Amen. My sentiments exactly...unfortunately it is only 8 more months until I find myself for some unexplained reason being miserably sucked into the giant vortex called the Dallas Cowboys.

Mark

I also watched roughly the last 4 minutes of the game, but I'm a Seahawks "fan" (fan is a bit of an overstatement, but the Chiefs are now officially out also). Still, I couldn't help feel bad for Romo...what a pathetic play...it doesn't get much worse than that. You're right to be disgusted.

Your problem is your choice of team. If you were a Houston Texans fan, you would never have to deal with these messy playoffs. They just interfere with your enjoyment of the new year, so we're grateful to the idiots who could have drafted BOTH of the NFL rookies of the year and threatened my ability to get out on rides both days this weekend.

Besides, football is just something to fill the time between baseball seasons.

Regards,

Bret

what bothers me most is that you are watching the NFL at all.

I stopped "following" the Cowboys when Tom Landry was shown the gate, and the players started changing every year. However I do watch occasionally. I'm somewhat sorry they lost last night, but if you're human you have to feel pity for Tony Romo. Probably the only time one single player lost a whole game...and season for a team. At least since that guy dropped the winning touchdown pass in the end zone in the 60's.

Kyle, I've watched about five hours in four months (and four of those were as a captive in someone else's home); I hardly think that qualifies as an obsession. But at least I'm not watching NASCAR. ;-)

Cowboys are not the same without Landry. The team is classless as is the owner.
I am cheering for San Diego.

Well, I stop short of painting the whole team with that brush, and I also think that as classy as Tom Landry was -- as a person and a sportsman -- he was also being passed by as the game changed, both on and off the field. It's to his credit that he never let the game change him, but I'm not convinced that the game would have let him be successful in the long run.

But I can agree with you in rooting for the Chargers, although, really, I'm just cheering for LT.

I know this post has already slid off the radar, but I just had to pass along a joke sent to me by a buddy in Denver, of all places:

A seven-year-old boy was at the center of a Dallas courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him.

The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible.

The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her.

When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that they also beat him.

After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him.

After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Dallas Cowboys, whom the boy firmly believes, are not capable of beating anyone.