Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The reason the Cowboys lost

During this football season, I have seen a soda commercial with the Cowboys many times. At first, the ad skated by, seeming insignificant. It took on more significance with more airings, and now after the excessive number of times it was shown, it explains the Cowboys' failure in the playoffs -- they are very stupid.

First a recap of the ad. The offensive coordinator is calling the next play, but he is tired so the last part of the play call is mingled with a yawn, something like "red twenty four blue thirty-yaaaah". The head coach hears the play call and is confused by the yawn at the end of the play call. Nevertheless, he repeats the play call to the quarterback the same way. The quarterback is also confused when he hears the play call, but he still repeats in the huddle to his teammates. The play is run, but it fails. Then the Cowboys' owner, Jerry Jones, walks into the offensive coordinator's box and gives him some soda. It's mountain dew ultra or dr. pepper mega or something like that, a soda with extra caffeine, sugar, and maybe other stuff to keep people awake. After giving him the soda which will help him stay awake, Jones takes the playcalling headset away from the coordinator presumably keeping it himself. Note, the head coach and the quarterback in the ad are played by the actual head coach and quarterback of the Cowboys. I don't know what the offensive coordinator looks like, but I think that role is played by an actor.

This ad raises so many questions. Why doesn't the offensive coordinator repeat himself? Why doesn't the head coach ask him to repeat the play? Why doesn't the head coach change the play to something real? Why doesn't the quarterback ask the coach to repeat the play? Why doesn't he realize it's a bogus play and change it? Why don't his teammates tell him it's a play they don't know (because it's not a real play)?
Why would the real head coach and quarterback agree to be in ad where they look like incompetents? Is Jerry Jones taking over playcalling? Why would he want to do that? Is he that meddlesome?

Either the Cowboys can not discern how silly they appear (which means they are not very smart), or they really are not very smart. And Jerry Jones is either really meddlesome or so greedy for a little ad money that he would appear that way. Not a good look. No wonder they Cowboys lost so early in the playoffs. Next year, smarten up and make better ads.