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December 30, 2008

For all you Cowboys haters out there, this blog should be pretty entertaining. For you Cowboys fans, thanks for sharing my pain.

This past Sunday was Week 17 in the NFL. It was the most exciting regular season day of football I can remember as the playoff picture was still very foggy entering the day. My Dallas Cowboys were coming off a disappointing loss to Baltimore but still controlled their own destiny, win against the archrival Eagles and make the playoffs. Unfortunately, nothing went according to plan and the Boys lost 44-6. It was brutal to stomach, and especially so for me. I went with my family over to a family friend's house to watch the game. The father is a diehard Eagles fan and made sure to show us his Donovan McNabb fathead before the game. I could not believe how huge this thing was. I came prepared though with not only a Marion Barber jersey that I bought 2 hours before the game but also one of my most prized possessions - a Cowboys helmet autographed by 30 some players from the '90s Super Bowl teams, including Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Deion Sanders, Leon Lett, Moose Johnston, and many more, plus coach Jimmy Johnson. We had some great banter going back and forth before kickoff, and for the first 10 minutes of the game or so when it was still close, but after that it was just painful to watch and to deal with the taunting. In true Eagles fan fashion, after the game was over he left the postgame show on for like an hour and a half, ugh. The one funny thing about watching the postgame show was watching Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell offer his analysis. For those who don't know, Gov. Rendell spends every Sunday during the football season in the studio with former Eagles players and coaches or whoever else discussing football. He was nowhere to be seen when the Steelers won the Super Bowl a few years ago or when the Phillies won the World Series this year, but he loves his Eagles! Quite humorous if you ask me.

Aside from the Cowboys game the NFL Sunday was pretty awesome, there were tons of good, meaningful games. I'm no expert but maybe I'll do a playoff prediction blog in a few days when I have time to think about it some. I'm sure looking forward to the playoffs even though my team came up short.

Poker's been going pretty poorly the last few days but I'll snap out of it. I just haven't been playing focused, which is easy to do when I'm at my parents' house and don't have my setup, but I'll fix that. I'm not too worried about it. As an aside, the nosebleed action has been awesome to watch lately. I don't really have any desire to play 500/1k PLO ever unless I have 5 million dollars set aside just for poker or sell off a bunch of my action, but it sure is fun to watch! The disappointing thing is that games between 25/50 and 500/1k are pretty much dead, but I'm content grinding 25/50 at the moment.

Happy new year!

Entry Tags: cowboys, nfl

Jan 1, 09 05:51:44

I feel your pain...

I'm from Australia and i have followed the boys since i was 7....and i'm 38.....damn im old... anyway, i think the match against the Steelers was our killer game....we should've lost that one.

And, i think Romo is a bit of a choker when it comes to end of season...a bit like Greg Norman choking for those years....

Always 2009, Stinger.....i like Choice too...but Marion is still my current fav and of course E.Smith as my ALL-TIME fav player...

SeRvE_VolleY

Jan 8, 09 00:39:06

how can you say that you are a die hard cowboys fan when you say that their division rivals are arch rivals?

Do you even know who the redskins are? I'm pretty sure CTS could tell you a thing or two about who their arch rivals are.

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