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Yeah I know, I generally do not pay attention to any football, let alone the NCAA variety. The simple fact is, however one simply cannot live a mile from Wade Davis Stadium, serve a church full of Mississippi State faculty and staff, and not catch at least a mild case of football fever.

It seems that on 1 January 2011, the Bulldogs of Mississippi State University will face Michigan’s Wolverines in the Gator bowl. From what I understand, it should be an interesting game.

Hmm, I wonder what happens when one puts bulldogs, wolverines and alligators together? 🙂

Given how ex-Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson cut Curvin Richards after he fumbled twice after the Chicago game in 1992, Nebraska should be eminently thankful he’s not coaching them.

#10 Oklahoma 23, #13 Nebraska 20*

Dallas 38, at Indianapolis 35 (OT)

*at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington

Nebraska’s problem was simple:&#160 They failed to protect the ball, and turned it over too many times in their own territory, giving Landry Jones and the Sooners fields that were too short, too often.

Ball game.

Taylor Martinez threw a pass back across the field into traffic; OU picked it and turned it into a field goal.&#160 Roy Helu fumbled; OU recovered and turned it into a touchdown.&#160 Martinez fumbled – another OU field goal.&#160 Burkhead fumbled a snap (not his fault; it was a bad snap) – OU’s winning field goal.

Jones was 23-41-342 with a score.&#160 Kenny Stills caught three balls for 83 yards and a TD.&#160 DeMarco Murray & Robbie Finch combined for 105 rushing yards and a score.

But most of that would not have been possible had Nebraska not given the game to OU.

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Where has this&#160 team been?

Granted, Peyton Manning was playing with a couple cans short of a six pack (no Joe Addai, no Dallas Clark).&#160 But two months ago, the four picks he threw would have just clanked off Cowboy hands.

But the Cowboys scored 20 points off those four interceptions, two of them pick-sixes.

‘Bout time the defense picked up the offense for once.

This week:&#160 2-1.&#160 Overall:&#160 69-17.

The PFW will return on Friday to handicap (?) Dallas-Philthydelphia.

Turn out the lights – the party really is&#160 over now.

“Dandy Don” Meredith has passed.

He was well known as the Cowboys’ first winning quarterback, i.e. he ran the team the first time they posted a winning record.&#160 And he was already well-known in Dallas as SMU’s quarterback.&#160 But his fame (notoriety?) took off a couple years after he retired – for that’s when he became the third man in the triumvirate of announcers doing ABC’s Monday Night Football, opposite Frank Gifford & Howard Cosell.&#160 And America became enamored with the song:

Turn out the lights

The party’s over

They say that

All good things must end

Call it tonight

The party’s over

And tomorrow starts

The same old thing again

Goodnight, Dandy Don.&#160 You left us too soon.