Published on: 12th December, 2009
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost The Dallas Cowboys are 8-4, and as coach Wade Phillips reminded the ...Published on: 10th December, 2009
Dateline: Somewhere in Texas, December 10, 2009 Just when you thought this Heisman thing was all figured out, the DownTown Athletic Club drops a bombshell like this. Move over, Colt McCoy, Mark Ingram, Ndamukong Suh, Tony Gerhart, and Tim Tebow. The guest list has been expanded by one. Apparently, Gene Strother (pronunciation ...Published on: 27th November, 2009
The Texas A&M Aggies played their "national championship" (of the Republic of Texas) yesterday. They played well. They fought valiantly. They left everything they had on the field. And...they lost. The Texas Longhorns narrowly escaped their matchup with Texas A&M, 49-39. Some will hold that against them, since the Aggies are ...Published on: 26th November, 2009
Dateline Thanksgiving Day, 1994 - The Dallas Cowboys staggered into the holiday match-up with the Green Bay Packers—a team they had owned throughout the '90s—battered and beaten. A worried Cowboys nation nervously gnawed Turkey legs and anxiously awaited the afternoon kickoff, sure this would not go well. After all, Cowboys ...Published on: 22nd November, 2009
There was a time when the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins comprised one of the NFL's fiercest and most notable rivalries. All of the cliches about "throw the records out the window when these two hook up" really did apply. There was no love lost between the teams. Cowboys players like ...Published on: 16th November, 2009
"Everything rises and falls on leadership." I do not know who first said that. I first heard it from a preacher named Lee Roberson, back in the '70s. Then, John Maxwell popularized it in more recent memory. Whoever said it, said it right. All you can really add to it is, "Amen." The ...Published on: 14th November, 2009
Jerry Jones and the Way We Were Can it already be 20 years? Is it really possible that it was two whole decades ago that Jerry Jones informed the disbelieving Dallas Cowboys nation that he would be involved in (and in charge of) everything regarding the team, right down to the ...Published on: 7th November, 2009
The NFC East is boiling down to the Big Three and the Big Mess. Dallas, Philadelphia, and New York will duke it out for the Division Title, while the Redskins just duke it out. (Of course, this assumes the Giants will right their listing ship soon.) All Dallas Cowboys fans get ...Published on: 31st October, 2009
What He Said “Let’s just say this, the decision is made a lot of times … the agreements call for the GM ultimately to make decisions. If not, the only one that can overrule the GM is the owner. Period. And that’s always been the way it’s been for 20 years.” ...Published on: 25th October, 2009
A leaderless locker room is a rudderless ship. The Dallas Cowboys are a team needing compensation. The absence of sideline leadership under Wade Phillips has led to frequent chaos. The Patrick Clayton flap is just the most recent evidence that there is poor communication between the coaching staff and the men ...