MichaelWinicki;1463647 said:
If you post on this board with any regularity you're bound to have one of your opinions blow-up on you concerning the Cowboys...
It's time to come clean and cleanse your soul!
Give us one instance of when you were wrong. I say just one because some folks like Hos would have to leave a post that would rival the length of "War & Peace".
Man, I'm limited to one. This sucks. I better make it a good one then. That makes the choice obvious to me.
Long before I fell in love with Laron Landry, there was a Safety prospect who I just knew was perfect for the Cowboys. His name was Brandon Everage. I couldn't stop talking about him after he went undrafted. Prior to getting hurt he was a 2nd round talent. I felt sure he would end up in Dallas.
He played with Roy Williams at Oklahoma, so there was familiarity. His hero was Darren Woodson and his career was winding down so I felt he could mentor him for a year. I didn't know at the time that Woodson's career was in fact over.
It was perfect and I couldn't shut up.
So on August 17, 2004 I get a PM from a poster named
Veritas1989 who asked me to call him, because he had news on Everage for me. Now, this guy joined the site and looked for someone in charge. He PMed BrAinPaInt, who told him I was infected with the BE "man love."
So, I called him. It turns out he was Everage's agent. Veritas is Latin for truth and it is a legal term. Okay, he had my attention. So he tells me that Everage is in Oxnard and had just passed his physical with the Cowboys.
I was ecstatic. First of all, no one was reporting this. He dropped me the scoop. Dale was in Oxnard at Training Camp with the team and he hadn't even heard about it. Nor had Mickey, Eatman, or any of the DFW beat writers. I asked him if I could break the news to the forum. He said go ahead.
I posted
this thread. Meanwhile I was still on the phone with him and he started telling me how hard Everage had been working out and I started sharing it with the forum. You can see the posts. He was telling me every bit of that.
Well, the news hit every Cowboys forum out there as fast as you could imagine. One guy who was as high on Everage was boozeman from DCC.com. He and I worked together on the old site and I consider him a friend. He PMed me and asked if I was serious. I assured him I was.
Big problem. Everage passed his physical all right, but his workout just flat out sucked. Dale let us all know. Not only didn't the Cowboys sign him as I hoped, no one ever did. Last I heard he was playing in the AFL with the Utah Blaze. The only regret I have is that boozeman has not talked to me since that day. He was really pissed at me.
If you click on that link you will find that Veritas1989 only posted twice (in that thread) and that he only visited one more time the very next day. I e-mailed him a couple of times after that but he never answers.
Some guys called me a liar about that whole story. Not to my face of course. I've always wondered, if I made that up, how come Everage really was in Oxnard? Out of all the places he could be on the earth, how did I know he was in Oxnard and passed his physical?
Agendas are amusing. :wink2:
