Mr Thomas has interviews out there so u can hear frm Him what the issues were. HE FELT LIKE THE BLACK ATHLETE (on my dallas team in particular) was treated less than a Man!! HOW SHOCKING WAS THAT(sarcasm)!! Please Stop!! They always called A Black Man that stands up, DISGRUNTLED. PLEASE FIND HIS INTERVIEWS!! All the players speak well of him
Sammy Baugh has a record that will never be broken. He threw four touchdowns and caught four interceptions in the same game. He played both offense and defense.
I had the pleasure of meeting him and his wife in L A about 12 yrs ago or more He was so cool we stayed at the same hotel I had to guess who he was attending a film festival he dropped me off and I saw a old cowboys cap in the car and he had mentioned some Famous people he had met before I asked him finally are you Duane Thomas who played for the cowboys ? he waited and said yeah , we talked about Life sports and Film I had planned to visit him in Arizona were he had later moved but never got a chance may the most high Bless him and console his family and his children and lovely wife
Man, he got me when he said Sammie said no. I was thinking, Mr. Baugh was one of my heroes & it didn't sound like the guy I read about as a young(er) football nerd. Most of the greats (& even some bums like me) are honored when a talented guy after them wants to wear their # bc of them. The guy who wore #45 after me was better, & seeing his success along the way was awesome.
That is cool! That was the first Super Bowl I was ever aware of. I remember being at a friends 9 year old birthday party and having the game on in the background while his big brother and friends were watching the game.
@@jgboys1 I was just shy of ten yrs old and my dad and his friend got tickets and took their sons to Miami for the game. Funny thing is I spent much of the game reading through my program-- ignoring the action. The next year Alabama went 11-1 and I was hooked for life. Been to over 600 games in 53 years.
Oh that is incredibly sad! JUST now found out. An all time favorite player! Tony D took over #33 which is incredible as well. God bless Mr. Thomas and his family🙏
He took a stand because of the racism during that time. I remember when they wouldn’t let him buy a house in Dallas in a certain neighborhood because he was black.
It was the same situation with Dwain Haskins several years ago when he wanted to wear number 7, so they asked Joe Theismann and he said yes, but he only wore Redskin uniform for one season before he was traded and now like Duane Thomas, Dwaine Haskins is also dead
You'll be missed Homie, now You can join that other great Football Star who never got to Play Pro Ball due to illness that He succumb too, who was just as good as you, Your Older Brother & My Close Friend Franklin Thomas.
Sammy worked for my grandfather one summer when Sammy was young. My grandfather was a huge fan of Sammy . I used to work with a guy who played football for Sammy at Abilene Christian when Sammy was the coach. I heard a few first hand stories. Through those stories Sammy sounded like a great guy.
Principled or problematic, Mr. Thomas excelled in an era when the strong majority of professional athletes earned their money (Drysdale & Tatum were exceptions). Thank you, sir, for gracing the gridiron and your never-ending fight for fair treatment and respect. May The Good Lord always bless and keep you.
I'm about the same age as Duane was and from Dallas. Duane was a star in Dallas highschool football. As such he definitely caught the attention of major school scouts as well as Gil Brandt. He had scholarship offers, so that one question immediately arises, is how did he end up in a small school in west Texas as a BLOCKING back for the sensational Mercury Morris? Morris was a 9.3(100 yds.) sprinter in college. Morris,, in a magazine article, praising Duane, said that Duane had run a 9.6 at 220lbs (and lost his heat). Something that floated around briefly was that there were problems with his parents in a serious car wreck and he needed money to take care of them. That storyline vanished as quickly as it arose. In Duane's second year, he showed up 15lbs. lighter, supposedly due to drug use. My opinion is worth nothing. but I believe the Cowboy's front office took advantage of a naive young man and thus destroyed his career. If you don't believe that, ask Jim Brown and Bob Lilly.
The talk was that Gil and Tex wanted him signed after high school but rules forbade it. So, they sent him to North Texas State where he played limited against weaker competition so he wouldn’t get hurt.
