Russell Wilson Wins the Heisman and the Badgers go to the Big Easy

This week in Madison, WI Russell Wilson is finally able to get the respect he deserves for the Heisman Trophy candidacy while beating the Nebraska Cornhuskers 33-20 as he throws for 2TD’s and rushes for a 3^rd.

Although I have heard some (whispers) of Russell Wilson being in the running for the Heisman; I don’t believe he has gotten the credit he deserves with the likes of preseason favorite Andrew Luck off to a nice start this year.  This is the week that everyone starts talking about #16  after a nationally televised game Saturday evening.

This game puts Wisconsin on the map as they carve their own path to this year’s National Championship against the Alabama Crimson Tide.  The heady and athletic Russell Wilson will put those badgers on his back with a little assistance from Nick Toon, the O-line, and the talented backfield as they march their way through the Big 10 headed for the Big Easy.

With the taste of the Super Bowl still lingering in the mouths of Wisconsin natives; it looks as though they are poised for yet another helping of ultimate victory.  Only this time, the spoonful will come from the Russell Wilson led Wisconsin Badgers.

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Dear SportsT4nk,

This just in:

Both Wisconsin and Nebraska are just slightly better than average football teams….nothing more, nothing less

Signed,

Cgretts

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Dear Cgretts,

You are talking about the nationally ranked #7 Wisconsin Badgers and #20 Nebraska Cornhuskers who are HANDPICKED to play on national television at 8pm in primetime this Saturday 10/1/11?  HANDPICKED because they are, as you so stated, “slightly better than average”?  Really? You are trying to say that both are “just slightly better than average football teams…nothing more, nothing less? WOW!!  REALLY??!??!?!??!

Wisconsin has the #2 rated QB in the country, Nick Toon is 4^th in the country in receiving TD’s, they have the #5 rated overall offense who are also ranked #13 in the country in rushing yards/game and ranked #4 in the country in total scoring offense.  Nebraska has the #19 & #20 rated rushers in the country who is also ranked #22 in overall offense while they sit comfortably at #7 in the country when it comes to rushing yards/game.

These are two undefeated teams who hail from arguably the second toughest conference in the entire NCAA. 

Given these facts, I am guessing you thought perhaps I was referencing the UW/Eau Claire Blugolds vs. UN/Kearney Lopers.  Allow me to clarify, I don’t claim that Nebraska is headed for a National Title, but they are certainly ranked nationally among over 100 total teams; by my account that makes them better than average.  And, not just "slightly," might I add.

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Dear Mr. SportsT4nk,

Since you are “chock full o stats”

Why don’t you use your “search engine” to see who these two “slightly better than average teams” have played so far this year…

And please let me know what the final score of the Wisconsin v. Chattanooga College of Arts and Crafts was, I forget….

Thanks

P.S. – super stat guy –Nebraska is #8 in both the AP and Coaches, not #20

P.S.S. – I’ve watched Wisconsin play NOBODY twice this year and watched Nebraska play and STRUGGLE against a completely average Fresno St team AT HOME…you put either of these teams on the field with LSU or BAMA or Oklahoma = massacre….hence = slightly better than average teams playing on National TV this Saturday…oh I’m sorry…HANDPICKED…

Other 8 pm games Saturday:

Florida V Bama (also on Nat’l TV)

UNC V ECU (no one cares, unless you live in North Carolina)

Alcorn ST V Bama St (game with Nat’l Championship implications there)

N.D. V Purdue (I predict 41 turnovers in this game…39 for N.D.)

New Mexico V New Mex St (ALWAYS a classic)

Miss St V Fresno St (like Patriots v Jets rivalry)

UCLA V Stanford (awesome game ….if it was the 70’s)

Oregon St V ASU (two powerhouses here)

With ALL these other AMAZING 8pm games on Saturday night, I can’t see why the Badgers and Huskers were HANDPICKED to play on Nat’l TV….it must be because of how AMAZING both teams are given all the other good games going on…excellent point….

Yours in TOTAL disagreement,
Cgretts

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Dear Mr. Cgretts,

Have you taken the time to read your rebuttal?  Have you?!!?

First of all, thanks for proving my point that Nebraska is a good team.  Not the #20 Nebraska, but the #8 Nebraska…you fell right into that trap.  Point for me.

