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FILE - Walt Garrison, running back for the Dallas Cowboys, is shown in this 1974 photo. Walt Garrison, who led the Big 8 in rushing as an Oklahoma State Cowboy, won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys, and in the NFL offseason competed as a rodeo cowboy, has died. He was 79. The NFL team said in a story posted on its website Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023, that Garrison died overnight.
“I rodeoed in the offseason. I steer wrestled. I roped some calves, but mostly steer wrestling,” Garrison once said according to the Cowboys’ site. “And Coach Landry pointed out that there was a clause in my contract that if I got hurt doing another sport, that my contract would be null and void and I said, ‘OK.’ I didn’t think rodeo was that dangerous.”NFL star, Pa.
“That worked good for a couple of times,” he said according to the story on the team’s site. “And then somebody called Coach Landry and said, ‘We think it is so nice that the Cowboys let Walt come over here and bulldog the night before a game.’ So then I had a meeting with Coach Landry the next day who told me, ‘Don’t do that any more.’
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