Posted on 10/12/2023 7:12:06 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
DALLAS (AP) — Walt Garrison, who led the Big 8 in rushing for the Oklahoma State Cowboys, won a Super Bowl as a fullback with the Dallas Cowboys and competed as a rodeo cowboy, has died. He was 79.
The NFL team said in a story posted on its website Thursday that Garrison died overnight. It did not give a cause of death.
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All it takes is just a pinch between your cheek and gum.
Yeah he was the Skoal man. RIP I have his football cards and still have his SI front cover
Great guy.
For the record, I am still a big dipper. Skoal Straight Long Cut.
I met him. Nice guy.
RIP Walt Garrison, a real Cowboy.
That’s the one I remember!
Majority of American non-smokers and non-chewers do not make it to age 79. So there is that to chew on.
R.I.P. Walt, one of my all-time favorite heroes. Bless his family. Garrison defined what it meant to be a Cowboy, a true NFL icon. So many great memories, thanks for all of them. Fans today have no idea what they’re missing.
Butkis, who just passed, once told a young Garrison that if he ran thru that line again “He’d bite his head off!” Without missing a beat Garrison replied “ That’ll be the first time you had any brains in your head.”
My fav also!
He was a fine player. Unfortunately my memory of him will always be the great tackle Ken Houston made on him at the goal line to win for the Washington Redskins. That he was such a tough runner made that tackle all the more memorable.
I saw him in a rodeo once in the mid-70s. How could you not be a fan of Walt Garrison?
I switched to the pouches after many years
I remember that add.
Skoal was it for the youngsters. Me in school, it was allowed and we had our own area near the smokers.
Principal was a tobacco farmer. Gave us a sand pit with a bench. Good times......
Copenhagen was the strong stuff. I still dip myself.
When I started it was 45c.
“If it was third down, and you needed four yards, if you’d get the ball to Walt Garrison, he’d get you five. And if it was third down and you needed twenty yards, if you’d get the ball to Walt Garrison, by God, he’d get you five.” - Don Meredith
Had the good fortune to know him personally. He was a good man. Everything you would want for a neighbor, employer, or friend. Very good man. Just the way you would expect him to be, a street shooting, honest talking, direct cowboy. Cowboy in the western sense. Once in mixed Company, a man told a dirty joke that was a little bit more ripe than you would ever want in front of women. In front of everybody, he used a calm voice and told the guy not to talk that way again in his presence. He had moral courage.
Most former football players don’t make it to 79.
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