>>>As an Aggie I'm glad V.Y. is struggling.
>>>As a football fan I'd like to see V.Y. play better.
>>>As a Cowboys fan, I don't really care either way.
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>>>GO Cowboys!!!!
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>>Haven't seen you in a while. I figured you would be happy with how the Cowboys are playing <g>.
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>Been on vacation to Korea for about two weeks.
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>I am happy with D'Boys. Tho the Redskins game was too close for comfort.
>I looking forward to a rematch against the feared and dreaded Patriots in the SUPER BOWL! It will be different this time.


The Patriots are looking awfully strong. Some people thought Buffalo had a shot at knocking them off on Sunday night. No such luck. Another rout for the Pats. They still have to win another 9 in a row to go unbeaten, so in a sense this is like talking about a no-hitter in the 5th inning. But it's going to take quite an effort to beat them. Barring injuries, of course, which are always the X factor in the NFL.

Even there, though, the Patriots are so deep in every part of the game they could probably keep right on ticking. In my mind there is only one guy whose absence would seriously hurt them: Tom Brady. Sure, he's padding his stats this year, but even when games are in doubt nobody can stop him from moving them up and down the field at will.

It's funny to realize the two bad boy receivers, Randy Moss and Terrell Owens, would be leading MVP candidates if Brady wasn't playing in some other galaxy this season.

I still hope someone beats the Patriots simply because I can't stand Bill Belichick. Which is odd because I like most of their players. Oh, well. They are playing a difficult team game at such a fantastic level, in a way all you can do is salute them. I always admire someone who does something this well, no matter what they do. Show me the world's best basket weaver and I want to know how they do it.

Sports Illustrated ran a great excerpt a while back from a new biography of Johnny Unitas, who was widely considered the NFL's best quarterback for a long time, or at least one-two with Joe Montana. Some think he still has that status, although personally I think we are living in a golden age of QBs -- Marino, Elway, Favre, Manning, Brady. Anyway, there was a passage about Johnny U making the Colts. Some football fans, even the old timers, don't remember that he was cut by his first team, the Steelers, so at that point a pro football career was still a pipe dream. When the roster was announced the equipment manager gave him an arbitrary uniform number, 19. It wasn't the number Unitas wanted -- he wanted his old college number -- but as an unproven rookie he kept his mouth shut and took it. He was the third Colt to wear #19, and the last.

So how was the trip to Korea? Enjoyable, I hope. I read the other day that it is the most wired country in the world, to the point that there are treatment programs for internet-addicted teenagers. The article included a kind of funny quote from one young guy whose parents had sent him off to be reprogrammed, so to speak. "17 hours a day isn't so bad, I can handle it," he said.