Ben Rogers and Jeff “Skin” Wade, our good friends at ESPN 103.3 FM, have thrown dirt on the Cowboys’ season after Sunday’s loss to the Vikings. So, please, we ask you to pay your respects as Ben & Skin eulogize the 2010 season for Jerry Jones & Co.
As the choir finishes, we’ll welcome Skin to the pulpit … Skin?s Eulogy
I think we all know why we?re here. It?s time to send a member of our family off to the great beyond.
I?ll make this brief, as a tribute to a team whose time on this Earth was brief as well.
Born into this world with high expectations — the expectations that come when one is born and immediately placed into a billion dollar crib. But you could not meet those expectations, possibly because of your enabling Uncle Wade, who was there to help raise you but he preferred to let you do as you wanted. Shielded from the truth. Shielded from discipline. There was nothing special about you, even the special teams weren?t special.
Your daddy was an excitable man with a passion for the finer things, crazy talk and massive amounts of hope. He was eager to travel and show you off in place of the work it took to raise you right.
So you leapfrogged into death. A death that came before Halloween — fitting really, as your life was nothing more than an elaborate costume party. A massive gala to honor horror, ghosts and death. And death welcomes your disembodied spirit into its non-comforting weakened arms. Burn in hell, sweet Cowboys. Burn in fiery hell!
We’ll give you a second to gather your thoughts, perhaps wipe away your tears. But keep the box of tissues handy. We’re not done … Ben’s Eulogy
The 2010 Cowboys lived an amazing life even though it was rather short. They were a great friend back when training camp started when I was certain that they?d win the next three Super Bowls; the kind of friend that stands by you when you?re certain that the Rangers won?t play meaningful baseball beyond late August. They were such a great friend that I was even willing to let Jerry hold me at virtual knifepoint and force me to listen to him speak
