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Some Apology

Following Tony Romo’s second interception on Sunday wide receiver Dez Bryant was seen walking off the field.  The game clock still showed a minute and twenty one seconds and everyone knew that the Packers would only have to kneel on the ball to end the game.  But walking off the field before the game had ended and ahead of your teammates?

Cowboy coach Jason Garrett defended his troubled receiver on his Monday saying, "Dez is one of the great team guys I've ever been around ... He loves his teammates, but you have to understand how to handle yourself ... he'll learn from this situation."  But will he learn?  Last season Garrett had to speak with Bryant about arguing with a referee and not getting into the huddle for the next play.  On Sunday, after being flagged for a holding penalty, Bryant went off on the official, waving his arms in the air and having to be coaxed back to the huddle by Jason Witten.  So much for the learning.

Yesterday, after another learning experience initiated by Garrett, Bryant apologized.  “I was wrong” he said “I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room.  I didn't want to show that stuff on the sideline."  Understandable because grown men don’t cry, at least not in public.   Yeah right.  But he also gave an excuse saying “I feel like there was no way I coulda sit there and watch them kneel on a ball and shake any one of those player’s hands.”  Wow, says a lot for sportsmanship.

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Sports are supposed to build character, integrity and responsibility.   Players like Dez Bryant don’t get it.  Coaches like Jason Garrett enable them to get away with it.  And this is what will ruin American’s sports…

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