Pokes12
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Yes, sir. Come one, come all, the Jerruh Jones Express is in full swing. The Cowboys once again are going to win the Super Bowl. Yes, the Cowboys always win the Super Bowl in June and sometimes in July, but as the preseason progresses, reality sinks in and expectations dwindle, another 8-8, or 9-7, or 7-9 season ensues. Every player looks great in OTAs. The new ones fit exactly into the roles for which they were drafted or traded. The Cowboys always land their man. Oh, remember Mazi Smith, he was a freakish player with unparalleled strength and quickness. He was the Monster in the middle. He was going to give us a great defense. Look, I have been an unflagging Cowboys fan for 66 years. Yes, you got that right since Eddie Labaron and Dandy Don quarterbacked the team. I was there when 17 + 22 = 6. I love the franchise and despise the owner and his awkward and fat son. Not body-shaming, just telling the truth.
Every year Jethro comes up with many different reasons to hype the team and make himself richer. Each year in the past had me fooled. But as I settled into the fact that this NFL is so different from the one that spawned the Cowboys in 1960. For instance, and incredibly, the NFL not only endorses gambling on games but takes part in the profits. So that makes me a bit sad. The math is hard to avoid. Billions of dollars are bet on games each week. Bets are not just on who wins and by how much, but can range from who will score the first touchdown, or who passes for more yards, which linebacker picks his nose first, you get the picture. Now we have guardrails to ensure that each game is fair; they are called refs, officials, and umps. Yes, sir, men and women who earn $1,000 to $13,000 per game in a part-time job are the guardrails for the billions of dollars spent on NFL betting each week. I don't know about you, but it concerns me when the math says the person with the least compensation is ensuring the fair outcome of a game of football played by men who are paid millions, and their every movement is part and parcel of billions of dollars being gambled. Now, I don't have any evidence that a single play has been called incorrectly or unfairly, although I bet that everyone reading this has witnessed incredible foul calls or missed calls and wondered how an obvious mugging was not pass interference, or a facemask that almost rips a player's helmet off is not called. But I have regressed from the purpose of this missive. The hype train is on with especial vigor this year. Maybe the guys who decide who wins or loses in the NFL especially the Super Bowl finally will bring our great franchise to the Promised Land. I am getting to the point that it is just as likely as it ever was. We hve not been to a SB since 1996, when I saw Deon Sanders catch a long pass from NO. 8 leading us to victory as Neal O'Donell inexplicably kept sending soft passes right into the hands of Larry Brown. Both interceptions led to TDs and our boys walked off with a SB trophy and Larry Brown (a middle-tier corner) parlayed those two gimme interceptions into a massive contract with the Oakland Raiders. Such is life. A great player like Bo Jackson gets a strange injury and has to retire early and a journeyman catches two passes which were perfectly placed in his hands gets a huge contract. Maybe this is our year?
Every year Jethro comes up with many different reasons to hype the team and make himself richer. Each year in the past had me fooled. But as I settled into the fact that this NFL is so different from the one that spawned the Cowboys in 1960. For instance, and incredibly, the NFL not only endorses gambling on games but takes part in the profits. So that makes me a bit sad. The math is hard to avoid. Billions of dollars are bet on games each week. Bets are not just on who wins and by how much, but can range from who will score the first touchdown, or who passes for more yards, which linebacker picks his nose first, you get the picture. Now we have guardrails to ensure that each game is fair; they are called refs, officials, and umps. Yes, sir, men and women who earn $1,000 to $13,000 per game in a part-time job are the guardrails for the billions of dollars spent on NFL betting each week. I don't know about you, but it concerns me when the math says the person with the least compensation is ensuring the fair outcome of a game of football played by men who are paid millions, and their every movement is part and parcel of billions of dollars being gambled. Now, I don't have any evidence that a single play has been called incorrectly or unfairly, although I bet that everyone reading this has witnessed incredible foul calls or missed calls and wondered how an obvious mugging was not pass interference, or a facemask that almost rips a player's helmet off is not called. But I have regressed from the purpose of this missive. The hype train is on with especial vigor this year. Maybe the guys who decide who wins or loses in the NFL especially the Super Bowl finally will bring our great franchise to the Promised Land. I am getting to the point that it is just as likely as it ever was. We hve not been to a SB since 1996, when I saw Deon Sanders catch a long pass from NO. 8 leading us to victory as Neal O'Donell inexplicably kept sending soft passes right into the hands of Larry Brown. Both interceptions led to TDs and our boys walked off with a SB trophy and Larry Brown (a middle-tier corner) parlayed those two gimme interceptions into a massive contract with the Oakland Raiders. Such is life. A great player like Bo Jackson gets a strange injury and has to retire early and a journeyman catches two passes which were perfectly placed in his hands gets a huge contract. Maybe this is our year?
