Posted on 09/08/2014 3:37:26 PM PDT by 11th_VA
ARLINGTON, Texas – The swaths of red, San Francisco 49ers red, spread and leached through the stands at AT&T Stadium. It was all over the end zones. It dominated the third deck and standing room areas. It even scattered through the most expensive club seat sections.
Red here. Red there. Red everywhere.
It didn't just speak to the traveling might and national appeal of the Niners. It wasn't just about the power of a Super Bowl contender that would cruise to a 28-17 victory that was far more lopsided than the score suggests.
It also said plenty about the willingness of Dallas Cowboys fans to unload their tickets, or never bother to buy them, for the opener of a season that seems to carry so little promise.
Fifty-percent red? Sixty-percent red? Whatever it was, the number was big, shockingly big for the first game of the season when seemingly every team has hope and the excitement of a live game and a full tailgate is in full swing.
Jerry Jones said he didn't notice.
"Did you count," he asked of the number of Niners fans in attendance?
He owns the Cowboys and owns the building so he was getting paid no matter what. There were 91,174 here, so it was a good day for business.
He's also the team's general manager, so from his luxury box where he entertains friends and business contacts, he says he's watching like an actual football executive and that requires tunnel vision.
"I just pay attention to the field," he said.
Maybe it affects his hearing because in the first quarter as the Niners kept taking Dallas turnovers and scoring touchdowns, the roars for the visiting team were, you'd think, impossible to ignore – 7-0 just 54 seconds in … 14-3 with 5:54 to go in the first quarter … 21-3 not 90 seconds later … 28-3 just before the half …
"I didn't have my eye on the crowd," Jones said. "I had my eye on those turnovers … I don't have any knowledge or information about red shirts or anything."
What Jones can't seem to see or hear or fathom – that this Cowboys season appears bleak and long and hopeless – his fan base has apparently come to accept.
It isn't unusual for customers to bail on a loser and save money for an autumn, but Dallas hadn't lost a game yet when the fans decided to stay home or go fishing or just not care.
Of course, their lack of faith was rewarded by the dreadful start that saw a fumble returned for a touchdown followed by three Tony Romo interceptions, each seemingly worse than the last, that killed any fleeting hope.
Jerry Jones took that gay guy cause he was forced to by the commish. They had some filthy pictures of him feeling up a woman when he was drunk (when ain’t he drunk?).
Good evening. I hope you are well.
Miami yes, TB no.
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Jerry picked up Michael Sam for the practice team the same day he reinstated Brent, thus letting the noise over Sam distract from the Brent story.
Shameful on both counts. As usual.
That explains a lot.
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“As soon as Joe Buck started the Michael Sam hoo ya talk yesterday....”
Any network that employs Erin Andrews should be on mute anyway.
“Sam is happy after the last game because Jerry got it shoved up his ***”
Sam? I thought his name was Bare-@$$ Barry...
And for those who thing Bare-@$$ Barry is Amish, he lives in the White Hut...
“I say put Michael Sam in as a first string player. Let him show the world his lack of talent and then maybe, maybe, people will shut up.”
Hey, Cookie, you got that right! And let him play in every position he thinks he’s good!
And after that he is eligible to be the White Hut Trainer In Residence!
That curse must have started about 20 years ago.
Whoa! That sure comes out of left field. Getting rid of Ron Washington was a very good move. Washington could barely string together a coherent sentence in standard English. And from what I heard a few years ago on The Ticket, he had kind words for hussein obama. That along is a deal breaker along with his drug use. Plus, when it counted in the World Series, his mismanagement is now legendary.
Yes, I agree that JD's running off of Nolan Ryan was unforgivable but, to a certain extent, the erasing of Washington is a very positive move.
You hold a grudge!! :)
What does our metallic marauder FRiend think?
Howdy back.
I do love a Freeper who thinks things through :)
BTW, my new build loves 5.56. A lot.
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Oh, nooooooo...not YOU! LOL!...much....
Always have hated the Cowboys. Now that they have given in to the PC NFL and given a self-professed queer a job just to say they did, I can only pity them.
Meh.
Football fans one hundred percent deserve what they are getting.
Green Bay showed the country decades ago how to set up a team responsive to the community. There has been ample opportunity to switch to that model.
As crappy as Jones (and other wealthy owners) may be, the fans could have fixed things fifty years ago. Or today.
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Ditto.
He completely mistreated Landry.
He is a crook who built jerryworld by robbing taxpayers and paying off local politicians.
If he had gotten Manziel, that would have at least pulled in Aggie fans, even if the kid sat on the bench for years.
To me, the Cowboys are history.
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