Category Archives: Dallas

Why Does It Matter That JFK Was Shot In Dallas?

How come the city of Dallas is such an object of interest in the assassination of JFK? We’ve had many presidents assassinated and the cities in which it was done, such as Washington DC for President Lincoln, were incidental. We’ve … Continue reading

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What Is Important To You…

In January 1983, my favorite sports team, the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League, made it to their third straight NFC championship game. They’d lost their previous two. This game was January 22, Sabbath morning. As a Seventh-Day Adventist, … Continue reading

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I Want To Keep On Loving You

I have a hard time staying patient with love. If a woman is dissing me, and I can’t recall a relationship where the woman has not constantly challenged me by not returning my calls and doing other things to cut … Continue reading

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Dallas Cowboys Announcer Honors Yom Kippur

From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Around here, football is a religion ? at times the only religion that matters. With its own codes and customs, its power to lift and to humble, football ? especially Cowboys football ? can be … Continue reading

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I’m Not A Cowboys Fan Anymore

They were the favorites to win the Super Bowl through the first three games of this season. They were the most talented team in the league. They self-destructed and did not even make the playoffs. The quarterback has a poor … Continue reading

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Even Football Has Gone Postmodern

Greg Easterbrook writes: Postmodern Play of the Week: Leading 7-3, Dallas reached first-and-goal on the Jersey/A 1. The Cowboys came out in the shotgun formation, four-wide.

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‘The First Basket’

I just watched this new documentary. The Jewish population in America increased dramatically during the last decade of the 19th Century. As the immigrants poured in from Europe, they discovered that their new home was sports crazy and that athletic … Continue reading

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Dallas Cowboys Happy Over Election

I’m a right-wing Republican who has only voted Republican (though I did vote for the Labor party in Australia in 1989), but when I look at the election through the lens suggested by TV writer/producer Rob Long — that Americans … Continue reading

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Pacman Jones – The Luke Ford of the NFL

From the Star-Telegram: IRVING — Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips took a step Thursday morning to keep Adam “Pacman” Jones’ incident from becoming a distraction for his team. But with the volume of media in the locker room Thursday afternoon, … Continue reading

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Born Gay

In his 1996 best-seller "Hell-Bent: The Crazy Truth About The ‘Win or Else’ Dallas Cowboys", author Skip Bayless spent a few pages on rumors that Troy Aikman was gay. Bayless stated clearly that he’d seen no evidence that Aikman was … Continue reading

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