Sal Rosenberg
Rookie
Broken pinky...just heard it on espn
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3640890
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3640890
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Romo out 4 weeks
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Texan_Bill
Hall of Fame
Ruh roh!!!! Could be some trouble for the gurls....
chicagotexan2
Easterby = Little Finger/Cal = Fredo Corleone
Oh NOOOOO!!! How is he supposed to sip his tea w/o being able to stick his pinky out? I feel so bad for the Cowboys. No, not really, not at all.
Texan_Bill
Hall of Fame
Upcoming schedule:
@ Saint Louis
Tampa Bay
@ NY Giants
Bye week.......
They catch a break with St. Louis and their Bye week... But the Bucs game and especially the Giants game can be tough...
@ Saint Louis
Tampa Bay
@ NY Giants
Bye week.......
They catch a break with St. Louis and their Bye week... But the Bucs game and especially the Giants game can be tough...
Second Honeymoon
Hall of Fame
tough break for the Pokes...i felt they were a paper tiger anyway in 2008. they are still missing a quality veteran to lead them through the playoffs and until they get that guy, they will probably keep failing in the postseason.
i feel bad for Romo though because although he is a choker he is a great individual and a class act.
i feel bad for Romo though because although he is a choker he is a great individual and a class act.
Sal Rosenberg
Rookie
BJ might make them better but ehhh who cares??
Great, now Cowboy fan has a built in excuse for losing for the next 4 weeks especially against the Giants.
TexansLucky13
53d Signal Batt
Broken PINKY?
Excuse? Personally, I felt that the last few weeks have been marked with under achievement. Whoop, there it is! They are still my team and always will be, and while thankful for the few wins we have gotten, we have the talent to do better than what's been displayed so far. I think that BJ has the potential to fill in for Romo and be a good leader. We shall see.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
Agree. No excuses. They were playing below expectations and were lsitless. Maybe this will force them to run and play real football.
Maybe you are one of those rare Cowboys fans. However posts like this one I found on ESPN.com are so typical from Cowboys fans.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
We have already discussed this many times. There are a majority of really good Cowboy fans that understand sports. Read about the San Antonio guy and the letter I wrote to him. you can't just pick out a few jackasses....there are some here too..and say its typical.
I do think it is funny how a cowboy injury brings so much joy..typical.
So the majority of the GOOD Cowboys fans understand sports. I can agree with that. However my point is the GOOD Cowboys fans are in the minority. The "jackasses" are the majority. At least that is what I have seen everywhere I have lived (Houston, New York, Philly, Dallas, Austin).
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
I disagree but I can see it if you are looking for it. I think all teams have them and maybe with the media and the Cowboys the a-holes stand out.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
Hopefully this forces them to run the ball now and play real football.
Yep. Jason has that "run up the middle for 1 yard" play down to a science.
Dread-Head
Hall of Fame
LOL. Steve McNair played with:
a. Cracked ribs
b. an ankle sprain
c. a wrenched neck
d. a trick knee
Simultaneously!
Mr. Warren Moon:
a. Cracked ribs.
Donovan McNabb
a. Played an entire game on a broken ankle
Dan Pastorini
a. Broken Ribs
b. Concussion
Troy Aikman
a. Concussion
Tomasina Brady
a. played with a splint on one hand.
QB's have been playing with broken bones and serious injuries since the dawn of time but THIS pretty boy wuss has ...the BALLZ to sit out 4 games...with a broken PINKY!? Why doesn't he change his name from Romo to Massengil? If she just wanted to spend more time with her GF Jessica Simpson why didn't she just say so. What a punk.
Hooston Texan
Rookie
While watching Hard Knocks before the season, I couldn't help but think: this should be a great team, but if they hit some rough waters, that boat's going to sink. Now we're about to see if that is correct . . .
GuerillaBlack
Hall of Fame
They definitely do. I live in Dallas now, and before the Redskin loss, they a-hole fans were everywhere. That Redskin loss quieted a lot of them.
Dread-Head
Hall of Fame
Q: How do you tell the diff between a Cowboy fan an an A-hole?
A: How do you tell cow $h:t from bull $h:t? There's REALLY not much difference worth discussing.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
Well, if you want my blunt opinion there can be quite a few aholes at times here to the Cowboy fans who are actually nice and it ends up being the same thing...just look at the comments around here some time. That is why I believe it is a minority in each fan base. But it also comes down to how thin skinned people are. There are obnoxious a-holes but there is also good natured fan taunting that some people take personally.
