Since the number of Stupid Articles has

[burmafrd]

increased in a big way over the last 2 weeks, maybe we should have a contest about choosing the dumbest article out there. What do you guys think?

 

[iceberg]

increased in a big way over the last 2 weeks, maybe we should have a contest about choosing the dumbest article out there. What do you guys think?

can we play equal opportunity bashing and vote on the biggest homers also? : )

 

[burmafrd]

That is fair- as long as we can also unload on the biggest non-homers as well.

 

[iceberg]

That is fair- as long as we can also unload on the biggest non-homers as well.

heh - if people would take it as fun it could be. i just think someone would get hurt along the way and start bashing. i'd probably be nominated for most negative, but i have a feeling eddie would sneak away with my award!

that bastage!! : )

 

[Eddie]

I'll start ...

Skylar Green = Poor man's Steve Smith

Hatcher = Poor Man's Mario Williams

Tony Romo Qualifying for Golf Tournament

Who is Bob Lilly?

Fasano = Our Chris Cooley

 

[burmafrd]

I don't know- there are a few other really depressing posters that could give you two a lot of competition.

 

[burmafrd]

I guess we could expand and put the dumbest thread as part of the contest- but that would be a tough one to pick- there have been so many. Though right now the "Who is Bob Lilly" one is a serious challenger.

 

[Hostile]

I don't know- there are a few other really depressing posters that could give you two a lot of competition.

I try real hard.

 

[Eddie]

heh - if people would take it as fun it could be. i just think someone would get hurt along the way and start bashing. i'd probably be nominated for most negative, but i have a feeling eddie would sneak away with my award!

that bastage!! : )

I'm just a Cowboy fan looking for common sense in conversations.

I don't like threads which
- bash other team's Pro Bowl players,
- bash former Cowboy players who are no longer on the Cowboys,
- hail Jerry Jones/Bill Parcells as the end all,
- never question the Organization
- give A++ ratings to our mediocre draft
- compare low round Cowboy draft picks with other teams Pro Bowlers
- endlessly complain about the Commanders

These are simply my pet peeves.

Eddie

 

[iceberg]

I try real hard.

hos - you gonna be on our "most negative fan" award ballot???

getting cramped in here.

we need some cowboyszone awards in general - just to pass the off-season time. i'd do it on my board but we don't have enough people (for good reson!) so...

potential categories:
1) most active poster
2) most optimistic poster
3) most negative poster
4) biggest homer award
5) most entertaining writer (scott david could win this on rep alone)

what other categories could we have? hos - mods mind something like this and help set it up?

 

[burmafrd]

And my pet peeves are those that now say that BP is a joke, he is through, and we need to get someone else right now. Then they get even dumber and say Charlie Weis would come right now.
Also, those that automatically assume any free agent will stink up the place because someone else let him go.

 

[iceberg]

I'm just a Cowboy fan looking for common sense in conversations.

I don't like threads which
- bash other team's Pro Bowl players,
- bash former Cowboy players who are no longer on the Cowboys,
- hail Jerry Jones/Bill Parcells as the end all,
- never question the Organization
- give A++ ratings to our mediocre draft
- compare low round Cowboy draft picks with other teams Pro Bowlers
- endlessly complain about the Commanders

These are simply my pet peeves.

Eddie

some people only see the good and not that what they see is just a part of an entire picture. it's pretty common on every board for every team in every city.

well, every city that's used to having a good football program, so we can leave some out, right? : )

 

[burmafrd]

Most active poster is easy find.
The nitwit stud bledsoe has got to win an award.
Then how do we categorize kartr (Q)?

 

[Hostile]

hos - you gonna be on our "most negative fan" award ballot???

getting cramped in here.

we need some cowboyszone awards in general - just to pass the off-season time. i'd do it on my board but we don't have enough people (for good reson!) so...

potential categories:
1) most active poster
2) most optimistic poster
3) most negative poster
4) biggest homer award
5) most entertaining writer (scott david could win this on rep alone)

what other categories could we have? hos - mods mind something like this and help set it up?

I got that one in a runaway. I talk too much.

