Playoff Mania

Well, the first weekend of the NFL playoffs not only went exactly how I wanted them to, but the last game was a complete doozy that I just witnessed! Of course I wanted the Cowboys to win and the Patriots to lose and was not disappointed in either game. The fact that they were pretty much blowouts even made them easy to watch. The Cowboys looked damn good! I didn't really care if the Jets beat the Bengals, but I figured if they did it would lower the ratio of home teams losing since the Cowboys were playing the Eagles at home. I'm not sure if we've ever beat the Eagles three times in one season but we have now AND finally got that fucking monkey off our back - the reminder of how long it had been since we'd won a playoff game! Earlier today I enjoyed watching the Ravens take out the Patriots in their own house and figured the Cardinals/Packers game was going to be another blowout when the Cards went up 17-0, but boy was I wrong! The second half saw a complete shootout between Rogers and Warner and the defenses fold as the points kept being racked up. By the end of regulation they went into overtime 45-45 just after the Cards kicker missed an easy field goal. Green Bay won the toss, but the game ended when Rogers dropped back, started to get tackled and got stripped instead and the Cardinal ran it in for the winning TD! I jumped up and hollered because it was so exciting! This is why I love football so much.

Cowboys beat Saints

Even though I live in Austin, the Dallas Cowboys are my team. The only real sport I like to watch is professional football and growing up in Dallas with my mom being the biggest Cowboys fan ever, it's easy to see why. Tonight they ended the unbeaten record of New Orleans IN N'arlens but the really cool part is that I just had this feeling all week that they were going to win despite all the losses recently. Now, if theyd' been playing in their brand new Uberstadium, I probably would have still thought they'd lose. Not to mention that every time Dallas played in the Super Bowl when it was in New Orleans, they won. They may not win another game this year and completely miss the playoffs, but maybe this win will shut some people up. It's amazing how many bad teams or even overhyped teams there are in the NFL yet most of the stories out there will be about Dallas after they lose. And it's not the team's fault if the media overhypes them. I know they aren't the team they were in the early 90's or the 70's, but I'll support them just the same because they're MY team.