Okay I am really tired of fighting, a...

    Okay I am really tired of fighting, and losing to Bloggers formatting.  I'm sure it's correct and I am not. 
I give up.  I am now going to try to post to Blogger using Google docs.  Who knows.

    I had written a beautifully crafted piece on how the fans of the Good Guys were expecting way too much out of our Heroes.
I have read more crazy stuff this week about how bad the Boys looked.  I saw the game.  I know it wasn't a shutout.
The Boys of the Blue Star did not hang " half a hundred " on the Yuccaneers. 

    Bums lil boy Wade admitted the team hadn't practiced their blitzes as much as they should have.  A lot of that yardage
gained by the Bucs came when our D was run blitzing.  Okay let's work on that this week.

    Tony started off throwing the ball a little bit off.  Okay I have always thought he comes out too amped up.  It usually
works itself out.  It did.  He ended up with more yards throwing than he ever had as pro.

    I know the Giants are better than Tampa.  I know the Cowboys have to do better to beat the G-men.  Is that any reason
for some moron on the internetz to say we need to trade Barber for a run stopping nose tackle ??

    Have we as "fandom" forgotten how to enjoy a WIN ? Is everybody so informed and smart now that they have broadband
access that they feel like they can actually coach a NFL team ?  Is this what Madden football and all the fantasy leagues
have brought us to ?

    I will just mark this down on the left side of the column under W.  Then at the end of the year I will count them up, compare
them to the other teams in our division and see who comes out the winner.  In the meantime I will enjoy every game we win.
There's a reason that there is an old saying called "winning ugly".  Beats the heck outta "losing pretty".

    Anyway it's Wedensday morning.  Time to think ahead to the first ever game that counts at the Crystal Cathedral known as
Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.  I have waited for years for this.  I already have the grill ready to go, the food is bought.  I hate
to admit it but if they would let me camp out in the parking lot this week I would.

    Hopefully this gets posted right cause I really wish you could have read the original.  It was way better than this one. I promise.
See ya later....poke

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Bring it ON !

I am so ready to see the 2009 Cowboys !

I have read, seen, speculated, postulated, cussed and discussed this years team till I am blue in the face. Who the heck knows what we got ? Ya gotta play the games, real games to know what kind of team you’re gonna have. We have finally arrived at that point.

So what if this Sunday our Heroes play in Tampa, I have to get my tailgate gear in order. I will be setting up in the driveway just to see what works and what needs replacing. See which folding chairs rotted since last year. To be honest the ones i took to the last game at Texas Stadium probably need replacing just to keep the STINK of that game away from the new digs.

Hopefully the canopy can make it another season, the Stadium may be air-conditioned but I know the parking lot will be just as hot in Arlington as it was in Irving. Folding tables that haven’t been unfolded since last year may be a little cantankerous too.

The Freedom Grill should be just fine and so should the 20 foot flagpole, which sports the Texas Flag and the Cowboys flag so I can find my SUV when I wander off to look at the other fanatics with their blue painted faces.

The menu for the first home game will be a simple one. I don’t plan on being in the parking lot when they unveil the Ring of Honor or the midfield Star or anything else. Maybe some Zummo Party Time sausages and tortillas and cheese. Of course there will be homemade salsa, just as HOT as I can make it. Cold beverages are a given, gotta stay hydrated !

Time to see if the Cathedral is as bad as I have been reading as far as poor sound and even poorer game info on the scoreboards. I am really hoping it’s not but to be honest I never listened to the stadium announcer at Texas Stadium anyway. The scoreboard stuff is important though so I wanna see how that works out.

I could have already gone and seen all that but I have already mentioned how much I dislike the exhibition games. Truth be told I already had my mind made up not to go see The Heroes until the game counted. After the stomach turning loss to the Ravens to close down Texas Stadium they owe the fans a more inspired effort and I knew I wouldn’t see that during preseason.

So after a weekend full of watching college games and then last nights NFL game I can’t wait to see Wade and the Boys show us what they got this year.

Things To Know Before Your Pilgrimage to the Cathedral

I really am going to start posting original stuff on here as soon as the season starts, until then not so much.

Things To Know Before Your Pilgrimage to the Cathedral
	5:30 PM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz Larry Dunaway/Guest Blogger    Bio |  E-mail  |  News tips

So yeah this a Cowboys Stadium blog. Tons of stories about video boards, high priced concessions, first impressions, air conditioned football in Texas (thank you), and opinions on everything .
I live in Arlington and I am getting a lot of questions about where to stay, eat and park. I don’t stay in Arlington hotels, I usually eat in places close to the part of town I live in and as far as parking all I can say is be ready to either pay a lot of money or walk a bit. (and still pay a bit )
I did do some research ( search engines are research aren’t they?) and found some places where you can get information that just might come in handy when you get ready to head for Cowboys Stadium. Most of this information can be found at the Cowboys website but I know how most folks hate to click around looking so I did it for you.
Wanna know which hotels and restaurants are close to the Stadium ?

Everything from A to W, from the Cowboys Guest Services site ( there was no Z )

Need information about parking, what’s allowed, what’s not ?

