I met Mr. Lilly when I was a sophomore in high school in 1972. He was doing a promotional visit for a local car dealership. I had just lost my dad, so my adult brother took me there early, so no one else had gotten there yet. He was so gracious and nice. I was in awe and speechless to be in the presence of my hero and idol, and he didn’t disappoint. He shook my hand and we talked football for a couple of minutes and he offered me his best wishes. I have a Polaroid picture with his hand on my shoulder from that day which he signed for me, I’m 64 now and that photo is still priceless to me. It’s so good to see him healthy and doing so well. He represents the best of what a Texan should be.
@@rgtunderworldrgt7773 Thank you for your kind words. I still think of my dad every day. If I was half the man he was, I’d consider myself a success. For that matter, if I was 1/4 as courageous as my mom was, I’d be very proud. Best wishes from Texas!
@@c120flyer You sir are in fact both of those things. Your just to humble to say so, and too busy being those things, to notice that you are. Now, all 3 of us are smiling at you as you echo and display the same class, grace and humility they both instilled in you. Congratulations on being the kind of man parents can be proud of. Happy New year to you and your family. God bless 🙏👍
@@rgtunderworldrgt7773 Thank you for taking time to write such positive, uplifting words to a total stranger, you’ve brightened my day! That shows what a kind, insightful person you are. Happy New Year to you and yours!
@@c120flyer Man helps man. That's our job Your older than me by a decade My father was killed when I was 4, zero memories..just a few pics. What you sad about your Dad resonated with me. But reading your words, I could literally see him with his arm around your mom, and they looked at each other and had the biggest smiles.. the way he was 😁 beaming...I think he does that every time you think of him, when you say things , phrases that he said, how .. someway? What he thinks, is intrinsically interwoven in everything you do, say, and think Probably has kept you alive when younger,.. drinking .doing dumb young guy shit. That Dad thought.. always snapped you back in line. I don't know man . reading your words...all of that came up in my head. I wish I had been blessed enough to have met them. Weird, but somehow Heaven is a better place since they got there. Absolutely a pleasure to have made your acquaintance. Continue on the good path sir Mom n Dad are still watching. It's their favorite thing to do. God bless bro🙏👍
In 1972 or 1973, I was playing pee wee football where I wore Bob Lilly's number and played his position. My coach told me if I wanted to be a great defensive tackle, I needed to watch Bob Lilly play on Sunday. Cut to the scene in an airport the same year where I spied Mr. Cowboy in the terminal. I told my dad "hey, that's Bob Lilly!" Dad said, "Well go over and introduce yourself." Scared to death, I approached him and introduced myself. He could not have been more gracious. He must have talked to me for 20 minutes. He treated me like I was the star football player instead of him and made a life long impression on me. I can't tell you how impressed I was and how much respect I have for this great humble man.
You cannot possibly describe this man and give it justice...his playing days, his family, his conviction, his humbleness...the epitome of a true man...God has blessed you Mr. BOB LILLY.
This is neat. I’m one of the ones that calls him grandad, and the two great grandchildren he talked about were my two boys, now he has 5 (not all mine). He’s always been a role model in my life.
He was my dad’s roommate at TCU. My dad was Henry “Bubba” Meyer. They were both defensive ends. These older Texans. I’m see so much of my dad in Mr. Lilly.
I’m a Green Bay packer fan but my all time favorite non packer player is Bob Lilly..remember the games back in the late 60’s, Bob was a load and a great great player..and who could ever forget his sack of Griese in the Super Bowl..
Bob Lilly was the reason I became a Cowboys fan. Watching him play in Super Bowl VI dazzled my young mind to always watch interior line play to this day.
I was 10 when I went to my first Cowboy game in the Cotton Bowl. 1965, they played Jim Brown and the Cleveland Browns. I was in awe of Lilly, Meredith, Hayes, Jordan, Andrie, Howley, Landry and of course seeing the greatest running back of all time Jim Brown. The Cowboys lost and I cried. The Browns were a juggernaut then. I had chill bumps or some say goose flesh watching this great game and great athletes in person. I'm still in awe of the players I idolized as a kid in the 60s. The 70s the same thing.