GuerillaBlack
Hall of Fame
I don't know. To me, there are more a-hole cowboy fans than anything else. If you speak bad upon them, it's always "oh yeah, well how many super bowls has your team won?!!". That's all they fall back on when losing a conversation.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
Well, that is old to many of us that are Cowboy fans but that is more sports in general with the "scoreboard" mentality. I hear that daily with "druggies", crackheads", etc, etc daily. What does that have to do with the team now?As I said, I've experienced a ton of a-holes from rivals in especially in Houston and I blow it off as the exception when I hear real fans who don't resort to it.
Dread-Head
Hall of Fame
THAT's part of why I hate those muff-huggas so much. And that's precisely why they hate the 9ers. The 9ers won as many superbowls...but it only took them one team and five trips. They can't do the whole "we won more than you" BS on the 9ers or Steelers because both teams have also won 5 and one team made it to five LONG before the Cowgirls did.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
That really doesn't mean a thing...time period. The Cowboys won 5 and got there 8 times. They also set an NFL record for winning seasons straight...20 and did alot of their damage in 3 different decades. That is proof of longevity and not one good run. That actually shows more. Since when have the 49ers been relavent except for fighting for #1 picks?
Romo out for 4 weeks. TO out of the closet with his Erkle fetish.
Silver Oak
All Pro
if Johnson doesn't get him the ball, that freak show in Dallas is going to explode.
mattieuk
All Pro
Wow, bad break (no pun intended) for the Boys, especially after the tough loss at the weekend. It does sound a bit wimpy though. Until i see his finger like a zigzag, I think he's overplaying it a bit. Didn't he play the whole game nearly with it broke, and threw for 3 TD and a whole heck load of yards?
Surely Jessica could strap it up real good for him so he could play...
Surely Jessica could strap it up real good for him so he could play...
That injury was just too familiar which caused me to go and do a google search on Kurt Warner. Interestingly enough, it was his pinky finger that was injured in a game against the Cowboys back when he played for St. Louis. Hopefully, Romo's injury won't cause nearly the problems that Kurt endured following his injury.
He hurt it in overtime. First play and wasn't able to throw the ball afterwards.
I would just guess...now this is only a guess...that it is NOT Tony that is saying he can't play for 4 weeks but a qualified medical doctor. But that's just me. But if people want to say HE is overplaying it well then so be it.
Dread-Head
Hall of Fame
Hmmm. So by YOUR logic, five trips and five wins means MUCH less than 8 trips and 5 wins.
By MY math the 9ers success ratio in Superbowls is 100%. The Cowboys record 62.5%. Mind you I'm not expert here but last I checked
100 > 62.5
If you don't think so, why don't I give you $ 62.50 and you can give me a nice crispy $ 100.00 bill. Now then, by your own twisted logic the Buffalo Bills of the 90's were a better team than your boys because they went four years straight despite NOT WINNING! The Cowgirls went three times in four years and won those three so I view them as the better Team (despite one of those SB's being a GIFT from Neil O'Donnel) but according to YOUR logic Buffalo was clearly the Superior Team. By that Record, the Steelers of the 70's and early 80's sucked compared to the Cowboys because they only went to four superbowls and won all four rather than going to five and losing three. The Broncos have gone to six and won two...does that almost as great as the Cowboys?
Face it. The 9ers went to five with the nucleus of ONE TEAM and won all five and did so before a certain group of braggarts from North Texas did.
Deal with it.
Dread-Head
Hall of Fame
K. I feel I have to clarify something. There are Cowgirl fans who are relatively decent human beings like Starstruck. She is a fantastic lady and the venom which I FREQUENTLY spew in here to the Dallas Cowboy organization is NOT intended directly for her.
She is an all around class act and should teach classes in civility, dignity and sportsmanship to the Cowboy fans who have given the bulk of the NFL a bad impression of Cowboy fans.
Despite my respect for this charming woman, I would like to state for the record that the immeasurable rancor which I feel towards the Dallas Cowboy organization (which excludes Landry, Dorsette and Aikman) not only remains in tact but festers like molasses on hot asphalt in mid August. My late Sunday activity remains watching them play and cheering on whoever their opponent is that week and shall remain thus until the sun has gone supernova and my bones have long since rotted away, turned to dust and been carried into the universe in a cloud of hydrogen that shall begin a second big bang, which shall create all time in a loop of itself in which...my future self shall despise them with every fibre of his being.
THAT my friends is how one expresses hated!
