Damn, I'm 48 and been a Cowboys fan since the late 70's. These games bring back the memories of fighting w/ the folks to stay up past bed time to watch..best booth in MNF history, thanks for the upload!
Love everything about this era. Both of those teams are stellar. Bills uniforms are perfect, and the Cowboys...doing what the Cowboys did. Always stacked with talent and stars.
Agreed. The balance of offense and defense; running and passing was unmatched in the 80’s. It was a time when scoring was up from the 70’s but still not easy.
I remember this game. The Cowboys were still a SB condender. I was in the 4th grade (10 yrs old)The only time my parents let me watch football on Monday night(when I was Elementary age)was if Dallas was playing. Admittedly, the Bills had them on the ropes in the first half. But it was all Dallas in the 3rd and then played clock in the 4th. Another reason I got to stay up and watch was because I had the flu and wound up staying home from school that whole week. This game helped cure what was ailing me. Loved the announcing trio. RIP Cosell, Gifford, and Dandy Don
Danny White only put it up 17 times, completing 9 but for 220 yards and 3 TDs. Efficiency and a lethal running game. 37 interceptions for Dallas that year. 37! Absolutely unheard of today.
I became a Cowboys fan around the same time, but I was a tad younger and about to play my first year of Pop Warner, in the Mighty Might division! Hahahaha It was 81 I do believe because I was 9 I always tried modeling my uniform as much as I could like Tony Dorsett! That was and still is today my football hero. I never got to play tailback or wear ther number 33, but everything else I could try and match him with, I did. I sliced my chinstrap and fed my mouthpiece, which was identical to his, through it, .just like he did. He also switched up shoulder pads after the 82 season. He went to a bigger and broader size, so naturally I switched to a bigger size, mine looked ridiculous on me though, hahahaha! Coaches weren't having it after 2 or 3 weeks, made me switch back. Dorsett wore a Riddell helmet, even though Bike was the WAY MORE comfortable helmet to wear in comparison to Riddell, I had to have the Riddell, and the same exact facemask he wore. He wore the same style almost every year up until his last year in Dallas, even he put on the facemask Emmitt Smith wore throughout his career Love these old Cowboys games They take me back to when life was so simple i'm comparing to now Go Cowboys
Hey Billy did you know this game caused the catch to happen!! John Dutton kept getting leg whipped by Conrad Dobler!! He caused JD to miss the title game. He would of definilty stopped the catch!!!
I remember this game, it was -for me- the turning tide for the Buffalo Bills, from being a hot team to a "just missed" team. The Bills was far superior to Cowboys in the first half, but just manage to build up an advantage of 14-7, and then the Bills collapse in second half. The same to QB Joe Ferguson, he arrived as one of the top rated QB in the NFL, with 19 TD's and 9 Int's, and in the rest of the season he he throws 5 TD's and 11 Int's. I was so thrilled with the first half Bills, a team that have little to none mass coverage, their uniforms were absolute beautiful. I missed all those players like Ferguson, White, Cribbs, Dorsett, Butler, Pearson, R. White, Haslett, etc. Both great teams, thank you for share this one!
Idk .. the Bills did lose next game too , but then won 4 straight after that to finish out year. Beat the JETS in the Wild Card before losing a close game in 2nd round vs the Bengals. Seems like they kept it going pretty well , but I didn’t actually witness the season and I do know how a “mood” can change with a particular high profile loss.
Had the Cowboys been in the AFC, they would have gone to the SB. They lost by ONE point to the Niners - in SF - in the championship game. That was on the lucky catch by Dwight Clark. I'll never understand why teams fired Chuck Knox. He turned bad teams into playoff teams everywhere he went.
Until Romo came along, White held all the Cowboys' passing records. You're right, he doesn't get enough props due to the 3 NFC Conference Championship losses.
God I love the Dallas Cowboys....I was allowed to stay up and watch them on Monday nights. The only time I was ever allowed was when the Cowboys were on
Me too I was a kid in 1969 when I started watching the Nfl games and the Cowboys were on TV every week. They became my favorite team and still is to this day HOW ABOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!
@@kmjr2400 Monday night football didn't start until 1971, so depending on how old of a "kid" you were in 1969, you should have been able to watch MNF without your parents consent.
