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As head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for 29 years, Tom Landry compiled an impressive record of 13 division titles, five Super Bowl appearances, and two championships. The Cowboys would eventually be dubbed America's team. Here he is, with his own story. I was raised at Mission, Texas, which is right up from Brownsville there, about 60 miles. I was raised during the Depression years in the 30s.
My dad was an automobile mechanic. He owned his own garage. He was. Fire chief of Mission Fire Volunteer Fire Department for about 40 years, great civic leader. And we had six in our family and.
And my family really, they taught me values. We were just about a half a block from the Methodist church. My dad was superintendent of Sunday schools, so I had to go to Sunday school every Sunday. I didn't care to go. But we didn't really, we didn't pray in our home, except maybe when we had company or Thanksgiving or something.
We didn't ever read the Bible. I never read the Bible. But my parents taught me to go to church. that that was important. And I always went to church.
But when you're in the 30s, I'd never been out of the Rio Grande Valley but one time. by the time I was a senior in high school. Because when you're in depression years, anybody's been through the depression, you know you don't travel far because you don't have much money. But I knew to get out of the valley that I had to use, if I ever wanted to climb that ladder of success, that I think America offers everybody. I was going to have to do it in football.
And so I started planning and thinking about football and doing everything I could to be a football player. And I got a chance to go to the University of Texas and I made the team and I was really excited. First time I've ever been on campus at University of Texas. And then I went in the service. I flew B-17s over Europe for 30 missions during World War II before I came back to the University of Texas.
And we had some great teams there at University of Texas with Bobby Lane, who was our cornerback. You know, we beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, beat Georgia and Orange Bowl. But the thing I discovered at that time was that I wasn't reaching the fulfillment and the peace of mind. that I thought you ought to have after you have that kind of success. Because we had some good football teams and I always kind of felt like I was climbing to the top of the world.
And my only rationalization was I hadn't been to the top yet. And so when I went in professional football with the New York Giants, I became a player and I made all-pro even one year. And we won the World's Championship in 1957 against the Chicago Bears, beating 47-7 in Yankee Stadium. And there we are on the top of the world, you know. And I still, after all the excitement, I still had that emptiness and that restlessness.
And I couldn't understand why that was.
So I wanted to get out of football. I had gotten another degree at the University of Houston while I was playing with the Giants. I went to school during offseason. I got an industrial engineering degree. And so I was wanting to go into management.
And a Christian met me, a friend of mine on the street, and I told him what I was going to do. I'm going to get out of football. You know, it wasn't fulfilling. I want to get into business.
Well, he knew immediately what was wrong with me when I told him his story. And he said, How about attending a Bible study that meets at the hotel? And my first reaction was, well, I knew the Christmas story and the Easter story. I didn't have to go study the Bible. And I've been to church every Sunday.
But he was very persistent, and I went. And I'll never forget it, because we were studying in Matthew, the Sermon on the Mount. And Jesus was saying, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or drink, about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food and body more than clothing? Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you.
Boy, I got excited. That's the first time that I ever had any inkling of even what the gospel is all about. Even in my young years in the Bible, just that time, I realized I didn't know that you were saved by faith. I went through the Romans there, and boy, it talked about everyone's sin and falls short of the glory of God, and we're dead in sin, and Christ died on the cross.
Well, finally, I came to what the gospel of Jesus Christ is all about in 1 Corinthians 15, 3 and 4, where it said that Christ died on the cross, he was buried, and he rose again. And I accepted Christ right there. I realized right then that life was really a matter of priorities. unless God is first in your life. And your family, of course, is going to come very close when that happens.
And your business is in third place. You're not a Christian.
So I had football all those years that I was trying to climb that ladder of success to get the peace of mind and all. And only when I accepted Christ did that come to me. The peace was there. And St. Augustine said it this way.
He says, hearts are restless, O God, until they find their rest in thee.
Well That was my story. And I tell you, I've heard many athletes have conversion stories and they all follow the same pattern. Football becomes everything. They think that's what life's all about. If you reach the top, you'd have everything, but when you reach your top, you don't have everything.
It doesn't mean you shouldn't achieve. There's nothing wrong with achieving and being the best that you can be. But boy, it's a lot different when crisis number one and you succeed. because that's what the whole life's about. And so that was tremendous for me.
And I was 34 years old then, one year before I took over the Dallas Cowboys as the head coach. was when that took place. And it had really nothing to do with success. I had great success before I played and great success that, but it's a peace of mind. That you have.
And even when I took over the Cowboys, when I didn't think I was going to make it, you know, I still. It was still God's way when Clint Merkison gave me that 10-year contract I knew. That's where God wanted me to be a coach. And from then on, it was set. I was a coach from then on.
I never even give it a second thought after that. And He's blessed me in so many ways. And a great job on the editing and production by our own Greg Hengler. And a special thanks to Vision Video. Where you can find stories like that, go to visionvideo.com, hundreds and hundreds of beautiful stories, many of them about faith.
And we don't shy away from telling people's faith stories when it's a part of their life story. And my goodness, it was a fundamental part of Tom Landry's personal transformation. He had chased success. He had thought, the next mountaintop, that's what'll make me happy. Gotta go play ball.
Flew missions in Europe with B-17s. There's nothing he didn't do. Into the pros, won't a championship. Still that feeling of restlessness. And then he bumps into that Christian who says, come to a Bible study.
The story of Tom Landry, the story of his personal spiritual journey. Here on Our American Stories. Lee Habib here, and I'm inviting you to help Our American Stories celebrate this country's 250th birthday coming soon. If you want to help inspire countless others to love America like we do, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Our American Stories. Go to OurAmericanStories.com and click the donate button.
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