[Seahawk]

The Cowboys training camp was at California Lutheran College when I was a kid. The NFL was still nascent in those days.

A friend of mine's father would pick me up and deposit his son and I at CLC to go watch the Cowboys preseason practice. There was no charge and absolutely no lack of access - you could wander freely around the practice fields. We did this for years.

I vividly remember watching Staubach and Morton throw while Landry critiqued...I was maybe 40 feet away. I watched Bob Hayes in wide wonder. I could hear everything.

I carried Lee Roy Jordan's helmet a few time back to the locker room after watching he and Jethro Pugh in Oklahoma drills...from 15 feet away. I carried Cornell Green"s stuff a lot because I played defensive back.

Through all of this, there was maybe 50 people there watching, especially in the late 60's.

I could not be less interested in Manning. Great QB, but if he had played in the 60's and 70's he would have needed a lot more than HGH. That is not a Big O comment, just the truth. QB's got their bell's rung more than those at a Sunday Notre Dame High Mass.

Edit: Through all of this, I remained a 49'ers fan, although Staubach almost swayed me. He was, even in his rookie year (he had served in the Navy), older and different. I am coloring my perceptions here, but in hindsight Landry seemed to critique Morton with a different style, less patient perhaps

I can still see number 12 during scrimmages, eluding the future Doomsday Defense with alacrity.