not walking around this side. I have walked through that locker room and didn't draw not one look several times. So now these young kids are into social media because, like you said, into Twitter, you should have had Player

of the Year for eighty one. Yeah. Now they were two busy telling me what I didn't do. That's the way. See that's the way it was in the eighties. But pro about what you didn't do? Yeah, of course Pro Bowl your names on the wall there by the locker room. Uh yeah, I would imagine I don't know where the cornerbacks are, and they list all the guys that were Pro Bowlers at those positions. I have not said you

didn't walk that far yet. I have not. Well you can't get there now, Hey, I couldn't get back there then, okay, so let's just be real. So that was Yeah, it was very cool though, very cool. Look, I'm looking at David More just sent me a tech said, Dig said,

he googled you. He's late on the further. That's good. Damn, I'm a relic getting so And you know what I thought when it's weird thought, but when when he had to pick six the other day, and especially Monday night football, I said, well, he just he's just running himself right into the Pro Bowls, right, you know, third game of the season and Trayvon Diggs just won't him was spotting the Pro Bowl and they were trying to bring up

so Tan. I think he ended up getting an interception or two this year, and they they've been trying to pump him up. But when Diggs did that on Monday night, Yeah, we've just be doing in a time. And yeah, and especially the fact that he's got one and every game so far, you know, and the other I mean, that wasn't the only played that game. I mean, I thought he had more than three pass fake ups. But that's what's back said. They gave him credit for. He was

all over the field at first. It started off kind of weird. He's letting a tight end kind of shake him down in the beginning of the first drive, and what the heck that was? He let the tight end beat him across the middle, he slips and I think it was God that he goes another twenty yards after that, but no more problems after that, Okay. Ed asked him what he thought about it. He said, it's an honor. I really appreciated it. He goes, but I got to focus.

I want to win it again, right about that, Okay, he wants to win it again. Okay, and he does have that, I guess on ever since since the award didn't get started in nineteen eighty six. Now, if the award had started in nineteen eighty one. Oh no telling how many Everson would have won. All right, so here's another goal for Trayvon Diggs. How about you'll make the Pro Bowling eight in your first year or your second

year than his games. Okay, he's already behind Everson there, Yeah, because ever Everson made the Pro Bowl High Bill, he made the Pro Bowling eighty two. He made the Pro Bowling eighty three. I don't know what happened in nineteen eighty four, but Everson also made the Pro Bowl in nineteen eighty five. So there you go. Four out of the first five five years in the league. And then they started the de so that was for nineteen eighty five, and then they started the defensive player in the month

of Ward and eighty five. I did not know, uh that I didn't have three in the first three games in eighty one. I never tracked it, but Redskins was first. I think my next big game was the Colt outside of the Patriots Monday Night. Just like Digs, we we blew them out. I had two picks that that game. You're a rookie year. Oh yeah, I wasn't even starting then. I was I wasn't even playing. Well, you get on field. I mean I wasn't starting third downs. I was okay,

I got my they were playing it was it was trad. Yeah, oh come on, well we played dime. We played dime. It started off yeah, everybody. Then that's when the quarterback everybody shot gunning. Yeah. So then they ended up going to nickel even on first down, but started off on Doc got some garbage time. I'm doing the wet scans and got in tiesment threw some crap up. I caught that. I was scared as hell, and uh, I can't remember what happened the next couple of games, but will on Monday. Okay.

Your first game at Washington interception. Next game was Saint Louis and there was no pick, No Cowboys one. You had two picks against New England. The next third game, yeah okay, and then the fourth game you had a pick against the Giants. So four picks in the first three games of your career. And then you had another stretch in October, October eighteenth, twenty fifth and November ninth, the span of four weeks where you had six interceptions.

