Dallas Cowboys: The Perfect Storm

After a decade out of the spotlight, sports media has refocused its spotlight on the team it loves to cover: the Dallas Cowboys. Even as they began a slow decline into mediocrity this season, they still get more air time, ink, and pixels devoted to them then the entire AFC North combined. Why is that? It is because they're so scary good that they demand air time, like the Patriots of last season? No, because they are 4-2. Because Tony Romo has never won a playoff game. Because as close as T.O. gets to the all-time receiving touchdown record, he will never be thought of in the same breath as Jerry Rice, except when someone says, "T.O. is nothing like Jerry Rice." No, Dallas is the perfect storm of every shortcut the media uses to drum up headlines, and the two biggest stories in the entire league now both happen to wear the blue and silver. Add that to the unabashed love that people like Joe Buck and John Madden feel for tony Romo, and you've got the perfect storm. Tony Romo's pinkie was ... (link)