Secondly, there are two games on Nat’l TV at 8pm.  The Crimson Tide vs. Florida Gators and the Wisconsin Badgers vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers

These two games are HANDPICKED to be on Nat’l TV in PRIMETIME because of the audience they will bring.  They won’t bring an audience because they are “slightly better than average teams.”  But because they are both Conference matchups of teams ranked in the top 10 in the country.  The other ridiculous games you listed that are being played at 8pm won’t even be noticed because, well, they are not broadcasted on national television conglomerates like ABC & ESPN. 

The last 3 games you list won’t even be on until 2am in the morning on Sunday when the rest of the country will be sleeping after watching two heavyweights slug it out in the Big 10.

Oh yeah, guess what else?  Go ahead, guess?  College Gameday on ESPN…ever heard of it?  Yeah, well, guess where they will be broadcasting this Saturday?  That’s right, WISCONSIN!  Now, why do you think they are not broadcasting the college football Saturday preview from Alabama St?  Well, mostly cause they can’t find it on the map and secondly because nobody cares.

And, you want to talk about who these teams played so far.  Well, this just in All-Star; they haven’t played anyone to speak of yet because top teams in the country NEVER PLAY ANYONE TO SPEAK OF IN THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OF THE YEAR.  They do that on purpose.  However, take Wisconsin for example; they have scored no fewer than 35 points this year and in 3 of their first 5 games they scored 50+ points while allowing a combined total of 34 points.  So, although you are right about who they have played; you must also take into account that they beat those teams quite handily – AS THEY SHOULD.

In addition, Nebraska has played some teams from the Pac-12 thus far while having a total point differential of +83 and scoring no fewer than 38 points in any of their first four games.  Oh yeah, they did this with starters DT Jarred Crick, LB Levonte David, and CB Alfonzo Dennard on the bench. 

So while both teams have yet to play any real tough competition they have both won all of their games while doing so handily; even though Nebraska has been without 3 big time starters on defense.

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Ahhhh….SportsT4nk,

Falling into the trap:

You BELIEVING that preseason rankings mean ANYTHING in CFB (those are where these two teams started and are currently)  Oregon was #3 (not anymore) Florida St started #5 (now has two losses)  Ohio State, Notre Dame, Miami, USC, Mich St ALL in the preseason top 25 but not anymore,  SO being ranked #8 does NOT make you a good team, it simply means you haven’t played anyone yet..(see my earlier email)  but excellent point again….(point for me)

#2 – My point was the ONLY reason they are on Nat’l TV is because of a lack of a better alternative, NOT because they are great teams…which was further proved by saying they were on TV because of the audience they bring (YOU said that), NOT how good they are…(point for me)

Last year gameday was at Columbus for OSU vs. Miami for two HIGHLY ranked powerhouses early in the year….OSU went on to lose to Wisconsin as the #1 team in the country and Miami finished 8-4.  The rankings make the COVERAGE but in no way does that mean the teams are GOOD – man, I am completely baffled that you don’t understand this concept….

College Gameday this year:

LSU V Oregon = Oregon DRILLED

Mich V N.D. = great game, NOW one team is unranked and the other is #19

Okla V FSU = TWO top 10 teams who had “YET TO PLAY ANYONE AND DID EXACTLY WHAT THEY SHOULD DO IN THEIR EARLY GAMES” – YET NOW ONE HAS LOST THE #1 RANKING AND THE OTHER LOST THEIR NEXT GAME TO CLEMSON AND IS ON A TWO GAME LOSING STREAK AFTER BEING PRESEASON #5….

Awesome example about college gameday…hello?!..McFly?!…it’s about RATINGS, not how great, or in this case, NOT great…the teams are…man, I am truly baffled…Hey buddy, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you!!!! LOL.

“Well, this just in All-Star; they haven’t played anyone to speak of yet because top teams in the country NEVER PLAY ANYONE TO SPEAK OF IN THE FIRST FEW WEEKS OF THE YEAR.  They do that on purpose” – OK

LSU V Oregon week 1?

LSU V WVU at WVU last week?

Oklahoma V FSU at FSU week 3?

Bama V PSU at PSU Week 2?

OKLA St V Texas AM at Texas A&M last week?

Boise St V Georgia at Georgia Dome week 1?

