Some Miscellany, With No Improvement to the Web Design
By Matt Cordon (kh). Filed in Blog and Forum Roundup, Dallas Cowboys News in Brief |
DallasCowboys.com reportedly upgraded its front page, though in all honesty, it is more likely to elicit an “Oh. Huh.” response. I recently decided to test a possible update to this page by stretching it out to the full width of the browser using 1024 pixels. But then I recalled what happened in August when I tried to make some updates with the site. You can read about it here; in a nutshell, I deleted the whole site. So no more neat little updates.
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Darnit, I don’t want to agree with Tim Cowlishaw. But I am doing so much more frequently these days. It’s kind of like a Republican saying, “You know, having the Democrats take over Congress really isn’t so bad.”
There are reasons this 4-4 record feels like the end of the world to Cowboys fans. Two very valid reasons.
One, this is Bill Parcells.
Two, these are the Cowboys.
It’s not as if Parcells took over some wretched franchise in 2003. These aren’t the Giants or the Jets.
The Cowboys have won as many Super Bowls as anybody (five). Been to more Super Bowls than anybody (eight). Only franchise that has seen three coaches win Super Bowls.
More conference championship appearances than anybody (16) in the Super Bowl era.
So Cowboys fans’ expectations differ from those poor folks who shiver in Giants Stadium and who, in the Giants’ case, had not been to a title game in 20 years before Parcells showed up or, in the Jets’ case, had not been to a Super Bowl in more than 25 years when Parcells arrived.
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I do, however, like to agree with Brad Sham:
Would you like the good news or the bad news?
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first.
The bad news is the Dallas Cowboys are just an average football team. They’re nothing special. They’re not champions-in-waiting. They’re just the Jets and the Vikings. They’re a bunch of guys. Just average.
The good news is, they’re better than that. They just have to prove it.
If you’re a frustrated fan who can’t comprehend why your favorite team is flopping around in the middle of the pack, don’t feel bad. You’re not alone. The head coach is right there with you. So are the assistant coaches and the owner and all the players. They don’t get why they’re average. The players especially know that in their case, the sum of the parts is less than the whole, and it’s making them nuts.
Now we’ll see if they can do something about it.
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Dallas Cowboy Fans United has a great post that features an interview with the Danny White. I’m not too fond of title (”Danny White Does DCFU”), but…. well, I’m not too fond of the title.
Here is one of the questions about Tony Dorsett’s 99-yard touchdown run in 1982:
What was going through your mind when you handed the ball off to Tony Dorsett on that 99.5 yd run in Minnesota on Monday Night Football? (doc/dcfu)
I was worried about a safety. We were on the 1 footline and only had 10 players on the field. Ron Springs ran off the field leaving us 1 short and no lead blocker. With time running down I had to decide whether to use a timeout or go ahead and run the play. The rest, as they say, is history.
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