@@kmjr2400 Oh, okay... Yeah, I think the Cowboys and the Raiders were on Monday night football more than any other team. I don't count the new style MNF as actually the same. Pretty much ended in the early 2000s
Remember watching this game as a kid. Who knew at the time that 11 and12 years later these two teams would play each other in back to back Super Bowls. Go Cowboys!
I love listening to Madden and Summeral, I truly do but this is the best broadcast team in history. Cosell and Meredith together are amazing, Frank seamlessly weaves in the play by play silky-smooth
I was at that game; my brother came up with the idea of putting up a sign that might make it to TV (check 1:31:25); he included the name of Goodrich who was a producer of MNF at the time; and what do you know, it worked!
My whole family were huge Cowboy fans. My dad was a crazy fan. He is the reason why im a cowboy fan to this day. My Mom RIP ( who i miss so nuch ) would alwats be ok if i stayed up for the first half when they played on MNF. We lived in NY. So my sister and I used to bed ny parents to at least watch the first half. In 1981 I was 9 and my sister was 12. So going to bed at halftime beacuse of school we both used to complain. I could never sleep. I couldnt wait for the morning when my mom woke me up to let my sister and I know we won or lost. I miss those days do much.
This Week 10 matchup between Buffalo and Dallas took place on Monday, November 9, 1981. For news junkies everywhere, America was just 6 days away from the premiere of a brand new Sunday morning program entitled 'This Week with David Brinkley', also on ABC. And as the late newsman Paul Harvey would say, "And now you know the rest of the story."
Always had to get to bed just before halftime especially after winter time change....got several whoopins for peeking at halftime highlights....always worth it
Same here. Rule was that I had to take a nap before the game (which I faked) then I could watch the first half and halftime highlights and then it was lights out. Kind of wish parents these days had the stones that our parents had.
I can't believe Gifford said Ferguson was having a good year. His stats were TURRIBLE starting with this game. Announcer's curse, anyone? 19 TDs, 9 INTs coming into the game... did the beating he took in this game give him nightmares?
Frank Lewis was a very underrated Player...and never got his recognition. The only reason The Steelers traded him is because they had two great Rookies...Swann and Stallworth,
The Steelers landed 4 Hall of Famers in the 1974 draft alone...Swann, Stallworth, Mike Webster, and Jack Lambert. That was the 2nd time they landed multiple HOF players in one draft. The other was the 1972 draft...Franco Harris and Jack Ham I believe. The Bears landed both Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers in the 1965 draft
My old neighbor is his brother. They’re from Louisiana. He showed me old books and pictures from when he went to the Pro Bowl as a Bill and old Steeler pictures.
I remember watching this game and turning it off with about two minutes left. Even though the Bills won 12 games, overall it was a disappointing season for the Bills. Just about everyone expected more of them.
Big cowboys fan and I was a kid watching this game. Interesting stat that came into play was there weak secondary. Dead last and it hurt them against the niners later that year I believe
I wouldn't say they had a weak secondary. We i ntercepted 37, yes 37 passes that year. The niners(nowhere near as talented in '81 as us or their later teams)were just a team of destiny.
@@denniseverett1904 they had Montana. Enough said. Brady's first New England title team wasn't as talented as the later ones either but they had Brady and Belichick
Niners on path to SB equally was Dallas, but this game early indicator of Boys vulnerability @ DB position. That first drive by Bills had to be worrisome to Landry. D just groggy. Boys should've blown out Bills by half.
White brought the cowgirls to the playoffs and the Championship game against the team of the 80s also Lawrence Taylor lead giants team and the Bears were good then put the Redskins in that era and you can put 12 inches of shutty in that
omg. The Bills should have had about 30 pts alone in first half. Bonehead plays and penalties. I remember this game as a kid. I was 13 thinking we might pull this off and we should have. Dallas did squat in first half. Then Bills just fell apart in 2nd half.
