Cowboys Morning After, Wk 5 - The Beatdown in Santa Clara
Dallas was given a measuring stick opportunity and shown they don't measure up
It is quite a story of sports in Dallas-Fort Worth in October of 2023 that reveals the range of emotions this form of entertainment can offer.
If you happen to run a DFW sports newsletter operation, you can actually summarize two different sports on the same night and capture different feelings. In fact, just before the Cowboys played in San Francisco on Sunday Night, I was putting the finishing touches on a write-up about the Texas Rangers defeating the top-seeded team in the American League and winning a playoff game some 2,850 miles away from where the Cowboys were.
That missive would take folks down the road of potential possibilities from where the ball club currently sits, where one of those paths would seem to end with their wildest dreams coming true in just a few weeks. All those years of waiting for the Texas Rangers to play competent baseball on a big stage may be paying off for those loyalists who hung in there with a franchise that has done nothing but bring disappointment most years.
But, the Dallas Cowboys? Despite their countless conquests that, which gained them many trophies, they could not seem further away from true victory than they do at this moment.
For on this very same day, where one DFW team seems capable of greatness on one coast, the other franchise that it shares parking lots with seems incapable of anything great.
Such is life in this sports city.
The Cowboys felt like this was their game of the year. Yes, there would be many others, but if any date stuck out greatly when the schedule was released, it was Oct. 8 in San Francisco, Sunday Night Football, where revenge could be had and a score could be settled.