I am certainly NOT going to even try to make any excuses for the Dallas Cowboys, BUT I have to say this kind of crap is far more emblematic of the caliber of NFL athletes, in general ... heck, athletes in the NBA and other professional sports leagues, as well. You obviously cannot paint them all with this same brush, BUT a whole bunch of 'em are nothing but spoiled rotten, pampered, disreputable, self-absorbed thugs. They do a consistent, thorough job of giving professional sports a black eye ... and their attitudes and antics have filtered down into the college and high school ranks, too.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence