Leon Lett, now an assistant coach with the Dallas Cowboys, was trying to erase the stigma of having fumbled away a sure touchdown in the Super Bowl 10 months earlier, trying to be a hero, in snow-covered Texas Stadium on Thanksgiving Day.
Most of us can remember where we were that night. Uncle Sam Lanes was open after the annual Red Richard tournament took place that morning, and I was in the arcade, at the time located in front of the bar, so I had a view of one of the TV's above the bar. Dallas' Jimmie Jones blocked a field goal by Pete Stoyanovich. Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones and the 'Boys were celebrating. Until they weren't, once they realized what happened.
Thinking the ball needed to be recovered, Lett, in front of a national television audience again, had Cowboys fans losing their turkey dinner, if not also dessert.
Dallas, of course, would recover, and win the Super Bowl again 2 months later. The sight of coach Jimmy Johnson, now with Fox, with no hat on, with his hair frozen in place, jaw dropped in disbelief, said it best.
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