Now that you bought some of that expensive parking, where the heck is it ?

What’s the best way to get from here to there ? (customized directions to your parking from the Cowboys site, not from me. Please remember that if you end up in Oklahoma.)

Another thing to remember is to look on your ticket to see what entry you are supposed to use. I think the Stadium staff is going to enforce that and by knowing where you are supposed to go in you might not have to make a trip around the “biggest room in the world.” ( Jerry said it, not me) Entrances are lettered A-K, except I couldn’t find an I entrance. 

That last link is to a Cowboys message board that also has a lot of good information and since i linked to it I feel an obligation to include a link to their home page. 
 
I also just read in the newspaper that you can catch a bus in Fort Worth and ride it to the Stadium for 5 dollars, plus 5 dollars if you park in the T parking lot.
I am sure before the first real game the DMN will put together a much more detailed and informative package of information to help everybody out but for you folks who have to know and you have to know right now so you can make your plans I hope this comes in handy.
Hopefully this information will help all the visitors to our fair city and maybe even a few from here who might not be familiar with the new digs in Arlington. So get on out there, but please remember, BE LOUD when the other team has the ball, and BE QUIET when the Cowboys have the ball.

Stadium Pavers

this is another of my guest blogs from the Dallas Morning News site.
since i havent been going to the exhibition games i just haven't had
much to say so its another repost.

all i really want is for the Boys to get thru these stupid games without injury.

August 26, 2009

Stadium Pavers 10:30 PM Wed, Aug 26, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz Larry Dunaway/Guest Blogger Bio | E-mail | News tips

So have you heard the Titans punter kicked a ball and it hit the Video-Jumbo-Godzilla-Bigger-Than-The-Side-Of-Barn-Not-A-Scoreboard-Tron ? Okay so let’s talk about something else.

Stadium Pavers. Jerry Jones learned quite a bit about what to do or not do from other stadiums. One of the things that seems to be very popular was the Stadium Paver Program, where for a certain amount of money you could immortalize your deepest thoughts and declare your undying devotion to the 5 time World Champion Dallas Cowboys (of arlington).

For even more money you could get an even bigger paver in case you have a lot of deep thoughts and even more devotion than the other guys who bought the smaller (but less expensive) paver. No matter what size you bought you also received a duplicate for you to display at your very own home. If you wanted to you could also buy a protective display case to showcase and, well, protect your paver. You smart ones out there are now asking, why do you need to protect a limestone paver aren’t you ? Sure you are because I even asked that question.

Before anyone thinks I am making fun of the die-hard, dyed in the blue fans out there, I have a confession to make. YES, my family bought one of these things. We put a standard, we love the Cowboys message on it and intend to take pleasure in going past it for the next 30 years.

There are a lot of # 1 fans in Cowboy Land. A lot of folks still like the “how bout them Cowboys” line that Jimmy Johnson made famous. Thank goodness there are still fans out there who still and will always love Coach Landry. There are more than a few that will bring a tear to your eye as they remember Dad, Papa, or whoever it was that instilled in them a love for the Dallas Cowboys. I am definitely not making fun of any of these either because that was my eye the tears were welling up in.

BUT, some of them were just fun ideas. I will keep looking them over as I make the pilgrimage out to the new stadium. For now i will just show you a couple of them. I would love to hear of any other good ones.

The sneakers are mine, figured since they were the right colors i would include them at no extra charge. Thanks for your time.

Preseason: A Lose-Lose Situation ?

I have been doing some moonlighting blogging on the Dallas Morning News

Cowboys Stadium blog so this is just a repost from there.

August 24, 2009

Preseason: A Lose-Lose Situation ? 8:25 PM Mon, Aug 24, 2009 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz Larry Dunaway/Guest Blogger Bio | E-mail | News tips

I may be the only one who feels this way. I have no clue if the players or coaches feel the way I do. I am fairly certain Mr. Jones doesn't feel the way I do. I can only speak as a season ticket holder who has never liked nor ever will like the fact that in order to buy season tickets I have to buy (and pay full frazzling price) tickets to the preseason games.

I consider myself a good, devoted, true blue and forever fan of the Dallas Cowboys. I watch the draft to see who is picked to help the Good Guys, I follow blogs and message boards for any and all news about the Boys of the Blue Star fraternity, heck I even named one of my children Dallas.

I have gone to training camp and the open practice they held last year. I am NOT according to anyone who knows me a casual or bandwagon fan.

I understand the coaches need to see their guys go against somebody besides their teammates to get an idea of who needs to work on what. I will admit that, what was once called "exhibition" games probably do serve some good purpose in the grand scheme of things.

I just don't want to HAVE to buy the tickets for one of them. If I didn't have to I would probably end up going to at least one of them. Hey us tailgaters need to work out any bugs or kinks in our gear from year to year. This year especially, I need to get a feel for best parking spots, best way in and out, which fellow tailgater has the best food and where the closest restroom is.

So, am I alone? How does the rest of the entire universe feel about this?
I apologize for my first blog about Cowboys Stadium not actually being about Cowboys Stadium. Sometimes you just need to get things off your chest, at least that's what the therapist I am seeing about my obsession with all things Silver and Blue told me.

