Former Dallas Cowboys great, rodeo cowboy Walt Garrison dead at 79
Walt Garrison, who won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys and in the NFL offseason competed as a rodeo cowboy, has died. He was 79.
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Walt Garrison , Skoal brother ! RIP
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I forgot that Garrison was an actual cowboy. Here’s my opportunity to remind you that the Oscar-winning actor Ben Johnson was also a member of the Rodeo Hall of Fame. (He was an actual world champion one year.)
Meredith oncesaid of Walt Garrison, "If it was third down, and you needed four yards, if you'd get the ball to Walt Garrison, he'd get ya five. And if was third down and ya needed 20 yards, if you'd get the ball to Walt Garrison, by God, he'd get you five."
In one of those camps, no one remembers when, a reporter asked Garrison about the best teams he had been a part of and the quarterbacks on those teams. Garrison said Meredith was the smartest quarterback he ever played with and that Craig Morton had the best arm. He then added if you had to pick a quarterback to go out and win one game, it would be Staubach.
When the story appeared in print it mentioned Meredith and Morton but left out his quote about Staubach. The quarterback confronted Garrison the next day in camp.
Garrison didn’t back down.
“Look, you anchor clanker, let me tell you something,’’ Garrison said, poking fun at Staubach’s time at the Naval Academy. “Meredith called his own plays. Morton called his own plays. Landry didn’t start calling plays until you started starting.
“Now, tell me who’s smarter.’’
When the story appeared in print it mentioned Meredith and Morton but left out his quote about Staubach. The quarterback confronted Garrison the next day in camp.
Garrison didn’t back down.
“Look, you anchor clanker, let me tell you something,’’ Garrison said, poking fun at Staubach’s time at the Naval Academy. “Meredith called his own plays. Morton called his own plays. Landry didn’t start calling plays until you started starting.
“Now, tell me who’s smarter.’’
There were some tough players on those early Dallas teams. Lee Roy Jordan, Chuck Howley, Cliff Harris.
Also Cornel Green, Mel Renfro, Herb Adderly...Harris and Walters were a little later.
On Lee Roy Jordan not sure who to credit but the saying goes "If they stay between the sideline Lee Roy will get um"
Loved the early Cowboys
Trivia Chuck Howley the only SB MVP from the losing team.
Had a friend who coached at ‘Bama at the end of Bears time. He said Bear would mumble on the sideline, ‘put Lee Roy in’. He’s in coach. Ok
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Yeah, just not as tough as the Steelers teams they always lost to.
Ah, no, I wouldn't say Dallas was tougher than the Steelers.Yeah, just not as tough as the Steelers teams they always lost to.
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