Congressman, Cowboys make state endure Texas boo-hoo step

Owens is worried that Romo has a new favorite? Romo is mad at Owens? Witten is Romo's new BFF? Owens is pleading his case to Garrett because he doesn't think Romo likes him anymore? Could it get more nauseating?

Probably, given that anything the Cowboys do is covered as though it were the Pope's labor pains. But this is particularly degrading because it renders allegedly grown men into self-indulgent third-graders, all of whom deserve blown hamstrings for exposing us to this sissified juvenility.

It might be different if they were doing this to make other fans feel better about their teams' shortcomings, although to satisfy Raiders or Lions fans they'd have to behave like this while wearing red gingham dresses.

But they're not. They're actually making a case for behaving like this while other people are watching, and nobody seems particularly ashamed. If you're a Cowboys fan and you're not throwing up in your rosebushes at this latest offense, you're not trying anymore.

In short, they're making Joe Barton seem like Sam Rayburn.

The point? Texans deserve better than this. Texans should in fact rise up as one and chase these yahoos to New Mexico until they can learn to behave better.

Or until they never mind this BCS nonsense and get back to work on that Arena Football bailout.

Ray Ratto is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.