{"id":8034,"date":"2009-01-25T08:27:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2009-01-25T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T16:31:37","slug":"im-not-a-cowboys-fan-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8034","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not A Cowboys Fan Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were the favorites to win the Super Bowl through the first three games of this season.<\/p>\n<p>They were the most talented team in the league.<\/p>\n<p>They self-destructed and did not even make the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The quarterback has a poor work ethic. He&#8217;s sloppy with the ball. The team has no leadership and no discipline. They&#8217;re just a big disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>As I watched them lose 44-6 to the Philadelphia Eagles, I gave up on them. I walked away. They&#8217;re like a girl who was once special to me but now, oy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/stories\/other\/01\/23\/0123golden.html\">Cedric Golden writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tony Romo is saying all the right things these days.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a flurry of criticism in the month since the Dallas Cowboys&#8217; humbling in Philadelphia, the quarterback is promising to rededicate himself to his craft and take a more active leadership role in the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Romo&#8217;s not a leader. Never has been. Never will be.<\/p>\n<p>In the NFL, you&#8217;re judged on your actions, not your words, and Romo&#8217;s actions the last two seasons suggest he isn&#8217;t the type capable of putting a team on his back and carrying it to a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders don&#8217;t develop. They are born. It&#8217;s something in the DNA. You either have it, or you don&#8217;t. After showing little interest in leadership his first couple of seasons, Romo is talking about becoming a better leader now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8034\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[10685,12087,15794,15793,15795,14855],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-leadership-role","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-poor-work-ethic","tag-talented-team","tag-tony-romo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}