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FWST: Brad Sham, Texas Stadium memories
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Brad Sham, Texas Stadium memories
Favorite moments of four who have a lifetime of memories at Texas Stadium
By RICKY TREON
Special to the Star-Telegram
Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis
Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis
If you’ve listened to a Dallas Cowboys game on the radio during the past 30 years, chances are you’ve heard Brad Sham.
Sham is in his 30th year as the voice of the Cowboys. He started as the second guy on the microphone in the late 1970s and became the lead commentator in 1984. With the exception of a brief hiatus in the 1990s, Sham has seen every great Cowboys moment in the past three decades.
It wasn’t easy, but Sham picked out his top memories.
Cowboys’ 35-34 win over Washington (Dec. 16, 1979): It was the best game I’ve ever seen at Texas Stadium, the most exciting game I’ve ever seen there. I was the color man then working with Verne Lundquist at that time, but he was out of town doing a boxing tournament. It was the last game of the regular season and the winner was going to win the NFC East and the loser was probably not going to make the playoffs. It was a great game that went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Emmitt Smith breaks the NFL’s all-time rushing record (Oct. 27, 2002): We’d been counting down the yards for about three weeks. What I was thinking of at the time is what a nightmare of a run that moment was. And when he did it, the run was exactly what I was afraid of. He kind of stumbled into the hole and almost went down. He put his hand down, and we weren’t sure he was going to make it. But he did, and it was still a great moment. Two plays later he went 16 yards and I said, "That’s what I wanted from you before."
Public pep rally/send-off to NFC Championship Game (Jan 16. 1992): They held a public pep rally at Texas Stadium, and they asked me to emcee it. The stadium was about half-full. To have that many people turn out was pretty cool. It was kind of a once-in-a lifetime kind of thing.
Jason Garrett leads Cowboys to 42-31 win over Green Bay (Thanksgiving Day, 1994): Jason and I were pretty good friends, and to see him get an opportunity to play and do as well on that stage, going up against a future Hall of Famer like Brett Favre as he did, was really special. It was really a Rudy moment.
Ring of Honor induction ceremonies for Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin and Emmitt Smith/Ring of Honor ceremonies for Cliff Harris and Rayfield Wright (Sept. 19, 2005, and Oct. 10, 2004): All the Ring of Honor ceremonies are special, but this is a tie for the best two. A Ring of Honor ceremony is special because it’s a reminder of all the great things the players had to do to get themselves into the Ring of Honor, and at the same time that life goes on after they play.
Voice of the Cowboys
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Brad Sham, Texas Stadium memories
Favorite moments of four who have a lifetime of memories at Texas Stadium
By RICKY TREON
Special to the Star-Telegram
Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis
Star-Telegram/Ron T. Ennis
If you’ve listened to a Dallas Cowboys game on the radio during the past 30 years, chances are you’ve heard Brad Sham.
Sham is in his 30th year as the voice of the Cowboys. He started as the second guy on the microphone in the late 1970s and became the lead commentator in 1984. With the exception of a brief hiatus in the 1990s, Sham has seen every great Cowboys moment in the past three decades.
It wasn’t easy, but Sham picked out his top memories.
Cowboys’ 35-34 win over Washington (Dec. 16, 1979): It was the best game I’ve ever seen at Texas Stadium, the most exciting game I’ve ever seen there. I was the color man then working with Verne Lundquist at that time, but he was out of town doing a boxing tournament. It was the last game of the regular season and the winner was going to win the NFC East and the loser was probably not going to make the playoffs. It was a great game that went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Emmitt Smith breaks the NFL’s all-time rushing record (Oct. 27, 2002): We’d been counting down the yards for about three weeks. What I was thinking of at the time is what a nightmare of a run that moment was. And when he did it, the run was exactly what I was afraid of. He kind of stumbled into the hole and almost went down. He put his hand down, and we weren’t sure he was going to make it. But he did, and it was still a great moment. Two plays later he went 16 yards and I said, "That’s what I wanted from you before."
Public pep rally/send-off to NFC Championship Game (Jan 16. 1992): They held a public pep rally at Texas Stadium, and they asked me to emcee it. The stadium was about half-full. To have that many people turn out was pretty cool. It was kind of a once-in-a lifetime kind of thing.
Jason Garrett leads Cowboys to 42-31 win over Green Bay (Thanksgiving Day, 1994): Jason and I were pretty good friends, and to see him get an opportunity to play and do as well on that stage, going up against a future Hall of Famer like Brett Favre as he did, was really special. It was really a Rudy moment.
Ring of Honor induction ceremonies for Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin and Emmitt Smith/Ring of Honor ceremonies for Cliff Harris and Rayfield Wright (Sept. 19, 2005, and Oct. 10, 2004): All the Ring of Honor ceremonies are special, but this is a tie for the best two. A Ring of Honor ceremony is special because it’s a reminder of all the great things the players had to do to get themselves into the Ring of Honor, and at the same time that life goes on after they play.
Voice of the Cowboys
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