Subject: Tom Landry

• Morning Motivation

  November 2, 2006

• Fit to be Tied

  September 7, 2006

• Ear Muffs, Tom Landry! Ear Muffs!

  September 1, 2006

• You Can Leave Your Hat On

  August 7, 2006

• HOV Can You See DART's New Road? The First Six Miles, Anyway.

  July 30, 2007

• You Betcha: Week 3

  September 21, 2007

• At Least I Got Two Predictions Right

  May 6, 2008

• It's Summer. You Need a Hat. Might as Well Be One of Tom Landry's.

  June 4, 2008

• God Bless America. And Sports.

  July 3, 2008

• A Forgotten Documentary About Super Bowl X, Starring a Topless Rayfield Wright, Phyllis George and Bill Murray

  July 7, 2008

• The Top 10 All-Time Dallas Cowboys

  At least we can all agree on No. 1. Right?From time to time I've been known  to construct a Top 10 list. But this one, I've got to tear apart. You're telling me there's a list of the Top 10 All-Time greatest Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones isn't on it? Altogether now: Bull. Shit. If NFL Network is merely trying to get the blogosphere all a Twitter via look-at-us controversy, mission accomplished. But if it's actually trying to capture the most important contributors to the almost 5

  June 1, 2009

• Go West, Young Man. And Be Sure to Close Your Eyes the First 20 Miles.

  July 28, 2008

• Today’s Sign of the Apocalypse

  August 15, 2008

• Star-Studded Tuesday

  September 2, 2008

• Troy over Tony: The Day a Dynasty was Born

  October 1, 2008

• Some Former Cowboys' Fear Factor

  October 30, 2008

• The Top 10 Most Memorable Moments in the History of Grand Ol' Texas Stadium

    Fittingly, the stadium with the hole in the roof - so God could watch his favorite football team, duh - was christened by a 10-day Billy Graham crusade. A month later - Oct. 24, 1971 - Texas Stadium opened for Cowboys' business. Come Saturday night, the ol' joint at Loop 12 and Highway 114 in the armpit of Irving will embrace its last traffic jam. And perhaps provide one final indelible memory. After Cowboys-Ravens, the Cowboys will trot out 100 former players and coaches

  December 17, 2008

• Video of the Week: The Best Game in the History of Texas Stadium

  Larry Cole. Roger Staubach. Tony Hill. Pat Summerall. Tom Landry. Cowboys 35, Redskins 34 in 1979. They can take the Cowboys out of Texas Stadium, but they'll never take Texas Stadium out of the Cowboys. I still get goose bumps. - Richie Whitt

  December 19, 2008

• My Photographic Farewell to Texas Stadium

  I never claimed to be a great writer. Even a worse photographer.Nonetheless, armed with an iPhone and a life's worth of memories, I'd be honored if you'd allow me to take you on a tour of Texas Stadium's final night. Follow me. Right this way. Here it is. The house that Tex Schramm built and Tom Landry turned into an icon.  Everybody is nostalgic. Even, um, Santa Cowboy and his elves? Let's go in for one last spin around the joint, shall we?

  December 21, 2008

• Touch of class

  April 4, 1996

• Buzz

  September 19, 1996

• Lord, help him

  July 23, 1998

• Introducing ... Tom Landry Stadium!

  Well, that's my idea anyway. And it's a damn good one. Think about it. In this crappy economic climate even Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is having trouble luring a 9-figure naming-rights partner out to Arlington. So I say - just for the stadium's first year, mind you - Jerry should christen it after the Cowboys' first and bestest coach ever: Tom Landry. Furthermore, Jones should make the official announcement next Wednesday (February 25), the 20th anniversary of his unceremonial firing

  February 17, 2009

• Last Call For Your Piece of Texas Stadium

  Going ... going ... Weird to have the visitation two months after the funeral. But hey, it's Texas Stadium, don't let the effed-up order deter your ogling. If you haven't yet paid your last respects to the house that Tom Landry built, Troy Aikman upgraded and Jerry Jones sentenced to the wrecking ball, this weekend is your latest last chance. Some of us long ago eulogized the joint with our favorite memories and even a photographic tour prior to the final game on Dec.

  February 20, 2009

• Jonestown Coliseum: Affordable?

  By no means is it a steal. But perhaps a deal? When the first Jonestown Coliseum ticket prices were announced last year, we all fainted via sticker shock: 4 lower-level seats on the 35-yard line - adding in $340 tickets, $75 parking and 30-year seat options - cost over $150,000. But this morning: Numbers we can digest.

  February 24, 2009

• What's In My Closet? Cowboys' Good-Ol'-Day Syndrome Edition

  On this bittersweet crappy day of mourning - the 20th anniversary of Tom Landry's firing - thought I'd rummage through my junk and find some old Cowboys' stuff. Stuff from a happier time. Stuff weaved around Super Bowl trophies. Stuff involving Hall of Fame heroes. Stuff from an era when players and coaches had a lot on their minds and weren't muzzled from saying it. Stuff from way back when the Cowboys were not only America's Team, but a team from Dallas we could all be proud of. Stu

  February 25, 2009

• February 25, 1989: Where Were You?

