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We remember the Alamo, but forget to bribe Alamodome security.
• SbB is in San Antonio this weekend to take part in the fun & frivolity of the Final Four!
• Fresh off the Ernie Banks crisis, another sports statue has been punctured for punctuation problems.
• If a Browns cornerback can’t outrun the cops, how’s he gonna do against the Steelers receivers?
• The Kansas City Royals are hot, but their calendar’s even hotter!
Gordon Keith of KTCK-AM in Dallas helps the Cowboys celebrate their newest banner (wonder if that’ll make the new stadium?):
And in the wake of Jerry Jones giving Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Jason Garrett a $3M per season contract, Keith has a SAP photo that indicates Cowboys head coach Wade Phillips has a possible acting career to fall back on:
The best thing about the Great Gordo’s epic gallery of Cowboys photos? The station he works for, KTCK, broadcasts the Cowboys games (hope Jer doesn’t see them!).
In order to keep Jason Garrett from leaving, the Cowboys may end up paying their assistant more than their head coach.
PRO FOOTBALL TALK reports that Garrett may be getting up to $4 million a year to remain in Dallas. That would mean the Cowboys’ offensive coordinator would be earning more than Wade Phillips, who reportedly earns $3 million per season. Read more…
The DALLAS MORNING NEWS takes their ball & goes homes, as Wade Phillips appears to be a sore loser.
Commenting on Sunday’s loss to the Giants, the Cowboys coach remarked, “After looking at the tape, I feel like the best team lost the game. I thought we outplayed them. But we lost.”
But Phillips added, “Certainly, that goes directly to the coach, and I accept that.” But he seems not so willing to accept the final score, and accept that the Cowboys season is over.
Had Tony Romo’s last pass been caught by Jason Whitten instead of R.W. McQuarters, would Wade have been such a sore winner? Hard to tell, since he’s never won a playoff game as head coach.
DEADSPIN finds this amusing anecdote on Matt Mosley’s HASHMARKS (MyESPN!) about Wade Phillips losing his keys after Dallas lost to the Giants yesterday: “I watched Phillips wander into the training room and lean on his mammoth left tackle, Flozell Adams. He sort of collapsed into Adams, who looked a bit startled. Phillips was greeted outside by his wife and daughter, who appeared to be crying.
“He loaded up his Lincoln Navigator, but then realized he didn’t have the keys. In one last moment of indignity, Phillips walked around the tunnel asking if anyone had his keys.”
We don’t know what’s funnier, Phillips losing his keys (ONSTAR anyone?), Phillips collapsing into Flozell Adams’ arms, or the name Flozell. We really hope Jerry Jones brings Phillips back. We love his obvious lack of control over the team, and the extra excitement that the prospect of his daughter showing up in the tabloids brings.
Jason Garrett looks like he should be an Entomological professor at Princeton. Don’t even dare, Jer.
T.O. IS P.O.’ED OVER KEYSHAWN’S COWBOYS COMMENTS: Terrell Owens isn’t too happy with recent comments from Keyshawn Johnson:
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AWFUL ANNOUNCING hears it all started when the ex-NFL receiver attributed the Cowboys’ success this year to previous coach (and fellow ESPN analyst) Bill Parcells.Johnson explained that the 12-1 record was due to Parcells’ assembly of the team in seasons before, and that current head coach Wade Phillips is the beneficiary of Bill’s work.
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Owens, who’s no big fan of the Big Tuna, didn’t appreciate Keyshawn’s comments: “My thing is give credit to Wade. The difference between Wade and Parcells is this: Parcells, he didn’t use me as a playmaker; Wade, he got the staff, and that’s what I’m being used as.”FRIENDS OF CRAZY JOE DAVOLA adds that T.O. then had some special words specifically for Keyshawn:
“I challenge him to come down here and take my job. ESPN producers, let him go. I’m probably the reason he’s in the booth now. He’s going to be a hater and throw me under the bus because he has to defend Bill. He won a Super Bowl and all, but you’d have to check the roster to know he was even on the team.”
WADE NOT BUMMED ABOUT DAD’S DALLAS TURKEY DAY WIN: Dallas is gearing up for its traditional Thanksgiving game, hoping to knock the stuffing out of the 2-8 New York Jets. But COWBOYS BLOG notes that this won’t be the first time Wade Phillips spends his Turkey Day at Texas Stadium:
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The current Cowboys coach worked on the defensive line for his dad, Bum Phillips, when Houston came to town in 1979. After coming out with a 30-24 win, the Oilers coach exclaimed, “They may be America’s Team, but we’re Texas’ team.”28 years later, Wade says his pop “probably changed his mind since then,” especially since the former Oilers are now Tennessee’s team.
• The FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAPH notes that Cowboys coach Wade Phillips is no Britney fan:
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• Got an extra $350 million laying around? ZAC JOHNSON says these NBA teams could be yours.• GOING FIVE HOLE catches up with a rubbery piece of sports history - the FoxTrax glow puck.
• THE SPORTS HERNIA hopes you had fun at your NBA Developmental League draft parties:
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• ARMCHAIR GM is ready to have fun with the new Mets stadium, brick by brick.• You can have your Pats & Colts - Matt Ufford at PRO FOOTBALL TALK loves the losers.