@ davalnman,, Correction on a few things. Duane, especially his Older Brother Franklin aka Frank & I grew up together in the same neighborhood Duane never attended North Texas State, he attended West Texas State along with His 2 Best Friends & also my friends Star WR Charles Henderson & WR/ DB Redrick Price who had Glue for hands in catching the ball. Price & I are still very good friends till this day. I attended North Texas State along with My Very Good Friends Mean Joe Greene, WR. Ronnie Shanklin & Safety Chuck Beatty who also Played for The Steelers whom both were starters & forced to retired due to neck injuries. My 1st stop in College was Los Angeles City Junior College where Duane's older Brother who also attended there Played Football & was a 1st.Team Junior College All American LB who was beginning to be the start of your fast LB's led the nation for Juco in Tackles & had scholarship offers all over the country. He attended USC briefly but was forced to retire due to Kidney illness which he eventually succumbed to. Their Baby Brother Bertrand was also a Star RB but not quite as big as Frank & Duane. Gil Brandt & Tex Schram never sent Duane to any college all this is false info.They discovered him while scouting Mercury Morris. I talked to both Frank & Duane & they both gave me the scoop on what happened with Duane & The Cowboys. I miss both Frank & Duane very much, especially Frank, he was my bro.
How in the world did Mercury Morris end up at West Texas State? Morris went to high school in Pittburgh. Didn't Pitt or Penn St. or Ohio St. give Morris a sniff? RIP Duane, you were my favorite running back.
@@theshield8744Hey buddy, im Duane’s oldest grandson thanks for the clarification lol the media loves to paint us less than what we are even after accomplishments & feats beyond reach 😂
I believe that the last game that Duane Thomas started in the NFL turned out to be the famous Clint Longley Thanksgiving Day game in 1974. Thomas scored two TDs, including a smooth 19 yard TD run that put the Redskins ahead 23-17 in the 4th quarter
Tremendous chip on his shoulder! Double dose of Arrogance & Attitude! Could have been a Hall of famer. If only he would of gone along with the System & Played the Part of being on a Team! He was his Own worst Enemy! Check out America's Game #5 His attitude and arrogance is on Full display!
Not at all, football was more of a military environment in those days! There was a chain of command. & Coaches were never questioned. Muhammad Ali was a tremendous influence on Duane Thomas. He tried to bring that same demeanor to the NFL & the Dallas Cowboys! @@saj8unfortunately He was ahead of his time!
May he RIP. A great player who had much talent. As a Cowboys fan, it pained me to see him not perform to his potential. If the Cowboys had won Super Bowl V against the Colts, I believe his legacy would have been very different and especially so if the Cowboys could have repeated by winning Super Bowl VI against the Dolphins.
The moral of the story is that George Preston Marshall the owner of the Redskins was a racist and the Redskins was the last team in the NFL to draft a black player, so them lying to Duane Thomas doesn't surprise me at all because of the history with the DReadskins
@@dietpepsivanilla3095 Edward Bennett Williams acquired a five percent share in the Washington Redskins in 1962. In 1965, he was appointed by team owner George Preston Marshall to run daily operations and was named team president the following year. This guy was friends with George Preston Marshall so he kept that same tradition going They didn't want a black guy Wearing Sammy Baugh's Number
RIP Mr.Thomas chance meeting a few yrs back him and his wife in L A He was so cool and he did not reveal who he was I had to guess who We stayed at the same hotel in L A we hung out He said football was in his earlier life I lost contact with him I believed he moved to Arizona and I live on the east coast my heart goes out to his family
Washington's folks couldn't have handled that situation any worse. They should've contacted Baugh and asked him. No need to be shady with Thomas like that.
Lying when you lose nothing by telling the truth is something I hate more than just about anything. Also ever since hearing him on the '71 Cowboys edition of *America's Game - the Super Bowl Champions* he became one of the past players whose story I appreciated the most
My favorite Duane Thomas story is when he played for The Cowboys he was forced by management to sit with reporters for 10 minutes. He sat in the bleachers in silence while reporters asked him unanswered question after question. After a while he leaned to the reporter closest to him. They whispered to each other back and forth and then Thomas walked away. After he left all the reporters asked the one reporter what did Thomas say. And the reporter told the rest of them "he asked me what time is it?"😅😅😅
@@matthewdaley746 Not sure if you're aware but when Duane Thomas was drafted by Dallas he was not allowed to rent housing near the stadium because it was in a "whites only" part of Dallas. It took a lawsuit by one of the players, Mel Renfro, to enforce a law regarding segregation that was enacted several years earlier. Nobody in the Dallas media or The Cowboys organization, including the sainted Tom Landry, lifted a finger to help them. He was 100% right to boycott them.
