Tom Landry rarely revealed the emotions beneath ... Locating the football only came after following the branches of his logic tree -- a counterintuitive approach that could take years to master.

A bit more irony: McCarthy replaced Jason Garrett, the coach Jones publicly proclaimed he hoped would become his Tom Landry.

Social unrest was ripening like a raisin in the sun. The Dallas Cowboys, under coach Tom Landry, won 10 games. Stoic on the sideline, Tom Landry posted 20 consecutive winning seasons in Dallas.