Posted on 02/05/2005 8:52:10 AM PST by crushkerry
hahahaaa!Guess I'm just one of those "anybody but Philthadelphia" kinds of folks. :^)
Best moment ever. Holier than thou Tom Landry was beating the Eagles by 40 in a "scab" game with the replacement players. In the 4th quarter he still had Tony Dorsett in (who had crossed teh picket line). After the game Buddy says "Wait till I get my guys back".
Later that year after the strike Eagles up 10 in the last minute. Randall takes a knee 2 times, but on the third, he fakes taking the knee and throws long to Fred Barnett. Pass interference call. Eagles ball at the 1, they run it in with 20 seconds left to rub it in Landry's face.
One of the best things I've ever seen.
Tom Landry "holier than thou?"Give me a break. Tom Landry designed the way NFL football was played, building his teams around DEFENSE.
Some of you folks scoff at the old Cowboys being "America's Team", but they did have CLASS, unlike the old Philadelphia's Buddy Ryan.
Sheesh.
Rest in peace, Tom Landry.
On game day Tom Landry always wore a hat and that expression. When he got up that morning he had his Game Face on. When he got on the bus to the stadium you could see the determination in his expression. He didn't see people or anything else around hime. He was thinking about the game and the plays he would call.
But, Tom Landry will always have my highest respect.Yeah, me too, and thanks.
They're not the same since Jerry took over. I hated the way Jones handled letting Landry go.
I didn't get the "holier than thou" stab at Landry.
(Please no stupid, ignorant cracks about throwing snowballs at Santa Claus)Hehehe... there's an Eaglet episode even more recent than those...Oooh, oooh, what about Michael Irvin, or the jailhouse in the stadium? Or the batteries? Oh, so many batteries...
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper wasn't too happy about the way the Philadelphia Eagles treated him and his teammates in their 27-to-14 loss in Philly on Sunday.Hell, even their own heroes hate 'em!But he was even more upset about the way Philly fans treated his wife.
He and some other Vikings say some Eagles fans harassed their relatives as they watched their loved ones lose at Lincoln Financial Field.
Culpepper says he doesn't mind fans booing but says he draws the line at "throwing stuff and spitting on people."
I'm no hater though, unlike, unfortunately too many Pats fans on this board.You'll have to forgive us. Most of us have been conditioned by Yankee Fan.
funny how you're not talking about national politics, but you could be just as easily.
Well, kinda. I think of politics as War without guns.
I lost all respect for him during that strike game. He also had Randy White in on defense when up like 30.
You know, I was pinged here by someone else, and posted my reply to him, not you, because I didn't want to express myself about your team that way. You commented to me first.Anyway, I will make this my last post on your thread here, CK. Good luck.
..... But perhaps the most telling tribute to Tom Landry, who died on February 12th from acute myelogenous leukemia, came from the many Dallas Cowboys, who came to say goodbye – some hadn’t played for him since the 60s. Landry taught his players as much about life as football. “With all the great teams we had and all the wins,” Danny White, a former Cowboys quarterback and punter, said, “I probably learned more from him when he lost than when he won.”
Although Landry’s list of accomplishments is large, it was his quiet – some say aloof – way of coaching and teaching that set him apart from the pack. Arms folded across his chest and a focused, emotionless gaze on his face, he paced the sidelines of the NFL in a sports tie, jacket and the omnipresent fedora which his son placed beside him in his coffin. “If I had a dollar for every time someone said ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’ I could have bought the Cowboys myself.” Landry quipped.
Landry began coaching the Cowboys in 1960 when they were just starting out as an expansion team in a city that never had a successful team of any kind. He would stay for 29 years. Although he won only 13 games in the first four seasons, he was given a ten-year contract extension. Landry remembered the extension as the most significant thing to ever happen to him.
He didn’t get involved in running the business of football, but he did call every play his team ever executed and was credited with developing many plays that are staples in the NFL to this day. He took the players that were given to him and worked them hard. He never yelled. He didn’t swear. He never panicked. He never burned out. He won 270 games, but never preached winning at all costs. Off the field he was a devout Christian who studied the Bible.
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Flyer: I thought my nickname was "Yankee One".
Crushkerry: As a life-long New England Patriots fan (born and raised in Massachusetts), I say the final score will be Patriots 24 Eagles 14. If the Eagles were playing anyone else, I would be pulling for the underdog (Eagles), but "business is business". Anyway, good luck tonight.
No mention of Darren McCarty? Go Wings!!!! :)
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BJungNan
I'm not an Eagles fan (I'm from Texas) but I must say that McNabb disgusted me. To top it all off, Paul didn't even show his tits at half time. Disgusting.
Bump!
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