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He had an outstanding performance in Dallas’ 24-3 Super Bowl VI victory over Miami.
Dallas Cowboys, team of the NFLthe professional American football league, reported this Thursday that Walt Garrisonchampion with the team in the Super Bowl VI -the final of the sixth edition of the championship-, died at the age of 79.
“Needless to say, Walt was and will remain a cowboy, a true-hearted cowboy to the end,” the lone star’s team posted.
Walt Garrison was selected by the Cowboys in the 1966 draft and remained with the team his entire career until 1974 under the direction of Tom Landrylegendary coach and member of the Hall of Fame.
Walt Garrison, former player and champion with the Dallas Cowboys, died at the age of 79.AP
He had an outstanding performance in the victory of dallas in it Super Bowl VI by 24-3 over Miamiwith 74 yards.
In 1972 he was selected to the Pro Bowl after a season of 784 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground, plus 390 yards and three touchdowns in the air.
In nine years in NFL, Walt Garrison He played 119 regular season games and 13 playoff games; He ranks fourth in team history in yards per carry average, with 4.32, and ninth in yards per carry for a running back, with 3,491.
In his rookie year with dallas, Garrisonborn in Denton, Texashe escaped to compete in local rodeos and tried to return before being discovered so as not to disturb the team’s discipline.
When Tom Landry He found out that he was prohibited from this activity during the campaign; Walt obliged, but took advantage of his free time in the offseason to stay active roping steers.
“There are a lot of similarities between rodeo and football. The amount of energy and concentration you need to master steer is the same as what you need in football; you need three or four seconds to do it,” Garrison said to compare football and football. rodeo.
His withdrawal from NFL It happened at the age of 30 due to a knee injury that did not occur on the playing field, but rather during a bullfighting, something that did not make him bitter.
“That injury ended my career. Nine years as a runner is a long time in the NFL, but I broke my knee doing steer tackles at a college rodeo. It was a good way to retire without someone saying, ‘You’re too old and slow,'” Garrison said a couple of years ago about his retirement from football.
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