Tag Archives: football

When the Cowboy’s lost to the Giants yesterday afternoon my football season officially ended. What had begun with such promise on Labor Day ended without much to be proud of there in Atlanta, and with much disappointment here in Dallas. There I root for my alma mater – Georgia Tech – while here I root for the Cowboys. Tech once more went to the Boise Bowl. The Boise Bowl. Let that sound echo through your head for a minute. No offense to any readers from Idaho, but “Boise Bowl” even sounds like a parody. Say it fast enough and it could be mistaken for a rare disease. I’d rather we stayed home. As for the Cowboys….

I couldn’t bring myself to comment on it yesterday. What can you say when a playoff victory looks possible right up to the last seconds of the game and it just doesn’t come through? Had I been a long time Cowboy’s fan by yesterday I would have been in a black mood all day today.

I’m not saying I won’t watch the Super Bowl, but I am saying that I’ll hardly care at all about the outcome. Maybe the commercials will be good.

You’d think that with two home towns one of my teams could swing a late season win over the past couple of days. Not so. Yesterday the Cowboys decided to re-enact Little Big Horn with the Redskins and today the Fresno State Bulldogs badly beat the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. For much of the game Fresno State made it look easy. And for crying out loud – it was the Boise Bowl. Again. As a good friend just said via SMS – “We’ve lost a bowl game sponsored by a truck stop on blue Astroturf. Joy.”

On top of all of that it seems like our whole roster got hurt. Avery Roberson got a severe concussion making a tackle. Michael Johnson went out in the 3rd quarter with a shoulder injury and A.J. Smith went to the locker room right afterward with an elbow injury. Tashard Choice took a hit to the same knee that he had surgery on earlier this year. I know the season is over but still. I’m sure they would have preferred to ring in 2008 healthy.

Here’s hoping that Paul Johnson can make a difference for the Jackets in the coming seasons and wishing the injured a speedy recovery.

Though I’ve been a college football fan since attending Georgia Tech I’ve never taken a serious interest in the pros before now. For me the Atlanta Falcons were somehow worse than a team that didn’t win enough games. They couldn’t even win my sympathy. And that was before Michael Vick.

Now that I live in Dallas, however, I take it as a duty to follow the Cowboys.

Ouch.

The shellacking they just got from the Redskins today was painful to watch. I recently read the words “return to greatness” describing the Cowboys season this year. Maybe so, but I doubt that more play like today will return them anywhere pleasant.

Here’s hoping for much better in the playoffs.