My father used to say that NFL games were fixed. Then and now I scoff at that, but sometimes I wonder. Like Sunday, when Buffalo was so passive and so awful in a blowout 27-10 loss to Cincinnati. Maybe this is just me needing to adjust my expectations for teams as they coalesce …
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Updates: Page 7’s Mexican Debut
by Kevin Burton Within my general and ongoing shameless plea for readership, I got specific two months ago. On the occasion of Mexican Independence Day I lamented that nobody in Mexico had ever read Page 7 (“Happy Birthday Mexico, Please Read This,” Sept. 15). That hurts, because I used to live in Mexico. …
Feeling Good About Cowboys Cave-in
by Kevin Burton Eureka! I found the magic formula and Page 7 readers were there to see it. Apparently all it takes to make the Dallas Cowboys implode completely is for me to praise them in public as I did last week (“Cowboys Kool-Aid, Bottoms Up?,” Nov. 5). The most overhyped team …
Cowboys Kool-Aid, Bottoms Up?
by Kevin Burton Can’t believe I’m about to say this, put my name on it and send it out all over the world: It appears the Dallas Cowboys finally may have the right stuff. I got this idea after watching them win on Sunday Night Football, on the road at a good …
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