embarassed and mad

for the 7th year in a row our heroes have failed us in their last game of the regular season. i thought last year was bad but in reality im sure there was a natural letdown knowing they were not playing for any post season hopes.
and i realize that this year a playoff berth was already clinched. BUT...
a win today and an eagles loss and the Boys could have been playing at home next week. instead we were treated to an uninspired, gutless, mistake filled
display of ineptness. watching that game you had to wonder if the boys in blue even cared. i hope the millions of tv veiwers saw it differently than it looked to me at the stadium. as soon as that interception was nullified on the first series it looked
like we just deflated. our first 6 plays gained us a whole 2 yards. woopeee.
i know we eventually scored 31 points, but you do know that was a 2-13 team we were playing dont you ? that 2.7 yards per carry tells me we got whipped. and that powerhouse offense that detroit trotted out there ?? i hope everybody saw that stephen peterman ( you know, that 2nd round draft pick of bills that never played for us) was the starting right guard. im telling you that game was embarrasing.
the crowd was never into it either. my gosh it was only the 2nd quarter when some of those idiots started trying to get a wave going. the game was so bad that when it was over the fans didnt even boo the sorry way it ended. everybody just left.
i didnt even want to stop and buy gas on the way home because i was afraid somebody would want to talk about the game and i wasnt sure i could even be polite about it.
yeah yeah i know we got next week to worry about ...but tonight i need to rant.
so there it is..maybe i will feel better now. nope i dont. later Poke

no time to let down

hey its the last game...its detroit ( with their 2 wins all year)
and the Boys have their place in the playoffs wrapped up.
but remember...the eagles could easily lose to michael vick and the falcons.
it seems every week some team loses that shouldnt have lost.
and if...IF the dog breath eagles lose and the Good Guys win then
ta-da !!! The Boys win the NFC East.
so put on the lucky socks, wear the good luck hat..whatever you need to do,
if you are at the game scream as loud as possible when the lions have the ball.
dont forget last years embarassing loss to the rams when the Boys didnt show up to play. there is still plenty to play for.
having said that, its been an interesting year. who wudda thought that Romo
would have bailed us out, that TO would lead the league in td catches...and also
drops? its been one of those funny years and its not over yet.
so keep your heads up..its no time to let down. later Poke

all i want for christmas is.................

the cowboys to beat the proverbial snot outta the eagles.
dont care how, who does it, lucky breaks, bad calls against
them dog breath eagles...dont care, doesnt matter to me.
the Good Guys have put together too good a season to let it
get away from them now.
a win against any opponent is good but i want the eagles and their
ignorant classless fans to feel bad this christmas..real bad.
i have a long memory ( well sometimes anyway).
the eagles fans booed santa.
they throw batteries.
and they cheered when ol number 88 (michael irvin for you youngsters)
went down hurt. thats just wrong. so payback time, i dont care how many
times we have beaten them since..it ain't enough.
rip their stupid eagle heads off and stuff em down their stupid eagle necks,
tear off their arms and beat them bloody with them and jump up and down on their cold
lifeless uniforms.
and oh yeah...Peace on earth, Goodwill to men..Merry Christmas. later Poke

take it like a MAN and get ready for next saturday

if this was baseball i could fall back on the old
win some, lose some and some get rained out quote...but its not,
its football. sometimes in football the other team just whips your butt.
their tand cryeam shows up more ready to play than your team, their coach
shows up hungrier, more creative and more willing to chance things.
momentum changes...a 77 yard run should make your team play harder,
not softer.
sometimes you game plan for the other team and they suprise you with a
fullback who hasnt scored all year and he scores 3 against you.
so next week you never look at this games films, you tell your guys to just forget it.
look ahead not behind cuz this game is gone,you never get it back.
how mr. romo responds next week will tell me a lot more about his game than what
i have seen so far.
our defense will have to overcome the butt kicking they are getting and get ready to chase Vick around. its not time to hang your heads and cry. its time to resolve
to not let it happen again. it will be very interesting to hear parcells this week.
this is what he gets the big bucks for. i am already looking forward to next week
(cuz this week sucked !!) anyway lets go Boys..later Poke

time to blog this

ok in spite of thousands of requests for daily updates i can only
blog when the muse strikes. or whenever i get 10 spare minutes.
its time i give credit where credit is due. anyone who has waded
thru my months of blogging knows i am not a big Bill Parcells fan.
he is a great coach and all that i just never liked him when he was
at New York or new England and i have a hard time liking him now.
BUT....his decision to swap QB's is looking like genius AND his timing
on getting rid of the liquored up idiot kicker was perfect.
so in the spirit of the season i give Parcells his portion of the credit for
the success the GooD Guys are having.
okay..updates: the Boys are healthy, the saints have a few banged up players
and one who is suspended for 4 games due to steroid use. TO admitted he tuned
out Parcells "what champions do " speech. TO had a birthday party in hollywood
(i wasnt invited..go figure). The Boys signed a safety who was hurt last year
but may provide needed depth for us, they released Skylar Green cuz he didnt
show them anything. and Romo was selected player of the month by somebody.
i am predicting a shootout this week...we have to outscore reggie bush.
please dont wait so long to comment...i often forget what i wrote about and then
i have to re-read what i wrote for all my readers comments to make sense.
anyway i wont be at the game but son of poke will be so if it turns out bad its all his fault........later Poke

we will just have to wait and see

lots of talking...on the radio, in the papers, ESPN.
the gints implode, cowboys are rolling, romo is the greatest,
doomsday is coming, shockey says no way in hell.
experts say cowboys will win, experts say giants will win.
thank goodness they will actually play a game sunday to decide this.
since the Boys let the giants beat them at home, they really need
to return the favor. if/when they do it could be the final nail in the coffin
of the dying new york football giants.
if the good guys want to be a playoff caliber team then this is the kind of game
they have to show up for. they have made it past thanksgiving and are in the hunt.
thats what bill preaches. now its time to do something with that position.
i dont know about ya'll but im digging this important game stuff in december.
im betting low scoring, defensive struggle......but what the heck do i know ??
cowboys 17 gints 13. later Poke