If Mr. Lilly is self conscious about being called Mr. Cowboy I would never be so disrespectful as to call him that. In person. On the internet he's ALWAYS Mr. Cowboy and a class act. I say this as a 49ers fan! One of the greatest players ever and fine and remarkable human being! Thanks for posting. God bless.🙏❤😁
Really admire Bob, still looks in fine shape & younger than his actual age. These guys from that generation of the NFL are really interesting to listen to, almost like the veterans that were in the big battles of WWII.
When we were kids in the 70’s being from Minnesota were the Vikings Fran Tarkington and Bud Grant we’re our guy’s. We played football in the street and if you were Quarterback you always would call out Shot Gun the Dallas Cowboys Roger Staubach play was so universal every kid new of it.
This is coming from a NY Giants fan who hated the Cowboys. Bob Lilly is one of the toughest football players in the history of the NFL. His mean demeanor and tremendous athletic ability on the field made him great yet when the game was over win or lose his grace was always on display. A true gentleman who I will always respect.
Tom Landry built his defense around Bob Lilly's great defensive talent. Lilly was a consistently great player whose greatness was overshadowed by the fact that he wasn't mean or vicious. Bob Lilly didn't have the mean persona of a Dick Butkus and in the words of one teammate, "If Bob had been mean, they'd have had to outlaw him!"
He still looks amazing... Such a great man.He will forever live on in history. 1st draft pick, Superbowl champion,All pro,All decade. The greatest Cowboy of all time Imo.I was even born when he played.
Tom Landry was not exactly rah rah, but how about those Cowboys, they we're much tougher in 1971 and you could look no further than Bob Lilly and Roger Staubach. They played like a team on a mission.
When I was a little boy growing up in Arkansas my dad take me to a Dallas Cowboys game and and my dad said don't worry Bob Lilly came to fight today we're going to be just fine will win
Mean Joe Greene was supposed to be drafted by Dallas. Landry even told him pre-draft "you ain't leaving texas". How Pittsburgh knew about a guy from tiny North Texas State changed the fortunes of two football teams. Dallas would have dominated the 70's
My parents were students at TCU when Mr Lilly was a student playing for the Horned Frogs-my parents were a bit older amd graduated ahead of Lilly but from time I was old enough to start being seriously interested in football (about 1968) my dad would always talk about 2 great players at TCU from his time there as a student-one was a RB named Swink and the other was Bob Lilly-we had left Texas and moved to first Oklahoma for a couple of years and then to Baltimore MD for 6 mo (transferred for my dad’s job in Fed govt) then moved back to Dallas where my dad was stationed in Fed govt office downtown and stayed there-and we were Cowboys fans or at least my Dad was from the day they drafted Bob Lilly. Ironically my head football coach in HS was also a TCU alum who played for TCU in early to mid 1960s and I think may have been on the team for Mr Lilly’s final season-but always also had glowing things to say about him not only as a player but as a man. Unfortunately I never got to meet him (did get to meet Roger Staubach when he came and spoke at our church around 1974 or 75. These were not only great football players but fine morally upright men-the kind of sports figures that deserved to be emulated and to be role models for other young men and kids. Sadly, there are far fewer such pro athletes today that deserve such adoration.
Don't put them on a pedestal. While Bob and others were good upstanding men, there were plenty back then who weren't. Look no further than North Dallas Forty. A thinly veiled bio of the Cowboys back in those days. It was easier to get away with things back in those days. There weren't phones capturing their every move and gotcha media trying to catch them all the time.
Bob Lilly is all man, I remember they would triple team him and they couldn't block him. There are men who played the game who could take over a game you could count on one hand. Lawrence Taylor, Dick Butkus and Bob Lilly he was that good.
@@stephenfricke9298 - In 1970, long after he had proven his All-Pro status, he was only making a little over $30,000. While other players in the league at the same position were making over $300,000. Scandalous! Clint Murchison Jr. should have paid all the Cowboys a lot more. Especially him.
A real football. No artificial turf, no domes, no crap, clothes lines, holding, kicking, biting and defense could play even with the offensive side. Players played because they loved the game, now they are looking for the money and spend it ASAP
I met Dan Reaves years ago at of all places a donut shop in the ATL.A total deer in the headlights.Why do ALL celebrities thing that I am a 14 year old girl in 1962 and they are Elvis?
