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How 'bout dem Cowboys?

In one of the most bizarre, ugly and exciting games I've ever seen on Monday Night Football, tonight's ranks right up there at the top. I thought Buffalo had won it right up to the second attempt at the last-second 53 yard field goal. I guess I got accustomed to Cowboy seasons of the past. :-) In fact, shame on Buffalo for losing it. They had an abundance of gifts courtesy of Romo (some not entirely his fault) to make at more than 30 points. I actually thought he was confused on the jersey colors (psssst....we are the guys in white, Tony!). They could have run out the clock with another first down. They could have recovered the onside kick which Dallas recovered and set up the winning FG. There were many reasons that they should have won. In fact, I thought the images in my post below were more appropriate for tonight's game on both sides. ;-)

But, I'm not going to take away Dallas' incredible fighting spirit to duke it out to the last second. To score 25 points after turning it over to your opponent 6 times and taking it away only once is a pretty good accomplishment. To hold your opponent to 17 points after all of those turnovers is an incredible and admirable feat for ANY defense out there (7 points were scored on a kick-off return so that doesn't count). The bottom line is that this team overcame unrealistic odds and in the end won the game. The old Cowboys would have given up somewhere in the third quarter and started packing their bags for the flight home. Nope. They showed the type of character and attitude I haven't seen since the Jimmy Johnson days. I'm happy to once again be excited about a Dallas Cowboys season.

Not to dis the Big Tuna (Parcells) as I think he is a brilliant coach, but I disagreed with alot of the play calling last season as I considered it too conservative and "playing not to lose". Of course, how much interference there was from Jerry Jones is up to speculation, but I suspect there was some. Despite all of that, the team this year seems to be having more fun and showing more confidence. I also love the play calling now and my hats off to former back-up quarterback now the offensive coordinator Jason Garrett. He really is a pretty sharp guy. The offense has ALOT more depth and a gameplan that really keeps the opposing defense more on their heels....keeping in mind that this is their first full season all together. They continue to get stronger with each game. They "play to win".

This game ended in perfect fashion to sum up all four quarters. While number 9 was giving the game away, the inverse of his jersey number, number 6 Nick Folk, won the game. Not only did he punch it through once, but twice after the Bills pulled a fast one and called time out a nanosecond before the first attempt. To split the uprights twice in a row at 53 yards under THAT kind of pressure is amazing to me. He's a BIG hero in Big D tonight. Romo should put Folk at the top of his Christmas list this year. Still though, the one thing I admired about Romo tonight was as bad as he performed, he didn't give up either. That 2-point conversion attempt at the end was close to making up for some of his errors had Owens came down with it. He did a good job in the last remaining seconds to get the ball into FG range.

Although I think this was a major test they passed, the big one will be next weekend against New England. I'm sure the Pats, without the help of secret surveillance video tapes, will be carefully analyzing the Buffalo defensive strategy which I thought was brilliant on all fronts for most of the game. It seemed like they always had an extra guy or two on the field. They finally developed a formula to frazzle the Dallas offense. Of course, I think the 12th man factor had alot to do with it too. The Buffalo fans were bizerk and very loud. That had to help rattle a young Romo. But, at least he can chalk this one up to experience and I hope he learns from it. I'm just glad he wasn't on my fantasy team this week. LOL!!

I just found out that tonight is the first time in 7 years that a team with a -5 turnover deficit ended up winning the game. Wow.

Oh....and how 'bout them Yankees? ROFL!!

Ok, back to the boring, tranquil weather. It was beautiful today with highs in the lower 70's and crystal clear blue skies. Time to think of some camping trips again. I gotta get over a bad cold right now though. The NyQuil is kicking in.......night all.....zzzzzzzzz.