My Christmas List This Year

One thing I always hated about Christmas, besides the dry turkey and having to eat dressing was when the bestest toy you got let you down.  The one at the top of every list you wrote to ole Santa broke or didn’t quite work the way you imagined it would.  Ya’ll all know what I am talking about.  Heartbreaking to say the least.  It made the next few months miserable until you could either scrape enough money together to buy the next Great Toy that came out or be lucky enough to have a birthday so you could get something to replace it.

That’s kind of how I feel right now about our beloved Boys of the Blue Star Commune.  They looked all shiny and bright this year, even the loss to open the new Crystal Cathedral didn’t damper my excitement.  Then they put together enough wins to be at 8-3 and I got that happy feeling thinking about a Super Bowl run.  Much like tearing the wrapping paper off that shiny new toy I watched as Miles Austin dazzled us.  Even when Roy 11 wasn’t having good games I was certain it would all work out, just like I thought that shiny new electric football game I got back in 1967 or 68 would eventually teach me how to be the best football player ever instead of just vibrating all the players into a big circle.  (maybe they should re-name that electric rugby because now that i think about it isn’t that what they do in rugby ? ) 

Sadly, much like my new football game this years version of the Boys has taken a dramatic turn for the worse.  In the case of my electric football set, it was the big butt of a friend of mine that landed right in the middle of that pristine field when he slipped on our freshly waxed wood floors.  The efforts to straighten the bent field never really payed off and the players tended to all congregate on the 50 yard line no matter what superb plays we designed.

Diagnosing the Cowboys failings may be a bit harder to pinpoint.  As I type this there are people saying its Jerry’s fault, Wade’s fault, Jason Garrett’s fault, Romo’s fault, Roy 11’s fault, Flozell’s fault, Newmans fault, the Stadium’s fault, and on and on.  Take your pick.

I prefer to think of it as team game so I lean toward the “team fault” theory.  Honestly to this point all of the above and more have not done their jobs to their utmost potential.  One group has had a good day and the other groups wouldn’t.  Some games none of the groups did good. 

Luckily there are 3 games left, sadly 2 of those 3 are against teams playing better right now than we are.  2 of those games are away games which never makes it easier.  The other team is a division rival that would love to beat the Good Guys cause their season has been horrible.  It don’t look good for the Heroes of Our Youth.

But hey, it’s Christmas time.  I have wished for stranger things.  For years I actually thought I had a shot at getting a horse for Christmas even though we lived in the city on a city lot.  I still believe in miracles.  I gotta go now, I need to get started on that letter to Santa.  later Poke