Kirjahaku

Tom Landry's football team was in need of help. Immediate help.Prompted by internal strife, discontent, and an aging roster, the Dallas Cowboys stumbled to an 8-6 finish to the 1974 season, missing the playoffs for the first time in nine years. And with longtime veterans Bob Lilly, Bob Hayes, Calvin Hill and others on their way out the door, the Dallas dynasty was quickly turning into a vapor of the past. What happened next was one of the most brilliant and resourceful turnarounds that pro football fans have ever witnessed. A record-setting draft class reinvigorated the locker room with enthusiasm. An innovative formation provided the Cowboys with an unforeseen edge on the field. And in one of the NFL's iconic playoff moments, a prayer to the heavens was answered in the most unlikely of fashions.The Dirty Dozen is the true story of the Dallas Cowboys' 1975 season, when hard work and a positive attitude combined with luck and genius to pull Tom Landry's team up from the middle of the pack all the way to Miami and Super Bowl X.

The year was 1985, and times were changing fast in Dallas. The mighty Cowboys, participants in fiveSuper Bowls during the previous decade, had been crippled by poor drafts and untimely injuries.But head coach Tom Landry couldn't afford to tear the roster down and start all over from scratch.Rumblings of impatience from the owner's box made it imperative that Landry either right the ship...or be tossed overboard.Landry's Last Stand is the story of Tom Landry's final winning season in Dallas, when he guided theunderdog Cowboys on a wildly unpredictable climb up the NFC East ladder. It's a story about a partingplea, a promise well-kept, and a race to the NFL playoffs too impossible to be anything less than true.