RIP: Gil Brandt, pioneering Cowboys exec who helped create ‘America’s Team’, dies at 91.

Brandt was the antagonist in Skip Bayless’ fist book, God’s Coach. As I wrote in 2020, “Bayless’s book should be called ‘God’s Vice President of Player Personnel,’ but that wouldn’t have the same ring to it on the cover — and wouldn’t have sold nearly as many copies. Not surprisingly, having made Brandt the main scapegoat for the Cowboys’ demise in the 1980s, in 2019, Bayless was shocked that his bête noire, the then-85-year-old Brandt became the last of the Cowboys’ original triumvirate to reach the NFL Hall of Fame.”