We've had these in the past. I have no problem with a new one as long as it isn't out to insult people personally.

There have been stuff on best avatars and sig pics, funniest post or poster, etc.

 

[iceberg]

I got that one in a runaway. I talk too much.

We've had these in the past. I have no problem with a new one as long as it isn't out to insult people personally.

There have been stuff on best avatars and sig pics, funniest post or poster, etc.

yea, not out to be insulting, just have fun even if you're on the "wrong" side of an award - it's meant to be in good spirits, ya know?

most active we can whack off the list. hmmm... something tells me not all people could take it in the "Fun Manner" it would be intended, so ... would depend on the categories i suppose.

 

[burmafrd]

Most annoying poster has to be a judgement call- what annoys some a lot does not annoy others as much. Homer- really we only have a few extreme ones and they do not post much. FRANKLY, our pessimistic ones post a whole lot more.

 

[superpunk]

Offseason awards......awesome.....

 

[iceberg]

Most annoying poster has to be a judgement call- what annoys some a lot does not annoy others as much. Homer- really we only have a few extreme ones and they do not post much. FRANKLY, our pessimistic ones post a whole lot more.

it's quite possible it's done out of "passion" for the team itself and that's easy to overlook cause it's a negative message.

i love this franchise. notice i say franchise and not team cause this current rendition of a "team" to me is nothing more than hired hands (to a point, coach included) and not a "team" in the sense i've come to know and love our cowboys to be.

i don't like the approach we're on, never have, and it makes no "logical" sense to me. it makes even less sense that people can so easily say "in bill i trust" (or ireland now) and that alone should relegate our own opinions worthless. why? cause we're not the coach? talent evaluator? those come and go EVERY FREAKING YEAR in this business and there's so much more to all of this than 1 man "calling the shots"

so i get negative because what i love so much and have put so much of my time, effort and pride into is now a royal mess (to me) and i can't simply yell "Go Cowboys!" and look away. i can't "cheer on TO" and forget all the hate simply because he's now a cowboy.

sometimes you let yourself get so wrapped up in a team and your facination for it you forget it *is* a game. it *is* entertainment. nothing more nothing less. business? sure. but it's an entertainment business.

we wear our team colors cause we *want* to be affiliated with a winner. but when that team isn't winning and makes some very strange moves - what do you do? cheer 'em on anyway or voice your opinions?

the negative ones are probably more vocal, that's pretty normal. look at politics as an example (moving along now woodysgirl!) and many other ares. negativity gets attention, right or wrong.

but in this case i know my own negativity is simply because my mind can't put the pieces together to formulate a "long term" plan (i miss those) and what i see short term i don't feel will add up to winning (so far not even the playoffs have been sniffed since bill started building bills team) so it hurts to see this as "wasted time" cause to me, it is.

we won't win, we'll have to "start over" with a long term plan sooner or later and i'd rather do it now than try this shotgun approach.

so its hard to see the positives when the negatives are so in the spotlight to me.

i'd have to think many of us negative fans are negative for the very same reasons, not that we wanna go piss someone off.

 

[superpunk]

i love this franchise. notice i say franchise and not team cause this current rendition of a "team" to me is nothing more than hired hands (to a point, coach included) and not a "team" in the sense i've come to know and love our cowboys to be.

I think 8 out of 11 starters on defense were either drafted, or UDFAs we picked up. And maybe 5 or 6 out of 11 on offense. This team drafted like *** for years. You can't roll-over the roster through the draft immediately. I thinkk they've made nice progress in that respect, and I'll live with the "hired guns" until we draft something better. But I'll root above all for guys like Julius, Ware, and Roy and T-New.

Can you imagine being a Skins fan, and rooting for a team that has like 3 or 4 drafted starters?

 

[burmafrd]

Our team is SO much better then it was in 2003 that I have a hard time even reading those kind of pessimistic downer posts. Long term- that is pretty hard to do anymore with the cap and FA. Franchise- well if you do not like how it is run take a hike- what are you going to do about it? You are setting yourself up for a sad life if you keep it up.