After the Cowboys looked ungood in their third preseason game against the Texans, many of the Dallas media chose to ignore how poorly Dallas played and how well the Texans played, and instead preferred to mock the Texans for making a big deal about winning the Governor's Cup.Little do these writers know, the winner of the Governor's Cup retains various mega-awesome super powers. Check out Liston's brilliant game recap over at Battle Red Blog, where he explains these powers in more depth. In part:
"Imagine this: A ninja is dressed in all white riding a motorcycle with flames shooting out of the back of it while making out with a smoking hot model and simultaneously sending a text message t9 style to Puff Daddy. Do you know what the football equivalent to that is? The Governor's cup."I was at the Texans Team Luncheon yesterday, (check out the video here), and for the minor amusement of ESPN writer and Dallas apologist expert, Matt Mosley, I posed next to the Governor's Cup (and the very large guardian of the Cup) to bask in its glory and power, and carry its mojo over to the upcoming season. Cowboy fans want to blow off the game as merely the preseason, but check out this analysis talking about how the third game of the preseason does have some predictive value. Hmmm.
At the Texans Team luncheon, Bob McNair claimed that the Cup provides him the power to grant clemency to Cowboy fans and invite them to become true Texans. For anyone who brings to the Go Texans Store at Reliant Stadium the jersey of another team, including the Cowboys, they will give a $15 discount on a Texans jersey. He might have been joking about the granting clemency thing, but it is no laughing matter. As Liston explains:
"The Texans manhandled the Dallas Cowboys today, 28-16, to claim their rightful position as the Governor's Cup Champions and subsequently Champions of the Solar System. It's a good thing too because, as everyone knows, the last time the Cowboys had the Governor's Cup the Gulf War started and 1,000 puppies died."Please, I invite you to become a Texan fan. Do it now for world peace and the puppies.
(Hat tip: Tim at BattleRedBlog)
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. I'll take a world war, and mass extinction, over becoming a Texan fan....
Posted at 12:42PM on Aug 29th 2007 by mdisptch11
2. mdisptch11-
C'mon now, you don't want to prove to the world that Cowboy fans are truly evil, do you?
-Steph
Posted at 12:44PM on Aug 29th 2007 by Stephanie Stradley
3. Won't anyone please think of the puppies?!?
Posted at 3:42PM on Aug 29th 2007 by Matt
4. # of Dallas' Super Bowl appearances - 8
Most regular season wins for Houston - 7
This may be the reason Cowboys fans don't care.
Posted at 5:48PM on Aug 29th 2007 by Diallo
5. You could be on to something, Diallo, if not for the number of Cowboys fans who were crowing about kicking our butts before the game. So, I think the answer has more to do with them just being a bunch of insufferable rednecks.
Posted at 5:49PM on Aug 29th 2007 by Matt
6. # of Texans that could make the Dallas roster: 2
Posted at 5:49PM on Aug 29th 2007 by milton thuroughgood III
7. # of 1st team Cowboys that were able to stop 2nd team Texans: 0
Posted at 5:51PM on Aug 29th 2007 by Buck
8. Does Wade Phillips making excuses after the loss equal Dave Campo? Discuss.
Posted at 5:58PM on Aug 29th 2007 by Stephanie Stradley
9. I'd care alot more if it was the Oilers.
Posted at 8:01PM on Aug 29th 2007 by Paul Rickaway
10. I take offense to calling cowboy fans a bunch of insufferable rednecks. It's an insult to both the insufferable and to rednecks. In the immortal words of todays ultimate redneck "GETRDONE". The cowboys tried, and got the snot knocked out of them by an expansion team still trying to find itself. It's just a preseason game is for crybabies and losers.
So which one is a cowboy fan? I pick crying loser.
Games the cowboys lose after which their fans don't make excuses for them 0.
The Texans handing the cowflops their butt in a sack priceless.
Odds of the cowflops winning the super bowl this year 0.
Posted at 9:34PM on Aug 29th 2007 by Tom
11. I find it hilarious that Crygirl "fans" choose to show their indifference towards the Crygirls being embarraseed in a game they desperately wanted to win by running to any Texans website to explain how they don't care.
Proof positive that Saturday's loss is absolutely KILLING them. The Texans have ruined their entire week.
Posted at 9:09AM on Aug 30th 2007 by HPFDave
12. Number of Cowboy Playoff wins since the Texans joined the NFL-0.
Posted at 10:01AM on Aug 30th 2007 by papabear
13. You know, I don't remember if I touched it. The guy was carrying it by me, so I asked to take a picture with it. He said we could but he had to keep holding it.
I suppose in case I ran off with it, dropped it or put smudgy fingerprints on it.
Posted at 9:56AM on Sep 3rd 2007 by Stephanie Stradley
14. Nice pic! That is really cool. Did you get to touch it?
Posted at 6:51PM on Sep 3rd 2007 by debutaunt