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2 unusual facts about Cowboys


Zander Cannon

Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards (with Jim Ottaviani and Big Time Attic), G.T. Labs, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9660106-6-4)

With Big Time Attic, he has illustrated a book with Jim Ottaviani entitled Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards.


2002 San Francisco 49ers season

Despite intercepting Chad Hutchinson twice the 49ers saw the game lead change four times before the Cowboys surged to a 27–17 lead in the fourth quarter.

2005 Kansas City Chiefs season

Hunt was recognized for his contributions to the City of Dallas, and his establishment of the American Football League’s Dallas Texans (now the Kansas City Chiefs), one of the Cowboys’ AFL rivals.

2006 NCAA Wrestling Championships

Oklahoma State University crowned 2 individual champions (Johny Hendricks at 165 pounds and Jake Rosholt at 197 pounds) and 4 other Cowboys qualified as All-Americans as the Cowboys earned a dominant victory in the tournament.

2008 Gold Coast Titans season

Round 7: Brenton Bowen made his debut for the club, after previously playing for the North Queensland Cowboys.

Abram Elam

In 2011, after hiring his former Browns defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, the Cowboys signed him to a one-year contract as a free agent and named him the starter at safety.

Anand Rajaram

He has done theatre work with CanStage, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Odyssey Theatre and others, as well as producing and presenting his own works, Hys Unauthoryzed Lyfe and Tymes (2001), and Cowboys & Indians (2005), both at the Summerworks Theatre Festival with Bob Wiseman in Toronto.

Battle of Frenchman's Butte

Major-General Thomas Bland Strange, a retired British officer living near Calgary, raised a force of cowboys and other white settlers, added to them two units of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), and headed north.

Bill Bates

Upon his retirement after the 1997 season, he was considered one of the most beloved Cowboys of all time.

Bill Peterson

Bill Parcells (New York Giants, New England Patriots, New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys)

Billy Clanton

He is best known for being a member of group of outlaw Cowboys that had ongoing conflicts with lawmen Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp.

Blaine Nye

He played right guard between Hall of Famer offensive tackle Rayfield Wright (1970–1976) and Dave Manders (1970–1972) or John Fitzgerald (1973–1976) at center and helped anchor a dominant offensive line that led the Cowboys to three Super Bowls in that time.

Blaine Wilson

He comes from a sports-minded family and is named after baseball great Rod Carew and former Dallas Cowboys guard Blaine Nye.

Cowboys and Aliens

"Cowboys & Aliens", a song by Gram Rabbit from their 2004 album, Music to Start a Cult To

Cowboys for Christ

Cowboys for Christ provided the basis for the 2011 film, The Wicker Tree.

Ducks Deluxe

The permanent line-up of the band is now Sean Tyla, vocals and guitar; Martin Belmont, guitar and vocals; Kevin Foster (of Hank Wangford & the Lost Cowboys and Los Pisteleros fame) bass guitar and backing vocals; and Jim Russell, (ex Stretch, Wild Angels, and The Inmates) on drums.

Duke–Maryland basketball rivalry

A Harris Interactive poll of Marylanders ranked it the third best in the state behind the Redskins–Cowboys and RavensRedskins rivalries.

Eric Alfred Knudsen

Knudsen (called "Elika", Hawaiian for "Eric") became known as the "Teller of Hawaiian Tales," when his placid voice could be heard in the Islands over KTOH radio, located on Ahukini Road in Lihue, while he narrated his tales of Hawaiian cowboys, and ghosts, and journeys into the mountains of Kauai, and those legendary times when the Hawaiians and their gods mingled on a daily basis.

Flicknife Records

Throughout the 1980s, it released material from artists such as Michael Moorcock, Robert Calvert, Hawkwind, The London Cowboys, Erazerhead, Alien Sex Fiend, Nico and Underground Zerø.

Fred Swearingen

The call stood, and later in the drive Franco Harris ran 22 yards for a touchdown (a play on which Cowboys safety Charlie Waters was in position to make the tackle before he collided with umpire Art Demmas) and a 28–17 lead.

Gene Lyda

He immediately joined the Rodeo Cowboys Association (now the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) and competed in the bull riding at intercollegiate rodeos while on a rodeo scholarship with Southwest Texas Junior College in Uvalde, Texas.

Hank Williams on Stage

The performance is officially credited to Hank Williams and his Drifting Cowboys with Hank's first wife Audrey Williams, who sings back-up vocals.

Jason Garrett

The highlight of his career with the Cowboys occurred on Thanksgiving Day, 1994, when Garrett, starting in place of injured back-up Rodney Peete, led the Cowboys over the Green Bay Packers by completing 15 of 26 passes for 311 yards and 2 touchdowns in a second-half comeback.

