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Richard Kimball

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  1. Have the head coaches arm wrestle.
  2. No it's not.
  3. Nice to see Stafford have some success after spending his entire career in that purgatory called the Detroit Lions.
  4. The response by Remi Monaghan bugs me more than it should, but the only thing dumber than a reporter is a sports reporter. Talk about lack of self awareness. TV stations show videos of people getting hit by cars, getting shot, etc, etc, all the time. It's called "news." The fact that it was someone in the profession doesn't make it any more or less newsworthy. If the reporter had been doing the broadcast and someone behind her got hit by a car, none of the reporters would have a problem with showing it. Also, it's "click bait," not "click bate." Yeah, yeah, I know, grammar police and all that, but if you're a reporter, you should be able to write a two sentence tweet without spelling errors. /rant
  5. I know where this is going.
  6. You'd butter do that.
  7. Man, so many memories. I'm the same age as Campbell, and we were in Jester Dorm at the same time. Hate to see him having to use a scooter now. Guy was a beast on the field, and nicest person you'd ever want to meet off of it. Also, Walter Payton gone. Houston Oilers gone. Damn, those old Oiler whites were great.
  8. This was the moment Jerry decided to fire Jimmy, IMHO. Watch him try to get Jimmy's attention twice, then turn around and walk out. At the moment of their biggest triumph, the seeds of the downfall were planted.
  9. No shit. Larry Wilson, Conrad Dobler, Jackie Smith were all slobber knocker hitters. The NFL hides most of the old, super brutal hits from the sixties, but there was one where Pete Gent, I think, got nailed and was on his knees. He wasn't conscious, you could tell cause he was just weaving. Larry Wilson came in and blasted him full speed right in the back. You know that phrase, "Put his dick in the dirt?" Yeah, he really did.
  10. Took a look, and couldn't find a whole lot, but here's what I remember. Bum Bright was going through a divorce, and his bank, oil company, and the Cowboys were all losing money. He put the Cowboys up for sale. One of the guys that wanted to buy the Cowboys was Marvin Davis, a billionaire oil man from New Jersey. Davis moved to Denver and was an extremely shady businessman, who also owned 20th Century Fox and the Pebble Beach golf course. He'd sold most of his Denver holdings after getting 20th Century Fox, and was planning on consolidating in the LA area, and planned on moving the Cowboys to LA. It was weird, because the Raiders and Rams were both there, but he thought the area could support three teams. The Cowboys already had a big fan base in the LA area, as they'd been having their training camps in Thousand Oaks, CA, since 1963. In 1999, Davis was the guy that tried to get a stadium built in LA to get a new franchise there, when the NFL decided to expand. That franchise eventually went to the Houston Texans. Davis' son met with Bright and tried to work out a deal. According to legend, Bright sold to Jerry Jones because Jones was the only one who would agree to fire Landry and Schramm. He also didn't like or trust Davis.
  11. I was a Landry fan, and the Cowboys became America's Team because of Schramm's marketing decisions, but the game had passed them by, and by all accounts, they treated Bum Bright like crap. The Cowboys were losing millions of dollars, and Landry and Schramm just wanted Bright to shut up and pay the bills. There was a good chance the Cowboys could have moved to another city if someone besides Jones had bought them. There was serious discussion about moving the Cowboys to Los Angeles. Landry and Schramm thought they were untouchable. They weren't. BTW, early joke after Jerry bought the Cowboys: Guy walks into Jerry's office. Jerry's sitting on his desk, looking down and he's got one bare foot. Guy says, "Hey Jerry, did you lose a shoe?" Jerry says, "No, I found one!" Yeah, and it's easy to forget how insanely out of the ordinary Emmitt Smith was. He played fifteen years, when the average NFL running back plays about 2 1/2. With Sanders, Smith and Walter Payton, it wasn't just that they had great seasons, they had long careers. In his prime, I still think Earl Campbell was the best running back ever, but after the injuries...he was a shadow of himself. Also, you can't take five years to build a line.
  12. Yeah, don't eat the brown acid.
  13. Jerry wanted to be Al Davis or George Halas, basically an owner/coach. Hell, Halas was the owner and a player/coach for his first nine years. That's who Jerry wants to be.
