My Trip to Cowboy Country
Kristian Wiles
September 30, 2009
Posted under Carolina Panthers, Dallas Cowboys
The Cowboy’s new stadium in Dallas is impressive. Every detail was constructed in true excessive Texas style right down to the mock stripper stages for the Cowboy dancers on the west side of the building and the life size Ford vehicle gallery on the east. In-between is the infamous screen that looks absolutely brilliant until you put the Dallas Head Coach Wade Phillips on it in close up view. No offense to Phillips (I didn’t look good on it either), but the HD in this setting is meant for athletes and cheerleaders and he is neither athletic nor hot in hot pants.
I had a really great time in Dallas as I was there with friends (most of whom are Cowboys fans) to see a great new stadium. We hung out at a local pool hall, enjoyed cheap drinks, friendly nine ball wagering, and good company. What I didn’t enjoy were the jackasses in my row that got up every two minutes to buy more beer, use the restroom, or whatever else they might have felt like doing. If you paid a significant amount of money for a ticket and want to do something else, that’s your business. When you mess with my money and my ticket I might have to text the *45726 number (or whatever the number is) to report you as unruly and send you out in cuffs. For the future, study the face above. If you see it in your row, head out at an appropriate time or scoot your drunk ass out the other way.
The other low point of the trip was the lackluster effort by each offense in the Monday night “must win” for both clubs. It just keeps getting worse for Carolina. Another week and another set of turnovers for QB Jake Delhomme. Despite what you have heard about WR Steve Smith messing that play up, Jake should have seen that CB Terence Newman had the jump on the route. I saw that and the pick 6 from my seat just behind him.
While Delhomme continued his season long “bench me” campaign, Romo looked like he was told to manage the game rather than win it. Fourteen out of Romo’s 22 completions were short passes to TE Witten and the running backs. Tony Romo doesn’t get $12.8 million this year to play like Chad Pennington. He is the guy who Dallas Owner Jerry Jones has entrusted with the franchise and he better deliver. Jones bet a beautiful billion-dollar stadium on it.
Overall, I don’t see many bright spots for Carolina but the Cowboys look to be improving. The Dallas running game was good accounting for over 200 yards of offense and the defense held the Panthers’ runners to 73 yards putting the game in Delhomme’s increasingly incapable hands. This is a good formula to build from as the team gets ready to start a 2 game road trip against the AFC West.
Next week the Cowboys travel to Denver where both teams will try to assert themselves as legit. The winner will look more like the real deal and the loser will be racing toward the lower half of the power rankings. If Romo plays like the QB he is paid to be, the Cowboys should beat an inflated 3-0 Broncos team.
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