Dwight
12/10/2010, 04:56 PM
http://www.orangepower.com/showthread.php?t=111625
FTA:
22 Year Cycle?
OK! I'll concede the point that one need be an old geezer to even think in terms of 22 years cycles up front but with that concession and caveat...
an old-timer such as myself can't help but draw parallels between this current team and the one that we ancient Cowboy's witnessed 22 years ago.
This current team boast the Biletnikoff Trophy confirmed best Receiver in the Country, the best Running Back in the Big 12, and the best QB in the Conference.
22 years ago in 1988, that Cowboy team boasted the Heisman confirmed best Running Back in the Country, the best Receiver in the Big 8, and the Big 8's all-time leading passer at QB.
In 1988, that team went 9-2 in a 11 game regular season and this current team went 10-2 in a 12 game regular season. In both instances (coincidently perhaps) the two losses were to Nebraska and u0.
22 years ago, we lost the Nebraska game due to a Defense that couldn't hold the Huskers to under 40 and repeated that dubious distinction again this season.
In 1988, we lost to the Goons late in the 4th on a brain-fart muff and albeit a defensive muff rather than a offensive one, repeated the disappointment again this season.
But with all other comparisons set aside, it's the recognition of what great individual talent we have as confirmed by post-season honors and awards that really prompted the comparison.
It's the return of that same, oh so close, wrenching pain in the gut that made the conclusion of this season feel so much like the one 22 years ago.
The one thing that really stuck in my craw since that 1988 team is the realization that we managed to blow that golden opportunity with so much great individual talent and the well deserved individual honors now only makes this season feel that much more the same.
Don't get me wrong, I celebrate the honors but the most basic application of logic begs the question of blowing it to those same two with so much individual talent on hand.
That being said, is there a 22 year (or so) cycle?
2010 and 1988 are separated by 22 years. 22 years prior to 1988 is 1966 and there was nothing at all remarkable about Cowboy Football in the decade of the 60's... unless you consider the first Bedlam win in 2 decades and the last one for another decade to come to be remarkable... and back to back Bedlam wins at that. That occurred in 1966...
Going back another 22 (or so) years takes us back to the 1944 and '45 seasons.
Of all the curses, jinx', psychological stumbling blocks, trends, or whatever one wishes to call them that Cowboy Football broke, surpassed, and/or overcame this season, none would be greater than to annihilate any 22 year cycle of peaks that might or might not exist. If you're a Cowboy die-hard like myself, trust me, you don't want to look at the scale and depths of the drop off's that have historically and consistently followed our peaks.
Let us pray!
FTA:
22 Year Cycle?
OK! I'll concede the point that one need be an old geezer to even think in terms of 22 years cycles up front but with that concession and caveat...
an old-timer such as myself can't help but draw parallels between this current team and the one that we ancient Cowboy's witnessed 22 years ago.
This current team boast the Biletnikoff Trophy confirmed best Receiver in the Country, the best Running Back in the Big 12, and the best QB in the Conference.
22 years ago in 1988, that Cowboy team boasted the Heisman confirmed best Running Back in the Country, the best Receiver in the Big 8, and the Big 8's all-time leading passer at QB.
In 1988, that team went 9-2 in a 11 game regular season and this current team went 10-2 in a 12 game regular season. In both instances (coincidently perhaps) the two losses were to Nebraska and u0.
22 years ago, we lost the Nebraska game due to a Defense that couldn't hold the Huskers to under 40 and repeated that dubious distinction again this season.
In 1988, we lost to the Goons late in the 4th on a brain-fart muff and albeit a defensive muff rather than a offensive one, repeated the disappointment again this season.
But with all other comparisons set aside, it's the recognition of what great individual talent we have as confirmed by post-season honors and awards that really prompted the comparison.
It's the return of that same, oh so close, wrenching pain in the gut that made the conclusion of this season feel so much like the one 22 years ago.
The one thing that really stuck in my craw since that 1988 team is the realization that we managed to blow that golden opportunity with so much great individual talent and the well deserved individual honors now only makes this season feel that much more the same.
Don't get me wrong, I celebrate the honors but the most basic application of logic begs the question of blowing it to those same two with so much individual talent on hand.
That being said, is there a 22 year (or so) cycle?
2010 and 1988 are separated by 22 years. 22 years prior to 1988 is 1966 and there was nothing at all remarkable about Cowboy Football in the decade of the 60's... unless you consider the first Bedlam win in 2 decades and the last one for another decade to come to be remarkable... and back to back Bedlam wins at that. That occurred in 1966...
Going back another 22 (or so) years takes us back to the 1944 and '45 seasons.
Of all the curses, jinx', psychological stumbling blocks, trends, or whatever one wishes to call them that Cowboy Football broke, surpassed, and/or overcame this season, none would be greater than to annihilate any 22 year cycle of peaks that might or might not exist. If you're a Cowboy die-hard like myself, trust me, you don't want to look at the scale and depths of the drop off's that have historically and consistently followed our peaks.
Let us pray!