Final walk out of Cowboy glory

So it’s official – Adam “PacMan” Jones has been released from the Cowboys! To say that I’m happy is an understatement. This was an issue a long-time coming and now it has finally drawn to a close. The Cowboys have a lot of work to do this offseason, but this, without a doubt, was the most important thing to take off of the plate. Now we can get back to focusing on getting back to our rightful place on top of the NFL heap.

The irony of this whole situation with Pacman is clearly the fact that the Cowboys organization is known for taking on more of the NFL’s “challenging” players. It is a gamble that owner Jerry Jones has taken and has won more times than he has lost. Recently a player such as Terrell Owens owes a great deal of gratitiude to the Cowboys team for picking him up when other squads were backing off of him like some contagious disease. In the gamble with Pacman, however, we not only lost, but he forced us all to fold so early in the game.

Talk about a fool-proof plan! I mean, the Cowboys made it SO easy for this guy to come in, contribute, AND (most importantly) stay out of trouble. Pacman was given a fresh start, but couldn’t leave his old ways alone, despite having been provided security (a babysitter, if you ask me) and strict conditions stating that this was at best an experimental signing that could be called off at the first signal of possible failure. Granted, we’re talking about Dallas, Texas – a city with a legacy of controversial issues tied in with Cowboys from almost every era. My era was highlighted in the 90s with Michael Irvin and his need to get the non-beverage version of Coke (hint, hint). Nonetheless, the guy still performed and didn’t force an organization, a city, and its fans to lose hope and wish that we partook in this marriage in the first place.

So Pacman, there’s no love lost (or at least none that I’ll admit here). You are a talented guy with a lot of potential, but your potential will mean nothing unless you change – let me rephrase that – mature. Good luck in finding a new home, because unless you have lived under a rock for the past 20 years, you will be hard pressed to find a class organization in the NFL that will be willing to take a chance on a player that’s been given chance after chance already to redeem themselves and shake the dirt off of their fallen star power. Perhaps you will have to get back in the graces of Total Nonstop Action wrestling and do some more appearances with them in the meantime. As for the ‘boys, let’s get back to work and finding a way to get back to the glory that we’ve been passive and procrastinating on for at least 2 years now.