Go Dallas Cowboys

I am happy to report that Dallas Cowbosy won their game against the Tennesse Titans on Friday night 30 to 10. Being that this is pre season that does not hold a lot of weight in the final season however it was good that they could win the first game in their innaugaral game in their brand new Texas Stadium in Arlington.

The stadium is probably one of the nicest stadiums and most high tech stadiums around for the whopping price of 1.4 billion dollars. The HUGE scoreboard in the stadium itself runs around 400,000 dollars or some astronomical figure. If you go to the game at the stadium and you are up high where you find it difficult to see the action you can just watch the jumbo screen right in front of you and not miss a thing. I am hoping to go visit this stadium this year or next. During pre game warm ups the punters had fun punting the ball into the bottom of the big screen.

I must say that while I can be very critical of how Dallas performs during the past several years I was fairly impressed by what I saw on the field Friday night. The team did make some sloppy mistakes with regards to the unsportsmanship penalties they got for no good reason. Why are we pushing people while they are already out of bounds and on the way to the ground under their own steam? Maybe the coaches will explain the rules of the game to the BOYS and let them know they can't beat up the opponents when they are out of bounds already.

Terrell Owens is gone and so is Tank Johnson which is good news to me. Tony Romo appeared to have his head in the game and did well moving the ball down the field. John Kitna with number 3 on his jersey played quarter back in the second half seemed to be very mobile in the pocket and managed to keep from being sacked and was able to make some difficult completions. There were several recievers that I have never heard of that appeared to do a good job as well. Then there is the work horse full back in Marion Barber who showed that he could pound the ball through the offensive line.

I have no doubt that Dallas will be a team to be watched and hopefully will be able to live up to the talent and depth that they have. I am hopeful that the strict training camp from Wade Phillips instilled some much needed discipline in the troops and they are ready to play some serious smash mouth football. I would love to see the Dallas Cowboys exhibit some class and integrity both on the field and off the field. In the last several years I have seen some very poor decisions with regards to hiring football players who were supposedly awesome on the field playing the game but horrible role models to our youth off the field. Do we really need people like Michael Vick (now on the Eagles roster) who has been convicted of animal abuse and spent time in prison being a role model to our youth? How many people on the Dallas Cowboy roster are known ex cons?

Should we sacrifice the integrity of the game and the over all team class by hiring thugs just because their being there can sell tickets on Sunday? If you have a player that is awesome on the field but can not get along with his fellow team mates and is being traded over and over again to other teams to get rid of them could that be a sign? In professional sports just as in real life it is not always about the one individual but it is about the team. What one person succeeds in or fails in can have immediate and lasting consequences for the team for days and years to come.

Dallas, make me proud to call you America's team even though most of America can not stand you because of your failure to live up to the team reputation of the 1980's and 1990's. Be all that you can be and quit trying to take shortcuts.

A fan of yours through good and bad since 1969!!!

James Moffitt
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