mmohican29
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I'm glad that finally a player on the team (TO) has identified the fact that the national media targets the Cowboys and their star players in particular- and has a definitive agenda to sabotage the Cowboys' season each year. It's almost corporate policy at BSPN to hype and then swipe at the Cowboys.
The media wields alot of power and its easy for us as fans to say "well the players are bigger than that or they need to ignore it and play football", but the agenda becomes a doctrine that the players continually answer the same tired questions over and over- it has to be mentally tiring.
For example, I live in Baltimore and never has a team been more universally loved by the local media. It is a beacon of light for one and all and regardless of what players are involved in altercations resulting in murders, or drug dealing running backs are arrested and released, or CB's are drunk drivers... it's almost ignored. And you don't have the Werder types buzzing around Owings Mills trying to find out if say Fabian Washington was late for a meeting cuz he was hammered the night before at a downtown club.
Basically it's a team Chock Full O' Thugs with a few nice guys the local media circles around as ambassadors of goodwill and park at local bars to sign autographs or do radio shows, with nary a question of character thrown at them.
Agreed that it is part of being a Dallas Cowboy- the "big room" as Parcells called it... but credit our guys for being almost better than expected this season. When they could have packed it in under pressure we are now at least in the MIDDLE of a good fight to the finish with no signs of backing down now at all.
Let's just finish this thing- get to the playoffs- and close some mouths for good. In any event, I'm all for TO doing what he has to do with the media and any other Cowboy that chooses to follow suit I won't hold it against either.
The media wields alot of power and its easy for us as fans to say "well the players are bigger than that or they need to ignore it and play football", but the agenda becomes a doctrine that the players continually answer the same tired questions over and over- it has to be mentally tiring.
For example, I live in Baltimore and never has a team been more universally loved by the local media. It is a beacon of light for one and all and regardless of what players are involved in altercations resulting in murders, or drug dealing running backs are arrested and released, or CB's are drunk drivers... it's almost ignored. And you don't have the Werder types buzzing around Owings Mills trying to find out if say Fabian Washington was late for a meeting cuz he was hammered the night before at a downtown club.
Basically it's a team Chock Full O' Thugs with a few nice guys the local media circles around as ambassadors of goodwill and park at local bars to sign autographs or do radio shows, with nary a question of character thrown at them.
Agreed that it is part of being a Dallas Cowboy- the "big room" as Parcells called it... but credit our guys for being almost better than expected this season. When they could have packed it in under pressure we are now at least in the MIDDLE of a good fight to the finish with no signs of backing down now at all.
Let's just finish this thing- get to the playoffs- and close some mouths for good. In any event, I'm all for TO doing what he has to do with the media and any other Cowboy that chooses to follow suit I won't hold it against either.
