Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years of Football

by Sports Illustrated

They are loved and they are hated. There is no team in the NFL - no football team in the nation - that stirs as much emotion, coast to coast, as the Dallas Cowboys. They are 'America's Team.' Born in 1960, the Cowboys did not win a game in their first season, finishing 0-11-1. From those humble beginnings emerged a franchise for whom winning, and winning it all, was expected. Eight Super Bowl appearances, five Super Bowl victories. And, oh, the glory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603201149
• ISBN13: 9781603201148
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Sports Illustrated Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.3" x 12.5"
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary

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50 yrs of Dallas Cowboys

Outstanding book--vy well written. It covers the Cowboy's 'golden years' right up through the Jerry Jones era...excellent story. Steve Gilbert Denver 303-521-0520

A Must Read For Cowboys Fans

Last week, I was fortunate enough to receive an advance copy of the soon to be released "Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years Of Football" by Sports Illustrated. Now I've read my fair share of books on the Dallas Cowboys over the years, but this is the first one that I immediately cherished as a collectors item. Believe me when I tell you, that once you get this fine book in your hands, you'll find it very difficult to put down, and I'm not kidding you either. The book is loaded with some of the most sensational anecdotes and articles about the Cowboys as brought to you by the some of the best sports writers in the country. I love the way they broke it down into decades. The photography is stunning and the book is loaded with a vast collection of unforgettable shots that captures the entire history of this historic franchise. Here is some additional information from the publisher: Sports Illustrated will release `The Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years Of Football' on August 24th. The rich heritage of the Cowboys is captured in this extraordinary collection of stories by the finest sports writers in the world, including Peter King, Tim Layden and Dan Jenkins, a spectacular selection of images from the best photo archive in sports, and a mind-boggling array of stats, anecdotes and memorabilia. It is the ultimate celebration of the Dallas Cowboys. Sports Illustrated The Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years Of Football gives fans an insider look from Sports Illustrated senior writer, Peter King, whose in depth access to "America's Team" includes a three-city scouting trip with Jimmy Johnson to a training camp sit down interview with Tony Romo to discuss his personal life in the off-season. From the teams humble beginnings to emerging in to a franchise for which winning, and winning it all was expected. Eight Super Bowl appearances, five Super Bowl victories and the glory and the glamour that has surrounded this team. Sports Illustrated The Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years Of Football revisits the names that leap out of NFL history: Dandy Don Meredith, Bullet Bob Hayes, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson, the lineage of head coaches is a Who's Who list - Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson, Barry Switzer, Bill Parcells and the Hall of Famers who could fill their own wing - from Bob Lilly, Mel Renfro, Roger Staubach, Tony Dorsett, Troy Aikman to Michael Irvin. As you can see, this is an incredible book that any Cowboys fan would be proud to own. Hopefully, all of you have already registered for our contest as we are giving away 25 free copies of these stunning hard covered books. You can still register by going here. [...]

Stunning photography, impeccable reporting

Review: "Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years of Football", edited by David Bauer Sports Illustrated The Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years of Football Bauer, David (ed). Dallas Cowboys: 50 Years of Football. New York: Sports Illustrated Books. 2010 192p, illus. 29.95 (list) ISBN 978-1-60320-114-8 My first impression when opening this book was "it's big, very big". Not by page count, but by page size (11 x 12 inches). It is easily larger than the other Cowboy histories issued so far this year by Aron, Housewright and Miller. My second impression: the photographs are stunning. Coming from Sports Illustrated I would've expected no less. This book follows the successful format established by "The Football Book" (2005; revised 2009) and "The College Football Book" (2008): lavish illustrations accompanying excellent contemporary game articles. This is the first team-specific edition published by SI and it is a worthy addition to the canon. It deserves a spot on the bookshelf of every Dallas Cowboys fan. The book is organized by decade, with more articles devoted to the championship decades of the 70s and 90s. Given the top-flight reporting and photography that SI is known for, it is easy to love this gorgeous volume and hard to find anything to criticize about it. Still . . . The most obvious question that came to my mind was: what does Mark Cuban in a towel have to do with the Cowboys (photograph on page 166)? Or a 70s-era Southwest Airlines airlines stewardess dressed in hotpants (page 60), or Ann Richards and her shotgun (page 134)? And others too numerous to mention. I suppose in the minds of SI's East Coast editors, these are examples of Texas' popular "culture", and the Cowboys are the most widely known example of Texas culture. And that's fine, except nowhere in the book does anyone explain this. These "cultural" shots are thrown in without explanation and with no obvious tie to the Cowboys, other than the fact that all are from (or represent) Texas. The reader is left to puzzle this out for him (or her) self. It would have been nice if the jacket blurb had at least mentioned why these otherwise unrelated pictures were thrown in (pictures which most likely were never shot by SI photographers, let alone published in its pages). OK, so how about the pictures that ARE about the Cowboys? As expected, most are stunning. But at least two of them have erroneous captions. On p41 Cowboys QB Eddie LeBaron has saddled a DL identified as Ed Hussman -- but that's not Hussman. According to Cowboys superfan and memorabilia expert Stephen Liskey, the DL is actually Joe Nicely. Later, on p67, a leaping Tom Landry is identified as being in Super Bowl X. But the Cowboy players in the picture are missing the Bicentennial shoulder patch worn by members of both teams. So Tom must've been leaping about something other than the Steel Curtain (hats off to fellow fan Marty Ogelvie for pointing this out). The articles, while well-written, cannot hope to cover