Sometimes I wonder about inflation calculators. Lily’s salary when he started was $11,500. That’s $115,000 today according to burea of vital statistics. Doesn’t seem too bad.
TOM LAURDY IS THE DALLAS COWBOYS WHETHER YOU LIKE ARE NOT ALSO IN OLD STADIUM THERE WAS A OPENING JUST SO JESUS CHRIST COULD WATCH I BELIEVE WIT H ALL MY HEART ♥
imagine being his age and having perfect snow white teeth. you can tell he wore a huge facemask, brushed his teech twice a day and saw his dentist every 2 months. of course he had the dough to do it.
This show compared to other interview shows is kinda like a stick figure drawing compared to the Mona Lisa. I'm not hating, I'm just being honest. It's very low production. In the case of this area that's fine. It brings intimacy to the interviews but in serious areas that's a problem. Like Stevie Ray Vaughn's people hiring a Christian based helicopter company...that would be a problem but in areas like this it's fine. Everything in life has a balance and you have to constantly think situationally
I'm glad I typed that out because that's something that's been on the tip of my tongue...folks use a Xhristian connection to push their remedial businesses and in important areas that can cause damage. You're not supposed to be using religion to get ahead. That's why there's supposed to be a separation of state and church.
lilly olsen and green in that order....lilly and olsen were much more durable lilly missed only 1 game in 14 years dont think olsen missed any green was hurt a lot in his later years but all three were phenomenal and head and shoulders over anyone including Aaron Donald thats played in the last 20 years
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I met Mr. Lilly when I was a sophomore in high school in 1972. He was doing a promotional visit for a local car dealership. I had just lost my dad, so my adult brother took me there early, so no one else had gotten there yet. He was so gracious and nice. I was in awe and speechless to be in the presence of my hero and idol, and he didn’t disappoint. He shook my hand and we talked football for a couple of minutes and he offered me his best wishes. I have a Polaroid picture with his hand on my shoulder from that day which he signed for me, I’m 64 now and that photo is still priceless to me. It’s so good to see him healthy and doing so well. He represents the best of what a Texan should be.
Your story is priceless as well.
Sorry you lost your dad so young.
Glad you have become a man that he was Always proud of.
@@rgtunderworldrgt7773 Thank you for your kind words. I still think of my dad every day. If I was half the man he was, I’d consider myself a success. For that matter, if I was 1/4 as courageous as my mom was, I’d be very proud. Best wishes from Texas!
@@c120flyer You sir are in fact both of those things. Your just to humble to say so, and too busy being those things, to notice that you are. Now, all 3 of us are smiling at you as you echo and display the same class, grace and humility they both instilled in you.
Congratulations on being the kind of man parents can be proud of.
Happy New year to you and your family.
God bless 🙏👍
@@rgtunderworldrgt7773 Thank you for taking time to write such positive, uplifting words to a total stranger, you’ve brightened my day! That shows what a kind, insightful person you are. Happy New Year to you and yours!
@@c120flyer Man helps man.
That's our job
Your older than me by a decade
My father was killed when I was 4, zero memories..just a few pics.
What you sad about your Dad resonated with me. But reading your words, I could literally see him with his arm around your mom, and they looked at each other and had the biggest smiles.. the way he was 😁 beaming...I think he does that every time you think of him, when you say things , phrases that he said, how .. someway?
What he thinks, is intrinsically interwoven in everything you do, say, and think
Probably has kept you alive when younger,.. drinking .doing dumb young guy shit.
That Dad thought.. always snapped you back in line.
I don't know man . reading your words...all of that came up in my head.
I wish I had been blessed enough to have met them.
Weird, but somehow Heaven is a better place since they got there.
Absolutely a pleasure to have made your acquaintance.
Continue on the good path sir
Mom n Dad are still watching.
It's their favorite thing to do.
