For a young boy growing up in Dallas in the 1960s, the Dallas Cowboys football team was a source of excitement and pride - even though the team was still years away from the celebrity of the Super Bowl era. The author, a third-generation Dallasite and life-long Cowboys fan, presents a nostalgic look at growing up with his city as it tried to cast off the dark shadow of the Kennedy assassination and, with his team, a magnet for civic pride even in defeat.