Mike, while we're waiting, got a book recommendation for you. Authored by a sportswriter named Steve Perkins, the title is Next Year's Champions. It was written before Dallas won its first super-bowl. Nothing else that I've come across more deftly captures the hype surrounding a team that so rarely lives up to the expectations of the media and its fans. In the meantime, we're in for a rough-patch. Things are gonna be particularly ugly, because the team has been scheduled into so many featured time-slots for television. The horror!:redface2:
-Moe
Moe...
so somebody wrote a book about the Cowboys...
and the theme of the book is...
that they rarely live up to the expectations of the media and its fans?
and it was written
before they won their first Superbowl?
the first Superbowl was in 1967...
4 years later...in 1971...Dallas played in Superbowl V...but lost...
then in 1972...the very next year...
they won Superbowl VI...
since then...Dallas has won 5 Championship trophies...
only bested by the Steelers and tied by the 49er's...
some fans and the media are tough to deal with...
a lot of people have that...
"what have you done for me lately" attitude...
I'm guessing the author of this book included...
the author sounds a little impatient to me...
I don't think it's a book I would enjoy...
some teams have never won a Superbowl...
Dallas and New England are probably the two most loved/hated franchises in the NFL...
and there is a reason for that...
but...they have given me years of entertainment...
plus the 5 Superbowl wins...
if they were healthy...
I really feel like they are a much better team than the last 5 games indicate...
they have a better than average pass rush...
a mediocre secondary...that will improve as the pass rush improves...
a solid running game...
decent receivers...but they run God awful lazy routes...
and 2 of the worst replacement QB's you could ever find...
the team's internal problems are amplified by the media...
if Jerry Jone's fart smells funny...
it's a headline on the sports page...
it's like kicking a man when he's down...
people love to hate the Cowboys...
perhaps the expectations of the author...the fans...and the media is a little unrealistic...
all I can do as a fan...is grin and bear it...
"we're in for a rough patch"...
hahaha...
I have already had a rough patch...
I was so excited to get this year started...
a 2-0 start that is now 2-5...