God bless bro🙏👍
In 1972 or 1973, I was playing pee wee football where I wore Bob Lilly's number and played his position. My coach told me if I wanted to be a great defensive tackle, I needed to watch Bob Lilly play on Sunday. Cut to the scene in an airport the same year where I spied Mr. Cowboy in the terminal. I told my dad "hey, that's Bob Lilly!" Dad said, "Well go over and introduce yourself." Scared to death, I approached him and introduced myself. He could not have been more gracious. He must have talked to me for 20 minutes. He treated me like I was the star football player instead of him and made a life long impression on me. I can't tell you how impressed I was and how much respect I have for this great humble man.
You cannot possibly describe this man and give it justice...his playing days, his family, his conviction, his humbleness...the epitome of a true man...God has blessed you Mr. BOB LILLY.
They were as underpaid back then as they are overpaid now. Pathetic.
He looks in incredible shape for being 80
This is neat. I’m one of the ones that calls him grandad, and the two great grandchildren he talked about were my two boys, now he has 5 (not all mine). He’s always been a role model in my life.
How Awesome is that. Roger Staubach gave him the nickname "Mr Cowboy"!
One of my favorite cowboys!!
He was my dad’s roommate at TCU. My dad was Henry “Bubba” Meyer. They were both defensive ends. These older Texans. I’m see so much of my dad in Mr. Lilly.
Bob Lilly!! Love you Man!!! Great Cowboy!!!!
I’m a Green Bay packer fan but my all time favorite non packer player is Bob Lilly..remember the games back in the late 60’s, Bob was a load and a great great player..and who could ever forget his sack of Griese in the Super Bowl..
Bob Lilly was the reason I became a Cowboys fan. Watching him play in Super Bowl VI dazzled my young mind to always watch interior line play to this day.
I was a boy in 1970s and Cowboy fan. Bob Lily retired just before I really remember the Cowboys. A vaguely remember him as a player.
A great player and a great human being.
I was 10 when I went to my first Cowboy game in the Cotton Bowl. 1965, they played Jim Brown and the Cleveland Browns. I was in awe of Lilly, Meredith, Hayes, Jordan, Andrie, Howley, Landry and of course seeing the greatest running back of all time Jim Brown. The Cowboys lost and I cried. The Browns were a juggernaut then. I had chill bumps or some say goose flesh watching this great game and great athletes in person. I'm still in awe of the players I idolized as a kid in the 60s. The 70s the same thing.
If Mr. Lilly is self conscious about being called Mr. Cowboy I would never be so disrespectful as to call him that.
In person. On the internet he's ALWAYS Mr. Cowboy and a class act.
I say this as a 49ers fan! One of the greatest players ever and fine and remarkable human being!
Thanks for posting. God bless.🙏❤😁
What a gentleman. I got to see him play in the early 70's. Great player.
My all time favorite Cowboy!!!
The greatest player that ever took the field.
One of...
Don Meredith was my very first sports hero..... but Mr. Cowboy is the greatest defensive tackle in NFL history.🏈
I don't know if anyone noticed this. But when the cowboys get a real cowboy on the team. The cowboys win super bowls 😆"
So humble...God truly blesses those that are so humble.
Bob Lilly is the best!!!!
Really admire Bob, still looks in fine shape & younger than his actual age. These guys from that generation of the NFL are really interesting to listen to, almost like the veterans that were in the big battles of WWII.
Absolute truth. Men of Gravitas !
You are correct Jim Brown, Johnny Unitas, Bart Starr, Paul Warfield, Bob Lilly and others !
What a great man. ✭
TOTAL CLASS!
When we were kids in the 70’s being from Minnesota were the Vikings Fran Tarkington and Bud Grant we’re our guy’s. We played football in the street and if you were Quarterback you always would call out Shot Gun the Dallas Cowboys Roger Staubach play was so universal every kid new of it.
This is coming from a NY Giants fan who hated the Cowboys. Bob Lilly is one of the toughest football players in the history of the NFL. His mean demeanor and tremendous athletic ability on the field made him great yet when the game was over win or lose his grace was always on display. A true gentleman who I will always respect.
Tom Landry built his defense around Bob Lilly's great defensive talent. Lilly was a consistently great player whose greatness was overshadowed by the fact that he wasn't mean or vicious. Bob Lilly didn't have the mean persona of a Dick Butkus and in the words of one teammate, "If Bob had been mean, they'd have had to outlaw him!"
He was so talented that he didn't have to be mean to be good.
