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Duane Thomas and the Fall of Americas Team 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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They came together with the fury of a Texas
tornado--Duane Thomas, destined to become
one of the greatest runners in pro football his-
tory and the Dallas Cowboys, a successful.
monolithic organization that named itself
America s Team. The south Dallas street kid
who could run like the wind. and who became
a stashing, explosive 22g-pound halfback, gave
the Cowboys two spectacular seasons. Then it
all collapsed. He was gone, a memory a wisp of
smoke. And he felt betrayed.
He had retreated into impenetrabre silence,
staring out at the world from aeep, brooding
eyes. "The Look," quarterback Roger Staubach
called it. Thomas left the Cowboys after the
1971 season and for seventeen years kept arl
the anger inside. Now for the first time he tells
his story revealed partly througn a remarkable
two-hundred-page journal he kept through the
years.
It s a story that goes back to the black high
school leagues of south Dallas and to West
Texas State, an unknown school in tne Panhan-
dle with a breathtaking collection of imported
talent and a wild and violently unpredictable
coach named Joe Kerbel. It offers a unique,
inside look at the famous names in the Cow-
boys history--from the cool and unemotional
Tom Landry to the blunt and sometimes brutal
general manager Tex Schramm: to Calvin Hill,
the black intellectual from Yale; Cliff Harris, the
"rolling ball of butcher knives"; and Staubach,
the team s most famous player.
It portrays Thomas as he wanders through
his gypsy years, including his seasons with San
Diego, a team with a nasty drug history Then
came the slide: two less than brilliant years
with George Allen s Washington Redskins, a
nondescript period with Hawaii of the World
Football League, hints of drug involvement, a
succession of failing business ventures.
At the same time, the golden years of Ameri-
ca s Team drew to a close. The team that had
Duane Thomas and the Fall of Americas Team 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书