I don’t think people get bent out of shape simply from a professional athlete complaining about life to the media. Actually, lots of fans out there can appreciate the humanity of it all, provided that the athlete in question is qualified to speak for his team. But what really chaps my ass is when a guy runs his mouth during the week and then goes out to play and totally lays an egg. And I mean total failure without any sort of composure at all. After they talk the talk, we expect athletes to walk the walk.
And this is where Dallas Cowboys wideout Roy Williams failed. After complaining to the media about how Tony Romo throws an accurate ball to everyone but him ["Mom! How come Jason has more ice cream than I do?!"] he went out against Green Bay only to fumble a long catch downfield after dropping a touchdown pass in the endzone. That performance arguably cost the Cowboys the game against the Packers, and it also drew the ire of the Bayou Beast, Terry Bradshaw.
“Dallas lost that game when Roy Williams dropped that pass and then fumbled, too,” said Bradshaw, a cohose of FOX’s NFL Sunday show. “He may have finished with 100 yards receiving, but he’s certainly not worth two first-round picks and all that money Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is paying him. He’s not proving anything.” –Dallas Morning News, via FanNation.
Williams is hardly alone in his mouth writing checks that his body can’t cash. A day after telling everyone how great a player he could be in the NFL, LeBron James sat out the entire most of the second half of his game against the Washington Wizards. James, who said he banged his wrist on the rim during a dunk, watched his Cavs squander a 17-point first-half lead to lose, 108-91. One wonders how valuable a guy like that would be to an NFL team.
Nobody has any problem with a guy that can put his money where his mouth is. But when he runs his mouth in front of the media and then can’t bring his A-game in front of the fans, we’re the ones that end up getting shortchanged.
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the restroom stalls, which apparently double as motel rooms if you can’t wait to get home. Sometimes people just want to get in a quick game of “Hide The General,” and these things are going to happen. This obviously didn’t happen in the “Standing Room Only” section of the stadium. Is it bad that the only thing that offends me about this is the Michael Irvin jersey? via.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is catching a lot of flack for the 20,000-plus sales of his so-called Party Passes, which were standing-room-only tickets that apparently couldn’t guarantee its holders of getting a good look at the field, or even into the stadium. And whaddaya know, everyone’s all bent out of shape because they thought $29 was going to be enough money to enjoy the NFL experience. Suckers. Anyway, here’s Jones trying to come up with a little bit of extra revenue after Tony Romo gets the pick-six treatment from the Giants. Be careful where you wipe that, Mr. Jones. Sixty percent of that booger belongs to the players. via.
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.
Emmitt Smith won’t be appearing on ESPN’s NFL coverage this fall, so if you’re jonesing for a state-of-the-art butchering of the English language, you’ll have to settle for videos like these. Here’s Smith “tailgating,” or at least pretending to do so, during an interview with some white guy from FOX Sports, so it makes sense that Smith would show love for the other white meat–pork. Smith speaks of “seranating” the new Cowboys Stadium with the smell of barbequed pork. He also calls Tashard Choice “Dashard,” gets Julius Jones and Felix Jones mixed up, and mentions the excitement Favre brings to “the city of Minnesota.” Oh, Emmitt. We’re gonna miss you this season. via.
Anybody could have guessed that hanging four gigantic TVs from the top of an NFL stadium might have been an issue. Anyone but Jerry Jones, the Cowboys owner who sees no problem with errant punts bouncing around behind the giant high-definition video monitors hanging from Jones’ new Cowboys Stadium, despite Titans punter AJ Trapasso making contact with the board in preseason action Saturday.
Jones was adamant that the video screen was built to “league specifications and he had no intentions of raising it to a higher level, but a source indicated that a preliminary discussion already has occurred as to the logistics and costs of such a change. The source said any correction would cost at least $2 million.
Jones reportedly planned to temporarily raise the board by 25 feet to accommodate sightlines for a scheduled U2 concert in October. via.
Wait, so dude can move it for U2, who’s just as annoying as Nickelback but without the exuberance, but not for the NFL? Whatever. Just move it up for that damn potato band and leave it up. Think of it as a facelift for your new stadium. You’re familiar with those, aren’t you Jerry? Read the rest of this entry »