She is an all around class act and should teach classes in civility, dignity and sportsmanship to the Cowboy fans who have given the bulk of the NFL a bad impression of Cowboy fans.
Despite my respect for this charming woman, I would like to state for the record that the immeasurable rancor which I feel towards the Dallas Cowboy organization (which excludes Landry, Dorsette and Aikman) not only remains in tact but festers like molasses on hot asphalt in mid August. My late Sunday activity remains watching them play and cheering on whoever their opponent is that week and shall remain thus until the sun has gone supernova and my bones have long since rotted away, turned to dust and been carried into the universe in a cloud of hydrogen that shall begin a second big bang, which shall create all time in a loop of itself in which...my future self shall despise them with every fibre of his being.
THAT my friends is how one expresses hated!
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
Dread, I've always been respectful on here to you and others. I've never had cross words with you. Maybe you should learn the same. You are doing the same thing you claim to despise by trying to go out of your way to be difficult and an a-hole. Its unnecessary. Also, I never said that 100% was less of a record. I said that the Cowboys have had the consistency, including 20 straight winning seasons(a record)...over 3-4 decades and that the consistency and making it to 8 SBs is a major feat. I said that this MAY be a harder feat overall then making just one run in one decade. Also, I'm not sure when you grew up but before the 49ers had done anything, the Cowboys had already established themselves as a premier team and had played in multiple SBs(5 of them in the 70s), including classics against the Steelers and Colts and had won vs Miami and Denver. That doesn't even include the Ice Bowl vs the Packers in the late 60s. So the whole "braggarts from N. Texas" is really weak and completely wrong. If you want to figure out why some Cowboy fans might respond badly to you, look at your writing. Grow up and show some of us the same respect that we have shown you for a long time now.
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HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
Are you kidding?Have you tried to grip and throw a football without the pinky? That makes no sense at all. The pinky is the last finger that "pushes off" when throwing. It is part of the grip. I guess having the flu is more manly.
Rational talk does no good around here...don't you know.
GlassHalfFull
Hall of Fame
HOU-TEX
Ah, Football!
Didn't Favre play with a broken thumb? I reckon that would be more difficult to play with than a pinky.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
Ronnie Lott did it one time.
Didn't Favre play with a broken thumb? I reckon that would be more difficult to play with than a pinky.
Not sure if he did or not. I think it was a bone crack. I think this is torn ligaments and a lower break. I jave no clue. That would be tough, I just think that if fumbling Romo has trouble pre-pinky, then the ball would get swiped 20 times post-pinky. From all I read yesterday from ex-Qbs and stuff not having the pinky is not easy and isn't something you'd want to try.
Mr teX
Hall of Fame
Are you kidding?Have you tried to grip and throw a football without the pinky? That makes no sense at all. The pinky is the last finger that "pushes off" when throwing. It is part of the grip. I guess having the flu is more manly.
Rational talk does no good around here...don't you know.
actually it's the index finger, but i'm with you.....any injury to a Qb's throwing hand usually sidelines them. You can't use freaks like favre as an example b/c the man defies everything.
HoustonFrog
Dallas Frog
The push off finger? You still have to use it in the puch though as it then sticks out. Either way, we agree, gripping and throwing is not something that is done.
Second Honeymoon
Hall of Fame
if it's the index finger, i think the Cowboys season ended in Arizona. other than your thumb, its probably the most important finger to throw a spiral and accurate pass.
i thought they have been too pass happy anyways. Jones looks really good and if they commit to the running game it will just open up the rest of the people. of course that would risk a TO meltdown if he doesn't get the ball so they will probably still throw the ball around a lot regardless of who is behind center.
i thought they have been too pass happy anyways. Jones looks really good and if they commit to the running game it will just open up the rest of the people. of course that would risk a TO meltdown if he doesn't get the ball so they will probably still throw the ball around a lot regardless of who is behind center.
I think this is a question that bears repeating. Wasn't it Kurt Warner's broken pinky finger that almost derailed his career?
Also, at this time, I am not really worried about Brad Johnson, our back up quarterback since he has playoff and Super Bowl experience. On the otherhand, if our back up was someone with less experience and getting a first opportunity to carry the team during Romo's absence, I would probably hope for and 8/8 or 9/7 at best.
Also, at this time, I am not really worried about Brad Johnson, our back up quarterback since he has playoff and Super Bowl experience. On the otherhand, if our back up was someone with less experience and getting a first opportunity to carry the team during Romo's absence, I would probably hope for and 8/8 or 9/7 at best.