It was a Lawrence Tynes field goal that gave the New York Giants a win against the Dallas Cowboys, but the biggest kick for the fans must have been the new so-called “cage dancers” in the end zone of the new Cowboys Stadium. They’re that amalgam of Protestant pin-up girl and sexy astronaut that you’d hope they would be. And I guess they just stand up there and dance all day. That works for me.

I enjoy how awkward the subject is for Cris Collinsworth, who just last week had to apologize for a decades-old video about how he used to hit on teenage girls while he played for the Bengals. I can’t wait to see what happens when Chris Henry winds up in the Sunday Night Football booth 20 years from now…via, via, Thanks, Jack.

I don’t know how you can watch this clip of Cris Collinsworth during a 1980s halftime piece for Monday Night Football and NOT think of Matthew Mcconaughey’s character from Dazed and Confused. They are the same guy. The same. Guy. In the clip, Collinsworth–then a wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals–professes his penchant for drawing the interest of high school girls, quipping, “Fourteen to eighteen, I’m a big star with them. As soon as they mature, after they turn 18, they start to figure it out.” And he said this ON NETWORK TELEVISION. Goodell would have any wideout in the league castrated if he said that today.

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Pretty amazing that most folks agree Cris Collinsworth is one of the best football analysts on TV, and yet a mere 14 years ago he was covering mouse plagues on the Guinness Book of World Records TV show. 

Mostly, though, I'm posting this because it made my skin crawl for a full five minutes.  Usually that only happens when Cris is onscreen with John Madden in HD.

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