{"id":383403,"date":"2025-09-20T17:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/383403\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T17:46:08","slug":"dallas-cowboys-great-d-d-lewis-dies-at-age-79-cowboys-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/383403\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Cowboys great D.D. Lewis dies at age 79, Cowboys announce"},"content":{"rendered":"

All-Time great Dallas Cowboy D.D. Lewis<\/a>, a linebacker on Dallas’ Doomsday Defense<\/a> in the 1970s, passed away on Tuesday at age 79, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Although he was the SEC defensive player of the year in 1967, Dallas didn’t select him until the sixth round of the 1968 draft due to concerns about his 6-foot-1, 225-pound frame.<\/p>\n

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He went on to become one of the all-time franchise greats, playing in a Cowboys<\/a>-record 27 playoff games and was a member of the team that won Super Bowls VI and XII. He had two interceptions in the 1975 NFC Championship Game, helping Dallas become the first wild-card team to make the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Perhaps he is most famous for his comment about the old Texas Stadium, saying it had “a hole in the roof so God can watch his favorite team play.”<\/p>\n

Lewis was named to the Cowboys Silver Anniversary Team in 1984.<\/p>\n

Bret Bloomquist can be reached at bbloomquist@elpasotimes.com; @Bretbloomquist on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All-Time great Dallas Cowboy D.D. Lewis, a linebacker on Dallas’ Doomsday Defense in the 1970s, passed away on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[247,265,324,230,229,257,2461,6684,6687,19,7,20842,248,267,49,1377,88,6,15,35196,245,537,530,1374,9,266,6685,1461,776],"class_list":{"0":"post-383403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-conference","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-dallascowboys","15":"tag-death","16":"tag-death-u0026-tragedy","17":"tag-draft","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-hub","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-national-sports","22":"tag-ncaa","23":"tag-ncaa-southeastern-conference","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-nfl","26":"tag-nfl-draft","27":"tag-nfl-hub","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-positive","30":"tag-positive","31":"tag-southeastern","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-sports-news","34":"tag-tragedy","35":"tag-tx","36":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}