Longtime Cowboys center who helped popularize shotgun formation passes away at 77
By Todd Brock, Cowboys Wire••USA Today
John Fitzgerald started as a defensive lineman but became the key to Tom Landry and Roger Staubach's revolutionary shotgun offense of the 1970s.
The man who touched the ball on nearly every play of the Cowboys' first meteoric rise to glory in the 1970s and was a key component of one of Tom Landry's greatest contributions to modern football, h…