​10. Ate dinner last night at Prime Italian on South Beach. In the midst of ridiculous opulence in the form of $20 valet parking and $100,000 cars, it was relatively affordable. $125 for a steak and a couple drinks. Thumbs up.

9. They also offered prime Kobe steak for $30 an ounce. Our waiter said Bulls' forward Carlos Boozer recently ate a 20-ounce version. By my sportswriter math that's a $600 piece of meat. Impressive.

8. South Beach, by the way, is a 23-block area on the strip of beach that seperates the Atlantic Ocean from Miami's Biscayne Bay. The locals call it "SoBe." Oh so chic.

7. Although it's a public beach, it's also topless-friendly. Especially down by the Clevelander hotel made famous for its MTV spring break parties.

6. Collins Avenue. Ocean Avenue. And two blocks south or west ... ghetto. It's like Highland Park and Kiest Park being seperated by a sidewalk. There's a restaurant called Big Pink that was packed with people on the patio. Might as well been called the Sitting Duck. Just last week, for example, a shooting on Collins.

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Everything's bigger in Dallas. Even the, um, hats.

​I can't believe you people. Yeah, you. The ones who actually spend a millisecond of your precious time on Earth worrying about how a certain Dallas Cowboys' quarterback wears his cap.

Not his helmet, mind you. His hat.

I'm all about big hat, no cattle and all, but I've actualy heard this sentiment on the street, in the bars and on 105.3 The Fan this week:

"Tony Romo started playing better once he started wearing his cap forward. It's a sign of maturity."

Now, Romo does admit that he's not going to cut his hair until the Cowboys lose. But the hat? C'mon. I've seen him wear it backward and forward on the sideline in the last month. And as his buddy Jason Witten told me and Newy Scruggs yesterday, "He hasn't made some philosophical transformation. It's just his own style."

Just to screw with the stuffy folk, I think Romo should wear it crooked, bill to the side Sunday at Lambeau Field. Or perhaps, in a hat tip to his Mexican heritage, break out a sombrero.

To me, when it comes to Dallas Cowboys football there's only hat that matters: Tom Landry's fedora. But right, wrong or admittedly superfluous, there's no doubt Romo's is one of the most analyzed and dissected headgears in the history of Dallas.

The others, of course, off the top of my head ...

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Turned 44 over the summer. After spending a day shopping with the wife over the weekend I feel 84.

I needed some new jeans. (Hey, it’s been five years. Even the most stubborn amongst us have a breaking point.) So where does she take me? To Frisco’s Stonebriar mall and the joint with the Hierarchy of Hotness.

So I’m thinking, cool, a store owned by this guy and this guy. Should be interesting and sporty. Retro even, no?

No.

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