Duane Thomas said that Dallas never won a Superbowl without some kind of controversy, Superbowl VI, Duane Thomas, Superbowl XII, Hollywood Henderson, Superbowl XXVII, XXVIII, XXX, Jimmy Johnson & Jerry Jones and as far as his own strife with Cowboys management and fans all he had to say about that was "We Won".
We all get lied to. All our lives. Has to be Antonios browns grandfather right. Crazy. Could have been a Superstar with the cowboys if he would just been a team player. Claimed up big time with the team wouldn't speak to no one. Weird. Players didn't get paid big time money back then. Was pissed he felt like he got short changed on his salary. What a shame.
During those times it was hard for a black man. He stood up for what he thought was right. I can understand him. I don't expect others that never went through anything to.
What a bunch of something about nothing. Boohoo he couldn't wear 33. The lie told is also quite dumb. Just tell the crybaby that a legend wore that jersey, and they didn't want anyone else to wear it. He did nothing in Washington to earn the number in the first place.
Once I realized the team involved I knew that there was no way Thomas would get 33 in Washington-Slingin Sammy’s number. Shades of Scott Mitchell wanting to wear 19 in Baltimore which had Johnny U fans up in arms…you know what to do for more about that story. 😊
Respect for him taking a stand.. Steve Carlton of the Phillies would not speak to the Press either, some players figured it out early that the media is full of shit troublemakers
I agree lying is wrong. But I do think retired numbers should stay retired. I do think Duane Thomas is a great of the game. But a legitimate argument can be made Sammy Baugh is the greatest QB ever in large part due to his pioneering of the position. Another note not mentioned in the video- Baugh was the NFL's All-Time Leader in Passing Yards until 1960 when Bobby Layne broke the record. You don't get signed by the New England Patriots and ask to wear No. 12, even if you're Patrick Mahomes.
He was a malcontent who was not happy in ANY circumstance, evidently (to use his infamous reply to Tom Brookshier). Sorry he's dead, but he won't be missed by the masses like Jim Brown.
Damn Right, he wanted what he wanted when he wanted it, unfortunately, he learned the hard way exactly the cost of ignoring, "The, Team Concept," it's truly unbelievable that Tom Landry didn't dump him way earlier than he did, simply total trash.
The Cowboys, did, everything, but, win, that Game, and, it figures that the Colts won only one more Playoff Game before they left town, they would reach the SB five times, outscoring the opposition by, twenty-seven, points, unfortunately, they had a, 2-3, record, losing the three Games by a combined eleven points, they were just obscenely unlucky, simple as that, truly terrible, tragically treacherous.
Speaking of which, while, I can sort of understand the fans being upset with the way the, Bulls', Dynasty, ended, (in principle), the fact that they became, so, bitter, that they acted as if they had never won any Championships, made any sympathy impossible, the fact that the city hasn't gone even ten years without, winning, in something, only makes it worse, why don't they ask, Oilers', fans, what it's really like for a, Dynasty, to be cut short, I think that really would end their disgusting lack of perspective, most fanbases would do anything to be, "jilted," like that.
When Joe Montana was traded to Kansas CIty he asked for the #16 the Chiefs said no. It was retired for Len Dawson, then he asked for the #3 and was also denied because it was retired for Jan Stenerud. So Joe added both numbers up and wore #19.
Number 19 A Great Number to ware Johnny Unitas Baltimore Colts 50s To The 70'S. And Joe was a Big Fan of Unitas. He Grew up Close to Pittsburgh where Unitas was Born.
Stop making him out to be the bad guy. I knew Mr Thomas very well and he was a nice guy until you made him mad . At old Lincoln high most people were nice until you got on their bad side like the cowboys did . People from South Dallas don’t play that. Get this story right. People from the hood always get the bad end of the stick.
Modern football broadcasts are a tv show for women, the feminization of the game and its disinterest to lobby men is a continuing decay of post christian America. THANK YOU for your classic masculine channel..
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the jersey number controversy Daniel Snyder created between Sonny Jurgensen and Shane Matthews in 2002.
The late Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns tried to get people to understand Duane Thomas. It was not successful. Duane Thomas was not understood by Tom Landry either. And later admitted he should have tried harder to do so. Duane Thomas is not completely blameless, either, in his inability to connect with his teammates or coaches during his football career that could have been phenomenal? It just didn't happen. Unfortunately.
