Football is poetic. It is a story written as if the heartstrings had hands. UCLA's Troy Aikman, a man who found his rightful home in Westwood after an ill-fate ...

Stoic on the sideline, Tom Landry posted 20 consecutive winning seasons ... he would almost certainly have been fired. But owner Clint Murchison saw beyond Landry's 13-38-3 record.

I was not old enough to pay attention to the media circus when Jerry Jones fired the immortal Tom Landry, and I’m not sure I’d even remember anyhow. Landry had been the only coach in Cowboys ...