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The week that will be: 'Boys being boys
By their fruits -- or at least their cahoots -- ye shall know them as Tonica.
Tonica, as in Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson. As in a way more scrutinized, if slightly less beautiful, couple than Tom Brady and Gisele What's-her-face. Sportslywood's "it" couple, matter of fact. As in the single organism that threatens to devour the Super Bowl dreams of the Dallas Cowboys. Perhaps you've heard that Romo and Simpson -- with others, including Cowboys tight end Jason Witten -- were in Mexico over the weekend devouring flautas and taquitos, if not Giants game tape.
If you're a Cowboys fan, that means you'll be subjected all week to deathly serious speculation that Tonica's powers of distraction are too potent for the quarterback to keep a grip on the task at hand. Which happens to be beating the chorizo out of said Giants, who head to Big D sporting a natty 8-1 road record.
That one loss came in Dallas in the season opener, before Romo had been linked to the desirous divorcee. Since then, gossip-mongering yentas, some of them in cowboy hats, have hit the airwaves and the blogosphere to forge a link between Tonica and any imperfection on the part of the 13-3 Cowboys.
The strains of angst rose up at Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve and now this week -- not to mention after every errant Romo throw -- and resuscitated talk that Romo fumbled away last year's playoff game in Seattle because then-girlfriend Carrie Underwood was in the house.
Even teammate Terrell Owens got in on the act after the Cowboys' loss to the Eagles last month -- a game attended by Simpson that was, incidentally, the worst statistical game of Romo's career. "Right now, Jessica Simpson is not a fan favorite in this locker room," Owens joked with reporters. "I think a lot of people feel like she's probably taking his focus away."
All of which crosses the border into the realm of loco. Simpson is a babe, but an arm-weakening huddle-wrecker? I really doubt it. Maybe Troy Aikman or Roger Staubach wouldn't have mellowed in Margaritaville at playoff time, but Romo isn't Aikman or Staubach. He's more the fun-loving type, and he plays best when he's feeling loose and, uh, frisky.
No matter: Tonica is a pseudo-scandal with legs that just won't quit. Que sera, sera.
Remote patrol. Don't tell me why you can't do it -- just get the job done. And that job is to be something of a tube-surfing superhero on Saturday: a day that features not only large football games in Green Bay and New England but four of the AP's top five college basketball teams on national TV.
I'm talking No. 1 North Carolina vs. N.C. State (noon ET, ESPN), No. 4 Washington State at No. 5 UCLA (2:30 p.m., FSN) in a monstrous battle of the Pac-10's top dogs and lights-out No. 3 Kansas at Nebraska (9 p.m., ESPN).
Not that those four teams don't have their weaknesses. They have, after all, combined for a whopping one loss.
Take it to the bank, Part One. That stunned silence you hear? It is coming from the cramped, dank, somewhat foul-smelling environs of my unfinished-basement office. Why on LaDainian Tomlinson's green earth are the Chargers 9-point underdogs against the Colts?
Am I the only one who's aware that the Norvelous ones have won seven games in a row? Teams that hot don't lose -- let alone get blown out -- in the NFL playoffs. Take the points and run like a criminal.
Take it to the bank, Part Deux. I've been giving the BCS title game a lot of thought. And here's what I've been thinking: USC or Georgia would beat LSU or Ohio State.
Here's what else I've been thinking: Todd Boeckman is a better quarterback than Matt Flynn or Ryan Perrilloux. That's because he can stay with me here stand in the pocket and throw the darn football like a real quarterback.
Everybody's missing the boat on Boeckman. He's going to stand in the pocket and deliver. I don't know if he'll do enough to win the game for the Buckeyes, but he'll come out of the title game smelling like a winner. Oh, what the hell: Buckeyes 24, Tigers 20.
THE FINAL FOUR
1. Road warriors. At least one of those NFL home teams is going down. Packers? No way. Cowboys? Yes -- if Eli Manning plays the game of his life. Patriots? Crazier things have happened. Colts? Crazier things happen all the time.
2. Hoya paranoia. I've got Georgetown as the best team in America. The Hoyas will crush UConn by 20 on Saturday.
3. Todd Boeckman. So he'll never win a Heisman. Big whoop. 4. The box. Roger Clemens says he'd consider squaring off against a lie detector. The box is here all week, Rocket.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=theweekthatwillbeboysbei&prov=tsn&type=lgns
The week that will be: 'Boys being boys
By their fruits -- or at least their cahoots -- ye shall know them as Tonica.