ANOTHER great point…FYI…the teams above LSU, BAMA, OKLA, OKLA St and Boise ST are #1-6 in the rankings (excluding Stanford at #5)…ALL played big games so far…so be fair and be accurate and simply say “Nebraska and Wisconsin haven’t played anyone yet, not “all the top teams”….

Wow…SILLY of you to argue CFB with me…absolute sillyness and an exercise in futility…..

Signed,

I have better things to do with my time

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Dear Mr. Your Village Just Called, They're Missing an Idiot,


I feel as though you have done gone and strayed from my original point...

Allow me to reiterate. 

Point being:  Russell Wilson is the best QB nobody knows about, YET.  You can talk Andrew Luck, you can talk Case Keenum, you can even talk Kellen Moore or Robert Griffen III, but soon all the talk will be about Russell Wilson and the unbelievably balanced attack of the Wisconsin Badgers.

What are you going to do?  Double cover Nick Toon?  Blanket every Badger receiver like bread on toast?  Fine.  #16 will run it.  Oh, you don’t want #16 to run it.  Fine.  He will hand it to one of their 27 running backs and let them do the work behind an offensive line larger than the Hoover Dam.

Look, all I am trying to say is that the Heisman Trophy is given to the most outstanding athlete who epitomizes great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work.  How can anyone overlook my boy, Russell Wilson?  It takes hard work to be the #2 ranked QB in college football, it takes athleticism to be drafted by the Colorado Rockies, and it takes perseverance to switch schools, conferences, and ultimately a lifestyle.

Give Russell Wilson his due, give the Badgers their Big 10 title, and book their ticket to the Big Easy!

Nobly yours,

The SportsT4nk

Grandios Delusions of a Disgruntled Stupid Dolphin Fan

Dear SportsTank,

Jeesh….apparently it’s time to give this good-for-nothing quarterback, Tony Romo, some well deserved credit for doing….nothing.  I would not call him “Captain Comeback” at all in this instance.  Fitzpatrick was this week’s Captain Comeback.  Why is it that Dallas gets so much press attention!??! 

The real story this week should be the disappointing football played by the Dallas team on Monday night when they should have had their T’s crossed and I’s dotted.  There were more miscues than a night out playing billiards with Charlie Sheen after drinking a barrel of rum.  I am not saying Romo played like complete garbage.  The only way to think about it is by envisioning a garbage bag…a big dirty garbage bag with all the garbage in it….The Cowboys (most of the team) would be that wet part that leaks out of the bag and is some kind of off color with no idea what contributed to it’s wet sticky disgustingness.  Romo I envision as a piece of wrapper thrown at the top of this bag of garbage.  In the end, it’s still trash, but not sticky gross trash, just trash.

I hate reading about this sorry team and I beg the sports writers to stop being biased towards the mass fan-base and focus on the real stars of the first three weeks.  This includes but is not limited to Detroit, Buffalo, Packers, and many other teams on the cusp of making this season a fun one.

Yours Truly,
CJ

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Dear CJ,

I feel as though this uneducated ignorant rambling diatribe was merely an attempt to poke and prod, yours truly.

Therefore, given the fact that a sad sorry Dolphins fan wrote this weak attack on the Dallas Cowboys and, ultimately, yours truly; I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is just the bitterness seeping out of him like the unidentified discolored liquid seeping from the busted garbage bag as mentioned in the aforementioned unsolicited broadside.

The real fact of the matter here is not that Americas Team is getting all the attention.  Anybody who watches football or ESPN knows that all the world is a-buzz about the Buffalo Bills (the REAL NY team), the Detroit Lions, Oakland Raiders, and the Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers.  The issue lies in the fact that the Dolphins are getting ZERO attention due to their utter and complete lack of competitive play within the National Football League. 

Lets face facts: St. Vincent St. Mary’s School for the Blind would have a better chance of beating an NFL team than the Miami Dolphins.  The only thing people are talking about in Miami are the hot cheerleaders on the sideline, Kim Kardashian, Lebron James, Tiger Woods, the volatile Atlantic Ocean, and how terrible retired citizens are behind the wheel of an automobile.

Nobody cares about the stench that is coming from the rotten bag of garbage.  The stench that is the Miami Dolphins and nobody cares about a disgruntled Miami fans irrelavent opinion.

FIN!

