Cowboys Fans: Don’t Worry - There’s a Better Team in Town

Thursday, January 4, 2007

Posted by Monte Walker at 1:09 PM

As much fun as this Cowboys’ season has been, I’m glad it’s over...well, almost over.  Yeah, yeah, the Seahawks backed into the playoffs too.  Yeah yeah, they’re cornerbacks are injured.  I don’t see how my beloved Cowboys can pull this one out.  Of course, nothing this year has been predictable though.  When the season started, this team has Super Bowl on it’s mind.  Drew Bledsoe was going to take them there with the young stud-laden defense.  Whoops!  Okay, the Bledsoe change was for the better, but the defense stinks!  And don’t blame Roy Williams for every TD that he’s chasing down.  The inside linebackers are complete disasters at pass coverage.  As good as Ayodele and James are at stopping the run...they’re just as good at turning mediocre tight ends into Tony Gonzalez and fullbacks into Jerry Rice.  

My prediction for Saturday night:  Seahawks 39, Cowboys 21.  I hope I’m wrong!  I’m just glad we’re not playing the Giants at home...we might not have even scored.

Enough of the Cowboys (which is exactly what Sunday brings) and on with the Mavs!  They are probably the best team in the metroplex since the 1993 Cowboys (excluding that sport with ice and branches).  The Mavericks did such a great job last year of extending their season, that many so-called Rangers fans didn’t have to suffer without a contender but for 6 weeks until Cowboys training camp.  I was a monster Mavs fan in the 80’s.  I loved watching Harper, Blackmon, Aguirre, Donaldson and Tarpley.  I’ll also admit that somewhere after Jason, Jimmy, and Jamal...they lost me.  I’m usually good at staying a big fan through thick and thin because my first team IS the Rangers after all.  But even the Rangers have been competitive nearly every year for 20 years now.  The 90’s were a complete disaster for the Mavs but those days are gone.  Dallas is a winners town.  Simply put...if you win...you’re in (the wallets that is).  If the Cowboys are serious Super Bowl contenders in this playoff run, Dallas’ economy will thrive because of it.  If the Mavs start a Cowboy-like tradition of playoff runs every year, then they can have even more of an impact economically.  If the Rangers win enough games.........well, that’s enough of that.  

So on Sunday morning when you wake up and wipe those Cowboys tears away, just remember.  There’s is a better local team on the back page.