Thank You Cards
To Wade Phillips
Thanks for trying one of the stupidest coaching strategies at the end of the game last night. Yeah, call that time-out right before the snap. Give the Giants a chance to go through the kick once, giving them a chance to correct any mistakes they made with a second attempt. Good job. You make Barry Switzer look like Tom Landry. Not that I’m complaining.
To Jerry Jones
Thanks for the invite. I had a great time last night. Nice to see that you have another reason to make the Dallas Cowboys all about the owner in the box, rather than the football on the field. The pre-game celebration OF THE BALL PARK featured a video montage, comparing the place to the Egyptian Pyramids and the Roman Colosseum. Terrific. Here’s hoping you never leave the NFC East.
To NBC
Thanks for reminding me that the game was being played in a new stadium last night. I had no idea. And more cutaways of the owner’s box. Actually, maybe you can cutaway to the owner’s box while showing the owner’s box.
To Tony Romo
Thanks for coming up huge last night, big guy. Here’s a couple graphs from the AP story, out-lining the home-wrecking and your part in it:
On one of the biggest settings of his career, Romo turned in one of his worst outings. He was 13 of 29 for 127 yards with a touchdown and those three interceptions. The first was returned for a touchdown, the second was a bit of a fluke (it bounced up off Jason Witten’s shoe) and the third a punt-like heave into double coverage. It was his fewest yards in a full game and his passer rating of 29.6 was the second-lowest of his career. It also was a dramatic reversal from the opener, when Romo showed the poise and patience he supposedly worked on all offseason and didn’t have a turnover. Even worse was that it came against a New York secondary that already was missing two starters to injury before Tuck got hurt late in the first half.
To the 30,000 in the ‘standing room’ sections at Cowboys Stadium last night:
Thanks for coming out and being a part of history. The largest group of people to pay for an overpriced opportunity to drink $7 beers and watch the game on a TV in a crowded room. Nice work. I can just hear the conversations at workplaces all around Arlington this morning.
Were you at the game last night?
Yeah, I was there. OF COURSE I WAS THERE.
What a game. So much action. Did you see that interception off Witten’s foot?
Naw, I couldn’t see shit. CAN YOU BELIEVE ALL THEY HAVE IS MILLER LITE? Someone said they thought they heard something about it, but I didn’t catch all of it. What a game. MILLER LITE? We’ll get ‘em the next time, for sure.
Damn straight.
