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20 years later, Cowboys' trade still reverberates - NFL - Yahoo! Canada Sports
20 years later, Cowboys' trade still reverberates - NFL - Yahoo! Canada Sports
20 years later, Cowboys’ trade still reverberates
By JAIME ARON, AP Sports Writer
IRVING, Texas (AP)—Jimmy Johnson has a challenge for anyone who believes the Herschel Walker trade singlehandedly turned the Dallas Cowboys into the dominant team of the 1990s.
“Trace it,” the former Cowboys coach said. “You can’t do it.”
Twenty years ago Monday, the Cowboys sent Walker to the Minnesota Vikings for a bundle of players and draft picks in what is widely considered one of the biggest steals in NFL history, if not all of pro sports.The legend has grown because Dallas went from 1-15 to three-time Super Bowl champions in just a few years. Sure there was a lot more to the turnaround, but there’s no doubt this deal was the catalyst.
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” said Charley Casserly, then the general manager of the Redskins.
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