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Wednesday, December 31, 1997

Ice cream parlor owner wants Cowboys coach to to exit rocky road

By Stephen G. Michaud

Knight-Ridder Newspapers

(KRT)

BEDFORD, Texas - The fans have grown frosty, the owner's gaze is glacial and the tone on radio talk shows has turned noticeably nippy.

Now after a 6-10 season, the winter of discontent for Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer grows even chillier as an ice cream parlor owner is also jumping in to dish it out.

The first new flavor of 1998 at the Bedford and Fort Worth stores of Joseph "Milwaukee Joe" Libowsky will be called Canberry Switzer, a suggestion as well as a name.

Libowsky, a former federal agent and stalwart Green Bay Packers fan, named a previous concoction 45-17 after the deep freeze into which his heroes dumped Dallas in November.

He has whipped up about 5 gallons of Canberry Switzer, a pale pink product made with cranberry flavoring and chopped walnuts. The cold creation will go on sale Friday.

Brad Carlin, a parlor employee, said Libowsky's inspiration was a cranberry muffin.

"The ingredients just sounded good together," Carlin said. "Joe has a lot of fun messing around with the Cowboys."

Switzer, predictably, was not biting.

"I don't eat ice cream," he said icily by telephone.

"Frozen yogurt's better for you."

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