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Now that&#160 was a sweet birthday present.&#160 And I don’t care what&#160 Heights did – it still counts as a Perfect Football Weekend.

Arlington Heights 8, Azle 19
TCU 51, UNLV 3
Oklahoma 36, Texas A&M 30
LSU 16, Alabama 13 (OT)
Dallas 21, Filthydelpha 20

This is the third straight “one-and-done” playoff run for Coach Duke Christian and the Arlington Heights Yellow Jackets.&#160 Azle’s Hornets flat-out shut down the Jacket offense – Heights’ points came on a punt snapped out of the end zone and a didn’t-mean-squat TD pass with three seconds left in the game. (Never mind that Fort Worth’s other two playoff schools got dumped the same night – this is the PFW, remember?&#160 I don’t give a flip about your teams – just mine. (grin))

One wonders whether it’s that Heights just doesn’t have the horses, or doesn’t have the coaching&#160 The same question was asked of Forney coach Mel Maxfield a couple years back, and he wound up leaving.

Forney went 4-6 this year. (shrug) So who knows?

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TCU seemed absolutely bored in dispatching UNLV.&#160 They looked a step-and-a-half slow at times, and still&#160 averaged 17 points per quarter for the first three.&#160 Was a very nice way to end a very nice season.

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JoMarcus Russell threw a touchdown pass to Dwayne Bowe in overtime after holding the Crimson Tide to a field goal on their possession.&#160 Bo Pelini’s defense was tough once again.

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OU jumped out to a 28-7 lead, then hung on late.

Probably the one thing the Sooners did more than anything else to shoot themselves in the foot…was to knock Aggie quarterback Reggie O’Neal out of the game during a tackle in the end zone for a safety in the third quarter.&#160 Seemed that backup Stephen McGee ran the A&M offense a little more efficiently after that.

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When David Akers kicked a field goal with 9:02 left to go in the game last night to make the score 20-7, I cut the radio, having heard more than enough.&#160 Spent the rest of the trip home cussing out the Cowgirls for playing like pussies and letting a bunch of backups push them all over the Lincoln Financial Field turf.&#160 Was ready to take Jerry Jones, Bill Parcells and&#160 Drew Bledsoe and shoot ’em all out a photon tube, y’know?

I get home, get on here to check email, and the SpatulaGoddess (Long May She Reign) gets on IM and tells me that Dallas is…leading.

My response (verbatim):&#160 “WHAT???”

In the interim, Bledsoe had driven the ‘Boys 72 yards for a touchdown to make it 20-14, then Roy Williams intercepted a very&#160 ill-advised Donna McNabb pass and took it to the house.&#160 It’s the second straight year that Williams has done serious damage to a Beagles’ season, having knocked Little Terri Owens out with an injury last year.

They must really&#160 hate him Right About Now&#153. (snicker)

Linebacker Bradie James threw a block on McNabb during Williams’ return, and apparantly re-aggravated McNabb’s sports hernia injury that he’s been nursing; Donna’s next drive was three-and-out, and third-stringer Mike McMahon came in to finish the game (where he very nearly drove the Beagles for a game-winning field goal).

The Cowboys now lead the NFC East via tiebreaker at 6-3, and I’m going to count it as a third straight PFW (despite the Heights loss), just for the facts that one of my teams (OU) beat one of my anti-teams (A&M), and the Cowboys swept the City of Brotherly Shove for the first time since 1998.

We’ll take one more shot at a PFW Thursday or Friday, as OU, LSU and the Cowboys play this weekend.&#160 I’ll try to find a high-school team to round things out.