farg Dallas! Thread

[PhillyPhreak54]

posted this in the book thread too;

So I bought "Boys Will Be Boys" by Jeff Pearlman. After waiting about two weeks for it to come in because of it being back-ordered, I am about 140pgs deep.

Some highlights so far:

* Charles Haley was/is batshtein crazy. Not only did he run around naked and half jerking himself off all the time, the end game for him in SF was because he went and took a shtein, came back to a meeting room and threw zesty TP at his position coach. He bullied everyone and the only people who could control him were Ronnie Lott and Roger Craig. He called Jerry Jones "Massa Jerry" to his face and every QB was a "Hoyda flag ass motherfarger"

* Michael Irvin was almost traded to the Raiders. He only wasn't because the Raiders did not offer enough. The book didn't say the offer, but even Jimmy Johnson questioned if he could make it in the league because he did not have top end speed.

* Jimmy Johnson was a Steve Walsh guy through and through. He wanted Walsh to win the job in a bad way.

* Johnson and Jones' relationship soured pretty early on. Johnson was sick of Jones bringing celebrities in to the locker room and on the sidelines and they fought over who really built the teams.

* Andre Waters quote to Emmitt Smith "I'm going to break your motherfarging leg, Hoyda".

*GCobb is quoted a few times in the book, one of them talked about how much of a whiner Dan Marino was after he took a big hit. Said he cried all the time whereas Aikman took his beatings like a man.

* Johnson HATED playing the Eagles.

* Johnson did not want to draft Emmitt Smith. It took RBs coach Joe Brodsky literally standing on top of the draft room table screaming for them to take him.

So basically Johnson, despite being the master motivator and great at drafting the lower tier guys and picking up role players, did not want Aikman or Smith and thought hard about trading Irvin. He also traded two picks for one of his U boys, Alonzo Highsmith and started him over Moose.

This book is a great read so far and I highly recommend it.

[QB Eagles]

Keep up the highlights Phreak, good stuff. Especially about Waters.

[shorebird]

That Charles Haley was a friggen' nut case.

[PhillyGirl]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3633432

[Eagaholic]

Whether it's a muffed hold or a missed receiver in the endzone, seeing Romo responsible for their season's demise is getting a little cliche'. I think this year I'd like to see packman slip and fall with 20 seconds left in their first playoff game, giving up an 87 yard winning TD. Maybe to Greg Lewis, on a play in which Donovan vomits.  Yeah, I think that's it.

[SD_Eagle5]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3633363

Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl cornerback Terence Newman has been diagnosed with a sports hernia injury and the team has forwarded results of his medical tests to a Philadelphia specialist for confirmation before determining whether surgery is necessary, according to a source close to the player.



Newman
A Cowboys source said Newman would have the surgery immediately if the sports hernia injury is confirmed and would be out a minimum of six weeks. Newman will miss his third game of the season Sunday when the Cowboys play the Arizona Cardinals.

At the request of Newman and his agent, the Cowboys have sent the player's MRI results and other information to Dr. William Meyers, who performed surgery on Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb to repair a sports hernia injury. NBA player Grant Hill, whose father Calvin works for the Cowboys, is another professional athlete Meyers has treated for the injury.

Newman played against the Green Bay Packers and Washington taterskins with some discomfort and then suffered more intense pain in the team's practice last Friday, when he was listed on the injury report and unable to play against the Cincinnati Bengals.

"It had been painful, but it wasn't something in those first two games where I felt I was really hurting myself,'' Newman said Wednesday in a phone conversation. "It was kind of a dull pain, not something that affected me a whole lot. But last week, it really hurt and I couldn't open up and run and that's why I didn't play.''

Newman said he might have suffered the sports hernia while attempting to prepare to play in the team's season opener against the Cleveland Browns after missing most of training camp and all of the preseason after pulling a groin muscle on July 28.

Newman declined to mention the injury when he claimed responsibility for a poor performance against the taterskins. In the Cowboys' only defeat this season, Newman gave up touchdown catches to James Thrash and Antwaan Randle El and a 53-yard pass to Santana Moss on consecutive series in the second quarter of a 26-24 loss.

"I was frustrated early in the game in the first half," Newman said. "I couldn't get anything going for a while. I settled down and kept pushing and guys just kept encouraging me. I felt better in the second half, way better than in the first."

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[Munson]

I guess they sent them here since this team seems to have all the NFL sports hernia injuries.

[Eagaholic]

I remember Reid having NcNabb pass 50 times when he had the sporst hernia and had said it is an injury that wouldn't get any worse.

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3633432

Can't fix stupid.

TO gettin weird
Pacman being Pacman
Romo turning it over and pissing Cowboys fans off

Burn bitches.

[phattymatty]

i'm not reading any of your book quotes b/c thats on my list of books to read soon.  i hear there are some awesome stories in it. 

and apparently pacman also skipped out on his dinner bill before that fight happened.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Unfortunately, Dallas could suck hard the rest of the year, and there are still two teams in the division better than the Eagles.

[PhillyPhreak54]

i'm not reading any of your book quotes b/c thats on my list of books to read soon.  i hear there are some awesome stories in it. 

and apparently pacman also skipped out on his dinner bill before that fight happened.

Yes, it is chock full o' stories. I enjoyed it so much that I blew through it in about a day and a half.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Funny sidenote: In the course of promoting this book, I accidentally used the term "jerk off" during an interview with WIP in Philly. Well, the host got sort of freaked out, so I decided I needed new terminology to describe Haley's locker room behavior. So I held a contest on my website, and someone suggested "manually manipulated sack dance." I've been using that ever since.

[MDS]

who was the host? rob charry? graduate of akiba hebrew academy?

[Seabiscuit36]

who was the host? rob charry? graduate of akiba hebrew academy?

Eskin i think