Week 10 vs Cowboys - 1st half

• Heere we go.
• Julius Jones busts out a big run. I knew I should've started him in my fantasy league, since then he wouldn't have had a carry all game.
• Aside: does Tony Kornheiser think it's interesting when he talks about his fantasy team incessantly, or does ESPN tell him to do that? Yes, I mention my team, but I'm not on national television.
• OK, guys? I know it's fun to pretend it's still Week 1, when you sucked. But, like, it's not, remember? You're good now. Get it together.
• Touchdown? Tony Curtis?
  
  OK, not that Tony Curtis. Not a good start, Spaggie.
  
• Oh good! Pam Oliver's here. She'll yell at the Giants D and get them to play better.
• Burress might be the least heralded really good receiver in the league. Unless there's someone even less heralded, so unheralded I don't even know their name.
• Shockey! Catch! 4 yards! OH yeah! That's right! He's elite! E-L-E-E-T-E! Elite!
• What the heck was that toss to Jacobs? He lost two yards.
• Why is Tom Coughlin yelling at the coaches?
• I don't watch enough other teams regularly to know if the play clock almost expiring happens to teams other than the Giants, but it seems to happen to NY a lot.
• Two penalties in a row give the Jints a first down, apparently due to Eli's "voice inflection". Then a shove to Jacobs after the play for a few more yards. Joe Schmuck says it was "acting" by Jacobs, but it didn't look like it to me. If it was, that's kinda lame, but also sort of gamesmanshippy (I made up a word!).
• It seems like the game plan is "give the ball to BJ". Hopefully we'll see some Plaxico too, although he practiced this week, which could be a problem.
• Touchdown! Shockey! Now! He'll! Celebrate! For! A! Week! And! A! Half! Great throw, and a good catch too.
• Tynes... MAKES THE EXTRA POINT! OMG!
• There we go. Stopping Romo. Good work.
  
• Joe Schmuck tells a story about a NY player who was "star struck" when these two teams played in Week 1. Sometimes you don't talk to the media, especially if that's the story you plan on telling them.
  
• Oh right, Tank Johnson is on Dallas now. This was the game he supposedly joined for.
• I gotta agree with Troy, that was a nice pass. Shockey does his usual fall-on-the-ball catch.
• Aside: yay! The Dolphins are still winless! Boo, the Rams won.
• Oh fuck, INT by Eli. I don't think he got hit, which is what Joe Schmuck said. I love it when commentators make excuses for QBs they like (and when I say "I love it" I mean it's really fucking annoying.) Brett Favre gets this the most, although this season he's actually playing well so it doesn't matter. And with Joe Thiesman gone, there's less of that sort of thing going on.
• Personal foul call on the Giants, but a bad one. The guy was running! I want to protect the players too but come ON.
• Pretty balanced game so far. Hopefully Eli's INT doesn't blow it early.
• What did I say before? Barber's a good player.
  
• DOWN goes Romo. OH yes. Would've preferred a forced fumble but at least they stopped 'em.
• Aside: could the friggin' Cardinals score so I could
  
• Aside: Hey, what's that guy from Heroes doing on a McDonald's commercial?
• Shockey's having a good game. Clearly mocking him on this blog is useful.
• Eli's getting smacked around. That's the "great offensive line" that Aikman was talking about before, right?
• And... Interception! Romo! Boo-yah! (What an obnoxious term.)
• See? Plax only has 20 yards. Shouldn't have practiced.
• Jacobs is good. Not flashy like Tiki but good.
• Aside: here's why fantasy football is great (and also painful). I'm watching this game, and also thinking "Dammit, why hasn't Ronald Curry caught a pass yet?" If I were only a Giants' fan, I wouldn't even know who Curry was.
• Giants only have one penalty for 15 yards. Nice.
• Jacobs is tough. Pounded through for a first down. You need a guy like that.
• OK, Aikman's right, that was a nice block by Shockey. Blocking is one of those incredibly important things that's hard to show since there aren't stats.
• Speaking of stats, nobody has particularly good ones so far (Shockey is having a good game). But the game is close.
  
• Burress with a nice block. More impressive when he does it since he's not a moose like Shockey.
• 2nd and goal. Score. Score. Score.
• ALMOST a TD pass to Shockey. He's stopped but it's a nice catch, and a really nice pas from Eli who seems to be in sync with Shockster today.
• Reuben Droughs... Touchdown! It's funny, he's not Jerome Bettis or anything but he's a decent short yardage fill-in type back.
• Aside: I don't like that song on the iPod Touch commercial.
• Aside: Jessica Alba can't act but man, is she hot.
• Aside: K-Ville looks like a good show. Not that I'll watch it but it does look pretty good. Somebody watch it and tell me if it's any good, OK?
• See, there's a good illustration of the difference between Marion Barber and Julius Jones. Jones can't pound through a pile of defenders the way Barber can. He's just not big enough or fast enough. Barber has this extra oomph that's hard to quantify, it results in big plays sometimes.
  
• Ha ha. TO dropped a pass. Jerk off.
• Another stop. Sweeeet.
• Heard something interesting about RW McQuarters on the radio this week. A caller said "why is he still the return guy, he stinks, the Jets have 3 TDs from kick returns, I'm an asshole and I know everything, blah blah blah." The host's response was that Coughlin's main concern is no fumbles, and unless you have a guy who you know is fast enough to
  
• Well, that sucked. A score there, even a field goal, would've put a nice lead on the board. Now they give it back to Romo and company. They have been stopping them, though.
  
• On another player, that tackle of T.O. might have drawn a penalty. On him, you probably have to pull a knife to get the ref to call it.
• Whoah, that was some ending to the first half. DAL goes ahead on a Crayton TD (again - if I'd started him, he would've been hurt on the first play), then a huge penalty and a great Shockey catch (he's 8/86 with a TD today) sets up a FG by Tynes. On a less good note, Tynes was slow to get on the field for his kick so the team had to call the last time out. Like I said earlier, do other teams have these problems? Tie game.