copy of a post i made on a message board

okay so now its like 2 posts here in 2 minutes.
once i get the Cowboys in my head i cant get them out.
actually a person asked a question on cowboyszone.com
that i thought i would answer.
the question was..who are the 10 greatest Cowboys ever ??

hahaha...no way could i narrow it down that far.
so i decided to pick 10 from each decade.
that almost killed me.
anyway i put so much thought into it i decided to post
my reply here also. i hated to see all that brain power go
to waste.
anyway heres what i remember from all the years of watching the Boys.
i guess its not plagarism if you copy your own stuff is it ??
enjoy. later poke




cowboy mark....

ive seen your post here for a couple of days, there is just no way
i can pick 10 players from 40+ years of watching the Boys.

the more i thought about it i figured i could maybe pick 10 from each
decade even though for me thats still going to be hard.

and i have to tell you these may not be the greatest they are just the ones
i liked the most.

and after doing this 10 from each decade isnt enough, i feel like i owe
a whole bunch of guys apologies because i couldnt list everybody i liked.

and these are in no order at all...except Meredith, he is/was and will always be my favorite.

60's
don meredith
chuck howley
don perkins
bob lily
lee roy jordan
mel renfro
ralph neely
cornell green
bob hayes
dan reeves

70's
walt garrison
rayfield wright
larry cole
jethro pugh (had to get him in and ran out of room in the 60's)
charlie waters/ cliff harris ( i always think of them as one)
roger staubach ( right behind meredith for all time favorite)
dave manders
billy jo dupree
hollywood henderson ( in spite of his screw-ups)
preston pearson ( the original 3rd down back )

80's
danny white
tony dorsett
drew pearson
ed too-tall jones
everson walls
robert newhouse
dennis thurman
jim jeffcoat
mark tuinei
randy white

90's...this is impossible..the team roster could be listed here as far as i am
concerned, but im trying to stick to 10.

troy aikman
bill bates
michael irvin
nate newton
emmitt smith
daryl johnston
leon lett
mark stepnoski
russell maryland
erik williams

*** george teague gets a mention for you know what !!
** dale hellestrae gets a mention for years of not worrying about bad deep
snaps.
* one star for our hired guns..deion sanders and charles haley
cause yes they did make a difference and i ran out of room.

and yes i know i left off ken norton jr, kenneth gant, jay novacek,
kevin gogan, alvin harper, chad hennings, tony tolbert and way too many
more to list. this was not a fair request !!

2000's

larry allen
darren woodson
flozell adams
dat nguyen
greg ellis
la'roi glover
roy williams
jason witten
terence newman
julius jones

i reserve the right to change this as the decade moves on....

i gotta start typing and i sure do dread it....

well i cant put it off any longer. ive been dreading it,
fighting it, worrying it to death and just generally
avoiding it as long as i can.
its been at least a month since i was real serious
about worrying about the beloved Boys.
sure i been keeping one eye on them.
i know we have let go of the last player who played with
a super bowl team here in dallas. (larry allen..duh).
i have already written here about the other departures from
last years team..although i forgot to mention laroi glover,
and that just shows i wasnt really thinking hard about the GOOD GUYS
because i always liked him as a player . im pretty sure we will miss
him at some point next year when we need a play made.
but this time of year i really like just enjoying the sunshine before
it gets so hot you cant breathe. sadly that only lasted till mid-april
when it broke the 100 degree mark twice here in the df&w metroplex.
i like catching a baseball game or two after working out in the yard.
i loved being in florida for 3 weeks.
i am already getting the boat ready so i can go scoot across some water
now that we finally got some rain and the lakes have water in them.
its just doesnt seem right to worry about football right now.
thats what i pay jerry jones and bill parcells to do..at least i guess
thats what those outrageous ticket and parking prices cover. im pretty
sure they make enough money off of alcohol and cokes and $6.00 hot dogs
to pay Drew and Julius and Terrell and everybody else their money.
but my hand is being forced..........
its in the newspaper, its on tv, its all over the world wide web.
its draft time. like this weekend. my vacation is over.
somehow or another i have to wade through about 4 gazillion predictions
from people who dont have a clue and figure out who i want the Boys
to draft. like i really know !!
i dont study college game films, i dont know what the "braintrust"
at Valley Ranch is thinking. i sure as heck dont understand salary cap
ramifications and all that stuff.
then when i figure out who i want us to choose i have to do some serious mind bending
and get my thoughts into the heads of those who actually make those decisions.
what really makes that hard is that im pretty sure i dont have that capability.
oh well..it ought to be fun to see , maybe we pick a linebacker, or an offensive
lineman or maybe a wide receiver. doesnt really matter though. as soon as we pick them
my mind goes into auto pilot and i like them. right then...before they even get their
star from bill at training camp.
oh well maybe the time off was good for me...i still have plenty of time to get into
full blown football craziness.
besides i gotta see if i can help the astros get back to the world series.
see ya after the draft so i can tell you how great all the guys we chose are !!
later..poke