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Brandt’s death was revealed by the team on Thursday morning.
From 1960 to 1988, Brandt served as the team’s vice president of player personnel. When Jerry Jones bought the team in 1989, he sacked him, according to ESPN.
Brandt attended the University of Wisconsin before joining America’s Team. He started off as a part-time scout with the Los Angeles Rams before joining the San Francisco 49ers full-time in 1958.
When the Cowboys were founded in 1960, he was the initial top talent scout.
When the Cowboys were founded in 1960, he was the initial top talent scout.
Brandt pioneered the use of computers in scouting and evaluation, and he was instrumental in the selection of legendary players such as Roger Staubach and Herschel Walker. According to the team, he also signed Drew Pearson, Cliff Harris, and Everson Walls.
According to ESPN, Brandt, together with coach Tom Landry and general manager Tex Schramm, led the team to 20 consecutive winning seasons and five Super Bowl trips, winning the game twice.
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An NFL player today simply could not do what Walt Garrison did as a Cowboys fullback from 1966 to 1974.
Garrison played 119 regular-season games and 13 playoff games for the Cowboys over nine seasons and is still fourth on the club’s all-time chart for average yards per rush (4.32) and ninth in career rushing yards (3,491). He was also a literal cowboy, appearing in rodeos during the offseasons and, for a while as a rookie, the night before home games.
Garrison, who grew up in neighboring Denton, Texas, became obsessed with rodeo at a young age and excelled at steer wrestling in particular (or ‘bulldogging’ in the vernacular). In fact, Garrison, who died Friday night at the age of 79, was nearly as skilled at rodeo as he was at football and actually preferred it.
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