In his acknowledgements for Boys Will Be
Boys, author Jeff Pearlman thanks a number of people for their cooperation,
including 146 current or former members of the Dallas Cowboys organization. He then
thanks others, including his young son, whom I suspect was a toddler at the time.
At the end of his mention of the young lad came a word that caught me short at
first, before realizing it summed up the entire spirit of the book. The word is
“fish!”
Mamas
don’t let your babies grow up to be Cowboys, and Daddies should pay that some
mind, too. Not if those Cowboys are like the crowd featured in Boys Will Be Boys.
