Four emotions I am feeling right now. I haven’t made it any secret that football season has been one of my week points this past year. Every time a Cowboys game was set to come on I was planning bigger and better spreads. More beer, more food, more everything. I was living it up watching my favorite team, America’s Team, kick some ass this year. The way the Cowboys played through the first half of this football season made me remember the days of 10+ years ago when Troy, Emmitt and Michael ran the offense and the team was next to unstoppable. But then as the season wore on, they started to show some weaknesses and things started to get shaken up a bit. I figured, ahh.. no big deal , they will get their stuff together and get back in the groove.

But, as the season wore on. I noticed more and more how they were winning games that they really shouldn’t have been winning considering how poorly they played. Season ends, the Cowboys take their division with home field advantage throughout the playoffs. I couldn’t believe it. They were back and going to the playoffs with a first round bye and home field advantage. I always worry about home field advantage. It would seem like a lock. But, I know that if I were on the field playing my ass off to take another step towards the championship, I wouldn’t want to have to be performing in front of friends and family. Then the bullshit you probably have to deal with from people looking for tickets all week long and everything else. It just seems like it would be a better situation away. But, the Cowboys historically beat the Giants at home and all the numbers showed that the home team was better off in the playoffs. So, what happened? They didn’t just lose. They LOST!

4th and 11 on the 20 yard line to win the game and you throw an interception after a game filled with stupid penalties against your team and dropped passes. They didn’t deserve to win that game. Yet, it doesn’t particularly make me feel any better that they didn’t win. They sucked. Late in the first quarter I said to my wife that the offense finally showed up for the game. I thought they were going to get stuff moving. In the second quarter it looked like the defense finally showed up and had their heads in the game. They stayed for the whole game. They held the Giants and did a great job. I wish I could say the same for the offense. They sucked. Every last one of them. THEY SUCKED. The cowboys offense needs to spend the entire off season beating the shit out of themselves. Because they are the reason that they will not be moving on in the playoffs and going to the Super Bowl this year. And they are the reason that I am sitting here, pissed off beyond belief that after waiting season after season and thinking this was the one, it wasn’t. They turned around and became the team they were 3 years ago.

So with all the disappointment, frustration and aggravation… why the relief? Simple. Football season is over for me. I will watch the rest of the playoffs next week and then the Super Bowl in February. But, it is nothing like watching a Cowboys game for me. Today wasn’t much different then every other Cowboy’s game this past season except that I spent my week planning for it and eating towards having a bad day today. I had some beer left over from the Holidays and my wife wanted to make a cheesy crab dip. So we got some pizza and had that with corn chips and crab dip & jalapeño stuffed olives and I washed it down with beer. I ate more than I should have and in my opinion any day with beer is a lost day. So, I drank more than I should have. But, tomorrow, I am back on track and no more football season to drag me down.

The funny thing is that while I was ordering the pizza I considered ordering some wings to go with it. But, I decided against it simply because I wanted to try and at least make today not a huge loss food wise. Little did I know it would be a huge loss otherwise. So even though I am thoroughly disappointed that the Cowboys lost and it will probably take several days.. maybe even till after the Super Bowl to get over the disappointment, I am happy in a small way that it is over and most of my distractions are behind me. I can now focus on getting myself into better habits and look toward August when it all starts all over again with pre season games and hope that half the Cowboys team hasn’t been signed away to free agency and the coaching staff hasn’t jumped ship either. Maybe, just maybe, they will have a shot at next year. And with some hard work, maybe I will have broken some of my bad habits for next year’s football season too.

In the end I have three words for Wade Phillips and the rest of the Cowboys coaching staff… Penalties & Clock Management. What they hell is with taking a time out after stuffing the Giants three and out? And to any Giants fans out there. Congrats. Your team kicked ass. They played well all season and they deserved it. Live it up this week because next week they are going to get their asses stomped into the ground in Green Bay.

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