The Impact of Jessica Simpson

I'm sorry, I was going to write about something else today, but after everything I have heard and read about how Dallas Cowboy fans are livid about Jessica Simpson NOT attending this weekend's playoff game against the Giants, I just had to comment on it. It would go against my journalistic tendencies not to say anything. Anyway, here is the point. Sometimes players just have bad games. Tony Romo's week 15 game against Philadelphia was just one of those games. In that game Romo was 13-36 for 214 yards and 3 INTs. Yes, he played bad, but it wasn't because Jessica Simpson was watching. It's not like he kept looking up into the press box after every offensive play like a little kid looking for his parents in the crowd. I used to do that when I was little, I always used to search the stands for my Dad to see if there was anything I should be doing. But playing in front of 50 people at a high school soccer game is a lot different than playing in front of 50,000 every Sunday. He's a grown man. Criticism comes with the job, if you can't take it, do something else. Over the course of a 16 game season a player is bound to have a few bad games. The problem is when you're the quarterback, everyone puts the blame on you if the team doesn't win because then it looks like you're not doing your job. Look at the overall season stats on Romo folks, over 4200 yards, 36 TDs, 19 INT, 97.4 rating on a 13-3 team (that last loss against Carolina shouldn't even count because the Cowboys didn't play everybody due to them already having a first-round bye locked up). If Carson Palmer put up those type of numbers, I'd be a happy Bengals fan.

Oh and P.S. to all you Cubs fans out there, if you're still looking for someone to blame that's not named Steve Bartman, how about Alex S. Gonzalez? If he doesn't boot the routine ground ball and makes the double play, inning over, threat over. Or maybe Kerry Wood for not stepping up in a big-time game. How you can still blame a guy for going for a foul ball that was clearly not catchable for all your troubles as the "Curse of the Billy Goat" now reaches 100 years is beyond me.

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