You had had two against the Rams, two against the Dolphins, and two against the Bills. My lord eleven picks in sixteen games that year. Oh and by the way, two more picks in the playoffs. So thirteen interceptions in eighteen games and the Pro Bowl, don't forget. Oh and then the Pro Bows, did you get any respect? Like they quit throwing at you? Yeah, they finally did quit. I went out for a while. But you know, when you see somebody out there running the fourth seven, Yeah, I'm

coming from a cool They couldn't even pronounce Grambling. It was still Grambling College to them, and so to the you know, co offensive Cordinets could give a damn about the HBCU. So they just felt like that guy. Okay, okay, so there you had seven. I mean you had thirteen. Let's list just do a regular season. Eleven picks in sixteen games. And then he had the strike shortened season in eighty two, okay, and the only played nine games. Seven picks in eighty two. I was I was going

for night Train's number, but we had to strike. Yeah, night Train Lane. So that was eighteen picks in his first twenty five games in the in the league. Okay, Well that's got to be a record. Eighteen picks in twenty five games. I'm going fast four and eighty three here you would have to and the first oh you fell off, the were picks fell off? Yea, they finally recognized him. Four picks, four picks in the first seven games, and so that would put you at what we were

at twenty eight. So that's twenty two out of thirty two games. So twenty two picks in your first thirty two games in the league. So that basically two years. Yeah, so twenty two picks. And by the way, when you mentioned Don Bishop, yeah, I looked it up and he had a pick in each of the first five games. Oh see, how about that? That's what I was wondering.

How far did Who's next? Yeah? Whose Diggs going? After nixt saying, and I think when they mentioned that, it was since the merger in nineteen seventy, so they didn't go back any further. But he had as a matter of fact, he led the Cowboys in interceptions. I think three of the four first four years or four of the first five. I wrote it down and said mix

shots on Dallas Cowboys dot com. Um. But but and he led the team I think until until mel Renfro became mel Renfro, Right, Um, but yeah, I've never heard of again Renfro before Rent. Yeah, and that's crazy. And he had played in the league several years before with I think two other teams, so that's why he didn't play long with. He came with the Cowboys sixty to like sixty five. Man, dude, I'm glad we're bringing them up Pittsburg in Chicago before the Cowboys. And was he

getting picks there too? Uh? No, he his his all twenty two picks in his career came with the Cowboys. Wow. Maybe they didn't keep the stat and that's very good. That is very good. Yeah. When did they start throwing the forward path? Yeah, right before Sammy Ball. No, they kept the stats because when I looked, I was looking, uh you know, putin since ever since eleven in eighty one, no one's had more than most they've had is ten. So I was looking going back, going back, and there

was some in the teams back then. And once again I always say it, I don't care how many times they threw with me or whoever. You would just think with all these passes in the air that more people would be playing like Diggs is playing right now. You don't have to get two picks a game. But man, if you just get one and they're throwing at you seven eight times, just one, I always I said it yesterday.

I still believe it. I say that the game. I was telling timmy Newsoon, if he goes for my record, regardless of you know, whether you're talking nine or eleven or whatever, we're going to the boat. If he if he continued, If just he continues on this this pace, I think that would be like a catalyst to us being a good team and being good enough to go

to the super Ball, he said. Out there just a little while ago, They said, so, what did you work on in the off season, because he had mentioned I had my hands on a bunch of balls last year and didn't hold on. He said, I worked on my hands. I've worked on catching the football. So to get picks like that, you have to be a gambler. Yeah, there's no doubt. I got a nickname for the defense. What's what number? What number is digs number number seven? Yeah?

What numbers? Parsons left? Seven come eleven? You like it? Seven eleven, seven come eleven. Yeah, we're shooting night. So you're saying you're seven gets eleven or I like if seven gets eleven. There you go, seven gets eleven. There will definitely an endorsement deal coming for traders. Seven gets eleven, We're going to heaven. All right, there you go. I like it. All right? We continue with more mix shots in a moment, Honey, big news. Gary? Are you okay? Oh?

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it's ever been one. You go back in the Mix Shots archives for that. I have to go far all right, Um, anything come out of Mike McCarthy's press conference today of note, uh, let me see here. You know, he mentioned that, you know, they have a little advantage to Carolina because they have ten days to prepare. Cowboys only have six. You know.

