Bob Lilly
Bob Lilly
Robert Lewis Lilly, nicknamed "Mr. Cowboy", is a former American football defensive tackle and photographer. After a college career at Texas Christian University, he played for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football Leaguefor fourteen seasons and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth26 July 1939
CityOlney, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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He was a rare one: only 5 feet 7 inches tall, a lawyer and a combat veteran of the Korean War as a Marine officer. Eddie came from Washington in a trade in 1960 and ran the team in the first years while Don Meredith was learning. He was such a fantastic ball handler that even with sorry protection and the defensive line crashing in on him he threw a lot of beautiful long passes. The ball would fly out of the crowd like a mortar shell and sail 50 yards downfield. Eddie did everything by the numbers. If the receiver wasn't there, we knew whose fault it was.
I would say that as a lineman, I patterned myself after Gino Marchetti.