Cancer Cured

What can I say?  Today is a great sports day.  A-Roid is out 10 weeks and T.O. the cancer is no longer a Dallas Cowboy.  As a Red Sox and Cowboys fan it doesn’t get much better than this!  The A-Rod injury is what it is and the Yankees will still be expected to win the AL East without him because of their pitching.  But the real story here is the release of T.O.  As a Cowboys fan, you can never be sure what owner Jerry Jones is going to do and after the collapse in Philly last January my fear was he’d keep everything status quo because he simply saw 2008 as a fluke.  My biggest fear was that we’d have another year of the cancer that is T.O. in the locker room.  Now, the problems last year were not all the fault of T.O. but subtracting him from the mess that was the end of last season cannot hurt.  I’m surprised Jerry sucked it up and admitted he lost his devil’s bet in acquiring Owens and cut his losses.  I believe Dallas will be a better team without Owens next year.  I have confidence Roy Williams will step in as the #1 receiver and Tony Romo will improve because he can finally play in peace.  Owens is a proven distraction.  Again, he wasn’t solely responsible for this team’s underachievement last year, but being a cancer is what he does.  It’s his M.O. and he can’t help himself when he feels disrespected.  He did it in Philly and San Francisco and he’ll do it at his next landing spot.  Good riddance!  I never wanted the guy in Dallas in the first place.  Super Bowls were won in Dallas before he came and they’ll be won again now that he’s gone.  Hopefully Jerry will learn from this high profile mistake and procure team oriented guys first in the future.  This release gives me hope that Jerry MAY have turned the corner as a GM.