Cowboys-Bucs: English

A Story by Abishai100

Narrated fan-vignette of American football/sport and what comprises the 'quality' of modern social media for civilization Ego.

A nod to Monday Night Football and the playoffs, inspired by Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone).

DISCLAIMER: This work of media/sports fanfiction offers no official/commercial ties to the Cowboys/Bucs organizations and is therefore cast as only a personal work of dramatics social media expression.

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I'd been a collector of football-baseball cards and thought about my collection of images of Cowboys QBs and Bucs cheerleaders as the NFL Playoff matchup between the two iconic NFC-teams approached in January-2023, drawing many colorful social-media posts about American football treasure and of course pirate-Selfies (like me!) for Bucs-spirits/humors.

Of course, my greatest treasure is my amazing football-craft chess-set, which I use to think about post Cold-War chess diagrams/gameplay and what it might mean for capitalism shaping or politics-IQ in the Western-world, perhaps some IQ-decision made by Clinton, Bush, or even Trump (ha).

Football doesn't end in a draw usually, but chess may very likely end in a draw (or stalemate!). Of course, that's all the fun of competition consciousness --- talk of the intrigue of deadlocks or gridlocks or dead-ends. We might think of such a 'moral conundrum' spun in a modern sports-linked 'adventure' fantasy film in Hollywood (USA). This is of course why we love sports-football team names like 'Cowboys' and 'Buccaneers' for great stories.

So, I made myself a 'cool' sandwich eating experience prior to the Cowboys-Bucs game on MNF (Monday Night Football - MNF) during which I considered my media-TV experiences growing up in America and cheering on sports/stars and tying sportsmanship to the culture-experience of shared hospitality or home-life. That's the magic of the media age --- consumerism/entertainment/romance/taste.

So, I recreated the Cowboys-Bucs playoffs-intrigue on my video-game system, wondering of the 'field-impact' of the season (2023) if Tom Brady surpassed Dak Prescott and saw the Bucs go farther, perhaps towards the Eagles for great storyboards of 'revenge' and rematch (wow). Of course, I didn't know what to think when the game reached a 'dead' 10-10 draw and knew then that my life in sports-football cheers was all about treasure. I decided to end the game there/then and just watch on TV and not predict/gamble anymore (hmm).

TOM BRADY: "Moderation is everything."

Tom Brady is the Iron-Man of NFL-history. He's won so much and done so many media-friendly things worth all his celebrity that one may wonder why we'd ever think anyone would precede/repeat such a Colossus. However, the nature of sport/competition is the 'lure' of the contest, and things might get 'dead-boring' with Brady simply just around to win these inconceivable trophies of society, which is why we simply 'cheer' the contest of unpredictable upsets/changes (wow).

TOM LANDRY: "Today, you have %100 of your life left."

Did you know the Bucs defeated the Cowboys (already) earlier this season? Oh yes, and they did it with flair too, and the Iron-Man (and his new 'Brady-bunch') was there. Will this happen again in the playoffs on MNF (Monday Night Football - ABC)? We don't know (yet). However, Texans want a 'share' of what the Giants/Eagles now boast --- a postseason upset of the Iron-Man (ha).

So I went on eBay and got myself a Dak Prescott (Cowboys-QB) rookie-card) Panini. This was in eager anticipation of the Cowboys-Bucs MNF matchup. Who's going to win? It's a scramble-egg plate of superstitions and arrogance. I'll hold the card in my hand and wonder what would've happened to this Cowboys season (or the 'value' of the Prescott card), if Brady wasn't traded to the Bucs (ha).

I like watching that terrific Cowboys (Dallas) training-show/program in the United States, which had become quite iconic/popular/reflective of American culture/society, and I wonder what people make of the 'truth' that Drew Bledsoe, the 'star-guy' who was replaced by Tom Brady in New England (wow), was a temp-Cowboy (and did quite well, upsetting the hot-Eagles in 2005 regular-season!). What did the Cowboys-ladies make of Bledsoe, and what do they make of him now, now that Brady is an enemy in a new uniform (hmm)?

"It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it" (Drew Bledsoe).

My name's Amlan Satan, and I'm a football-fan. I love the Cowboys, Bucs, Raiders, Rams, Vikings, Eagles, and I'm cheering for the Cowboys tonight (me thinks). However, the 'pirate-spirit' in me wonders what Brady might offer to audiences if his shiny career miraculously continues to spin. I'll still post a social-media Selfie-tied comment about the nature of 'chess' IQ in American sport/football that makes terrorists despise American Ego.