"It deserved a better send-off."

It sure did.

Back when the Cowboys moved from the remarkable history of Fair Park to the remarkable banality of Irving, the insults hung like a Romo bomb. Let's call 'em the Irving Cowboys was the joke du jour. Nobody will pay for a bond. It's too sterile, too cold. And on and on.

But that's progress. The spaceship in Arlington is to Texas Stadium what TS was to the Cotton Bowl--another signpost on the journey of the NFL's quest towards a "virtual game". No actual players, just computer graphics with beer commercials interwoven. When the hatch opens at the new place in September for the initial real game, the first words are likely to be "take us to your leader". Trouble is, we don't have one.

Progress is great! I love me some good progress as much as the next person but the players on Saturday were pathetic.

Michael Irvin had some pointed things to say about the team and the game. Maybe when Robert gets done compiling the best HagFish shows ever played at Trees he'll find it and post it. Come on Robert, you can do it.

Very disappointed in the "send off" and what the hell was that "rock back" rock band doing at half-time. At least JJ printed Farewell on the tickets but the pinch on the cost of the new stadium is revealing itself.

As bad as it must have been to see the send-off live at the stadium, you cannot fathom how horribly jacked up the coverage from Channel 33 was on it. The microphone hummed loudly throughout, shaky-cam was the standard, the ex-players photos and names flashed on-screen were obscured by the Channel 33 logo, and the cutaway were preposterous. Arlington High School could have done a better production!! What an awful send-off, indeed.

Lets face it. MOST people in the area have been to TX stadium a couple of times in their life, and most don't enjoy the experience. Wanna test that, tell a buddy you have tickets to the Cowboy game and see him try to weasel out of going.

I was in college in the early 90's and did work for a charity and got in free to every home game. After the first year and a half, I quit doing it because the 4 hours of Driving there, dealing with parking, walking to the stadium, and trying to get home was never worth the 3.5 hours of the game. And those were the GOOD years. Its not likely to get better because JerryWorld doesn't have a DART Rail to it either. The Cowboy crowd is a story in and of itself. Never has there been a larger convergence of the haves and have-nots.

Lets just face facts, most people watch the game from their living room in High Def and are the better for it. I'm sadder about the loss of Monday Night Football than I am TX Stadium.