After eight days of talk about devastating hits, the Dallas Cowboys NFL jerseys endured a comprehensively brutal blow from which they won’t likely recover, at least not this season.
As blitzing New York Giants linebacker Michael Boley drove Tony Romo(notes) into the Cowboys Stadium turf in the second quarter of Monday night’s 41-35 victory, the Super Bowl dreams of America’s Team were officially broken. So, too, was Romo’s clavicle. While it’s not yet clear exactly how long the quarterback will be out – in his postgame session with reporters, owner Jerry Jones suggested a timeline of six to eight weeks – chances are that if Romo returns this season,wholesale jerseys the Cowboys’ playoff hopes will have been officially extinguished by then.
Dallas, coming off an 11-5 season that ended with a divisional playoff defeat to the Vikings, is 1-5 and trending toward 4-12. It’s a nightmare Cowboys owner Jerry Jones didn’t see coming when he essentially stood pat over the offseason, spitting in the face of conventional wisdom, because he felt he already had a team that could win it all.
With an uncapped year and the chance to host a Super Bowl steelers jerseys next February in his gorgeous new stadium, Jones had been expected by many to go on a spending spree in a desperate effort to get back to the Ultimate Game. Instead he chose to play the hand he already had, a conviction that stemmed from a fervent faith in the power of Romo’s throwing arm.
No one knows for sure what the post-2010 Cowboys will look like or, for that matter, whether the 2011 season will start on time or even be played at all. I’d be stunned, however, if Romo’s not a huge part of the post-makeover Cowboys. The guy gets a lot of grief, partly because of his propensity for high-profile fun away from the field, but he’s still a very good quarterback with an improvisational flair who still carries the potential for greatness.
Anything can happen in pro football, but it feels like we’ve seen this movie before, and it doesn’t end happily
