Walt Garrison, who won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys and in the NFL offseason competed as a rodeo cowboy, has died. He was 79.
DALLAS — Walt Garrison, who led the Big 8 in rushing as an Oklahoma State Cowboy, won a Super Bowl with the Dallas Cowboys and in the NFL offseason competed as a rodeo cowboy, has died.The NFL team said in a story posted on its website Thursday that Garrison died overnight. It did not give a cause of death.
But it was Garrison’s rodeo career — which he called his first love — that made him the ultimate cowboy. As a little-used backup during his rookie season, the Cowboys said he would go out after team meetings and compete in local rodeos as a steer wrestler, then get back to the hotel before 11 p.m. curfew.
“Coach Landry pointed out that there was a clause in my contract that if I got hurt doing another sport, that my contract would be null and void,” Garrison said. “And I said, ‘OK.’ I didn’t think rodeo was that dangerous.”
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