Looking good sir! Have your jersey! Much respect!
He still looks amazing...
Such a great man.He will forever live on in history.
1st draft pick, Superbowl champion,All pro,All decade.
The greatest Cowboy of all time Imo.I was even born when he played.
11,500 salary that Bob Lilly made in 1961 calculates to 111,000 in 2022 so Mr Lilly was living just fine!
Tom Landry was not exactly rah rah, but how about those Cowboys, they we're much tougher in 1971 and you could
look no further than Bob Lilly and Roger Staubach. They
played like a team on a mission.
My favorite Dallas Cowboy player!!
The play that sticks out to me with Bob Lilly is the 29 yard sack of Bob Griese when they won their first SB-- happened when I was 6 months old. 🤣
You're doing something right when you have to replace Bob Lilly so you move Randy White to tackle.
When I was a little boy growing up in Arkansas my dad take me to a Dallas Cowboys game and and my dad said don't worry Bob Lilly came to fight today we're going to be just fine will win
I am from Philadelphia but I bleed Blue
He's still the best all these years later.
His family still has the 'Savage' shotgun he bought with his first paycheck..
If the rules were still that way, we would likely have not have been 26 years without going to the SB..
There's only 1 Mr. Cowboy!
True class.
Mean Joe Greene was supposed to be drafted by Dallas. Landry even told him pre-draft "you ain't leaving texas". How Pittsburgh knew about a guy from tiny North Texas State changed the fortunes of two football teams. Dallas would have dominated the 70's
Super Scout Mr. Bill Nunn, Bud...
My parents were students at TCU when Mr Lilly was a student playing for the Horned Frogs-my parents were a bit older amd graduated ahead of Lilly but from time I was old enough to start being seriously interested in football (about 1968) my dad would always talk about 2 great players at TCU from his time there as a student-one was a RB named Swink and the other was Bob Lilly-we had left Texas and moved to first Oklahoma for a couple of years and then to Baltimore MD for 6 mo (transferred for my dad’s job in Fed govt) then moved back to Dallas where my dad was stationed in Fed govt office downtown and stayed there-and we were Cowboys fans or at least my Dad was from the day they drafted Bob Lilly. Ironically my head football coach in HS was also a TCU alum who played for TCU in early to mid 1960s and I think may have been on the team for Mr Lilly’s final season-but always also had glowing things to say about him not only as a player but as a man. Unfortunately I never got to meet him (did get to meet Roger Staubach when he came and spoke at our church around 1974 or 75. These were not only great football players but fine morally upright men-the kind of sports figures that deserved to be emulated and to be role models for other young men and kids. Sadly, there are far fewer such pro athletes today that deserve such adoration.
Don't put them on a pedestal. While Bob and others were good upstanding men, there were plenty back then who weren't. Look no further than North Dallas Forty. A thinly veiled bio of the Cowboys back in those days. It was easier to get away with things back in those days. There weren't phones capturing their every move and gotcha media trying to catch them all the time.
All the True Greats are humble men.
Good good good man... I have a childhood memory of him patting me on the head with them enormous hands
You. Look. Great cowboys. Today. Are. Nothing. Like. Y'all were
Walt Garrison and Chuck Howley fit the title 'Mr. Cowboy' as well.
Walt Garrison was a real rodeo cowboy.
Greatest defensive tackle ever.
Legend 💪
“They called me ‘Tiger. Tiger Bob’. Ah…no. I’ll buy ‘Tiger Lilly’ but ‘Tiger Bob’? I don’t think so. Lol…
Bob Lilly is all man, I remember they would triple team him and they couldn't block him. There are men who played the game who could take over a game you could count on one hand. Lawrence Taylor, Dick Butkus and Bob Lilly he was that good.
A good man to talk too.
Hate the cowboys, but love Bob Lilly a true class act
$11,500 dollars his first year?
Before taxes!
Scandalous!
Not in 1960..
@@richardhamblen5526 - In his first year, it was $11,500.
He says so @ 5:58.
I made that as a first year claims adjuster in 1981
@@stephenfricke9298 - In 1970, long after he had proven his All-Pro status, he was only making a little over $30,000. While other players in the league at the same position were making over $300,000. Scandalous! Clint Murchison Jr. should have paid all the Cowboys a lot more. Especially him.
