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Bryan Adams makes his living in management consulting, but he is also, especially, a sports collector dallas cowboys Memorabilia One of his pieces, a Tom Landry fedora, is on display in The Star after being loaned to the team.
He had long wanted the Cowboys Ring of Honor member’s game-worn jersey. When he received a list of available items from Goldin Auctions, one of the 100 items offered was not a Cowboys jersey, but a football.
It is believed that football receiver Drew Pearson was thrown out of Metropolitan Stadium for celebrating after catching the famous “Hail Mary” pass from Roger Staubach on December 28, 1975.
“I won it at an auction,” Adams said. “One thing I tell people: Your heart wants to believe that everything you see is real, so you have to be careful because your wallet gets attached to it quickly and you’ve bought something that’s not legitimate.”
Adams tried his best to get all the information about the ball. He called the Pro Football Hall of Fame to see if they had the ball or if officials knew its whereabouts. He has a friend who is into the Cowboys and asked if they had a ball.
The basic football story goes like this: A man was filling his flask outside a stadium when the ball fell a short distance away and landed under the rear quarter panel of his car. He placed the ball in the back of the car and re-entered the stadium for the final seconds.
Within a week of the game, Adams said the man went minnesota vikings Headquarters and received a bill of sale from their general manager, Mike Lynn – the same man who made the famous trade in 1989 to acquire running back hershel walker From the Cowboys, who used a massive trade to begin their triple Super Bowl championship run of the 1990s.
Adams has a bill of sale. The paper used for sales is consistent with that used in the 1970s. This stamp also matched the stamp used by cowboys at the time.
The man gave the ball to his nephew in 1981, and he kept it until 2016. It was purchased at another auction and stored in a safety deposit box until Adams purchased it in March 2024.
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Adams also called Wilson a football creator. Their footballs had time codes with letters on both ends of the ball. Wilson confirmed that the codes – two HS – were on footballs given to the NFL in 1975.
“I can’t believe that no one decided to make this public,” Adams said. “It’s just hidden. I was very skeptical at first.”
Knowing it was the 50th anniversary of the Hail Mary, Adams said he offered to loan the football to the Cowboys. For reasons he doesn’t know, the organization cooled on the idea. Recently he met Pearson and said that the conversation between the two did not go well.
“Maybe he thought I was bragging [having the ball] And flaunted that I had it,” Adams said. “But that was not my intention at all. I’m so sorry if he felt that way. ,
“When I was a kid and you played football at recess, you also [Pittsburgh Steelers stars] Terry Bradshaw and Lynn Swann or Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson.”
Adams grew up in Indiana and moved to Dallas in 2001 and “became one of those obnoxious super fans when I got here.”
He said he was just a manager of the ball. He would offer it to Staubach or Pearson for the amount paid for it.
“If Drew or Roger want it, that’s where it should go,” Adams said. “He invented drama.”
