Hall of Famer Gil Brandt, who helped build Cowboys into ‘America’s Team,’ dies at 91
Associated PressDALLAS — Gil Brandt, overshadowed by coach Tom Landry and general manager Tex Schramm as part of the trio that built the Dallas Cowboys into “America’s Team” in the 1970s, has died. “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. “To me,” said former Dallas running back Calvin Hill, a first-round pick in 1969, “Gil should have been the first one in terms of certainly from a personnel standpoint.” In 2019, Brandt finally joined Landry and Schramm in Canton, Ohio, and always said he never felt overshadowed. “From somebody that did pretty good with the Cowboys to somebody that’s doing pretty good right now with social media.” Brandt had a weekly show on satellite radio, but mostly disappeared after making insensitive comments following the death of quarterback Dwayne Haskins, who was struck by a dump truck on a Florida interstate in April 2022.
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