  14. Jerry hired Parcells because he had no choice. He was trying to get financing for AT&T Stadium, and after firing Johnson, he'd run with puppets Switzer, Gailey and Campo. They'd been 5-11 for three straight years and nobody was willing to put money into a stadium for a team losing like that. So, he hired Parcells and actually let him coach. Guy did pretty good, actually going to the playoffs with Quincy Fucking Carter at QB. Remember, Jones went ape shit over Carter, and swore he was going to be the Cowboys QB of the future. Best quote I heard on that was, "drafting a fourth rounder in the second round doesn't make him a second rounder." Anyway, Parcells found Romo, and had the Cowboys playing reasonably well, but not outstanding, when Jerry closed the deal on financing for the new stadium. The day after, over Parcells objections, he brought in Owens, declaring that he'd been busy with the new stadium, but was now going to be back to being involved with the day to day running of football operations. Parcells quit at the end of the year, and since then we've had Wade Phillips, Jason Garrett and Mike McCarthy. Jerry started cosplaying as a coach before the term "cosplay" existed. He had to fire Phillips, cause the guy was so shell shocked he went into a presser and answered every question with "I don't know, including one about who they were playing the next week." There was no reason for him to fire Garrett, cause Garrett was the perfect coach for Jones. He faded into the background, did what he was told, and ran all the day to day stuff while Jerry strolled out to cosplay as coach every so often. Remember when Jerry ran down to the sidelines and told Garrett to take Romo out of a game cause he was afraid Romo would get hurt before the playoffs? So, fire McCarthy, and bring in whoever you want. it doesn't matter. This is the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys...forever. and ever. and ever.
  15. Don't be. No way Brady would have gone to the Cowboys. Jerry Jones is the owner, general manager and head coach. Did you see McCarthy's first interview as head coach? Looked like a hostage video. Brady specifically went to a team where he'd have input on the roster and the offensive scheme, and where the roster was good. He's given up millions cause he wanted to win. No way he was going to this.
  16. Belichick has coached 27 years. Eighteen years, Brady was his QB, nine years, someone else was.With Brady: 41 playoff games, thirty playoff wins, six Super Bowl wins.Without Brady: 3 playoff games, one playoff win.Brady without Belichick: 4 playoff games, 4 playoff wins, one Super Bowl win, no playoff losses.
  17. I'd watch that. I don't see it as protecting bowls. Nobody's going to skip the playoffs to play in the (Hell, I can't even think of a name too goofy to be a real bowl game) bowl, but if Slapdick Tech and Cheesedick U. want to square off in the Punkin Bowl, what difference does it make? In basketball, the National Invitational Tournament doesn't take anything away from March Madness.
  18. Guy is in a small Mexican town, realizes he left his watch in the hotel. Sees a guy sitting next to a donkey, says, "Hey, you know what time it is?" Guy picks up the donkeys balls, squints, and says, two o'clock." Guy runs back to his hotel and checks, and the guy was right about the time. Goes back out and asks him, "How did you know the time?" Other guy says, "Okay, sit where I am. Now, pick up the donkeys balls. You see that clock on the bank building?"
  19. No reason to dump the bowl games, but if the playoffs expand, the value of bowls will drop. If Kansas State and Ole Miss don't make the playoffs and want to play in a bowl game, it doesn't hurt anyone. Biggest problem for the bowls then will be that the best teams are in the playoffs. A lot of us forget that. If all you want to do is fast forward to the end of the season to see who's champion, you're missing all the fun. This right here, and points out the difficulty, even after the contract expires. During the COVID year, the B1G tried to swing it's dick and thought everyone would follow them cancelling the season. Then the SEC said, "We're playing. We got fourteen teams and we can play a full schedule without going out of conference." College isn't like the NFL, where they take a vote and everyone follows, whether they like it or not. Each college and each conference can make their own decisions.
  20. Agree with your point, but having the championship be a four team invitational totally flips recruiting. Alabama was always going to be good under Saban, but them getting good exactly at the time that the four team format started gave them an even bigger recruiting advantage. Cincinnati's going to get a big recruiting bump from being in the playoffs. Expanding the playoffs won't result in the SEC falling off a cliff, or Bama suddenly becoming losers, but it will help level the recruiting field, and will make a difference over the long haul.
  21. NYPost Story on Dwayne Hickman's death Hadn't seen it posted, and maybe it was because with the other celebrity deaths recently, it got overlooked, or maybe he just wasn't that big a star. When I was a kid, though, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was must see for me. Bob Denver as Maynard G. Krebs, Tuesday Weld as Thalia (had a thing for her.) Anyway, he was 87 and had Parkinsons. He did a lot of stuff behind the camera after he quit acting. I think his last big acting job was Cat Ballou.
  22. They're all gonna laugh at you!
  23. Off topic, but Aunt Becky was hot.
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