On that topic though, the Cowboys coaching staff right, and definitely the scouting staff what they had Because the Cowboys played on Monday night, there was actually extra time for the Cowboys to do some coaches yeah, and he pointed out that the coaches spent started on Carolina on Saturday did quite a bit after their workout on Sunday and then Monday morning started working on Carolina. And he mentioned the quality control guys were ahead of the game exactly

and he calls it the pit crew. So it actually it actually was. This is it's actually And as far as the Cowboys preparation for Carolina, even though Carolina has the extra rest, their players have the extra rest between the Thursday and the Sunday. As far as preparation getting things in line, it actually benefits the Cowboys that a line of plate on Thursday, because they had all the intel that they needed and they could go over it and have it ready to present to the team as

soon as the game was over. Based and because Monday it's it's so early in the season. If there was new stuff, they had an opportunity to kind of analyze it. It. I mean from a practice standpoint, I'll guarantee you they played Thursday, were they at home run, They were home at They were at Houston, all right, So they traveled, so I bet they had Friday, Saturday and Sunday off, came in Monday, had had a light run, Tuesday off, and then practice right So the only difference is they're

off their feet. They'll get their legs back faster than they it says they would have it. They had a normal practice on Wednesday and Thursday and with a Cowboys or yeah, kind of slowly moving into it, right, say, well, I don't care how much time you have to prepare it. You better have a good game plan. Yeah, I mean it'd better, you know, equal a good game plan because if if it ain't working right, I don't care how much time you have. Matchups can be amazing. Sometimes. They

got some great wide receivers on their squad. I don't know much about Dawn at all. They've got some talented McCarthy touched on that and it was almost like, uh, paralysis by analysis. If you do too much and you failure, Oh I got these extra days. Let me keep grinding, and you get too much and and you overwhelm yourself. Uh, and then you also have time to say, oh no, wait a minute, I got Yeah. That was the best

thing happened for Super Bowl twenty five. I don't know what was going on that, yeah, Bill, Bill, you might be able to tell me. But of course that was the the the war was going on. But we had only one week of prep in between. Yeah, to play against buffets. You flew from San Francisco. We went straight on. We went straight on and that was that was weird.

But just not having time to overthink it. Yeah, I think it was a good thing for us because you know Belichick, you know, at that time he was younger. He probably would have overthought it, which would be unusual for him, But I don't think he ever had that much time to prepare for such an unusual team. That was the first team that was doing the no huddle, you know, so it was kind of different on how

you had to do with with different personnel. They don't give you a chance to sub out, so you gotta go with what you got, which we came up with the first up. Amiba? Is that what that was like? The first I think that's the first time that's ever been playing, which Dell Brown stole that for LSU basketball. He was playing a matchup zone called it our Amba. In that regard, we were the hybrid guys, just like we have now. You have the Peppers and the call

Banks's and the lts and the reasons. What did they call their offense back then? It was a something gun offense, the Kelly shotgun or something like that. It wasn't shotgun. There was something. I thought it was a gun something. There was something because he was always in the shotgun and they never came off the field. And three wide receivers which was somewhat not heard of. First second, no doubt, no doubt. We had to Well that was like you could say, that's the first game that led us to

where we are now on how we play defense. Yeah, and so you know when you look at that game you had, you could have thank yeah, okay, okay, Kelly, Kelly. Yeah. And when you look at that, you could have easily overthought that, like who do I want to put in? You know, a certain situations, they're not gonna give us a chance to do this. You know. He could have really overthought that big time. But so we only had seven days. Did your defense change significantly from what you

did against San Francisco? The second dary didn't, but the personal in the front seven, Yes, the front seven. I mean you went from uh taking out the linebacker to putting in uh Renee, Um god, what was renee last name? He was from Dallas, Texas. Uh, so you had you had Renee from Baylor. He was a hurdler and uh we had our uh, Perry Williams was at corner and they had me at safety. So that's kind of how we played the entire game, all right, keep talking, Okay,

moving on. Yeah, he was our nickel guy. He was our nickel guy to play, So all I had to do was sit back there and just kind of survey the situation. But I worked him so well in that slot because he was gonna be playing man to man. Oh, he's gonna be playing zone. And I kept calling man to man because I didn't I like the way that they were jamming the receiver's up at the line of scrimmage.