Ungratefully Back atcha,
SportsTank

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Dear Mr. SportsTank,

Although I understand your insatiable appetite to always get the last word in, I will grace you with one rebuttal before your eventual inevitable “last word” post on your “blog,” Mr. SportsT4NK!  First off let me tell you that the initial e-mail sent was in no way out of the blue nor ignorant rambling.  It was backed by three weeks of unsolicited fantasy and football picks advice.  Some of this unsolicited advice I did indeed take. 

Let me break it down metaphorically again for you since you had no trouble deciphering that garbage montage from before.  I like to think of the advice you offered me in these past weeks like a rotting sandwich.  The first bit of advice I decided to chew on and eventually swallowed was to pick up Nate Burleson.  We will consider him the bottom bun of this decaying sandwich.  I swallowed it to the tune of 1.2 points posted this week.  Apparently the entire Lions team is doing well with the exception of your ingenious pick.

The second part of this sandwich and the top bun is Roy Helu.  The decision to pick him up from the free agent pool and rot away on my bench much like this metaphorical sandwich.  Roy posted a whole 4.2 points this week via Yahoo. 

Now let’s get to the meat of the sandwich and the true reason I am angry.  This sandwich is a Wide Receiver special.  Combined between the two moldy buns of Roy Helu and Nate Burleson, lies a wide receiver meat sandwich from my ESPN league.  I simply uttered to you my disapproval of my current receivers to which you once again came through in the clutch with some have-to-have names.  What did I do……you guessed it…..ate it up to the tune of Arrelious Benn and Anthony Armstrong.  These two sat on my bench this week waiting to see if I should take your unsolicited advice or not.

Well let me tell you something I discovered about your advice:  You just enjoy handing out fake advice almost as much as you enjoy handing out candy from your cube van to the children of the neighborhood every weekend.  As for that sandwich we described?  I did indeed eat it, I chewed it up for a day or so and then swallowed these rancid picks as I added them to my fantasy teams. 

Do not think for a second that the previous story about your Dallas Cowgirls is by any means a relation to the demise of the Miami Dolphins football team.  Any true Dolphins fan knows that the team is disappointing.  I mean look at the owners:

Gloria Estefan and Emilio, J. LO, Fergie, Marc Anthony, and the Williams sisters.  The last time I checked; all these people are starting to become washed up.  If the owners are switching over to the B-List don’t you think the team would soon follow?  So it was not my Miami Dolphins and illusions of grandeur I had, but rather your ability to provide unsolicited terrible advice on fantasy football.  I will now need to spend the remaining week before week 4 emptying my bowels of this advice I decided to trust you on. 

Signed Your Ungrateful Ungracious Pal,
CJ

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Dear Mr. Stupid Dolphins Fan,

Speaking of “rambling;” HOLY COW! 

I feel as though I should charge for my advice.  My advice is Gold and your nonsensical, rambling, pointless, meaningless tirades are much like your lower intestine – stinky and loaded with danger!

Secondly, please allow me to clarify that my advice was in no way “unsolicited” as you so wrongly state; however, it was purely solicited and sought after by our angry, bitter, woeful Dolphins fan who is clearly unable to come up with his own opinion. 

In addition, I am no doctor, nor did I even lay to rest at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but I have found why your lower intestine is so stinky and full of danger.  It is not due to the phony bologna rotten advice sandwich you have eaten, but the sandwich of lies, un-grandeur, and slander that you have eaten.  Anybody who so wrongfully accuses another man of providing “unsolicited” “terrible” advice is bound to choke on his own sandwich of pure and utter excrement with a light coating of idiocy, sprinkled with defamation.

Now, allow me to defend myself, AND, quite unnecessarily I might add.  Here is a clue, oh un-wise one: Fantasy football is a fickle bitch. 

One week you can get 435yds passing & 4 TD’s from Tom Brady; while the next week you may get 250yds, 3 TD’s, & 4 INT’s a fumble, and a torn ACL.  I can’t account for what matchup is better for the players on your roster because I am not the “team owner”.  Here’s another word you should add to your vocabulary sooner rather than later if you want to even have a chance in your league: MATCHUP.  Say it with me; MATCHUP!

