Dorsett continued to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. “Whenever a fight broke out around town,” he once said, “it seemed that I happened to wind up in the middle of it all.” Tex Schramm called him into his office for a talk. But to little avail. When asked about Dorsett’s troubles, quarterback Roger Staubach recalled that “being an outspoken black man in Dallas wasn’t easy then. If he had been white, perhaps a lot of what happened would have been overlooked.”