I think it's when they young sounds. We're getting that work getting so while he's looking that up, um McCarthy. One of the other things, yeah, right, Renee Thompson McCarthy said that when you have a top flight quarterbacks, the whole team uh knows they always have an opportunity to win the game. And I thought that was, you know, pretty indicative of I think probably how this team's feeling right now, no matter who they're playing. Um, you know, if Dak's Dak and see, they can, like I said,

they can have all the time they want to prepare. Yeah, but can you stop this offense? Yeah? You know you there are things that we're we've done. You you can't. You don't even you haven't even seen them yet. You know, there's a potential we can change anything up. We can put CD in the backfield, we can put Zeke at why, we can put Polo in the slot, put two white, put two offensive linement out wide with a wide receiver or anything. And we can still we can still hit

a six year pass. Yeah, you know, we can still hit a four year pass. We can still make it seven and long. We can still make our drives manageable. And that's the best case scenario. So what do you have to look at? How well is that offensive line gonna hold up? So it's gonna be our offensive line versus there d line with all these first round draft picks, first rounds on both sides, that's gonna be the matchup right there. He uh Tyrann Smith did a deal out

there and did an interview. He's got both arms brace stuff. It's like he's got the big knee brace one now the other one was wrapped up in some black stuff and he comes out and it's like, what a specimen. That's crazy. He doesn't even look real. How many interviews has he done this season? He's been doing it almost one. Was gonna once every week, or twice a week, or twice once every two weeks. Yeah, for the first eight

years of his career, he probably did one interview. There was you know what, there was like the you know how you have the invisible dog fence around the house. It was like that fence and it wasn't you didn't get past, but it wasn't because he was or he just didn't like doing it right, And everyone understood that he didn't like doing the interviews, and so every it was a sign of respect from the media even then, and because people wouldn't, they could see that he wasn't

a mean person. He's just and every once in a while you could walk over there and if you were by yourself, you could throw something at him and he'd smile and he'd give you an answer, you know, and you didn't need a tape recorder because it wasn't long enough that you could write it all down, right, But he was nice about it, right. Yeah, I have a video of him dancing by the way. Really. Yeah. I went on a trip with him on a an island.

You know, one of those cowboys. I hope you didn't take any pictures of me that you've saved it on your phone. You damn might have it on my phone. I should do. This must be a good I'm going to show it to you guys. So when we come back there will show you tire and dancing, and I will tell you Renee Thompson he went to Thomas Jefferson High School. When we come back in a moment, will Everson show tyr and dancing we shall see. At Smoothie King,

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American Cancer Society. Visit your local Dallas Cowboys Pro shop or log on to shop dot Dallas Cowboys dot com a fanatics experience. Yeah, man, I'm not going to give you any more credit. We just when we thought you had crossed over, you fail. Don't donate. It just didn't come out. You don't donate, You out to donate? Okay, what concerns you the most about Carolina Panthers? I guess the defense I just got to know if it's for real, and maybe we'll find out. This is going to be

their biggest test, right. They've got some pretty good pressure players up front, So can the Cowboys offensive line you know, handle them and give Dak time to operate, give Zeke room to roam and if and if they can, then I don't know if the defense is that good or we'll find out if it is right. Will they will they play it straight? Can they play just match up and not overload to stop the run or overload to stop to pass and take their chance with the other

area of the offense. This is the game. I'm glad we're playing at home. Yes, I am glad we're playing because this is a well coached team. And when you have the confidence, when you've built that confidence, I don't care who you playing against, you built that confidence. We have to show them that we are the more experienced team. And unfortunately for the Cowboys it's a noon game. So the fans, you know, Jimmy, Jimmy, you to say, you know, do what you ever need to do to get ready

and later arriving crowd. You remember this Sunday noon games at Texas Stadium. I hate them. People were coming right from church. I reacted like they were and they went to they went to the seven o'clock service. Yeah, they can make it game. People would come dressed from church right in the game. And the crowd was so much different at Texas State. Yes it was. Yeah, it changed a little bit. Even when Jerry bought the team. The

makeup of the crowd changed. Whatever you got, it got louder, roudier, little that's right. Yeah, but and success. And I kind of like that because we were a little boogie in Texas Stadium. You know, they sit back like impressed me. Yes, it was like going to a play, right, and I did. I never did like that. That video board that had you couldn't even see the video That was no different from any other stadium. But there was like the first where the with a video boat. It was like electronic.

