Gil Brandt, who helped the Cowboys win a pair of Super Bowls in the 1970s as an executive, passed away Thursday.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame said Brandt died Thursday morning. No cause of death was given, but Brandt had been in declining health in recent years.
by adapting to the social media age as for the innovation the Cowboys brought to the draft process with computers in the early 1960s."You can't tell the story about the success of the Dallas Cowboys and their two-decade run of winning seasons from the mid-1960s to mid-1980s without mentioning Gil Brandt," Hall of Fame president Jim Porter said.
"I think we all got credit," Brandt told The Associated Press before his induction."And I think Tex rightfully so got more credit than Tom and myself. Because he was really a very media-savvy person. When somebody from Sports Illustrated called, they didn't talk to Tom, they didn't talk to me. They talked to Tex."
Animosity toward Jones didn't last long for Brandt, who maintained a presence around the club even as his health forced him into a wheelchair for game days in the press box. Brandt even asked Jones to be his presenter in Canton.
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