1st Exhibition Game

I don't even want to call it preseason.
They used to be called exhibitions because that is all
it really is. Starters played 2 series...woopee.
Cowboys looked bad on defense, weak on 2nd team anything.
Way too early to know what it all means.

Scroll down to previous post and enjoy pictures from the shiny new
toy in Arlington.

later, poke

Cowboys Crystal Cathedral

i have often referred to Texas Stadium as the Tabernacle of the Blue Star.

if Texas Stadium was a tabernacle then this new beauty rising over the landscape in Arlington can be considered nothing less than a shiny, eye catching Crystal Cathedral. ( my apologies to Robert Schuler).

i went out for the open house last Saturday. to say i was impressed would be a huge understatement.
i was a young boy when the Astrodome opened and I got to go see it. I was amazed by it in the way only a
wide-eyed, still wet behind the ears kid can be. I was sure then i would never see anything else that would
quicken my step and have my eyes in sensory overload. To this day...(well to last Saturday) I haven't seen
anything else that had impressed me the way the old Dome did back in the day. Sure I have seen some
impressive sports arenas and other buildings. I love the way the Ballpark in Arlington looks.
I totally loved walking into Texas Stadium although not for its beauty. None of those inspired the excitement of
the Astrodome when it was new and so was I.

That changed Saturday. For about 2 hours I was 12 years old again. I couldn't get to places quick enough
to see the sights. I am 53 years old, overweight and totally out of shape. I climbed to the highest row of the new
Cowboys Stadium. Why ? because i had to see what it all looked like from up there. I sat in seats in the middle of the stadium, the corners, the end zones. I leaned on a rail to get a feel for the 29$ party passes. I walked through a "club" that I will never get to go to during a game (too expensive). I marveled at football shaped light
fixtures and multi-screen HDTV's. I gasped at the prices i saw on the monitor style menus at the concession stands. I stared at the worlds largest movable roof and hoped that i will see it open or close one of these days.
then there is the "BIG SCREEN"... 60 yards long. Beautiful colors. we used to watch the games on a 19" black and white TV.

To make it even better the hole in the roof really does remind you of Texas Stadium even when it is closed.

Now that its a couple days later and my feet have touched the ground again I know there are some problems
at the Crystal Cathedral. I saw some seats there that have very little sight of the playing field. theres even a video
around that show them.
But for a couple of hours there it didn't matter. And that don't happen much when you get past age 12.

trust me when i say the pictures don't do it justice.

and i really dont type this way, i have to figure out why in the preview my sentences are cut off and shifted
to the next line. i would fix it tonight but its bedtime.

So far So Good

X's and O's mean something to most football fans.
and to a degree i am interested in how plays are designed,
executed and generally set up.
BUT thats not what keeps me glued to a TV or watching a game live.
I am ready for football season, and I do read about the activities
at training camp every day, okay twice a day, OKAY off and on ALL day.
I DONT get too hung up on who dropped a pass today or who overthrew a pass
today or who kicked a ball into the air today. If you do thats OK.
My main concern at the end of every day of camp is...did anybody
get hurt ? If not then i think its been a good day.
I trust that the coaches are doing what they need to do to get the Boys
ready. I trust the players to be doing what they need to be doing too.
So if you need daily updates on how every bounce, bobble, or boo-boo
is going check out the Dallas Morning News Blog .


Or the official website of the Good Guys.......

If you just wanna see what the laid back fan that I am is thinking about then check here by all means.

The Cowboys will be selling $29 "party passes" for every game this year, gets you in the stadium where you can lean on a rail in either end zone and watch the big TV screens. That good ole Jerry Jones, he is always looking out for us little guys !!

Here We Go Again

howdy buckaroos,

today was day one on the way to this years Cowboys football season.
if this was baseball the TV's, Newspapers, and blogs would be full
of folks writing how new life begins every spring.
they would write about how the sun feels so good in arizona or florida.
they would wax poetic about how the start of baseball is a metaphor for
each of our lives and how we can all start over, just like that little
plant that every year bursts out of the ground, reaching for the life filled
rays of the magnificent sun.
and for baseball thats ok, i even usually feel that way about baseball.
THIS AINT ABOUT BASEBALL !!
nope the ol Texas sun is screaming down about now, poetry is kicked to the curb.
its time to see people running into each other.
The Boys of the Blue Star need to hurry up and WIN a football game.
that disgusting taste in my mouth from last year has not gone away.
i dont care who is not here anymore, i dont care who anyone is or is not dating.
i dont care what our 2nd year tight end tweets.
right now all i want is for the season to start and for the Boys to win the game.
tons of valuable bandwidth will be wasted as the experts tell us how each pass,
drop, block or kick means each and every practice.
I DONT CARE !!! just win the games once the season starts and all that wont matter.
i am running low on patience, i am dying to see a real game in the NEW Stadium.
maybe then i will forget that sad, pitiful excuse of a last game i saw at Texas
Stadium. maybe but probably not.
ps. i may be a little rusty blogging, i held out of blog training camp for
more money. i am now being paid 10 times what i made last year.