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The Battalion
Wednesday, December?, 1988
Embattled Landry fights distractions as season nears end
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Dallas
coach Tom Landry, reacting to mi
nority owner Ed Smith’s suggestion
that the Dallas Cowboys don’t have
any leadership, said Tuesday, “All I
know is, as a football team you have
to be together to win.”
Landry said Smith’s 27 percent
ownership gave him the right to say
anything he wants “even if the com
ment he makes isn’t right.”
Smith told KDFW-TV of Dallas:
“We haven’t had any leadership in
the last three, four, five years. I
think you have to blame the coach
ing staff. Maybe you blame (club
president) Tex Schramm to some
extent.”
Landry said he wasn’t “aggra
vated” by Smith of Houston, who re
portedly was looking into buying the
team.
Landry said he is staying through
next season and perhaps longer de
pending on who buys the club.
“We’re for sale and when some
body buys the team they’ll have to
make a decision on who they keep,”
Landry said. “I don’t know what will
happen but right now it’s my job to
put the Cowboys back on top. I’m
not going to quit on my players.
They’re trying hard.
“I may be out of a job, I don’t
know. If I am it would be great. I
could find something to do but I
sure wouldn’t be listening to you
guys (the media). I can’t say when
my last season will be. We’ll just have
to wait and see what it (the sale)
brings.”
Schramm said, “I wish I knew
when (the club) would be sold. Bum
(Bright) has the club for sale, not
me.”
Bright, issuing a statement
through aide Jim Francis, said it is
not true that limited partners have a
right of first refusal should the ma
jority owner elect to sell.
“There is no such right of first re
fusal on the part of the limited part
ners,” Bright said. “Further, it is not
true that the offer of Ed Smith, as
reported by television, was accepta
ble to H.R. Bright. There has been
no offer made.”
Landry said he had talked to
Smith just once on the telephone
earlier in the season. He denied tele
vision reports that a shouting match
erupted.
“Can you imagine me in a shout
ing match?” the quiet-spoken
Landry said, laughing.
Schramm, who has Bright’s ap
proval to solicit bids, has been frus
trated in his attempts to find a buyer
for the team. Bright has asked $100
million for the club and $50 million
for Texas Stadium.
Donald Carter, owner of the Dal
las Mavericks of the NBA, recently
said he would like to buy the Cow
boys “and restore them to their for
mer glory.”
“I wish we could get an owner
who could do that,” Landry quipped.
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my job easier.”
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