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What do Philadelphia Eagles fans and Dallas Cowboys fans have in common? More than you might think. I just came home to Dallas from a two-month stint in Philadelphia. No, I wasn't sent there as punishment for my sins. Nor was I there as a missionary to convert poor, lost Eagles fans. I was just taking care of business. As is my custom when working abroad, I found the area's most listened-to ...

Jerry Jones rumbled into Dallas, Texas like a drunken Brahma bull stumbling into a Helzberg Diamonds store. What he didn't destroy, he crapped all over. First, he ignored the fact that he had one of the NFL's greatest icons still occupying the head coach's office and brought in his equally brash and classless drinking buddy Jimmy Johnson to share a few beers and talk about the hijacking of America's ...

Raise your hand if you have ever dog-cussed Jason Garrett or said Wade Phillips should be fired (or worse). God bless you. I see that hand. Yes, and yours, too. Oh, and yours, way back in the corner. And yes...my hand is raised as well. Guilty. All over the vast expanse of Jerry's magnificent, shiny football Mecca, hands are raised. Four weeks ago, when the Cowboys were fresh off stumbling into December ...

Who will be The Team of the Teens? By that, I do not mean the team of kids between 12 and 19. I mean the team that will outshine all others in the 2010ù2019 decade. The team that will record multiple Super Bowl victories. The team everyone else will hate and emulate at the same time. The team that will define the decade. In every decade, the NFL has unofficially declared ...

My Dearest Wade, I have noticed how giddy you have been during our alone time lately. It warms my heart to see you so happy...especially at Christmas. I know you had hoped to find a contract extension in your stocking. Please don't think I am a Grinch for not putting it there. Besides, everybody loves an Applebee's gift card. Take your lovely family out to dinner on me and have a nice, ...

Many have clamored for Jason Garrett's termination; I have not. Some have noted a dearth of Jason Garrett criticism in my writing. While I have called Wade Phillips everything, but something good to eat and have been vocal on the notion that he is not the type of head coach this team (or any team with an eye toward the ultimate prize) needs. I have been less inclined to cram an ...

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the stands Not a person was cheering, not one single fan. They all held their breath in the brisk night air, And wondered if Santa would bypass them this year. Their faces were painted all silver and blue, With streaks of flesh-color from a stray tear or two. And mom in her Nine jersey, and me in my cap, Hoped our ...

It was supposed to be the perfect night. It was to be the perfect cherry atop the perfect season in the perfect place. New Orleans, the city hammered by Katrina and then pummeled by FEMA, would show the world their indomitable spirit and their unique ability to party their way through any sort of disaster and come out the other end, drink in hand, shouting ôI dare yaö in the ...

It was the best of times (for some). It was the worst of times (for them). And so it ends. In a few days hence, just like that, the clock strikes midnight, Dec. 31, 2009, and the first decade of the 21st Century draws to an end. It came in like a lion, with the threat of worldwide computer failureùthe presumed result of the Y2K bug that so many experts feared would ...

Do the Dallas Cowboys have a chance of beating the New Orleans Saints Saturday? No matter how many times I ask myself that question, I cannot make it so it doesnÆt sound weird, even surreal. Think about it. Here we have two franchises on the opposite end of the success spectrum. One of them has been to eight Super Bowls and has won five of them. That team has been a fixture in ...