How 'Bout Them Cowboys?

Posted on March 21, 2006 1:04 PM

Sometime last year, around early November, I started working on a Photoshop. Because of all the problems that the Eagles were having with Terrell Owens, for a joke I wanted to make a picture of him wearing a Cowboys jersey. I started with some pictures of T.O. and Keyshawn Johnson trying to come up with T.O. wearing a Cowboys jersey with “81” on it. Eventually, like most of my Photoshop endeavors, I lost interest and never finished it.

I have to say that I wasn’t surprised this weekend to learn that my attempt at fiction had become reality. After hearing that the Cowboys had released Johnson just minutes after the Eagles had released Owens, I was fairly certain that the deal was done. I don’t think that anyone else was too surprised by the move. Love them or hate them, Jerry Jones and the Cowboys will always attract players with talent, no matter the risk, or the controversy.

This whole affair reminds me of when the Cowboys signed Deion Sanders. I couldn’t stand that guy and here he was on my favorite team. Once again, I will find myself cheering for a player that I despised in the past. And if they win, the victory will still be sweet, although maybe not as sweet as when it came from the likes of Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and yes, Michael Irvin. As for others in the current organization, they’re all doing their part, supporting the new addition to the team, talking about “benefit of the doubt” and playing down all the “bad press” that Owens has had in the past.

I don’t have any blinders on, and I am sure the Cowboys organization doesn’t either. I know that T.O. has had his problems in the past, and typically people don’t change. Like every other Cowboys fan, I’m hoping that the guy has learned from his mistakes.

I do know one thing. The next time the Cowboys and the Eagles take the field together, it should be very interesting.
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