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Jerry Jones had to make a change at head coach. His hand was forced by an embarrassing 1–7 start, punctuated by a 45–7 shellacking at the hands of the Green Bay Packers on Monday Night Football. The day after the Wisconsin massacre, Jones fired Wade Phillips and named Jason Garrett interim head coach. Today, January [...]
Emmitt Smith once famously said about his team, “We had some diamonds, but we had a lotta cow poo poo around it, and the diamonds was mixed in with the poo poo…it just all look like poo poo.” (The Grammar is Mr. Smith’s alone.) If that was true of the late ’90s Cowboys, it was [...]
TCU did what they had to do: they posted an undefeated season and beat Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. Going into the Granddaddy of them all, Wisconsin was believed by many to be the hottest team in the country. They boast an NFL-sized offensive line and a three-headed monstrosity at running back. Plenty of pundits [...]
2010 was a miserable year for the Dallas Cowboys and their fans. It may well have been the most disappointing year in team history. Never fear silver and blue bloods: a new year has dawned and 2011 will be much kinder to your Cowboys. That is, if there is football in 2011. Big “if” there. [...]
Get ready for an understatement or two, starting…now. Sports betting is big business. Super Bowl betting is the biggest of that very big business. It is also risky business: more so now because of free agency and because of the way the NFL schedules the toughest teams from the prior year against one another, giving [...]
‘Twas Christmas night and all through the stands Not a person was cheering, not one single fan. For down on the field, it mattered not who’d win: One team’s five and nine and the other four and ten. ∫
“Everybody loves a good quote.” ~Anonymous To date, the most-read article in the history of SilverAndBlueBlood is the article, Top Ten Quotes from Dallas Cowboys. Since my momma didn’t raise no dummies, I have quickly deduced that people love a good quote. I know I do. Few industries have conspired to contribute more memorable, honest, [...]
Dateline: Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas – December 19, 2o1o The Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins played two games in one on Sunday. The first was a blowout, with the Cowboys jumping out to a comfortable, commanding 27–7 lead. The second game was a nailbiter that saw the Redskins, still down by 16 going into the [...]
This time last year, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin was putting the finishing touches on his breakout year. The man from Monmouth, mysteriously overlooked by talent scouts coming out of high school and again when he became NFL draft eligible, was setting the NFL on its ear, ripping defensive backfields to shreds, and leaving [...]
First, it was the new and improved Michael Vick pitching to DeSean Jackson. Vick threw for 270 yards and two touchdowns, guiding his team to a close victory over the hometown Dallas Cowboys, ensuring the Cowboys will have a losing 2010 season. Now this. Major League pitcher Cliff Lee was thought to be weighing whether [...]