Month: September, 2007

Tank Johnson is a Cowboy

19 September, 2007 (06:19) | Dallas Cowboys | By: Phil Ayres

Wow, this is great… the highly benevolent Jerry Jones (God bless him for his wonderful acts.) is at it, again… reaching out to the troubled and broken… and he has been so nice as to take Tank Johnson into the Cowboy fold.

On a radio show in Dallas, yesterday, Jerry the Saint said that “the organization changed to equip itself for better players with troubled pasts.”  Is this something new… or has this been in place since Irvin was there…. who will they take in next?  Perhaps, Pac-man…. or perhaps the great dog killer, Vick?

You never know where Saint Jerry will strike next.  In fact, Dallas may not even need to participate in the draft… I am sure they can pick up enough free agents on parole… hey, is Ray Carouth still in jail?

I am sick and tired of looking at Peyton

16 September, 2007 (11:08) | Indianapolis Colts | By: Phil Ayres

For goodness sakes, as I sit here watching games, today, I swear that Peyton is in every other commercial.  Am I the only one who is tired of looking at him?

Is he the only athlete worthy of being in commercials?

Fans gone wild — violence catapults into near castration incident

12 September, 2007 (08:22) | Random Things | By: Phil Ayres

Now, don’t get me wrong…. I am passionate about my sports… but, when you are castrating people out of your allegiance to your team…. well, even I find that to be a little extreme…

To some Oklahoma football fans, there are things that just aren’t done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt.That’s exactly what touched off a bloody skirmish that left a Texas-shirt-wearing fan nearly castrated and an Oklahoma fan facing aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to five years.

The shocking case has set off a raging debate in this football-crazed region about the extreme passions behind a bitter rivalry. Some legal observers have even questioned whether this case could ever truly have an impartial jury.

“I’ve actually heard callers on talk radio say that this guy deserved what he got for wearing a Texas T-shirt into a bar in the middle of Sooner country,” said Irven Box, an attorney in this city 20 miles from Oklahoma’s campus in Norman.

According to police, 32-year-old Texas fan Brian Christopher Thomas walked into Henry Hudson’s Pub on June 17 wearing a Longhorns T-shirt and quickly became the focus of football “trash talk” from another regular, 53-year-old Oklahoma fan Allen Michael Beckett.

Thomas told police that when he decided to leave and went to the bar to pay his tab, Beckett grabbed him in the crotch, pulled him to the ground and wouldn’t let go, even as bar patrons tried to break it up. When the two men were separated, Thomas looked down and realized the extent of his injuries.