To come in and demand a number that had previously been retired, takes a lot of balls. Thomas was a self centered individual, heavy on the self centered. Yes he was good, but Landry and the cowboys went on to great things, barely heard anything from Thomas after his stint with Dallas. Sometimes systems make great players and Landry definitely had a system going. Thomas was just part of it. As a matter of fact, I lost a lot of respect for Dallas and Landry because they didn’t discipline Thomas when it first started. His antics wouldn’t have been tolerated by anyone else, but Landry just mouthed the part as a disciplinarian never replacing his running back.
Why does TH-cam keep eating comments where I refer to another TH-cam and try to put the timestamps in my replyl to show where in the video you can see what I'm saying is true?
Great video and it is content like this that makes this site great. Sammy Baugh is a first class person for his response on using his jersey number and got screwed by team he helped win a NFL Championship when they lied on him. The Redskins should have known to be honest with Duane Thomas because of his situation in Dallas and his mental state of not trusting people and from day one the team was dishonest with him so no wonder his Redskins tenure was rocky. I am not surprised about this team's action because Coach George Allen was called at the time the Richard Nixon with a whistle and lying and deception was the trademark of Allen and of the President who resigned 50 years ago today due to scandal. I am a Dolphins Fan so as a 11 year old I hated Duane Thomas because he ran over the Dolphins in Super Bowl 6 but he was a great back and a free thinker who when he was talking before Super Bowl 5 when asked if the Super Bowl the ultimate game and Thomas answered no because they play the Super Bowl every year.
I’m his grandson, I appreciate the love man. He was definitely another misunderstood black man.
One of my favorite running backs of all time and I know met or played with most in my era RIP #33
I’m at AT&T stadium
Mr Thomas has interviews out there so u can hear frm Him what the issues were. HE FELT LIKE THE BLACK ATHLETE (on my dallas team in particular) was treated less than a Man!! HOW SHOCKING WAS THAT(sarcasm)!! Please Stop!! They always called A Black Man that stands up, DISGRUNTLED. PLEASE FIND HIS INTERVIEWS!! All the players speak well of him
As a kid watching superbowl V, and a BALTIMORE Colts fan, l held my breath every time Dwayne Thomas's name was mentioned!
Life and death is in the tongue...
Sammy Baugh has a record that will never be broken. He threw four touchdowns and caught four interceptions in the same game. He played both offense and defense.
Also one of the greatest punters in NFL history.
As my high school coach used to say, “the player makes the number, the number doesn’t make the player”.
Your coach must not know why players are given certain numbers.
I had the pleasure of meeting him and his wife in L A about 12 yrs ago or more He was so cool we stayed at the same hotel I had to guess who he was
attending a film festival he dropped me off and I saw a old cowboys cap in the car and he had mentioned some Famous people he had met before I asked him finally are you Duane Thomas who played for the cowboys ? he waited and said yeah , we talked about Life sports and Film I had planned to visit him in Arizona were he had later moved
but never got a chance may the most high Bless him and console his family and his children and lovely wife
Wow. Duane Thomas is gone. He was special. Perfect for the straight laced Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys lost 😡 LA Chargers won :( 26-19 😡
He never lied to his teammates. Wouldn't talk to them.
The only Team that Thomas could have fit in with would’ve been the Oakland Raiders. The Raiders would have embraced Thomas.
He was great at every thing the best uncle ever .I will miss him .
Uncle? I’m his Grandson KingShyru Zalik Justice
It’s good that someone that knows him is here to comment. I’m sorry for your loss. He made an ungrateful organization winners.
@@williefufu2985 is this to me or the other person?
@@williefufu2985 very ungrateful lol thanks anyways man
Loved his vegetarianism, & the hissy-fits it provoked. RIP, evidently.
May Duane Thomas rest in peace. May all of his family and friends be healed and comforted.
Man, he got me when he said Sammie said no. I was thinking, Mr. Baugh was one of my heroes & it didn't sound like the guy I read about as a young(er) football nerd.
Most of the greats (& even some bums like me) are honored when a talented guy after them wants to wear their # bc of them. The guy who wore #45 after me was better, & seeing his success along the way was awesome.
I was at Super Bowl V. Only pro game I ever attended. Thomas was a great athlete. Hope he is with God.
That is cool! That was the first Super Bowl I was ever aware of. I remember being at a friends 9 year old birthday party and having the game on in the background while his big brother and friends were watching the game.
@@jgboys1 I was just shy of ten yrs old and my dad and his friend got tickets and took their sons to Miami for the game. Funny thing is I spent much of the game reading through my program-- ignoring the action. The next year Alabama went 11-1 and I was hooked for life. Been to over 600 games in 53 years.
Great video. Thanks for teaching me about these two great athletes.
Oh that is incredibly sad! JUST now found out. An all time favorite player! Tony D took over #33 which is incredible as well. God bless Mr. Thomas and his family🙏
May Duane Thomas rest in peace 🙏
Man was Duane Thomas a stud when he played for the Boys! RIP stud.
Great guy
He took a stand because of the racism during that time. I remember when they wouldn’t let him buy a house in Dallas in a certain neighborhood because he was black.
Duane Thomas was the man!I was a kid when he was playing and heard a lot of good stories about him!
Great video your content was great
What a page in football history Duane Thomas could have written.
#33 Thomas was a key player in Dallas going to Super Bowls
So he didn’t like the organization, why didn’t he speak to his teammates?? He had an attitude!! 👎
It was the same situation with Dwain Haskins several years ago when he wanted to wear number 7, so they asked Joe Theismann and he said yes, but he only wore Redskin uniform for one season before he was traded and now like Duane Thomas, Dwaine Haskins is also dead
Mr. Baugh is a legend. They should have told Mr. Thomas.
You'll be missed Homie, now You can join that other great Football Star who never got to Play Pro Ball due to illness that He succumb too, who was just as good as you, Your Older Brother & My Close Friend Franklin Thomas.
Who is Franklin Thomas
Sammy worked for my grandfather one summer when Sammy was young. My grandfather was a huge fan of Sammy . I used to work with a guy who played football for Sammy at Abilene Christian when Sammy was the coach. I heard a few first hand stories. Through those stories Sammy sounded like a great guy.
RIP 🌹⭐✨
Nice Job on this commentary @ Duane Thomas.
He DID give the BEST INTERVIEW answer EVER!
Or the worst, depending on opinion.
RIP Duane Thomas a Great NFL running back! But was a conflicted person in a Crazy World!
Principled or problematic, Mr. Thomas excelled in an era when the strong majority of professional athletes earned their money (Drysdale & Tatum were exceptions). Thank you, sir, for gracing the gridiron and your never-ending fight for fair treatment and respect. May The Good Lord always bless and keep you.
I always liked Dwayne Thomas
RIP
A lie is a lie
RIP - He was certainly one of the best although for too brief a career
Aww man he was my favorite running back for that brief period he had in the NFL Dam shame couldn't come back. 👺🔥🏈
Respect !!
R.I.P Duane Thomas.
News of Duane's death dropped my heart.
It was a blessing to watch him play.
His running style was other worldly.
I'm about the same age as Duane was and from Dallas. Duane was a star in Dallas highschool football. As such he definitely caught the attention of major school scouts as well as Gil Brandt. He had scholarship offers, so that one question immediately arises, is how did he end up in a small school in west Texas as a BLOCKING back for the sensational Mercury Morris? Morris was a 9.3(100 yds.) sprinter in college. Morris,, in a magazine article, praising Duane, said that Duane had run a 9.6 at 220lbs (and lost his heat). Something that floated around briefly was that there were problems with his parents in a serious car wreck and he needed money to take care of them. That storyline vanished as quickly as it arose. In Duane's second year, he showed up 15lbs. lighter, supposedly due to drug use. My opinion is worth nothing. but I believe the Cowboy's front office took advantage of a naive young man and thus destroyed his career. If you don't believe that, ask Jim Brown and Bob Lilly.
The talk was that Gil and Tex wanted him signed after high school but rules forbade it. So, they sent him to North Texas State where he played limited against weaker competition so he wouldn’t get hurt.
