Those of us of a certain age remember this guy well. He was a stud among a bad-ass defense for the Cowboys, and still holds the team record for sacks in a season.
From his obit in the NYT:
He led the Cowboys in sacks from 1964 through 1967 and had a team-high and career-high 18 in 1966.

You have to remember that this was when the NFL played a 12-game season!!!
I still vividly recall him picking up that fumble for a TD in the Ice Bowl. I've hated the Packers since, because the Cowboys had the chance to win the first two Super Bowls, and they would have called it the Landry Trophy instead of the Lombardi Trophy. (Those cheese-eating f*ckers.)
And did you know that Big George iived out his post-NFL career in Waco?
RIP George.
We remember you fondly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/obituaries/george-andrie-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries

We get our marketing materials from his son.

Good on you!

Was it Andrie that had a dry cleaning business in Dallas during his playing days to supplement his income?

osogreen said:

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Was it Andrie that had a dry cleaning business in Dallas during his playing days to supplement his income?

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Wouldn't be uncommon. Most players had a business or worked during the off season
The money wasn't big before the merger
My dad had a regular job in the off season

osogreen said:

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Was it Andrie that had a dry cleaning business in Dallas during his playing days to supplement his income?

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I believe that was Chuck Howley.

Chuck Bedanarik (sic) had a concrete business in Philly during the off season.

HuecoBear said:

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osogreen said:

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Was it Andrie that had a dry cleaning business in Dallas during his playing days to supplement his income?

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I believe that was Chuck Howley.

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Chuck Howley did very well with a uniform rental business. Used to see his trucks around town all the time. Lee Roy Jordan ended up getting into the lumber biz.

Lee Roy had a redwood lumber business and Howley had the uniform company. I got some jackets embroidered with our logo and Howley's place.
And Chuck AND Lee Roy were also stud football players.
Those Cowboy teams of the late 60s were bad-ass, and save for two close loses to the ******* cheese heads would have been enshrined as the first Super Bowl champs and had the trophy named after Landry, not Lombardi.

I'm still mad about it.

Posts like this make me feel online young



Im 45 btw and didnt follow Cowboys til Staubach days late 70s

If you were old enough to watch the Ice Bowl game you would still be mad enough to bite nails, or hair lip the Pope.

(Had I had a handgun nearby I would have pulled an Elvis and shot the TV screen.)

Because you followed Staubach, I know that the Super Bowl loss to those sausage-eating Steelers (35-31) ticked you off, as it did me (that Benny Barnes PI call still grates me), but the Ice Bowl hurt even more.

That Cowboys defensive line from the mid-60's into the 70's was so good. The first version of the Doomsday Defense d-line name was Willie, Lilly, Jethro and George (Willie Townes, Bob Lilly, Jethro Pugh, George Andrie). After a year of two it became Larry, Lilly, Jethro and George (insert Larry Cole). Bob Lilly is an all-time NFL great, Mr. Cowboy, but Jethro and George were extremely good to dominant players themselves. Jethro is gone. Now George. Sad to see others of my childhood Cowboys fading away.

BTW, I have spoken to Chuck Howley's son in the last several years and he (the son) is involved in the family uniform business. Chuck was slowing down but still kicking.

When I was a teenager I had several 2x3 foot posters of favorite Cowboys on my wall (came from Sports Illustrated). I would drag my dad into the den to watch the "Cowboys '68" half hour highlight show every week (I think with Frank Glieber narrating). My favorite sports cards are still my Cowboys cards from the 60's and 70's.

Tom Landry spoke at a James Robison crusade in Waco in the 60's at the HOT, and I had the chutzpah to go up afterward and have him autograph my copy of "Next Year's Champions" (Probably not the most flattering book but the newest Cowboys book I had). He was very gracious. When Landry passed away, I happened to meet Charlie Waters while funeral preparations were going on. He basically said as time went on, Landry's players held him in higher and higher esteem. His passing was very hard on most of them.

Many good memories of those fascinating years.

Pecos, Hunter, you boys making me cry on Friday nite, those Cowboys were special, and Landry was the Best Coach then!