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How Jason Garrett helped save the Cowboys season in 1998

September 21st, 1998. A year in which a small company called Google was founded, St.Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire breaks the MLB home run record and NASA probe Voyager 1 becomes the most distant man-made object in the Solar System. And, a 32-year-old Jason Garrett heads into only his 3rd start as a quarterback in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys despite having only thrown 91 passes in his entire NFL career.

To put how few that is for a career in perspective, Patriots quarterback Drew Bledsoe once threw 91 passes in a 5 and half quarter span only four years before Garrett made his start.