{"id":137051,"date":"2021-02-14T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137051"},"modified":"2021-02-14T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T22:20:54","slug":"boys-will-be-boys-the-glory-days-and-party-nights-of-the-dallas-cowboys-dynasty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137051","title":{"rendered":"Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boys-Will-Be-Cowboys-Dynasty\/dp\/0061256803\">Jeff Pearlman wrote in 2008<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* In addition to finding the whole Talley affair uproarious, the Cowboys were encouraged that, in the heat of the action, not one Bill came to the linebacker\u2019s defense. As he sat bloodied and humiliated on the Roxbury floor, teammates failed to gather around Talley. \u201cNo chance that happens with us,\u201d says Kevin Smith. \u201cAbsolutely no chance. We looked out for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Making their third straight Super Bowl appearance (and still without a win), Buffalo was a solid, talent-laden ball club that committed a lot of mistakes and, according to Johnson, played tissue-soft football. In an early-week meeting with his players, Johnson implored the Cowboys to smack Kelly around\u2014even when there was no reason to do so. \u201cMake sure he knows you\u2019re there,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cTouch his uniform, tap his helmet, step on his foot\u2014make him feel us. Make him scared.\u201d The coach assured his team that the Bills, fearful of dropping yet another Super Bowl, would inevitably unravel. \u201cCapitalize on mistakes,\u201d he said, \u201cand we can\u2019t lose.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Pearlman wrote in 2008: * In addition to finding the whole Talley affair uproarious, the Cowboys were encouraged that, in the heat of the action, not one Bill came to the linebacker\u2019s defense. As he sat bloodied and humiliated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=137051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dallas","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137054,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137051\/revisions\/137054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}