Not as long as Jerry Jones owns them. They will languish in mediocrity for that long. And they have to play belichick and Brady again this year. The one thing they will have going for them though is Brady won't have grown and Dallas will have witten
JIM KELLY HAD ANDRE REED AND L0FTIN BUT FRANK LEWIS AND JERRY BUTLER WERE GREAT T00 I S0 WISH THE C0WB0YS TRADED F0R BUTLER IN 1984 A SEAS0N HE MISSED BUT WE C0ULD HAD USED HIM IN 1985
This was nearing the end of the ERA for the bills... in the next few years this team will go from playoff contender to back to back 2-14 seasons only 3 seasons later.. Cribbs would bolt for the USFA, first round draft pick Jim Kelly would as well.. Ferguson would fall off the table in 2 years.. They'll make an ill-fated trade of Tony Hunter (TE, first round pick in 83) for another aging QB who sucked (Ferragamo)... it was a very bad time to be a Bills fan..
Where’s O.J.?????? Lol. I’ll tell you where.....he’s branching out into movies and getting involved with beautiful ladies. But sadly, he didn’t behave himself.
Seriously. If you're OJ by '78 Hollywood was the greener pasture. Acting + endorsements equalled his football salary by then. Why get hit when you can earn millions unscratched.
CHARLIE WATERS SHOULD BE N THE RING OF HONOR AND THE PFHOF.......IT IS CRIMINAL. I have 700 Cowboys games on dvd....trying to find the MNF FULL 1978 game vs Redskins and 1981 @ St Louis...can anyone help me please??
never liked Joe Ferguson as QB--he was an INT machine-the story goes that he and OC Kaye Stephenson didn't like the Bills Coach Chuck Knox and pushed the Bills demented owner Ralph Wilson not to renew Knox's contract at the end of the strike affected 1982 season--Knox left for Seattle--Kaye Stephenson became Bills HC and the team tanked--including two 2-14 seasons
@@jamestepera3356 Staubach won them 2 super bowls and got them to 2 super bowls as well. Aikman won them 3 super bowls. White was a nobody compared to them.
James Tepera you bring up an interesting point here, Romo never came close to doing what White did, could Danny White lead that team Romo had to championship games, would Romo been able to lead Dallas with Tom Landry?? Interesting...
Damn, I'm 48 and been a Cowboys fan since the late 70's. These games bring back the memories of fighting w/ the folks to stay up past bed time to watch..best booth in MNF history, thanks for the upload!
Lifelong Cowboys fan. I was 3 days old when this game was played!!! First game in my lifetime!!!
I was about 8 years old and don't remember much. I do remember Howard Cosell voice and watching MNF, right after "Thats incredible".
Love everything about this era. Both of those teams are stellar. Bills uniforms are perfect, and the Cowboys...doing what the Cowboys did. Always stacked with talent and stars.
Agreed. The balance of offense and defense; running and passing was unmatched in the 80’s. It was a time when scoring was up from the 70’s but still not easy.
I remember this game. The Cowboys were still a SB condender. I was in the 4th grade (10 yrs old)The only time my parents let me watch football on Monday night(when I was Elementary age)was if Dallas was playing. Admittedly, the Bills had them on the ropes in the first half. But it was all Dallas in the 3rd and then played clock in the 4th. Another reason I got to stay up and watch was because I had the flu and wound up staying home from school that whole week. This game helped cure what was ailing me. Loved the announcing trio. RIP Cosell, Gifford, and Dandy Don
Danny White only put it up 17 times, completing 9 but for 220 yards and 3 TDs. Efficiency and a lethal running game. 37 interceptions for Dallas that year. 37! Absolutely unheard of today.
I became a Cowboys fan around the same time, but I was a tad younger and about to play my first year of Pop Warner, in the Mighty Might division! Hahahaha
It was 81 I do believe because I was 9
I always tried modeling my uniform as much as I could like Tony Dorsett! That was and still is today my football hero. I never got to play tailback or wear ther number 33, but everything else I could try and match him with, I did.
I sliced my chinstrap and fed my mouthpiece, which was identical to his, through it, .just like he did. He also switched up shoulder pads after the 82 season. He went to a bigger and broader size, so naturally I switched to a bigger size, mine looked ridiculous on me though, hahahaha! Coaches weren't having it after 2 or 3 weeks, made me switch back. Dorsett wore a Riddell helmet, even though Bike was the WAY MORE comfortable helmet to wear in comparison to Riddell, I had to have the Riddell, and the same exact facemask he wore. He wore the same style almost every year up until his last year in Dallas, even he put on the facemask Emmitt Smith wore throughout his career
Love these old Cowboys games
They take me back to when life was so simple i'm comparing to now
Go Cowboys
@Billy then the 49ers got you in the 94 NFC championship
Hey Billy did you know this game caused the catch to happen!! John Dutton kept getting leg whipped by Conrad Dobler!! He caused JD to miss the title game. He would of definilty stopped the catch!!!
Not the 9ers the refs!!!!
I remember this game, it was -for me- the turning tide for the Buffalo Bills, from being a hot team to a "just missed" team. The Bills was far superior to Cowboys in the first half, but just manage to build up an advantage of 14-7, and then the Bills collapse in second half. The same to QB Joe Ferguson, he arrived as one of the top rated QB in the NFL, with 19 TD's and 9 Int's, and in the rest of the season he he throws 5 TD's and 11 Int's. I was so thrilled with the first half Bills, a team that have little to none mass coverage, their uniforms were absolute beautiful. I missed all those players like Ferguson, White, Cribbs, Dorsett, Butler, Pearson, R. White, Haslett, etc. Both great teams, thank you for share this one!
Idk .. the Bills did lose next game too , but then won 4 straight after that to finish out year.
Beat the JETS in the Wild Card before losing a close game in 2nd round vs the Bengals.
Seems like they kept it going pretty well , but I didn’t actually witness the season and I do know how a “mood” can change with a particular high profile loss.
Had the Cowboys been in the AFC, they would have gone to the SB. They lost by ONE point to the Niners - in SF - in the championship game. That was on the lucky catch by Dwight Clark.
I'll never understand why teams fired Chuck Knox. He turned bad teams into playoff teams everywhere he went.
Danny White was both underrated and underappreciated
Until Romo came along, White held all the Cowboys' passing records. You're right, he doesn't get enough props due to the 3 NFC Conference Championship losses.
Near the end of the GOLDEN ERA of the NFL
Before free agency and the cap ruined the game
@@aefl3277 And politics!
God I love the Dallas Cowboys....I was allowed to stay up and watch them on Monday nights. The only time I was ever allowed was when the Cowboys were on
Me too I was a kid in 1969 when I started watching the Nfl games and the Cowboys were on TV every week. They became my favorite team and still is to this day
HOW ABOUT THEM COWBOYS!!!!
@@kmjr2400 Monday night football didn't start until 1971, so depending on how old of a "kid" you were in 1969, you should have been able to watch MNF without your parents consent.
@@whataboutrob442 thanks. I know that, I just meant I started watching NFL games in 1969. The Cowboys seemed to be on TV every week.
@@kmjr2400 Oh, okay... Yeah, I think the Cowboys and the Raiders were on Monday night football more than any other team. I don't count the new style MNF as actually the same. Pretty much ended in the early 2000s
@@whataboutrob442 Agreed!!
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Remember watching this game as a kid. Who knew at the time that 11 and12 years later these two teams would play each other in back to back Super Bowls. Go Cowboys!
GO COWBOYS!
amen.yes i watched this game as a 12 or 13 year old kid.it was a very exciting night.Go CowBoys
I love listening to Madden and Summeral, I truly do but this is the best broadcast team in history. Cosell and Meredith together are amazing, Frank seamlessly weaves in the play by play silky-smooth
I was at that game; my brother came up with the idea of putting up a sign that might make it to TV (check 1:31:25); he included the name of Goodrich who was a producer of MNF at the time; and what do you know, it worked!
My whole family were huge Cowboy fans. My dad was a crazy fan. He is the reason why im a cowboy fan to this day. My Mom RIP ( who i miss so nuch ) would alwats be ok if i stayed up for the first half when they played on MNF. We lived in NY. So my sister and I used to bed ny parents to at least watch the first half. In 1981 I was 9 and my sister was 12. So going to bed at halftime beacuse of school we both used to complain. I could never sleep. I couldnt wait for the morning when my mom woke me up to let my sister and I know we won or lost. I miss those days do much.
my dad is a cowboys fan too, my whole family are, that's why im a 49ers fan. i dont let other people decide what i like.
This Week 10 matchup between Buffalo and Dallas took place on Monday, November 9, 1981. For news junkies everywhere, America was just 6 days away from the premiere of a brand new Sunday morning program entitled 'This Week with David Brinkley', also on ABC. And as the late newsman Paul Harvey would say, "And now you know the rest of the story."
Sound issues here and there but a great upload none the less! Thanks!
I wish the cowboys go back to those jerseys loved them ❤
Joseph Cribbs. Totally underrated.
JPH FOREX JPH, I would also like to point out that he is an Auburn Tiger, so War Eagle !
He was certainly more appreciated once he left Buffalo for Birmingham but some of his teammates didn't care for him doing that.
Too bad he ruined his future signing with the USFL.
I shared those statements
He bailed out to play USFL, making that mute.
Always had to get to bed just before halftime especially after winter time change....got several whoopins for peeking at halftime highlights....always worth it
Funny but none the less those were the good old days...
Same here. Rule was that I had to take a nap before the game (which I faked) then I could watch the first half and halftime highlights and then it was lights out. Kind of wish parents these days had the stones that our parents had.
Back in the days when Datsun was a thing
Actually it was right around this time that the Datsun name started being phased out for Nissan. Same company and cars, just changed the make name.
Both teams made the playoffs in 81. 3 teams each from the nfc east. NYG, Philly. AFC east. Miami, NYJ.
HARD TO BELIEVE ALL THREE DANDY DON FRANK AND HOWARD ARE GONE
Love the Bills uniforms !!!
As a Bills fan I always thought they (their uniforms) always looked good even when they looked (played) bad.
I can't believe Gifford said Ferguson was having a good year. His stats were TURRIBLE starting with this game.
Announcer's curse, anyone?
19 TDs, 9 INTs coming into the game... did the beating he took in this game give him nightmares?
Frank Lewis was a very underrated Player...and never got his recognition. The only reason The Steelers traded him is because they had two great Rookies...Swann and Stallworth,
The Steelers landed 4 Hall of Famers in the 1974 draft alone...Swann, Stallworth, Mike Webster, and Jack Lambert. That was the 2nd time they landed multiple HOF players in one draft. The other was the 1972 draft...Franco Harris and Jack Ham I believe. The Bears landed both Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers in the 1965 draft
He actually won two Superbowls with the Steelers.
My old neighbor is his brother. They’re from Louisiana. He showed me old books and pictures from when he went to the Pro Bowl as a Bill and old Steeler pictures.
..brought to you by Datsun. 1981 for the win!
Wow and to think at the time this game was played, MTV just turned three months old.
Thanks!!
I remember watching this game and turning it off with about two minutes left. Even though the Bills won 12 games, overall it was a disappointing season for the Bills. Just about everyone expected more of them.
I remember as a kid sneaking out of bed to watch this game….
A few years later they would play each other in consecutive Super Bowls
Thanks but the sound is way off on this upload. High, then low, then none. Good to see what's available however.
This shows me why that when Dan Reeves was coach of the Broncos ( my fav team growing up ) he called a Flea Flicker about 3-4 times a year.
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What I remember most about this game were the two leg whipping penalties called on Conrad Dobler.
Big cowboys fan and I was a kid watching this game. Interesting stat that came into play was there weak secondary. Dead last and it hurt them against the niners later that year I believe
I wouldn't say they had a weak secondary. We i ntercepted 37, yes 37 passes that year. The niners(nowhere near as talented in '81 as us or their later teams)were just a team of destiny.
@@denniseverett1904 they had Montana. Enough said. Brady's first New England title team wasn't as talented as the later ones either but they had Brady and Belichick
Niners on path to SB equally was Dallas, but this game early indicator of Boys vulnerability @ DB position. That first drive by Bills had to be worrisome to Landry. D just groggy. Boys should've blown out Bills by half.
The Cowboys rarely play early games, about 85 to 90 percent of their games are Sunday late games or Sunday or Monday night games.
White was a better punter ,than a QB. just sayin
White brought the cowgirls to the playoffs and the Championship game against the team of the 80s also Lawrence Taylor lead giants team and the Bears were good then put the Redskins in that era and you can put 12 inches of shutty in that
MNF used to be the bomb. Times change.
I like KABC-TV.
Volume disappears at the 54 min 28 sec mark. Comes back on at the 1 Hr 17 min mark.
Enjoy listening to the commentary of Meredith. Don was certainly Dandy.
Conrad Dobler, the burt Reynolds of the nfl.
I have to buy a new DVD player.....it seems the MNF 1982 COWBOYS @HOUSTONwad removed, can you please upload this game if you have it? Thanks
This would be the Cowboys last regular season win over the Bills until 2003.
omg. The Bills should have had about 30 pts alone in first half. Bonehead plays and penalties. I remember this game as a kid. I was 13 thinking we might pull this off and we should have. Dallas did squat in first half. Then Bills just fell apart in 2nd half.
AMERICA'S TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!
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Not as long as Jerry Jones owns them. They will languish in mediocrity for that long. And they have to play belichick and Brady again this year. The one thing they will have going for them though is Brady won't have grown and Dallas will have witten
Green Bay is I know.
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I was in 8th grade..the only thing that kept Dallas out if the SuperBowl was a weak secondary..now its a clown owner
JIM KELLY HAD ANDRE REED AND L0FTIN BUT FRANK LEWIS AND JERRY BUTLER WERE GREAT T00 I S0 WISH THE C0WB0YS TRADED F0R BUTLER IN 1984 A SEAS0N HE MISSED BUT WE C0ULD HAD USED HIM IN 1985
This was nearing the end of the ERA for the bills... in the next few years this team will go from playoff contender to back to back 2-14 seasons only 3 seasons later.. Cribbs would bolt for the USFA, first round draft pick Jim Kelly would as well.. Ferguson would fall off the table in 2 years.. They'll make an ill-fated trade of Tony Hunter (TE, first round pick in 83) for another aging QB who sucked (Ferragamo)... it was a very bad time to be a Bills fan..
Where the heck did the Cowboys find Danny White?
I believe he played at Arizona State and went to the WFL (World Football League) for a few years before being picked up by Dallas.
ARIZONA STATE SUNDEVILS
Dandy Don 🇺🇸
2:20:00 Dandy Don, "he got an eye in the finger"
Where’s O.J.?????? Lol. I’ll tell you where.....he’s branching out into movies and getting involved with beautiful ladies. But sadly, he didn’t behave himself.
OJ was always on the cutting edge of everything. He couldn't wait to wrap his hands around those beautiful women. 😉
@@chrissnyder3430 "OJ was always on the cutting edge of everything."
*I'M DEAD,* man!
@@chrissnyder3430 he played against the Detroit Lions in the 1976 Thanksgiving day classic. O.J. Simpson retired in 1979.
Seriously. If you're OJ by '78 Hollywood was the greener pasture. Acting + endorsements equalled his football salary by then. Why get hit when you can earn millions unscratched.
CHARLIE WATERS SHOULD BE N THE RING OF HONOR AND THE PFHOF.......IT IS CRIMINAL. I have 700 Cowboys games on dvd....trying to find the MNF FULL 1978 game vs Redskins and 1981 @ St Louis...can anyone help me please??
1:24:25
Sound is gone in most of the game.
Howard sounds weird. Does he need to get drunk or sober up? I think that's HC sober.
never liked Joe Ferguson as QB--he was an INT machine-the story goes that he and OC Kaye Stephenson didn't like the Bills Coach Chuck Knox and pushed the Bills demented owner Ralph Wilson not to renew Knox's contract at the end of the strike affected 1982 season--Knox left for Seattle--Kaye Stephenson became Bills HC and the team tanked--including two 2-14 seasons
Howard Cozell was annoying. Let's talk about plays in 1969 when he was witnessing great times in the NFL in 1981.
Cosell was great!
Sound on this absolutely sucks
horrible audio
Bush
Datsun
Turbooooooooo driven
I always hated Dallas. White never went anywhere.
Danny White got Dallas to 3 straight NFC Championship games.
@@jamestepera3356 right on! Tell him
@@jamestepera3356 Staubach won them 2 super bowls and got them to 2 super bowls as well. Aikman won them 3 super bowls. White was a nobody compared to them.
@@mm-gl7sz relatively speaking yes I agree. By the same measure that makes White exponentially superior to Romo.
James Tepera you bring up an interesting point here, Romo never came close to doing what White did, could Danny White lead that team Romo had to championship games, would Romo been able to lead Dallas with Tom Landry?? Interesting...
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