Definitely a thankful Thanksgiving

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Function: noun
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: a small gift given a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase; broadly : something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure
a beautiful north Texas november day, clear blue skies, 75 degrees.
with my wife and 21 year old son , my mother, my recently retired brother and his 20 year old daughter (my favorite niece by the way ).
thick juicy steaks on the grill in the parking lot of the Temple. cold drinks on ice.
HOTTT hot sauce for the chips, pecan pie and some zummo party-time sausages just for fun. plenty of time to enjoy the atmosphere, soak it all in.
a great crowd in the stadium to hang out with, current pop stars to entertain us before and in the middle of the game. if the game never ended it would have been okay with me. no matter how it would have turned out it was truly a day to be thankful for. but of course the game ended. and ended good for those of us who bleed
cowboy blue with silver streaks. been a long time since i saw the Good Guys put a
butt-whipping like that on anybody. but i have to admit the score of the game, at least this one day, was LAGNIAPPE. not to say some of my happiness wouldnt have been diminished if the Boys had lost, but the JOY would have still been there. later Poke

that was so sweet !!!!!!!!!!

wow...i have seen the promised land !!!!
that had to be the best crowd i have ever seen, heard,
or been a part of at The Temple of the Blue Star.
enthusiastic to say the least, loud, boisterous
( booing our idiot kicker when he was doing a big screen
public service announcement counts as boisterous) and
i will add influential. i know the crowd noise had to in some
small way bother the colts. not near as much as ware knocking the fire
out of manning every chance he got but the noise did help. those passes
late in the game that were just a tad off can be attributed to the pressure
our d put archies little boy under. the majority of the crowd was pretty much
on their feet the whole game, starting with the first time the colts had the ball
and continuing till the very end. do you have any idea how hard it is to eat nachos,
drink something and stand up and yell at the top of your lungs ??
our offense started slow, then did nothing much the first half but our d kept
us in the game. the 5 (i think) penalties in the first half was pretty much what
we've come to expect. BUT...the interception return got things firing in the second half, romo settled down and the o-line started making blocks. i was not and am still not a bledsoe hater, but romo can pump fake and still release the ball quicker than
drew seems to. and romo plays with more enthusiasm..when the game was over and the team was headed for the tunnel romo jumped in the air and kicked his heels together..which was exactly how i felt, i just couldnt do it without hurting myself. even ol Bill gets kudos for that long pass to glenn when we really needed a first down late in the game. i know i wasnt expecting it and im sure the colts werent either. so savor the moment, now get over it cuz we play again Thursday and im looking for the same kind of crowd and the same result. later Poke
ps: i know i predicted 30-something points and if the kicker would have made his 2 kicks and if we werent just running out the clock at the end im pretty sure we would have had that many. close enough for me !

a BIG game....yeah yeah i know they all are,

wow..its november. and the Good Guys are actually gonna play in a big
game. big enough that the networks changed it to a 3:15 start time.
big enough that we get a chance to defeat the heretofore undefeated colts.
(my editor issists i start using bigger words even if they may not be right).
big game because archies boy peyton hasnt been to texas staduim before ( i dont think). that same editor wont fork over any money for a researcher but i think im right. besides its a blog, accuracy isnt what brings in the big bucks.
if that 2-1 record from a 3 game road trip is gonna help us over that playoff
hump its time for this team to win games at HOME. all the experts are saying we need
to run run run, just as fast as we can, cuz the colts cant stop that. im saying if
everybody knows that and expects that and has planned for that....then lets pass
like crazy..get in a real shoot-out with archies boy..light it up. at some point in time you gotta trust your defense to do what you need them to do. lets see how
our undrafted free agent from eastern illinois matches up with the pedigreed wonder
from indy..via tennessee. hey ol archie was good but dont ya'll remember the saints
fans wearing paper bags on their heads ?? surely his kid has a few mistakes in him.
anyway..gotta go..time to get my game face on, gotta find that list of the 138 things
that i have to do in order not to mess up the superstitions. and please remember if you go to the game and you can talk afterwards..you didnt yell loud or long enough and its all your fault !! later Poke

PS: that frazzlin editor said i had to predict the score. this is what i get the big bucks for: COWBOYS 37 colts 33.

good and bad

okay its always good to win on the road, and get different receivers involved,
and get some turnovers from your defense and be above .500.
it always is bad when you keep getting dumb penalties ( have you ever seen us get called for so many illegal picks in a year ? im old and i dont remember ever seeing
more than one a year )
its always bad when you lose a Greg Ellis. the man has just been solid every year
and this year he was getting some attention from the national media and doing a good
job in his new position.
i consider it good that on this 3 game road trip we were 2-1, and we should have/could have won that stupid game in washington.
im not gonna say its a bad that our next game is against indy..but, its not who i would have picked to play next. maybe at home we can get some home field advantage going and keep manning from changing the plays every 3 seconds at the line of scrimmage.
it is a good that we still have a reason to play, this race aint near over and the Boys just need to get better and clean up their game some.
its definitely a good that our qb can move around pretty good.
so today the goods outweigh the bads...good enough for me..bring on the colts !!
best wishes to mr. ellis, i hope its not as serious as some media folks are saying,
later revitalized Poke