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Podcast: Texas Standard » Stories from Texas
Episode: The Life of Tom Landry, the Man in the Hat
Description: Tom Landry and Charles Schulz died on the same day: Feb. 12, 2000. Mike Thompson, the Detroit Free Press cartoonist honored them both with a cartoon showing them entering the pearly gates together. Schulz was depicted as Charlie Brown and Landry had his arm around him. Landry said, “Now a few pointers on kicking a football…”
For Coach Landry, at least, I can’t imagine a finer eulogy.
I mourned Landry’s passing, of course, along with millions of other Landry fans. A day that was almost as tough, though, was the day Landry was fired, in 1989. That day...