Tom Landry's Fairness

I WAS amazed at some of the testimonies I heard as I participated in the funeral of Tom Landry, the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys, especially one testimony by one of the black players. This player said that he would have come even if he had not been asked to speak. He went on to explain how, during the sixties when society was still very racially divided, he always knew that when he came to the Cowboys’ football camp, this coach would treat him fairly.

One African-American player after another came up and said that they knew Landry to be a fair man at a time when the culture was unrighteous. What did this man have to show for it? Twenty years of winning and going to heaven with a good name. He didn’t let what was happening in society mess with his team.

Too many of us let folks on the outside affect how we feel in our hearts and therefore we break up our winning season for the kingdom of God.