You have to pay attention to who your players are matched up against in order to do well.  The first two weeks Burleson averaged 7 points in standard scoring leagues, but apparently you chose to wait until week 3 when the matchup was less than favorable to play Mr. Burleson.  I can’t account for your sheer stupidity and lack of overall football knowledge.  If you want me to manage your team then you should be willing to split your winnings with me 60:40.  I do the majority of the work; therefore, I get the 60% share.  Seems fair in most courts of law within this here wonderful U.S. judicial system.

Shall we discuss Roy Helu?  The guy is a rookie and a backup behind Tim Hightower who seems to have the proverbial Hot Hand right now in a RUN FIRST OFFENSE coached by the zoneblocking guru, Mike Shanahan.  However, even as the #2 back he is getting carries and looking VERY good only a mere 3 weeks into the season.  Unfortunately, again, you forgot to pay attention to matchups.  Roy just faced the very formidable and #2 ranked rush defense in the entire league in the Dallas Cowboys; OF COURSE he didn’t fare well this week.  DUH!!?!?!

Lastly, as for Benn and Anthony Armstrong – both of them are “deep sleepers” and since Benn is coming off a season ending ACL injury last year coupled with an abbreviated offseason; it’s obvious to those with any sort of football acumen that Benn will surely start out slowly.  As for Armstrong, well, he is in his second year and coming off an 800+yd rookie season with 40+ catches – certainly a worthy sleeper.  Keep in mind the operative word here is SLEEPER.

Again, I think it is quite clear that the issue here does not lie with the man providing the SOLICITED advice; but the issue lies with the unknowledgeable, inexperienced, lesser man who SEEKS the advice.

Allow this to be a lesson to you, young grasshopper.  Two words that you must promptly add to your vernacular are: MATCHUP and PATIENCE. 

Gotta be mindful of your ability to be patient, gotta pay attention to your matchups, and now you gotta pay the man who you seek advice from.  From here on out no advice you seek shall be given gratuitously, but each player I shed light upon will have a soon to be determined tariff along with it.

Your honor, I rest my case and I will rest easy tonight knowing that your slander and sheer attempts at defamation have also been laid to rest and so very eloquently debunked.

FIN!

A Letter to The Romo Sadists

Dear Romo Sadists,

To be fair, I should make it known that I am a HUGE Cowboy fan.  Been so since I can remember.

That being said, I am also one of the biggest critics on the planet when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys. 

I wanted to make it known how upset I am that all you paid NFL "analysts/critics" and "Monday Morning Quarterbacks" are unfairly critcizing Tony Romo.

We've ONLY yet completed but one NFL game so far in this here 2011/2012 NFL season and it seems as though you critics/football fans; nay, VULTURES,  just want to perch yourselves on the most obscure branch while eagerly and impatiently waiting for Tony Romo to make a mere mistake.

I'm gonna go so far as to call said VULTURES, "Romo Sadists."

'Oh look, Tony threw an imcompletion.  Let us stone him!'
'Hey, look, Tony got a delay of game penalty.  Bench him, I say!'
'Oh my God, Tony got a cup of Gatorade on the sideline...does somebody need to tell him that he is playing a NFL football game and there is no time for quenching of thine thirst?  Where is his head?'

Allow me to stand up and shout, PUT DOWN THE HATERADE and GET OFF HIS BACK!

Now, I would be lying if I said I wasnt incredibly disappointed that he fumbled the ball at the 2 yard line and threw a most innoportune I.N.T.  late in the fourth quarter after having a chance to go up against the NY football Jets by 14 points ON THE ROAD...on Sunday Night Football...after playing only 5 games in 2010 due to a season ending broken collarbone during this historic, momentus, heart wrenching 10th anniversary of 9/11 just outside our beloved NY City. 

However, the last time I checked there are 11 guys on a football "team;"  not just one. 

Granted, it didnt help the "team" win when Tony threw the pick and fumbled the ball at the 2 yard line. 

But it didnt help the Cowboys win when they chose to start 3 rookies on the offensive line against the immensely feared, oft bally-hooed, aggressive Rex Ryan Jet defense.  It didnt help them win when the very same young offensive line missed blocking assignments resulting in a blocked punt which ended in a TD.  It didnt help that they acquired a new defensive coordinator in the offseason and had VERY little time to become acclimated to the new leaders complicated scheme before the start of the regular season.  On top of THAT, it didnt help them win with a completely decimated secondary.  It didnt help that the very same secondary was seemingly confused on pass plays; pointing and screaming, yelling out assignments, still scrambling to get into position as the ball was being snapped.  All whilst trying to master and grasp the scheme of thier newly found defensive coordinator despite enduring a lockout resulting in a shortened offseason and training camp.  It didnt help that their best wide receiver and offensive weapon, Dez Bryant, was hurt in the first quarter after making a mere 3 catches AND A TD only to play the rest of the game at 50% capacity.

