NFL Films chief says Dallas Cowboys ideal fit for Hard Knocks

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Dallas Cowboys Saturday afternoon roundup
Published 5/10/2008 by Dave Halprin (Grizz) at Blogging The Boys: Front Page Posts
... The Dead Zone. We don’t have another OTA until May 20th. Pacman and his team have gone underground and haven’t uttered a peep. Greg Ellis spiced things up briefly but even that has been played-out. The only thing people are really talking about is the Cowboys star-turn in HBO’s Hard Knocks series. Naturally Steve Sabol and crew are very excited about getting the Cowboys to agree to expose their deepest, darkest secrets to a cable audience. Of note is that after the Cowboys did Hard Knocks in 2002, the series was dormant until the Kansas ...

Not seeing Stars.
Published 5/15/2008 by Paulsen (noreply@blogger.com) at Sports Media Watch
The NHL ratings renaissance must have skipped Dallas. The Red Wings/Stars Western Conference Finals is drawing much higher numbers in Detroit than Dallas. The first three games averaged a mere 1.6 rating in Dallas, compared to a 9.0 in Detroit. Game 1 of the series drew only a 1.1 rating . The disparity is so large that it cannot only be explained by a higher level of interest in 'Hockeytown'. After all, fans in Dallas were tuning into games prior to the Conference Finals. Game 6 between the Stars and Sharks ...