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Article: Old No. 88 hasn't gotten his due; Drew Pearson deserves better.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- September 7, 2001
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DALLAS _ Just a few football fields around the corner from his suburban North Dallas office, the team he starred for was assembling the other day for its annual kick-off luncheon.
"You going?" the Cowboys' original star No. 88 asked me.
"No," I said. "How about you?"
Drew Pearson shook his head and smirked.
If you didn't know who Pearson used to be, you would still have to figure it out standing in the lobby of Drew Pearson Companies in Addison. There is on one wall a modest Vernon Wells' collage of Roger Staubach, who threw Pearson most of the 48 TD passes he caught in 11 seasons. There is on another wall a modest Wells collage of ...