Roy Williams was traded to the Dallas Cowboys right before the Trade Deadline at 4:00  PM eastern time on October 14th

Roy Williams will work out a long term deal with the cowboys and the Lions will receive a 2nd round pick in each of the next two drafts.  The cowboys are giving up a first round pick – a third round pick – and a sixth round pick.  They will also receive a seventh round pick in the trade.

This isnt too terrible as Dallas is getting an additional free pick from Adam Jones getting suspended again. So we’re really only giving up a little for one of the best receivers in the league. 

This is great news for a team that has had nothing but bad news since saturday. 

It will be interesting to see how T.O. responds to having another big play receiver. 

Details to follow

espn article

This sucks.  Now the already tarnished Cowboys name has been drug down even further.. and this jackass may never get to play in the NFL ever again.  

I don’t know what is going to happen, but if anything does happen to Adam Jones, he deserves it.  I jumped on the band wagon as soon as he arrived.  I thought that he’d finally get his act together and be a good player and teammate.  I was completely wrong.  I am embarrassed that the city and team have to deal with this distraction.

Here is the Dallas Morning News Article.

BTW this picture is hilarious.

I’ve said before that music is one of my passions.  This weather has made me go back through my ipod and find the bands I use to love.  Recently, I’ve reconnected with one of my favorite bands – Flickerstick.

This band was formed a long time ago (1997) in Dallas, Tx.  They reached medium popularity through a Vh1 show called Band on the run.  They went on to semi national recognition, but never really took off.  Whenever I listen to their music, I’m pretty surprised that the bands singles didn’t get more national recognition.  Their songs including, Got a feeling, Coke, and Beautiful, are all catchy songs with great chorus’, breaks and lyrics.

Right now, I’ve mainly been listening to their live album ‘Causing a Cotastrphe’.  I really prefer listening to live albums whenever possible.  I feel like the artists put more emotion and feeling into these performances than studio recordings.  This album is particularly impressive.  Right now, my favorite track is ‘Execution by X-Mas Lights.’  I’ve Pasted the lyrics below, but I highly recommend this band to anyone looking for an acoustic / rock style band.

“Conjure up what you may find
Cause it’s soon; I can see you behind me
Counting all your 12-step tries
And if the consequence could speak out loud
I could only pick up vibrations
So get in line
And fortify
See, it’s just time to go out
And scream from the top of the moon
One more time

Pulling out the sting of control
Washing your hands from the methadone
Like a time bomb on reset
You see, the execution by x-mas lights
Seems to have its own irony

So get in line
And fortify
Take all of your tiny wishes
And dump them all overboard
With me tonight

So drop that cherry bomb
And leave the hem out of lies
There’s a new rush that is waiting to meet you tonight
But I may choose to leave at once
When there’s no one begging me to come around
Begging me to come around ” – Flickerstick