It was an electronic video board with like with like bub a little bulbs on there that it was supposed to be video on there. And so we looked. We just sat back and it was like a joy. So did you go to games on Sunday? Yeah? You know what usually happened is, uh, we didn't have season tickets or anything. I'd usually because I lived. I grew up in Irving, and which was I mean literally three miles from the stadium. And I'd get a call from someone and at ten o'clock on Sunday morning, hey you want

to go to the game. We're going a game. And they come by and pick me up and it drop us off at University of Dallas the UD campuses right there and go down that hill right to the stadium. Mom or Dad would drop us off across the crossover and go to games. And it happened numerous times. So yeah, and I got that. There were games where when I retired, you know, you go to church, and I was always

so nervous watching them. Even after I retired, I was I would be glad to come home and see what the score is when I got home from church, because otherwise, if I'm sitting in church about trans man, I try my best name to look at my watchdoing church because it's too tempting. Here we go. But no, you know, like if once the prey starts going like man, the game is on, you don't want to be thinking that kind of stuff. Did you ever go to the games at the Cotton Bowl? I don't know, no, no, because

I didn't. I I was on the north side. You couldn't go that first. I just didn't have relatives there. I just just didn't have time, didn't have any pransiportations. I was thirteen years old. What the heck I'm gonna do with Texas Stadium? Was I was twelve years old? Eleven twelve years old. I'm not not riding your bike down No, I'm not down Central at that time in Greenville,

it was green Yeah, right, that's right. By the way, we're coming up on the anniversary of the first game ever at Texas Stadium, which is it was our told of nineteen seventy one. Yeah, so it's a I mean, we're big anniversary. It was we're talking fifty year anniversary. It was like first or second week in October, right, And that's what you got that book for. It was not Mickey's memory. It was against New England nineteen seventy one, and it was October twenty fourth. While you're looking, when

did we play them in the playoffs? We played San Francisco. I believe in the playoffs at Texas Texas Stadium. If I'm in nineteen seventy one, yes, it's the NFC Championship games. Was at that game, okay? And the opening kickoff San Francisco were turned to four a touchdown. No they didn't, no, no, they didn't know when with San Francisco that was fourteen

to three Cowboys win in seventy one. Might have been the next year, okay, because Dick Nolan was the head coach then, and the number twenty two next year was the thirty to twenty eight game at San frans Francisco. Right, how what? What? What? What game? Am I remembering? Number twenty two? I remember this? Vis Vick Washington, Vic Washington, Yeah, okay, when did he return to kick on us in the stadium? I mean, you don't have to wear about that. I'll

look it up myself. That's gonna be my charge. I'm gonna look that up and find out. We get that what took care of Don Bishop today? So every everybody, uh that was with me that game, they're gone, So I can't I can't ask them where it was. I'm asking Bill. Everybody's gone. Yeah, everybody's gone. That's that's the Shaw Vic Washington. All right, I've got it. I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna get it. I'm gonna let's see, we're gonna from seventy one. Uh, his award winning radio.

I know people, people are probably on Twitter. I got it right here. Just look at Twitter, you know. Not that year. We're gonna go to the next year seventy two. Okay, and that guy were in the playoffs every year. Uh huh. But they didn't play San Francisco. No, they did. That'll just seem like they did. That'll reduce the research. Well, let me say this. The first game I went to was against San Francisco and definitely a big Washington returnity

for a testdown. Man. He had five kickoff returns for touchdowns in nineteen seventy two, none against none against US. So you went to Texas Stadium, Oh yeah, yeah, I remember the Birds up in The Birds were up there with us and comparable, comparably, comparably not that not that high that second that second session section right, I couldn't get that out, man, oh man. That was back when the seats all cost the same amount vic Washington. But he was good though. What the seats all cost the

same amount. The seats were all twenty five dollars when I got here. Really, no matter where you sat, no matter where you sat, they were twenty five dollars. Now you had to pay a seat license remember when they first started in seventy one, But yeah, twenty five bucks. Or if you had good friends, they just pick you up and take you out to the stad drop you off. All right, you're gonna have to do more research on

Vic Washington and Cowboys returning a kid. Yes, all right. See, if I think we're about out of time here on this edition, we haven't. We haven't used our extra time, all right, So we're gonna have a fabulous Football Friday edition tomorrow. And you know we hit on our picks to click, or some of us hit on our picks to click last week. Who will we pick this week? As the Cowboys take on the Carolina Panthers noon Sunday at at and T Stadium, we'll chat at you again

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