Post by ccboy on Dec 3, 2009 0:39:09 GMT -7
I'm the ghost of Christmas past...
and I am here to drive a wedge between the current team and it's fans!
Oh, the ghosts of Christmas past are frightening for sure...
Let's see, a team substituting a slicked up football, which under normal circumstances would be construed as cheating, caused a lapse in Tony Romo. Who, if had only dived for the first down in a playoff closing victory chip shot field goal, would have ended all present speculation of inabilities of Wade Phillips to win a playoff game.
Then you have an upstart Giant team that actually snuck the game away from a team that was not yet playoff hardened, the Cowboys. That team, the Giants, incidentally, snuck their way all the way to beating the Patriots. Who thought that David would actually slay Goliath? That is the reality of making it to the 'big dance' and winning it. Not all is garnered strictly on accomplished merit alone.
The Eagles for the past ten years, have gone year on and year off, all the way to the Super Bowl and then back. Yet they still haven't claimed the top prize even once...so, where is the true line?
Consistency during the regular season is a good place to look, as that both unifies the team as well as provides opportunity, the most important aspect at the regular season's end.
Now, correct my memory, if Tom Landry didn't approach the formalities of his own views in a very similar fashion as does Wade at present. Being courteous and a little humbling in approach was as previlent in Tom as it now is with Wade. Both coaches were successful during the regular season, generally. At Tom's conclusion, the Cowboys were defineably in array and lacking in ability to adapt with a then changing NFL. Wade is no where close to such a transition point.
The last group of fans that I saw as extreme oriented as many current Cowboy fans, was Houston. They railheaded both Bum Phillips and Earl Campbell and shipped them BOTH off to New Orleans. Go figure that current irony now.
It took a hurricane's devastating effects to bring out a deep seeded love of their team and serve as the real stimulus of their current rebound and ultimate success as a team. Dallas fans have lost the salt in their value as team supporters. The constant attack of playoffs or nothing, is such a level of non-support. It even substitutes the emotional and thought supportive elements to spontinaety in play...as well as a true homefield advantage. Maybe fans should take stock here, instead of comparing Wade to ghosts of Christmas past.
This team has less problems in their team, than do the other players in their own NFC East conference. The Giants are on a five game slide...that's FIVE. The Redskins had their own version of this weekend's all or nothing game, and lost to Dallas. Philadelphia is without their true play-maker on offense. Their defense has lost TWO of it's present starters in their secondary and the true life of that side of ball before the season even started....and he ended up in Denver. The team is on it's THIRD starting middle linebacker, and their top big play maker, Jackson, has had his first concussion. He went black light special on the carpet. This is baggage of their own, to try and manuever through over the same period of time, that Dallas only has to play up to it's level of abilities.
Maybe, if all this sophistication of perspective were diluted to the level of a real fan....well, the play of those on the field would more closely resemble memories of former times when the same fans attempt to root for a direct comparison, than for those on the field and responsible for leading them.
A 'caviar' mentality, does resolve around high price product, but it is very limited in application. Those allowed to wheel and deal on that level, deal in limited markets with high price associations and flow of product. This is football folks, and for this team to succeed, it needs real fans, who do not first pull out a chart off a googled expedition to see IF this team measures.
What, the simpleness of the sport is so easily lost?
Football is a simple sport that was developed for it's love and satisfaction of the sport...the playing of the game. While ultimate goals are admirable in principal, it's the application of the fan's part that is being lost here.
Maybe the why's of how Wade Phillips responds would NOT be lost nearly so quickly, if the love of the game were worn by the fan on his sleeve, instead of a price index supported by a five page statistical sheet alongside. Root for your team, and after the dust settles, then make a comparative restriction on your rooting....think?
and I am here to drive a wedge between the current team and it's fans!
Oh, the ghosts of Christmas past are frightening for sure...
Let's see, a team substituting a slicked up football, which under normal circumstances would be construed as cheating, caused a lapse in Tony Romo. Who, if had only dived for the first down in a playoff closing victory chip shot field goal, would have ended all present speculation of inabilities of Wade Phillips to win a playoff game.
Then you have an upstart Giant team that actually snuck the game away from a team that was not yet playoff hardened, the Cowboys. That team, the Giants, incidentally, snuck their way all the way to beating the Patriots. Who thought that David would actually slay Goliath? That is the reality of making it to the 'big dance' and winning it. Not all is garnered strictly on accomplished merit alone.
The Eagles for the past ten years, have gone year on and year off, all the way to the Super Bowl and then back. Yet they still haven't claimed the top prize even once...so, where is the true line?
Consistency during the regular season is a good place to look, as that both unifies the team as well as provides opportunity, the most important aspect at the regular season's end.
Now, correct my memory, if Tom Landry didn't approach the formalities of his own views in a very similar fashion as does Wade at present. Being courteous and a little humbling in approach was as previlent in Tom as it now is with Wade. Both coaches were successful during the regular season, generally. At Tom's conclusion, the Cowboys were defineably in array and lacking in ability to adapt with a then changing NFL. Wade is no where close to such a transition point.
The last group of fans that I saw as extreme oriented as many current Cowboy fans, was Houston. They railheaded both Bum Phillips and Earl Campbell and shipped them BOTH off to New Orleans. Go figure that current irony now.
It took a hurricane's devastating effects to bring out a deep seeded love of their team and serve as the real stimulus of their current rebound and ultimate success as a team. Dallas fans have lost the salt in their value as team supporters. The constant attack of playoffs or nothing, is such a level of non-support. It even substitutes the emotional and thought supportive elements to spontinaety in play...as well as a true homefield advantage. Maybe fans should take stock here, instead of comparing Wade to ghosts of Christmas past.
This team has less problems in their team, than do the other players in their own NFC East conference. The Giants are on a five game slide...that's FIVE. The Redskins had their own version of this weekend's all or nothing game, and lost to Dallas. Philadelphia is without their true play-maker on offense. Their defense has lost TWO of it's present starters in their secondary and the true life of that side of ball before the season even started....and he ended up in Denver. The team is on it's THIRD starting middle linebacker, and their top big play maker, Jackson, has had his first concussion. He went black light special on the carpet. This is baggage of their own, to try and manuever through over the same period of time, that Dallas only has to play up to it's level of abilities.
Maybe, if all this sophistication of perspective were diluted to the level of a real fan....well, the play of those on the field would more closely resemble memories of former times when the same fans attempt to root for a direct comparison, than for those on the field and responsible for leading them.
A 'caviar' mentality, does resolve around high price product, but it is very limited in application. Those allowed to wheel and deal on that level, deal in limited markets with high price associations and flow of product. This is football folks, and for this team to succeed, it needs real fans, who do not first pull out a chart off a googled expedition to see IF this team measures.
What, the simpleness of the sport is so easily lost?
Football is a simple sport that was developed for it's love and satisfaction of the sport...the playing of the game. While ultimate goals are admirable in principal, it's the application of the fan's part that is being lost here.
Maybe the why's of how Wade Phillips responds would NOT be lost nearly so quickly, if the love of the game were worn by the fan on his sleeve, instead of a price index supported by a five page statistical sheet alongside. Root for your team, and after the dust settles, then make a comparative restriction on your rooting....think?