Pro Bowl snub a motivator for Dallas Cowboys' Owens
December 18
Dallas Morning News Columnist Kevin Sherrington
"In case you were wondering, it appears T.O. has not complained to Jason Garrett or anyone else that Jason Witten is going to Hawaii and he isn't.
Just one more happy sign that all the craziness last week was, well, last week.
T.O. told the media huddled around his locker Wednesday that he doesn't follow Pro Bowl politics much, but he called it "great" that five Cowboys were honored, nonetheless.
"The guys that made it deserved it," he said. "Those guys that made it should be happy."
And the fact that you didn't make it, T.O.?
"I'm not worried about it," he said, coolly. "I've been over there six times.
"I'm worried about this game Saturday."
Frankly, "worried" wasn't the word I'd have used, either. Mad, maybe. Frustrated. Bitter.
Sorry that he didn't complain to Garrett sooner. Or louder.
But T.O. has no reason to be angry. Unless it's Bradie James, who's having a terrific season, none of the passed-over Cowboys has a complaint coming. In fact, they should be thrilled by the results.
If you're a Cowboys fan, you should be thrilled.
The last thing these Cowboys needed was another 13 named to the Pro Bowl roster. By now, we know how poorly they react when complimented. Not to mention how personally other teams take it.
"If we were the Dallas Cowboys," Tennessee safety Chris Hope told reporters this week, "it would easily be 12 of us going to the Pro Bowl."
A pro sports culture primer: The Cowboys are the only pro team outside a major East Coast or West Coast market that dominates in publicity, and this drives people crazy, particularly in those East Coast and West Coast markets. Win or lose, good or bad, the Cowboys are news. This fact especially grates in New York, the world's most provincial town. The Giants were still grumbling about the Cowboys beating them in the Pro Bowl, 13-1, when the teams met this fall in New York. And that was after they won a Super Bowl in the interim."
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