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Pull up a chair and sit down and he'll damn sure tell you about it.' Then there was Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, saying of Larry, 'Larry Lacewell has influenced everything that the Cowboys weren't when he got there and that they are having been there.' Jones was joined by a contingent of current and former Cowboys employees, and the Cowboys owner asked them to stand: Chris Hall, Tom Ciskowski, Walter Juliff, Henry Sroka, Bruce Mays, Todd Williams, Dave Campo and Jim Baker. He's the best defensive coach that's ever been. Said former Cowboys head coach and longtime Oklahoma head coach Barry Switzer of his one-time defensive coordinator with the Sooners, 'Larry was exactly what everybody's been talking about. Several of the speakers perfectly portrayed Lace, the man who equally loved football and to talk.

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Honoring Lace: This past Friday a Celebration of Life ceremony for Larry Lacewell was held at Arkansas State's First Bank Arena in Jonesboro, Ark., honoring the schools' all-time winningest coach, the University of Oklahoma defensive coordinator and the Dallas Cowboys director of college and pro scouting for 14 years (1991-2004) among many other stops along the way during his 85 years of life before passing away on May 17.

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