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How I became a fan of the Dallas Cowboys.

The date was December 31, 1967. I was 8 years old and I walked into the living room of my family's house in the small town in Vermont where I grew up. My 15 year old brother, Paul was watching TV.

"What are you watching?" I asked.

"Football." he said.

"Who's playing?"

"The Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers."

"Who are you rooting for?"

"Dallas."

"I'm going to root for Green Bay."

"No. You should root for Dallas, too. We were born there."

I've been a Dallas fan ever since. (In the interest of accuracy, I was actually born about 85 miles NE of Dallas in the little town of Ladonia, TX.)

By the way, yes, that was the "Ice Bowl."

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