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by Dave Halprin on Jul 5, 2007 12:21 AM CDT in News Comment 13 comments

Wade Phillips hired his son Wes to help out on the coaching staff. You can check out Wes here. Instead of the headline All In The Family for the article, I would’ve gone with Wes Side Story.

Leave it to Tony Romo to find some competition when nothing is happening. He’s going for the win in the Tri-Course Amateur Championship golf tournament back in Wisconsin.

Romo, the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, recently returned home to Burlington for his annual football camp and is using his time here to prepare for another title run. He tied for 15th at 232 last year.
"I’m trying to play a lot this week and get myself in position to play good this weekend," Romo said. "Last year, I had a lack of preparation — that’s why I’m giving myself an extra week. I was upset last year, so I’m playing a little earlier."

Serena Williams pulled through in a Wimbledon match recently on a bum leg. This got one paper thinking about the best sports performances while injured. Nice to see they remember this heroic performance.

Shouldering the load
With a dangling right arm and a separated shoulder, Emmitt Smith ran for 168 yards and a touchdown on 32 carries and caught 10 passes for 68 yards to lead the Dallas Cowboys to a 16-13 overtime victory against the New York Giants in the regular-season finale of the 1994 season. The win gave the Cowboys home-field advantage throughout the playoffs as they went on to win their second straight Super Bowl.

I love that game. Every time I see the replays it still gives me a little chill.

The West Virginia athletics web site created a list of the 50 best players who had outstanding performances against the West Virginia football team. Two prominent Cowboys came in at #2 and #1.

2. Tony Dorsett, RB, Pitt
The closest West Virginia ever came to Tony Dorsett was on his brief campus visit before signing with Pitt in 1973. After that he was gone. Dorsett erupted for 150 yards and three touchdowns his freshman year, produced 145 yards and a touchdown as a sophomore in 1974, had 107 yards in a loss in Morgantown in 1975 and finished his career against West Virginia in 1976 with a 199-yard, three-TD performance on the way to winning the Heisman Trophy and leading Pitt to the national championship. Dorsett continued his hall of fame career with the Dallas Cowboys.
1. Roger Staubach, QB, Navy
It was the 100-year anniversary of the state of West Virginia and its flagship institution planned on celebrating in style with a new press box and a capacity crowd to witness exciting quarterback Roger Staubach and the No. 9-rated Navy Midshipmen. Staubach took care of the party quickly by dropping a dead cat in the punch bowl, completing 17 of 22 passes for 171 yards and a touchdown before retiring to the sidelines at halftime. Navy won the game 51-7 and made it to the Cotton Bowl where it lost 28-6 to Texas. Staubach won the Heisman Trophy in 1963 completing 66 percent of his passes for more than 1,400 yards. He later distinguished himself in the pro ranks with the Dallas Cowboys.

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Same here

on that game against the Giants. Absolutely a performance for the ages. If anyone ever questioned whether Emmitt deserved his reputation, the answers were all there on the field.

by dunkman on Jul 5, 2007 5:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Wasn't that the 1993 season?

As I seem to remember.

by burmafrd1944 on Jul 5, 2007 6:00 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

that performance by Emmitt was the greatest sports achievment I have ever witnessed or heard of, simply outstanding. He deserves HOF status for that performance alone. His tolerence for pain must be incredible.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Jul 5, 2007 7:24 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep

and it reminds you that the great ones aren't just out there for the money.

by dunkman on Jul 5, 2007 7:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

agreed

Madden always talks about that's the only time he's ever gone down to the locker room and personally congratulated a player on a performance which I always thought was high high praise

by ab03 on Jul 5, 2007 9:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It WAS the 93 season, but the game was Jan. 1994.

I was at that game at Giants Stadium, surrounded by a TON of Giants fans. My family has season tickets to the Giants, so I go to about EVERY Cowboys game (starting with opening day of the Meadowlands, if I recall it was 1975? ... and we were among a dozen tailgate party winners that year - and then watched Staubach ruin their opening-day ceremony).

That game had the definite air of a play-off game, as both teams thought they had a Super-bowl team - the winner got a week off, the loser got a wild-card draw. When Smith broke that run and then had a hard time getting off the turf, you could sense the hope arising among the crowd. When he continued to play and perform at his HOF level, the crowd wasn't sure whether to be pissed or amazed. I'll never forget it.

As it was, the loss sent the Giants to San Francisco, where they got their asses handed to them, 44-3. Of course, we took care of SF the following weekend... and the rest was history.

... Do you remember? ... Cowboys lost the first two games that year, to the Bills and the 'Skins, because Emmitt was a hold-out. We went 15-2 the rest of the way.

Cowboys and Tar Heels

by DalaiLuke on Jul 5, 2007 9:25 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I remember it well

I can't ever remember being more upset as a Cowboy fan at that 0-2 start, but knew Emmitt holding out was the reason. I also recall Charles Haley punching a hole in the locker room wall after the Bills loss at Texas Stadium taking us to 0-2.

Emmitt signed the rest is history.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Jul 5, 2007 9:32 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

And as that season went along...

it really showed how valuable Emmitt was to our Beloved Boyz.

That was like the second time I got pissed @ The King.

The first time was the way he handled the Landry situation.

The second time, of course, was the just go ahead and get the new Emmitt deal done because we were 0-2 at the time.

The third time, of course, was firing Jimmy Johnson...

And then the numerous other times after that pertained to his poor coaching hirings and poor draft selections -- prior to the Parcells & Phillips hirings and drafts.

But I digress.

Like all of you, I do remember Emmitt's epic performance in the Meadowlands along with the rest of that season, too.

Oh, and as an additional comment, I love the Tony Dorsett, Roger Staubach mention by West Va athletics.

As many of you know, Touchdown Tony Dorsett was my all-time favorite Cowboy. Remember the 99-yard run on the road against Minnesota on MNF?

"I'm biased. If there was ever a receiver that had a Hall of Fame career, in my opinion it's Michael Irvin." -- Troy Aikman

by kcbrett5 on Jul 5, 2007 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

do I ever

I was a senior in high school and was really bummin that they were losing to the Vikes that night and looked really bad. Cosell and Meredith were talking about how the Cowboys think they can turn it on and on when they want, when Dorsett busted that run, with a lot of help from my all time favorite Cowboy wideout, Drew Pearson, and he did it with the Cowboys having ONLY 10 players out there. Truly great play.

Dorsett is obviously one of my favorite Cowboys as well since he was an all time Pitt great. I can rememeber when I was about 9 or 10, Pitt used to have training camp at one of their branch campuses in my hometown and my dad took me to watch a practice and Tony walked right by me onto the field. To this day, I'm amazed how he could play so long practically injury free at his size.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Jul 5, 2007 10:42 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

U Lucky Dog

I totally envy U, Terry.

If that happened to me, I'd never forget that either.

That's cool that your Dad regularly took you to see Pitt football players to training camps.

Tony D rocked!!!

"I'm biased. If there was ever a receiver that had a Hall of Fame career, in my opinion it's Michael Irvin." -- Troy Aikman

by kcbrett5 on Jul 5, 2007 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

no doubt!

Its funny because when I first saw him he looked so much smaller than all the other players. My dad kept telling me how great he was and I was thinking to myself, how can a player so small be such a great football player? But then I saw him run and it was like, WOW!!, the dude could run like the wind blows. It almost looked as if he was gliding on skates, he was so smooth and quick.

And then he gets drafted by my favorite pro team, couldn't get much better than that at age 11.

In Romo we Trust

by Terry on Jul 5, 2007 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs