Me and DC

#1

No the DC doesn't stand for Washington this time... It stands for two of my favorite things in the whole wide world... The Dallas Cowboys and DC Comics.

I've been a steadfast fan of both since 1976. The year we celebrated our bi-centennial in the US (for our foreign members) and both were by accident.

I was at a friends house one sunday and they were watching football and the Dallas Cowboys were playing. They were playing the Baltimore Colts and won that game... A couple pf months before that though I was in a store and asked my mom to buy me a comic book: Justice League of America #137... At that time the only ones on the cover I recognized were Superman, Batman and Robin... In the time since then I have come to find that this was the beginning of a life-long love with both DC's. I was there for the boys' bad times (1-15) and good times (3 Super Bowls in the 90s). DC Comics has been both good and bad also.

1976 also introduced me to 2 other favorite hobbies of mine... Americana and history & music. The only music I have not enjoyed in the last 30 years is rap from 1990 on up. I have enjoyed triumps (Michael Jackson for Thriller in 1983) and Tragedies (Karen Carpenter's death from Anorexia Nervosa in 1982).

I know this a sports forum and I have digressed. But here it is November 2005 and The Dallas Cowboys are number 1 in there division (they own the tie-breaker with the Giants). Will they go to the BIG DANCE this year? I hope so. If you look at their first half of the schedule you will see that they could easily be 9-0 0r 8-1. The 3 games they lost are by a total of 10 pts.

I'm not saying their the best... (their are teams with better records in the NFC) but they do have a fighting chance to make it.

Tony

#2

The Cowboys..? Superbowl bound..? Ionno about that one...A fighting chance, yes, but...The pieces of a Superbowl winner I don't see...But, that's why they play the games, and that's why I'm not a betting man...That's interesting how you explain your attachment to your team, especially since you are PA born and raised...That's interesting, I've never investigated my own sports attachements, but I remember distinctly remember how I got to be a Steelers fan...I was a young boy, and for some reason, there was a Steelers sticker on our vacuum cleaner...I'm like 2 or so...And once I recognized them on TV, I've been a fan ever since...But, I am a Chicago native, and naturally a Bears fan as well...

How ironic...

Lost Ghost · #3

...cowboys superbowl bound??? fuck you thinkin?

big dance is for college basketball...not football.

#4

lol...man...you got shut down. Seriously, how can the Cowboys make the Super Bowl? It's out of the question. They will get knocked in the first round

#5

Cowboys??

who they playin' in the bowl?...the Texans??

LMMFAO!

Lost Ghost · #6

lmfao.

#7

You guys saw only certain wirds in my post instead of the whole thing... I said I hope they go to the Super Bowl... Not that they were going.

In all actuality if they win at least 3 of their last 6 games it is very well possible that they can make it to the play-offs. But they have to win at least 3 games for sure.

The rest of their schedule is hard as the only teams they play with losing records are: St. Louis and Washington and the Redskins beat us once already. In any event whoever goes from the NFC this year will have their hands full. Indy is on a roll and outside of Pittsburgh, San Diego and Seattle; their schedule should be almost guaranteed. Of course after the game with Baltimore today I'm not sure I want to include Pgh in that group. I just want to have some bronco turkey for Thanksgiving and rest-up for a rematch with the Giants.

Go COWBOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tony