WAKE UP! | Netflix’s Cowboys doc, Cowboys & Parsons’ visit, and high school football
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Scattershooting all over the place on this Thursday morning…
– Boy, that “Jimmy Kimmel Show” suspension lasted a long time, huh? I’ve taken showers that lasted longer.
– Have you guys seen any of the Netflix documentary “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys”? Guys, I’m not a Cowboys fan. I’ll admit that. I do watch them every time they play. But I lived all of the “adventure” watching Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. I was 18 when Jones bought the Cowboys. This is as good a documentary as you will ever see on the Cowboys, or any NFL team, from the time that Jerry bought the franchise. It’s got a TON of footage that I had never seen (and I thought I’d seen it all), and it was nice to see all of the faces — some of them former Cowboys and coaches, and some not — that contributed to this, to help tell the story of the team from 1989 up. Honestly, they pulled no punches. I’m sure there’s a lot that got left on the cutting-room floor, so to speak, but if you don’t watch it for anything else, watch it for the commentary from Troy Aikman and especially for former coach Jimmy Johnson. There’s eight episodes, and they run somewhere between 45 minutes to an hour each. I’m almost through with it, and I’m thinking about going back to watch it again.
Speaking of Jerry Jones, some of you guys may have read that the Cowboys will not be doing a tribute to recently-traded edge rusher Micah Parsons.
Here’s what I want to know: who was the goofball that asked Jones that question?
Seriously?
Do you do tributes for your former employees when they come back, for any reason?
Besides, Parsons played for Dallas for three seasons. He was very good. I wouldn’t call him great. And I mean that. I thought they should’ve traded him before they did. If they’d traded him after last season, they could’ve had a first round pick this past April.
– For the first time since the high school football season started, we have no Thursday varsity games involving any of the teams in our area. So this week, it really will be “Friday Night Lights.”
One of the teams in our coverage area, Beckville, had already started its district schedule, and will actually be playing a second district game this week, aiming to go 2-0. And Carthage, Gilmer and Leverett’s Chapel still have non-district games tomorrow night. Everybody else, the other 11 programs in the ETBlitz coverage area, will be opening district play tomorrow. We’ll have our picks as a part of Wake Up! in the morning, but here’s a list of where all the ETB-area programs will be Friday night.
Beckville at Elysian Fields, 7 p.m.
Grapeland at Overton, 7 p.m.
Tatum at Sabine, 7 p.m.
Atlanta at White Oak, 7 p.m
Gladewater at Jefferson, 7 p.m.
Gilmer vs. Brenham (in Longview), 7 p.m.
Elkhart at West Rusk, 7:30 p.m.
Arp at Troup, 7:30 p.m.
Henderson at Palestine, 7:30 p.m.
Carthage at Jasper, 7:30 p.m.
Pine Tree at Kilgore, 7:30 p.m.