A Football Life - Roger Staubach

[Doomsday]

I just finished watching this on the NFL network. Such memories. Was really hard to choke back the tears at several points during the episode.

What a hell of a man he was and is. And there it was again, the pity really, for those who never got to see him play. Who for whatever reason be it too young or whatever, missed it while it was happening. I feel sorry for you, I really do.

One of the things that really got me was when they showed part of the post Super Bowl interview with Pat Summerall. Dallas had just finished dismantling the Miami Dolphins 24-3 in one of the most dominating SB wins to date, and Pat asked him how he felt. What Roger said set the standard alot of we older Dallas fans still live by:

"I'm just happy we had a successful football season."

Right there, he did it. Defined for all time what a "successful football season" is, in Dallas. Nothing short of a Super Bowl win. Period.

That became the standard from that day forward and to me, still is. And still should be. We needed this remainder.

 

[Midswat]

I was flipping between that an the PAC 12 championship.

I was most impressed with what he did to help his former teammates and employees when/if they needed him. Awesome guy. Certainly lived a charmed life.

 

[Doomsday]

Certainly lived a charmed life.

Worked his ass off every day, to earn everything he was charmed with.

I'm getting to work right now, making us a commemorative Roger Staubach banner, for the site.

 

[ZeroClub]

The show was well done and included some really good footage. I don't think it clearly showed how Staubach was capable of taking over games almost singlehandedly, but many of his other attributes were represented well.

 

[Doomsday]

The show was well done and included some really good footage. I don't think it clearly showed how Staubach was capable of taking over games almost singlehandedly, but many of his other attributes were represented well.

You're right, the games in his era were tapestries that can't rightly be summed up with a few highlights and sound bytes.

 

[jnday]

The players and the game of today are a pale comparison to those during Roger's time. It was great to be reminded of what the Cowboys once represented. Success was a Super Bowl and anything short of that was failure. It is sad to see what the Cowboys have become. Jerry's ownership has made the team into a sport's soap opera.

 

[dbair1967]

I had DVR'd this and then forgot to watch it. Watched it today and it was a great show.

He was the reason I got hooked on the Cowboys in 1975. Loved watching him play and wish I could have seen him every week back then.

 

[Doomsday]

Did you get a chill dbair when Roger defined "successful football season?"

 

[dbair1967]

Yep

 

[Doomsday]

He was just so matter of fact about it, because a super bowl win was, a matter of fact to define a "successful" season.

That quote is one of the most loaded ones ever, and I never noticed it until i saw this.

 

[bbgun]

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[Bob Sacamano]

Wasn't alive when he played. He means nothing to me.

 

[dbair1967]

He means nothing to me.

Only a commy pinko would make such a comment

 

[Doomsday]

Wasn't alive when he played. He means nothing to me.

Hence why you don't understand we 'haters' and why we bitch about how lousy today's Cowboys really are.

 

[bbgun]

Wasn't alive when he played. He means nothing to me.

he was a guy who took Hostile's spot at the Naval Academy

 

[Bob Sacamano]

lol

 

[Doomsday]

 

[ThoughtExperiment]

I'm with Zero, if anything they talked so much about what a great human and leader he was (which is all true) that they almost neglected just how great a player he was. Hard to get everything into an hour, I guess.

Also, not that it needed mentioning, but that show emphasized how ridiculous it is to compare Garrett to Landry. How could anyone old enough to remember him ever say that.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

What did Zero say?

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Great show. Great player and person.

BTW, he was a scrambling, improvisational type quarterback. I heard by the experts that they don’t translate to the NFL.