From meager beginnings to America's Team

| |Friday, Feb. 15, 2008

Thanks largely to Gil Brandt, the Cowboys went from desolate expansion team to one of the most successful franchises in league history.Read more

Perkins was first in long line of Pro Bowl starters for Cowboys

| |Friday, Feb. 08, 2008

On Jan. 16, 1962, rookie fullback Don Perkins made his first of six Pro Bowls appearances.Read more

The first really Super Cowboy

| |Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008

37 years later, Chuck Howley is still at a loss when asked to explain the outcome of Super Bowl V.Read more

The year Cowboys hatred reached a new level

| |Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008

Bert Sugar’s 1997 compilation of lampoon-style essays — 20 in all — worked a simple premise. It assailed the easiest target in all of sports: a team on top.Read more

Excerpts from I Hate the Dallas Cowboys — And Who Elected Them America's Team Anyway?

Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008

The following excerpts are from the 1997 book, I Hate the Cowboys — And Who Elected Them American’s Team Anyway?:

Deacon Jones, Hall of Fame defensive end, most notably with the Rams: "I first came in contact, literally, with the Dallas Cowboys [in the early ’60s. Back then, they were led by their quarterback, little Eddie LeBaron, probably the smallest man ever to play pro football. Some say he was 5-foot-8. No way he was 5-8. He had to be 5-1, maybe closer to 4-9."Read more

The 'no-catch catch' of the century

| |Friday, Jan. 18, 2008

Long after Mike Renfro's tenure as Cowboys waterboy in the late '60s/early ’70s, he became poster boy for instant replay in the NFL.Read more

Cowboys silenced Browns' trash talk in 1st-ever postseason win

| |Friday, Jan. 11, 2008

The first taste of postseason victory was unforgettable for a 9-5 Cowboys team that had lost two of its last three regular-season games. Sound familiar?Read more

LeBaron often overlooked in discussion of Cowboys QBs

| |Friday, Jan. 04, 2008

Eddie LeBaron barely gets a mention whenever people speak of the storied lineage of Cowboys quarterbacks.Read more

Memo to Jerry: Put Johnson, Pearson in Ring of Honor in '08

| |Friday, Dec. 28, 2007

Time is running out for Jerry Jones to induct the two most glaring omissions into the Cowboys' Ring of Honor -- Jimmy Johnson and Drew Pearson.Read more

'At least they're not being broken by some jerk'

| |Friday, Dec. 28, 2007

Tony Romo has Danny White's blessing. Still, the ex-Cowboys quarterback hates to see his franchise records fall.Read more