@ davalnman,, Correction on a few things. Duane, especially his Older Brother Franklin aka Frank & I grew up together in the same neighborhood
Duane never attended North Texas State, he attended West Texas State along with His 2 Best Friends & also my friends Star WR Charles Henderson & WR/ DB Redrick Price who had Glue for hands in catching the ball. Price & I are still very good friends till this day. I attended North Texas State along with My Very Good Friends Mean Joe Greene, WR. Ronnie Shanklin & Safety Chuck Beatty who also Played for The Steelers whom both were starters & forced to retired due to neck injuries. My 1st stop in College was Los Angeles City Junior College where Duane's older Brother who also attended there Played Football & was a 1st.Team Junior College All American LB who was beginning to be the start of your fast LB's led the nation for Juco in Tackles & had scholarship offers all over the country. He attended USC briefly but was forced to retire due to Kidney illness which he eventually succumbed to. Their Baby Brother Bertrand was also a Star RB but not quite as big as Frank & Duane. Gil Brandt & Tex Schram never sent Duane to any college all this is false info.They discovered him while scouting Mercury Morris. I talked to both Frank & Duane & they both gave me the scoop on what happened with Duane & The Cowboys. I miss both Frank & Duane very much, especially Frank, he was my bro.
How in the world did Mercury Morris end up at West Texas State? Morris went to high school in Pittburgh. Didn't Pitt or Penn St. or Ohio St. give Morris a sniff? RIP Duane, you were my favorite running back.
@@theshield8744Hey buddy, im Duane’s oldest grandson thanks for the clarification lol the media loves to paint us less than what we are even after accomplishments & feats beyond reach 😂
RIP The Sphinx
RIP Duane Thomas
I believe that the last game that Duane Thomas started in the NFL turned out to be the famous Clint Longley Thanksgiving Day game in 1974. Thomas scored two TDs, including a smooth 19 yard TD run that put the Redskins ahead 23-17 in the 4th quarter
That might have been the last game he started but he played after that
I'm pretty sure he played in the last game of the season that year
@@RoyPage1970 Yes he had that great career finale with stat line of 8-102-1 with a 66 yard run, the longest of his career.
He played for the Chargers after I think.!?
Tremendous chip on his shoulder! Double dose of Arrogance & Attitude! Could have been a Hall of famer. If only he would of gone along with the System & Played the Part of being on a Team! He was his Own worst Enemy! Check out America's Game #5 His attitude and arrogance is on Full display!
Translation: I don't like it when black players have minds of their own.
Not at all, football was more of a military environment in those days! There was a chain of command. & Coaches were never questioned. Muhammad Ali was a tremendous influence on Duane Thomas. He tried to bring that same demeanor to the NFL & the Dallas Cowboys! @@saj8unfortunately He was ahead of his time!
I read the book " The Cowboys have always been my heros". And to a man they all said he reminded them all of Jim Brown.
May he RIP. A great player who had much talent. As a Cowboys fan, it pained me to see him not perform to his potential. If the Cowboys had won Super Bowl V against the Colts, I believe his legacy would have been very different and especially so if the Cowboys could have repeated by winning Super Bowl VI against the Dolphins.
The moral of the story is that George Preston Marshall the owner of the Redskins was a racist and the Redskins was the last team in the NFL to draft a black player, so them lying to Duane Thomas doesn't surprise me at all because of the history with the DReadskins
@@BigBrian Marshall was dead by then. He croaked in 1969.
@@dietpepsivanilla3095 Edward Bennett Williams acquired a five percent share in the Washington Redskins in 1962. In 1965, he was appointed by team owner George Preston Marshall to run daily operations and was named team president the following year. This guy was friends with George Preston Marshall so he kept that same tradition going They didn't want a black guy Wearing Sammy Baugh's Number
RIP Duane Thomas. He call T. Landry a Plastic Man 😂😂😂
RIP Duane!
Rest in peace.
Then again, George Allen was one mysterious dude.
RIP Mr.Thomas chance meeting a few yrs back him and his wife in L A He was so cool and he did not reveal who he was I had to guess who
We stayed at the same hotel in L A we hung out He said football was in his earlier life I lost contact with him I believed he moved to Arizona and I
live on the east coast my heart goes out to his family
Washington's folks couldn't have handled that situation any worse. They should've contacted Baugh and asked him. No need to be shady with Thomas like that.
DT was an amazing football player, but an event more awesome, LIBERATED BLACK MAN!
Moody
Lying when you lose nothing by telling the truth is something I hate more than just about anything.
Also ever since hearing him on the '71 Cowboys edition of *America's Game - the Super Bowl Champions* he became one of the past players whose story I appreciated the most
Pride, obliterates, everything, unfortunately.
