I'm sitting here at work waiting for an event to begin and just had to write about what I see in front of me. A woman has arrived nearly an hour before the speaker is scheduled to begin to sit in the very back row. The expected crowd is around 150 in a venue that will seat over 1000, and she arrived early to secure the seat furthest from the front. How Baptist is that???

Thoughts from Cowboys-Bills MNF

No matter what games come later in the season, it will be hard to beat last night's MNF matchup between the Cowboys and Bills. I never thought I would be pulling for the Cowboys, but watching Tony Romo keep his cool after a disastrous first half and lead the game-winning drive made me a believer. As bad as I felt for the Buffalo fans, it was a great game, nearly ruined by two things...

As much as I like commentator Tony Kornheiser on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption", can there be a more annoying person to endure over the course of a game? His constant on air rabbit-chasing aside, he offers no real substance to the game and is more of a third-wheel than Dennis Miller or even Rush Limbaugh ever thought of being. Last night during the pre-game show he went into several scenarios that could make this game winnable by the Buffalo Bills; i.e. a sudden snowstorm, Cowboys coach Wade Phillips forgetting that he wasn't still coaching the Bills and a couple other suggestions implying the futility Buffalo would be facing later that evening.

Then, five interceptions later with Buffalo leading, Kornheiser changed his tune to speculate that the Cowboys may have been overrated, citing the 5-15 combined record of their opponents this season. I didn't catch what he may have said following the Cowboys win, but I'm sure it would have sounded a lot like "What I meant by saying that is..." or praising the poise (correctly, I might add) of Romo and his teammates. Anyway...

The other thing that bugs me is the sudden "strategy" of a coach calling timeout just before the snap to freeze the kicker. Maybe I'm not opposed to coaches doing it so much as when they've been doing it. The way Bills' coach Dick Jauron stood right beside the official last night and arranged for the timeout to be called at a specific point seems a little low to me. I could be wrong, but if you want to call a timeout you should have to call it before the set if you are on defense.

I've gotta take care of some things, but I'll try to be back.

Any comments?