  We celebrated God's Coach with a Devil's Night. Was that wrong?I was at Valley Ranch, a 24-year-old piss-ant reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Only a couple years removed from punching holes in my college apartment walls when the Dallas Cowboys lost, I was totally unprepared and overwhelmed by the press conference I was attending. It was 20 years ago today that Arkansas oil man Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys, and fired Tom Landry. After helping gather quotes, notes and anecd

  February 25, 2009

• Texas Stadium Deserved a Fonder Farewell Than This

  December 25, 2008

• The Fab 50

  Half a hundred power brokers who sculpt our local sports landscape

  July 10, 2008

• The product

  Former Dallas Cowboy Pat Toomay found it harder to write about the NFL than to play in it

  October 21, 1999

• Corporate Cowboys

  America's Team wants your dirty, sexy money. Lots of it.

  November 29, 2007

• Some things he did

  Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more

  May 11, 2000

• Three Times the Pain

  May 4, 2006

• The Fab Fifty

  Or, half a hundred folks with way better seats than you

  July 19, 2007

• Slow Ride

  September 15, 2005

• Head Cases

  The Eagles--and their fans--know when insanity is a good thing

  December 11, 2003

• Rough Skies

  Larry Wansley--former Marine, cop and FBI agent--has his biggest task ahead of him: making American Airlines safe from terrorism

  November 21, 2002

• Best Sports Columnist

  Frank Luksa, The Dallas Morning News

  September 26, 2002

• :cueless

  Buzz hacks through the past in search of the cool cats and fools of the year that was

  December 28, 2000

• The ghost of Tom Landry

  In 1970, Pat Toomay was scared he'd get drafted by Vince Lombardi. Something worse happened -- he ended up playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Years later, he'd realize what damage that wrought.

  October 21, 1999

• It's time for the Dallas Observer’s annual list of the 50 Most Powerful People in Metroplex Sports. Cool.

  July 16, 2009

• Who Would You Cast as Tom Landry?

  Yours for the low, low price of $14.01.​I ask only because this morning, Variety reports that ESPN and the National Football League are collaborating on a biopic called Lombardi -- you'll never guess who it's about. Notes the trade, the film about the Green Bay Packers coach will be released in theaters the weekend before the 2011 Super Bowl at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. It's kind of fitting, given the movie's subject matter:The film will highlight the long rivalry between Lombardi and Dall

  July 28, 2009

• My Top 10 Observations From Cowboys 30, Titans 10, Stadium 7.

  ... to this.   From this ...    ​                There are kinks to be worked out, yes. But in Friday's victory over the Tennessee Titans the Dallas Cowboys showed that their team and their stadium just might be great - if not super - after all. 10. We can criticize Tony Romo's girlfriends and golfing and lack of demonstrative leadership all we want, but only a handful of quarterbacks can make the play he produced in the f

  August 24, 2009

• Cowboys Stadium: Reviewing Our Suite Dreams

  Somehow seven years ago I didn't forsee 5-star bars equipped with back-lit chandeliers and littered with HDTVs.​Back in 2002 when I was at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram we first started getting wind that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was toying with the idea of building a new stadium. "Gather some ideas, solicit some fan feedback and let your imagination run wild," my editor told me at the time. "Let's give readers a picture of what a stadium might look like in the future." Fun.

  August 31, 2009

• Do Two Rights Make a Wrong? (Cornerback, That Is)

  Wonder if Orlando will be as cool as Craig? ​Back in 1971 a genius named Tom Landry decided it was a swell idea to alternate quarterbacks Roger Staubach and Craig Morton - on every friggin' play. But after his Dallas Cowboys bumbled along at 4-3, the coach decided on Staubach full-time and, well, you know, the rest is Super Bowl VI history. Almost 40 years later Wade Phillips is trying the same stunt, only with cornerbacks Mike Jenkins and Orlando Scandrick alternating starts inste

  September 8, 2009

• If You've Always Wanted Tom Landry's Hat ...

  ​So, let's say Jack Ruby's hat doesn't do it for you. Fine. In that case, Heritage Auction Galleries has another option for your noggin: one of Tom Landry's old fedoras, this one circa 1980-something. Heritage's Noah Fleisher sends word that the trademark hat'll be amongst a handful of Dallas Cowboys items up grabs in the auction house's October Signature Sports Memorabilia Auction. At the moment, it's currently sitting at the $650 mark, but it'll no doubt go for a few dollars more; it's guess

  September 8, 2009

• Only Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Build A Palace Big Enough To Match His Larger-Than-Life Persona

  September 10, 2009

• Tom Landry's Fallen and He Can't Get Up

  Patrick MichelsTom Landry's statue waits to be untied Tuesday morning at Cowboys Stadium. You can find Richie's take in the Sportatorium.​Patrick Michels was out at Jerry Jones's EnormoDome this morning, where workers were scheduled to erect Tom Landry. Pardon ... Tom Landry's statue. But they were running a wee bit behind schedule, Patrick had to return to the office so he could film my interview with C-3PO, so this is what he ended up getting. In other words: Mission accomplished!

  September 15, 2009

• The Resurrection of God, er, Tom Landry

  ​This may be the craziest, saddest, best, coolest photo I've ever seen posted. The good news: Tom Landry's statue is being re-erected today in front of Gate A at Cowboys Stadium. The bad news: Kinda creeps me out that it reminds me of ...

  September 15, 2009

• The Top 10 Most Famous Hats in the History of Dallas

  Everything's bigger in Dallas. Even the, um, hats. ​I can't believe you people. Yeah, you. The ones who actually spend a millisecond of your precious time on Earth worrying about how a certain Dallas Cowboys' quarterback wears his cap. Not his helmet, mind you. His hat. I'm all about big hat, no cattle and all, but I've actualy heard this sentiment on the street, in the bars and on 105.3 The Fan this week: "Tony Romo started playing better once he started wearing his cap forward. It's

  November 12, 2009