Craig Morton, Cowboys QB of the Super Bowl era, dies at 83
Craig Morton, an 18-year NFL quarterback who started for the Cowboys in the late 1960s and 70s before stints with the Giants and Broncos, has died at 83. Drafted fifth overall in 1965, Morton became Dallas’ starter in 1969, threw the Cowboys’ first Super Bowl TD in V, was supplanted by Staubach in 1971, and was traded to the Giants in 1974 for a first‑round pick that Dallas used to select Randy White; he finished with 27,908 passing yards in a career that ended in 1982.