My favorite Duane Thomas story is when he played for The Cowboys he was forced by management to sit with reporters for 10 minutes. He sat in the bleachers in silence while reporters asked him unanswered question after question. After a while he leaned to the reporter closest to him. They whispered to each other back and forth and then Thomas walked away. After he left all the reporters asked the one reporter what did Thomas say. And the reporter told the rest of them "he asked me what time is it?"😅😅😅
Typically, stubborn, predictably, disposable.
@@matthewdaley746 Not sure if you're aware but when Duane Thomas was drafted by Dallas he was not allowed to rent housing near the stadium because it was in a "whites only" part of Dallas. It took a lawsuit by one of the players, Mel Renfro, to enforce a law regarding segregation that was enacted several years earlier. Nobody in the Dallas media or The Cowboys organization, including the sainted Tom Landry, lifted a finger to help them.
He was 100% right to boycott them.
Duane Thomas said that Dallas never won a Superbowl without some kind of controversy, Superbowl VI, Duane Thomas, Superbowl XII, Hollywood Henderson, Superbowl XXVII, XXVIII, XXX, Jimmy Johnson & Jerry Jones and as far as his own strife with Cowboys management and fans all he had to say about that was "We Won".
What could've been..
We all get lied to. All our lives. Has to be Antonios browns grandfather right. Crazy. Could have been a Superstar with the cowboys if he would just been a team player. Claimed up big time with the team wouldn't speak to no one. Weird. Players didn't get paid big time money back then. Was pissed he felt like he got short changed on his salary. What a shame.
Duane Thomas was another Jim Brown as a running back in Dallas.
During those times it was hard for a black man. He stood up for what he thought was right. I can understand him. I don't expect others that never went through anything to.
What a bunch of something about nothing. Boohoo he couldn't wear 33. The lie told is also quite dumb. Just tell the crybaby that a legend wore that jersey, and they didn't want anyone else to wear it. He did nothing in Washington to earn the number in the first place.
His NFL career was basically 2 years 🤔
Once I realized the team involved I knew that there was no way Thomas would get 33 in Washington-Slingin Sammy’s number. Shades of Scott Mitchell wanting to wear 19 in Baltimore which had Johnny U fans up in arms…you know what to do for more about that story. 😊
Respect for him taking a stand.. Steve Carlton of the Phillies would not speak to the Press either, some players figured it out early that the media is full of shit troublemakers
The Original #33 of Dallas Cowboys May He R.I.P.
I agree lying is wrong. But I do think retired numbers should stay retired. I do think Duane Thomas is a great of the game. But a legitimate argument can be made Sammy Baugh is the greatest QB ever in large part due to his pioneering of the position. Another note not mentioned in the video- Baugh was the NFL's All-Time Leader in Passing Yards until 1960 when Bobby Layne broke the record. You don't get signed by the New England Patriots and ask to wear No. 12, even if you're Patrick Mahomes.
He sounds like he was his own worst enemy. Hard to be sympathetic in that case.
Unfortunately, absolutely, impossible, unquestionably.
He was a malcontent who was not happy in ANY circumstance, evidently (to use his infamous reply to Tom Brookshier). Sorry he's dead, but he won't be missed by the masses like Jim Brown.
Damn Right, he wanted what he wanted when he wanted it, unfortunately, he learned the hard way exactly the cost of ignoring, "The, Team Concept," it's truly unbelievable that Tom Landry didn't dump him way earlier than he did, simply total trash.
How do you turn what should be about three minutes of explanation into 16 minutes?
Rest In Paradise Duane Thomas 🙏🙏🙏💎💎💎💙💙💙💔💔💔
Thomas most certainly was young and naieve during his playing days in Dallas - but we were all young and naieve once, weren't we ? 🤔
Amazing that the Cowboys drafted him in the first round a year after the team drafted 1969 NFL Rookie of the Year Calvin HIll
And then he was traded to the team whose starting RB was the NFL Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year the year before!
They BOTH Ended up with the WashingtonRedskins
His so-called fumble in SB V isn't talked about enough. If the refs get that one right, Dallas is probably the victor.
The Cowboys, did, everything, but, win, that Game, and, it figures that the Colts won only one more Playoff Game before they left town, they would reach the SB five times, outscoring the opposition by, twenty-seven, points, unfortunately, they had a, 2-3, record, losing the three Games by a combined eleven points, they were just obscenely unlucky, simple as that, truly terrible, tragically treacherous.