But, hell, forget all those impeding elements.  

All you "Romo Sadists" want to condemn Tony Romo and burn him at the stake.  Dont worry about all the aforementioned constituents that allowed the Jets to stay in the game.  Just find Romo, find the nearest Great Basin Bristlecone Pine Tree, the strongest rope, and string his ass from the highest branch.

Here's what I know:  The QB is viewed as the most valuable part of the football team; however, the operative word here is: Team......TEAM, dammit!

You win as a team, you lose as a team.

If you want to talk about Romo, here is what else i know:  he has a  95.6 career QB rating which is ranked 4th ALL-TIME.  Among active QB's; Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Big Ben have lower QB ratings than Tony. Only Aaron Rogers and Philip Rivers have a higher rating.

Yet, all you "Romo Sadists" insist on violently and visciously shoving his head in the FISH T4NK and never letting him up for air until the violent squirming and muffled desperate screams for help subside - just like something out of your favorite mob movie.  Sad!!

Brady, Manning, Brees, and Big Ben all have Super Bowl rings. 

Here is what else they had when they won the big prize: a better organization around them, and, further, better coaches (namely, Bill Belichik)! 

You cant win Super Bowls if you dont have the right pieces in place; from the front office, to the scouts, to the coaches and thier schemes, right down to the players on the field. 

Just ask Dan Marino, Warren Moon, Fran Tarkenton, Dan Fouts, or Jim Kelly.  All Hall of Fame quarterbacks!

Let's face facts, Tony hasnt had a good coach for the bulk of his career as a starter. He had Bill Parcells who drafted him, believed in him, worked him slowly into the lineup after a few years, only to leave the organization because of the idiot billionaire owner and his ego. 

That left him with Howdy Doody for four years! Uh um, sorry, Wade Phillips for crying out Pete's sake!!

Now he has Jason Garrett, and, frankly, its too early to know exactly how he will turn out as the head coach.... but the early prognosis sure is good.

Not to mention, there is STILL the very same egostistal oil tycoon and NFL team owner who has billions of dollars in his pockete - yet no real football acumen - who also insists on running the organziation on the field as well as in the front office.  We ALL know that doesnt help.  It's an NFL no-no.  A feaux-pas, if you will.  I dont have to tell you that. 

Fact: IT ALL STARTS FROM THE "TOP".

Despite all this, Romo is still 39-22 in his career as a starter with a 2:1 TD to INT ratio.  And, YES, he did finally get a playoff win.  This is an undrafted Division 1-AA Walter Payton Award (division 1 version of the coveted Heisman Trophy) winning QB from Eastern Illinois whom we are talking about.  It took him time to get his shot in the NFL and it may take him some time to get his Lombardi Trophy. 

...Good things take time.  Rome wasnt built in a day.  All good things come to those who wait [and work hard]. 

Romo is a terrific NFL QB, scratch golfer, frequent pickup basketball and soccer player, and great overall athlete. 

Most of all, he is a competetitor.  All competitors compete.  And compete he will.

He will fight, scratch, kick, claw, and scrape his way to that final whistle.  Putting it all on the field before he makes that last stroll to the locker room.  The reality is: its not whether you get knocked off the horse in the heat of battle before you fade into the lockerroom, but whether you live to fight another day.  You gotta stand back up, dust yourself off, and climb back up on that sum bitch.  Grab er by the mane, slam Percy in her playpen, and ride her screamin into the sunset.  We all fall down from time to time, but its those who dont get back up on that horse that we forget about.  This Cowboy will be back on that horse for this weeks road tilt at San Francisco.  He will bounce back.  He will live to fight another day. And this Cowboy may not get his trophy this year, but its not too far away. 

Sometimes you gotta fight and dig your way through a pile of crap to get to the shimmering pot of gold. 

That will quiet all the unsubstantiated allegations against our beloved Tony Romo. Eh?

Signed,

Matt Mon-ROMO