oh my beloved cowboys

for better or worse i am a dallas cowboys fan. before people go all crazy telling me i just like them because they spend a lot of money, are the new york yankees of football, and are basically premadonnas...stop yourself. there are times when i too believe all of those claims. i have been a cowboys fan my whole life which is long enough to remember 1 win seasons. but to avoid my rant on why professional athletes should actually take the role-model position seriously, i will focus on a different thought today.

jerry jones is becoming al davis. not familiar with al davis? he is the long time owner of the oakland raiders. oh the glory days of the raiders! john madden calling plays and probably telling his players boom! in the play call! oh the days of bo jackson and todd marinovich...oh wait that was about the time they started to come unglued. randy moss was a raider once...remember that? in case you don't, let's just say he took the marauding image of the raiders a little too far in his approach to the game. that was before he joined the cheating patriots and apparently became part of the american sports idol duo...but again besides the point. let it suffice to say that al davis isn't all there anymore and well...it shows. today i am focusing on jerry jones losing his marbles and the cowboys delving back into first-year-of-troy-aikman's-career-pitifulness.

apparently last night, the cowboys released terrell owens. i will be the first to tell you that terrell owens is no saint. he wants the ball, and he ain't afraid to let you know that. of course, when he gets the ball over the course of his career he has been pretty damn good. 38 touchdowns in 3 seasons isn't that bad. i remember the time terrell owens stepped on the star in the center of the field and celebrated, and i actually saw him do this with the eagles in the end zone on the little star when they were waxing us. add to this, however, that we also released roy williams, the safety (oh the non-dilemma of having two roy williams on your favorite team just 24 hours ago). now roy has been hurt the past couple of seasons, and really hasn't been as good as he once was, but i attribute this to the fact that the cowboys defensive staff have lost their minds in asking him to be a cover safety. roy williams is a blitz the quarterback, stuff the run, fly over defensive linemen and deflate your red-river-shootout-win-hopes safety. so here is what i predict will happen: some team that actually thinks about things like this will actually play him in such a role and he will return to the roy williams of old, and probably make a fool of the cowboys the first time we face him on this new team.

however, my biggest piece of evidence for the jerry-jones-is-now-al-davis claim is this: we traded away a guy that started all 16 games for us last year at either cornerback or safety (anthony henry), and was pretty decent i might add (granted not great, but go back and read that...did i say great?), for a quarterback we hope never steps foot on the field to actually take a snap...because have you seen the lions the past several years? jon kitna...you are just a pawn in this poor saga of deconstruction...but pawn you must play.

i resign myself to the fact the cowboys are apparently rebuilding now that they actually had a decent team with little to no discipline. seems to me the solution was to actually have some discipline, not throw away what great talent you had in the locker room. so to my wife...who probably in the back of her head is asking why she ever became a football fan much less a cowboys fan...i apologize for the fact that during football season i scream way too much, i generally revolve my world around the cowboys schedule, and care way too much because this year is going to be rough.