Memo to the New York Football Giants:  When you dress like a college football team, and you look  like a college football team…you generally play  like a college football team.
Arlington Heights 23, at Western Hills 7
Texas Christian 22, at Bigamy Young U 27
at #5 Oklahoma 52, Baylor 21
at #2 LSU 58, Louisiana Tech 10
Dallas 31, at New York Football Giants 20
The write-up from the Startlegram says that Heights beat Hills in the “fifth-place game”.  What I want to know is…why?  Neither team appears headed for the playoffs, contrary to what I thought this game was for the other day, so why play it?
Anyway, Heights winds up 5-4, and Coach Duke Christian gets to keep his job another year.
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As poorly as Texas Christian played Thursday, they actually had a chance to win the game in the fourth quarter.  Andy Dalton had taken the Frogs on a 94-yard scoring drive to cut the lead to five with three and a half left, then even got the ball back with two and a half left.  But Dalton is even more of a statue than Ballard was last year, and he got sacked on successive plays 11 seconds apart.
TCU’s bowl aspirations are in serious jeopardy at this point.
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Les Miles got a pretty good birthday present Saturday night.  Not only did his Tigers roll over La. Tech, but Ohio State got upset by Illinois in Big Ten play, meaning that the formerly #2 Tigers will once again be #1 next week.
Flynn had three touchdowns to go with 237 yards on 14 of 26 passing, and Jacob Hester had 115 yards and a touchdown rushing.
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Baylor actually led OU at one point, taking the ball on their third possession and driving down the field, using crisp passing to shred the OU secondary.
Then OU got the ball back.
Boom – Bradford to Manny Johnson for 11.  Boom – Bradford to Allan Patrick for another 11.  Boom, boom – Patrick and DeMarco Murray for 8 & 5, respectively.  Boom – Bradford to Malcolm Kelly for yet another 11.  Boom – Murray for 25 and a touchdown.
After a Baylor three-and-out, Bradford would hit Kelly for a 51-yard TD pass.  OU would not trail again.
Bradford would finish 20 of 25 for 353 and three touchdowns.  Murray had 95 yards and three touchdowns.  Patrick added 46 yards to the effort.
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The New York Football Giants have a red alternate jersey that they yank out when they play the Cowboys. They were  1-2 in them.
Make that 1-3.
The Cowboys started the game with a Julius Jones run off right tackle for 20, then Romo began to nickel-and-dime the Giant secondary all the way down the field, mixing in the occasional Jones run to keep the Giants honest.  They would score on a Romo special – a scramble followed by a pass mere milliseconds before he got clocked, the seemingly unorthodox throw finding its way to backup tight end Tony Curtis for a score.
It didn’t take long for the G-men to tie it.  Eli Manning alternated between passes to Plaxico Burrest & Jeremy Shockey, mixed in with pounding runs from Brandon Jacobs, and New York scored in 10 plays
It would be the only legitimate (read:  hard-earned from a long drive) touchdown the Giants would get all night.  They got another touchdown off a Romo pick, and two field goals.
One of those field goals came courtesy of a boneheaded dumbass play by linebacker Kevin Burnett.  Having stopped Jacobs for no gain at the Giant 34, Burnett couldn’t leave well enough alone, and bent down to get in Jacobs’ face about it.  One 15-yard flag for taunting and a 30-yard pass to Shockey later, kicker Lawrence Tynes had tied the game on a 40-yarder from the right hash.
(Memo to Burnett:  Hey, dumbass, be very thankful Jimmy Johnson isn’t still coaching this team.  Suggest you ask Curvin Richards why.)
Fortunately, it wound up not hurting the ‘Boys after Romo began bombing the NYG secondary in the second half.  Touchdown passes of 25 and 50 yards to Terrell Owens, and the G-men were done.
And yes – I called him by his given name.  Our Mr. Owens appears to have figured it out:
“With this offense, I know we’re capable of putting points on the board,” Owens said. “Everybody on this team is making plays. I’m a big part of that. I just have to remain patient.”
Would the T.O. of old – the one with the attitude that it was all about him – have made a statement like that in the past?  (Granted, this is the best online example I can find – but in interviews after the game yesterday, I heard an Owens I’d not heard before.  So did a lot of other people, to listen to the Fox analysts.)
“Obviously today, we had more penalties than we would like, and we have to eliminate those,” T.O. said. “That was everybody’s emotions running high. There was a little trash-talking by them. We came here, the game was played and I feel like we made a statement.”
Romo didn’t think so all that much.  But to go into the Meadowlands, on the heels of going into the Linc, and getting both games should tell you something about this year’s edition of the Cowboys:  These guys can play.
This week:  4-1.  Overall:  45-13.
The PFW will return either Thursday or Friday, depending on whether Heights has another game this year.
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