Tonica, as in Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson. As in a way more scrutinized, if slightly less beautiful, couple than Tom Brady and Gisele What's-her-face. Sportslywood's "it" couple, matter of fact. As in the single organism that threatens to devour the Super Bowl dreams of the Dallas Cowboys. Perhaps you've heard that Romo and Simpson -- with others, including Cowboys tight end Jason Witten -- were in Mexico over the weekend devouring flautas and taquitos, if not Giants game tape.
If you're a Cowboys fan, that means you'll be subjected all week to deathly serious speculation that Tonica's powers of distraction are too potent for the quarterback to keep a grip on the task at hand. Which happens to be beating the chorizo out of said Giants, who head to Big D sporting a natty 8-1 road record.
That one loss came in Dallas in the season opener, before Romo had been linked to the desirous divorcee. Since then, gossip-mongering yentas, some of them in cowboy hats, have hit the airwaves and the blogosphere to forge a link between Tonica and any imperfection on the part of the 13-3 Cowboys.
The strains of angst rose up at Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve and now this week -- not to mention after every errant Romo throw -- and resuscitated talk that Romo fumbled away last year's playoff game in Seattle because then-girlfriend Carrie Underwood was in the house.
Even teammate Terrell Owens got in on the act after the Cowboys' loss to the Eagles last month -- a game attended by Simpson that was, incidentally, the worst statistical game of Romo's career. "Right now, Jessica Simpson is not a fan favorite in this locker room," Owens joked with reporters. "I think a lot of people feel like she's probably taking his focus away."
All of which crosses the border into the realm of loco. Simpson is a babe, but an arm-weakening huddle-wrecker? I really doubt it. Maybe Troy Aikman or Roger Staubach wouldn't have mellowed in Margaritaville at playoff time, but Romo isn't Aikman or Staubach. He's more the fun-loving type, and he plays best when he's feeling loose and, uh, frisky.
No matter: Tonica is a pseudo-scandal with legs that just won't quit. Que sera, sera.
Remote patrol. Don't tell me why you can't do it -- just get the job done. And that job is to be something of a tube-surfing superhero on Saturday: a day that features not only large football games in Green Bay and New England but four of the AP's top five college basketball teams on national TV.
I'm talking No. 1 North Carolina vs. N.C. State (noon ET, ESPN), No. 4 Washington State at No. 5 UCLA (2:30 p.m., FSN) in a monstrous battle of the Pac-10's top dogs and lights-out No. 3 Kansas at Nebraska (9 p.m., ESPN).
Not that those four teams don't have their weaknesses. They have, after all, combined for a whopping one loss.
Take it to the bank, Part One. That stunned silence you hear? It is coming from the cramped, dank, somewhat foul-smelling environs of my unfinished-basement office. Why on LaDainian Tomlinson's green earth are the Chargers 9-point underdogs against the Colts?
Am I the only one who's aware that the Norvelous ones have won seven games in a row? Teams that hot don't lose -- let alone get blown out -- in the NFL playoffs. Take the points and run like a criminal.
Take it to the bank, Part Deux. I've been giving the BCS title game a lot of thought. And here's what I've been thinking: USC or Georgia would beat LSU or Ohio State.
Here's what else I've been thinking: Todd Boeckman is a better quarterback than Matt Flynn or Ryan Perrilloux. That's because he can stay with me here stand in the pocket and throw the darn football like a real quarterback.
Everybody's missing the boat on Boeckman. He's going to stand in the pocket and deliver. I don't know if he'll do enough to win the game for the Buckeyes, but he'll come out of the title game smelling like a winner. Oh, what the hell: Buckeyes 24, Tigers 20.
THE FINAL FOUR
1. Road warriors. At least one of those NFL home teams is going down. Packers? No way. Cowboys? Yes -- if Eli Manning plays the game of his life. Patriots? Crazier things have happened. Colts? Crazier things happen all the time.
2. Hoya paranoia. I've got Georgetown as the best team in America. The Hoyas will crush UConn by 20 on Saturday.
3. Todd Boeckman. So he'll never win a Heisman. Big whoop. 4. The box. Roger Clemens says he'd consider squaring off against a lie detector. The box is here all week, Rocket.