@NJDevil1982Absolute blunder bowl, unquestionably.
One of the many blunders in the game called the Blunder Bowl
@NJDevil1982Dallas was +3 in turnovers and still couldn’t win.
He fumbled the ball and my Cowboys choked away a superbowl they should have won by 3 TD's.
Beautiful Tribute to Mr. Thomas! A Great Ball Player!
Did he say that in no one in has wore the number since him bull One who was slot better Tony Dorset wore it and was by far better
When I watched ESPN’s 10-part documentary on the Bulls, “The Last Dance”, I thought that, in some ways, Dennis Rodman resembled Duane Thomas.
Speaking of which, while, I can sort of understand the fans being upset with the way the, Bulls', Dynasty, ended, (in principle), the fact that they became, so, bitter, that they acted as if they had never won any Championships, made any sympathy impossible, the fact that the city hasn't gone even ten years without, winning, in something, only makes it worse, why don't they ask, Oilers', fans, what it's really like for a, Dynasty, to be cut short, I think that really would end their disgusting lack of perspective, most fanbases would do anything to be, "jilted," like that.
When Joe Montana was traded to Kansas CIty he asked for the #16 the Chiefs said no. It was retired for Len Dawson, then he asked for the #3 and was also denied because it was retired for Jan Stenerud. So Joe added both numbers up and wore #19.
Number 19 A Great Number to ware Johnny Unitas Baltimore Colts 50s To The 70'S. And Joe was a Big Fan of Unitas. He Grew up Close to Pittsburgh where Unitas was Born.
Stop making him out to be the bad guy. I knew Mr Thomas very well and he was a nice guy until you made him mad . At old Lincoln high most people were nice until you got on their bad side like the cowboys did . People from South Dallas don’t play that. Get this story right. People from the hood always get the bad end of the stick.
R.I.P. Duane Thomas
Are you going to do a video on Jim Kearney?
He just did: th-cam.com/video/wb_JQLaArD0/w-d-xo.html
They need to lie to Jake from State Farm
He should of stayed in Dallas!!!
Modern football broadcasts are a tv show for women, the feminization of the game and its disinterest to lobby men is a continuing decay of post christian America.
THANK YOU for your classic masculine channel..
If this game is such a big deal why do they play it every year?
Yep, one of Duane's famous quotes.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about the jersey number controversy Daniel Snyder created between Sonny Jurgensen and Shane Matthews in 2002.
Great guu
Way too soon? He was 77!
The late Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns tried to get people to understand Duane Thomas. It was not successful. Duane Thomas was not understood by Tom Landry either. And later admitted he should have tried harder to do so. Duane Thomas is not completely blameless, either, in his inability to connect with his teammates or coaches during his football career that could have been phenomenal? It just didn't happen. Unfortunately.
When you are member of a team, you have to fit in with them--they don't have to fit in with you.
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To come in and demand a number that had previously been retired, takes a lot of balls. Thomas was a self centered individual, heavy on the self centered. Yes he was good, but Landry and the cowboys went on to great things, barely heard anything from Thomas after his stint with Dallas. Sometimes systems make great players and Landry definitely had a system going. Thomas was just part of it. As a matter of fact, I lost a lot of respect for Dallas and Landry because they didn’t discipline Thomas when it first started. His antics wouldn’t have been tolerated by anyone else, but Landry just mouthed the part as a disciplinarian never replacing his running back.
Why does TH-cam keep eating comments where I refer to another TH-cam and try to put the timestamps in my replyl to show where in the video you can see what I'm saying is true?
Great video and it is content like this that makes this site great. Sammy Baugh is a first class person for his response on using his jersey number and got screwed by team he helped win a NFL Championship when they lied on him. The Redskins should have known to be honest with Duane Thomas because of his situation in Dallas and his mental state of not trusting people and from day one the team was dishonest with him so no wonder his Redskins tenure was rocky. I am not surprised about this team's action because Coach George Allen was called at the time the Richard Nixon with a whistle and lying and deception was the trademark of Allen and of the President who resigned 50 years ago today due to scandal. I am a Dolphins Fan so as a 11 year old I hated Duane Thomas because he ran over the Dolphins in Super Bowl 6 but he was a great back and a free thinker who when he was talking before Super Bowl 5 when asked if the Super Bowl the ultimate game and Thomas answered no because they play the Super Bowl every year.