TONY DORSETT RUMORS & GOSSIP
Most Obscure Player of 1978: Larry Brinson
The 1978 Dallas Cowboys featured several running backs that many (with memories of the 1970s) would remember. This list includes not only Tony Dorsett and Robert Newhouse, but also Scott Laidlaw, Preston Pearson, and Doug Dennison.
The team did not have great candidates for the Most Obscure Player Award, so we’re going with one of the lesser-known running backs.
Option #1 was Alois...
Tony Dorsett and me: A personal football journey
Greatest Ever!
I was 15 years old when the Dallas Cowboys pulled off the greatest trade in team history (the greatest at the time, that is) and snagged the 2nd pick in the first round from the Seattle Seahawks. With that pick, the Cowboys selected Tony Dorsett from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dorsett was, at the time, the all-time leading rusher in NCAA history. He had just lead...
Buy Tony Dorsett’s Texas House For Only $950K; Pool Has Waterfall!
NFL Hall of Famer and former Dallas Cowboy Tony Dorsett has placed his Frisco, Texas house on the market. The house is shockingly affordable at $950,000 and is located about a half hour north of downtown Dallas.
The house was built in 1999 and it doesn’t look like the former Heisman winner has done much work on it since. Sure it’s nice, but it has that classic 90′s look to...
Some in Cowboys organization are comparing DeMarco Murray to Emmitt Smith and Tony Dorsett
Dallas Cowboys running back Demarco Murray’s rookie season turned many heads in Dallas and around the league. Everyone knew that he was an excellent college running back coming out of Oklahoma, but no one saw Murray rushing for almost 900 yards in just 13 games.
But now that he’s put up number like that, expectations have risen and the comparisons have begun. And in Dallas, there’s...
2000 NFL Players Taking On The League With Video Its No Game
The 2000 players taking on the NFL in a Law suit have been faced with trying to function in life after suffering brain trauma. The fact is the NFL does very little to help these players that have all kinds of benefits available to them. One of the problems is the players know very little about these benefits. The NFL does little to make sure these guys know what is out there to help...
'They use you up': Hall of Famer, Pitt standout Dorsett suing NFL
Hall of Fame RB Tony Dorsett traces several health problems to concussions during an NFL career that lasted from 1977-88.
Via Pittsburgh Steelers & NFL ? Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
February 03, 2012
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Dorsett joins concussion suit, reels from concussion
The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game, the hardest hit he took in his Hall of Fame NFL career. "It was like a freight train hitting a Volkswagen," Dorsett says now. "Did they know it was a concussion?" he asks rhetorically in an interview with The Associated Press. "...
Via Post-Gazette
February 03, 2012
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Tony Dorsett Suing NFL For Letting Him Play 11 Years
Recall those 12 retired NFL players who sued the league for its use of the painkiller Toradol. Now ex-Dallas Cowboy Tony Dorset and more than 300 former players are suing the league because "More...
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NFL great Dorsett recalls dark NFL days
The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career.
''It was like a freight train hitting a Volkswagen,'' Dorsett says now.
''Did they know it was a concussion?'' he asks rhetorically during an interview with The Associated Press...
Via AP on Fox
February 02, 2012
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Dorsett suing NFL: 'They use you up'
The helmet-to-helmet shot knocked Tony Dorsett out cold in the second quarter of a 1984 Cowboys-Eagles game, the hardest hit he ever took during his Hall of Fame NFL career.
''It was like a freight train hitting a Volkswagen,'' Dorsett says now.
''Did they know it was a concussion?'' he asks rhetorically during an interview with The Associated Press...
Via Fox Sports
February 02, 2012
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