Jason Witten

In 2004, Witten had 87 catches, eleventh most in history by a tight end and a Cowboys team record for the position, and was selected to his first Pro Bowl, becoming a part of the Cowboys franchise's legacy of great tight ends that includes: Jim Doran, Lee Folkins, Pettis Norman, Mike Ditka, Billy Joe DuPree, Jackie Smith, Doug Cosbie and Jay Novacek.

Kacy Rodgers

Rodgers had previously worked with Sparano in Dallas the previous five seasons while also serving under current Dolphins Vice President Bill Parcells during his tenure as Cowboys head coach from 2003 to 2006.

Kent Harper

Harper went acted in and produced three short films including Kung-fu Cowboys and You Always Stalk the Ones you love, starring James Franco and Scott Caan.

Leavin's Been a Long Time Comin'

The video features former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, Troy Aikman, who plays Cowboy Joe, the new gentleman friend of the woman playing the wife of Shenandoah lead singer, Marty Raybon, in a takeoff on a 1940-vintage divorce trial.

Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

American Singer/Songwriter, Tom Russell sang a cover of the song with Eliza Gilkyson and Joe Ely for his 2004 album, Indians Cowboys Horses and Dogs.

Marsh Giddings

In January 1874 the best he could do was to offer a reward of $500 for the arrest of those cowboys who had shot up a Hispanic dance in Lincoln murdering four men, the seminal event starting the wars.

Mel Renfro

In the 1970 NFC title game, Renfro had a key interception that led to the Cowboys' game-winning touchdown over the San Francisco 49ers that helped them get to Super Bowl V, where they lost to the Baltimore Colts.

Mike Lynn

The three 1st round and three 2nd round picks eventually netted the Cowboys Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson, and Russell Maryland and three Super Bowl rings.

Percy Howard

Still, he would become part of the Cowboys lore and was named #6 on NFL Top 10's Top Ten One-Shot Wonders.

Peter Jones

Pete Jones (born 1957), former bass player for Public Image Limited, 1982–1983, and former member of the band Cowboys International

Post Punk Kitchen

The hosts cooked vegan food to a back drop of punk rock music and featured local bands such as Made Out of Babies and The Cuban Cowboys "prepping" while singing one of their songs.

Queen's Engineering Society

Clark Hall Pub has also been home to many successful acts, including The Tragically Hip, Bedouin Soundclash, Poison Ibey, Arkells, Arcade Fire, as well as crowd favourites Horse and Mule, The Radical Dudez, The Cowboys and satirists Khaki Snack.

Raymond Stampede

Under the direction of rancher Raymond Knight, cowboys from the surrounding ranches were invited to participate in this first rodeo, which consisted of saddle bronc riding and steer roping.

Richard Wetherill

On December 18, 1888, Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason, cowboys from Mancos, found Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde after spotting the ruins from the top of the mesa.

Ron McBride

Pat McQuistan - Offensive Lineman selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 7th round of the 2006 NFL Draft (Weber State)

Rory Kostjasyn

Since signing with the North Queensland Cowboys, Kostjasyn has been mainly playing the hooker position rotating with Ray Thompson.

Rusty Hilger

In 1983, the Cowboys finished 8-4 and Hilger was recognized as the Most Valuable Player in the 1983 Bluebonnet Bowl.

Sea Girt, New Jersey

Bill Parcells (born 1941), former NFL coach of the New York Giants, New England Patriots, New York Jets, and Dallas Cowboys.

Sione

Sione Faumuina, a rugby league player for the North Queensland Cowboys

Take These Chains from My Heart

"Take These Chains from My Heart" is a 1953 single by Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys, written by Fred Rose and Hy Heath.

Tascosa, Texas

The town grew up around a local crossing place on the Canadian River where cowboys would cross the river on their way to the Dodge City railhead and cattle markets.

The Electric Banana

Amongst the local acts, there was the aforementioned Half-Life, Watch for Busses, The Cynics, S.M.D.(Screaming Mailboxes of Destiny), Boystown, The Beating, The Cowboys from Hell, the past three mentioned bands all had members in common which were Phil Crists (drums) Mike Kastelic currently of the Cynics (vocals) Rick Pegg (guitar/vocal) who died in 2008 and Ron Cambest (guitar/vocal).

Those Were the Days – The Best Of Leningrad Cowboys

Those Were the Days – The Best Of Leningrad Cowboys is a two-disc greatest hits album packaged in a DVD style case in a box set with a deck of playing cards.

Tony Casillas

Their general manager, Carl Peterson, asked the league to investigate whether the Cowboys had tampered, after the Cowboys hired Barry Switzer (Casillas's former coach at Oklahoma ).

Wyoming Cowboys and Cowgirls

The nickname Cowboys was used as early as 1891 when a true cowboy assisted the Wyoming football team against a team from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

ZWAM

According to Lesley Sharp the "cowboys" of ZWAM "assumed a style of dress reminiscent of Clint Eastwood, a loner recognized as the 'champion of real justice' over 'the venal guardians of formal law'".


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