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I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. û Robert Frost The Dallas Cowboysá are 8-4, and as coach Wade Phillips reminded the media, that makes them winners. Unfortunately, their foe Sunday, the San Diego Chargers, are 9 û 3, riding a hot ...

The Dallas Cowboys beat the New York Giants Sunday. If you do not believe me, just ask head coach Wade Phillips. He will delight in telling you all of the good things his team did that day. He will outline all of the ways his team won. It was, after all, a record-setting day for Tony Romo and a record-tying day for Jason Witten. The defense played well...well; if you don't ...

Wade Phillips has his Dallas Cowboys sitting rather pretty. They are 8-3 after 11 games and leading the NFC East by one game over the Philadelphia Eagles. After a slow start, their defense has come on strong, proving themselves to be among the best in the league. The offense has sputtered here and there, but has found a spark with Miles Austin as the featured receiver and has a stout ...

Hines Ward, it is well-known by now, called out his quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on national television before the Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens game last Sunday. His comments dropped jaws all over NFL fandom, and sent shock waves through the Steelers' locker room. Roethlisberger, after practicing all week, cited headaches he was experiencing on Saturday (which were feared to be related to a concussion he suffered in the Steelers' previous game) as ...

Dateline Thanksgiving Day, 1994 - The Dallas Cowboys staggered into the holiday match-up with the Green Bay Packersùa team they had owned throughout the '90sùbattered and beaten. A worried Cowboys nation nervously gnawed Turkey legs and anxiously awaited the afternoon kickoff, sure this would not go well. After all, Cowboys hall of fame-bound quarterback Troy Aikman was injured and would not play. To make matters worse, the more-than-capable backup QB ...

One is eighty and the other pushing seventy. One looks like the skeletal remains of an aged 1930s Chicago-land gangster and the other like a Michael Jackson starter kit with his recent face work and new teeth. One built the Raiduhhhhs into one of the NFL's elite franchises and then systematically shredded it, piece by piece. The other resurrected America's Team from its late '80s shallow grave, restored it to ...

There was a time when the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins comprised one of the NFL's fiercest and most notable rivalries. All of the cliches about "throw the records out the window when these two hook up" really did apply. There was no love lost between the teams. Cowboys players like Staubach and Lilly really did despise those Redskins. The coaches didn't like them either. And the feeling was mutual. It ...

"Everything rises and falls on leadership." I do not know who first said that. I first heard it from a preacher named Lee Roberson, back in the '70s. Then, John Maxwell popularized it in more recent memory. Whoever said it, said it right. All you can really add to it is, "Amen." The Dallas Cowboys are a team in desperate need of a leader. Plenty of players have emerged as positive locker room ...

Jerry Jones and the Way We Were Can it already be 20 years? Is it really possible that it was two whole decades ago that Jerry Jones informed the disbelieving Dallas Cowboys nation that he would be involved in (and in charge of) everything regarding the team, right down to the "socks and jocks?" It has not been easy for old school Cowboys fans to accept the brash, swashbuckling, micro-managing owner's ways. ...

On this glorious Monday morning in Dallas, the morning after the biggest Cowboys win in two years, this enterprising entrepreneur is busy designing "Thank You" cards for the Cowboys fan too busy to write his own. The window for such a venture is very, very small, so I am wasting no time. Here are a few of the offerings from the newly-formed Silver-and-Blue-Blood Hallmark Moment Press. á To Andy Reid Dear Coach Reid, Thank you ...