Ramble On » Football http://www.dcooley.com Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:14:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 NCAA Football 2010 http://www.dcooley.com/ncaa-football-2010/ http://www.dcooley.com/ncaa-football-2010/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:42:08 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/?p=464

Yeah, finally the start of the 2010 NCAA football season!

Hook em Horns, gonna be strange watching the Texas Longhorns play without Colt McCoy, although Garrett Gilbert has the potential to lead the Longhorns to a very successful year.

Texas starts the season ranked 5th on the AP Poll, and 4th on the USA Today Poll.

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/ncaa-football-2010/feed/ 0 Emmitt Smith Enters the NFL Hall of Fame http://www.dcooley.com/emmitt-smith-enters-the-nfl-hall-of-fame/ http://www.dcooley.com/emmitt-smith-enters-the-nfl-hall-of-fame/#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:01:25 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/?p=459

Emmitt Smith is the last of the “Dallas Cowboys Triplets” to enter the Hall of Fame, following Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin.

What  a legacy those three left behind. Not sure we will ever see three players on one team dominate like they did.

Emmitt was and is a class act. Remember, he was too small to play in the NFL, lol. Someone just forgot to tell him about that.

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/emmitt-smith-enters-the-nfl-hall-of-fame/feed/ 0 Super Bowl XLIV http://www.dcooley.com/super-bowl-xliv/ http://www.dcooley.com/super-bowl-xliv/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:14:32 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/?p=426

I have not looked forward to a Super Bowl this much in a long time. Yes, since the last time the Dallas Cowboys were in it.

This is awesome, the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl. It has been a long, long wait for the the NOLA fans. But it is even sweeter now since the devastation of Katrina.

The Saints are obviously playing great this year, I just hope they realize how tough the Indianapolis Colts can be, especially that Peyton Manning fellow, which they should know well since he grew up in New Orleans.

Go Saints ! Who Dat Nation!

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/super-bowl-xliv/feed/ 0 Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football http://www.dcooley.com/dallas-cowboys-on-monday-night-football/ http://www.dcooley.com/dallas-cowboys-on-monday-night-football/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:02:36 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/?p=409

Talk about a love hate relationship, me and watching the Cowboys. I was raised a Cowboy fan, and I despised Jerry Jones when he fired the beloved Tom Landry, but I could not stop being a Cowboy fan. And now long after the Jimmy Johnson era I still have to root for Dallas.

So here we are, a couple years into the Tony Romo era, and things are not going exactly the way we would like, oh yeah, we got the stadium of stadiums to play in, but if we can’t win games, who cares.

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The 2009 AT&T Cotton Bowl creates a little bit of a dilemma for me.

I live in Mississippi, been here for 12 years, but, I grew up in Texas. So with the Ole Miss Rebels taking on the Texas Tech Red Raiders I am going to have to choose an allegiance that could get me in trouble with someone, somewhere, lol.

But, I have to go with Texas, home is home! And besides, I will be watching the game from Texas, so I need to be careful there.

This is one of those times I hope my local friends and neighbors are not reading my blog, lol.

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/2009-att-cotton-bowl/feed/ 0 Dallas Cowboys go 5-0 http://www.dcooley.com/dallas-cowboys-go-5-0/ http://www.dcooley.com/dallas-cowboys-go-5-0/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:51:28 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/dallas-cowboys-go-5-0/

That had to be one of the strangest Monday Night Football games I can recall. Tony Romo tied a Cowboy record with 5 interceptions and they still won the game. I have seen a lot of press this morning on how the Cowboys should be 4-1 and don’t deserve that win, well I disagree.

Face the facts, the Cowboys (mainly Romo) had a terrible game, but what does it say for a Quarterback to throw 5 interceptions and still be able to play with any confidence. And for that matter for the coaching staff not to pull him from the game. Add to that the fact that the Buffalo Bills never hit the end zone on offense, the only way they scored was by Romo’s mistakes or Special Teams. And finally, Nick Folk not only hit a 53 yard field goal, he had to do it twice because of the last second timeout (good call) of the Bills.

The Dallas Cowboys deserve that win has much as any team could!

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Yesterday, Saturday August 4th, 2007 was a very interesting day in sports.

Baseball - Barry Bonds hit # 755 to tie Hank Aaron’s career home run record, a record that a lot of people thought would stand for a lot longer time than it did.

Football - The NFL Hall of Fame inducted 7 new members. Michael Irvin, Thurman Thomas, Bruce Matthews, Gene Hickerson, Charlie Sanders and Roger Wehrli. The highlight had to be Michael Irvin’s speech. Michael seems to have realized the importance of God and family after a rocky end to his career and what he said will certainly be remembered as he spoke of his relationship with God. Look Up, Get Up and Don’t Give Up.

X Games – Ricky Carmichael brought a new level of awareness and showmanship to the games.

Nascar - Robby Gordon proved again, he can dish it, but he can’t take it. With his help, the Busch race in Montreal was marred by a confusing and ugly finish. He refused to take the black flag from Nascar and contends he won the race. Maybe it’s time for Robby bail on his not so stellar Nascar career.

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]]> http://www.dcooley.com/interesting-sports-day/feed/ 1 Bill Walsh 1932-2007 http://www.dcooley.com/bill-walsh-1932-2007/ http://www.dcooley.com/bill-walsh-1932-2007/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:36:24 +0000 David http://www.dcooley.com/bill-walsh-1932-2007/

As a Dallas Cowboys fan, Bill Walsh the former head coach of the San Francisco 49ers was the head coach I loved to hate.

He had our number, but I always had respect for him. I guess time is passing faster than I thought, I never imagined that Bill was in his 70′s, it seems like yesterday I watched his team beat us with “The Catch”.

Rest in peace Bill, and thanks for all the hard work you put in, you were a class act in every sense of the word!

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