Back then, everybody had an off-season job, or started their own part time business, because the NFL pay was so low.
All around great dude
Despite his all pro status, he and the rest of the Cowboys were paid PEANUTS compared to other players in the league. Shame! Shame!
Bob is my cousin. I'm a Stroud and he was cousins with my 1st cousin billy wyanes cousins he is my 2nd cousin
Not "Tiger Bob"
BENGAL BOB because he was like a huge Bengal tiger out there.
A real football. No artificial turf, no domes, no crap, clothes lines, holding, kicking, biting and defense could play even with the offensive side. Players played because they loved the game, now they are looking for the money and spend it ASAP
I met Dan Reaves years ago at of all places a donut shop in the ATL.A total deer in the headlights.Why do ALL celebrities thing that I am a 14 year old girl in 1962 and they are Elvis?
These old boys took as many, if not harder hits than these pansies today and not every other one of those guys is there any talk of CTE.
Pugh,Lilly, Andre, and Cole that was how the Cowboys radio
announcer call the front four in 1971, it was not exactly alphabet ical
Players then played harder and paid far less than today's players. They are prima donnas and celebrities today.
Don't you know you could sit down and listen to him tell stories all day.
Dude that intro almost blew out my speakers. Super loud, then soft. Just FYI. Anyways. great video
Sometimes I wonder about inflation calculators. Lily’s salary when he started was $11,500. That’s $115,000 today according to burea of vital statistics. Doesn’t seem too bad.
He only played in 9 of those 11 pro bowls
TOM LAURDY IS THE DALLAS COWBOYS WHETHER YOU LIKE ARE NOT ALSO IN OLD STADIUM THERE WAS A OPENING JUST SO JESUS CHRIST COULD WATCH I BELIEVE WIT H ALL MY HEART ♥
imagine being his age and having perfect snow white teeth. you can tell he wore a huge facemask, brushed his teech twice a day and saw his dentist every 2 months. of course he had the dough to do it.
Mr. DOOMSDAY DEFENSE 🙏🙏
Is Bob from Farmington, NM ?
No, Throckmorton, Texas..
@@richardhamblen5526 yourd right, I'm thinking of an offensive lineman of the era
@@richardhamblen5526 Neely ?
Dandy Don is Mr Cowboy
This show compared to other interview shows is kinda like a stick figure drawing compared to the Mona Lisa. I'm not hating, I'm just being honest. It's very low production. In the case of this area that's fine. It brings intimacy to the interviews but in serious areas that's a problem. Like Stevie Ray Vaughn's people hiring a Christian based helicopter company...that would be a problem but in areas like this it's fine. Everything in life has a balance and you have to constantly think situationally
I'm glad I typed that out because that's something that's been on the tip of my tongue...folks use a Xhristian connection to push their remedial businesses and in important areas that can cause damage. You're not supposed to be using religion to get ahead. That's why there's supposed to be a separation of state and church.
Bob Lilly prolly the second best d lineman only behind mean joe
He is better.
Aj
Joe Greene was obviously great, & with many rings. But Mr. Cowboy is the greatest defensive tackle in NFL history.🏈
@AJ There are actually several DL better than mean joe. Lilly being one of them, but you could also add Merlin Olsen.
Jerome Brown DT Philadelphia Eagles. Best I've seen. Life and career ended to short by a car accident. RIP Jerome
lilly olsen and green in that order....lilly and olsen were much more durable lilly missed only 1 game in 14 years dont think olsen missed any green was hurt a lot in his later years but all three were phenomenal and head and shoulders over anyone including Aaron Donald thats played in the last 20 years
#74 isnt officially retired
By the cowboys. It just seems that which player wears it on preseason dont make the team.
You never see a 12 either but , “we don’t retire numbers” . 😂
Cowboys do not retire #'s
hello
DALLAS NEVER PAID BOB LILLY ON THE PAR OF HIS PEERS AND THAT WAS SHAMEFUL. THAT IS WHY THEY HAD THE DUANE THOMAS PROBLEM.
Can one imagine these rules applied to the Zulu's today? Endless cries of racism!
..multimillionaire Crybabies all over the place now..